In the end, Xun Chen chose to compromise. Just like Yang Rui and Geng Wu had agreed on, Yang Rui and Bohai County agreed that they would not fight each other for a year. Moreover, Bohai County would not be allowed to touch Han Fu of Ji Province during this time! This was the core content and bottom line of the agreement between Yang Rui and Yuan Shao.
The one year deadline was basically a training period for soldiers. Under normal circumstances, it would take about a year for soldiers to advance from Grade 0 to Fourth or Fifth Grade. Both Ji Province and Bohai County needed to expand their military strength. This was probably one of the important reasons why the two sides agreed on a one year deadline. After all, Yuan Shao had suffered many losses before this.
The reason Yang Rui agreed on a one year deadline was mainly because the Dong Zhuo Rebellion would continue for some time. Yang Rui wanted to have enough time to participate in it. As for training soldiers, Yang Rui had the map of Penglai. Developing Fourth and Fifth Grade soldiers would take much less time.
Apart from that, Yang Rui also agreed on some business matters with Yuan Shao. This included the supply of horses, the supply of skill books, and the cooperation of the population. Apart from the food and other resources that Green Province currently had an advantage over, almost everything else was covered.
The most important of these included: Bohai County would supply Green Province with three thousand horses every month. The price would be 90% of the normal market price, and the horses would be delivered to Plains City on the fifth day of every month. Bohai County would be obligated to gather 20000 people for Green Province every month. The specific source of the population could be refugees, disaster victims, or any other means. Bohai County would have priority in purchasing one million units of various basic resources from Green Province every month.
Bohai County had an abundant supply of horses and people. These were the basic guarantees of increasing their strength. That was why Yang Rui placed them at the top of the list. Yang Rui might have established a stable line of horse trapping in Western Liang's Ledu City. However, there was a limit to the number of people stationed in the city. After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the teleportation formation had been shut down, so Yang Rui hadn't been able to obtain horses from Ledu City for some time.
In contrast to the lack of horses, Qingzhou's current stock of various basic resources could be said to be very rich. Apart from a portion that needed to be consumed to build the Xuanyuan Altar, the Drifting Cloud Tent, the Ancestral Temple, and the ships, there were also a lot of resources. Yang Rui also wanted to open up a channel to deal with resources. Although one million units per month was just a drop in the ocean, it was still an attempt.
Of course, Yang Rui didn't forget to take the opportunity to blackmail Yuan Shao. Yang Rui also made a request for a famous historical figure, but Yuan Shao couldn't give a positive answer. However, Yuan Shao might not agree to it.
They couldn't reach an agreement on this issue, so much so that the two sides almost couldn't continue the discussion. Later, Yang Rui happened to remember that Cheng Yu paid a lot of attention to the strategists used by Yuan Shao in the later stages of the Battle of the Plains. He casually mentioned it, but he didn't expect Xun Chen to immediately reveal Guo Jia's identity. He readily agreed to help Yang Rui win him over!
Of course, Xun Chen didn't tell him that Guo Jia had already been imprisoned by Yuan Shao. He only thought to himself that he had made a huge bargain! Xun Chen was almost certain that Yuan Shao would definitely agree to transfer Guo Jia to Qingzhou!
When Yang Rui heard that it was the famous Guo Jia, he was overjoyed. However, he didn't know why Xun Chen would agree to hand Guo Jia over so readily. Therefore, Yang Rui didn't show too much on the surface. He even emphasized that Guo Jia had to be a famous historical figure. This was to prevent Xun Chen from becoming suspicious and changing his mind.
In fact, Yang Rui was overly worried. He didn't know that Guo Jia would be in such a situation. Yuan Shao and his strategists and generals were currently planning how to deal with Guo Jia. They wanted to have some peace and quiet!
Under the compromise of the two envoys from Ji Zhou and Bohai, they achieved the desired progress in the negotiations with Yang Rui. Therefore, both sides went back to report. They could only come back to reach a formal agreement with Yang Rui about five or six days later.
At this time, the situation in Pingyuan County had temporarily stabilized. Yang Rui had some free time for the first time in one or two months. Therefore, Yang Rui took the opportunity to ride the flying carpet to Qingzhou's governing center, Linzi. He also ordered Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to ride back to Linzi.
A day ago, Yang Rui had received the news that the NPCs who migrated from Heyin County had finally arrived in Qingzhou. Yang Rui needed to go back and settle these NPCs down. As for Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, Yang Rui planned to send them to Penglai to train the soldiers.
Yang Rui had been paying attention to the migration of the Heyin County NPCs. After all, it involved tens of millions of people. It was very helpful in increasing the population of Qingzhou, especially when Qingzhou was in urgent need of people.
Before this, Yang Rui had already settled the first batch of family members in Pingyuan City. These people were used to stabilize the morale of the Heyin County NPCs. Yang Rui had long since prepared to use this batch of officials in Pingyuan City. It should be known that the main officials in Pingyuan City had all been imprisoned by Cheng Yu. There was still a large gap.
Meanwhile, a large number of civilian NPCs were also important. Qingzhou's implementation of the farm system and resource exchange policy required a large number of people. Moreover, Yang Rui planned to expand the army by a large amount. The number of NPCs needed to recruit soldiers was definitely not small.
Although there was a large number of NPCs migrating from Heyin County, Sun Qian, who oversaw Linzi, was definitely an expert when it came to handling internal affairs. In particular, Sun Qian possessed the two major skills, "Coordination" and "Quick Response," which made him extremely useful when dealing with the 1.3 million NPCs migrating from Heyin County.
Although it had only been a day or two, by the time Yang Rui arrived in Linzi, Sun Qian had already made arrangements for the Heyin County NPCs that had migrated to Qingzhou. He had arranged for them to be concentrated in the two counties in the Kingdom of Qi where the farm system was better implemented. Moreover, he had reserved 50,000 talented candidates for Yang Rui as reserve soldiers.
After Yang Rui arrived, he only went around with Sun Qian, Du Yang, and a few others to pacify the migrating NPCs. In total, it took less than two days. As these migrating NPCs had their daily necessities guaranteed, and the farm system and resource exchange policy were very attractive, most of them were quite satisfied.
From Du Yang, Yang Rui also learned that although Yang Rui had provided them with sufficient monetary resources before the migration, they still encountered many problems during the migration process. For example, when they were in Cao Cao's territory, they had lost many NPCs. When they were crossing the border of Yuzhou, they were even exploited by Yang Rui!
There were many similar situations. Du Yang explained to Yang Rui in detail while pacifying the migrating NPCs. Yang Rui also memorized some of the targeted incidents. Yang Rui took note of them. Fortunately, Du Yang and the others did not encounter many problems in the East County and Taishan County. After all, these two places were Yang Rui's allies!
When Yang Rui was almost done dealing with the migrating NPCs, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao had also arrived in Linzi City. Yang Rui ordered the two of them to lead a team into the Penglai Realm to train their soldiers. If they could successfully reach an agreement with Yuan Shao, the threat from the north of Qingzhou would temporarily disappear. Yang Rui could use this opportunity to expand and train his soldiers.
Very happily, Gao Shun's exclusive special troop class, the Formation Breaker, was finally activated. Yang Rui sent Gao Shun over as soon as possible.
With the existence of Gao Shun's Formation Breaker, this kind of historical military unit, Yang Rui naturally wanted to equip and develop it at the first possible moment. The Formation Breaker was very famous in history, so its strength in the game would naturally not be bad!
According to the current information of Gao Shun's character, the Formation Breaker was also a Tier-7 exclusive special troop class. It was the same tier as the Tier-7 Tiger Soldier that Sun Jian obtained when he triggered the special troop class attribute. This showed how powerful Gao Shun's Formation Breaker was!
Gao Shun could nurture 20000 Formation Breaker soldiers at the beginning. Each soldier would cost 10 gold coins. After 20000, each soldier would cost an additional 100 gold coins. The maximum number was 50000, and the soldiers' aptitude was Tier-A and above.
Obviously, this was a very expensive matter. If Gao Shun's Formation Breaker soldiers were filled to the limit, it would cost at least 3 to 4 million gold coins! Moreover, according to Gao Shun's introduction, even though the Formation Breaker soldiers were a Tier-7 special troop class, they could only be trained to Tier-5 in a short period of time. After that, leveling up would require an epiphany. It wasn't something that could be done just by killing and gaining experience.
Even so, Yang Rui was still excited. It was only 3 to 4 million gold coins. Compared to the expected strength of the Formation Breaker in the future, it was worth it! Moreover, Yang Rui had also earned over 30 million gold coins from the various player organizations. This was enough for Yang Rui to freely recruit soldiers.
Originally, Yang Rui thought that the awakening of a special troop class for a famous historical general or historical figure would also require a quest. However, judging from Gao Shun's situation, it should have been a random awakening. Gao Shun's awakening of his special troop class also happened during the siege of Flatland City. There were no signs before or after.
However, Yang Rui wasn't sure if the other people he had had special troop class attributes. Zhang Ning hadn't made any response so far, and the others hadn't officially submitted to Yang Rui yet. Cheng Yu, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo still had some hope. Chen Lin and the other internal affairs personnel probably wouldn't have any special troop class in the end.
Of course, other than the special troop class, the other normal troop classes were also very important. Yang Rui had brought Zhang Liao here to lead troops in the Penglai Territory. Yang Rui currently had over 40 million gold coins in his hands. He didn't have to worry too much about spending. At the very least, he had to recruit a few hundred thousand state and county soldiers first!
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