Chapter 306

It is a pity! He does not know that Su Xuan's achievement in the Dao of Fortune is far above his.

Moreover, Su Xuan has also masked and changed the appearance of his own fortune.

What Military Sima Yi sees is only what Su Xuan wants him and the people of the world to see.

Only Su Xuan himself knows the true situation; even Zuo Ci does not know.

Let alone Military Sima Yi.

Military Sima Fang does not know this, and hearing Military Sima Yi's words, he laughed loudly: "My son can already see so far; our Military Sima family is fortunate indeed!"

"The future is on the side of our Military Sima family!"

"Just follow your own ideas! The future of the Military Sima family is entrusted to you! I believe in you!"

"Yes!"

Military Sima Yi nodded with a smile: "I will not let you down, Father! Our Military Sima family will surely stand at the pinnacle of this world in the future, looking down on all living beings."

No one can stop their Military Sima family from reaching the top.

Cao Cao cannot, Lord Yuan Shao cannot! Su Xuan even less so!

In Nanyang, Wancheng,

"Hmm?"

When Military Sima Yi and Military Sima Fang calculated their family's destiny and involved Su Xuan, it was immediately sensed by Su Xuan.

With a thought, he passed the altered results over.

Then, he said with a light smile: "Sure enough, being careful is always right! This Military Sima family does have capable people!"

"Is it Military Sima Yi and Military Sima Fang? Interesting!"

"Sure enough, in a world with extraordinary powers, the Military Sima family is absolutely not that simple;"

"Otherwise, how could they successfully usurp the world of Cao Wei in the future?"

They must have their own methods and abilities.

Not only does it seem so, it is indeed so.

Thinking of this, Su Xuan shook his head with a light smile: "It's a pity! Because of my existence in this world, your dreams will ultimately be like the moon in the water and flowers in the mirror, and will never be realized;"

"In fact, you will soon be reunited as a family and go to the Yellow Springs together;"

"Who told me to hate you so much?"

In this world, no matter what, he will not allow the tragedy of Military Sima's usurpation and the chaos of the Five Barbarians to appear again.

The people of his Great Han will also surely stand at the pinnacle of the world forever, and no civilization can replace them.

Because he does not allow it!

Another 7 days passed,

Yang Hong had finally prepared the ransom and Zou Qian Liang and transported them to the vicinity of Ye County.

At the same time, he also brought Lord Yuan Shu's troops from Runan and other places to guard against Su Xuan directly turning hostile.

Then, he came to Wancheng alone to see Su Xuan again and bowed respectfully: "Governor, 2 million shi of grain and 1 million gold in ransom have all been prepared and transported to the vicinity of Ye County!"

"I wonder where my lord is? Can we proceed with the ransom transaction?"

At this moment, Yang Hong was actually still very uneasy.

Because he knew that the tens of thousands of troops he helped organize were nothing in Su Xuan's eyes.

If Su Xuan chose to turn hostile and start grabbing, those troops would not be able to stop him at all.

But he had no other choice.

He could only bite the bullet and pray that Su Xuan was a person who kept his promises and would trade as agreed.

After all, in this era, reputation is still very important.

Especially for a warlord like Su Xuan.

"Haha! Naturally!"

Su Xuan laughed loudly: "Bi'e, your speed is still very fast! Being so capable, it's a pity to follow Lord Yuan Shu. How about after this matter is over, you come to my side and work for me?"

"Uh..."

Not to mention, Yang Hong was very moved and wished he could agree immediately.

But he knew that the New Policies Su Xuan implemented were incompatible with his philosophy.

And they were also unfavorable to the family behind him.

Additionally, doing so would offend Lord Yuan Shu and the Lord Yuan family to death, which would be even more unfavorable to his Yang family.

He would not do such a stupid thing.

He could only suppress the palpitation in his heart and shake his head: "Thank you for your kindness, Governor, but a person does not serve two masters. I have already defected to my lord Lord Yuan Shu; how can I defect to another?"

"Please do not make things difficult for me, Governor!"

Su Xuan smiled and thought: "If I couldn't read minds and read the thoughts in your heart, I would have really believed you were a loyal person!"

"What a pity..."

Fortunately, he didn't really want to recruit Yang Hong; he was just joking on purpose.

If he really did join, he wouldn't mind accepting Yang Hong and sending him to do some suitable things.

After all, there are no useless people, only people who are not used in the right place.

Even trash can be recycled!

Let alone people?

However, since Yang Hong refused, he had nothing more to say.

Su Xuan replied immediately: "Since you have already prepared everything! I naturally will not break my word! I will arrange for someone to take you to see Brother Gonglu later!"

"Tomorrow morning, we will set off for Ye County, and we can complete the handover there!"

"Anyway, except for Brother Gonglu, the other soldiers captured by our army have already been transferred to Ye County in advance."

Because he had anticipated all of this long ago!

Preparing in advance is good for completing the transaction early and starting the reform and construction of Nanyang early.

Over the past few days, Su Xuan had already had Huang Zhong bring the 300, 00+ people intercepted from Dong Zhuo to Nanyang.

Then, under the arrangement and dispatch of Xun You and Guo Jia, some of these people were settled in Nanyang.

They began to further develop Nanyang according to Su Xuan's plan.

This time, taking Nanyang from Lord Yuan Shu, he had already purged a wave of scholar-clans in Nanyang who had defected to Lord Yuan Shu.

He didn't kill them all, only those who were guilty of heinous crimes.

The rest were all packed up and sent to Ye County.

He prepared to send them to Lord Yuan Shu as a bonus for the ransom.

Anyway, the foundations of these families had basically been hollowed out by Lord Yuan Shu.

And this time, even their fixed assets had been confiscated by Su Xuan, so why keep these scholar-clan people who had ulterior motives and were not on the same path as him?

Naturally, send them all to Lord Yuan Shu!

By then, wouldn't Lord Yuan Shu have to spend effort and money to appease and settle these people?

After all, Lord Yuan Shu had borrowed a lot of Zou Qian Liang from them back then.

Originally, Lord Yuan Shu indeed didn't intend to pay it back, because he was ultimately prepared to run away, abandon Nanyang, and abandon these scholar-clans.

But now Su Xuan clearly didn't intend to give him the opportunity to abandon these burdens.

Even for the sake of face and reputation, Lord Yuan Shu would have to settle these people well by then.

And Su Xuan thus obtained a relatively clean Nanyang.

He obtained a large amount of land and fields.

These can all be used to settle a large number of people, allowing them to quickly stabilize production and bring him a large amount of value.

Of course, Su Xuan also took the opportunity to lay out and reform the industries in Nanyang.

Textile mills, farms, paper mills, wineries, steel mills... etc., a large number of workshops have begun to be built in Nanyang.

I believe that in a few years, Nanyang will not only be able to return to its pre-war peak level but will soon be able to exceed its peak and enter true prosperity.

"In that case, thank you, Governor!"

Hearing Su Xuan's affirmative answer, the big stone in Yang Hong's heart finally fell, and he felt much more at ease.

Soon, he was taken by Su Xuan's people to see Lord Yuan Shu.

— Author's Notes —

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