Cao Cao and the three of them had just ridden their war horses to the loess dock halfway up the mountainside, and found that Zhang Guangzheng was standing in front of the city wall less than a foot high with two people on horseback.

The thousands of people that Xiahoudun said were gone.

For the speed at which Zhang Guang's subordinates quietly concealed themselves, Cao Cao and the three were quite surprised.

"Xiaoman, are you here to drink and chat with me, or are you here to hunt down Yuan Shao?"

"Brother Zhang Guang, Yuan Shaozhen came here to look for you?"

"Haha, Xiaoman, you are one step late, Yuan Shao will be, he should have reached the border between Bingzhou and Jizhou."

"No, since Yuan Shao came to you Brother Zhang Guang to test the words, then I have to hurry back to Xuchang to prevent Yuan Shao from raiding."

Cao Cao said that he would go, and he was about to let the horse turn around and return to Xuchang with the reins.

"Xiaoman, why is your guts getting smaller and smaller? Even Yuan Shao, who is so indecisive, is afraid? ”

"What does Brother Zhang Guang mean by this?"

"Do you want to go to Huayin City to sit down?" Zhang Guang smiled with a sunny and handsome face and invited Cao Cao.

Xun Yu and Xiahoudun shook their heads at Cao Cao at the same time.

"Hehe, Xun Yu, Xiahou Dian, you don't understand this as I thought, Brother Zhang Guang still wants to keep me to deal with Yuan Shao and Sun Ce."

Cao steered his horse forward, walked side by side with Zhang Guang, and prepared to cross the Yellow River west to Huayin.

"Xiaoman, in fact, the two of us are still very similar sometimes, we see things so thoroughly, but there is one thing we are different."

"Which point?"

"My biggest strength is that I don't doubt the use of people, do the two people who follow me know each other?"

Cao Cao looked back at Zhang He and Liu Xiongming carefully, and thought about it in his mind for a while.

"General Zhang He, I recognize it, it turned out to be Yuan Shao's subordinates, and you brought the Ninth Legion here. The skinny young man, he didn't recognize it. ”

"His name is Liu Xiongming, he turned out to be a hunter who hunted for a living in Lantian Valley, his parents are long gone, when we went to Hanzhong from Chen Liu last year, I found it on the road, and now he is the architect of our Ninth Legion."

"Architect?" Cao Cao discovered another new word from Zhang Guang.

"Well, it is the talent who builds military bases, builds bridges and roads, and the specific location and design of this Tongguan are all decided by him."

"Talent, building a city pass here is equivalent to choking the passage from the west of the Central Plains to Guanzhong, and your king seems to be sitting firm." As Cao Cao spoke, his eyes glanced at the north.

"Xiaoman, are you thinking about Pubanjin, who can also cross the Yellow River westward? Hey, hey, that place, I've already built a secret military base. ”

Cao Cao really showed a gloomy look on his face, and sighed: "Brother Zhang Guang, why can you always find these capable people to help you?"

"There is no doubt about employing people."

Zhang Guang said the word again, and Cao Cao's face was white and blue.

If he could have done it at the beginning, Zhang Guang would still be his exclusive life teacher.

Crossing the Yellow River, there is a completely different scene in front of you.

It is the busy farming season, and the avenue leading from Huayin to the Yellow River has been reclaimed for farmland and dry land on both sides.

Everywhere are people working in the fields, talking and laughing, a scene of harmony and peace and contentment.

"In the war years, why are they so happy?" Xun Yu asked from behind.

Liu Xiongming looked up at Zhang Guang in front of him, Zhang Guang seemed to have eyes behind him, turned his head and nodded.

"It's simple, because they're farming for themselves." Liu Xiongming said.

"To farm for yourself?" Xun Yu didn't understand it even more, now that the princes from all walks of life are fighting everywhere, which one doesn't want to squeeze more food from the people?

"Yes, farm for yourself. After General Zhang He seized Huayin, he asked all his subordinates to go out to reclaim the wasteland with the people, and then distribute it to each household according to the number of people, and the people cultivated the fields and paid official grain to us every year according to the harvest. Liu Xiongming explained.

"This is the tuntian system, Xiaoman, after you stabilize in the Central Plains in the future, you can also consider implementing this system, when the people are hungry, you are not short of military food, and the army and the people are harmonious, how good?" Zhang Guang then chatted with Cao Cao.

"Zhang Guang, after you left Chenliu, the lord stayed on your special carriage for three days, cried, drank, drank, woke up and continued to cry, now it seems that the lord should really cry if he loses you." Xun Yu smiled bitterly in the back.

"Xiao Man doesn't mind this matter, the ones who should go will leave sooner or later, look, those are the big soldiers under General Zhang He, who specialize in dealing with cavalry."

Between the farmlands, there is a leveled field, and there is a battalion of soldiers who are practicing on a field.

All of them are heavily armoured, holding a three-zhang long sword in one hand and a heavy shield in the other.

"Brother Zhang Guang, why are they practicing in the field?" Cao Cao asked curiously.

"Yes, they often work with the people, and when the people rest, they begin to practice."

"This can not only strengthen the feelings between the military and the people, but also set off a martial atmosphere among the people."

"Xiaoman, if you come to attack my Guanzhong in five years, you will not only face my Ninth Legion, but you will face all the people in the entire Guanzhong."

Speaking of this military and civilian family, Zhang Guang still learned from a great man.

"Let the people have enough wealth in their hands, and they are so martial, you are not afraid that they will rebel at any time?" Xun Yu couldn't help but interject again and asked.

"You are all from a family, and you do not understand the thoughts of the poor people. If there is no shortage of food, drink, or clothing, why should they rebel? It was Liu Xiongming who answered Xun Yu's question.

Liu Xiongming's words made Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and Xiahoudun all fall into deep thought.

Yes, if the people don't lack anything, why do they rebel?

The Yellow Turban Uprising back then, wasn't it because there were too many hungry people in the world that Zhang Jiao organized a million Yellow Turban Army?

"Brother Zhang Guang, you have made these people rich, what should you do with your Ninth Legion? Where does the funding for your development come from? ”

"Xiaoman, can't you get out of your concept of being like a local tyrant?"

"What is a local tyrant?" Cao Cao silently recited the new word again.

"Local tyrants? It's an upstart like you! You see, you only know that if the government wants to develop, it will exploit the poor people, so why don't you use the family as the main source of funds? ”

"Master Zhang Guangming, the family is originally the gold lord of all the princes!" Xun Yu couldn't help it in the back again.

"Well, your so-called gold lord is that after they are optimistic about you, the princes, they give you funds and talents, I am different here, if I want to make money in my territory, then pay taxes according to the turnover and the rules I set, the more profitable the industry, the heavier the tax."

Cao Cao and Xun Yu gasped at the same time, isn't this going to do anything with the family?