A few days later, Xun You received a letter from Lao Cao, successfully resolving the incident. Xun You also purchased all kinds of weapons and equipment they needed, but the number was not large. They only purchased five hundred war horses, without any more gold and silver. When Xun You returned to Dongjun, he found that all the war horses he bought were castrated as long as they were mares, which made Lao Cao smile bitterly, and his wish to let the mare develop more horses could not be realized.

Xun You returned to Dongjun and reported to Cao Cao what he saw during this trip. When Xun You introduced that Lu Ningjun had many more excellent armor, shields, bows, arrows, knives and guns, Xiahou Yuan said: "Gongda, then can you buy some of them back this time?"

Xun You shook his head and said, "I have money to buy it. A pair of high-quality armor costs thousands of taels of gold, and a pair of top-quality bows and arrows costs thousands of taels of gold. There are some weapons and equipment that I can't name, but the prices are relatively expensive. If you buy these top-quality equipment, the gold I bring will only be enough to equip you generals. It's not even enough. I heard that a silver spear like Zhao Yun is as high as five thousand taels of gold. The equipment worth of Zhao Yun and others is more than tens of thousands of kilograms of gold, which is not considered their peerless war horse."

After hearing this, Cao Ren said, "Gongda, you are not bragging, are you?"

Xun You smiled bitterly and said, "Zi Xiao, I'm bragging, these are true, but I heard that Lu Ning and the others are also difficult to build equipment for generals of Zhao Yun. It is said that good iron is too difficult to find. They only have the ability to equip high-level generals, and others cannot be solved."

Yu Jin said: "Gongda, what is the standard configuration for soldiers under Lu Ning?"

Xun You replied seriously: "I heard from their introduction that this is the case. Each infantry soldier is equipped with a short knife, a bow, an arrow, a crossbow, a shield, a spear, a helmet, a full set of armor, a dagger, and a backpack. If there are more war horses in the cavalry, the short knife becomes a saber."

Xiahou Dun said: "That's not better than the generals of our army!"

Xun You sighed and said, "Yes, our army cannot be compared with the Lu Ning army in terms of equipment. Even if we have better training level than our army, their individual combat capabilities are too high than our army's soldiers. If our army fights the Lu Ning army now, the chance of victory will be almost zero."

Cao Hong said: "Gongda, did Lv Ning buy our people?"

After hearing this, Xun You said angrily: "No need to say anything more. I was teased to death by Lu Ning and the others for this matter, saying that the lord would become a human trafficker, and he was a human trafficker. Lu Ning said that it was because of the lord's friendship that he could help us settle down, but he would not be the case. He only helped this once, and they were unwilling to do more such things that were wasteful and damaged money."

After hearing this, Cao Cao said, "Now we have no way to place more people. We should organize some people to go to Bingzhou, otherwise more people will starve to death, which is also helpless."

The messenger Mi Zhu from Xuzhou also arrived in Jinyang City. Lu Ning asked someone to call him to Lu Ning's mansion. After sitting down, Mi Zhu said, "Ziyi, I have brought my younger sister to Bingzhou this time. My brother and I are here again next year. But now the food we have prepared cannot be transported to you. What should I do?"

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, don't worry. I have built a grain warehouse that can be stored in the north and south Changdao of Qingzhou, where I have five thousand troops stationed there. You can find a way to transport the grain ships there."

Mi Zhu thought, beloved, why do you have your own troops on Chang Island? No one knows these things. What do you want to do? Mi Zhu shook his head and said, "Okay, how could Chang Island be yours?"

Lu Ning smiled and said, "I bought it together with the Zhen family. It was Zhen family that came forward. No outsiders knew about it, so you don't have to tell outsiders about this. By the way, isn't Qu Island in Xuzhou in your hands? You send more guards to guard them. When it will be useful in the future, I will spend a lot of money to buy it, but you have to do all kinds of defensive work on it to facilitate defense. I can't send troops there now, I can only rely on your guards."

Why is he very clear about me? He even knew about Qudao. It was really strange. No one outsider knew about this. This was another preparation for me. Mi Zhu shook his head and said, "Okay. Lord Tao Qian also asked me to come here to buy the weapons and equipment you produced in Bingzhou, but what did Ziyi think?"

Lu Ning said: "Of course you can sell it, but how do you transport it to Xuzhou? Now many princes are optimistic about the equipment I produce. You will definitely be robbed by others on the road. The equipment cannot be transported to Xuzhou. Go back and tell Tao Qian that if he is not afraid of problems on the road, there is nothing wrong with me. But Zizhong should not do this matter. This matter is too risky. You must find a way to leave Xuzhou next year. It will be too late to stay again. You must be mentally prepared."

Mi Zhu said: "Don't worry, Ziyi, most of my family's property has been transferred to Bingzhou. Xuzhou is basically an empty shell now, which means you have some food you need. After the delivery is completed next year, there will be nothing else."

Lu Ning thought for a while and said, "Zi Zhong, if your family has any trouble in the jurisdiction of Cao Cao, you are my businessmen in Bingzhou, then they dare not make things difficult for you. You go to Boda to issue a document, which may be helpful to you. If your family wants to do a bigger investment project in Bingzhou, you will discuss it with you after you arrive. Now the Zhen family is mainly the one who cooperates with me personally. Our cooperation projects are very large, and of course the return on investment will be very high."

Mi Zhu said: "Is Bingzhou merchants safe in Cao Cao's jurisdiction?"

Lu Ning laughed and said, "Don't worry, Cao Cao and I have a trade agreement. My Bingzhou merchant will be protected in his jurisdiction. He will no longer dare to be rude to my Bingzhou merchants. He only suffered a great loss a few days ago. By the way, there is another thing, it seems that the county magistrate of Xiaopei of Xuzhou is Chen Qun?"

Mi Zhu was surprised. Why did a small county magistrate know so well, but Mi Zhu still answered seriously: "Yes, Ziyi, Chen Qun is Xiaopei's county magistrate, what's wrong?"

Lu Ning said excitedly: "Zi Zhong, then go back and find Chen Qun and tell him not to be the magistrate of the county magistrate. Come to my place to be the prefect. As long as he does well, I will be promoted to his official position. He will not be valued by Tao Qian in Xuzhou. Only I know his value best. I have room for him to play."

Mi Zhu said: "Does Ziyi know Chen Qun? I only know that he is talented, but I really don't know how high it is. However, Xiaopei has indeed developed well under his governance, and he has not done his best yet, so he himself is not very at ease to do things in Xiaopei."
Chapter completed!