Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 4 The water is very deep here, you can't control it
Speaking of which, disasters occurred frequently at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the emperor Liu Hong often ordered the opening of porridge shops, distributed millet porridge to the people, and even opened warehouses to release grain!
However, it is often noisy to get food, and after getting porridge, the local granary will soon run out of food, and the situation of the victims starving to death has not improved.

It is true that there are some greedy people among them, but there are more people pretending to be disaster victims!

They are strong and full of energy, and they often run to the front when they distribute porridge and food, so that in the end, the victims who really need help have no food to receive and no porridge to drink!
Liu Yu understands this all too well...

This is like the affordable housing before time travel. It was originally intended to be bought by the poor who could not afford a house, but... almost all the "affordable housing" that can buy are wealthy families.

This is the same as the ancient porridge...

There are only so many places for affordable housing, and those who are well-to-do can easily get it by using their connections, but where can people who really can't afford housing find these connections?
and so…

Many experts in later generations appealed not to build separate toilets in affordable housing, but only to build public toilets!

Only in this way will people from well-to-do families look down on these houses, and the poor who really need them will have the opportunity to buy them.

The same goes for porridge.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu opened his mouth and said, "Ah Man, you just need to sprinkle two handfuls of sand in the porridge bucket, stir well and then serve the porridge officially!"

"In this way, those pretending to be disaster victims will feel insulted and will not eat these porridge polluted by sand. The real hungry victims have been hungry for a long time and don't care about it at all!"

"This is what I said, 'cut with a knife, cut with an axe,' and be ruthless when you should be ruthless. If you are not ruthless to the victims, they will not be able to eat at all!"

Speaking of this, Liu Yu paused for a moment, and continued: "What's more... because of the long-term hunger, the real refugees will gobble up food when they eat, causing stomach damage, and the porridge is mixed with sand. Chew slowly, carefully pick out the sand before drinking the porridge, this will also avoid damage to the stomach and intestines, and it will be good for their health!"

Although Cao Cao and Liu Yu are ten years old, he listens like a primary school student...

No, to be precise, in this era, there is no "university" or "primary school", only "study big" and "study small"!
Men over the age of 15 enter government schools or private schools. The so-called learning big means learning "ritual", "music", "shooting", and "royalty" in the Five Classics and the Six Arts of Gentlemen, while men over eight years old go to private schools for "study". "Small", what you learn is "book", "number" and "music" in the six arts of a gentleman!
"Learning big" and "learning small" refer to the age and scope of students' learning, but the size of the learning place and teaching tools!

Speaking of which, when Cao Cao and Liu Yu met, they had just graduated from Taixue, "studied elementary school" in six years, and studied in university in "four years", after ten years of cold windows!

at this time…

Cao Cao's thin eyes burst out with a brilliant light. Listening to Liu Yu's explanation, he seemed to have found a way to relieve the disaster victims in Dunqiu County...

From the bottom of his heart, he admired the knowledge of this good brother.

"Brother Yu, these... where did you learn it?"

Cao Cao asked curiously.

Liu Yu waved her hand, playing tricks. "Ah, everything... You have to see the inner world through the phenomenon. You can think about many things in reverse. What you think of is how to identify the real victims. Naturally, they are the disaster victims!"

"However, it seems that we are insulting the victims, but in fact, we are just saving them. Anyone who makes a lot of noise will not be the real victims, and the real victims should thank us! This is reverse thinking !"

What Liu Yu proposed is actually a mode of thinking.

Cao Cao nodded half understanding. "That's why, all the refugees who come to Yulin to watch the porridge are grateful to Brother Yu, and most of them have realized Brother Yu's good intentions!"

"Hey!" Liu Yu waved her hand after being a little embarrassed by Cao Cao's praise. "Ah, come back this time, how long will you stay?"

"Three days!" Cao Cao blurted out, "I don't feel at ease if the rescue of the disaster victims at Dunqiu is not settled properly."

hear here...

Liu Yu rolled her eyes!
Cao Cao who cares so much about the victims?Is this still the "No. [-] Butcher Knife of the Three Kingdoms" and "Bones exposed in the wild, no rooster crows for thousands of miles"?
But soon, Liu Yu was relieved. Although Cao Cao was "stunned" and "unreliable" when he was young, he really had nothing to say to the common people!

Just a while ago, it was the rainy season in Dunqiu, and Cao Cao sent a letter saying that a dam of the Yellow River had burst...

He immediately jumped into the water and blocked the breach with his body. Seeing his order, countless people also jumped into it, arm in arm... After that, the two banks threw sandbags at them and blocked the breach again!
Liu Yu still remembers the last sentence in the letter sent by Cao Cao——"The sky is not benevolent, and all things are treated like dogs.

eh...

Don't say it, listening to Liu Yu's words, it feels quite "burning"!

Liu Yu raised his eyes and looked at Cao Cao again. He suddenly felt that Cao Cao was more "cute" when he was still young and before he became black.

"That's right..." Suddenly, Liu Yu thought of something. "Ah, I was just about to tell you something?"

"What's the matter?" Seeing Liu Yu's seriousness, Cao Cao opened his eyes again.

"Is the relationship between your Cao family and Song family very close?" Liu Yu asked abruptly.

"The Song family? Which Song family?" Cao Cao scratched his head.

"It's the famous Song family of Fufeng. The patriarch is Zhijinwu Song Feng, and his daughter is the current queen!"

hiss…

Cao Cao paused for a moment, then blurted out. "My cousin Cao Ying is married to Song Qi, the younger brother of Empress Song, so the relationship between our two families is naturally close!"

No wonder Cao Cao said that...

The Cao family is not limited to Cao Song. Cao Song has a cousin named Cao Ding and a cousin named Cao Yue!
Not to mention Cao Ding!
Cao Yue had a daughter named Cao Ying, who was Cao Cao's cousin.

At the wedding banquet where Cao Cao got married, Song Qi, the younger brother of Empress Song, immediately fell in love with Cao Ying, who was waiting for her husband...and even dragged her regular attendant Cao Jie to match him.

With the relationship between Cao Song and Cao Jie at the level of "worried and treacherous", naturally Cao Song agreed, and after one or two visits, the marriage was settled.

Cao Ying married Song Qi, the younger brother of the current Empress Song!
The Cao family can be regarded as having a relationship with the emperor's relatives!

In order to be grateful, the Song family even used their connections to help Cao Cao snatch a "Xiaolian" in Qiaopei's hometown in advance three years ago!
One of the two families is rich and the other is powerful, so they naturally communicate frequently and exchange what they need!
Of course, for Cao Cao, he didn't know the twists and turns, he only knew that the Cao family and the Song family had a good relationship!
never thought...

Liu Yu's gaze sank. "Ah Man, come here with your ears. I have to tell you something in advance. This is related to the rise and fall of your Cao family!"

what…

Cao Cao was taken aback for a moment, he felt that the atmosphere around him suddenly became weird.

"Brother Yu? Is it necessary to make the atmosphere so ecstatic?"

"Speak seriously!" Liu Yu said solemnly: "This time you go home, you must convince your father to cut off all ties with the Song family! Whether it is Song Empress or Song Qi, you must never have anything to do with the Song family. Nothing involved!"

This…

Liu Yu's words made Cao Cao dizzy.

What's the matter?

He still wanted to ask, but Liu Yu didn't bother to explain too much. "Just believe me, the water here is very deep, even if you spend three days and three nights, you still can't tell, man...you can't grasp it!"

Speaking of which...

Liu Yu helped Cao Cao up. "Go home quickly, you haven't come back for more than a year, your father probably misses you very much!"

"Remember, you must never exchange letters with the Song family again, and you must not accept or give gifts to each other! These things will set your Cao family on fire!"

Uh…

Liu Yu's tone became more and more serious.

Cao Cao still wanted to ask, but he swallowed the words back.

Since getting acquainted with Liu Yu, he has never been inaccurate in anything he said or mentioned!

This time... probably, it will be the same!
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(End of this chapter)