Chapter 451: Mi Zhu's Shock

Cao Cao thought for a long time in the big tent alone, and finally called Cheng Yu.

"Zhongde, the situation is not good now, Zhang Yu seems to have us determined, that's why he is so unscrupulous." Cao Cao said.

Cao Cao and Cheng Yu knew in their hearts that their food and grass could only last for ten days now, and it was obviously not that easy to break through Xuzhou within ten days, because Zhang Yu was there.

"My lord, no matter what, we have to fight for some benefits. If the territory is not available, it can be the population. If the population is not enough, we can also learn from Zhang Yu to loot. But we can't do what Zhang Yu did. Offending the world's aristocratic families, we can't afford to offend." Cheng Yu said.

Cao Cao agreed with Cheng Yu's statement in his heart, but he couldn't show it, because if Cao Cao wavered, it would affect the army.

In this way, Cao Cao also believed that it would be very difficult to break through Xuzhou, and he could not take the risk.

Cao Cao signaled Cheng Yu to continue talking.

"There is not much to say about the people who migrated. What I want to talk about is the aristocratic families. We can mobilize our relationship and persuade these aristocratic families to migrate to our territory. Although the place of the Fourth World War in Xuzhou is rich, it is destined to be unable to hold on. I believe There will be families willing."

Cao Cao's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he nodded in acquiescence to Cheng Yu's statement.

Cheng Yu continued: "My lord, why don't you send someone to contact Zhang Yu secretly, you can play a double reed with him, and ask him to give up some of the benefits."

Cao Cao immediately shook his head and said: "Zhang Yu is a fine person, once he gets out of our bottom, he won't turn around and seek benefits from us."

Cheng Yu had nothing to say. According to Zhang Yu's personality, this was completely doable.

Cao Cao began to besiege but did not attack, and Zhang Yu walked around the city on the first day and left.

On the contrary, Dian Wei often patrols the top of the city to show his presence.

As for Gao Shun, he has been training soldiers since entering the city.

After Zhang Yu appeared on the first day, he said to everyone: "No one should go to Cao Cao if he has not attacked the city."

In this way, Zhang Yu lived in Mi's house, and there was nothing to do in Mi's house.

Mi Zhu, on the other hand, was obviously very busy.

He runs between the state shepherd's mansion and his home every day.

When Mi Zhu came back that day, one of his retainers came to look for him.

"Patriarch, the matter you asked me to investigate has already been partially resolved." The doorman said.

Mi Zhu remembered what he had told him, looked around, but no one noticed, so he took the doorman to the study.

In the study, Mi Zhu sat down and said, "I asked to investigate the situation of Kuaiji County and Liaodong County. It's only been a few days. How can there be any progress?"

Mi Zhu became curious about Zhang Yu and wanted to invest in him, but he had to investigate him first, so Mi Zhu arranged for people to investigate in Kuaiji and Liaodong.

Mi Zhu's investigation focused on several counties in Yangzhou to see if it was as Zhang Yu said.

"Patriarch, before Zhang Yu asked you for a lot of people to go to Liaodong to help him manage the area. Two months ago, there was an official who was the county magistrate in Liaodong. Because his mother passed away, he came back to observe filial piety. We got a lot of you from him. Needed information," said the doorman.

Mi Zhu was overjoyed, and quickly said: "That's great, this can save us a lot of time, how much does he know?"

"Patriarch, he knows a lot, even the things in Yangzhou, because Yangzhou and Youzhou have a fleet of ships in a few days, and a lot of information is public, and it is easy to find out." The doorman said .

Mi Zhu happily walked back and forth in the study, then stopped and said, "As you arrange, I will meet him in person and learn something about it."

The disciple was in the city after the battle, and Mi Zhu saw him in the study an hour later.

"Patriarch, it's not surprising that I couldn't come to see the ceremony when I came back because of the funeral," said the doorman.

"You're welcome, our Mi family treated you badly when we sent you to Liaodong," Mi Zhu said.

There was no feeling of being treated badly on that man's face, but he was glad that he was the county magistrate in Liaodong, Zhang Yu treated him well, and he was able to display all his talents.

If you are in Mi's house, you can only continue to be a doorman waiting to die,

It is difficult to have any development.

After all, the Mi family is not a power, but a family, and there is a big difference.

After finishing the polite words, he said: "I came to you to learn something from you."

Mi Zhu said what he wanted to know.

"Patriarch, these are not things that are difficult to find out. The officials under Zhang Yu basically know about them."

"The population of Yizhou is more than one million. General Zhang didn't deal with specific matters, so he received the news relatively late. Today, Yizhou has a population of more than two million. And now there are a lot of boats in Kuaiji County every day. The team came and went, and found a large number of islands in the southeast, some of which were very large."

"The development of Kuaiji and Liaodong has long been beyond the imagination of the world. Zhang Yu dares to be an enemy of the world's aristocratic families. His confidence is not only these, but the most important thing is talents. After several years of operation, Kuaiji can provide a lot of money every year. talents, and the talents are developing towards senior talents.”

The doorman told Mi Zhu systematically about the current development of Zhang Yu's forces, and Mi Zhu was greatly shocked by what he heard.

No one knew that Zhang Yu had set up huge stalls at the two edges.

At this time, Mi Zhu knew that Zhang Yu actually had dozens of fleets, traveling to and from various places every day.

It is also the first time I know that there are so many lands overseas.

It was the first time I knew that the worst thing about him was that he offended all the aristocratic families and was destined to have no talents.

Without talents, no matter how big the territory is, no matter how many troops there are, it will collapse.

But this time Mi Zhu learned that Zhang Yu had established a talent training system early on.

Huge population, huge investment, after a few years, hundreds of talents are provided every day, which is very scary.

The talent will only grow as time goes on.

At this time, Mi Zhu had to pay attention to Zhang Yulai.

At this time, Mi Zhu's view of Zhang Yu completely changed.

Not to mention other things, Zhang Yu has already considered the territory comprehensively, and he has far-sightedness than anyone else.

The world has a lot of prejudices against Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu has quietly developed to this level, and has more potential than anyone else, so Mi Zhu naturally wants to consider investing in Zhang Yu.

After seeing off the diners, Mi Zhu shut himself in the study and thought about it.

"Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu, you're hiding really deep. I'm afraid no one will see your true potential at this time."

Mi Zhu was thankful, thankful that he discovered Zhang Yu's different power early on.

Apart from offending people everywhere, Zhang Yu didn't expand much, but they didn't know that Zhang Yu had been expanding, going south, that is, the Fujian and Guangdong areas, and expanding eastward and overseas.

For other princes to expand, they need to invest huge troops and consume huge consumption, but Zhang Yu's expansion does not require weapons, and it can also generate continuous benefits.

If it weren't for the fact that Kuaiji and Liaodong were both marginal areas and the foundation was too poor, Zhang Yu would have been the overlord by this time.

"We must take this opportunity to win Zhang Yu over." Mi Zhu said with determination.