Summary of the previous chapter: Kuai Yue Wang Cang Fu Xun ** Liu Cong overnight, persuading Liu Cong to surrender to Cao Cao. Although Liu Cong had ideas, he couldn't stand the cruelty of reality, so he had no choice but to agree to surrender

+++++++++++++++++++++++ sent Kuai Yue and the others away, Ma Xiaoquan immediately prepared to leave for Cao Ying.

This time, Murong Ziyan said that she would follow her, but Ling'er didn't rest well because she had played with Xianggong overnight, and now she needed to catch up on sleep, so she didn't propose to follow again.

Ma Xiaoquan calculated the time, it is now the end of August of the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), and there are not many days left from Cao Cao's advance time in history, before that, Cao Cao has sent someone to send an urgent letter to Ma Xiaoquan, informing Ma Xiaoquan that he will advance to the depths of Jingzhou in early September, and the first stop, Cao Cao considered taking Xinye first.

After arriving at Cao Ying's camp and meeting with Cao Cao, Ma Xiaoquan told Cao Cao the news of Liu Cong's surrender.

Cao Cao was not too happy, after all, now that others are not in Xiangyang, every qiē is just an agreement, the so-called defense of people is indispensable, Cao Cao only believes what he sees.

Ma Xiaoquan nodded, relieved Cao Cao and said: "Since this is the case, then let's do it, Xiao Cao, you write a letter, and I will bring it to Liu Cong, the content of the letter, well, you will ask him to hand over the talisman of Jingzhou Mu, and see if he agrees, how about it?" ”

Cao Cao thought for a while and felt that Ma Xiaoquan's idea was very good, so he immediately picked up his pen and wrote a silk letter and handed it to Ma Xiaoquan.

"Lord Shangxian, then I will ask you again!"

Ma Xiaoquan glanced at Cao Cao and said, "Oh, do you think it's over for me?" ”

Cao Cao's heart was crossed, and he said, "Then Lord Shangxian, do you want money or power this time?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan laughed and patted Cao Cao's shoulder: "Xiao Cao, you are too humorous, what do I want the right to do, but my son will grow up in the future, I hope your son can give them an official and a half-job, which can be regarded as a reward for me." ”

Cao Cao nodded, and said, "I'll talk about this later, no, I can't owe you, otherwise I won't be happy." ”

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Since this is the case, then let's do it, my Ling'er wife is from Yuyang, and Ling'er's wife wants to go back to her hometown to see, um~~ Or you will order someone to help me take care of a house in Yuyang, the scale, you look at it"

When Cao Cao heard this, he was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly said: "This is easy to do, I will repair a book now, and let Pi'er buy it for you." ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "This is the best!" ”

After saying goodbye to Cao Cao, Ma Xiaoquan immediately rushed back to Xiangyang non-stop.

After running around all night, Ma Xiaoquan was also a little tired.

Originally, I wanted to meet Liu Cong again and handed Cao Cao's handwritten letter to Liu Cong, but then I thought about it, such a troublesome and thankless matter should be left to Cai Mao, a ghost who is a dead ghost.

Sure enough, as soon as Cai Mao heard the letter from the prime minister in person, he hurriedly ran to the Ma family's house, and saw Ma Xiaoquan, Cai Mao respectfully took Cao Cao's handwritten letter from Ma Xiaoquan, and promised happily: "Lord Shangxian, please rest assured, if Liu Cong's kid is interested, the rune seal or something will definitely be taken out, if you are not interested, Lao Tzu will take a knife to his neck and let him take it, hum ~ ouch ~~"

Cai Mao covered her head and looked at Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan shook his hand and scolded: "Can you be more stable, Liu Cong is your lord no matter what, isn't it, if you threaten him with a knife, aren't you looking for Cao Cao to do bad things, when the time comes, don't you talk about your commander of the navy, you are the commander of the navy, it is estimated that you will not be able to play."

Cai Mao smiled, rubbed his head and said: "Hehe, I'm just talking, how can I do that, don't worry, Lord Shangxian, I know where the lord's talisman is, if he doesn't hand it over himself, I will steal it out overnight, hehe~~"

Ma Xiaoquan glanced at Cai Mao angrily, waved his hand, and signaled that you can go.

Cai Mao retreated in amusement, and slipped away with Cao Cao's autographed letter.

The next day, Cai Mao came again.

Seeing Cai Mao in the main hall, Ma Xiaoquan asked curiously: "Deqi, why are you here again, what's the matter?" ”

Cai Mao smiled, his eyes rolled around several times, and whispered: "Lord Shangxian, please take a look~" As he spoke, Cai Mao took out a talisman from his arms.

Ma Xiaoquan took the rune and looked at it, his eyes lit up: "You kid can't steal it, right?" ”

Cai Mao shook her head and said, "How come, this was given to me by Liu Cong, let me wait for the lord to come and deliver it to the lord." ”

Ma Xiaoquan snorted: "Lord? This Cao Cao hasn't come yet, and you've called it? You kid~"

Cai Mao said: "Lord Shangxian, our family doesn't speak foreign dialects, Liu Cong, this kid is quite rich, do you want to come?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan rolled his eyes and looked at Cai Mao: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Hehe, isn't my sister Liu Biao's second room, she saved a lot of money in the past, and I didn't have a chance to pick it up, no, now I brought his talisman, this thing is very useful"

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "You mean, come on?" ”

Cai Mao's eyes rolled faster: "What do you mean, Lord Shangxian?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan patted Cai Mao's shoulder and returned the talisman to Cai Mao: "You did a good job, well, I'll leave the rest to you!" ”

Cai Mao was overjoyed, and while carrying the talisman back into his arms, he promised: "Don't worry, Lord Shangxian, I will get it for you in less than two days."

Ma Xiao stretched out his hand and signaled Cai Mao to shut up, Cai Mao reacted quite quickly, covered his mouth and nodded.

Sent Cai Mao away, Ling'er and Murong Ziyan, who had been hiding behind the screen, came out.

Murong Ziyan asked puzzledly: "Brother Xiaoma, Cai Mao is very shameless, why do you want to be in the same league with him?" ”

Ling'er nodded, agreeing with Sister Ziyan's point of view.

Ma Xiaoquan sighed and said: "I don't understand this truth, but, our foundation is in the north, this south is unfamiliar to us, as the saying goes: go out and talk about money, I do this, not only to improve my efficiency in the future, you two also know that the thing I have been looking for has been found, well, I will take some time to get it back, however, it is possible to use money, take precautions, it is better to prepare first than to sharpen the gun in battle; Besides, we have lived in the house of the horsemen for a long time, and if we don't come up with some benefits, after a long time, even if the relationship is good, we may be unhappy."

Ling'er said: "That Xianggong can't take Liu Cong's money, let alone with Cai Mao?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Although Cai Mao is shameless, he still has real skills, from the military governance of Jingzhou over the years, Cai Mao will not be ambiguous, do you know?" Cai Mao is actually testing me by doing this today, if I don't accept it, then Cai Mao will definitely have a grudge against me, if I accept it, Cai Mao will think that I am with him. ”

"Then Xianggong, are you with Cai Mao?"

Ma Xiaoquan said: "In front of interests, I will become an accomplice with him!" ”

The two didn't understand the meaning of Ma Xiaoquan's words, and Ma Xiaoquan didn't give them an in-depth explanation.

"Hey~" Ma Xiaoquan sighed and said in his heart: If Yue'er is here, she will definitely understand if I do this, but

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, and suddenly remembered something when he was a special soldier, and couldn't help laughing.

The second daughter thought that Xianggong (Brother Xiaoma) was happy because he got the money, so he didn't say anything

At the beginning of September of the thirteenth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's troops pointed directly at the depths of Jingzhou.

The soldiers went to Xinye, and it didn't take much effort to take control of Xinye.

Liu Cong of Xiangyang got the news and immediately sent an envoy group led by Cai Mao to Xinye to surrender Cao

Seeing Cao Cao, Cai Mao obediently sent the charm of Jingzhou Mu, and knelt on the ground in public to express his allegiance to Cao Cao.

Previously, Ma Xiaoquan had written a quick letter to Cao Cao, which explained the current situation.

Cao Cao helped Cai Mao up, comforted Cai Mao and said, "It's really my blessing that De Qi can submit to me." ”

Cai Mao said respectfully: "Lord, Liu Cong is still in Xiangyang at present, does the lord want to rush to Xiangyang as much as possible?" ”

Cao Cao waved his hand: "It's not necessary, I have all this talisman, what else can Liu Cong's kid do?" Hey, I think Liu Jingsheng is also a character, but it's a pity that his two sons, one is good at wine, the other is young and ignorant, and he is really like a dolphin (pig)~~"

At this time, in Fancheng on the other side, Liu Bei, who was in charge of garrisoning Fancheng, always felt that he couldn't sleep well, so he sent Zhao Yun to go out to investigate in person, only to know that Liu Cong had surrendered Cao Cao.

Liu Bei was extremely angry and immediately sent an envoy to Xiangyang to question Liu Cong.

Liu Cong is also a bachelor, he has already surrendered anyway, what can you Liu Xuande do to me, just don't do a book repair, and also order Liu Bei to surrender to Cao Cao.

How could Liu Bei do this, and how dare he do this?

In the past, when Qingmei was cooking wine, he pretended to deceive Cao Cao, and later killed Che Zhou, and voted for Yuan Shao and Cao to operate all this, in other words, he would never let go of himself and remembered those days of escape, if he hadn't decisively abandoned his wife, I'm afraid it would have been a touch of dust by now.

Holding Liu Cong's letter of persuasion, Liu Bei angrily tore the letter into pieces, pulled out his sword with a "bang", pointed at Liu Cong's messenger and scolded: "Liu Cong is completely treacherous in doing this, you have done this until now to sue me, don't you think it's too late, it's too much?" Killing you now won't quell my anger, get out! Get lost! ”

Liu Cong's envoy was also calm, he looked at Liu Bei who was angry, still bowed unhurriedly, and then slowly walked out of the meeting hall.

As soon as Liu Cong's envoy left, Liu Bei immediately convened an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with it.

Mi Zhu stepped forward and said: "Lord, it is better for you to take advantage of the chaos to seize Jingzhou, quickly plan and deploy and integrate the various departments of Jingzhou, and still have the capital to fight with Cao Cao." ”