The Three Kingdoms started from fooling Jia Xu

Chapter 253: War Without Gunsmoke!
On the official road back to Xuchang,

At this time, Cao Bing, which stretched for more than ten miles, was resting.

At the head of the battle, Cao Cao's face was cloudy and a little irritable after listening to the sentry cavalry's report.

After a long time, Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Idiots, all of them are idiots. Even this failed to kill Liu Bei and take Tongguan. What use do I need you for?"

Cao Cao was in a hurry. It would be great joy to ambush and kill thousands of cavalry in a normal battle, but he was running out of time. He didn't kill Liu Bei this time, which meant that Guanzhong had no chance with him.

Even though Cao Cao got angry, the generals just bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes.

After a while, Xun You stepped forward and said, "My lord, the matter has come to an end, and blaming others is useless. You thought you should return to Xuchang as quickly as possible to harvest the autumn grain."

"After the harvest of the autumn grain, the lord should migrate the people as quickly as possible to avoid disaster in Xuzhou."

"Forget it, forget it... Heaven will help Liu but not Cao." Cao Cao opened his arms and shouted in pain, his voice mournful.

With just a few words, Cao Cao seemed to have aged a bit, and he had lost the look of a hero in the past, and his sharpness had faded faintly.

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

Although this battle is won, no one can be happy, because they are about to leave their hometown, which is sad.

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

"No!" Seeing that Cao Cao was in a bad mood, Cao Ren felt a little unspeakably uncomfortable, and responded with a hoarse voice.

"My lord, Zhang Xiu is ambitious. Since he is coercing the emperor, he will inevitably coerce the emperor to make the princes. I am afraid that he will deliberately create difficulties for the relationship between the lord and Yuan Shao. The lord might as well inform in advance."

Xun You pondered for a moment before speaking.

"It doesn't matter, Yuan Shao and I were friends when we were young, so we won't say much because of these trivial matters. What's more, Xun Yu should have written to Yuan Shao long ago."

Cao Cao waved his hand, not to mention friendship, he has always been at ease in Xun Yu's work alone.

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

The heat of midsummer is still bouncing around, but the restlessness in the air has gradually become refreshing, and the autumn wind blows in, refreshing everyone.

Among them, the most worrying is the people.

In front of the field, a few members of the family looked at the ripe fields, but there were not many smiles on their faces, but a little sad.

The five or six-year-old Xiaobao didn't notice the worry on the faces of his father and grandfather, but kept pounced on the frogs in the field.

Holding a small frog, Xiaobao looked at his father very happily, and at the same time pointed to the fertile field of his home not far away, cheering and saying: "There is wheat and rice to eat."

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

In this way, they subtracted half of the tenant farmers, and then deducted taxes, and there was very little left. That is to say, they did not have much rations to survive the winter except for the necessary grains.

Thinking of this, how could he laugh.

Raising his hand showing a bit of bitterness, he rubbed his son's head, feeling unspeakably sad.There is no way, the taxes under Cao Cao's rule are far heavier than other places.

Let's take one step at a time. At worst, he went up to the mountains to hunt and cut wood to subsidize his family in winter. However, in ancient times, there were only a group of hungry beasts on the mountains in winter.

"Hey! Dalang, hurry up!" The stooped old man sighed lightly. Although the production was reduced, if it rained a few days later, his family would not even be able to drink porridge.

"En!" The strong man nodded, and began to cut the rations for the family, which was very hard.

In the general mansion, Xun Yu was very busy.

In the past few days, on the one hand, he has to be busy with the autumn harvest and taxation in various places. These are the main sources of finance, and he must keep an eye on them.

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

On the one hand, it can save food rations, and on the other hand, it can reduce the migration time.

Of course, he didn't dare to make a decision directly, all of this would have to be discussed after the autumn harvest and taxes were collected.

As for Xuchang, and even Henan, Yan, and Xu prefectures, 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 cause inflation in an instant. Maybe you can buy corn with thousands of dollars, but after inflation, you may need tens of thousands of dollars.

In this case, the only way to offset this part of the inflation is to invest the same amount of items in the local area, or just ignore it until the population is reduced to a balance, and then it will naturally return to normal.

Dong Zhuo did it back then, and then there was a lot of turmoil, and the people changed their sons to eat each other.

But at this moment, they are all waiting.

When the autumn harvest is over, they will use this batch of funds to buy grain and grass everywhere at high prices, thereby disturbing the three states and making it difficult for the people to survive. Zhang Xiu will arrange people to accept these people.

Today, Zhang Xiu has arranged for people to hoard food, grass and various living things in important border towns. These things are all in preparation, and they are almost completely detonated.

Zhang Xiu knew that if the grain was bought at a high price, it was impossible for these people not to sell it. At worst, they would take the money from the high price and go to the town to buy it. Of course, the consequences would be serious.

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

All over the state and county, most of the people's grain has already been harvested, and they have begun to expose themselves to the sun on the grain farms. They can only pay taxes after the millet is completely dry.

And in Henan, Yan, and Xuzhou counties, countless caravans met in secret.

Among them, the border of Runan, Yuzhou.

Runan was originally a county with the second largest population in the Han Dynasty. However, the Yellow Turban had many disasters, and the disasters were serious, as well as the disasters of Yuan Shu, Lu Bu, Cao Cao and others, and the population was only one or two tenths.

At this time, in a compound in Runan.

Dozens of people were discussing the matter there, and the leader was Mi Zhu, who looked solemn and shouted in a deep voice:

"The copper coins have already been distributed to you. The purpose is very simple. To purchase grain in the countryside as quickly as possible. The more the better, the price can rise by [-]% of the market price."

"After the purchase is over, immediately hide or bury these grains. Don't show any flaws. This time, Cao Cao's rule is bound to be exhausted, and the people of these three states will be moved to Jianghuai."

Mi Zhu said solemnly.

"Okay, let's all go down, and buy food, cloth, war horses, etc. from all over the country as quickly as possible, as long as they are valuable, you can buy them."

Listening to Mi Zhu's words, everyone nodded to show that they understood. Immediately, dozens of people galloped on horses and rushed to the surrounding counties.

That afternoon, countless caravans went to the countryside.

And these caravans are all without exception, they all go to the countryside with money, and the purpose is equally simple, they are all to collect grain, and it is this new grain.

"Old man Li, a team of merchants came to the village to collect grain, and they paid almost a thousand dollars for a piece of grain, which is a full two or three hundred dollars more than the town. I sold all my grain to them, and then I will go to the town to buy some. Can make a lot of money."

"Is it true? The caravan will give you a thousand dollars for harvesting grain? Could it be a lie to you?" In the valley, old man Li was barebacked, not too convinced.

"Why am I lying to you? Look, all the money is in my hands. I'm going to the town to buy some grain in the afternoon." The person who spoke earlier weighed the money bag in his hand quite proudly.

Seeing that the neighbor next to his house was so sure, old man Li hesitated for a while, and he was still going to take a look. After all, he didn't have to go to the way of making money for nothing.

Because of this,
As a result, countless people have sold the food in their homes. Apart from the inherent rations, they don't have much leftover food, and the purpose is to make money.

Not to mention, the effect is very good.

In just one day, food 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 rural people from all over the country came to the city. These were the first batch of grain sellers, and they wanted to buy grain in the safest way.

However, when this group of people entered the city and came outside the grain shops in the city, they were completely dumbfounded. How, how could there be so many people?
It is not an exaggeration to say that the scene in front of me is crowded with people, and the shop is not visible at a glance, and these people are all here to buy rice and noodles.

"Line up one by one, don't rush and take your time." The shop steward said something, then turned and entered, looking at his old road: "Patriarch, I don't know why, starting this afternoon, people from all over the world have come to buy food."

"Purchasing grain?" The Patriarch frowned, he knew these people well, let alone buying grain, even if they could spend a penny, it would be a huge sum of money.

"Do you know why you bought the food?"

"This... It is said that a group of merchants came from the countryside to buy grain at the price set by the market far above, so that many people sold the grain."

"Oh, by the way, these people seem to be because of this." The shop butler quickly added, and he was taken aback for a moment.

"It's all because of this?" The Patriarch frowned, squinting his eyes and said coldly: "I'm afraid it will never be that simple at this time. Send someone to inform Ling Jun quickly and clarify the situation here."

"Also, if the grain prices in each warehouse are adjusted online, I want to see how stupid these crazy people are."

"No!" The butler quickly stepped back,
Then, just a moment later.

The housekeeper inserted a wooden sign, his face was full of disdain, one thousand and one dendrobium.

"One thousand? Didn't you pay back nine hundred just now? Why did it go up again in a blink of an eye?"

"That's right, you're too dark, aren't you? Just now, your kung fu has increased by three hundred yuan."

"Love to buy, buy, don't buy and go away."

The butler was very arrogant and said loudly.

And there are many things like this, almost in every state and county. Caravans buy food at all costs, so that countless rations are sold out.

As a result, due to the supply relationship, the price of food in various places has been skyrocketing, and many people have turned pale. They thought they could make some money, but now they are lucky.
Early the next morning, Xun Yu hadn't gotten up yet.

At this time, he only heard some noise outside the door, and could faintly hear Man Chong's voice, as if he had something important to report, Xun Yu couldn't help getting up, and took out the door.

Opening the door, he glanced at Man Chong, and couldn't help saying: "Bo Ning, why are you in such a hurry that you actually came to pay a visit to my residence in person?"

"Lingjun, there is something strange. I'm worried that it's a trick played by someone." Man Chong was dignified, and took out a thick stack of documents after speaking.

"Let's take a look, here are all the urgent letters reported by county magistrates from various places. Most of the reports are very similar, that is, there are secret caravans buying grain at prices higher than the market price."

"As a result, countless people have been cheated out of food rations, and they have flocked to various counties to buy food. However, the price of food has risen ten times a day, and it has already reached [-] hu."

Listening to Man Chong's words, Xun Yu frowned, and said in a trembling voice, "What did you say? People's rations were cheated? The price of food remains high?"

At the same time, Xun Yu began to flip through the Chinese books in his hand quickly, one, two, and it took a long time. He hadn't finished reading, but his expression was extremely dignified.

"It's broken, this must be Zhang Xiu's conspiracy."

"How much grain is there in the granary?" Xun Yu said anxiously, but then shook his head again, he couldn't get confused, this time he was not sure how far the scope of the situation would be affected.

If it spreads widely, even if Cao Jun's granary is filled in, it may not be of much use.

"Go, I will write a letter immediately, let the pen to transcribe, and immediately send letters to all counties and counties, strictly investigate the caravan, and strictly order the people of all ministries not to be deceived."

Xun Yu said anxiously, if there is a food problem, there may be some accidents in this relocation, and Zhang Xiu is probably already preparing for all this.

Horrible, so scary.

"No!" Man Chong said hastily.

"By the way, send me an order that all passes and dangerous roads are under martial law, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and those who violate it will be shot to death." Xun Yu said in a deep voice.

"No!" Man Chong said again.

As Man Chong retreated in a hurry, Xun Yu was a little anxious. Although he didn't know what inflation was, he knew that if it happened, countless people would die.

I just hope it all works out in time.

Thinking of this, Xun Yu sighed heavily, "It's true that there are internal and external troubles. The states in the Central Plains are already dilapidated, and now they have been tortured by Zhang Xiu and others one after another. What should my lord do?"

At this moment, Xun Yu was a little confused.

He dared to assert that these were all Zhang Xiu's doings, but now that the monarch and his subjects are alienated, even if he has the talent of Wang Zuo, it is difficult for him to be punished by many parties.

Shaoqing, will be in the mansion.

After Xun Yu arrived at the general's mansion, the whole morning, letters of information were sent in quickly. These attacks pointed directly at the lack of food for the people, and Xun Yu already had a headache seeing it.

In addition to being deceived, various civil and military officials also resigned and went to Jingzhou one after another, preparing to create another glories, but they all had good ideas.

"Lingjun, my lord is away, and all states and counties are under my lord's control. It's better to confiscate their copper coins and transport them to Jingzhou to buy what I need."

"Firstly, it can make up for our loss, and secondly, let Jingzhou know how powerful we are." Man Chong said tentatively, he had already asked countless questions all day long.

There is no way, he is also very anxious at the moment.

Xun Yu pondered for a while. Although this method is good, how could the common people hand over the money?
(End of this chapter)