He Yan didn't know that Cao Cao on the front line was already thinking about kidnapping him.
After living in Sikong Mansion for a few days, he moved back outside the city.
Mother Deng and others burst into tears of joy when they saw He Yan. Water flowed all over the floor, which made He Yan very comforted.
Deng Ai became much more well-behaved after He Yan's incident. At least the little guy didn't resist too much when He Yan rubbed his head.
Zhao Yun was as aloof as ever, with almost no changes except that he personally led Xiang Yong to hang around outside He Yan's pavilion.
However, He Yan still keenly noticed something was wrong——
"Before I left, I remembered that there were only two hundred households here! Why are there so many now?"
In just a few days, He Yan found that the population of the small cottage he had built temporarily to accommodate the people had increased several times!
There were only two hundred households in the village before, but now there are nearly seven or eight hundred households. If this continues, it will almost be as big as a small county town!
"It wasn't the previous price cuts that caused the disaster."
Zhao Yun explained to He Yan.
"The new arrivals are all tenants of large households nearby. The price of food dropped two days ago, so they took the opportunity to redeem themselves with food."
This is one of the consequences of previously pushing food prices to extremely low prices.
Common people were reduced to tenant farmers mostly because they encountered natural or man-made disasters and the land produced insufficient output. They had no choice but to sell their land to aristocratic families and became vassals.
Correspondingly, once the price of food is lowered, these people are not fools and will redeem themselves as soon as possible.
"Then what? Why do they all come to me?"
"Because the rent you paid is too low!"
When He Yan bought land on a large scale before, he greatly lowered the price of land rent because there was more land than people.
Compared with other landlords who charge 70% or more, He Yan only charges 50% of the land rent.
Fifty percent seems to be half, but He Yan still has to pay taxes to the government. This payment is estimated to be 40%.
If the harvest is not good, He Yan might have to pay for it himself...
There are such resentful landlords, and it is not surprising that more and more people are gathering.
He Yan was a little stunned.
Emotions...are you all here to plunder your own wool?
He Yan hesitated a little and asked Zhao Yun: "Don't you know how to stop it?"
"Are you sure?"
Zhao Yun pointed at the newly arrived people: "I remember there are many beautiful widows among them, and their figures are no worse than Deng Ai's mother."
"You didn't tell me earlier!"
He Yan immediately became righteous: "Since everyone trusts me, He Yan, let them stay here!"
Zhao Yun had an expression of "I knew it was like this" and silently turned around to leave.
"return!"
Seeing Zhao Yun trying to escape, He Yan grabbed Zhao Yun.
"When there are more people, we can't be so casual! We have to be responsible for them!"
"I'm responsible?"
"Um."
"Why?"
He Yan solemnly said: "You are the only military commander in the village! The greater your ability, the greater your responsibility!"
"And I can help you find a wife!"
"Get out!"
"Zilong, you have never married a wife. Is there something you have to hide?"
"..."
In the end, Zhao Yun agreed to take responsibility.
It's not the daughter-in-law's fault, the main reason is that as He Yan said, more and more people are gathering around here. If we let it go like this, something will happen sooner or later.
Zhao Yun and a group of village warriors built a fence around the outermost land, and gradually replaced it with rammed earth walls.
Those who know it are building a home here, but those who don’t know may think it is a new city built next to Xuchang.
During the construction process, Zhao Yun's spirit as a military commander also gradually emerged, and he simply built an urn city based on the school grounds previously built by Cao Zhang and Cao Zhen.
In this way, it is safer, but it looks more like a city.
This caused Cao Ren, who came back from the front line to capture He Yan, his eyes went straight when he saw it.
"We are fighting hard at the front, but that boy Yulang has actually built a city behind?"
Cao Ren gradually became silent when he thought about how many times on the front line he had not even been able to eat hot food, and could only eat cold water and food.
When he looked back at his group of sallow-looking soldiers, the silence deepened...
"Second son! Do you want to eat meat?"
"think!"
"Come in! Catch He Yan!"
"Here!"
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At this time, He Yan was giving advice in the brothel built by Cao Zhi in the city.
The brothel that was empty before has been filled with countless young and beautiful women, and there is also a sign at the door saying "No men except He Yan are allowed to enter".
He Yan said to Liu Ying and Liu Yue who were in charge here: "As for you, you just want to teach them to read, read, dance, learn the piano, and play the flute, and try to make them knowledgeable and sensible. Do you understand?"
Liu Ying is okay.
Liu Yue almost burst into tears looking at these young women.
finally!
Finally Mr. He began to set his sights on young women!
Then as long as you continue to work hard...
Aha~
Just when Liu Yue was covering her face and the speechless scene was about to play in her mind, a burst of noise could be heard outside the brothel.
After a while,
A group of fierce-looking soldiers wearing armor rushed in from outside.
"who?"
Not to mention Liu Ying and Liu Yue, even He Yan was so beautiful that he didn't know that there were such brave people in his territory!
Until He Yan saw a figure coming in, he rubbed oil on his soles and wanted to run away.
"Where is Yulang going?"
A row of soldiers had blocked He Yan's way, and Cao Ren outside the door had already walked in laughing.
He first looked at the exquisite brothel, and then looked at the group of shivering women hiding aside.
"Yu Lang lived a good life as a child! As an uncle, I am really envious of him!"
The expression on Cao Ren's face was close to ferocious, while He Yan was already forced into a corner: "Uncle Ren! I am the Han Hou Shen now! You can't touch me! Otherwise I will report to the official!"
"Oh? Really?"
Cao Ren rolled up his sleeves and approached He Yan again.
"What do you do?"
Just when He Yan fell into despair, Zhao Yun stood in front of the two of them like a god descending from heaven.
"Zhao Yun!"
At this moment, Zhao Yun has become an irreplaceable light in He Yan's eyes!
Cao Ren looked at Zhao Yun solemnly: "You want to stop me?"
Zhao Yun did not say a word, but stretched his hand into his arms.
This action made Cao Ren feel like he was facing a formidable enemy, because he knew Zhao Yun's martial arts. If they fought, it was not certain who would win.
slowly,
Something in Zhao Yun's arms was pulled out.
It's a piece of hemp rope!
Zhao Yun solemnly put the hemp rope in Cao Ren's hand: "Captain Cao, tie him farther away. It's best not to let him come back."
He Yan:???
The vigilance on Cao Ren's face suddenly disappeared, and he put on a more lewd smile: "It's easy to say! It's easy to say!"
At this moment, He Yan's hatred for Zhao Yun has surpassed Cao Pi, ranking first!
When everyone is catching bugs, just feel free to catch them. However, I may not be able to see some of the news in the background (especially the news of the past few days), but whatever I see will definitely be changed.