Poor Ghost Up and Down 2000

A group of soldiers stood at the city gate with spears, inspecting the passing carriages and horses.

Three people from a distance came towards the gate of the city, a man and a woman with a child.The three of them all looked sallow and emaciated, their clothes were worn out, and their cheeks were sunken, probably because they had been hungry for a long time, and they walked a little vainly.From the looks of it, it should be a refugee in distress.

The three of them saw the big city in front of them, and saw the endless stream of horses and horses at the city gate. The man glanced at his wife and children beside him, lowered his head, and bit his lip.

A soldier saw the three people approaching and stopped them across the spear: "Slow down."

The child hid behind the woman, the man stopped, stood in front of the two, and said to the soldier with a pale face: "Commander, I just go in, beg for food, beg for food."

As he spoke, he bowed to the soldiers again and again: "I hope the commander will let me go, please let me go."

The soldier pursed his lips, frowned and said, "I didn't say what to do with you."

Putting down the spear, the three of them looked up and down and asked, "Where did it come from?"

"Thank you, Commander, thank you, Commander."

Hearing that the soldiers didn't seem to want to drive them away, the man thanked them repeatedly. They hadn't eaten for two days, and they could get some if they could enter the city, at least they wouldn't starve their children.

Hearing the soldier's question, the man's eyes showed some sadness, but he still answered.

"The Sansuke area."

In the early years, there was a severe drought in Sanfu, and the price of grain was so high that a piece of grain was worth 50 yuan, which was not worth living at all.In addition, in Chang'an, Li Que and Guo Si were fighting each other, and there was no peace everywhere.

They were forced to leave their homes and wander around, but wherever they went, wars were fought everywhere, and they hadn't seen a place where they could live for a long time.

"Sansuke." The soldier nodded. The place was really bad, and he looked at the three refugees.

"Are you willing to settle down near Xuchang?"

This is of course not up to him to decide. This is explained by the superiors. Whenever you see refugees, you can ask them if they would like to register here.

If they are willing, ask the county magistrate to arrange for them to go to nearby village households. When they arrive there, they will be allocated a piece of wasteland, as well as farm tools and seeds. The cattle used for farming are public.There will be food for a period of time, so that they can live and reclaim wasteland.

When the wasteland has grain production, pay part of it to the public, don't let it be their own.

In addition, now that there are new farm tools, the wasteland is not so difficult to cultivate.The soldiers in other places don't know, but in Xuchang alone, the life of the refugees here is not much worse than that of ordinary farmers.

The man was still in a daze after hearing what the soldier said. After a while, he stammered and asked, "Army, Commander, what do you mean by that?"

The next day, the three of them were taken to a village.The villagers asked them some questions about their ancestral home and family name, and recorded them in a book.Then they arranged accommodation for them, rationed them with farm tools and seeds, marked out a piece of wasteland and said that this is the land they will cultivate in the future, and finally left some food and left.

In the not-too-big room, three people dressed in rags sat together, staring blankly at a bag of grain on the table.After a long time, the man choked up, and the woman's eyes turned red, and she held the man's hand.The child innocently asked the two why they were crying, but was held in his arms by his father.

The man hugged his wife and children, crying loudly, saying it over and over again.

"You don't have to starve any more."

Chapter 444: Build a tall building directly to the top of the cloud

"Shut up!"

The sound of driving horses and chariots can be heard on the road in the city. Looking down from the city wall, the crowd is crowded together, shoulder to shoulder.Some people carried a bag, probably because they wanted to go to the market early to buy something.

There was also someone who stood at a tea stall by the side of the road and ordered a bowl of tea while eating his own dry food. Judging by his dusty appearance, he must have traveled a long way.

On the main road in the middle, trailers carrying goods pass by, and the drivers of the carts urge the cattle and horses pulling the carts from time to time.

A few children hid in the corner, and the carts and horses pulling the goods sometimes overturned some small goods. If the owner of the car didn't notice, they could pick them up.Sometimes it's a grass ball, sometimes it's something else, whatever it is, they can always play together for a long time.

Among the four prefectures under Cao Cao's rule, Qingzhou is already rich and prosperous, Xuzhou is not bad, and Yanzhou and Yuzhou have gradually recovered from wars and droughts in recent years.

The head of the city is at a high place, and the wind is always strong at high places. Cao Cao leaned on the city wall with both hands, and his clothes and sleeves were slightly blown by the wind. He looked at the scene in the city with a smile on his face.

Gu Nan stood by his side. Cao Cao suddenly said today that he wanted to take her to see Xuchang, so he brought her here.

Looking at the city, there was a lot of noise, but it made her feel at ease.At least it is much more stable than when looking at the dead silence on the battlefield.

"Look at that, sir." Cao Cao suddenly smiled and pointed to a place on the street where several children were running among the crowd, holding a small object that fell from a truck just now.

He reached out and nodded, as if remembering those children.

"When Xuchang opens an academy in the future, those children must be disciplined well."

Gu Nan looked over, and smiled with her lips pursed.

"Well, I took note."

The two looked at the city wall for a long time and saw many people. On a street in a city gate, it seemed that there were all kinds of human beings and all living beings.

But if this is really the case in the world, there shouldn't be so many wars and displacements.

Cao Cao raised his head, recalled when he started, and sighed with a smile.

"The prosperity of Xuchang today is almost comparable to that of Luoyang back then, or even worse. When I was still living in Chenliu, I never imagined what it is like today."

But at that time, he was full of enthusiasm, and he never thought that this road would be so difficult.

Leaning against the city wall, Cao Cao lightly closed his eyes, as if recalling what happened along the way.

"Mr. said that Qingzhou is desirable, so he led his troops to take a fight. When he came to Qingzhou, he really took it down easily and gained a foothold. At that time, I couldn't believe that it would be so easy to take down the next state."

"After Qingzhou, the Yellow Turban was pacified, and more and more refugees gathered, so there was nothing to do. My husband suggested farming and cutting agricultural taxes. Now all the refugees can live, and the wasteland is reclaimed. The land is not only in the hands of the gentry. Although the tax has been reduced, However, the amount of food collected has not decreased but increased. In Yanzhou alone, there are millions of dendrobiums a year."

"It's not a problem for the refugees. My husband also suggested opening a bazaar, lowering the merchant tax, and financing the merchants. Once the order is issued, the merchants in the world must pass through the three states of Xuqing and Yanzhou. And the largest caravans among them are all supported by me. Only In this city of Xuchang, ten thousand gold circulates every day."

"Now there is the technique of printing, we can promote calligraphy, and wait for the establishment of academies in various places in the future. With the selection method of Mr., the academies in various places will select excellent ones to Xuchang, and then select excellent ones from Xuchang academies to become officials. At that time, talented people from all over the world will come into my hands, and officials will no longer only come from the gentry."

"Land, merchants, officials, sir are really playing a big game of chess. The world's nobles, princes, people, and even the master himself are all in this game of chess."

Cao Cao has always employed the nobles, but he has also been guarding against the nobles.He understands the power of the gentry, and he is afraid that the gentry will treat him like the princes treat the world, and become a disaster.

The place where the gentry can cause disaster is on the land, food, financial resources, and a large number of scholars appointed.Once it is made bigger by them, it is tantamount to being emptied.But now, for him, he no longer has to be restrained by the gentry.

As long as he guarantees that the real power and military strength will not flow into the hands of the gentry, the gentry will always be the sword in his hand and will never threaten himself.

And these guarantees are all from the handwriting of the person beside him.

Cao Cao laughed uncontrollably, and looked at Gu Nan beside him.

"Mr. Gu, if I don't know your original intention, if you came on the way, I really dare not use you."

Even the gentry would never have imagined that the person who stripped them of their functions bit by bit would be an idler who went to his mansion to teach every day, wandered around, and hardly cared about political affairs.

And what she did was actually just propose three strategies.

He knew very well that if Mr. Gu thought about it, he would probably be more terrifying than the whole family in the world.