"They refused to stop at Xiakou. At the normal speed, they should have passed Xiakou now and are coming towards Wuchang County."

This news made Liu Jing overjoyed. It was like a gift from God. He immediately turned around and ordered: "Let Chen Mi come to see me."

After a moment, the general Chen Mi stepped forward and bowed to salute, "please give orders to the governor of the state."

Chen Mi was a general of Gan Ning. He was originally the first water master among the thieves in the Yangtze River Jinfan thieves. He was also the best in the Jiangxia army. He had been promoted to the tooth general. This time he led a thousand elite navy troops to follow Liu Jing to Qichun County.

Liu Jing turned around and asked Tao Zheng again, "Can you have the help of Tao's family?"

Tao Zheng nodded, "The Tao family has sent people to wait on the pier and is willing to assist the army in arresting it."

Liu Jing immediately ordered Chen Mi: "You can bring five hundred brothers to follow the Tao family to arrest the envoy of Cao's army. Do not hurt anyone, be sure to capture me alive."

"Abide by the orders of humble duties"

Chen Mi bowed and followed Tao Zheng off the boat.

Liu Jing then walked into the cabin and saw everyone whispering, talking about something, and then asked with a smile: "What are you looking forward to?"

Everyone almost said in unison: "Prison of War"

There was a burst of laughter in the cabin. The more than 25,000 prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Anlu were definitely an extremely valuable asset for Jiang Xia.

Because of combat readiness, more than 70% of the young and strong laborers were assigned to the reserve service of the militia and practiced day and night, which made the young and strong laborers in Jiangxia extremely short of them. Seeing that the summer harvest season, large wheat fields were not harvested, so they could only mobilize women and elderly people to participate in field work.

Liu Jing knew this very well. He waved his hand and immediately calmed down in the cabin. Liu Jing then asked Xu Shu: "How much has the turmeric oil transaction with Jiangdong been underway?"

Xu Shu bowed and replied, "Two thousand barrels of turmeric oil have been shipped out, and there are still three thousand barrels being transported on board, but have not been shipped out yet."

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Now our relationship with Jiangdong is slightly disagreeable. The turmeric oil transaction will be stopped immediately and wait for my notice to resume."

Xu Shu also knew the current situation, and he nodded silently, "I understand."

At this time, Jiang Wan made a suggestion: "Qi Bingzhou Guard, if the turmeric transaction is resumed, I suggest exchanging grain. After all, we also have copper ore that can mint coins. In comparison, grain is more precious."

Liu Bei understood what he meant, so he smiled at everyone and said, "This time I will also talk about the labor problem. Cao Cao was training the navy in Jiangling, and it was impossible for him to advance east within two months, so the training of the militia reserve army was not so urgent. They would concentrate on harvesting wheat and participate in transplanting rice. With the assistance of women and the elderly, the labor force in the farmland could solve it."

Xu Shu understood what Liu Jing meant, and smiled and said, "The governor of the state means that more than 20,000 Cao's prisoners of war will not be given to us."

"Look at it everyone"

Liu Jing pointed at Xu Shu and smiled at everyone, "Look at your shopkeeper Xu, you are already smarter. Before I finished speaking, he started shouting."

Everyone laughed, and Xu Shu said a little embarrassedly: "I'm just kidding. I know that the Zhou Mu wants them to go to mine."

"That's right, I really plan to use these 25,000 Cao's prisoners of war to mine and cast coins. The prisoners of war have been escorted to Lutong Mountain, and General Xing Daorong led 3,000 troops to be custody. As for civil servants, Li Zhengfang served as the mining and smelting envoy, as for the food of prisoners of war..."

Speaking of this, Liu Jing glanced at Xu Shu who was slightly worried and smiled and said, "Shi Xu doesn't have to worry about the food of prisoners of war. In this battle in Anlu County, we seized nearly 200,000 stones of military rations and will be used for prisoners of war. In addition, I hope to set a rule that prisoners of war can be free after serving for three years."

Xu Shu nodded, "The governor of the state is kind, which is a blessing for all the people of the world."

.........

Chen Mi led ten whistle ships and three thousand stone warships to cast nets on the river surface to search for the ships. The news they received was a three-masted passenger ship of five hundred stone, followed by a small boat from the Tao family. At this time, the war had not officially broken out, and Jiangxia had not issued a ban on the river, so there were many passenger ships and merchant ships coming and going on the river surface.

The 500-stone three-masted passenger ship is the most common long-distance passenger ship, and can be seen everywhere on the river. In order to prevent the net from leaking, all the 500-stone passenger ships sailing south were intercepted, and Jiangxia soldiers boarded the ship one by one to investigate.

The Tao family manager who accompanied Chen Mi to search the passenger ship was surnamed Wang. He was very experienced and knew the boss of the passenger ship who transported Cao's envoys. With him, the possibility of the target missing the net would be very small.

At this time, three 500-stone passenger ships arrived in the river. Manager Wang suddenly pointed to a sloop boat following behind the passenger ship and said, "That is the ship of our business, that ship."

Chen Mi's eyes immediately stared at the three passenger ships. Their target should be one of them. At this time, the second passenger ship suddenly turned around and tried to sail to the other side. Chen Mi immediately shouted loudly: "Stop that ship."

In fact, it was not necessary for him to order. The Jiangxia Navy had already begun to take action. Seven or eight urns of ships attacked from the north and south. At this time, a thousand stone warship rushed from the north and blocked the passenger ship, and finally stopped the passenger ship.

The ship was the ship that was being supplied in Chibi. The boss of the ship was so scared that he trembled all over and hid on the side of the ship with his head in his arms. He knew that he had already had a disaster.

Seven or eight whistleboats quickly approached the passenger ship, and Jiangxia soldiers climbed onto the side of the ship. At this moment, two men holding crossbow arrows rushed out of the cabin and pointed at the Jiangxia soldiers who were on board to shoot arrows. One Jiangxia soldier could not dodge and was shot on the shoulder by an arrow, and he screamed and fell into the river.

Several soldiers jumped out of the river to rescue, and dozens of other soldiers fired arrows together. The arrows were like rain, shooting two men to death. At this time, more than 20 soldiers rushed into the cabin and took out several young and strong men from the cabin.

The last person who came out was a scholar in his thirties, with a medium-sized and short figure and a thin appearance. He was frightened to his face. When he saw several Jiangxia soldiers rushing towards him with swords, he was shocked and shouted loudly: "I am the envoy of Prime Minister Cao, please don't hurt me."

The soldiers pressed him on the deck, and he found a jade box from him. This was the second letter Cao Cao gave to Sun Quan. Chen Mi stepped forward and grabbed his collar, dragged him up, stared at him and asked, "Who are you? How could it be Jiang Xia's accent?"
Chapter completed!