When he saw Liu Bei again a year later, Ma Chao found that the eyes of this imperial uncle were still full of sighs and sadness. This made Ma Chao happy and vigilant.

Happily, no matter what you say, Liu Bei can be regarded as a prince who really thinks about the common people. No matter what the world thinks of him, Ma Chao still sees that under Liu Bei's governance for more than a year, this Runan City is no less prosperous than the second-tier counties of the Ma family, and the satisfaction on the faces of the common people who are happy to know the destiny of heaven is the best proof of Liu Bei's political achievements.

However, the more this was the case, the more wary Ma Chao became of Liu Bei. Because this situation shows that Liu Bei is not a rich man at all. His extremely contradictory background gave him an ambition that was not contradictory, and the stage he needed was by no means just a county.

However, no matter whether he was happy or vigilant, after Ma Chao entered the mansion, under Liu Bei's guidance, his robe shook and he sat on the main seat as a deserved. This move shocked the civil and military forces in the hall, especially Zhang Fei, the head of black charcoal, who was about to jump. Even after being signaled by Liu Bei's eyes, he still glared at Ma Chao with vicious eyes.

However, Ma Chao is concerned about Da Qiao in his heart after all, otherwise according to his occasionally unobtrusive temperament, he will definitely stare at each other fiercely with this historical enemy.

"Uncle Liu Huang, what is the intention of Jingzhou this time?" Straight to the point, Ma Chao suddenly felt a little inappropriate about his impatience this time.

Liu Bei knew that Ma Chao had rescued a peerless woman at the city gate, but he never believed that Ma Chao would be upset because of a woman. At that moment, he immediately thought that Ma Chao was dissatisfied with what he had done recently, so he hurriedly bowed down and explained: "Back to King Yong, or the two families are just connected, Lord Zirou has not arrived, and I really don't know the details." ”

Ma Chao nodded, and his eyes still flashed with that pair of bright and amazing eyes. He looked at the more and more large-scale civil and military forces behind Liu Bei, and couldn't help but be a little upset, so he simply waved his hand and said: "Today, I only talk about some trivial matters with Uncle Huang, and I will talk about the past, but you can do it yourself." ”

Hearing this, the civil and military forces in the hall got up at the same time and bowed to Ma Chao, bowing down. In the hall, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were still left, and Guan Yu raised his legs and wanted to go out after Liu Bei nodded slightly. But Zhang Fei on the side finally couldn't help shouting: "Ma ...... King Yong, Chang'an Shangshutai and I Lao Zhang are not qualified, this Runan County Guard, could it be that it was also opened by your family? ! ”

Ma Chao was impatient, and when he turned around, he glared at Zhang Fei, and his left hand was also pressed on the hilt of Su Tie's sword. The murderous aura frozen all over his body suddenly came out of his body, and he locked directly at Zhang Fei: "One day, if you become the second king with a different surname in this big man, I won't deceive you like this!" ”

Zhang Fei heard Ma Chao admit that he was bullying him, and his dark face suddenly swelled like carbon black. The sky-high killing machine suddenly also permeated, facing Ma Chao's killing intent swept in, the fierceness of the thousands of armies and Ma Chao's cold and splendid regretless collision in the air, and the eyes of the two were like real swords in the air. The next moment, Zhang Fei even raised the snake spear in his hand, and actually muttered: "Ma'er, dare to fight with your grandfather Zhang for three hundred rounds?!" ”

"Presumptuous!" Liu Bei was furious, and his fair face turned red. But Ma Chao still felt that Liu Bei's eyes were still looking at Guan Yu.

It seems that among the three combinations of Liu Guan and Zhang, Liu Bei belongs to the brain, while Zhang Fei belongs to the fists and feet, and Guan Yu belongs to the torso in it, responsible for coordinating the mind and fists and feet. At this moment, Guan Yu didn't see any murderous aura emanating from him, he just patted Zhang Fei on the shoulder and said, "Third brother, King Yong is the nobleman of Han, and we can't be rude." ”

After saying that, regardless of Zhang Fei's reaction, Guan Yu directly led by example and walked out of the door. Zhang Fei saw that Liu Bei and Guan Yu both persuaded him like this, although he was angry but helpless: "Ma'er, in this battle, my old Zhang will settle the calculation with you sooner or later!" With that, he strode away with the snake spear.

Ma Chao shook his head on the surface, but sighed helplessly in his heart: Zhang Fei is by no means a really reckless and fiery temperament, at that moment just now, he was upset, and he really wanted to take advantage of Zhang Fei's disrespect to himself to give Liu Bei a good dismissal. But before he could think about how to make a move, Zhang Fei automatically withdrew.

Giving in sometimes takes more courage than attacking....... obviously, Zhang Fei knows this very well.

"King Yong's forgiveness, the third brother Zhang Fei was rude and rude, and collided with King Yong's ......." As soon as Zhang Fei left, Liu Bei hurriedly apologized to Ma Chao.

But Ma Chao waved his hand to stop Liu Bei's coy posture, and said: "Uncle Liu Huang will not play such a small trick in the future, if you don't want to be attached to the Ma family, but please make it clear, you don't have to let such rough people contradict me many times, so as to enhance your status as an imperial uncle!" ”

"King Yong!" When Liu Bei heard Ma Chao's words, his face immediately changed greatly, and he directly kowtowed to the ground and said: "Bei Wan has no such heart, this time Bei will definitely severely punish Yide." In the future, King Yong will be present, and he will be made to retreat and not show up! ”

Seeing Liu Bei being able to bend and stretch like this, Ma Chao suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness like a dog biting a hedgehog. Especially when he appeared too impatiently, he directly exposed the purpose of coming to Runan, and if he continued to talk about it this time, he would definitely let the astute Liu Bei find something. At that moment, he took a deep breath and drove those eyes out of his mind before he raised his hand to signal Liu Bei to get up and said, "This matter is over, there will be no next time." ”

"King Xie Yong is not to blame."

"Kuai Liang came to Runan, can you say it clearly at this time?" After saying this, Ma Chao put his eyes motionless on Liu Bei's face, observing the slightest change in Liu Bei's expression.

To Ma Chao's disappointment, Liu Bei's face couldn't see anything abnormal, and he still said flatly: "Or after Cao Cao entered Tuqingzhou, Liu Yuanjun was worried, so he sent Kuai Zirou to come, intending to win over Bei Gong to fight against Cao thief." ”

"Very good," Ma Chao nodded, pretending to be inadvertent, and continued: "I didn't expect that I came at the right time to come this time, and I made a big plan at the beginning, and I also had a knot with Liu Biao. Now that Liu Biao is seriously ill, it is the time for Uncle Huang to enter Jingzhou to take charge of the overall situation! ”

"Liu Yuanjun is seriously ill?!" Liu Bei's face finally showed a look of surprise, but this very real afterthought made Ma Chao look at it in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Liu Bei is indeed a hero, he is the top figure of this era in terms of governing the people, forbearance and tenacity, etc. But it's a pity that in terms of political sense of smell, Liu Bei is still in the stage of crawling. The news that Liu Biao was seriously ill had been known by Ma Chao for half a month, and he hurried to Runan immediately. But now, Liu Bei still heard the news from his own mouth, and at this time he had just begun to think about a series of possible changes brought about by Liu Biao's serious illness.

This made Liu Bei's start lose in the unpredictable political arena. After Ma Chao shook his head slightly, he slowly leaned back, made a relaxed gesture, and asked, "Now that you already know about this, you must have a deeper understanding of Kuai Liang's good behind-the-scenes, right?" ”

Liu Bei obviously hadn't reacted yet, and said hesitantly: "In this way, Kuai Zirou came this time, I am afraid that I will be ordered by Liu Envoyjun to fund the preparation to resist Cao's army." However, according to King Yong's plan, Bei Dang tried every means to lead his troops into Jingzhou......."

Ma Chao shook it with a smile and said, "There is no need to think of a way at all, Kuai Liang has come this time, and there is nothing else to ask for except to lead you into Jingzhou." Even if you don't ask, he will take the initiative to ask. As for the reason, you will know it after you enter Jingzhou. The next thing you have to do is to pretend that you don't know about it, squeeze the maximum value out of Kuai Liang's hands, and expand the army under your command! ”

After a pause, Ma Chao seemed to weigh the gains and losses before he spoke again: "I know that you have more than 16,000 troops under your command, and it is rare to support this army with the power of a county." However, in terms of armaments and war horses, it needs to be added. At least, when you enter Jingzhou, you also need to let those people see the value of your Uncle Liu Huang! ”

"What does King Yong mean? ......" Liu Bei couldn't help but be secretly happy when he heard this.

Sure enough, Ma Chao then spoke: "There is also a batch of eliminated battle armor blades that can equip five thousand people in the Ma Family Arsenal. As for the war horses, you don't need to worry. ”

"Prepare to knock on the ...... of King Yong"

"Thank you?! What do you think I asked you to blackmail Kuailiang for? Ma Chao didn't wait for Liu Bei to finish speaking, and immediately stopped: "Five thousand battle armor and those purebred war horses all need to be bought with real money!" ”

"It's just some knockout armor...... What's more, Bei has taken refuge in King Yong, these ......" Liu Bei's face immediately became bitter, he couldn't imagine that the dignified King Yong would be so picky.

"Well, too." Ma Chao seemed to have thought of this layer as well, but the next moment, he got up directly and strode away, with only a gorgeous figure and a sentence that made Liu Bei very hurt: "Since this is the case, I can give you a twenty-percent discount...... Remember, I'm never a loss-making deal! ”