"Ma Chao, the general of the defeated army, came to defect!" After three months, Ma Chao stopped and walked because of the recurrence of old injuries, and more than 1,000 people who had always been loyal to him detoured from Luonan to Wancheng, walked Nanyang, crossed Fengqiu, and finally came to Xuchang City. He previously attacked Chang'an with Ma Teng and Han Sui, he couldn't help himself, but he was Cao Cao's righteous son after all, if Cao Cao was angry with him and scolded him because of this matter, he would become the kind of person Lu Bu, maybe Lu Bu no longer called others what to call him, and buried everything deep in his heart, but Ma Chao was still young at this time, and he couldn't bear that kind of psychological pressure; Hearing that Ma Chao was coming, Cao Cao almost thought that he had heard it wrong, and when he came to his senses, he threw down his subordinates and ran out, and the hurried running made his hair crown fall off, the cloak was scattered, and the shoes were also lost, becoming one meter six and one meter seven..."Meng Qi! Meng Qi! Cao Cao shouted at the top of his voice before he saw anyone, and when he saw the heroic Ma Chao kneeling in front of his house covered in blood and haggard, his nose was sore, and he quickly helped him up; Meng Qi! What's going on? Cao Cao grabbed Ma Chao's arm tightly, as if Ma Chao would run away if he wasn't careful, and asked with concern; Mother is dead! Father... Ma Teng, he doesn't want me anymore! Ma Chao replied in a low voice; This strong, stubborn young man, in order to follow his more than 1,000 people to live, and his mother's expectations, took the risk to join Cao Cao, proudly bowed his head, didn't care what everyone thought, came to Cao Cao..."He doesn't want me!" From this day forward, I am your father! Yes? My wife is your mother! ...", Cao Cao hugged Ma Chao and comforted him in a low voice; Ma Chao finally couldn't help it, whimpered, he finally put his mind at ease, his brothers had a foothold! He was not mistaken, Cao Cao was a generous person, and Cao Cao forgave him everything before... No matter how strong he is and how invincible he is on the battlefield, he is always a child, Cao Cao smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Come on, come on!" Come in with me! Come in with me! This is your home from today onwards! Ma Teng is really! Where do you find such a good son? If you say you don't want it, you don't want it..."

"Cao Gong...", after Ma Chao cried, his face turned red, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Cao Cao unhappily: "What is it called Cao Gong?" What should it be called? ”

Looking at Cao Cao's expectant look, Ma Chao's mouth was dry, and it took a long time to hold back: "Father-in-law!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! Cao Cao is like eating honey, that's a joy;" Father-in-law! There are more than a thousand subordinates outside my city, and they have suffered a lot all the way with me...", Ma Chao said in a low voice; "That's! Xu Chu! Call Xun Yu and ask him to personally pick people in and settle them properly! Come! Wu'er Mengqi, come in with me! Hungry, right? Thirsty? Yo! Look at you dusty body, this is not good! I'll go! And so many wounds! Alas! It's really hard for you! Child...", Cao Cao chattered and pulled Ma Chao to talk non-stop; Even if he didn't do this to his son, Ma Chao was moved in his heart, and his eyes were red, is this what his father feels?

Ma Chao's arrival made Cao Cao overjoyed, and he almost took him with him when he went to sleep! When you meet people, it's called a show of strength!

"See? This is my son! How? Heroic enough, right? What is this? If you see him on the battlefield, it will scare the hell out of you! ”

This is not the end, Cao Cao's favor is not over yet;

Regardless of everyone's opposition, he named Ma Chao as the prostitute Yao Lieutenant and Champion Hou! If it weren't for Ma Chao's lack of meritorious service when he first arrived, he would almost want to make Ma Chao a hussar general! You can see his madness!

Who were these two official positions used to be synonymous with? A generation of famous generals Huo Quai! It's okay to prostitute Captain Yao, but can this champion Hou be sealed casually? You must know that the entire Han Dynasty is only five fingers of people who have been named champion marquis! This has a special meaning! Not everyone can do it!

For this reason, many people began to scold Cao Cao for his wolf ambitions, occupation of the dynasty, arbitrariness, and nepotism, of course, these people are loyal to Liu Xie's royalists, and Cao Cao's generals have no other ideas except for some anger and jealousy; However, there is nothing unconvinced when he sees Ma Chao's awesomeness, for example, Xu Chu, he is very optimistic about Ma Chao, and Xu Fat Paper thinks that his future achievements are limitless! Besides, do you want to be the champion? How old are they? Less!

Just because of such a thing, Cao Cao's subordinates and Liu Xie's subordinates quarreled, and Ma Chao was also under pressure, and he was now eager to prove himself; That's when the opportunity arose! Yuan Shao was inseparable from Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan in the land of Hebei, and hoped that he would give him support, and as a reward, Yuan Shao could give Cao Cao 100,000 horses! Millions of stones of grain and grass! It's really a bloody investment!

As soon as he heard that there were millions of grains and grass, without waiting for Cao Cao to make any statement, Mao Jue couldn't sit still, and tried his best to encourage Cao Cao to send troops: "Lord! I said when we were attacking Si Li, our food and grass are really not enough, what did you say at that time? ”

Cao Cao blinked and made a joke: "Uh... What I'm really trying to say is - will we talk about it then? ”

Mao Jue clapped his hands: "That's right! It's about now! You are the shopkeeper, and you don't know the price of firewood and rice! After we attacked Si Li, the number of military horses alone increased by more than 100,000! In addition, there are nearly one million people, and this is only in the Sili area, but you listened to Huaide's suggestion, recruited displaced people, and said that war is to fight for the population... Be! I'll admit it! But how can we feed them without food and grass? Recruit the homeless! Okay! How many homeless people from Jizhou, Xuzhou, and even Hanzhong and Xiliang flocked here! You know, we're now over five million! Million! ”

Mao Jue was a little anxious, but Cao Cao didn't care, he was not a cautious person, he was taken aback by the population of five million: "What? Five million? ”

The population statistics of the late Eastern Han Dynasty was more than 56 million, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the princes' handover, millions of dead and wounded, the real population of the place was in Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Yanzhou is also a place where birds do not, although it is an important place in the Central Plains; During the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, there were five million people here, but later most of the population moved away, and the population here was only more than two million when Liu Dai ruled the former Yanzhou Mu... Now it's more than half! How this didn't surprise Cao Cao!

"There are more than one million yellow turbans in Qingzhou, more than one million in the Sili area, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people from all over the country, and a steady stream of displaced people are coming here, and it is expected that it will be easy to break through six million by the end of this year, and there are so many more mouths! Lord! You're going to kill me! Yuan Shao gave one million as grain and grass, why not go for such a good thing? If we don't go, we won't even be able to support the autumn harvest! ”

Mao Jue is both bitter and poor, he is now the general manager of grain and grass in Yanzhou, in fact, what he said is also a bit exaggerated, at least the current grain and grass in Yanzhou can support a few months, even if it can't reach the autumn harvest, he can make it to survive... Mao Jue's words made Cao Cao attach great importance to them

(To be continued)