Reborn in the Three Kingdoms, I stole Liu Bei's uncle

Liu Yu has the technology, and the two of them have the manpower and business experience, so the cooperation between the two parties will be a natural process and there won't be many obstacles.

Liu Yu was very confident about the distribution of profits. In his opinion, businessmen were profit-seeking.

The prerequisite for the long-term cooperation between the two parties is the distribution of profits.

Liu Yu had already secretly planned to cooperate with the two of them. As long as the two proposed a distribution plan that met Liu Yu's expectations, Liu Yu would agree without hesitation.

The two proposed a plan of surrender, which made Liu Yu slightly stunned. He obviously did not expect this result.

After Liu Bei sent the letter, Liu Yu did have the intention of recruiting the two of them.

A large part of his future development plan is business.

Liu Yu used the land around Luoyang City to recruit refugees, and collected one tenth of the tax, which was extremely rare even in peaceful times. You should know that Cao Cao issued a military farming order that those who used official cattle should be divided into 6 officials and 4 civilians, and those who used private cattle should be divided into 50% by officials and civilians. This does not include the exploitation of officials. In the late Cao Wei period, it reached an astonishing 8 officials and 2 civilians.

A comparison of these two military farming systems shows that Liu Yu's focus has never been on supporting the military with land.

His plan was to attract people through land and support the army through commerce.

"Since you two are willing to help, I would love nothing more than to do so."

The two were overjoyed. They had thought that Liu Yu, the emperor's uncle, might not necessarily be fond of them. However, Liu Yu agreed without any hesitation and his words were full of humility.

The two were overjoyed and bowed quickly.

"Greetings, my lord."

"Greetings, my lord."

"No need to be polite."

Liu Yu immediately ordered two people to be responsible for the sale of refined salt, and to give the two of them three-tenths of the profits.

When the two heard this, they thought that even if the two parties cooperated, the maximum they expected was only three tenths. Now that they had surrendered to the emperor's uncle, why should he share the profits with them? Could it be that the emperor's uncle doubted their sincerity?

Liu Yu smiled and explained that while setting up salt shops in various places, he also had to send out elite soldiers to build an intelligence network, collect information from various places, and send it back to Luoyang as quickly as possible.

Liu Yu wanted to establish a high-speed intelligence agency in an era of information blockade. Only in this way could he effectively grasp the situation in various places and make the fastest judgment.

In addition to these, Liu Yu also assigned a more important task to the two, which was to use part of the profits to divide, corrupt, and instigate local officials.

Both of them are very good at dealing with officials.

They traveled far and wide to do business, and wherever they went, they would always visit local officials first. The reason was simple: in this era, without the protection of officials, their business would be difficult to carry out.

After Liu Yu finished speaking, the two of them agreed readily and happily arranged for the craftsmen to speed up the processing of refined salt.

After hearing these arrangements, Xu Shu's eyes showed more and more shock.

After hearing Liu Yu's plan, he secretly admired him.

What Liu Yu just said are all in line with the art of war. Looking at Liu Yu's calm look, it is obvious that he already has some strategies in mind.

There was just one thing that Xu Shu didn't understand, and that was the 30% profit share. Once the refined salt business was promoted, 30% of the profit would be an astronomical figure without any calculation.

Liu Yu was a man of extraordinary wisdom, so how could he not know the key? I wonder why he did this.

"My Lord, if we take out 30% of the profits and give them all, will the amount be too much?"

Liu Yu smiled slightly and did not answer immediately.

He had thought about these things countless times in his mind, so he naturally knew how big the number was.

Although Zhang and Su were willing to follow him, they just wanted to have a good future. The current situation was that he did not have a suitable official position to give them, so he could only use money to win them over.

Businessmen always value profit. If they cannot bring real benefits to others, who would be willing to follow them?

I don't want to be like the King of Western Chu in my previous life, who spoke nice words every day but was always stingy when it came to actual interests. He was so stingy that he wore out the seal but was still unwilling to give it away.

A hero with charisma like the King of Chu would fail miserably in the end if he did not offer enough benefits.

How could I have the courage to hold on to the benefits without giving them away?

"Don't worry, Yuanzhi. This 30% profit may seem huge, but his income will also be amazing."

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The next morning, Liu Yu had just woken up when he saw Liu Bei and Xu Shu rushing in. They brought a piece of news.

Yuan Shao took over Jizhou without losing a single soldier.

Liu Yu smiled helplessly. He had already known about this outcome, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

Yuan Shao successfully instigated Gongsun Zan to attack Jizhou. Taking advantage of Han Fu's defeat, Yuan Shao asked the counselors lurking in Han Fu's camp to offer advice to Han Fu, tricking Han Fu into giving Jizhou to Yuan Shao. It was this incredible suggestion that Han Fu actually agreed to and directly gave Jizhou to Yuan Shao.

This puzzled Liu Yu. He had met Han Fu when he was fighting against Dong Zhuo. Although he had not interacted with him much, he could tell that Han Fu was not stupid. Liu Yu was not surprised. Anyone who could become the ruler of a state was a smart person.

Liu Yu guessed that Han Fu's obedient surrender of Jizhou was most likely due to the support of the aristocratic families. In this secret struggle in Jizhou, the aristocratic families were more optimistic about Yuan Shao, who was a third-generation official for four generations, and thus kicked Han Fu out early.

Han Fu must have known about this situation and had no choice but to give up Jizhou.

After Yuan Shao occupies Jizhou, he will not stop his advance. Instead, he will continue to capture Qingzhou, Bingzhou, and finally occupy Youzhou, becoming the undisputed number one in the world.

Liu Yu was thinking about another thing, which was to kill Dong Zhuo and rescue the emperor.

Theoretically speaking, according to Yuan Shao's development momentum, Yuan Shao will become his strongest enemy in the future. If he wants to compete with him, he can only follow Cao Cao's old path.

Obey the emperor to command the disobedient.

"Brother, I am going to Chang'an soon. I will leave Luoyang to you."

"Brother, do you want to get rid of Dong Zhuo?"

"That's right. The day Dong Zhuo is not removed, the emperor will be in danger. This matter cannot be delayed any longer."

Liu Bei disagreed.

"My dear brother, Dong Zhuo's army is everywhere in Chang'an now. I am very worried about you taking this risk alone. This matter is of great importance and needs to be carefully considered."

"To be honest, brother, I have been thinking about this matter since Dong Zhuo went west to Chang'an. After thinking about it over and over again, I really can't think of any solution except going there myself."

Liu Yu was somewhat helpless. To be honest, he was not willing to go to Chang'an at the moment as it was too dangerous. If he was not careful, he might never come back. But for the sake of future development, he had to go to Chang'an because only he had the chance to win Lu Bu over to his camp.