entity Updated 2026-08-23 Tags: Person, Late-Han, Official, Agriculture

枣祗 / Zao Zhi

枣祗 / Zao Zhi enters the wiki through Hanji 1008 as the official who proposes 屯田制 to 曹操 in the late-Han grain crisis. The episode presents the proposal as practical statecraft: scattered people and unused land can be brought back into production only if military power and administrative office organize the work.

Cao Cao accepts the proposal and appoints Zao Zhi as屯田都尉, pairing him with 任峻 as典农中郎将. In this source, Zao Zhi matters less as an independent biography than as the person whose suggestion lets Cao Cao turn a war-food problem into an institutional grain base around 许都.

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