"It hurts."

"You girl, obviously injured, how can you move around?" Seeing this, Ma Zongheng immediately frowned, and his face was full of concern.

Qiao Ying only felt that her heart was beating, and her heart was like a deer colliding with her, and she couldn't help lowering her head, and there were two faint traces of crimson on her face.

"Did you save me?"

"I promised your sister that I would rescue you, but I was too late and injured you." Ma Zongheng's brows furrowed a little more, and his expression did not hide his heartache. When Qiao Ying heard the first half of the sentence, her heart ached, but when she saw his expression, she couldn't help but be secretly happy, and asked subconsciously.

"Then if my sister doesn't tell you, won't you come to save me?"

Ma Zongheng raised his eyebrows, and the words seemed to be about to reach his mouth, but he suddenly didn't answer, but wiped Qiaoying's head like a big brother next door and smiled. Qiao Ying immediately showed a very unhappy expression, and her mouth was pursed, and she was about to ask again.

"Okay, you have woken up, and now there are many important things in Puyang City, which urgently need me to deal with them, so you can rest for a while. I'll come back to see you when I'm done. As soon as Ma Zongheng's words came out, Qiao Ying felt a bitter and reluctant feeling in her heart for some reason, and blinked her beautiful big eyes.

"You haven't answered my question yet."

Ma Zongheng smiled faintly again, but his eyes faintly revealed a trace of indescribable sadness, and then turned around and walked out.

It turned out that since Liu Xueyu lost the news under the Tiger Prison again, Ma Zongheng was hit by unimaginable, he felt guilty and blamed, worried and uneasy, and didn't even dare to let himself be idle for a moment, for fear that he would be depressed.

Ma Zongheng is very self-aware, now is the period of rapid development of the power of the princes in various places, the so-called if he does not advance, he will retreat, if he can't take advantage of this to expand his power, then he is destined to become the meat of the mouths of other princes. For this reason, the princes of various places can be said to have exhausted their means, and they used all their strategies, family scenes, prestige, and interpersonal relationships.

But in this troubled era, even if he is a person with a powerful status, he may not be able to gain the upper hand everywhere, just like Liu Dai, even if he uses all means, he sneaks up and captures people's relatives, but in the end, he is not defeated in the hands of Ma Zongheng?

If you really want to get to the bottom of it, it's a matter of ability and personhood. But then again, now is the era of the princes competing for the Central Plains, and everyone's starting point is high and low.

Ma Zongheng thought about his situation, and he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat. He has a dissolute temperament, so many princes regard him as a thorn in the side, and now that his momentum has risen, I am afraid it will not work anymore if he wants to use the previous set of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. In addition, he offended Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, one of whom has the greatest power today, and the other With the decline of the Han family, it can be said that he is the most superior person in today's family scene. So Ma Zongheng had to let himself wake up at all times, he thought that he was not qualified to choose depression, and not long ago Qiao Ying was cut down by Mao Hui and fell to the ground, Ma Zongheng seemed to see the figure of Liu Xueyu in the enemy camp under the Tiger Prison, and subconsciously overlapped the figures of the two. That's why at that time, Ma Zongheng was so crazy and exhausted......

His indifference to Qiao Ying, or even a hint of resistance, was because he really didn't want to hook up with other women, because gradually, he found that he really didn't have the time and energy. Or after a few years, when his power is stable, it will be possible to live a stable life and enjoy the precious pleasures of family. But no one dares to guarantee how long this period of time can be, and his women are already a lot in his knowledge, each of them is loved from the bottom of his heart, and he doesn't want to ignore any of them.

It can be seen that as soon as he stepped out of Xiliang, it has been almost five years, and he has not seen the two wives who are waiting for the boudoir again. He really didn't want to waste his precious youth......

The door was opened, and the sun shone in brightly, and the man seemed to be walking towards a thousand rays of light, or more appropriately, the man seemed to be the source of light that illuminated the heavens and the earth. Qiao Ying looked at it stupidly, and couldn't help but be drunk in his heart......

When I was young, I was in the Puyang Palace. Although everyone waited for a period of time, no one dared to bow their heads and ears at will, and everyone in the hall was calm and solemn.

Suddenly, from the back hall, a strong and powerful man wearing a purple gold flying dragon robe came out, with his hair messy to his shoulders, and he put it very casually, showing his uninhibited chic. When everyone saw the man coming, they got up from the mat one after another, and each bowed their hands to greet him, all with a look of awe.

"The lord (Lord Ma) is mighty, bravely won Puyang, unparalleled in the world, and we admire it so much!"

After that, everyone made a gesture to kneel and bow. The man was Ma Zongheng, I saw him wave his hand lightly, and said lightly: "No need to be polite." ”

As soon as the words fell, Ma Zongheng sat down first, and when everyone saw this, they also listened to the order to sit down. Only Pang De, Wen Ping, Zheng Gu, Hu Che'er and other generals all stood up, and each reported the results, as well as the current situation in Puyang.

Ma Zongheng heard that Liu Dai had retreated, killed nearly 1,000 of his troops, and captured 7 or 800 people, and couldn't help but think that Liu Dai had saved a lot of troops, and after this time, the two of them had a deep enough knot that he would come to take revenge in the future, and his eyes couldn't help but become cold, so that when he heard that the generals reported the situation in Puyang City, he was also a little distracted.

The scheming Qiao Xuan saw it in his eyes, sighed and said: "Vertical and horizontal, the poor army is by no means the right way to govern the world, now Puyang has just been peaceful, Liu Dai has withdrawn to Changyi, you should take the lead to stabilize the rest of the counties in Dong County, so that you have occupied the two important military lands in Hedong and Dong County, across Yanzhou and the Central Plains, and you can be regarded as having a foothold in this troubled era." Therefore, the rest should wait for you to gain a firm foothold before you make a plan. ”

"What Mr. Qiao said is very true, and I think it's good to be so." When Wen Ping heard this, his spirit was shocked, he has always had a steady temperament, and he coincided with Qiao Xuan, and said in a deep voice.

"Hey! I don't agree with this~! Now that the rear of Yanzhou is in turmoil, Bao Xin has also sent several letters to the lord to raise major events, and that Liu Dai is unkind, unjust, insidious and cunning, if he can't take advantage of this move to annihilate him, there will be endless troubles in the future, and he should be annihilated quickly now! Pound pulled his throat and said angrily, don't look at him like a martial artist, but he is right.

"Hahaha~!! The red ghost is right in my heart!! Lord, compared with just an eastern county, Yanzhou is much larger, not only rich in grain, but also has a very large population, and is close to the Central Plains. As soon as Hu Che'er said this, many soldiers had their eyes lit up, the reason why these people were willing to follow the horse to fight everywhere, risking their lives. Of course, there is also Ma Zongheng's unique personality charm, and there is also a relationship because Ma Zongheng has a good way of governing the army and is well paid. But the most important thing is that these people think that Ma Zongheng can create an immortal cause, and they want to climb the dragon and the phoenix, and become the nobles of the family one by one in the future.

So, soon, one by one, the generals rose up one after another, all agreeing with what Pang and Hu said. Qiao Xuan saw it in his eyes, couldn't help frowning, looked around, and couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Almost all of the generals under the command of Zongheng are martial artists, and there are no ministers and civil servants, in the past, the power was not large, and it was not profitable, but if in the future, the power is huge, and the civil and military forces cannot be balanced. ”

Thinking of this, Qiao Xuan suddenly stood up and said: "Regarding this matter, the old man has a master who can recommend, but this master has a strange temperament, if you don't like things, no one can force them, and they are like gods, if you know that you are not sincere, or look down on you, when you go, you will have already gone away." I wonder if I'd like to see you in person? ”

When Ma Zongheng heard this, his face was suddenly shocked, his eyes exuded a brilliant light, as if he had obtained a treasure, he stood up happily and asked, "What Elder Qiao pointed to, but what Cheng Zhongdeye?" ”

When Qiao Xuan heard this, he couldn't help but change color, and said in surprise: "This Cheng Zhongde usually acts extremely low-key, how can Zongheng know this person?" ”

"Hahaha, it turns out that Qiao Lao also knows this person, God really helps me, if I can get Cheng Zhongde, it's really like a tiger with wings!!" Ma Zongheng laughed happily, and spoke highly of this person named Cheng Zhongde, which made everyone present change color except Qiao Xuan.

It turned out that a long time ago, Ma Zongheng began to search for talents, but he found that this thing was simple to think about, but it was very difficult to do. Because to be honest, Ma Zongheng does not have the ability to never forget, not all the famous generals and strategists who appeared in the Three Kingdoms period can remember clearly where and where they are, and it is impossible for these people to stay in one place all the time. Some are famous, such as Xun Yu and Xun Yu in Yingchuan, Xun Yu's uncle and nephew, Ma Zongheng also sent someone to contact him earlier, but Xun Yu refused at that time, Xun Yu had not yet taken refuge in Cao Cao, but he chose to avoid the method to show his refusal. Ma Zongheng understood very well that the Xun uncle and nephew looked down on him.

Besides, those talents who can be famous in history, how can they be general, unless it is bad luck, such as Xu Shu in history, Ma Zongheng has also worked hard to find it, but this Xu Shu has no fixed place, and history records that he has two names, and it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Of course, Ma Zongheng also thought about it, he looked down on him famously, and most of the people who were unlucky had weird temperaments, and it was difficult to find them, so why not start with those who were still young and had not yet become famous?

So, Ma Zongheng, who had this idea at that time, the first thing he wanted to find was naturally the Zhuge family in Langya, Xuzhou, known as Zhuge Liang, who was as wise as a demon!

The Zhuge family has a high reputation in the world, but the strange thing is that the Zhuge family has always liked to place family business everywhere, in all states and counties, almost all of them have the property of the Zhuge family, and the huge Zhuge family really makes Ma Zongheng embarrassed, according to the statistics of the news heard everywhere, the Zhuge family has twenty-eight branches, each small one has at least hundreds of people, and the big ones have at least thousands of people, and there is little contact on weekdays, unless something big happens, the parents of each branch will meet each other.

Ma Zongheng's people soon found the Zhuge family in Xuzhou, the people of the Zhuge family are also quite enthusiastic, and sent a rather prestigious person to receive them, I heard that Ma Zongheng is looking for a little kid who is about seven or eight years old, and wants to hire him as a military advisor, when the face can be said to be as strange as it is, and then the people who saw Ma Zongheng are very sincere, and they also worked hard to find it in a few branches of the clan, and there is no news about this Zhuge Liang at all. Later, Ma Zongheng heard that in desperation, he only sent some people to stay in the area of Longzhong in Xiangyang to inquire about Zhuge Liang.

Of course, in addition to Zhuge Liang, many big demons who have not yet become famous, Ma Zongheng have tried them one by one, and he even sent people across the ocean to find the Zhou and Lu families in Jiangdong. The Jiangdong family is notoriously shrewd, and most of them are reluctant to leave. Therefore, the results obtained by Ma Zongheng are all good.

Zhou Yu is the young master of the Zhou family, his identity is extremely noble, and he is still studying outside, the attitude of the Zhou family is lukewarm, but the meaning is very clear, it is still okay to make a friend, but if they want the young master of the Zhou family to assist him, there is absolutely no way.

As for the Lu family, it was naturally Lu Xun, but Lu Xun had not yet been born at this time, so Ma Zongheng directly found Lu Jun. But Lu Jun's father, Lu Kang, is already the Taishou of Lujiang, and the result can be imagined.

It is said that Ma Zongheng has hit a wall everywhere, and the cost of searching for talents is very high, but there is still no gain, and Ma Zongheng's behavior has gradually attracted the attention of all forces, and the people he often likes are quite talented, so he gets the name of 'knowing talents'. Ma Zongheng was afraid that he would be the first to get close to the water and get the first step, so he had to greatly reduce the activities of searching for talents.