After solving the strategic deployment of Shuzhong and Yanzhou, Ma Chao asked Zhang He, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong to rush back to the Jizhou headquarters, and as for the Qingzhou war, he planned to personally lead the troops to recruit.

Everyone discussed some specific matters, and Ma Chao held a meeting of all his subordinates, not only analyzing the current situation, but also formulating a lot of short-term strategies in military and political affairs.

In the end, Ma Chao set up a banquet in the house to entertain many subordinates. During this period, dozens of family members appeared on the stage to perform singing and dancing skills, which only fascinated everyone to watch. Most of these family records are Wang Yun's people, and many of them are official records of the palace, after Ma Chao took power, he integrated and selected them, and the elite part was all left in the General's Mansion to serve, and the old and decrepit people were given to Liu Xie as face goods. These family records are under the management of Diao Chan, but Ma Chao will not be generous enough to let his concubine perform on stage for everyone to enjoy.

The banquet did not disperse until nightfall, and Ma Chao sent the guests away, just about to have a fight with Diao Chan. On the way, I happened to look up, and I saw a slowly moving flame floating above my head, although it was not bright, but it was extremely conspicuous in the night sky. Ma was shocked, why did he think it was an ancient UFO UFO when he looked at it! But if you look closely, you can see that something is wrong, this flame flickers and fades, moves with the direction of the wind, and is very low above the ground, it cannot be the legendary UFO.

After a little hesitation, he hurriedly entered the house and found the sandalwood bow, and used his divine power to bend the bow and arrows, and the wolf's tooth arrow flew quickly upward. Ma Chao was afraid that the feather arrow would fall and hurt himself, so he hurriedly dodged and hid in the pavilion, and when he looked up, he saw that the flame was just shot by the feather arrow, but it was not extinguished, but it fell very slowly, and the speed was like a goose feather falling into the air. After the feather arrow fell for a long time, the mass fell to the ground in a swaying manner.

Take it into the house and look at it by candlelight, only to see that this thing is a reed pole tied into a rectangular body, one meter high, the width is also forty centimeters, except for the bottom, all the silk silk around is enclosed, the silk silk is also coated with some grease, dense and not ventilated, and the bottom is a ball of kapok burned with fire oil, just burned out.

Others may not know what this thing is, but Ma Chao doesn't know the reason as a traverser? It is the famous Kong Ming lantern in later generations, also known as the sky lantern. There are two theories about Kong Ming lanterns, one is that they were invented by Zhuge Liang, so they are called Kong Ming lanterns; Another theory says that Kong Ming Lantern was named after the hat worn by Zhuge Liang.

After being surprised, Ma Chao suddenly had an idea in his heart, isn't this Kong Ming lantern the prototype of the hot air balloon in later generations? If the Kong Ming lantern is enlarged hundreds or even thousands of times, can a hot air balloon that can carry people be built? However, after thinking about it carefully, this idea was quickly overturned, mainly because the ball skin material was too harsh, and later generations used very light reinforced nylon to make the ball skin, which needed to be very large, and it was necessary to have a blowtorch and natural gas as fuel, and the current conditions were almost impossible to complete.

However, it is not impossible to make a small hot air balloon with silk coated with grease and cotton wool poured with fire oil as the driving force, as long as it can carry one person to fly two or three hundred meters high, it will be of great use, and it will be used to spy on the enemy's situation and transmit military information.

After confirming his thoughts, Ma Chao could not hide the excitement in his heart, and secretly blamed himself for forgetting Zhuge Liang, a great talent. Zhuge Liang can be described as versatile, not only a military strategist and politician, but also an essayist, calligrapher and inventor. Among them, the most famous are the Wooden Ox Flowing Horse and Zhuge Repeater, the current Zhuge Liang is only thirteen years old, such talent and age, it is definitely worth vigorously cultivating.

The next time, Ma Chao summoned the envoy sent by Kong Rong in the General's Mansion, and personally wrote a letter back to Kong Rong, the Taishou of Beihai, saying that he would send troops to Qingzhou as soon as possible to exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves. The messenger was overjoyed and rushed to Beihai County overnight to report to Kong Rong.

Ma Chao did not dare to delay the military situation, and only lingered with his newlywed wife and concubine for three days, and then handed over the defense of Luoyang City to the trial after Liu Liyuan, and only took Dian Wei and Chen to lead 3,000 cavalry out of the Tiger Prison Pass and rushed straight to Qingzhou. He had already arranged heavy troops in Jizhou in advance, and now Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and Zhang Hesan generals have 100,000 elite soldiers in their hands, and if you add the local army in Jizhou, there are as many as 120,000, so to solve the danger of Qingzhou, you have to transfer troops from neighboring Jizhou, and the heavy troops in Luoyang area cannot be easily mobilized.

Out of the Tiger Prison Pass, Ma Chao did not rush to Qingzhou, but came to Huaicheng, the seat of Hanoi County. Hanoi Taishou was originally Wang Kuang, Wang Kuang was defeated by Lu Bu during the princes' discussion of Dong, and then there were Xiliang soldiers who plundered it, and even the Sima family ran away, and Wang Kuang could only flee back to Taishan's hometown.

After the Tiger Prison Pass was breached, the displaced people who fled to Jizhou returned to their hometowns one after another, and Ma Chao handed over the post of Hanoi Taishou to Zhuge Xuan. The latter lived up to expectations, put the internal politics in order, and in accordance with Ma Chao's governing philosophy, divided all the cultivated land in Hanoi equally among the local people and the displaced people who settled here. It is impossible for those families who fled back to gather in Tuntian, so none of the powerful families, including the Sima family, are willing to return to take their own humiliation.

During the banquet, Ma Chao directly explained his intentions, hugged his fists and said: "In the past, I had an appointment with Mr. Zhuge under Rongyang City, and now I want to see my nephew Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang and others, I don't know if it is convenient?" ”

Zhuge Xuan said: "Thanks to the lord's favor, Xuan Zi has no reason to be allowed!" After that, he instructed the maid who was waiting on the side: "You quickly go to the back hall and call the nephews and nieces who are not successful, and say that the general has summoned them!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Soon after the maid went down, a group of five people walked into the hall one after another. The leader is a handsome young man, full of bookishness, about ten years old. Followed by two young women, who seemed to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, from the hair pulled up high, it can be seen that they have already done the right ceremony, beautiful and dignified, although they are not stunning, but they are rare beauties. After that, there was a young man of about twelve or thirteen years old, heroic, not very old, but his eyes were extremely deep, and people knew that he was extraordinary at a glance. The last one is a **-year-old boy, with a pair of smart eyes and constantly looking at Ma Chao.

Zhuge Xuan hugged Ma Chao slightly, turned around and said loudly: "This is the twelve-year-old champion Hou who broke the Huns, cut Wuheng, and broke Xianbei, the current general of the imperial court, and has the talent to pass through the heavens and latitudes, so you don't want to salute!" If you are fortunate to be guided by the general, you will benefit endlessly for life. ”

The five of them didn't dare to slack off, so they hurriedly bowed down and bowed down, and said in unison: "Grass people Zhuge Jin (Zhuge Yan) (Zhuge Ling) (Zhuge Liang) (Zhuge Jun) to meet the general!" ”

Ma Chao hurriedly got up and returned the half-salute, waved his hand and said: "A few of you, please get up quickly, don't be so polite, Chao is said to visit as a civilian, and you are the same age, just talk about it as brothers and sisters." (To be continued.) )