Cao Thief

Chapter 173 Choice (ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a recommendation ticket)
The winter of the second year of Jian'an seemed to heat up all of a sudden.

Cao Cao fought in full swing in Wancheng, Zhang Xiu retreated step by step, relying on Rangcheng to hold on, resisting Cao Cao's ferocious attack.

At the same time, Yuan Shu, who retreated to Huainan, was not reconciled to withdrawing.

While trying his best to appease the Huainan family, Yuan Shu put down his posture and took the initiative to send people to Xuzhou to repair the relationship with Lu Bu.

He asked Lu Bu to get married, hoping that his only son Yuan Yao could marry Lu Bu's daughter Lu Lan.Lu Lan, also known as Lu Lingqi.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although Yuan Shu has become the target of public criticism, he came from the Yuan family after all.

The name of Four Generations and Three Dukes has always been like a halo, attracting many people.Among them, Lu Bu was naturally included.Yuan Yao married Lu Lan, and he still married Lu Lan as his legal wife.For an ordinary person, this undoubtedly has a huge appeal.Even if he turned against Yuan Shu, Lu Bu was still moved by it.Thinking that he was just a commoner, although he was a vassal, he was still not accepted by others.If you can get married with Yuan Shu, maybe you can improve your family status?Lu Bu selectively ignored Yuan Shu's identity as a traitor.

Fortunately, Lu Bu was confused, but the people around him were not.

Even if Chen Gong had been optimistic about Yuan Shu, he did not agree with Lu Bu and Yuan Shu getting married at this time.

But Yuan Shu can't be offended, even if he is a traitor, he needs to be treated with care.After all, there is still strength in Yuan Shu's hands...

So Chen Gong chose a "delay", that is, he did not object, nor did he agree to get married immediately.

Seeing that there was no hope of getting married for a while, Yuan Shu came up with another idea.

He expressed his willingness to provide rations, equipment and supplies, and sent troops together with Lu Bu to attack Liu Bei in Pei County.

Liu Bei occupied Pei County, which was always a danger to Yuan Shu.In particular, Pei County controls Runan, looking at Huainan in the distance, Yuan Shu is like choking.

This time, Lu Bu finally failed to resist the temptation and made up his mind to conquer Liu Bei.

In December of the second year of Jian'an, Lu Bu ordered Gao Shun, the general of Zhonglang, to fall into the camp and join forces with Zhang Liao to capture Pei County.Don't look at Liu Bei, to be honest, Lu Bu is really not afraid of him.If you use the words of the later Chiang Kai-shek: You can't fight wars, and I can't play tricks.

Of course, Lu Bu would never agree, he was no match for Liu Bei.

In the same month, Zang Ba, a bandit from Mount Tai, looted a large amount of military supplies from Xiao Jian, Minister of Langya.According to the previous agreement between him and Lu Bu, half of the military resources he received should be shared with Lu Bu.But Zang Ba didn't move for a long time. Lu Bu and others were impatient, so they decided to go to Mount Tai to ask for it.

Zhang Liao tried to stop him, admonishing him, "Send someone to go over this kind of thing, why should the prince go there himself.

If it causes misunderstanding, it is not beautiful.If you don't get military funding, won't it affect the reputation of the monarch?Jun Hou think twice. "

Regarding this, Lu Bu didn't take it to heart, but firmly drove Zhang Liao to attack Liu Bei with Gao Shun, and took Wei Xuhou Cheng to Mount Tai.

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Haixi, Yatang Study.

Bu Zhi was quickly calculating the income and expenditure of the past month, reporting the number in his mouth, and Dai Gan recorded it.

Cao Peng sat aside, looking curiously at the things in Bu Zhi's hand.It was a white stereotype, which was divided into three parts.

The upper and lower parts are used to place floating beads, while the middle part is used to determine the calculation position.

This tool is the abacus.

The method Bu Zhi uses to calculate is one of the fourteen popular algorithms in the late Eastern Han Dynasty: abacus calculation.

However, the abacus is not the same as the abacus known by Cao Peng's later generations.

The biggest difference is that the five-bead abacus is not an abacus through beads, so it can only be called a bead plate or a bead plate.

Put the beads painted with different colors in rows of longitudinal arc-shaped grooves, and adjust the beads to perform calculations through some calculation methods.

As for Dai Gan, he recorded the numbers one by one in the account book.

The account books at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty are also just simple counts, such as written records such as how much money was spent on a certain item, and how much money was earned on a certain item.After recording these figures, it often takes a lot of time to perform a unified calculation.

Cao Peng looked a little confused and shook his head again and again.

"Ah Fu, why are you shaking your head?"

"This thing is too troublesome to calculate..."

Bu Zhi stopped, tilted his head and looked at Cao Peng, "Ah Fu, do you have a better way?"

"This...Actually, I think you can wear these counting chips, and it will be much easier to call and calculate... Hu Ban!"

"Here!"

Following Cao Peng's shout, Hu Ban trotted all the way into the study.

"Sir, what are your orders?"

"Go to the woodworking shop in the North Market and ask Pan Yong to send me a carpenter with good craftsmanship. I have something to do."

"Here!"

Without saying a word, Hu Ban turned his head and left.

Chen Qun frowned and looked at Cao Peng, "Ah Fu, what do you want to do?"

"Oh, make a little thing. I just think it's too much trouble for them to calculate like this."

While talking, he walked to Dai Gan's side, "Mr. Dai, how about letting me come?"

Dai Gan is upright, but his usual temper is very gentle.

Hearing Cao Peng's words, he couldn't help laughing and said, "In that case, I just need to take a rest."

There was still a little contempt in his tone.But it has nothing to do with character, Dai Gan is more concerned with Cao Peng's playfulness.

Algorithms were also a science at the time, but not everyone could learn them.

Cao Peng spread out a piece of paper, but instead of using a brush, he quickly drew a form on the paper with a hard pen, just like the account books of later generations.To be honest, he doesn't know anything about accounting!But as the saying goes, I have seen sheep running without eating mutton.In the so-called economy-first society in his previous life, Cao Peng had heard more or less of the bookkeeping rule of 'where there is a loan, there must be a loan, and the loan must be equal'.

"Mr. Zishan, you can start!"

When Dai Gan saw that Cao Peng was going to play for real, he couldn't help being anxious and wanted to step forward to stop him.

Unexpectedly, Chen Qun stopped him.

"Dai Facao doesn't have to worry, looking at Ah Fu like this, he seems a bit sure.

This kid's mind is full of weird things, let him try it out... But something went wrong, it's great, just recalculate. "

Dai Gan thought about it, and it seemed to be the same reason.

Anyway, I won't take it seriously, this is just a preliminary calculation, and I will sort it out and review it later.

It's amazing, just treat it as a rework!
Bu Zhi glanced at Cao Peng with interest, "That's it, that's the beginning."

He quickly calculated, and reported the numbers one by one.And Cao Peng also writes like flying, quickly recording on paper.

It took about one stick of incense to fill up a piece of paper.

Cao Peng handed the paper to Dai Gan, and Dai Gan was furious when he saw it!

"Youxue, what ghost character are you writing?"

"Mr. Dai, don't worry, let me explain." Cao Peng quickly stopped Dai Gan from tearing up the paper, and dragged him to the side of the case.

Bu Zhi and Chen Qun also came over and leaned over to look.

But I saw a bunch of symbols written on the paper, but I didn't know what it meant.

"This is shorthand for numbers, this one is one, this one is two..."

Cao Peng's method of recording numbers is to write according to the Arabic numerals of later generations.

He explained: "This is ones, tens, hundreds, thousands... We only need to record the numbers on these calculations, and we can see it at a glance. This is expenditure, and this is income. After we record separately, You only need to add the two sides together...For example, in the column of expenditure: yesterday the villagers spent so much on grain and rice, and so much on housing construction. Finally, the sum is the total expenditure of yesterday. Then the income can be deduced by analogy...uh , After calculating the two sides, add and subtract to calculate the income immediately. Let me calculate, according to this calculation, yesterday we actually... well, basically, we had negative income..."

At the beginning of farming, the expenditure must be greater than the income.

This point, Cao Peng and others are well aware.

Fortunately, Chen Sheng's family property was confiscated before, and later sold off, so that the treasury government didn't have to worry about the cost issue for a while.

During this period of time, Haixi County blocked salt roads, cracked down on illegal salt, and confiscated a lot of salt production.

After confiscating the private salt, Deng Ji quickly converted the private salt into Yanyin, and through the channels of Huang Zheng and others, sold it into grain, rice, luggage and money.But in comparison, expenditures are still greater than income.After all, this farming requires a large amount of investment, especially the continuous flow of [-] Haimin into Haixi County, which also makes the financial aspect a little tight.But generally speaking, it is not a big problem to stick to the next year's income.

Moreover, the spirit of the Haixi people is also very high. They obey Deng Ji's decree more than they oppose it.

After Bu Zhi and Dai Gan watched it, they couldn't help being surprised.

Including Chen Qun, who was also shocked. The three gathered around the book case, talking in low voices, and praised Cao Peng's brand-new bookkeeping method again and again.

In fact, they don't care much about Arabic numerals and the like.

What they care about is Cao Peng's way of keeping accounts.

After all, before they kept accounts, they mixed records of expenses and income, and then calculated them.

This separate bookkeeping method seems to be simpler and clearer than the previous bookkeeping method.

How much you spend and what you use it for; how much you earn and how you earn it, it's clear at a glance...

"Okay, this method is really clever."

Dai Gan couldn't help admiring again and again.

This kind of classified accounting is not complicated, but people were in the game at the time, and due to inertia, they didn't think too much about it.

And things like algorithms are common people's studies.Although some people study this way, they are outside the main theme.

Therefore, most scholars are unwilling to spend their minds on this.

"Ah Fu, is what you are going to do related to this?"

"Well, you'll know when you make it!"

Cao Peng scratched his head and replied shyly.

This also made Dai Ganbuzhi and the two more curious and expectant in their hearts.

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After lunch, Chen Qun took Cao Peng to go for a walk.

Cao Peng has nothing to do recently, and Haixi's affairs are gradually getting on track.Deng Ji is now doing his best to carry out the work of land measurement and population inventory, and Pu Yangkai accompanied him, and he can be regarded as having traveled to every corner of Haixi.Bu Zhi and Dai Gan are in charge of the resettlement of the villagers and the clearing of wealth and goods.Cao Peng didn't need to worry about the commercial income of the North Market.It will be collected by the heads of the nine major banks, and then handed over to the Caochao Office, which will then be delivered to the county government.With Wang Mai and Deng Fan over there, Cao Peng was naturally relieved.

Pan Zhang is in charge of public security in the city.

Two hundred soldiers were stationed outside the city, trained by Hao Zhao.

As for Zhou Cang and Xia Houlan, they were naturally free. One of them was responsible for staying in the city, and the other was out with Deng Ji. They were not busy.

In short, in terms of Haixi's current situation, the space for Cao Peng to intervene is getting smaller and smaller.

Once the villagers settle down, Haixi will be on track.However, Cao Peng reckoned that Deng Ji still needed time and effort to fully develop his work in Haixi.Some of the gentry in Haixi County have expressed their willingness to cooperate with Deng Ji; but there are still many gentry who still do not agree to release the land and population... But this is not important, as long as Deng Ji does well, other Everyone has gained a lot of benefits, and naturally some people will be shaken.In the end, even if there were still a few stubborn gentry left, it would be difficult to have any impact.According to the discussion between Cao Peng and Deng Ji, only [-]% of the land in Haixi needs to be used for farming, which is enough.

What's more, with the increase in population, Haixi can greatly open up wasteland.

At that time, the will of individual gentry is no longer important, and if they don't want to farm, then let them go...

But these things depend on Deng Ji's personal ability!Cao Peng has already helped as much as he can, and to be honest, he may not be able to do better than Deng Ji.

In late winter, the weather gets colder.

The begging cold day has begun, and it also heralds that spring is coming.

Although the land is still desolate, but walking on it, one can vaguely feel the vigorous vitality that is bred there...

Cao Peng and Chen Qun all rode horses, trusting the horses to let them go.

"Ah Fu, Yuanlong's invitation, what are you going to do?"

Cao Peng scratched his head, "I don't know."

He looked sideways at Chen Qun, "Brother, I actually... I just don't understand, why did Mr. Chen want to enlist me all of a sudden?"

The Chen Gong he was talking about was not Chen Deng, but Chen Deng's father, Chen Gui.

Because Chen Deng conquered Cao Peng, it is said that it was Chen Gui's intention.

Cao Peng couldn't help being a little apprehensive, not knowing what Chen Gui's intention was to conquer him.

"This..." Chen Qun hesitated for a moment, and saw Xia Houlan with ten followers behind him, some distance away.

He said softly: "Ah Fu, the establishment of the guild in the North Market is your handwriting."

"what?"

"Also, all the actions of my uncle and grandson before now have traces of you... In fact, there are some things that don't need to be explained, we can also see some clues. It's not that my uncle and grandson are not talented enough. For a while, I thought I knew him too.

The uncle and grandson are good at details, but the layout is a little smaller.

This may be related to his practice of criminal names, so when he does things, there are inevitably traces of carving.In terms of flexibility, he still seems to be worse.In fact, he came to Haixi, I can roughly guess one or two.If he stayed in Xudu, he would only be able to work in Dali, and he would need to earn a lot of qualifications... It would be a pity for Yu Shusun.That's why he replaced Liang Ziyu and came to Haixi to take up the post. The meaning of training is more serious, right? "

When Cao Peng heard this, he couldn't help being silent.

"Chen Gong once told me that after his uncle came to Haixi, what he did was quite magical.

However, after meeting him and having a sincere conversation, Chen Gong felt that those magical strokes were beyond the imagination of his uncle and grandson.At that time, Chen Gong said that there must be someone around his uncle and grandson to help him.But at that time, there were not many people around my uncle and grandson.Neither Bu Zhi nor Dai Gan came, only Puyang Kai was there.However, Mr. Chen believed that although Mr. Puyang was talented and learned, he was a bit more bookish, so he might not be the schemer of his uncle and grandson.

So Mr. Chen has been paying attention to Haixi, and finally found you..."

"what?"

"Do you know, how does Mr. Chen know you?"

"This, I don't know."

"Hehe, because someone recommended you to Mr. Chen."

"Someone recommend me?"

When Cao Peng heard this, he couldn't help being stunned.

Who will recommend me again?

"Hehe, it's Mr. Xiangyang Shuijing."

"Sima...Hui?"

"Exactly."

Seeing Cao Peng's confused face, Chen Qun explained earnestly: "Mr. Decao actually valued you very much. Later, you had to leave Nanyang because you offended the Huang family. Mr. Decao felt very sorry. At the beginning, Shangshu Pang intended to accept You are a student, and Mr. Decao also agrees. It's just...although you left Nanyang, Mr. Decao still cares about you very much, and even sent someone to inquire about your news."

"Ask me for news?"

"Mr. Decao said, you are talented and your future is limitless.

He was afraid that you would waste your studies, so after learning that you came to Guangling, he sent someone to contact Mr. Chen.Speaking of it, although De Cao is Chen Gong's junior, he is very valued by Chen Gong.Since De Cao recommended you, Chen Gong naturally paid attention to you... At first, Chen Gong was not sure that you were the murderer behind his uncle and grandson, but later Mai Ren went to file a complaint, which made Chen Gong confirm this matter matter……

Hehe, Mr. Chen conscripted you for two purposes.

This is the first one, the uncle and grandson are talented, but they still need to be honed.

Qi Yu can grow with experience, but if you stay with him all the time, your uncle and grandson will inevitably depend on you for everything, and it is difficult to make real decisions.If you want to become a master, your uncle and grandson must learn to face things by themselves.Haixi was complicated before, and you two brothers can support each other.But now, Haixi has gradually stabilized, and it will not benefit him if you continue to stay with your uncle and grandson. "

Cao Peng really didn't think about this point.

"What about the second one?"

"Haixi...too small!"

Chen Qun said with a smile: "You stay in a place like Haixi, and it won't do you any good either.

Although Guangling is not too big, it is located in the two Huaihe Rivers, between Xiapi, Jiangdong, and Huainan, connecting Jiangdong and the Central Plains.Chen Gong believes that your horizons will be much wider in Guangling than in Haixi, and it will definitely be more beneficial to your future.

Before that, I didn't really believe it.

But seeing your fantastic ideas today, I feel that what Chen Gong said is quite reasonable. "

This elder caring!
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, scholars were inherently narrow, but at the same time, they also had an inclusiveness that is difficult for later generations to match.

People like Chen Gui and Sima Hui look at things differently from ordinary people.They love talents and teach them. Although they also have selfish intentions, generally speaking, they don't have too much malice.Their love for talents is definitely from their heart.

After listening to Chen Qun's words, Cao Peng couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Yes, staying in Haixi really doesn't mean much anymore.

But if he goes out this time, it means that he will stand on the front stage from behind the scenes.

Although it is said that this day will come sooner or later, Cao Peng is still a little hesitant at this sudden moment.Go to Guangling?To get more experience?

Am I ready?

Thinking of this, Cao Peng couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then forcefully exhaled...

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Suddenly remembered, today is Monday.

Ask for a recommendation ticket, and ask for a guaranteed monthly pass, old and new are greedy!
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(End of this chapter)