Three Kingdoms Guo Jia's growth diary

When Cao Cao heard that it was Xun You, he looked forward to it very much. He had met Xun You, and the words "worthy of great use" were not exaggerated at all.

Xun Yu was a little hesitant just now. Could it be that he was recommending his nephew, and he felt uncomfortable?Cao Cao immediately sent out a reassurance: "Wen Ruo, I believe in your vision. You must be very good when you see the right person. If you want to write a letter to Gongda (Xun You), it is better to come here than to waste your time in Jingzhou." Yanzhou governs one side."

Xun Yu said a few words gracefully and modestly.

Recommending one's eldest nephew can easily be considered as favoritism.But Xun Yu was honest in his heart, he hesitated just now because of Xun You's current state.

The news came from Xun You's wife: Xun You was in Jingzhou, studying behind closed doors all day long, not interacting with anyone, and hardly willing to speak. It felt like: He was staying alone in an isolated city, refusing anyone to approach him.

It seems that during the days in Chang'an Imperial Prison, the unknown event that caused He Yong to collapse and commit suicide was also Xun You's nightmare, and he has not been able to get out of it so far.

At this time, Wang Bi, the envoy Cao Cao sent to Chang'an, sent back a message: Li Jue and Guo Si originally planned to detain him and rejected Cao Cao's request.

Fortunately, Zhong You, the servant of the Huangmen Gate, persuaded him: Nowadays, most of the heroes in the world support their own self-respect and rule states and counties separately. Only Cao Shijun is thinking of the Han Dynasty. People meet the emperor?No one has an audience with the emperor, which means that no one recognizes the court of Chang'an.

Li Jue and Guo Si felt that this was very reasonable, so they asked the Sangong to draw up an decree and make Cao Cao the shepherd of Yanzhou.

Dong Zhao, a well-known scholar in Jiyin County, Yanzhou, who lived in Hanoi, imitated Cao Cao's handwriting and wrote letters to express his affection to Li Jue and Guo Si.Zhang Liao, the prefect of Hanoi, also prepared generous gifts and sent them to Li Jue and Guo Si together with Dong Zhao's letter.

As a result, the attitudes of Li and Guo towards Cao Cao completely changed, so what, they can turn enemies into friends even if they have festivals.They rewarded Cao Cao's envoys with gold and silk, and promised that the gate of Chang'an City would always be open to Cao Cao.

This means: in the future, Cao Cao can maintain friendly exchanges with the Chang'an court, and can get in touch with the little emperor Liu Xie at any time.

Thanks to those who helped Cao Cao, it was possible to have such a good situation.

Zhong Yao is from Yingchuan. He has a good relationship with the Xun family and is willing to contribute.Dong Zhao was born in a big family in Yanzhou. Cao Cao accepted his favor, and he will definitely repay his family, and he can't lose.Zhang Liao was from Bingzhou. After Dong Zhuo's death, he took advantage of the chaos to occupy Hanoi and had no contact with Cao Cao. It's really strange to show affection like this.

Cao Cao was suspicious: "Why did Zhang Liao help him several times?"

Xun Yu pursed his lips slightly, as if he wanted to laugh, but held back in time, and said, "Zhang Liao has no ambitions. He and Feng Xiao are sworn brothers. Maybe he intends to join the lord, but that's unknown."

Cao Cao was overjoyed: "Why didn't Feng Xiao say it earlier."

He sent people to thank Zhang Liao with famous dogs, good horses, golden crowns and brocades.To make friends with generals like Zhang Liao, it is most practical to give dogs, horses, gold and silk as gifts.As for Zhong Yao and Dong Zhao, it is not very good to give money directly, so we can only talk about it later.

Later generations generally believe that the holiday system was written into the law, which began in the Han Dynasty. The Han law has clear regulations: officials take a rest every five days, and the winter solstice and summer solstice each have a five-day holiday. , three consecutive days off.

But in fact, the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were full of leisure spirit. Starting from Liu Zhi (Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty), the laws of the Han Dynasty could not restrain these pleasure-seeking emperors at all. Therefore, for decades, the New Year holiday lasted from around the winter solstice to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.During this period, officials only need to take turns to be on duty.

Moreover, the ethos of the Han Dynasty did not advocate overtime work on holidays at all. Is it okay to dedicate yourself to work?It's best not to, because Shangguan has the responsibility to persuade his subordinates who work on holidays to go home immediately to celebrate the holiday.

At present, although it is a special period, Cao Cao still retains this habit, so Guo Jia has been notified that he will usher in a 26-day holiday for the New Year!

Guo Jia: For the first time, I feel that the protagonist is wise and powerful.

This is also a period of high incidence of various typhoid fever and epidemic diseases, so Guo Jia has been outside the city for the past two days, inspecting the military camp, and making arrangements for various affairs in the military for the long New Year holiday.

[-]. During the snowing period, soldiers do not need to practice battle formations, but daily morning jogging, military boxing and other training cannot be interrupted, and they must maintain good physical fitness.

[-]. The sanitation and personal grooming of the military camp will still be checked regularly.Keep warm and drink boiled water... If you have typhoid symptoms such as cough and fever, you will be isolated and treated by military doctors alone.

[-]. Before and after the winter solstice, Cao Shijun will personally condolences to the families of the dead and disabled soldiers and distribute pensions.If anyone has difficulties in the family, they can report it to the generals of each battalion to solve it. If it can't be solved, Cao Shijun will be the master for everyone.

[-]. Soldiers can take family leave in batches, but everyone must return to the barracks before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month...

…Talking too much today made Guo Jia’s voice a little hoarse. On the way back, he held the hand stove and sat in the carriage to refresh himself, listening to the slight creaking sound of the wheels rolling over the winter snow.

The current winter clothes are a bit leaky, and the effect of keeping warm is not very good. Therefore, during the snowing period, all the people stay at home and basically do not go out.The army also had to stop practicing battle formations.There were very few pedestrians on the street, each of them huddled and hurried on their way, and the whole city entered a semi-dormant state.

This is the most leisurely time of the year, how idle is it?

Even on Xun Yu's desk, there are not many documents to deal with recently.

Cao Cao also invited several confidantes and generals to go to the hot springs tomorrow, and they can bring their wives, children and family members with them.

When Guo Jia returned home, the first thing he did was to visit Xiao Yi'er.The child grows up really fast, the winter clothes he asked the embroiderer at home to cut before he left for the expedition are now half an inch shorter, but the new clothes have already been cut.Guo Jia also made a rattle to amuse his son.

Guo Yi is indeed a bit like him, Zaohui.It is not too early to walk, but it is very early to talk.It's a little bit small, and when changing winter clothes, it still has to say "September grants clothes", and just now it rolled its eyes at the nanny who told stories and repeated stories.

Zuo Jian smiled: "This rolls his eyes, it's exactly the same as the young master back then."

Guo Jia: "..." How could he have such a bad habit when he was a child?

Thanks to the blessing of Liu Dai, the former governor of Yanzhou, Liquanyuan, the "holiday villa" in Yanzhou, was built in the suburbs.

Liquanyuan encloses the hot springs in the mountains within the courtyard wall.It is said that there are a total of ten natural springs and more than 30 man-made hot spring pools. The steam inside is steaming and the thick fog forms a natural barrier. It is a good place for bathing and leisure.

As for Cao Cao's intentional statement that he could bring his family members to the hot springs, only some people didn't mind bringing their wives and concubines with them.After all, Cao Cao is notoriously lustful, and not long ago he raped Bian Rang's wife.Another group of people, deep in their hearts, tried their best to avoid bringing the female relatives in front of Cao Cao.

Therefore, when Guo Jia lightly led Dian Wei, three cooks and a few attendants, he came late and walked into Liquan Garden.It was once suspected that he had entered some kind of child care center by mistake.

Big and small, tall and short, fat and thin, all boys were playing in the front yard, archery, chess, Cuju, and fighting, it was very lively.

It turned out that except for Cao Cao with Mrs. Ding and his concubine Kashi.The only civil servants who came to Zhizhong were the newcomers, Mao Jie with his wife, and the other colleagues, as agreed in advance, each with two or three and a half sons, I don't know if they are sons or nephews...

Most of the generals belonged to those who didn't mind bringing their wives and concubines with them. The problem was that the female relatives of these generals' families were not in Puyang City, and they usually only brought their sons or nephews with them.These days, the law does not stipulate that child labor cannot be used. The younger ones are only thirteen or fourteen years old, and the older ones are only seventeen or eighteen years old, and they start doing chores.

There are also individual generals, such as Zhao Yun, who have not married yet.

Thinking back to the year in Fugou Wuyan Mountain, every time a girl brought food to Zhao Yun shyly and timidly, Zhao Yun didn't even look at it. Guo Jia was worried about that uncomprehending elm bump. A model of being single by virtue of strength.

In short, there were no girls in sight in the entire front yard.

Cheng Yu's youngest son, Cheng Yan, was very excited when he saw Guo Jia. He rushed up and shouted, "Uncle Fengxiao!"

As soon as the words fell, a group of half-sized people gathered around, quite like the crowd of later generations watching the giant panda in the zoo, and the young man handed the longbow in his hand to Guo Jia, hoping that he would shoot an arrow and let everyone look up to him." "Three Chasing Yuan Shu", the elegant demeanor of shooting down Yuan Junshuai's flag with one arrow.

Fortunately, Cheng Yu's eldest son, Cheng Wu, came up to rescue him and took the Tuomu longbow.

Guo Jia: I am a frail scholar who can't even draw a bow, why do I always have to shoot arrows?It's too hard for me.As for Yuan Shu's commander-in-chief flag, Yuan Jun threw it to the ground in a panic during his escape.Wouldn't it be more troublesome if someone could shoot down the handsome flag from such a long distance and just shoot Yuan Shu with an arrow?

He coughed lightly, and said earnestly, "Jia is no more than a scholar. The one who expelled Yuan Shu three times was Mr. Cao. The rumors are limited to wise men. Look, Jia is not like a person who can shoot two hundred steps with one arrow?"

All the children said, "Everything is similar!" In teahouses and wine shops, there are comedians telling about this person's battlefield legends every day. Hearing a hundred times is believing once. This wise man from Yingchuan is personable and has an outstanding appearance, which is really heartbreaking.

Guo Jia decided that in order to guide these minors to view his archery correctly, he would tell a joke to this group of half-children.

Once upon a time, there was a young general who was about to be beheaded by the enemy when he was fighting on the battlefield. Suddenly, a god appeared to help him drive away the enemy and saved his life.

The young general thanked the god for saving his life, and wondered in his heart: Why did the god save such a small general like me?Could it be that my destiny is extraordinary and my future is boundless?He asked the god why he saved him.

The god said: I am the target god, and I came to help you this time to thank you. When you were practicing archery in the martial arts field, you never shot me in the body.

All the children laughed wildly.

Guo Jia: "Jia is also the kind that the target god is willing to bless, really." This joke of the target god comes from "Laughing Forest", which is a book from the Ming Dynasty. Guo Jia can't remember the original text, anyway, it was twisted and adapted by him , which is probably what it means.

Instruct the cook and attendants to stay in the front yard, and distribute almond puffs and snowflake sugar to these juniors.

Guo Jia led Dian Wei, followed the young man Cao Cao sent to lead the way, passed through the Moon Cave Gate, and his figure gradually disappeared into the mist.