Chapter 485: The Threat on the Grassland

After Zhang Yu went back, he asked people to protect the mountain and prevent people from cutting down trees. At the same time, he asked them to build roads and protect the hot springs.

Zhang Yu also asked them to pave the bottom of the hot spring with stones and get some smooth pebbles.

Also, Zhang Yu asked them to build some pavilions on the mountain, but not too big or too luxurious.

Xiang Xin and Wan'er found out, so they came to Zhang Yu.

"Husband, how can you waste like this, we don't come often." Xiang Xin said.

"Haha, from now on, just come here often. Even if we don't go, we can let others go, but there must be a place dedicated to us. It doesn't cost much. Husband, I have a land of thousands of miles, don't I even enjoy this little bit?" Can you have it?" Zhang Yu said.

Xiang Xin nodded after hearing this. Usually Zhang Yu advocates frugality and really doesn't want to be extravagant, but he is very good to his wife and wants to give her the best in everything, which also moved them.

Xiang Xin suddenly felt that Zhang Yu was really tired after fighting abroad all year round, and it was normal for him to be absurd once in a while.

Zhang Yu stayed with Xiang Xin and Wan'er for a few days, and Lin Qi came to report that Zhao Hai was docking in Taiwan with a fleet.

Zhang Yu rushed over immediately.

Zhao Hai and the others went to Southeast Asia, and this time they came back early.

Zhang Yu saw Zhao Hai and the others at the port, and they wanted to rest and replenish here.

As usual, they will stop here for two days.

Zhang Yu met Zhao Hai on the road.

"My lord." Zhao Hai saw Zhang Yu excitedly approaching him.

"Please Zhao Hai, you've worked hard, what can you gain this time?" Zhang Yu said.

Zhao Hai's face darkened and said: "This time when we went out, we encountered waves and capsized a big boat, and lost a lot of people, so we came back, but when we came back, we brought back a lot of copper and silver mines mined on the island. These are the lord's urgent needs, so I brought a few big boats full of them."

Zhang Yu was also very sad to hear that the ship capsized. All he could do was to give a high pension. But to dominate the world, you must pay a price.

Zhao Hai took Zhang Yu to have a look,

It is true that slowly several large ships are loaded with a large amount of ore.

It's a pity that no gold mine has been found yet.

However, Zhang Yu believes that there are a lot of overseas resources, and with his own development, there will be a lot of resources that can be used for development in the future.

"Zhao Hai, you have done a great job again. The ore from these large ships can produce tens of millions of copper coins." Zhang Yu said.

Tens of millions at a time, of course, the cost is not small, and it will take about a month to go back and forth.

Add the cost of mining and the cost of forging.

But in the end, there are still some profits, especially now that the population is soaring, and a large amount of copper coins are urgently needed to develop the economy.

Zhao Hai is modest and dare not even claim it.

Zhang Yu thought that they must be very tired after wandering at sea for a long time, so he took them to a hot spring to relieve their fatigue.

There are many natural hot springs on the mountain. Except for the place Zhang Yu reserved, Zhang Yu wants the crew members to go there to soak in other places.

Zhao Hai also brought back a lot of silver mines this time, which could increase Zhang Yu's financial income a lot, otherwise the huge overseas plans would not be able to support it at all.

Two days later, Zhao Hai went back first. This time Zhang Yu asked them to rest for a few months before going to sea.

Zhang Yu stayed in Taiwan for more than half a month and went to many places, but Zhang Yu took his two daughters to soak in hot springs twice.

Soaking in hot springs Zhang Yu naturally didn't just soak in hot springs, he used all kinds of postures for the two women.

Zhang Yu stayed in Taiwan for about 20 days in total. Although he didn't go to many places, he had a relatively thorough understanding of Taiwan.

He helped Lynch formulate many development strategies, and at the same time knew what Taiwan needed.

Taiwan is an important forward base, and the two ports must be well established.

For this reason, Zhang Yu planned to immigrate to two more ports, each with 100,000 people, and establish two port cities in the north and south of Taiwan.

Zhang Yu went back, but this time he went ashore in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, which is closer to Taiwan, just over a day's journey away.

Zhang Yu also wanted to inspect the development of Fujian.

In the Fujian area, which is the southern part of Kuaiji County, Zhang Yu also put into development very early.

All the way to the north, Zhang Yu inspected carefully. Except for a few key construction cities, there are only 10,000 to 20,000 people in many places. Although they are called counties, they are similar to a small town.

The southern population is underpopulated and the level of development is too low.

But there is no way to do it, you can only take it slowly.

Zhang Yu returned to Kuaiji County after almost two months away.

When Zhang Yu went back, he received a lot of news.

"My lord, news came from the north that Yufulo defeated the Northern Huns, beheaded more than 200,000 of their army, and took over 800,000 troops from the Northern Huns. Their strength has greatly increased, and they are far stronger than the Northern Huns." Zhang Zhang After Yu arrived, he received an urgent message from the intelligence agency.

Among the news was Guo Jia's suggestion. He had suggested that the north reduce its support for the Southern Huns, and suggested that Zhang Yu cut off his support for the Southern Huns, so that they would not be able to unify the Huns in the short term.

Zhang Yu knew that the grassland peoples were strong, and they really couldn't be united, otherwise they would be too aggressive.

Zhang Yu immediately ordered that on the one hand, Youzhou was actively preparing for the war, and then cut off the supply of grassland ironware, but continued to sell them food, salt, tea, and immortal brew.

In addition to the limited supply of food and salt, they cannot be allowed to have reserves, and they should be given as much as they want for tea and immortal brewing. Of course, they must be able to pay.

If they are not given food and salt, it is estimated that Yufuma will bring hundreds of thousands of troops to invade the south, but with food, they may not take risks.

Zhang Yu feels that time is running out, and the northern grassland people are getting stronger and stronger.

This is first-class news. It was just a few days after it was delivered, and when it was about to be delivered to Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu came back.

Zhang Yu ordered Guo Jia to serve as the military adviser of the Northern Army and sit in Shenyang City.

At the same time, let the Northern Army step up training and stockpile various materials.

Maybe a war will break out, and once it breaks out, it will be an unimaginable war.

Fortunately, it is now winter, and there will be no war in the north in the short term.

Then Zhang Yu began to understand other information.

Zhang Yu approached Zhang Zhao to understand the situation.

"My lord, we have had a bumper harvest this year. We have harvested a lot of food. At the same time, some people have money to pay taxes. Originally, not many people pay taxes with copper coins. However, the subordinates are the masters. If they pay taxes with copper coins, they can give certain discounts. The discounts are great. There are many, but it is beneficial to the people, so many people pay taxes with copper coins." Zhang Zhao reported.

Zhang Yu nodded, it's nothing to give the common people a little discount.

The copper coins he collects will also be spent, and used again on these people.

No wonder Zhang Zhao is so happy, it turns out he has money.

Zhang Yu asked again: "Does the recruitment order have any effect?"

Zhang Yu pays more attention to talent than money.

Zhang Zhao said with joy again: "It is true that many people come to our Jiangdong area. Not to mention anything else, people often come to our Jiangdong on the merchant ships."