Soldiers come to the world

Ma Chao ran away all night, and it was getting brighter. They stopped their horses by a small stream. Ma Chao looked back. Except for Ma Dai and Pound who followed him, there were only five or six soldiers following him. When the whole army was wiped out, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, feeling sad, "This is God who wants to kill me. The world is so big, where is there room for me to stand upright?"

Pang De stepped forward to persuade him: "Dihu chief Yang Wanwan has always had a good relationship with the governor. It is better to go to him, or go to Xiliang to join Nangong Suo and borrow troops from him to seize Wuwei County."

Ma Chao shook his head, "Yang Wanwan is a hypocrite, last time he only gave me soldiers, but not horses. It can be seen that, this time, my entire army is wiped out, how can he pay attention to me again? As for Nangong Suo, that person is even more arrogant In the first place, I will go to him in desperation, and he will definitely bind me to Cao Cao in exchange for benefits."

At this moment, Ma Dai stepped forward and said, "I have a word to say, I wonder if elder brother is willing to listen to it."

Ma Chao sighed, "If there's anything I can't listen to now, just say it!"

"If elder brother wants to continue to be a prince, I have nothing to say, but if elder brother is willing to put aside his desire to dominate, I think it is a good choice to join Liu Jing. Liu Jing was unable to send troops to fight with elder brother in Guanzhong. , he must have a guilty heart, I don't think he will treat his brother lightly."

In fact, Ma Chao just wanted to join Liu Jing. He knew that Liu Jing's ambition was in the world. If he could help him seize the world, he would also let him lead Xiliang. This is indeed a good choice. Thinking of this, Ma Chao asked Pound , "Would Ling Ming be willing to come with me to seek refuge with Liu Jing?"

Pang De nodded, "I follow the governor, wherever the governor goes, I will go there?"

"Ok!"[

Ma Chao finally made up his mind, turned his head and said to several soldiers: "Rest for an hour, let's go to Hanzhong!"

A few days later, Ma Chao and his party entered Nanzheng City with a large group of merchants. They disguised themselves as merchants not to enter Nanzheng, but to pass the checkpoint of Cao Jun in Qishan.

It was already winter, the wind was cold, and the streets of Nanzheng City were empty. Ma Chao bid farewell to the merchants and found a hotel. Everyone sat down to discuss countermeasures. Ma Chao didn't want to go to Zhao Yun, he relied on his identity , wanted to find Liu Jing directly, but did not know whether Liu Jing was in Chengdu or Xiangyang.

At this time, the shopkeeper came in with a pot of hot water and said with a smile, "Masters, wash your face first!"

Ma Chao asked with a smile, "May I ask the shopkeeper, whether Liu Zhoumu is in Chengdu or Xiangyang?"

The shopkeeper chuckled: "Zhou Mu is neither in Chengdu nor Xiangyang. If you want to find him, it's a coincidence that he is in the city."

Ma Chao was overjoyed. It turned out that Liu Jing was in the city. That would be great. He thanked the shopkeeper, and then he said to Ma Dai: "Second brother, go to the barracks to find out Liu Jing's words. If he doesn't want to take us in, then we will come again." Go to Jiangdong."

Seeing that his elder brother was worried, Ma Dai smiled and said, "Don't worry, elder brother! Liu Jing is a man with a heart. If he can't tolerate his elder brother, why would he fight for the world?"

Ma Chao sighed slightly, "I hope so!"

Liu Jing arrived in Nanzheng City three days ago. He forced Zhao Yun to go back to Chengdu to visit his relatives, and he temporarily replaced Zhao Yun. He did not live in the city, but lived in a military camp outside the city.

At this time, he was inspecting the refugee camp outside Nanzheng City, and listened to the report of Shi Fazheng, the governor of Hanzhong, on the resettlement of the disaster victims in Guanzhong.

This is due to the "tide" of disaster victims caused by the Xiliang coalition forces attacking Guanzhong a few months ago. Nearly 20 people from more than [-] households fled into Hanzhong. In fact, Fazheng and the others have already done a lot of resettlement work, and they only reported to Liu Jing today.

The refugee camp covers an area of ​​about 20 mu, and thousands of large tents have been set up. When the number of victims was the largest, [-] victims were resettled here, but most of them have returned to their hometowns now, and a small number remain. It also looked very empty. After walking through five or six large tents in a row, they were all empty, and only soldiers were cleaning up and burying the garbage.

Fazheng reported to Liu Jing: "I told Zhou Mu that 6% of the more than [-] refugees have returned to their hometowns, and there are still [-] to [-]. Ministers and officials have repeatedly mobilized them to go back, but there are still many People don’t want to go back.”[

"Why is that?" Liu Jing stopped and asked.

"These victims said that Hanzhong is stable and there is no war. Anyway, they are renting land when they go back. They might as well just rent land in Hanzhong. About 3 to [-] people have this idea."

Liu Jing frowned. He didn't want Guanzhong to become thousands of miles away. After he captured Guanzhong in the future, he would not be able to establish a capital in Guanzhong. He still hoped that the people in Guanzhong would return to their hometown. At this time, he saw a large tent that seemed to be living in Someone walked over directly.

This is a medium-sized tent, which houses a large family, about ten people. The tent is separated by a curtain, and the men and women live on one side. At this time, the men are all helping to collect food, and there are only six or seven people in the big tent. "Women", children and the elderly, they were scared to hide in the corner when they saw a large group of people coming in under the black crowd. An old man in his 70s and [-]s came up to him, "May I ask who are you looking for?"

Fazheng quickly introduced to him: "This is our state pastor, and I came to see you."

The old man knew Fazheng and knew that he was a high-ranking official in Hanzhong, but this young official turned out to be the state shepherd. The old man was so frightened that he knelt down immediately, "I don't know the state shepherd is here, please pardon me!"

Liu Jing helped him up, said with a smile, "Don't be nervous, old man, I just came to ask about the situation, is it convenient?"

"Convenient! Convenient!"

The old man hurriedly cleared out a place, spread out a mat, and asked Liu Jing to sit down. Liu Jing was not polite, and sat down directly. Just accompany me, and the rest are waiting outside the tent."

Everyone retreated one after another, only Fazheng and Wu Yi were left to accompany Liu Jing, and they also sat down behind Liu Jing, Liu Jing asked the old man with a smile, "Excuse me, what is your name, old man? Where is he from?"

"Xiaomin's surname is Liu, a native of Baqiao Township, Chang'an. I brought my two sons, a nephew, and their wives and children. There are 14 people in my family. I fled the war and came to Hanzhong. My nephew and two grandsons went to help the government. After living, there will only be a bunch of old and young in the big tent."

"It turns out that the old man is also surnamed Liu, we are from the same family!"

Liu Jing smiled, and said to Fazheng: "It's too crowded for fourteen people to squeeze into one tent. Now there are many large tents that are vacant, so don't worry about putting them away. Even if they are evenly distributed, it is best to have one tent." A couple live in a big tent with their children."

In fact, Fa just wanted to "force" these disaster victims back to Guanzhong, so they didn't want to improve their living conditions, but now that Liu Jing asked, he could only nod in agreement, "I understand, I will send someone to rearrange immediately."

The old man was very grateful, and quickly kowtowed in salute, "Thank you Zhou Mu for your concern, Xiaomin is very grateful!"

Liu Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "But I also want to ask, don't the old man's family plan to return to Guanzhong?"

The old man scratched his head embarrassingly and said with a smile: "To be honest with Zhou Mu, it is more profitable to be in Hanzhong. We don't want to go back."

"Why?" Liu Jing asked curiously, "What is profitable?"

"That's right. We have inquired that the land rent in Hanzhong is two buckets of wheat per mu, plus six liters of tax, while the land rent in Guanzhong is two buckets and five liters per mu. The tax is the same. Just earned five liters of food."

Liu Jing couldn't help laughing, "But Guanzhong has its own house, but Hanzhong doesn't have one, and it costs a lot of money to build a house. No matter how you calculate this account, Guanzhong is in favor of it!"

The old man shook his head, "I've also asked, if you rent a hundred acres of land, the owner can provide you with houses and cattle, and the same is true for renting official land, and the shabby houses in Guanzhong are not sheltered from the wind and rain, so you basically bring all your belongings. More importantly, there may be another war someday, and those deserted soldiers are ten times more vicious than bandits, so I really can't afford to bother."

After Liu Jing spoke for a while, he smiled wryly and said, "Old man really knows how to settle accounts, please excuse me!"

He got up and saluted, and then backed out. The old man felt uneasy, not knowing whether it was a blessing or a curse to say this to Zhou Mu.

Walking out of the camp, Liu Jing walked for a while in thought and silence, and then slowly stopped. He said slowly to Fazheng: "In the future, we still have to find a way to let the people in Guanzhong move back to Guanzhong slowly, but not now, wait until the time comes. We won Guanzhong and started to implement it, not only the new victims, but also the old victims should be persuaded to go back, Hanzhong has too many people.”

Fazheng smiled wryly in his heart. It wasn't that the population in Hanzhong was too large, but that there were only so many people. When the population in Hanzhong increased, the population in Guanzhong would naturally decrease. The state shepherd wanted to relocate the population to fill Guanzhong. He quickly agreed, "My minister remembers that." !"

At this time, a soldier rushed over and saluted Liu Jing, "Report to the state shepherd. General Ma Dai is waiting for the state shepherd in the barracks, saying that he has important matters to discuss with the state shepherd."

Liu Jing nodded. Ma Dai is here, so Ma Chao should be here too. He immediately ordered: "Return to the barracks immediately!"

In the side tent of the barracks, Ma Dai was uneasily drinking a bowl of hot soup. The soldiers told him that the state shepherd had gone to inspect the camp for the victims and asked him to sit for a while. There is no bottom, the key brother Ma Chao is also a prince, not an ordinary general, can Liu Jing really accept them?

Or, even if they are accepted, what kind of status will they be given?The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, and he couldn't sit still.

At this moment, footsteps came from outside, and a soldier announced, "The state shepherd is here!"

Ma Dai hurriedly got up, only to see Liu Jing strode into the camp, and asked with a smile, "Where is General Meng Qi?"

Ma Dai felt a little relieved, at least there is no problem staying, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to salute, "Join the state animal husbandry!"

"So it's General Ma Dai. Didn't your brother come to Hanzhong?" Liu Jing asked with a smile.

Ma Dai suddenly had a realization in his heart that Liu Jing must know everything about the war that took place in Tianshui County, otherwise how would he know that his brother fled to Hanzhong?

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