Chapter 1197: Liu Ma United

Zhang Yu issued an imperial decree this time, asking all the governments along the way to cooperate with Anyuan.

Anyuan's rank is also high enough. Under the cabinet are the ministers of various ministries. He is a deputy minister and is at the same level as the senior officials of the province.

In addition, Anyuan has an imperial decree to go down directly from the center, and the local officials really dare not refuse to listen.

There was another big movement on Zhang Yu's side, and a large amount of labor was to be recruited. The spies in Shuchuan and Liangzhou were excited again, and their opportunity to make meritorious deeds came again.

Information from various places was quickly passed back.

In Liangzhou, Ma Teng and the others had already collected all kinds of information.

On this day, Ma Teng and his son received another message, and the two discussed matters in the study.

"Meng Qi, how strong are the people of the Roman Empire?"

"They are very powerful. Boys rely on their skills to fight several times. Babies are not sure of winning with strength alone."

Ma Teng nodded, and said a little happily: "Ordinary soldiers, as long as they have strong strength, they will be defeated by ten."

Ma Teng also saw that their movements were clumsy and their skills were not good, but it didn't matter, he trained them by himself, and then he could win with their strength.

Ma Teng and his son talked about intelligence again.

"Zhang Yu was so unwise. He recruited a large number of corvees, causing public dissatisfaction. Now he wants to open the canal again. I heard that the four canals will add millions of people." Ma Teng said.

"This is courting death. Our army has already begun preparations. We can attack only after we have built our weapons and armor," Ma Teng said.

"It's time to transfer Pound back. He went to protect Yunlu, but was forced to stay," Ma Teng said.

The news that Ma Teng and his son got was actually similar to that of Liu Bei.

This time Zhang Yu asked people to leak the situation of several canals.

But Zhang Yu himself is very clear that he only builds the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the rest is not something that can be built now.

But he also agreed that Anyuan sent a small number of people to solve some difficulties first, and then repaired when the time came.

A few days after An Yuan left,

Zhang Yu started to read the information again.

"Great, the construction of Chang'an has been completed, and the construction of several cities in Bingzhou and Jizhou has been basically completed, and all preparations have been completed."

It took nearly a year and a half to build, and several cities were completed.

Chang'an City was originally a big city. Zhang Yu asked Zhuge Liang to expand it directly and built a large city wall.

This is a sharp weapon against the enemy, and it is also an inevitable choice for urban development. The original city wall has restricted the continued development of the city. When the new city wall is built, the old city wall will be demolished.

After everything was ready, Zhang Yu found that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Several cities were being built by more than two million people, and it cost a lot of money. Now they are all liberated and let them return to the fields to farm.

After completing several major projects, Zhang Yu felt relieved all of a sudden.

Today's biggest project is road construction, and the army of road builders in various places has been building day and night.

Then there is the construction of the canal, which is also very important.

The third is the water conservancy projects in various places.

These water conservancy projects are relatively easy to run. The government pays for materials, tools, and food, but farmers don’t get wages because the canals are directly used by them.

Wherever the canal flows, the people of that family will send someone to repair the canal. There is no wages, but they will take care of the food.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the people is also very high. The government helps them repair it, and gives them food, and they don't need to bring their own tools.

These three major projects have placed a heavy burden on the entire empire.

However, no matter how big it gets in time, Zhang Yu still continues to push forward.

Ma Teng and Liu Bei believed that Zhang Yu was wasting wealth by laboring the people, and it would not take long for the people to complain, leading to the collapse of the empire.

Therefore, both of them are recruiting soldiers and horses.

However, Ma Teng has been a little uncomfortable recently.

Because Zhang Yu cut off their food and grass.

Not only was their food and grass cut off, iron ore, etc. were also more difficult to buy.

Now the best things to buy are pottery, silk, liquor and tea, etc.

These things are not only cheaper, but also in larger quantities.

Zhang Yu directly increased the supply of these items, and even lowered the prices.

This makes them very confused, and it is difficult to understand. After buying it, it is profitable, and they can make a lot of money by selling it.

Many merchants in Liangzhou began to stock up on goods, and then organized more people to go to the west to sell them at a high price.

Many people started hoarding goods, but it would take several months to sell them to the West, and it would take a year to get the money back.

But they are not reconciled if they don't buy it. As long as they can make money, it doesn't matter if they let it go first.

Zhang Yu has already imposed sanctions on them, but Ma Teng has not felt much about it yet.

Now he has a lot of salt and grain reserves, and there will be no shortage in a short time.

Zhang Yu sanctioned them just to make them uncomfortable.

However, Zhang Yu knew very well that he was rapidly consuming Ma Teng's potential, at least drying up their financial resources.

The method is very simple, that is, to reduce the price of a large number of goods.

As soon as the price dropped, and the forecast of price increase in the future was released, many merchants began to buy and stock up in large quantities.

In this way, money is slowly turned into goods, and they have nothing to lose. They turn money into goods, and they can make a lot of money by selling the goods.

This is not a conspiracy, and those big businessmen are happy to do so.

However, once Ma Teng wanted to start a riot, they would find that they had no money.

Could it be that a few taels of tea and two bottles of wine are given to the soldiers when they issue money?

It's no wonder the soldiers will do it then.

Many things are hard to do without money, and Zhang Yu just wants to drain their money.

Ma Teng and the others didn't know yet, they were still fantasizing about when Zhang Yu couldn't hold on, and rebellion broke out everywhere, so that they could rise up.

Soon, Liu Bei even sent an envoy to join Ma Teng in an uprising.

The two sides plan to send troops together, one to attack Bingzhou or Chang'an Luoyang, and the other to attack Jingzhou.

Liu Bei was also actively preparing for the war, and directly recruited 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Liu Bei is also very active now. He has been working diligently for more than two consecutive months and handles government affairs every day.

However, he was infected with drug ointment, no matter how strong his will was, he would be slowly corroded.

Although Liu Bei is diligent now, he still sucks drugs every day. Once he stops, he will suffer terribly.

No one could make him stop. Although Pang Tong discovered the problem, he thought that Liu Bei was sick and had to rely on this medicine for treatment.

This Pang Tong is too busy, if he knows that there are many people at the bottom who are infected with drugs, but he will not see it at all.

Pang Tong is not a government official, and he is not handling ordinary government affairs at all. He is responsible for making plans and collecting intelligence.

Zhang Yu had secretly attacked them, and they still believed that Zhang Yu was extorting money from his own people.

It's not that others are not smart enough, but that modern thinking makes them unable to understand.

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