Three Kingdoms, I open a tavern in Xudu

Just watch Chen Yang pick up the pen and write and draw on the white strip of cloth, Dian Wei watched beside him, he shook his head, unable to understand what was drawn.

After a while, Chen Yang picked up the cloth and threw it to Dian Wei.

"Old Dian, take this back to the prime minister, and you will earn another bounty." Chen Yang laughed.

Dian Wei picked up the strip of cloth and turned it over and over again, but couldn't understand what Chen Yang was drawing.

"Shopkeeper Chen, what's the use of this painting of yours?" Dian Wei asked in bewilderment.

"This is Quyuanli. You don't understand it. Take it back to the prime minister and let him build it. Then you don't have to worry about land reclamation."

Chen Yang said confidently: "I have studied it. Using the current plow to plow the land requires three people, two cows, and at most one mu of land per day."

"Quyuanli is different. It only needs one person and one cow, and at least three acres of land can be reclaimed in one day."

"In this way, the prime minister's problem of land reclamation will be easily solved, and the soldiers will no longer have to farm the land."

so smart?

Dian Wei looked at the drawing for a while, but he still couldn't understand it, and then said with a smile: "Master Chen, I'll take it back for the Prime Minister to have a look at. If it really works, you have made a great contribution."

Chen Yang waved his hand: "Go, I got the reward, hurry up and pay back the wine money, but you have to keep this matter a secret for me, just say you thought it up."

Dian Wei saluted slightly, then left the tavern with a smile, this time he didn't even bother to drink, and left happily.

Not long after, Dian Wei appeared in Cao's mansion.

In the deliberation hall of the Cao Mansion, Cao Cao was looking at the accounts of grain and grass with a sad face.

"It has been half a month, and there is no rain. This spring drought has come too suddenly."

Guo Jia, who was sitting beside him, muttered while looking at the ledger.

Cao Cao sighed and said: "The shopkeeper Chen is really good at predicting things. If you say there will be a drought, it will be a drought, but we don't have enough food now."

When Guo Jia heard Cao Cao mentioning that shopkeeper Chen again, he couldn't help but think of what happened half a month ago. He frowned and said, "Prime Minister, who is that shopkeeper Chen?"

Cao Cao grinned: "A young man who runs a tavern, but he has great ability, extraordinary ability, and great talent!"

"By the way, what happened to the food I asked you to prepare half a month ago?"

Guo Jia stood up quickly when he heard this, shook his head and said, "A lot has been purchased, but it is far from enough for our army. Now the price of grain in Xudu City has risen from fifty yuan a stone to eighty yuan a stone, and the internal treasury has also There is not enough money to buy food."

When Cao Cao heard this, he frowned and sighed, "If I had known that shopkeeper Chen was so good, I would have bought a lot of grain. Now... oh! How are you discussing things like land reclamation and taxation?"

This is their current solution to the food problem.

"Prime Minister, I'm here!"

Just when Guo Jia was about to speak, Dian Wei hurried in.

"Come on, what's the matter?" Cao Cao asked.

"I have……"

Just as Dian Wei was about to speak, he was interrupted by Cao Cao: "Let's put aside the evil things, Feng Xiao, you first say, do you want to open up wasteland or increase taxes?"

"No, it doesn't matter whether it's sending soldiers to farm or increasing taxes."

Before Guo Jia could speak, Dian Wei said first, "Letting soldiers go to farm is to train soldiers into farmers and lose their blood. How can we win a war like this?"

Guo Jia shook his head and said, "General Dian, I am not as good as you in how to charge into battle, but you are not as good as me in matters of internal affairs. This matter should..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Cao Cao waving his hand to interrupt.

Cao Cao asked with interest: "Then, tell me, why is it impossible to increase taxes?"

Dian Wei thought of Chen Yang's words, and said proudly: "Increasing taxes is, is courting death! From ancient times to the present, those who want to achieve hegemony have relied on strong national power, and the source of national power is the common people of the world. .”

"Increasing taxes is driving the common people to a dead end, just like the one who killed the chicken and then took the eggs away. Anyway, it's almost the same, and... hiding wealth from the people, yes! It's hiding wealth from the people."

"Only in this way, there will be endless food."

In fact, Dian Wei didn't remember much of those words, and after speaking vaguely, he probably expressed his meaning.

After listening to his words, Guo Jia looked at him as if he had seen a ghost, and Cao Cao was also full of disbelief.

Dian Wei is a big bastard, the absolute No. 1 in charge, but he is a noob when discussing internal affairs.

How could he say such reasonable things?

It hit the nail on the head and directly hit the drawbacks of increasing taxes.

Store wealth among the people.

It's a good word to use, even if they can't think of it to describe it.

After Cao Cao heard this, he became cheerful. This world is actually the world of the common people, and all his troops came from the common people.

Only when the people are rich and what the people want, can the world be at their fingertips.

Thinking of this, Boss Cao was shocked!

What a good one to hide wealth from the people!

"General Dian, where did you hear these words? Did Xun Yu teach you to say that?" Guo Jia frowned. He couldn't believe that Dian Wei could still compare himself.

"Of course I thought of it myself."

Dian Wei remembered Chen Yang's instructions, but he didn't blush when he said it in a panic.

"It's impossible!" Guo Jia said immediately.

"Come on, tell me quickly, who taught you?" Cao Cao also looked at him and asked.

Dian Wei was a little guilty when he saw it, but for shopkeeper Chen, he patted his heart and said: "No one taught me, I really thought about it myself. In fact, my resourcefulness is not much worse than Feng Xiao's."

Guo Jia rolled his eyes at him, apparently in disbelief.

Dian Wei grinned, his eyes turned and landed on the ledger on the table.

The account book was full of dense words, Dian Wei glanced at it curiously, maybe he had been with Chen Yang for a long time, and by some coincidence, he could understand the content recorded on it.

"Prime Minister, this number is wrong!"

Dian Wei's words made Cao Cao and Guo Jia look at him even more surprised.

Cao Cao pointed to the account and asked, "Do you understand?"

Dian Wei was taken aback by the question, he scratched his head: "I seem to understand."

Then, he pointed to one of the wrong numbers, and continued: "Prime Minister, it says here that the grain and grass in the camp cost 750 shi, and here it is 250 shi. The sum is [-] shi. Why do you record [-] shi?" .”

Dian Wei pointed out an obvious mistake. Cao Cao and Guo Jia looked at him in disbelief after reading it.

This kind of low-level mistake, even if Dian Wei didn't say it, they could still see it, and they haven't seen it yet.

But how did Dian Wei see it?

If Dian Wei could eat a cow in one meal, Cao Cao would not doubt it, but Dian Wei could also do magic tricks, and he couldn't believe it even if he was killed.

"Evil, how did you see it?" Cao Cao asked in surprise.

Dian Wei scratched his head: "Actually, it's very simple. When I saw it, I understood it vaguely, but your way of keeping accounts is too troublesome."

After that, Dian Wei wrote down the numbers from Chen Yang and explained them briefly.

"This……"

Guo Jia was once again shocked by Dian Wei. He and Cao Cao are both smart people. As soon as Dian Wei finished explaining, they understood the beauty of this number.

Compared with their commonly used numbers, this kind of number is much simpler and extremely convenient to record, and the essence has not changed in any way.

"General Dian, did you invent this?"

Guo Jia couldn't calm down anymore. He, the chief counselor, couldn't think of such a simplified accounting method, and his self-confidence was severely frustrated for a while.

However, Cao Cao didn't think so, he asked, "Come on, what have you been doing lately?"

Dian Wei laughed and said, "I've been drinking at shopkeeper Chen's."

When mentioning Chen Yang's wine, Cao Cao missed it very much. He hadn't had a drink for half a month, and he was too busy recently.

However, Cao Cao's eyes lit up: "Shopkeeper Chen, haha...so that's the case, I understand!"

Guo Jia was taken aback, and asked, "Who is Shopkeeper Chen?"

Dian Wei was stunned for a while, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have said something wrong and accidentally exposed Chen Yang.

However, Cao Cao waved his hand and said, "Okay, there's no need to say any more. Since you can learn it even if you are evil, it means that this accounting method works. I will promote it immediately. If you are evil, you can go down first."

"it is good!"

Just as Dian Wei was about to leave, he suddenly turned around and came back. He said again: "I almost forgot, Prime Minister, I have already solved the problem of land reclamation. We don't need soldiers to farm anymore."

After finishing speaking, he took out the cloth strip Chen Yang gave him.