Chapter 981: A Common Enemy

If Yan Pu was not Zhang Lu's advisor, but as Liu Zhang's cronies at this time, at this moment, Yan Pu would strongly persuade Liu Zhang and Liu Bei to temporarily suspend their troops and make peace.

What is the situation of the soldiers and horses on both sides, whether Liu Zhang's side can still hold on, and the strength of the enemy army, these Yan Pu, who are strategists, are all clear.

However, as a strategist, Yan Pu could not speak ill of his own side before the two armies were at war.

Although he had the intention to let Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu make peace, he couldn't take the initiative to raise this matter, but needed Liu Zhang or Zhang Lu to put it forward, and then Yan Pu would analyze it and put forward opinions.

Otherwise, if Yan Pu took the initiative to bring it up, he would be suspected of defecting to the enemy.

At this moment, Liu Bei himself was present in person, and Yan Pu had the opportunity to express his opinion at this time.

It's just that he didn't rush to say what he thought in his heart, but waited, waiting for Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu to speak first.

"Peace talks?"

"Hahaha, Liu Xuande, have you forgotten that your second brother Guan Yu, not long ago, sent soldiers and horses, killed one of my generals, Deng Xian, and killed 20,000 elite soldiers under me, and you took my city again, such a hatred, how can you make peace with words, not only do you not make peace, but I also want to set you as a mortal enemy, and I will never die in this life!"

After Liu Zhang's words were heard, he was stunned at first, and then there was silence for a while, and he did not immediately agree to Liu Bei's proposal, but laughed out loud and said something that would trigger the atmosphere of negotiation.

made this originally amiable negotiation atmosphere suddenly become tense.

Not only did Jian Yong's face change beside Liu Bei, but even Yan Yan beside Liu Zhang, Zhang Ren and others all turned pale.

They are all worried that if Liu Zhang directly orders to kill Liu Bei, whether they, who are subordinates, should go up directly and kill Liu Bei.

However, their worries did not happen, and Liu Bei himself was calm.

"Brother Xian, what happened before, I will compensate you for the recklessness of my second brother, but you also have to understand, in fact, I sent a large army to Hanzhong, not to ask for trouble for you, but to help you on behalf of the imperial court."

"I heard that in the Xichuan area, there are chaotic parties blocking the way, so that the envoys of the imperial court cannot pass the news to the ears of Liu Zhoumu in Xichuan, as a general, I naturally have to share the worries of the imperial court, so I will let my second brother clear all obstacles for the imperial court, but I didn't expect this to collide with the virtuous brother, which can be regarded as not knowing each other."

Liu Bei opened his mouth and directly ignored the past about Ma Chao's killing of Liu Zhang's subordinate Deng Xian before.

It was an accident to define this incident as not knowing each other.

It was Liu Bei who shared the worries of the imperial court and swept away the chaotic party occupying Xichuan.

In this way, Liu Zhangke has to think carefully about whether he will continue to work this matter.

If Liu Zhang continues to talk about this matter, Liu Bei will decide that Liu Zhang is a chaotic party occupying Xichuan.

Although Liu Bei also knew that Liu Yan wanted to be the emperor, but Liu Yan had not yet become the emperor, which means that Liu Yan still had scruples in his heart, as long as Liu Yan still had scruples, then he would definitely not be willing to turn his face with the court.

If it was the previous imperial court, Liu Zhang naturally didn't need to be afraid, after all, the imperial court was just a puppet emperor who existed in name only.

But since Liu Bei came to power, he has made great efforts, not only to deal with the Yellow Turban rebels in Bingzhou, but also to incorporate the Xiliang Army.

These unstable factors in the northwest will be swept away.

The Han Dynasty, which made the sunset in the western mountains, regained some vitality.

Such a big man aroused Liu Zhang's jealousy, and Liu Zhang was actually unwilling at this time, so he turned his face directly with Liu Bei.

Therefore, Liu Zhang is unwilling to admit that he is the chaotic party occupying Xichuan, at least on the surface, he can't directly turn his face with Liu Bei.

"Since it's a misunderstanding, then this matter, then forget it, it's just Liu Xuande, my father has been in Xichuan for many years, and he is very old, and he wanted to go to Luoyang to report on his work and meet the emperor, but recently my father has been in poor health, and it is really inconvenient to travel long distances."

"I also understand this matter, so I didn't come this time to talk to Brother Xian about Liu Zhoumu, I personally came to visit, in fact, I wanted to cooperate with Brother Xian."

"Cooperation?"

Originally, Liu Zhang thought that Liu Bei had come to visit in person, and he had come to ask Liu Yan about the fact that he had occupied Yizhou for so many years, and that he had not paid tribute to the imperial court and did not do anything to the imperial court, which was already a very serious crime, but Liu Bei not only did not come to ask for the crime, but instead opened his mouth to cooperate.

It made Liu Zhang's already solemn expression even more suspicious.

"What else can we cooperate with?"

Liu Zhang asked Liu Bei vigilantly.

In Liu Zhang's view, this is more of a suspicion, suspicion of Liu Bei's ulterior motives.

Of course, Liu Bei had already thought that Liu Zhang would definitely not believe that he came to the peace talks so easily, so he had prepared a set of rhetoric before coming.

"Brother Xian, do you know why the imperial court can tolerate Yizhou being in a state of self-reliance for so many years?"

Liu Bei did not directly answer Liu Zhang's words, but asked a rhetorical question, which made Liu Zhang's already puzzled look even tighter.

"Why?"

Liu Zhang hurriedly asked.

"Because it is still what I said just now, Liu Zhoumu has always been a family, and if a family does not speak two words, we have a bigger enemy."

The bigger enemy, although Liu Bei did not directly say who this person is, but fools can guess that the person Liu Bei said is Liu Zheng.

After listening to Liu Bei's words, Liu Zhang, who was also very puzzled, thought of Liu Zheng.

The suspicions just now have all vanished.

Oh, yes.

There is also a Liu Zheng.

Compared with Liu Zheng, a traitor who has been called the emperor and owns Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and five states, most of the world.

Their old Liu family occupies a Yizhou, so it is nothing at all.

Liu Zheng is the henchman of the imperial court, and Liu Yan's family is at most a clown.

Liu Zhang, who figured it out, did not look like he was facing a great enemy at the beginning for Liu Bei.

Instead, he began to ask Liu Bei.

"Brother Xuande, what you just said about cooperation is that you want to join forces with us and deal with Liu Zheng together?"

After understanding that Liu Bei was not an enemy, Liu Zhang's name for Liu Bei was changed.

Even, for Liu Zheng, Liu Zhang is also annoying, after all, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses are now eyeing Hanzhong nearby.

Previously, Liu Zheng had already dispatched Shangyong to defeat Shangyong and let Shangyong be separated from Hanzhong County, which made Liu Zhang very unhappy.

In addition, Liu Zhang has always been jealous of Liu Zheng's shit luck, and he can occupy so much territory, and he is a little blushing.