"Wei Yan?" In the Runan Taishou Mansion, the new Taishou Zhao Feng looked at the sturdy man in front of him who was about the same age as himself and had a red face. If it is paired with a long beard, it is more like Guan Yu's son than Guan Ping.

"The young general Wei Yan was originally the county lieutenant of Shanyang County, Nanyang County, under Liu Biao's account in Jingzhou. I heard my friend Li Yan and Li Zhengfang mention that General Guan and General Zhao were sitting in Runan and recruiting talents, so they came to serve. Wei Yan looked at the white-looking young man and replied respectfully. He also deducted half a sentence and didn't say a word, Li Yan once told him that Guan Yu was quite arrogant, but Zhao Feng was much more easy-going, so it was best not to go directly to Guan Yu, but to Zhao Feng.

Of course, Li Yan would never have imagined that as soon as Zhao Feng heard that he was Wei Yan, he would immediately reuse him.

"What can you do?" Zhao Fengsuo asked directly. Wei Yan heard that Zhao Feng's tone was not bad, and hurriedly replied, "A certain person has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he is proficient in martial arts. Zhao Feng was not surprised when he heard this, so he took him to the school to meet Guan Yu. Although Guan Erye is now a pastor in Yuzhou, Jian Yong is basically engaged in civil affairs, and Guan Yu is still more immersed in the training ground.

"Martial arts are good!" After seeing Wei Yan dance his twenty-eight-pound broadsword with a heavy weight, and firmly gain the upper hand with Guan Ping one-on-one, Guan Yu also nodded again and again. Next, he asked Wei Yan some tactics of war, and the latter also answered fluently. Perhaps seeing Wei Yan's red face was very much to his liking, Guan Yu immediately appointed Wei Yan as a lieutenant in charge of the two recruits.

"General Xie Guan promoted!" Wei Yan was overjoyed, he was originally just a county lieutenant, but this time he was promoted several levels in a row. Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled, but then asked suspiciously: "Wen Chang is such a talent, why is his career in Jingzhou so difficult?" The same was true of the square before. Wei Yan sighed, and then said to Guan Yu and Zhao Feng in detail. It turns out that there are many big families in Jingzhou, except for the Cai family and the Kuai family, there are still many other small families. Although Liu Biao is the pastor of Jingzhou, if he wants to sit firmly in this position, he must get the support of these families, so the important official positions in Jingzhou are occupied by the children of these families. Wei Yan and Li Yan are both from poor backgrounds, so their careers are not smooth.

"I see!" Zhao Feng was also stunned, although he knew that the family was very powerful at this time, he didn't expect such an exaggeration, and talents like Wei Yan and Li Yan were suppressed to be a small sesame official. In fact, this can't be blamed on Zhao Feng, whether it was in Xuzhou or Yuzhou before, although there were big families, but most of the four major families in Xuzhou were not prosperous, like the Mi family, there were two brothers, and the other three were all bare brothers, their families were dozens of people at best, and each family added up to only five or six people who were officials in Xuzhou, and some of them were only petty officials; Not to mention Yuzhou, the Yellow Turban has been making trouble for so long, and the slightly larger family will either leave here long ago, or will be leveled by Liu Pi and them, so Zhao Feng has never had an intuitive understanding of their influence.

Wei Yan's defection was just the beginning, and in the following month, many small officials who were unwilling in Jingzhou abandoned their official positions and came to Yuzhou to seek a future, and Jian Yong and Guan Yu also accepted them one by one. However, just when Zhao Feng, the Taishou of Runan, was having a good time, suddenly an uninvited guest came to Yuzhou.

"Second General, when were you so angry?" On this day, Zhao Feng was urgently called by Guan Yu to the state pastor's mansion to discuss matters, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Guan Yu sitting in the main seat angrily, but everyone in the hall did not dare to come out.

"Bo Tao, someone won't let you be an official!" Guan Yu said hatefully, and then handed a letter to Zhao Feng in his hand. Zhao Feng saw that this was a letter written by Liu Biao of Jingzhou to Guan Yu, saying that Wenping, the general of Jingzhou, had been appointed by the imperial court as the Taishou of Runan, and was about to take office, and hoped that Guan Yu would contact him about the matter. "Liu Biao'er deceived people too much, and he actually took care of my affairs in Yuzhou." Guan Yu's anger did not subside.

"The second general is angry, look at this letter, can it really be Liu Biao's own meaning?" Zhao Feng persuaded him, but he sneered in his heart: Cao Ying's trick was used more than ten years earlier than in history, it was Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu at that time, but now it has been replaced by Wenpin.

"Bo Tao, what do you mean?" Guan Yu carefully looked at Liu Biao's letter again, and seemed to understand something. "That's right, what Liu Biao said is that the imperial court's edict appointed Wen Ping to come to Yuzhou, and now His Majesty is in Xuchang, but under the rule of Cao Ying, this appointment is only afraid of Cao Ying's meaning." Although Zhao Feng knew it, he still said in a speculative tone.

"I see, but what now?" Guan Yu had a headache: Don't agree, it's not good to violate the edict of the imperial court, his eldest brother is responsible for supporting the Han family all day long, and his violation will make him embarrassed; If Wen Ping is allowed to be the Taishou of Runan, not to mention that it is unfair to Zhao Feng, let Liu Biao install such a person in his hinterland, it is not pleasant just to think about it.

"Since there is an imperial court and an edict, then let Wen Ping take office!" Zhao Feng said with a smile, and without waiting for Guan Yu and the others to say more, Zhao Feng preemptively asked directly: "Second General, what do you think of Liu Biao in Jingzhou?" ”

Guan Yu was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it for a while, he said: "I look at this Liu Biao, although he is known as the Eight Horses of Jingzhou, but it is not wise to see him use people now, there are countless civil and military officials who have abandoned Jingzhou and come to my Yuzhou these days, why does Bo Tao have this question?" ”

"Second general, this Liu Biao is over fifty years old, and now the power of Jingzhou is in the hands of the Cai family and the Kuai family, Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi is surnamed cowardly, and the youngest son Liu Cong is young. After a hundred years, Jingzhou will be in chaos. However, Jingzhou is the belly of the world and is the most important. If the lord wants to become a hegemon, Jingzhou must be indispensable. Wen Ping is the general of Jingzhou, now he came to Yuzhou to serve, the two generals or enveloped him, or made it isolated from Jingzhou, until Liu Biao returned to the sky, then the lord took the opportunity to seize Jingzhou, then there was a big resistance! Zhao Feng said eloquently, he found that he liked this feeling more and more, no wonder those leaders in his previous life liked to make reports, and it was indeed a great sense of accomplishment to speak to a group of people.

Everyone in the hall listened to Zhao Feng's words, and only came back to their senses after a while, and they couldn't help but be shocked in their hearts: this Zhao Feng was really far-sighted, Cao Ying just used Liu Biao to calculate Liu Bei and Guan Yu for a while, but he directly calculated what happened after Liu Biao's death by retreating.

"This is very good, I should write a letter to inform my brother and ask him to appoint Bo Tao to a new position." Guan Yu is not a fool, and after listening to Zhao Feng's explanation, he suddenly understood in his heart. So Zhao Feng waited for Wen to arrive in the next few days, so that he could go through the handover procedures. However, Liu Bei's reply arrived before Wen Ping, and he asked Zhao Feng to return to Xuzhou to stand by after completing the handover.

However, the speed of the document was not slow, and the day after Liu Bei's reply arrived, the letter also arrived. After completing all the formalities, Zhao Feng set off back to Xuzhou. Guan Yu led the main officials of Yuzhou to set up a banquet to see them off, Jian Yong, Wei Yan and others were certainly there, and even the newcomer Wenpin also attended.

"General Zhao, take care, have a good trip!" Wen Ping is also an active toast. It's been a few days since I've been in Runan, and Wen Ping deeply understands what it means to be unfamiliar with life. In the past, there were not many people who came with him, and most of them were left in Jingzhou by Cai Mao. And Yuzhou doesn't seem to be particularly welcoming to himself as an official, except for Jian Yong, who can still say a few words, the rest such as Guan Yu and others are all old qualifications, intentionally or unintentionally, and they are not very compatible with him, and they are not very satisfied with him squeezing out Zhao Feng. Wenpin didn't want to be isolated forever, so he took this opportunity to have a good relationship with the party Zhao Feng.

"General Wen is serious! Runan is a critical place, and General Wen needs to be more careful. Zhao Feng also did enough etiquette, everyone tried their best to get drunk that day, and the next morning Zhao Feng packed up and went to Xuzhou. On the way, they passed through Qian County, Liang Guo and Pei Guo and Lu Guo, Chen Jiao and Mi Fang and Guan Hai, Sun Guan and others all came out in person to greet and warmly entertain, which made Zhao Feng's trip slow down for a few days.

However, no matter how slow the trip was, Zhao Feng finally returned to Xuzhou City. "It's back!" Zhao Feng looked at the familiar Xuzhou city wall, and sighed in his heart, this trip has been away from Xuzhou for three months, and he has never left for so long since he rescued Xuzhou and settled Xiaopei three years ago. First go to the state pastoral mansion to report to Liu Bei, "Bo Tao has worked hard!" Liu Bei was also very happy to see Zhao Feng returning.

"Big brother, Zhao Xiaozi is back?" Zhao Feng was talking to Liu Bei when a rough voice suddenly sounded behind him. "The three generals have been absent for a long time!" Zhao Feng turned around and saw that it was Zhang Fei walking with a smile.

"Hehe, Zhao boy, it's better to come early than to come by chance, it just so happens that my Lao Zhang is about to get married, you can drink my wedding wine!" Zhang Fei smiled and patted Zhao Feng's shoulder and said.

"Huh?" This time it was Zhao Feng's turn to be surprised, but Zhang Fei was now thirty years old, and there were very few ancients who had not yet started a family at this age. "I don't know which girl it is?" Zhao Feng asked tentatively, does he remember that in history, Zhang Fei robbed Xiahou Yuan's niece as his wife.

Sure enough, Liu Bei smiled and said: "It's the girl of Xiaopei Xiahou's family, but it's Xiahou Yuan's niece." Liu Bei was also a little helpless, his brother actually fell in love with Xiahou Yuan's niece, and directly snatched the little girl who went out to collect firewood. I didn't want the little girl but I wasn't afraid of him, I actually agreed to be his wife, and these two confused people can be regarded as compatible.

"Congratulations to the three generals!" Zhao Feng was also quite surprised, he didn't see that you Zhang Laosan was still Lolita. At this time, Liu Bei turned to the topic and assigned Zhao Feng a new position. Since Zhao Feng served as the Taishou of Runan before, his position as the general of Xuzhou Zhonglang has been topped by Zhang Liao, and the position of Guan Yu's soldier Cao has also been topped by Zhang Fei, and the remaining Zang Ba, Song Xian, Pei Yuanshao and Chang Xi and others have all mixed up as miscellaneous generals. Originally, Liu Bei couldn't find any suitable vacancies for him for a while, but later Chen Gong suggested that Xiapi in Pengcheng County be divided as a separate county. Let Zhao Feng and Xu Sheng serve as Pengcheng Taishou and Xiapi Taishou respectively. Zhao Feng served as the Taishou of Pengcheng, adjacent to Xuzhou, which was convenient for discussing matters with Liu Bei. This practice is not uncommon, didn't Cao Ying set up a few counties from Yingchuan County to set up a Xiangcheng County, at that time, it was because he didn't want to take care of those counties, but Hou Cheng was too conservative to make a profit.

"It's moving really fast." Zhao Feng looked at the army roster handed to him by Liu Bei, now Xuzhou has a very good momentum, and the recruitment and training of recruits are in full swing, but Zhao Feng still wants to put forward some of his suggestions: "Lord, now that the lord occupies Xuyu and Yuzhou, there is no shortage of military generals, but there seems to be not enough civil officials!" ”

Liu Bei listened to Zhao Feng's words, and his originally excited expression was also darkened: "This is true, although the former Xianhe brought a group of civil officials to Yuzhou, there are still not enough people to govern the place, and many counties still have only one county order. ”

Zhao Feng has been thinking about the solution to this problem on the way back, and now he has some preliminary eyebrows. At the moment, he admonished: "Actually, there is a way in the end, which seems to be able to solve the urgent need of the moment. ”

;