"First, the deadline is one month, which means that within a month, you must take fifty recruits and kill all the evildoers. But during the slaying of the evil cogues, neither your nor the evil coquette will be allowed to go out of the range I have assigned to you, and anyone who comes out without permission will be shot by my soldiers. Second, there were seven strongholds in that land, and the grain and grass in the seven strongholds were enough for sixty people to feed for a month, and each stronghold stocked up on different grain and grass. Third, the recruits you will receive are all newly recruited, and their single combat power is lower than that of the evil cowards, so I asked you to train for half a month. Fourth, you can choose Wang Yan as your helper, but the premise is that if you choose Wang Ling, you need to remove five recruits from the recruits, which means that one Wang Ling represents five recruits. That's all, you can choose Wang Ling, if you choose Wang Ling, you can save food, but can Wang Ling be worth five recruits in your heart? Please choose! Ma Hong's speed of speech remained the same, and his smile remained the same.

Hu Du lowered his head, thought seriously for a long time, looked at Wang Yan again, and finally made up his mind, raised his head and said, "I choose Wang Ling." ”

"Okay." Ma Hong nodded and looked at Wang Yan with a smile, and continued: "Wang Yan, now you can choose to become Fox Du's teammate, or not, if you don't believe in his ability, you can give a veto, I will find another person for Fox Du, that person's combat power can be used for six people." If you believe in fox, it means that you may risk your life to do it. Maybe you don't know each other for the first time, but you can't talk about trust, no matter what you choose, I will respect your choice. ”

Wang Yan lowered his head and pondered.

Wang Yan has now passed Ma Hong's first test, if he chooses to help Hu Du now, if he succeeds, Ma Hong will value him more, if he does not choose Hu Du, Hu Du fails, it also proves that his choice is correct, he has vision.

Bet! What will he choose? Ma Hong is a little curious!

"I chose to work with Fox Du." Wang Yan raised his head and said word by word.

Ma Hong smiled and said, "Okay!" I'll give you soldiers, and you two go to training! ”

After Wang Yan and Hu Du left, Yan Pu asked Ma Hong about his situation and said, "Are you proposing ten death row prisoners from the prison?" ”

Ma Hong said: "Five death row prisoners are proposed, plus Chen Chi plus four ghost pawns, just ten." ”

Yan Pu was startled and said, "Ghost pawn? This is Zhang Lu's most elite troops, Chen Chi is a person with high martial arts, I am afraid that one person can top ten people. ”

"Yes, I want them to face the danger of death." Ma Hong said lightly.

"That's ...... If they ...... once"

Yan Pu didn't finish his words, and his face was a little unbearable.

"We are recruiting talents, not waste, if the fox dies, let's die! I will send someone to save the king and his wife at a critical moment. Ma Hong said.

Yan Pu stopped talking, nodded and walked out, to summon Guan Ping.

"Brother Guan, long time no see." As soon as Ma Hong saw Guan Ping, he immediately smiled and saluted Guan Ping.

Guan Ping, as Guan Yu's eldest son, looks quite similar to Guan Yu, eight feet long, lip grease, red phoenix eyes, dignified appearance, especially on the top of his head with a green hat like Guan Yu. Guan Ping was four years older than Ma Hong, and when Liu Bei entered Jingzhou, Ma Hong had a relationship with Guan Ping.

After Ma Hong and Guan Ping had a conversation, they knew Guan Ping's intention, it turned out that Guan Ping was ordered by Liu Bei to send a letter to Ma Hong, and asked Guan Ping to probe Ma Hong's tone, Liu Bei wanted to go north to Cao Cao, so he needed Liu Qi's help, and Ma Hong, as Liu Qi's henchman, naturally needed to ask Ma Hong's opinion, if Ma Hong agreed with Liu Bei's approach, it would be easier to persuade Liu Biao to agree to send troops. Guan Ping sent a letter to Nanzhengcheng, which coincided with the enrollment of the military academy established by Ma Hong, so he signed up. Of course, Guan Ping just wanted to test his ability.

After Ma Hong learned of Guan Ping's intention, he said: "Brother Guan, of course I supported Uncle Liu Huang's Northern Expedition to attack Cao Cao, but now that Hanzhong has been decided, the civil strife has not stopped, and General Gan has just taken the military capital, and his subordinates are not enough military generals, and the troops are even less enough." If you attack Cao Cao now, I'm afraid the time is not right. Not to mention ......"

"What's more? Matthew Shou said it was okay. Guan Ping asked.

"Cai Mao." After Ma Hong said Cai Mao's name, he glanced at Guan Ping and continued: "Cai Mao and Cao Cao are good friends and have always had dealings with Cao Cao. He would certainly not agree to send troops to attack Cao Cao, and the Cai family was the largest family in Jingzhou, and Cai Mao controlled a large number of troops. ”

"I heard that when the lord entered Jingzhou, Cai Mao objected, and these days, Cai Mao has also done a lot of things to make it difficult for the lord." Guan Ping said with a sigh.

"Cai Mao is too powerful, and even the lord respects him for three points. If we want to go north to Cao Cao, we must cross this obstacle, and I hope that Uncle Liu Huang can understand and fill in the ravine of Cai Mao with me. And it only takes two years for my Hanzhong to cooperate with Uncle Liu Huang to move to the Central Plains, and the key is Cai Mao. ”

Ma Hong said, he wants to be clearer, and clearly tell Liu Bei that Cai Mao is now our common enemy, if Cai Mao is not eliminated, you will not be able to go north to Cao Cao, and you will not live in peace, it is better to join hands with us to move to Cai Mao, with Liu Bei's political ability, if he helps, then the possibility of overthrowing Cai Mao will be increased. After all, Liu Bei had asked Tao Qian to give up Xuzhou, and this kind of person's political ability dared to be underestimated. Cai Mao's influence in Jingzhou is several times stronger than Chen Deng in Xuzhou, which is why Ma Hong has been fighting with Cai Mao in the past few years, and Cai Mao can't help it. Liu Bei has now waded into this troubled water, and Cai Mao has already decided that Liu Bei has formed a group with Liu Qi. But in fact, Liu Bei was not as close to Liu Qi as Cai Mao thought, he was just forced by the situation, otherwise how could he be stupid enough to go against a local snake like Cai Mao.

Guan Ping nodded and said, "Matthew keeps what he said, and I will tell the lord the truth." ”

Ma Hong smiled and said, "Brother Guan, I'm afraid I'm tired after a long journey, so I'll rest here for two days." I just got 500 war horses back from Xiliang, and Brother Guan can bring 300 back to Wancheng for the emperor's uncle's use. ”

Liu Bei now has only one word: poor.

Three hundred war horses is not a small number for Liu Bei now, and Ma Hong's current war horses are also limited, just get five hundred, and then take out three hundred and send them to Liu Bei, what does this mean? On the one hand, Ma Hong wanted Liu Bei to know that he really wanted to cooperate with Liu Bei, and on the other hand, he also wanted Cai Mao to see it, so that Cai Mao knew that Liu Qi and Liu Bei had completely hugged each other, so that Cai Mao could exert more pressure on Liu Bei.

When Guan Ping heard about the three hundred war horses, he was also very happy, and he didn't go to rest, so he wanted to go to see the three hundred war horses, so Ma Hong asked Wei Yan to take Guan Ping to see the horses.

Wei Yan was indeed quite unhappy, he originally brought back more than 500 war horses from Xiliang, originally wanted to form a cavalry team, which was good, Ma Hong opened his mouth to give Liu Bei 300 horses, and said that he would send the remaining 200 horses to Xinye Liu Qi.

How can Ma Hong not be heartbroken, but everything that should be sent has to be sent, and if he wants to achieve great things, he will definitely make a decision. After he took Hanzhong, Cai Mao suggested to Liu Biao that the people of Hanzhong be moved to Nanjun in order to weaken Ma Hong's power. In this era, population is the primary productive force, and if a large number of people are lost at once, the development of Hanzhong will inevitably be hindered. If Liu Biao agrees, the current Ma Hong has not yet gained a firm foothold, and he must agree. However, Ma Hong also thought about it, now he must not express his dissenting intentions, and he must not arouse Liu Biao's suspicion, if Liu Biao wants to move the population, Liu Biao wants 50,000, and Ma Hong will give 100,000. Liu Biao asked for 100,000, and Ma Hong gave 150,000.

Ma Hong knows very well that Liu Biao is dying, and Ma Hong also needs to get rid of Cai Mao as soon as possible while developing Hanzhong.

Pick up the pen, write a letter to Liu Biao, give Liu Bei 300 war horses, and report to Liu Biao in advance, no matter how big or small, if you don't have Liu Biao's consent, you can do this, once Cai Mao grabs the handle, it will be troublesome. (To be continued.) )