Chapter 526 Untitled
In Jingzhou, even though the direction of Fancheng was already full of enthusiasm, the center of the political and commercial business of Jingzhou was still so lively. In Jingzhou, Liu Mang had already attended the seventh banquet. It can be said that basically all the aristocratic families in the city who were familiar with each other had gone there, and the rest were some small aristocrats.
That night, Liu Mang returned to the mansion drunk again.
After getting off the carriage, he walked towards the mansion with the help of his maid, shaking all the way. Fortunately, the two maids were more careful, which made Liu Mang not tripped by the threshold when he reached the threshold at the door.
"Lord, be careful, be careful, come and take the lord into the room!" The old fox Jia Xu, who was next to him, was directing the maid to do things.
"Vomit!" Liu Mang couldn't help but vomit before he even walked into the room. This vomiting was simply overwhelming and dirty. However, because of this vomiting, Liu Mang's overall feeling was a little better.
This originally confused mind has also become much more awake.
"Lord, are you okay?" Although the old fox was very concerned about Liu Mang's tone, he was worried that Liu Mang would be 100,000 miles away, for fear that Liu Mang would be vomited.
Liu Mang looked at Jia Xu speechlessly with his eyes slanted. Although Liu Mang was drunk, he could still see clearly wherever he could not help but vomit. What was this Jia Xu's disgust look like. However, Liu Mang no longer cared about this old fox and felt dizzy.
"Oh, the headache!" Liu Mang touched his forehead and felt uncomfortable all over. He could enter the room and lay on the bed. His eyes were hard to open as soon as he closed them. When Liu Mang woke up again, it was already bright.
"Hey!" Even after sleeping for a while, Liu Mang's head was still very uncomfortable. He shook his head suddenly. He couldn't continue like this. He had been attending a banquet these days. There was no limit to drinking. Even the degree of beer in the Eastern Han Dynasty could not withstand such drinking.
"Come here. Come here!" Liu Mang's voice came out, and someone immediately heard the sound and walked in.
"Lord is awake? The lord just woke up and drink some rice porridge to warm up your body." This was Jia Xu's voice. Jia Xu pushed open the door and walked in. He was holding a bowl of rice porridge in his hand, and the old fox's flattery technique is still good.
Liu Mang took the rice porridge and fed it directly, without hesitation. After all, he vomited completely that night, so there was no food left in his stomach.
"When will it be now?" Liu Mang asked while drinking rice porridge. Every day, Liu Mang was going to the banquet and just got up to watch the battle report of Fancheng ahead.
"My lord just now sunrise!" Jia Xu replied to Liu Mang.
‘Sunrise? That’s the hour of Mao. This time I sobered up and I had just slept for a few hours. No wonder my head was still drowsy. “Liu Mang touched his forehead and said to Jia Xu. “Wenhe, come and get me the battle report from Fancheng!”
"The lord is all here!" Jia Xu took out a stack of letters from his arms and said to Liu Mang.
"So much?" Liu Mang looked at the letter in Jia Xu's hand and was confused and took it casually. After taking it, he realized that the one on it was not for one day but for two days.
"I slept for two days?" Liu Mang was also stunned. The earliest information date was two days ago.
"To be precise, it's been two days and three nights. Since I came back that night, you have been sleeping until now," Jia Xu, who was next to him, explained to Liu Mang.
"Drinking alcohol will make things happen, drinking will make things happen!" Liu Mang shook his head suddenly. The wine is really a soup. He had no sense of sleep. Even though Liu Mang now has martial arts, he still couldn't resist the feeling of drunkenness.
"What's the war ahead!" Liu Mang asked Jia Xu next to him. In the past two days, Jia Xu must have helped Liu Mang browse these letters, so Liu Mang simply asked Jia Xu to retell them.
"Haha, lord, lord, we only make money and not lose money in this trip to Jingzhou!" Jia Xu smiled and said to Liu Mang.
Looking at Jia Xu's smile, Liu Mang's mood also improved. Looking at Jia Xu's appearance, there must be some good news. "Tell me!"
"This is exactly what the lord Liu Bei and Liu Xuande expected. General Chen Deng only traveled several miles a day in a step," Jia Xu explained to Liu Mang.
"General Chen Deng?" Liu Mang didn't understand and frowned slightly. "Where is my father-in-law?" Liu Mang remembered that his father-in-law took the Bingzhou wolf cavalry. The person who was sitting step by step should be Lu Bu, why did he become Chen Deng?
"Lord, Lord Wen Hou, I left the second day after arriving at Fancheng Trail!" Jia Xu told Liu Mang.
Liu Mang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I'm leaving with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry."
Jia Xu nodded to show his default.
"My father-in-law," Liu Mang was helpless. People say that young people can be more impulsive and act more voluntarily, and they should be calm when they are middle-aged. After all, they are old, but this sentence is indeed useless to Lu Bu. When he was young, he was extremely impulsive and only cared about the immediate interests, so he gained a reputation. He never thought that when he was middle-aged, he would still do whatever he wanted.
The commander of a large army was not in charge of the tent, but he led his troops to charge for constitutionalism.
"Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong?" Liu Mang nodded to this person and expressed his approval. Lu Bu was a little more aggressive but still a little reliable. Chen Yuanlong is also a talented person, and his talent is no less than any of Liu Mang's men. Even the old man Chen Gong was almost out of power by Chen Deng and his son.
Liu Mang himself remembers that the first time he met with Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong was the battle between the two armies. Chen Deng was the offensive side, and Liu Mang could not be regarded as the defensive side, it could only be regarded as a bait. Chen Deng, on the original trajectory, had defeated Sun Biyan.
This is not what Chen Deng is best at military affairs. Chen Deng is best at agriculture and water conservancy. Tao Qian appointed Chen Deng as the lieutenant of the Dian Agricultural College, so that Guangling City could become a wealthy place in Xuzhou except Pengcheng. Chen Deng was also good at water conservancy. He used the Yangtze River water and built canals to turn the dry land near Guangling into fertile fields. Liu Mang originally wanted to second Chen Deng from Lu Bu to Yangzhou as the Minister of Agriculture, but who expected that Lu Bu brought Chen Deng out.
"If Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan were still in the hands of Liu Bei, they might be between the 55th and 5th. But now Liu Bei only has Jian Yong and Jian Xian and one person in his hands, so Liu Bei will definitely be defeated!" Sun Qian did not support Liu Bei to send troops to Fancheng, so naturally Liu Bei did not bring Sun Qian with him. Instead, he asked Sun Qian to be responsible for Nanyang County.
"General Chen Deng walked slowly forward and gave Liu Bei enough time. This time Liu Xuande was careful. "With the last loss, Liu Bei would naturally be cautious. "Spread out 20,000 troops to escort the food and grass."
"Twenty thousand soldiers? Don't he want his Yuzhou?" Liu Mang was thinking. The maximum number of people in Yuzhou was about 40,000. The news from the White Horses came from Yi was that he defeated a unit of Yuzhou and killed thousands of enemies, which had already reduced the number of troops in Yuzhou. Now he even arranged 20,000 soldiers to escort food and grass. Yuzhou must be empty. Liu Mang already had the plan to let Yangzhou send troops to attack Yuzhou.
"In the past few months, Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang trained 20,000 troops for him in Runan, so that he could be mobilized enough troops!" The intelligence organization in Jia Xu's hands has been closely monitoring the trends in Yuzhou.
"How much food and grass did Liu Bei transport this time?" Seeing that it was impossible to attack Yuzhou, Liu Mang didn't think much about it.
"There are countless carriages. No fewer than last time!"
"Haha, I'm going to have another 200,000 yuan in Yangzhou." Liu Mang laughed. The 200,000 yuan here plus the last time was 400,000 yuan in food and grass. Liu Bei and Liu Da'er took the risk of offending Liu Biao and then took Fancheng LeTV. Unexpectedly, it was a bargain. Waiting for the first batch of food and grass in Jingzhou to be sent to Yangzhou, Liu Mang really did not lack food and grass.
"No, lord, we only got less than 50,000 grains and grass in this way!"
"kindness?"
Jia Xu continued to explain that when the troops were dispatched in Yuzhou, Yangzhou had been monitoring the Yuzhou army, waiting for the Yuzhou army to transport the food and grass out of Fancheng. The most mobile white horse Congyi began to attack and plunder. The white horse Congyi was known for its speed, and the front line of the Yuzhou army's grain transport troops was too long, which just gave Baima Congyi the opportunity to defeat each one. The white horse Congyi dragged the enemy and then Yangzhou's most elite ace army, Bingzhou wolf cavalry, was dispatched. Five thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry and heavy armored cavalry had more than two thousand white horses on the plain. With the assistance of Congyi, the enemy was defeated. It was about to take down this batch of food and grass again, but the chief general of the Yuzhou army ignited all the food and grass.
In the end, the white horse came to the fire from Yi and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, and finally rescued 50,000 from 200,000 grains and grass. In order to put out the fire, the enemy general Guan Ping let him run away.
"This Guan family father and son are really not simple!" Liu Mang sighed a little. Guan Yu was like Zhang Liao in Liu Mang's hands. Unexpectedly, the tiger father had no dog son. Although Guan Ping lost, he knew how to ignite the fire. He couldn't get it, and Yangzhou would not get it.
"Fifty thousand is about 50,000! It's better than having it!" Liu Mang nodded, and he was no longer worried.
There are a total of 500,000 grains and grass in Fancheng. This number was collected from Zhang Gui's mouth. Liu Bei transported a total of 400,000 grains and grass twice. It was an unexpected surprise that Liu Mang got 250,000 of them. You should know that the one who sent troops was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, and Liu Mang was just robbing the side.
"There are still 100,000 grains and grass in the city, so I will give them to our Uncle Liu!" Liu Mang got most of the grains and grass, and he no longer cared about the small number of 100,000 in the city. The word Liu Mang gave in quotation marks. Whether he could take it out depends on his ability.
"Send a letter to Chen Deng, Fancheng is broken!" The benefits have been obtained, Liu Bei and the role of Uncle Liu has ended, and Fancheng should be given to Liu Biao.
"By the way, don't forget, send a letter to my father-in-law, and I will definitely remind him not to fight hard!" Liu Mang was really afraid that his father-in-law would go to Liu Bei to fight hard when he was angry. You must know that the hatred between the two was not a little bit, and Liu Mang just wanted to consume Liu Bei. Liu Bei also had 15,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry in his hand, and his strength should not be underestimated. Even if he fought hard, he would be a tragic victory. He would only suffer both losses. Using the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry to exchange Xiliang Iron Cavalry is a loss-making deal.
Once Liu Bei could not get food and grass from Fancheng, he would really lose his wife and his troops. Yuzhou, which had no food and grass, was not attacked by Liu Mang like Yangzhou at the time. Liu Bei would be defeated after several months.
"Lord, there is no deputy general in the White Horse Congyi!" Jia Xu from the side said to Liu Mang. Zhao Yun was injured because he was exhausted in that battle, and there were not many scars on his body. He could barely move forward, so he rested for several days and commanded the troops and horses. However, Zhao Yi, the former deputy general of the White Horse Congyi, was directly led by Zhao Yun. The military must have strict military laws. Zhao Yi almost failed Zhao Yun, so he naturally needed to be punished. Now Zhao Yi is just a small pawn, and was thrown to Yangzhou by Zhao Yun, so that Zhao Yi can return to learn military tactics again.
"There is a lack of a deputy general?" Liu Mang also frowned. Although he had many generals, he had positions. It was difficult for Liu Mang to find out that he could reach the level of a deputy general of the White Horse Congyi in both martial arts and military tactics.
"I will solve this matter!" Liu Mang thought about it and put it aside. Baima Congyi's main task has been completed. Just drive Liu Bei away from Fancheng.
Just as Liu Mang and Jia Xu were discussing things, a guard over there ran in and knocked on Liu Mang's door and shouted outside, "Report to the lord, there is a man outside the mansion asking for a meeting!"
"Yeah? Who is it at this time?" Liu Mang and Jia Xu were a little confused. It was still morning now, who would come here early in the morning?
"What's this person's surname?" Liu Mang asked afterwards.
"He didn't say it, but he just said that the lord would naturally understand when he saw him." The guard continued to answer.
"Okay, let me go and have a look." Liu Mang and Jia Xu almost finished their discussion, so naturally they got free.
Liu Mang is really a wise king in Jingzhou. He respects the wise and humble. It can be said that there are many praises for Liu Mang in the current scholars in Jingzhou. First of all, Liu Mang is generous and willing to spend money. Some of these literati in Jingzhou are the children of the gentry who don’t care about money, but there are also many poor families. Liu Mang’s military advisor Xu Shu was such a representative. After Liu Mang came to Jingzhou, Xu Shu also sent Liu Mang several letters, including Liu Mang introducing poor students in Lumen Academy.
Therefore, Liu Mang was very generous and generous to those poor students.
As long as someone comes to Jingzhou to pay homage to Liu Mang, he will treat the wise and humble. Liu Mang cannot get nothing when he comes to Jingzhou. If he doesn’t leave Jingzhou, he will be sorry for the location of the largest academy in the Han Dynasty.
After more than a month, Liu Mang had abducted dozens of talents from Jingzhou. In Liu Mang's opinion, this should be a student from Jingzhou. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!