Return to the official road in Xuchang,

At this time, the first Cao Bing, who had been tens of miles, was resting on the spot.

At the head of the formation, listening to the report of the whistle cavalry, Cao Cao's face was gloomy and a little irritable. The head wind, which was originally better, started to hurt vaguely again.

After a long time, Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Idiots, they are all idiots. They can't kill Liu Bei and take Tongguan. What's the use of me?"

Cao Cao was really too anxious. It would be a great joy to ambush thousands of iron cavalry in a normal battle, but he had no time anymore. Not killing Liu Bei this time means that Guanzhong has no chance to be with him.

All the generals just bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes.

After a while, Xun You stepped forward and said, "Lord, things have come to this point. It is useless to blame others this time. You thought that you should return to Xuchang as quickly as possible to harvest autumn grain."

"After the autumn grain is harvested, the lord should migrate the people as quickly as possible and prepare to avoid disaster to Xuzhou."

"Forget it, forgot... God helps Liu but Cao." Cao Cao opened his arms and shouted in pain, his voice sad.

With just a few words, Cao Cao seemed to have been aged a few years, and he also lost the aura of the heroic and arrogant past, and faintly faded away his sharpness.

All the generals around him bowed their heads and dared not answer.

Although this battle was won, no one could be happy because they were about to leave their hometown, which was sad and lamentable.

"Cao Ren, order the three armies to return to Xuchang." Cao Cao's body trembled a little, and he finally spoke.

"No!" Cao Ren felt a little uncomfortable when he saw that Cao Cao was in a bad mood, so he responded in a hoarse voice.

"Lord, Zhang Xiu is ambition. Since he is holding the emperor, he will definitely take the emperor to order the princes. I am afraid that he will deliberately make things difficult for the relationship between the lord and Yuan Shao. The lord might as well inform him in advance."

Xun You pondered for a moment and spoke.

"It's okay, Yuan Shao and I were friends when we were young, so we wouldn't say much about these trivial matters. What's more, Xun Yu should have written a letter to Yuan Shao a long time ago."

Cao Cao waved his hand, not to mention friendship, he was always relieved to Xun Yu to do his business alone.

......

In a blink of an eye, a few days later.

The tigress in midsummer was still jumping around, but the impetuousness in the air gradually turned to refreshing, and a gust of autumn wind blew, refreshing everyone.

Among them, the people are most worried.

In front of the land, a family of families looked at the mature fertile fields, but there was not much smile on their faces, but they were a little sad.

Xiaobao, who was five or six years old, did not notice the worry of his father and grandfather's faces at all, but instead kept rushing to the frogs in the field.

Holding a little frog, Xiaobao looked at his father very happily, and pointed to his fertile fields not far away, cheering and saying, "I have wheat rice to eat."

The dark-skinned father sighed softly. The harvest this year was not enough to make them cheer because this year's drought has reduced production by one-third of previous years.

In this way, they reduced half of what they were a tenant farmer and then reduced the taxes, leaving very little, which means that they had few foods to survive the winter except for the necessary foods.

Thinking of this, how could he laugh?

He raised his hand and showed a bitterness, rubbed his son's head, feeling indescribable sadness. There was no way, the taxes under Cao Cao's rule were much heavier than other places.

Take one step at a time. At worst, he would go up the mountain to hunt and cut vegetation to subsidize his family income in winter, but in ancient winter there were only a group of hungry beasts on the mountain.

"Hey! Dalang, hurry up!" The hunchbacked old man sighed softly. Although the yield was reduced, if it was a few days later, the family would not even be able to drink porridge.

"Yes!" The strong man nodded and began to cut food for a few bites of his family. It was very hard.

...

In the mansion, Xun Yu was so busy that he was overwhelmed.

In the past few days, he has to be busy with autumn harvest and tax revenue in various places, which are the main sources of finance, so he must keep an eye on it.

At the same time, he had to think about how to move the people of the states and counties under his rule. He was even thinking about not only moving young, strong women and children.

First, it can save food rations, and second, it can reduce migration time.

Of course, he didn't dare to make the decision directly. He had to wait for the autumn harvest and talk about it after the tax collection.

As for Xuchang, and even in Henan, Yan and Xuzhou, some merchants have already lurked, and they have prepared a lot of funds this time.

Just wait for the above to speak, once these funds flow into the three states, it will instantly cause inflation. Maybe you can buy corn with a thousand dollars, but then you may need tens of thousands of dollars after inflation.

In this case, only local investments of equal amounts of goods to offset this part of inflation, or ignore them directly until the population decreases to balance, and then it will naturally return to normal.

Dong Zhuo did it back then, and then the troubles were uneasy and the people changed their children to eat each other.

But at this time, they were all waiting.

When the autumn harvest is over, after the autumn harvest is over, they will use this batch of funds to purchase grain and grass everywhere at high prices, thereby stirring up the three states and making it difficult for the people to survive. At that time, Zhang Xiu will arrange for people to pick up these people.

Now, Zhang Xiu has arranged for people to hoard food and grass in important towns in the border areas, and all kinds of daily necessities are being prepared, and it is almost completely detonated.

Zhang Xiu knew that if these people bought grain at high prices, they would not refuse to sell it. At worst, they would use the money they sold at high prices to buy it in the town, etc., which would make the people restless.

......

In a blink of an eye, another two days passed.

In various prefectures and counties, most people's grain has been collected and they have begun to expose the sun on the valley ground. Only after the millet is completely dried can they pay taxes.

And countless caravans are meeting in Yu, Yan, and Xuzhou County.

Among them, the boundary of Runan, Yuzhou.

Runan was originally the second largest county in the Han Dynasty, but the Yellow Turbans suffered many disasters, coupled with the serious disasters, and the disasters caused by Yuan Shu, Lu Bu, Cao Cao and others, the population was only one or two left.

At this time, there was a large courtyard in Runan.

Dozens of people were discussing the matter there, and the person in charge was Mi Zhu. He saw his expression solemn and shouted in a deep voice:

"The copper coins have been distributed to you. The purpose is very simple. To purchase rural grains as quickly as possible, the more the better, and the price can increase by 30% of the market price."

"After the purchase is over, hide or bury the grain immediately, and do not reveal any flaws. This time, the firewood will be removed from the cauldron under Cao Cao's rule, and most of the people in these three states will move to Jianghuai."

Mi Zhu said solemnly.

"Okay, let's go down and purchase grain, cloth, war horses, etc. from all over the country as quickly as possible. Any valuable ones can be purchased."

Listening to Mi Zhu's words, everyone nodded to show themselves to understand. Immediately, dozens of people rode their horses and rushed to the surrounding counties.

In the afternoon of that day, countless caravans went to the countryside.

These caravans are all exceptional, they all bring money to the countryside, and their purpose is also simple, they all collect grain, and they are this batch of new grain.

"Old man Li, a team of merchants came to the entrance of the village to collect grain. One hu of grain was almost a thousand yuan, which was two or three hundred yuan higher than the town. I sold all the grain to them. Then I went to the town to buy some, and I could make a lot of money."

"Really? Can the caravan get a thousand dollars in grain collection? Could it be a lie to you?" In the valley, Old Man Li was bare-backed and didn't believe it.

"What am I lie to you? You see that the money is in my hands. I plan to go to the town to buy some food in the afternoon." The man said before, considering the money bag in his hand with pride.

Seeing that the neighbors next to his house were so sure, Old Man Li hesitated and was about to go over and take a look. After all, there was no need for them not to go to make money in vain.

It is precisely because of this,

So many people took out their food at home and sold it. Apart from the inherent food, they did not have much surplus food left, and the purpose was to make money.

Not to mention, the effect is very good.

In just one day, grain from all over the country began to purchase these unknown caravans, and these caravans were also extremely generous.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xinyi County.

On this day, many people from all over the country entered the city. These were the first batch of food to sell, and they wanted the safest way to buy food.

However, when this group of people entered the city and came outside grain shops everywhere in the city, they were completely stunned. How could there be so many people?

The scene in front of me is not an exaggeration to say that it is crowded with people. I can’t see the shop at first sight, and these people are all here to buy rice and noodles.

"Line up one by one, don't hurry and take your time." The shop manager said, then turned around and looked at his old master: "The head of the family, I don't know what happened. Starting this afternoon, everyone in the villages came to buy food."

"Buy grain?" The head of the family frowned. He knew that these people were familiar with it. Not to mention buying grain, even if they could spend a dime, it would be a huge sum.

"Can you know why you buy food?"

"This...it is said that merchants went to the countryside to purchase grain with the money priced at the original high market, so many people sold the grain."

"Oh by the way, it seems that these people are all because of this." The shop housekeeper quickly added, and he was stunned for a moment.

"It's all because of this?" The head of the family frowned and couldn't help but squint his eyes and said coldly: "It's probably not that simple at this time. I'm sent someone to tell Ling Jun and explain the situation here."

"In addition, I will raise the price of each warehouse and the price will be adjusted online. I want to see how stupid these lunatics are?"

"No!" The housekeeper stepped back quickly,

Then, in just a moment.

The butler held a wooden sign and inserted it over, his face full of disdain, one thousand and one bucket.

"One thousand? Didn't you pay back nine hundred dollars just now? Why did you increase your skills in a blink of an eye?"

"That's right, you're too dark, right? In just a moment, you've increased three hundred yuan."

"If you like to buy, get out if you don't buy."

The housekeeper was very arrogant and said loudly.

There are many things like this, almost every county and under the city, where the caravans buy grain at all costs, so that countless families sold food.
To be continued...