Xu Zheng may not have dared to use this method when he didn't hear Liu Feng's news, but now he dares.

With Liu Biao's appointment, Liu Feng has become a fact nailed to Jiangxia, and Liu Feng's ability is obvious to all.

Don't you want to recall my brother with me? I went the opposite way and went to Jiangxia to have a round with my brother.

Xu Zheng thought very angrily in his heart.

In fact, Xu Zheng saw it very clearly, and now Liu Bei's prestige is not as good as before. Of course, this is not for Jian Yong, Zhuge Liang and others, but for some small officials in Xinye.

The reason is that Liu Feng is gone. The fame that Liu Feng has accumulated in three years is gradually emerging.

In the past three years, Liu Feng has actually filled a gap in the Xinye forces, that is, the power of the prince, when Liu Bei is about to grow old and people's hearts will inevitably fluctuate, Liu Feng is modest, knowledgeable, and uses the style of a corporal with courtesy. It quickly stabilized the hearts of lower-level officials.

And it was the perfect prince who ran away. Whatever the reason, the hearts of lower-level officials inevitably fluctuated.

Maybe Liu Bei didn't realize it, but the officials already realized it.

Liu Chan is too young, if Liu Bei has three longs and two shorts, wouldn't they suffer together?

When Liu Bei was conceited and was still in the prime of life, he thought that he could slowly cultivate Liu Chan. In the game, he didn't see that he was actually old, he was in his forties, he stood in his thirties, he was not confused at forty, he knew the destiny of heaven at fifty, and those who lived past fifty were a minority after all.

Therefore, some officials in Shinno have resigned recently. Although there are not many people, Liu Bei may not have realized it, but Xu Zheng, who is also a lower-level official, has realized it.

He also felt that Liu Bei was more suspenseful, if Liu Bei's life ended. What should Shinno be like?

In comparison, Liu Feng is the real peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, such as Zhongtian. is not a weak crown at a young age, but he has already ruled the land of Jiangxia County, and his power and strength are far greater than Liu Bei's.

And still sit tight.

At such a time, he still has to follow Liu Bei's order to recruit a younger brother who is more promising than him? Let's go quickly, and we went to my brother together. It is more promising than following Liu Bei.

While his mind was lively, Xu Zheng walked out of the Taishou Mansion. Ride in a carriage back to his mansion.

After entering the mansion, Xu Zheng went straight into the backyard. At this time, Mrs. Xu was working as a female worker in the house. Seeing Xu Zheng coming in, he couldn't help but be shocked: "What happened?" In such a hurry? ”

"Don't ask, don't hesitate. Prepare to be soft, you take a few boys out of the small door and go to the Zhuangzi outside the city. Xu Zheng said in an unquestionable tone.

"This?" Mrs. Xu was shocked in her heart, but seeing her husband's solemn face, she hesitated for a moment, nodded anyway, got up and said, "I'll do it." ”

"Brother, brother, I'm coming to you." Xu Zheng looked in the direction of Jiangxia and couldn't help muttering.

After stopping in the room for a moment, Xu Zheng gritted his teeth and decided to do one more thing for Liu Feng. As the starting point of Jiangxia. After thinking about it, the decisive look on Xu Zheng's face flashed, and he hurriedly took an ox cart out of the mansion and went to the treasury not far away.

Soon after, he led a team of soldiers, more than a dozen carriages, and several middle-aged men with dark skin and sturdy bodies back to the mansion.

………

The sky is clear, and it stands to reason that such weather can make you feel cheerful. It's just that Mi Zhu's face is not good-looking.

Outside the door of the treasury warehouse, Mi Zhu listened to the results of the officer's investigation, and his face became even more ugly.

He has been under his adjutant for two days, and if it is one day, it may be because of illness or other things. Didn't have time to ask for leave. But after two days of delay and no one was sent to ask for leave, there was a problem.

Mi Zhu first ordered a small official to go to Xu Zheng's mansion to have a look, but the news brought back by the small official surprised Mi Zhu.

Xu Zheng's mansion was empty, leaving only servants. According to an old servant, Xu Zheng took the whole family to live in Zhuangzi outside the city.

The little official was also clever, and he didn't come back immediately to tell Mi Zhu, but asked the old servant Xu Zheng Zhuangzi's location, and after going to investigate in person, he came back to report Mi Zhu.

Xu Zheng is missing. The whole family evaporated.

Xu is an important adjutant under his account, and his authority is very large and very important. Mi Zhu did not dare to slack off and ordered a thorough investigation.

This investigation made Mi Zhu's heart tremble. Someone saw Xu Zheng's wife leave the city with her family before five days, and left eastward, in the direction of the Xiangjiang River.

Two days ago, some people also saw Xu Zheng taking more than a dozen carriages and a few dark-skinned middle-aged people to the east together.

After some investigation, Mi Zhu found out that Xu Zheng was taking a boat and went south from Xiangjiang.

But what made Mi Zhu's heart tremble even more was what Xu Zheng had taken away, a full five hundred strong bows, and the most skilled blacksmiths, bowsmiths, and leathermen under Xinye's rule at present.

Listening to the statistical results of the little official, Mi Zhu only felt dizzy.

Xu Zheng is a person, Mi Zhu is conceited and will not be wrong, although he can occasionally make a decision, just like arranging his younger brother Xu Tian to Liu Feng. But it's more about being cautious.

He wouldn't do something like betrayal for no reason, unless something happened that forced Xu Zheng to do it. Irresistible things.

Although he wanted to know what was going on, Mi Zhu knew that this matter was no longer something he could decide. I have to talk to Liu Bei.

Those craftsmen and five hundred strong bows were a lot of losses for Liu Bei, who was trapped in the small place of Xinye.

Thinking about it, Mi Zhu didn't dare to slack off, and went to the Taishou Mansion in person. Report to Liu Bei.

In the study, after Liu Bei listened to Mi Zhu's report, his face was as usual, and he just said lightly, "Got it." ”

But Mi Zhu, who knew Liu Bei well, saw that Liu Bei's hand was trembling slightly, and it was an emotion of anger hidden under the flat look.

Even if he lost so much, Liu Bei shouldn't have such an angry expression. I think that when Liu Bei lost Xuzhou, he was not so angry.

With this doubt, Mi Zhu retreated.

Not long after Mi Zhu withdrew, Liu Bei suddenly stood up. looked hideous, but he couldn't keep calm anymore.

"Xu Zheng, Xu Zheng." Liu Bei roared wildly, pulled out the long sword at his waist, and slashed frantically in the study.

"Bump, bump. Boom boom. There was a constant sound of things breaking in the study, but the guards guarding the door did not dare to enter at all.

The lord seems to be in a rage.

The two guards glanced at each other, and both saw a burst of timidity in each other's eyes.

Of course, Liu Bei has a reason to be angry, he knows that his talent cannot be compared to Cao Ying, and his ability is not as far as Cao Ying, but his conceit controls people's hearts and his imperial skills are no worse than Cao Ying.

This further forged Liu Bei's desire to control, Xu Zheng's betrayal, and the blow to Liu Bei was definitely not as simple as five hundred strong bows and a few craftsmen.

It also hit Liu Bei's confidence in whether he could control people's hearts.

But Liu Bei is worthy of being Liu Bei, and after tossing in the study for a while, he naturally came out and asked the guards to tidy up the study. And until the next day, he did not order the pursuit of Xu Zheng, and did not say a word about Xu Zheng's betrayal.

He carried all the bitter fruits by himself.

Jiangxia, Xiling County.

Since Liu Feng was appointed by Liu Biao, he has become an official from a thief in one fell swoop, and many other matters such as the list of Anmin have been much cheaper.

Gan Ning's so-called Jinyi crossing the river with oil and vinegar also added a lot of points to Liu Feng, and fiercely shocked the old department of Jiangxia Huangzu in the past.

Xiling is the seat of Jiangxia and the largest city. Of course, Liu Feng also moved his family to this side.

It's just that, although nominally the orthodox Jiangxia is too guarded, the identity of Jiangxia is too guarded has not improved Liu Feng's current civil official system.

The only people he could trust were Xu Tian and Zhang Dao. Three people dealing with the affairs of a county, too difficult, too difficult.

In the study, Liu Feng's eyes looked at a roll of bamboo slips on the case in front of him, and after a while, he slowly stretched out his hand and opened the bamboo slips.

This is a letter, a letter that Liu Feng received three days ago.

It was sent by his husband Xu Shu, and he briefly praised him for his actions in seizing Jiangxia, and more importantly, he was cautious, and he must not spoil a major event because of a momentary pride. Sit down Jiang Xia first.

Finally, one thing that Xu Shu mentioned made Liu Feng's heart move.

Xu Shu mentioned that if he lacked civil officials, he could go to Jingxiang and his party, and he had already written to his friends Sima Hui, Pang Tong, Meng Jian, Cui Ding, and Shi Tao. Let them take care of Liu Feng.

If possible, Xu Shu proposed to choose an adjutant from these people to assist Liu Feng in handling major affairs in the county.

Liu Feng is now lacking civil officials to help manage Jiangxia, and he is naturally salivating for the above people.

Needless to say, Pang Tong has a good saying, Wolong and Phoenix Chicks have one person to settle the world. Although it is exaggerated, if you get one of the two, you can also stand on one side.

In other words, Pangtong is the preferred auxiliary city.

As for the rest of the people, Meng Jian, Cui Ding, Shi Tao and Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and Xu Shu are friends with each other, which shows that their talents are not bad. Liu Feng still remembered that Zhuge Liang seemed to have an evaluation of these people.

claims to be comparable to Guan Zhong Leyi, and if you are an official, you can either be a county guard or a thorn.

Don't underestimate these evaluations, if a person is a county guard, the assassin can definitely be regarded as a handsome man. If he got one of these people, Liu Feng would be much cheaper to settle down Jiangxia.

How could Liu Feng not covet it?

Plus one more Huang Zhong. For Huang Zhong to help himself so simply, Liu Feng is actually very clear in his heart and knows the facts very clearly, although there is Huang Zhong's righteousness, but it is more Huang Xu's illness.

Only by curing Huang Xu's illness can Huang Zhong be completely left. When the time comes, even if Huang Zhong is asked to be a cow and a horse, I'm afraid Huang Zhong is willing.

Of course, Liu Feng doesn't need Huang Zhong to be a cow or a horse, as long as Huang Zhong can help him guard Jiangxia.

And Huang Xu's illness must go to Xiangyang to ask Zhang Zhongjing to take action. So Liu Feng's trip to Xiangyang is almost a matter of nailing to the iron plate.

The reason why it has been delayed for so long is because of the knife.

After Cai Mao left, he sent some baggage and ten skilled blacksmiths over according to his words.

Liu Feng's ambition is not small, and he directly wants to cross the Han Dynasty's weapons for hundreds of years and enter the level of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dao is famous, if such sophisticated weapons and equipment enter the broken barracks.

When the name of the broken army is famous all over the world, it means that it is time to wait.

But the technology spans hundreds of years, and it is not as simple as Liu Feng thinks.

Thinking about the development of the Tang knife, Liu Feng couldn't help but sigh. looked at the bamboo slips in his hand, those salivating figures, he could only put them first.

After first teaching the things he knew about the Tang Dao to the craftsmen, let the craftsmen study it, and then he went to Jingzhou.

Thinking about it, Liu Feng glanced at the sky, led Kou Shui out of the Taishou Mansion, and headed towards the treasury in the east of the city.

Jiangxia Huangzu has been operating Xiling City for more than ten years, not only operating the city defense, but also operating the treasury, among the craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, bowsmiths and so on are no longer a few.

In the end, it was cheaper Liu Feng.

The treasury is not only a warehouse, but also everything needed for a fairly mature sword production process.

This includes hammers, furnaces, blacksmiths, and more.

Now those blacksmiths, together with the ten skilled blacksmiths sent by Cai Mao, are studying the so-called Tang knife proposed by Liu Feng.

When Liu Feng entered the blacksmithing workshop on the edge of the treasury, he did not hear the sound of iron, but saw more than ten blacksmiths gathered together, looking at a sketch with a sad face.

On top is a knife. The katana looks a lot like it. However, the structure, the design concept of the blade, and the thickness are completely different.

As far as Liu Feng knows, there are four systems of Tang knives, instrument knives, horizontal knives, barrier knives, and Mo knives. Among them, the role of the ritual knife was limited to dependence, so Liu Feng ignored it. The practical skills of the obstacle knife are higher and shorter, which is not suitable for Liu Feng's current broken military camp and slashing, so Liu Feng ignored it. Modao is another good choice, but after thinking about it, Liu Feng still gave up. According to Liu Feng's memory, the Mo knife is full of weight and is also very expensive. Liu Feng can't afford it at the moment.

In the end, Liu Feng chose the horizontal knife in the four systems.

It is rumored that the horizontal sword and the barrier sword were introduced into the book, and they were both the predecessors of the katana.

However, although the knife originated from the Tang sword, it was developed and was very suitable for their local operations. The horizontal knife is a kind of ultra-high-grade knife in the Tang Dynasty. China has a lot of resources, and there are many heart guards and iron armor during the war, so the role of the Tang knife is first to break the defense. Then it was the slashing.

And because of the scarcity of resources and the rare iron armor on the battlefield, the katana later developed into a knife that was only suitable for cutting meat and did not break the defense.

The final formation of the horizontal knife is the outside, soft on the inside, and tough on the middle.

Katana, on the other hand, is sharp and hard, and the back of the sword is tough.

This is the difference in the essential sense of the two knives, such as the slash, said that the knife must be one into two, there is no doubt.

However, this is all Liu Feng heard from various places, and what is the actual effect. Liu Feng really didn't know, after all, there were very few horizontal knives left in the world, and it was impossible to take an antique knife and cut it against a katana.

However, Liu Feng still believes that the horizontal knife is more powerful. It is also more suitable for breaking defenses and cutting people. So Liu Feng's first choice was a horizontal sword, not a katana.

(To be continued)