Mu Jing did not stay in Chenggu for a long time, and soon returned to Nanzheng.

"It's a lot more lively here!"

Back at the door, Mu Jing glanced around and said with a smile.

The area around the mansion became more and more lively, and the hawkers, shops, were set up one after another, people came and went, and people were buzzing, and this kind of situation, generally speaking, can only be seen in the city, such as hitting the suburbs of the city, which is really rare.

This also illustrates the specialness of the Ming Hou Mansion.

"Lord, our officials will inevitably bring a lot of things to the exchange, and with the completion of the gallop between Nanzheng and our Minghou Mansion, it will only take half an hour to return to the city from here!"

Yi Yuan said in a low voice: "The taxes in the city are high, and there are many peddlers, or traders, they would rather put things here to sell, so that they can go to the city, and they have to pay the city tax when they enter the city!" ”

Last year, Nanzheng County and Taishou Mansion jointly invested in the establishment of a gallop road through the Minghou Mansion and Nanzheng County, has been completed and implemented, paved with blue bricks, five meters wide, three carriages side by side.

In this way, the demand for exchanges has been greatly absorbed.

Minghou is now the king of Hanzhong, and the establishment of this mansion is still the core of Hanzhong, there are a lot of people around it, driving the population flow and economy, it is even more terrible, according to this development, the terrain around the Minghou Mansion, even if it is not as prosperous as Nanzheng City, it is almost the same.

"That's good!"

Mu Jing said with a smile: "But since the area around our Minghou Mansion is so lively, isn't there anyone who has the foresight to build a mansion around?" ”

"Why not, to the west of the Minghou Mansion, more than a hundred acres of land have been circled by a rice merchant in the city, they said where they are going to build the mansion, it is only four hundred meters away from our Minghou Mansion!"

"It seems that there are still people who dare to eat crabs!"

Mu Jing was happy to see all this, he built the Minghou Mansion in the suburbs, naturally he wanted to form the scale of a city, and he hoped to expand Nanzheng City and not be limited to the city walls.

There is a lot of land around Nanzheng, and if the price is driven, it will be enough for the Minghou Mansion to make a lot of money.

"Lord, there is one more thing, eight hundred meters south of the Minghou Mansion, on the south bank of the Han River, two wharves have been built!" Yi took the opportunity to report again: "I heard that these two docks were not built with our funds, but by those gentry in the city, and they were established as a joint venture!" ”

The Minghou Mansion is close to the mountains and water, and before the mansion, it is the Hanshui Basin that runs through Hanzhong.

Hanshui is the largest river basin in Hanzhong and the largest shipping road in Hanzhong.

Many caravans went to the Han River waterway.

The wharf is built here, and many people are willing to go ashore from here, because after going ashore here, there is a gallop road that can go directly to the county seat, and you can also observe the building of the Minghou Mansion, the building of the Minghou Mansion is definitely the most landmark building in Hanzhong, whether it is the shape or the height, it is much higher than other buildings.

"No one is a fool, as long as someone can see the benefits, naturally someone will move, no matter whether it is a businessman or a family, they will not lag behind!"

Mu Jing doesn't care, who does it or not, as long as it is conducive to the development of Hanzhong, it is a good thing: "It seems that after all the houses in the northwest area of our Minghou Mansion are completed, it is estimated that there will be a lot of waves!" ”

The office area of Minghou Mansion has been completed, the northeast area is Jingping Courtyard, which is the backyard of Mujing, and the northwest region, there are nearly no less than two hundred courtyards, once completed, this is the influence of Minghou Mansion completely.

After returning to Zhaomingtang, the nature that greets the pastoral scenery is endless, like a mountain of piled up playbooks.

Every time I go on a tour, I have to be busy when I come back.

After all, he is now the lord of Hanzhong, the Marquis of Ming, a prince, and the entire Marquis of Ming's Mansion is like a small court that operates, and he is the king, and many things cannot be bypassed by his seal supervision and approval, so that it can work.

"My lord, this is the details of sending troops!" The next day, Mu Jing was still buried in the book mountain and the sea, and Xi Zhi came, and he handed over a plan that he had painstakingly written and handed it to Mu Jing.

"Have you moved now?"

Mu Jing spread out the recital and asked.

"Jingping's first army and second battalion have begun to move!"

"Second Battalion?"

Mu Jing squinted: "The five battalions of the Jingping Army in the past, the first battalion was wiped out, the third battalion was gone, the second battalion, the fourth battalion, and the fifth battalion remained, the fifth battalion was the main force, so I won't say much, as for the second battalion, now it can also be on its own!" ”

"Du Feng can!"

Xi Zhicai said: "He is calm enough, and the vanguard opens the way, so that the First Army can go out of Hanzhong more smoothly!" ”

"Which way did they go?"

Mu Jing thought for a moment and asked.

"The main force of the First Army will go up the Han River, avoid Wudu, and take the Guanghan route!" Xi Zhicai drew a route to go out from Hanzhong, which is nothing more than Wudu and Guanghan, either Liangzhou or Yizhou, and one of them cannot be avoided.

"Guanghan?" Mu Jing's eyes flashed with a cold glow: "Will you alarm Yizhou?" ”

"I think it will!"

Xi Zhicai replied: "There is no way to avoid it, the movement of tens of thousands of troops, it is impossible to completely avoid their sight, but I will try my best to divert their attention, maybe let them think that we are plotting Guanghan, as long as they don't know our goal, we have a great chance of fighting!" ”

"Then how do you think Liu Yan will deal with us once he gets us?" Mu Jing thought for a moment and asked.

"This Liu Yuanjun is very ambitious!"

Xi Zhicai thought about it for a while, and said on a whim: "If we don't move, he will naturally be more stable, but if we understand, it is equivalent to giving him a chance, if we give him a chance, will he choose to recover Hanzhong?" ”

"So, are you going to give him this chance to recover Hanzhong?" Mu Jing licked his lips, the mental match between him and Xi Zhicai was quite tacit, what Xi Zhicai thought, he understood everything, since Xi Zhicai said this, he said that he already had a plan in his heart.

"I originally thought that we had just stabilized the situation now, and we should fight steadily, first open up the situation in the west, and then combine our forces to seek Yizhou, but now I feel that we have to do it at the same time!"

Xi Zhicai said in a low voice: "At the beginning, we gave the jade seal to Liu Yan, and we hoped that he would be the emperor, but now, I feel that he is calm and does not give him some stimulation, I am afraid that he will not be as we think, if he is stable, Yizhou's strength will increase every day!" ”

"Liu Yan, I also underestimated him!"

Mu Jing stood up, paced back and forth, and pondered for a while: "He can stabilize Yizhou County and the entire southern part of Yizhou within the paragraph, which is beyond my expectations, if he is given time, his strength is immeasurable, and then we want to enter Yizhou again, it will be difficult!" ”

"So there are some things that should be sooner rather than later!"

"But our current forces, it is a little difficult to resist Yizhou's all-out attack, if you want to eat Yizhou, it will undoubtedly be a snake swallowing an elephant, and you will be strung to death!" Mu Jing hesitated, if it was before, when they had nothing, there was today's meal, not necessarily tomorrow's meal, he dared to fight, as if he had just arrived in Nanyang not long ago, he engaged in a risky two-front battle, even if it was at the risk of the annihilation of the whole army, he had to eat Hanzhong, this was the driving force, but now, he has settled down in Hanzhong, but he has a little more worries.

"We can have allies!"

Xi Zhicai said: "If one can't eat it, two may not be able to eat it!" ”

"Allies?" When Mu Jing heard this, his heart moved slightly, and he immediately understood Xi Zhicai's plan: "Do you want to pull Jingzhou in!" ”

"Under normal circumstances, Liu Biao will not act, if Liu Biao knows that Liu Yan has a heirloom jade seal in his hand, what will he think?"

Xi Zhicai asked rhetorically.

"The same is the minister of the clan, whoever can be called the emperor, they are all the Han family, the Liu family, and the country, and harmony, how are you and me?" Mu Jing said tentatively.

"Do you think it's possible?"

Xi Zhicai sneered and rolled his eyes directly.

If there is such a beautiful thing, how can the Han family fall into such a field.

"I don't think it's likely!" Mu Jing smiled: "This Liu Biao, saying that he has no ambition, I don't believe it, others hold the jade seal and call the emperor, he may not care too much, because he is a member of the Han family, and he will never bow down to the courtiers, but if the same Han family relatives rise up and call the emperor the world, he will probably panic!" ”

"If the Jingzhou army can be pulled in, maybe this battle will be simple!"

Xi Zhicai said: "They went in from the east, and we went south from the north, provoking the people in the south of Jingzhou, Liu Yan will be defeated!" ”

"How can the Jingzhou army suffer losses so easily, this Zhang Liao is in Nanyang, and he has been working hard for so long to make the Jingzhou army suffer in the war in Xinye, but the Jingzhou army is not stupid, the troops who turned around all of a sudden, abandoned Xinye and went east, attacking the city in the east of Nanyang, if it wasn't for Zhang Liao's quick response, the second army would have suffered a big loss!"

Mu Jing sneered: "They may not be as we wish, if we let them use us in turn, we will suffer!" ”

Since last year, on the battlefield of Nanyang, the Mu Army, the Jingzhou Army, the Nanyang Yuan Army, and the three armies clashed, and the Mu Army and the Jingzhou Army were in an alliance posture, with high momentum, and went straight into Nanyang, but the Yuan Army suffered a lot of losses.

But in the first battle of Xinye, Yuan Jun was stunned that with his strong troops, the Jingzhou army suffered a big loss.

Since then, the war has naturally stalled.

"It's man-made!"

Xi Zhicai said confidently: "It is a fact that the people of Jingzhou are very vigilant, but they do not have too outstanding talents in the military strategy, I have studied, whether it is Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, or Cai Mao, biased towards government affairs, although they understand military strategy, but the level is not high, but there are a few generals who are good, but they are only the main generals on the local battlefield, and there is no handsome talent who can really control the overall situation, this is our opportunity!" ”

On the battlefield, there is a kind of trap called a strategic trap.

In addition to pitting the enemy, this kind of trap can sometimes also pit teammates, strategic deployment, every step is dangerous, no one knows the enemy who is about to face, if you can use the strategic deployment to block the Jingzhou army in front, this is a strategic trap.

"Let go of this matter first, you can deploy it slowly, but you can't be impatient, all arrangements must be obscure, any mistakes will cause Yizhou to be vigilant, between us and Yizhou, we are always subordinates!"

Mu Jing waved his hand, there is no point in talking about this matter for the time being, in the end they are just guessing, and they don't have enough strength now, at least until they take the Wolf Qiang, it is really a white horse Qiang, with this force, Mu Jing has the courage to plan Yizhou.

"I understand!" Xi Zhicai nodded.

"When are you leaving?" Mu Jing asked.

In this battle, he may not have the opportunity to come to the battlefield in person, but Xi Zhicai must rush to the battlefield in person, and he is not at ease without Xi Zhicai.

"In the past two days, I have to explain the affairs of Beiwutang to Huang Zhong!"

"Huang Zhong can now rule the Beiwu Hall?" Mu Jing was a little curious.

Huang Zhong is brave and extraordinary, this is a fact, and he is also a general who has a good response on the battlefield, but for the large and small military affairs of Beiwutang, whether he can take up it, Mu Jing is really hard to say.

"It's not good to be alone, but with Huang Shao by your side to assist, it's okay!"

Xi Zhicai said: "Now that the defense line of Yangping Pass, we have to relax as much as possible, send it outside and tighten it inside, and relieve the sight from Wudu, so I have already ordered Huang Shao to return, and with the two of them sitting in Beiwutang, I am also a lot more relieved!" ”

"Hmm!"

Mu Jing was also relieved: "Huang Zhong has the courage to decide, Huang Shao is resourceful and quick-witted, and the two of them can withstand this situation if they cooperate!" ”

……

At the beginning of the third year, the second half of the first month.

Jingping's First Army went out for the first time after the rectification, and the troops went out of Nanzheng, went up along the Han River, and went straight to the west.

At this time, the civil strife began to evolve violently.

Rock on the mountain.

Min Wu and Gerdo stood side by side, looking north in the distance, both of them looking solemnly.

Min Wu was the first to speak: "These days, my uncle and I have only taken down four tribes, and even if we assemble, there are less than two thousand soldiers, which is too few!" ”

"Less is less, but it's influential!"

Gerduo said in a low voice: "Now that the Wolf Valley has begun to fight, your little strength is nothing here, but if you pull it in, it will also be the Quartet to win the object, and you still have a chance, Kunnan is the henchman around Lang Huan in the past, and his influence is extraordinary, and when you enter the Wolf Valley, you can persuade more tribes, at this time, your influence will come out!" ”

"Hehehe!"

Min Wu sneered: "At this time, they may think of my younger brother!" ”

"This is your chance!"

Gerduo said: "You must enter the game first, only by entering the game, can you not be thought of, you have the mind of the yellow finch behind, in order to hide the strength of Jingping's first army, in order to break the enemy in one fell swoop!" ”

"Let me surrender to them?"

There was a deep cold glint in Min Wu's eyes.

"The lord will not force anyone to do anything, you also choose not to do it, you can resist hard, you don't have to suffer, with the strength of Jingping's first army, plus our Jingwu Division has already transported a batch of weapons that can arm three thousand warriors through the canal channel, it is not a problem to take down the Wolf Qiang!"

Gerduo asked rhetorically: "But don't forget, in the northwest of the wolf, there is a white horse looking down!" ”

"White Horse Qiang?"

Min Wu's face turned much uglier.

Although he is unwilling to admit his father and his brothers, he will not forget his bloodline of Wolf Qiang, and he is not willing to let Wolf Qiang finally become a subsidiary of Baima Qiang because of civil strife.

"And to whom do you want me to surrender?"

"This is a letter from Xi Sima to you, only for your own view!" Gerdo handed over a secret letter.

Min Wu opened the secret letter and looked at it, there were not many words on it, they were all Chinese characters he knew, he looked at it very seriously, and his face changed a little, sometimes gloomy, sometimes stretched.

After half a ring, he took out the fire fold, lit the secret letter, and burned it directly in front of Gerdo.

Only then did he open his mouth and let out a sigh: "Xi Sima is so calculating!" ”