In the sixth year of Jian'an, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Gan Ning led the army to leave the second day. At noon, Ma Hong took time out to eat, and at this time the guards came to report that someone was visiting, and when Ma Hong heard the name of the visitor, he was so shocked that he didn't even have time to swallow the meal, so he ran out to greet the visitor.

"Senior Brother Ziyang, why are you here?"

As soon as Ma Hong saw Liu Ye, he went up and gave Liu Ye a bear hug, then straightened his clothes, and after saluting Liu Ye, he said solemnly like Liu Ye.

Liu Ye smiled, stretched out his tongue and licked his upper lip, then licked his lower lip, and said seriously: "Senior brother! You should be busy right now! ”

Ma Hong nodded and continued to look at Liu Ye expectantly.

"Since you are so busy, as a senior brother, shouldn't you come to help your junior brother?" Liu Ye said seriously.

"What Senior Brother said makes sense." Ma Hong said, but in his heart, he said that Senior Brother Ziyang is just here to help me? Still is...... He didn't dare to think too much about the things that followed, he was afraid that the hope would be too big and the disappointment would be too great.

"Senior brother, after you take Hanzhong, there must be a shortage of manpower, you will write to Pang Tong and Yang Yi to ask them to come, but you won't write to Senior Brother Zhuge and won't write to me, right?" Liu Ye asked with a smile.

Ma Hong's face turned red, and he replied softly: "It's not that I don't want to write a letter to my senior brother, it's just that I ......"

"Just because I'm a royal descendant, can't I?" Liu Ye said the unspoken words for Ma Hong.

Ma Hong lowered his head and did not speak, although he was a wealthy family in Xiangyang, his identity was nothing compared to Liu Ye.

Liu Ye licked his upper lips, reached out and grabbed Ma Hong's arm, pulled Ma Hong and walked towards Ma Hong's mansion, and whispered in Ma Hong's ear as he walked: "Senior brother, when you became virtuous, I saw that you would not live under the people for a long time, and senior brother will help you." ”

"Senior brother......" Ma Hong's heart trembled, he didn't know what to say, at this time, a sour taste rose in his heart, this feeling is like the feeling of first love, no, this feeling is thousands of times stronger than that feeling.

"Senior brother, you have to hurry up and write to Pang Tong and Yang Yi, you must bring them over." Liu Ye continued.

"Senior brother is right."

Liu Ye came, and he came to Hanzhong with his family, Ma Hong found a house for Liu Ye, which was very close to Ma Hong's house, and then let Liu Ye be the county minister. In the following days, Ma Hong was as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and he was refreshed for more than ten days.

On January 15 of the sixth year of Jian'an, Yang Yi and Deng Zhi came to Hanzhong, Yang Yi's talent is much worse than Liu Ye, but Yang Yi does not represent himself, he represents the entire Yang family in Xiangyang, as long as Yang Yi stands on his side, the Yang family will also stand on his side in the future. After Deng Zhi came to Hanzhong, the first thing he asked was where his fellow countryman Wei Yan went, and when he learned that Wei Yan went to Xiliang, he seemed to be a little regretful.

Pang Tong hasn't come yet, but Ma Hong knows that with his relationship with Pang Tong, Pang Tong will definitely come. On January 26 of the sixth year of Jian'an, Pang Tong came. also brought news to Ma Hong, Ma Hong's fourth brother Ma Liang and cousin Fei Yi passed Mr. Shuijing's assessment and became the eighth and ninth disciples of Mr. Shuijing. The reason why Pang Tong came late was because he and Zhuge Liang were the examiners of Fei Yi and Ma Liang into the Water Mirror Villa, Ma Hong was nineteen years old this year, and Fei Yi and Ma Liang were both fifteen years old. When Pang Tong came, he also brought a young man, a young man named Yin Mo, and Ma Hong almost laughed out loud when he heard Yin Mo. 【Yin Mo pronunciation****】

Ma Hong listened to Pang Tong's introduction that Yin Mo was a native of Fu County, Zitong County, Yizhou (now Mianyang City, Sichuan Province). Last year, I went to Shuijing Villa to learn ancient scriptures from Mr. Shuijing, and he was good at "The Biography of Zuo in the Spring and Autumn Period". Ma Hong is also familiar with the characters of the Three Kingdoms, but Yin Mo has no impression of the character, and the unimpressed character should have no talent! This Yin Mo was going to return to his hometown, so he came with Pang Tong, but Pang Tong coaxed and deceived Yin Mo to Nanzheng City on the road, and Ma Hong was also short of manpower, so he could make do with it, so he and Pang Tong coaxed and deceived Yin Mo to stay in Nanzheng City. If you talk about the similarity between Yin Mo and Ma Hong, there is only one day, and the two were born in the same year.

Ma Hong is even more excited, now he has Liu Ye, Pang Tong, Yang Yi, Deng Zhi, Yan Pu, Wu Gan Ning, Wei Yan and Huang Zhong, relying on this lineup, if you play Three Kingdoms games, as long as the operation is slightly better, you can push Yizhou. It's just that this is not a game, and what Ma Hong is doing now is to gain a firm foothold in Hanzhong as soon as possible, develop his own forces, accumulate food and train more troops.

It is not easy to control a county and become a county guard, it is not easy to do things, when doing Nanyang County, there is a family relationship and accommodating, and Ma Hong is familiar with Jingzhou celebrities, so it is naturally easier to do things. And in this Hanzhong, in this special area, the first thing Ma Hong has to do is to select the county orders of each county. The nine counties of Hanzhong, because they have maintained relative tranquility during the years of the Chang'an turmoil, are the main gathering places for the people of Chang'an and Guanzhong to flee, and the population wealth is not scarce. During this time, Ma Hong made a rough count of the population, and there were more than 200,000 people. In this era, a county had a population of nearly 200,000. [When Yan Pu advised Zhang Lu, he also said, "The people of Hanchuan have a household of 100,000 yuan, their wealth is fertile, and they are dangerous on all sides." 】

The first thing Ma Hong had to do was to elect nine county commanders and county officials to control each county. No matter what era it is, if you are not doing things on your own territory, unless this person is particularly good, even if you want to be a county magistrate, it is not easy at the beginning. Ma Hong had just taken Hanzhong County, and it was obviously impossible for him to completely control Hanzhong County in a short period of time, because he was not manpowered, and it was impossible for him to arrange all his subordinates to be the county commanders of these nine counties. With Pang Tong's talent, Ma Hong naturally understood, so he asked Pang Tong to be the county commander of Shangyong, the second largest city in Hanzhong County, and asked Yin Mo to be the county magistrate. Although Deng Zhi and Yang Yi are also talented people, they are too young now and are not familiar with officialdom, and now they are in Hanzhong, if they are in Jingzhou, both of them are natives, and when they are county magistrates at this age, there will be people in the family to pave the way for them. But in Hanzhong, Ma Hong couldn't let these two people take the risk of being a county magistrate. Let Yan Pu choose a local celebrity from Chenggu County and Xicheng County, two important towns in Hanzhong, to be the county magistrate. And Ma Hong arranged for Deng Zhi to go to Xicheng County to be a county minister, and arranged for Yang Yi to be a county minister in Chenggu County. When sending the two away, Ma Hong had already told the two that being a county official was only temporary, and as long as the two of them had a firm foothold in the local area, they would immediately let them be county magistrates. As for the county magistrates of other counties, Ma Hong asked Yan Pu to recommend local celebrities to serve as them.

"Shiyuan!"

Pang Tong turned his head to look at Ma Hong and said, "It's so kind, it must be asking me, right?" ”

Ma Hong smiled and said: "Shangyong County is the second most important town in Hanzhong, with a population of 50,000 people, don't get drunk all day long when you get to Shangyong, and leave everything to Yin Mo to do." ”

"Is it just to explain these things?" Pang Tong untied the wine jug from Ma Hong's waist, poured a sip of wine, rubbed his nose and squinted at Ma Hong.

Ma Hong smiled slightly, looked at Liu Ye, Liu Ye licked his upper lips, and said: "We want to set up an academy in the two major cities of Hanzhong, Nanzheng City and Shangyong City, in the words of Senior Brother Ma, a military academy. ”

"Military school? What does this mean, explain it in detail. Pang Tong asked with interest.

"The military academy, as the name suggests, is a military academy that trains generals. We set up a military academy in Nanzheng and Shangyong to train military talents. To run this military school, I discussed it with Senior Brother Ma, and we felt that we had to do the following. First, the cost is large, and it costs more to run a military academy than to form an infantry team of 1,000 people. Second, the question of student selection, these students should try to choose from the local tycoons, famous families or businessmen, so that they can provide the funds to run the college and solve the first problem I just mentioned with a large cost. Third, recruit new soldiers. When you arrive in Shangyong City, you need to recruit a thousand new soldiers. These 1,000 recruits assist the cadets of the military academy in their daily training. Fourth, on the issue of the training ground, for recruits and cadets, you can pull them to fight the Clan, but if you don't destroy the Clan, you can use the Clan to train and accumulate experience. ”

[Because when Ma Hong invaded Hanzhong, he killed 5,000 people and their three leaders, and now the people hate Ma Hong. (To be continued.) )