Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 120

"I pay my respects to General Yan!"

With a smile all over his face, Wang Hou cupped his fists and bowed under Yan Liang's car again, but seeing his smile like "selling goose loans", Yan Liang frowned in disgust as always.

"Thanks to General Yan Liang's protection this year, Puyang City is full of ruins. The household registration has increased to [-] households. Businesses and businesses from all over the world have also gathered in Puyang. These are all thanks to General Yan Liang, so the elders in the city and the village have discussed it and prepared it. A small gift is given to the general to express the gratitude of the fathers and elders, come here, bring it here, please pay attention to the general!"

At this moment, Wang Hou doesn't have the slightest image of the protagonist. He looks like the villain's dog-legged captain in a movie. Amidst the obscene yelling, dozens of Puyang strong men actually lifted up a lot of boxes, opened them with a clatter, and saw Looking at the contents inside, even the generals and civil servants around Yan Liang couldn't help but gasp.

Wang Hou was really not fooling around. He bought a small box of gold, five boxes of silver, ten boxes of top-quality Sichuan brocade, Luxuan and Wu Susha, and the rest were brand-new copper coins, fifty boxes large and small. All of them are heavy capital, and these properties are more than enough to equip an army of 5000 people.

However, all the civil servants and military officers standing next to Yan Liang swallowed their saliva, and when their eyes were shining, Yan Liang himself flicked his sleeves in disgust, and shouted in disgust: "Wang Taishou, take it back where it came from! "

The degeneration of the military officer started from the period of Wu Zetian in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. After the end of the Anshi Rebellion, the image of the despised rough warrior in later generations and the idea that a good man should not be a soldier began to take root in the hearts of the people. The reason is that Wu Zetian ascended to the top of the world as a heroine , she was extremely afraid of family officers who held military power in various places and were still loyal to the Tang family, so she began to block the way from a military officer to the central government to serve as a state-level important official, and began to promote the imperial examination, completely favoring the liberal arts as the way to obtain power.

Before Wu Zetian, it was still the noble life pursued by the students of aristocratic families. Although the first rank of guards was not as respected as it was in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, military officers still had the same honor status as civil officials. When it came to Wendao, a large number of uneducated local ruffians began to flood into the army. Later, ambitious people like An Lushan who did not know how to read and know loyalty could even climb to the height of the Jiedushi of the Three Towns, so the decline of the Tang Dynasty , Wu Zetian also has a great responsibility.

But nowadays, the status of a military officer is still very high, even higher than that of a civil servant to a certain extent. Naturally, his self-cultivation is not bad, and Yan Liang is a descendant of Yan Hui, a disciple of Confucius. He really showed Wang Hou what it means to regard money as dung , Dumbfounded, Wang Hou clasped his fists and begged with some sadness.

"General, these are some wishes of Puyang's elders, you refuse so much."

"This general does not rule Puyang, this general is only loyal to Duke Yuan! So the prefect Wang doesn't need to confuse this general's eyes with these yellow and turbid things, just fulfill your promise in spring!"

"Promise? What promise?"

Wang Hou was pretending to be confused, pretending to understand, and he could procrastinate for a while, but sure enough, when he patted the table, Yan Liang stood up violently.

"Don't play sloppy with this general! Food from Puyang! Ben will give you seven days to transport 50 shi of grain to Hua County!"

"Hey General, I really can't give you this food!"

With a bitter face, Wang Hou resolutely waved his hand and refused, and his words were like adding fuel to the fire, instantly igniting Yan Liang's anger completely.

With a buzzing sound, the green steel sword Wang Hou gave him was pulled out, and it was slashed on the table with a sharp sound. The old face full of beards and beards was as hideous as a tiger descending the mountain. It was frightening, pointing at Wang Hou's nose , Yan Liang roared like a murderer.

"Wang Tuqiu, how dare you deceive me! Did you think that this general's sword is not good? Believe it or not, I will cut you off right now, and then I will send troops to Puyang to kill Ru Cao, leaving no bones behind!"

"General, even if you kill the lower official, the lower official will not be able to produce food. After all, the lower official is the prefect appointed by Prime Minister Cao, and the food will be transferred to Yuan Gong here. I am afraid that the grain cart has not yet left the boundary of Puyang, and the people stationed in Yanjin Yu Jin has taken down the lower officials!"

"Besides, General Yan Liang, didn't we agree that after harvesting the grain, you will pick it up by yourself? Did I deceive the general with my Wang Hou's words?"

Pointing behind him, Wang Hou showed his strength, blushing and roaring thickly.

"Puyang has a radius of hundreds of miles. There is a flat river. The harvested wheat is piled up at the ancient ferry. The general's iron cavalry is swept away. Wang has neither the power to resist nor the desire to resist. Why should the general discuss with Hou and make things difficult for others? Dirty and dishonesty?"

Not to mention, Wang Hou's face turned red and his neck thickened, Yan Liang was really dumbfounded.

If he could send his army south, he would have sent his army long ago, but when Wang Hou was harvesting, he reported the attack plan to Yecheng, but the reply he got was that he was not allowed to attack Puyang!

This reply not only made Yan Liang want to vomit blood but also was frightened and angry. As a frontline general, he knew too well what impression the wheat that Wang Hou had made would have on the upcoming battle. He couldn't figure it out. Why did Yuan Shao refuse!
But on this point, he was ashamed of his ancestor Yan Hui, and he didn't read the book thoroughly, because there is a saying in "Spring and Autumn": People's hearts are walled, but not walls!

Indeed, Puyang has a radius of one hundred miles and a flat river of one horse, and it is still hanging in Hebei alone, and the army is here at night. With Wang Hou's ability, he cultivated the fields in Puyang under Yan Liang's eyes, and built a well-equipped fence to resist his army's attack. In terms of defense, it is simply a fantasy, not to mention him, I am afraid that the soldier saint Sun Wu will be reborn, and the famous general Li Mu will be reincarnated. In this case, I am afraid it will not be possible.

But Wang Hou still didn't build the base in a place protected by natural dangers, but the south bank where there are many aristocratic families and less wasteland, he still bravely went straight to the north bank, because from the beginning he didn't plan to fight Yan Liang!In three months, relying on his connections, he brought in merchants from Xuzhou, Guanzhong, and many aristocratic families from the Central Plains. In this era of warlords fighting, material circulation was extremely difficult. The existence of Puyang provided this urgent need for all parties. The trading platform of Hebei Family and Yuan Shao's Yingchuan Nanyang factions have benefited deeply.

Take Guo Tu for example!He just organized a caravan and built thousands of square meters of mansions, shops and clan residences in the east of Puyang City. In two months, he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Puyang. A large amount of local well salt has been imported to Hebei. Under this situation, can he tolerate Yan Liang burning them all with a torch?

Not only him, this time Guo Jia and Ju Shou's voices are not so strong, Yuan Shao's living room is also placed with the Central Plains celadon that Wang Hou paid tribute to, the kitchen uses Puyang iron pot, and the shelves are hung with Funiu mountain essence. Steel bright light armor, and a high-quality sword presented by Wang Houjin hung on the waist.

Such an honest prefect who does business, Yuan Shao still has a good reputation, and he was stunned by Sheng Rong, who was armed with hundreds of thousands of people in the four states. Will Yuan Shao, who took a bunch of good things, go to beat Wang Hou, an honest man?

Relying on trade, interests, and a series of political shows, Wang Hou has successfully weaved a network of relationships, making Yan Liangkong unable to exert all his strength and suffocating you to death!

A meeting with Yan Liang ended in unhappiness again, and he was thrown out of the barracks with the money and cloth. Before leaving, Wang Hou waved his hand, suddenly laughed and shook heavily. head.

"The gift is brought, and there is no reason to bring it back! Come on! Unload all the boxes!"

"Wang Taishou, you are here!"

Seeing that the Puyang strong man following him obediently threw the box on the ground, all the high-quality silk fell out, and he was ordered to come out to send Wang Hou's Huaxian school lieutenant Jiang Yun. After twitching a few times, he hurriedly clasped his fists at Wang Hou and begged.

"Please don't embarrass the lower officials like this!"

"Wang came here with the wishes of the elders in Puyang. If he brought them back like this, how would he explain to the people of Puyang? Anyway, Wang put his mind in front of this camp and handed it over to you. Even if you throw Wang away, you won't be bothered. Farewell!"

Saying that, Wang Hou really took the cavalry retinue and Puyang Zhuang Ding patted his buttocks and left, and a large pile of property was thrown in front of Yan Liangying like garbage.

threw?How could it be worth it!This is the best Shu brocade!But you took it yourself?Not yet, Yan Liang is very strict in governing the army!After struggling for a long time, the two Hebei generals decided to tell Yan Liang again!

With hundreds of strong men without riding horses, even if it is a flat river, the speed is still limited. Before Wang Hou walked a few miles, there was another commotion from the Yanliang barracks outside Hua County. Hearing the faint noise, Wang Hou Hou Shi put down the binoculars with a sinister smile, and even in his mind, he could already imagine Yan Liang's furious appearance.

But Wang Hou still didn't take it lightly. If it was so easy to dismiss, Yan Liang would not be the most trusted general under Yuan Shao.

When the chariots and horses returned to Puyang, the huge Puyang was still busy with business and business, and it happened that another group of merchants from the Central Plains landed at the ferry of the Yellow River in Puyang. Go to the big market in Puyang City.

Although the lords are hostile to each other, the Hebei Yingchuan School and the Central Plains Yingchuan County are of the same line after all. During the same intense attention, when Wang Hou got the news, the news that Yuan Shao rejected Yan Liang's attack plan also quietly spread in the circle of the aristocratic family. , they are at ease and continue to do business in Puyang.

However, the farmers who were busy harvesting had to temporarily stop their sickles.

On the bank of the river, hundreds of farmers shouted with all their strength, and the ropes were stretched straight. While they were dragging, the huge water wheel was erected high again amidst the shouting and shouting. Immediately following the impact of the river water, buckets of river water weighing several kilograms were filled with buckets of river water transported from the Yangtze River basin one by one on the waterwheel, and immediately poured into the fields on the other side.

Not far from here, the other place is also led by Wang Hou. A few months ago, the small dam built to cut off the tributary of the Yellow River was also dug open by the hoes under the yelling of the farmers. All the brains were poured into the ground.

However, this is not a good time for watering. The wheat stalks that have not been harvested before being collected as firewood or pig feed are scattered everywhere by the river water, messy and scattered everywhere, and there are many unharvested wheat fields together. Submerged by the river, the old farmer felt as if his heart had been cut by a knife when he saw his wheat being twisted and crooked in the water.

Back in Puyang, without even entering the city, Wang Hou went directly to the farms outside the city. Looking at the farmlands turned into mud, he couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, but at the end of the moment, he was full of apologies. Walked up to a dike that was being thrown, there, with a big belly, Cao Hongjie was still hissing and directing several township officials.

"You're back! That Yan guy didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"

Seeing Wang Hou go up the embankment, the girl wiped the sweat off her forehead excitedly, and bounced to meet her. This dangerous movement of running with the ball scared Wang Hou almost to the ground. , hastily strode over to pick her up, hugged her shoulders, and reprimanded helplessly: "Like a child, so unsteady!"

Not like a child, if Cao Hongjie is still in school at the age of later generations!In this cruel age, she became the mother of the prospective child. When Wang Hou talked about her child, the girl pouted her mouth unwillingly and hummed angrily.

"Cut! When I followed Xiangfu to fight the enemy, you were still copying the Three Character Classic!"

"Yes! You are amazing! How is the field irrigation going?"

Even the old lady has learned it, Wang Hou really wanted to slap his big mouth that was not covered, and put his arm around this girl's shoulders, Wang Hou quickly changed the topic to one side, and when it came to work, this girl Cao Hongjie was online again in an instant , pointing to the bottom of the dam with vigor and explaining to Wang Hou.

"According to what you said, all the dams in the section from Gejiazhuang to Lingyi were flooded with water, and waterwheels were built in the river. This long strip was flooded into a muddy pond for several miles, but the road from the ancient ferry to Puyang A few pieces were washed away, and more than 2000 acres of wheat were flooded, so what are you going to do with all this water flushing the fields?"

Before Wang Hou could answer, Zhao Yun, who was fully armored at the other end, ran up the small dam quickly. Looking at Wang Hou and his wife, he swallowed what he was about to say just now, and just smiled and clasped his fists: "My lord You are back! If you don’t come back, Lao Zhao will be hungry!”

"You won't be able to do this. You are embarrassed to go to Qiling's for a meal, so just let Ruaner go! It's okay, don't pretend to be pitiful, Hongjie, I will watch the remaining dams, and you can let them go back to the city." Qi Ling sent someone to bring over the lunch, and also, learn more from Qi Ling, they are both women, and the food they cook is so delicious!"

"yeah!"

She still showed her childish side, cooking is her weakness, and when Wang Hou mentioned it, Cao Hongjie made a grimace angrily and stuck out her tongue, then ran out with the ball and slipped down the small room in Wang Hou's fright. Tuba, luckily this girl didn't go crazy enough to go back on horseback, but obediently got into the carriage, watching the carriage go away, Wang Hou finally breathed a sigh of relief, but his face became serious.

"Have all the parts been assembled?"

"Returning to my lord, all the Puyang Baqus have been mobilized near Gejiazhuang. Recently, my lord often mobilizes the county soldiers to go out of the city to harvest. There is no doubt in the city, but"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Yun clasped his fists worriedly and asked.

"Is it true that Yan Liang won't go straight to Puyang City? And with the nine songs in his hand, won't it be too weak to fight against Yan Liang!"

"General Yu Jin's three elite soldiers are going around the south bank of the Yellow River to support us. They can go to guard the port at night. As for Yan Liang!"

Turning around, he looked to the north again, and kept silent for a few minutes with his hands behind his back, letting the river wind blow his long-sleeved and broad robe rustling, Wang Hou nodded his head firmly.

"Either tonight or tomorrow night, he will definitely rush here!"

(End of this chapter)