In June, it would have been the harvest season, but the tens of thousands of acres of fertile land outside Pengcheng were all lost due to Cao Bing's trampling in the past six months. Tao Ying called Chen Deng, who was in charge of agriculture, and Chen Deng came to see Tao Ying with the household book that had just been built.

In a relatively large mountain villa outside Pengcheng, Tao Ying made the villa renovated as a temporary office location, and after several months of selection, the officials of Peng Chengguo also arrived one after another, but many Tao Ying could not be named at all.

In the small courtyard council hall, Zang Ba has led nearly 10,000 elite soldiers to Guangling to take office, and as soon as Zang Ba left, he took the original Taishan Gang away. And after the Taishan gang left this time, there were fewer generals in Pengcheng, which made Tao Ying very worried.

Tao Ying convened everyone again in the council hall, just for three things, and after everyone in the hall arrived, Tao Ying came from the backyard and sat on the main seat.

All the officials got up and saluted, and Tao Ying signaled everyone to be exempted, although it was nearly ten o'clock in the afternoon, but the room was a little shady. Tao Ying pointed to Chen Deng and began to inquire about the population of Pengcheng.

"Yuanlong, what is the population of Pengcheng now?"

After Tao Ying finished asking, Chen Deng hurriedly asked people to bring the roster, and five or six soldiers came in with a bunch of rosters, and Tao Ying also hurriedly stepped down to look through the roster.

The roster is made of Tao Ying's invented book, he cut the paper produced by Jiading to the size of a rectangular book, and then let Jiading produce a slightly thicker paper to make a cover, there were no book nails at that time, Tao Ying originally wanted to invent one, because book nails are not difficult, but he was too busy to have any time.

But after checking the roster, Tao Ying found that it was useless to have a stapler in time, because there were too many people in many villages to nail it at all, so in the end it was sewn out with thread.

Tao Ying walked over to the box, and there were two large boxes in front of it. There are two places on the box, two different eye colors, one has a label on it - Peng Chengguo Population Book, and the other place reads - Xiapi Country Population Book.

Tao Ying opened Peng Chengguo's box, and the box was full of all kinds of small boxes, and the population books of each county were written on it, and when he opened the population of Xiaoguan next to him, there was a small book, which said that the population of Xiaoguan was nearly one million, Tao Ying was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that there were so many people in Xiaoguan.

Tao Ying pointed to Xiao Guan's household registration and turned his head to the county order from Xiao Guan's surrender and asked, "Wang County Order, has this household registration ever been fake?" ”

Wang Xian Ling hurriedly got up from his chair and replied, "My lord, I haven't cheated. Xiao Guan has not been fighting for a long time, so there are many people, plus the Cao thief attacked Pengcheng State, the common people fled from Pengcheng State to Yuzhou Xiao Pass, because Yuzhou and Cao Thief have a good relationship, so Cao Thief did not send troops to attack Xiao Pass! ”

It turned out to be the population that housed Peng Chengguo, Tao Ying nodded, he knew that the end of the Han Dynasty was not like his era.

In Tao Ying's time, family planning was practiced there, and each family could only have one child, but the Han Dynasty did not have a family planning policy, so each family had five or six children, and even more than a dozen children.

Put down Xiao Guan's household registration book, Tao Ying turned to Wuyuan again, the population of Wuyuan County actually reached one million, Tao Ying was a little puzzled, Wuyuan County Commander did not come in person because of the long distance, and it was the newly appointed official who came to the meeting, Tao Ying asked the official, and the official also hurriedly stood up and answered.

"Lord Yuguo, Wuyuan originally had a large population, and after the Cao thieves came, most of the people fled to Peiguo and moved south. In May, a large number of people in the East China Sea fled to Pengcheng State, our Wuyuan County is the northernmost county of Pengcheng County, I heard that Wuyuan County distributed land to the people for free, and each family only needed one to three people to participate in the construction of the city, so the people flocked to it, so now the people have far exceeded one million! ”

"The influx of people from the East China Sea? Could it be that my benevolence has moved them? ”

Tao Ying was a little complacent, and just wanted to praise the officials of Wuyuan County for a few words, but he didn't want the little official to ask a question, and Tao Ying was dumbfounded as soon as the question came out.

"Your Excellency, our county commander asks the Prime Minister to increase the number of troops stationed in Wuyuan. Wuyuan now has less than 1,000 soldiers and horses, I'm afraid it ......"

There are 1,000 soldiers and horses, Tao Ying thought about it, this is enough, in his world, I don't know if there are 1,000 soldiers and horses in a county, not to mention that every town, township, and village has town soldiers, township soldiers, and village soldiers, which is enough to govern!

So Tao Ying shook his head and said: "Governing the people needs benevolent government, and if there are not many soldiers, you can govern it well, go back and tell you the county order, water can carry boats, and it can also overturn boats!" ”

Wu Yuan's little official in charge of household registration nodded hurriedly, but Tao Ying found that his face showed embarrassment again, Tao Ying motioned for him to say it, this is the council hall, it is for discussion, and it is a place for democracy.

Only then did the official have the courage to say: "The Prime Minister doesn't know, now Cao Cao led his troops from Mount Tai at the end of May, wanting to avenge his father, and now he has broken Langya County, presumably it won't take long to hit Tan County again, if Tan County is broken, our Pengcheng Country is afraid that it will not be ......."

"What!"

Tao Ying threw a household registration book on the ground, screamed and scolded: "Cao Cao came to attack me Xuzhou again? When did it happen, and why didn't I know? ”

Tao Ying's sudden roar startled all the officials present, and the junior official didn't dare to speak. Another county magistrate near Wuyuan happened to come to receive the official seal, so he was also in the council hall, so the Guangqi county magistrate introduced this matter to Tao Ying.

At the beginning of May, Cao Cao raised troops to attack Langya again under the banner of avenging his father, and the officials of Langya fled, and Cao Cao fought until the East China Sea. The administrative office of Xuzhou was relocated to Tan County in the East China Sea again, and at this time Xuzhou was divided into two camps, the real Xuzhou faction headed by Tao Qian in the north, who occupied Donghai County and Langya State.

The south was occupied by Tao Ying, who occupied Pengcheng State, Xiapi State and Guangling County. When the war in the north broke out again, although Tao Qian was powerless to resist this time, Cao Hong and others fiercely opposed calling Tao Ying north to resist Cao Thief. Because Mi Zhu and others all thought that if Tao Ying knew about this, not only would he not help Xuzhou, but would take this opportunity to attack Donghai County, and once the East China Sea was over, the entire Xuzhou would be his.

When the time comes, he will negotiate peace with Cao Cao, Cao Cao will occupy Langya, and he will have no place for them in the East China Sea, so Tao Ying has never known this news.

He originally knew that Cao Cao would attack Xuzhou again in the summer, but he thought that he had signed an agreement with Cao Cao, and Cao Cao would keep his promise, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to be such a clumsy person!