Chapter 8, shyness in the pocket
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Xu Tan wanted to have a good relationship with Shi Xun, so he asked Shi Xun to speak in front of Cao Cao and let him go a lot--Du Zhong was too boring and too depressing. Yes Xun thought about it, General Xu didn't have any acquaintances in Xu Du, he just had such a relationship with himself, and he happened to be able to talk in front of Cao Cao, if he didn't come to find him, who else could he go to?
It's a pity, it's Xun Xin who said, I'm a disciplined person, otherwise I'll let you sacrifice your wife directly. But in other words, Gan is his wife, no matter how much Xu Tan is greedy, he will not betray his wife - he can't sell it to Cao Cao - otherwise he still has the face to be a man? And I also have a wife here to block the way, she is only barely compatible with Xiao Luoli Guan Si, not to mention the Gan family who looks like a fairy?
So, do you want to help Xu Tan speak? Do you want to persuade Cao Cao to send him to another county to lead the troops? If you can really get Gan, it is not impossible...... But just asking my wife to cook a meal, plus sending two barrels of soybean oil, I want to work on a certain lip and tongue, which is too underestimate that I am Hongfu! Besides, Cao Cao asked you to enter Beijing, but he didn't worry about you, if you didn't stay in Xu Du honestly for three and five years, there would be no possibility of letting you go out at all.
Do you reject him in one gulp? It's not good, so there will be no chance to see Gan's again. Well, it's better to put aside the hypocrisy and the snake for the time being, and the clever tongue is perfunctory.
Yes, Xu and the two families often go back and forth, and Yesun always said to Xu Tan that if you want to be free, you must meet two conditions: first, you gain his trust; Second, there is a suitable location in the place. If you want to gain Sikong's trust, you must cut off contact with Tao and Xuzhou, and ask Sikong to recruit pottery merchants into Beijing; As for the suitable location in the place, if it is undecided today, when the husband uses force, it will be at most half a year, and he will be where he is. When these two conditions are satisfied, I will make a statement to Sikong, and Xu Qing will lead his division to the expedition. Or crusade against rebellion, or calm the place, at that time, it was like "the dragon returns to the sea, and the bird soars high in the sky".
At the end of the first month, Xi sent someone to send the newly revised Jingxiang version of the Book of Changes and asked him to read it for the final time. Then go up to the Son of Heaven. In addition, Wei Dan and Qi Xi also returned from outside the city, and reported that they had already selected three fields near the water to build a paper workshop, but "the land price is very expensive." It may be difficult to buy. ”
Although Shixun has the gold of the ancestral road given by Liu Biao, but in order to buy the foreign fields and villages, he has spent almost everything, although he has to be a marquis, and there are 200 households of food, but this has not yet received the harvest of the first year, and the industry is also large. Money is pretty tight. He carefully checked and calculated the accounts he had submitted, and after deducting the expenses required for the next half a year, there was less than 5,000 yuan left, and at most half an acre of paddy field could be purchased at the land price quoted by Wei Dan -- then there would be no money to build a workshop!
It was Xun Chui pondering, did he find an opportunity to hint to Xu Tan and let him buy land to dedicate to himself? After all, you just give a little soybean oil and give it to an oil extractor. Just want me to say good things to you in front of Cao Cao, it's a little too cheap. After thinking about it again, it is better to discuss this matter with Cao Cao, and although papermaking is still a private matter for now, the paper mill is really going to be built, and I hope that the larger the scale, the better. If you don't notify Cao Cao first, I'm afraid there will be some misunderstanding.
Therefore, after breakfast that day, he came to Sikong Mansion again, and brought with him two dozen pieces of paper and a piece of new ink made by Wei Dan brought back from Guanzhong. Present the paper and ink first. Cao Cao tried it and praised it repeatedly, but Xun took the opportunity to say: "If you use paper instead of simple paper, it is light and easy to carry, and there is no expensive price of silk." But there are few people who love to use it? Why? ”
Cao Cao smiled: "This too." At the time, people were good at using expensive things and admiring extravagance, so there were few people who loved paper like Hongfu. "Yes Xun said that the lord advocates frugality, it is better to lead by example, and daily official documents are paper, and it will soon become a trend. Cao Cao frowned: "You also need to be full of paper...... Just these dozens of sheets, how many days can you use them? ”
It was Xun Zheng who wanted to follow these words and said, I have found a craftsman who can make paper, you allocate some money, I will build a workshop, and produce paper every day, which is basically enough for the official affairs of the government officials. But who would have thought that after a slight pause, Cao Cao's brain turned quickly, and he had already put down the paper and raised other questions: "Wen Qing has a close past with General Ning Huai recently, are you?" ”
Shi Xun was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart that nothing can escape the eyes of your boss Cao. People like Cao Cao, the most taboo subordinates to form gangs, he has always been very vigilant, although not like Jia Xu "closed the door and self-defense, retreat without selfish friends", not like Xu Huang "do not make extensive friends", but try to keep an equal distance from all colleagues, and Tai Shici and other friends, with Kong Rong and other old friends, as well as with the people next to him, the number of times is as evenly distributed as possible. It's just that recently, because Xu Tan is in a hurry, and even more for Gan's and stir-frying, he has indeed moved around too much with that family...... Won't this enlighten Cao Cao's suspicions, right?
How should I explain it to Cao Cao? Honestly? said that Gan's family was very beautiful, so how many times did he go to his house? That's not possible, Cao Cao loves his wife the most, thinking that in the original history, Guan Yu begged him for Qin Yilu's wife, Mrs. Du, so he went to take a look first, so as to snatch the love with a knife. If I mention Gan's, will he get Gan's first!
Well, although Cao Cao still has a lower limit for his current work, although he likes wives, the one who grabs it is either a widow or an abandoned woman, it is not like Gao Yanei in "Water Margin", I don't care if your husband is not around, let's grab it if we see a handsome one. However, Gan's beauty is not comparable to Qin Yilu's wife, so it is better not to take this risk. It's not that he can't get anything, and he doesn't let Cao Cao get it, but if he really wants to be forced by Cao Cao to ruin his marriage, Gan's is too pitiful......
So tell Cao Cao, I like to eat stir-fried vegetables, so I went to find Xu Tan? This reason is not sufficient, I am afraid that Cao Cao will not believe it - after all, Cao Cao does not like appetite, and he will not understand his desire for stir-frying.
At that moment, his mind turned, and he hurriedly bowed down and said, "Yes, I was about to report this matter to the lord." Xu Tan came from a humble background, and he gave up his military power, lived in Xu for a long time, and was despised by others, so he frequently came to ask for honors, and wanted to speak before the lord and let him go out. Xun didn't dare to accept heavy bribes, so he only took a slave......"
Strictly speaking, being given a slave for nothing is also a bribe, but it can also be interpreted as just an ordinary exchange of courtesies between scholars, I believe that Cao Cao will not care too much about such a trivial matter. It was Xun Xin who said that it was dangerous, and I once had the idea that Xu Tan would help buy a field outside the city that was suitable for building a paper workshop, and if he really wanted him to give me so many acres or more than a dozen acres of good land for nothing, then I couldn't tell it with my mouth.
This would have been shelved twenty or thirty years ago, or in other forces today, in fact, it is not a big deal, but the problem is that Cao Cao advocates strict law and discipline, clean and honest government, and is his beloved general and relative, how can he allow the leader to undermine his governing policy?
I heard Cao Cao ask in a deep voice: "It's all Xu Tan who came to find Qing, didn't Qing go to find Xu Tan?" Yes Xun felt a cool air coming out of his back, and hurriedly replied: "Xun also went to Xu Tan's mansion for banquets many times, and also invited him to come to his house, with two intentions: first, for the sake of greed, the Xu family cooked very well, so Xun also sent his wife to his mansion to seek advice; Second, in order to inquire about the feelings of Xuzhou, the former Xun dedicated Xuzhou's hands to the lord, but when he heard that Tao Mengzhang seemed to have a different heart, he asked him to delay it, so as not to cause trouble......"
Hearing about Xuzhou, Cao Cao couldn't help but be interested and asked him: "How is the income?" Shi Xun casually made up: "Meng Zhang succeeded his father's business, so he wants to shepherd Xuzhou for a long time, but he has no father's ability, and it is not a big trouble." Although, in order to avoid discord and hurt the lord's father, it is better to summon him to the court. ”
Cao Cao frowned slightly, and asked: "I also heard that Tao Mengzhang and Qingzhou seem to be colluded, are there you?" Shi Xun was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Even if there is such a thing, Xu Tan is careless, but he may not know about it, and Xun has not heard of it. ”
Just like this, Xun was full of anxiety, and he never had the opportunity to ask Cao Cao to allocate funds to build a paper workshop, so he hurriedly quit after a few gossips. On the way home, he thought, let's stop here, it's better to cut off contact with Xu Tan as soon as possible - anyway, we have got the oil extractor...... It's a pity, I'm afraid I'll never see Gan again.
returned home in a daze, but did not see Cao Miao come out to greet him, and when he entered the inner room to meet him, he saw his daughter-in-law's face full of anger, clenching two fists and wandering around the room. It's Xun Xin who said what's wrong, how did I offend you? Or have you heard some rumors again, and you suspect whose woman I have a crush on? Quickly set up his mind and asked, but he heard Cao Miao say hatefully: "Xu Tan is rude!" ”
Shi Xun was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart that his wife went to school to cook in his house today, could it be that Xu Tan was teased? I did hear that guy was very, but my daughter-in-law is not a big beauty according to the current aesthetic standards. Don't say that Xu Tanzheng has a request for himself, even if he has no desires and no desires, I am a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones after all, this is in Xu Du again, he is crazy, how dare he act so recklessly? After questioning, I realized that Manman was not like that.
It turned out that although Cao Miao said that she went to Xu's mansion to learn how to cook, she had no basic knowledge of cooking at all, and at most she knew that she needed to put salt in the stew after it was put into the pot, so according to what Shi Xun said, she just let the cook and the maid learn, and she chatted with Gan on the sidelines. After going a few times, these two ladies have lived in Xuzhou for a long time because they are of the same age, and with the nature of women to gossip, they gradually chatted more and more happily, and finally talked about everything.
Since returning from the previous few times of learning to cook, Cao Miao also mentioned to Shi Xun that Xu Tan is lustful, and all the maids in the family are handy, although Gan's is beautiful, but because he can't afford to be happy with his daughter, he has quarreled with Xu Tan many times, and the relationship between the husband and wife is getting cold day by day.
Yes Xun thought at the time, he actually wanted to pull his wife and concubine over to play 3P, General Xu, you really have a good appetite...... Sure enough, it was flowers and cow dung, and Gan's was too pitiful. But this is someone else's family matter after all, he doesn't have much to say, he also takes care of Cao Miao, just listen to this kind of thing, don't mix blindly with other husbands and wives. Who would have thought that on this day, Cao Miao finally couldn't look at it and made a move......
ps: Today's two shifts are over.