In fact, this is also true.

Guo Peng originally saw that Chang'an's side had become stable, and he already had the idea of returning to Yecheng.

He thought about returning to Yecheng, summing up the gains and losses of this western expedition, summing up the lessons and lessons, and then starting to launch a public opinion war to pave the way for himself to become emperor.

Sun Ce is dead, the biggest obstacle no longer exists, Jiangdong's own internal strife can kill him, and Guo Peng is no longer a threat.

Now start to wage a war of public opinion, make a fuss for a while, and the next thing will be very interesting.

However, just as he was about to set off to arrange a retreat, news of a political struggle suddenly came from Hanzhong.

The secret agents lurking inside Hanzhong sent the news out, letting Guo Peng know about the fierce political struggle between the Dongzhou faction and the Yizhou faction under Liu Zhang's command.

Guo Peng himself is a veteran of political struggles, and he is very interested in this, and wants to see if Liu Zhang's political struggle can leave some gaps for himself to gain Hanzhong.

After staying in Guanzhong for a while, it can be regarded as accumulating some grain and straw, restoring the combat effectiveness of some troops, and the reconstruction of Guanzhong is also steadily proceeding, and the situation tends to stabilize.

The Wei army already has the ability to fight again in a certain sense, but Guo Peng is not very willing.

But if he is given the opportunity to exploit loopholes because of the internal political struggle in Yizhou, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity cannot be missed.

Guo Peng stopped in Chang'an for the time being, and while continuing to pay attention to the news in this regard, he handed over some government and military affairs to Guo Jin to deal with, and asked him to cultivate a tacit understanding between him and his subordinates.

While cultivating a successor, while paying attention to the changes in the situation, Guo Peng stared Hanzhong to death, and at the same time as the news of Sun Ce's death came, the news of Wang Shang's death also came.

Guo Peng immediately decided that this wave of political struggle in Hanzhong was not over, and that it would be pushed to another peak, and that there would be a huge rift between the Dongzhou faction and the Yizhou faction, and there might be deaths.

The enemy's civil strife is his opportunity.

Isn't this his chance to enter Hanzhong?

Guo Peng immediately ordered the rectification of an army of 25,000 men, and ordered the five generals Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Zhu Ling, Gao Lan, and Yan Liang to lead an army of 5,000 men and garrison troops south of Chang'an.

Ordered Xu Chu and Dian Wei to rectify the Tiger Guards.

Chen Gong, Xun You, Lu Su, Cao Xiu, Cao Chun, and Cao Hong were left and right.

Then he also ordered Guo Jin, Lu Yi, Xiahou Shang, and Cao Zhen to follow him, thinking that they were counselors.

Seeing Guo Peng's actions, the generals under his command immediately understood that Guo Peng was going to move again.

That's right, Guo Peng is indeed going to move again, but he didn't explain the reason at first, this is just preparation, he never said that he really wants to send troops, once the situation changes, the order to go out will become an order to withdraw troops.

Let's go back to Yecheng together.

If there is no problem in Hanzhong, he doesn't have to waste time in Guanzhong, he needs to go back to Hebei to prepare.

If there is a change in Hanzhong, he must seize this opportunity.

He waited, waited, waited, waited, let him wait for the opportunity.

On February 11 of the sixth year of Xingping, the magistrate of Lantian County brought a few unkempt people, saying that they jumped out of the Luogu Road crossing, and their identities were unknown.

The commander of Lantian County saw that the first person had an extraordinary conversation and did not dare to make a mistake, so he personally led people to escort these people to Chang'an and reported the news.

When Zhang Zhao learned of this, he reported the matter to Guo Peng, Guo Peng heard it, thinking about who General Pang was, and suddenly thought of Pang Xi, and his heart was shocked, and he immediately sent someone to bring these people to him.

The Tiger Guards escorted a group of five people to Guo Peng, and when the first person saw Guo Peng, he immediately took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms and presented them to Guo Peng with both hands.

"General Pang's messenger, Deng Zhi Bomiao, a native of Xinye County, Nanyang County, Jingzhou, has come to send a letter to Duke Wei! Please Wei Gong help! ”

Deng Zhi shouted loudly, Guo Peng frowned, and motioned for Xu Chu to step forward to take the letter, Xu Chu stepped forward in armor, took the bamboo slip in one hand, threw away the cloth bag, unfolded the bamboo slip, looked at it, smelled it, shook it, and made sure that there was no problem, so he gave it to Guo Peng.

Guo Peng took the bamboo slip and looked at it intently, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the more he looked at it, the more he was delighted, and in the end he almost didn't laugh out loud.

"Deng Zhi, is this serious?"

"It's true! If there is any false talk, Zhi will not be allowed to enter the ancestral grave after his death! ”

Deng Zhi was afraid that Guo Peng would not believe it, so he immediately swore a poisonous oath.

Guo Peng remained silent and handed the letter to Chen Gong beside him, asking Chen Gong to circulate it to others.

Chen Gong, Xun You, Lu Su and the others all looked at it, their faces changed greatly, and then they all showed thoughtful expressions.

"Why did Liu Jiyu kill Pang Xi?"

Guo Peng asked.

"The villain really doesn't know the reason for this, but the villain has a fellow villager who is a guest in General Wu's mansion, and the villain has a good relationship with him, and he doesn't want to see the villain innocent death, so he came to warn the villain and let the villain go out to hide, but General Pang is kind to the villain, how can the villain live alone?"

Deng Zhi's face was desolate: "In the past, Fan Li wrote to the literature, saying that the birds were exhausted, the good bow was hidden, the cunning rabbit died, and the lackeys cooked, but now for Liu Jiyu, is this the situation?" General Pang was bent on attacking Liangzhou for Liu Jiyu, but he ended up like this, how could he not be cold?

Now General Pang is determined to fight to the death, thinking that he is alive, and he also asks Wei Gong to help and send troops to help, then General Pang is willing to dedicate Hanzhong to Wei Gong, if Wei Gong wants to get Shu, General Pang is willing to be a pioneer, fight for Wei Gong on the battlefield, and die without regrets! ”

Deng Zhi burst into tears and knelt on the ground.

"General Pang has a loyal subordinate like you, it can be regarded as a lucky thing, I know what you said, I will send someone to find out the situation, if the situation is true, I will send troops to help, you don't blame me for being cautious, military affairs, you can't be cautious."

Guo Peng nodded.

"Zhi doesn't dare, Zhi only hopes that Duke Wei will verify as soon as possible, General Pang may not be able to hold out for a long time!"

Deng Zhi said goodbye.

"Okay, I promise you."

Guo Peng nodded, looked at Deng Zhi, who was desolate and weeping, and suddenly became interested.

"Are you from Jingzhou?"

"Exactly."

"Why did you go to Shuzhong?"

"The family is poor, there is no way, and I can't live in Jingzhou, so I can only go to Shu to find a way."

Deng Zhi wiped his tears and said in a low voice.

"Xinye Deng's ...... Are you the queen of Gaomihou? ”

Guo Peng asked.

Deng Zhi nodded.

"The villain has a humble status, insults the prestige of his ancestors, and does not dare to claim to be his descendants."

The Xinye Deng family has always been very brilliant in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there is a woman in the clan who has been the queen mother, and a woman who has been the queen, and the power of the Deng relatives is also very great.

However, after Emperor Huan Liu Zhi deposed the second empress Deng Mengnu, the descendants of the Deng family were implicated, and all family property was confiscated, and the Deng family fell and collapsed.

At that time, it was the eighth year of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, that is, the year Guo Peng was born.

Deng Zhi and Deng Ai, who later destroyed Shu, were both from the Xinye Deng clan.

The Xinye Deng clan is also a capable family, but unfortunately the Deng clan was defeated, and in the later era when they paid more and more attention to their family background, they could not be on the stage after all.

Even at the moment, although the Deng family has a noble bloodline, after Deng Yu, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the so-called county officials are not as good as the current management, there are many realistic people, no matter how good your family background is, there is no ready-made power, no one will slap you and care about you.

Deng Zhi couldn't find a position in his hometown, and was forced to make a living in other places, which shows how serious the decline of the Deng family is.

During this period, there were rules for scholars to enter the government as officials, and the unspoken political rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty was that the chief administrative officer from other places parachuted into the local area, and he needed to use the local as the county official.

Except for Henan Yin's subordinate officials, who can use people from other counties, other places must use locals as subordinate officials according to the rules.

Therefore, if a scholar wants to go to other places to seek an official position, he must first pass the level of being a local, and Zhuge Liang is such a situation.

Although Zhuge Xuan worked very hard, he used Zhuge Liang's two sisters to marry the Jingzhou clan, the eldest sister married the Kuai family, and the second sister was promised to the Pang family, all of whom were local wealthy families in Jingzhou, so as to climb the kinship of Jingzhou.

Before Zhuge Feng died, he also told Zhuge Liang about his family, and promised the daughter of the famous Huang Chengyan to Zhuge Liang, and Huang Chengyan's wife and Liu Biao's wife are sisters, and Liu Biao and Huang Chengyan are brothers-in-law.

With these relationships, Zhuge Shi, who was born in Langya County, Xuzhou, gradually gained a foothold in Jingzhou, and Zhuge Liang was also appreciated by the second sister's father-in-law, Jingzhou celebrity Pang Degong, and was called Wolong by another celebrity Sima Hui.

Having said that, if Zhuge Liang enters Jingzhou because of this, he will confirm the fact that he has raised his value in the name of marriage, and his reputation is too bad, Zhuge Xuan built the road from Xuzhou to Jingzhou, but this road still needs to bask in the sun to walk.

Of course, Zhuge Liang also has his own ideals, and he is unwilling to go out at will for his own ideals, and he sees through the general trend of the world is not Liu Biao, which may also be one of the reasons.

It's just that Deng Zhi is not Zhuge Liang, he wants to find a way to live, but he can't find anything to do locally, so he can only go to other places to make a living and try his luck, but his luck is still very bad, and he can't meet it, so he can only be Pang Xi's doorman and eat with his mouth.

Later, Liu Bei appointed Deng Zhi after entering Shu, so that Deng Zhi could gain a foothold in Shu as a Jingzhou person, otherwise the situation would be equally difficult.