At the beginning of December of the first year of Xingping (AD194), Juancheng.

Lu Ren's residence, Guo Jiazheng, who was asked by Lu Ren to bring someone to help, looked curiously at several carriages that had just returned with a full load. After a servant counted the quantity and reported to Guo Jia, Guo Jia nodded, grabbed a handful of rice in a sack and took a closer look, and asked the servant after a moment of silence: "This is the japonica rice that is abundant in Xuzhou?" ”

"Yes, Lord. This is the japonica rice that the villain rushed to Xuzhou to buy back according to Captain Lu's previous orders. ”

Guo Jia couldn't figure out these things, but just clenched his fists hard, and the japonica rice in his hand was a little grinding off the chaff. Guo Jia picked out a few grains of japonica rice with bran removed into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and then frowned and said, "Leave two bags, and when I come back, I will remove the husks and cook them." ”

Lu Ren's angry voice came: "You dead old Guo, put it down for me!" These trucks of japonica rice are the best grains that I asked Mizhu to specially select, and they will be sown in the ground at the beginning of spring. Will it be possible to grow more grain in your belly? ”

"Grain seeds? That's it. Guo Jia hurriedly threw the grain seeds in his hand back into the bag, he was not the kind of person who couldn't tell the difference.

Lu Ren gave Guo Jia a middle finger, and then called behind him: "Wan'er! ”

"Hey!" Wan'er answered, and brought a plate of things to the two of them.

Guo Jia glanced at it and was happy: "What is this?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Salted fish and dried plum pot." When I went to Mizhu to buy grain, I accidentally learned that the Mi family had a business of boiling salt, and before I came back, I taught him how to pickle plums. I thought that you guy hadn't eaten this before, so I took Wan'er and made some. Try it, it tastes good. ”

Guo Jia smiled: "Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've eaten a meal made by your own hands." Okay, try it! ”

The two of them sat in the courtyard pavilion and ate while Wan'er handed the rest of the salted fish and plum casserole to the other people who came to help. This thing is moderately salty and sour, delicious and appetizing, and Guo Jia and his servants have a big appetite for a while. It's a pity that Lu Ren does it according to the head, and there is no second one for those who want to have another one.

was eating, suddenly someone reported that Cao Cao was coming, Lu Ren and Guo Jia hurriedly put down the claypot rice in their hands and rushed to greet them, and soon took Cao Cao in, Cao Cao looked at the two claypot rice in the courtyard pavilion, leaned down and sniffed it and smiled: "What kind of food is this?" Just smelling it makes people spit. ”

Lu Ren and Guo Jia said in unison: "Salted fish and dried plum pot." ”

Cao Cao was a rather casual person in an informal setting, and he smiled again at the moment: "Is there anything else?" Let Lone also taste it. ”

"Uh......"

Lu Ren was in trouble at that time, he did it according to the number of heads, and the number was just right, but who would have thought that Cao Cao would suddenly come over? But at this time, Wan'er quietly pulled Lu Ren's sleeve and said in a low voice: "Wan'er's share hasn't moved yet......

Lu Ren looked at Wan'er, and nodded quietly to Wan'er, and Wan'er rushed to the kitchen, ready to bring her own share to Cao Cao. Although the actions between Wan'er and Lu Ren were small, Cao Cao and Guo Jia could see it clearly, and they were secretly satisfied with Wan'er's performance.

After a short time, the claypot rice was served, Cao Cao took out another small bowl and pulled out some and tasted it and smiled: "Sour with salty, salty with sour, and after steaming, the slight acidity of the plum into the salted fish meat, very delicious." Dian Wei, you can taste it too. ”

As he spoke, Cao Cao handed most of the claypot rice to Dian Wei. Dian Wei was accustomed to Cao Cao stuffing delicious things into him, so he took a bite and said, "It's delicious!" It's the first time I've eaten something like this. ”

Dian Wei ate the food in two bites there, and Cao Cao said to Wan'er: "Gu ate your food, and he can't treat you badly." Come, go and fetch millet ...... Oh yes, Yihao is not short of grain and rice here. Go get a new winter coat and give it to Wan'er. ”

Wan'er immediately knelt down and said that she didn't dare to be, but Cao Cao just waved her hand casually to let Wan'er retreat. Lu Ren on the side knew in his heart that Cao Cao was actually showing favor to himself.

Waiting for Wan'er to retreat, Cao Cao looked at the grain cart outside the courtyard again, and then asked Lu Ren: "Yihao, Lone patrolled the city this morning, and I heard from the doorman that you sent someone to Xuzhou to buy back several truckloads of grain and rice. Why, do you think that the money given to you by Gu Lu is not enough to eat, so you buy another grain and rice to wrap your stomach? ”

Lu Ren hurriedly said: "Cao Gong said that he was laughing! In fact, these truckloads of japonica rice are the cereals to be used when trying out the tun in the spring. ”

Cao Cao nodded suddenly, just as Wan'er brought tea over at this time, Lu Ren asked Wan'er to go to the study to get the book and then hand it to Cao Cao. Cao Cao unfolded the bamboo slip, which was written like this:

"Since the Central Plains was in turmoil, all the armies rose together, and there was no grain and grain, and there was no plan for the end of the year. Those who are hungry are slight, those who are full are abandoned, disintegrated and displaced, and those who are invincible and self-destroying are innumerable. For example, Yuan Shaozhi was in Hebei, and the army and civilians relied on mulberries; Yuan Shu was in Jianghuai and was given to Pu Xuan. So that the people cannibalize each other, and the state is depressed, although it is strong for a while, what is the use?

"The art of the country lies in strengthening the army and eating enough, such as the Qin people to rush the agriculture and the world, and the filial piety to the Tuntian to determine the Western Regions, which can be a good style for the ancestors. Therefore, although Cao Gong had Lu Bu in Puyang to expelle the troubles, the spring plowing and farming in the state must not be abolished. Although Ren is only a thin and virtuous person, he is willing to ask for the captain of Tuntian, and lead 2,000 people to the place of Juan and Fan Yitian to try out the matter of Tuntian.

"The right is calculated by the harvest of 1,000 hectares of land and the harvest of 30,000 hectares in autumn, and if it is done, more than 30,000 pieces of grain can be collected. Even if 2,000 people need to eat 20,000 Hu a year, they can also have 10,000 Hu as government food. And when the trial was successful, when Cao Gong expelled Lu Bu and regained control of the whole state, there was an example to favor the exiled people to increase the number of people and increase the fields, so that the people could be safe and the grain could be extensive. ”

Since Lu Ren has already obtained the seal of Captain Tuntian, it means that Cao Cao must have known about this matter and nodded, but the situation at that time was like this, you must have a corresponding written order, so Lu Ren still wrote this book half of the book and half of his own thoughts.

Cao Cao nodded after reading it, but his eyes drifted to Guo Jiadao: "Fengxiao, the handwriting on this slip should be yours, right?" ”

Guo Jia smiled: "The lord has good eyesight!" It's really Yihao's handwriting that is unsightly, so I have to help him catch the knife and ghostwrite. It's just that although this word is from my hand, it was really Yihao's words. If the lord doesn't believe it, the original Jane of the lord is on the desk of the study, do you want to take it and show it to the lord? ”

Lu Renxu kicked Guo Jia: "If you don't embarrass me, you'll be sad, right?" ”

Cao Cao also smiled, and then lowered his head to look at Jian Wen carefully. Looking at it, Cao Cao paced back and forth, squinted his eyes, and whispered: "The art of determining the country lies in strengthening the army and eating enough......

Closing the bamboo slip and being silent for a moment, Cao Cao nodded and said: "If there is chaos today, I want to calm the troubled times and build an immortal world, and I need such a long-term plan for a long time." But Yihao, since ancient times, the Central Plains has been mainly planting millet, although it is necessary to grow rice, but the yield is slightly lower than that of millet, why do you want to abandon millet and plant rice? ”

Lu Ren had explained these problems to Xun Yu, but now it seems that either Xun Yu didn't tell Cao Cao, or Cao Cao wanted to confirm it again, so Lu Ren explained to Cao Cao the mistakes made in planting rice in the Central Plains. Cao Cao neither nodded nor shook his head after hearing this, but sighed lightly: "I didn't expect that there are so many essentials in farming. ”

Lu Renxin said that there is more to this than that? If you really move out the hybrids, gene extraction, and even transformation of modern research, you may not be able to finish writing all the bamboo slips and wooden slips in Juancheng. However, Lu Ren can't do those things, so he can only correct and refine the planting methods.

Cao Cao said: "Since you are doing the test thing, you can do it boldly and boldly, and you don't have to worry about anything." But if there is any difficulty when trying to tun, just ask Wen Ruo for help. Okay, Lone didn't want to talk too much about political affairs when he came here today, but at this moment, Lone suddenly wanted to listen to Yihao's flute music, can Yihao give in? ”

Lu Ren was happy, and said in his heart that it seems that Cao Cao also wants to relax. Then again, Lu Ren hasn't played music for a while, and now when Cao Cao mentions it, it's really a bit of a skill itch, in modern terms, it's like a sling that wants to show off and pretend to be 13. didn't think about it at the moment, nodded and took Wan'er to the study to get the bamboo flute.

Coming to the study, Lu Ren looked around at the study that had just been picked up, and nodded with great satisfaction. When I looked at Wan'er again, I saw that Wan'er was carefully removing the bamboo flute hanging on the wall. Originally, this was not a big deal, but Lu Ren paid attention to Wan'er's little hand when she was taking the flute, and gently stroked the flute a few times, and the gentle fingertips vaguely brought out a little affection.

Lu Ren asked with some curiosity, "Wan'er, do you like musical instruments very much?" ”

Wan'er let out an "ah" and quickly handed the bamboo flute to Lu Ren. I wanted to avoid Lu Ren, but how could Wan'er's little action escape Lu Ren's questioning? I had to explain it to Lu Ren.

It turned out that Wan'er was originally trained as a musician, but six years ago, Wan'er accidentally fell during a practice and smashed a guqin that Cao Cao's Lady Bian loved, and as a result, she was demoted from a musician to a maidservant, and she has never touched a musical instrument since. Speaking of which, Mrs. Bian, who is a "promoter", is still easier to speak, and at that time, she only punished Wan'er for kneeling all night and then being demoted to a maid. If it is changed to another family, it is light to expel you from the house and let you, a seven or eight-year-old girl, fend for herself, and if you don't know it, you will be killed and thrown into the wild at that time.

Then again, in Cao's Mansion, the service of the musician is better than that of the maid and the maid, at least it can be regarded as no need to work hard and have no worries about food and clothing, unlike the maid and the maid, almost everyone can beat and scold at will. And the most important thing is that those kabuki and maiko are like entertainers and stars in modern society, no matter how they are behind them, at least when they are in front of people, they are all radiant, and it is easy for boys and girls to have admiration.

Wan'er is just an ordinary maid, she had such an opportunity but lost it, and it is normal for her to sigh a little bitterly and envy others, so Wan'er has an inexplicable attachment to musical instruments and music...... However, in the conversation, Lu Ren realized that Wan'er really likes music, and at the same time, he also hopes that those moving music can come from his own hands. Or maybe it can be said that Wan'er also hopes that she can grow up, not like she is just a good-for-nothing maid now.

(uh...... There is a problem with the bottle, that is, I can't get up when I fall asleep, friends say that the bottle has mild narcolepsy, and today the two watches were woken up by urine in the middle of the night, and then forced themselves to not sleep before they came out. Forgive me! ）