The golden autumn is refreshing, and Dalian Port, where the drought has eased, has returned to life.Milk eggs were sent from Jilin County in the north, and sweet potatoes and corn were sent from Liudao in the south. For Xiaomin, it was just a matter of reducing family savings, not to the point of not being able to eat.

But management has more to consider.In the near future, the Xianbei on the grassland may be invaded by the drought; in the distant future, if there is a drought this year, the probability of locust plagues coming from the west next year will rise sharply.

This is why Ah Sheng brought back his highly mobile attacking force and sent Lu Bu to the border.Lu Bu is used to being a shopkeeper and will not interfere with the abnormal behavior of raising chickens on a large scale in Wushou City.

And this one was said to be good at fighting immediately, but I don't know if it was because of the butterfly effect or the inaccuracy of the legend. Judging from the data of the past ten years, Lu Bu's winning rate is higher in defending the city.

A poke of the black spear against the city wall can deter incoming enemies.

In contrast, Xu Rong is a more low-key and smarter commander. His sense of long-distance raids and guerrilla warfare is a few blocks away from Lu Bu's. Coupled with his natural fighting luck, he is almost the pinnacle of offensive generals.

But it didn't work.The situation requires defense, and the situation requires checks and balances, so Xu Rong can only take his soldiers to act as porters at the Dalian Port Wharf - loading grain.Sacks of sweet potatoes and corn were moved from the huge southern grain ships to the smallest river and sea ships.To transport grain to Yanzhou, you have to take the river, and the cost of water is much lower than that of land.

"General Xu is really calm." Ah Sheng couldn't help sighing when he saw him carrying the last bag of grain sweating profusely.

There were less than 60 of Xu Rong's old subordinates left. At this time, everyone's face was full of discontent, which was in stark contrast to the smiling Dalian soldiers around them.

His lieutenant snorted heavily: "You also know? Our general is naturally good."

Ah Sheng's system pays attention to the separation of soldiers and generals. The general changes defense, but the soldiers do not change.The immediate boss changes frequently, so for the soldiers at the grassroots level, only Military Law and Cao Sheng are the only reliable objects of allegiance.

This is undoubtedly cruel to Xu Rong.Suddenly separated from his own large army, transferred from the familiar grassland to the unfamiliar seaside, and was stuffed with a group of new subordinates with unknown personalities. The first job was to be a coolie? !

awful!That's horrible!

It might start to be troublesome with another person.But he is Xu Rong, Xu Rong who could cook human flesh when he was with Dong Zhuo, and be a model worker when he was with the Cao family.So he stopped the lieutenant general with colorful expressions, smiled and took the cloth towel handed over by the maid and began to wipe his sweat.

"Take a rest, take a rest. You have worked hard today, and I will invite everyone to roast the lamb tonight."

Whether it is a young conscript or an old fried dough stick who is holding back bad food, everyone smiles when they hear the words: "Thank you, General!"

Xu Rong briskly approached A Sheng: "My lord, look, the soldiers are working hard, you... can't justify not producing two jars of wine."

Ah Sheng started off: "You should call me Duke Hua." Even so, she took out her token and approved the temporary drinking license of the Dalian garrison. "Fifty bags of burnt knives, twenty altars of apricot blossoms, no more."

Xu Rong happily accepted the permission order: "Brothers, the lady gave twenty altars of Xinghuachun. This is a good wine with a market price of hundreds of gold!"

As soon as these words were uttered, Xu Rong's soldiers who were sullen just now also shouted happily: "Thank you, Duke Hua, thank you Duke Hua for the fine wine."

Only Xu Rong's lieutenant general still had a stinky face, speaking in a strange tone: "I wonder when Duke Hua will let me go and grab Xianbei again?"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Rong kicked his ass: "How did you talk? What did you rob? Who robbed you? We are Master Wang, and that's called rewarding meritorious deeds."

The lieutenant fell and ate shit, which caused a lot of laughter.He lost his temper and forgot his original problem, he just covered his buttocks and howled: "It was my fault, reward for merit, reward for merit."

Xu Rong didn't want to pay attention to this teaser, so he walked up to A Sheng by himself and lowered his voice: "My lord, although the cattle and sheep in the field have not lost much in the past few years, these people are used to vulgarity, and they will make trouble if they don't fight." He straightened his back slightly. "Of course, the lady also understands military affairs, so I don't need to say more. It's just that the brothers are throwing their heads and blood, and please don't let them die."

Why are you so good at talking?

A Sheng took out a brocade brocade book with black background and gold thread from his pocket. On the cover of the booklet was printed the bronzing Liaodong Army seal and a big "secret" character. "Yes. If there is a change, act accordingly. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry will cooperate with you at that time."

Xu Rong was overjoyed and took the brocade book.He turned his body to block his hands, and then secretly opened a slit, scanning quickly, the more serious the expression on his face became.

"My lady is really careful, she has thought of everything." Xu Rong finally finished reading several pages of text. He carefully buttoned the brocade book and stuffed it into his sleeve. When he looked up, he saw that Cao Sheng had already boarded the board. deck.

Xu Rong ran to the beach and shouted: "My lady, my lady, are you so urgent?"

"The boat is too small to withstand the wind and waves. There are only a few days when there is no wind at sea in autumn. Of course it is urgent." Ah Sheng answered loudly on the deck.

Xu Rong quickly took out a cloth bag from behind the wooden boxes piled up on the pier, and ran along the plank road to the side of the ship: "My lady, a little farewell."

After traveling so many times, it was the first time Ah Sheng received a farewell gift from his subordinates.Perhaps this is the difference between Cao Cao's subordinates and his own.

A Sheng made a serious face: "The rules of Liaodong, all the gifts between managers and generals, not relatives within five clothes, should not be higher than six hundred gold."

Xu Rong ignored it, and directly stuffed the burlap bag into A Sheng's arms. "Xuantu crispy cheese, made by a distant aunt in my family. I heard that the female monarch likes this."

Ah Sheng: "Oh..."

The sea-going ship with the White Rabbit flag slowly left the port with a fleet of sixteen small grain carriers.Standing under the clear sky, Ah Sheng watched the coastline gradually recede until the figures on the shore, together with the bustling harbor, were no longer visible.

Ah Sheng turned around and entered the cabin.There is still a drought in Liaodong, let alone the Central Plains.This year's drought has affected such a wide range and depth that Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Cao Cao may all starve.My brother definitely wants to help, but how much to help and what kind of compromise will be exchanged for it is debatable.

They are not only themselves now, but behind each of them is the fate of tens of millions of people.

In the past three years, the previous "Qingzhou Agreement" appears rough and outdated.Ah Sheng typed a few cases with his pen one after another.Qingzhou is fairly stable, while Yanzhou has bigger problems.She doesn't have enough students who can speak the Yanzhou accent, which makes it difficult for young village officials to integrate into the grassroots work in Yanzhou. If the relationship with the masses is not good, everything will go wrong.Running a school conflicted with the local aristocratic family, and conflicted with Cao Cao's generals when collecting food.

have to change.

The purpose of dispatching officials between different regions is to ease regional conflicts, not to exacerbate them.Maybe she has to open a training class for adult cadres, and pull poor local scholars from Yanzhou to Weihai for further study, and then return to Yanzhou to become grassroots officials after the study.

If the final plan can be passed, it will be another big project - Weihai's status will face drastic changes, from a central port city to a cultural and educational center city.

"Master, what is this? It looks moldy." The voice of the little maid, Chuantan, pulled Ah Sheng back from his chaotic thoughts.I saw the little girl picked out a palm-sized bluish-white object from the cloth bag with a look of disgust, and threw it back like a hand.

Asheng laughed out loud. "Grind off the outer shell of the long hair, and the inner part can be boiled for milk tea."

"Is it the same as cow's milk, goat's milk, and horse's milk?"

"In the past, Liaodong was very difficult, and even the fermented dairy products that had been fermented for a long time were not willing to discard them. Due to the advantages and disadvantages of the production and preservation methods, crisps, cheese, and dried milk are either bitter and poisonous, or mellow and sweet."

While listening, Chuantan pouted while handling the piece of long-haired Xuantu cheese.

"When I first arrived in Liaodong, in order to prepare military rations, I tasted nine types of cheese from various places," Asheng laughed and shook his head, "Several Xuantu cheese is the most filling, and it has no smell or toxicity. It is used as dry food for cavalry It couldn't be better. But because some soldiers from the Central Plains were allergic to shortbread cheese, and some people were lactose intolerant, it didn't spread. Later, when there was more money, there were compressed biscuits, and Xuantu shortbread gradually became popular. No one mentioned it."

In the voice of her eloquent narration, Chuantan has already chopped the crispy cheese into small pieces on a small chopping board.The water in the teapot boiled, and as the cheese slices were put into the pot, the surface of the water became oily, and a strong milk fragrance quickly spread in the cabin.

"So, General Xu sent this gift to the heart of the master?" Chuan Xiaotan was indignant, "I just can't understand how he is rude to the master."

Ah Sheng was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand: "You are alive and well, aren't you? You are also alive and well. Here comes the tea."

Chuantan twisted his hands twice, but still poured a bowl of butter tea and sent it to Ah Sheng's table.Grease, tea and salt collide together, creating a simple and warm local taste.

Ah Sheng held the empty bowl and looked out the window at the unchanging sea. "I sent Yuan Feng out two months ago, I don't know what's going on now."

Turning back the time to a month ago, the mass graves on the outskirts of Chang'an City, which was still shrouded in scorching heat, were littered with corpses.But those who died of starvation recently even rotted into white bones. Except for the parts gnawed off by rats, most of the rest were dehydrated and turned into skinny and semi-mummy.

The sky was dark, and the heat still lingered.The stench of corpses floated in the air, slowly numb the human sense of smell.

A sallow and emaciated child who wobbled as he walked, looked like he might fall down at any time, but he was still kneeling and crawling, dragging a corpse to the corpse pit.

"Sister, woo... sister." The hoarse and ugly cry was almost the same as the cry of a crow.

The moon showed its face from behind the black clouds, and the pale light shone on the ferocious face of the female corpse, as well as on the clothes woven by the female corpse Gesi.

Suddenly, a cold male voice sounded, as if blowing a cold wind into the heart in the hot night: "She doesn't look like your sister."

The naked child was frightened and froze.On the raised earth slope next to the mass grave, a beggar appeared at some point, his face was hidden under the messy hair, and when the moon illuminated it, only his white teeth were shining.

"Gesi clothes, Lingyun bun, although the flesh on the limbs is almost gone, but this small face, tsk tsk, thin skin and tender flesh, you can see that you don't have to worry about food and clothing." When the beggar said this, he suddenly laughed. There is a bit of strange tenderness in it, "If I were you, I would pick off the beads on the skirt of this lady officer. They are smaller, but they are also coral beads. There are also soles. The soles of the ladies' shoes are thick, and there are often broken pieces hidden inside. Gold. This is real gold, not copper..."

He rambled on and picked up the corpse from head to toe in his mouth, and finally came to the experience that "a fat corpse can feed a little orphan for several months".

Probably because this "beggar ghost" was too talkative, the little boy was frightened and went all out. "Shut up! Sister is a hero, even if I die of starvation, I won't take anything from Sister's body."

"Oh—hero—a woman raised in the palace by Emperor Dong?"

His contemptuous laughter seemed to sprinkle salt on the child's scars, and he couldn't help shouting. "Sister is a hero!"

"Even high officials like Yang Biao and Wang Yun say my sister is a hero."

"She assassinated Dong thief and did something that many people dare not do."

……

The beggar showed his big white teeth: "Is it useful? Dong Zhuo is dead, and the Xiliang army is divided. Chang'an is divided into three, and each is king, and the people can't live even more."

He stands up and dusts off his ass.

"Yang Biao and Wang Yun just boasted. Why didn't they come to collect the body when the female officer was killed by Guo Bang? Oh—that's right—they are busy helping the deposed emperor of Han escape. How can they care about one of them? A woman who has been defiled by Dong Zhuo? Hahaha, dignified and dignified, a model of morality, sometimes she is not as good as a beggar."

"You shut up! You shut up!"

The beggar suddenly ran up to the little boy with unusual agility, grabbed the back of his head, and forced him to look directly into his eyes. "Boy, I'll help you bury 'Sister', you follow me."

The beggar's eyes are extremely black, like a bottomless abyss; but extremely bright, like stars at the bottom of the abyss.

As if bewitched, the little boy stopped his anger, and he stepped forward to grab the beggar's dirty arm. "You...where are you going?"

"Go east and return to Luoyang first."

"Luoyang, hasn't Luoyang been burned down?"

"If it's burned, it can be rebuilt. I think that's what the deposed emperor and the group of remaining officials of the Han Dynasty thought too."

The beggar strode forward along the moonlit road, as if he was not at all afraid of the Xiliang army inside the city wall in the distance.

The child has to run to keep up with him.Hungry and weak, he still struggled to follow, even though the future lay ahead of him that he still couldn't comprehend.

Two figures, one long and one short, were elongated on the dry ground by the pale moon.The sound of their conversation could be heard faintly in the night wind.

"Why did you take me away?"

"Ha, because the mass grave is very kind."

"Uncle, what's your name?"

"...You can call me Uncle Six now, but you will have to call me Manager in the future. Boy, what's your name again?"

"Diaowei, my sister took it. She used to serve porridge outside the palace wall under the order of Emperor Han, and she brought it for us. Huben, Changuan, Xiezhi, Diaowei... now I am the only one left."

The author has something to say: If I said that the dead female official was Diao Chan, who was in charge of ministers' clothes, would you kill me?

Huben, Changuan, Xiezhi, and Diaowei are all names derived from the official costumes of the Han Dynasty.Diao Chan was originally a fictional character, and "Three Kingdoms" only has a sentence "Dong Zhuo's maid had an affair with Lu Bu", and it didn't say how beautiful the maid was, nor did she say what the maid's name was, and she was not Wang Yun's adopted daughter.

This article does not use the character "Diao Chan", that's all.

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Qin Liu said it was kind, because before he was adopted by Yuyingtang, Luoyang touched the corpse.

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