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Zhuge Liang took the same steps, entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, went straight into the study and sat down, spread out the official business that had not been dealt with on the desk, did not raise his head, held his sleeve with his left hand, and took the red pen handed over by Shuzuo with his right hand, and wanted to write with his elbows, but stopped, sighed inexplicably, and there was a flash of loss in his well-concealed eyes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Prime Minister?" Dong Cao Peng Jiang Wan, who came in to report on official business, appeared at the door, and when he saw Zhuge Liang's appearance, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, Zhuge Liang gave the impression that he had been in good spirits, as if he had never known to be tired, and now although he was still sitting very upright, he faintly showed a trace of weakness.

"It's Gongyan." Zhuge Liang was startled, woke up from his trance, then nodded to Jiang Wan, beckoned him to sit down, and then said to Shuzuo: "Go make a pot of tea." After thinking about it, he said, "Go find Mrs. to get Yizhou tea." ”

"Whoa." Shuzuo answered and turned to go. Jiang Wan sat down a little suspiciously, he knew that Zhuge Liang rarely drank tea when he was at work, because drinking tea had a diuretic function, Zhuge Liang thought it was a delay in time, and today he abnormally wanted to invite Jiang Wan to drink tea, but he had to go to the backyard to find his wife to get tea, which was really abnormal.

Thinking of Zhuge Liang's entry into the palace, Jiang Wan suddenly became a little worried: "Prime Minister, how is the king's health?" ”

"Not so good." Zhuge Liang shook his head, his face was heavy: "Look like that, it's good to be able to hold out until the prince and the general come back." He paused, looked up at the door, Jiang Wan understood, and hurriedly said, "Everyone Cao is busy in their own rooms." ”

Zhuge Liang was relieved, and quickly said what had just happened in a short language, and then looked at Jiang Wan, the corners of his mouth were a little helpless.

Jiang Wan's eyebrows locked slightly, thought for a while, and said, "The king's move is far-sighted, and there is nothing wrong with it." Why is the prime minister worried. ”

Zhuge Liang was a little surprised, glanced at Jiang Wan, hesitated for a moment, just wanted to speak, but heard a sound of footsteps outside the door, from far to near, and then the tall, long-faced and short-bearded Ma Jian appeared at the door, as soon as he saw the two pairs of eyes of Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wan, Ma Yan smiled: "Gong Yan is also there." ”

Jiang Wan's lips, which had been tightly closed, loosened, turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang, and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, it seems that Young Chang always comes by coincidence, the Prime Minister was just about to invite us to tea, and before the tea was brewed, he smelled the fragrance." ”

"The prime minister invited us to tea?" Ma Tan looked at Zhuge Liang with some surprise, turned around and retreated, went to the door to take care of a few words, and then hurriedly walked back, took off his shoes, knelt opposite Zhuge Liang, leaned forward, and asked with concern: "Prime Minister, is the king unable to hold on?" ”

"Nonsense." Zhuge Liang sank his face, but there was no anger in his eyes, but instead showed a hint of approval. He briefly said what he had just said to Jiang Wan, and Ma Wei listened quietly, with a look of disdain in his eyes: "What is Li Yan, how can he represent me Jingxiang?" No matter how you say it, it has to be the prime minister. ”

"Young Chang, don't talk nonsense, Zhengfang is alert, knows the times, and is quite strategic in using soldiers, the general and the general of the Chinese army are old, he is in the prime of life, and he is the right reserve force."

"Suitable?" Ma Tan sneered: "He has fought a few battles, but they are all against the Qiang people, what can it be counted?" At best, he is just a partial general, if he wants to be in charge of the overall situation and strategize, how can he be as good as the prime minister? I think the king is sick and confused. ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhuge Liang was really unhappy this time, and his face became very stern: "You are still young, the king doesn't need you for the time being, I hope you can become more calm." Why are you not attracted by the lesson at all, or are you so crazy? Dare to slander the king, the loss is that only Gongyan is there, if others listen to it, not only will you go to prison, but even Gongyan and I will be implicated. ”

Ma Tan laughed awkwardly and agreed. The Ma family is a big family in Xiangyang, and their brothers have a good relationship with Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang entered Liu Bei's Zuo General Shogunate, and they also left Xiangyang together, and later entered Sichuan together. Liu Bei values his brother Ma Liang very much, but he looks down on him very much, Zhuge Liang recommended him in front of Liu Bei many times, but Liu Bei said that he was exaggerated and useless, which made Ma Yan, who had always been conceited, very unhappy. However, he only sent a few words in front of a confidant like Zhuge Liang, and in front of others, he never showed half a word.

"The prime minister has to teach him a lesson." Ma Yan confessed, turned to Jiang Wan and said, "Please also take care of Gongyan." ”

Jiang Wan stroked his beard with a smile and nodded: "Young Chang, you have a good plan, let's see how to resolve it?" ”

"It's not that important to talk about martial arts or something." Ma Yan said disapprerovingly: "In that kind of place, at best, you can only train some captains, military marquis, etc., if you want to train famous generals, it depends on everyone's qualifications." There was no similar school before, where did so many generals come from? One is tempered on the battlefield, and the other is born with a talent for using soldiers, although he has never been on the battlefield, he has a unique experience in the art of war. Ma Jian said in one breath: "As the saying goes, take the law from the top, only get it, take the law from the middle, only get it." What famous generals can Yue Guo have? Among the four generals, two are pirates, one is a Yangtze River water thief, and the other is a ship supervisor of Dongye Shipyard, and they usually deal with some small pirates and the like, what kind of name can such a person teach in the future? ”

Zhuge Liang smiled: "From a childish point of view, probably the martial arts hall is just a place for military enlightenment, right?" ”

"The prime minister is right." Ma Tan said without modesty: "Since the king wants to cultivate talents for the use of soldiers through the martial arts hall, and foreshadowing the future mastery of military power, why don't the prime minister send a few people to participate in it, and then see who is the most suitable person and general." If the prime minister thinks it's inappropriate, it's simple, and he is willing to go to the martial arts hall by himself with the body of a traveling scholar, and then compete with the people arranged by the king. ”

Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up and he nodded slowly. Liu Bei can't take a fancy to Ma Tan, Ma Tan is nearly forty years old, and now he is still a white body, even if Liu Bei dies, for a long time, with Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others, he will not be able to take charge of the army, Ma Tan will naturally not have the possibility of going to the battlefield, rather than this, it is better to let him travel to Funan in a private capacity, if he makes a name for himself in Yueguo, it will be justified to use him in the future.

"It's good to go out and have a look." Zhuge Liang smiled faintly: "Read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles, accumulate thick and thin, and become a late bloomer." ”

…… In July, Xiahou Rong and others arrived in Yuyang, and Cao Zhang heard that several younger brothers and servants were coming together, so he didn't dare to slack off, and asked the governor of the tribe to take a thousand iron horsemen to meet the fifty miles. As soon as he saw the thousand elite horses wearing Xuan armor, holding a long halberd, carrying a long knife on his left and a strong bow on his right, Xiahou Rong was taken aback. It is difficult to sit firmly on a galloping horse, and it is very difficult to use a halberd with one hand, so the general knights use the ring-headed knife as a weapon, only the warriors with superb riding skills or super strength can use the long soldier such as the halberd on the horse, the most elite cavalry of the Wei State is the tiger and leopard horse, but the tiger and leopard cavalry can not pick out a thousand people with long soldiers.

Xiahou Rong remembered Sun Shao's words, he looked at the thousand cavalry carefully, and then found that these cavalrymen had high saddles on their horses, and they were all stepping on iron stirrups, such saddles and iron stirrups Xiahou Rong had seen them in Funan, and Sun Shao's horse was there, but Xiahou Rong had not tried it, and now it seems that these are one of the sharp weapons that Sun Shao said.

"These are all supported by the Yue country?" Xiahou Rong said to Hao Zhao with a smile.

Hao Zhao hurriedly saluted: "Exactly, these halberds, ring head knives, are the best weapons of the Yue country, the Yue people provided 10,000 horses of equipment, the bow is made by us, but the Yue country supported 500,000 arrows made of arrows made of bamboo arrows, these stirrups are also the style given by the Yue country, we built it ourselves, a total of more than 30,000 pairs, and now it is still being prepared, and by the end of the month, about 50,000 pairs can be prepared." ”

"Troops are going to be sent at the end of the month?" Xiahou Rong shook his head: "This is not the best time to send troops." ”

Hao Zhao smiled: "The general of the chariot cavalry arranged it like this, and the general must have considered the specific reasons." ”

Xiahou Rong smiled, he looked at Hao Zhao deliberately, he knew that if Cao Zhang succeeded this time, then this Hao Zhao would not be able to run away as a general in the future.

Under the escort of a thousand iron horsemen, Xiahou Rong and others came to the military camp outside Yuyang City. Outside the city is very lively, between the military camp and Yuyang City, there are all people coming and going, many people have a southern accent, and there is a smile with a professional surname on their faces, Xiahou Rong roughly recognized it, these are the merchants of the Yue Kingdom, he paid attention to it, and found that whether these merchants were walking towards the barracks or going to the city, the cars were full. He noticed a strange phenomenon, the wheels of these merchants were different, as if they were covered with a layer of black, and they walked much more smoothly than ordinary cars, and when they encountered potholes, the bumps were much smaller.

"What is this?" Xiahou Rong stopped a Yue businessman, pointed to the wheel and asked.

"Wheels." The Vietnamese merchant replied calmly.

"Then why is your wheel different from the others?"

The merchant shrugged, "They don't want to spend money, they just want to use those old wheels." This is a new product from Vietnam, with this, the wear of the wheels is negligible, the service life is nearly ten times longer than before, and the price is only three times that of ordinary wheels. ”

"What the hell is this?" Xiahou Rong asked.

The merchant glanced at Xia Hourong vigilantly, and a kind smile appeared on his face: "I don't know this, I only know how to buy and use, and don't inquire about those who shouldn't be inquired about." If you want to buy it, you can go to Yuyang City and ask, there is a Funan car shop in the city, which specializes in selling this kind of wheel, and they should know where they came from. After saying that, he politely arched his hand and drove away.

Xiahou Rong glanced back at Hao Zhao. Hao Zhao smiled: "He is not bad, after using this kind of wheel, it is not only much smoother, but also durable." However, the price was also expensive, and the general ordered 15,000 pairs of wheels, so to put it mildly, Yue Guo lowered the price a little. ”

"Why don't you just ask King Yue for a little?" Xiahou Rong smiled.

"I want to pass, but I don't want to." Hao Zhao's eyes as he looked at those businessmen were love, hate, and even some worries. However, Shi Bao, the supervisor of the East China Sea of the Yue Kingdom, said that these are not military materials, nor are they operated by the political axes of the Yue State, and they are not good at forcing merchants to reduce prices. If you think it's worth buying, don't buy it if you don't think it's worth it, as long as the businessmen don't raise prices, they don't want to ask. ”

"Shi Bao decided for himself? Didn't report back to King Yue? ”

"Shi Bao said, this kind of thing is the same thing to report to King Yue, and there will be no second statement. He was acting according to the charter, and if he abused his private power, those businessmen would go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to sue him. Hao Zhao said indignantly: "I think it's the magistrate surnamed Shi, maybe it's still set by King Yue, just to make a windfall when my Wei State is on the expedition." ”

"You can't say that." Cao Rui, who had been following Xiahou Rong, suddenly interjected: "The equipment that Yue Guo has supported 10,000 people is worth more than 10,000 pairs of wheels, right?" A lot of money has been spent, where can I account for these small money? In my opinion, what Shi Bao said may be true. ”

When Hao Zhao saw Cao Rui say this, he didn't dare to say anything. When they came to the barracks, Cao Zhang had already sent someone to wait and welcome them to the tent. The big tent was full of books and maps, and more than a dozen officials were discussing things, and Cao Zhang introduced them one by one, including Tian Yu, the captain of the Karasuma, the captain of the Xianbei, and the Taishou of several nearby counties such as Yuyang, and the Qingzhou Musun Guan was also there.

"Youquan, you're here for a great time." Cao Zhang greeted him with a big smile, "I have a lot of affairs here, and I have been busy enough, and I am lacking someone to coordinate the overall situation, so don't leave when you come, help me sort out these things." He glanced at Cao Yu, Cao Rui and the others, and said with a smile: "Do you know what the king asked you to do?" ”

"Yes." Cao Yu preemptively responded: "Father asked us to follow our brother to experience the experience. ”

"Okay, you all make books, let's start with the basics." Cao Zhangyi waved his hand, and said without distinguishing words: "When you arrive in the army, the first thing is to familiarize yourself with the military order, and let the army preach the military order to you later, I will give you a day, check it at this time tomorrow, and if you can memorize it, continue to stay here, if you can't memorize it, go to Yuyang City to stay first, it is much more comfortable than the military camp." ”

Cao Yu and the others looked at each other, they thought all the way on the road, but they didn't expect Cao Zhang to arrange them like this, in their minds, Cao Zhang should give them a grand reception banquet first, and then arrange some people to protect them, look around the barracks, and understand the situation, who would have thought that Cao Zhang really planned to use them as ordinary soldiers.

When Cao Yu and the others were still hesitating, Cao Rui bowed down and saluted: "Obey the orders of the general of the chariot cavalry." Then he walked over to the military who stood up with a calm face, and bowed again: "Please advise." The general Junzheng was startled and hurriedly dodged over.

Cao Zhang nodded secretly, but pretended not to see it, pulled Xiahou Rong into the tent, and threw Cao Rui and the others out of the tent. After entering the tent, Cao Zhangcai showed a weird smile, stood behind the tent door and looked at the helpless nephews outside, and watched them follow the army with different expressions one by one, and then sighed and said: "It seems that it is right to bring them out to experience, otherwise, most of these shafts will become waste, even if they have some ability, they are all in their mouths." ”

Xiahou Rong sighed: "General, the king and the prime minister are both people who have gone through hardship, and they know that without training, it is difficult to have real materials, and if they change to ordinary people, how can they have this kind of forbearance." Don't you know, when I took these young people out of Yecheng, the people who saw them off burst into tears, as if they were sending them on the march. It's not one or two people who are looking for me to intercede with you, oh, these are all letters, you can read them one by one. ”

Cao Zhang took the thick stack of letters, didn't open them, just scanned the cover, and finally said in surprise: "There is no sister-in-law?" ”

"Nope." Xiahou Rong laughed softly: "The prime minister and his wife are of the same heart this time. ”

Cao Zhang glanced at Xiahou Rong, smiled bitterly, and did not speak. It has not been a year or two since Cao Pi and Zhen have been at odds with each other, and those close to them know that Cao Pi's most favored woman now is Queen Guo, not Zhen.

"Little Shaft, you dare to laugh at the things in the palace." Cao Zhang glared at him, lowered his voice and shouted.

"Hehe, it's nothing." Xiahou Rong touched his nose, looked at the people who were busy in the outer tent, pushed Cao Zhang and said, "Let's talk about official business first, let's talk about other things in detail in the evening, I have a lot to tell you." ”

Cao Zhang understood and said the official business that Xia Hourong wanted to handle. Xiahou Rong has been in the army for more than ten years, and he is very familiar with these things, and he quickly entered the role, he sat in the tent, found a few people to come over and ask about the situation, and read the accumulated official documents at an unbelievable speed, and then began to find the corresponding people to deal with the problem. His perverted memory ability was fully utilized, and those who were called in for questioning found that the newcomer Xiahou Rong was far more familiar with the situation than they imagined, and he was even more familiar with the various affairs than many old officials who handled it himself, which was simply jaw-dropping.

In the middle of the night, everyone who had been busy all day dispersed, Cao Zhang and Xiahou Rong had time to sit down and talk, Cao Zhang took a pot of sugarcane wine, put two plates of dim sum, and roasted a sheep, and sat opposite Xiahou Rong, while drinking wine and eating meat, while listening to Xiahou Rong tell what he had seen and heard for more than a year. Xiahou Rong spoke in detail, not only saying many things he saw, but also his own thoughts, and finally said: "The king gave me his hand-annotated Sun Tzu's Art of War. ”

Cao Zhang was stunned for a moment, then calmed down again, cut a piece of mutton, put it into his mouth with his fingers, chewed it slowly, swallowed it after a while, and took another sip of wine, and then said lightly: "Only if it is passed on to you, it can be regarded as not passing on the wrong person." Originally, this should have been passed on to Cangshu, but unfortunately, alas-"

Xiahou Rong hesitated for a moment, and said with some worry: "I...... I'm afraid I can't afford to take such a responsibility. ”

Cao Zhangyan glanced at him and smiled: "It is said that you really can't afford such a responsibility, but now the situation is different, if I don't have a pillar of Wei who can match Sun Shao, I am afraid that the country will not last long." Our brothers have their own strengths, and if we can unite, we may not be Sun Shao's opponents, but, alas, people's hearts are unpredictable, and it is not easy to talk about them if we want to be honest. He silently cut another piece of meat, brought it to his mouth, opened his mouth and was about to eat, but suddenly said: "Youquan, I suddenly found that the person who knows my father best should be the Yue Wang Sun Shao." ”

Xiahou Rong nodded, he also felt the same way. Since leaving Yue Guo, he has been thinking about these things all the way, and gradually, he found that there is an indescribable force behind all this. It is precisely because of that dialogue that Cao Ying took the risk of dividing his troops and sent troops, hoping to unify the whole country in his lifetime, but unfortunately later with Sun Shao's return from Jiaozhou to participate in the war, he broke through the middle road in one fell swoop, and quickly advanced to the vicinity of Xu County, taking away the Son of Heaven, and then facilitated the military conference, which smashed Cao Ying's dream of unifying the world at the same time, and also magically continued the fire of the Han Dynasty that was about to be extinguished.

Even now, he can get Cao Ying's trust, and it seems to be promoted by Sun Shao. Otherwise, although the Xiahou clan is no different from the clan, it is impossible for him to shoulder the task of maintaining harmony between the Cao family brothers, for the simple reason that once he has a different heart, Cao Ying will be self-defeating. And now, with Sun Shao, a fierce tiger, sitting aside, whether it is him or the Cao family brothers, they must first consider foreign enemies, before forming an advantage over Sun Shao, they don't care about the open fire and turn their faces, and the three Cao brothers don't turn their faces, then he Xiahou Rong can't have any changes.

This is a chess game that restrains each other, Sun Shao first fell a piece, and then Cao Ying responded with a move, and then, it depends on the reaction of the Cao brothers. Obviously, whether it is Cao Pi or Cao Zhang, they are very clear about the situation in front of them, whether they want to or not, they have wisely chosen to cooperate with Cao Ying's layout.

"By the way, where did the Vietnamese fleet in the East China Sea go?" Xiahou Rong suddenly asked.

"I'm going to the Wa Kingdom." Cao Zhang said with a smile: "They originally asked me if I wanted to help, how dare I ask them to help, just help with some food and ordnance, and the war will be spared." Otherwise, I'm really not at ease. These generals of the Yue Kingdom will not want to die when they start a war, so don't steal the limelight from me when the time comes. Cao Zhang said, and couldn't help laughing: "Youquan, do you know, these people look like dogs, but they do a lot of tricks, they don't talk about any rules on the battlefield, everything is for the purpose of victory, and they will come to everything for cheating." It is said that when fighting Samhan, it was actually a group of pirates who fought the vanguard, these people came and went without a trace, dragging Samhan exhausted, and it was easy to block them in the harbor, thinking that they could be captured in one battle, but they did not expect that the East China Sea Fleet of the Yue Kingdom would kill them from behind, and the main force of Samhan's naval division was almost wiped out in one battle. You should know, just the ships of Sanhan, it's okay to fish, but if you want to fight against the Vietnamese fleet, it's not enough to even fill in the gaps. ”

"That is, King Yue even swallowed the Tianzhu Water Master in one gulp this time, not to mention these three Han people." Xiahou Rong smiled hesitantly: "The cavalry of the Sanhan people may be okay, but when it comes to the sailors, it is not enough to see at all." ”

"Cavalry?" Cao Chang sneered: "The Sanhan people probably think so too, as soon as they heard that the sailors had suffered a defeat and the Yue people went ashore, they gathered more than 25,000 cavalry to kill them, but who would have thought that the Yue country also had cavalry, although the people of Goguryeo only had a total of 5,000 cavalry, but these 5,000 cavalry fought and won successively, defeated three Korean cavalry one after another, and then pursued them for a long time, chasing all the three Han people alive." Cao Zhang paused for a moment, and then said: "They are wolves, wolves that eat meat and don't spit out bones, and it is definitely a nightmare to be targeted by them." ”

(To be continued)