Who is not Cao Cao?

Chapter 81 Technology and hard work

"There must be no shortage of food."

He Yan stood up and said something fair to the grain transport soldiers, which made the soldiers stationed in Wubao look gratefully at He Yan.

"But it is true that there is a shortage of food in the army. You have to be considerate of these comrades! How thin do you think they are?"

The grain transport soldiers under Cao Ren's command followed He Yan to eat meat every day, and they were all big and round. On the other hand, the soldiers stationed in Wubao were almost as thin as men!

The grain transporter saw that the other party was indeed very thin, and then looked at his own small belly from eating meat, and his face suddenly panicked.

"As for the food, you should transport it back first. If Colonel Cao asks, just say...it was arranged by Sikong! Let him talk to Sikong himself!"

Listening to He Yan's tough tone, coupled with the cannibal's short mouth, these food transport soldiers had no choice but to transport the food back to the barracks in desperation.

After the food transport soldiers left, the soldiers stationed at Wubao also came forward to thank He Yan, and seemed to be a little more convinced by the new chief.

He Yan lifted him up from the ground, looked at his thin and small appearance, and sighed: "Be patient for a while, the war is about to end, and I'm waiting for the New Year to go home and eat new food."

Encouraged by He Yan, the soldier also showed a naive smile: "Sure! I still have an old hen at home, and I just keep it for Chinese New Year to eat eggs!"

He Yan was taken aback, patted the other person on the shoulder, got up and walked towards the tent.

However, Liu Ye was still puzzled, and he chased after him and asked, "He Zhonglang, the "succulent prince" that the soldier mentioned just now is..."

"Who knows! Maybe it's some dialect! Let's go in and continue eating!"

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Back in the camp, He Yan felt that the corn in front of him was tasteless.

Flipping through the accounts as if venting, but getting more and more irritable, because there are really only so many things in Wubao, even if the accounts are broken, there will be no more rations——

"Huh? There are still these in the account?"

Spices, oils, silks.

In the accounts of a booklet, there are all luxurious things recorded, and there are many of them!

There are more than 100 stones of flax that can be squeezed for oil, which can be eaten by the army!

"Mr. Zi Yang, these things..."

Liu Ye read a lot and had some eyesight problems, so he walked up to He Yan, looked at what He Yan was pointing at, and replied, "These, these are not in Wubao, but in Xuchang. The reason why they are written in the account is because Because the treasury needs to be coordinated before the battle.”

Liu Ye added: "And most of them are food for the royal family and ministers, which are useless for marching and fighting, so they were not brought here."

He does not mean that.

He Yan looked at the groceries on the account, and felt a little resentful: "How can this be useless?"

"Just by selling it to Jingzhou and Jiangdong, you can get a lot of grain. How can you pile it up in the warehouse to eat ashes?"

Liu Ye didn't react for a while after hearing it.

Those are all necessary to support the royal family and ministers!
If those things were missing, it would be hard to imagine that those Hanchens would make some fuss later to criticize Cao Cao and cause trouble behind their backs.

"What are you afraid of?"

He Yan dismissed it with disdain: "It's all people's fat and people's anointing, and what is taken from the people will naturally be used for the people! What's more, those gangs of wine bags and rice bags will make trouble behind after eating their fill. It's really a waste for them!"

Liu Ye was at a loss for words for a while, obviously he did not dare to follow He Yan to talk about this rebellious topic.

"It's better to ask Xun Lingjun to transport these food to other places in exchange for food. By the way, flax can be transported to the front line and squeezed into oil for the soldiers to replenish."

Liu Ye showed a look of embarrassment: "So... I'm afraid there's something wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"The gang of ministers starved them to death for a while, let them have a taste of the feeling of front-line soldiers, and save them talking behind their backs."

For this reason, He Yan also recruited Ren Jun to persuade Liu Ye together.

Compared with Liu Ye, Ren Jun's attitude towards those ministers is naturally much more radical, and he also waved his hand: "Yulang is right! Anyway, we are now at the point where we are running out of ammunition and food, even if we don't use it, it's just cheap Yuan Shao."

With Ren Jun's platform, Liu Ye still hesitated.

It was He Yan who quietly whispered in Liu Ye's ear, and then Liu Ye made up his mind to ask Xun Yu to transport the things in the treasury to the front line.

Ren Jun was curious about what He Yan said to Liu Ye, but He Yan didn't hide it.

"The reason why some people around Sikong are suspicious of Liu Ye is entirely because he might get the support of those Hanchens to betray Sikong."

"But right now, if Liu Ye "cuts himself off from the public servant" and spreads the news of cutting off the public servant's funding, those public officials who are more cautious than others will definitely hate Liu Ye. If this is the case, Liu Ye will stay with Sikong forever. The pay will be better."

After hearing this, Ren Jun also had a new understanding of his nephew.

"Yulang... in terms of doing things, he is quite similar to Sikong and Guo Fengxiao."

He Yan sighed: "I don't want to either, but if you get close to ink, you will be black."

Ren Jun sighed: "It's hard for Yulang~"

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When Xun Yu in Xuchang received the list of materials Liu Ye wanted, he suspected that he hadn't seen it clearly.

"Is Liu Ziyang crazy? Is he trying to kill himself from the Lord and the Son of Heaven?"

This subconscious reaction made Xun Yu think more and more wrongly, and in the end even Xun Yu could only sigh: "This Liu Ziyang is really cruel!"

After thinking for a long time, Xun Yu agreed to Liu Ye's proposal.

Just like what Ren Jun said, if this battle is lost, the royal family and ministers don't need Cao Cao to continue to support him, but Yuan Shao will be taken advantage of in vain.

Xun Yu only left food that could supply the royal family and ministers for a month, and the rest, according to Liu Ye's instructions, were either transported to Jiangdong, Jingzhou in exchange for grain, or transported to the front lines.

"One month at most, if Sikong still can't defeat Yuan Shao, then there must be not enough food, so keeping these...of course it will be useless."

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With Xun Yu's support, these foodstuffs naturally fell to He Yan...ah no, they fell to the army's logistics department.

He Yan counted the grain stocks, estimated the possible end of the war, and immediately smiled knowingly.

He came to Liu Ye and asked, "Duke Zi Yang, do you want to eat meat?"

"Ok?"

Even Liu Ye can be regarded as Sikong's subordinate, but in this army where the rations are scarce, it is difficult to eat a bowl of meat.

However, Liu Ye thought that He Yan was going to use his power to become a "big rat", so he rejected the proposal very honestly.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to treat you alone."

He Yan said boldly: "I want all soldiers in the army to eat meat!"

Liu Ye worriedly stepped forward and touched He Yan's forehead: "Could it be that He Zhonglang has gone crazy from hunger because he hasn't had meat for a long time?"

"You're crazy!"

Slapping Liu Ye's hand away, He Yan asked mysteriously, "Have you heard of... Hextech?"

"Hai... what is dead? What chicken?"

(End of this chapter)