Lu Ren felt that Cao Cao was playing the family card to himself...... It should be said that there is nothing wrong with that.

In fact, if you want to recruit and attract talents, just giving high wages and high treatment may not be effective. After all, human beings have thoughts and emotions, and many people, in addition to wanting to get high treatment, will prefer that they can be useful, widely recognized, and get a stage of their own.

On the other hand, at the spiritual level, people will also hope to have a support and a belonging. Therefore, even in modern society, many successful companies will find ways to enhance employees' sense of belonging to the company, and then make the centripetal force and cohesion of the enterprise stronger.

Cao Cao is a master of employing people, and of course he understands these truths. However, when he met Lu Ren, Cao Cao was actually full of headaches. Salary? It seems that Lu Ren doesn't care much; Is it useful to seek recognition? It seems that Lu Ren doesn't even want to be an official; Finally, there is this sense of belonging...... This can't be blamed on Lao Cao, Lu Ren's belonging in his heart is the era in which he was originally located, a modern society where Lu Ren can be at ease and has nothing to support, how can you Lao Cao have the ability to give Lu Ren?

But no matter what, Cao Cao really wanted to get closer to Lu Ren and use his sense of belonging to win Lu Ren over. And Lu Ren is very stupid when he is stupid, and he is still very smart when he is smart, for example, he is very smart to cooperate with Cao Cao now, and said a few beautiful words. But whether Lao Cao will believe it or not, this Lu Ren himself has no bottom in his heart.

The two of them were a little idle, and Cao Cao suddenly said: "Yihao, I shouldn't have asked about official business when I came here today, but I didn't ask a few words." It's really hard to be lonely in my heart......"

Lu Ren smiled faintly: "Cao Gong can ask whatever he wants." ”

Cao Cao frowned, nodded again and asked, "You have been the commander of Su Du and have been allowed to go down to Tuntian for some time." Lone just wants to ask you one thing now. By this autumn's season, what is the expected harvest of grain? ”

"This ......"

Lu Ren raised his head and thought about it, and after confessing his guilt to Cao Cao, he shouted, "Ashin! ”

Lu Xin ran in with a chicken wing in his mouth: "Big brother, what's the matter?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Go to the study and take the acres of land from each tun as a whole." ”

Lu Xin may have drunk some wine and was a little dizzy, and then he remembered that Cao Cao was here. Hurriedly took out the chicken wings in his mouth. I wanted to throw it but felt that it was inappropriate, so I had to hold it in the palm of my hand and apologize to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao has always been informal, and he doesn't care much about this little thing. He waved his hand to Lu Xin casually. On the contrary, Lu Ren couldn't look at it a little, so he said with a straight face: "Remember to wipe the oil in your hand clean, don't stain the paper roll." ”

"Hey, hey!" Lu Xin went.

In fact, Lu Ren really doesn't need this. Because of these related things, Lu Ren has long been stored in the chip. If you really want to check it, just activate the chip and take a look. But after experiencing some things, Lu Ren has become accustomed to no longer acting so excessively, so he also chose to pretend to be stupid and show his mediocrity. And for Lu Ren, it is the classic sentence in modern society, "Don't pretend to be B, pretend to be B, pretend to be B, and be struck by lightning".

After a short time, Lu Xin came back and handed over some paper or simple information to Lu Ren, and Lu Ren pretended to count there, and at this time Cao Cao also poked his head over. The look on his face was full of anticipation. Lu Ren took a cold snort, taking advantage of the reflection of the wine on the table. took in Cao Cao's expectations in his eyes, but his heart was also clear.

Can you not look forward to it? Lu Ren may know better than Cao Cao himself that Cao Cao is about to fight Yuan Shao, and in the face of such a powerful opponent, how much strength and how many hole cards he holds in his hand is very important, because this is likely to directly affect the final victory.

Lu Ren doesn't know much about the comparison of military strength, after all, Lu Ren has never understood much about military affairs. But in terms of internal affairs, Lu Ren has been mixed up for so many years, but he is relatively speaking.

Cao Cao's strength in internal affairs during this period is undeniable, but if he really wants to compare with Yuan Shao, he is still not a little bit worse, and the most critical reason is that he is much worse than Yuan Shaoke in the area of land under his control.

To be precise, until this time, the territory controlled by Cao Cao was only the land of Yan and Yu, and it was not very complete. As for Xuzhou, Cao Cao has only been fighting for a long time, and it will take a considerable amount of time to digest and absorb it and then become his own nutrients.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao sits on the land of four states...... Well, at this time, Yuan Shao has not yet won Gongsun Zhan, at most it can only be regarded as three and a half states, but even if it is only the land of three states, it has been painstakingly operated by Yuan Shao for many years so far, and it is a nutrient that can be directly called. To put it mildly, Cao Cao's newly occupied Xuzhou is still in the esophagus, but Yuan Shao's three states are all poop in the large intestine.

In other words, Cao Cao during this period was basically fighting against Yuan Shao, who owned the land of four states, with the incomplete land of Yan and Yu. When it comes to the location of the territory, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao controlled the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which were the most developed and prosperous at that time, but Yuan Shao's territory was much larger than Cao Cao's, which meant that Yuan Shao's troops, grain and grass would definitely be far superior to Cao Cao's. Although there is now the appearance of Lu Ren, an outlier figure, who has more or less helped Cao Cao pull this gap back, where can this gap be made up with just one Lu Ren?

To put it bluntly, Cao Cao's help from Lu Ren is just that one acre of land can be collected by about one stone, but Yuan Shao can take advantage of two acres of land. And in the critical issues of population and military resources at that time, Lu Ren couldn't make people grow so fast even if he could get growth hormone out, right? Unless Lu Ren can sprinkle beans into soldiers...... This is too mysterious, it is better to say that unless Lu Ren can help Cao Cao create machine soldiers to fight, but it is obviously unrealistic.

At this time, how many troops Cao Cao could gather here and how much grain and grass he could accumulate naturally became Cao Cao's most concerned issue. Otherwise, Cao Cao during this period would not have taken Lu Ren so seriously. Basically, it can be understood in this way, that is, Lu Ren at this time is a charcoal in the snow for Cao Cao, and of course he will be extra attentive to Lu Ren;

But if it is changed to seven or eight years later, that is, when Cao Cao completely controls the north, Lu Ren can only be regarded as icing on the cake, and his old Cao may not necessarily be able to bird Lu Ren or anything...... Does this mean that Cao Cao at that time would be disdainful of Lu Ren, after all, Cao Cao has always attached great importance to talents. This is to say that if it is in a period, it is not difficult for Lu Ren to be an official, but it is unlikely that Cao Cao will attach so much importance to it, and as for the rewards of beauties like Cai Yan and Minchan, don't even think about it.

After looking at Lu Ren for a while, he raised his head and responded to Cao Cao: "If nothing else...... Oh, what I mean below is that if there are no natural and man-made disasters, we should be able to get about 1.5 million grains this autumn. ”

"One and a half million?"

Cao Cao's brows furrowed slightly, obviously a little dissatisfied. However, Cao Cao didn't know that Lu Ren didn't dare to say too much, in fact, Lu Ren's own calculations were more than that. But at this time, where does Lu Ren dare to say everything?

Seeing Cao Cao frowning, Lu Ren hurriedly explained: "Cao Gong doesn't know, because he failed to supervise Tuntian after being dismissed last year, there are many farming things that were ordered at the end of the second year of (Jian'an) that have been shelved and abandoned in this last year, and the time to return to Xu Du in the next year is a little late, and it is too late to do many things, so it will ......."

Cao Cao waved his hand and said, "You don't have to explain, you understand." In fact, 1.5 million is already very good, at least half of the number of last autumn's harvest. Yihao, you just have to let it go, Lone will be another Zao, Ren Jun will do his best to assist you, if you need it again, just ask Lone for it. ”

Lu Ren nodded, but he also knew it in his heart. If nothing else, your old Cao will have to grab some important land after the autumn harvest, so how much grain can be harvested this year is a very critical issue. Now that there is such a number, coupled with the previous grain storage, you Lao Cao should have a lot more confidence in his heart.

As if to confirm Lu Ren's conjecture, Cao Cao closed his eyes and thought for a while, then his brows, which had been slightly frowned before, opened slowly, and then he picked up his wine glass and smiled at Lu Ren: "Okay, don't talk about this." Coming here today, Lone actually wants to talk to Yihao about some leisure and interesting things. Well...... Yihao, what do you think of this ghostly thing? ”

Lu Ren's hand that had just picked up the wine glass trembled, and his heart said Lao Cao, which nerve is the wrong line for you? Why are you suddenly interested in mentioning these gods and ghosts?

But when I think about it, it's also relieved. I am an atheist as a modern person, but there seem to be few people in this era who do not believe in ghosts and gods. According to historical records, didn't Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao still talk about immortals? In this regard, Yu turned over because of his extra words, "Those are dead people", and offended Sun Quan.

Moreover, even in the official histories of many dynasties, there are often many records of gods and ghosts, but it is difficult to say whether those in power believe it or not. Standing in this position, Lu Ren originally wanted to say "There are no ghosts and gods in this world" directly, but after thinking about it, he still didn't poke this sentence out.

But suddenly, Lu Ren's mind flashed with inspiration, and he remembered the dream he had that day with Wan'er's "daytime ascension". It is said that since that dream, Lu Ren has had some ideas, but he has never been able to find a suitable opportunity to say it. Now that Cao Cao suddenly has a "ghost thing", doesn't this just give him a chance to say those words of the gods...... (To be continued......)