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The inner hall was quiet, and Fa Zheng was always very concerned about his future. Because he was implicated by the Zhang Song case and demoted Liu Zhang to manage books, he counted on Liu Jing to enter Shu so that he could turn over completely. Unexpectedly, Liu Jing still relied on officials from the local Bashu department and sent him to Hanzhong.

Fa Zheng originally thought that Liu Jing wanted to keep him in Hanzhong, but he just got the news, and Liu Jing reappointed Yang Song as the county magistrate of Hanzhong. This made Fa Zheng quite disappointed. That was the position he wanted, but gave Yang Song, who had a bad reputation. Do you want to be the county magistrate?

Liu Jing took a few steps behind his hands, and he had been considering Fa Zheng's arrangements. In fact, as a superior, he did not have to ask about specific matters. He only had to manage people. As long as he was employed properly, everything would naturally go smoothly.

Fa Zheng's talent lies in military affairs rather than government affairs, which is also the reason why he has been difficult for him to stand out in Bashu. Fa Zheng is an outstanding strategist and should not do trivial government affairs. Liu Zhang did not find his advantages, which shows that Liu Zhang's employment is unknown.

From this capture of Hanzhong, we can see Fa Zheng's strange plan, and seized the most critical point in the chaos, seized Nanzheng City, and wiped out Zhang Lu's foundation, causing Zhang Lu's power to collapse.

Moreover, his strategy when seizing Nan Zheng was also wonderful. He took advantage of the conflict between Zhang Wei and Yang Song and successfully deceived the city. The details in the middle were even more remarkable. It would be a pity for such a talent to make him an official in the county.

More importantly, Hanzhong's status is extraordinary. In the future, it will be the buttons of Bashu and Guanzhong. He must be controlled by key people.

Of course, the key person would not be Yang Song. He asked Yang Song to defend himself just to follow Liu Bang's strategy of using Yongchi. Even corrupt officials like Yang Song have forgiven him. What else can you worry about those northern officials who have always had selfish thoughts?

But the real power cannot be given to Yang Song. In the future, the real power office of Hanzhong County will not be the governor's office, but the governor's office, so Fazheng is the key figure of the governor's office.

As for the officials under their command, they will soon understand the tricks and needless to say anything.

Thinking of this, Liu Jing smiled faintly and said, "Cao Cao has four major strategists, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You and Cheng Yu. There are still people left now, so I also need four major strategists. I have Jia Xu and Sima Yi, and I still have two left. It's better to be Zhuge Liang. Unfortunately, he refused to assist me. Pang Tong could barely count one, so there is still one left. I don't know if Xiaozhi is willing to be one of them."

Fa Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the profound meaning of Liu Jing's request to join the army into Hanzhong. It turned out that he wanted to make himself one of the four major masters. Fa Zheng was both excited and expectant, and he quickly gave a deep gift, "Fa Zheng was willing to serve the provincial governor."

Liu Jing smiled again and said, "Although you are a military advisor, you have to stay in Hanzhong. Longhui is the governor of Hanzhong, in charge of military affairs. General Wu Yi will assist him in handling military affairs, but he lacks a chief minister who assists government affairs, so Xiaozhi will serve as the leader."

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At night, Liu Jing sat at the table and wrote a letter to his family. He not only wanted to write a letter to his wife Tao Zhan, but also to his second wife Shang Xiang.

In addition, he was very concerned about something. In terms of time, Xiao Bao's mother should have given birth, but she didn't know whether it was a son or a daughter. At this moment, Liu Jing's heart was filled with warmth. He always hoped that he could have a daughter, and I hope Xiao Bao's mother would not let him down this time.

At this time, the door rang, interrupting Liu Jing's thoughts. Liu Jing stopped writing and asked unhappily: "What's the matter?"

"Survey Governor, Liu Shenjun is here, there is news in Guanzhong"

The news made Liu Jing's unhappiness disappear immediately. He hurriedly said, "Please invite him in."

Liu Shenjun was naturally Liu Min. He was ordered to go on a mission to Longyou to establish contact with Ma Chao. Liu Jing was also very concerned about the situation in Guanzhong. This time he attacked Bashu and Hanzhong in large numbers, and Cao Cao did not send troops to interfere, which made him feel a little strange. Perhaps Cao Cao was unable to interfere in Bashu and Hanzhong for the time being, but no matter what, Cao Cao would not stand by and watch, and he suspected that there would be news in Guanzhong.

Just when he was worried, Liu Min arrived in time.

After a moment, Liu Min walked into the room with dust. He had just arrived from Guanzhong and brought news from Guanzhong and Ma Chao's request.

"See the governor of the state" Liu Min said in a deep manner.

Seeing that he was darker and thinner than last time, but in a very energetic state, Liu Jing smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work in Liu Jun, please sit down."

"Xiezhou Governor"

Liu Min sat down, took out a letter from her arms, and handed it to Liu Jing, "This is Ma Chao's handwritten letter, please check it out."

Liu Jing took the letter, but did not rush to open it. He looked at it and put it on the table, and asked with a smile: "What's the situation in Guanzhong? Has Cao Cao sent troops?"

Liu Min nodded, "Cao Cao sent troops very strangely. He ordered the Sili Captain Zhong Yao to conquer Zhang Lu. Zhong Yao led tens of thousands of troops to fight south, but he did not go to Wugu or Chencang Road, but went west out of Sanguan and Qishan Road to the south."

Liu Jing immediately stood up, took a map and spread it on the table, and looked carefully for a while. Qishan was located in the southwest of Tianshui County, but after leaving Sanguan, it was Ma Chao's territory, which was equivalent to using Ma Chao's territory. Liu Jing couldn't help but frowned, "This is strange, is Cao Cao trying to attack Guo again?"

Liu Min sighed, "The key is that Cao's army did not say hello to Ma Chao, and directly led the army out of Sanguan, saying that it was going south of Qishan, but the troops stationed in Tianshui County remained unmoved for ten days. Ma Chao could no longer bear it and decided to send troops to expel Cao's army."

Liu Jing picked up the letter on the table and opened it and read it. In the letter, as Liu Min said, Ma Chao decided to send troops to expel Cao's army, hoping that Liu Jing could also send troops to Guanzhong and attack Cao's army. Liu Jing pondered for a moment and asked again: "Has Yedu sent troops?"

"Yedu has also sent troops. Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan, the guardian of the west, to lead tens of troops from Hedong to Guanzhong, preparing to meet Zhong Yao."

After Liu Mingang finished speaking, another personal soldier outside the door reported: "You reported to the governor of the state, Li Fu sent someone from Yedu to send emergency information."

The news came almost at the same time. Liu Jing realized that Cao Cao was going to make a big move, so he hurriedly said: "Take it in."

After a moment, the personal soldiers hurried in with a young man. The young man knelt down on one knee and took out a letter and submitted it, "Send a letter to the provincial governor on the order of Li Zongjun."

Liu Jing took the letter and read it. He nodded and asked again: "How is Li Zhanjun now in Yedu?"

"Reporting to the provincial governor, Li Zhanjun has established an intelligence network in Yedu, with more than 80 subordinates, and it is operating very smoothly."

Liu Jing smiled with relief. Li Fu was indeed very capable and did not disappoint his expectations. He immediately ordered his side, "Reward him ten taels of gold and take him down to rest."

The "Xiezhou Muslim Reward" gave a gift to the sender, and withdrew with his personal soldiers.

At this time, Liu Jing glanced at Liu Min with anticipation and said with a smile: "Wait a moment, I'll find another person to discuss."

He said to his personal soldiers again: "Go and invite Mr. Fa"

After the personal soldiers took the order, Liu Jing turned around and said to Liu Min: "Mr. Fa is also a famous minister in Yizhou, Fa Xiaozhi, who has talent for the world. Unfortunately, Liu Zhang is incompetent and does not know talents. In the future, Fa Xiaozhi will become my deputy military advisor and military advisor."

Liu Min said with gratitude: "The state governor can make full use of his talents, which is the key to our success. I hope that the state governor will further promote talents without any restrictions. We will definitely surpass Cao Cao, become the world's number one force, and ultimately unify the world."

"You are right. Talent is the foundation of prosperity. I have ordered Xiangyang to prepare for the examination for talent and seek talent from the world this fall. Scholars in the world, regardless of their high or low status, can come to Xiangyang for examinations, and only talent can win the scholars."

Fa Zheng was temporarily stationed in the military yamen, several courtyards from Liu Jing. Soon he followed his personal soldiers to Liu Jing's courtyard. "Mr. Fa is here," the personal soldiers reported outside the door.

"Please come in"

Fa Zheng walked into the room, bowed to Liu Jing, and looked at Liu Min again. He didn't know Liu Min, "This is it."

Liu Jing smiled and introduced to him: "This is Liu Shenjun, who is known as the No. 1 envoy of our Jingzhou. You have heard of it."

"Can it be the nephew of Liu Biejia, the former Jingzhou?"

Liu Min bowed and bowed, "It's the younger generation Liu Min. I have heard of Mr. Fa's name for him. I hope Mr. Cheng will help me more."

"Where is Liu's young man who is successful? I heard that even Cao Cao praised him for joining the army for his courage and is worthy of being a rising star."

The two of them were humble and Liu Jing asked them to sit down. Then he introduced the situation on Ma Chao to Fa Zheng and finally said: "Just just now, Li Fu sent someone to send an urgent letter saying that Cao Cao ordered Cao Pi to take charge of government affairs for the time being and ordered Cheng Yu to assist Cao Pi, which reminded me of Cao Cao's southern expedition two years ago."

Fa Zheng nodded, "It is obvious that Cao Cao is preparing for the Western Expedition, but I think his goal is not Hanzhong, but Ma Chao."

Liu Min suddenly realized, "So is Zhong Yao going to send troops to Tianshui County to deliberately force Ma Chao to rebel?"

Liu Jing sneered, "It has been two months since I sent troops to Bashu. Cao Cao sent troops to attack Hanzhong. This was obviously a pretending gesture. He didn't dare to compete with me for Hanzhong. Instead, he destroyed Ma Chao first and blocked Guanzhong, and did not allow me to go north again. However, Cao Cao did not expect that I would take Hanzhong so quickly."

Speaking of this, Liu Jing glanced at Fa Zheng and said, "The problem now is that Ma Chao invited me to go north and attack Guanzhong. Do you think I can agree?"

Fa Zheng lowered his head and pondered for a long time. He shook his head, "Frankly speaking, I don't agree with joining forces with Ma Chao."

"Why?" Liu Jing asked with bright eyes at Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng smiled and said, "I personally think that the biggest resistance of the Jingzhou army to go north to Guanzhong is actually not Cao Cao, but Ma Chao."

The room was silent, and even Liu Min was in deep thought. Liu Jing walked to the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the deep night outside the window. Of course, he understood Fa Zheng's meaning. If he sent troops to seize Guanzhong with Ma Chao, who would be him, Liu Jing or Ma Chao.

It is obvious that Ma Chao is the leader, he only assists, and the big head of interests naturally belongs to Ma Chao. Most of the land in Guanzhong will be occupied by Ma Chao, which completely destroys his original intention to seize Guanzhong and lays the root of disaster for the final internal strife between him and Ma Chao.

Even if he takes ten thousand steps and Ma Chao generously gives him Guanzhong, then when he goes east to the Central Plains in the future, Ma Chao will be a knife on his back. Will he stab him hard when his defense is empty? This will become his Western disaster. But if he takes action to eradicate Ma Chao first, wouldn't it be that Liu Jing lost the heart of the whole world with his grudges?

So Fa Zheng was completely correct. His biggest resistance to going north to Guanzhong was not Cao Cao, but Ma Chao.

"What should Xiaozhi think I should do?" Liu Jing asked in a deep voice.

"What I mean is to keep the troops in motion and use Cao Cao's hands to eliminate Ma Chao."

Liu Min's eyes showed a look of worry and asked, "But... we have an alliance with Ma Chao. If we remain unmoved, will we lose the reputation of the governor of the state?"

Fa Zheng smiled slightly, "This is very simple, there are many reasons, such as the battle in Yizhou has not yet ended, the seven counties of Southern Yizhou have not yet been settled, Yong Kai and others have raised troops to enter Ba County, etc. These are all facts. The provincial governor can go to conquer Yong Kai and the southern counties of Yizhou first. Anyway, Ma Chao is not asking for help, and there is no moral problem, so Ma Chao will not persist anymore."
Chapter completed!