Xun knelt in front of the table collapsed by sandalwood. At this time, he was lying on the table collapsed, carefully correcting the piles of bamboo slips around him.

These bamboo slips are all news from all over the country, some of which report on the situation of bandits in the area and request to send troops to suppress the bandits.

Some report on grain output and the people's happiness.

There are even bamboo slips for dealing with widows.

In this era, due to the Hundred Years of War, the population declined, and in order to increase the population, widows were not allowed.

No matter what your mood is, do you have someone you like in your heart?

As long as you are a widow, you have to get married and have a new child.

Under the leadership of the state machine, any love for children is a joke.

There is a description in the book of Jin: "When people eat each other, white bones accumulate, remains of flesh, and smelly roads."

The small number of people is naturally not good for the government.

The luxury of the upper-class officials is something that can only be obtained by exploiting the people.

And population, for those officials, is political achievements, strength, and taxes.

Therefore, the government has always encouraged the people to have children, and even forced the widow to divorce, in order to get more people.

The peacock flies southeast, wandering every five miles.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the world was in chaos and the population was sparse, so women became an important resource.

Most of the tragic stories between Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing were caused by this era.

The government forcibly marrying a widow's unmarried person. This matter is not a vernacular statement, but a story that can be traced to follow:

During the Jian'an period, the Wei State issued a court document requiring the counties to collect widows and distribute them to areas with few women to force marriage and childbirth.

The prefects of each county wanted to collect as many local widows as possible for political achievements. Some widows had remarried and they wanted to break up their families. For a moment, the women left their hometowns and cried with complaints.

Wei official Du Ji served in Hedong and of course he had to abide by the laws of the court, but he only recruited those real widows, so he gave them very little every year.

Later, Du Ji was promoted to the court, and Zhao Yan succeeded as the prefect of Hedong, and the number of widows he sent suddenly increased. Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi asked Du Ji: "You gave so few things before, I thought there were no widows in Hedong. Why are there more widows now?"

Du Ji said: "The widows I used to collect were all dead wives. Now Zhao Yan has collected them, and there are still living wives!" Cao Pi and the people around him changed his expression when they heard this.

From this story, it can be roughly seen that there were basically no widows during the Three Kingdoms period.

Some of them are married.

This is also one of the reasons why you can see the memorial about the widow on Xun's table.

Xun corrected the content of the bamboo slips and put the bamboo slips aside, but he bent down and took out a bamboo slip.

In fact, Xun is not very old, but has half a head of white hair. He feels like he is ten years older than him. Perhaps it is because of his diligence.

On the one hand, he struggled between the Han Dynasty and Cao Cao, but on the other hand, he had to work hard on the desk.

Handling official documents is not an easy task. It not only consumes energy, but also consumes physical strength.

If you keep your work all day, you don’t have time to exercise. If you don’t have time to exercise, your health will naturally be poor.

Ahem!

Cao Chong looked at Xun Ran without feeling that he had arrived in front of him. He coughed awkwardly, and finally attracted Xun's gaze, who was working.

"Cang Shu, oh, correcting these government orders and memorials made me forget the time and made you wait for a long time." Xun apologized in his tone.

Cao Chong smiled and said quickly: "Lingjun, it's only been a moment for Cang Shu to come here. Why did you wait for a long time? Instead, Cang Shu disturbed Ling Jun's handling of official duties and felt sorry for him."

After Cao Chong said this, Cao Chong was wrong.

Xun smiled and his tone became kinder.

"Just you just have a slick mouth, what's going on here?"

Looking at Xun's expression, Cao Chong took out the "Tao Te Ching" hidden on his cuff.

"Lingjun, this is my father who wants me to bring it to you." Cao Chong's words were very concise, and he roughly explained the matter in one sentence.

Um?

When he heard that it was something given by Cao Cao, Xun's expression became much more serious and his eyes became more and more focused.

"What is it?" Xun put down the bamboo slips in his hand, and before Cao Chong could hand over the thing, the man stood up.

He walked a few steps forward, picked up the things in Cao Chong's hand and looked at it.

At the first glance, the glory in Xun's eyes dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the momentum on his body suddenly dropped.

When Cao Chong saw Xun like this, his curiosity in his heart was even more expressed.

Is this Tao Te Ching different from others?

Why did Xun look like this just after seeing his name?

Cao Chong had too many doubts in his heart.

Huh ~

Cao Chong stood in front of Xun, listened to Xun's sigh, and suddenly raised his head and asked.

"Lingjun, what is the deep meaning of my father sending you the Tao Te Ching?"

After saying this, Cao Chong felt a little abrupt and quickly changed his words.

"If Ling Jun doesn't want to say it, it's not as hard as hell. Cang Shu is just curious."

Xun closed his eyes. After a long time, when he opened his eyes again, his eyes no longer had the strange expressions he had before.

In exchange, there is absolute peace.

Xun calmed down.

He looked at Cao Chong, and a smile appeared on his face. If Cao Chong hadn't seen Xun's appearance before, he would have thought Xun would have nothing to do!

"It's just a small matter, it's okay to tell you."

Xun paused and continued, "The king may have seen my body become weaker and weaker, so he gave me a book of Taoist Ching, because he wanted me to follow Taoist methods to recuperate and not to destroy my body."

Don't break your body.

Rest and recuperate?

Cao Chong frowned. He always felt that things were not that simple. When he wanted to continue asking, Xun showed an impatient look on his face.

Seeing Xun's appearance, Cao Chong knew that even if he continued to ask, it would be of no use, so he had to bow to Xun and slowly retreat.

Cao rushed out of the hall and saw Chen Qun still standing by.

Cao Chong is still worried about Chen Qun's previous expression.

I care about your body, but you look at me with that look.

Cao Chong felt that this matter was not that simple, so he wanted to ask what kind of thing Chen Qun was trying to get.
Chapter completed!