Chapter 250 Pan Zhou's Support
Panzhou walked to the meeting hall with ease, without encountering any obstacles. This is how much Liu Zhang valued him.
"Brother Pan, you're here!"
When Liu Zhang saw Panzhou coming, he greeted him warmly.
"Oh, how dare you bother the prefect!"
"Hey! Brother Pan is too polite. In Hanzhong, Liu Zhang will still count on Brother Pan a lot!"
"Where is there! Isn't the prefect under Zhesha?"
How could Panzhou dare to accept such words, and immediately made a polite conversation with Liu Zhang, with a very flattering expression.
"Brother Pan, Liu Zhang does have something to trouble Brother Pan, please enlighten me!"
Liu Zhang pulled Panzhou to sit down and poured him a cup of tea himself.
"Master Taishou, please speak, I will know everything!"
"Okay! Brother Pan must know the purpose of Liu Zhang's succession as the prefect of Hanzhong. Now I have less than 5,000 generals. I want all the generals under my command to go to the counties to recruit soldiers. But there are nine counties in Hanzhong, and the population distribution is different. Brother Pan asks you to teach me where to recruit troops!"
Panzhou took a sip of tea, and instead of answering Liu Zhang, asked,
"Master Taishou, as the magistrate, Yan Shan knows the situation in Hanzhong like the palm of his hand. The county lieutenant Yang Lin also lives in Hanzhong, so he is also very familiar with the situation here. Why don't you ask these two, sir?"
If the previous Panzhou would not have dared to be so presumptuous with Liu Zhang, in the recent period of getting along, Liu Zhang's attention to him made Panzhou more and more courageous.
"Hey! I'm angry when I say it! Then Yan Shan and Yang Lin are crazy, but they hate the Yizhou governor very much! Even Brother Pan, they often swear at each other!"
Pan Zhou frowned on the surface, but secretly pleased in his heart. Unexpectedly, Liu Zhang even told himself such a thing!
"Master Taishou, why are those two people so dissatisfied with Que Shi?"
Liu Zhang sighed and drank the tea in his hand.
"Hey! It's not that the governor gave Hanzhong a lot of supplies. I told them the good news, but they said that the governor had bad intentions!"
"More than 20,000 pairs of iron armor, 5,000 horses, and 500,000 shi of grain! But if the governor has malicious intentions, can he give you these military supplies?"
"Besides, it's not good intentions to send such generous military funds, so it's good intentions not to support Hanzhong? I really don't understand what these two people mean!"
The more Panzhou heard it, the more surprised he became. He never expected that Quejian would be so generous! If these things are exchanged for money, how many years of corruption will it take to get them!
"Master Taishou, there is something I don't know whether to say or not..."
Liu Zhang waved his hand, not caring at all.
"Brother Pan, it's okay if you say it!"
Panzhou struggled for a while before slowly expressing his opinion on these two people.
"Master Taishou, this Yang Lin has complained to me for a long time, because our Pan family blocked their Yang family's eyes! Without our Pan family, their Yang family would have dominated Hanzhong long ago! And that Yan Shan, originally from Brazil , because of dereliction of duty, he was dismissed by the governor! I didn't expect him to catch up with the former prefect Su Gu."
"But the governor didn't want to turn a blind eye because he destroyed the relationship between the governor and the governor. I didn't expect that this Yan Shan not only didn't feel grateful, but even worsened the depreciation of the governor!"
"That Yang Lin just wanted to overthrow our Pan family, and the two hit it off immediately, and joined forces with the former prefect Su Gu to suppress our Pan family frequently!"
"Fortunately, the general later arrived in time and took over as the prefect of Hanzhong. Otherwise, our Pan family will probably be destroyed by their hands in a short time!"
The more Pan Zhou talked, the more it was no wonder that there were tears in his eyes, and he began to cry bitterly after a while!
"It turns out that's the case! No wonder they frequently swear at Brother Pan! Seeing that we are getting closer, they don't respect me that much anymore!"
Liu Zhang also looked resentful, his hands were clenched and rattled.
"Brother Pan, don't worry, with me in the future, I will definitely not let the two thieves succeed!"
Panzhou gradually stopped crying, and quickly thanked Liu Zhang.
"Thank you, Lord Prefect, Panzhou will never die!"
"Brother Pan, you are welcome, can you clear up Liu Zhang's confusion?"
Panzhou slapped his forehead, suddenly remembered the question Liu Zhang asked him, and quickly answered him.
"Master Taishou, if you want to recruit troops, you might as well ask the generals to go to the three counties of Xicheng, Shangyong and Fangling."
"Dongsan County..."
Liu Zhang muttered a few words to himself, and looked at Panzhou with some puzzlement.
"These three places are far away from Nanzheng, why do you have to run so far?"
"Master Taishou, the East Three Counties are close to Jingzhou and have a large population! Hanzhong County has a population of less than 300,000, and the East Three Counties account for less than 40%!"
"It turned out to be like this!"
Liu Zhang suddenly realized, and immediately made a decision in his heart.
"Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang!"
Liu Zhang called out his four generals in one breath, and all four of them came out one after another.
"The end is here!"
"The four of you brought your troops and rushed to the East Three Counties to recruit soldiers immediately. Remember, you must remember my order!"
"promise!"
Huang Zhong and the others surrendered their hands one after another, and then they didn't dare to delay, they turned around and left.
After Liu Zhang arranged the recruitment, he felt better.
"Thank you Brother Pan this time!"
Panzhou was also very happy to see Liu Zhang trusting him so much.
"Master Taishou doesn't have to do this, this is what Pan should do!"
"Brother Pan, Liu Zhang still has something to ask, I hope Brother Pan will not refuse!"
Looking at Liu Zhang's eyes full of pleading, Pan Zhou felt a sense of relief, he didn't think about what Liu Zhang would ask, and he agreed directly.
"Master Taishou, please speak!"
Liu Zhang glanced across the room, then pointed to 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, and Dian Wei who is present here also has four people who have just been ordered out. My rear general's mansion belongs to There were originally 10,000 soldiers, but unfortunately, after the Battle of Meiyang not long ago, more than half of them have been lost!"
"This time four generals under my command go to the three eastern counties to recruit soldiers, so naturally I have to bring my soldiers with me. In this way, I only have Dian Wei and hundreds of soldiers to mobilize."
"It is estimated that in more than 20 days at most, the military funds from Yizhou governor's office to support Hanzhong will be delivered, but the governor promised to send soldiers to Yangping Pass, but there is still a distance between Yangping Pass and Nanzheng. I can't be cheeky and let it go Inspector, send me to Nanzheng!"
Pan Zhou seemed to understand what Liu Zhang meant, so he asked Liu Zhang,
"The prefect means that there is a shortage of manpower?"
Liu Zhang nodded happily, without the slightest hint of embarrassment.
"Then why didn't the prefect mobilize soldiers from all counties? There are six thousand soldiers in Hanzhong County!"
Liu Zhang sighed and shook his head helplessly.
"Brother Pan, the county soldiers in the nine counties are now under the command of Yang Lin, and you know that he is having conflicts with me now, can I beg him in a low voice?"
Panzhou rolled his eyes, and his face gradually showed a hint of joy.
"Master Taishou, don't worry, I will help Panzhou to help you! There are three thousand servants in my house, and I will find all of them for Mr. Taishou. I wonder if it will be enough?"
Liu Zhang looked at Panzhou in a daze, he didn't expect him to be able to mobilize so many people.
"Brother Pan is really extraordinary, Liu Zhang replaced wine with tea, thank you Brother Pan here! Please!"
Panzhou picked up the teacup, drank it down in one gulp, and then sighed,
"The prefect is the head of a county. If Yang Lin behaves like this, if he is not dealt with, it will inevitably make people think that the prefect is easy to bully!"
The more Liu Zhang thought about it, the more angry he was, he threw the tea bowl on the ground and smashed it to pieces.
"Hmph! When my recruits come back, I will definitely make this guy look good!"
(end of this chapter)