It can only be said that the traitors are punished by the traitors. If Sun Jian sent some simple, rough and careless people to explore the way and try to reopen the Shujin trade route, Li Su would not be able to get so much information.

If Li Su wants to maintain a relationship with Sun Jian and temporarily use him to share the hatred between Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, then the easiest way for Li Su is to show off with the other party and tell them

"The ban on Shujin's non-shipment of shipments will last for at least three months, and at that time I will raise prices according to the scarcity and scarcity. This is to leave some 'exchange rate reserve' for the reform of the renting and mediocre adjustment method to prevent runs," so as to comfort the other party's needs and patience.

But unfortunately, who asked Sun Jian to send Zhou Yu, who had negotiated with Li Su last time?

Zhou Yu himself had made up so many possible reasons for Li Su's "trade embargo" and "economic sanctions". He thought of a lot of excuses to persuade Li Su to change the ban. In order to show kindness and express sincerity, he also gave Li Su conditions to communicate with each other in terms of intelligence.

And this information is indeed quite valuable to Li Su. Because history has changed, the butterfly effect is very obvious. According to the original history, Sun Jian had already died at this time, and his son Sun Ce had not made his debut yet, so Li Su could not guess how they would develop.

What Zhou Yu can tell him is not only the latest battle report, but also the development direction of Sun Jian’s plan, what is he going to do next. Although Zhou Yu may also decorate and deceive, he can also provide some reference for Li Su to facilitate Li Su to make profits from it.

Really, all this was not what Li Su forced Zhou Yu to say, he took the initiative.

Therefore, through Zhou Yu, Li Su not only learned that Xu Gong was dead, but Wu County had been taken down by Sun Jian before the capital of Danyang County, and Wang Lang also retreated to Zhejiang. Liu Yao was likely to be killed by Sun Jian, but he has not made up his mind yet.

Li Su also knew that in May, Cao Cao had just fought another battle with the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou and the remaining troops of the Taishan bandits in Taishan County. Finally, Xiaosheng gained a sum of money and grain, making up for part of the losses after the Battle of Xuzhou.

Sun Kang, an important general of the bandit army, was attacked and killed by Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan. His brother Sun Guan followed the leader Zang Ba back to the mountainous area. The bandit soldiers were subdued by Cao Cao and returned to the field. The population of the bandits was more than 100,000, and more than 10,000 were selected by Cao Cao to be exiled. The number of troops that Cao Cao's casualties and injuries in the Battle of Xuzhou was basically compensated.

According to Cao Cao's current trend, he will continue to chase Zang Ba and Sun Guan in the second half of the year. Who made Cao Cao's good brother Bao Xin die at Zang Ba's hands? Cao Cao issued a poisonous vow to avenge his brother and kill all Zang Ba's family, so he has cut off the possibility of his surrender to Zang Ba.

Cao Cao's plan in the past two years is to completely digest and integrate the territory of Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and completely eliminate the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou and the Taishan bandits.

When Li Su heard that Cao Cao and Sun Jian were both entangled by powerful enemies and could not get rid of them for the time being, he was also a little curious and asked Zhou Yu what time it was.

The first thing is to confirm: Can the diplomatic relations between Cao Cao and Sun Jian be harmonious? In addition, Yuan Shu had a grudge against Cao Cao before, but now Sun Jian wants to become independent. Yuan Shu didn't take advantage of Cao Sun Teng's failure to do anything?

These already involve Sun Jianjun's diplomatic attitude confidential, but for Li Su's sake, and Zhou Yu's attitude of "The King of Hanzhong is the biggest and sincere ally of my envoy, so we will not hide it from the King of Hanzhong", so in the end, he finally revealed it to Li Su a little.

According to Zhou Yu, Yuan Shu has indeed further increased the pressure on Sun Jian recently. Although he has not used force, the pressure on the economic level is even more serious.

In the spring, Yuan Shu just stopped giving Sun Jian food and grass, but had no other means of sanction. Sun Jian made a lot of money by selling the first few batches of wide Shu brocades to Yuan Shu. In order to seek personal pleasure, Yuan Shu didn't care about checking the flow of these trades at all, so he didn't know that Sun Jian had made a lot of money and grain.

In the past few months of summer, Yuan Shu finally realized that he was persuaded by his adviser Yan Xiang and Han Yin to find out that the new luxury goods Shu brocade were sold by Sun Jian, and buying them again was equivalent to investing in the enemy. Only then did Yuan Shu turn into an economic blockade of Sun Jian (actually, he had already bought enough as a sucker at the beginning), so that civil and military officials who had not yet put on the "seamless brocade clothes" were not allowed to buy them again!

However, Yuan Shu's behavior of treating others strictly and disciplined himself is really not a popular saying. The trend of comparing with his subordinates is growing, and the government does not allow buying and smuggling, and his execution ability is not as good as Lu Bu banned alcohol in Xiapi City in history.

Unfortunately, Yuan Shu's tough attitude towards Sun Jian ended with the "local economic blockade".

Originally, Yuan Shu planned to starve Sun Jian until the autumn tax was at its weakest time, and at least he would fight back Sun Jian's two counties in Jiangbei. But in May, Yuan Shu's old nests Yingchuan County and Runan County broke out again, and he could only return to fight to suppress the rebellion and suppress the internal forces first.

This newly emerging force is the remnants of the Gebi Yellow Turban Army and the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army, which were destroyed a few years ago. In the past one or two years, it has grown again due to Yuan Shu's intensive taxes. The leader of the Yellow Turban Army is Huang Shao, and there are He Yi, He Man, who is wandering in Yingchuan, and Liu Pi and Gong are in Runan County.

Historically, one of the important reasons why Yuan Shu's army fell from "highly strong soldiers and sufficient food" to eating river clams from the late Chuping period to the early Jian'an period was that the internal affairs were too harsh, and the civilians were in full swing. With such good cards, so many densely populated fertile lands were destroyed.

However, although Yuan Shu also wanted to return troops to encircle and suppress Huang Shao and other Yellow Turban remnants of Yingchuan Runan, it was better than the same period in history.

Because Yuan Shu had no strength to wipe out these Yellow Turbans in the same period of history, and in the end, Cao Cao, who was beaten by Lu Bu, turned around and cleaned up the people. The territory of Xuchang was taken away by Huang Shao's uprising from Yuan Shu. Cao Cao pacified and killed Huang Shao in seconds.

Now Yuan Shu personally quelled the rebellion, at least he ensured that the surrounding areas around Xuchang would not fall into Cao Cao's hands, and he also took advantage of the opportunity that Cao Cao focused on fighting Zang Ba and had no time to look west.

It means that Yuan, Sun, and Cao families will focus on internal enemies this year and even next year and be in peace.

Among the warlords in the southeast, the only one who will expand his territory this year is Liu Biao who has been quietly managing his internal affairs and farming well.

Liu Biao took advantage of Yuan Shu's efforts to suppress Huang Shao, He Man and Liu Pi, and Sun Jian beat Zhou Xin and Wang Lang to make his subordinate Zhuge Xuan pretend to join Yuan Shu first, and then exchanged Yuan Shu for Zhuge Xuan to represent Zhuge Xuan as the prefect of Yuzhang County. Zhuge Xuan took office, handed over and took away the former prefect, controlled the city of Chaisang, and changed his flag to be loyal to Liu Biao. This is also what happened recently.

Yuan Shu probably hasn't heard of it yet, but even if he heard about it, he still has no choice but to deal with Liu Biao and Zhuge Xuan. Who made Jiang Xia in Liu Biao's hands and Lujiang in Sun Jian's hands, so Yuzhang County is equivalent to an enclave isolated from Yuan Shu's hinterland. After Liu Biao took it away, he could only stare at him. It is important to deal with Huang Shao and recover Xuchang first.

When Li Su heard about Liu Biao's operation, he was also surprised: Liu Biao's war is so bad, but his victory in diplomatic affairs is very awesome. So far, Liu Biao's four counties have either been deceived by diplomatic or secretly invited guests to kill thieves or won over. It seems that Liu Biao's temper does not like to steal territory by force is already very obvious.

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"Come on, Gongjin, drink, don't be polite. Our brown sugar milk tea in Shu is refreshing and refreshing, elegant and noble, isn't it good? It's best for us to wait for the scholars, and drinking a little after drinking is the best way to relieve the wine."

Li Su invited Zhou Yu to have a good banquet on the Baqiu Tower. After drinking Zhou Yu a little dizzy, he sobered up the tea and finally asked about the valuable information that could be trapped.

Zhou Yu finally felt a little impatient: "General Right! We are so sincere. When will you open up trade, you will give you a sure letter!"

Li Su: "Since you are so honest, I won't hide it from you-three months later, Shu Jin opens up the volume, and buy as much as you want. But don't worry, I won't let Brother Gongjin go for a waste this time. In the past few days, we happened to have a large number of celadons, which were originally intended to keep goods for the merchant fleet of Mifujun in Liaodong.

I will sell it to you first because of our friendship. I guarantee that in the next three months, before the new Shu brocade is restored, your Sun Jun’s people are the largest celadon underwriter, and the amount of goods will not be less than that of Mifujun in Liaodong. Is it fun? You can send people to see it with the caravans on the ship. They are all in the warehouse in Baqiu Port, and Xingba’s people will lead the way.”

Zhou Yu: "Why do you still need three months? Although celadon is easy to sell, its profit is not as big as Shu Jin. Poor people are afraid they can't afford it. After all, porcelain is a luxury item, and not everyone must use it."

Li Su: "That's because it was expensive when it was first released. This time we shipped in large quantities. I'll give you some discounts. As long as you pick up the goods and underwriting, it's easy to negotiate - a two-foot market, only one hundred yuan per celadon rice bowl and tea bowl, and thirty yuan per 1. It's cheap enough."

When Zhou Yu heard the price, he felt a little sincere: "The price was reduced so quickly? In April, the rice bowl was still thirty-five yuan per person, but it was reduced by half in two months? Your celadon is not actually easy to burn, it is a completely profitable product!"

Zhou Yu was not stupid either. Seeing that Li Su's price dropped so quickly, he guessed that the gross profit margin might be very high at the beginning.

He was right, after all, the new celadon porcelain and the original cinnabar porcelain on the market were not much different in raw material costs. Kaolin and glaze cost at most, and the fuel consumption would not exceed five cents. If you sell for thirty cents, you would earn at least five times the raw materials.

Of course, this is not the case for gross profit margin, because the craftsman's labor and the construction and depreciation of magnetic kilns must also be considered.

Zhuge Liang spent on building a new kiln. Li Su asked before leaving Chengdu, and said it would cost 500,000 yuan! He could only burn less than 1,000 pieces of equipment at a time, and it would take several days to open the kiln. Each kiln made a gross profit of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. He would have to recover the initial investment in kiln building. The kiln also had losses, and the craftsmen also needed wages, and at least half a year it would take to fully recover the capital, and subsequent net profits were made.

Of course, Li Su could not tell Zhou Yu about these data, and he could only be half cheating and half miserable. Just as Cao Cao dealt with Xu You's food, he told Zhou Yu with his ears:

"I only told you to Gongjin, you only. Don't spread the word. In fact, including the materials and the magnetic kiln, a bowl costs twenty yuan, and I only earn ten yuan. If Liu Biao and Yuan Shu come to buy it, I will not tell them the cost, or at least I have to cheat them on them for thirty yuan - I will sell them for forty yuan."

Zhou Yu thought about it and sighed: "Everyone said that Boya has no faith, forget it, I won't ask about this! I just want to know why you have to ship broad-branded Shujin in three months? Do you want to create scarcity and re-raising prices?"

Li Su: "That's not the case - if you asked me one or two months earlier, I wouldn't have said much. But now, there is no time to change anything after I say it. I'm just for the sake of reform..."

Li Su was certainly sure that none of Zhou Yu's people could smuggle into Baqiu and report to the Sichuan business group.

There is no need for Zhou Yu to risk offending Li Su to destroy the relationship between the two armies to do things that harm others and themselves.

Even so, Li Su just raised his eyebrows slightly in a vague manner.

But just this point, Zhou Yu widened his eyes and couldn't believe it for a long time.

Damn it! It's so vicious! How many things did Li Boya work together to calculate?

"Forget it, there are some things that shouldn't be asked, but I feel distressed after asking. Forget it, just stay in Baqiu and receive the goods well. After loading the goods, take the fleet back to report. At least I got the accurate letter and received the 'most favorable transaction treatment'. I can also explain it when I go back to my lord." Zhou Yu thought to himself, and he felt a little frustrated with a blow to the IQ.

Of course, Li Su was not hesitant to treat them for a few days, and also warned Zhou Yu: If the Yangzhou army dared to mess around on the Yangtze River trade road in the future, the other Hanzhong kings could ignore it, but they were not allowed to move the ship of Mi Zhu, the prefect of Liaodong. If they dared to cross the boundary, the friendly transactions between the two sides would end, and the Baqiu navy in Ganning would make the people who moved the Mi Zhu fleet pay the price.

Moreover, Zhou Yu is not allowed to disclose what Li Su told him, nor is he allowed to let other warlords know how strong the relationship between Mi Zhu and Liu Bei is.

After all, Li Su not only had to protect Mi Zhu from Sun Jian, but also had to take into account not letting Mi Zhu get too much hatred between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

Zhou Yu also knew Li Su's concerns and deterrence, saying that this matter was fine. The Jiangdong Army would never cross the boundary and would protect the Mi Zhu fleet from transit without paying costs. This is an additional condition for the transaction between the two parties.

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Zhou Yu's fleet stopped in Baqiu for three or four days, loaded one or two hundred ships with rare goods from Yizhou, and left behind a large amount of money and other Yangzhou specialties.

Just as Zhou Yu was about to leave, Li Su waited for Mi Zhu's fleet and arrived at Baqiu Port.

Li Su was about to explain to Mi Zhu's people that a considerable number of the goods prepared for them were bought by Zhou Yu this time, and asked them to wait for Zhuge Jin to ship the next fleet.

However, when Li Su saw that the envoy sent by Mi Zhu was actually Liu Ye, he realized that something must have happened in the north. Mi Zhu should not just send people to do business this time.

Coincidentally, not long after Liu Ye arrived at the port with Mi Zhu's fleet, Jiangdong came again. This time, he did not come by boat, but rushed from Danyang, and I don't know how many days he had run.

"Emperor Zhou! Emperor Huang! Go back quickly, the lord is injured! The injury is not light, don't make a statement! It's the eldest son in charge at the moment."
Chapter completed!