Yuan Shang arrived in Wulin, facing all kinds of people who came to recruit relatives, Yuan Shang decided to plan and then move, first entangled a group of alliances that could join forces with him, and then before the start of the competition to recruit relatives, take the lead in attacking the enemy's forces, first get a group of players, and reduce the uncertainty after the official start of recruiting relatives in the future.

A few days later, Liu Xun, who had arrived from Nanzhong, finally arrived, and he and his father Liu Zhang belonged to outsiders in Nanzhong, and it was not easy to survive in the face of the intricacies of Nanzhong.

This time, Liu Xun came from Nanzhong, and along the way, I don't know how many vassal kings of the Nanban tribes stumbled on him, made his wrist, and made this former Xichuan prince a wolf, and almost couldn't reach Wulin.

However, thanks to Liu Xun's ability to help, the Xishu general Zhang Ren was ordered to protect his coming, this person is brave and strategic, and Liu Zhang's subordinates Deng Xian, Ling Bao and other ordinary Xishu generals are not the same, Liu Zhang can survive to this day in the cracks of the vassal kings of the Southern Barbarians, and it is also thanks to Zhang Ren on the side.

When he arrived in Wulin, Sima Yi immediately asked people to cover Liu Xun and his party to come to his camp, so as not to be exploited by people with bad intentions and make trouble for them.

Don't look at Yuan Shang and the others who are independent in the north, and they have not formed an alliance with anyone for the time being, but the strength is obvious to all, and looking around at the people who came to go on a blind date, there is really no one who dares to come to talk to him.

Liu Xun leaned on the big tree, and the frightened heart that had been trembling for days could finally stop, and he swallowed the heart that jumped to his throat back into his stomach.

Liu Xun came to see Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang looked at Liu Xun, and found that this young master was still the same as last time, covered in rags and linen, unkempt, like a big beggar, and it was really a little miserable.

Yuan Shangchang sighed and stood up. said: "Liu Gongzi, it's been a long time. ”

Liu Xun saw Yuan Shang, hurriedly paid homage, and said, "Subordinate Liu Xun, see General Sima." ”

"You don't have to be formal." Yuan Shang smiled and waved his hand to invite Liu Xun to get up, looked him up and down, and sighed: "Liu Gongzi, I didn't say you, what are you here for?" ”

Liu Xun was stunned when he heard this, and said: "Naturally, it is a competition to recruit relatives." ”

Yuan Shang smiled helplessly. said: "Do you also know that it is to recruit relatives? Since you are recruiting relatives, even if you don't dress yourself up in the dust, you are still clean and neat, aren't you? You look outside, look around, the 1,800 people in this recruitment, although they are dressed in different ways, but they are dressed like you and the young gang leader, it is really unique, just by appearance. Liu Gongzi, I have lost three points of confidence in you. ”

The young gang leader of the beggar gang couldn't help but blush when he heard this, and said, "General, our father and son are all in the south and central committee. Life is difficult, and it's not easy to get good clothes. ”

Yuan Shang pondered for a moment and said, "Come on, you and I are allies." I can't see you doing this to disgrace your father, can I? After all, after the royal family, the orthodox lord of Xichuan, I will give you and all the people under your command brocade clothes and armor. In order to prepare for the recruitment test! ”

Liu Xun was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked him, Yuan Shang ordered someone to bring wine and food, so that Liu Xun could satisfy his hunger, and ordered someone to send grain and rice to Liu Xun and others, only to move Liu Xun's eyes in the sockets, and he was almost kneeling down and kowtowing to Yuan Shang as a godfather.

After the wine and food came up, Liu Xun was not polite, gobbling it up, eating and making it like a whirlwind, and looked at Yuan Shang and Sima Yi and others with goosebumps, and smiled relatively bitterly.

The young leader of the beggar gang is indeed worthy of his name.

When he was young, after Liu Xun finished eating, Yuan Shang immediately turned the conversation to the main topic and said: "Liu Gongzi, this competition to recruit relatives, on the surface, it is just an exam, but in fact it is about the trend of the world, you and I are allies, but the north and south are on one side, and there are Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others in the middle, it is difficult to join forces, so in the short term, they must not be allowed to increase their power, so this time to recruit relatives, either we or you, we must marry Sun Shangxiang back, and we must not cheapen others." ”

Although Liu Xun's qualifications are average, he is also the son of a wang clan, and he naturally understands these truths that are related to the world, and then said: "Don't worry, the general, we will definitely take the general's head as the leader!" At the disposal of the general! However, Liu Xun knew that his talent was thin and it was difficult to take on a big responsibility, so although the leader of our party who came to recruit relatives this time was me, the treasure was all pressed on General Zhang Ren! This person was the first general in my Xishu back then, brave and strategic! It will definitely be a great help to the general. ”

Yuan Shang smiled when he heard this, and said, "General Zhang Ren also participates in recruiting relatives?" Very good, this is a few points better than the odds. ”

Yuan Shang's side, Sima Yi said: "Liu Gongzi, it's really not a secret, my lord thinks about it, and thinks that there are many opponents and too many variables to recruit relatives, so I want to find a few more allies first, and the lord locks his eyes on the bodies of the vassal kings in Nanzhong, but I don't know much about the shape of Nanzhong, and I ask Gongzi for some advice?" ”

Liu Xun sighed and said, "It's a shame to say that the vassal kings in Nanzhong have their own policies, attack each other, and don't like each other, but they don't know much about them...... Why don't you invite General Zhang Ren to come and have him explain to the general? ”

Yuan Shang nodded when he heard this, and said with a smile: "That's fine, then there will be Lao Liu Gongzi." ”

Liu Xun hurriedly got up and sent someone to invite Zhang Ren, and after a while, he saw the first general in Xichuan that year, and walked into Yuan Shang's tent with his head held high.

As soon as they saw Zhang Ren, Yuan Shang and Sima Yi couldn't help but sigh, the first in the secret path of Xishu really deserves its reputation, and it is also not a loss to Zhao Yun's senior brother, judging from this temperament alone, it is far from being comparable to others.

Zhang Ren and Liu Xun lived together in Nanzhong, Liu Xun dressed up like a flower every day, and Yuan Shang estimated that Zhang Ren was not much stronger.

Liu Xunruo is the young leader of the beggar gang, and Zhang Ren is at most nine bags of elders to work.

But as Yuan Shang expected, Zhang Ren's outfit was tattered, and he was not as good as Liu Xun, but although his clothes were torn, they were not dirty, they were cleaned up, and his whole body was wiped clean, showing excellent upbringing and demeanor.

And Zhang Ren's temperament is not comparable to ordinary people, the beard on his face is neatly tied, but his indifferent expression seems to be able to reject people and thousands of miles away, and the arrogance revealed from his bones makes people feel slightly cold unconsciously.

Tong Yuan's three major disciples, Zhao Yun is like a mountain, and the mountains are stacked with nebula bull heads, which makes people look up and stop. I have a longing in my heart, and it is difficult to look at it; Zhang Xiu has an easy-going personality and is as warm as fire, which makes people feel friendly unconsciously; But this Zhang Ren is completely different from the two of them, neither profound nor easy-going, at a glance, it is like a piece of thousand-year-old ice, and he feels like a hard lord.

When Zhang Ren saw Yuan Shang, he didn't see a courtesy, but just looked at him with a faint flame in his eyes. The hoarse voice slowly spit out the words: "General Yuan? ”

This way of meeting is ingenious, it stands to reason that Yuan Shang should ask him "You are Zhang Ren", he is good, but he asked Yuan Shang to come.

Yuan Shang didn't care either, and nodded with a smile: "I'm Yuan Shang, how do you call this general?" ”

"Zhang Ren." Zhang Ren indifferently reported his name, then turned his head and looked at Liu Xun with questions.

Liu Xun hurriedly smiled apologetically at Yuan Shang and said, "General, don't misunderstand. Don't look at General Zhang like this, just because his nature is like this...... He is actually a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, although he doesn't like to talk, but he is an old man with a warm heart. Definitely a good guy! ”

Yuan Shang nodded when he heard this, he believed Liu Xun's words, with Zhang Ren's talent, but he was willing to bow down for Liu Zhang. has conscientiously protected that cowardly master for so many years, and has never had two hearts, which shows his loyalty and righteousness.

"General Zhang. I invite you to come this time, because I want to ask you about something about Nanzhong, and I have no other intentions, after all, you and I are allies, and this recruitment is a major matter related to the trend of the world, General Zhang will not hide his secrets, right? Yuan Shang looked at Zhang Ren and said with a smile.

Zhang Ren pondered for a moment when he heard this, nodded and said, "You ask." ”

Sima Yi rolled his eyes on the side, and said in his heart that this guy's mouth is like the waist of cotton pants, and his words just collapse out of a few words, and the three sticks can't make a fart.

Yuan Shang was unimpressed, and said: "I heard that there are many vassal kings under Nanzhong, and the division of forces is complicated, I don't know how many kings can there be in the current place?" ”

Zhang Ren thought for a while and said, "There are too many, too many to count." ”

"Who are the most powerful vassal kings?"

Zhang Ren was silent for a while, and then said word by word: "Ba Na Cave Mulu, Bald Dragon Cave Duosi, Huoshen Cave Zhu Jiao, Ugo Kingdom Vulture Bone...... And Meng Huo. ”

Yuan Shang nodded when he heard this, and said, "This time to recruit relatives, are all these people here?" ”

Zhang Ren nodded and said, "Basically." ”

Liu Xun added: "Nanzhong is now divided, and it is common for various departments to attack each other, if they can rely on foreign aid like Sun Quan, it will naturally be the best for them!" Therefore, this time to recruit relatives, these powerful vassal kings also heard the news. ”

Yuan Shang nodded and said: "General Zhang, I now also want to take advantage of this opportunity to recruit allies, so I asked you to come to inquire, that Meng Huo, I heard that he is a rising star among the kings of the Southern Barbarians, very good, I want to ally with him, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Ren pondered for a moment when he heard this, shook his head and said, "It's not good." ”

Yuan Shang was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Why?" ”

"He's ambitious." After a pause, Zhang Ren added: "It's not easy to control." ”

Yuan Shang was slightly silent when he heard this, Meng Huo is a rising star, he naturally knows that he has ambitions, and this guy has repeatedly rebelled in history, and he has fought with Zhuge Liang several times, and Zhuge Liang has worked hard to subdue him.

However, among the kings of Nanzhong, only Meng Shu can be seen by Yuan Shang.

Beside Yuan Shang, Sima Yi said: "Meng Shu is ambitious and not easy to control, so General Zhang, you might as well recommend one who can form an alliance with us?" ”

Zhang Ren was silent for a moment and said, "Huoshendong Zhu Jiao." ”

“…………”

"Zhu Jiao?" Yuan Shang was stunned when he heard this, searched his memory, and found that he didn't know such a person at all, and he didn't know what kind of third-rate goods Zhang Ren recommended.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shang felt that he still adhered to his original intention, and said: "General Zhang, I still want to form an alliance with Meng Huo, you are familiar with the Southern Barbarian clans, please help me make an appointment, how about it?" ”

Zhang Ren glanced at Yuan Shang helplessly, but he didn't refute, just nodded.

"Okay."

"............" (To be continued......)