『ps: The chapters of 6,000 words are usually around 6,670,000, there are quite a few...』

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At noon on the ninth day of the eighth month, when Meng Zhong and his men set off for Fangcheng, only half an hour later, a guest from the mansion sent the news to Xue Gongtianwen.

After learning the news, Tian Wen felt very happy.

A moment later, after his trusted aide Feng Xi came to the study, Tian Wen said to Feng Xi happily: "That boy Meng Zhong finally went to Fangcheng to take office..."

After hearing this, Feng Xian's face showed a strange expression.

Immediately, he asked Tian Wen: "Mr. Xue, is Meng Zhong a talent?"

Upon hearing this, Tian Wen's smile gradually closed, and instead he looked unhappy.

But considering that the person who asked him was Feng Xi, he finally gave a sincere answer: "Yes."

"But a talent?"

"Yes." Tian Wen nodded twice.

"What level may we reach in the future?"

"Maybe...it may be able to be appointed as a marquis..."

Tian Wen walked slowly to the window frame, looked at the courtyard outside the window, and said quietly.

In fact, since the incident in Zhao State, Tian Wen has known that Meng Zhong is quite powerful. What's more, after Meng Zhong repelled Qin's army at Yique Mountain some time ago, he became more aware of the ability of Meng Zhong, and gave him a high evaluation in his heart.

However, he would never say these comments out loud, let alone make them spread to Meng Zhong's ears. This is something that he who values ​​face is untolerable!

However, at this moment, there was only the trusted retainer Feng Xi in the study, so Tian Wen didn't mind expressing his true thoughts, that is, his true evaluation of Meng Zhong.

“…”

Feng Xian was still very pleased when he heard the words "Fond the Lord and the Marquis" from Tian Wen's mouth, because this was the manifestation of Tian Wen's trust in him.

But he couldn't help asking: "Since Mr. Xue knew that Meng Zhong was a talented person, why did he refuse to resolve his grudges with him?"

Tian Wen was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "Why do I have to resolve my grudges with him? He humiliated me so much in Zhao State. I saw that he was given the reward from King Song to send Xue Yi, so what else should I do?... A gentleman's words are as good as he can. Since I promised not to take his life, I would not harm him again, but he would not easily set foot in Wei State..."

I have to say that Tian Wen is really a very principled person. He is very proud of his face and has a strong commitment. Since he said that he would no longer hate Meng Zhong, he naturally would not think about trying to harm Meng Zhong, but this does not mean that Tian Wen would not deliberately make things difficult for Meng Zhong.

Just like this time, Meng Zhong made great contributions in Wei State, but Tian Wen managed to select Meng Zhong's fief at the distant border of Wei State. But then again, the fief size of the three thousand households has not changed at all. Even Ye Yi and Wuyang have more than three thousand households in total. As Meng Zhong guessed, Tian Wen simply wanted to make him unhappy!

"Why?" Feng Xi smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Since I learned that Meng Zhong's future prospects are limitless, why should Mr. Xue make things difficult for him everywhere? I think that if Mr. Xue follows the system of Qin's prime minister and general, he will take Meng Zhong into his wings... This Meng Zhong can become your 'Wei Zhang'!"

The Wei Zhang he mentioned was the general and partner who was once the trusted prime minister of Qin Zhang Yi. One of them served as prime minister in Xianyang and the other was in charge of the army outside. When Zhang Yi rushed to Wei to force the latter to surrender to Qin, Wei Zhang was Zhang Yi's minion. As long as Zhang Yi gave the order, Wei Zhang would lead more than 100,000 Qin troops to attack.

It is precisely because of this that the Central Plains were so afraid that Zhang Yi was really a "seven-foot-sized man" and did Zhang Yi just talk about the countries with just one mouth? Behind him was the famous general Wei Zhang and the more than 100,000 Qin troops led by him were silently supporting him!

And Meng Zhong...

In Feng Xi's view, if the Xue Gong in front of him could take Meng Zhong for his own use and follow the Qin general system, Tian Wen served as Wei Prime Minister in the court, and Meng Zhong was in charge of the army outside, relying on each other, and gaining benefits from each other, what would you be afraid of even facing Qin?!

But for some reason, Tian Wen was unwilling to completely resolve his grudges with Meng Zhong.

Sure enough, after listening to Feng Xi's words, Tian Wenyouyou said, "There is no need... He went to Wei State to serve as an official to protect his homeland. And I am the Prime Minister of Wei. No matter whether he is with him, he must obey my prime minister. Unless he leaves Wei State, I will make him go east and he dare not go west..."

Hearing this, Feng Xi sighed deeply.

Just as Feng Xi was thinking about how to persuade Mr. Xue in front of him, suddenly a sound of footsteps came from outside the house. Immediately, a soldier walked into the house and whispered to Tian Wen with his ear.

"Oh? There is something wrong?" Tian Wen showed a surprised expression.

Seeing this, after Tian Wen waved his hand to retreat the soldier, Feng Xi couldn't help asking, "Mr. Xue, what happened?"

Tian Wen reached out and patted the window frame and said calmly: "Just just now, Tian An entered the palace and invited the King of Wei to allow the expansion of the garrison in Fangcheng to 50,000 people..."

"Fangcheng? Isn't that the position that Meng Zhong is about to take office?"

Feng Xian thought to himself.

"What do you say about the king?" he asked curiously.

"...The king initially allowed the expansion to 30,000 people, so Tian An proposed a suggestion that the remaining 20,000 troops would not need to be allocated money and food for the court..."

"Huh?" Feng Xi said in surprise when he heard this, "Wang Zhong actually voluntarily bears the expenses of the remaining 20,000 troops? This is not a small amount."

After hearing this, Tian Wen sneered: "There is Duan Gan behind him, so he still needs to worry about him?"

"That's true..." Feng Xi nodded with a smile, then asked Tian Wen again: "Then... what does Mr. Xue think about this?"

"Ha." Tian Wen chuckled and said lightly: "If you allocate 30,000 yuan of funds, you can get 50,000 elite troops. Why not do it?"

Seeing this, Feng Xi smiled slightly invisibly at the corner of his mouth, and he deliberately asked again: "Mr. Xue isn't worried that Meng Zhong will be unfavorable to you after taking charge of the heavy army?"

"Just him?"

Tian Wen sneered: "If I, Tian Wen, one day, lose power in Wei, it must be because of losing the trust of the King of Wei. How could it be because of him?"

Speaking of this, the smile on his face slowly calmed down, and he frowned and said, "It's good that this is the case. With these soldiers in Meng Zhong's hands, our Wei State may have the opportunity to interfere in the Qin State's war on the attack on Chu State..."

Of course, Feng Xi knew that Tian Wen tried to bring Meng Zhongfeng to Wandi, and there was actually a layer of meaning that outsiders didn't know, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Does Xue really want to intervene in the war between Qin and Chu?"

Hearing this, Tian Wen frowned and said, "Sir, come to test me again? No matter how stupid Tian is, he guesses that Qin will inevitably use troops to Chu, coerce Chu to surrender to Qin, and then send troops to attack our Wei and Han countries. It is not that I want to intervene in the war between Qin and Chu, but that I must do this, otherwise if I sit down and watch Chu fall to Qin, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Then Tian An hopes to expand the garrison in Fangcheng this time..." Feng Xian mentioned deliberately.

Tian Wen sneered and said lightly: "Let's just pretend I don't know... I hope Meng Zhong can train 50,000 new troops as soon as possible. The troops in Hedong and Yecheng should not be moved lightly, but if Meng Zhong can train an army as soon as possible, I might have the opportunity to defeat Qin's intention of "using Chu to attack Wei and Han"!"

『See clearly!』

Feng Xu nodded after hearing this.

Immediately, after hesitating for a moment, he tentatively said: "But...even so, are you still unwilling to resolve your grudges with Meng Zhong?"

"No way!"

Tian Wen's expression changed slightly and he answered firmly.

Seeing that Tian Wen's answer was so decisive and straightforward, Feng Xian had no choice.

To be fair, Tian Wen is a very contradictory person, and it is indeed not as beautiful as the rumors. When Feng Xi first arrived at Tian Wen's mansion, he went to Xueyi to collect interest (ushistory) for Tian Wen. Then he saw that the people of Xueyi were living a very hard life, Feng Xi burned the boxes of loan notes in public.

Afterwards, Tian Wen was very angry and drove him Feng Xi out of the mansion.

Until finally, Tian Wen realized the role of "people's hearts", and personally invited him Feng Xi back, and never mentioned Xue Yi's interest payment again.

You should know that Tian Wen set up interest money in his own fief in order to save the three thousand guests. As a result, because of his Feng Xian, he lost all his capital and interests. But even so, Tian Wen finally invited Feng Xian back and regarded him as a guest of honor.

It has to be said that in terms of "negative money and emphasis on trust and righteousness", Tian Wen is indeed worthy of praise, but those with such a mind are unwilling to forgive those who have offended him, which makes Feng Xian really confused.

but……

『…Let’s just do this for the time being.”

Feng Xi thought secretly that, after all, according to what he saw, Tian Wen was already satisfied with sending Meng Zhong to Wandi, and was not prepared to target Meng Zhong again. Instead, he was preparing to use Meng Zhong to defeat Qin's ambitions, so he did not need to risk angering Tian Wen to persuade anything.

But in the bottom of my heart, Feng Xu felt very sorry. After all, the pair of Zhang Yi and Wei Zhang really frightened the Central Plains countries. Now, Tian Wen and Meng Zhong actually have the opportunity to reach the heights of Zhang Yi and Wei Zhang at the time. It’s a pity that Tian Wen has never been willing to truly resolve the grudges with Meng Zhong.

A few days later, due to Tian Wen's pretending to be unknown, Tian An finally convinced King of Wei and allowed King of Wei to expand Fangcheng's garrison to 50,000. However, as Tian An had promised before, Daliang only gave Meng Zhong 30,000 troops money and food. If Meng Zhong determined to use a total of 50,000 troops, the additional 20,000 troops would have to be borne by Meng Zhong himself.

In fact, it was not that the King of Wei was stingy. It was just that this war, the losses of Wei State were too great, and a total of 100,000 soldiers were killed, and nearly half of them were Wei Wushang. The amount of pension alone had already caused the deficit of the Wei State's treasury. Where could there be any remaining money for Meng Zhong to form a new army?

Thanks to the fact that King Wei was not confused. After Tian Wen's analysis, he learned that Qin's next target was Chu, intending to force Chu to surrender and attack Wei and Han again. Therefore, even if the national treasury is difficult, King Wei would allocate the small amount of money left to allow Meng Zhong to form a new army.

To be precise, it is not just Meng Zhong, but Gongsun Shu's Hedong Army and King Shin of Wei also decided to replenish them to 100,000. After all, Hedong (county) maintains half of the tax source of Wei, and there is absolutely no need to lose money. If this land is lost, then Wei will no longer be able to stop Qin.

At the same time, Meng Zhong and others were still on their way to Fangcheng.

Fangcheng is located on the southernmost border of Wei State, about 600 miles from Daliang and about 900 miles from Mengyi, which is very far away.

Because the journey was long, Meng Zhong decided to go back to Mengyi first, on the one hand, to visit his teacher Zhuangzi, and on the other hand, to Fangcheng with his children from the Mengyi family who were willing to join him, and at the same time, to take his mother, sister and newly married wife to Fangcheng to settle down. After all, if nothing unexpected happens, Meng Zhong and others will have to live in Fangcheng for a long time.

Therefore, when setting off, Meng Zhong divided the team into two.

One of them was led by Meng Sui and Meng Hu. Meng Sui temporarily commanded about 1,500 infantrymen, while Meng Hu and his deputy general Cao Chun led more than 300 cavalry to protect the troops along the way. The team set off first to head to Fangcheng.

The other team is more than 600 cavalry led by Hua Hu and Mu Wu. They will protect Meng Zhong, Wu Ying, Le Jin, Le Xu and others along the way. They will first go back to Mengyi, and then chase the team of Meng Sui and Meng Hu.

Considering that the term of office in Fangcheng was a full month, Meng Zhong and others were not in a hurry.

As for Meng Zhong's other teacher, Mencius, there was no time left. Therefore, before leaving Daliang, Meng Zhong wrote a letter to Mencius, roughly telling about his about his about to go to Fangcheng to serve as the city order.

Daliang is still a distance from Mengyi, but since Meng Zhong's team is all cavalry, it doesn't take much time.

However, when I was crossing the border between the Wei and Song dynasties, I spent some time.

The pass on the Wei State was not bad. After Meng Zhong took out the official document that King Wei of Wei appointed him as "Fangcheng Order", the defenders of the Wei State within the pass immediately changed their attitude.

It is worth mentioning that the guardian of this pass was the guardian who personally went to the state of Wei when Meng Zhong went to question him.

In less than a year, the boy Song, who was questioned by him, turned into a city guard. I have to say that the guard was also very surprised.

Compared with Wei Pass, passing through the pass of Song State is even more troublesome. Even if Meng Zhong tells his hometown and explains his purpose, he cannot convince the guardian of the pass of Song State to open the door and let them enter Song State.

In the end, Meng Zhong had to let Cai Cheng and Lu Wen lead more than 600 cavalry to station outside the territory of the Song State, while Meng Zhong brought Hua Hu, Mu Wu, Xiang Liao, Wu Ying, Meng Heng, Meng Min and others back to Mengyi.

It can be seen from this that although Wei and Song are now allied, the military and civilians of the two countries still do not trust each other, so the Song general naturally would not allow the more than 600 Wei cavalry under Meng Zhong to enter the country. This is their duty.

After leaving behind more than 600 cavalry temporarily, Meng Zhong and others rode on horseback, while Meng Heng and Meng Min took a chariot. The two sides rushed for another two days before finally reaching Mengyi.

After entering Mengyi, Meng Zhong instructed Meng Heng and Meng Min, the two clan brothers, to take their clan brother Meng Ao, to return to Mengyi first, while he and Hua Hu, Mu Wu, Xiang Liao, Wu Ying, Le Jin, Le Xu and others, to go to Zhuangziju to visit their teacher Zhuangzi.
To be continued...