Ou Xing's trip to Kou Shiwu, which took place on the seventh day of May in the fourth year of Zhongping, was very rich in content.

I met my close friend who I just met the day before yesterday, and received the earnest guidance from the respected elder.

The outstanding wisdom in the elder's teachings gave Ou Xing the inspiration for an epiphany, and he composed (plagiarized) a popular little poem on the spot.

"Rice Journey"

In the fourth year of Zhongping, I tried to ask Jia to the Marquis of Luo. I was taught a lot and benefited from it, so I finally realized it and wrote this article.

To the south of Mi River in Luo County, the vast expanse is as flat as a case.

In May, there is plenty of green rice, and thousands of green springs are in chaos.

When it's time to transplant the rice seedlings, use water to irrigate them.

Gengwen went to Fangtang to cut off the canal and cut off the bank.

It is spread everywhere, both public and private, and there is no drought.

The chief guard asked his retainers and clearly saw Xi Bian.

The green feathers are bright and green, and the yin and yang are born.

The gulls and birds come in the mirror, and the lakes and mountains are seen from the clouds.

Autumn wild rice turns into black rice, and finely chopped rice turns into white rice.

The grains of jade are enough for morning cooking, and the fresh red leaves are enough for the clouds to disperse.

Finally, I have more travel food, and the hard period is spectacular.

There are many leftover ears, and my warehouse is full of vines.

Because he was grateful for the guidance and teachings of the monarch, he wrote a poem to remember it, but it was just made up by Ou Xing to flatter Kou De.

Ou Xing copied poems mainly for fun and to have fun. He has become a time traveler. If he doesn’t work part-time as a copywriter, he always feels that something is missing.

Of course, it would be great if this flattery made Coude feel comfortable and allowed him to demonstrate and promote it among scholars and noble circles.

The original handwritten manuscript in the Kou family was naturally presented to Luo Hou in person. After returning to Ou Jiachong, Ou Xing would seize the time to copy and make multiple copies, frame them and send them to the main hall and private rooms of the third store of Zuixianju. Go to the kiosks on the surrounding traffic thoroughfares to display and promote the products.

Of course, in addition to Yuhua Pavilion, if you want to post and display your works in other pavilions, you will have to spend some advertising fees. Well, you also need to send wine.

In addition, Ou Xing is also preparing to draft a draft to compile Luohouci diocese's answering poems into short stories and nursery rhymes, and then hire idle people and children to spread the story in Luo, Hanchang, Yiyang and Linxiang.

Spread widely and seek a good reputation.

Although Ou Xing has switched to the farming stream and abandoned the counselor stream route, Ou Xing and Ou Jiachong still have an urgent need to make a name for themselves at this stage.

The poor reputation has greatly restricted Ou Jiachong's development at this stage.

In the third year of Yanxi's reign, Da Jingfu Quzhen led the remaining barbarians in Changsha to surrender and accepted the government's household registration for the people. Out of some politically correct considerations - perhaps to appease the barbarians and show the government's equal treatment attitude, the Han Dynasty The imperial court has officially banned the term "Changsha barbarians".

(The "Book of the Later Han Dynasty·Feng Nian Zhuan" records that "at that time, the barbarians from Yiyang in Changsha gathered in Yiyang for a long time, and in the fifth year of Yanxi, they became more prosperous". After many researches, the "five" in "the fifth year of Yanxi" should be "Three" error.)

After surrendering and reorganizing the people into households, everyone will be a good citizen of our great Han Dynasty.

In real history, whether it was the Ou Xing Uprising in the fourth year of Zhongping or the subsequent riots of varying scales by the descendants of the Changsha barbarians, the government never used the term "Changsha barbarians".

In official documents, the terms used are "Changsha Bandits", "Changsha Mountain Bandits" or "Changsha Mountain Bandits".

For example, the record of the Ou Xing uprising in the fourth year of Zhongping in "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms·Wu Shu·The First Biography of Sun Polu's Rebellion" reads: "The Changsha thief Ou Xing claimed to be a general, and more than ten thousand people attacked and besieged the city."

Barbaric chaos, where did it come from? It’s all internal contradictions among the people!

However, the political correctness of the government is not equal to the atmosphere of public opinion among the people.

The deep-rooted stereotype cannot be reversed by the government no longer calling it "Changsha Barbarian". In the eyes of the people of Changsha County, the Ou family is a barbarian and the Ou Jiachong is a den of thieves.

When the Changsha barbarians rebelled, so many people were killed and injured. Will the hatred disappear if they surrender?

When Ou Xing founded Ou Jiachong Private School, he couldn't find any disciples at all.

At that time, Ou Jiachong was still very poor, and Ou Xing could not offer a high salary. But later, after many reform measures made Ou Jiachong gradually rich, Ou Xing applied for high-paying jobs, but still could not find a wife.

The den of thieves has such a bad reputation that no scholar is willing to come to the Ou family and they don't dare to come.

Later, when Ou Xing opened a winery, he could not find a winemaker.

Distilling and purifying low-alcohol wine into high-alcohol wine is the basic skill of chemical worker Ou Xing. But he doesn't know much about winemaking, and neither do the people in the Ou clan - the barbarians didn't have enough to eat in the past, so how could they get any surplus food?

Make wine for them.

Not only is it short of these relatively high-end talents, Ou Jiachong is also in urgent need of basic labor for farming.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was generally vast and sparsely populated, and Oujiachong was no exception.

For Ou Jiachong, the vast land and sparse population was not a problem under the extensive farming methods in the past. However, after the Ou Xingjiao people cultivated intensively, the vast land and sparse population became a problem.

Rice cultivation is a typical labor-intensive agricultural industry. With intensive farming, it is close to the limit for one labor force to take care of 10 acres of land. However, the average farmland per household in Ou Jiachong is about 50 acres, which requires the whole family to work hard to plant.

Regarding this situation, the people of the Ou clan have no complaints - they are very happy. How can they be unhappy if they can have enough to eat? Compared to being hungry, being tired is nothing.

But Ou Xing couldn't say he was very happy.

His plan to demobilize people from work and serve as full-time clan soldiers to prepare for major events was disrupted by the agricultural reforms he initiated.

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, Jingnan has been relatively peaceful and has not been greatly affected. Ou Xing once had the idea of ​​​​introducing Yellow Turban refugees, but in the end it was not implemented.

There are three reasons.

One is because Ou Xing is not at ease with the Yellow Turban refugees. It is true that the Yellow Turban refugees are miserable people, but the existence of miserable people who have killed or even eaten people is another concept. Ou Xing is a little worried. The Yellow Turban refugees,

It will be difficult to manage.

The second reason is that Ou Xing is worried that the government will not trust him. Descendants of Jingman, absorb the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and hold a grand party of rebels and thieves? Isn't this an attempt to rebel? What is the purpose? Under the fields of melons and plums, Ou Xing does not want to get burned.

The third reason is that Ou Xing has not fully understood the system construction of Ou Jiachong. Thanks to Ma Yuanmao's good habit of sleeping in courses such as Ma Yuanmao, Ou Xing's knowledge of humanities and social sciences is quite shallow.

After the Yellow Turban refugees were introduced, regardless of what status the government gave them, within Ou Jiachong, were they treated as slaves, employed as long-term tenant farmers, or treated as equal members of the tribe? Ou Xing was uncertain.

Not only is the counselor stream route unavailable, Ou Xing now also feels that he should recruit counselors to assist him.

So it came back to the conflict that the Ou family was short of people but had a bad reputation and couldn't recruit people.

The problem of shortage of talents in the District family is very serious. It is simply not feasible to rely solely on the efforts of the clan members to create and train talents. For the current and long-term development, a talent introduction plan is imperative.

So, in the third year of Zhongping, Ou Jiachong's external publicity project was officially launched. Ou Xing personally led the team. He erected sycamore trees to attract phoenixes. Let's improve Ou Jiachong's reputation first.

After copying the poem "Rice Row" twenty times, Ou Xing stretched his muscles and continued writing.

Luo Hou has agreed to invite the county magistrate and Ou Xing to a banquet at Kou Shiwu at the end of this month or the beginning of next month, depending on the convenience of the county magistrate Dong Yi, to resolve the misunderstanding between the two parties.

At the banquet, Ou Xing will invite the county magistrate to hunt for fun on the day of rest.

Time is running out, and Ou Xing must quickly come up with a specific action plan.
Chapter completed!