It's going to be night, and there is a camp somewhere outside Puyang City.

Because Lu Ren often had to run between various camps, sometimes he couldn't rush back to Puyang when it was late or there was rain or snow, so there were special camps for Lu Ren in each camp. At this moment, Lu Ren was in a daze in the tent at the topographic map around Puyang that was hanging.

"Lord, it's time to eat."

Lu Ren said "um", but did not turn around, but instructed Wan'er: "Zi Xiu shouldn't have eaten yet, Wan'er, you go and let Zi Xiu come over and eat together." ”

Wan'er answered and withdrew from the tent, and after a short time, she led Cao Ang to the tent. The meals on the table are actually very simple, it can be said to be a typical three dishes and one soup, and they are all vegetarian. It's not that Lu Ren doesn't want to get some meat to eat, but it's really unrealistic to want to have meat to eat at the moment.

However, Cao Ang, who inherited Cao Cao's frugal style, didn't care about this, and it could even be said that he had long been used to it, and Wan'er's cooking skills were tuned/taught by Lu Ren, even if it was just a simple vegetarian dish, the taste was quite good at that time. Cao Ang himself once joked that after getting used to eating Wan'er's food, other meals tasted a little like chewing curd.

According to the dining habits of the scholars and above in the Han Dynasty, they should have been seated separately, but Lu Ren has never paid attention to this, and usually eats at a table with Wan'er. Besides, how can you pay so much attention to this person who is running around now? And Cao Ang has been by Lu Ren's side since Lu Ren started Tuntian, and he has long been accustomed to Lu Ren's habit. Besides, now there is a Wan'er sitting and eating together, and it feels a lot better.

After eating a light meal, Wan'er packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went out, Cao Ang saw that Lu Ren had been looking at the map in a daze after putting down the bowl, and then asked, "Brother Lu has something in his heart?" ”

Lu Ren nodded: "Some things are really too unexpected for me. I remember that when the camp was first planned before the beginning of spring, we only recruited more than 10,000 tun people, and I was thinking that after the beginning of spring, we could recruit another 10,000 people. But I didn't expect Han Yuansi to summon me 30,000 people with such a call, so the current people add up to more than 40,000 people, which is really a lot of numbers. ”

Cao Ang said: "This year's tuntian is a big matter, isn't it a good thing to recruit more tuntian, more acres, and collect more money and grain in the autumn?" Why is Brother Lu worried? ”

Lu Ren's face showed embarrassment: "I'm not afraid that Zixiu will laugh at you when I say it...... To be honest, I've never managed so many people, and I'm a little scared for a while. ”

"Timid?" Cao Ang didn't understand what Lu Ren meant at once.

Lu Ren sighed and explained, "I'm actually a lazy person, do I have a personality...... To put it nicely, it's easygoing, and if it's not good, it's a little cowardly when dealing with things. If I just managed a small village of two or three thousand people as before, it would be no problem, but now that I suddenly manage so many people at once, and then think back to the situation when I was doing things during the previous period, I always feel a little uncertain. ”

Cao Ang was stunned for a moment, but immediately shook his head and laughed.

Lu Ren is actually telling the truth at this time. Lu Ren was an otaku before he crossed over, and he hadn't learned anything like administration at all. Now he is suddenly asked to manage the agricultural production of a large county like Puyang, and he also has to directly manage the tuntian of more than 40,000 people...... At the beginning, Lu Ren thought that there should be no problem, but after a period of time, Lu Ren felt a little powerless.

Don't look at Lu Ren's previous good work in Juancheng Tuntian, but it was just a medium-sized village with less than 3,000 people, and Lu Ren was always practicing it, so that the people of Tun Ren had a sense of respect for Lu Ren, and it was much less difficult to manage. But now there are more than 40,000 people, and the number has increased more than tenfold at once, and the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and Lu Ren, a young man in his twenties, has no reputation, so he can't hold it back.

Of course, this is only part of Lu Ren's truth, and there are a bunch of truths, Lu Ren is actually really inconvenient to talk to Cao Angming. What about ten times more people? Give Lu Ren a little more time, Lu Ren believes that he can manage it after straightening it out, but what Lu Ren is really worried about is the strong attitude in the Puyang area.

Some scholars in later generations have analyzed that the Sima Dynasty Wei and the three-point return to Jin after the Three Kingdoms were actually the almost inevitable victory of the scholar landlord class in the transition period from the feudal system to the imperial system. When the imperial system really matured, the scholar landlord class would be replaced by the Shu landlord class, that is, the civilian landlord class, which best met the needs of the imperial system.

It can also be said that after experiencing the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the ruling class of the Sui and Tang dynasties learned a lesson from the collapse of the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and began to suppress the scholar landlord class with all their might, and at the same time vigorously supported the Shu landlord class, which was more in line with the needs of the imperial system, and then established the imperial system in the real sense.

Of course, these must be hundreds of years later, and the era that Lu Ren is in now is the era when the landlord class of the scholar clan is gradually becoming stronger, and these landlords of the scholar clan can easily become a powerful party, and they are also extremely sensitive to the damage to their own interests.

So why should Lu Ren worry about this? In fact, it is very simple, since Lu Ren was ordered to Tuntian, it is inevitable that he will grab land and population with the local heroes in Puyang. In those days, land and population were the most fundamental interests, and everyone wanted to be firmly in their own hands, and the more the better.

It was precisely because of these considerations that Lu Ren entrusted the matter of grabbing land and population to Xia Houdun, who had military power. As a civilian official, he really robbed too much land and population, and provoked the local Haoqiang in Puyang, and people sent a few hundred people over when you weren't paying attention, then Lu Ren wouldn't even know how he died.

Next, Lu Ren never thought that Han Hao would rob more than 30,000 people. What was the concept of a population of more than 30,000 at that time? When Lu Ren took over Puyang, he roughly counted Puyang's household registration, and calculated that Puyang's current population should be about 200,000, so the 30,000 people that Han Hao robbed, plus the more than 10,000 people recruited before, are equivalent to about one-fifth of the entire Puyang's population is in Lu Ren's hands.

Lu Ren grabbed so much of the population, which means that the local heroes in Puyang basically wanted to take advantage of the war to grab more people, so will these heroes not be blushing and not holding grudges? And these heroes all have a certain amount of armed strength, in case they stumble and make a bad thing when they are in Lu Ren's tuntian, then they will have to go around without food when they come to Lu Ren.

So what Lu Ren is really worried about is what these heroes will do. But Lu Ren is really not easy to say about this matter, so he can only think of other ways, for example, he is now telling Xia Houdun through Cao Ang's mouth, hoping to use the excuse that he may not be able to manage so many people to make Xia Houdun strengthen the military strength of each battalion.

In fact, this kind of thing Lu Ren can directly talk to Xia Houdun to transfer troops, but Lu Ren always feels that if he does that, it will make the heroes point the finger directly at him, and it will be thought that he is deliberately intensifying the contradiction between Cao Cao and Puyang Haoqiang. With such intentions, Lu Rencai was reluctant to come forward directly, and deliberately wanted Xia Houdun to help him carry this black cauldron, anyway, Xia Houdun had military power in his hands, and it didn't matter how many of this black cauldron he carried. really provoked Xia Houdun, and it was best to send troops directly to the past to destroy the Haoqiang who made trouble.

Let's put it this way, Lu Ren's mentality is like walking on the street in modern society, seeing an old man falling, and he wants to help but doesn't dare to help, for fear of causing trouble for himself......

But after Cao Ang laughed, he asked Lu Ren: "Since Brother Lu is worried about this, is there a way to deal with it?" ”

Of course, Lu Ren had already prepared his words, and casually pointed to a few places on the map: "Han Yuanji has recruited so many people, most of them obviously want to farm with peace of mind and make food and clothing, but they also have to guard against those people with bad intentions who will cause trouble when they are in Tuntian. Originally, I counted 20,000 tun people and 10 camps, so 2,000 tun people per tun, and 300 tun guards in each tun was about the same.

"Now that Han Yuansi has doubled for me, the 300 Protector Army is already insufficient, and it takes about 500 soldiers to control it. In addition, in these places, you may have to ask Zixiu to come forward, go to General Yuanrang, and then transfer a few thousand men and horses to come out and take the center to respond. ”

Cao Ang said with a smile: "This kind of thing, Brother Lu, when you go back to Puyang, you will directly tell Uncle Yuan Rang, so why use me to say it?" ”

Lu Ren smiled: "You don't know this." In fact, there is a bit of a festival between me and Han Yuanhe, and if General Yuanrang pulls out another army to take the center to respond, most of the people who lead the army will be Han Yuanhei...... I don't want to have any more unpleasant things with Han Yuansi. Anyway, remember, don't say that it was my idea to pull another army in the middle, just say that you were worried that something would happen. Okay, I'll admit I don't want to be teased by Han Won-hee, that's okay, right? ”

This excuse is so-so, and Cao Ang also knows that Lu Ren and Han Hao have had such a trouble, so he smiled and stopped talking. When Wan'er came in with the hot tea after the meal, Cao Ang drank tea with Lu Ren in the tent and chatted about the idle days, and by the way, he admired Wan'er kneeling beside Lu Ren again.

And what Lu Ren has to play with is a deck of playing cards made of wooden blocks. To be exact, it is a mahjong-type poker card, because Lu Ren can't make hard-shell paper, so he changed his mind and made mahjong-type poker. Of course, the cards are still fifty-four, but each card has half the size of a cigarette box, shuffle, touch the cards, put the cards like mahjong to wash, build and place, play to the convenience of it. Anyway, now is the leisure time after work, so I pulled Cao Ang and Wan'er to play landlord fight...... Of course, the title can't be called that, Lu Ren's name is "siege".

The three of them were having a great time, and in a blink of an eye, it was already after dark. In this game, Lu Ren robbed the landlord, and just after drawing back the three cards on the table, he heard the noise and scolding in the camp......