The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 928 Strategic Considerations
Every county that Zhang Yu passes through will stop and inspect.

In Cao Cao's eyes, his actions were waiting for an opportunity, waiting for his own action, and then causing him big trouble.

In fact, Zhang Yu didn't think so, but if it happened, he would definitely do so.

More than ten days later, Zhang Yu arrived at the border of Xuzhou, but the whole of Xuzhou was almost defeated.

Zhang Yu took down the entire Xuzhou without much effort, because Xuzhou had no support and the hearts of the people were scattered.

On the contrary, many aristocratic families and officials wanted to take refuge in Cao Cao and let Cao Cao attack Xuzhou, but Cao Cao did not act in the end.

Zhang Yu took Xuzhou easily, and then led his army into Xuzhou.

The Xuzhou battle finally ended, and Cao Cao did not directly intervene in the end.

It is a big event for Zhang Yu to win Xuzhou, which marks that Zhang Yu has opened up from south to north.

The sea route has been opened up, and now the land route has also been opened up. This is a big event.

Of course, the Jiangdong Consortium is the most excited about the land route.

After Zhang Yu arrived in Xuzhou, many people from the Jiangdong Consortium had already inspected Xuzhou and traveled all over Xuzhou.

Zhang Yu asked Xi Zhicai to start taking over the entire Xuzhou, and let him understand the situation in the entire Xuzhou as soon as possible.

"I'm afraid the whole strategy will have to be adjusted." Zhang Yu said looking at the map.

Now that the whole situation has undergone great changes, Zhang Yu has to reorganize his troops.

There are millions of soldiers and horses, and now the focus of defense is different, Zhang Yu plans to reorganize.

"It is necessary to reorganize 20 more soldiers and horses." Expanding the army and laying down new territories, Zhang Yu thought of expanding the army.

Zhang Yu calculated, and finally reorganized into 135 million soldiers and horses.

135 million is definitely a scary army, and maintaining such an army every month also requires a huge amount of funds.

Zhang Yu feels that the army needs to be reorganized, but how to get money is more important.

There are more than 100 million troops, and maintaining such an army will cost a lot of money.

Zhang Yu feels that at least half of the finances need to be invested in the army. With such a huge expenditure, if more money is not found, the development will be much slower.

"Xuzhou and Qingzhou must be quickly integrated."

In the future, Xuzhou and Qingzhou will be the focus of defense. Zhang Yu plans to garrison 35 troops in Xuzhou and Qingzhou, and 40 troops in Youzhou, while Jiangdong only needs 25 troops.

Of course, some of these troops can be deployed at any time to attack other places.

Some important nodes require a standing army, but not others.

For example, after the integration of Youzhou, only [-] troops need to be garrisoned in Shenyang City, and the large areas south of Shenyang City do not need garrisons, and only need some city defenders to maintain them.

This time, Zhang Yu will spend a lot of money on the expansion of the army, and the construction of Xuzhou will also cost a lot of money, but now Zhang Yu is not afraid, there is a silver mine, so he can borrow money.

There are several ways to borrow money. One is to let the bank print money directly. This should not be too much. It is no problem to get 2000 million in the short term, and he can make up for the shortfall as soon as possible.

The second is to find businessmen and people to borrow money.

This will also be operated through the bank. This time, Zhang Yu does not intend to come forward in person, and hand it over to his subordinates.

The most important thing at present is to develop Xuzhou and Qingzhou.

In Xuzhou, Zhang Yu did not intend to build a large-scale city. The entire strategic fulcrum of Xuzhou is Xiapi City. With Gao Shun, Xiapi City will not have any problems.

Zhang Yu would hoard food and grass in Xuzhou City and then reinforce the city. The most important thing is that Xuzhou City is too close to Zhang Yu's territory. The Jiangdong area is almost there after crossing the Yangtze River.

It can be supported quickly, so there is no need to build a large city to fix the fulcrum.

For Xuzhou, Zhang Yu will also move out some of the people, but the scale is not large, a total of several 10 people.

Of course, the tens of thousands of people who moved out were all sent to Fusang, which required a large number of Chinese people.

"Thousands of thoughts."

Zhang Yu felt that he had too many things to do.

There are indeed many things.

Zhang Yu spent a few days sorting out before he came up with a priority.

Zhang Yu sent a letter to Zhang Zhao, asking him to take back the overseas money as soon as possible, and at the same time mobilize more manpower to mine.

Mining is the fastest way to get money. There are so many places overseas, and there are many places to mine. Zhang Yu will not give up.

A few days later, good news came. It was not that another mine was discovered overseas, but that the fleet going to Tianzhu had returned.

This time I went to hundreds of big ships, and when I came back, I made more than 4000 million yuan.

"This money is too easy to earn."

The main reason is that Zhang Yu and the others transported a lot of luxury goods over there, and the nobles over there are quite rich.

Zhang Yu suddenly felt that he should communicate with Europe as soon as possible. If he could sell luxury goods there, he would definitely earn a lot of money.

But for sailing, Zhang Yu still chooses to develop slowly.

Zhang Yu immediately allocated 1000 million yuan to research and build more advanced ships, and another 3000 million yuan Zhang Yu allocated another 1000 million yuan to develop related industries, and Zhang Yu took all the other money for military expenses.

A few days later, Zhang Zhao wrote again. According to his assessment, there should be more than 5000 million yuan from overseas.

In this way, with the support of a large sum of money, many plans of Zhang Yu can be carried out.

Expand your army, develop it, and build up your strength again.

One advantage of controlling Xuzhou is that Zhang Yu has complete control over Haiyan. Some people secretly made salt by the sea before, but now there is no way, Zhang Yu can completely control Haiyan.

Zhang Yu himself has a huge market. Qingzhou and Xuzhou used to have a large number of aristocratic families operating salt, but now they have been driven away by Zhang Yu, and the salt can only be managed by themselves.

Zhang Yu can continue to infiltrate into the mainland, use cheap sea salt to dump, slowly squeeze out other table salt, and unify the market.

Now Zhang Yu feels that if someone stops him, then he can start a war, learn from the old beauty of later generations, and start a war by hindering free trade.

In fact, there is no need to find any reason to launch a war, but Zhang Yu needs a reason to target the family, otherwise it will easily cause the family to fight back collectively.

Zhang Yu got the money, so he just developed slowly.

On the border of Jizhou, Zhang Yu arranged for 20 people to hold Cao Cao there, preventing him from successfully capturing Jizhou.

At this time, the battle in Jizhou was continuing, and the Yuan family could not resist Cao Jun. Cao Cao's strength was too strong, and the Yuan family could no longer resist it.

"This Yuan Xi actually asked himself for help, thinking that I let him go just to appreciate his talent?"

At the moment of Yuan Cao's battle, Yuan Xi asked him for help, Zhang Yu was also speechless.

Zhang Yu had no good intentions in letting Yuan Xi go.

"You should also pay attention to the war in Jizhou."

Zhang Yu has been paying attention to the war in Jizhou, and also sent 20 troops to intervene, but he didn't pay much attention to it before, so Zhang Yu decided to pay more attention.

(End of this chapter)