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After a moment, Ma Dai quickly walked into the big tent. It was indeed a coincidence. Ma Dai had just arrived in Hanzhong and happened to hear that Liu Jing led his army to inspect Hanzhong, so he hurried to the military camp.

This time, Ma Dai came to Hanzhong to borrow food. Ma Chao fled to Tianshui County, killed Wei Kang, captured Ji County, and claimed to be the general of the Western Expedition. At the same time, he persuaded the Di people to lead Yang Qianwan to support him, and obtained tens of thousands of troops. However, the army had a serious shortage of food, so he had to send his brother Ma Dai to Hanzhong for help.

Ma Dai stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "I will meet the governor of the state."

This was the first time Liu Jing saw Ma Dai. When he saw Ma Dai, he was tall and burly, and looked quite handsome. He couldn't help but liked him very much and smiled: "General Ma, please get up."

Ma Dai stood up, took out Ma Chao's handwritten letter, and presented it to Liu Jing, "This is my elder brother's handwritten letter, please check it out."

Liu Jing took the letter and looked at it. It turned out that Ma Chao had received support from the Di people and had tens of thousands of troops. This made Liu Jing a little unhappy. He originally expected Cao Cao to get rid of Ma Chao's power, but he didn't expect that Cao Cao was so ineffective that Ma Chao would rekindle again.

Liu Jing nodded and smiled and said, "Meng Qi can make a comeback again. This is a good thing. I feel deeply guilty for not being able to support Guanzhong in time. If food can compensate for my guilt, I am very happy. Since Meng Qi has spoken, of course I will support it with all my strength."

Liu Jing pondered for a while and smiled, "Fifty thousand stones of grain are enough to express my sincerity."

As soon as this mouth opened, not only Wu Yi next to him was shocked, but Zhao Yun's face changed slightly, 50,000 s of grain, which gave him more than 50,000 s of grain. Ma Dai was even more ecstatic. They originally planned to borrow 10,000 s of grain, but Liu Jing gave it five times, which made him very surprised. You must know that the so-called borrowing is just a statement, and they had no intention of paying it back at all.

Ma Dai was not sure, and asked tentatively: "We may not be able to pay back the 50,000 stones of grain."

Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled happily: "We two are allies, so why not talk about the word "return"? This 50,000 stone of grain will be considered as I will support you."

Ma Dai was grateful in his heart and gave a deep courtesy, "We are grateful for the kindness and righteousness of the provincial governor."

"No need, in addition, Hanzhong lacks livestock and grain transportation. Can you ask your army to send a team of mules and horses to Hanzhong to transport grain transportation?"

"I understand. I will go back and report to my brother and arrange for mules and horse transportation."

Ma Dai was anxious and said goodbye in a hurry. As soon as Ma Dai left, Wu Yi said anxiously: "The provincial governor promised 50,000 shi of grain. This will greatly expand Ma Chao's strength and will not be beneficial to our future victory of Guanlong."

Liu Jing smiled faintly, "If Ma Chao had sufficient mules and horses, he would not be short of food anymore. How much transportation capacity could he take out is up to two thousand mules and horses. One mule carries stone grain and travels in the mountains and ridges. It will take at least one and a half months to travel back and forth, but only six thousand stones of grain. How long will Cao Cao allow him? Even if I promise him 100,000 stones of grain, why should I do?"

Everyone reacted immediately and burst into laughter. Even Zhao Yun couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect this, and I drew a cake to satisfy my hunger. Ma Chao finally had to be happy."

Wu Yi next to him smiled and said, "It's better to detain his mule and horse team, just treat it as compensation for his borrowing of food."

Everyone laughed again, and at this time, Liu Jing ordered: "Go and invite Liu Min."

After a moment, Liu Min, a military officer, hurried into the tent, bowed and bowed, "See the governor of the state"

Liu Jing pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "If you have two things, please join the army and go there."

"Prince of the State, please give me instructions"

"One is you and Ma Dai go to Ji County and tell Ma Chao that I will send troops to Guanzhong on the Eastern Front to relieve his pressure. At the same time, I will draw a detailed map of the marching in Qishan. Secondly, when you come back, you will take a detour to Guanzhong to meet Cao Cao and send me a letter to Cao Cao."

"There is a good minister"

Liu Jing immediately wrote a handwritten letter to Cao Cao and handed it to Liu Min, and then said to Zhao Yun and Wu Yi: "Although I plan to send troops after the spring plow next year, the way of military strategy lies in the fact that the virtual and the reality are difficult to determine, so you still need to send troops to Guanzhong on a small scale, go to Chencang Road or Wu Road to harass Cao's army, and send scouts to draw the terrain."

Zhao Yun and Wu Yi looked at each other and nodded together, "We understand, please don't worry, the governor of the state."

Liu Jing inspected the sky in Hanzhong, then left Hanzhong, followed the cargo ship to Yong and returned to Xiangyang. It was late August, and the time for open recruitment of scholars in Jing and Yi provinces was getting closer and closer.

Nanyang County, Wancheng, and these days, Wancheng has gradually become lively. The most obvious is that the number of scholars on the streets increases. Scholars from Guanzhong, Central Plains, and Hebei and Hedong counties gather in the south. Wancheng is their must-pass place. Their ultimate goal is Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and Nanyang is just a place for scholars to transfer.

At this time, there were still twenty days before Jingzhou openly recruiting scholars. It is said that all scholars who went to Xiangyang to participate in recruiting scholars will be free of food and accommodation in Xiangyang, which further inspired the great confidence of poor families. For more than a month, there have been endless crowds of trainees from the north, and there have been more than 80,000 taxis from Nanyang alone to Xiangyang, which is unprecedented.

At this time, Cao Cao was fighting Ma Chao in Guanzhong and had no time to inquire about such large-scale migration of scholars. In fact, governments in various places could not stop them unless they could also be like Jingzhou, no matter how poor or humble they were.

At noon that day, a carriage slowly drove into Wancheng accompanied by several horse-riding entourages. The curtain was raised, revealing the face of a middle-aged man. His eyes were complicated to look at the young soldiers coming and going on the street. The vigorous vitality of the soldiers made him secretly jealous. He was nearly sixty years old now, but he didn't know how many years his career would be.

This middle-aged man was Kuai Yue who followed Cao's army to Yedu in the tenth year of Jian'an. He served as Chang Shaoqing in the court. Last month, the court officially appointed him as the Bianjia of Jingzhou. This was actually Liu Jing's request. After Cao Cao weighed the pros and cons, he also thought that Kuai Yue was more suitable to be an intermediary. He needed to build a bridge of communication with Liu Jing. Kuai Yue was obviously the most suitable candidate.

The carriage drove into Wancheng and slowly stopped in front of a house. The plaque on the gate of the house said the word Deng Mansion. This is the main house of the Deng family in Nanyang. Among the prominent families in Nanyang, the only Huang and Deng families moved to Xiangyang for refuge and now rely on the Pang family.

The Deng family is divided into two parts, one in Nanyang and one in Xinye, Xiangyang, with Nanyang as the main one and Xinye as the auxiliary one.

Currently, the head of the Deng family is Deng Yi, who once served as the governor of Jingzhou. Deng Yi was appointed as the governor of Nanyang by Cao Cao, but he only took office for half a year and returned home after he was sick. He is now at home.

Kuai Yue had a good relationship with him when he was in Jingzhou. This time he returned to Jingzhou, Kuai Yue felt a little uneasy, so he came to visit Deng Yi first.

The carriage was waiting outside the mansion for a while, and a young man hurriedly came out of the mansion. He was Deng Yi's second son Deng Hong, who was only over 20 years old this year and was in his prime.

He stepped forward and bowed and said, "I have been waiting for a long time. My father is inconvenient to his legs and feet, so I asked my nephew to take Shi's uncle into the mansion."

Kuai Yue knew that Deng Yi had a leg disabled and had difficulty walking, so he nodded and smiled, "Then I'll have a good nephew."

Kuai Yue got out of the carriage and followed Deng Hong into the mansion. He walked into a courtyard and saw Deng Yizheng looking at him with a smile in an octagonal pavilion in the courtyard.

"Difficult, are you safe?"

Kuai Yue walked into the pavilion with a big laugh and bowed, "I seem to be in good spirits and enjoy a happy life at home."

Deng Yi had a problem with his legs and could only walk slowly with a cane. He sat down most of the time. He apologized: "I can't greet my brother, please sit down."

Kuai Yue sat down and a maid served them tea. Kuai Yue sighed and said, "Time flies so fast, two years have passed in a flash."

"A lot of things happened just like yesterday, but Jingzhou has changed a lot."

Deng Yi felt very sorry. He had a bad leg. Liu Jing sent someone to invite him to Xiangyang to become an official several times, but he had to politely decline.

"Your legs still cannot be gone?" Kuai Yue asked with concern.

Deng Yi shook his head, "Maybe it is related to age. Now he can only walk with a cane at most. In the past, he could walk for one or two miles. I am old."

"My brother is two years younger than me. I want an old horse to stay in the stable. I go to Jingzhou to become an official. How can a good brother talk about old age?"

Speaking of this, Kuai Yue glanced at Deng Hong next to him, Deng Hong bowed and retreated tactfully.

Only Kuai Yue and Deng Yi were left in the room. Kuai Yue lowered his voice and said, "I heard that Jingzhou's non-stop service is a false position, so this matter can be taken seriously."

This is something that Kuai Yue has always been very concerned about. He didn't know much about the situation in Jingzhou, and no one in the court knew the specific situation. It was just that Liu Jing had changed the system significantly, which made Kuai Yue inexplicably worried. This time he passed by Nanyang, and he came to visit Deng Yi specifically for this matter.

Deng Yi knew Kuai Yue's uneasiness very well, so he smiled and said, "There was indeed a great power transfer in Jingzhou, but it had nothing to do with Yi's appointment as Jingzhou. This is because Jingzhou annexed Yizhou and Hanzhong, and it is necessary to rebalance the interests. This is normal, don't worry about Yi."

"I don't know how it changed"

"The main purpose is to transfer the power of the state yamen to the General's Mansion of the Cavalry. The state yamen is still there, but it is just a false sign."

Kuai Yue was stunned, "Then I, a Jingzhou destiny, is still a false position in name but not real."

Deng Yi looked at him deeply and sighed in his heart. He found that Kuai Yue was a little different from before. He was so experienced and keen. Many things were not needed to be said at all. He could understand them with a hint, but now he seemed a little slow.

"Does Liu Jing think that a minister from the court will take charge of the power of Jingzhou?" Deng Yi finally couldn't help but remind Kuai Yue in a straightforward way.

Kuai Yue was silent. It was not that he didn't understand, but that he felt a little lucky. After all, Liu Jing personally named him to go to Jingzhou, and he had a friendship with Liu Jing in the past. Many Kuai family brothers, including his brother Kuai Liang and nephew Kuai Qi, have served in Jingzhou. He felt a little lucky in his heart. Perhaps Liu Jing would also give him important tasks.

But Deng Yi's frankness and frankness shattered his last hope, which made Kuai Yue extremely depressed. After a while, he sighed softly, "I took the wrong step at the beginning, but I took the wrong step at the end."
Chapter completed!