The next day I got up and ate some wine and food.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Li Tian led over 20 cavalry soldiers and set off.
Moreover, it was one person riding three horses, ensuring that they could cover more than three hundred miles a day.
"Yi De, Zilong, take care of yourselves. Be careful when dealing with things and discuss it later. We'll part ways here."
"Big Brother, Second Brother Boya, have a safe journey.”
Zhang Fei sent Liu Bei all the way to the Hutuo River before bidding farewell and leaving.
The Zhen family still sent the old butler Zhang Quan with a few boats to ferry Liu Bei and his party across the river. They only parted ways when they reached Zhending.
Zhang Quan looked at the horses that Liu Bei had brought along, and when he chatted with Li Tian, he was filled with emotions.
"County Officer Liu is really a person who does great things. It has only been ten days since I ferried you all south, but you are already so strong.”
" Thanks to Brother Zhen," Li Tian smiled." We were able to buy so many horses in such a short time." This time, they were in a hurry to go to the capital, so they had three horses for one person.”
It turned out that this was what Li Tian and Liu Bei had discussed yesterday.
Everyone already knew that the price of horses in the capital had skyrocketed this year, and the horse traders would definitely be able to make a fortune in the south.
Therefore, every time he had the opportunity to go south for official business, he could not waste it. He had to bring some goods.
Therefore, Liu Bei only used the ten million that the Zhen family had just given him to recruit soldiers and buy weapons.
Liu Bei's original capital, including the recent battle against the Black Mountain Bandits, and the profits from selling warhorses to Ye City.
He had gathered this sum of money and was prepared to do something big this time.
This was a legal and reasonable purchase, not tax evasion.
Liu Bei's capital was about 40 pieces of horseshoe gold cake.
The last time he sold the goods in Ye City, he sold more than 20 gold cakes. Adding on the other two earnings mentioned above, he had more than 40 gold cakes on hand.
According to the usual practice of merchants, they could at most take out 25 pieces of cake to buy a horse, and the rest of the cake would be used to pay the various commercial taxes on the way to Luoyang.
In the end, he sold it to Luoyang. Even if the price of horses in Luoyang was three times higher than that in Youzhou, he could only get 75 pieces of cake.
He had to consider the risks on the road and hire bodyguards for the caravan to prevent them from being robbed by the Black Mountain Bandits or other thieves. He did not earn much.
However, Liu Bei was an " urgent envoy to report the military situation to the imperial court ". He brought more horses so that the guards could change their mounts. In name, he was not selling them, so he did not have to pay taxes.
In this way, he could use all 40 pieces of flatbread to purchase, and when he sold them all in Luoyang, he would be able to get 120 pieces of flatbread.
However, this kind of business couldn't be done too often, because this year was the last glorious year for horse prices. After Emperor Ling of Han formed the new army of the Eight Commanders of the West Garden, there wouldn't be anyone in the Great Han Dynasty who was willing to spend such a high price to be a sucker.
The current Luoyang was still the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had accumulated over 150 years of savings.
After Dong Zhuo was done, the prices of high-end goods in the country would suffer a huge setback. Because the class of the " wealthy families of Luo Yang " would be completely washed away, the consumption power of the upper class in the world would shrink sharply.
Therefore, although this money seemed easy to earn, it was only the last deal. It was a pity that he could not make a few more trips.
"If we don't make a few big profits from those rich people in Luo Yang, Dong Zhuo will only benefit in the end. Hmph, so don't be soft-hearted when you take their money!”
Li Tian mentally prepared himself on horseback.
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Two days later, in the evening, everyone arrived at Ye City as scheduled and went straight to the Provincial Governor's Office. They first reported the petition jointly signed by Liu Bei, Li Tian, Zhang He, and Pan Feng to the Provincial Governor Jia Cong.
Pan Feng's infantry was already two days slower than Zhang He's cavalry.
But because Liu Bei had immediately returned to the south after arriving at Lunu, he had coincidentally bumped into Pan Feng, who was leading his troops north.
At that time, Liu Bei had reported the situation at the front line to Pan Feng. When Pan Feng heard that Zhang Chun had rebelled and that Zhang Chun had escaped due to the lack of strict deployment of the government troops, she was a little anxious.
In order to make up for his guilty conscience, after seeing that there were no problems with Liu Bei and Zhang He's memorials, he signed his own name, lest Jia Cong felt that Pan Feng was slow and unaware of the situation at the front line.
This kind of thing could only be said that everyone had their own interests, and it just so happened that they hit it off.
After signing his name, Pan Feng led the troops north the next day and set up patrol posts along the Yi River between Zhongshan County and Zhuo County. Like a late Hong Kong piece of paper, she did some cleaning up work and caught Zhang Chun's scattered soldiers who ran slowly.
There was no need to mention these details.
Jia Cong received the memorial and read it carefully. Needless to say, he was initially surprised.
Zhang Chun had really rebelled!
And why did he collude with the Xianbei and Wuhuan people?
In order to confirm the truth, he personally questioned Liu Bei and Li Tian in detail. He even summoned the two of them separately and asked them unexpectedly.
However, more than 85% of the memorial was the truth. The only exaggerated description of the "Hu reinforcements" had already been verified by Liu Bei, so Liu Bei understood why he said that.
Therefore, Jia Cong's simple and obscure " quarantine and investigation " was like a child's play in front of Li Tian.
I taught at People's Public Security University of China in my previous life!
Although he was teaching a negotiation expert course and not criminal investigation, the little bit of criminal investigation knowledge he heard from his colleagues at the cafeteria every day was a hundred times more awesome than you!
In terms of anti-reconnaissance skills, Li Tian was Jia Cong's ancestor, so Jia Cong naturally did not see any flaws.
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