Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is August 15, the third year of Jian'an, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Let's take a look at the differences between the current local situation and the original history.

If according to the original historical process, after Cao Cao moved the capital to Xuchang with Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, he was almost constantly fighting, often only fighting with the west at the beginning of the year, and fighting with the east in the middle of the year, so that the word "no year and no levy" may be used in Cao Cao's body to be a bit worthy of the name, and it is simply a bit of a feeling of recklessness...... Of course, Cao Cao was not the kind of 205 who was so happy about his achievements that he did not know the importance of agricultural production in his territory. On the contrary, Cao Cao was probably the most important person in the first monarchs of Wei, Shu, and Wu to attach the most importance to agricultural production.

If we attach importance to agricultural production, why should we fight desperately to restore the domestic economy? This is likely to be related to the current situation and environment in which Cao Cao was at that time. At that time, Xuchang was surrounded by enemies on all sides, Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Shu in the south, Zhang Xiu in the west, and Lu Bu in the east, none of which were fuel-efficient lamps, so there was no real sense that Cao Cao could develop production and rest with peace of mind and enhance the rear of the domestic economic strength.

Xuchang is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and Cao Cao must adopt an offensive and defensive strategy if he wants to gain a foothold, that is, seize every opportunity that the opponent can take advantage of to attack, and then force the opponent to defend, so that the opponent loses the opportunity to attack himself.

Attacking as defense is certainly a clever move, but the disadvantage is that in order to complete this strategy, Cao Cao must recruit a large number of young and strong men to enlist in the army every year to ensure the strength of the army. However, the main labor force in these farmlands was withdrawn in large quantities, but it would greatly limit the agricultural production in Cao Cao's territory. Cao Cao was a shrewd man, and of course he would not sit idly by and ignore this vicious circle, so Cao Cao paid attention to the plundering of the opponent's territory in each expedition, that is, to ensure that the domestic economy was not destroyed by the method of warfare......

Having said such a long paragraph, in fact, it is only a few words to put it simply. At this time in history, Cao Cao had just finished fighting Zhang Xiu for the third time, returned to Xuchang in July, and raised troops to fight Lu Bu again in September. After Cao Cao returned, he ordered the army to rest and prepare to attack Xuzhou Lü Bu after the autumn grain was completed in September.

And Liu Bei was still named Yuzhou Mu by Cao Cao at this time, of course, this was only a vacant position. However, if it was according to the original historical process, Liu Bei should have been Cao Cao's bridgehead in Xiaopei, but now he has been staying in Xuchang. As for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's team, they were found by the people transferred by Mi Zhu from Mi Zhen, and finally brought about 2,000 remnants of the defeated army and temporarily stationed them in a certain county east of Xuchang.

Ignore these for the time being, and only say that when the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the autumn harvest of all counties under Cao Cao's jurisdiction has basically been completed by about seventy percent, and a large number of large quantities of money and grain are being concentrated here in Xuchang. Cao Cao listened to Xun Yu's report and expected that all the counties under his jurisdiction would have a bumper harvest this year, so he ordered a large banquet to be held on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the harvest with the ministers under his tent.

After a sumptuous and even slightly lavish banquet, the ministers all returned happy. However, according to custom, Cao Cao left a few members of the core team to the side hall for a small banquet. Of course, this small banquet is not only about drinking and having fun, but also about discussing some military aircraft and political dignitaries.

Cao Cao didn't drink much at the previous feast, and he was still very sober. At this time, he first gave a polite glass of wine to everyone in the side hall, and then looked at the sumptuous wine and food on the table, and couldn't help but stroke his beard and said smugly: "Since the lonely son of heaven moved the capital to Xu, it has not been two years, why does the lonely feel that it is not what it used to be?" ”

Xun Yu continued: "In the past, the lord was in Yanzhou, there were not many soldiers and insufficient food, but he was often worried about the conquest and could not continue. Now the main army is full of fine food and the treasury is abundant, which is enough to fight for the thieves of the Han Dynasty and is as powerful as thunder, and the strength of the group of thieves is difficult to match, so it is not an exaggeration for the lord to have this feeling. ”

Cao Cao smiled smugly, but not to the point of forgetting: "If Wen Ruo said, it is ashamed to suffer alone!" Now Lone can sweep away the decadent atmosphere of the old days and start to show the ambition in his chest, which all depends on the strength of the people. Come, I will toast you again! ”

After a few more cups, Cao Cao couldn't help but ask Xun Yu: "Wen Ruo, last time you predicted that the counties and counties will be able to collect a lot this year, and now the taxes of the counties and counties have been in the warehouse for most of them, you should be able to tell Gu an approximate number, right?" ”

Of course, Xun Yu had already prepared, but his face looked a little ugly: "Yu estimated once a few days ago that the grain could probably go into the treasury for nearly one million yuan. ”

"Huh!?"

Cao Cao's eyebrows were raised at that time, and there was a slight dissatisfaction in his tone: "Only nearly a million Hu? Why is there 700,000 less than last year? "In fact, one million is a lot, and the result of Cao Cao's first year in history is almost the same, but the problem is that there is a comparison of 1.7 million last year, and suddenly there is less than 700,000, from a psychological point of view, Cao Cao will of course listen to dissatisfaction.

Xun Yu smiled and shook his head: "Yu is not very good at farming, and he can't figure it out......

Cao Cao was slightly flustered, and immediately asked, "Does this matter have anything to do with Lu Yihao?" ”

Xun Yu still shook his head, while Cao Cao set his eyes on Guo Jia. And Guo Jia was greedy for wine, and when he saw Cao Cao looking at him, he just smiled casually and shook his head. Everyone knows that the relationship between Guo Jia and Lu Ren is the most iron, how can Guo Jia help Lu Ren say a few words on such an occasion?

Cao Cao saw that he was not happy or unhappy when he saw this situation, so he could only pretend to be angry at Guo Jiashu: "Fengxiao, among all of you here, you are the only one who knows Lu Yihao very well, you can only say anything you have about it, and you don't have to be afraid of what you don't want to say!" ”

Guo Jia understood what Cao Cao meant as soon as he heard it, and immediately smiled, and poured another glass of wine before saying: "In fact, there is a year of abundance and arrears, a big harvest in a year of wind and rain, and a poor harvest in a year of drought and flood. But if you want to say that it has nothing to do with Yoshiho, Yijiazhi's view is not entirely so. ”

"How?"

Guo Jia straightened his thoughts, touched his chin with a few beards, and muttered: "As the saying goes, human nature is lazy, and it takes time to reprimand it so that it will not be casual. Jiayou remembered that when Yihao gave orders last year, he diligently patrolled the tuns, often not in the house for half a month, so that the officials and people in the counties and townships did not dare to relax and be casual. In addition, Yihao is good at farming, which is not comparable to others, but when he sees any mistakes, he will correct them at the time, so all the fields and valleys are full and strong...... In terms of Jiajia, this year's production has been reduced by a few percent, and some of it has been taken up by the weather, and then the officials and people are lax and unable to do so. ”

Xun Yu picked up a sentence at this time: "Zao Yi and Ren Jun have complained to their subordinates, saying that they don't understand the use of many things that Yihao left behind at the beginning. ”

Cao Cao bowed his head lightly: "It seems that this is reasonable...... Ziyang, how is the tax paid by Lu Yihao's Meng Village this year? ”

Liu Ye is Cao Peng, who is in charge of Sikongcang: "The grain paid is much more than the grain received by other villages, but it is not very outstanding. It's this money tax......" I didn't say anything more than I said.

Cao Cao was not happy: "Say! ”

Liu Ye shook his head slightly, with a little uncertainty in his tone: "The money and taxes paid by Meng Village need to be the sum of ten villages with the same number of people to be the same. ”

A gleam flashed in Cao Cao's eyes, and his gaze immediately drifted to Xun Yu. Xun Yu understood what Cao Cao meant, and just shook his head slightly. Cao Cao couldn't help but shake his head and sighed lightly: "If Yihao is still Xu Duling this year, how can you say that the grain harvested this year should also be 1.5 million hu, right?" Qu Cai, it's really Qu Cai! He has the skills to enrich the country, but now he only lives in a small village, and he is an ordinary rich man......" Speaking of this, Cao Cao glared at Cao Hong over there, and glared at Cao Hong so much that he lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything.

In fact, most of the people at this small banquet knew the secret of Lu Ren's dismissal from his official position, and they all saw that Cao Cao deliberately wanted to transfer Lu Ren back, but it was not good to directly pierce this layer of tissue paper, so he could only indirectly make some crooked moves to Cao Cao.

Xun Yu spoke first: "Lord, let Yu gossip." In fact, most of the chicken and duck meat, wine, fruits and dishes at this banquet are from Meng Village. I remember that at the beginning of Yihao's dismissal, he joked to Yu that he might be able to let the people have meat and wine for their meals. Yu thought this was his exaggeration......"

Guo Jia picked up and said, "It's not an exaggeration, is it? I just came back from visiting him in Meng Village a few days ago, and the people of Meng Village can really see wine and meat on the table every once in a while. And I rubbed his food for half a month, and I didn't get drunk for a day. I don't want to eat any more chickens, ducks, eggs, and meat. ”

"........." Everyone rolled their eyes at Guo Jia together, and said in their hearts, where did you go up to enjoy the blessings? No wonder I haven't seen you for half a month, and when I come back, I feel as if you've gained some weight.

Cao Cao raised his eyebrows: "Why is Meng Village so rich?" Is there a deception? Yi Hao actually treated each other with wine and meat at every turn, and day after day? "At that time, ordinary people could eat wine and meat every once in a while, what kind of concept was Cao Cao was very clear, and Cao Cao himself was usually reluctant to eat it!

Guo Jia couldn't help but shake his head and said, "What can this be?" The lord may not know that before the people of Zhutuntun heard that Yihao was removed from his official position and relocated in Meng Village, there were many like-minded people who went away. At first, there were only a few hundred residents in Moe Village, but by the time I returned a few days ago, there were about 5,000 residents.

"Yihao got manpower, but he did not bent on opening up the land, but recruited the people to build what Xiaoming chicken and duck farms, mulberry orchards, pig (pig) farms, cattle and sheep farms, and wine farms...... There was too much mess, and Jia couldn't tell it clearly. Kaben asked him why he didn't use the people's strength to open up the land, but he laughed and said that he had a specialization in the industry and a specialization in art, and since there was already a surplus of grain and the fertile land was exhausted, he should teach the people who came after him to be rich and not make them fight for land and resentment with the old people......"

Speaking of which, Guo Jia's head is a bit big, because these are not what Guo Jia is good at: "In short, he has a way to settle the people who come before and after, and each has its own industry and benefits." The grain growers bartered money with the livestock and poultry and the workers (handicraftsmen), and none of them lacked anything. And he himself not only managed the family business, but also asked the Miss Mi family to lead a caravan to sell the products of Meng Village to the required counties. In this way, not only his own family is quite profitable, but even the residents of Meng Village have benefited greatly, and they have never taken care of one or the other...... Seriously, I don't know how this kid managed to do it so thoroughly! ”

(It's a little late, but it's finally two more.) The bottle said sleepily. Shameless begging for tickets, asking for collections, asking for recommendations!! ）