I have to say that as an elderly thief, Han Xian has settled well.

Originally, the two counties of Hedong and Henei were also considered to be large-capital counties in Sili. During the period of Emperor Ling's Light Hegemony, there were more than 100,000 households, reaching 600,000 and 800,000 respectively. In Sili, Henan Yin and Jingzhao Yin, who were second only to the two capitals.

Hanoi was Wang Kuang and Zhang Yang took charge of it one after another. He did not withstand the war. He still maintained a population of more than 600,000. It is a granary under Yuan Shao. Just when Wang Kuang was chased by Lu Bu, he burned and killed him slightly.

However, the burden on the people in Hanoi has always been heavy, and the official warehouse was stocked up a little bit and was quickly aired by Yuan Shao. After all, when he was detained, this was the front line for Yuan Shao's army to station troops. The grain eaten by the army was raised on site and was eaten poor again and again. Now Liu Bei asked Yuan Shao to buy grain, and he was first sold from Hanoi, which had the most convenient transportation. Hanoi County once again maintained the poverty record of "the treasury is always empty".

Hedong County was murdered by Han Xian for five or six years. Dong Zhuo was the strongest in the past two years and was cleaned by Niu Fu's counterattack. After repeated tugs of war, Guanghe's population of 600,000 in the past year has now been damaged by only more than 200,000, and 60% of the population has disappeared.

Han Xian’s Baibo thieves claim to gather more than 100,000 people. At the beginning, the proportion of soldiers was really high, because there were other big foreigners outside, and past business travelers could rob, while Han Xian could use war to support the war.

Since Niu Fu died, in the past two years, Han Xian has completely fallen into a situation where no one can rob. Even if the remaining people of Hedong were not absorbed by him as Baibo thieves, they have completely become poor people and cannot get out of the water. Han Xian had to slowly transform himself into exploiting himself, screening and eliminating the relatively old and weak thieves from the warriors to farmers, and then asked these farmers to collect grain and collect taxes, and they seemed to live like he hated at the time.

This situation made Han Xian very clear: the territory is not valuable, and there is no money or grain to expand the army with territory. What is valuable is to directly grab a large amount of money and grain to support the soldiers. Because as long as the robbery is successful, he can instantly re-arm tens of thousands of white-bolt thieves who have already been farmed, so that they no longer have to farm, but directly enter the battle.

Under this guiding ideology, after Han Xian retreated from Anyi City, he took out the fine and soft property he brought from the city and returned to the guerrilla base in the Baibo Valley Mountains in the north. He sent a rare wave of rewards to inspire his soldiers, preparing to mobilize the upcoming second or third wave of Yuan Shao's grain fleet.

Many white wave thieves have not seen Han Xian give such rewards to boost morale in at least three years. I remember that since Dong Zhuo moved west and Guanzhong and Guandong business travelers were cut off, Hedong has no business, and he can't get the money to buy roads by relying on the Yellow River to eat the Yellow River. Han Xian was abnormal, and indeed the morale of the elderly thieves: It must be a big job to buy roads again!

Anyway, the autumn harvest was over in mid-August, and it happened to be a little slack. Tens of thousands of farmers were re-armed by Han Xian. Han Xian was full of confidence and immediately sent scouts to inquire about Guan Yu again, whether Xu Huang was relaxing his guard, and when Yuan Shao's second and third waves of grain ships would pass through.

Unfortunately, in just a few days later, the news of the scout's return made him pour a basin of cold water on his head, mixed with the anger of being teased and humiliated.

"Reporting to General Qu, we have found out that Yuan Shao's general Chunyu Qiong and Hebei soldiers have completely withdrew. Now only Xu Huang is in charge in Anyi City. Guan Yu's banner is gone. We carefully investigated and looked at the people outside our city. It is said that Guan Yu has never been here. Last time, Xu Huang pretended to call Guan Yu's banner.

In addition, Yuan Shao's fleet is currently only responsible for the transportation from Hanoi to Dongyuan, Xu Huang is responsible for escorting the land transfer from Dongyuan to Anyi, and the waterway fleet from Anyi to Chang'an, Liu Bei sent a lieutenant named Taishi Ci who is said to have a little understanding of water war, to come and escort."

Han Xian was stunned and angry when he heard this, and the consequences were serious: "What? I was actually shook by Xu Huang? Damn, this guy was just a member of Yang Feng at the time, and Yang Feng was just on an equal footing with me. Has this seller thief followed Liu Bei for several years? He has learned to cheat!"

Even though he was angry, Han Xian was not stupid. He still wanted to confirm the escort forces of the enemy's troops. He then asked: "How many people Xu Huang has left to guard the county town now? How many people are sent to escort the grain convoy along the way? How many sailors are there to escort the fleet of ships named Taishi Ci?"

He wanted to choose the easiest soft persimmon to break through. After all, the grain team had to pass through a dangerous area of ​​more than 300 miles in Hedong County. As a local, Han Xian was familiar with geography and could choose any point to start, so of course he had to choose the weakest one.

Fortunately, the scouts he sent were quite powerful, so he found out all these clearly and reported in detail: "Reported to the commander Qu, Xu Huang had about two or three thousand warriors, escorting the land convoy from Dongyuan to Anyi. According to the investigation, Taishici's troops did not lead troops to escort, and only sailors with ships should be Liu Bei's army to control his ships, and our army had no navy and could not intercept the river, so there was no preparation."

"Just rely on some sailors to defend themselves? There are no additional troops to escort the food ship?" Han Xian heard the news and asked to himself in disbelief and confirmed. He thought this was not a delivery of food to him.

It’s also a fault for Taishi Ci. He had been with Mi Zhu for a few years and lived in his hometown in Donglai for a long time, so he failed to catch up with Liu Bei’s successive contributions since he advanced westward.

I just got the opportunity to perform again recently. It was also the decisive battle of Jingyuan during the Northern Expedition and the later siege of Chang'an. It was all happened just a few months ago, so I didn't have a reputation. I have never heard of Han Xian, a self-defense thief who was blocked in the mountains of Shanxi.

In contrast, Xu Huang is still aware of his true nature. Even if he despises Xu Huang's character of selling his boss and seeking honor, Han Xian knew that Xu Huang could indeed fight.

So, he naturally decided to make Taishi Ci's soft persimmon.

After all, Xu Huang's thousands of people are also elite combat soldiers. If Liu Bei's army can defeat Li Jue, the individual combat effectiveness will definitely be good. As for Anyi County, Han Xian did not expect to take it quickly. The Baibo thieves lacked the ability to attack. Once the city retreated and gave up, it would be very unprofitable to attack from the official army.

Han Xian and Li Le made up their plans and immediately made a plan: "Don't you just think our army lacks excellent warships? What's the big deal? The water is shallow and narrow, and the deepest part is only a few feet long. Our army is familiar with geography and can find many shoals that are not as deep as meter.

At that time, we will block the river in the shallows, pile up wooden piles of reefs, and sink several of its ships to block the waterways and trap the grain fleet. Then the army rushed up the shallows and climbed the boats to kill all the sailors. Yuan Shao's large amount of grain was still in my hands."

Han Xian had a good execution ability and did it as soon as possible. When the next wave of Yuan Shao's grain was transported, he attacked with anger. He wanted to cheat Xu Huang before, and use Guan Yu's reputation to scare him to give up the account of Anyi County, and make up for it together.

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A few days later, around late August, the next grain fleet arrived soon.

Because Liu Bei and Yuan Shao were each responsible for half the waterway and used "relay" to transport grain, the turnover cycle of each party was greatly shortened.

However, because there was not so much excess grain in Hanoi, Yuan Shao's fleet set sail from Liyang Port in Weijun, the north bank of the Yellow River, that is, he transferred the grain from Yecheng to sell it. He walked upstream and walked more than 600 miles of Yellow River waterway to reach Dongyuan.

Taishici set out from Chang'an, arrived in Anyi, and then returned.

Moreover, because it was the second transaction, Han Xian's people found more attractive news before taking action: Taishici's fleet did not come from empty ships on the way this time, but was filled with Shujin ironware, porcelain and other items equivalent to at least two grain transport fleets.

After all, luxury goods are much more valuable than grain. If a fleet can transport 100,000 stones of grain, it is possible that the value of the goods will be multiplied many times. Therefore, Yuan Shao transported four or five ships of cargo to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei could only return one ship at most, and sometimes he didn't have to load it.

In the goods sold to Yuan Shao this time, considering that the subsequent luxury goods market will be saturated, Shujin is not something that everyone can afford to wear, so in order to avoid depreciation, Liu Bei also sold a lot of "weapons and equipment" with inflated prices but in fact, it is tempting to put it bluntly.

For example, the double-sided metal stirrups, shoes and other iron tools that had been fully leaked in the decisive battle with Li Jue. These equipment have begun to spread because of the reputation of the decisive battle in Jingyuan, and other princes will gradually realize their importance. However, because they did not see the real thing directly, everyone will have to make some effort to figure it out for a while.

So Liu Bei and Li Su both knew that these equipment could no longer be technically kept confidential. They even provided Hu Chuquan with a batch of goods, allowing Hu Chuquan to rob the pseudo-Huns and Xianbei people in the five Hetao counties this autumn, and use the robbed batches of cattle, horses, sheep and livestock to compensate for the equipment price.

Since this is the case, considering that there is no war with Yuan Shao within two years and the two sides are still maintaining a hypocritical alliance for the time being, then sell these things that the other party can figure out sooner or later to offset a batch of food.

There is quite a bit of cunning in the international trade of later generations, the Americans' cunning spirit of "If you can't develop it far, I won't sell it to you. When your self-development is about to break through, I will sell it to you again, tempting you to give up self-development and give up domestic production."

A set of metal double-sided stirrups and socks will be priced at least five times that of other iron tools of the same weight. In fact, the processing technology is not very difficult. It is just a design concept, and it can be imitated even if the window paper is broken.

However, Yuan Shao, who was rich and eager to improve his combat power, simply bought 20,000 sets of hoofs and stirrup weight ironware, and immediately equipped his troops with the price of 100,000 sets of ironware worth 100,000, and immediately equipped them with his troops.

Later, when Yuan Shao received the goods, he distributed 5,000 sets of cavalrymen from Lu Bu who defected to him, allowing Lu Bu to accelerate the attack on Shangdang Zhang Yan. These are all later stories.

At this moment, Han Xian heard that Taishici's fleet brought so many valuable goods no matter the round trip, so he couldn't help but fall into the difficulty of choosing:

When is it better to kill Taishici? Should he kill him before unloading the goods and snatch the goods he wants to ship? Or should he kill Taishici after unloading the goods and loading the goods and return the goods before killing Taishici to seize the goods?

It's so hard to make a decision.

Han Xian wanted to say that he wanted everything, but he himself knew it was unlikely. If he wanted everything, he would not directly attack the dock pile yard on the north side of Anyi County, only there, Taishici and Xu Huang's water and land transport personnel and horse racing club loaded and unloaded the goods, and the goods in and out of both sides were there.
Chapter completed!