This time in the Northern Expedition, Wu Yi and his brother Wu Ban also went out with the army and made war exploits together.

Although he failed in the end, he was rewarded for his performance on the battlefield.

Compared with Pang Xi, who has an arrogant personality and likes power and pomp, Wu Yi's personal cultivation is obviously far above Pang Xi.

He doesn't compete much, treats people gently and politely, and is cautious everywhere, so Liu Zhang's character likes Wu Yi more, and Pingsu and Wu Yi are also very close.

This time, faced with such a situation, Liu Zhang couldn't think of any other way, so he could only make up his mind to kill Pang Xi.

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who raised the problem, so that there is no problem, and the problem is solved naturally, right?

Liu Zhang feels that his IQ occupies the high ground of life.

But the Dongzhou people are Liu Zhang's basic plate, and Liu Zhang himself knows that he can't lose the Dongzhou people, and he can't lose the support of the Dongzhou people for Pang Xi, otherwise this position will be unstable, and he will be as constrained as Liu Biao, which is not in his interests.

The Dongzhou faction must exist, must maintain a certain strength, cannot be weakened, and cannot be too strong, so Liu Zhang decided to re-support a representative who can replace Pang Xi to lead the Dongzhou faction.

Wu Yi, who has a gentle personality, is the best candidate.

has military exploits, family background, qualifications, relatives with Liu Zhang, and good character.

After Liu Zhang decided, he called Wu Yi and said that he wanted to discuss important matters with Wu Yi in private.

Wu Yi felt strange, but he still came to meet Liu Zhang honestly, and Liu Zhang took Wu Yi to talk secretly in his study and said his thoughts.

"Pang Xi is arrogant, drawing a sword on the top of the main hall, ostensibly to deal with Wang Shang, but in fact to murder Gu, now that Wang Shang is dead, how can Gu not consider my own life? Ziyuan, your father and his father are close friends, and our two families are world friends, in this situation, apart from you, who else can you rely on? ”

Liu Zhang grabbed Wu Yi's hand while wiping his tears, and said his purpose while crying.

Wu Yi was taken aback, and then realized that Liu Zhang wanted to use his own strength to kill Pang Xi, and then let himself stabilize the Dongzhou faction as the representative of the Dongzhou faction, so as to resolve this political crisis.

Speaking of which, Wu Yi also saw the political crisis this time in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

The gap between the people of Dongzhou and Yizhou is growing wider and wider, almost tearing apart, and the situation that has just stabilized has become unstable, which is dangerous.

At this time, Wang Shang died inexplicably, which was even more mysterious, and there were too many things that were not clear.

Wu Yi actually had some bold guesses, but he didn't want to confirm it, let alone pursue it, he knew the measure.

Wu Yi knew that this state could not continue, otherwise once the situation was out of control, with Pang Xi's character, it was difficult to say that there would be no military disaster.

Once there is a military disaster, Hanzhong is in chaos, will Guo Peng, who is in Guanzhong, sit idly by.

Wu Yi also went to meet Pang Xi before, hoping that Pang Xi would not make such a big fuss, and now that the Northern Expedition has failed, the country has lost and suffered, and it is the time to bury his head in development.

If the internal turmoil does not stop at this time, it is Guo Peng who gets the benefits, isn't Hanzhong in danger?

Pang Xi did not think so, Pang Xi said that before dealing with external enemies, we must first solve the internal enemy, the external enemy is visible, and the internal enemy is invisible, so the internal enemy is more dangerous, because I don't know when they will do something that endangers the overall situation.

From this forced retreat, Wu Yi also knew the danger of internal enemies, and it was precisely because of this that he could not support Pang Xi to set off a fierce political struggle, but Pang Xi did not listen, and the two broke up unhappily.

Wu Yi felt very distressed.

Liu Zhang's idea was beyond his imagination, and Pang Xi was out of control again, once Pang Xi was really out of control, how bad would the situation be?

Seeing Liu Zhang's crying appearance, Wu Yi was very entangled, so he returned home and told his brother Wu Ban about the matter, wanting to discuss it with Wu Ban.

Wu Ban is different from Wu Yi, Wu Yi is relatively low-key, while Wu Ban is relatively high-profile, bold and chivalrous, known at that time, and has a very high status among the generals of Dongzhou.

Now when I heard that Liu Zhang had the idea of getting rid of Pang Xi, after a short period of surprise, he was very supportive.

"Pang Xi is arrogant, he doesn't know how to restrain, he holds a knife in front of the palace, he lost his manners, and now it has caused a catastrophe, and it is difficult to end, the king has the idea of getting rid of him, isn't it a chance for you and my brother?"

Wu Ban said: "You and my brother and Pang Xi together, follow the ancestor into Shu, on the background, on the family background, you and my brother do not lose to the Pang family, why let the Pang family live above you and my brother?" ”

Wu Ban's statement slightly made Wu Yi have some ideas, thinking about it again and again, Wu Yi felt that the long pain was better than the short pain, the Yizhou people had lost a Wang Shang, and they were already angry, seeing that the contradiction was about to break out in all directions, and the Dongzhou people were stumbling, if they couldn't do something at this time, there would be no more opportunities for reconciliation.

After all, the people of Yizhou are numerous and occupy most of the land and property, if it is really stiff, the harm to Liu Zhang is the greatest, and it is not necessarily beneficial to the people of Dongzhou.

Wu Yi thought about it again and again, and decided to follow Liu Zhang's order, find an opportunity to kill Pang Xi and his cronies, replace Pang Xi's position with the Wu family, stabilize the situation in Shuzhong, and end this confrontation.

Liu Zhang was very happy and decided to appoint Wu Yi as the Taishou of Hanzhong after the victory of the operation, and to add the title of general of Zhenbei and the general of Wu Ban to reward Wu Yi and Wu Ban for their actions.

They began to prepare a plan to kill Pang Xi in full swing, and organized a Hongmen banquet with the guards and retainers who decided to be trusted, intending to kill Pang Xi at the banquet.

The relationship between Pang Xi and the Wu family is actually not bad, they are both Dongzhou Jiangmen, and they still maintain the same pace in major matters, and it is also normal for each other to feast and drink with each other, which is not unusual.

The plan was determined very smoothly, how to kill Pang Xi, how to kill his cronies, how to quickly take over Pang Xi's military power, stabilize Pang Xi's subordinates, get rid of Pang Xi's diehard loyalists and family, etc., a series of plans to eradicate future troubles have been decided.

Getting rid of Pang Xi became an established fact, and Pang Xi himself knew nothing about it.

But then again, maybe it is also providence, there is a young man named Deng Zhi under Pang Xi, he is a new wild man in Jingzhou, after Xinye Deng, he is a descendant of Deng Yu, one of the founding heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Xinye Deng was prominent in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, Deng women entered the dynasty for the second time, and the power of Deng's relatives was very great, and later after the abolition of Deng Mengnu after Emperor Huan, Deng gradually declined.

Deng Zhi was born in poverty, had no family background and no family resources, and could not find a way in Jingzhou, so he could only enter Shu to make a living, but he could not get an appointment, so he had to go to Pang Xi, who liked to raise soldiers, to eat.

Pang Xi is not very good, but he does like to raise scholars, and some of the scholars who raise them have the ability, and they often give advice to Pang Xi, Cheng Ji and Fa Zheng are two of them, Deng Zhi is not valued because he is young, he is just a dry eater.

Having said that, Deng Zhi had great ambitions, worked hard to study to improve his knowledge, and wanted to get ahead, when Pang Xi led the army to the Northern Expedition, Deng Zhi as a doorman, followed with a sword, became a personal guard, watched the real battlefield up close, regretted the subsequent defeat, and hated the people who dragged his feet.

But now that the situation has changed abruptly, Deng Zhi has no use, so he can only continue to study, eat rice, and feel melancholy.

Suddenly, one day, Wang An, a fellow villager who was also born in Xinye County with Deng Zhi, quietly came to Deng Zhi and told Deng Zhi that something big was about to happen, and asked him to go out for a period of time these days, and then come to him when the matter was settled, and he would help Deng Zhi and introduce Deng Zhi to Wu Yi to keep him safe.