When Lu Ning returned to Luoyang, he saw all the princes drinking and reciting poems and talking about the wind and moon. Sun Jian and Gongsun Zan had left. Lu Ning knew that if he didn't leave, he would be in danger, so he went to Yuan Shao and said, "Brother Benchu, my territory is now attacked by the cavalry of the Xianbei people and the Huns and Tartars. I have to go back to put out the fire first. The matter here will worry the leader."

Yuan Shao said: "Brother Ziyi, you go and chase Dong Zhuo, have you chased him?"

Lu Ning said: "Brother Benchu, I just killed Lu Bu back and did not catch up with Dong Zhuo."

Yuan Shao said: "Then brother Yi, let's go first."

Afterwards, Lu Ning went to Cao Cao's tent again. There were only hundreds of remaining soldiers under Lao Cao, who were sulking. When Lu Ning saw Cao Cao, he said, "Brother Meng De, there are a large number of Xianbei Tartar cavalry gathered on the border of Bingzhou. I am here to say goodbye to Brother Meng De."

After hearing this, Cao Cao sighed and said, "Brother Ziyi, then you can go, I'm leaving too. I didn't expect that the grand alliance of princes would be like this." Cao Cao was still shaking his head after saying that.

Lu Ning said: "Brother Mengde, you and I have tried our best, but relying on you alone, I can do my best in several armies. Forget it, I want to be more open, and there will be opportunities in the future. Now I still want to discuss something with Brother Mengde?"

Cao Cao was shocked and looked at Lu Ning and said, "Ziyi, what's the matter? Come and listen."

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Brother Meng De, I want to sign a trade agreement between us."

After hearing this, Cao Cao burst into laughter, looked at Lu Ning and said, "Brother Ziyi, why are you kidding? I don't have half an inch of land, how can I sign a trade agreement with me? How can I trade with you?"

After hearing this, Lu Ning shook his head and said, "Brother Meng De, you are too modest. I know you will have your own territory. I just signed an agreement with you in advance. Of course, the agreement is also the most fair. The general content is that you and I cannot repeatedly ask merchants to pay taxes or charge various messy tolls. As long as the merchant holds the tax payment form of either of you and me, it should be counted. If my Bingzhou merchant comes to you to sell things, of course, he has to pay taxes from you, but if he buys things, he cannot let them pay taxes again. Just do it to prevent repeated payments. If there is a dispute, then it will be judged according to the terms of my Bingzhou's "Trade Law". Brother Meng De, what do you think? With this trade agreement, it will be beneficial to you and my taxes, and it is conducive to the circulation of products between both parties. In the future, if both parties want to buy something from each other, it will be much more convenient."

After thinking about it, Cao Cao smiled bitterly and said, "Since Brother Ziyi insisted on signing with me, then I will satisfy Ziyi's wish." Cao Cao thought I had nothing, you can sign whatever you want, and I wouldn't have the chance to execute it anyway, so Cao Cao was too lazy to read the terms of the entire trade agreement. After Lu Ning made a sample of the documents under Lu Ning, Lu Ning and Cao Cao signed and sealed it, and each of them took a copy. This incident later made Cao Cao regret the last thing he regretted in his life. He said that he was cheated by Lu Ning without even looking at the terms. He signed an agreement with Lu Ning without even looking at the terms, so he could only abide by the execution later. If he didn't execute it, he was afraid that Lu Ning would cause trouble.

Then Lu Ning signed a trade agreement with Kong Rong from Beihai and Tao Qian from Xuzhou. Then he led the army to return to Jinyang slowly. Lu Ning returned to the base camp in November 190. Sima Lang, Gu Yong, Gao Shun, Xu Huang, Zhang Yang, Ma Jun, Cai Yong, Guan Ning, Hua Tuo and others greeted him at the city gate.

After everyone arrived at the government office, Lu Ning told everyone about the situation of the great joint attack on Dong Zhuo by the princes. Cai Yong, Guan Ning, Sima Lang and others sighed, especially when Yuan Shao and others drank and recited poems all day long, talked about the romantic and romantic, and did not do serious things.

Guan Ning smiled bitterly and said, "I really didn't expect that Yuan Benchu ​​and the third generation of the fourth generation would be such a person. It's really better to meet him than to be famous."

After hearing this, Mr. Cai also said, "Ziyi, what are Yuan Shao and the princes doing now? It's not a big deal if you don't send troops to chase Dong Zhuo and stay in Luoyang for drinking and reciting poems all day."

If Yuan Shao doesn't take advantage of the situation to chase Dong Zhuo, what can I do? Yuan Shao is the leader of the alliance. Lu Ning laughed and said, "Now Yuan Shao and the others still have food to eat. When the food is finished, they may kill each other. In this way, someone will be able to fish in the water."

Tian Chou said: "Lord, look at the situation of our scouts reconnaissance. In the first half of next year, the Huns and Tartars will form a coalition and launch an offensive against us. The iron cavalry they assembled may have about 100,000 cavalry. The attacks on them in the past two years have not been very effective. They have not really destroyed their main force. It is just that part of their rear camp was taken away by our army. They also want to completely solve us. Otherwise, they were bullied by the Xianbei people in the north and are now harassed by our army. They can only have a way out if they eliminate our army or defeat our army."

Lu Ning smiled and said, "It's good, so that our army can't go looking for them everywhere. Now we are not afraid of a decisive battle with them. Then we will have a head-on confrontation with them. In this way, our army can solve the problem of the Huns at one time. Then our army will just wipe out all the settlements of the Huns. This time, we must let them be the same as the Northern Huns. Even if they escape to some Tartar cavalry, they can only flee westward and don't think about harassing the people on my border again."

After hearing this, Sima Lang shook his head and said, "Brother, that's a hundred thousand fierce cavalry. Do we have hope of victory in the head-on decisive battle? Are you too confident?"

Lu Ning turned to Gao Shun and said, "Zi Ming, how are the training of the iron armored chain horses? Have they formed combat power?"

Gao Shundao: "Master, the iron armored chain horse has been trained. If its combat power is not a dense formation, it can deal with 50,000 elite cavalry. In actual combat training, our Feixiong Army cannot resist the impact of the iron armored chain horse; but if it is a dense formation, its effect is not very good, and it is only slightly stronger than the Feixiong Army."

Lu Ning laughed and said, "That's right. The iron armored chain horse was originally used by our Feixiong Army. His role is to complete the last attack. The early and later battles are all for the Feixiong Army. In the early stage, the Feixiong Army will break up the enemy's dense formations, and then the iron armored chain horse will attack. The final work in the later stage is also for the Feixiong Army."

Tian Chou continued: "Lord, the Xianbei Tartars are also gathering together. It is estimated that the assembly will be completed in the second half of next year or the year after, and their troops may reach more than 200,000 cavalry."
Chapter completed!