Chapter 5 Rewards
Chen Gong pressed down his anger and went over to salute, saying, "Lord."
"Public station, I'm just saying I'm looking for you."
Chen Gong pulled Lu Bu and said, "Lord, let's talk next to you."
The two came to a secluded place in the corner. Chen Gong said, "Lord, caring for refugees and helping the elderly and young people is a good thing, and it can gain a lot of people's hearts. But lord, we just said a few days ago that we would recruit 20,000 soldiers. We were just here, and the local wealthy families in Xuzhou did not cooperate at all. Yesterday I was busy for a day and didn't raise much money and food, so we can't waste it like this."
"Yes, it's not easy to raise money and grain." Lu Bu also sighed.
Chen Gong continued: "Yuan Shu's army ate river clams to survive when they are in trouble. Yuan Shao's army sometimes ate mulberries and apricots when they are hungry. When the emperor fled from Chang'an, countless palace maids starved to death. The ministers who went out to chop wood fell to death on the roadside, so, this food and grass are so important."
Lu Bu gave a deep gift and said, "The public service is righteous and speaks with great confidence. But don't worry, there is no problem with money and grain in the short term, there are thousands of stones of old pickles and tens of thousands of stones of cornmeal."
Chen Gong was shocked. There was so much food and grass, but that was a considerable amount.
"I just don't know what this corn is? Why have I never heard of it?"
Lu Bu asked his personal soldiers to bring a bowl of corn porridge to Chen Gong and said, "Take some at the office, and if it is appropriate, it will be designated as military rations."
When Chen Gong saw that the porridge looked good, he drank it a little and tasted it. It was quite sweet and drank it for a few sips.
"There is nothing wrong with it except a little sparse. But lord, it is not enough to help refugees like this. Just use old grain and insects. With such delicious porridge, many families who are not in trouble will come to eat it."
"What the public station said makes sense, it will be changed tomorrow. From the day after tomorrow, only the young and young people who want to eat will go to the construction site. The 10,000 acres of dry land in the governor's yamen will be trampled on by the ring-eye thief, and they need to use manpower to turn it over before ploughing it."
Chen Gong brought a shovel of the pot and stove from the side, handed it to Lu Bu, and said, "My lord, please see, this is our shovel, there are only two thousand in total."
Lu Bu looked at it and found that the tool was too antique. It was just a small piece of iron with a wooden stick. Planting a small vegetable garden or something was OK. Ten thousand acres of land. Just kidding, would you have to dig up the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month?
"The main reason is that the land is sandy land, with low yields and no five stones to plant millet. It is a bit unprofitable to invest such a lot of energy." Chen Gong shook his head.
Lu Bu said mysteriously: "I will solve the tools, and I will have ten thousand excellent tools. We don't plant millet, we will plant a new magical grain, which can produce 70 to 80 stones per mu."
Chen Gongdada said nothing, and said in his heart that this lord didn't do this before. Why did he say stupid things today? He has lived for more than 30 years and has never seen any grain yields of 70 or 80 stones per mu.
"Is there really such food?" Chen Gong didn't believe it.
Lu Bu said: "I will give you two days to find thousands of refugees working. I will provide tools to sort out the 10,000 acres of three days. I will plant new food, which is related to the safety of our military food. You must do it well."
Chen Gong said: "My lord, let's take action separately. The lord will go to handle the tools. I contacted the refugees and strong men around me. This year, as long as I manage food, I can find people. It's very easy. But I'm worried about how to get the lord's tool. There are only a hundred blacksmiths in the craftsman to be a supervisor, so how can I do it so quickly?"
Lu Bu smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this. The office will ask if you can recruit strong men."
Chen Gong said: "I can't recruit people, so I'll dig the ground."
"Okay, one word is certain." Lu Bu said.
Since Lu Bu said that the money and food are relatively abundant, let’s help the refugees. In fact, he highly recognized Lu Bu’s approach, the people’s hearts, and sometimes the people’s hearts are really important.
After all, Mrs. Yan is a woman from a wealthy family. After a while, she was tired and found a chair to sit next to her and asked, "Why do you want me to come?"
"I will be the governor of Xuzhou, but the people have not attached it. The daughter of the wife is dignified and decent. She comes here every day to greatly appease the refugees. What can these two bowls of porridge be used to? It can only be said that they can't starve to death, but the meaning here is profound. I will not give up on them, but I will still think about them, so I will tell them."
Mrs. Yan Bingxue was smart and said, "I understand."
Until noon that day, more than 6,000 bowls of porridge were distributed, and all the people who ate the porridge praised him.
At noon, Lu Bu said: "Everyone will go home and I will still be here tomorrow morning."
"Thank you, General." Everyone said.
When Mrs. Yan returned home, Lu Bu brought her personal soldiers back to the camp. The training at the camp has been completed and she is ready for lunch.
The drums were beating together, and the big drum was beating.
Lu Busheng sat in the White Tiger Hall. After a while, Zhang Liao, Hao Meng, Wei Yue, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Cao Xing, and Cheng Lian. Seven generals were ranked in the corners.
As for Chen Gong who was recruiting strong men, Gao Shun's city walls were guarding the city.
"Meet the general." Everyone saluted.
"All the generals are exempted from gifts." Lu Bu stretched out his hand and asked everyone to sit down.
Lu Bu glanced at everyone with sharp eyes and said, "Everyone hasn't eaten yet. Today I'll invite you to dinner and taste it, how about it?"
Hao Meng said: "I drank a lot of sweet porridge in the morning, but I just fell in love with the toilet."
Wei Yue said: "That's General Hao's kidneys are no longer available, hahaha."
"Who can compete with your General Wei? Six or seven wives are in great health." Hao Meng said.
Lu Bu waved his hand and brought the Baci Bowan instant noodles. One bowl for each person was placed on the small table. This side was exquisitely made. It was covered with poached eggs and there were also chopped green onions.
A strong scent of pork bones came to my nose, and the instant noodles tasted very strong.
"This side?" Zhang Liao asked in confusion.
"What's wrong with this noodles? Let's eat it. I will treat you to noodles, so why are you polite?" Lu Bu said and started eating.
Cheng Lian took a bite and said in shock: "It's so delicious. It's the first time in his life that I have eaten such delicious noodles."
"It's really, it's so delicious." Hao Meng also said.
Everyone was talking and eating in a mess. Tong Lu, who was standing at the door, moved his throat and was so hungry.
After a while, the generals almost licked the bowl.
Hou Cheng said: "Lord, are there any more? You have to be full when you eat."
Lu Bu said: "There are some of this, and it will be the daily military rations for the soldiers in the future. What I said when I woke up early this morning, who will still remember it?"
Hao Meng said: "Remember, in the morning exercise, there is no reward for which battalion performs the worst."
Lu Bu smiled and picked up the training log on the table, which contained the registered attendance rate. It was clear which camp was the worst.
Song Xian's battalion had 500 people, and only 300 were attending, ranking at the bottom.
When Lu Bu waved his hand, the soldiers brought out many boxes of instant noodles.
"Except for Song Xian and his camp, the other camps will receive rewards according to the number of people." Lu Bu said.
"General Xie." Everyone was so happy. This instant noodles were so delicious, with enough oil and salt.
Song Xian had a tough face, and Lu Bu said, "What does General Song have to say?"
Chapter completed!