In the pavilion of the back flower courtyard of Lufu.

"Uh-Yoshi-ho, why isn't this wine as strong as last time? It feels a lot worse! ”

Lu Ren looked at the messy ground mat, and said angrily: "With these wines to entertain you, a big drunkard, you should be content!" I'm now in charge of the Tuntian in Shitun outside the city, and I'm always busy, so how can I have time to make good wine? These are still rough brews when they are busy. If you come a few months later, that is, after all the grain in Tanaka is in the warehouse, I will be more leisurely at that time, and I will naturally make some good wine to entertain you. ”

Guo Jia shook the wine bottle in his hand and said with a smile: "That's all I said, although your wine is not as good as that time, it is much better than the wine sold in ordinary wine shops." ”

At this time, Wan'er walked into the pavilion and put the dishes on the ground: "Mr. Guo, please try Wan'er's craftsmanship." ”

Guo Jia thanked him, and by the way, he looked at Wan'er a few times and shook his head lightly: "Why has the wine become worse, and even Wan'er has become much worse?" When I went to look for you in the camp that time, Wan'er was not what she is now. ”

Lu Ren looked at Wan'er, who was still dressed as a maid, and could only shake his head helplessly, but Wan'er said to Guo Jia very calmly: "Mr. Guo is making fun of Wan'er again." Wan'er has been busy spinning wool and weaving threads recently, and the gorgeous clothes made by the Lord for Wan'er are not convenient to work and easy to stain, so Wan'er is reluctant to wear them. ”

Guo Jia said to Wan'er with a smile: "It's just that you're working at home, but Wan'er, after all, you have been recognized as a sister by Gongzi Ang now, if you go out and walk around, don't fall into Gongzi's face." If others say that Ang Gongzi recognizes a sister, but he is reluctant to give his sister even a decent piece of clothing to wear, wouldn't Ang Gongzi's face be too unjust? ”

"Huh?"

Wan'er obviously didn't think about this problem, but now that Guo Jia said this, she realized that her current appearance seemed a little inappropriate.

Guo Jia smiled again: "Wan'er, I have some confidants to talk about with Brother Yihaoxian, you see, ......"

Wan'er understood, and withdrew from the hospital after giving a light salute. Guo Jia looked at Wan'er's back when she left, turned back to Lu Ren and said, "She is indeed a very good woman, no wonder your kid went crazy to save her at that time." ”

Lu Ren said: "You came to Puyang just to tell me this?" I don't want to say that I have a heavy responsibility, how can I just be a woman and not know the weight, right? ”

Guo Jiale smiled, stretched out his hand and grabbed the unopened wine bottle in the banquet: "I won't be bored with you here, and some people will tell you this kind of thing, so I don't need to say it." But Yoshiho, you're famous now. At least in this land of Gunzhou, walking above the market and pulling someone over to ask if he knows Guo Jia Guo Fengxiao, this person may not know; But if you ask if you know Lu Ren and Lu Yihao, most of those people will immediately say that it is that ......"

Lu Ren stuffed a chicken leg into Guo Jia's mouth: "Can you talk about something serious?" ”

In fact, how could Lu Ren not know that he was famous now? Being famous has been like this since ancient times, and it is often difficult to get a reputation if you are serious about doing things, unless you stay in that kind of position on the cusp of the storm; But if there is some gossip and anecdote that people are interested in, it is difficult to think of it or not. In modern society, for example, ordinary people's awareness of national leaders may be far less than their knowledge of those movie and television stars. And in order to become famous, artists often dare to hype up all kinds of bad things.

Lu Ren is like this now, if he just does things seriously and does a good job in Tuntian, then after the success of Tuntian, the reputation he has made through Tuntian is at most mediocre, and you don't see many capable ministers and virtuous officials who are recorded in historical materials, but ordinary people often don't know?

But he made such a big move in order to save Wan'er, and this kind of thing is one of the topics that ordinary people are most interested in when chatting and gossiping on the streets, so Lu Ren can be regarded as unexpectedly famous for "fried". And his political achievements were only noticed because he hung up on the gossip name.

"Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles!" This is Lu Ren's evaluation of his own matter.

Guo Jia slapped Lu Ren's hand away, took a hard bite of the chicken leg and then chewed it, and then laughed again: "There is nothing bad about this, if others want to be famous, they don't have this kind of opportunity." ”

Lu Ren said bitterly: "Okay, okay, don't talk about these useless idleness." Lao Guo, you came to Puyang, shouldn't you really just come to me to eat wine and meat? Isn't there a war going on there in Cao Gong? If you don't follow the army to give advice, how can you have time to come to me? ”

Guo Jia wiped the oil stains on his hands, took out a bunch of silk from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Ren: "Wen Ruo gave it to you." ”

Lu Ren was stunned when he unfolded the silk and saw it: "So fast? It's only mid-May, isn't this going to be September? ”

Guo Jiaqi said: "What September? ”

Lu Ren almost stretched out his hand to give himself a mouthful, and hurriedly remedied: "I mean that the autumn grain storage is generally not completed until September. ”

Guo Jia said: "Time is pressing, where can I wait until that time?" And if this kind of thing is preempted by other candidates, then the lord will be controlled everywhere here. Now the Son of Heaven is impoverished in Anyi, only a few hundred miles away from Luoyang, and the lord has already reached Yingchuan, and Luoyang is already close at hand. ”

Lu Ren was speechless. If according to the original process, Cao Cao marched to attack Liu Pi in Yingchuan, Runan and other places in February, and it is not clear when they were settled, but it was in June that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was named the general of Zhendong and Fei Tinghou, and arrived in Luoyang after July. Now Cao Cao has settled Liu Pi's gang, and the time seems to be about the same as the original, but Cao Cao didn't wait for the messenger of Emperor Han Xian to come over and went straight to Emperor Han Xian, at least two months in advance.

Two months is not a short time, and it is not a long time, but here Lu Ren made it difficult for Lu Ren, because the grain in the field here was not yet ripe, and where was the grain sent to Cao Cao? Even if Lu Ren has the ability, he can't let the grain in the field be ripe, right? If you really have that ability, Lu Ren will not be a human but a god.

He's sad here, but he doesn't know that things will turn out like this, and he really has to blame himself. Why? Because at the beginning of Tuntian after arriving in Puyang, Lu Ren accidentally rescued the messenger of Emperor Xian, who was supposed to go to Yuan Shao to ask Yuan Shao for help. And his rescue is equivalent to letting Cao Cao know the key information of Emperor Xian's escape from Chang'an in advance.

After Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty escaped from Chang'an, of course, he would not only issue an edict to the princes along the way to raise troops and Qin Wang, but of course Cao Cao would also get it. However, this had to take into account the constraints of transportation and communication at that time. And this road itself is not very easy to walk, not to mention, when Dong Zhuo coerced Emperor Han Xian to move west, he also deliberately destroyed the road to hinder the Kwantung coalition army, which made this section of the road even more difficult to walk.

Some people may say that it is not just a matter of hundreds of miles? Riding a fast horse for one or two is it done? It would be a mistake to think so, for it was very difficult for the messengers of the time to send these letters. When the road is destroyed, the messenger has to find his way along the way. There were no post stations along the way, and the messenger had to solve his stomach problems along the way; If you run into some bandits or something, then don't talk about it; What's more, the gang of people who rescued Emperor Han Xian from Chang'an are still in conflict with themselves, and they will secretly kill the messenger for the sake of profit......

Talking so much is nothing more than one thing, that is, a letter sent by Emperor Han Xian at that time was actually very difficult to send to the ground, and it was not surprising that it took two or three months to walk only a few hundred miles. In terms of geographical location and distance, the closest to Anyi, where Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was located, was actually Yuan Shao's sphere of influence. In addition, Yuan Shao was a famous family of the fourth and third dukes, and he was the most optimistic figure among the scholars at that time, so when Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty sent messengers here, of course, Yuan Shao was the most important priority.

And Cao Cao is a little far away in the sphere of influence, and Cao Cao himself has always been a eunuch who is not favored by the scholars, and the third is that Cao Cao has some meaning of being dependent on Yuan Shao's power at this time, which makes Emperor Han Xian delay in sending a messenger to Cao Cao, and it can even be said that he will not have any expectations, just try his luck with his own personnel.

In this way, if nothing happened, Cao Cao would definitely receive the news from King Qin much later than Yuan Shao. But it was such a coincidence, the poor messenger was saved by Lu Ren, and Lu Ren, who knew a lot of insiders here, quickly informed Xun Yu of the matter, and Xun Yu informed Cao Cao in time, so where could Cao Cao sit still? Of course, he hurriedly swept away the "dust" near the nest, and then hurriedly led the troops to rob Emperor Han Xian, and it was strange that the time would not be advanced!

Of course, Lu Ren didn't know that he had accidentally pitted himself again, and he was still there worrying about the official document sent to him by Xun Yu. If Cao Cao had stopped a little after pacifying the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Runan, and let his tens of thousands of horses go back to their respective homes to eat their own meals, it would not be difficult to hold on until the autumn grain entered the warehouse.

By the way, the military system at that time was a government military system, or a semi-government military system. Except for those who are professional soldiers or those who have died in the military, the other soldiers who are also the main ones are actually peasants. To put it bluntly, when there is no war, farm the land, and when there is war, go to the call to fight. When you go to war, you eat official food, and when you don't fight at home, you eat your own food. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish between military rations and civilian rations. (PS: This statement is not very accurate, so please don't take it too seriously.) ）

But now Cao Cao wants to go west immediately, not waiting for the autumn grain from all over Gunzhou to enter the warehouse, what a big problem for the logistics personnel at this green and yellow moment? If you follow the general practice, it is nothing more than to carry out a rather extraordinarily levy at this time, but Lu Ren knows very well that you must not levy it at this time, and most of the things that will happen will happen if you levy it......