Summary of the previous chapter: Whether in modern society or in the late Han Dynasty, if you want others to be loyal to you, it is not enough to rely on personality charm alone, so Ma Xiaoquan took a part of Xuanwu Chi's income to reward his subordinates

++++++++++++++++++++++ three poles on the sun, the shadow position is positive. When Ma Xiaoquan opened his eyes, he happened to see Hua Yuexin with his back to him.

Ma Xiaoquan's heart was full of lust for a while, and he secretly got up, and from behind, gave Hua Yuexin a probe and clawed to attack his chest.

"Ah~~" Hua Yuexin screamed shyly and turned her head to take a look.

"Dead ghost stinky man, dead man stinky man" Hua Yuexin shyly waved her fist and beat Ma Xiaoquan's chest.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and took Hua Yuexin into his arms, and muttered, "Last night was really comfortable~~"

Hua Yuexin bit her lower lip, blushed, stepped forward, and got out of Ma Xiaoquan's arms.

"Why are you so unserious?"

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "Just the two of us, what else am I pretending to be serious?" ”

"You~~~"

Hua Yuexin picked up a piece of clothing casually, and was about to throw it at Ma Xiaoquan, when she heard someone report outside: "Master, Cao Gong is visiting!" ”

"Huh?" Ma Xiaoquan frowned, "What are you doing here again?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan took the clothes and pants from Hua Yuexin's hand, quickly dressed neatly, pushed open the door and walked out.

"Where is Xiao Cao now?"

"Back to the master, I am waiting for you in the main hall now."

Ma Xiaoquan nodded and walked to the main hall with his hands behind his back.

In the main hall, Cao Cao was pondering while sipping tea, Ma Xiaoquan stepped into the door and called him twice, but Cao Cao didn't react.

"Cao Mengde!" Ma Xiaoquan shouted again.

"Huh?? Oh~~~" Cao Cao came back to his senses.

"Lord Shangxian!"

Ma Xiaoquan snorted: "What do you want?" ”

Cao Cao smashed his mouth twice: "Lord Shangxian, now someone is instigating me to be the emperor, I"

Before Cao Cao finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan interrupted impatiently: "What kind of emperor, do you have the guts?" How old are you? ”

Cao Cao blushed and stopped talking.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Xiao Cao, this immortal knows your thoughts, but in fact, you don't dare, and you don't want to be the emperor, right?" ”

Cao Cao nodded.

"That's it, or you can be a prime minister!"

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, and said: "The post of prime minister has been abolished for a long time, and now the prime minister system has been restored, I am afraid that I will be hated by others." ”

Ma Xiaoquan explained: "Then you have to be a general!" ”

Cao Cao said: "The general only has military power, but not too much political power." ”

"Aren't you still leading the Jizhou pastor?"

Cao Cao smiled bitterly: "Even so, it sounds like the governor of a state." ”

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Speaking of which, don't you still want to be the supreme commander of the Han Dynasty." ”

Cao Cao blushed and stopped talking.

Ma Xiao said wholeheartedly: What are you pretending to be, the prime minister system is your kid Huifù, and you are still pretending to be a big-tailed wolf in front of me, which is really good.

Ma Xiaoquan didn't speak, and looked at Cao Cao with straight eyes.

After a long while, Cao Cao slowly spoke: "Lord Shangxian, you said that this prime minister"

Before Cao Cao finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan immediately stood up and said loudly: "Send off!" ”

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, but soon, Cao Cao reacted again, immediately laughed, and walked away.

Not long after Cao Cao left, he immediately sent someone to deliver a letter, and Ma Xiaoquan opened it to see that it was Cao Cao's employment opinion solicitation letter.

The content of the letter is very simple, the main thing is that Cao Cao asked Ma Xiaoquan who should be used to help him select talents if he became prime minister.

Ma Xiaoquan immediately wrote back and wrote the names of two people: Cui Yan and Mao Jie.

The moment he stopped writing, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly remembered his apprentice Mao Gang who was far away in Jingzhou.

Ma Xiaoquan Mao Gang was at the end of October of the third year of Chuping (192 AD), and now it is the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), when Mao Gang was still a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child, since the original Mao Gang went to Jingzhou, it has been fifteen years, and Mao Gang is almost the year of standing.

"Hmm~! ~" Ma Xiaoquan exhaled and said to himself, "It's time to go to Jingzhou to have a look." ”

At the end of May of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, the Xuanwu Pond project in charge of Ma Xiaoquan was nearing completion.

Ancient times are not like modern times, digging a big pond is also a month, the entire Xuanwu pond excavation work, starting from the first month, lasted more than 3 months, after digging out, and responsible for filling the water and the whole dam, before and after, almost 5 months.

Ma Xiaoquan invited Cao Cao to inspect the work, and Cao Cao was happy and agreed.

When he came to Xuanwu Pool, Cao Cao was very excited. Cao Cao's original intention was to spend half a year or even ten months digging and sorting out the Xuanwu Pool, but he didn't expect that as soon as Lord Shangxian took over, it was almost completed in less than 5 months.

"Great!" Cao Cao patted his hands, swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart: So that I can train the navy next month, and then Jingzhou

The more Cao Cao thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help laughing.

The men who accompanied him laughed when they saw the lord laughing, and they laughed too

Come to think of it, things have to be done step by step.

At the beginning of June, Cao Cao "listed" Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, abolished the three dukes, and reinstated the prime minister and the imperial historian.

Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty named Cao Cao as prime minister, and with the position of prime minister, Cao Cao more thoroughly grasped the military and political power of the Han Dynasty.

The higher the position, the greater the ambition. At night, Cao Cao even dreamed that he had unified the whole country.

Ma family compound.

Ma Xiaoquan sat upright on the throne, and under the seat, a cadre of female dependents sat in columns.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "I have something to say, I am going to leave for a while. ”

Hua Yuexin asked, "Where is Xianggong going?" ”

"Jingzhou!"

"Jingzhou?" Ling'er interjected, "Ling'er is going too!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "You all take the children well, this time, I will only go with Lianglong." ”

As soon as Ma Xiaoquan spoke, Ma Zhuzhu didn't follow: "Brother, you take Lianglong with you wherever you go, what should I do?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "Okay, okay, then don't bring the Diplodocus, I'll take my Yecheng Eight Scholars to the head office, right?" ”

Having said that, Ma Xiaoquan will not take all the eight scholars of Yecheng away, first of all, Ruan Hong and Yao Zhi cannot be brought, because they are not only the executors of the entire excavation of Xuanwu Pond, but also the teachers of his son Ma Zheng.

And the rest of them either have other priorities in their bodies, or they have to deal with civil and military invitations.

Ma Xiaoquan thought about it and decided to pick out 2 people from the eight scholars to take them to Jingzhou, and after looking around, Ma Xiaoquan decided on two people.

"Ma Yun, Ma Yu, I'll take you two, what are your opinions?"

Ma Yun and Ma Yu looked at each other and smiled, stood up, bowed down, and said in unison: "The two of us are willing to go to Jingzhou with the master." ”

"Good!"

Ma Yun and Ma Yu are twin brothers, and they are also concubines.

The reason why Ma Xiaoquan chose to bring these two brothers is that first, the home of these two people is in Jingzhou, and second, these two people are also surnamed Ma, in general, Ma Xiaoquan and them are also a family.

At this moment, the two brothers Ma Yun and Ma Yu are also very excited.

They knew that the owner was also surnamed Ma, but they didn't expect that when they went to Jingzhou this time and returned to their hometown, the master would take them with them.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Ma Yun and Ma Yu, take the two of you back, this qiē, the master has to ask the two of you to lead the way." ”

The two of them knelt on the ground together: "Don't worry, master, although my Ma family is only a small wealthy family in Jingzhou, it can be regarded as a bit of a face."

"Well, that's good!"

That night, Ma Xiaoquan went to Cao Cao's house and told Cao Cao his thoughts, Cao Cao listened to it, and said in surprise: "Why don't you wait for me to attack Jingzhou together?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "Waiting for you? You kid is pretending to be now, you say, if you leave now, what will you do in the rear? ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Lord Shangxian refers to those princes in Guanzhong, right?" Well, please take a look. ”

Cao Cao took out a pair of white scrolls from his arms and unfolded them: "This is the list of people who are a threat to me, I will watch out for them one by one, first of all, this Duan Xuan, and that Wei Duan"

Ma Xiaoquan interjected: "Oh, there is Ma Teng on this, Xiao Cao, how are you going to deal with Ma Teng?" ”

Cao Cao: "Ma Teng is an official of the imperial court, but he and Han Sui have been at odds for a long time, I can send someone to lobby Ma Teng and ask him to disband his troops and enter the court."

Ma Xiaoquan listened and said in his heart: There is indeed such a process in this history, but how can Ma Teng easily promise you Cao Cao? interesting

Ma Xiaoquan asked again: "Then what if Ma Teng doesn't agree to enter the court?" ”

Cao Cao thought for a while: "It's impossible to fight, the Liangzhou soldiers are brave and good at fighting, I have two here to choose the guests, and I hope that the immortal will help you choose it." ”

Cao Cao handed over the names of the two people again, Ma Xiaoquan looked at it, and immediately pointed to the name of one of them, Zhang Ji, and said, "It's him!" ”

"Uh~~" Cao Cao was about to describe the profile of these two people, but who knew that Lord Shangxian made a decision so quickly, and Cao Cao choked up for a while.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said in his heart: This is how history goes, who do I choose if I don't choose Zhang Ji?

Cao Cao shook his head and smiled: "Okay, then send Zhang Ji!" ”

History is right, and there is no problem with Zhang's execution.

Ma Teng didn't want to enter the court, but it was indeed the same as Cao Cao said, he and Han Sui had been at odds for a long time, and the most important thing was that Ma Teng's power was not as good as Han Sui.

One of the things in Zhang Ji's lobbying speech to Ma Teng was passed on to him by Ma Xiaoquan and Cao Cao, and Zhang Ji retold it to Ma Teng as it was.

Zhang Ji said: "You and Han Sui are not in harmony, but your son may be at peace with him, as the so-called Lao Tzu can't solve the matter, the son will solve it, well, this is called shelving the dispute and developing together."