Chapter 385: Helpless Zhang Lu

Ma Fan said: "I am really a shallow learner, I can't take on this important responsibility, even if the eldest brother is no longer in charge of these monks, he can also choose another talented person from the Zhang family to undertake this important task, no matter who the eldest brother chooses, the younger brother will definitely help him." ”

Zhang Lu sighed and said: "Actually, the previous generations of my Zhang family were all single generations, and it was not until this or two generations that it was better.

Among the people of my Zhang family, my grandfather and my father have already cultivated the City Immortal to Heaven as officials, and it is impossible to come back to provoke this courage again, and among the rest of the people, my grandmother is now preparing for the tribulation, and after the tribulation, she will immediately go to heaven to join my grandfather, and it is impossible to ignore the Five Doumi Sect.

My four aunts have all reached the stage of incarnation, but they have all married far away, and it is impossible for them to come back to help manage them at any time, and after all, they have married so many people and have children, and their moods have changed, which is really uneasy, even if they are willing to come back to help me pick up this burden, I dare not hand it over to them.

In addition, although I have some siblings and uncles, but because I was killed by Liu Zhang's collusion with the Shushan faction in Chengdu a few years ago, only my younger brother Zhang Wei is still in Hanzhong.

Although Zhang Wei and I are still of the same mind as me, my younger brother was born with no ability to practice, and can only cultivate mortal martial arts, and he barely has the strength comparable to that of Zhuji, and he is a little reluctant to be a general, but it is a little unrealistic to manage a strong monk.

Originally, I thought that if I couldn't do it, I would choose one of those reliable disciples with foreign surnames to take on this important responsibility, but to be honest, those disciples' cultivation is really unsatisfactory, and I am afraid it will be difficult to suppress those unruly monks.

And now that it is in troubled times, and in the case of war with the Shushan faction, they are not suitable candidates, and I have no choice to choose them, now that you are here, brother, then I don't have to take those people anymore, and I hope you don't shirk anymore, brother. ”

After hearing Zhang Lu say this, Zhang Lu was suddenly sincere, and he also had a little understanding of Zhang Lu's previous temptation, who is not big in the face of such a complicated situation, and it is necessary to be cautious to entrust such a big power to others.

However, Ma Fan still had concerns in his heart, and frowned: "Everyone in the world knows that I was born in the Yellow Turban Army, and I am a descendant of the Interception Sect, I rashly promised the eldest brother to help the eldest brother manage the Five Doumi Sect, I am afraid that the relationship between your Zhang family and the Interception Sect will be exposed, and it will affect the ancestors of your Zhang family, and even the predecessors of Zhang Liang. ”

Zhang Lu said with a smile: "It's not that complicated, anyway, the monks of the Yellow Turban Army are not a few who have been absorbed by various factions in the Central Plains now, and my Five Dou Mi Sect is even more loose, and the people in the Yellow Turban Army who have been collected before and after are not a few, and there have always been many people who have rebelled against the Sect, and there is nothing abrupt for you to join the Five Dou Mi Sect."

What's more, I've heard that there have been many big factions who wanted to take you under your umbrella before, but you refused. After you helped me take charge of the inner gate of the Five Dou Mi Sect, everyone would think that the previous sects that wooed you were not enough to give the price so they were rejected by you, and it is reasonable for me to impress you to join with the respect of the inner sect of the Five Dou Mi Sect.

Even if there are still doubts, so what, the cultivation method of my Wudou Mi Sect is somewhat close to the method of interception, which has already made many people suspicious, but there is no evidence, and they can't destroy our Zhang family and Wudou Mi Sect because of suspicion, let those who doubt continue to doubt. ”

Ma Fan then said: "Since the eldest brother looks up to the younger brother so much, the younger brother will manage the eldest brother for a few days, and when the Zhang family or the eldest brother's disciples have a suitable candidate in the future, the younger brother should give way." ”...,

Zhang Lu smiled when he heard this: "Haha, this is very good." In this way, I can safely abolish my cultivation and do humane things. ”

Oh, by the way, you just said that your friend was seriously injured, you will bring your friend another day, and I will give him a body of cultivation, I think no matter what kind of injury he suffers, anyway, as long as it is below the Yuan Infant Stage, no matter how serious the injury is, it should be cured, and even your friend's cultivation can be improved, so that you have another useful master under your command. ”

Hearing this, Ma Fan was surprised and said, "Big brother, you ......"

Zhang Lu smiled and said: "This big brother is very sincere, I like it." Anyway, my cultivation is going to be wasted, so let's use it, you don't want to be mother-in-law!"

Ma Fan said gratefully: "In this way, thank you big brother!"

Zhang Lu sighed and said: "Actually, my recent form is very bad, I also hope that my brother can help me as soon as possible, every time my brother's brother is bigger, he will naturally help me by a point, so I help your friend heal, and naturally I am also helping myself." ”

Ma Fan also frowned slightly and said, "The form is not good? Could it be that the Shushan faction has attacked on a large scale?"

Zhang Lu said: "No, since I hope that you can help as soon as possible, then naturally I want to tell my brother about my brother's current situation, so that my brother knows it."

In fact, the dangerous situation has not been good all these years. A few years ago, because I trusted Zhang Xiu too much, I handed over all the big and small things in the Wudoumi Sect to him to manage, so many outstanding talents were attracted by Zhang Xiu, although I was also aware of it at the time, but because I trusted him, I didn't care much.

When Zhang Xiu betrayed me that day, although I killed him, but when I killed him, the people available to my subordinates also suffered heavy losses, and I was forced to purge some of Zhang Xiu's diehards afterwards, these are the best talents in my Five Doumi Sect!

At that time, I had just become self-reliant, and it was the time to employ people, and all the outstanding talents in my Wudoumi Sect were a little insufficient, and after that catastrophe, there was a shortage of talents, and if I relied solely on those people in the sect who were loyal to me, I am afraid that the yamen in Hanzhong would not be able to function.

As a last resort, I used a large number of talents recommended by several families in Hanzhong who were subordinate to me, but in this way, although I survived the difficulties, all important positions in both military and political affairs were controlled by people from these big families, so these families were so big that even I had to compromise with these families often.

Among these families, the Yang family is the most powerful, almost one-third of the civil officials under my command are from this family, and my general Yang Ren is also a member of the Yang family, but Yang Ren has almost half of my troops.

Some time ago, I asked them to discuss whether to accept the trapped camp, and the Yang family has the strongest opposition, but it is really a bit of a headache. ”

Ma Fan asked, "Why does the Yang family have such strong opposition?"

Zhang Lu sighed: "The Yang family has such a big shili, it can be regarded as the emperor of Hanzhong, as long as it continues like this, naturally even I can not let go of it, of course they don't want me to get such a world-famous strong soldier as the trapping camp, and have the liliang that suppresses their family." ”

Ma Fan nodded and said: "The liliang of the family is so huge, these families plan for themselves everywhere, as long as many things of the elder brother are slightly detrimental to the interests of these families, they will definitely oppose it, and the elder brother will definitely not be able to do anything, the situation is indeed not good!"

Zhang Lu nodded, and then continued: "I have 50,000 infantry in Han, all of them are strong, and about 30,000 are elite soldiers who have been on the battlefield. And because most of the people in Hanzhong are followers of my Wudoumi Sect, if there is a big war, if there is a mobilization, you can levy another 50,000 to 100,000 troops at any time. ...,

Although Xichuan Liu Zhang'er has an army of 100,000, but the strong soldiers are only about 40,000 or 50,000 of mine, if there is a big war, it would be good for him to be able to gather 20,000 or 30,000 people for a while, so if it is the turn of the army, it is really better in my Hanzhong.

Moreover, in addition to leaving 10,000 to guard Yangping Pass and 10,000 to maintain local law and order, my 50,000 army can be mobilized to deal with Xichuan at any time, but Liu Zhang has to defend against the powerful Nanban all the way, and defend Jingzhou all the way.

Originally, under such circumstances, it was not difficult to defeat Liu Zhang, but the current situation is that my Hanzhong has lost less and won more, and even allowed the Xichuan army to invade my territory a few times. ”

Zhang Lu said this, and immediately did not speak, only looked at Ma Fan.

Ma Fan then asked, "In this way, could it be that the monk Liliang in Hanzhong is much worse than Xichuan's?"

Zhang Lu nodded, and then continued: "On the surface, after the development of our Zhang family for several generations, my Wudoumi Sect already has millions of followers, and the monks have also accumulated tens of thousands, which can be regarded as a huge shili, but it is not that nothing.

Aside from the cultivation, let's just talk about the number of available monks, because my Wudoumi Sect collects more lenient reviews from the congregation, so the good and bad of the sect are uneven, and the sources are also varied, and there are many shili in the sect, which is extremely difficult to use, and there are only two or three thousand monks who can become my dependence.

In addition, I also managed to recruit a lot of casual cultivators, most of these casual cultivators are not very good, and these people are even more unreliable than the members of my Wudoumi Sect, these people are fighting for power and power on weekdays, and their ability to cause trouble is first-class, but if there is really something, they are nowhere to be seen.

Most of these monks have not succeeded enough to fail, and you say that relying on such monks, how can we resist those monks of the Shushan faction? I want to divide the Wudoumi Sect into the inner and outer gates, mainly because I want to take advantage of the fact that we have not yet started a big war with the Shushan faction, and first select some available and reliable people to rush into the inner gate, and they will be the main force in our fight with the Shushan faction in the future.

Now hand over the inner door to the brother, the burden of the brother is not light!"

Hearing Zhang Lu's explanation, Ma Fan knew why Zhang Lu had such a favorable location, but he did not make much achievements in his life, and finally he could only take refuge in Cao Cao.

After gasping, Ma Fan said: "Brother, don't worry, the younger brother will definitely work hard to make the inner door look good." ”