After Cao Cao entered the city, he went straight to the fortune-telling noodle shop, a bowl of noodles, a jar of wine, and Zhang Guangzheng was sitting there waiting for him.

"Xiaoman, I haven't seen you for a long time, why have you lost weight like this?"

With a smile on his face, Zhang Guang pushed the noodle bowl in front of Cao Cao, and a large bowl of noodles was piled with a lot of mutton.

Sun Lao Er also poured a scoop of spicy oil on it, which can arouse people's appetite very much.

Cao Cao hadn't eaten a good meal for a long time, first gobbled it up to fill his stomach, and then looked at Zhang Guang with a bitter face.

"Zhang Guang, you must save me this time."

"I'm sorry, Xiaoman, I can't save you this time."

Zhang Guang stretched out his hand and poured two bowls of wine, handed one to Cao Cao, and the two touched it, and they were bored.

"Why can't you save it? I brought 30,000 soldiers and horses, and Cao Ren was marching south from the north of Yanzhou with 100,000 troops. ”

"At that time, you and I will join forces to attack, join Cao Ren, and take Puyang where Lu Bu is located, you and I will join forces, and we will not be able to deal with Lu Bu's horseman?"

"Yes, of course you can, just Lu Bu, don't worry." Zhang Guang said.

"Then why did you say you couldn't save me this time?" Cao Cao was very puzzled, and looked at Zhang Guang with straight eyes.

"If you go to attack Lu Bu and Zhang Miao, Lu Bu has eight strong generals under him, and there are camps."

"Puyang also has enough grain in stock, and there are 100,000 soldiers, so we will definitely have to fight hard."

"I won't let my brother lose his life in vain for the sake of your Cao Cao's Yanzhou."

"Zhang Guang, what do you mean? Don't forget, I provide you with your monthly salary, and now that I am in trouble, you can't save you when you see death? Cao Cao was in a hurry, and he was also angry.

"Your food and salary, let me give you to guard Chen Liucheng."

"Chen Liucheng is yours, if you want to take it now, you can, you let your soldiers in, and I will leave with my people."

"I want my people to send you to death, dream!"

"The current situation is all caused by yourself, if you had listened to me at the beginning, Lu Bu and Zhang Miao would not have dared to touch your Yanzhou at all."

After Zhang Guang finished speaking, Cao Cao had nothing to say, and what Zhang Guang promised himself was indeed just to garrison Chen Liucheng.

Moreover, Zhang Guang was not far away at the beginning, and he deliberately ran from Chen Liu to Juancheng to remind himself that it was he who did not listen, which caused today's situation.

Cao Cao poured three bowls of wine in a row, thinking about what to do next.

If Chen Liucheng, who took over Zhang Guang, would have one more city-state as a garrison, and the grain stored in the city would be enough to last for a long time.

However, in this way, the cooperative relationship between himself and Zhang Guang will be completely ruined.

"Zhang Guang, can you calculate it for me, what should I do next?" Cao Cao was almost begging Zhang Guang.

"Okay, you can write a word, I won't charge you for this fortune test."

Cao Cao originally wanted to write a word "hate", hating Lu Bu and Zhang Miao for taking away his Yanzhou, and hating Zhang Guang's reluctance to send troops to help him at a critical time.

I also hate myself and regret not being at the beginning.

On second thought, what's the use of hate? If you want to hate, you hate that you don't have a good minister and a fierce general like Zhang Guang.

Cao Cao wrote down the word "good" with a stroke of his pen and handed it to Zhang Guang.

Zhang Guang smiled in his heart.

Hehe, still thinking about the good ministers?

It's better to think carefully about where to get food.

The old god Zhang Guang was there, pinching his fingers and pinching the seals, rolling his eyes and looking at the sky.

"Zhang Guang, how is it?"

"That's not good!" Zhang Guang sighed.

"What's wrong?" Cao Cao was in a hurry.

"The good word goes a little, it is 'Gen', one of the eight trigrams, representing the mountain, and at the same time it also has the meaning of difficulty."

"It means that the threshold you encountered this time is higher than the mountain, and it is not easy to cross it."

"What are the specific difficulties? Zhang Guang, can you elaborate? Cao Cao asked.

"Good, if the word 'grain' is missing, the main difficulty will fall on the grain."

Cao Cao, who was still nervous, suddenly became happy.

"Zhang Guang, you definitely didn't get it right this time."

"That's right, this spring's wheat harvest was all taken to Puyang by Lu Bu and Zhang Miao, so that I now have to live a careful life."

"However, the rice harvest at the end of summer will be soon, as long as I hold on for another month, as soon as the rice is harvested, it will be the time for me to destroy Lu Bu and Zhang Miao."

When Cao Cao heard that the difficulties fell on the grain, he was in a good mood.

Zhang Guang measured the word and never missed it.

In other words, as long as you solve the food problem by yourself, defeat Lu Bu and seize Yanzhou, there is absolutely no problem.

"Xiaoman, don't worry, let me calculate it again!"

As soon as Zhang Guang closed his eyes this time, it was half an hour, and his whole body was trembling and his face was pale, looking very painful.

"Lord, what is Zhang Guang doing? It seems to be very uncomfortable. Xiahou Yuan on the side couldn't help but ask Cao Cao.

"Shhhh

"Shh......h

Zhang Guang let out a long sigh, opened his eyes, took the rag handed over by Sun Laoer, and wiped the sweat from his head.

"Do you see anything?" Cao Cao approached Zhang Guang and asked urgently.

"It's a natural disaster."

"Acts of God?"

"Yes, natural disasters, this year's summer harvest, farmland in many places will not be harvested!"

"Zhang Guang, are you playing the master? Since the beginning of spring this year, the wind and rain have been smooth, we came to Chenliu this time, all the way to see the growth of rice, very gratifying, how can there be no harvest? ”

Cao Cao didn't believe what Zhang Guang said, and Xiahou Yuan didn't believe it even more, and said in a skeptical tone on the side.

Cao Cao thought for a while and asked, "Zhang Guang, can you tell me in detail what kind of natural disaster it is?"

"Don't leak it!"

Zhang Guang's least favorite thing is that Cao Cao is always self-righteous and doesn't trust others.

originally thought that with the lesson of losing Yanzhou, Cao Cao could improve, but as a result, his nature was still difficult to change.

"Zhang Guang, if it's really as you said, then what should I do next?" Cao Cao was still a little unwilling.

"Defend the four places of Chenliucheng, Juancheng, Fanxian and Dong'e, and if you have the opportunity, you can take a few small cities around Juancheng. After next year's food and salary are enough, he will have a decisive battle with Lu Bu. ”

"Next year? In other words, for a whole year, I could only nest in those three small towns in East County? ”

"Is it useful to nest there? If Yuan Shao, Tao Qian and others take the opportunity to attack again, what should we do? Lord, I think Zhang Guang deliberately fooled us, asking him to send troops and was unwilling, looking at this look, he must also not want to give food, so he deliberately said this. Xiahou Yuan couldn't listen to it anymore and began to shout in his throat.

"Xiahou Yuan, let's go, Zhang Guang, in the future, your garrison in Chen Liucheng will have to rely on you to solve the problem of food and salary."

Cao Cao got up and left, and Zhang Guang raised his hand at Pang Tong at the door: "Pang Tong, send two of you."

Pang Tong soon returned to the noodle shop.

"Big brother, will there really be a natural disaster this year?"

"It shouldn't be wrong, it's probably a locust plague. You look for Wei Zhen, count Chen Liucheng's grain stocks, and be prepared to rely on these grain stocks to last until the beginning of spring next year. ”

"Well, I'll accompany Wei Zhen to walk around and see if there is anything that can be harvested in advance, that, big brother, we really don't send troops to help Cao Cao?"

"Why do you want to help?" Zhang Guang looked up at Pang Tong.

"When I didn't say it."

Pang Tong left quickly, preparing to find Gan Ning to arrange someone to protect himself and Wei Zhen, and go to the countryside to investigate the local people's grain stocks.

In ancient times, if there was a natural disaster, food was the foundation of survival.