The incident of selling five black iron orders spread everywhere. The rich merchants on hand went to the Chaogong Mansion to buy black iron orders. In just three days, one hundred black iron orders were sold, and the government got five million yuan.

Jia Fan smiled and reported, praising: "The king, one hundred black iron orders have been sold."

"very good."

Gongsun Xiu smiled on his face: "Stock the sale of the Xuan Iron Order for the time being, and the sale of the Xuan Iron Order will be carried out until June next year."

Jia Fan was stunned: "Why is this?"

Gongsun Xiu smiled and said, "If you resell hundreds of pieces in one go, although you can recover tens of millions of dollars in taxes, it will force the iron smelting merchants to fight for it. Let the merchants who first bought the Xuan Iron Order make a big profit and make a lot of money. Other merchants who are jealous of them will naturally buy the Xuan Iron Order at a higher price. As more people sell iron tools, they can also lower the price and be virtuous circle."

Jia Fan applauded and praised him for his goodness.

The iron smelting army was vigorously unfolding. Chen Chao had already begun to build an iron smelting plant in Xiangping, recruiting thousands of refugees forging it. The government also sold the iron ore controlled to Chen Chao, so that he could complete the casting of the farm tools needed for winter farming.

Gongsun Xiu inspected Chen Chao's blacksmith shop, with all the necessary equipment and streamlined personnel. He was not like the iron smelting plant in the government, with complex manpower and more worms.

He knew it clearly: "Leaving it to private merchants to do iron smelting will reduce a lot of losses. The government has state-owned enterprises, and their subordinates will only fool things, waste and not be careful in budgeting, let alone the bureaucratic trends are prevalent, and they often raise useless worms, and talented people are excluded. It is different to hand it over to merchants. Merchants are proficient in budgeting and dare not make any mistakes. One is afraid of losing profits, and the other is afraid of losing the right to smelting iron. Therefore, private merchants have higher efficiency and quality."

When Chen Chao saw Wang Shang visiting in a private inspection, he hurriedly wanted to kneel down and salute. The latter raised a finger and shook it, indicating that he should not speak out and acted in a low-key manner.

Chen Chao leaned closer and lowered his voice, whispered: "Everything of iron smelting is ready. According to the king's instructions, the people who were unable to survive in the war in Liao Tunnel and Xiangping were placed here. First, teach them a simple iron to make a living, so that they can build agricultural tools for the king."

Gongsun Xiu was satisfied, patted his shoulder and smiled, "It turns out that Gu has not read the wrong person, you have to do it well."

"The villain understands."

Chen Chao was feeling uncomfortable and immediately assured the king.

Gongsun Xiu knew very well that this person was not simple, not just for money. If he made more use of it, he would not only be a small merchant like iron smelting, and said seriously: "The farming is about to be in progress, so speed up."

After saying that, he left quietly.

Once the power of iron smelting was handed over to the people, Jia Fan dismissed 600 officials from all over the country, and his useful talents were left elsewhere, saving a lot of salary.

Among them, the relatives and students of Yang Zuo, Bei Yan, Lunzhi, etc., who were dismissed from office, and each had complaints and inconvenience.

Gongsun Xiu saw it and said softly: "I want to take over the world, but Liaodong is only in the northeast. Going east can plunder Goguryeo, Fuyu and Xianbei, and going south can attack Youji and Ji. Now it is the power of Liaodong to gather to strive for the world. Don't look short-sighted."

When everyone heard this, they were also excited.

The four words "to strive for the world" are actually the real strategic intention of the King of Yan.

But as a small force in Liaodong, if you want to truly plan for the world, you must send troops everywhere to fight for the world.

When Gongsun Xiu made drastic reforms to the bad policies, the Wei and Wu sides in Liaokou were fighting hard.

The troops led by Zhuge Jin and his son were all elite, with a total of 30,000 naval troops. Sima Yi was an old man and took the opportunity to join forces with Wang Chang. However, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers. They fought for nearly three months. The war continued until mid-October, and both sides suffered injuries.

Wei army camp.

Hu Zun ran in with a sad face. The Wei army was already a small number and was defeated. His morale was sluggish. Now he died in battle and only tens of thousands of soldiers were available. However, he saw the Taiwei reading a book under the lamp and thought to himself: "The Taiwei is at this moment, and he can still pretend to be like a Confucian general. The enemy is in front of him, so he has free time."

Sima Yi raised his head and saw that Hu Zun had come in at some point. He immediately put down the bamboo slips and asked, "What's the matter?"

Hu Zun knelt down and said, "Taiwei, the Wu army is fierce, and our army is really hard to resist."

He chuckled, his face full of disdain: "Just struggle to death. Zhuge Jin knew that my son Sima Shi and Youzhou Governor Wu Qiu Jian led a 50,000 army to rescue him at night, so he attacked desperately and tried to destroy me before the reinforcements arrived. Such a plan would not fight him, but defense would be."

Hu Zun had nodded and said yes. At most, 50,000 reinforcements from Wei State arrived in Liaodong in three days, and the strength of strength could be reversed.

Sima Yi revealed a gloomy look. Before going to Liaodong, he vowed to Emperor Cao Rui of Wei to conquer Liaodong with a one-year period of "a hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days, and a sixty days to rest". It is almost eleven months now, but he still has not made any contributions. Instead, he was restrained by the Eastern Wu in Liaokou and could not move.

If you cannot win this battle, you will be disappointed and will lose his prestige in the court.

This is something Sima Yi can't stand.

He seemed to be clear-minded and had a desire to control military power.

Sima Yi closed his eyes and said for a long time: "Have you found out what?"

Hu Zun smiled bitterly and said, "I found out that our army's armor found on Xiaogu Mountain that day was the armor left behind when we smuggled on the north bank of the Liao River and was attacked by the Yan army halfway."

Sima Yi sneered and said, "As expected, Gongsun Xiu threw away the baggage flags along the way and led me to Xiaogu Mountain. He led his troops to sneak attack the Wu army camp, which led us to an encounter with the Wu army. After fighting for three months, both sides were exhausted."

Hu Zun also felt annoyed: "This kid is really despicable, even an allies like Wu Jun have cheated him. He returned to save Xiangping, but usurped Gongsun Yuan. He took the position of King Yan, and he was really unfaithful and unfilial—"

Sima Yi was stunned, interrupted him, frowned and asked, "Wait - what did you say? Did he usurp the throne and become the King of Yan?"

Hu Zun sighed: "Yes, the Taiwei led Goguryeo, and the Xianbei attacked Xiangping, which was to surround Wei and save Zhao Zhishou. This kid returned to the army north and did not rush to lift the siege of Xiangping, but instead stationed troops in Shouyang Mountain to hold troops. Just waiting like this, Gongsun Yuan could not sit still and passed the position of King Yan to him, so he sent troops to lift the siege of Xiangping."

When Sima Yi heard this, the bamboo slip in his hand fell to the ground. He remained silent for a long time, his face became gloomy and said angrily: "If this person has Liaodong, it will be extremely difficult for me, the Great Wei, to conquer Liaodong in the future."

Hu Zun said in surprise: "Taiwei, isn't this the case? As long as my reinforcements arrive, it's no problem to conquer Liaodong."
Chapter completed!