Cao Cao looked at Cao Pi, his eyes flickered a little, which was the kind of look he only had when he hesitated. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Cao Pi knew that Cao Cao was weighing whether this matter was feasible, so he didn't speak and quietly waited for Cao Cao's decision.

"Zhongkang." Cao Cao summoned Xu Chu.

Xu Chu stepped forward immediately when he heard the call, and Cao Cao said in his ear: "Put the rope down and go find a pig." ”

After Xu Chu received the order to leave, Cao Cao instructed Cao Chun to command his subordinates to pile up firewood and grass at the Xiannong altar, and then put wormwood on it.

Burnt firewood is raised, and then burned on the firewood with the body of an animal or jade silk, which means to let the gods smell and enjoy the sacrifice. It was the standard ritual step that Cao Cao had already decided. In the end, the two bundles of ropes brought by Cao Pi were also placed next to the Xiannong altar, but they were far away from the firewood and grass.

After a while, Xu Chu came back with a pig, still alive. This is Juntun, and it's easy to get a pig.

Cao Cao took a torch from the guards beside him, walked to the Xiannong altar, and lit the fire. Then he gestured to Xu Chu.

Xu Chu nodded, and carried the live pig to the lit firewood and grass, the pig seemed to feel that he was about to be in trouble, and began to let out an uneasy cry, and his four hooves were also kicking wildly, but he couldn't get out of Xu Chu's grasp.

I saw Xu Chu free his hand, and as soon as he raised it, he grabbed the throat that was stuck, and his five fingers were put together, and the pig struggled more violently, and there was a hoarse howl of "ho-ho-ho" in his throat, just because Xu Chu was stuck in his throat, he couldn't scream loudly.

Xu Chu exerted his strength again, and the pig immediately stopped struggling, obviously being strangled to death by Xu Chu, only to see Xu Chu throw the pig into the burning firewood and grass, and after a while, there was a smell of burnt meat overflowing, and after Cao Cao shook the altar of Xiannong, the sacrifice was completed. At this time, the smoke from the burning of firewood and wormwood rushed straight into the sky, as if the gods really felt that someone was sacrificed, so they inhaled the smoke into the sky.

Everyone was silent when the firewood and grass were burning, and when the flames were completely extinguished and the pig had been burned black, Cao Cao returned to Cao Pi from the Xiannong Altar, but heard him say: "Wu'er, I don't know if the Xiannong has been blessed." ”

"Father, the first farmer has blessed the rope, as long as the father sends the sergeant to hold the rope at both ends, fight on both sides of the paddy field, submerge the rope into the straw, and place it in the middle of the straw, and then the two of them hold the rope head and walk forward slowly, so that the blessed rope can touch all the straw in the field, and when the flowers bloom, go back and forth five times at night, and the autumn harvest will be effective." Cao Pi replied.

"It's easy to hear!" Cao Cao immediately asked the sergeant to do so, and this seemingly futile approach made Cao Cao completely unsuspicious, because it looked like a sacrifice.

Cao Pi watched the two of them pull the rope and stand on both sides of the paddy field, submerge the rope into the straw, and then walk slowly, under the action of the rope forward, all the touched straw is inclined to the place where the rope travels, and the rice ears on the head of the different straws touch each other, under the light of the moon and the torch, like a dark green wave set off by plain white.

In fact, this is a more primitive artificial pollination method, the name is called rope pull flower, to put it bluntly, it is to rely on the rope to force different rice to touch each other, raise pollen to increase the probability of female flowers and sterile male flowers, in the flowering period to do so unremittingly, can make the seed setting rate reach more than 85%.

After a while, the guards used ropes to pull flowers through the two acres of hybrid paddy fields five times, and Cao Pi immediately asked them to stop, and then turned to Cao Cao and said: "Father, these two blessed ropes are particularly important, and they must not be seen, so as not to provoke others to destroy and steal." ”

"If both Juntun and Mintun plant paddy fields next year, how can these two ropes be enough. Cao Cao frowned and asked. ”

"There is no other way but to ask my father to sacrifice and ask Xiannong to bless a few ropes." Cao Pi also wanted his father to fall deeper.

"Do you still need to be at this ancestral altar?"

"Exactly, it is not appropriate to remove the altar of the ancestors now, and we must wait for the harvest of rice before we can rebuild an altar for the ancestors."

"I wonder when I can sacrifice again?"

"Every seven days."

"Zihe, you take this rope first, tomorrow I will pick a child of the Cao family to lead these henchmen to do blessings." Cao Cao said to Cao Chun beside him.

Cao Chun immediately stepped forward, and the celebrity coiled the two bundles of rope, and then took them and hung them on his arms.

When all this was done, Cao Cao asked Xu Chu to send Cao Pi back to his home, and he himself supervised Cao Chun and his cronies to clean up the sacrificial objects of the Xiannong Altar before returning home.

Cao Pi didn't know how much time had passed after this toss, but he knew that he was very sleepy, so sleepy that he fell asleep in the carriage. If Xu Chu hadn't woken him up, I'm afraid he would have been able to sleep in the carriage until dawn.

The next morning, after Cao Pi had breakfast, he heard Xun Yue send someone to summon the news, saying that the Son of Heaven was in high spirits today, and he showed him in the palace to continue lecturing, so he couldn't come to Cao's mansion, Cao Pi naturally didn't care, after all, the emperor is the biggest now, and he still needs a lot of time to get familiar with the sword called "Yan".

While practicing swords, Dianman hurriedly entered the courtyard and said to Cao Pi: "Childe! Something is wrong! ”

"What?"

"Liu Xuande, the assassin of Yuzhou, was defeated by Lu Bu, and now he is coming with the remnants of his army, and Sikong placed his army outside the city and personally welcomed him into the city."

"Oh?" Cao Pi was not surprised at all by this, Liu Bei had to be named a petty official after quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but he beat his colleague to death because of a trivial matter, and then hung up the seal to go down to Gongsun Zhan. Later, Cao Cao was angry because his father was in Xuzhou and crusaded against Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian, Tao Qian asked Liu Bei for help, Liu Bei sent troops to rescue, but Cao Cao withdrew because Yanzhou people led Lu Bu into the country, and Tao Qian asked Xuzhou Mu to Liu Bei. Later, Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao and wandered to Xuzhou, and took advantage of Liu Bei's crusade against Yuan Shu to seize Liu Bei's territory. Liu Bei was then forced to a small city to defend it, and then Lü Bu sent troops to attack Liu Bei again, resulting in Liu Bei now having to come to Xu Capital to join Cao Cao.

In the final analysis, Xu Du is now the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty, and whoever comes to Cao Cao has to follow, after all, all the people who come are the people of the Han Dynasty. What's more, Liu Bei is also a hero in Xuzhou, not comparable to Zhang Xiu, he is also a talent, and he must be treated well.

"Why is Bo Ying so concerned about Liu Xuande?"

"Although this person used to be an enemy of Sikong, he was supported by Xuzhou without blood, and led Xuzhou Mu, this kind of means and temperament really made many people admire."

"I see!" Cao Pi found out that everyone liked Liu Bei and it turned out to be this, but thinking about it, it was a feat to take Xuzhou without a single soldier. In these years, the people who can rule a state are heroes.

Immediately, Cao Pi shook his head again and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Liu Bei, the Xuzhou pastor, is the end." ”