Meng Da sneered: "Hey, Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Ma Hong has just gotten Jingzhou and Liangzhou, and he is still fighting with that Cao Cao, now has the ability to fight with my lord?" Even if you have that mind, I'm afraid you don't have that ability! ”

Deng Zhi said: "A mediocre master, even if he has 100,000 elite soldiers under his command, he can't deploy them reasonably, and the soldiers he can really use are only half, not to mention that Liu Zhang's soldiers are afraid that they are less than 50,000, and these 50,000 soldiers are still reluctant to defend against Zhang Lu, how can I talk about dealing with the 100,000 male soldiers of my lord." The Yizhou scholars did not support Liu Zhang, an outsider, and thought that Liu Yan would enter Jingzhou back then, but there were a lot of corpses. How deep is the affection of Yizhou locals for Liu Zhang, do you say that what I said is right? Brother Zijing! [Meng Da, the word Zidu, the word Zijing, because Liu Bei's uncle's name is Liu Zijing, and he changed the word in order to avoid it. A native of Fufeng County. 】

Meng Da was speechless for a moment.

"Brother Zijing, you are an outsider like your father-in-law, have you felt that your heart is often full of powerlessness in Yizhou over the years, no matter how hard you work, the Yizhou scholars don't buy your account, not only the Yizhou scholars don't buy it, but even the lord of the outsiders at the same time is not close to you. Isn't it? ”

Meng Da smiled and said nothing.

Deng Zhi said this, took out four letters from his arms, and handed them to Meng Dadao: "These letters were written by Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, Yang Fu, and Jiang Xu from Liangzhou, do you know anyone among them!" ”

Meng Da took Yang Fu's letter from Deng Zhi and said, "I don't know the other three well, why did they write to me?" What's the point? ”

Deng Zhi smiled and said: "Of course this is meaningful, with these letters, you can see that my lord treats Liangzhou people as fairly as Jingzhou people, and there is no regional discrimination." Of course, the premise is that they are all talented people, like Brother Zijing, if you don't carve and polish beautiful jade, what is the point of carving and grinding scrap copper and rotten iron with your face attached? ”

Meng Da didn't speak, finished reading Yang Fu's letter, and then folded it neatly on the table, pressed the corner of the letter with his fingers, and said: "There is a merit in front of me, if I arrest you in prison and hand over the letter to my lord, I will not make a contribution." ”

"That's true, so will you?"

"Why not?"

"I'm sure you won't, and if you did, I wouldn't have come to talk to you."

"You seem to be very confident."

"It's not that I'm confident, it's that I smell your heart."

"What does it smell like?"

"The smell of decay."

"What did you say?"

"Your heart is slowly rotting in this Guangdu, I brought the spring breeze, it should sprout, instead of ignoring the spring breeze, but continue to sink in the mud and rot, and when you are old, you will regret the decision you made today."

"What a pair of sharp teeth, according to your ability, you can rank first under Ma Hong."

"Well, I'm not a humble person, you should be able to tell."

"Yes, people who talk a lot and those who are clever in their mouths are generally not modest people."

"Then I'll analyze it! The four main brothers and brothers, Liu Ye and Pang Tong, I am ashamed of myself, as for Ma Hong's wife and father Kuai Yue, I also admit that it is not as good as it, among the talents in Jingzhou, I think it can be ranked in the top five. ”

"Oh! And what about Liangzhou? ”

"Be in the top seven."

"Oh? Plus Yang Fu and Jiang Xu? ”

"No, plus Your Excellency and Fa Xiaozhi."

"Do you want to convince Hyozhi too?" Meng Da asked, but there was still a little sweetness in his heart, after so many days of contact, he had already discovered that Deng Zhi was a proud person, such a proud person, he rarely looked up to another person, and now this person actually looked up to him, which really made him happy.

"The lord believes that there are three talents in Yizhou, Fa Xiaozhi, Zhang Ziqiao (Zhang Song), and Mencius Jing. At that time, when I received this task, I didn't believe it, but it wasn't until I met Brother Zijing that I believed in the judgment of the lord. ”

Meng Da took a deep breath and said, "Then let me think about it for a few days!" ”

"Yes, if Brother Zijing wants to arrest me, I'll wait, if Brother Zijing brings good news, I will bring a glass of good wine, and there is a chance to make meritorious contributions to Brother Zijing."

Hanzhong, South Zhengcheng.

A young man with two knives in his hand attacked Wei Yan, his moves were fierce and his pace was steady. But Wei Yan was just holding a hard bamboo pole to block it, and the young man attacked Wei Yan for more than 20 moves, but he couldn't break through Wei Yan's defense, his face was covered with beads of sweat, I don't know if it was hot or urgent.

Suddenly, Wei Yan turned his hand, the bamboo pole rotated around on the back of his hand, and then hit the young man's neck, the young man, holding the knife in both hands and slashing towards the bamboo pole, a bamboo pole was broken into three, but the next moment, Wei Yan grabbed two cut bamboo poles with his left hand, and attacked the young man continuously, the young man was forced to retreat step by step by Wei Yan who was holding the bamboo pole, Wei Yan changed his move, the bamboo pole hit the back of the young man's hand, the young man gritted his teeth, and did not lose the knife, no matter how hard it hit the back of his hand, the young man held the knife and did not lose it.

Seeing that the young man grinned in pain, and was unwilling to throw away the bamboo pole, Wei Yan laughed, threw away the bamboo pole, and grabbed the young man's two arms holding knives with both hands, the young man saw that his hands were controlled, and kicked Wei Yan's legs with his feet, who is Wei Yan, a person who has been in the sand for a long time on the battlefield, he had long expected that this young man would use this trick, but he just stretched out a leg and kicked the young man, and the young man only felt that his legs collided with the steel rod, and it hurt to the bones. The young man shouted angrily, and actually hit Wei Yan head-on, Wei Yan and the young man were very close, and the young man was pretended head-on, too late to dodge, because he was surprised that the young man used this trick, he opened his mouth wide, and in an instant, the young man's forehead hit Wei Yan's front teeth, Wei Yan's eyes were full of tears, and with a wave of his hand, he picked up the young man and threw him on the ground, and then covered his bleeding mouth with both hands, his face was full of pain.

"Fortunately, the tooth didn't fall out, this kid is really stubborn."

Wei Yan sighed.

Ma Hong laughed and walked up to help the young man and said, "You are the first student to beat the head of the sect and bleed, in view of your bravery, I will reward you with a hundred gold." ”

The young man's eyes lit up when he heard the hundred gold, but he shook his head again and said, "I don't want this money, I want to ask the lord for one thing." ”

"What's the matter?"

"I want to study literature."

"Aren't you studying every day now?"

"I'm learning, but the students are stupid, they can't read a few words, and the teachers can't understand what they teach."

Ma Hong was stunned, it turned out that this Wang Ping turned out to be an illiterate person! But he quickly changed his face and patted Wang Ping's shoulder and said, "Okay, I'll ask you a teacher to teach you how to study, how about Yin Mo?" ”

"Okay." Wang Ping nodded and said, "Lord, if the kid learns well, can you worship a master." ”

"Do you want to worship me as a teacher?" Wei Yan covered his teeth and said to Wang Ping.

"Learn martial arts with a maximum of 100 enemies, I want to learn the art of war, and follow Liu Ye to learn the art of war."

Ma Hong smiled slightly and did not speak.

Hu Du looked at Wang Ping, he was better with Wang Ping, and suggested that Wang Ping worship Liu Ye as a teacher.

"The kid knows that Liu Taishou is busy with official duties, and the kid is stupid, but the kid really admires Liu Taishou and wants to worship him as a teacher." Wang Ping saw Ma Hong looking at him silently, blushed and said, he is not a person who is good at words.

(To be continued.) )