Lu Bu nodded and said, "That's all. Ten thousand people can at least protect the safety of Her Royal Highness. Prince, I have one more thing I want to trouble you with!"
Wang Yun felt very happy when he heard that Lu Bu agreed so easily!
It was definitely a good deal to send Lu Bu away with ten thousand people!
After Lu Bu left, the court was really his own!
Yin smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, Marquis Wen, just say it!"
Lu Bu said: "I heard that a man named Liu Bei is interested in Xuzhou. Now that I go to Xuzhou to take office, it will definitely cause his dissatisfaction.
I have to draw up another imperial edict to move him to another place to appease him. I wonder what the prince wants? "
"Uh... I don't know where to send Liu Bei according to Marquis Wen's wishes?"
Wang Yun was a little confused. Liu Bei was just a little Kalami. When the eighteen princes attacked Dong Zhuo, he was just a little county magistrate.
Now even if Tao Qian gives Xuzhou Mu to him, he is still a small character with no soldiers or generals and no foundation.
Why should Lu Bu take him to heart?
Lu Bu said: "I heard that there is a big island called Yizhou in the southeast of Linhai, two thousand miles away from the county. How about letting Liu Bei lead the governor of Yizhou?"
"Yizhou..." Wang Yun couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth twice.
As someone who has been an official for decades, he has actually heard of the place name Yizhou!
Yizhou is also the treasure island of Taiwan in later generations.
However, in the long history, this "treasure island" was not a good place.
There is a miasma up there, and the uncivilized savages are doing their own thing. It's a completely barren land!
But as long as Lu Bu is allowed to go to Xuzhou, why would Wang Yun care whether Liu Bei is willing to go to that ghost place with nothing but savages?
Anyway, it was you who said it. He only needed to use his words to ask Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to issue another imperial edict.
As for Liu Bei not wanting to go, that has nothing to do with him. You, Lu Bu, can find a way to go by yourself!
So he agreed.
Unexpectedly, Lu Bu was not satisfied yet and said: "I have one more thing to trouble Wang Situ!
Situ must also know that Dong Zhuo's lintel was copied this time. Although he didn't make much money, he did get a lot of food.
The few people I have can't eat all this food, and they can't take it away, so why not sell it to the court? "
Wang Yun had a dark look on his face, this Lu Bu must be so shameless!
You have received so many benefits, but now you have to sell the food to the court if you can't transport it away?
Because he said: "Marquis Wen also knows that the treasury is empty now, where can he have money to buy grain?
Your Majesty wants to renovate Changle Palace but he has no money! "
Lu Bu chuckled and said, "There is no money in the treasury. Doesn't the prince still have some private money?"
Wang Yun's face turned darker, and he forced a smile and said: "Marquis Wen is joking, I am an honest official, how much wealth can I have?"
Lu Bu smiled and patted Wang Yun on the shoulder and said: "Prince, to be honest, you are not as far-sighted as I am!
In today's world, only when you have soldiers in hand can you feel calm. You should admit this, right?
How can we have soldiers in our hands? You have to have food!
In the past two years, Sizhou has been severely harmed by Dong Zhuo. The population has dropped sharply and the land has been abandoned.
How do you want to raise those soldiers in your hands? Raising food from the wasteland? Or do you want other states to transport grain to pay tribute?
If you really recruit and surrender Guo Si, Li Jue and other Dong Zhuo's old troops, how will you feed so many soldiers?
If they surrender to you and don't have enough to eat, these soldiers will turn into wolves and eat your flesh! "
"This..." Wang Yun was speechless.
Lu Bu said again: "Prince, what is money? Money is a bastard! Once the money is spent, it is your own money!"
What's buried in the money cellar in your house is just a pile of rotten copper!
Now that you have secured your position, are you still worried that you won’t be able to get your money back in the future? If you want to get high returns, you have to pay a little bit, right? "
I have to say, what Lu Bu said makes sense!
Wang Yun pondered for a moment and asked: "Uh... I wonder how much food and grass Marquis Wen has, and how much money he needs?"
"Hey, it's not much actually, it's just a few hundred thousand stones. The prince can just give me a few tens of thousands of gold!"
Lu Bu looked relaxed, but Wang Yun wanted to scold his mother in his heart: Why didn't you go and grab it!
"This... I really don't have tens of thousands of gold. Why don't Marquis Wen let me consider it?"
Lu Bu smiled and said: "This is natural! In that case, then, my lord, you are busy first, and I won't disturb you anymore!"
He said goodbye and left.
In the next few days, many "big character posters" appeared in Chang'an City!
Pieces of paper with the same font and the same format were posted at various city gates and crowded places in Chang'an.
It just says how much Lu Bu contributed to the killing of Dong Zhuo and how loyal he was to the Han Dynasty.
He also said that Lu Bu was going to marry Princess Wannian. The royal family was going to give Princess Wannian a sky-high dowry and build a huge and luxurious palace for the Prince Consort and Marquis Lu Bu.
This kind of royal gossip will be a popular topic two thousand years later, let alone the late Eastern Han Dynasty when there was basically no entertainment life?
Within a few days, these words had spread throughout the streets and alleys of Chang'an, and they tended to become more and more sinister.
What makes him even more unacceptable is that this kid Lu Bu has been having a seizure recently. He has banquets at home every day, and takes turns inviting the ministers of the court. He is clearly trying to win people's hearts!
Wang Yun couldn't bear it any longer and decided that Lu Bu must be sent away!
Otherwise, the people in Chang'an would only be talking about Lu Bu!
At the same time, Wang Yun also secretly wondered: Who is there behind Lu Bu to give him guidance?
It's not important, it's better to send him away as soon as possible!
In fact, Wang Yun didn't know that these were all done to Wang Yun to force her to save money to buy food quickly.
Lu Bu was not idle these two days. He asked people to grind as much wheat as possible into fine flour, and grind the rice into fine rice as much as possible and then grind it into powder.
Then they are steamed, dried, mixed with other grains, and pressed into brick-sized grain pieces using a simple press made of big rocks and logs!
In fact, Lu Bu did not completely fool Wang Yun.
What is most valuable in troubled times? Of course it’s still food!
However, transportation in this era was underdeveloped and transportation capacity was quite low.
Grain transportation requires the recruitment of a large number of people, vehicles and livestock.
After a thousand or two thousand miles of underground food, people ate what horses chewed, and the loss was astonishing. Ten thousand shi of grain was transported to the front line, and only three to two thousand shi left was considered a lot!
It is undoubtedly a dream to quickly change transportation capacity.
What Lu Bu can do is to reduce the weight and compress the space as much as possible, and take away as much food as possible from Meiwu.
After struggling like this for several days, Wang Yun finally couldn't bear it anymore and invited Lu Bu to the palace in the name of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.
