Ten miles from Yunzhou, Dongping County, Cao Xuan stood up with his horse. Not far away, an army was slowly moving towards him, and in front of this team, several cavalry were rushing towards him.

When he got closer, the leader turned over and dismounted, bowed with his fists and said, "How dare I work for my uncle to go out of the city to welcome him? It's really a traitor!"

Cao Xuan dismounted with a smile and helped Zhu Youzhen up with both hands. "Your Highness is so polite. Thank you for your hard work."

"I haven't been so tired for a long time. Youzhen's body is no match for the past. I really feel a little hard work, but when I think about seeing my uncle soon, some hard work will disappear without a trace." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

Cao Xuan couldn't help laughing. Zhu Youzhen was not like this before. At that time, he was rebellious and overly high-minded, as if he was the best and second-rate guy in the Heavenly King. A disaster actually caused his personality to fundamentally change.

However, this seemed to be a good thing to Cao Xuan.

The two of them were also considered prisoners, and they were taken back from Wuyi by Jingxiang. Cao Xuan once thought that Zhu Youzhen was deposed. It was not until Jingxiang sent a secret envoy to talk to him about something that he realized that Zhu Youzhen had a new look and was completely different from the past.

Of course, he would not obey Jing Xiang's one-sided words for such a big event. Through his own channels in Chang'an, he finally realized that Jing Xiang's words were true.

"This time you leave Beijing, your father is generous. He has divided his most elite troops to you by 3,000 and asked Cao Bin to lead the team. He still feels sorry for your youngest son." Looking at the army that had already stopped behind, Cao Xuan said.

"I want me to stay in Pinglu for a while and hold on for a while, and always need to invest some money." Zhu Youzhen flatly said, not caring about it. "Besides, you have to show off like a kind father and a filial son, otherwise wouldn't it be a joke for others? Although I am a useless person, I am still his son after all!"

Cao Xuan shook his head and said, "In the past, you used to rely on your fists to reason, but now you don't rely on your fists anymore. You've become sharp-tongued. After all, it's your father, so you can't go too far."

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "My father is unwilling to give me any chance. He has completely forgotten the military achievements I have made over the years. I am not very strong than my two brothers. Once I feel that I am useless, I will abandon it like a blind pawn. Knowing that Pinglu is already full of dangers, I still have to send me to support the store. Cao Bin may be able to protect me from running for my life at that time, but uncle, I will lose again and again, lose Luzhou and then Pinglu, what kind of face will I have in the Daliang court in the future!"

Cao Xuan sighed.

Like Jing Xiang, he also believed that Zhu Wen's eagerness to abolish Tang and become an extremely confused behavior, and the result was that they were now struggling. Putting aside the external environment, the worsening internal environment was actually already full of contradictions. Not to mention anything else, the desire of Zhu Wen's sons for that chair led to countless conflicts.

When there is no such chair, no one expects it, but since you have it, people who are qualified naturally want to go up and sit down. This is human nature.

"Go to the city, I've prepared a banquet in the city to welcome you." Cao Xuan suddenly felt a little depressed.

The two got on the horse and walked slowly.

The three thousand soldiers led by Cao Bin naturally could not enter the city. Cao Xuan's troops would take them to the place they had prepared long ago to camp and camp and reward the military supplies, so they naturally had already prepared them thoroughly.

"Along the way, the balance under my uncle's control made me lit up, and it felt quite like a paradise!" The two of them walked side by side, looking at the vibrant crops on both sides of the road, Zhu Youzhen said with great emotion. "Unlike Guanzhong, even if there are 800 miles of Qinchuan, the barren land can be seen everywhere, and the broken villages are everywhere. Even raising grain has become a big problem."

"I have been a prisoner of Li Ze for more than half a year, but I still learned some things." Cao Xuan said: "The Tianping Army was defeated in Luzhou. Tens of thousands of troops were only three or four out of ten who could escape back. The entire balance is close to the point of collapse. In recent years, I have exhausted all my strength, but I have only barely recovered the scene of living."

Zhu Youzhen's face changed slightly and she said, "Are you learning from Li Ze?"

"Not all!" Cao Xuan said: "Although I was captured at that time, I could still walk around and take a look. After I came back, some measures followed them, such as military camps."

"Are you saying that these fields are military camps?" Zhu Youzhen pointed his horse whip at those fields.

"It was, but it's not now." Cao Xuan said: "At that time, our army was full of spirit and war was not possible. I took them to open up land and farm, and always had to eat. At that time, your father, our emperor, was too lazy to answer me. I had to rely on myself. In a year, I farmed nearly one million mu of land under the rule of Tianping, and then I distributed these fields to the soldiers, and even the families of soldiers who followed me to Luzhou and never came back, were not missing. Everyone was assigned some land."

"This is a strategy to return to the heart. I believe my uncle has regained the hearts of the people with this strategy?" Zhu Youzhen said appreciatively.

"That's true!" Cao Xuan said: "If the Ping Army re-established today, the military farming has not stopped. The soldiers knew that these military farming fields were cultivated for themselves, so they did their best."

"No one stretched out?" Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"Of course there is!" Cao Xuan snorted coldly: "But those who dare to reach out to the military farms will kill one of them, and two of them will chop a pair of them. I did not touch some people's vested interests, but these things are measures I used to rebuild the army and boost morale. Whoever dares to ruin my big business is seeking death."

"How has the Tianping Army been rebuilt?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

He had to care about this issue. Because Cao Xuan is now his biggest foreign aid, the power of Cao Xuan has a great impact on his future.

"Twenty thousand armoured." Cao Xuan said: "If it were during war, 50,000 young and strong people could be mobilized."

"Twenty thousand people?" Zhu Youzhen was a little disappointed.

"After the battle in Luzhou, I really understood what it means to be a soldier but not a lot." Cao Xuan said: "As long as you can use the point, it is enough. Your Highness should not underestimate my 20,000 people. After years of estimation of health, their combat effectiveness is even better than the Tianping Army in the past. I distributed land to their families and gave them more salary. I allowed talented people to emerge and rush home to live a life of scattered life to die. This year, I rely on this army to make Tian Ping return with no success."

Pinglu faced the oppression of Qin Zhao's Zuo Xiaogu, and the Tianping Army was not easy. They needed to withstand the pressure of the Right Jinwugu led by Tian Ping. Although there was no large-scale conflict, small military conflicts should not be underestimated. Victory or failure of repeated battles will deeply affect the soldiers' fighting will and confidence.

"So, my uncle got a lot of cheaper?" Zhu Youzhen said happily.

Cao Xuan shook his head: "It's not a good idea to take advantage, it's just that he didn't suffer any losses. Tian Ping is still much worse than him. I must be trembling when facing him, but I can be at ease with him. His military combat effectiveness is very good, and his equipment is far better than us after receiving the strong support of Li Ze. If there are any shortcomings in the current Right Jinwu Guard, it is Tian Ping himself."

Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath: "Uncle, although the Right Jinwu Guard is one of the twelve Guards under Li Ze's command, it is really not their main force. Can we only maintain an invincible situation with them?"

"Their equipment is so good." Cao Xuan was a little angry. "On several times, I felt that there would be a big victory, but I was forced to be held back by them. Their reinforcements arrived and forced me to retreat. I couldn't fight with them, and my financial and manpower could not be compared with the other party. My soldiers are no longer the same as one of them. You, now you are just treating me as a pawn!"

"Where did Li Ze get so much money to support his army?" Zhu Youzhen was confused and puzzled.

"Have you been studying for the past two years? You also know that there are too many aspects involved in governing a country. It is absolutely impossible to rely on the army alone." Cao Xuan took out a few copper coins from his arms and handed them to Zhu Youzhen. "This is the standard copper coins on the opposite side. What do you think?"

After weighing it in his hand, Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "It's much better than ours."

"Now, everyone uses this coin. The copper coins cast by Chang'an's Money Making Bureau are useless at all." Cao Xuan said: "Do you know how much profit this money is?"

"I naturally know this."

"The Chang'an's money minting bureau only knows how to make money on it, but he doesn't know how to maintain the value of this coin. Now on the balance, one tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,400 coins of copper coins cast in Chang'an, but it can only be exchanged for 800 coins of this kind of copper coins."

"The difference of six hundred yuan?" Zhu Youzhen was shocked.

"People usually choose to use the copper coins on the opposite side when they trade, but when they pay taxes, they choose to use the copper coins cast in Chang'an." Cao Xuan shook his head and said, "In the end, I had no choice but to abandon the money from the Chang'an Money Making Bureau and use this kind of copper coins in a unified manner."

"This is equivalent to making money from the other side." Zhu Youzhen said helplessly.
Chapter completed!