"Brother Xian! You're here! When Wei Ju saw Ma Xuan, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. Ma Xuan also got straight to the point, and before he walked up to Wei Ju, he said, "Big brother, the younger brother heard that the eldest brother summoned the younger brother late at night for the purpose of collecting grain, thinking that the court issued a strict order. ”

"The virtuous brother expected that the land was good, and the imperial court urgently collected 30,000 stone of grain and transported it to the camp of the Xiongnu Zhonglang General Marse. For such a big event, Changshi and Sima were not in the county, so they called the virtuous brother over late at night. Can...... Our Qiang-guarding school captain's mansion has used troops against Xiqiang for many years, and it has also consumed a lot of food, how can there be so much food. The holy decree also mentions that the west is not peaceful, and the grain collected is less than one of the three in other states, which is considered leniency, but even so, alas, ......" Wei Ju sighed.

"The younger brother remembered that there was still about 40,000 stone of grain in the treasury, just enough to ......," Ma Xuan said.

"Oops! Brother is not ignorant, these 40,000 stone grain is the grain used by our army to fight against Xiqiang for a whole year this year, if 30,000 stone is handed over, the harvest will not be good in the coming day, and Xiqiang will attack in a big way, how can we have food for the soldiers to eat to resist Xiqiang! Wei Ju waved his hand again and again, thinking that he had already thought of this section.

"How's that for good? The holy order must not be obeyed...... "Ma Xuan is also at a loss.

"Brother Xian also didn't care? It is precisely because of the wisdom of the virtuous brother that he called you late at night, and I didn't expect you to ......" Wei Ju looked even more sad.

Ma Xuan seemed to think hard for a while, and suddenly looked like he had a plan, looked at Wei Ju with wide eyes, and said, "Big brother, there is!" ”

"Oh, brother, there's a way?" Wei Ju was also surprised.

"Little brother feels the meaning of this holy decree, we still have to obey the order......" Wei Ju frowned again when he heard this, and said, "But ......"

"Big brother, can you remember the 3,000 Qiang prisoners captured by Captain Zhao last year?" Ma Xuan looked at Wei Ju.

"Of course, I remember that these 3,000 Qiang prisoners were originally left by Captain Zhao's side, and I wanted to wait for Xiqiang to commit another offense, so that these 3,000 people could be used as military strength, but Xiqiang has not committed crimes for several months, and Captain Zhao is not here, but your brother and I don't have the same mind as Captain Zhao, I don't know how to place these 3,000 Qiang prisoners, but let them consume food in vain every day...... What do you mean by brothers, kill them all, save on military rations? Wei Ju's eyes widened, and he made a head-killing gesture to Ma Xuan.

"But how will Captain Zhao explain after he comes back?" Then Wei Ju felt that this matter was inappropriate, and shook his head.

"Definitely! Big brother, what brother means is that we might as well follow the method used by Emperor Wu after defeating the Huns! Ma Xuan's eyes lit up and said to Wei Ju.

"What is Emperor Wu's method?" Wei Ju had not read many historical collections and knew nothing about them.

"Xichen Tuntian!" Ma Xuanlang said, "Find a place where the land is more fertile than that, and let these Xiqiang captives open up the wasteland and farm, not only can the grain obtained at the time of harvest allow these three thousand Qiang captives to fill their stomachs, but also have a large surplus as military rations, and this year you will have no worries!" ”

Wei Ju grabbed Ma Xuan's hands excitedly and laughed heartily, "Virtuous brother's clever plan!" It's really worthy of a lot of people, so after a while, I solved this urgent need for my brother, and my brother really doesn't know how to thank you, so my brother will ask for a reward for my brother! Wei Ju was overjoyed.

"Hey, my brother treats my younger brother like this, and my little brother has nothing to do with a plan, so I don't have to reward anything. Don't blame the younger brother for talking too much, although Captain Zhao values his brother on weekdays, he says that his brother is more than brave, but not enough strategy. Brother is now taking advantage of Captain Zhao's absence to do this big thing of killing two birds with one stone, Captain Zhao will definitely praise his brother for his civil and military perfection when he comes back, and reward you heavily, and it will not be too late for the younger brother to borrow his brother's light at that time. Ma Xuan said it humbly and politely.

"What the virtuous brother said is the truth, and the elder brother will not be annoyed. But my brother really needs to do something, and I can't let Captain Zhao always look at me like this. Okay, I'll hand over the 30,000 stone grain first, and we'll discuss the details tomorrow. The virtuous brother has given such a great favor, and the elder brother must remember it in his heart! Wei Ju was still immersed in joy.

"Then the little brother will hurry back and search on the map, find a suitable place for cultivation and then report to my brother." Ma Xuan was overjoyed when he saw Wei Ju, but he sneered in his heart, gritted his teeth, and said secretly, "Wei Ju, Wei Ju, as soon as this matter is over, you are going to move your head, what reward do you want, hum." And he took his leave.

"Go, go!" On the road, Ma Xuan swept in front of him, as if he was driving something, but it was a black finch chirping beside him, and he couldn't help scolding, "Why is there always this black bird around recently, it's not annoying!" But he didn't pay much attention to it, and went home.

As soon as I arrived at home, I heard a report from someone who had come to visit and had been invited to the living room to serve tea. "Why is there so much to do tonight? First Wei Ju, who is it so late? Muttering in his heart, he walked quickly into the living room.

But I saw a flat-headed person wearing a coarse cotton coat, "Your Excellency?" Ma Xuanyi asked.

The man also stood up with his hands over, "Presumably this Ma Xuanma is engaged, and the villain has something important to tell him to do, can you take a step to say?" "This man is a good talker, and at first glance he is not an ordinary person.

Ma Xuan frowned, asked his subordinates to step back, and the two walked to the side room, and the man took out a jade bracelet from his arms and handed it to Ma Xuan, "Do you still know this thing?" ”

Ma Xuan was taken aback, "This is what I gave to my fifth lady...... You are! ”

"Yes, the villain came to report on the order of the many leaders, and let him do it after three days, and then he will start after the sixth day of the third month, and bring people over early in the morning, and someone will take him over." The man's voice was very low, for fear that a third person would hear it.

"It's time to come!" Ma Xuan said secretly, feeling lucky in his heart, "If I send the Qiang prisoners one day earlier, there is really nothing I can do, but at this time, I am also eighty percent sure, it is really a coincidence, but God helps me." ”

"Go back and tell your leader, let him rest assured, Ma Xuan will definitely bring 3,000 people in three days!" Ma Xuan also said in a low voice.

"That's very good, the villain will go back to his life!" The man was also overjoyed, and he didn't linger, so he turned around and left Ma Xuan.

That night in the Qiang prisoner camp outside Lingju County, suddenly a stone shot next to the sleeping Qiang people, some hit the Qiang people, one by one the Qiang people woke up, but saw that the outside of the stone was wrapped in a small piece of sheepskin and thrown in, opened but saw a line of crooked words on the sheepskin, but it was written in Qiang script, "Three days later, I jumped over the ice and crossed the river, and I ate after reading it!" ”

The Qiang captives were puzzled, why did they jump on the ice three days later, but after reading them, they swallowed the writing sheepskin and fell asleep again......

On the second day, Ma Xuan came to the Governor's Mansion early in the morning, and after meeting Wei Ju, he said, "Big brother, junior brother studied the map of the western territory in detail last night, and finally found a fertile land, which has not yet been cultivated!" ”

"Oh? There is such a place in the west! But where? Wei Ju asked with great joy.

"It is on the outskirts of Luyin County, which is adjacent to the Luyin Ferry, washed by the Yellow River, with thick and fertile soil, which is very suitable for growing grain." But when Ma Xuan said it, Wei Ju's face couldn't help but fade a little with joy, and his voice was not as happy as at the beginning, "Brother Xian, although this is a good place near Yindu, this place is a military town, and both Han and Qiang have garrisons on both sides of the Yellow River, what if the Qiang people suddenly call?" ”

"Big brother, as the saying goes, 'don't enter the tiger's den, get the tiger', although this Yin is adjacent to Xiqiang, but after all, across the Yellow River, our army sent sergeants on the bank of the river to guard, as soon as the Qiang people on the opposite bank have a stir, we will meet or retreat immediately, and the Qiang people do not dare to go deep into the land of our army. Thinking that the eldest brother had already handed over the 30,000 stone of grain, the younger brother thought about it for a long time last night, and there was really no other place where the land could harvest so much grain. When Captain Zhao returns, we will have an explanation, although it is the emperor's order to hand over the military rations, Captain Zhao will definitely be unhappy, the eldest brother will not only not blame Captain Zhao for doing this, but will also reward you! "Ma Xuan is good at persuasion and extremely reckless.

Wei Ju's face gradually turned happy, thinking that if he could show such ability in front of Captain Zhao, Zhao Chongding also liked it, and nodded slowly, "Brother Xian is right, if you want to achieve great success, you need to take risks, so my brother approved my brother's proposal, and then wrote a letter to Captain Zhao, and the inappropriateness made him doubt it again." ”

"Not good!" Ma Xuan secretly said in his heart, Zhao Chong is much more shrewd than Wei Ju, don't let him see any flaws, block it, and persuade, "Brother, spring planting should be sooner rather than later, Zhao Xiaowei is far away in Beijing, and it takes a long time to write back and forth, if you miss the time of farming, but it is a failure, and the younger brother is looking for someone to calculate the agricultural time, and two days later, the sixth day of the third month is a bright spring, suitable for farming." ”

"In this way, two days later, my brother will transfer these three thousand Qiang prisoners to Yuyin County, and then inform Captain Zhao. Well, after all, it is a dangerous place next to the Yin Crossing, so my brother will send a thousand soldiers to accompany him in case there is danger......" Wei Ju nodded and agreed with what Ma Xuan said.

Ma Xuan secretly sighed in his heart that if he sent sergeants, it would not be good for all of these 3,000 people to flee to Qiangdi, but he couldn't help Wei Ju lead the sergeants, so he had to agree, he was still worried about Zhao Chong, so he asked, "Brother, Captain Zhao returned to Beijing to report on his work, why hasn't he returned for a long time?" I think the emperor has something else for Captain Zhao to do, right? ”

"Exactly, His Majesty sent Captain Zhao to assist the Xiongnu Zhonglang to attack the remnants of the Xiongnu in the western border with Lord Masai, to prevent Xiqiang and the Xiongnu from uniting together, I think that if these fragmentary remnants of the Xiongnu are defeated, Captain Zhao will come back." Wei Ju nodded.

Ma Xuanxin said, "Fortunately, Zhao Chong can't come back for a while, so this plan will be worry-free, and when he comes back, I will already be in the Qiang tribe......" With his heart in his stomach, he went to do other things, and he could get together with his family in two days......

But it is said that near a barren mountain of the Qiang people, a black bird flew from the east in a hurry, saw a cave and swooped down, flew straight into the hole, stood on the shoulder of a dark young man in the hole, suddenly a black gas appeared on the young man's forehead to wrap the black bird, the bird also turned into a black gas into it, and then the young man put the black gas into his forehead.

The young man was Dong Zhuo, and the old man's blasphemous voice sounded in Dong Zhuo's mind for a long time, "It turns out that these two people have planned such a plan, Dong boy, two days later, let's also go to the Yin Du, we can make up for this excitement, haha......" Shen Ming decided to ask Dong Zhuo to go to the land of Xiqiang to find another place to cultivate, so he sent this Xuanyu Sparrow to keep an eye on the movements of these two people, this Xuanyu Sparrow was transformed by demonic energy, leaving everything he saw and heard in his mind, and then turned into demonic qi and put it into Shenming's body, and he knew what happened.

"Master! Shall we go too? But it was Dong Zhuo who asked, in the past few months, he has passed on his magic skills, he called himself Master Ming, and at first he didn't let him call him that, but Dong Zhuo forgot to call him Master for a while, and Ming Ming had no choice but to let him call him that. Although Dong Zhuo said that he had practiced magic skills and was much stronger, he was still afraid of the rough and arrogant Qiang people.

"That's nature! Do you talk and play as an old man? I will definitely find a place for you to cultivate with a lot of aura. Also, the old man's 'Gathering Evil Flag', bah, the 'Gathering Evil Broken Pocket' also carried ......" said Blasphemy angrily.

"Yes! Master ......" Dong Zhuo stretched out his tongue, feeling ashamed of his master, so he obediently agreed. It turned out that the "gathering and breaking pockets" mentioned by Shen Ming was originally Shen Ming's asking Dong Zhuo to make a banner with the toughest cloth he had ever seen, and he wanted to use the demonic energy to refine this cloth banner and make it into a crude magic weapon.

It is said to be crude because if you want to practice a magic weapon, you need a lot of materials that contain demonic energy. As far as holding the "Gathering Demon Flag" is concerned, it is originally called "Gathering Demon Flag" in the Demon Realm, and once this "Gathering Demon Flag" is sacrificed, it can condense and absorb the demonic energy contained in the surrounding environment and the demonic energy on the body of the demon cultivator with low skill, and then refine it for his own use.

If you say that the top-level "Demon Gathering Flag" is the banner of this banner, it needs to be woven by the blood silkworm to spit out the magic silk, and this magic silk can firmly bind the demonic energy to the flag; And this banner is made of the branches of the thousand-year-old or even 10,000-year-old magic tree, the magic tree can contain the demonic energy, and the demonic energy on the banner can be condensed and purified, and the demonic energy will not be lost; After that, the banner needs to be soaked and refined with the juice of the shell in the deep sea whirlpool, so that the flag is attached to the suction, the magic shell is in the vortex, can suck everything around it into the shell, and the juice of the shell contains a strong attraction. In this way, how can there be so many monsters and monsters in this world to capture, and even seeing one is delusional.

Only then did he simplify this "gathering magic flag" tens of thousands of times, and he wanted to make a "gathering demon flag". According to what he thought, this pole can collect the evil qi on the body of the evil and fierce people, and then refine and purify this evil qi little by little, and then refine a trace of demonic qi from it for Dong Zhuo to use, after all, the demonic qi on his body is limited, and it is extremely time-consuming to condense, so it is better to collect some of it.

So Dong Zhuo asked his mother to make a flag for himself out of thick cloth, and Dong's mother only thought that the child was fun and agreed. But spring is approaching, Dong's mother is busy sewing clothes for the family, and she has long forgotten what Dong Zhuo said. Dong Zhuo saw that his mother was busy, so he took a needle and thread to sew this flag, but he sewed it into a pocket, but there was no remaining fabric, and he showed it to Shen Ming, who was naturally angry and scolded him for a few days, but it was barely usable when it was made into a pocket, so he didn't let Dong Zhuo redo it and used the demonic qi to refine it......