Most of the soldiers and horses brought by Wang Xian were temporarily recruited by the Bashu place, and they stayed in Chang'an for half a year, in addition to reinforcing the city wall all day, they helped Wang Xian carry their property.

Although Li Xiaofei was excluded by Wang Xian, he took these people to repair the city wall all day long, but after all, he was also a high-ranking official of Daliang, and these strong men also respected him.

Li Xiaofei stayed with them for a long time, and suddenly had an illusion, as if he had returned to the Lijia Village where he worked hard all day, or the brothers in Shou County. Li Xiaofei's talent is to deal with people for a long time, and he has eaten and worked together for nearly half a year, and these strong men are obedient to him in every way. Even the dozens of guards sent by Wang Xian to monitor Li Xiaofei rolled up their sleeves and drank with Li Xiaofei.

The leader of the group from Ba County was called Xiang Dahu, who was majestic but not tall, with a beard and an astonishing amount of alcohol. At first, he raised the bar with Li Xiaofei, but Li Xiaofei didn't care, he called him Brother Xiang, and often rewarded him with some money to drink wine and eat meat.

After a long time, Meng En, the centurion of Qianwei, couldn't see it, so he said to Li Xiaofei in private: "Lord Li is a distinguished official, drinking and eating meat and working with us countrymen all day long, it is too valuable, you have to show your official authority, otherwise you will ride on your head and and pee in the future!" ”

Li Xiaofei became unexpectedly serious: "Brother Meng, the kind of practice you are talking about, that is the style of the family, I can beat the board and lock people up or even kill people, but everyone is flesh and blood, especially you are the most bitter and tired people, if you still have to be beaten, insulted and killed, then what justice and heavenly justice are there in this world?" I just want everyone to have a little bit of dignity as a human being. Your family is waiting for you to return safely in Bashu, and you are also relying on your military pay to survive, if you are beaten and killed because you just offend me, a bird official, how can your family survive? ”

Meng En was silent with tears in his eyes, turned around, wiped his eyes, and ran out.

Since this day, Xiang Dahu has been respectful to Li Xiaofei. But Li Xiaofei still didn't understand why these people worked so hard, and when he drank later, he couldn't help but ask: "You people from Bashu, do you have to endure the endless hard work all day?" I don't think you're greedy for life or afraid of death, but you're also too hardworking! ”

A centurion named Du Laoqi spoke: "Our people from Bashu, before leaving, General Wang gave the settlement fee, we collected his money, we have to listen to him, do things well, collect money and don't make any efforts, it's not what we did!" ”

Meng En also spoke: "We Shu people never slack our belts, and we must do a good job in what we promise others!" ”

Xiang Dahu also patted his chest: "Our people from Badong will not lose to you people from Shudi!" ”

Li Xiaofei nodded: "It seems that it is really a group of people, you are stupid, I am also stupid, so we came together!" ”

Everyone laughed: "When it comes to stupidity, it's still Taifu Li who is the most stupid, and Master Murong calls you stupid, so we also inquired about you later." is often deceived into entanglement, or just buys the children that others want to discard, anyway, you Master Li is stupid and has a lot of money. ”

Du Laoqi added: "Actually, it's not surprising that people are stupid and have a lot of money, this Master Li's martial arts skills are not high, but he often foolishly wants to save people and become a hero, and every time he relies on Master Murong to make a move." Master Li is afraid that he is stupid when he has no money, he is stupid in his bones, so stupid that everyone can't bear to lie to him and hurt him again! ”

Meng En picked up the wine bowl: "Master Li is actually not stupid, he understands many things, he just wants to work hard to be a good person and make the world better!" Ever since I got to know Master Li, I feel that there is suddenly hope in this troubled world of endless wars. Come and pay tribute to Master Li together!"

Everyone raised a bowl and drank together, and Li Xiaofei wiped his mouth: "Hehe, I, my martial arts are not as good as one-ten-thousandth of Murong's, and I can't fight a war, my power and strategy are even worse, and my background is also a pariah, except for King Han, who is almost stupid to me, who often rewards me with money, I don't have any money." I'm such a mediocre person! ”

Xiang Dahu raised the bowl and pointed at Li Xiaofei: "Mrs. Li, we have also seen a lot of big officials, which one is not blown into the stars in the sky, all the generals are compared to Han Xin, and when they meet a county official, they are also compared to Jiang Ziya Zhuge Liang, but as long as they are on the battlefield, they will not work." Only you, Mrs. Li, say that you are worthless, and you are really stupid compared to them. But if you are as stupid as you are, how did you become a Taifu, it can be seen that the people in this court are also stupid. Hahahaha"

Everyone burst into laughter, and a centurion named Wang Laosan also spoke: "To tell you from the heart, let's follow a big official like Mrs. Li, and we are not aggrieved, even if he really has no ability, our brothers are willing to protect him, right?" If he is gone, who will take us to drink wine and eat meat in the future? Do you say no? ”

Everyone persuaded him to drink again, Li Xiaofei fell on the table as a matter of course, and carried him back to the mansion to Dahu for a night's stay.

On Wang Xian's side, everyone hid it from him, and he was busy thinking about how to take advantage of the line of Ju Wuzhi to regain the lost territory and establish prestige, so he naturally didn't notice it.

The spring flowers are blooming, the weather is getting hotter, and Ju Wuzhi has the intention to make a lot of money and lead the army back to the grassland, but Fan Zhihongcheng and the others never agree, insisting on rushing to build ships and only crossing the river.

Hu Gao was also about to arrive in Xiangguo, and the group was in a hurry, and at this time the envoy of the Green Flag Khanate came.

The Green Flag Khanate came to talk to Ju Wuzhi about some territory division and the distribution of prisoners of war, so that Ju Wuzhi made a small profit, and Ju Wuzhi naturally entertained him.

After three rounds of drinking, the envoy of the Green Flag Khanate accidentally dropped the letter he was carrying, and happened to be picked up by his own soldiers.

Ju Wuzhi opened the letter and was shocked, it was actually Zadar, the deputy khan of the Green Flag Khanate, who gave Fan Zhi Hongcheng and the others, and said that he had sent gold and silver to Fan Zhihongcheng and the others three times, and asked the two to take the Thousand Feathers Army to join the Green Flag Khanate, and the Great Khan of the Green Flag Khanate, Tubili, must have entrusted him with the important task of tearing the earth and sealing the king.

After reading the letter, Ju Wuzhi was overjoyed, and was ready to send someone to arrest Fan Zhihongcheng and the others, but when he thought about the strong martial arts of these two people, if he wanted to arrest them, he was afraid that the two would run away. After thinking about it for a while, he sent someone to invite Fan Zhihongcheng to come to the meeting.

The envoys of the Green Flag Khanate, who did not want to come with them, turned out to be two groups of people, and the other group had already gone to Fan Zhihongcheng. The messenger did not send gold or silver, but took out a letter to Fan Zhihongcheng and the others, and what was written in the letter also said that they had given Fan Zhihongcheng and the others three times in gold and silver, and now they asked Fan Zhihongcheng and the others to fulfill their promises.

Hong Cheng pulled out his knife and put it on the messenger's neck, and Fan Zhi laughed: "Don't you think it's too stupid to have such a clumsy plan to harm the two of us?" ”

The messenger also smiled: "The two of you are naturally resourceful, but there are four letters in this letter, one has already fallen into the hands of Ju Wuzhi, and two are almost in the hands of Pajaqili and Hu Gao. I have seen that Ju Wuzhi will send someone to invite the two of you to discuss the matter of building a warship to cross the river to the south. If I am wrong, it will be too late to kill me, and if I am right, I am afraid that the lives of the two generals will not be guaranteed! ”

Fan Zhihongcheng escorted the envoy behind the screen and waited in the house.

After a while, Ju Wuzhi sent someone to come, and the words were exactly the same as what the messenger said, and the two agreed to come down, and said that they would change into official clothes and go.

After the visitor left, Fan Zhihongcheng hurriedly invited the envoy: "You have killed our two brothers miserably, and now you have to save your life first!" ”

Seeing that the second general had not come for a long time, Ju Wuzhi ordered hundreds of people to arrest him. Fan Zhihongcheng and the others had already gathered at the barracks, and the Thousand Feather Army wanted to take them to the Green Flag Khanate.

Although the Thousand Feather Army respected Fan Zhi Hongcheng, after all, they were all from the Black Flag Khanate, and Fan Zhi Hongcheng only took dozens of people to escape, and the rest neither blocked nor chased, but just stayed in place.

By the time Hu Gao arrived in Xiangguo, Fan Zhi and Hongcheng had already arrived in the Zadar army. Ju Wuzhi reported the letter to Hu Gao, and Hu Gao glanced at it a few times and threw it on the ground: "Such a counter-plot can only deceive you like a pig brain!" Bad for me two generals! With these two people in the west, our army's advantage will be gone in a few years! ”

Ju Wuzhi was not to be outdone: "The so-called talents recommended by the national teacher turned out to be just some traitors with no integrity, and the 3,000 people of my Thousand Feather Army are still there, so why be afraid?" ”

Hu Gao took out Pajaqili's edict, and Ju Wuzhi lost his temper and knelt down when he saw it: "Okay, from now on, I will obey the dispatch of the national teacher." ”

Hu Gao repeatedly asked Ju Wuzhi why he was in a hurry to withdraw his troops, and Ju Wuzhi had no choice but to tell Wang Xian's plan to negotiate peace.

Hu Gao's eyes rolled: "Yes, this greed for money also has the benefit of greed for money, and if they want to negotiate peace, they will make it look like they want to negotiate peace." It is not necessarily a bad thing for Fan Zhi and Hongcheng to go to the west, let's join forces to capture Chang'an, I think it is just around the corner! ”

For several days, Hu Gao sent several groups of envoys to Zadar and Wang Xian, and wrote personal letters to Zadar and Fan Zhihongcheng. Jozadar reasonably attacked Chang'an before June, and appeased Fan Zhihongcheng, making it clear that the two had fallen into the trap and did not blame the two, and asked the two to assist the Green Flag Khanate in completing the task of capturing Chang'an.

Zadar and the others read Hu Gao's letter: "Tsk, this national teacher is a national teacher in the end, I would like to think that he wants to raise the teacher to ask for guilt, and he wants to kill the two of you to vent his anger, I can't imagine that this national teacher is so generous!" ”

Fan Zhihongcheng was also ashamed: "The two families are brothers' countries, and my two brothers are responsible for serving the two countries.

Having said that, Zadar became suspicious, suspecting that the two had been arranged by Hu Gao a long time ago, so the training methods offered by the two were put on hold by Zadar.

The envoy sent to Wang Xian was extremely arrogant and asked for a price, but Wang Xian thought that this was a manifestation of the other party's withdrawal of troops, and the person was going to leave deliberately too high a price, so as to sell the city at a good price. So Wang Xian hospitably entertained four groups of envoys who came to negotiate peace, hoping to bargain and pay less money to redeem the city as soon as possible.

Chen Hongyi personally led 5,000 people to camp by the river, and requisitioned the people to dig a new ditch to turn the area along the river into a swamp with a water network, so as to resist the southward march of the cavalry on the opposite side.