Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Dian Wei stretched out his hand to Huang Xu and said, "Young Master Huang, please."

A trace of puzzlement appeared in Huang Xu's eyes, and he asked doubtfully, "General Dian, can I go back now?"

Huang Xu's tone was very strange, as if there were still things to stay here.

Dian Wei glanced at Huang Xu strangely, and replied in a low voice: "Yes, there is nothing wrong here, oh, but if you want to stay and have dinner together, my lord must be very happy."

Earlier Dian Wei had some opinions on Huang Xu, but after knowing that Huang Xu is a super sick child, he didn't care about those small frictions, otherwise he was afraid that others would say that he bullied the weak and ruined his reputation as the number one master

Huang Xu looked back, Li Yi and Liu Qi were still talking in the room, and he didn't know when it would end. Originally, when he wanted to come, Li Yi specially got him a kang. If you have something to give, you must ask for something. Later I definitely want to talk to him, but Dian Wei wants to see off the guests directly.

As far as Huang Xu's mentality before, he should be eager to do so, but now that he is really seeing off the guests, he feels empty in his heart, and he doesn't know whether to leave or stay.

Just when Huang Xu was hesitating, Guo Jia came over and said with a smile: "Let's go, you and I are not as good as walking together. Speaking of which, I have benefited from Mr. Huang today. I don't know if I can reward you, let me show you Thank you for the wine?"

Huang Xu blushed a little, waved his hands, and said embarrassingly: "Mr. Guo is the confidant of the Marquis Xiang, how can he deserve it."

Although Guo Jia at this time is still an unknown person in terms of the whole world, no one dares to underestimate him in the small Wancheng, but everyone who has been in contact with him knows that there is a very powerful young man beside Li Yi. strategist.

Guo Jia directly pulled Huang Xu's arm, showing an extremely enthusiastic look, and said as he walked: "If it weren't for Mr. Huang, the lord probably wouldn't have thought of it, and wouldn't have spent energy thinking about this heated kang, ha ha, so , this thank you is naturally indispensable."

Huang Xu felt that what Li Yi did was interesting enough. Now that he heard what Guo Jia said, he felt that Li Yi attached great importance to him. So, although his footsteps remained the same, he began to think in his heart, how to write to his father to explain this matter.

No matter how close Huang Zhong and Li Yi are, at least Huang Zhong can no longer be hostile to Li Yi.

Guo Jia is such a fine person, after a few glances at Huang Xu, he probably knew about his psychological changes, and left Dianwei with a very proud look in his eyes, so he pulled Huang Xu to contact him with a smile .

Later, when Li Yi came out of the house and personally sent Liu Qi away, he ordered Dian Wei to always pay attention to the movements of the messengers around Liu Qi.

At the same time, Li Yi also asked Jia Xu to arrange more manpower in Xiangyang, not for anything else, but to hope that there would be some rumors in Xiangyang, so that he could know a thing or two in time.

In the next few days, Li Yi gave another class to the children of the aristocratic family. As for the rest of the time, Li Yi focused his energy on the preparations for farming.

Li Yi handed over the matter of farming to Shi Tao. As a rookie, Shi Tao naturally couldn't control the overall situation of farming. However, Li Yi pointed out the general policy for Shi Tao based on Cao Cao's farming in history.

Tuntian is divided into military and civilian villages.

The military settlement is very simple, the soldiers work in their spare time, and the harvest is all for their own use, while the civilian settlement is a little more troublesome.

It is completely voluntary for refugees to participate in farming. However, for those who participate in farming, Li Yi can provide them with rations until the next year's harvest.

As for those guys who don't participate in farming and want to eat free food, I'm sorry, the prefect's family's food is not rich, so they can only serve with clear soup and little water, and they must always be ready to undertake all kinds of labor assigned by the prefect's mansion .

Comparing the two, the difference in treatment is obvious. Unless you are lazy, most of them will participate in farming.

However, there is still a big problem facing Li Yi, that is, he does not have many farming cattle, which will inevitably lead to low production in the future, and it is not easy for the government to increase the commission.

Fortunately, Li Yi quickly thought of a solution. If there is no farming ox, then use people to pull it. Ten soldiers pull a plow. Isn't this a problem?

Moreover, you can also communicate about the emotional exchange between the military and the civilians by the way.

As for the specific division of the farmland, the government and the people each account for [-]% of the manpower borrowed from the army, or the fields of the official cattle.

If someone from a private household works in Li Yi's army, the government will give [-]% of the profit. If someone does chores for Li Yi, such as building an academy, repairing the city wall, etc., calculated on a monthly basis, there will also be a certain amount of profit.

In short, Li Yi's farming is similar to Boss Cao's farming, and they are both quite black-hearted. Fortunately, the people's requirements are also low, and they only want to have a full meal.

Moreover, Li Yi has promised that although these farmlands are official lands and no one is allowed to invade and trade them, the people can cultivate them forever, and the government will not take them back without authorization. Except that it cannot be bought or sold, it is actually similar to private land.

In this way, it can be regarded as binding the people to the land, which is a win-win situation, and on this basis, Li Yi thought of another ruthless trick.

That is, if someone in the common people's family violates the law, or does not obey Li Yi's order, the government may forcefully reclaim the land or part of the land depending on the severity of the circumstances. .

This is ancient times, when the land is the lifeblood of the people. Li Yilai's actions directly increased the cost of crime. If you commit crimes, you don't need the government to do anything, and the left and right people will focus on them first, because there is a field to divide!

Li Yi's counselors, after seeing Li Yi's farm plan, secretly thought that Li Yi's method was dark enough, but it is undeniable that it must be extremely effective in the short term, so they only slightly revised it and added details Afterwards, this set of farming plan was handed over to Shi Tao to implement.

Except for Tuntian, Li Yi spent most of the time he could spare with Huang Yueying.

It wasn't that Li Yi launched some kind of offensive against Huang Yueying, but was thinking about papermaking, Liannu, and other similar crafts with Huang Yueying.

Originally, Li Yi planned to directly recruit craftsmen and open more workshops, but after a little testing, Li Yi gave up this plan.

Because in Nanyang, although Li Yi has a lot of freedom, if he does something too outrageous, Liu Biao will definitely interfere, and even attract foreign enemies because of this, and in the end the gain outweighs the loss.

Simply put, Li Yi decided to only study technology for the time being, and build workshops after acquiring Jingzhou.

Li Yi's idea has also been discussed with Guo Jia and others. Although Guo Jia's understanding of some of Li Yi's ideas can only stay in writing, they have full confidence in Li Yi and they all agree with Li Yi's idea. idea.

It's just that Huang Yueying suffered because of this kind of thing, because there is really no one around Li Yi who can come in handy except for Huang Yueying who does it herself.

Fortunately, Huang Yueying liked this way at first, and never complained, but Li Yi felt more and more apologetic, so these days, Li Yi and Huang Yueying spent more time together, and Li Yi didn't even see Cai Yan who was about to enter the door for a long time. Second-rate.

Soon, a few days passed in the blink of an eye, and the prefect's mansion was decorated with lights and festoons, but it was the day when Li Yi greeted Cai Yan.

Not to mention anything else, Cai Yong's status alone is enough to add luster to this marriage, but considering that Cai Yan is only a concubine after all, Li Yi dare not go too far, saving a lot of etiquette. The most important thing, instead, became Li Yi's relationship with many guests.

Because of what Li Yi showed before, no one dared to despise him in the slightest. Not only the Wancheng family, but even the surrounding counties, many people came to congratulate Li Yi uninvited.

In this regard, Li Yi naturally greeted him with a smile. Anyway, the visitors all gave gifts, didn't they?

Liu Biao also personally sent someone to send a pair of jade ruyis of excellent quality, plus a pair of words, to congratulate Li Yi, and at the same time invite Cai Yong to stay in Xiangyang for a few days.

Li Yi naturally accepted the gift cheerfully. As for Liu Biao's request, ahem, Li Yi politely declined it because the weather was cold and Cai Yong was too old.

Presumably, after Liu Biao received the reply, he must secretly scold Li Yi a few words.

Liu Biao's envoy didn't make Li Yi pay too much attention, but what really caught his attention was the things sent by Nanjun Taishou Kuai Liang.

Li Yi was a little dazed when he saw the Kuai family's gift list. It contained very little content, just a few lines, but the weight was heavy, because what Kuai Liang sent was a granary in Wancheng that originally belonged to the Zhao family, and there were about [-] shi of grain in it. .

This is a big deal. Li Yi couldn't figure out what Kuai Liang was thinking. After thinking about it for a while, he could only think that Kuai Liang wanted to resolve the enmity between himself and Kuai Yue. Haosheng entertained the guests of Kuai's family.

The atmosphere of the wedding banquet was very good, everyone was eating, drinking, chatting and laughing, until late at night, the guests just retreated one after another, and the last one left was naturally Li Yi's own cronies.

There were too many guests before, and Li Yi didn't pay much attention to them. Now that there are fewer people, Li Yi suddenly found that Xu Huang's complexion was very bad, obviously preoccupied.

Li Yi squeezed the center of his brows, suppressed his hazy drunkenness, stepped forward and pushed Dian Wei aside, sat down next to Xu Huang, and asked, "Gong Ming has something on his mind?"

Because they are all on their own now, Li Yi didn't deliberately lower his voice when he spoke, and the rest of the people heard it, so Li Yi found that not only Xu Huang, but also Jia Xu, Zhang Liao, etc. were embarrassing, obviously something was on their minds, but , they are not as dark-faced as Xu Huang.

Xu Huang originally wanted to say that it was okay, but it wasn't that he deliberately concealed it, but Li Yi's such a happy day, it was really inappropriate to say those disturbing facts, and it was not easy to explain this matter clearly.

Seeing Xu Huang's troubled face, Li Yi said with concern: "Gongming has something to do at home, if there is any difficulty, just say it."

Xu Huang shook his head, got up and left the table, bowed to Li Yi, and said, "It's all because the last general acted carelessly and delayed the important affairs of the lord, please punish the lord!"

Li Yi wondered, among the generals under his command, the one Li Yi was most assured of was not Zhang Liao, nor Dian Wei, but Xu Huang!