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Meng Huo sighed, "In a battle, General Wang is really a brave general."

He also presented the sword to Liu Jing respectfully, "If there is such a powerful general in the state, why worry about the injustice of the world?"

Although Meng Huo's words were flattering, Liu Jing was willing to hear such respectful words. He took the sword and smiled and said, "Although it is a bet, the Barbarian King is a guest from afar. How can I not express my feelings?"

He took the reins of the green horse and handed it to Meng Huo, "I will give this horse to the Barbarian King."

Meng Huo was overjoyed. The southern border did not produce war horses, and only had some animal power. He had always dreamed of getting a war horse. He thought there was no hope of losing a bet, but he didn't expect that Liu Jing gave him the BMW. He was grateful and bowed repeatedly, "Meng Huo remembered the kindness of the state's governor in his heart."

At this time, Mrs. Zhurong took off a string of pearl necklace from her neck and bowed to Liu Jing, "Thank you, the provincial master for giving Ma Zhixiang. This is my gift to Mrs. Zhou Mu. Please store it."

Meng Huo was secretly shocked. This string of pearls was the treasure of the barbarians and was one of the identity signs of the wife of the barbarian kings in history. His wife actually presented it to Liu Jing.

He hurriedly winked at his wife, but Mrs. Zhurong seemed to be unaware. Meng Huo was helpless. Since the wife had already offered her, Meng Huo couldn't say anything else, so he had to sigh inwardly. It was a pity in his heart that his wife actually sent the bright moon pearl out.

Liu Jing did not realize the preciousness of this string of pearls, and he felt extremely cold when he started. On the hot summer day, he felt very comfortable. Seeing that Mrs. Zhurong was quite sincere, he accepted it with a smile and asked her to give her a gift tomorrow.

Liu Jing looked at Shichen and laughed at Meng Huo, "I still have to go to the military camp. We will meet officially tomorrow, so I will say goodbye first."

Meng Huo and his wife sent Liu Jing out of the military camp. Looking at Liu Jing's carriage away, Meng Huo's face sank, glared at his wife fiercely, turned around and walked towards the tent.

Mrs. Zhurong entered the bill with him, and she also said angrily: "The Mingyue Pearl is something left by my mother. I have the right to deal with it. It is my intention to present it to the wife of the governor of the state. Why do you make an angry fire at me?"

Meng Huo said calmly: "I'm not angry about Mingyue Baozhu, but he wants to recruit five thousand barbarian soldiers. I don't want to agree, why do you embarrass me?"

Meng Huo had the opportunity to become the Barbarian King because he married Mrs. Zhurong, which was a bit like a son-in-law. Therefore, among the familiar barbarians, Mrs. Zhurong has a high status. In the eyes of the barbarians, she is the real queen. It can be said that Meng Huo was just the nominal barbarian king, while Mrs. Zhurong was the real king. It was just that outsiders didn’t know this, including Liu Jing.

It is precisely for this reason that Mrs. Zhurong has a great say in her voice, and she can express her opinion directly without her husband's consent. This is why Meng Huo was embarrassed just now.

There are no outsiders in the tent now, and Mrs. Zhurong doesn’t have to take care of her husband’s face. It’s okay for Meng Huo to not mention the barbarians. When it comes to this matter, Mrs. Zhurong suddenly became angry and stared at her husband and shouted: “Do you think I don’t know what you think, you just want to keep your throne, but you don’t care about our barbarians’ life or death? How many years have the barbarians been in poverty? Who has been in charge of our lives or death in the central court? Finally, a Han leader who cares about the barbarians, but you only consider your own status. Are you worthy of my father?”

Meng Huo was angry when he saw his wife, he softened and sighed, "Because I know Liu Jing's thoughts, he wanted to sinicize the barbarians and completely incorporate the barbarian territory into the Han territory. I am thinking about the future of the barbarians, but you don't appreciate it, hey."

Mrs. Zhurong gradually calmed down and pondered for a while, saying, "You don't know how Liu Jing massacred Shengman and Heiyi. He gave you the horse and proposed to improve the lives of the people. This is to win us over. If we are not tactful and do not agree to his request, we may have the same fate as Shengman. Besides, we came to Chengdu for a pilgrimage this time to expand our power to the north of the Jingwan County. If you don't make concessions, how could he agree to me that you might as well give him this favor, and then you don't have to pledge your child in Chengdu. Isn't this good?"

Meng Huo heard what his wife said make sense. He thought about it and really didn't dare not refuse to agree. After a while, he sighed, "Okay, tomorrow I will use five thousand barbarians as conditions to exchange for our power to go north. I hope Liu Jing can sign me as the guard of the river."

Liu Jing entered the city by carriage. He asked his personal soldiers to find Wang Ping. Wang Ping urged him to come forward and bowed in front of the car window, saying, "The state governor, I am not a good job."

Liu Jing smiled and said, "What is the Warrior card like, let me see it."

Wang Ping took out the barbarian warrior card, handed it to Liu Jing, and scratched his head and said, "I heard that the barbarian has a total of five warrior cards, which is one of them. Although I lost to me, I am not a barbarian, so I still cannot enjoy the status of a warrior."

Liu Jing looked at the Warriors card. It was actually made of turtle shells and carved with two dragons. It was quite exquisite. He returned the Warriors card to Wang Ping and smiled: "I plan to set up the Five Armies of the Tooth Gate, and I am going to appoint you as one of the five Tooth Gate Commanders to command 5,000 barbarians, so that your Warriors card will be useful."

Yamen Army is Liu Jing's direct army, and Yamen Army is the direct general. Although the military position is not special, it is Liu Jing's confidant and has a bright future. Wang Ping was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed, "I am willing to serve the governor of the state."

However, Wang Ping was still a little regretful. The governor of the Zhou Dynasty actually asked him to command five thousand barbarians, which slightly dissatisfied his wishes.

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The establishment of the Yamen Army has always been a practice of the major princes. It is mainly to ensure the mobilization of emergency wars and protect the safety of the princes. Most of the troops are between 10,000 and 20,000. For example, Cao Cao had the Wanya Army, Liu Bei also had the 5,000 Yamen Army, and Sun Quan had the 20,000 directly affiliated troops.

Liu Jing has not established a direct army so far, mainly because he firmly controls the military power and there is no need to establish a direct army for the time being. However, since the failure of the first Northern Expedition, Liu Jing began to consider this matter. According to the general princes' practice, he used 10% of the soldiers with the total military power to establish a direct army.

Now there are 200,000 Han troops, that is, 20,000 Yamen Army can be established. According to Liu Jing's idea, five armies are established, namely cavalry, heavy armor infantry, barbarian crossbowmen, heavy shield army and eagle attack army.

At the same time, five tooth goalkeepers were appointed, the cavalry tooth goalkeeper was Ma Dai, the heavy armored infantry was naturally commanded by Liu Hu, and the Eagle Strike Army was Liu Zheng. Today he decided to use Wang Ping to command the barbarian crossbow soldiers, but in the end, the tooth goalkeeper of the heavy shield army could not find a suitable candidate.

"Is the provincial governor going to the military camp now?"

The question of the guard led Li Qing interrupted Liu Jing's thoughts. Li Qing knew his lord's habits very well. He never went to the military camp in the evening, either to the general's mansion or to his own mansion. Especially recently, the wife was in poor health, and the governor of the state would care more about her wife's condition.

Sure enough, Liu Jing looked up at the sky. The western sky was covered with crimson clouds. He shook his head, "If you don't go to the military camp today, go home."

The carriage turned around and drove towards Liu Jing's mansion.

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In Fengyi Pavilion, Liu Jing was having dinner with his family. Fengyi Pavilion is a cui Pavilion, about a meter high and built by the water. It is located in the northwest of the lake. The cool breeze on the lake makes the attic particularly cool, and the sultry and heat are swept away. This is also a summer resort pavilion built by Liu Zhang to spend the summer. Unfortunately, Yizhou was just built and the owner was changed.

A large area of ​​special plants were planted under the gulf, so that the Fengyi Pavilion was free from mosquitoes and removed a big trouble. The Pavilion was not big, only two meters in size, and four maids were waiting for the children standing around.

Liu Jing likes the whole family to have dinner together. The table is surrounded by a small circle and everyone sits next to each other. This is also the way for ordinary families to have a family meal. It is called gathering sitting, while the wealthy families sit in a scattered seat, requiring a single table to sit alone, each seat is one meter apart and spreads on all sides.

The reason why we gathered together was because there were not many ingredients and we could not make one serving for each person, so we gathered together to pick up chopsticks and receive a pot of vegetables. This was the same as the way of dining in later generations. Liu Jing sat together at home to increase family affection. Because the mansion was large and every wife and concubine had a courtyard, there were not many contacts in normal times. If we sat far away during meals, this kind of family affection would be really alienated.

So Liu Jing used small families to sit together, but the dishes were served for each person. Liu Jing sat in the main seat, and his wife Tao Zhan sat on the first place on the left. She had a little effect in protecting her baby, and she also attended a family banquet today.

The first one on the right is Sun Shangxiang's position. Although she returned to Jiangdong to visit relatives, she was still in the position. The second one on the right is Xiao Baoniang, and the wet nurse sat behind their mother with her two children.

Cai Shaoyu shouldn't have appeared in Fengyi Pavilion. It was the rule of Liu Jing's mansion that he would not enter the cabinet. However, Tao Zhan understood Liu Jing's thoughts and specially added a seat to Cai Shaoyu next to him. Everyone, including the maid, knew it very well, but Cai Shaoyu himself did not.

The dining table was quite lively. Liu Jing took out the pearl necklace that Mrs. Zhu Rong gave to her and smiled and said, "This is a gift given to you by the wife of the Barbarian King. It seems quite cold. I'll accept it for you."

Tao Zhan is a daughter of a wealthy family. She is knowledgeable and doesn't care about ordinary treasures. However, she is attracted by the string of pearls. The pearls are rounded, with a total of eighteen pieces, wrapped in gold wire. She picked them up and looked at the light carefully, and said in surprise: "Do you know what this is?"

Liu Jing was also curious and said, "I thought it was a pearl in the water, but I found that it was not. It was actually rounded manually, and it was always very cold, as if it was a rare thing."

Tao Zhan sighed softly, "I know there is a rare strange stone in Manjiang, called stone spirit, and the barbarians are called Moon Stone."

Cai Shaoyu next to him smiled and said, "I also know that there are many caves, all kinds of shapes and strange things. The White Dragon Cave in Nanjun is. I have been there, and all kinds of stones are very beautiful."

Tao Zhan shook his head. Stones are very common. The stone essence I mentioned is the essence that has been nurtured for hundreds of thousands of years. Not every stone has it. It is probably only one stone that has a little bit of stone essence, just like rice grains. A manager of the Tao family bought a little bit in Manjiang for a high price. More than a dozen soybeans were inlaid into bracelets. My grandfather presented it to the old lady of Jiangdong Wu, and it was Shangxiang's aunt."

Liu Jing became even more strange and smiled and said, "It sounds very rare, but I see that Mrs. Zhurong took it down for me without hesitation. I don't take it seriously."

Tao Zhan sighed, "This is a unique string in the world. The barbarians are called the Mingyue Pearl. They are worn by the barbarian king's wife for generations. They are a symbol of the king's wife and can be called their national treasure. She actually gave this treasure to the general. I really don't know how much favor the general gave her."
Chapter completed!