Somewhere in Yanzhou, in the courtyard of an inn in a certain town above the traffic artery between Chenliu and Xuchang, a middle-aged scribe with a cold face was frowning at Jian Chun and Zhu Chip on the table.

I don't know how long it took for the middle-aged scribe to let out a long sigh, pick up the pen and start writing something on the slip. As he was writing, the door was pushed open, and another middle-aged scribe stepped into the tent. The scribe who was writing raised his eyes to see the comer, then quickly got up and left the table to greet him, and asked, "Brother Fu, what is the situation of the inquiry?" ”

If Cao Cao was here, I am afraid he would be surprised to find that this "frustrated brother" turned out to be Yuan Shao's adviser Fu Zhu. Fu Zhu is a very good strategist, and he is loyal to Yuan Shao. In the original history, when Yuan Shao was defeated in the battle of Guandu, he was captured by Cao Cao because he was locked in prison and could not get out, Cao Cao treated him very well in order to get the effectiveness of the frustration, but he still wanted to steal the horse and abscond in order to return the Yuan family, and finally Cao Cao had to kill him as a last resort, and erected a monument with the inscription "Loyal Martyr Frustrated Jun".

And in the account of the abacus, that is, has always been the same name as the frustration, in the original history for directly admonishing Yuan Shao and imprisoned, after the battle of Guandu by Yuan Shao to kill himself by Yuan Shao sword. (I can't find the word about frustration, so I can only take a table word "Zizhong" according to the meaning of "grant" and the deeds of frustration.) ）

But after hearing Tian Feng's question, he shook his head and sighed lightly: "I've only heard rumors before, but I still haven't believed it. Until this time I had to enter the Cao realm of Henan, the more I looked at this way, the more frightened I became...... How can there be such a weird talent in the world!? ”

Tian Feng's brows furrowed a little more when he heard this: "What the hell is going on?" ”

"After the Yellow River thawed this spring, you and I crossed the Yellow River to this Cao realm in Henan. When I first entered the Cao realm. Because the counties are a little far away from Xudu, many things are still untrue, so at first I thought that the rumors were exaggerated. Now you and I will go to the hinterland of Xu Du, Cao Apu. Only then did I gradually see the reality for the first time. ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "I still remember that when the lord was on the table, when the begging court sent Lu Ren to Jizhou to take up the post of Jizhou Farewell, I still had a little contempt for Lu Ren in my heart. But when I really arrived in the territory of Yanzhou and around Xudu, I knew that this person was in agriculture, mulberry salt and iron, water control and road construction, and he was all excellent!

"Brother Tian, you may not imagine that in the vicinity of Xudu, it is within the reach of its manpower. The fertile field is only measured by acres, and the harvest grain in autumn can exceed five stones! The harvest of ordinary acres is also more than four stones. This does not include the rest of the vegetables, hemp, mulberry fruits, pond fish, and poultry that are all in their own geographical advantages...... In a word, today's Cao Apu. The land of its territory is already a rich people, a warehouse full of grain, and a treasury of wealth. Brother Tian, how are you planning here? ”

Tian Feng looked at the bead chip Jian Chun on the table, and also shook his head and sighed: "How could Cao Apu get such a strange talent?" I have heard that Xun Wenruo described him as a person comparable to Xiao He, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, but in my opinion, I am only afraid of it...... I did the math. If everything we saw along the way was true. Since Cao A concealed the Son of Heaven, the grain in his warehouse is enough to feed the army under his command for more than three years!

"And that's just the grain that Cao Apu should have in the warehouse now. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Ren, who was dismissed for a period of time last year because of the misconduct of the iron tax, and failed to take charge of last year's Tuntian in Cao Agui's territory, this three-year count would have to be added by at least another year. ”

He nodded approvingly. Tian Feng was hiding in the house, and Fu Zhi was outside, so Fu Zhi knew better than Tian Feng how much Tuntian Cao Cao had actually been affected during the more than half a year when Lu Ren was dismissed.

Let's put it this way, Cao Cao's dedication to Emperor Liu Xie to Xuchang was at the end of the first year of Jian'an. At that time, Lu Ren was already preparing for Tuntian in the following year, that is, in the second year of Jian'an. In other words. Lu Ren was relatively well prepared to carry out the work of the tuntian in the second year of construction, so the tuntian in the second year of Jian'an was relatively successful.

But the problem is that Lu Ren's tuntian in the second year of Jian'an can only be regarded as a year of laying the foundation, after all, with the production capacity conditions of that era, environmental factors, and Lu Ren's relatively tight time at that time, many things are not something that can be done, like many places as a water conservancy work that is very critical to agricultural production, Lu Ren used only temporary emergency methods. After the winter of the second year of Jian'an, Lu Ren has also begun to improve these temporary water conservancy facilities.

If Lu Ren hadn't been dismissed at that time, these water conservancy facilities would not have been able to be perfected in place, but at least they would have been able to smoothly support the tuntian that had been built for three years. But the problem is that at this critical time, Lu Ren was unexpectedly dismissed, and when he was really wronged in his heart, Lu Ren burned all the relevant documents.

This kind of thing is like a child losing his temper and playing petty, of course Cao Cao can understand it, and he won't blame Lu Ren for anything, but it makes Zao Yi and Ren Jun, who took over Tuntian, have a big headache, you must know those things that Lu Ren made, where can they understand in a short period of time? Not to mention Tuntian, which involves a wide range of aspects, even if it is an ordinary warehouse handover, the original warehouse manager who doesn't care about anything will be gone, and the new warehouse manager who took over will have a headache to death.

Therefore, the Tuntian in the third year of Jian'an has been greatly affected because of this, and it is 700,000 less than the second year of Jian'an from a literal point of view. This is fortunate that Zao Yi and Ren Jun belong to the kind of people who can work hard and complain, and they can pull down at a critical time, so they cheekily ran to Meng Village to ask Lu Ren for advice.

On the other hand, Lu Ren didn't dare to really do things so desperately, otherwise if Cao Cao came to find trouble with Lu Ren, Lu Ren would have to go around without food? Therefore, for Zao Yi and Ren Jun's questions about Tuntian's affairs, Lu Ren still helped them as much as possible.

However, no matter how Lu Ren taught, after all, it was not Lu Ren who did it himself, Zao Yi and Ren Jun were ancients after all, and they couldn't keep up with Lu Ren's rhythm in many things, so Zao Yi and Ren Jun could only be regarded as so-so, keeping Jian'an's grain and grass income of more than one million yuan for three years. But there are also advantages, that is, they have preserved as much as possible many of the related facilities that Lu Ren left behind in the beginning.

In general, by the time Lu Ren took over the work of Tuntian again, it was a bit like returning to the end of the second year of Jian'an and the beginning of the third year of Jian'an, but the overall situation was better than that time. Not to mention anything else, just saying that Lu Ren's appeal to the people is now higher than it was at the beginning.

At the beginning, there were not many tun people and homeless people who knew Lu Ren's name, but today's Lu Ren ...... The official position is to lead the scholar and shoot not to mention, the name of "immortal master" that circulates among the people is a joke? Moreover, the people of the tun have this account in their hearts. In the second year of Jian'an, they collected 304 in Tuntian, and in the third year of Jian'an, due to Lu Ren's absence, they only collected 200, and their income was nearly half less. Now that Lu Ren is back, why would they refuse to listen to Lu Ren?

It was only because he learned of this that he agreed with Tian Feng's statement that "the number of three years of grain stored in Cao A's treasury must be added by at least another year", and even thought that adding only one year was too conservative, and at least two years had to be added.

Seeing Tian Feng put down his pen in a sigh, he stroked the stool and frowned: "In this way, the plan that you and I secretly agreed on before has already failed completely, and we must find another plan and think about it in the long run." ”

Here I want to explain that in the whole history of the Battle of Guandu, Tian Feng and Fu Zhu carefully analyzed the battle situation and advised Yuan Shao, namely:

"Over the years, the people have been tired, there is no accumulation, and the country is deeply worried. It is advisable to send an advance envoy to offer the Son of Heaven to agriculture and the people; If it is not passed, it will be separated from my king by the Cao family. Then enter Tun Liyang, gradually camp Henan, Yi made boats, repaired equipment, dispatched elites, copied its borders, so that he was not at ease, I took it. In three years, things can be settled. ”

"Cao Gong is good at using soldiers, there is no way to change, although the number is small, it is not light, it is better to hold on for a long time. The general (Yuan Shao) according to the solid mountains and rivers, with the people of the four states, the heroes outside, the internal cultivation of agricultural warfare, and then the elite of the simplified, divided into strange soldiers, take advantage of the void to disturb Henan, save the right to hit the left, save the left to hit the right, so that the enemy is tired of running for his life, and the people can not work in peace; I have not worked hard and he has been sleepy, less than two years, but I can sit on it. ”

"Although our army (Yuan) is numerous, it is not as brave as the other army (Cao); Although his army is fine, the grain and grass are not as good as ours. The other army has no food, and the advantage is in the urgent battle; Our army has food, and it is advisable to hold it slowly. If the sun and the moon can be opened, the other army will be defeated without a fight. ”

According to the original history, the strategy formulated by Tian Feng and Fu Zhu is very correct, if Yuan Shao really adopts it, more than ninety percent of Cao Cao will have no afterplay to sing, but Yuan Shao did not adopt it.

However, there is one thing, Tian and Fu's strategic ideas are largely based on the internal affairs of Cao and Yuan, and the dominant idea is to use Yuan Shao's strong domestic political advantages to drag Cao Cao down. used protracted warfare to destroy Cao Cao's people's livelihood economy, which was not very good in the original history, and made Cao Cao fundamentally lose the strength to confront Yuan Shao.

As for dividing troops to harass the border and the like, the main purpose was to exhaust Cao Cao's army. This can be used in the same way, but from a tactical point of view, the so-called division of troops and harassment is to fight guerrillas, and the purpose of fighting guerrilla attacks is to disrupt the enemy's rear deployment.

Tian Feng and Fu Zhu made such a decision, originally considering it from the perspective of Cao Cao's insufficient troops. But the current situation has to be carefully considered by these two. How so? According to the situation of that era, a good internal affairs and a stable environment could attract a large number of displaced people to settle down and enrich the population, and Cao Cao's military resources would be much more abundant than Tian Feng and Fu Zhu had imagined.

Cao Cao has relatively sufficient troops, so where would he be afraid of this harassment tactic? And if it was really a guerrilla war, the soldiers under Yuan Shao were really not necessarily the opponents of Cao Cao's elite soldiers. (To be continued......)