[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

To tell the truth this time, Yuan Shao's fief to Cao Cao can be said to be generous.

Dongjun covers a wide area, and it is along the Yellow River, and it is an alluvial plain in the middle and lower reaches, with fertile soil.Moreover, there are a large number of coal resources and oil resources here...the latter is the mining area of ​​PetroChina in later generations, and the former has been mined now, and a special coal official of the imperial court is responsible for confiscating it.In addition, there is mineral salt. Although the output is not large, it is enough to support Cao Jun.

Of course, because of the previous Yellow Turban Rebellion, the coal officials and the salt officials have disappeared. Obviously, Cao Cao didn’t mean to find trouble for himself. As an official, he began to get busy with spring plowing.

This place is next door to Chenliu, which is under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao's little friend Zhang Miao. Both of them can take care of each other. Zhang Miao was very happy to see Cao Cao as his neighbor, so he specially sent someone to give Cao Cao some good seeds.

These good seeds have now gone to the ground. Before Xia Anran arrived, Cao Cao began to fertilize and prepare the land according to his previous bamboo scrolls. At the same time, he ordered the army to clean up the surrounding bandit villages. Slave, help dig water conservancy.

The confiscated weapons were asked by blacksmiths to transform those that could be used as agricultural tools into agricultural tools, and those that could not be used as army weapons. When Xun Yu, Xia Anran and others arrived, Cao Cao was very happy to hand them over to them.

As soon as Xia Anran arrived at his new home, he was taken to the river and asked him if he could build a waterwheel here.

It is not meaningful.

Xia Anran got this answer very simply.

The terrain of the area where Dongjun is located has dropped to the level of a plain. Unlike Chenggao, although it is a plain, there is still a slight drop. In the rainy season, the water flow is relatively large, but the Yellow River in Dongjun can already be called gentle.

The current waterwheel is made of solid wood, and its own weight is not small. It is obviously impossible to carry the waterwheel at such a speed.

Xia Anran thought for a while, facing this kind of smooth river...the only way to do it is to use a keel waterwheel.

The keel waterwheel is what modern people often see when they go to farmhouses. It is the traditional waterwheel that diverts water by stepping on it. This irrigation method can pump water up from the bottom by manpower, and then flow into the farmland through the lowering of the terrain. It is also the most commonly used irrigation method in the plains, and it has been invented in this era.

Zhongmu County, who visited the waterwheel together before, used this method of water diversion.

But the boss asked you with anticipation if you have a solution. As a younger brother who is paid, can you tell the boss something he already knew?

Not sure.

Xia Anran turned her head to think for a moment, her eyes suddenly saw the mule being pulled over from a distance, she suddenly lit up, and said excitedly, "My lord, if the water is spread out evenly, the water truck won't make much profit, why don't we change the overturned car and change it to the other side?" For livestock, use livestock to pull overturned carts to fetch water."

Cao Cao was very interested when he heard that, after a war in Dongjun, it was a time of manpower shortage, it would be great if he could use animal power to solve the problem, so Xia Anran just arrived in Dongjun, before heating up the stove at home, he took over Here comes the task.

Wait, isn't my official position the master book?It doesn't seem like the director did it?

Isn't Boss Cao known as the most generous boss in the Three Kingdoms?Why did it happen that I was asked to work part-time but not paid!

Xia Anran's dissatisfaction disappeared immediately after seeing his house. Cao Cao gave him a house with a large courtyard. It is said that it belonged to a rich local family. Shuda Zhaofeng was the first to be killed. Cao Cao confiscated the house after waiting for more than a month, but no one came to claim it.

Although it sounds unlucky, but it was like this in ancient times, the housing area is so big, basically if you want to buy a house, most of the front of the house has been moved away due to unlucky things, of course Xia Anran doesn't care about this, but Thinking that his house is so big is a bit bad, and then he went to visit the houses of Xun Yu and Guo Jia and then fell silent.

Cao Cao's eyeball, Xun Yu, was assigned to a particularly elegant house, with running water and streams gurgling in the house, and the kind that planted peach blossoms and rockery. Although the house was small, the predecessor was said to be a great Confucian, and the decoration was very suitable for Xun Yu.

Guo Jia's house is relatively close to Xia Anran's house, and his house is closer to the block. It is said that Guo Jia picked it himself. This is also the benefit of the military commander. Good houses are first come, first served.

In contrast, Xia Anran's house... is far from work, and the decoration has the atmosphere of a nouveau riche. It has no advantages except that it is big.

But Xia Anran is really satisfied, because he has raised five rabbits and really needs a bigger place.

Oh, by the way, because the neighbor is Cao Chun, he can hitch a ride when he goes to work, and Cao Chun, who has a horse, can take him for a ride.

Moreover, the farmland in this kind of house is completely private property, without paying taxes, Xia Anran can grow whatever he likes.

So that afternoon, he rushed to the carpenter's house in full swing. Although the carpenter's local dialect was somewhat incomprehensible, he had already found a local soldier to translate for them on Xia Anran's road.

The good news is that some people here have keel waterwheels at home, so they can save the first step and start directly from the back.Xia Anran's so-called animal overturning means that the track of the keel waterwheel is connected to the gear, and then the gear is pulled by the donkey horse. In principle, the gear pulled by the donkey horse will pull the track when it rotates, and the water will be lifted up.

After hearing his explanation, the craftsman quickly understood the meaning, and in just two days, he made a small model according to Xia Anran's request. The small model with mortise and tenon structure was so exquisite that Xia Anran immediately picked it up to find Xun Yu. Reporting.

Although this matter was directly ordered by Cao Cao, Xia Anran's immediate boss is Xun Yu. In fact, Cao Cao and Xun Yu have delegated power as soon as they arrived here. , so Xia Anran can still run around, while Xun Yu can only work at his desk all day.

...By the way, even so, he still wakes up Xia Anran and Guo Jia every morning to exercise with him. Xia Anran is used to it, and Guo Jia can't stop complaining, and even complains in front of Cao Cao The black state is like the kind of concubine who tells the truth. When Cao Cao heard it, he asked Xun Yu to ask him. Xun Yu was very ladylike and told the matter. Cao Cao immediately waved his concubine to the lady. arms.

The above was analyzed by Xia Anran based on what he saw, and the specific content could not be known to them, heck, otherwise Xia Anran would be thrown into the river by the two of them, now Guo Jia is much stronger.

Xia Anran was obediently sitting in front of Xun Yu. Xun Yu fiddled with the small model and thought for a while, then he gave the order and handed over the matter to his subordinates. When the first overturned car was completed, I went to see it and confirmed that it was feasible, so I didn’t care about it anymore. On the contrary, Guo Jia was very interested in it. Xia Anran had seen him squatting there with a handful of mulberries watching the donkey pull the cart. some time.

……Um?Where did the fruit come from?

Xia Anran immediately ran over and asked for half of the meeting, Guo Jia didn't say much and just poured a handful to him. At this time, the mulberries had just reached their ripening season, and the sourness was too sweet. Xia Anran stuffed one into his mouth immediately. I wrinkled my face, sour, sour to the bone.

He looked over and saw that Guo Jia was not eating mulberries, he just had a little bit in his mouth. Seeing him like this, Guo Jia still had an innocent face, and he almost wrote: I don't know anything.

Xia Anran reluctantly swallowed the mulberry in his mouth, and later ate it like Guo Jia, so that the sour taste would be lighter and the fruity taste stronger, that is to say, he didn't know this technique just now, so he took a foolish bite.

The two of them sat in a row to eat fruit and fruit for a while, and suddenly he thought of a question, "Feng Xiao, why are you free today?" Guo Jia is a military commander offering wine, and it's not Xiu Mu today, why would he come here to watch the overturned car?

Guo Jia was a little slurred and replied, "The lord's wife and Erlang are here, and they are enjoying the family relationship, so Jia won't disturb them."

Xia Anran blinked, ah, that's right, since Cao Cao has his own territory, of course he has to take over his wife and son, otherwise once the fight starts, he will become a hostage of someone else's family. future?"

"Not here." Guo Jia said casually, "It is said that they are used to Xuzhou and don't want to move."

Both of them were silent for a moment, they both knew that they were not used to it, they just felt that Cao Cao, the prefect of East County, could not sit securely and was too lazy to come to seek refuge.

Cao Song's family is very rich, and he is a golden doll wherever he stays. Only he wants to leave, and no one will drive him away.

Stay in Xuzhou.

Xia Anran rested her chin and thought, the impact of Cao Song's death on Cao Cao must be avoided. No matter what the reason is, it is absolutely impossible to massacre the city.Cao Cao is now marching with the word benevolence, even if he is avenging his father, it will become a joke once the word "tu" comes out.

It is said in history that Cao Cao had already sent someone to pick up Cao Song when he attacked Tao Qian, but Cao Song was killed because he had made a mistake and was defenseless. The key to this is the word "defenseless".Cao Song also came from an official background and was rich, so the guards around him must be indispensable. The fact that he was able to be killed so easily had a lot to do with the fact that he withdrew his guards at that time.

That is to say, to solve this disaster, we must either let Cao Song come down to Cao Cao's forces early, or let Cao Song be more vigilant.But now it seems that it is not easy to invite here early, Cao Cao is not satisfied with Cao Cao who is in charge of Dongjun now... I am afraid that he will not come until he becomes the shepherd of Yanzhou.

He was a little dazed while thinking about it, and suddenly saw a soldier running towards him from a distance, and saw the two of them clasping their fists in salute, "Guo Jijiu, Master Xia, my lord welcomes you."

The two entered the account one after another. Cao Cao sat in the first place, frowning tightly, with a sad look on his face, which shocked Guo Jiaxia and Anran. bomb.

——Sun Jian is dead.

He died in the hands of Liu Biao.

Although Cao Cao and Sun Wentai didn't know each other very well, they felt that they were quite close, especially when they had contact with each other when they were renovating the imperial mausoleum for the Han court, and they had a good impression of each other. the death of a person.

This was not what Xia Anran expected. Sun Jian also fell in this battle in history. He just silently glanced at Guo Jia who was sitting beside him.

Very proud of Guo Fengxiao.

Xia Anran silently turned her gaze back.

Everyone was busy comforting Cao Cao, and after saying several words, his sadness finally dissipated, and he said the second thing after a while.

Before Sun Jian died, he wrote a letter of trustee and passed it on to Cao Cao. He entrusted his wife and children to Cao Mengde, who had only met him once, instead of his immediate boss Yuan Shu.

Cao Cao summoned the generals for this purpose.

Originally, taking care of his wife and children for a deceased friend was not a big deal, but the problem was that Sun Jian was under Yuan Shu, and his trilogy was even compiled by Yuan Shu after his death.

Although I don't know what conflict between Sun Jian and Yuan Shu caused Sun Jian to express such a clear attitude of distrust. Stabbed Yuan Shu.

Cao Cao himself doesn't care, he is recognized as Yuan Shao's party, but this kind of direct big-eared melon seeds are drawn up...

When Cao Cao's foundation was not stable, it triggered a heated discussion among his servants and generals.

The military generals generally think that there is no problem. It is no problem to take care of the wives and children at home. Dongjun can't afford to support four or five people, and isn't Yuan Shu our enemy from the beginning.

Civil servants thought more, Cao Cao is indeed on Yuan Shao's side now, but the two brothers are not blood feuds, but also brothers of their own, who knows when the two of them will reconcile, for example, this time playing Dong Zhuo, isn't it? The two brothers worked together and cooperated tacitly.

If he offends Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao will help him now, but when the two reconcile, it won't be embarrassing for the lord to be caught between them.

What's more, the problem now is that Yuan Shu didn't say that he didn't want to take care of the widow. We just got together like this, and outsiders thought we had some unreasonable thoughts.

In this way, it makes sense for the generals to think about it. If Yuan Shu famously said that he was unwilling to support his family members, they would be called helping each other.

The above discussions all took place between some generals and civil servants, and several of Cao Cao's confidants did not really speak.

Seeing that they seemed to have reached a conclusion, Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu who was sitting next to him, "What does Wen Ruo think?"

Xun Yu lowered his eyelids, as if he didn't hear their communication, his face was calm.

After hearing Cao Cao's question, he answered to the point, "Gong once said that Wentai and Gong are like-minded people." Seeing Cao Cao nodding, he continued, "The death of Wentai is extremely worthless... I want to come to Wentai I also feel the same way, so I entrust myself to the lord."

Cao Cao's face was moved, and he sighed, "Cao knows what Wen Ruo means."

Seeing that he understood, Wen Ruo didn't continue, but said another thing, "As for offending Yuan Shu...Yi Yu's foolish opinion is not necessarily true. If so, it’s just taking in the widows and young children of old friends.”

After finishing speaking, he didn't say any more, but the people in the audience showed sudden expressions, and the few people who had opposed him immediately said to Cao Cao that we must fulfill the deep friendship between the Lord and Sun Wentai!

It is necessary to put a successful end to this like-minded friendship, otherwise wouldn't it be a pity!

The corners of Xia Anran's mouth twitched, he was now able to keep up with the thinking patterns among the courtiers of the Three Kingdoms.

The reason why they shouted "Long Live Friendship" was actually aimed at Sun Ce, the son of Sun Jian.

Indeed, the army is in the hands of Yuan Shu, Cao Cao seems to have no benefit at all, but he has Sun Ce, Sun Ce is now 17/8 years old, isn't it normal for him to seek Yuan Shu and return to his father's old department when he grows up? ?

After all, Sun Jian's troops were pulled out by himself, not by Yuan Shu. According to the rules of this era, the troops pulled out by himself are his own soldiers, and even the lord can't confiscate them.

So as long as they raise their children for a few years, they can release the disgusting Yuan Gonglu!

why not.

Cao Cao also understood what they meant, so he didn't get too entangled, and immediately sent his own soldiers, his younger brother Cao Hong led two thousand soldiers and his own handwriting, to Jiangdong to pick up the Sun family from Dongjun.

After he gave this order, Xia Anran couldn't help but smile.

He felt that although Guo Jia's poisonous milk ability was not diminished, he might also have some other special abilities!

Xia Anran silently recited the names of the famous civil servants and generals of the Three Kingdoms in her heart again, this time even Lu Xun and Pang Tong, who were just born juniors, were not spared.

He said almost everything he could think of.

As for whether Sun Ce will come, and whether he will join Cao Jun after he comes...

Xia Anran didn't think about it that much at all, he was flattered anyway.

Because he was so happy, he took out the leftover wheat that night and asked the villagers to borrow a mill to grind it into flour.

Then he had the luxury of cutting noodles out of this flour.

The reason for cutting... is because Xia Anran doesn't know how to pull noodles, and even learned how to grind wheat noodles into flour when she was in Yongchun County.

Children who grow up in the city don't have the opportunity to grind their own noodles.

This may be the first bowl of noodles in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Xia Anran did not enjoy it to himself.

He approached his courtyard wall, and shouted his little friend's name to the next door, "Zi-he-!

That's right, he has already become accustomed to this era of [output depends on roar].and assimilated.

Because the two live next to each other, although the house here has a large yard, the house is of an ordinary size. Xia Anran shouted here, and Cao Chun next door could hear it.

Sure enough, after a while, Xia Anran heard the voice from next door, "Jingxi?"

Xia Anran immediately knew that there was someone next door, he moved the ladder and climbed up, and sure enough, he saw the handsome young man.

The reason why he didn't climb up at the beginning was because Cao Chun was a military general, and there were personal guards living in his house. At first, Xia Anran didn't pay attention and climbed up directly, and almost missed being shot by an arrow. I got into the habit of calling people first and then climbing the wall.

In the dim moonlight, the boy lying on the wall is between a young man and a young man, still young, but because he studied with Xun Yu, he brought some of his gentle aura.

But at this time, he was doing extremely naughty.

"Zihe, have you had dinner?"

He got a negative answer. In fact, Xia Anran felt that even if he ate it, he would say that he didn't eat it.He thought it was okay at the beginning, but now Cao Chun's appetite is getting bigger and bigger.

Xia Anran felt that there was no surprise, and waved to him, "I made some noodles, Zihe, let's eat together!"

"Mian...?" Cao Chun was stunned, apparently not understanding what it was, but he still responded with a smile. He took a few steps back and made a small run-up. When he was close to the wall, he jumped up, put his hands on the edge of the wall, and kicked on the wall. , turned over extremely vigorously.

Because it was night, he was wearing private clothes and his long hair was loose.

Cao Chun was originally a literati, and when he was not in military uniform, he looked extremely refined and refined.

But at this moment, he was sitting sideways on the wall and looking at Xia Anran who was climbing the ladder, his black hair was disheveled, his eyebrows and eyes were soft.

Xia Anran smiled and explained to him, "Use wheat flour, sieve it, use salt water and wheat flour, it will become a whole piece, and then let him ripen it, and it will become delicious and chewy noodles La."

"However, the noodles themselves have no taste, and the soup base is still needed."

Xia Anran's eyes narrowed with a smile, "I bought a little rooster today, the soup made with the rooster should be delicious."

"That being the case, why not add us."

Xia Anran's smile froze for a moment, he slowly lowered his head, and saw two other people slowly walking out of Cao Chun's house.

It was Cao Cao and Xun Yu.

The two looked up at Xia Anran, who was protruding half of his body, and Cao Chun, who was sitting on the edge of the wall. Cao Cao stood with his hands behind his back, and was very pleased to see the two children's mischievous appearance.

Obviously, he was happy to see that the two juniors had a good relationship.

Xia Anran was at a loss for a moment, but it was Cao Chun who came to his senses first and bowed to his subordinates, "My lord."

Xia Anran quickly followed suit, and then invited the two of them to have a meal together.

It's just obvious that the meal shifted from dinner to snack after adding two adult males.

The boiled noodles are boiled in cold water, and then put into the chicken broth, which is the chewy chicken noodle soup.

This dish has received unanimous praise from everyone, especially after learning that it is made of wheat flour.

The reason why wheat was not popular at the beginning was that it tasted bad, and wheat rice was too rough to choke your throat, so even now that wheat and beans can be rotated and harvested twice a year, some farmers still don’t want to plant them.

On the one hand, corn can be preserved well, and on the other hand, the way of eating wheat noodles has not yet become popular.In fact, this is also due to the way of thinking. The way people here eat millet is to grind the millet, then boil it in water and boil it into rice paste.

It is full and delicious, but using the same method to make wheat porridge... that taste, basically everyone who loses weight in modern times has eaten it. If possible, they will definitely not want to eat it a second time.

Cao Cao emptied his bowl, and then praised Xia Anran for his ingenuity.

Then, several people talked about the situation in Chang'an.

After Dong Zhuo was defeated and returned to Chang'an, seeing the disbandment of the Allied Army against Dong Zhuo, he suddenly felt that there was no suppression, and because his vitality was severely damaged after this battle, he came up with a bad idea.

He ordered Liu Xiao, the school lieutenant of Sili, to execute all officials and people who were not filial to their parents, ministers who were not loyal to the chief, officials who were not honest, and younger brothers who did not respect their elders, and their property was confiscated by the government.

As a result, many people made false accusations against each other, and thousands of people died of injustice. Chang'an fell into turmoil.

Hearing this situation, everyone present was silent for a while.

Xia Anran ordered tea for everyone, they were sitting in the hall of his house now.

Cao Cao Xun Yu didn't bother to go back after he was full, so he simply told the story at Xia Anran's home, which was a tacit consent that he could participate in the seminar.

——It is to admit that he is the core member of the Cao Wei regime, but Xia Anran is not happy at this time.

The coalition forces repelled Dong Zhuo ahead of time, but failed to avoid a fire in Luoyang. After Dong Zhuo returned to Chang'an, it was still the same, but the coalition forces here could not gather strength.

Cao Cao wanted to go west, but he was powerless. The rest of the princes, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, fought to the death, but the blood of the Han people was burned.

Gongsun Zan let go of the Yellow Turban Army in order to set fire to Yuan Shao, and now that group is still wandering around Qingzhou. In history, these people were originally deserters, but now they are indeed a complete military system.

I'm afraid it will bring even greater disasters to the people.

It's just that he couldn't open his mouth to suggest that Cao Cao go and exterminate this group of rebels who were called rebels, but they were actually soldiers and bandits. The reason is very simple.

Qingzhou is not under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao, and there are even other counties in the middle. Even if Cao Cao is willing to help others, he will dislike him for being too lenient.