Liu Chan made an all-out eastward expedition, but separated from Wang Ping halfway, and Wang Ping led 2,000 elite soldiers to embark on the road to the south.

Looking at the back of this famous general who has been recorded in history leaving, Liu Chan was slightly nervous in his heart.

Famous generals have also grown up from scratch, and people like my father and second uncle have also had the experience of pretending to be dead before.

I hope that the task put on Wang Ping this time will not be too heavy, and Wang Ping will not face too much pressure as soon as he comes up.

Fa Zheng has completely believed that Liu Chan has the setting of God's help these days.

He is good friends with Meng Da, and now he can't believe that Meng Da would betray him so easily.

In the past few days, he has been looking for Liu Chan to confirm Meng Da's ending in the Mandate of Heaven, and when he heard that Meng Da was finally defeated and died, Fa Zheng couldn't help but be a little depressed.

"What a Mencius, he is so ignorant."

Meng Da had written a letter to Fa Zheng before, praising Liu Chan's teachings.

Now it seems that nine times out of ten, there was a reaction at that time, so he pretended to make a gesture to stabilize the people in Chengdu.

Seeing Fa Zheng's melancholy face, Liu Chan was afraid that this important strategist in history who would burp this year would be overly worried, so he hurriedly brought in Zhuge Qiao, the chief dog-headed military advisor under him, and asked him to do a good job of doing the ideological work of doing the right thing.

No matter what means are used, we have to let Fa Zheng not sigh for a long time,

If Fa Zheng had an accident because of Meng Da, he would be uncomfortable.

Zhuge Qiao gladly accepted the task.

He took the initiative to find Fa Zheng, who was in a daze, and bowed respectfully:

"Why should the ruler worry too much?

Mengda's matter, the prince has already calculated, and naturally everything is under control. ”

Speaking of which, Fa Zheng's personality is very extreme, he is bound to take revenge, he is stingy and mean, and he has few friends.

Liu Bei's account and Fa Zheng can be called friends with one hand, and Meng Da is one of them.

He really doesn't want Meng Da to be self-defeating,

Otherwise, Liu Bei might be able to give Fa Zheng a face and not kill Meng Da, how could Guan Yu's temper spare Meng Da's life.

Seeing Zhuge Qiao kneeling in front of him, Fa Zheng barely squeezed out a wry smile:

"Fa is ashamed, and he won't persuade him." (After Zhuge Qiao became a general, Liu Bei personally gave the word Bo Song)

Zhuge Qiao smiled and said:

"Joe is young and shallow, where is he here to comfort the king,

It was about Meng Da, Qiao was a little guessed, and asked the law to solve his doubts. ”

Fa Zheng knew that Zhuge Qiao was one of Liu Chan's cronies, and his spirits suddenly perked up:

"Bo Song, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Zhuge Qiao smiled and said:

"Do you think this destiny can be changed?"

"Naturally, not." Fa Zheng said categorically, "The mandate of heaven is the mandate of heaven, the power of heaven is impermanent, and the mandate of heaven is difficult to violate."

This destiny wants people to die, and people have to die,

If anyone can reverse the destiny of heaven, wouldn't this heaven ...... Hey? ”

Looking at Zhuge Qiao's smiling expression, Fa Zheng seemed to realize something.

That's right

When Shizi said before that Meng Da and Shen Yi were going to rebel, he also said that someone from my law and Huang Hansheng would die this year.

The prince hurried to Jingzhou before, which was to destroy the mandate of Eastern Wu to sneak attack Guan Yunchang,

This time, he took me and Huang Hansheng to Jingzhou, obviously to crack the Mandate of Heaven.

Before that, he wrote a letter to Mencius, also for the sake of ......

"We are mortals, so naturally we can only let the destiny of heaven slaughter,

But the son of the world is deeply favored by Haotian and is the first person under the mandate of heaven.

The prince can even modify the longevity of the decree king, let alone Meng Da......"

Since the prince wrote a letter to Mencius early, Mencius sent his son to reply the letter, and the letter was quite deferential.

I expect that the prince must have other plans, maybe like the Jingzhou War, this time it will be Cao Wei's turn to be unlucky. ”

Fa Zheng can actually feel that Liu Chan should be panicked too,

But he subconsciously hoped that what Zhuge Qiao said was true.

He nodded vigorously:

"Bo Song's words are wonderful, I hope Meng Da will be as Bo Song said, and he will not suffer from the sword soldiers."

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The military situation was like fire, and Liu Chanjun only took five days to rush to Jiangling. (Baidi to Jiangling is about 330 kilometers, even if there is no flood season and good wind direction, the average voyage of 15 kilometers per hour can still be guaranteed, plus the distance from Chengdu to Baidi, five days is not a big problem, Li Bai's thousands of miles of Jiangling one day is not an exaggeration)

While sending people to summon the great writer Deng Tong to Jiangling to meet peace, he ordered Ding Li to stop the exercises, and together with Chen Shi, a tool man who was idle in Jiangling, he would meet and prepare to go north.

Although Ma Liang had already learned the news of Meng Da's betrayal and the fall of the three counties,

But he thought that the Wei army was just seeking his own death, and he would soon be beaten to death by Guan Yu, so he had nothing to fear.

It can be seen that Liu Chan rushed back from Yizhou with a sweat, and actually brought Fa Zheng and Huang Zhong back, Ma Liang immediately realized that it was not good.

"Shizi, what happened?"

Ma Liang was the leader of the Jingzhou clan, and Liu Chan did not want to create panic when the enemy situation was unknown.

He smiled reluctantly and said:

"Nothing, just ...... It's just that......

Oh, my father and the military advisor decided early on to fight the Cao army in Jingzhou,

I returned to Yizhou before, but it was just to temporarily unprepare Cao's army.

Now that the three eastern counties have fallen, I should personally lead the army to fight a decisive battle with the Cao army, strive to severely damage the wings of the Cao thief and recover Xinye! ”

Ma Liang breathed a sigh of relief and sighed:

"The son of the world uses soldiers, and it is really wonderful, with the son of the world in charge, our army will definitely win a complete victory this time."

Ma Liang said very sincerely, and there seemed to be a trace of fanaticism hidden in his eyes, which made Liu Chan a little confused for a while.

Maleonn's fanaticism is not without reason.

Now engraving printing has been widely promoted in Jingzhou, although the speed of papermaking is slow, and the ink suitable for printing has not been invented for a while, but seals have appeared for so many years, and these are only a matter of time.

The Jingzhou family, which has always strongly supported Liu Bei's father and son, has shown vigorous vitality after obtaining the two technologies of papermaking and printing.

Ma Liang personally came forward to connect the big and small clans of Jingxiang together, took out the books in his home, opened a library to make paper and print books, and distributed them to the children of each family for free.

You must know that most of the classic justice in these years is in the hands of the Central Plains clans.

What the Jingxiang Hao clan has is only a copy of it, and a copy of it.

It is inevitable that there will be slips and omissions in the copying, and there will definitely be damage if the slip is turned over, and who is willing to give the books they have copied to a group of small families for free plagiarism.

The final interpretation of knowledge has always been in the hands of the Central Plains clan.

But Ma Liang believes that the people of Jingchu are not less talented than the Central Plains, but they lack books, and their progress is too slow, even if there are talents, they will be buried.

As long as the engraving method and papermaking are well promoted, in another ten years, the land of Jingchu will become a land of books.

And the scrolls held by the scholars of the world will also become pirated scriptures that the Jingzhou clan does not know where to copy, and they do not know whether they can match the original text.

For example, in the "Tao Te Ching", "late bloomers" were originally written as "big tools are exempt", but because of the deviation in the process of copying, everyone still studied the "late bloomers" for thousands of years.

Even if the original is later discovered by archaeology......

But so what? After so many years, everyone has been too lazy to change it.

This is what Ma Liang wants, and it is also the best way to make the pile of pirated books in his hands shine.

Moreover, the profits of printing and papermaking are really considerable, and the financial resources can be guaranteed in the short term.

At the beginning, several big surnames still gave Ma Liang face, and they took out the books in the family to make engravings.

However, there are also a few small and large households who say that this practice will lead to the spread of knowledge, and may cause these large surnames to lose their high and noble status.

When these people ran up to Ma Liang and told Ma Liang that the matter was inappropriate, Ma Liang only thought about it for a while, and then nodded.

"It's that I'm not thinking enough—

I really didn't think that there would be rats who don't like to eat corn but are willing to eat feces and urine. ”

His eyebrows twitched, and a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"I don't want your fake books, and your family members and children will only have to study hard behind closed doors in the future, and they will not come out to be official friends.

Jingzhou Yashi are loyal to the prince, the king of Hanzhong, and the Han family.

If you don't want to reciprocate, you can't talk to Coats - go back! ”

Don't look at Ma Liang is quite deferential in front of Liu Bei's father and son, but he is known for his courage among the Jingzhou clan.

He completely denied those people's books in one sentence, and no one would ever read or learn their unique secrets in the future, and these bamboo slips were naturally useless.

This trick basically blocked the qualifications of all the children of these families to become officials, and even made this small family be bullied and excluded by the big family, and even the family's land would be seized away.

Those small families were suddenly frightened, and hurriedly begged for mercy.

But Ma Liang had long wanted to set up a target to deter people with ulterior motives, and he would naturally not easily spare a few small families hitting the wall at this time.

He immediately announced that those families were disloyal, and kicked them out of the upper social circle of Jingzhou.

After that, he was especially ruthless, and began to think about the method of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.

At that time, Ma Jian and Zhou Qun sent Cao Wei back,

Ma Yan, who hadn't seen the fourth brother for a long time, was very happy, and introduced the coachman Shi Bao he got from the north to Ma Liang, saying that although this kid was from a poor family, he spoke at a very high level, and was humble and polite, and he was a personal masterpiece.

He said that the fourth brother can find an opportunity to experience a little bit and a chance for young people to grow.

Shi Bao has a strong desire for power, and he has always wanted to show his talents in front of Ma Tan and Zhou Qun along the way.

Especially his own talent in military affairs.

Unfortunately, he ran into the famous historical master of paper talk.

After a few days of talking, Shi Bao no longer dared to speak in front of Ma Yan, the whole person was quiet and humble, how dare he pretend to be forced in front of Ma Liang.

Ma Liang chatted with Shi Bao for a few words, and saw that this kid was still quite measured in his answer, but he was a little less confident in his speech.

He said in his heart that after all, this person was from a poor family, and it was normal for him to not be able to raise his head in front of the clan.

Hengzhu is an outsider with no background, so use him to deal with those small households who don't have long eyes.

If it can be done, Ma Liang is willing to give this foreign poor family a chance to advance.

If it can't be done......

If you can't do it, it's not bad to follow Pan Jun Fuyi, and you can make the best use of it.

Liu Chan didn't know that the future Jin Dynasty's founding great Sima, the Duke of Leling County, had inexplicably come under his rule.

He received news that Chang Diao Wenpin had led the army north, and he should be heading in the direction of Xiangyang.

There was no sign of a large-scale build-up of the Wei army north of Hanshui, and the Wei army under Chang Diao and Wen Ping was only 20,000, and they actually dared to outflank Guan Yu's back road.

If it weren't for not taking Liu Chan in his eyes, he must have great confidence in capturing Xiangyang.

Ma Liang also realized that Xiangyang was really going to fight a big battle at this time.

Out of trust in Liu Chan, Ma Liang smiled and said:

"Shizi, this time, let Youchang follow Shizi on the expedition, and I can see Shizi's ability to use soldiers!"