[Three Kingdoms] After crossing, I opened the sick and weak main road line

Yanzhou, Changyi.

The carriage swayed along the newly repaired official road. Zhong Yao sat in the carriage, looking at the scene outside that was completely different from what he had imagined, and sighed while clutching the imperial edict in his hand.

Now that the emperor is far away in Chang'an, he has been recruited by the three prefectures to serve as Ting Weizheng and the servant of the Huangmen. Now he works within the palace gate and becomes a close minister of the emperor who can convey edicts. After a few months in Chang'an City, it can be said that he has seen through the world warm and cold.

Dong Zhuo was put to death in Meiwu, and Wang Yun considered himself the greatest contributor to killing the national traitors. After the court stabilized, he began to take credit for it without accident.

As far as he knew, when the emperor was in trouble, Wang Situ would confide in everyone and discuss strategies to defeat the enemy. Now that Dong thief is dead and he is in charge of the court, it seems that he is going to follow the old path of Dong thief.

Cai Yong and Cai Bojie used to take orders from Dong Zhuo, but when he learned that Dong Zhuo was killed, he felt emotional, so he was directly detained at the Ting Wei for questioning. Little did he know that Wang Situ himself was also a trusted minister of Dong Thief.

If he hadn't gained the trust of Dong Zhai, how could he be in charge of the government under Dong Zhai? Cai Bochi devoted himself to compiling history and not asking about the government. Isn't it too unreasonable to imprison people without reason?

Many people in the court tried their best to save Cai Yong, and even Taiwei Ma Rixun personally went to Wang Yun's mansion to intercede, but there was no response in the end. Poor Cai Bozhao, a generation of outstanding talents, died in prison with difficulty in defending himself.

Guanzhong has been ravaged by Dong Zhuo for a long time, and the people's lives are difficult. Scenes like this where people are working everywhere are almost non-existent in Guanzhong.

It seems that Cao Mengde and Sun Wentai are indeed more suitable to govern Yanzhou than others.

He brought a talisman to appoint Yanzhou Mu and Yanzhou Governor. Before he came, he thought that Yanzhou had been ravaged by wars for a long time and had just been looted and ravaged by black mountain bandits. Wherever he went, he would be mourning everywhere. Now seeing these people working in the wasteland, his heart was shocked. One can imagine.

The carriage headed towards the city unhurriedly, with only a dozen guards following behind. In troubled times, it is undoubtedly very dangerous to take only a few people to go far.

There will be bandits on the official roads, and the bandits in the mountains will be even more arrogant. Even if you meet refugees on the road, you may be stopped by the refugees who are about to starve to death and have nowhere to go to ask for food.

When the people who were about to starve to death saw food, they would rush forward regardless of whether it was a sword or poison in front of them.

Zhong Yao was stopped several times by refugees along the way, and each time the local government office came to relieve the siege and he was able to move on. He thought that the blocking situation would be more serious in Yanzhou, so he thought that the county government office would send troops to send him to Yanzhou. Unexpectedly, the prefect of Suochangyi refused him when he knew where he was going, and said that he didn't have to worry about refugees when he went to Yanzhou.

He thought that after Cao Mengde and Sun Wentai occupied Yanzhou, refugees were prohibited from entering Yanzhou, and there were no refugees in the territory, so there was no need to worry. What he didn't expect to see was that refugees were accepted to open up wasteland and cultivate fields.

The harvest of the previous season has been completely delayed. Now that we start planting, it will take at least half a year for the wheat to mature. During this half year, all the grain will have to be distributed by the government. Has Yanzhou become so rich?

Zhong Yao didn't quite believe that if there was food in Yanzhou, Cao Mengde wouldn't be so difficult that he couldn't eat when he led his troops into Yanzhou, but if there was no food in Yanzhou, how could Cao Mengde have the confidence to accept so many refugees?

Outside the window, there are hot scenes everywhere. Cars and horses pass by on the official road, and the people are not in a constant state of panic like in other places. This is almost the case in the peaceful and prosperous age.

The moat outside the city of Changyi has been dug. The horse-drawn carriage passed the bridge, and the sound of the gurgling water was very pleasant. After walking across the wooden bridge, it took a while to reach the city wall.

There were soldiers outside the city gate checking the identities of the people entering and leaving the city. Zhong Yao got off the carriage and looked up at the three-foot-high city wall. He was even more shocked than when he saw the people plowing the fields and reclaiming wasteland.

Tens of thousands of civilians were recruited to build the city wall, and the money spent was incalculable. Cao Mengde had been in Yanzhou for less than half a year, how could such a high city wall be built?

This city wall seems to be newly built. He has traveled through so many counties along the way, and the walls of other counties are at most half this height. If all the cities have such a towering city wall as Changyi, there is no need to worry about thieves raging.

No matter how powerful the bandit is, no matter how powerful the ladder is, as long as the city gate is closed, they will not be able to enter the city protected by the three-foot-high city wall.

The carriage moved forward slowly, and the soldiers who were checking his identity at the city gate were startled when they saw his identity certificate. They hurriedly sent someone to the government office to inform Cao Cao, and then respectfully invited him to the side, and personally arranged for someone to take him to the government office.

Although the imperial court is high and the emperor is far away, for ordinary soldiers like them, the imperial court officials are still unattainable figures.

Zhong Yao went back to the carriage and sat down, opened the curtain and looked at the spacious and tidy streets, even thinking that this was Luoyang, the eastern capital decades ago.

The capital of the state is also the seat of the state. Yanzhou is located in the Central Plains. It was indeed rich and prosperous in peacetime, but once the war broke out, it would be the first to be affected just like Sili and Yuzhou.

Changyi was able to recover like this in a short period of time, thanks to Cao Mengde's contribution.

In the official office, Cao Cao, who was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, rubbed his head. When he heard his servants say that Tingwei and Huangmen servant Zhong Yao had come to Yanzhou, he hurriedly got up and changed his clothes and went out to greet him, "Hurry up, don't be rude."

Zhong Yao, a great talent of the Zhong family in Yingchuan, didn't he come to join him because he saw that he would have no future with the court?

Next to him, Cao Hong, who had been suppressed by him as a civil servant, stood up dazedly, "Brother, he is here to deliver the imperial court's decree, you are overthinking it."

If you came to seek refuge, the name post handed over would say "Yingchuan Zhongshi", instead of self-reporting your official position as it is now.

Is my brother in a hurry?

Cao Cao stopped in his tracks, patted his head with eyes full of stars, and put on his clothes, "Oh, when will there be talented people to vote for? Yanzhou is so big, but there are not many people who can use it. It's a pity. It hurts."

The corners of Cao Hong’s mouth twitched, he picked up the kettle casually, gulped down half of the pot, then wiped his mouth and went out, ready to see what the court sent people here for, “Brother, do you think the court has no food to eat? We've been so busy recently, do you want us to take things to support the imperial court?"

If you think about it carefully, it’s not impossible. The world is in chaos. The imperial court has long been unable to collect taxes. Dong Zhuo has been raging in Sili area. Even if Guanzhong is added, it may not be able to support the imperial court. officials.

The people had no food in their hands, and the court might have to come to help them. Most of the food in Meiwu was transported to Jizhou. Although there was a lot left for the emperor, if the emperor wanted to make a fuss, it was not enough for him.

As far as he knows, in less than a year since Dong Zhuo's death, the imperial court has opened two warehouses and released grain twice. Counting the grain they released, the rest may not be able to survive the winter. .

Cao Cao's face darkened, he dressed neatly and walked in front of Cao Hong, jumped up and gave him a headache, "Don't talk nonsense, the imperial court is surrounded by the world, where does it need our help, if you talk nonsense, go out and build the city wall to calm down."

Cao Hong grinned and covered his head, curled his lips and fell silent.

The imperial court sits in the world, doesn't my conscience hurt when I say this?

A hundred years ago, the imperial court could be said to be sitting on the four seas. The current imperial court may not be able to settle down on four hills. What's the use of being stubborn in front of him? .

He knows how to beat him, he beats him stupid, and there is no one who can help him deal with official documents.

Cao Cao had just lived a few days without worrying about starving to death, and he could still feed so many people. He watched Yanzhou come back to life under his governance, and watched Changyi’s newly built city walls, newly reclaimed wasteland, and newly dug ditches... …So many things are done under his hands, every day he thinks that the people in the city don’t need to be hungry after work, and he can wake up smiling when they sleep.

A few days have passed since the good days, and no one can grab food from him, even the court... Hey, the court is really short of food, so he can't just sit back and watch.

Cao Cao gritted his teeth, and prayed that Zhong Yao, Zhong Yuan, who came to pass the decree, would never mention the matter of food. It would be better if the court had food. At that time, he would definitely send part of the collected grain to the court.

Of course, most of them still have to be sent to Jizhou to the elder brother, even if the elder brother does not need it.

The city gate was not too far from the official office. Zhong Yao was guided by someone. After walking for a quarter of an hour, he arrived outside the official office. He opened the curtain and got out of the car. The small Dongjun prefect standing at the gate greeted him immediately.

Now the prefect of Dongjun, when he announces his decree, this will be Yanzhou Mu.

Zhong Yao was an official in the court before, but later resigned due to illness and returned to his hometown in Yingchuan. Cao Cao had dealt with him before, and the two of them had no enmity. Coupled with Cao Mengde's enthusiasm, the atmosphere was very good at the moment.

"When Yuan often came to Changyi, he was greeted far away, and greeted far away."

"Meng De is polite." Zhong Yao waved his sleeves and bowed his hands, "When I come to Changyi on the next road, I just feel that the people here live and work in peace and contentment, busy and not chaotic. I don't know how much better than other places. Meng De is big enough to save the world. Truly a role model for my generation.”

No one doesn't like to hear good things, and Cao Cao is the same, but after Cao Hong said that this person might come here to "borrow food", he now feels that this person's good words are not bad, and the better they sound, the more upset he feels.

After a couple of dry laughs, he didn't answer, and hurriedly welcomed him into the reception room to clean him up.

Zhong Yao was a little unaccustomed to his enthusiasm. After all, he passed by many states and counties along the way, and all of them were cold and indifferent. Sending him out was like sending out some hot potato.

He knows the situation, but he really feels that the imperial court can't control the counties and counties under his control. He still feels very uncomfortable. After experiencing so many indifferent counties and counties, such a warm welcome is really a headache once.

"Wait a minute, Mengde. I have business to do when I come to Changyi. Is Wu Chenghou here?" Zhong Yao was so moved that he finally had a chance to speak again after being dragged into the reception room, so he hurriedly said, "Yanzhou Mu and Liu Dai died in battle, but Yanzhou cannot live without Zhou Mu, Meng De and Wu Chenghou defeated the black mountain bandits, and kept the people of Yanzhou peaceful, and now Jizhou Mu has come to the imperial court to ask for credit for the two, and I am here to proclaim the decree."

"Jizhou Mu? Yuan Benchu?" Cao Cao was a little surprised. Yuan Shao actually watched him get Yanzhou, and didn't make trouble for him. Instead, he asked him for credit. Why did he think it was so unrealistic?

While Cao Cao asked people to go to the barracks to find Sun Jian, he muttered in a low voice, it wasn't that he didn't believe it, it was just that this wasn't like the Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu ​​he knew.

He felt that Yuan Shao knew that after he got Yanzhou, he could smash at least ten book tables and ten lamp stands. temper.

After all, in the eyes of his good friend, others are his vassals, and there is no reason to be equal to him. Knowing that both of them are state shepherds, it would be nice not to die of anger, and even put forward a petition to ask the imperial court to promote him as state shepherd, dreaming?

Zhong Yao faintly heard the words "Yuan Benchu", and explained with a smile, "Meng De doesn't know that the current Jizhou Mu is no longer Yuan Benchu, but Yuan Huanyuan Anting, the prefect of Zhongshan."

"What?" Cao Cao was taken aback. He was just a little busy and didn't pay much attention to outside affairs. Why did Jizhou Mu change his job?

Yuan Benchu ​​has no Jizhou Mu, and the soldiers in his hands are still his soldiers. There are only Lu Bu's soldiers and horses beside his brother. How can he beat Yuan Benchu's 20 army? How is Jizhou now?

Zhong Yao saw that he really didn't know, so he told him the news from Jizhou.

Yuan Huanyuan Anting, this name, combined with the timing of this person's appearance, anyone who knows something about the imperial court and the world's aristocratic families will not be unable to guess who this person is.

Wang Situ gave him the post of prefect of Zhongshan at the beginning, probably thinking that Yuan Shao was the prefect of Bohai at that time, and the two brothers were in Jizhou together, and Yuan's Miemen was inseparable from the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. They must be in the same state. can clamp each other.

Judging from Wang Situ's behavior of becoming more and more authoritarian now, it is likely that this was the intention at the beginning. He probably did not expect that Han Fu would give up Jizhou directly, but now, Yuan Shao has no resistance to surrender to his elder brother.

That's right, that person didn't kill them all, and even claimed that he was the shepherd of Bingzhou. It's normal for him to be subdued, otherwise he would anger the patriarch of the Yuan clan who had escaped from death, and then he would be expelled from the house directly, without the Yuan clan in Runan. With him as the backing, Jizhou would still have to lose.

There were two Yuan brothers, one a state shepherd, and only one Wang Situ was unhappy. His miscalculation made his face dull, and he was afraid that he already hated the Yuan family.

Cao Cao was relieved after hearing his words, as long as his brother is fine, it seems that Yuan Benchu ​​is not too shameless, if he had known that guy would go to Zhongshan, he would rush over to serve as his brother's guard.

Now my elder brother has a good attitude towards him, but it may not be good for Yuan Benchu ​​and Yuan Gonglu. With his elder brother around, Yuan Shao has to weigh his own weight in whatever he wants to do. The two of them played together when they were young, who doesn't know the other?

He was relieved that there was nothing wrong with his brother.

Since Zhong Yuan often came to add officials and ranks to them, he probably wouldn't say anything else. His food should be kept, right?

Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief. When Sun Jian hurried back from the barracks, the two were promoted together. Before they could be happy, they saw Zhong Yao take out another scroll.

Zhong Yao sighed, his waist was not as straight as before, and his expression was not as calm as before, "Meng De, the court is in crisis, the emperor is young, the emperor's order is out of order, the people in Guanzhong are hungry, and the court has already died. I haven't been able to pay the food for a long time..."

Cao Cao: ! ! !

Cao Hong, you crow mouth! ! !

You have nothing to eat! ! !

Now!immediately! !immediately! ! !

Go out and build the city wall! ! !