Dong Zhuo's troops were stationed in the east of the Wei River, but Liu Qi's troops were stationed in Chencang. The Guanzhong Plain was fertile for thousands of miles. If Wang Yun came alone, it would not be so easy for Dong Zhuo to discover it.

After all, Liu Qi and the court officials led by the Wang family in Taiyuan currently have a common goal of interest, which is to deal with Dong Zhuo, a border martial artist in Xiliang.

Although most of the armed forces currently under the hands of Wang Yun and others were killed by Dong Zhuo and were useless, those who stood behind these courtiers were all scholars from various counties in the Central Plains, and their background and energy should not be underestimated. If the two sides could cooperate and complement each other's strengths, they might achieve unexpected miraculous results.

As for arranging the mission of the envoy, Liu Qi entrusted Fa Zheng to choose an eloquent and capable candidate to handle the matter for him.

Wang Yun has no good way out at the moment. Yuan Shao, whom he relies on, gave up on him to a certain extent, and his partner Liu Chong only breathed a sigh of relief... In this embarrassing situation, he would definitely reach out to take over the olive branch that Liu Qi had abandoned to Wang Yun.

After the messenger who communicated with Wang Yun left, Liu Qi strengthened Chen Cang while renovating the camp, and trained the soldiers at the same time, ready to deal with Dong Zhuo's next move at any time.

During this period, he was also investigating the relationship between the newly established Tugu Pang De and Ma Chao.

The reason why Liu Qi dared to sow openly the relationship between Pang De and Ma Chao is also based on historical reflection.

In the Romance of the Romance, Pang De's experience of surrendering to Cao Cao means that Ma Chao was ordered to go to Yizhou to attack Liu Bei, but Pang De was left in Hanzhong because he was sick and did not follow the army. After Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Bei, Pang De had no choice but to become a general under Zhang Lu and finally surrendered to Cao Cao.

But the Romance is just a Romance after all, and it does not match the facts.

The reason why Pang De eventually surrendered to Cao Cao was, according to Liu Qi's guess, either Ma Chao abandoned Pang De, or Pang De was unwilling to follow Ma Chao again and deliberately stayed in Hanzhong.

Why?

First of all, Ma Chao joined Zhang Lu in the 19th year of Jian'an, but after staying under Zhang Lu's command for less than a year, he turned to Liu Bei's command due to conflicts with his subordinates.

During this period, Ma Chao had conspired with Li Hui.

Since it is a conspiracy, it is impossible to surrender just by just talking casually, and there must be a preparation cycle.

Ma Chao's resignation to Liu Bei did not make hasty surrender in the battle, but had planned to lead the crowd to surrender, and had carefully planned it. This must have been many negotiations and careful preparations. Moreover, Ma Chao was in Di at that time, and was in a semi-independent state, and his life would not be threatened by Zhang Lu and the Yang family in Hanzhong.

The evidence is that Pang Rou, who was Pang De's consul, was successfully brought to Yizhou by Ma Chao and became Liu Bei's subordinate.

One of the family members with the same surname was taken away, but the other one was not.

Moreover, in terms of Ma Chao's character, it was not a strange thing that he would give up his subordinates... At that time, Ma Teng took more than 200 Ma's family to become an official in Cao Cao's hands, and Ma Chao could still resolutely give up his father and raise an army to resist Cao Cao.

In fact, Cao Cao and Ma Chao fought in Tongguan, and did not kill Ma Teng until they defeated Ma Chao. Of course, Cao Cao also hoped to use the three families of the Ma family as bargaining chips to force Ma Chao to surrender.

But it is obvious that Ma Chao does not take his family members seriously.

The second year after Cao Cao defeated Ma Chao and Han Sui, Ma Chao rebelled again, besieged Longshang and attacked Wei Kang, the governor of Liangzhou.

In order to protect the people, Wei Kang surrendered to Ma Chao, but was killed by Ma Chao... Wei Kang's death completely angered Cao Cao. He made a big effort and finally destroyed the entire Ma Teng clan.

By the way, Boss Cao really didn't want to kill Ma Teng's entire clan, it was purely Ma Chao who did it himself.

Dad treated him like this, so it is not a problem for Ma Chao to give up Pang De!

As for why Ma Chao gave up Pang De, Liu Qi could not make arbitrary judgments, it was not recorded in history books, but based on Liu Qi's understanding of Ma Chao and Pang De during this period, it should be because his ideas and personality are not in line with each other... To put it bluntly, it is not a member of the same place at all.

Who is Ma Chao? He is cruel and ruthless, has no righteousness, and has no moral character, and does not wrong him at all. No matter what the reason is, a person who can give up the lives of more than 200 people in the tribe in order to fight for hegemony is definitely not a good person in terms of character.

Especially in this patriarchal society, the weight of a family is far beyond the concepts of later generations for a person.

As for Pang De, although he was born in Xiliang, he refused to surrender when he was captured alive by Guan Yu and went to death for Cao Cao. This was something that even Yu Jin did not do.

You should know that Pang De followed Cao Cao for more than three years, while Yu Jin followed Cao Cao for twenty-seven years.

Perhaps Pang De gave up his life because he had family in Yecheng, but this happened to be in sharp contrast with Ma Chao who gave up his entire clan's life.

One is willing to give up his life for the family, and the other is giving up the entire family for his own hegemony.

People with personality, philosophy, and behavior are not the same as each other, how can they be able to match?

Sure enough, the matter was almost exactly what Liu Qi guessed.

Pang De was appointed as the new gubernator and was ordered to take charge of the army. The heroes and generals of all units were trained to deploy defenses according to Pang De's instructions. Only Ma Chao was disdainful to him and had many quarrels with Pang De in public.

Pang De thought that he was originally Ma Teng's subordinate, so he tolerated several times, but Ma Chao was more and more capable. He repeatedly argued with Pang De during training or military discussions, which always made him unable to get out of Taiwan.

The clay man is also a bit earthy, and Pang De was finally made popular by Ma Chao!

In a military discussion about the deployment of the formation, Ma Chao accused Pang De of the deployment of the army for being too naive, like a child, without showing any mercy in front of everyone, and finally angered Pang De.

The two had a fierce dispute in front of everyone and even wanted to take action. Fortunately, they were stopped by Haoshuai and Qiangs present, and a military discussion broke out in an unhappy way.

At this point, the crack between the two finally appeared on the surface.

Liu Qi did not participate in this military discussion, but he knew the details clearly.

But Liu Qi seemed to be unable to see this matter. He neither scolded the two of them nor took the initiative to adjust for them, as if this incident had never happened before.

Two days after the incident, I used snacks that day and it was dark. Liu Qi sent someone to invite Pang De to his study.

Pang De looked vicissitudes and felt a little tired.

It seems that he is not easy to be a stern protector.

"Ling Ming, it's not easy to work hard these days." Liu Qi smiled at Pang De, whose face was a little pale.

"Thank you for your hard work," Pang De sighed, "But this hard work is not only about your muscles, but also even more painful... To be honest, Pang has been waiting for Liu Fujun to talk to me in detail."

Liu Qi laughed when he heard this, waved his hand, and ordered Dian Wei beside him to close the door of the study.

Pang De was not polite either and walked to the soft collapse beside him and sat down.

"Liu Fujun, Liu Fujun, you have repeatedly supported Pang to the position of protector, without any concern about Ma Shaolangjun's feelings. Is Pang so worthy of your bribery?"

Liu Qi said seriously: "Will Ling Ming think you deserve me to buy it?"

Pang De's face turned right and said, "Although a certain family is not a famous general in the world, he has been familiar with military strategies since childhood, studied martial arts skills, and has experienced life-and-death wars several times. Although he has not achieved any great achievements, he has never made any major omissions. A certain family dares to compare himself with Lu Bu, Huang Zhong and others, but he also believes that he is not inferior to others... I have to say that a certain family thinks that the mansion has spent so much effort to capture a certain family, which is worth it!"

Liu Qi was a little surprised. People from Liangzhou were straightforward enough. They were neither humble nor vague in words, but they saved a lot of twists and turns.

"Ling Ming treats each other so frankly, really makes Liu feel deeply pleased. It is really a great blessing for Liu to be able to help Ling Ming!"

"Let's go!" Pang De suddenly stretched out his hand and said solemnly: "Liu Fujun, a certain family just said that I am indeed worthy of the Fujun's efforts to collect it, but when did I say that I must respond to your recruitment and join Jingzhou?"

Liu Qi raised his eyebrows slightly.

Pang De said solemnly: "I, Pang De, are a martial artist, and don't have so many cunning thoughts. Liu Fujun is a smart person. Pang can see that. You first find out that Pang is forced to follow the family because he joined Ma Gong's command. Later, he deliberately transferred Ma Shaolangjun to compete with me for the position of escort, in order to make me see that Ma is not the lord of long-term service."

Liu Qi was silent for a while and said, "A good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a free minister chooses a master to serve. Liu Qi does not consider himself a hero, but he also considers himself a virtuous master. I think I can let Ling Ming show your greatest talent. I think that you will have more prospects when you follow me than if you follow the Mahjong family."

Pang De said seriously: "Since Liu Fujun has such a kind of intention, why don't he tell someone directly to Pang? He has to use these side-by-side methods. Isn't I, Pang De, worthy of being frank and frank about me?"
Chapter completed!