Summary of the previous chapter: King Can and Fu Xun of Kuai Yue stayed overnight with Liu Cong to persuade him to surrender to Cao Cao. Although Liu Cong had ideas, he could not stand the cruelty of reality and had no choice but to agree to surrender...
After sending Kuai Yue and others away, Ma Xiaoquan immediately prepared to leave for Cao Ying.
This time, Murong Ziyan said she wanted to follow her, but Ling'er didn't have a good rest because she and her husband had been playing latent all night, and now he needed to catch up on sleep, so he didn't ask to follow her.
Ma Xiaoquan calculated the time. It was now the end of August in the 13th year of Jian'an and 208 AD. There were not many days left before Cao Cao's departure in history. Before that, Cao Cao had sent someone to send an urgent letter to Ma Xiaoquan.
He told Ma Xiaoquan that he would advance deep into Jingzhou in early September. At the first stop, Cao Cao considered taking Xinye first.
After arriving at Cao Ying and meeting Cao Cao, Ma Xiaoquan told Cao Cao the news of Liu Cong's surrender.
Cao Cao was not too happy. After all, he was not in Xiangyang now. Everything was just an agreement. The so-called guarding against others was indispensable. Cao Cao only believed what he saw.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and comforted Cao Cao: "In that case, let's do this. Xiao Cao, you write a letter and I will bring it to Liu Cong. As for the content of the letter, well, you ask him to hand over Jingzhou Mu's talisman."
, how about seeing if he agrees or not?"
Cao Cao thought for a moment and felt that Ma Xiaoquan's idea was a good one, so he immediately wrote a silk letter and gave it to Ma Xiaoquan.
"Master Immortal, I'll leave it to you again!"
Ma Xiaoquan rolled his eyes at Cao Cao and said, "Oh, you think you can just leave it to me?"
Cao Cao was heartbroken and said, "Sir, do you want money or power this time?"
Ma Xiaoquan laughed and patted Cao Cao on the shoulder: "Xiao Cao, you are so funny. What do I want the rights for? However, when my son grows up, I hope your son can work as an official for them."
Doing it can be regarded as a reward for me."
Cao Cao nodded and said humbly: "We'll talk about this later. No, I can't owe you, otherwise I won't feel happy."
Ma Xiaoquan said: "In that case, let's do this. My Ling'er wife is from Yuyang. Ling'er's wife wants to go back to her hometown to have a look. How about you ask someone to help me take care of a house in Yuyang? How big is it?
,It's up to you......"
When Cao Cao heard this, he was secretly happy and said quickly: "This is easy to handle. I will fix the letter now and ask Pi'er to buy it for you."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "This is the best!"
...
After bidding farewell to Cao Cao, Ma Xiaoquan immediately rushed back to Xiangyang without stopping.
After running around all night, Ma Xiaoquan was also a little tired.
I originally thought about meeting Liu Cong in person and handing Cao Cao's autographed letter to Liu Cong, but then I thought that it would be better to leave such a troublesome, laborious and thankless matter to Cai Hao, the scapegoat.
Sure enough, after hearing the letter from the Prime Minister himself, Cai Mao hurriedly ran to Ma's house and met Ma Xiaoquan. Cai Mao respectfully took Cao Cao's autographed letter from Ma Xiaoquan, grinned happily and promised: "Please rest assured, Lord Immortal.
If that kid Liu Cong is wise, he will definitely bring out the talisman, seal, and ribbon. If he is not wise, I will put a knife on his neck and let him take it, huh, ouch."
Cai Hao covered his head and looked at Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan shook his hand and cursed: "Can you be more steady? Liu Cong is your lord no matter what, right? If you threaten him with a knife, aren't you looking to do something bad for Cao Cao?"
At that time, not to mention your navy commander, even the navy captain, I guess there is no chance for you..."
Cai Hao chuckled, rubbed his head and said: "Hey, I'm just saying, how could I do that? Don't worry, Master Shangxian, I know where the lord's talisman is. If he doesn't hand it over himself, I will kill him overnight."
Steal it out, hehe"
Ma Xiaoquan rolled his eyes at Cai Mao angrily and waved his hand, indicating that you can leave.
Cai Mao wisely retreated and slipped away with Cao Cao's autographed letter.
The next day, Cai Mao came again.
Seeing Cai Hao in the main hall, Ma Xiaoquan asked curiously: "Degui, why are you here again? What's the matter?"
Cai Hao chuckled, his eyes rolled around for several times, and he whispered: "Sir, please take a look." After saying that, Cai Hao took out a talisman from his arms.
Ma Xiaoquan took the talisman and looked at it, his eyes lit up: "Did you steal it?"
Cai Hao shook his head and said: "How could it be? Liu Cong gave this to me and asked me to wait for the lord to come and deliver it to the lord."
Ma Xiaoquan hummed and said: "My lord? You've already called Cao Cao before he comes? You brat?"
Cai Mao said hey: "Master Shangxian, my family doesn't speak the foreign language, Liu Cong is quite rich, do you want some?"
Ma Xiaoquan rolled his eyes and looked at Cai Hao: "What do you mean by this?"
"Hey, isn't my sister Liu Biao's second wife? She has saved a lot of money in the past. I don't even have the chance to steal it. No, now I have brought his talisman. This thing is of great use...
..."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "You mean, have some?"
Cai Hao's eyes rolled faster: "Master Shangxian, what do you mean?"
Ma Xiaoquan patted Cai Hao's shoulder and returned the talisman to Cai Hao: "You did a good job, well, I'll leave the rest to you!"
Cai Mao was overjoyed, and while putting the talisman back into his arms, he promised: "Don't worry, Lord Shangxian, I will get it for you within two days..."
Ma Xiaoquan stretched out his hand to signal Cai Hao to shut up. Cai Hao responded quickly, covering his mouth and nodded.
After sending Cai Mao away, Ling'er and Murong Ziyan, who had been hiding behind the screen, came out.
Murong Ziyan asked in confusion: "Brother Xiao Ma, Cai Hao is very shameless, why do you want to join in with him?"
Ling'er nodded, agreeing with Zi Yan's point of view.
Ma Xiaoquan sighed and said: "I don't understand this truth. However, our roots are in the north. The south is an unfamiliar place for us. As the saying goes: money makes money when you go out. What I do is not only
In order to improve my efficiency in the future... As you both know, the thing I have been looking for has been found. Well, I will take some time to get it back, but it may cost money.
It's better to be prepared for a rainy day than to sharpen your weapons before the battle; besides, if we live in the cavalry's house for a long time and don't provide some benefits, over time, even if the relationship is good, we may feel unhappy..."
Ling'er said: "Then my husband can't take Liu Cong's money, let alone with Cai Maoyi?"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Although Cai Mao is shameless, he still has real abilities. Judging from Jingzhou's military management in recent years, Cai Mao is not ambiguous. Do you know? What Cai Mao did today is actually testing me. If I don't accept it,
Then Cai Hao will definitely have a grudge against me, and if I accept it, Cai Hao will think that he and I are in the same group."
"Then my husband, are you and Cai Mao together?"
Ma Xiaoquan exclaimed: "In the face of profit, I will become an accomplice with him!"
The two of them did not understand the meaning of Ma Xiaoquan's words, and Ma Xiaoquan did not give them any in-depth explanation.
"Hey" Ma Xiaoquan sighed and thought to himself: If Yue'er were here, she would definitely understand what I did, but...
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and suddenly remembered an incident when he was a special forces soldier and couldn't help but laugh.
The two girls thought that their husband, Xiao Ma, was happy because he got the money, so they didn't say anything.
...
In early September of the 13th year of Emperor Xian's reign of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's troops were directed towards the depths of Jingzhou.
The troops arrived at Xinye and took control of Xinye without much effort.
Liu Cong of Xiangyang received the news and immediately sent an envoy headed by Cai Mao to Xinye to surrender to Cao...
Seeing Cao Cao, Cai Mao obediently presented him with the Jingzhou Mu Festival, and knelt on the ground in public to express his allegiance to Cao Cao.
Previously, Ma Xiaoquan had written an express letter to Cao Cao, explaining the general situation at present.
Cao Cao helped Cai Mao up, comforted him and said, "It is my blessing that De Gui can submit to me."
Cai Mao said respectfully: "My lord, Liu Cong is still in Xiangyang. Do you want to rush to Xiangyang as soon as possible?"
Cao Cao waved his hand: "That's not necessary. I've already got this talisman. What else can Liu Cong do? Hey, I think Liu Jingsheng can be considered a figure, but it's a pity that his two sons are a drunkard and a womanizer.
A young and ignorant person is really like a pig."
At this time, in Fancheng on the other side, Liu Bei, who was in charge of garrisoning Fancheng, always felt that he could not sleep well, so he sent Zhao Yun to go out to investigate in person, only to find out that Liu Cong had surrendered to Cao Cao.
Liu Bei was extremely angry and immediately sent an envoy to Xiangyang to question Liu Cong.
Liu Cong is a bachelor, and he has already surrendered anyway. What can you, Liu Xuande, do to me? Why don't you just keep revising the letter and order Liu Bei to surrender to Cao Cao?
How could Liu Bei do this, and how could he dare to do this?
In the past, when Qingmei was making wine, she pretended to be able to deceive Cao Cao. Later, she killed the chariot and threw herself into Yuan Shao and Cao Cao... No one else would have let him go.
I... think of those days when I fled, if I hadn't decisively abandoned my wife, I'm afraid she would have been nothing but dust by now.
Taking Liu Cong's letter of persuasion to surrender, Liu Bei angrily tore the letter into pieces, pulled out his sword with a clang, pointed at Liu Cong's envoy and cursed: "What Liu Cong did is completely treacherous. You did this."
Don’t you think it’s too late and too much to tell me now? Even killing you now won’t quell my anger, so get out! Get out!”
Liu Cong's envoy was calm. He looked at the angry Liu Bei, bowed calmly, and then slowly walked out of the meeting hall.
After Liu Cong's envoy left, Liu Bei immediately held an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with it.
Mi Zhu stepped forward and said: "My lord, why don't you take advantage of the chaos to seize Jingzhou and quickly plan, deploy and integrate all the ministries in Jingzhou? You can still have the capital to compete with Cao Cao."