Since the withdrawal of the Eastern Wu Army, the marriage between me and Shana has been repeatedly put on the agenda by Shamoke, although his 20,000 troops have not turned their faces, but the delay in lying under Wuling City soon shows that this problem has now reached an imminent level.

Because Shamoko only asked his sister to be my side room, and because I had the great favor of leading the army to help this time, I could no longer refuse. The reasonable Qing'er also persuaded me to focus on the overall situation, saying that she wouldn't care. Shamoke also specially ordered someone to bring a pen to write a letter to Liu Bei who was still in Nanjun because of this matter, Liu Bei soon replied with his approval, and ordered Kong Ming to personally repair a letter to me, Kong Ming also expressed his approval in the words of the letter, saying that the marriage with the Wuxi barbarians has a huge effect on stabilizing Jingzhou, and I must obey.

At this point, what else do I have to say, besides, with Shana's conditions, although the princess has a little more temper, not to mention the side room, even the side room is more than enough for me, so I gladly accepted the order.

Of course, before the wedding, I personally led the troops to receive Lingling from Dongwu, and Dongwu was not polite, although Lingling County was returned, but the treasury was emptied by them, and only Hao Pu, who surrendered before, and the Lingling soldiers who surrendered with him were returned to me, and I also had to allocate money from the treasury of Wuling County to support them.

Seeing that I was full of shame, Hao Pu knelt down for me directly, admitted his mistake with a handful of snot and tears, said that he should not have surrendered to Dongwu in his plan, and then said something about the current sinister situation, trying to make me spare him.

Liu Bei's handling of him had already explained to me, saying that if he wanted to kill him, the Lingling sergeant who surrendered with him would inevitably be panicked, but if he didn't deal with him, he couldn't do it, so he was relieved of his post as Lingling Taishou, and let me decide for myself to find a way to settle him.

Almost all of us were extremely disdainful of Haup's surrender, and those present demanded that I punish him severely. However, I still have a certain degree of understanding for Hao Pu's previous behavior, after all, at that time, the Wu army attacked in a big way, and Guan Yu and Lu Su refused to come to Yiyang, so it was difficult to come to help.

Of course, I can't excuse Hao Pu at this time, after all, he has the fact that he has surrendered to the enemy, so I have to order someone to take him in the army first, and then decide whether to give him an errand to do after returning to Wuling.

As for Lingling's new Taishou, I recommended Gong Zhi to Liu Bei before I came, after all, Gong Zhi has deep roots in Wuling, although I have much easier trouble in many political affairs with him, but it is inevitable to be tied up in what I do, and getting him to Lingling is also a high promotion for him, and he will be very happy to think of himself. Liu Bei may have also considered that when he captured Wuling, he should have been made the Taishou of Wuling with the credit of Gong Zhi's dedication to the city, and now I proposed that letting him be the Taishou of Lingling was also a kind of compensation for him, so he agreed.

Sure enough, Gong Zhi was very happy to be able to go to Lingling Taishou, after all, the temptation of being a leader was quite strong for him. He thanked me for my recommendation to him in front of Liu Bei, and of course, he couldn't help but vaguely reveal the meaning of asking me if I could go to Lingling and let him be in Wuling.

I didn't answer this positively, because after all, my relationship with him during this period of time was quite harmonious on the surface, and I didn't want to directly sweep his face, just show that I wanted to be closer to General Guan's Nanjun. Coupled with what he heard from me after drinking at the previous banquet, he understood that I was not just a county guard in Wuling, so he no longer mentioned the matter of staying in Wuling, but happily went back to prepare to take up his post in Lingling.

Gong Zhi went to Lingling with me to take up his post this time, and almost brought his entire team in Wuling City. When he begged me on this matter, I agreed without saying a word, after all, without these cronies of his, I could really establish my own team in Wuling County.

Of course, many of his cronies were in important positions when they were in Wuling, so it was inevitable that their departure would still have some impact on the county affairs, and I also thought of countermeasures for this.

Because his cronies inevitably had to continue to do similar work in Lingling when they arrived in Lingling, I told Gong Zhi that after he took over Lingling, all the officials replaced by his cronies were handed over to me, and I was going to take them to Wuling to use.

In this way, although it is inevitable that these replaced Lingling officials will have to be familiar with Wuling for a period of time, because it is equivalent to a reciprocal handover with the person who replaced them, it is just a mutual change of place, so the handover will be much smoother.

Because they all want each other's help, no one will embarrass anyone, and these Lingling officials were originally going to be dismissed, although they changed places at this time, and they had to take their wives and children to move, but basically the officials were reinstated, and they were all grateful to me. After arriving in Wuling, each of them did things very carefully, and they were very resolute in carrying out my orders, no longer like Gong Zhi's previous cronies, as long as Gong Zhi disagreed in his heart, they would disobey me, and use various reasons to prevaricate that I didn't do things, and what I wanted to do in the future was much smoother all of a sudden.

The first thing I did after I returned to Wuling was to talk to Xie Xian.

Since Xie Xian retreated from Hanshou from Hanshou, he was raised by me in the county town of Wuling, where he ate and drank, drank and lived. After that, I was busy leading troops to help Gong Zhi take Lingling, but I really let him have nothing to do for a long time.

He is because of the fact that I retired from the barbarian soldiers and Wu soldiers before, and now I can say that I can say that I have thrown myself to the ground. Seeing that I had come to greet him, I followed him into the house and sat down as the host and guest, and soon he began to remind me of the matter of returning to Hanshou to continue his post.

I smiled and told him, "I have appointed a new county magistrate in Hanshou County, and I want to keep you in the county seat to do more important things!" ”

Xie Xian was inevitably a little gloomy when he heard that he couldn't return to Hanshou, and his mood was not very high when he asked me if there was anything more important.

I said to him, "Don't be upset! You can think about it, even if you go back to Hanshou and govern Hanshou County in the same orderly manner as before, but one day the Wu soldiers will invade the boundary again, and tens of thousands of troops will surround your small county town, and when the time comes, can the hundreds of soldiers in your hands prevent the city from being broken and the people from suffering? ”

Xie Xian couldn't answer my question, so he could only say, "Didn't Dongwu already reach an agreement with the lord?" How is it possible to come back to the boundary? ”

I said to him, "You know, what Soochow wants is the whole of Jingzhou. Now Cao Cao's attack on Hanzhong has infringed on the interests of us and the Eastern Wu family from the big situation, and the lord promised to take Xiangshui as the boundary first, so that the Eastern Wu got three counties, and then temporarily restored peace with us. However, the remaining three counties of Jingzhou and Dongwu still want it, and our side agreed in the agreement with Dongwu that once Dongwu attacks Shouchun and forces Cao Cao to withdraw his troops to return to help, so that we can obtain Liangzhou, I will give them all the land of Jingzhou! ”

At the time of the signing of the Xiangshui Alliance, Dongwu was afraid that our side would not give the remaining three counties of Jingzhou after obtaining Liangzhou in the future, but it was agreed in the covenant that after the covenant was signed, each would vigorously inform the subjects in their own territory of the content of the covenant, so I knew all about Xie Xian.

Of course, Xie Xian is not good to say in front of me that no matter whether Hanshou is ruled by Liu Bei or Sun Quan, as long as he is allowed to do it, he will only do things for the people. Moreover, once Hanshou really returns to Sun Quan, Sun Quan is likely to have his appointment, and the probability that Hanshou County Ling Neng will let Xie Xiandang is actually very small. So he said to me with a very helpless look: "If the lord really captures Liangzhou and wants to give Wuling to Eastern Wu, then we can only accept it, can we still disobey the order and use the army of less than 10,000 people in the county to fight against the army of Eastern Wu here?" ”

I took a sip of tea and said to him: "Although the Lord has decided Yizhou fairly, and the military and financial resources have increased a lot, there is still a big gap compared with Cao Cao. Moreover, Yizhou is newly determined, and there are many things that need to be done, even if the lord sends troops to repel Cao Cao from the Hanzhong region, and the Eastern Wu attacks Shouchun to force Cao Cao to rescue and other favorable circumstances occur, Cao Cao will definitely leave a heavy army in Liangzhou to defend it. Besides, how Hanzhong is still Zhang Lu's, our army's desire to skip Zhang Lu to attack Liangzhou can be said to be quite unrealistic, that is to say, Liangzhou is difficult to capture in a short period of time. Liangzhou can't be captured, do you know what it means? ”

Xie Xian thought for a while, as if he had comprehended something, and he asked me: "My lord, do you mean that Eastern Wu will not wait for our side to capture Liangzhou and will attack Wuling first?" ”

I smiled and nodded, and told him, "You got it right!" ”