Although Hanzhong was fixed, the situation was unstable, and Mu Jing and Xi Zhicai did not dare to leave Nanzheng for too long, and they started their return journey early the next morning.

On the way back, the march was slow.

"Although this person is the son of the leader of the Wolf Qiang, he is of mixed Han and Qiang blood after all, and he is not recognized by the Han people, and he will not be taken over by the Qiang people, do you think this person can succeed?" Xi Zhicai thought about it all night, and the questions that were suppressed in his heart were still asked.

"I don't know!"

Mu Jing rode on horseback and walked slowly, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked up with a relaxed and happy smile.

"Don't know?" Xi Zhicai was very dissatisfied with this answer.

"I really don't know!"

Mu Jing said: "Using him, it is just a matter of adding a step to the chess game of strategic deployment, as for whether he can succeed, it depends on his creation!" ”

"If he doesn't succeed, we have a lot to lose!"

When Xi Zhicai heard this, a black line suddenly appeared on his forehead: "According to your promise, weapons, food, battle armor, and even send troops to support, for us and others, if there is no gain from this effort, it will be a serious loss!" ”

"Zhicai, have you ever done business?"

"Business?"

"The way of a businessman is also known as the way!" Mu Jing said softly: "Investment and income, sometimes do not need to be proportional, we have to have a risky mentality, in order to make a lot of money, if you don't try it, how do you know if it is not successful?" ”

He paused, and his voice became excited: "If this thing is successful, we will make a lot of money, with the help of the wolf and Qiang, we can tear a hole in the Qiang tribe, and the male soldiers will drive straight in, like a back garden, come and go freely, you can get both population resources and geographical advantages, you can peep into Liangzhou in the north, and you can detour into Bashu in the south, for us, it is a good thing that can not be better, the interests of the sky, what to say, this one also has to gamble!" ”

"Take 10,000 steps back, if this matter doesn't work, it doesn't matter if you die young, we will treat it as a failed investment, and we can afford this loss!"

Mu Jing's words made Xi Zhicai fall into thought.

It is true, the risk is very high, but the benefits are greater, and now Hanzhong needs this road that can open up the outside.

"Are you really afraid that if he gains power, he will bite you back in the future?" Xi Zhicai's second doubt: "Min Wu, although he has Han blood, has the heart of the Qiang people, is fierce and arrogant, unruly, and difficult to tame!" ”

"I'm not the only one who chooses, Lang Huan's seven sons, and he is not the only one who has no ambitions, I choose him, do you know why?"

Mu Jing squinted, and his eyes flashed with a meaningful light.

Xi Zhicai read the information about Min Wu sent by Jing Wusi last night, and this detailed investigation information made him see the first half of Min Wu's life: "You mean his filial piety? ”

Confucianism rules the world with filial piety.

Min Wu has filial piety, which is something that the Qiang people don't have, even if Min Wu's caution is tightly attached to this mother, but he finally has a bottom line, the way of Confucianism, the way of life, the way of education, can suppress the animal nature.

He suddenly understood the reason why Mu Jing was so important to Min Wu, Mu Jing's heart was very big, so big that the Qin and Han dynasties couldn't solve it, he wanted to solve it, how difficult it was, but it was not hopeless.

"Min Wu's mother, although she is an ordinary woman, but she has a blue heart, she teaches Min Wu too many Han interests, I have never been afraid of foreign races, but what I want is to completely assimilate them, not a momentary submission, if I want to sinicize them, I need to be a person who has an absolute understanding of Han culture, and he must also be a Qiang person!" Mu Jing said: "Min Wu is the best candidate, not only the Wolf Qiang, but the entire Qiang tribe!" ”

"Let's hope our efforts won't be unrewarded!"

Xi Zhicai said lightly, which can be regarded as a full approval of Mu Jing's plan.

"The less people know about this matter, the better, in the future, you will personally arrange the things provided to him, remember, not only to give weapons, food, but also to people, and to give advice to military advisors who can give him advice!"

"You want to control him from that?" Xi Zhicai's eyes lit up.

"Wrong!"

The corners of Mu Jing's mouth raised slightly: "There is a saying that is close to Zhu is red, and near ink is black, I have been close to Xi Zhi too much, and I have become black, I believe that Min Wu has been exposed to Han people more, and he will also become smart!" ”

"Get out!"

Xi Zhicai yelled at Mujing angrily, this girl ridiculed herself when she got the opportunity, is it easy for herself, it doesn't count as a cow or a horse, and she still has to bear the fate of being molested all the time, and she really regrets getting on the thief ship back then.

However, Mu Jing has a sentence that is not wrong, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, he began to think, he should send those shrewd strategists to Min Wu to give him advice, there are still too few people around him who can be used, and he has to discuss with Hu Zhao, Hu Zhao is a guy, but he has a lot of talents.

When they went, they were quick and fast, but they didn't gather on the return trip, and it took a day and a half, and at noon the next day, they entered Nanzheng City.

After returning to Nanzheng City, the two began to get busy.

Because Beiwutang is about to convene most of the generals under the command of the Mu Army, a military meeting, which is a large meeting after the breakthrough of Hanzhong last year, and it is also a meeting for the purpose of disarmament, which is very important.

Whether it is Mu Jing, Xi Zhicai, or even Hu Zhao, they are all in close planning, trying their best to keep things from collapsing.

In the midst of the busyness, the time entered the beginning of July.

In July, the rainy season, the sky in Nanzheng begins to become gloomy, and it may be sunny in the morning, but at noon, it suddenly becomes a heavy rain, and it is still a never-ending torrential rain.

In this hazy weather, Liu Jin, the last giant of the Minghou Mansion and the chief bookkeeper of the Minghou Mansion, who was in charge of the Nan Study, entered Nanzheng.

Minghou Mansion is naturally Minghou Mujing respected, under the pastoral scene, Minghou Mansion Governor Shi Hu Zhao is second, can be in charge of civil and military affairs, and then there is the Minghou Mansion Sima, and the Ming Hou Mansion master book, Sima Xi Zhicai is in charge of the Beiwu Hall, all the martial arts under the Ming Hou Mansion are dispatched, the main book Liu Jin is in charge of the South Study, and the government affairs of the two counties of Nanyang in Hanzhong are dispatched.

At noon on July 3, above the lobby of the mansion, the five giants in charge of the Minghou Mansion, which is a huge thing, are respected by Mu Jing, Hu Zhaoci sits, Xi Zhicai and Liu Jin sit left and right, and there is also a consultant of the Minghou Mansion, who is called the Ming Marquis Mansion, should be worshipped, or should be the court Shangshu, Cai Yong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the generals of all ministries have gathered in Nanzheng, disarmament is imminent, it is imperative, and this matter needs your final opinion!" Mu Jing attaches great importance to everyone here, because this is his future team.

Since Mushan died in battle, he has no hope for the Han family.

He struggled.

I also gave up.

Now, he understands the path he will take in the future, in this troubled world, if he wants to protect himself and his family, there is only one way, that is, to make himself stronger, and more and more powerful, so strong that there is no heaven on his head and no master in the sky.

"My lord, are you sure you want to disarm?"

Liu Jin was puzzled: "In fact, with our current ability, as long as we survive the most difficult year, we can still afford to raise these soldiers, these are all elites in a hundred battles!" ”

"This is non-negotiable, it must be done!"

Mu Jing said: "What I want is the elite soldiers among the elite soldiers, what I pursue is not the victory piled up with human lives, the Yellow Turban Army was so magnificent, swept the eight states of the world, more than one million soldiers, but once defeated on the battlefield, it is a defeat like a mountain, the people are not soldiers, soldiers are not for the people, loyal to one, can become a big thing!" ”

This is a crack strategy.

Mu Jing has had such an idea for a long time, but he has never had such an opportunity, and for the Kwantung War, he also let the Southern Army at that time, that is, the Yellow Turban Army at that time, expand its army crazily, but there is really no way.

Now he has at least a year or two to recuperate, and this is his chance.

He wants to make his soldiers become real elites, that is, full-time soldiers.

In these years, there is no full-time soldier in the military, most of the soldiers have no military salary, more just get a bowl of rice to eat, and when they win a battle, they can be rewarded, but the military salary is ......

Therefore, the pastoral landscape needs to change, starting from the very root.

"My lord, how many soldiers do you plan to adjudicate this time?"

Hu Zhao asked a key point, disarmament affairs, which had always been planned by Beiwutang, and he only discussed it in a casual manner, but did not get a complete plan.

"Yellow Turban White Wave Fight, Jingping First Army, Jingping Second Army, Yellow Turban Army, Violent Bear Army, each army will save the establishment of 10,000 soldiers!"

Mu Jing spoke.

This is a plan he has been planning for a long time.

There is no trivial matter in the army, and the establishment is very important, and now the soldiers and horses under the command of the herdsman are too general, and there must be a more formal and perfect establishment to better control the army under his command.

In fact, when it comes to disarmament, it is the Yellow Turban and White Polish armies that are being cut.

After the Violent Bear Army broke through the bloody battle from Guanzhong last year, the soldiers have been nervous, and they want to adjudicate, but they can't cut many soldiers and horses.

The Yellow Turban and the White Turban are both the Yellow Turban Army, and the composition is not very good, whether it is the Yellow Turban Army or the White Wave Army, the combat effectiveness is a little worse, this time, Mu Jing is ready to merge the two armies and select the elite.

"Forty thousand soldiers?" Liu Jin was shocked: "Isn't it too little!" ”

"Nearly 30,000 cuts!"

Cai Yong has begun to participate in the government affairs of the Minghou Mansion, from the beginning of his personal mediation between the Minghou Mansion and the major families, he has hung the title of Minghou on his head, this time damaging his reputation, but for the sake of his daughter, and for the sake of his unwilling court, he still has no hesitation, he said in a low voice: "You can think about how to resettle, if the placement is not improper, this will become a cancer!" ”

"Divide the land!"

Mu Jing said indifferently.

"Divide the land?"

When the four of them heard this, they looked at each other.

"The land of Hanzhong?" Hu Zhao asked tentatively.

"Or else?" Mu Jing said: "Where do I still have land?" ”

"Is there so much land in Hanzhong?"

"There is only those who do not go to cultivate, and there is nothing that cannot be cultivated!" Mu Jing said coldly: "There are only a few people in Hanzhong, just with a county in Hanzhong, as long as it can be reclaimed, you can raise millions of people." ”

"You're preparing to fight the local squire!" Cai Yong said: "Hit the family first, and then deal with the squire, aren't you really afraid that they will jump off the wall in a hurry?" ”

In the nine counties of Hanzhong, there are only a few families, but there are many squires, and the squires of each county add up, which will be the backbone of the entire Hanzhong.

The family inherits the family with knowledge, whether it is wealth or land, they think that they can get it back if they have it, but they care more about the reputation of the scholar, as long as they think that the reputation is still there, everything is fine.

But the local squires are the so-called big landlords, and the root of their survival is the land.

"Dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, but people are in a hurry, but not necessarily!"

Mu Jing said calmly: "I don't allow the Han to have forces that I can't control, I won't kill them all, but if they don't know how to do it, they don't give me a way out for these soldiers who are about to take off their military uniforms and have a hard life, then don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”

Where there is a conflict of interest, he is ready.

"What do you need me to do?" Hu Zhao took a deep breath, he knew that this time Mu Jing was determined to pursue the so-called elite strategy.

"The three armies have not moved, the grain and grass go first!"

Mu Jing said: "Since it is disarmament, there needs to be severance pay, I need you to raise a sum of money for me, this is a necessary expense!" ”

"I'll figure it out!"

Hu Zhao and Liu Jin glanced at each other, and Hu Zhao opened his mouth and said, "How much?" ”

"How many, as much as you want!" Mu Jing has a big appetite, which makes Hu Zhao's stomach ache.

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July 5th.

The generals of all ministries gathered in the lobby of the Minghou Mansion, and the mansion outside the city was still under construction, and this Minghou Mansion was a temporary mansion, and it was tightly enough to maintain the affairs of the east and west compartments on weekdays.

"What is the so-called matter of the lord's recruitment this time?"

"I heard it's for disarmament!"

"Disarmament, are all the rumors true?"

"How's that good?"

"Does the lord want to unload the mill and kill the donkey!"

"Nonsense, how can you speculate about the lord, you don't want to die!"

"And why is he?"

"Maybe the lord just wants to stabilize Hanzhong!"

“……”

All the military departments, captains and generals, talking to each other, they are all rough men in the army, their voices are thunderous, their voices are not whispers, and the whole hall is filled with this noisy sound.

However, the generals of the armies are as stable as Mount Tai.

Huang Shao, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, was the first on the left, and he closed his eyes to recuperate.

Zhou Cang, the commander of the Storm Bear Army, was second only to the second, the bronze bell-like tiger eyes flashed with this complicated light, and he looked a little restless.

Huang Zhong, the commander of the Baibo Army, sat at the end of the seat, looking at his nose and nose, and his heart and mind, and he was unmoved.

On the right, Jingping's first army, the main general Chen Dao, is young, but his qualifications are not shallow, and he is above the first place, his expression is very calm, and he is not affected by the chaos at all.

Accompanying the second place is the Jingping Second Army, the main general Zhang Liao, who was born as a general, but he is quite imposing.

The five lords glanced at each other in the air, and their hearts were already very clear about the purpose of summoning them today, but they were a little apprehensive and puzzled in their hearts, worried about the fate of their own department, and puzzled why the lord had such a decision.

But they are all generations of great wars, and they have the stability of the battlefield, and they will not show their attitude until the critical time.