Lu Bu’s Life Simulator

Chapter 49 Departure

It was already June when Wei Ke arrived in Chang'an, and disaster relief had already begun. Although Lu Bu led the craftsmen to dredge the river for a long time, and even squeezed out a lot of water from the Kunming Pond to irrigate the farmland, there were still people in Guanzhong. There is no way that large tracts of land cannot receive irrigation.

This year is really dry. Since the rain at the end of March, there has not been a single drop. Even if Lu Bu took his peasants and craftsmen to dig ditches, build water dragons, and draw the river water to irrigate the farmland, the benefits are only Compared with the entire Guanzhong, the area around the Jinghe River and Weishui River is still much worse.

Last year, the people who migrated from Nanyang staged a riot in May, and Lü Bu went there in person. With Lv Bu's mighty power, he was only persuading, and basically did not take action.

It was also in May that Lu Bu started to provide disaster relief. Batches of food were sent to places without water. Fortunately, the homes of the big households in Guanzhong were confiscated. Distribution and how to provide disaster relief have been discussed all the time.

The easiest way is to send it directly. This is also the most stupid one in Lu Bu’s opinion. People are too full to feed, and people are born lazy. They hope that the disaster years will be over in the future. Relief with work is a good choice, but it’s not All places need relief from work, and a large number of people in Chang'an City came out to buy food, like mice hoarding food for the winter, regardless of whether they could finish the food, as long as there was food on the market, they would be frantically bought away.

This way of buying, no matter how much food there is in the treasury, it will never be enough.

In desperation, Lu Bu used Jia Xu's plan to restrict the purchase of grain in places where the government sells grain. Each household will be issued a grain token. With this grain token, you can go to the court grain store to buy grain every day. One bucket, the food brand also needs to be replaced in time.

The craftsmen under Ma Jun are doing this every day. People are going crazy, and they have to be different every day. Finally, Ma Jun simply designed a set of fifteen grain cards of different colors. Every day, you can only go out to buy grain with the grain badge of the current color, and then exchange for the grain badge of the next color.

After some traders saw that the court started to limit the price, they couldn't help but started to raise prices. This time, Lu Bu did not directly control the granary of the court to ensure that the people would not starve to death. If they want to buy more with more money, that's their business.

Seeing that Lu Bu didn't care about it, many grain merchants in Chang'an City began to raise prices crazily.

But they soon discovered that the government limited grain, but it was not that there was no food. It was 10 to 20% more expensive than the court, so people still came to buy it. Almost no one is there.

There was a frenzied person who directly increased it by ten times. A stone of millet usually costs about 300 yuan, but it was sold for 3,000 yuan... Such a horrible price also poured cold water on the hot-headed people. Let's line up every day to go to the court shop to buy normal food.

Basically, if grain merchants want to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, they can add 10 to 20 percent more, and no one will buy more.

Some people secretly incited the people, saying that the imperial court did not have much food or something. Usually, when such a person was caught, he followed the vine and dragged out the people behind them, and then confiscated the family property. Now the imperial court has food.

After sending away a few unlucky ones, everyone was honest, one or two would get one or two percent, in fact, even if they usually sell food, it would still be profitable, it would be good if they could get an extra one or two percent, and if they were more ruthless, they would sell for an extra 30 percent , although it is slow, as long as someone buys it, there is only so much food, until it is sold out, what are you afraid of.

When Wei Ke came to Chang'an, it was during the period when grain prices fluctuated. He could clearly feel that the anxiety brought about by the drought hadn't really destroyed Guanzhong. It was just a complaint, and the officials on the road pretended not to hear it.

Anyway, in Chang'an now, walking on the streets will not have the feeling that a catastrophe is approaching. From this point of view, Lu Bu's governance of Guanzhong can be said to be excellent.

But the peace in Guanzhong was bought with the blood of countless scholars and powerful families, which is unacceptable.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that, in order to see Lu Bu, he waited for three days in the government office of the Wei Wei Department, but he still couldn't wait.

"Don't be angry, my lord. My lord, he won't be in the government office most of the time, and he has already sent someone to look for him." Xun You looked at Wei Jiao's ugly face and persuaded him with a smile.

Where is this?

"Gongda." Wei Ji looked around and saw no one around, frowned at Xun You and said, "I don't think Gongda is willing to work for him? Why don't you go to the Central Plains?"

"If I were here, my lord would at least not deal with the Xun family as I did with the Wei family." Xun You said calmly. Although Lu Bu's methods were dark, he never concealed them.

At present, Lu Bu has taken Hedong. If all goes well, he may relocate to Luoyang next year. The capital may not necessarily be moved, but now the Weiwei Department is already discussing who is more suitable to be Henan Yin. The next step should be Send people to Luoyang to rebuild Luoyang City, and then absorb the refugees.

At that time, Xiliang iron cavalry could visit Xun's house at any time.

I work hard for Lu Bu here, and even occasionally make some plans, which can be regarded as playing the emotional card with Lu Bu. When the day comes to the Central Plains, I hope Lu Bu can cut Xun You's face and treat the Xun family more tenderly.

Wei Ji was a little speechless when he heard the words, his words were somewhat cowardly, he looked around again, and said in a low voice: "With the ability of publicity, can't we make a plan..."

I didn't say the last words, but the meaning is already obvious, so why can't I just fuck him up?

"There are at least 100,000 gentry in Guanzhong who have the same plan as Bo Cui, but most of them are dead now." Xun You sighed. If he had the courage, he would probably be lying in a lonely grave outside the city by now.

Wei Ji opened his mouth, but finally said nothing. He had no reason to criticize Xun You, after all, he came to Chang'an on his own initiative to protect his family.

After all, the rich family of Hedong should go to the banquet with Wei Ke's face, and everyone died in the end, only Wei Ke survived, the Haoqiang in Hedong were attacked by bandits, their homes were ransacked and their families were wiped out, but the Wei family's thieves did not commit any crimes, Wei Ji didn't even have to go If you ask around, you can know the reputation of the Wei family, so he can only come to Chang'an to seek asylum.

In today's world, there is only Lu Bu who can protect the Wei family.

He begged Lu Bu to take him in for the sake of his family, so what right did he have to ask Xun You to take the fate of his family to a tough fight with Lu Bu?

They are all miserable people.

Looking at the rolls of bamboo slips on Xun You's table, Wei Ji knelt down again and sighed: "It seems that there is no one around Lu Bu who can be of much use, and David's staff can only rely on Gongda."

Hearing this, the corners of Xun You's eyes suddenly became sore, took a deep breath, and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes by rubbing his temples. There are many people available, but it's better if those people don't come.

Thinking of Guo Jia and Jia Xu sitting here in a group chatting and looking at their own work a few days ago, Xun You really didn’t want to go through it again. Guo Jia had better not come back in this life. As for that fat guy Jia Xu...it’s too hot , probably hiding under the shade of a tree somewhere to enjoy the cool, he'd better not come here.

"Bo Cui is going to be an official this time, is there a place he wants to go? I may speak to the lord for Bo Cui." Xun You calmed down, looked at Wei Jiao and smiled.

No matter where you want to go, come to Wei Wei Department! I need help!

Wei Ji sighed when he heard the words, if he had a choice, he could not choose to work for Lu Bu, the two sides are not from the same world at all, from birth to virtue, Lu Bu is not qualified to ask Wei Ji to serve as his allegiance and assistant.

But what's the use of saying this now? As soon as the incident in Hedong happened, if there was no one to protect the Wei family, it would be difficult for them to move forward, and within a few years it would be completely destroyed.

In order to influence the Kwantung princes, even if they knew that this matter was Lu Bu's treacherous trick, no one would take him in at this time.

Even if Lu Bu doesn't take it from Hedong, the Wei family can only beg for Lu Bu to take it. What's the matter?

"Let's go with fate." Wei Ji had already made up his mind to come to Lu Bu's place to hang out, without any plan.

"That's good. I'll talk to the lord after I see him." Xun You smiled and looked at Wei Ke, very satisfied.

"What's the use of Gongda saying this? When can I see him?" Wei Ke frowned.

"You, if you always look like this, it's best not to see you." Xun You glanced at him and said.

"Why, dignified Marquis Wen, the overlord of Guanzhong, has no tolerance for others?" Wei Ji sneered.

"That's not true." Xun You recalled that Lu Bu was actually quite tolerant. Xun You often complained in front of Lu Bu, and occasionally slapped the table directly, but Lu Bu basically didn't get angry because of these things. He will listen carefully to what you have to say, and he will listen to you if you make sense, and he will argue with you if you don't make sense. Come on, say what you like to say.

Regardless of his standpoint, today's Lu Bu is definitely regarded as a master of enlightenment, but even if he is a master of enlightenment, you will never be satisfied with the appearance of me doing things for you as a charity. If Lu Bu does not clean up you, someone will clean up you, just like A prostitute, you have already done this business, but you still have a superior attitude when facing your benefactors. Maybe some people will do this once in a while, but it certainly does not include Lu Bu.

Looking at Wei Xie, Xun You hesitated for a moment before persuading him: "Bo Yu, you should be more aware of the situation of the Wei family than I am now. The lord is different from others, and his attitude towards the noble family is the same as that of the poor family. Since you Here you go, it's best to let go of your figure and meet the lord like this, the lord will naturally not offend you, but don't expect the lord to value you more, the current situation of the Wei family, without the support of the lord, will decline Not far away."

Wei Qi fell into silence when he heard the words, he understood all the reasons, but what happened in Hedong made his mentality a little unbalanced, Lu Bu did not make things difficult for the Wei family, but made the Wei family cut themselves off from the world, how can you convince him of such things?

But which is more important, the family or one's own face? In fact, this question had been answered the moment Wei Ji came to Chang'an. Xun You obviously saw this, and worried that Wei Ji's mentality would be out of balance and he would not please both sides, so he opened his mouth to persuade him.

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