Fall in love with the technology tree [Three Kingdoms]

"Second brother was fine before, but since Dong Zhuo's incident, it has become more and more difficult to understand." Xia Houdun shouted in Yanzhou governor's mansion, his eyes almost popped out, "My guards in Dongjun only have half a month's food. Yes. Is it to be given or not to be given, can you have a happy word?!"

His cousin Xia Houyuan also came to wait for the food, but Xia Houyuan was much calmer, squatting on the ground to cut arrow branches. "You have the ability to say so in front of Cao Zhonghua. Let's see if she doesn't cut you to death."

In the conflict between the Cao family brothers, it is not easy for the chicken thief's counselors to intervene.At this time, whether it was the old acquaintances Xun Yu and Xun You, or the later Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Chen Gong, etc., they all held the documents and pretended to be deaf.

Cao Cao irritatedly tapped on several cases: "When there is a shortage of food, how can we count on the help of others? We have been farming in Yanzhou and Qingzhou for three years."

"Brother, there have been many natural disasters in the past few years. If we hadn't garrisoned the fields, we would have eaten mussels like Yuan Shu's army. It is true that the production has been reduced by more than [-]% this year, so we have to count on the relief of the second brother."

Cao Cao flipped through this year's tax book, and sighed again: "In terms of farming and mulberry, no one can compare with Zhonghua. Look, Weihai is also suffering from drought. It hasn't rained for two months, and it can still feed the people. Myself. If her students were not too upright, I really want to ask some agricultural officials to come over, oh..."

When fighting Yuan Shu last year, the battle was tense, and the army was more eager to collect food and soldiers. In order to resist the forced requisition, some medical officers and academic officers were killed at the gate of the government office in the county.Originally, Weihai Port's hand was very loose, but after this incident, it would not transport grain without Cao Sheng's personal letter.

Even Weihai's agricultural tax was delayed for two months last year. It was not until Cao Sheng's reprimand letter floated thousands of miles from Jiaozhou to Qingzhou that Weihai County Magistrate Tai Shilang sent fifty carts of dried dates and apples with a bad face.

As soon as Cao Sheng's students were mentioned, the atmosphere among the counselors became more and more strange.Cheng Yu, who was in charge of the forced conquest, bowed his head and pretended to be dead.Guo Jia secretly covered his face with bamboo slips and pulled Xun Yu's arm.

"Although I have never met Cao Zhonghua, he is famous and wealthy, and his subordinates are full of talents. If such a brother can't be controlled well, it will be a big trouble for the lord."

Xun Yu moved his arm, freed his sleeve from Guo Jia's clutches, and replied in a low voice: "The example of the Yuan brothers is right in front of us, how can we provoke the relationship between the master and the brothers?"

Guo Jia: "I'm not stupid. Just look at the appearance of the lord, do you still need someone to provoke you? Separation in different places is easy to create rifts. Unless Mr. Zhonghua comes to Yanzhou in person, the rift will only get worse. big."

They have been whispering for too long, and they have already attracted the attention of Cao Cao. "Feng Xiao, Wen Ruo, what are you talking about—forget it, I think you're talking about Zhong Hua. Don't worry, Zhong Hua doesn't agree with me using troops everywhere, but this time it's a severe drought in several states. I don't care."

Cheng Yu's counselors, who had only heard of Cao Sheng's reputation, became even more curious after hearing this.

At this moment, the joyful voice of the servant came from outside. "Master, master, a letter from Liaodong."

Cao Cao stood up quickly: "Submit it quickly." He took an envelope from the servant and tore it open.On a piece of white paper inside was written several flamboyant cursive scripts: On the river against the river, grain arrives, come and pick it up.

I went upstream along the big river and delivered food to Juancheng Ferry in person. Come and pick me up.

Full of arrogance.

Juancheng, the city where Cao Cao is now, has more than [-] soldiers.The soldiers' camp stretched all the way to the Yellow River.This is not sending food to the lair, this is sending food to the face.

Cao Cao laughed out loud. "Okay, okay!" He looked around, "The life-saving rations have arrived, so go and meet them."

Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan felt relieved, they stopped turning around, and those who chipped sticks stopped, and ran out directly.Cao Cao pulled Cheng Yu up with one hand, and Guo Jia with the other: "They are all documents that are short of food in various places. It doesn't matter if you don't read them. Let's go for a walk."

So Cao Ying's civil servants and generals came out in full force, and drove to the north of the city with hundreds of tiger and leopard guards.Before we reached the river, we could see the shadows of three-storey boats lined up to the east, and it was impossible to count how many boats there were.

The soldiers in the north had never seen such a large ship before. At this time, they all gathered in front of the camp, some watching the excitement, and some full of vigilance.It wasn't until Cao Cao's face appeared that he had a backbone, and they all made way.

The white rabbit flag was hoisted on the leading ship, and Cao Cao's eyes twitched at the sight of that cute rabbit.Well, even today he still can't understand his sister's obsession with the white rabbit.

"It's just transporting food, why is it worth your trip?" Cao Cao yelled loudly as he rushed to the front on horseback.

He didn't use any polite words, not even a title, the intimacy between words was the only one Guo Jia had ever seen in his life.He narrowed his eyes slightly.

A figure with a men's square bun appeared on the boat, just leaning on the side of the boat and leaning over made it look beautiful and amiable.He looked down at Cao Cao: "Restrain your soldiers, I'm going to unload the food. Don't worry about your family's food management, come and count the signatures."

Cao Cao laughed and scolded: "My family is not in charge of Yanzhou Biejia, but Dongping Prime Minister Cheng Yu. You are free and easy overseas, and even your brothers and subordinates are forgotten."

Ah Sheng tilted his head: "You said Cheng Yu, and I knew it. The food requisition was three feet away, and the conscription went to the head of the school teacher, and I owed me two lives."

Cheng Yu felt cold behind his back, neither going out nor going back.Then I heard the people on the upper deck continue to say: "If you are in his position to seek his own affairs, if he is in charge, come out and hand over the signature."

Cao Cao let out a sigh of relief, Ah Sheng really got into a quarrel with Cheng Yu, and it would only be him who is both the elder brother and the boss.He turned to look at Cheng Yu: "Zhongde..."

Cheng Yu was very savvy: "I have already brought out the carts used to transport grain, so I will take someone to count them."

A wooden plank was set up on the bow, and the first to disembark were the pristine grain transport soldiers. They formed a semicircle under the boat, and the grain bags unloaded were protected in the encirclement. A blackboard was exited. Every time Cheng Yu took over a bag of grain, the blackboard Make a straight stroke on it.When the shipment of grain was finished, the leading grain transporter stood at attention and saluted:

"On September 28th in the autumn of the sixth year of Emperor Shaodi, Dalian, Liaodong sent the first shipment of grain to Juancheng, Yanzhou, totaling [-] shi of corn grains, [-] shi of sweet potatoes, [-] shi of millet, and [-] shi of miscellaneous beans. Verify."

Cheng Yu took the sapphire paper folded seal from the opposite side. The first page was the food approval document written by Cao Sheng, and the seals of the Liaodong prefect, the Nanhai prefect, and the Liudao garrison.The second page is the seal of the agricultural official in a place called Liudao, the place of origin, the third page is the record when it was reloaded in Dalian, and the last page is divided into [-] columns, corresponding to [-] shipments of grain, waiting for his signature and seal .

With this document alone, we can track down every link of this batch of grain from birth to transportation, and the people in charge of the decision-making, including Cao Sheng, can't get away.

Cheng Yu was originally a legalist who advocated "heavy codes in troubled times", otherwise he wouldn't be able to do the thing of forcefully confiscating military rations.Facing this meticulous document, he was fascinated just looking at it. "It is said that Cao Zhonghua is 'Han Fei of the present age', it is really better to see once than to hear a hundred times."

The Liaodong grain transporter frowned: "Yanzhou grain officer?"

"Ah, oh." Cheng Yu came back to his senses, and quickly signed the amount of the first shipment of grain, in duplicate.

The food transporter took one of them and returned to the deck. "Master, the first ship has a total of [-] shi, and the handover has been completed. It's almost noon, should the master disembark for dinner, or wait for all the grain ships to unload?"

Ah Sheng put on a thin black cloak: "It is your responsibility to hand over the grain."

The food transport soldiers said solemnly: "No, the humble ranks must do their duty."

The sun shines through the clouds and sprinkles brilliance on the river, dyeing the river in a yellow color that is completely different from that of later generations, shining so excitingly.Ah Sheng came down from the deck with forty soldiers, and bumped into the excited Cao Cao head-on, grabbed her hand and shouted: "Ah Sheng, there are too many, too many. Thirty ships! Enough!" Yanzhou has been eating it for a year!"

"Brother, there is not much millet in my place, and most of them are miscellaneous grains, potatoes, beans, etc. You can get used to it."

Cao Cao calmed down and gripped Ah Sheng's hand even tighter. "Miscellaneous grains are miscellaneous grains. If there is something to eat, let them pick and choose? It's better than Cheng Yu's idea of ​​cannibalism." He shaved his face. "This year, there is a severe drought in many counties. If you are hit by a disaster, you have to give me food , it makes me ashamed to be an elder brother."

"I'm ashamed too." Ah Sheng lowered his head slightly, "Brothers settle accounts clearly, I came with an agreement, and I always have to give an explanation to the people under my command."

Cao Cao sighed inwardly, knowing that it would not be so easy to expose the past: "The matter between the medical officer and the school teacher, I will apologize to you."

Ah Sheng closed his eyes and shook his head: "Agreement."

"Okay, okay, agreement. Eat first, and talk slowly after dinner." Cao Cao grabbed his sister's shoulders and led the team back to the city amidst the cheers of the soldiers.There was only one Cheng Yu left, who was hungry and struggling to carry food.

There are a total of 29 grain ships left, and they cannot be moved even after dark.

The youngest Cao Chun still wanted to sprinkle salt on the wound: "I advised you not to offend the second brother."

Cheng Yu: "If I'm not mistaken, it's a female monarch."

Cao Chun quickly covered Cheng Yu's mouth. "That's Cao Zhonghua, who is famous all over the world. "Cao's Arithmetic", "Cao's History", "Cao's Five Classics", "Acupuncture and Medicine Through the Ancients" are all written by her word by word, even Zheng Xuan himself Sigh."

Cheng Yu silently went back to carry food: I'm afraid it's going to be cold.

When Cheng Yu was worried about his good head, Cao Sheng had already entered the Cao Mansion in Juancheng - a remodeled old mansion.The stone brick carvings are all in the style of the Western Han Dynasty more than a hundred years ago.The interior furnishings are also quite simple, but the maidservant's face value is on the high side.But after thinking about it, after all, Ding and Bian are both in Yanzhou, and it's not her turn to take care of them.

Ah Sheng was only distracted for a moment, and then turned his thoughts back to the main topic.After being hidden in the south for nearly 20 years, corn and sweet potatoes finally landed on the land of the Central Plains. What a historic event.

Choosing this time to introduce new crops to the Central Plains was a decision made by Ah Sheng after repeated calculations.

After the severe drought, there was a plague of locusts. The scope of this severe drought is too wide. According to the number of eggs in the Qingzhou sampling report, the plague of locusts may last for two or three years.If we don't grow sweet potatoes that are relatively insect-resistant in Yanzhou this year, Cao Cao will still have to rely on her for blood transfusions next year.

Now Cao Cao has a territory and a team.It is not required that he can strictly control the seeds, and if he can spread it in his own territory first, his economic strength will be able to overtake Yuan Shao in the north.

"Today I brought the chef here, how about I invite brother and all the virtuous people to have a feast of mixed grains?"

Cao Cao, who was short of food in his own mansion, raised his hands in agreement: "Just eat the feast of mixed grains! Hahaha, is there any better food than mixed grains nowadays?"

Sitting at the guest seat, Ah Sheng calmly took in the expressions on the faces of the counselors and generals.There was an old acquaintance Xun You at the table, and he smiled when he saw her. She was not good-looking enough to be friendly enough to join in, and he was also a handsome uncle.Just more wrinkles around the eyes.

Not to mention Xun You, Cao Cao also has crow's feet when he smiles.People of the same age have reached this age.

Correspondingly, there are a lot of young and unfamiliar faces, military generals include Yu Jin, counselors include Guo Jia and Chen Gong.The gazes from the opposite side were not all friendly, but Ah Sheng pretended not to see them and clapped his hands.

Let's eat and eat, the sky is big and the earth is big, and the meal is the biggest.

The first dish: corn and sweet potato porridge.

Second course: Roasted Sweet Potatoes.

The third course: boiled corn on the cob.

The fourth course: salty cornmeal french fries.

Fifth Course: Sweet Potato Mash with Creamy Cane Sugar.

Finish.The side dishes were nothing more than leaves of wild vegetables.

Although the dishes were simple, everyone at the table was still full of stomachs.Those with smaller appetites are like Guo Jia, who didn’t touch his chopsticks for the last course of mashed sweet potatoes.

Cao Cao laughed loudly: "Feng Xiao is at a disadvantage this time, the previous ones are all eaten by ordinary people, only the last two pastries are expensive delicacies."

Guo Jia still had sweet potatoes on the corner of his mouth, so he hurriedly wrapped the mashed sweet potatoes in oiled paper and stuffed them into his bosom. "The soldiers haven't had enough to eat for a long time, and it's time for them to taste the feeling of being full of sweet potatoes."

Unfamiliar food is not pleasant in the army, but fortunately there are three thousand stones of millet before the first meal can be distributed.What Guo Jia meant was to promote the way of eating new grains in the army as soon as possible.Since Cao Sheng moved the corn and sweet potatoes to Cao Cao's banquet, I am afraid that the 29 boats behind will be full of miscellaneous grains, not even half a grain of millet.

"This counselor's mind is so quick." Ah Sheng boasted.

Cao Cao proudly introduced: "Yingchuan Guo Jia, Guo Fengxiao, also arrived this month. He just won the crown this year, and he has already acted very well, no worse than a 30-year-old." But when the subject changed, Cao Cao's tone dropped again, "Zhicai is seriously ill, and recommended Fengxiao to help..."

"Seriously ill? Can't the medical officer heal?"

Immediately called the great doctor sent by Ding's side to ask questions.

The great doctor knelt and sat in the hallway of the banquet room, lowering his head: "Master, Lou Chong, the medical officer in Shanyang County where Mr. Xi was stationed, died... a year ago."

Lou Chong was the passionate young man who bumped himself to death in order to resist grain requisition.

Ah Sheng took a deep breath: "Lou Chong is dead, how about you? Can Mr. Xi stay in Shanyang forever?"

The doctor suddenly raised his head and said loudly: "Mr. Xi has lung swelling and hemoptysis, and a large amount of white powder [1] infusion cannot save his life. In order to retaliate against Yanzhou, Weihai has not sent white powder for a year. This point in my hand is for Meng Degong. Keep emergency ones with Mrs. Ding."

Cao Cao became impatient, and stood up and kicked over the table: "You never said that! You all said that it was terminally ill. Both Ding and I are in good health. Whatever magic medicine you have, I will use it for Zhicai. "

The counselors and generals in the house were also furious, and Chen Gong, who was the most irritable, even drew his sword.

Ah Sheng had already left the door, stood next to the big doctor and looked down at her, sighing softly: "You really make it difficult for me."

The little maid, Chuantan, followed her with a medicine box in her arms. She gritted her teeth and reprimanded the great doctor: "Although I am not a medical student, I have followed the master for so many years, and the most common sentence I have heard is the benevolence of doctors. You have only been in the Central Plains for a few years. Have you even changed your mind?"

The doctor's eyes were red, and he raised his head and wept: "I am a person who came from the old times, so it's fine to call myself a slave. Those children grew up in the South Island. Which one is not a master of classics and history, knows arithmetic and has broken thousands of books in ten years?" Even compared to these people in the mansion, it may not be inferior. Because of the passion for protecting the people, he was belittled in the fields, and he has suffered countless grievances over the years."

She suddenly laughed maniacally: "Hahaha, hahaha, these great talents, they don't even know what white powder is, and they think it's Wushi powder! Just like that, we dare to say that we doctors are cheap. Ignorance It is more extreme than a frog at the bottom of a well. The master shines the sky on Yanzhou, but he does not know that snakes and rats are as afraid of light as enemies!"

Following her accusation, the faces of Cao Cao's family turned pale.Cao Chun muttered softly, "It's a good thing Cheng Yu isn't here, otherwise I'm afraid I'll be bitten to death."

Only Ah Sheng watched the woman venting calmly, until she finished speaking, and began to repeat the last sentence meaninglessly. "Let's go, lead the way."

"Owner?"

"I am not Tianguang. I am respected because I am in awe of life. Lead the way."

The author has something to say: [1] In the setting of this article, coarse penicillin powder is called "green powder", and high-purity penicillin sodium is called "white powder".