The reason why Wu Fan showed his ability in front of Cao Cao was to shorten the half-year period to one month was to siege equipment. Not to mention other siege weapons, Jinglan knew its perverts as long as he had played "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 10".

There is no siege weapon manufacturing institute in Xuchang. Among the three cities of Cao Cao's current power, Chenliu only owns this special building. The cost of each well railing is 3,000 gold, and the cost of each siege car is 2,000 gold. Cao Cao gave Wu Fan two well railings and one siege car at a time, which is equivalent to giving Wu Fan nearly 10,000 gold in vain. Wu Fan's trip to Chenliu was really profitable this time!

(Note: The settings in this story are not all copied from the game data)

After bowing to thank Cao Cao, the two talked about other aspects of the development of Cao's army during this period. Territory expansion was only one of them. On the other hand, Wu Fan proposed to recruit talents vigorously. After all, talent is the foundation of governing the country, and Cao Cao was always loving talents, which hit it off with Wu Fan's idea.

Afterwards, Cao Cao immediately decided to issue the "Recruitment Order". As long as he is a person with both virtue and talent, he especially puts talent first, he can surrender to my Cao Cao's account. Regardless of his background, no matter his noble or low, no matter his closeness or alienation, he will only take talent!

"Recruitment Order" is one of the events in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 10". The triggering conditions require the player to be an in-laws, Cao Cao is the monarch, and the official title is the prime minister or above. There are more than 30 military generals to Cao Cao's forces. Among the military generals of Cao Cao, Cao Cao has three of his intelligence and more than 85, and three of his military forces have more than 85...

All of this is basically the case that Cao Cao dominated the Central Plains and triggered the "Recruitment Order" incident. Now, under the influence of Wu Fan, the butterfly, "Recruitment Order" has been ahead of the "Recruitment Order" at least ten years!

As for the capable and ambitious people this "Recruitment Order" can attract, it is not something that Wu Fan can predict, and everything will go with the flow.

Before he knew it, it was lunch time, and Cao Cao left Wu Fan to have a meal in the mansion. During the meal, while the two chatted, Cao Cao revealed that Mrs. Huan was pregnant. Speaking of this, Cao Cao looked very happy.

Mrs. Huan had already said before that she was the mother of Cao Cao's concubine, Cao Chong, Cao Ju and Cao Yu. The latter two sons were not clear. Only Cao Chong could be called "God of Heaven". She was only five or six years old, and her wisdom was similar to that of adults. Cao Cao had repeatedly said in front of all the ministers that he wanted to pass the position to Cao Chong. It was just that God was jealous of the talent. Cao Chong died of illness at the age of thirteen, which became an eternal pain in Cao Cao's life.

Now that Cao Chong was born early, he didn't know what fate would be, and what impact it would have on the Cao Wei group and even the world. While Wu Fan congratulated Cao Cao, a series of questions emerged in his heart.

However, what made Wu Fan particularly depressed was that he was thinking about letting his child be born in the same year as Cao Chong, and for this, he worked very hard to plow the fields and sow seeds for Cui Yingying every night. Unexpectedly, Boss Cao was even more decisive in his work. Although he was more than teenage years older, he was still stronger and stronger, and he rushed to the front of him to get Mrs. Huan shot.

Alas, the boss is the boss, and the subordinates are not as good as they can!

...

After lunch, Wu Fan said goodbye to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao personally sent Wu Fan outside Chenliu City.

After this visit, Wu Fan and Cao Cao's friendship reached 75, and their relationship was trustworthy, and they were about to reach intimacy (80 friendship was intimacy). When they were about to part, their true feelings were revealed, and Cao Cao was very reluctant to give up Wu Fan; however, Wu Fan was the prefect and took on heavy responsibilities, so Cao Cao naturally understood the truth. He personally took a picture of Huang Feidian's back hips and watched Wu Fan's horse riding away until he could not see it at all. Then he returned to the city.

But Wu Fan rode his horse and whip all the way back to Xuchang and began to prepare for the conquest of Runan. Two days later, two well railings and a siege cart transported from Chenliu arrived at the same time, dismantling and dismantling them into six horse-drawn carts. Wu Fan assigned the two well railings to Qingzhou soldiers and a team of infantry with 5,000 people, and the siege carts were assigned to a cavalry unit with 10,000 people.

On the day the siege weapons arrived, Wu Fan immediately dispatched troops and generals. He served as the general general to the expedition, and Guo Jia and Xun Yu were subordinates, commanding 15,000 troops. Among them, the Qingzhou soldiers equipped with the Jinglan were 110,000, led by Wu Fan himself and Guo Jia was accompanied; the infantry soldiers equipped with the Jinglan were 15,000, led by Xun Yu.

After the troops are dispatched, the troops will be immediately sent to Runan!

In this battle in Runan, although Kong Yichang had 5,000 more troops than Wu Fan's army, Kong Yichang's army did not have any equipment to defend the city. Besides this raving Kong Yichang, the other generals in commanding the army were not much different from him. These two people were really similar in temperament, and they were only able to show off their verbal skills. Leading troops to fight was a pair of idiots. Under the suppression of the two well railings of Wu Fan's army, Xun Yu and Guo Jia used strategies to support each other. Kong Yichang's army soon lost the fighting spirit. As soon as the city gate was broken, Kong Yichang's army immediately dispersed and fled.

After the war, more than 300 people were killed in the battle, but more than 13,000 enemy troops were captured! Including Kong Yichang, he was also captured by Wu Fan's army. In addition, there were more than 27,000 gold and 470,000 troops in Runan City.

Wu Fan took 22,000 gold, 400,000 soldiers and food, and 13,000 prisoners were all escorted back to Xuchang.

Before leaving, he put the knife on Kong Yichang's neck. Wu Fan casually asked Kong Yichang if he would surrender. Kong Yichang was so scared that he was sweating all over and quickly agreed to surrender. Wu Fan ordered the sword, axe and a knife to retreat, and ordered the soldiers to tie the ropes on Kong Yichang and return to Xuchang with him.

Three days later, Cao Cao sent his eldest son Cao Ang to serve as the prefect of Runan, and sent Man Chong, Cao Chun and Liu Dai as his generals to defend Runan together. At present, Cao Cao's power has completely occupied two states (Yanzhou, Yuzhou) and four cities (Chenliu, Puyang, Xuchang, Runan), and is already the first prince in the Central Plains.

In this way, Xuchang is Chenliu on the east side, Runan on the south side, and Luoyang on the north side, so there is no need to set up defenses, only guard against Yuan Shu of Wancheng on the west side.

In the battle of Runan, including the marching, Wu Fan completed his goal ahead of schedule and achieved 1357 achievements; Cao Cao ordered civil officials to triple the attack to 4071, and added the title to Wu Fan. At this point, Wu Fan's total achievements were 17530, which had exceeded the promotion to the fourth-rank official by 2530 points. However, due to Cao Cao's own official title, he could only give his subordinates the highest title to the fifth-rank official, so Wu Fan was still appointed as the fifth-rank official.

As a large amount of gold and military food were transported back from Runan, Xuchang's current gold inventory was 41517 and military food was 855127, which was really rich. The number of soldiers surged by 13,000 times, making Xuchang's combat readiness immediately jumped to the top of all cities in the Central Plains!

A few days later, Tian Feng, who went to his hometown in Hebei, came back and brought Wu Fan a message:

When passing Yecheng, Tian Feng had nothing to do and went to the Stargazing Pavilion (special building). After spending 100 gold, he learned from the astrological officials that this year, a locust plague will break out in a central plain, and the key disaster areas are Luoyang, and the surrounding cities of Hanoi, Jinyang, Chang'an, Wan, and Chenliu will also be affected to a certain extent.

This news made Wu Fan think deeply. The Star Gazing Pavilion has the function of predicting disasters, but in the current world, its accuracy is very low, barely maintained at 10:1. So much so that the special building of the Star Gazing Pavilion exists almost as a decoration, and the prefect in the city does not pay attention to it.

However, what made Wu Fan think deeply was that it was mid-May from the beginning of spring to now, and there was very little rain in the Central Plains. It was only when Cao's army conquered Xuzhou. In the Luoyang area, there was even more rain like oil. The growth of crops was greatly affected, and it was inevitable that grain yields will be reduced this year.

Locust plagues are often accompanied by severe droughts. The land in Luoyang has long been cracked. Perhaps, the locust plague predicted by the Astrology Pavilion can really evolve into reality. Xuchang currently has no money, and tax revenue alone is fully self-sufficiency every quarter. Why not take advantage of this opportunity to accumulate military and food? Even if there is no locust plague in the end, it will be no harm if there is more military and food.

Having made up his mind, Wu Fan immediately ordered Tian Feng, Zhuge Jin, Kong Yichang, Guo Jia, and Xi Zhicai to order five people, each of whom 7,000 gold, for a total of 35,000 gold, to go to other cities to buy food, but the price of grain was ridiculously high, and the five people took the order and left.

In mid-June, the drought was still continuing. The five people sent by Wu Fan returned one after another and brought back 3149,000 soldiers! Combined with the original soldiers and grains in Xuchang, it was 3950,000 soldiers and grains!

Due to the continuous drought and the large-scale accumulation of troops and food in Xuchang, cities around Luoyang began to realize the possibility of food shortage and began to sell their money to purchase it. However, all the surplus grains in the hands of wealthy households have been purchased by Wu Fan. Ordinary farmers are already good to have enough food all year round, and any surplus grains are a drop in the bucket. The price of these grains purchased by Wu Fan is 1 (gold): 90 (grain). At this time, these cities have already priced the purchase price to 1:50, but the daily purchase volume is less than 1,000, and the purchase volume is still decreasing.

The food crisis began to make the surrounding cities in Luoyang uninterrupted. Chenliu and Puyang were supported by Xuchang, so they could not be safe. When other cities had no way to acquire, they could only sigh and beg that God would not let the autumn harvest this year be too bleak.

At this time, they only thought that drought would cause poor harvests, but they did not know that there was a greater disaster waiting for them.

In July, Luoyang and surrounding cities are like nightmares, and the locust plague is coming as scheduled!
Chapter completed!