"Yihao, it looks like you're embarrassed?"

Lu Ren threw the silk on the ground and said depressedly: "Can you not be embarrassed?" It's May, and the harvest is usually in August, three months! Do you want to spend these three months? Yes, I can go to collect grain from all over Puyang and send it to Cao Gong now, but now when the green and yellow are not accepted, everyone doesn't have much in their hands, and if this grain is collected at this time, believe it or not, everyone will rebel in the end? ”

Guo Jia said: "Didn't you harvest the rice last year only in June? A month at most is about the same, right? ”

Lu Ren shook his head desperately: "The situation is different!" Last year, I was in charge of that little land, and I could concentrate on managing and teaching, so naturally I could supervise everything in place, and the rice would grow more smoothly and faster. But now that I am in charge of ten tuns, my energy is scattered, and there are often things that cannot be corrected in time, and the rice in the field grows a little slower. A few days ago, when I went to inspect various camps, I roughly calculated that this year's rice harvest in Puyang Shitun would probably be a month late. As for the wheat and millet, at most, they can be planted ten or twenty days earlier than before. ”

Guo Jia knew that no matter how Lu Ren was, he wouldn't dare to talk nonsense about this kind of thing, so he immediately frowned and said: "Wen Ruo still has some food in stock, and there is still some in the main army, but I am afraid that it will not be able to support it for a few days, so Wen Ruo will pin his hopes on the ten camps you have here." But now you're like this......"

Lu Ren said: "Can't you ask Cao Gong to raise troops to the west a little later?" Two months, as long as it takes two months, I can send at least 200,000 grains of rice here. ”

Another sentence Lu Ren didn't dare to say, that is, Lao Cao, it doesn't matter if you go two months late, because in the original historical process, your Lao Cao only went to Luoyang in July. But this is something that can't be said.

Guo Jia just shook his head here: "No, no, no, this kind of thing must not be delayed." Anyi is too close to Yuan Shao's territory, and Wen Ruo also told you about the matter of welcoming the Son of Heaven if it is robbed by Yuan Shao, what will be the consequences, so the lord's soldiers and horses cannot be stopped. Yihao, my good virtuous brother, before I came to Puyang, Wen Ruo told me about this matter, and now I'm afraid only you can come up with a way to solve it, you won't let me and Wen Ruo down, right? ”

Lu Ren was also angry: "I said that you also think too highly of me, right?" How can the grain in the field be ripe when it is cooked? If you really want to do that, it will be against the way of heaven, okay? Could it be that I can still go and say to the father-in-law of the land, 'Please help the old man to help me ripen the grain in the field quickly, and there will be an urgent need in the next'?" ”

Guo Jia raised his eyebrows: "You can try it!" ”

"I'll fuck your sister!" Lu Ren grabbed an empty wine glass and threw it at Guo Jia, and he spoke a little openly: "If you really have that ability, I'll still mix wool here!" If I don't have anything to eat, I will point to the field and say, 'Grow for me', then I can already find a piece of land and gather a large group of people, okay? ”

Guo Jia saw Lu Ren like this and knew that Lu Ren was really anxious, and then thought that it was a bit too much to urge Lu Ren like this, so he slowed down his tone and said in a deep voice: "I know you are very difficult, but the stakes are so high, you can't think of other ways?" ”

Lu Ren said bitterly: "This is a way for me to think of a yarn?" Why don't I go to Xuzhou again and go to Liu Bei or Mi Zhu to borrow food for emergency? Hey, wait, borrow!? ”

Guo Jia shook his head again and again: "It takes about two months to go back and forth to Xuzhou, so you might as well wait for the rice to ripen here in Puyang!" ”

Lu Ren hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I didn't mean that...... Has Wen Ruogong calculated how long the grain in Cao Gong's army and the grain and grass he kept there can last? ”

Guo Jia said: "Of course, it will only last for a month at most." ”

Lu Ren muttered: "Then I just need to find a way to add another month here, and most of the rice here will be able to mature in early July...... Well! Ah Cheng!! ”

After tearing out his throat and shouting, Lu Cheng hurried to Lu Ren's side: "What does the boss command?" ”

Lu Ren said: "You go to the study and bring the seal of my Puyang Order, and immediately rush to the government to get out all the household registrations of the big clans in Puyang, and I will rush over later." Oh yes, I remember that General Xia Hou, Han Duwei, and Zixiu Gongzi were also invited to the government office, and they said that I had something urgent to discuss. ”

Lu Cheng answered the call and went to work, while Guo Jia looked at Lu Ren and hesitated: "The big family in the Puyang area? And invite Xia Houyuan and Han Yuansi to go to people who hold soldiers in their hands? Yihao, what are you trying to do? Could it be that they want to punish the rich and take their grain again? You can't do that! ”

Lu Ren glared at Guo Jia: "I'm not that stupid!" It's Dong Zhuo who will do that! I don't want to be made angry with Dong Zhuo. It was said that it was borrowed, and now those who can get Cao Gong's tens of thousands of horses and horses for a month's grain and grass are probably the only ones who have a lot of grain in their families. Puyang alone may not be enough, when you go back to Juancheng, ask Wen Ruogong if he can also find some big families to borrow grain like me here. ”

Guo Jia is indeed a very smart person, but this kind of thing is not in the field that Guo Jia is good at, and it can even be said that this kind of thing is a little beyond the scope at that time, Guo Jia really can't react at this time. But seeing that Lu Ren had already made up his mind, he didn't say anything to refute it. After all, for a character like Guo Jia, those who achieve great things should not be confined to small details, and the most important thing is to do things well.

And soon, Lu Ren's orders here were carried out vigorously. In fact, Lu Ren is reminded of the national debt system in modern society, or the treasury volume is more straightforward. To put it simply, the government issues bonds to the people in order to mobilize sufficient funds for national construction. And although this kind of thing is relatively common in modern society, in the era in which Lu Ren lived......

Hehe, it's hard to say, anyway, in Lu Ren's image, it seems that I haven't heard of any feudal dynasty that would borrow money from the people. Because if the emperor has no money, he will go directly to the people to collect it, and this levy is more appropriate to rob it, but it is so justifiable, who let the feudal dynasty or the imperial dynasty be the set of "under the whole world, is it not the king's land"? It's really not good, the emperors still have a lot of official titles to sell, and there is no need to borrow them.

As for asking Xia Houdun and Han Hao for help, it was because Lu Ren knew very well that as soon as this matter came out, no one would believe it at that time, and I am afraid that no one would borrow it, so the only thing left was to play coercion. But to be honest, Lu Ren just let Xia Houdun and Han Hao bluff to scare those rich families, and Lu Ren didn't dare to do the murder and food theft.

But fortunately, Lu Ren's affairs here are going relatively smoothly, and the rich families in the Puyang area have a more cooperative attitude towards Lu Ren's grain borrowing, at least on the surface. This may be due to the "murderous name" left by Lu Ren's previous Zhu Yi Tian clan, and Lu Ren has checked the household registration information of the rich households, and can calculate how much each household can roughly come up with. It doesn't matter if it's too little, but if it's too close to the cordon, Lu Ren doesn't want it, after all, Lu Ren doesn't want to make the situation here in Puyang so tense.

The final link, of course, is the debt ...... At that time, it was called the formalization of the contract. In fact, it is nothing more than stamping the official IOU with the seal of Lu Ren's Puyang County Order and Xia Houdun's seal, and at the same time assuring the rich households that after the harvest in Puyang, the Puyang official will not only return the borrowed grain, but also give a small amount of interest.

Some people may say that the grain of these rich households is just collected, so why should they borrow it? If he wants to borrow it, but you Lu Ren forcibly borrowed it, aren't the rich people the same as they will be resentful? In fact, this kind of thing is like this, not to mention the expropriation, although this loan has a mandatory meaning, but at least it can give the rich a hope, so that they can choose to take a wait-and-see attitude first.

If you don't pay it back, then there is no need to say more about the situation, and there will definitely be some chaos here in Puyang. But if Lu Ren returns it here according to the agreement and gives interest, not only will the rich people in Puyang not be resentful, but they will even say that the current government is true to its word, which will still help Puyang's governance to some extent. Why did Shang Yang play the trick of the pole? Isn't it just a matter of the credibility of an official government? Of course, Lu Ren didn't think so far, he only knew that he was giving the rich here a hope, and then he would have to borrow and repay, as for whether it would be difficult to borrow again, Lu Ren didn't think about it.

As soon as Lu Ren's matter here was done, Guo Jia rushed back to Juancheng to report to Xun Yu, and Xun Yu didn't know what to say after hearing it, but he also tried to borrow grain from some wealthy families in Gunzhou, but he didn't borrow it as smoothly as Lu Ren's place. But in any case, when Cao Cao arrived in Luoyang at the end of June and the army was about to run out, Xun Yu's month's worth of food raised here also followed.

Then it was July, that is, when Lu Ren counted the ripening of the rice planting fields in the ten camps. This year's situation is not bad, or it should be said that Lu Ren's efforts have paid off, this year's rice planted has a yield of more than five stone per small mu, and a very small number of "model fields" that are particularly well planted and cared for even have a yield of more than six stone. Such a result not only made the people cheer, but Lu Ren himself was relieved?

What Lu Ren has to do next is nothing more than to divide the grain that has been put into the warehouse into two pulls, one pull is not to say that it will be transferred to Cao Cao, and the other pull will start to repay the "county debt". Again, it's better to pay off the debts of those rich people quickly, and Lu Ren doesn't want to make any trouble here in Puyang. Let's talk about the heart of a very small person, if Cao Cao, who is one in ten thousand, wants to repay the account, then wouldn't the black cauldron have to carry it himself? Those IOUs were stamped with their own seals.

It is precisely because of Lu Ren's selfishness that when distributing grain, he prefers to pay off his debts first. And those wealthy Puyang families who were forced to borrow a lot of grain, saw that Lu Ren returned the grain as promised, and also sent the corresponding interest, and naturally praised Lu Ren, and some people even asked Lu Ren earnestly if he wanted to borrow more? It seems that he tasted the sweetness and moved his mind.

Lu Ren was really ridiculous about this, and he wanted to say to those rich people:

"Is it okay for your sister to have long eyes? Why don't you see how much grain I have harvested here this year? Where can I ask you to borrow again!? ”