"Have you counted the consumption of the past few days?"

After resting in Qin Guan for the night, Ma Chao knew that he would be able to return to Fufeng tomorrow. Walking on the familiar and unfamiliar avenue at this time, he opened his mouth and asked the guards beside him.

"Lord, it hasn't been counted yet, and neither Meng Zhi nor Director Han are here, so ......" Pang De replied with a fist, and a trace of shame flashed on his resolute face: Pang De has always participated in the Ma Military Training Hall, and in the Military Training Hall, he naturally teaches the course of counting grain and grass.

However, although not a single soldier was injured in this dispatch, Pound, as the second person in this army, was responsible for the march, garrison, and outpost affairs, which were also extremely trivial. Therefore, there was no special personnel to assemble, and Pound did not report the exact number before arriving at Fufeng.

"Hmm....... Zidu now needs to integrate the household department, and Han Feng asked him to take care of all of Ma's industries. And the rest of them are also wearing two or more hats. Ma Chao sighed softly, and couldn't help but sigh: "The talents of the Ma family are still too few......."

"My lord, this ......."

Just when Ma Chao sighed, he suddenly heard someone calling him. When I looked back, it was Hua Xin holding an account book and was about to hand it to him. And Ma Chao glanced at Hua Xin and found that in the past almost a year, he has changed a lot. Of course, it's not that Hua Xin's appearance has changed a lot. Instead, he gave Ma Chao a different feeling.

In the past, Hua Xin was pure and moral, strict with himself, and had the style of Tao Miao. And behind this strict demand for himself, he also has choice and pride in others. Like all scholars, there is a trace of virtue and arrogance. But now, from Hua Xin's eyes and expression, Ma Chao saw that Hua Xin had a little more loneliness and modesty, and even a trace of fear?

"Well, the six arts of a gentleman, etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics." Ma Chao looked at the numbers in the account book carefully, which were similar to the estimate in his heart, and couldn't help but admire: "Ziyu can also be regarded as a leader in the six arts." ”

Ma Chao is not nonsense. Although the Han Dynasty paid great attention to the six arts of the gentleman, the scholars attached great importance to the first five arts, but it was the 'number' of the sixth art, which was not revealed except for the actual use. Therefore, many people have a very high cultivation in the three arts of 'etiquette', 'music' and 'calligraphy', and they are also so-so in terms of 'shooting' and 'royal'.

Only in the 'number' - the ancient 'number' does not simply refer to arithmetic, but includes the nine numbers, yin and yang feng shui, celestial bodies, calendars, etc. - many scholars even sneered at arithmetic in addition to studying the lunisolar calendar. After all, the high-minded style of study made it impossible for those scholars to talk about vulgar topics such as arithmetic, accounting and collecting taxes at banquets.

The lord praised it falsely, and when his subordinates were helping the wind, they carefully studied the book "Mathematics" compiled by the lord and benefited a lot from it. This time, the consumption of these days can be calculated, and it is also the method of the Lord's Catholic Teaching. Hua Xin bowed, lowered his eyebrows and replied.

This move made Ma Chao interested. After handing over the account book to Pang De, he opened his mouth and said to Hua Xin: "Ziyu, I don't care what you have experienced for such a long time. I won't care about my father anymore, I just want to tell you that the Ma family is in urgent need of talents now. ”

Although he said this, Ma Chao also knew that during these times, Hua Xin fled to Chang'an like a rat crossing the street, hid in Tibet without showing his face, and finally hid in Nanyuan, where the royal family lived by his daughters, which should be a very sad and sad period of time. What's more, at that time, all his family members were still supporting the wind, and there was no news, how could he not be concerned?

A period of loyalty and enthusiasm can indeed inspire people to have supreme courage and do something that they think is extremely right. But time is a real pig-killing knife, and when it wears away your courage, you begin to wonder if what you did was right.

Now it seems that Hua Xin has indeed thought about it. Therefore, he said with a longing tone: "Lord, the subordinates have now returned to the Ma family, and they should serve the Ma family." Although his subordinates are not very knowledgeable, they have a few good friends, and I don't know ......"

"Who?" Today's Ma Chao is different from the beginning. He won't kidnap a few celebrities casually, whether they are helping or helping, as long as they don't help like Cai Yong, he can accept it.

Nowadays, what he needs is a cow like Jia Xu and Xun You, or doers like Yang Fu, Zhang Ji, Meng Da, You Chu, Su Ze, or even Fu Xun, Fu Gan, Yin Feng, Zhao Ang, and other talents in a county. But those so-called well-behaved celebrities and gentlemen, he really doesn't look down on them.

"When Xin was on a study tour, he had good friends with Guan Ning and Bing Yuan, and these two people were high and horizontal, imitating the front track, with outstanding virtues and no coincidence at home. Although he took refuge in Liaodong, he returned to the morning and evening, and if the lord was interested, his subordinates would repair a book, stating that the peach source of Fufeng was prosperous, and these two people would come to defect. ”

"Guan Ning? Bingyuan? After Ma Chao listened to Hua Xin's words, his face couldn't help but show a sense of disappointment. Because of these two people, he knows.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a dragon: Hua Xin was the head of the dragon, Bing Yuan was the dragon's belly, and Guan Ning lived in the dragon's tail, which was people's evaluation of these three people at that time. But Ma Chao was a little unimpressed with this kind of vain person, especially Guan Ning's severance of friendship with Hua Xin, which made Ma Chao lack interest in Guan Ning.

Back then, when Hua Xin was studying, he went thousands of miles to visit Guan Ning, and the two hit it off at first sight and became friends. Once, the two of them 'hoeed the garden to get gold' together, but Guan Ning regarded it as rubble and abandoned it aside. Another time, the two of them were studying at the same table, and a dignitary and dignitary passed by outside in a luxurious sedan chair, Guan Ning turned a deaf ear and continued to concentrate on reading, but Hua Xin looked at it with a look on his face and ran out to see. After Hua Xin came back, Guan Ning cut the mat, sat separately from Hua Xin, and said, 'Zi is not my friend.' ’

This is what was later passed down as a good story, 'cutting off the seat' and 'hoeing the garden to get gold'. But Ma Chao has different views on these two things: First of all, in Ma Chao's opinion, Guan Ning is a real fool. Because he doesn't realize the importance of money, he's just the kind of fool who reads dead books.

His behavior, in the late Han Dynasty, was indeed very respected by the world, but in the Ma family, a group that pays more attention to hard work and performance, his value trade-off is in conflict with the values of the entire group. And the resulting contradictions are something that Ma Chao will not bother to mediate. Because, he can't mediate.

There is also the matter of cutting off the seat, which did not give Ma Chao much favor, but made Ma Chao think that Guan Ning's interpersonal skills are not good. Because of his unscrupulous exports, it is easy to be disliked by others. In other words, it is more fashionable, that is, Ma Chao thinks that Guan Ning's IQ is high, but his EQ is very low.

This kind of person, Ma Chao can't see his strategy of governing the country and the country, and he has never heard of his achievements in marching and arranging troops and strategizing, except for letting him serve as a clerk in the Ministry of Rites, there is almost no other use. As for Bing Yuan, there is almost no ink left in the history books, and Ma Chao is even less interested.

Therefore, for the two people recommended by Hua Xin, Ma Chao just smiled. He won't use a lot of manpower and material resources to go to Liaodong to pick them up, after all, now that he has let Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Pang Tong, and Xu Shu, who are looking for by the shadows, have not yet been found, so he has no heart to provoke those people with high reputation and big temper.

Of course, for Hua Xin's heart, Ma Chao still has a few words of encouragement. And then Hua Xin said one thing, which made Ma Chao start to care.