Lu Ning sighed and said, "Zi Tai, there is no way. Now let's rescue the victims and refugees first. After the spring begins, Zi Long will escort some of the seized spoils back. We can send a large number of people to Jizhou with gold, silver and coins to buy all the food in the merchants' hands back. When the grain is escorted, we will send another five thousand troops to escort them. I think who dares to come and act. If the merchant dares to break the agreement and cheat, even the merchant will raid me. Even if Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, knows, he will not dare to do anything."

After hearing this, Tian Chou nodded and said, "The lord is right, but we still have to report the victory to the emperor or court, and report the situation to court in time, hoping to get some food from court, and let Lord Liu Yu of Youzhou prepare for the next three months of food and grass."

After hearing this, Lu Ning said, "Just do what Zitai said, but the good news should be exaggerated a little. We said that our army eliminated eight Xianbei Tartar tribes and killed nearly 150,000 Tartars, and now our army suffers heavy casualties. After the spring, the two and 300,000 Tartars from the Kebineng tribe in the Shanggu area must have attacked our army, so that the emperor and Liu Yu will send food and grass quickly, otherwise our army will not be able to meet the enemy. If Liu Yu did not send more food and grass, then I had to bring the army to retreat to his prefecture to take refuge."

Tian Chou laughed after hearing this, and then said, "Lord, can you ask Betha to send us some food?"

After hearing this, Lu Ning shook his head and said, "No, Zitai, Boda does not have much grain reserves now. I am asking the Zhen family to help me buy a large amount of grain. We must now store a large amount of grain within two or three years. In a few years, there will be shortage of grain everywhere, and even if we have money, we cannot buy it. So I plan to store more than 20 million dan of grain in Bingzhou, so that we can resettle victims and refugees. We will find a way to solve our current difficulties ourselves. We will hollow out Jizhou first, and then squeeze Liu Yu well. Anyway, we have the emperor's will, so we don't blackmail Liu Yu, so we will not blackmail Liu Yu, that's sorry to the emperor."

After saying that, Lu Ning laughed himself, and Tian Chou also laughed. Tian Chou is now becoming more and more capable of extortion.

Tian Chou said: "Lord, as long as we can survive for about half a year in the Shanggu County, I guess a large number of refugees will escape after the beginning of spring. As long as we resettle them and let them have land to plant, our food will be alleviated by the end of the year. In less than two years, these two counties will be on track like Yanmen. By that time, Shanggu will have more than 100,200,000 people. Even if there are many Tartars, we will have the ability to eliminate them."

Lu Ning nodded and said, "Zi Tai, how is our intelligence network established now? What are the difficulties?"

Tian Chou said: "My lord, now we have basically established intelligence collection points in large towns, but the network is not very complete. If all of them are built, it may take some time. As for the breeding points of carrier pigeons, they have developed almost thirty, and they cannot cover all medium-sized and above towns. They are still far from the lord's requirements."

Lu Ning said: "Zi Tai, you have to find a way. It is best to let intelligence personnel penetrate into the senior management of various places, especially to pay close attention to the every move of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Sun Jian family and other people. If our intelligence personnel penetrate into these people, it would be even better. As for other important personnel, they should not be spared. There are also some dangerous situations, and we must cultivate our strength to prevent it from being useful to us in the future."

After hearing this, Tian Chou said, "Lord, Liu Bei is not as famous as Liu Bei. Do we need to pay attention to him? Like Cao Cao and Sun Jian are not important high-ranking officials? Cao Cao left the prefect of Dongjun and stopped doing it. He ran to Luoyang and fought with General He Jindao. Sun Jian has just pacified Changsha and is now in charge of the position of prefect of Changsha. As for Liu Bei, after he whipped the supervisor of the court, he had left the official and took his two brothers Guan Yu. Zhang Fei ran away. Some time ago, he was at Lord Liu Yu of Youzhou. Now it seems to be the Pingyuan Order."

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Zi Tai, you must focus on these four people and grasp their situation at any time. Don't worry, as long as the time comes, they will not be a fuel-efficient lamp, and they will definitely be heroes of the world. Of course, officials from other places should still understand them and don't let us get in a hurry when we need intelligence."

After hearing this, Tian Chou said, "Okay, lord, I will pay attention."

Lu Ning said: "Zi Tai, have you found out about Guan Ning's current residence?"

Tian Chou said: "Lord, I'm about to tell you that Guan Ning and Guan You'an are living in western Liaoning. They are also with him, including Bingyuan and Bing Genju. They are now teaching in western Liaoning and do not interact with any nobles."

After hearing this, Lu Ning said, "It's OK in western Liaoning. After the spring starts, I'll ask someone to bring a letter to Guan Daxian. He will definitely come to me obediently and let him continue teaching. If we know that there are great talents there, then take Guan Daxian, and the effect will be very good. Don't we lack talents? Just let Guan Daxian introduce his disciples, and that Bingyuan is also very good. Anyway, for us, talents are redundant and kind." Hahaha, after saying that, Lu Ning laughed out loud.

Seeing that Lu Ning was so sure, Tian Chou still didn't believe it, so he asked carefully: "Lord, you really have a way to invite Guan Ning and Guan You'an. Could it be that he was kidnapping, right?"

When Lu Ning heard this, he knew that his kidnapper was a little famous. Even Tian Chou first came to ask for someone by kidnapping. Lu Ning shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Zitai, I really summoned Guan Ning with just one letter. There is no need to kidnapping such as kidnapping. Besides, as you said, kidnapping Guan Ning has a very bad influence, and I dare not do anything randomly. Talents like Guan Ning, Bing Yuan, Xun Yu, Tian Feng, Ju Su, Xun You, etc., even if I beat him to death, I would not dare to kidnap them. Even if I kidnap the fifth brother, it was a bad strategy that I really had no choice. Zitai, you don't know, although he kidnapped the fifth brother at that time, although he was still young, he was also a stone in a pit. It was really hard and smelly. I couldn't do anything to him. In the end, I was angry with him with words, and he said something, otherwise he wouldn't say anything I said."

After hearing this, Tian Chou smiled and said, "Lord, I heard from Boda that he was plotted by you. He was fooled by you unknowingly and said it, and it was impossible not to do it. He had to continue working, and later he was conquered by his lord's personality."
Chapter completed!