Panzhou walked to the meeting hall with ease, without even encountering any obstruction. This was how much Liu Zhang valued him.
"Brother Pan, you are here!"
When Liu Zhang saw Pan Zhou coming, he warmly welcomed him in.
"Oh, how dare you trouble the prefect to do this!"
"Hey! Brother Pan is so polite. Liu Zhang will have to count on Brother Pan more in Hanzhong in the future!"
"Where is it! Master Taishou, isn't this your fault?"
How could Panzhou dare to accept such words? He immediately treated Liu Zhang politely with a very flattering expression.
"Brother Pan, Liu Zhang really has something to trouble Brother Pan, please give me some advice!"
Liu Zhang took Pan Zhou to sit down and poured him a cup of tea himself.
"Please tell me, Lord Prefect, I will tell you everything you know!"
"Okay! Brother Pan must know Liu Zhang's purpose of taking over as the governor of Hanzhong. Now my generals are less than five thousand. I want all the generals under my command to go to various counties to recruit troops. But there are nine counties in Hanzhong, and the population distribution is different. In the end,
Please ask Brother Pan for advice on where to recruit troops!"
Pan Zhou took a sip of tea and asked Liu Zhang instead,
"Master Taishou, Yan Shan, as the county magistrate, knows the situation in Hanzhong very well. Yang Lin, the county lieutenant, has also lived in Hanzhong for a long time, and he also knows the situation here very well. Why don't you ask these two people, Master Taishou?"
If Pan Zhou had never dared to be so presumptuous with Liu Zhang before, the recent relationship with Liu Zhang and Liu Zhang's attention to him only made Pan Zhou more and more courageous.
"Hey! It makes me angry! I don't know why Yan Shan and Yang Lin are crazy, but they hate Jian Jian, the governor of Yizhou! Even Brother Pan, they often say bad things to each other!"
Pan Zhou frowned on the surface, but he was secretly happy in his heart. He didn't expect Liu Zhang to even tell him such a thing!
"Master Taishou, why are those two so dissatisfied with Governor Que?"
Liu Zhang sighed and drank the tea in his hand.
"Hey! The governor has given Hanzhong a lot of supplies. I told them the good news, but I didn't expect them to say that the governor had bad intentions!"
"More than 20,000 pairs of armor, 5,000 war horses, and 500,000 shi of food! If the governor has bad intentions, can he give you these military supplies?" "Besides, it is not right to give you such generous military supplies.
If you have good intentions, then if you don’t support Hanzhong, then you have good intentions? I really don’t understand what these two people mean!”
The more Pan Zhou heard, the more shocked he became. He never imagined that Qu Jian was so generous! If these things were converted into money, how many years of corruption would it take to get them?
"Master Taishou, there is something I don't know whether to say or not..."
Liu Zhang waved his hand and didn't care at all.
"Brother Pan, it doesn't matter if you just say it!"
Pan Zhou struggled for a while before slowly expressing his views on these two people.
"Master Taishou, this Yang Lin has complained about me for a long time because our Pan family is an eyesore to their Yang family! If it weren't for our Pan family, their Yang family would have dominated Hanzhong long ago! And that Yan Shan is originally from Brazil.
, because he neglected his duties, he was dismissed from office by the governor! Unexpectedly, he fell in love with the former prefect Su Gu."
"Que the governor didn't want to turn a blind eye just because he ruined the relationship between the county governor and the governor. Unexpectedly, Yan Shan not only failed to be grateful, but instead belittled the governor even more!"
"That Yang Lin just wanted to overthrow our Pan family. The two hit it off and joined forces with the former governor Su Gu to suppress our Pan family frequently!" "Fortunately, General Hou arrived in time and took over as the governor of Hanzhong. Otherwise, it won't be long before our Pan family is overthrown.
My home is probably going to be destroyed at their hands!"
The more Pan Zhou talked about it, the more surprising he became. He actually had tears in his eyes and soon began to cry uncontrollably!
"So that's it! No wonder they often say bad things to Brother Pan! After seeing the close relationship between the two of us, they no longer respect me that much!"
Liu Zhang also looked angry, and his hands clenched loudly.
"Brother Pan, don't worry, as long as I'm here from now on, I will definitely not let the two thieves succeed!"
Panzhou gradually stopped crying and quickly expressed his gratitude to Liu Zhang.
"Thank you, Lord Prefect. Panzhou will never be repaid with death!"
"Brother Pan, you're welcome. Can you help Liu Zhang clear up his doubts?"
Pan Zhou slapped his forehead and suddenly remembered Liu Zhang's question to him, and quickly answered it to him.
"Master Taishou, if you want to recruit troops, you might as well ask your generals to go to Xicheng, Shangyong and Fanling counties."
"Dongsan County..."
Liu Zhang muttered a few words to himself and looked at Pan Zhou with some confusion.
"These three places are far away from Nanzheng, why do they have to travel so far?"
"Master Taishou, the Three East Counties are close to Jingzhou and have a large population! Hanzhong County has less than 300,000 people, and the Three East Counties account for less than 40%!"
"It's actually like this!"
Liu Zhang seemed to have a sudden realization and immediately made a decision in his heart.
"Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang!"
Liu Zhang called out his four generals in one breath, and saw four of them walking out one after another.
"The end is here!"
"The four of you, along with your troops, will immediately rush to Dongsan County to recruit troops. Remember, you must remember my order!"
"promise!"
Huang Zhong and the four others accepted the order one after another, and then they did not dare to delay and turned around and left.
Liu Zhang made arrangements for recruiting troops and felt better.
"Thank you so much this time, Brother Pan!"
Panzhou was also very happy to see Liu Zhang trusting him so much.
"Master Taishou, you don't have to be like this, this is what Pan should do!"
"Brother Pan, Liu Zhang has one more thing to ask of me. I hope Brother Pan will never refuse!"
Seeing Liu Zhang's pleading eyes, Pan Zhou felt secretly happy and agreed directly without considering what Liu Zhang would ask for.
"Master Prefect, please speak!"
Liu Zhang glanced around the room, and then pointed at Dian Wei beside him.
"Brother Pan, you have also seen that the only people I can trust now are the few people in my house. I have five generals under my command, including Dian Wei who is here and the four who just took the order. My rear general's office belongs to
There were originally 10,000 soldiers, but unfortunately after the recent Battle of Meiyang, more than half of them have been lost!"
"This time, the four generals under my command are going to Dongsan County to recruit troops. Naturally, they have to take their soldiers with them. In this way, I only have Dian Wei and hundreds of soldiers to mobilize."
"It is estimated that in more than twenty days at most, military supplies to support Hanzhong will be sent to the Yizhou Governor's Office, but the Governor promised to send soldiers to Yangping Pass, but there is still a long way from Yangping Pass to Nanzheng. I can't give up shamelessly.
The governor, send me to Nanzheng!"
Panzhou seemed to understand what Liu Zhang meant, so he asked Liu Zhang,
"What do you mean, Lord Prefect, because we are short of manpower?"
Liu Zhang nodded happily without any hint of clumsiness.
"Then why doesn't the Grand Administrator mobilize soldiers from all counties? There are six thousand soldiers in Hanzhong County!"
Liu Zhang sighed and shook his head helplessly.
"Brother Pan, now all the county soldiers in the nine counties are under the command of Yang Lin. You also know that he is having a conflict with me now. Can I beg him in a low voice?"
Pan Zhou rolled his eyes and his face gradually showed a hint of joy.
"Don't worry, Lord Prefect, I, Panzhou, will help with this task! I have three thousand servants in my house, and I will find them all for you, Lord Prefect. I wonder if they will be enough?"
Liu Zhang looked at Pan Zhou dumbfounded, not expecting that he could mobilize so many people.
"Brother Pan is indeed extraordinary. Liu Zhang offered tea instead of wine. I would like to thank Brother Pan! Please!"
Pan Zhou picked up the tea cup, drank it all in one gulp, and then said with some sigh,
"The prefect is the head of a county, and Yang Lin actually behaves like this. If he is not dealt with, people will inevitably think that the prefect is easy to bully!"
The more Liu Zhang thought about it, the angrier he became. He smashed the tea bowl on the ground and broke it into pieces.
"Hmph! When my subordinates come back to recruit soldiers, I will make this guy look good!"