The endless camp of soldiers and horses is rolling loess on the Jizhou Plain.

"Pei Wenxiu asks to see His Royal Highness King Liang, please tell His Highness, the clan brother is worthy of his mission!"

Pei Hui was still standing outside the camp gate in a long robe, and on the way back from Wuji, he received a message from the horsemen of Pegasus, and the King of Liang had personally supervised the ten thousand horsemen to cover their armor and camp on the plain between the three cities of Wuji, Quyang, and Marumen. Whether to happily enter Zhongshan to receive the city's Yiqi, or to enter the county with swords and guns, it all depends on the news of Pei Hui's meeting.

Under the light and breezy face was a beating eager heart in Pei Hui's chest.

After more than ten years of dedication to the Ma family, this dynasty has finally won the top!

No one is born to be called, and Pei Wenxiu no longer needs to be compared with pawn traffickers after today.

Sergeant Liangguo smiled and greeted Pei Hui, turned his head and ran back to the camp to report. The one guarding the camp gate is just a tun chief, but it is enough to be commensurate with the Pei Hui brothers. Although Pei Hui is the eldest brother of King Liang, he is a big man in the eyes of small people and a small man in the eyes of big people in Liang Kingdom. Compared with idle people, the talent is almost leaking, but it has never been reused.

In Liangzhou before Liangguo, he was a counselor in the military government, and he was neither high nor low in the army. Later, at the beginning of the Liangguo Kingdom, he was sent by Ma Yue to Liangzhou Academy to do teaching, what does teaching do? The teaching army is slightly from Guan Yu and others, Pei Hui is not as good as them; There are also Jia Xu and others in the governance of professors, and Pei Hui is not as good as them as Tai Shou as a staff member; What Pei Hui can do is nothing more than to teach the big man in the army to read and write, it is all short things in the parents, from "Urgent Chapter" to "Liutao" Pei Hui doesn't know how many springs and summers he has read!

It took five years to teach, and in the past five years, almost every military official who walked out of Longdu Academy was his student.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, Ma Yue finally remembered him again, and raised Hedong Taishou for him, and it was another five years to go to Hedong. The reason for serving as the Taishou is also very simple, Ma Yue hopes that Liang has a naval army. The formation of a naval army needs a water village, and the narrow rivers in the Liang Kingdom are difficult to train, so the King of Liang set his sights on the upper reaches of the Yellow River. wanted to build a water village at the junction of Sanfu and Hedong County and was afraid of being driven away by the imperial court, so he needed to raise a Hedong Taishou. Although Pei Hui was an official under Ma Yue, his family lineage was always a scholar from the Central Plains, not to mention that his hometown was also in Hedong, so he sent a letter to Cao Cao to raise the Taishou of Hedong.

Looking at 20 years ago, it was impossible for a person surnamed Pei to be the Taishou of Hedong when the Three Mutual Law existed. But now that the rites are broken, the three mutual laws are no longer important, let alone a Hedong County that is almost in rebellion.

Cao Cao had no other requirements, he raised the Taishou, and there was only one request, not to lead troops into Hedong.

When Pei Hui took office, he had already asked someone to make a coffin for himself in Liangzhou and carry him to take office. The first Taishou Wangyi was unwilling to give up the power in his hands, and ordered thousands of soldiers and horses to block the crossing of the Yellow River, and did not call the new Taishou to take up his post. No matter how much the soldiers of the Liang State shouted and scolded on the riverbank, they didn't tear off the generals, and almost made Ma Yue mad and ordered to attack Hedong, but was stopped by Pei Hui. One ship, two old servants, carrying the coffin, Pei Hui crossed to the opposite bank without hesitation.

No one is not afraid of a person who will not die, especially this is Uncle Liangguo.

After taking office, Pei Hui used all means to destroy the power of Wang Yi's cronies Wei Gu and Fan Xian, and Wen Xi Pei's strength was used to get rid of Wei's Wei Gu and hold the power of a county in Hedong.

This time, Ma Yue selected people to go to Zhongshan Kingdom, and Pei Hui stood up without a little hesitation. Two thousand stone taishou was not what he wanted, especially the taishou under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, he didn't want to do it. Pei Hui is eyeing the position of Jizhou Mu, Jizhou Mu!

He wants to prove that a concubine is no worse than a concubine!

For this reason, even if you risk your life. He knew very well that Ma Yue was a monarch who knew how to make good use of people, and he understood that Ma Yue valued people's favors. If he wants to stand out from the countless Wenchen generals in Liangguo, he must look for and seize any opportunity, and when the opportunity to perform is in hand, he must do better than others!

In the distance, Ma Yue was surrounded by more than ten Liang soldiers wearing a black cloak with a tiger skin collar, Pei Hui adjusted the crown belt expressionlessly, smoothed every wrinkle on the robe, and then walked towards Ma Yue.

Seeing Pei Hui coming, Ma Yue stopped, and when Pei Hui approached, he took his arm before he bowed, and said with a shallow smile on his face: "Wenxiu, all the way, I have prepared a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust." ”

Pei Wenxiu's uncle is becoming more and more important in Ma Yue's heart, and he always likes men who seem to have a knife in his arms. Just like Yang Feng, like a horse, and like himself, they all carry knives in their chests, and behind their cynical or smiling faces are they draw knives against each other. Pei Wenxiu is also such a man in Ma Yue's eyes. Although he may not be very skilled in martial arts, and his resourcefulness is not exhaustive, whether he rides into Hedong alone or Zhongshan, this guy never brings an escort, and when he goes to Hedong, he stuffs a coffin on a small boat.

People who have achieved great things need to value their own lives and cannot die easily. But if you want to achieve great things, you can't be surrounded by people who are so reckless and reluctant.

Although it is a wine banquet, there are only a few glasses of wine in the symbolic sense, and even the dishes are pitiful, but the old men in the army can understand it. Ma Yue still smiled and said to Pei Hui: "It is a bit shabby to say that the banquet is a little shabby, there are a number of military rations, and you can't drink alcohol. ”

"You don't have to worry, your subordinates not only brought back the Zhongshan Guoyi Banner." Pei Hui had a reserved smile on his face, raised the bottle in his right hand and drank the wine in his left hand, raised his head and said: "Our army's soldiers and horses are unimpeded in Zhongshan Country, and the entire territory from Wuji to Lingqiu Eleven cities have changed flags with the news, and ...... Zhen's funds were used to prepare for the war, and Zhen was responsible for all the military salaries and materials needed for our army's soldiers and horses in the Battle of Jizhou. ”

The food and clothing of 60,000 soldiers and horses is no joke. Ma Yue's eyes widened, and for a while, the wine bottle in his hand was fixed in the air, looking at Pei Hui and asking, "Is Wenxiu's words serious?" ”

The soldiers and generals of the Liang Kingdom next to him were also shocked by Zhen's arm, and the annual tax of the entire territory of the Liang Kingdom was about 10,000 gold, which was also because of the continuous merchants after the passage to the Western Regions. Before this crusade, he had already calculated how long the war would be fought and how long the Liangguo would lose taxes. What is the cost of 60,000 soldiers and horses for a year? The grain and grass alone are almost this amount, and if you add the casualty pension and the like, I am afraid that it will knock out the taxes of Liangguo for two years in one year. Despite the rapid development in recent years, the treasury of the Liang Kingdom can last for three years at most...... And this Jizhou is just a Zhen family, and he actually boasted that Haikou wants to supply all the military resources?

Ma Yue has two question marks in his heart, one is that does the Zhen family have so much money? Another is that even if Zhen has so much money, why should he give it all to himself?

Pei Hui smiled, put down the wine bottle and took out the book slip from his arms, held it in both hands, bowed down and walked towards Ma Yue step by step, and only after taking the book slip did he straighten up and smiled: "Zhen has two conditions, and his subordinates dare not decide on their own, and 100,000 stone grains and grass will be waiting for the king to take it under Wuji City." If Jizhou is restrained, Zhen Yan asks the king to turn Zhongshan into a county, and seeks to take Zhongshan Taishou as a post. If our army is defeated in this battle, Zhen Yan will ask the king to leave the land of the three counties for him as the territory of the Zhen clan according to the tradition of Liangzhou, and take charge of the military and political power. In addition, he also hopes that no matter whether he wins or loses, he can have the Western Regions of Trade and access to the four states. ”

Unexpectedly, this is the feeling in Ma Yue's heart.

The 60,000 army of the Liang Kingdom, the consumption of soldiers and horses is equivalent to the 100,000 soldiers and horses of other princes, and the consumption of grain and grass in a month is 300,000 stones, and if you count the consumption of 30,000 horsemen to transport grain back and forth, it will cost 500,000 grain and grass in a month. At this point in the war, the three counties of Buwu and Jizhou had consumed nearly 180 stones of grain and grass before they began to fight head-on with the princes of all walks of life.

However, at this time, as long as Ma Yue should meet these two conditions that are not too difficult to consider, he will have endless grain and grass at his fingertips.

It's just that Ma Yue is a little uncomfortable.

He doesn't like others to put forward conditions to him, originally in his heart, if the Zhen family is Yiqi, he will give Zhongshan to Zhen Yan, it doesn't matter, the left and right Zhen are the actual controllers of the Zhongshan Kingdom. But when Zhen Yan proposed it, he didn't want to agree.

The grain and grass in Zhen's treasury...... Chen Bing Zhongshan, took some means to storm down, is it not his Ma Yue?

Zhen Yan wants to use his own things to talk to himself about conditions?

I like loyalty, you can give loyalty, Ma Yue has never treated anyone badly, and there is only a lot more to be rewarded...... But it's not the same when you put forward the conditions.

The smile on Ma Yue's face gradually faded, and his eyes looked directly at the wine bottle he was playing with, "This condition was proposed to you by Zhen Yan?" ”

"Back to the king, betrayal and trust are difficult problems, and it is even more difficult to do these two things at the same time, this is Zhen Yan's original words." Pei Hui also lost a smile on his face, sighed and said: "He didn't want to change the flag, his subordinates leaked the military plane, and if you didn't promise you, he would send a big army of jokes to trick him." and then he was willing to take out most of the treasury to support military supplies, on the condition that it was unwilling, not out of its calculations...... It's just that the clan is one, and it comes from a little self-preservation of the scholars. If you don't agree, most of the Zhen family will also belong to your subordinates. ”

Ma Yue nodded, his cheap uncle is still a little clever, although Pei Hui didn't tell the whole story, but he could guess that most of them were some life-fighting tricks, and a mistake was that his head was different. Since this is not a condition and more like a request, Ma Yue laughed, the grain and grass sent should not be in vain, it is just a little territory. Looking at the letter, Ma Yue smiled and said, "If this is the case, Wenxiu will send a rider to tell Zhen Yan that I should go down." After a few days of repair, the soldiers and horses entered Zhongshan to receive the city! ”

Looking at Pei Hui, the smile on Ma Yue's face became even stronger. Smart people are good, smart people who dare to play with their lives are even better!

"Wenxiu, it is estimated that this Zhongshan Kingdom is here with his life again, right?" Ma Yue was in a good mood, got up and sat down next to Pei Hui and whispered: "In the future, you must cherish your life, you are very important to Ma!" ”