After Cao Shuo occupied Huainan, Sima Yi purchased grain and cloth from all over the country.

A large amount of grain and cloth was transported into Huainan.

The amount of grain and cloth that comes in and out of the treasury every day is amazing.

In Shouchun City, the people lined up in a long line to receive grain and cloth.

At the edge of the line, a Cao soldier walked around the people in line with a cylinder made of iron sheets: "Listen to the people of Shouchun, Gongzi has an order, all craftsmen with craftsmanship should report to the craftsman's house, and Gongzi will arrange a livelihood for you." Huainan is no longer short of food and clothing, but it does not raise idlers who are lazy and lazy. Everyone, male or female, has to have a livelihood to do, and if they don't know what to do, they can go to the villages outside the city to collect land and cultivate the fields. ”

The people in the long queue received food and cloth, and they were all happy, how many people listened to him carefully?

Chen Gong and Sima Yi stood behind the soldiers distributing supplies.

Looking at the people who received the supplies, Sima Yi asked Chen Gong, "What does Gongtai think of Gongzi?" ”

"Although Gongzi and Cao Mengde are father and son, there are many differences." Chen Gong said: "When he captured Huainan, the first thing he thought of was the suffering of the people......

"Actually, so is Cao Gong." Sima Yi said: "Those who achieve great things can't stick to trivial matters, and the public platform may not know that when Gongzi kills people, he is even more ruthless and decisive than Cao Gong." ”

"But he saved the people of Huainan." Chen Gong said: "There is so much grain and cloth in and out of the treasury every day, and if you change it to Cao Mengde, I am afraid it will hurt a lot......"

"Actually, Childe is also very painful." Sima Yi smiled slightly: "It's just that there is no way, to get Huainan, if there are no people, this is just a barren land." If you want the people to support them and achieve great things, the first thing to do is to give them a way to live. ”

"I've been visiting a lot of villages lately." Chen Gong said: "Don't talk about those villages that are no longer empty, only talk about villages with people." The rest of the village are old people and women, and there are very few children......"

"That's what Childe is worried about." Sima Yi said: "Yuan Shu's exploitation is too heavy, and the people of Huainan refuse to give birth, and in another twenty years, I am afraid that there will not be much population here." That's why Gongzi will encourage birth and raising, hoping that after ten or twenty years, Huainan will be able to thrive and be noisy! ”

While the two were talking, the crowd queuing outside suddenly became a little commotion.

Someone shouted, "Childe is here!" ”

Whether they were still queuing or had already received supplies and were about to leave, the people knelt down one after another when they heard this shout.

Suddenly, the road was full of kneeling people.

Chen Gong and Sima Yi hurriedly greeted them.

Surrounded by Cai Ji, Wei Tu and a team of guards, Cao Shuo came to the place where he received the supplies.

"I've seen Childe!" Sima Yi and Chen Gong saluted.

The people were even more out of the mountains, and from their shouts of "Gongzi might", everyone who could hear the shouts was from the bottom of their hearts.

"Get up!" Cao Shuo said to the people: "The family is still waiting for food to fill their bellies, waiting for new clothes to make winter clothes. ”

The people stood up one after another, and without waiting for the guards to let them pull back, they consciously retreated a lot, keeping a certain distance from Cao Shuo.

In the eyes of the people of Huainan, Cao Shuo became a god who saved them.

Walking to the supplies being distributed, Cao Shuo grabbed a handful of white rice, looked at Sima Yi and asked, "Are these rice sent from the south?" ”

"Childe is urging food urgently." Sima Yi replied: "In addition to millet, I also asked people to collect it along with rice. ”

"Rice is considered a refined grain." Cao Shuo asked, "Can Huainan be planted?" ”

"The climate between the Jianghuai River is suitable, and what is planted grows." Sima Yi said: "Being poor here is also Yuan Shu's good governance!" ”

Cao Shuo smiled slightly: "Good governance, if Yuan Shu hears you praise him like this, I don't know how proud he will be." ”

He turned and shouted to the people, "People, with all this grain and cloth, will you survive this winter?" ”

"Thanks to Childe!" An old man standing at the front of the crowd said: "If it weren't for Childe, I don't know how many people would starve to death this winter!" ”

"I don't want you to starve to death!" Cao Shuo smiled and said, "Without you, what's the use of me asking for Huainan?" No one's land is just a piece of land. With people, this territory can be called a country! For me, you are the most important people! ”

The words shouted by Cao Shuo were very common, but in the ears of the people of Huainan who had been oppressed by Yuan Shu all the year round, it seemed that there was a warm current passing through their hearts, making their hearts surge.

"Don't hide it from everyone, I'm having a hard time right now!" Cao Shuo said: "After years of fighting, it was hard to get some money and food, and it was all spent on going out to fight. Now I am also stretched thin and destitute. ”

When he said these words, all the people present stared at him.

No one spoke, and the scene was so quiet that even people could smell each other's breath.

"To tell the truth, if it weren't for the search for some wealth from Yuan Shu's house, I wouldn't have been able to buy food and cloth." Cao Shuo continued: "Even with those wealth, now I still owe a foreign debt with two hips!" ”

Cao Shuo's words were vulgar, and the people laughed.

"Don't laugh yet, I'm serious." Cao Shuo said seriously: "I'm not afraid of debts, and I'm even more afraid of debts for you!" I am afraid of only one thing, that is, you and I are not of the same mind! ”

"Whatever Childe wants us to do, we will do!" Someone in the crowd shouted.

"I'm relieved to have your words!" Cao Shuo said: "I don't ask you to repay the debt with me, it's still the same sentence, Huainan is a place, and no taxes will be collected for ten years!" I only ask that after you go back, you will have more children and raise more pigs, so that our Huainan people will be prosperous and every family can be prosperous and healthy! ”

Turning his head to look at Chen Gong, Cao Shuo said, "Tell the people what you have done recently." ”

Chen Gong responded, stepped forward and stood a little behind Cao Shuo's side, and shouted to the people: "Gongzi ordered me to open a medical center and recruit doctors to see the people for free. From now on, no matter how big or small it is, don't worry that there will be no healer to treat you. Childe also opened a craftsman's house, where craftsmen with skills could go to the craftsman's house to report, and from then on, as long as they concentrated on crafting, they could support the whole family. Not only that, but the villages outside the city are also being built, and the land is also being measured, and it won't be long before everyone in Huainan will have something to do, everyone to eat, and everyone to wear......

Chen Gong said a stick or two of incense before he told him what he was doing.

The people were stunned one by one.

They never dreamed that after Cao Shuo occupied Huainan, he would bring them so many benefits.

(End of chapter)