"What's wrong with the homeless?" Cao Cao couldn't help but shout angrily, and immediately attracted the attention of everyone around him.

However, he suddenly felt that it was inappropriate for the Son of Heaven and the Princesses to hear these things, so he glanced at the civil and military officials around him with a pale face, and hurriedly led Liu Pingcheng, Yuxun, and Guo Jia out of Hu Laosan's courtyard and came to stand in the distance.

Zao Yi and other Tuntian officials looked at Cao Cao's ugly face, and knew in their hearts that they were afraid that something bad would happen, so they could only follow him.

"What the hell is going on?" Cao Cao asked the attendant.

"I just got the news that a large number of displaced people from all counties and counties have fled, and in some places there are already two or three out of ten, and there is an intensifying trend, and the local defenders can't stop them, I am afraid that in the long run, the recruited displaced people will flee."

The attendant lowered his head and whispered, not daring to touch Cao Cao's eyes.

"Why are the homeless fleeing?" Cao Cao forcibly suppressed the incomparably angry in his heart, if all the displaced people recruited ran out, wouldn't this Tuntian strategy become a one-shot deal, what was the use of having so much land?

The attendant replied in a low voice: "According to the confessions of the captured refugees, the grain produced in Tuntian is divided into four quarters according to the official six people, and although they are young and strong, they can feed themselves, but their families will all starve to death, so after the food is in hand, most of them will flee to Jingxiang or Shu with their families." ”

Cao Cao was silent for a moment, then suddenly turned to look at Zao Yi with cold eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I still remember, didn't you Zao You swear to me that there would be no big mess, how should you deal with this mess now?" ”

Hearing the words of the attendant just now, Zao Zhi was already chilling, and the problem of daring was in the proportion of shares he had formulated, and he heard Cao Cao ask so sharply, he couldn't afford this black cauldron.

Zao Yi hurriedly clenched his fists pitifully and defended: "At the beginning, this division also had the permission of Cao Sikong, and the lower officials did this for the sake of being able to raise more military rations for the Cao family."

After all, the grain output is limited, and if more is given to the people, the military rations will be reduced. ”

"You ......" Cao Cao was choked suddenly, when Liu Ping made a big fuss at the Tuntian official office, asserting that there would be chaos in the future, he also called Zao You over and reprimanded him.

However, Zao Yi argued at the time that Cao's 50,000 army was on the left, and even if the displaced people were dissatisfied, nothing would happen, and Cao Cao acquiesced to Zao's approach in order to be able to raise more military rations.

But I never expected that although the homeless people did not dare to resist, they all had two legs, and if they were dissatisfied, they could run.

It's just that since he had already acquiesced to this sharing ratio at the beginning, and now that something happened, he couldn't help but take responsibility, and all of it was pushed on his subordinates, so he was dumbfounded.

"That's not right," Cheng Yu said beside him: "It's also Tuntian, why is there no one in the field under the management of Prince Ping?"

and for the harvest of your native land, it will be greater than your jurisdiction. ”

"Exactly, how do you explain that?" Cao Cao was furious and glared at Zaoyi.

This guy not only refused to admit his mistakes, but also put the responsibility on his head, which is really hateful.

"This ...... This ......" Zao Yi snorted: "Xia Guan didn't expect that the harvest of the field under the management of Prince Ping would be so high." ”

Cao Cao snorted coldly, changed his tone and said to Liu Ping next to him: "Ping'er went to call a few homeless people over, I want to ask in person." ”

"No!" Liu Ping responded.

After a short time, Hu Laosan and other almost homeless people were called to Cao Cao.

"Do you have any plans to escape?" Cao Cao asked.

"Fleeing? Why did we flee? Hu Laosan and the others all widened their eyes, although they didn't know Cao Cao, they knew Liu Ping, the native Tian Ling.

Seeing that Liu Ping was respectful to Cao Cao, he thought that he was a bigger official.

"This year, the grass people's family harvested five hoards of grain, handed over to the government for two hoards, and there are three hoards left, the grass people's family is only five people, no matter what, it can't be eaten, where else in the world is better than Liu Yuanjun's home field, even if Liu Yuanjun is in a hurry, the grass people can't go."

Hu Laosan said anxiously.

"Then let me ask you, how do you usually farm, why do you have such a high yield, but what is the secret recipe?" Cao Cao continued to ask with great interest.

"What's the secret recipe," Hu Laosan shook his head: "It's just that I don't care about it."

At the beginning, Liu Yuanjun was benevolent and signed a hundred-year contract with the grass people, which is equivalent to giving the land to the grass people for nothing, how can his own land not be cultivated well?

The grass people's families, young and old, are eager to live in the fields and take care of each seedling so that they can have these harvests.

You can ask casually, the people in our fields are all cultivated like this. ”

A few homeless people on the side also chimed in: "Exactly, in fact, Brother Hu is still a little lazy, but we are really building a grass shed in the field, only sleeping for three or four hours a day, and tending to the land as long as we wake up." ”

"Liu Yuanjun gave us so much land, although forty percent of it will be handed over to the government, but sixty percent of it will be our own, if we are still hungry, are we worthy of Liu Yuanjun's benevolence?"

"Liu Yuanjun encouraged everyone to open up the wasteland, and each family opened up three or five acres of land, which is enough to feed a family."

Everyone is either thankful to Liu Ping, or telling how careful the cultivation is, but this sounds a bit ostentatious.

Guo Jiaxunyou and other strategists listened, and couldn't help nodding to each other, and were greatly impressed by Liu Ping's Tuntian strategy, they are all professional strategists, they usually give advice and ponder people's hearts, they are all first-class masters, but let them manage civil affairs is not their strength.

Seeing that although Liu Ping didn't do anything, he only relied on a contract to let the displaced people under his rule cultivate with all their hearts, and he could easily harvest the hearts of countless people, but they also knew what kind of foresight was involved in designing that kind of contract.

It's just that they don't know what Liu Ping has done, but he has borrowed from the mature practices of later generations.

At this time, Cao Cao pointed at Zao You and scolded angrily: "You mobilized the people, used so many officials to manage the homeless, and managed not only the homeless people to run away, but the harvest is not as good as Ping'er's inaction, what else do you have to justify?" ”

The more Cao Cao spoke, the more angry he became, if it weren't for Zao's self-defeating and his followers, he would have slashed it with a sword.

"At the beginning, Ping'er reminded you that your approach would cause chaos, but you took it as the wind in your ears and said it to me, but now you really responded to Ping'er's words, and it became such a field, how do you end it?"

Zao only lowered his head, his stomach was full of bitter water, but the facts were in front of him, and he had to be convinced, so he had to bow down and say, "Xiaguan...... The lower official knew that he was wrong, and for the matter of Tuntian, the lower official was indeed inferior to Ping Gongzi, but the mistake had been made, and the lower official voluntarily accepted the guilt. ”

Cheng Yu said to Cao Cao next to him: "Sikong, it is useless to punish him now, fortunately, there is a ready-made precedent for Prince Ping here, it is better that this Yanyu Erzhou Tuntian is dominated by Prince Ping, and it may be redeemable." ”

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, looked at Liu Ping and said, "Ping'er, it seems that you can only work hard."

Raising grain and grass in Tuntian is my Cao family's top priority, and the mess made by Zaoyi may only be cleaned up by you.

What kind of officials do you need, just ask? ”

At this time, Cao Cao couldn't care about anything else, he saw that Tuntian had such a rich harvest, he couldn't just harvest one season.

Since Liu Ping has successful experience here, what is there to worry about handing it over to Liu Ping? What's more, according to the proportion, if Liu Ping manages all the fields, I am afraid that the harvest will be higher.

It's just that now Liu Ping has enough tasks, and he must be equipped with enough elite soldiers and strong generals.

"The father-in-law has an order, and the son-in-law should obey it!" Liu Ping bowed and said, "As for the subordinate officials, there are Zao You and others."

"Jujube? Can they still use it? Cao Cao was puzzled, this matter was obviously messed up by Zao, and he never expected Liu Ping to use him.

Liu Ping glanced at Zao Yi and said: "Although this person's methods are a little excessive, he is not a capable official, and his father-in-law can let him follow his son-in-law to make meritorious contributions." ”

In fact, Zao Yi is indeed a first-class management and farming talent in this era, which can be seen from his first initiative to Tuntian.

It's just that his management method is too taken for granted and too rigid, and the people are all living people, with their own thoughts, their own strengths and weaknesses, and the management of eating a big pot of rice has restrained their hands and feet.

In fact, the people don't need to care at all, as long as they are given a piece of land, agree on the sharing ratio, and let them freely use their wisdom and talents.

"Thank you for your magnanimity, regardless of the previous suspicions, the lower officials are ashamed."

Zao only gave Liu Ping a deep salute, he didn't expect Liu Ping to use him, he couldn't help but feel ashamed, and at the same time he was greatly impressed by Liu Ping's mind.

"Do a good job of making meritorious contributions under Ping'er, if you dare to be smart again, you will not be spared," Cao Cao saw that Liu Ping insisted on using jujubes, and no longer refuted, paused and said to the attendants: "Order Cao Hong, send troops to block the borders everywhere, temporarily prohibit the people from traveling, and wait for Ping'er to implement the new law." ”

……

At this time, in Hu Laosan's courtyard, all the ministers looked at each other, embarrassed and hated to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Liu Xie ignored them, squatting on the ground and teasing Hu Laosan's five or six-year-old twin children with great interest.

The young son of this age didn't know what the emperor represented, and when they moved here, the little girl used to give Liu Xie her dry cakes to eat.

"Can you eat enough now?" Liu Xie asked with a smile.

"I can eat enough," the tiger-headed little boy replied with his chest straight, and proudly lifted the placket of his clothes, revealing a bulging belly for Liu Xie.

"Big brother, can you eat enough?" The youngest daughter was a little shy, she was much darker than when she first came, and she thought that she had been drying in the field for so long.

"I ...... I can also eat enough," Liu Xie smiled and touched the heads of the two children, feeling very relieved.

He, the Son of Heaven, finally kept a piece of paradise in the world, which could enable the cultivators to have their fields and the people to be fed and clothed, although this piece of paradise was only the size of a county.

"I heard my father say that the reason why we live a good life is because we have a senior official surnamed Liu here, do you know him, big brother?" The little girl felt that Liu Xie was very kind, stared at her big clear eyes, tilted her little head and asked.

"Is the official named Liu Ping?" Liu Xie smiled and said, "Of course I know him, but he may not be able to take care of you in the future." ”

"Why?" The little girl's eyes were suddenly filled with tears, and her little mouth was flattened and she was about to cry.

The little boy let out a "wow" and began to cry, crying and saying, "Then let's ...... Aren't you hungry again?

Father lied to people...... Doesn't that mean you'll be able to eat enough in the future......"

This unscrupulous fairy tale was like a slap in the face of the Manchu Dynasty, making everyone embarrassed.

They didn't expect that Liu Ping was so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Jitian, and even the drooping children knew how to be grateful to him, but they also tried their best to invite the jujubes.

Seeing the brother and sister crying so sadly, Liu Xie couldn't bear it, stood up and said with a straight face: "Don't worry, with the big brother here, no one can get your big official surnamed Liu away." ”

"You lie," the two siblings cried incessantly, as if they didn't believe what Liu Xie said.

"The eldest brother is the emperor, have you heard of it?"

"How big is the emperor?"

"The emperor is the biggest official in the world," Liu Xie sighed softly, staring ahead with empty eyes.

I'm afraid that even the child in front of me doesn't believe this.

At this time, an attendant suddenly came to report in a panic: "Oh no, we are surrounded here, and it looks like there are tens of thousands." ”

"What?"

The ministers were flustered when they heard this, they were on the field at this time, and there were only more than a thousand Yulin troops led by Han Hao around them, if they were surrounded by tens of thousands of troops, they were afraid that they would not be able to escape.

Kong Rong hurriedly asked: "How can tens of thousands of enemy troops appear around Xudu, and where is the garrison army of Cao Sikong?" ”

"Those look like homeless." The squire replied.

"Outcasts? Could it be that it provoked a popular uprising and wanted to do what Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did? ”

Kong Rong, Xun Yue, Wang Lang and a group of ministers were all shocked when they heard this, if they squeeze the homeless people too hard, the homeless people will become a mob, no matter what kind of prince you are, the more decent the people, the more the mob hates them.

Are they not doomed?

At this time, Han Hao quickly led the army to protect this small courtyard, and Cao Cao led Liu Ping and others to come back.

"Cao Sikong, you quickly mobilize the army to come over to escort you," Kong Rong said urgently.

"Don't panic in Kong Shaofu, I have already sent someone," Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "But it always takes time for the heralds to come and go." ”

He was just about to adopt Liu Ping's method to Tuntian, but before he could implement it, the people's uprising had already started, and he had no choice but to suppress it first.

They came out to perform the ritual of sacrifice to the earth, and they were around the capital, so they didn't bring too many troops.

Now that the people are in turmoil, they can only quickly send orders back to mobilize the army.

At this time, the jujube on the side was already frightened.

His harsh government oppression, which caused the displaced people to flee one after another, is already a big sin, and now it has provoked a civil uprising, and even the gods can't save him.

When all the ministers saw it in their eyes, they all sighed for a while, and the so-called Tuntian officials were nothing more than that.

But what's even more ironic is that they still have to deliberately invite to replace a deep-rooted Tian Ling, doesn't this just show that they have no eyes?