On the New Year of the first year of Jian'an, the villagers of Huangmen Pavilion began with a banquet and ended with a banquet.

Of course, at this time, they didn't know how miserable Liu Xie, the son of heaven who was far away in Anyi, Hedong, at this time, and in the pull of a group of Guanzhong warlords, it was very desolate to pass this New Year.

In fact, now should not be regarded as the first year of Jian'an, but should be regarded as the third year of Xingping, and it will not be changed to Jian'an until September this year when Cao Cao welcomes Liu Xie in Xuchang.

But according to the year of the Common Era, this year is indeed 196 A.D., and it is also the beginning of the general trend of the world, which is gradually becoming clearer.

From this year onwards, Zhang Ji was defeated in the struggle against Guanzhong Li Dao Guo Yan and other warlords, fled to Nanyang in disgrace, and finally died here, and was taken over by his nephew Zhang Xiu.

Then Cao Cao broke the Yellow Turban in Runan, and at the same time expelled Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses, and expanded his power to Yingchuan, Runan and other places, and gradually extended from Yanzhou to Yuzhou.

Liu Bei was fighting with Yuan Shu in Xuzhou, and he was going to fight with Lu Bu at the same time. Exhausted and miserable, he finally fled to Xuchang at the end of the year to join the Son of Heaven.

Sun Ce marched all the way, marched towards Huiji, and drove away Wang Lang, the Taishou of Huiji, and since then Jiangdong has fallen into the hands of Sun Ce.

And Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan also divided the victory and defeat at the end of the year, Ju Yi was forced to withdraw his troops because of the exhaustion of grain and grass, but Gongsun Chan took advantage of the victory to pursue, defeated Ju Yi, and got his baggage.

But everyone knows that Ju Yi has a high prestige in the army because of his exploits in the Battle of Jieqiao, and this time the food and grass are exhausted, and it is not because Yuan Shao is hindering him in the rear.

After he was defeated, he was immediately killed by Yuan Shao under an excuse. One is the bird is hidden, and the other is indeed the result of Ju Yi's pride.

Since then, Yuan Shao has completely controlled the army, although he still has to guard against Gongsun Zhan, but at this time, Gongsun Chan is gradually no longer his opponent.

During this time period, while he was developing with peace of mind, he launched an all-out encirclement and annihilation of Gongsun Zhan.

At the end of the year, Cao Cao welcomed the Son of Heaven to Xudu, attacked Lu Bu and Yuan Shu in the east, and attacked Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao in the south, and gradually gained a firm foothold in the land of Henan, and his strength grew a lot.

The general trend of the world has naturally become a watershed this year, forming a basic pattern with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the north, Liu Biaosun Ce in the south, Liu Zhang in the southwest, and the northwest is still in chaos.

However, these are all things that will only happen in the future this year, at least for now, Nanyang is still in a very stable situation.

Huangmen Pavilion still spends time in such tranquility, and after having a certain ability to protect himself, Deng Mao also strictly followed Shen Chen's explanation, expanded the surrounding wasteland, actively developed the land, and adopted the homeless.

It's just because of geographical problems, even if there are hundreds of square kilometers of barren land around the Shahe area where Huangmenting is located, it is difficult for them to expand rapidly.

The main reason is that Xinye is located in the south-central part of the Nanyang Basin, which is closer to Xiangyang.

Wuguan is northwest of Nanyang, and Runan is northeast of Nanyang.

The displaced people who flow into Nanyang from these two directions often go to the county towns closer to them, such as Liguo, Shunyang, Wancheng, etc., and it is difficult for them to go to Xinye.

Therefore, there are still not many displaced people that Huangmen Pavilion can absorb now, and there are only more than 1,000 people so far.

But Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen also have their own plans.

The Yellow Turban Cottage that had attacked them before was located in Tateshan, about fifty miles to the east, and there was not only one there, but also many small Yellow Turban forces.

There are all kinds of people, there may be tens of thousands of people, if all these people can be absorbed, Huangmen Pavilion will grow a lot.

It's just that the yellow scarves are not as good as the homeless, they are thieves who rebelled and killed officials, and they all had blood on their hands, and if they were absorbed, I don't know if they would enter the internal anti-guest.

Regarding this question, Shen Chen gave an answer.

That is, the manor of Huangmenting must be occupied by clan forces, that is, the thousand people who moved from Xuzhou can stay in the manor.

The homeless people and the Yellow Turban Army were to arrange villages on the periphery, and they had to be broken up so that the homeless people and the Yellow Turban Army could live together, and each village should send someone to manage it, and at the same time train the young and strong into an army to prevent them from causing trouble.

In this way, while controlling their families, they will control these young people into the army, and re-disrupt their social relations and organizational structure, so that there is no need to worry about the displaceable people and the Yellow Turban Army going together to cause chaos.

After getting Shen Chen's advice, Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen felt that they were very clever, but they didn't know that in the history of China for thousands of years, all kinds of warlords did this.

Not only the warlords, but even the imperial court did the same.

For example, the border guards sent by the Han Dynasty to guard the fortress were allowed to go with their families.

There is also the old camp of the Dashun Army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which is also a camp for the families of the army.

As displaced people, their families are their only concern. Basically, as long as you control the family, you are equivalent to controlling the entire army.

It can also boost morale, saying that the family is behind them, and if they don't fight to the death, the family will die, and so on.

Therefore, the separation of the military and its families has become an important means of control.

However, there are pros and cons to doing so, and controlling the family does control the military. But once the family camp is attacked, the morale of the army will immediately be weakened.

In the battle between Li Zicheng's Dashun army and the Qing army at Fuchikou, it was the Qing army that raided the families of the old camp of the Dashun army, which led to the collapse of the army in an instant.

Therefore, this is only a temporary way to control the young and strong soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army and the homeless people, and there is no need to do this when the size of the army is formed in the future.

By mid-January, after spending more than 20 days in the clan, Shen Chen and Deng Hong had to set off again to go to Xiangyang to go to school and take up their posts.

And in the past twenty days, Shen Chen also re-planned the clan.

In the main direction, he still continues to farm, mainly recruit displaced people, and start to engage in side business.

Shen Chen hopes to temporarily use colored porcelain and spirits as pillar industries to support the economy of Huangmenting, because now the majority of their income source is still selling grain, and other income is very small.

Although food is very important, even buying pig iron from Fuyang requires a large amount of expenditure, as well as daily necessities such as oil and salt, so there is no way to do it, and you can only use grain production to exchange for life development.

However, it is certainly not possible to rely solely on food, and in the future, as the world becomes more and more chaotic, the importance of food will increase day by day.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop new commercial and trade industries.

Last year, Zhou Lin introduced them to a few merchants in Xiangyang, and they were still very interested in the porcelain and high-grade spirits produced in Huangmenting, but the current number of orders is not much, and the output cannot be increased.

This is also normal, the demand for porcelain in the south is very high, especially now that the north is in turmoil, a large number of displaced people and wealthy families have moved to the south, and a large number of household porcelain is needed.

However, the current mainstream porcelain market is still occupied by Jiangdong white porcelain and celadon, and it will take time for the colored porcelain of Huangmen Pavilion to enter the market.

At the same time, spirits also suffered Waterloo.

In the south, because of the humid air, people are not willing to drink high spirits in spring and summer, but in the north the winter is colder, and spirits should be sold better.

So from last year to now, I have sold thousands of stone of spirits.

However, the winter in the south is also cold, and drinking alcohol can drive away the cold, but the sales of the thousands of stone wine are not worried, and they are quickly sold out.

However, it is estimated that by this summer, the sales of this wine should not go up, and tend to decline. At most, people who are particularly good at drinking will like it, such as Zhang Feichun and Yu Qiong.

Therefore, the porcelain and spirits that Shen Chen has made now are far less popular than he imagined.

Of course, this was also expected by Shen Chen.

What time-traveler invented soap glass and immediately sold it is pure nonsense.

No matter how good a product is, it must follow the laws of the market.

If something new wants to break into the market, it not only takes time to lay the ground, but also needs a suitable opportunity.

Therefore, although the current sales of porcelain and spirits are not very high, Shen Chen feels that the merchants should first carry out promotion experiments, wait for market feedback, and then start large-scale production.

Judging from the market feedback in the past few months, spirits are very marketable in winter.

The humid and cold climate of the south combined with the bitter cold of the winter during the Xiaoice period, if you can drink a few sips of spirits in winter, you can not only dispel the cold, but also dispel the moisture, so at least in the winter spirits can make a big difference.

Shen Chen planned to brew a few more batches of liquor this year, store them, and sell them in the second half of the year, believing that Zhou Lin and the big businessmen in Xiangyang would be happy to accept this large batch of spirits in the second half of the year.

As for colored porcelain, now white porcelain and celadon still occupy the mainstream high-end market, Shen Chen plans to target the mid-end market, first increase sales, and then impact the high-end market.

Anyway, what he sells to Zhou Lin now is also a low-end price, Zhou Lin and they definitely don't want to make less money, and naturally they also want to enter the high-end market.

After all, in this way, they were able to make huge profits, buy colored porcelain at the price of cabbage, and then sell it at the price of celadon and white porcelain, and the profit increased several times.

Therefore, there is no need for Shen Chen to do anything, as long as he waits for Zhou Lin and them to expand the market in Yizhou and Jingzhou, the sales of colored porcelain will naturally skyrocket, thus gradually replacing the position of celadon and white porcelain in the south.

So to some extent, Shen Chen has already put down the bait, and the rest only needs to wait for the market to ferment.

Maybe in another year and a half, Huangmen Pavilion will be able to create wealth at full speed.

On the nineteenth day of the first month of the first year of Jian'an, Deng Hong and Shen Chen prepared to leave.

When they came back from Xiangyang, Shen Chen and Deng Hong were relatively thin, and when they set off from Huangmen Pavilion, both of them had gained weight, but the sixth grandmother had lost some weight.

Because the two of them returned to their homes, they were chickens, ducks, fish and meat every day, and there were people waiting for them to eat and drink, and the farthest door they had ever gone out of for the New Year was to go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.

The sixth grandmother used to be very inferior in Caifu because of her body and appearance, and she didn't go out of the door on weekdays, and her body was getting fatter and fatter, and the fatter she was, the more she didn't dare to go out.

After coming to Huangmen Pavilion, everyone praised her every day, and took her to the east and west to walk the alleys, where she went, she became the center of the place, she enjoyed this feeling of attention, but walked diligently outside every day.

Now that she is leaving, the sixth grandmother is a little reluctant.

When he came, there were a few chariots and horses, and more than thirty slaves.

When I left, there were seven or eight more carts and horses, chickens, ducks, fish, all kinds of pickles, pickles, and smoked bacon, and seven or eight carts were stuffed.

Such a large team will definitely not be able to take a boat again, because the water is a dry season in winter, although it is a medium-sized river, but in winter can not take large boats, only small and medium-sized boats.

There are not many of them, but there are many things, and the big boats like more than ten carriages alone are enough to choke, only the building boat can be, and the building boat can't run during the dry season.

Therefore, this time they chose to take a carriage and horse south.

The last time they took the car south, Deng Hong and Shen Chen were still very embarrassed, there were only three people in total, the grandparents and grandchildren plus a coachman, and they were still sitting in a donkey cart pulled by two donkeys.

But after just a year, it is not what it used to be, and this time the southward journey is too spectacular.

Escorted by Shen Zhen with fifty clansmen, twelve carriages, and a total number of nearly 100 people, it was very eye-catching in the countryside.

When passing through Huyang County, even the Huyang County Commander heard that such a large team was passing by in his own territory, so he hurriedly sent someone to inquire about the situation, and learned that it was Deng Hong, so he immediately came to greet him in person.

To some extent, the position of the Huyang County Commander is greater than Deng Hong, and as the Zhongxian County Commander, the Huyang Decree is 600 stones. Deng Hong is only engaged in the state capital Gongcao, three hundred stones.

But from another point of view, the Ming Dynasty master of ceremonies and eunuchs with palm seals is only a four-rank official, and the first assistant of the cabinet will generally serve as the three dukes and three orphans, which is a product or a product, but when the cabinet chief assistant sees the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch with a palm seal, will he treat him as an ordinary fourth product?

So in the same way, as Liu Biao's staff, even if there are only 300 stones, those state governments are already considered middle and high-level officials, second only to Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Huang Zu, Zhang Yun, Liu Pan and others.

As long as the Huyang County Order is not stupid, it will naturally come out and stutter.

However, the main reason why he came out to greet him was not actually to befriend Deng Hong, in this era when officials abandoned their officials and ran away if they disagreed, many officials were still very dignified.

The main reason is that last summer there was a nationwide drought, which affected not only the Guanzhong and Kanto regions, but also Nanyang and Huainan to a certain extent.

The main river in Huyang is Bishui, that is, the Tang River in later generations, the water level has dropped so much that the people have difficulty getting water, so they have to choose to dig canals to irrigate farmland.

However, the workload of digging the canal is very large, and the upstream and downstream have to take water, and the lower the water level, the deeper the canal has to be dug, and the people of the county need to be mobilized to participate.

As a result, at this juncture, Deng Hong, who was only the history of the main record room, presented a keel waterwheel to Liu Biao, and then promoted it all over Nanyang, Liu Biao handed over this task to him, and in this half a year, Deng Hong ran all over Nanyang.

At that time, Huyang County was also facing the embarrassment of water shortage, after Deng Hong sent the keel waterwheel, the county ordered to convene the county's craftsmen to speed up the production, and made hundreds of waterwheels to be placed on the river to draw water, which solved the urgent need.

So Deng Hong became famous in the countryside of Huyang, and heard that the benefactor who helped the people of Huyang solve the water problem passed by, and the Huyang County Commander was naturally grateful to Dade and invited him to go to the county government to meet.