Liu An returned to Hou Qing and said with an anxious face: "Gonglian, something happened." ”

"Why are you so anxious?" At this time, Hou Qing had just finished eating, and seeing Liu An's hurried expression, Hou Qing hurriedly asked.

"I don't know why, the servants of the public integrity family forcibly broke into my house, and it has been taken down by my guards, and the public integrity quickly followed me to see what happened." After Liu An finished speaking, he walked to the gate first.

Hou Qing nodded and followed Liu An, and the two came to the gate, where several Hou Qing's slaves were tied up and thrown on the side of the gate.

Although those people were tied, they were still arrogant, and they were scolding the guards at the door with angry faces, and Liu An's guards didn't seem to hear it, and they didn't care about it.

It's just that when a few people caught a glimpse of Liu Anhou Qing walking out of the courtyard, their faces suddenly froze.

"Home, head of the house? It's great you're ......still alive," one of the servants reacted, his face beaming with joy.

It's just that before he finished his words, Hou Qing, who suddenly accelerated past Liu An, rushed forward and slapped him in the face.

"Shut up! Evil servants are insulting to Sven! Hou Qing followed behind Liu An, and when he approached the door, he heard some familiar angry scolding.

When I got closer, I saw that it was really a little steward under my hands.

Liu An only gave him three fine silk horses to make clothes yesterday, and today his own slave came to someone's house to disgrace himself.

Not only did he break into the county magistrate's mansion, but after being taken down, he was so arrogant and domineering, full of bad words, how did he face Liu An?

The servant was slapped by his master, and stood on the spot, no longer arrogant.

When the other people saw that the steward had been beaten, they also became honest, lowered their heads, looked like they had done something wrong, and did not dare to speak.

After Hou Qing finished beating the slave, he turned around and hugged his fist at Liu An, and said apologetically: "There is no way to discipline him, so Changsheng will laugh." ”

Liu An waved his hand to show that he didn't care, and said, "Let's ask the reason for the matter first." ”

"Hmm." Hou Qing turned around, kicked the slave who was beaten by himself, and said, "Bastard, do you know what crime you should be guilty of breaking into the county magistrate's mansion?" ”

The servant was kicked, and finally regained his usual agility, nodded and said to Hou Qing: "The villain is guilty, the villain is guilty, he will never dare in the future, the master of the family will spare his life!" ”

When Hou Qing heard him say this, he hated him even more in his heart, kicked him in the chest again, and said viciously: "Since you know, you dare to break in?" Who gave you the guts? ”

Then the man told Hou Qing what happened fluently, and finally said: "The county magistrate's house, how dare the villain break in?" I am really worried about the head of the family, so I have to do it, I hope that the head of the family will be loyal to the villain and spare the villain's life! ”

After hearing what happened, Hou Qing looked back at Liu An with a puzzled expression.

Liu An was the first to say: "It's strange in this way, I obviously sent someone to report it, why didn't I receive the news?" ”

After speaking, Liu An seemed to remember something, and asked Liu Bei, who followed him on the road, "Xuande, has the person who reported the news come back?" ”

Liu Bei frowned and thought for a moment, then hesitated ambiguously: "It seems to be...... Never came back......"

"This ......" Liu An looked surprised, and then said to Hou Qing with a little self-reproach: "I'm afraid that the problem lies in the person who reported the letter, and this matter was mishandled below. ”

"It's okay, there's no need to worry too much about longevity, just figure things out." When Hou Qing spoke to Liu An, he had no anger when facing his own slaves, and the speed of his face change was staggering.

As the two were talking, they saw a group of people in the distance, about two or three hundred, walking towards this side with a menacing attitude.

Liu An asked Liu Bei what those people were doing, and Liu Bei also looked puzzled, shook his head and said I don't know.

Liu An asked Hou Qing again, and Hou Qing also said that he didn't know.

At this time, the slave who was thrown aside by Hou Qing whispered: "Xu, Xu is, yes...... It's ......"

He wanted to say it, but now his master is standing here in a good manner, and he is still talking and laughing with the county magistrate, and his group of domestic slaves and laborers turned out to be just a joke, and he was afraid that he would be beaten by the master of the house again.

It can be seen that he seems to know, and swallowing and spitting is the same as eating stool, Hou Qing is even more angry, kicks the servant again, and shouts: "Dog, don't say it quickly!" ”

"Yes!" The servant was frightened and hurriedly said, "It should be the other patriarchs who brought people to save the family master!" ”

When Hou Qing heard the servant's words, he reacted, and then his face turned pale, and he kicked the servant hard, scolding the 'dog thing that causes trouble' while hating the iron and steel, and hurriedly met the people who came this way.

Liu An didn't follow, Hou Qing went to persuade the group of people, and being there would make them even more embarrassed.

Anyway, Hou Qing is also a tool man who helped him unlock the wartime lottery plate, and Liu An's impression of him is not too bad.

After waiting in place for a while, Liu An swiped the wartime lottery plate, and after finding that the wartime lottery plate was closed again, he looked intently at Hou Qing and the others a hundred meters away.

A moment later, the group left, and Hou Qing walked back with his own servant and the man sent by Liu An to communicate.

apologized to Liu An first, saying that it was a misunderstanding, hoping that Liu An would not be surprised.

Although it was Liu An's subordinates who 'made a mistake' at this time, it was a big crime to murder the court officials, and Hou Qing was afraid that Liu An would blame him, so he would apologize to Liu An first.

By now, things are clear.

Liu An sent someone to Hou Qing's house to report the news, but the person who sent him couldn't enter the city gate because he forgot to bring the token, and he got lost after the city gate was opened on the second day, and failed to report to Hou Qing's house in time, so that Hou Qing's servants and the patriarchs had a misunderstanding, so they took people to prepare to enter Liu An's house.

After Liu An understood the cause and effect, he ordered the person who reported the news to be severely punished, and apologized to Hou Qing.

At this time, the next person came to report that the clothes made for Hou Qing yesterday had been completed, and Liu An asked people to hand them over to Hou Qing.

Hou Qing was anxious at this time, although the patriarchs in the city who brought people today said that they had done useless work, but he had to accept the love of others, and he had to come to the door to thank him after he went back.

Therefore, he took the clothes given by Liu An, and hurriedly said goodbye before he had time to check them, and left with his own slaves.

Immediately afterwards, Liu An returned to the county government in the city, found a few vacant rooms, and extracted the 200 swords and swords, 300 spears, 400 pairs of leather armor, 300 pairs of repeaters and 200 pairs of bows and arrows that he had just drawn.

After thinking about it, he extracted a set of 10 pairs of pearlescent scale armor, called Liu Bei, Meng Lan and Gao Shun, and gave each of the three of them a pair.

After that, Liu An asked Liu Bei to take enough money to go outside the city, and asked the townsmen who built manors outside the city to pretend to be ordinary people to enter the city in the evening and secretly come to the county office.

Then Liu An ordered Meng Lan to invite his uncle Cheng Ze, and invited him to come to the county government for a banquet in the evening on the grounds that Liu An had a new rare material desire to share with him.

And let Meng Lan vaguely explain that this thing is extremely rare, for fear of attracting others to covet it, and hopes that his uncle will not spread it.

Now that Liu Anren has the people and the weapons, it's time to attack the heroes.

However, Liu An, together with the village warriors outside the city and the escort team he led, only had 700 people, and they could not deal with all the heroes.

So before that, Liu An had to take a risk and try to subdue Cheng Ze, the commander of the Five Plains.

In the past few days, he has investigated clearly, and there were 4,000 county soldiers under the commander of Wuyuan.

When the Hu invaded at the end of last year, they lost a lot of manpower, and to this day, the county soldiers are still not filled, but there are already 2,000 people.

If Cheng Ze can be successfully subdued, then Liu An will be able to hold these two thousand people in his hands.

If it doesn't work, Liu An's 700 people, plus the four brave generals Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, and Gao Shun, as well as many people with superb military strength in the escort team, may not be able to touch Cheng Ze's 2,000 people.

It's really not good, at least it can protect Liu An's thoughtfulness.

If not, it is Meng Lan's uncle after all, Liu An has promised Meng Lan that he will never harm Cheng Ze's life, otherwise Meng Lan will not be happy even if Liu An dies, and maybe he will refuse to cooperate with Liu An's plan.

Liu An hadn't tried to get his dead soldiers to do what he would certainly not do under normal circumstances, so he didn't know what the outcome would be.

But Liu An will not try to do it, in his opinion, this is definitely not the work of the master.

Of course, even if there is no relationship with Meng Lan, Liu An will not kill Cheng Ze.

The governor of a county was appointed by the imperial court, and Liu Anke could not afford to be charged with murdering Shangguan, and if Cheng died in Liu Anxian County, the imperial court would definitely investigate the matter.

It's just that if it doesn't harm his life, it doesn't mean that he will let him go.

If Cheng Ze refused, Liu An could only take it down, and if necessary, he might threaten his subordinates with his life, making his subordinates afraid of their heads and tails, and did not dare to let go of Liu An's fight.

In the afternoon, Liu An summoned Liu Bei and others and discussed in detail the plan to persuade Cheng Ze to surrender.

There are no rare things in Liu An's hands, and silk Cheng has already seen them, and the only rare things in Liu An's hands are the vitamins he brought from home.

Vitamins are sweet and delicate in appearance, so they can be used as a reason to invite them.

Although the value of a bottle of vitamins is not small, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the 2,000 people under Cheng Ze and the more than 1,000 slaves he has in his family.

After reviewing the plan several times and confirming that there were no loopholes, Liu An asked Liu Bei and others to get busy.

When the sun gradually set in the west, Liu An took out a bottle of vitamins, and asked his subordinates to prepare wine and food, so he waited for Cheng Ze to arrive with peace of mind.

At this time, the village Yong outside the city also began to enter the county government in batches from the side gate of the county office, and Liu An had already handed over the matter of arranging for the village Yong to receive weapons and armor to Liu Bei.

Six hundred village warriors, a team of swordsmen, a team of sword soldiers, and a long spearmen, all of them were two hundred.

The bow and crossbow Liu An did not let Liu Bei issue it to Xiang Yong, the sword can be picked up to cut people, the bow and crossbow can not be shot with a hand, and after the matter of Haoqiang is decided, Liu An is ready to choose Xiang Yong to practice the bow and crossbow.

Similarly, the leather armor Liu An did not give it all to Xiang Yong.

The hundred convoys he brought with him were unarmoured because they had to travel lightly.

And there are not many leather armor in Zhuoxian Manor, which is Liu An's base camp, and there is no room for loss, so Liu An did not bring any leather armor.

Of the four hundred leather armor newly drawn, Liu An asked Liu Bei to distribute it to the escort team first, and the remaining three teams each issued one hundred leather armor.

When it was about to fall at night, Cheng Ze brought three burly men to the banquet.

Liu An greeted him warmly at the door and brought Cheng Ze to the guest hall.

The gate where Xiang Yong entered the county office was far away from the main gate, and Liu An didn't need to worry that Xiang Yong would be seen by Cheng Ze.

Entering the guest hall, Liu An invited Cheng Ze to take a seat, and Cheng Ze's three subordinates stood behind him, and Zhang Fei, Lu Bu, and Gao Shun also followed Liu An all the time.

The wine and food have been set up in the guest hall, and after Liu An took his seat, he raised his glass and drank with Cheng Ze, and then invited him to taste the delicacies, but he never mentioned where the rare things shared with Cheng Ze were.

The pack of thirteen incense when he entertained Hou Qing yesterday was not used up, and thirteen incense was also placed in the dishes that entertained Cheng Ze today.

Cheng Ze was going to eat a mouthful of food and went straight to the strange thing, but after tasting a bite of the dish, he found that the dish tasted excellent, so he couldn't help but eat a few more bites.

As the saying goes, people with short hands eat short mouths, and after eating the delicious food that Liu An carefully prepared for himself, Cheng Ze was in a happy mood, but he was embarrassed to ask directly with a cold face.

So Liu An accompanied Cheng Ze to drink and eat food, and chatted about what he saw and heard in the Central Plains, half of which was mixed with some strange things that could only be seen in later generations, which opened Cheng Ze's eyes.

Cheng is a native of Wuyuan, and he has never been to Luoyang, the most prosperous city in the Han Dynasty, in his life, and even his current official position is recommended to the imperial court by virtue of his close relationship with his former predecessor Taishou.

chatted with Liu An, and he saw that Liu An was extraordinary, and his conversation was funny and elegant, but he suddenly understood why his pretentious nephew was willing to follow him.

At first, when he knew that Meng Lan had taken refuge in Liu An, Cheng Ze was angry and called Meng Lan to scold him for a long time, but Meng Lan took the opportunity to persuade him to follow Liu An, Cheng Ze was angry at the time, if it wasn't for the pity of his sister's only son, he really wanted to break his legs.

But now Cheng Ze understands the thoughts of some nephews, this person is neither humble nor arrogant, not slanderous or flattering, he talks well, behaves moderately, and looks at his subordinates are also quite good, and he thinks he is a capable person.

If he hadn't been transferred to these five plains, he would have been able to give full play to his talents and protect the peace of the people.

While Liu An and Cheng Ze were chatting, they had also been paying attention to the movement outside the door of the guest hall.

It wasn't until Liu Bei came to the outside of the guest hall and gestured to himself from an angle that Cheng Ze couldn't see, that Liu An changed his words and led the topic to the so-called rare things.

Liu An had already made an appointment with Liu Bei, and after the villagers arrived, equipped their weapons and leather armor, and told them what to do next, he would come to inform him.

At this time, everything was ready, Liu An took out the vitamins from his clothes, chewed one himself, and handed it to Cheng Ze for him to taste.

Then Liu An informed Cheng Ze of the effect of vitamins, and Cheng Ze chewed the sweet vitamins in his mouth, and was in a very good mood.

After this incident, Liu An returned to his seat and suddenly let out a long sigh.

Cheng asked: "Why does Changsheng sigh?" ”

Liu An said angrily: "Du Wei didn't know, An heard that Xianbei had a reputation for Tanshi Huai in the early years, and that he unified the Xianbei tribe and repeatedly violated the border of my Han Dynasty. When he first received the appointment of the magistrate of Jiuyuan County, he was very excited and full of ambition to come to his post, wanting to recruit village warriors to guard the frontier and fight against foreign races. Can ......"

Liu An sighed again, and said in an increasingly sad tone: "But when I came to Jiuyuan, I found that I couldn't even protect myself, and I was restrained by others everywhere, and it was difficult to move an inch, let alone kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions?" ”

Listening to Liu An's words, Cheng Ze's expression gradually turned cold.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Alas......!" Seeing Cheng Ze's expression, Liu Anxin had already concluded that it was basically impossible to accept Cheng Ze peacefully.

This sigh is not only for Cheng Ze to see, but also a pity for Liu Anxin, who still has to do it to the uncle of the person under him.

Liu An sighed again and again, and slowly widened the distance between him and Cheng Ze, and after he reached a safe position, he suddenly turned around and said loudly:

"Take me down the rules!"

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