Chapter 240 Cao Mengde Liu Dark Flowers

When Cao Cao and Guo Jia finished talking, he looked at the crowd like a torch. At this time, the veteran Cai Yang took the lead in saying to Cao Cao, "Mr. Cao, at present, there is a shortage of grain and fodder in Xuzhou City than us. In this case, how can we have extra grain and fodder to supply those prisoners? ... We might as well slaughter all the jackal captives. In this way, there are at least two benefits, one is to end the future! Instead, it is to temporarily slow down the shortage of food and fodder..."

Cai Yang's suggestions are iron-blooded, iron-fisted, cold enough, in one step. His suggestion was agreed by most people. Some people had other ideas, but they felt that their suggestions were not as powerful and profound as Cai Yang's, and very realistic. They kept silent.

Cao Cao felt that almost everyone agreed with Cai Yang's suggestion. While brushing his beard, he said to everyone, "Gentlemen, General Cai's proposal is indeed feasible... As for the shortage of food and fodder, if it is expected to be good, it will be alleviated in three days, because under the will of Emperor Xian, Youzhou Gongsun Zan has allocated 400,000 catties of grain and fodder to supply us, and Gongsun Zan's grain and fodder will be transported to the boundary of Xuzhou in three days..."

Since Cao Cao led the army to attack Lv Bu, so far, only Youzhou Gongsun Zan has taken the initiative to provide 400,000 catties of grain and fodder in other states and counties. Of course, this is also the food and fodder provided by Gongsun Zan for Liu Bei's face. After all, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei used to be classmates and friends with deep affection.

After Cao Cao's words were finished, everyone's faces suddenly smiled and blossomed. They felt very happy and relaxed, as if there were rich dishes and wine in front of them at this moment, even if the reality is that there is only wild vegetable soup on the table in front of them...

Temporarily solved the problem of food and fodder in his imagination, and then Xu Huang, who was in charge of the vigilance of the city, asked Cao Cao again: "Mr. Cao, after we occupied Xuzhou City, the people in the city would leave the city... These people were forced to stop by force..."

"Ha ha, these unruly people are afraid that they will take revenge on them..." Cao Cao said with a disapproving smile.

Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao and said slowly, "Cao Gong, the affairs of Xuzhou City will be handed over to his subordinates from tomorrow..."

"Well, then there will be Lao Guo's sacrifice wine..." Cao Cao smiled and said to Guo Jia with a grateful face.

On the second day, Cao Cao led a large army to leave Xuzhou City, leaving only Xu Huang and 2,000 light cavalry to protect Guo Jia and garrison Xuzhou City. The departure of Cao's army suddenly stabilized the panicked city of Xuzhou. Guo Jia presided over the government affairs and military affairs of Xuzhou City. The first thing he did was to make three chapters with the people of Xuzhou City and posted all corners of the city in the form of announcements. The main meaning of the three chapters of the covenant is that the Cao army and the army and the people of the city coexist peacefully and do not invade each other. The order of the city is still carried out according to the previous standards...

After that, Guo Jia did the second thing vigorously: he asked Zhang Liao and Zang Ba, who surrendered and surrendered, to choose loyal soldiers from the prisoners. After that, Guo Jia tied up the remaining thousands of prisoners and sent them to the vegetable market in batches, so that the people could let go and retaliate against them... After all, for a few months Come on, these Xiliang iron cavalry, under the connivance of Wei Xu, Song Xian and other generals, committed a crime against the people of the city!

Now, when the opportunity for revenge comes, ordinary people gather in the vegetable market with indignation and surging to retaliate against the former enemies by various means and methods: the 70-year-old woman, regardless of her body that has not eaten for many days, holds a kitchen knife and is tied to Xiliang, which is tied by five flowers. The iron cavalry's head was cut off, which does not mean that the old woman is vicious and her heart is like a poisonous scorpion, because her two daughters and four granddaughters have been spoiled by the cruel Xiliang wolf soldiers... The ten-year-old teenager held a firewood knife in his hands and cut off the neck of the enemy who was tied up with his best. It was not that the young man was cruel at a young age, but his family. People were killed by Xiliang jackal soldiers...

In the overwhelming revenge of the people, the bodies of a group of Xiliang jackal soldiers were removed, and then another wave of jackal soldiers were escorted to the execution ground... A few days later, thousands of jackal soldiers were killed by the crazy people. These days, it's really a carnival in Xuzhou City, a real carnival with flesh and blood. Under the stimulation of extreme emotions, the vast majority of people do not feel hungry, especially after Guo Jia received hundreds of thousands of grains and fodder contributed by Youzhou Gongsun Zan, and opened a warehouse to help the people...

Guo Jia's successive actions, like the boxer's amazing combination boxing, immediately conquered the people of Xuzhou City. In this kind of obedient mood, no one is willing to leave Xuzhou City.

And witnessed the crazy revenge of ordinary people, the surviving Xiliang iron cavalry were like hungry dreams, reflecting one by one in panic... In this deep reflection, Zhang Liao actually found his own opportunity to break through his own imprisonment. In front of Guo Jia, he successfully entered the innate realm and became a summoning fierce general. .

At that time, Xu Huang, who protected Guo Jia, was afraid that Zhang Liao would hurt Guo Jia. He stood up and moved behind Guo Jia, pressed the sword on his waist, and paid close attention to Zhang Liao, who was shrouded in blue. Zang Ba, who was beside him, looked at Zhang Liao with an envious face.

Wating Zhang Liao freely put away the starry air mask like waving his arms, he opened his eyes and bowed to Guo Jia. At the same time, he said with gratitude, "Thank you for your teaching for many days, and I finally understand it today..."

Guo Jia also stood up and quickly walked to Zhang Liao. He stretched out his hand to help him up. At the same time, he smiled and said, "Captain Zhang, you are too arrogant. This is all due to the deep blessing of Zhang Duwei... Congratulations to Captain Zhang Duwei on entering the innate realm!"

Xu Huang and Zang Ba also followed Guo Jia to congratulate Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao's moved eyes were wet, and he kept noding to the crowd one after another to express his gratitude.

After a while, Xu Huang led his generals to leave Xuzhou City. At the same time, Cao Cao's appointment to promote Zhang Liao to the governor of Xuzhou was also sent to Guo Jia's table. After Guo Jia announced the appointment in public, he also temporarily stayed in Xuzhou to assist Zhang Liao in the stability and development of Xuzhou.

As a reward for Zhang Liao becoming a super general, Guo Jia privately gave Lv Bu's Hundred Flower Armor and the Divine Soldier Fang Tianhua halberd to Zhang Liao. In the face of Cao Cao's kindness, Guo Jia's trust and gift of treasures, Zhang Liaoning is willing to spread his mind.

Baihua Zhanjia and Fang Tianhua halberd are so noble. Several super generals under Cao Cao's command also lack the magic weapons and the best armor and equipment.

Although Zhang Liao is very familiar with Xuzhou City, he asked him to manage Xuzhou City. Zhang Liao felt dizzy: he would rather face Lv Bu's generals and fierce enemies, and he did not want to deal with specific affairs about the city in person. Fortunately, with the help of Guo Jia, Zhang Liao easily handled all aspects of the city.

There are strengths and weaknesses, and there is a specialty in the art industry. Not to mention managing a city, even managing a country, Guo Jia is also proficient.

First of all, Guo Jia spent half a day mastering the number of households and the layout of the city in Xuzhou City. Xuzhou is an old city. Its city is as large as three Xuchang cities, with 300,000 households and a population of up to one million. This is far less than the millions of people in the heyday of Xuzhou City...

Secondly, Guo Jia restored the former officials to their positions and retained them in their original positions. In order to completely stabilize the mentality and mood of the people, under his suggestion, Cao Cao brought another batch of grain from Xuchang to relieve Xuzhou. Although at this time, Cao Cao's army was hungry almost every day in Xuchang

Again, this is the autumn harvest season. Guo Jia decomposed hundreds of officials into good fields and urged them to take advantage of the good weather to collect grain. At the same time, he issued a government notice: farmers were exempted from three years of service and one year of corvée. Taxes are levied according to the number of beams of the house. If this tax collection standard is in a peaceful and prosperous era, it will definitely be strongly opposed by vested interests, but in this eventful and crisisous era, the group of vested interests will silently bear it.

Such a policy makes the hard-working people excited. No matter how tired the farm work is, even if the sunshine is poisonous, they don't care about it. Under Guo Jia's series of pro-people policies, they seem to have gone from hell to heaven.

In this way, Xuzhou changed from post-war panic to stability in a short period of time. A month later, more and more people gathered in Xuzhou City, especially beautiful women. Lv Bu, who used to be as hungry and thirsty as a wolf, was in Xuzhou. Many large families were afraid of disaster, so they sent their slightly beautiful daughters away and took shelter in the countryside. Now, Lv Bu died, and these large families took their daughters from the countryside to the city.

Guo Jia's excellent performance has been admired by Zhang Liao, Zang Ba and others. Accompanied by Guo Jia all day long, Zhang Liao observed that in addition to the issuance of political orders, Guo Jia was still serious and normal. For most of the rest of the day, Guo Jia was soaked in the brothel. In troubled times, the economy is depressed, and all industries are abandoned. Only the business of brothel is booming. Because Lv Bu, the former owner of Xuzhou, is of good quality, the Xuzhou brothel is very high. Under the service of talented geishas, Guo Jia lives a free life like a fairy.

Getting along with Guo Jia day and night, the careful Zhang Liao also found that no matter what kind of person he is, Guo Jia is willing to contact. However, after contact with Guo Jia, the end of these people is different: people who are kind and loyal are appreciated and reused by Guo Jia; people who are treacherous and greedy are directly used by Guo Jia to prove the fairness and coercion of the law.

On specific occasions and events, Guo Jia turned around faster than turning over a book!

In a word, managing Xuzhou City, Guo Jia is holding a candy in one hand and a stick in the other. Candy, if you know a good person, Guo Jia will give it to others; stick, if you meet a bad person, Guo Jia will also hit it.

Once, Guo Jia and Zhang Liao paraded in the downtown area, Guo Jia quietly asked Zhang Liao, "Zhang Taishou, in this downtown area, through clothes and expressions, you may find who is the thief?"

"Sir, humble eyes, I can't see who the thief is!" Zhang Liao can only determine his identity with the eyesight of a super fierce general when the thief takes action.

"Ha ha, Zhang Taishou, look: That man is a thief!" Guo Jia covered it with his cuffs and pointed to a man walking in the crowd and said.

Zhang Liao looked at it carefully and didn't find any clues. After a while, the man reached out and stole the wallet of a man who was buying things. When he successfully stole it, Zhang Liao's big hands had clasped his wrist. With such strong evidence, the thief had to plead guilty and was brought back to be punished by the patrol guard.

After that, in a pub, when the two were drinking and talking, Zhang Liao couldn't suppress his doubts. He asked Guo Jia, "Sir, how did you find out that the man was a thief?"

Guo Jia smiled and said, "Zhang Taishou, the reason is very simple. Zhang Taishou, every profession has occupational diseases, such as a lustful person like me. In a large enemy, he likes to look at the important parts of a woman's body... A thief? He doesn't look at beautiful women, but wanders around and stares at the wallets of the people..."

"Ha ha, sir, I know the humble position!" Zhang Liao suddenly realized and said.

"Oh, Zhang Taishou, do you know how to distinguish between flies?" Guo Jia asked Zhang Liao a new question with a bad smile.

Zhang Liao was immediately aroused by this question. He locked his eyebrows and thought about it, but he didn't think of the answer. He was about to ask questions when he was mentioned by Guo Jia, which diverted the focus of his mind.

"Zhang Taishou, if he let you choose: whether to follow me to go away from home or follow Cao Gong, how will you choose?" Guo Jia asked calmly.

"This..." Zhang Liao didn't know how to answer for a moment. He really didn't understand why Guo Jia asked him this strange question. Could it be that Guo Jia had the intention to leave Cao Cao at any time? Of course, Guo Jia can ask him this question, which also explains that Guo Jia has treated his confidant.

Even if Zhang Liao was flattered by Guo Jia's heart, he was really embarrassed in the face of this problem.

In desperation, Zhang Liao smiled and asked softly, "Do you plan to leave Cao Gong or continue to follow Cao Gong?"

"Keep it a secret!" Guo Jia did not annoy Zhang Liao's attitude. He stared at Zhang Liao with admiring eyes and said. After that, the two stopped talking and communicated directly with wine.

Due to Guo Jia's vigor and foresight, even Zhang Liao, a super fierce general, is very in awe of Guo Jia. He is absolutely obedient to Guo Jia and dare not delay or slack at all.

So much so that Guo Jia personally took over a marriage for him, and he was also brave. In a marriage, Zhang Liao's gift is enough for his three generations of a nourishing life: the local gentry is generous, and Cao Cao and all the generals and officials are also generously celebrated.

Due to the deep hearts of the people, the day when Zhang Liao held his wedding was the day of the whole Xuzhou City carnival. On the second day of the wedding, Guo Jia asked Zhang Liao jokingly, "Zhang Taishou, now you know how to distinguish the mother of flies..."

At this time, Zhang Liao was still puzzled. He looked at Guo Jia with a puzzled face. Guo Jia said to Zhang Liao with a bad smile, "Through posture... gain knowledge through posture..."

"Posture... Posture... Knowledge..." In muttering to himself, Zhang Liao finally suddenly realized that on the night of the newlywed marriage, he used the position of men and women to do things. In such an analogy, the fly...

Even if Guo Jia ridiculed Zhang Liao's suspicion, Zhang Liao, who gained knowledge, still solemnly expressed his gratitude to Guo Jia!

On the same day, Xu Changcheng also held a grand marriage celebration: Cao Pi, the second son of Cao Cao, married Chen Qun's eldest daughter Chen Yan.

Although Cao Cao and Guo Jia are afraid of Chen Qun, it is a kind of awe full of respect. Both of them think that they can't do what Chen Qun can do: no one can replace the role that Chen Qun plays in regulating military discipline, improving the quality of soldiers, law enforcement, and ordering prohibitions.

But after all, in a social society, some people hate Chen Qun to the bone for Chen Qun's selfless and unrecognized behavior. In order to support Chen Qun, under the mediation of Xun Yu, Cao Cao and Chen Qun took over the marriage and let the second son Cao Pi marry Chen Qun's daughter. With this relationship with Cao Cao, Chen Qun dared to exercise his authority boldly and vigorously.

The wedding banquet of Cao Chen's family, you have a single day, and I have been holding two days for seven days. It's really a three-day banquet, a five-day small banquet. In addition to the formal banquet, there is also a banquet for entertaining people who come to watch the ceremony. The so-called flowing seat means that the first group of people leave after eating and drinking, and the back group of people step into the seat. These people don't need to pay gifts and property at all.

Such a wedding banquet caused an unprecedented sensation in Xuchang, which was short of food and fodder at that time. This move is also a disguised relief for ordinary people, so that ordinary people can feel the festive atmosphere of the festival.

On the last day of the wedding banquet, the ceremonial officer who entertained the guests saw another familiar figure. This man has been wearing a blue gown, a black hair loose shawl, and the clothes are shabby but clean. The reason why the ceremonial officer has an impression on him is that his eyebrows are clear, his temperament is fresh, and his behavior is free and unrestrained.

On the first day, the ceremonial officer saw this person. He had a dishoned face and his body swayed when he walked, which was obviously caused by hunger.

This person did not worship, nor did he offer a congratulatory gift, nor did he enter the flowing table, but went straight to the VIP seat and sat down. Ordinary people who attend the wedding banquet do not need to leave their names on the roll of paper, but they need to leave their names when they eat at the VIP table. This person's behavior is really out of the mark.

This man didn't drink a drop of wine and ate dignifiedly and elegantly, as if he was a distinguished guest, and others didn't seem to exist.

Originally, the ceremonial officer wanted to ask this person, but he saw the word "Youheng" floating on the silk paper, so he let him go and let him leave by himself.

The ceremonial officer doesn't know this person and has never heard of this person. It's just that those two words are so beautiful that they can be said to be the most beautiful font he has seen in his life.

From appearance, behavior to font, the ceremonial officer can't but be impressed by this person. The ceremonial official felt very strange. Since Emperor Xian moved from Luoyang to Xuchang, Cao Cao has issued a "recruitment order" in the name of Emperor Xian to recruit talents from all over the world. Why doesn't this person respond? This person can get an official position with just a near-perfect font. The ceremonial officer did not understand your behavior. It was also because of his love for talent that he indulged you in going in and out of the formal banquet without asking.