One day in March of the third year of Chuping, the prefect of Yingchuan, Pei Qing, came to Wuyang to inspect the salt field with the support of many officials in the county. At this time, the salt had just been exposed, and the salt was white and snowy, emitting dazzling light in the sun. Pei Qing was extremely happy when he saw this scene. So he summoned the wealthy businessman and gentry who had been waiting outside and announced that he would officially sell salt in one month.

After saying this, the wealthy businessmen and gentry all cheered because they had been waiting for this day for three months, and now they finally saw hope.

On this day, Pei Qing did not return to Yangdi, but stayed in Wuyang. Zhao Yan vacated his mansion for Pei Qing to live in, but Pei Qing firmly refused and lived in Guanyi.

That night, Pei Qing ordered people to invite Zhao Yan and Du Xi to the inn. First, they affirmed Zhao Yan's outstanding performance in the past few months, and then urged Du Xi to step up training the army so that they can protect Wuyang.

At this time, Du Xi had already recruited three thousand troops, and these three thousand people were in full training. Although the training had not been long, it was already in momentum. Pei Qing found that the team was neat and was quite satisfied when he was inspecting the team. However, he also knew that something big happened soon. Before that, he had to build an armed force enough to protect himself. He had now opened a stall in Yingchuan and could never allow others to get involved. Therefore, in this case, the training of the army must not slow down. Even if the army had to be used in order to build a salt field before, his army would rotate to build a salt field, and anyone who did not build a salt field must step up training.

At the same time, Pei Qing also instructed Zhao Yan that the salt farm has recruited thousands of workers now, and these thousands of workers can also become the forces to defend the salt farm and use their free time to train them, so that they can also contribute to the defense of Wuyang at critical moments. Of course, this premise is that this force must be firmly controlled in the hands of the government and must not be a tool for anyone to seek personal gain.

Zhao Yan was also impressed by Pei Qing's novel ideas. He really didn't know how Pei Qing came up with these imaginative ideas, but he also knew that these ideas were indeed effective, so he carefully recorded them and decided to continue doing this in the future.

However, at this moment, suddenly heard footsteps outside the inn. Pei Qing was stunned and asked what happened.

He saw his personal guard general Xie Yingdeng come in and said respectfully: "Lord, Mr. Changwen has heard news that the right cavalry general Zhu Ye sent an envoy to Zhongmu and invite him to discuss the fight against Dong Zhuo together. Because the envoy was very urgent, he asked his lord to set off tomorrow. Mr. Changwen had no choice but to send someone to ask for his lord, but he didn't know what his lord's wishes were?"

Since Pei Qing had already gained a foothold in Yingchuan, he naturally had a deep understanding of his neighbors. Zhu Ye was one of them. When Zhu Ye made great contributions to breaking the Yellow Turbans, he was appointed as the General of the Right Cavalry and was named the Marquis of Qiantang. Later, he became the prefect of Hanoi and defeated Zhang Yan's attack. After Dong Zhuo advancing, because of Zhu Ye's prestige, he expressed his assassination as the servant and wanted Zhu Ye to be his deputy. Zhu Ye did not accept it, and was later ordered by Dong Zhuo to stay in Luoyang. However, Zhu Ye secretly communicated with the heroes of Guandong, and later he was afraid that Dong Zhuo would attack, so he fled to Jingzhou.

So Dong Zhuo appointed Hongnong Yang Yi as the magistrate of Henan to guard Luoyang. Zhu Jun led his troops to expel him when he heard the news. Seeing that Luoyang was broken and could not be defended, he came to Zhongmu Tun and summoned all the heroes. Later, Dong Zhuo sent his general Li Jue and Guo Si to station in Hanoi to resist Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun took the initiative to attack, but was defeated. He had no choice but to return to Zhongmu again and dared not fight again. Now he was summoned, probably because he was worried that Li Jue would attack again.

Pei Qing thought for a moment after hearing this, and then said, "Zhu Jun is my general, especially when he was suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Our army started from the Yellow Turbans again. Now we invite me to go to Zhongmu. If we don't go, he will definitely find fault on the grounds. Not to mention leading troops to attack, even if we say a word, we may become the target of public criticism. So we have to go this time, and it will not be possible if we can't go there. Because within two months, Zhu Jun will leave Zhongmu, so this time I only bring 500 personal soldiers to go there. Of course, we can't go there for nothing. We will just give us a thousand stones of food, just to show our attitude."

"Ah? Qian, Qianshi's grain? Is this a little bit too little?" Zhao Yan, as a subordinate, knew that he shouldn't speak, but at this time he couldn't help but interrupt and said.

However, Pei Qing shook his head and said, "This is already a lot. Thousand stones of grain are enough for 120,000 kilograms (Han system, one kilogram is equal to 222.73 grams, less than half a kilogram now). This is enough for 1,000 people to eat for a year. Moreover, the army in Zhongmu will soon be disbanded. No matter how much grain you bring, it will be useless. If I hadn't been to avoid war, I wouldn't have given him a thousand stone of grain."

Although Pei Qing said this, he was still looking forward to this trip, because he knew that Zhu Jun was a famous general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Of course, he had to get close to such a person, because he could take the opportunity to get his genes. In the future, as long as he found a corresponding type of talent named Zhu, he would be equivalent to getting a famous general like Zhu.

It is simply a profit to exchange for a famous general like Zhu Jun with a thousand stones of grain. How could Pei Qing not go?

At this time, Zhao Yan asked, "The envoy said that Zhu Cheqi was about to leave Zhongmu several times. I don't know what this is. Please give me advice."

Pei Qing laughed and said with a smile: "This is not difficult. I observed the celestial phenomena last night and learned that Dong Zhuo's general star was dim in Chang'an. It seems that his life is not long. Once Dong Zhuo dies, Chang'an will be in chaos. No matter who holds the power, he will inevitably invite a general like Zhu Jun back to Chang'an, so he concluded that Zhu Jun must go back to Chang'an."

"So it's so. I didn't expect that the envoy would understand such profound celestial phenomena. I really admired it." Seeing that Pei Qing said this, Zhao Yan could only be full of admiration, because there were few masters who knew how to observe celestial phenomena in this era, but each one was an amazing person. He was not only secretly glad that he could do things under such an expert.

"Haha, since that's the case, I will return to Yangdi tomorrow. Boran, Zixu, and Wuyang will be handed over to you. To be honest, today I have observed Wuyang's military and civilian situation and am very satisfied with what you have done. I feel relieved when you do things."

Pei Qing praised the two of them in a real way, ordered them to reward them, give them money, and talked with them all night long, expressing some of his ideas on local internal affairs and military affairs, and inspiring them, and it did not end until the rooster crowed.
Chapter completed!