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Liu Jing told Er a few words, then he quickly walked to the front yard. Looking at his father walking away, Liu Zhicai gently stuck out his tongue and walked quickly to his mother. Tao Zhan stroked his head and asked with a smile: "Have you been scolded by Dad?"

"If Uncle Zhao hadn't come, he might have been severely scolded by his father."

"Your father is happy to see you, so why would you scold you? Besides, Zhi'er has been very hardworking this year, and there is no reason for him to scold you."

"Dad said I was thin. Starting tomorrow, I have to practice martial arts for an hour every morning before I can go out to Pingzhang Platform."

"You are indeed weak, and my mother also wants to replenish your body."

The two mothers walked while talking, and gradually walked away.

Let’s talk about Liu Jing hurried to the study room and saw Zhao Yun sitting in the study room with great worries to drink tea. Liu Jing walked into the room and smiled and said, “It seems that there is something to do, is it not good to send troops from Tongguan?”

Zhao Yun quickly got up and saluted, Liu Jing waved his hand, "No need to be polite, let's sit down and talk."

The two sat down, and the maid came in and served tea. Zhao Yun then sighed and said, "Do you remember what I said to you when I came back from Yanhai the next year?"

Liu Jing immediately remembered what Taoli said to him this morning, nodded, and said without saying anything: "You mean Ma Chao, what happened to him?"

"I brought someone to you, right at the gatehouse, and your Highness might as well meet him with me."

"Who is it?"

"Juyan County Magistrate Li, he was injured."

Liu Jing got up, walked out of the door and ordered the guards, "There is a person brought by General Zhao in the gatehouse, bring him here to see me."

After a moment, several guards walked over quickly with a pair of soft couches. The injured Li was lying on the soft couch. He was bleeding too much, his body was very weak, and his face was pale.

Li saw Liu Jing and struggled to sit up. The guard pressed him down. Liu Jing stepped forward and squatted in front of him and said, "You are the magistrate of Juyan County Li, a member of the Li clan of Longxi."

"I am the one who is the one who is a good minister"

Zhao Yun next to him added: "He was chased and fortunately he was rescued by the patrol soldiers and said that there was something important to come to me, so the soldiers took him to my mansion."

"Who wants to kill you?" Liu Jing asked.

Li bit his lip and looked at the guards on both sides. Liu Jing immediately ordered: "You all retreat."

Only him, Liu Jing and Zhao Yun were left in the room. Li gritted his teeth and said, "It was Ma Chao who sent someone to kill me."

"Why did he kill you?"

"Because I know he is going to rebel and become independent."

Liu Jing was not anxious, so he sat down slowly before asking slowly: "Do you have any evidence that Ma Chao wants to rebel?"

"Your Highness, my husband did not avenge him for personal revenge. Since last year, he has transferred his Han generals from his military power one by one in the way of rising and falling secretly in the army, and used the Qiang and Di people to control the military power. Ten Han generals have been transferred."

"How could you know these things?" Liu Jing narrowed his eyes and stared at him with sharp eyes.

"These are all General Ma Dai told me that he had a letter, but I was afraid that he would be caught by Ma Chao and implicated him, so Weichen burned the letter halfway."

Liu Jing was meditating and said nothing. He felt that there seemed to be a little confusion. How could Ma Dai ask this Li to deliver the letter? Wouldn't he send his confidant soldiers to deliver the letter? Besides, Ma Dai was stationed in Wuwei County and sent people to Chang'an more conveniently. How can he get involved with the magistrate of Juyan County?

"How could you know Ma Dai?"

Li Ming understood Liu Jing's doubts and sighed softly and said, "Wei Chen is no longer the magistrate of Juyan County. Last summer, Wei Chen was transferred to Dunhuang by Ma Chao as the lord, and half was almost killed by Ma bandits. It was General Ma Dai who saved Wei Chen. Your Highness may not know that General Ma Dai is no longer in Wuwei County. At the beginning of last year, Ma Chao transferred General Ma Dai to Dunhuang County under the pretext of protecting the business road and attacking the horse bandits. He also sent people to guard the pass road and not allow Ma Dai's troops to go south. General Ma Dai said that His Highness fought in Hefei and was unable to look westward. He could not alarm the snake too early, so he endured it. Until the beginning of the year, Wei Chen's father passed away, and Wei Chen was able to go to Longxi to attend the funeral, so he took the opportunity to come to Chang'an, but he was discovered by Ma Chao."

Only then did Liu Jing understand the cause and effect. He was secretly angry. Ma Chao dared to transfer the general without authorization and be promoted to the county magistrate without authorization. This shows that he was ambitious. Liu Jing held back the anger in his heart and nodded, "So, you were actually sent by Ma Dai to report the news."

“It’s true”

"But you don't have any tokens."

Li bit his lips and said slowly: "I wish to die and show my ambition."

"There is no need to do this. You should recover from the injury first. Whether it is true or false, the facts will prove everything."

Liu Jing showed a smile on his face, and ordered the guards to carry Li out and asked him to arrange for him to recover from his injuries. Liu Jing then said to Zhao Yun: "It seems that there is a crisis in Hexi."

Zhao Yun nodded silently, "If Li didn't come to Chang'an, maybe Ma Chao would have deployed for a few more months, but now he failed to assassinate Li, I believe he will not wait any longer."

"It's not because of a Li, but because the Battle of Hefei ended and the Han army returned to Chang'an. He was no longer there."

Liu Jing turned around and walked to the window, staring silently outside the window. After a long time, he sighed softly, "I thought he was a hero, and I wanted to reuse him, cultivate him, and even let him take charge of Hexi, but I didn't expect that I still misread the person."

Zhao Yun understood Liu Jing's mood and comforted him: "He is indeed a hero, with a strong martial arts skills and good at fighting. Your Highness did not misunderstand this. It's just that he is a prince himself. His father dominated Xiliang and was defeated by Cao Cao and had to surrender to His Highness. He had no ambitions as a minister in his bones. Once conditions allow, his ambitions will naturally grow."

"You don't need to comfort me, I know very well that Cao Cao was determined to kill him without leaving any troubles, but I took him in and appointed him to take charge of Hexi. Even today's troubles, I am indeed not as good as Cao Cao in terms of talent in understanding people."

Zhao Yun was silent for a moment and said, "If Your Highness believed in a humble position, I would lead my army to fight the west and pacify the troubles of Hexi."

Liu Jing turned around and stared at Zhao Yun for a moment, and slowly said, "If I can't even trust you, then I, Liu Jing, are really alone."

Zhao Yun was moved and said with a fist: "You can set off at any time when you are humble."

Liu Jing nodded, "It is certain to send troops, but there is no hurry. There are still many things to do first."

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Zhao Yun said goodbye and left, Liu Jing paced back and forth in the study alone. Ma Chao's desire to be independent has gradually become a fact, which has brought him a big blow. This blow is not that the territory is divided, but that the pain of betrayal is deeply rooted in his heart.

He thought that he could be honest and trusted in exchange for loyalty, but the facts proved that he was still wrong. He could only say that he was not politically mature enough, and he did not do some things he should do, and he failed to establish a system in time to ensure the loyalty of the army.

Even if Liu Jing has great prestige and the generals are loyal to him, will the generals still be loyal to him in the future?

From ancient times to the present, the constraints on the army have not been limited to the so-called loyalty, but more importantly, the system is the system. The pre-Qin period used generals and children to be entrusted in the capital, the Sui and Tang dynasties used generals and soldiers to separate them. After the decline of the government troops, eunuchs were used to supervise the army, which led to the disaster of eunuchs in the Later Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty used officials to lead the troops, and even defeated the Liao and Jin dynasties, died in Mongolia, and later political commissars, etc., all kinds of things were to make the military power firmly in the hands of the central court.

And Liu Jing could neither hand over military power to his nephews like Cao Cao, nor could he follow Jiangdong, concentrate his soldiers in Jianye, and the local area did not station troops, and when the world was not peaceful, he could only rely on his trust in the general and hand over the army to them.

But Ma Chao failed his trust in him, or he should not trust a prince who had once ruled the country. He should have let Ma Dai or Pang De control Hexi, but because of his thoughts, he led to chaos in Hexi.

Liu Jing secretly blamed himself. At this time, a guard reported at the door, "Your Highness, Mr. Tao has arrived."

Liu Jing nodded, "Please come here."

After a moment, Tao Sheng hurried to the outside study room under the guidance of the guards, "Does Your Highness look for me?"

Liu Jing nodded, "Father-in-law, please sit down."

Tao Sheng didn't know why Liu Jing was looking for him, but he felt a little uneasy. In the past two days, he was very worried about Cao Cao's daughter's marriage and was worried whether this would affect his daughter's status. At this time, when Liu Jing came to him, he naturally thought about it.

Liu Jing felt Tao Sheng's nervousness and apologized and said, "Maybe I want to ask my father-in-law for help again."

Tao Sheng was stunned. He felt that it should have nothing to do with his daughter. If it were Cao Cao's daughter, Liu Jing would say that he was sorry to the Tao family. Now he wanted to help himself, which was obviously not something he was worried about. Tao Sheng immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "As long as the Tao family can do it, I will never refuse."

Liu Jing nodded and asked, "How has the Tao family reclaimed the land in Lingzhou?"

"It's really surprising. It usually takes at least four years to turn raw land into mature land, but the land in Lingzhou is extremely fertile. You can plant crops in just one year of farming. It's sunny and easy to irrigate. I plan to start growing corn this summer and plant winter wheat after autumn harvest, so I can cook twice a year."

Liu Jing sighed and apologized: "I asked my father-in-law for help, just hope that the Tao family will give me this 100,000 hectares of land."

It is indeed difficult for Liu Jing to speak out. He knew that the Tao family not only consumed a lot of manpower and material resources for 100,000 hectares of land, but only invested 100 million yuan in land measurement, recruited farmers and built water conservancy. Now that he was ready to cultivate, he wanted to take it back.

But he had no choice. Now the only land that can be used immediately in Lingzhou is the Tao family's 100,000 hectares of mature land.

Tao Sheng nodded silently, "If Your Highness wants to take it back, the Tao family can hand it over immediately."

Liu Jing thought about it and explained: "I am not deceiving the Tao family, nor is it a clever way to take advantage of it. But there is a problem in Hexi. I want to move the Han people in Hexi as quickly as possible, but I cannot tell them clearly. I can only give them the land in Lingzhou by temptation, and I must use mature land, which can only aggrievance from the Tao family."

Tao Sheng suddenly realized that it was for the Hexi incident. He also heard his brother Taoli talk about the chaos in Hexi last night, but he didn't expect the problem to be so serious and so urgent. He immediately said: "I will send someone to inform the Lingzhou manager overnight and order them to hand over the land to the government."

After pausing, Tao Sheng said again: "In addition, there are thousands of tenant farmers I recruit. Please take proper care of your highness."

Liu Jing nodded, "I will regard it as an immigrant in Hexi and place them together."

In fact, Liu Jing also considered that there were not many Han people in Hexi, and there were a little more than 10,000 households in Wuwei County. In addition to tenant farmers, there were up to 20,000 households. Even if one household granted two hectares of land, it would only be 40,000 hectares of land, and 60,000 hectares of land were added.

Liu Jing was preparing to use extra land to resettle the fugitives from Hebei and the Central Plains. Affected by the battle in Hefei, there was a shortage of food in Hebei and the Central Plains. A large number of fugitives flocked into the Han Dynasty. Nearly 200,000 fugitives fugitives were poured into Guanzhong, which put a heavy burden on the government. He needed to use land that could be cultivated immediately to resettle these fugitives, and at the same time, it could also enrich Lingzhou. The Tao family's land could come in handy.

Although this is indeed unfair to the Tao family, I believe I will compensate the Tao family in other aspects.
Chapter completed!