Xu Kang ordered Zang Ba to invite the masters, and he himself drove to the horse market with his personal guards and a box of gold cakes taken from the warehouse.

Blocking the entrance to the horse market, Xu Kang ordered his soldiers to bring all the major horse dealers in the horse market.

Although these horse dealers are humble on the outside, they are all tough in their hearts.

Xu Kang waved his hand, and a guard beside him opened the box containing the gold cakes. Under the sunlight, the yellow and orange gold cakes shone attractively. "Take your horses and come here to receive the gold cakes.

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The horse dealers looked at each other and did not dare to move. After a while, a man walked out and said: "Sir, you are joking. If you take a fancy to these horses, I will give them to you. How dare you ask for your reward?"

Xu Kang looked at him with a smile and said, "What's your name? Where do you live?"

The horse dealer hesitated for a moment and then said: "I am Xian Yufu, a native of Yuyang."

Xu Kang's expression changed, and he thought of Tian Yu, but he didn't dare to say it, for fear of causing trouble to Tian Yu. He said, "Your surname is Xianyu, isn't it Han?"

Xian Yufu said: "I am from Wuhuan."

"Oh, Wuhuan people, the Han people have lived together for hundreds of years, and they should have contracted to become one family a long time ago. Okay, you go and get your horse over. Don't worry, we at Taiping Road are not robbers, and we will give you enough gold.

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When Xian Yufu heard Xu Kang say that the contract was for one family, his expression changed, he agreed, and went back to get the horse.

With the first person setting an example, others will no longer have any doubts.

In this way, Xu Kang exchanged a box of gold for nearly a thousand badly needed war horses. He then took them back to the prefect's mansion.

In the Prefect's Mansion, Zhao Bahu "invited" most of the masters and civil servants under Liu Yan's account, a total of 13 people.

Seeing their frightened expressions, Xu Kang stepped forward and comforted them: "Gentlemen, don't worry. I have no intention of harming you. I just took over Zhuocheng and am unfamiliar with everything in the city, so I would like to ask you for your help."

"Of course, I also know your difficulties." Xu Kang continued talking to himself and said: "So I just ask you to summarize the specific situation in Zhuocheng and hand it over to me in four days. What did Zhuocheng look like before?

I don’t care, and I’m not interested in knowing. I just want the latest information.”

"As long as you gentlemen fulfill your request, I can guarantee that you will be free in four days. If you want to stay at that time, you are welcome. If you want to leave, I will give you a generous gift. Even if you want to go out, I will definitely do it.

Give it as a gift."

Xu Kang smiled brightly and set his own position very low. After finishing a long speech, seeing that few people responded, his face sank and he said: "Do you still have to resist such a small request?

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Everyone immediately said: "Don't dare, don't dare."

Xu Kang turned around faster than turning the page in a book, and immediately smiled and said: "That's very good."

After settling these civil servants, Xu Kang felt that his worries were relieved for the time being. Although he only asked these people to do summary work, if there is summary, there must be research, and if there is research, there must be a stable environment. For their own sake

If the work can be completed earlier, Xu Kang believes that they, the veterans of Zhuocheng, will find ways to stabilize the current situation in Zhuocheng.

Xu Kang also asked these masters who were the big families in Zhuocheng, and then found a pile of invitations. He called Zhao Bahu over and said: "Send all these invitations and tell me that I will be here tonight."

Meet with all the squires from Zhuocheng at the Prefect’s Mansion.”

Zhao Bahu hesitated: "Will they come?"

"They won't come, but they will definitely send their men. These guys are very cunning. But we must show our proper attitude."

Zhao Bahu agreed and went out immediately.

Looking at Zhao Bahu's back, Xu Kang felt ashamed for a while. Originally, the cavalry was trained for combat purposes. Now that he has done well, he treats them all as government servants and couriers, giving instructions. Well, we can't do this anymore, no matter what happens internally.

Stability, in the final analysis, strong armed forces are the greatest guarantee of success.

But thinking about the current shortage of manpower, it was really helpless. So after Zhao Bahu came back, he continued to be used as a messenger by Xu Kang, but this time he distributed the extra horses to each camp.

After occupying Zhuocheng, Xu Kang now had more than 1,700 horses, but less than 500 cavalry. It was impossible for Xu Kang to just leave the remaining 1,000 horses and treat them as political achievements.

So Xu Kang not only turned all his 100 soldiers into cavalry, but also gave three battalions 300 horses each. This kind of treatment is probably unmatched by the official army.

Zhao Bahu heard that 1,000 war horses were to be divided into various battalions. Once these were allocated, the cavalry would never be taken back. He felt heartbroken and had a toothache. He complained that Xu Kang had given him too few cavalry personnel and strongly demanded that they be expanded.

cavalry.

Recruiting cavalry at this time not only failed to create combat effectiveness, but would actually drag down the combat effectiveness of the original cavalry, so it was naturally rejected by Xu Kang.

In the end, they just agreed to let Zhao Bahu replenish the missing soldiers after a series of battles. There were only more than 50 people. These people should not affect the combat effectiveness.

At this time, in the racecourse, I heard that Taiping Road in Zhuocheng was recruiting knights. Xian Yufu was immersed in his own thoughts and turned a deaf ear to the nagging of his elder brother Xian Yuyin.

Xian Yuyin finally realized that his second brother was a little distracted and said, "Second brother, what's wrong with you?"

Xian Yufu was silent for a moment and said: "Brother, I want to join the Taiping Dao."

Xian Yuyin was frightened and said, "Why? These people are traitors to the imperial court and will be beheaded in the future."

"Everyone knows that the Eastern Han Dynasty was corrupt. Taiping Road is becoming more and more popular now. Who will be in charge of the world in the future?"

"But I don't think this Taiping Road is deserted. Otherwise, how could a little kid become a big official?"

Xian Yufu smiled and said: "It was this doll that made me interested in joining Taiping Dao. Brother, do you still remember what he said about making Wuhuan and Han people contract as one family?"

Xian Yuyin asked doubtfully: "Did he say that?"

Xian Yufu thought to himself and said: "We, Wuhuan people, have lived in the Han region for hundreds of years and have been squeezed out by the Han people. If there is someone who can help us completely integrate into the Han people, isn't this risk worth taking?"

"It's just a kid's nonsense. Do you really believe it?"

"So I decided to stay and take a look. This time Taiping Dao rebelled and spread all over the country. After this battle, the Han Dynasty will definitely lose its strength. How will the situation change in the future? I have to take a look here to feel at ease."

Seeing that his second brother had made up his mind, Xian Yuyin said, "In that case, the eldest brother will go with you."

Xian Yufu hurriedly said: "No, eldest brother has to transport the gold back to our tribe. This is our tribe's life-saving money."

"But I'm not worried about you being here."

"What are you worried about? Although my brother's martial arts skills are not as good as those of my eldest brother, I still have the ability to protect myself. Do you want to try it, eldest brother?"

Xian Yuyin hurriedly said: "Okay, I know you are good at martial arts and your brain is better. Isn't it okay for me to listen to you? But you have to be careful in the future. Big brother does not ask you to make meritorious deeds. Everything comes first to save your life."

"I know."

In the backyard of the Prefecture, due to the limited guard force, Xue Kerr and Mrs. Liu were under house arrest in the same courtyard.

Xue Ke'er sat in the courtyard, holding her chin and staring blankly at the sky.

"What are you thinking about, sister?" a girl in green clothes walked up to her and asked. "But I'm worried that your brother Xu will punish you."

Xue Kerer looked at the two little girls in front of her. The older one was only 11 and 2 years old, similar to her, named Zou Yu; the younger one was only 6 years old, named Wu Ran. Both of them were pretty and pretty, quite pleasing to the eye.

People are happy.

"No." Xue Ker said: "I know that no matter what I do, Brother Xu will not blame me. I am just worried about him. He has changed and I am no longer familiar with him."

Zou Yu rolled her eyes and said: "Thanks to my sister for saving me this morning, otherwise we would all have died. Please accept my two sisters' respect." After saying this, he and Wu Ran fell to the ground.

Xue Kerer was delighted with the two cute-looking little girls at first sight. They were as close as sisters. She quickly helped them up and said, "Sisters, please stop being like this. In fact, I don't have the ability to save so many people."

His life is just a matter of mercy from my master."

But Wu Ran pouted and said, "Sister, please don't say that. That villain is a big bad guy. He wants to kill Sister Yu and Ran'er. When my brother comes, he will be beaten all over the ground."

"Who is your brother? He is so powerful?" Xu Kang suddenly walked in from outside the courtyard, followed by several soldiers. The blood-stained armor has been removed, and now he is wearing a cloth robe and scarf, which makes him look childish and somewhat elegant.

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Zou Yu immediately stepped aside and signaled Wu Ran to shut up. However, Xiao Ran'er obviously didn't understand his situation yet and said proudly: "My brother is the most powerful Wu Yi in the whole Zhuocheng."

"Wu Yi." Xu Kang's expression changed and he said, "Are you his sister Wu Ran?" It turns out that this is the future queen of Shu Kingdom Liu Bei.

"How do you know my name?" Wu Ran opened his eyes and asked curiously.

"I just heard what you said." Xu Kang thought in his heart, but said: "I am the adopted son of Immortal Master Cheng Yuanzhi, the disciple of the great virtuous teacher Zhang Jiao. A quick calculation shows that it has been 300 years since I learned the truth, and I have known it for 300 years.

500 lives.”

Wu Ran didn't believe it: "You are a liar. My brother said that even your great teacher is just a liar."

"This is not okay. If your brother doesn't respect ghosts and gods, he is afraid of disaster. And there is no way to escape the disaster." Xu Kang lowered his body and pointed at Wu Ran's little nose with his finger.

"You're talking nonsense." Wu Ran bit Xu Kang's finger with an "ahhh" sound, but Xu Kang quickly dodged it.

"Sister Yu'er, is he talking nonsense?" Wu Ran said aggrievedly.

"Of course." Zou Yu didn't want to talk to Xu Kang, and was afraid that he would really get angry and be detrimental to Ranner, so she said, "Come, Ranner follow your sister into the house."

After receiving Zou Yu's affirmation, Wu Ran immediately gave Xu Kang a fierce look.

Xu Kang turned a blind eye, but became interested in the older girl. Seeing that the girl was elegant and not from an ordinary family, he said: "Wait a minute, what is your name?"

Zou Yu stopped and said honestly: "The little girl is Zou Jing's daughter, Zou Yu, who works in the prefecture."

Xu Kang was stunned and couldn't help shouting: "You are Zou Yu, the daughter of Zou Jing."

Zou Yu was startled by him and said: "That's right, little girl."

Xu Kang was really surprised. This woman was the one who caused Cao Cao to lose his general Dian Wei and his eldest son Cao Ang. Now, Qingmei Zhuojiu and the two heroic women have now become his captives. This woman
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