Liu Yan's style in Changsha is out of place in Xiangyang. Therefore, she opened a hall of advice in the princess's mansion and often held some literati gatherings, but the wine banquet or something was only available in a year and only during the New Year.

Therefore, this birthday banquet for Xu Shu is a rare day for officials and celebrities in Xiangyang to eat and drink at public expense and get together for free. Therefore, everyone was in high spirits and the scene was very enthusiastic.

Liu Yan took advantage of the good atmosphere and took out the bag from her arms and motioned to Xu Shu: "It is rare for the teacher to have a birthday, and the apprentice comes to eat and drink, how can there be no congratulatory gifts?

Huang Zhong was the closest at the bottom, and when he saw the wrench in Liu Yan's hand, he blurted out: "Yo, this is a good thing!"

Xu Shu wanted to excuse himself, but after listening to Huang Zhong's words, he shook his hand and said: "Your Royal Highness Princess Xie rewards, your subordinates dare not be ashamed, the princess can come is already a grace to her subordinates, and I dare not accept the reward with shame." ”

"What are you talking about, how can you have less birthday gifts, you can accept other people's gifts, and you will say that you deserve my gifts, do you dislike the gifts I gave lightly?" Liu Yan deliberately buried him.

"No, no, no, my subordinates don't dare!" was buried in public by Liu Yan, Xu Shu only felt that he couldn't raise his head. At that moment, he bent down and confessed his hands again and again.

Seeing him like this, Liu Yan's heart became uncomfortable like a pinprick. Why are you so estranged from each other? I just want to give you a gift, and you just excuse yourself like this, and you have to use my status as the eldest princess to suppress you, are you willing to accept it? If so......

Liu Yanhu blushed, and her voice lost temperature: "Since you don't dare, then accept it!" As she spoke, she put her wrench back into the bag, handed it to Yaoqin, and motioned for her to hand it over to Xu Shu.

Xu Shu took the bag from Yaoqin's hand, and wanted to step forward again to thank him, but Liu Yan waved his sleeves and rushed back to his seat: "Okay, okay, let's continue to eat and drink, and the work of making a confession in it won't end for a while." The people agreed and sat down again to eat and drink.

At this time, Xu Shu's face was red and white for a while, he wanted to excuse himself, and said a word of self-humility, but the apprentice really "rewarded" this pair of wrenches, and asked the maid to bring it to him in style.

Not to mention how embarrassed Xu Shu was, in the temporary interrogation room, Pang Tong and Gan Ning were angry and funny in the face of Zhang Song, who was drunk and drunk. While listening to him complain about how Cao Cao judged people by his appearance, and couldn't see him Zhang Song clearly, he said that he was above 10,000 people under one person in Shuzhong, enjoying all the glory and wealth, and his life would only be more comfortable than you Cao Cao, not worse.

Speaking of which, he simply took a handful of tears and snot and cried about how difficult it was for him. Liu Zhang was repeatedly exhorted to strengthen military construction and increase investment. He just didn't listen, thinking that it would affect the quality of life of ordinary people.

Damn, you are bullied by Zhang Lu every day, and you lose battles every day, do you think the people will say that you are good? Now that there are more and more people who want Zhang Lu, why don't you feel it at all?

Zhang Songyu pawn, it stands to reason that the lord is lenient and benevolent, which is a blessing for his subordinates and the people, and to do things under such a lord, you only need to eat and wait for death, who doesn't want to just receive Yu Lu and not do things?

However, what is the situation out there now? The crowd is divided, and disputes are everywhere. Everyone wants to expand their territory, loot the population, and increase taxes. As a natural granary, Shuzhong is a huge temptation for everyone, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.

Therefore, for Liu Zhang, there are no people of his own at all, and there are enemies all around. Under such circumstances, he did not want to make progress, but greedy for pleasure, thinking that by exercising benevolent government he would be able to keep his territory, and that he would be able to get the people to support him and stand on his side.

But how is this possible? The people crave comfort, so they cling to the strong. Cao Cao was powerful, the north was solid, and the tuntian system made most of his military salaries and military rations guaranteed. This creates a virtuous circle. On the other hand, Liu Zhang, it is simply a vicious circle, which will only get weaker and weaker, and finally be divided by others.

As a farewell driver in Shu, the old minister who assisted Liu Zhang in the ascendancy back then, how could he bear to have the good country in Shu being broken up by Liu Zhang. However, Liu Zhang didn't listen to him, and he had no way to think about it. I can only pray that the people who will enter Sichuan to take over Liu Zhang's territory in the future will be able to let go of his family and keep his family property.

Zhang Song cried hard, and Pang Tong and Gan Ning looked at each other, what kind of interrogation is needed in this way! The matter is completely clear at a glance. Zhang Song wanted to rebel and take refuge in Cao Cao in order to keep his family. But Cao Cao didn't want him to become the second Cai Mao, so he didn't accept his surrender and drove him out of Xudu. The depressed Zhang Song went down the river and came to Jingzhou, which was purely distracted.

However, Liu Yan and Pang Tong had solved the map problem they wanted very easily. Because Zhang Song, in order to show his sincerity to Cao Cao, he specially spent a few days drawing a strategic map of the central Shu region, which was originally intended to be dedicated to Cao Cao, but who knew that he could not do it, but was driven out by Cao Cao. As a result, the map was always hidden in his personal pocket, never leaving him.

Now that Zhang Song is drunk and unconscious, the map can easily fall from his body to Pang Tong and Gan Ning's hands. After Gan Ning's careful identification, it was determined that this was a very detailed military map of Shuzhong. Pang Tong breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and ordered someone to place Zhang Song in a good life, give him a comfortable bed, and send a maid to serve on the side.

The whole process took about two hours, and by this time I had eaten and drunk to my heart's content. Several adults who had drunk too much were sent home. The rest are the core members of the inside story, including Xu Shu, Huang Zhong, Kou Feng, Zhao Yun, Le Jin, Zhang Fei, Yin Guan, Mi Zhu, Ma Liang, Ma Jing and others.

Liu Yan didn't drink a drop of wine today, but she was still in high spirits. Reclining in his position, he beats to the rhythm of the music with one hand and his head with the other, and enjoys the Kabuki performance with a smile on his face.

Xu Shu on the side has been peeking at her, and the big guy persuaded her to go back to rest early, and after Pang Tong and Gan Ning succeeded, she would naturally go to the princess's mansion tomorrow to report the situation, and she didn't have to wait here all the time.

But Liu Yan categorically refused, she just sat there all the time, watching the performance and drinking white water, watching and listening with a smile, as if she was enjoying it. In fact, she hadn't been here for a long time. After I go back today, I have to go to the teacher's house to meet with the teacher, but I don't know if it will be the Year of the Monkey. According to the teacher's cold reaction just now, I am afraid that my relationship with him will never be repaired. In this case, if the mansion wants to enter again, there is no reason to enter again unless he gives an order and makes it clear that he wants to come to condolence or has some other "business trip".

So although she was smiling on the surface and in a good mood, she was actually counting down in her heart. One thousand and one thousand hope that Gan Ning and Pang Tong will complete the task slowly.

Who knew that she prayed slowly, but the two of them were fortunate to live up to their lives and came out with a map in hand. walked straight up to Liu Yan, raised his hand high, and held the white silk with a map drawn: "Her Royal Highness Princess Qiyu, my subordinates are fortunate enough to live up to their lives and find out the whole map of Shuzhong hidden by Zhang Song!

"Ah, got it, so fast?" Liu Yan took it in disbelief and opened it to take a closer look, and while looking at it, she was still muttering: "This Zhang Song, why did you draw the map of Shuzhong so carefully? I don't know, I think he is a fine work sent from other places!"

Liu Yan was talking to herself, but it was so quiet below that she could hear a pin. Kabuki has long since retired. The generals of Wenchen also waited with bated breath, and their eyes were firmly fixed on the white silk in Liu Yan's hand. Now they can gear up and get ready to go to Sichuan to fight for credit!

Since the end of the Northern Expedition, except for a few large and small battles between Ganning's naval army and Jiangdong, Jingzhou's army has made no achievements at all, and is purely raising fat. Although the soldiers trained hard every day. But there was no battle, and the big guys were panicked, especially Huang Zhong, if the old man didn't know that there would always be a big battle in Sichuan in the future, he would have thought about applying to go to the Nanyang front.

Now, seeing that the map of Shuzhong has finally arrived, and the day when he wants to go on the expedition is just around the corner, the old man only feels his blood boiling, staring at Liu Yan eagerly, and thinking in his heart, if possible, show him the map as well! Let him see if it is difficult to enter Sichuan this time, and how many tough battles he can fight.

If other people knew what Huang Zhong was thinking at this time, they would probably be looking sideways again, this old man always likes to compete with young people for credit, but he is still so brave, and his sword is not old. This is clearly not giving young people a way to live!

Although Liu Yan didn't know what Huang Zhong was thinking, Liu Yan knew the old man's temper, if he didn't take him with him this time, he would definitely take the initiative to ask for it, and he would definitely have to go.

Of course, now is not the time to talk about this, Liu Yan opened the map and took a cursory glance, and then put the map in his sleeve: "Well done! General Gan, Senior Brother Pang, you have made meritorious contributions today! The map problem has been solved, and the door of Shuzhong is completely open to us!"

"Thanks to Her Royal Highness the Princess, my subordinates didn't expect things to go so smoothly. It all depends on General Kim's help. It was he who used the country accent to let that Zhang loosen his guard, otherwise it would never have gone so well. Pang Tong said matter-of-factly. Gan Ning shook his hand: "The last general is just acting on orders, and he doesn't dare to take credit." ”

Liu Yan smiled suddenly: "I said that if you have merit, you will have merit, none of you should refuse! Okay, it's not early, and you are all tired, General Gan, you can stay in Xiangyang for the time being, and you can also participate in the regular meeting in three days!" Liu Yan said to Pang Tong and Gan Ning. Gan Ning clenched his fists: "The last general will obey the order!"

Liu Yan stood up at this time: "Since everything is in order, then I will leave first, thank you for the teacher's hospitality." As he spoke, he saluted Xu Shu.

Xu Shu got up and didn't even dare to say anything, and sent Liu Yan out of the mansion all the way. Before leaving, Liu Yan didn't forget to say one more sentence, so that Xu Shu paid attention to Zhang Song. Tomorrow he woke up and found that the map was gone, and he would definitely want to trouble her, and asked the teacher to find a way to delay him for three days, and invite him to come to the regular meeting of the princess's mansion three days later.

Xu Shu nodded and agreed, and Liu Yan reluctantly left. Back at the princess's mansion, she hurriedly entered the middle study, where there was a map screen of Shuzhong embroidered a little bit. Now that the artwork is available, the rest can be embroidered.

Liu Yan began to study the map overnight, she was not studying which road was suitable for attacking and which road was suitable for retreating. She researches which road is underneath which road and which river has several intersections with which river. She had to hurry up and finish embroidering the screen.

The three days passed quickly, and during these three days, Liu Yan worked overtime day and night, and finally finished embroidering the map before the regular meeting. It's just right for a meeting. As for Zhang Song's original manuscript, more is better than less, and after the screen was embroidered, the original manuscript was burned to ashes. If you want to draw again in the future, just draw on the screen!

At the regular meeting of the princess's mansion, when Liu Yan took out this screen to show the adults, Zhang Song, who was sitting on the side, was originally sick, his eyes were straight, he didn't expect Liu Yan to copy this map so quickly, and embroider it on the screen with her own hands, it only took three days, you can imagine how she wanted to do this thing without sleep and food.

Zhang Song thought to himself, how eager you are to enter the river! Get the map out first. It looks good. However, the Shu Road is complicated, what is the use of just having a map, and the locals who are familiar with the terrain must lead the way to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

But Ms. Liu didn't think about it at all, saying she had ordered the best artists to be selected and two more drawings of the map. A copy of one of them was returned to Zhang Song.

Zhang Song smiled bitterly, the real work has been destroyed for you, you give me a copy now, what do you mean? I am not strong enough to drink, but in a few days, no matter how much he refuses, unless she leaves the table halfway, it will be useless.

But Liu Yancai didn't care what he thought, she handed the imitation in his direction, since there would be a maid to take it and hand it over to Zhang Song. Liu Yan saw that he took it, so she said with a smile: "Thanks to this map, otherwise we wouldn't even dare to think about it." Sir, I have clearly come here to offer treasure to me, but I am too stupid to live up to your expectations several times. It's really Yiyang Feng, Yiyang will apologize to you!" said and pretended to salute.

Zhang Song was so frightened that he didn't kneel: "I can't help it!" The foreign official carried the map with him, and he really wanted to dedicate the map to the Cao thief, who knew that he was so arrogant, he didn't know the gold and jade, and the old man was wronged for no reason, how could it be unreasonable!" As he spoke, Zhang Song became angry again and smacked Cao Cao fiercely. Everyone present looked at him and did not speak. Some people even have contemptuous expressions on their faces, saying in their hearts that you have the kind of saying it in front of him! People who always speak ill of people behind their backs and love to stab knives will not end up much better. (To be continued.) )