The position of the chief bookkeeper is Zhang Xi's personal secretary. In fact, whether there is or not, it all depends on what Zhang Xi thinks.

If Zhang Xi is willing to work hard, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have a master book.

Moreover, the current Zhang Xi is not a candidate without a master book, isn't Zhao Lei a ready-made candidate.

It's just that it was originally Zhao Lei and Deng Ai who helped Zhang Xi deal with the official documents, but now it has become Zhao Lei to deal with this matter alone.

With Zhao Lei's ability, there will be no pressure to deal with more official documents.

Therefore, Zhao Lei officially took office and became Zhang Xi's chief bookkeeper, fully assisting Zhang Xi in coordinating the autumn harvest work of Jian'an for 21 years.

Well, well, that's a good arrangement. It's just that Zhao is tired and busy enough.

Some time ago, I have been busy helping Ma Liang, Yi, Wang Ji and others to formulate disaster relief plans, and they have just finished this stall, and the autumn harvest is here again.

And the lord is still the kind of person who likes to be a shopkeeper and a humanoid seal, which makes Zhao Lei unbearable.

Zhao Lei, who couldn't bear it, admonished Zhang Xi several times, as the head of a county, he couldn't just draw a circle on the official document and finish the matter, right?!

There are some things that require you to make decisions as the number one, and you need to come up with ideas, and you can't leave everything to the people below to do.

To put it nicely, you trust your subordinates, but to put it mildly, you don't even know that you are being overturned by your subordinates.

Zhang Xi thought about it and felt that what Zhao Lei said was very reasonable, and finally took over some work that belonged to him and began to prepare for the autumn harvest together.

And after the end of the autumn harvest this time, Guan Yu had already issued a conscription order, summoning Wuling to guard Xu Shu, Lingling to guard Pan Jun, and the public security guard to hire three people to go to Jiangling to discuss matters.

It is not a big problem for Xu Shu and Pan Jun to leave the two counties temporarily, and the adjutant is responsible for all the affairs in the county.

Wen Ping's side is more troublesome, he is a general in the army, and if he wants to hand over official duties, he has to find a suitable candidate.

Wen Ping was selected and selected under his subordinates, and finally decided to temporarily entrust the public security to Zhang Ren to be responsible.

On the one hand, Zhang Ren is a general in central Sichuan, and he is very familiar with military affairs, and it is not a problem to control the defenders in one place.

On the other hand, Wen Ping also wanted to try Zhang Ren, whether he would have anything to do with Liu Zhang, who lived in the public security, after he left.

Zhang Ren's ability is recognized by Wenpin, and even the two are about the same age, Wenpin feels that Zhang Ren is enough to guard one side in terms of ability and qualifications.

But what Wenpin is not at ease is that although Zhang Ren is out of Liu Bei Group, he still takes good care of Liu Zhang, and he still holds the reaction of courtesy in private, which not only makes Wenpin feel emotional, but also makes Wenpin feel uneasy.

What I feel is Zhang Ren's loyalty. He couldn't have done this back then.

What is not worrying is that since Zhang Ren has chosen to go out of Liu Bei, then he should cut off with Liu Zhang, and it is not good to say that one minister and two masters are not good.

Therefore, Wenpin asked Zhang Ren to accept public security defense this time, just to test it and see if Zhang Ren would make any trouble.

And there is one thing to say, even if Zhang Ren and Liu Zhang seize military power and occupy public security, there is not much threat to Jingzhou.

After all, there are only more than 10,000 people stationed in the public security, half of which are still naval troops, and behind them are the territory of Liu Bei's group, and Zhang Ren can't hold this place at all by relying on those soldiers.

If Liu Zhang keeps to himself, then Liu Bei will not do anything to him, but if he unites with Zhang Ren to rebel, then Liu Bei will not have any worries about killing.

As long as Liu Zhang and Zhang Ren don't make stupid mistakes, they shouldn't kill themselves.

After handing over military affairs to Zhang Ren, Wen Ping arrived at Gangneung City at the end of September.

Although the public security was the closest to Jiangling, Wen Ping was the last to arrive, and before him, Xu Shu and Pan Jun were far away, but they arrived first.

When everyone arrived, Guan Yu did not continue to waste time, and directly convened a military meeting.

Discuss the matter of sending troops to Xiangfan.

Before the military discussion began, Guan Yu first showed two letters to everyone present.

One was sent two months ago, a handwritten letter from Liu Bei to Guan Yu, which mentioned the purpose of sending troops to Xiangfan.

This letter was discussed between Guan Yu and Zhang Xi.

The other letter, which arrived recently, stated in more detail the time and purpose of the dispatch.

Liu Bei said that after the autumn harvest is over, he will sort out the grain and grass and carry the baggage, and probably send troops to attack Hanzhong in November.

As for Jingzhou, Liu Bei said that he was not familiar with the situation, so he gave Guan Yu carte blanche to act at the opportunity, but there was one point, if the battle of Hanzhong went well and Liu Bei could occupy Hanzhong before Cao Cao reacted, then Guan Yu would not move.

If Cao Cao had already raised troops in Yecheng, then Guan Yu would have to attack Xiangyang and slow down Cao Cao's assistance to Hanzhong, and it would be best to attract some troops to Xiangyang to relieve the pressure on himself.

As for Jiangdong, Liu Bei also wrote to Sun Quan, and sent Sun Gan as an envoy to Jiangdong, asking Sun Quan to send troops to Hefei and disperse the deployment of Cao's troops

The first letter is about the strategic purpose, and the second letter is about the strategic direction.

From Liu Bei's letter, in this battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei took into account all aspects, the entire Han land, from east to west, attacking from south to north, so that Cao Cao was exhausted, if everyone could work together, Cao Cao might be beaten down.

Although Liu Bei felt that this situation was unlikely, no matter what, in terms of the two-way arrangement between Jingzhou and Hanzhong, Liu Bei thought that it should not be a big problem for him to take Hanzhong.

As for whether Jiangdong can break through Hefei, it all depends on Jiangdong's ability, after all, this matter is also beneficial to them.

Guan Yu can not think about Chengdu and Jiangdong for the time being, and only need to think about Xiangyang in front of him.

The purpose of convening the military meeting this time is to discuss with everyone the question of how to fight in Xiangyang.

Whether to fight or not, this is not a prerequisite for consideration, the lord has given an order, and it is an auxiliary attack based on containment, so it is definitely necessary to send troops.

It's just that how to fight, everyone's opinions are different.

Guan Yu's idea was that as long as he received the news that Cao Cao had raised troops from Yecheng, he would raise Jingzhou's troops to attack Xiangyang.

In recent years, there was a lag in the transmission of news, and the Hebei region was a little far away from Jingxiang, Guan Yu estimated that by the time he received the news of Cao Cao's army, Cao Cao might have led his army across the Yellow River.

At that time, it was appropriate to raise troops, and when Cao Cao marched to the Luoyang area, he would probably receive the news that he was attacking Xiangyang, so Cao Cao would hesitate whether to go west to Chang'an or go south to save Xiangyang.

In this way, it can serve the purpose of delaying Cao Cao's reinforcements.

As for Xiahou Yuan in Hanzhong District, how could he be the opponent of the eldest brother.

This is Guan Yu's thoughts.

But this idea has been opposed by many people.

It's just that the focus of the opposition is a little different.

Zhang Xi and Xu Shu think that they can't attack Xiangyang with all their might, after all, we don't know what the attitude of the people in the east is.

Although the lord also asked Jiangdong to send troops together, whether Jiangdong sent troops or when he sent troops is not something we can control.

If all the soldiers of Jingzhou are transferred to the north, in case Xiangyang is not taken, it will cause Jingzhou to be empty. The people over there in Koto won't let go of such a good opportunity.

Even Wen Ping cautiously said that even if the county soldiers were to be transferred, at least the public security and Nanjun should arrange enough manpower to guard them, and they could not be transferred away so easily, otherwise if they didn't even have the first line of defense, the Hui Army might not be able to defend Nanjun in the future.

And Pan Jun and Wang Ji believe that since it is a feint, what we need to do is to bluff, send a small number of troops to carry out guerrillas, and create a posture of attacking Xiangyang on a large scale, and force Cao Cao to increase troops in Xiangyang, there is no need to fight Xiangyang.

The main reason is that our supply of grain and grass is insufficient, and this year's harvest will increase the grain consumption of the army by 80,000 at most in March, and there will only be seven or eight months of grain and grass, so it is difficult to confront Cao Cao's army.

As for the fight, everyone is not against it, but the question is how to fight.

Guan Yu still insisted on his opinion, after all, he had been thinking about taking Xiangyang City for almost six years.

At most, Guan Yu took a step back, saying that he could leave a part of his troops in Jingnan and Nanjun to guard against the Jiangdong villains, but in Xiangyang City, he would definitely lead the army to attack.

Well, at least not less than fifty thousand troops.

Can't pin all your hopes on the basis that Cao Cao will take the initiative to divide the troops, if you don't make Xiangyang City in a hurry, Cao Cao may really rely on the defense system of Xiangyang City, refuse to rescue, and go west to Tongguan to aid Xiahou Yuan.

Pan Jun and Wang Ji still want to persuade again, after all, the issue of grain and grass should not be underestimated, once the two sides are deadlocked, it will be useless and wasted on grain and grass.

If you have this wasted space, it is better to keep it and use it to help the victims in case there is a major disaster in the future.

Guan Yu did not accept this.

Wang Ji is better, after all, he is newly appointed, and after figuring out the internal framework structure of Liu Bei's group, he will not argue with Guan Yu about anything.

But Pan Jun really couldn't bear it.

Pan Jun's temper is actually not good, quite irritable.

In the past two years, he stayed in that shabby place in Lingling, where the people were already relatively dry, and Pan Jun had finally transformed some fertile fields over the years, and the locust plague had worsened, and the people of the local family also laughed at him for "working for nothing".

argued with Guan Yu on the spot, but later the second master couldn't argue, so he simply squinted and didn't listen. And Pan Jun was not ambiguous, and directly pointed at Guan Yu's nose and scolded him for being a "reckless soldier" and a "reckless man".

Zhang Xi saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stopped the second master, and then signaled Xu Shu to stop Pan Jun quickly. Okay, my brother's temper is enough.

(End of chapter)