After chatting about business, the atmosphere was much more relaxed, Liu Yi ordered someone to reward fruits and vegetables, and chatted with Mi Zhu and Zhang Fei about some things from all over the world.

"Zhou Gongjin is dead?" Liu Yi looked at Mi Zhu in some surprise, a little incredulous, as if the drama of Zhou Yu of the three qi did not happen, and although he had never seen him, whether it was Liu Bei or Zhuge Liang, his evaluation of Zhou Yu was very positive, not like the small-bellied chicken intestines in the romance, and he was angry to death casually.

"yes." Mi Zhu nodded and said, "It's also God bless the lord!" If it weren't for Zhou Gongjin's illness and death, I'm afraid Yizhou would have been acquired by Jiangdong! ”

"Oh?" Liu Yi looked at Mi Zhu suspiciously, what about Jingzhou between Jiangdong and Yizhou, Liu Bei will let Jiangdong soldiers and horses go over to attack Yizhou and be indifferent?

If Yizhou is really taken by Jiangdong, then Jingzhou will be completely stuck between Sun Quan and Cao Cao, and there is no room for development at all, just like Liu Bei won Yizhou later, Sun Quan secretly calculated Jingzhou, if Sun Quan won Yizhou, Liu Bei probably will never be indifferent.

"After the Battle of Chibi, although our army won Nanjun, but nominally, it was still attached to Sun Quan, and after the war, Zhou Yu sent officials to Nanjun." Mi Zhu recalled what had happened in the past year or so, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "That Zhou Gongjin was a hero in the world, and the lord and the military advisor all called it elegant and magnificent, but for some reason he was aggressive towards our army. ”

When Liu Yi heard this, he remained silent, and the magnificence of elegance was personal cultivation, but the problem of Jingzhou was a political problem, yes, Jiangling was laid down with the help of Liu Yi, but if Zhou Yu had not burned Chibi and defeated Cao's army, Liu Bei would have so many soldiers and horses, I am afraid that there would be no chance to attack Jiangling, let alone occupy Nanjun, Zhou Yu held on to this issue, in Liu Yi's view, this is a political issue, and has nothing to do with personal cultivation, and politics is the distribution and struggle of interests, if you don't stand in Liu Bei's point of view, Zhou Yu's approach is not wrong, he is fighting for the interests of Jiangdong, Nanjun is so big and gives it to people, Liu Bei is comfortable here, but Zhou Yu is working for Sun Quan, what do you make Sun Quan think?

This is the same concept as Zhuge Liang and Liu Yi themselves to seize Jiangling for Liu Bei, and political issues should not be related to personal character, seeing Zhang Fei on the side, Liu Yi naturally did not explain this public and private issue to them at this time.

"Fortunately, there are also sensible people in the land of Jiangdong who persuaded Sun Quan to give up asking for Nanjun from our army and attack Hefei instead." Mi Zhu smiled.

"Zhou Yu died in Hefei?" Liu Yi said with a strange face.

"No, the conquest of Hefei was led by Sun Quan himself, but Zhou Yu did not appear, claiming to be recuperating, and I only learned later that Sun Quan's conquest of Hefei was fake, but Zhou Yu secretly accumulated soldiers and horses, and took advantage of Sun Quan's attraction to Cao Liu's attention, secretly accumulating soldiers and horses, preparing to go west to attack Shu ......"

"Wait!" Liu Yi suddenly stopped, looked at Mi Zhu and said, "Now that Jiangling is in the hands of our army, how is he going to cut down Shu?" Moreover, Sun Quan attacked Hefei, there should be a lot of soldiers and horses, where did he Zhou Yu get the soldiers and horses? ”

Don't talk about any detour to Jiaozhou, then you have to go through Yunnan first, thousands of miles of barren mountains and mountains, miasma places, even if you give 100,000 soldiers and horses, those ethnic minorities in Yunnan do not stop it, and when you arrive in Yizhou, it is good to be able to leave half of it, and more importantly, how to supply grain and grass? By air?

If it is transported from the Yangtze River, as soon as Liu Bei blocks the Yangtze River, the army that invades Shuzhong will be wiped out immediately.

Zhou Yu did have this strategy in history, but that was under the premise that Jiangling was in the hands of Jiangdong, and now the middle of the Yangtze River is Liu Bei's territory, Zhou Yu will not be stupid enough to persuade Liu Bei to give way to him to attack Yizhou, right?

"Jiangdong has persuaded the Southern Barbarian tribes to send troops together, and Jiangdong will send a few elite men and horses at that time, but the main force is Jiaozhou and the Southern Barbarian soldiers and horses." Mi Zhu smiled bitterly: "That Jiangdong general Gan Ning, who was originally from the Shu sergeant clan, heard that Jiangdong has secretly bought a lot of Shu wealthy families as internal responses, and there are Nanban help, according to the military advisor, if it is not for Zhou Yu's death, the possibility of capturing Yizhou is extremely high." ”

Liu Yi's heart was a little chill when he heard this, if Zhou Yu's plan really succeeded, then I am afraid that in the future, it will not be a three-point world, but a two-point world, Sun Quan and Cao Cao confronted each other in the north and south, as for Liu Bei, he was sandwiched between the two sides, if Zhou Yu took Xiangyang again, Liu Bei had no other way to go except to turn his face with Sun Quan, and if it was Dao Yizhou, would Zhou Yu allow Liu Bei to continue to occupy the place of Jingzhou? I'm afraid that before attacking Xiangyang, the biggest possibility is that the East and West will unite and put Liu Bei to the end first.

Of course, Zhuge Liang will definitely not let Zhou Yu take Yizhou so easily, and within Jiangdong, I am afraid that he may not be willing to let Zhou Yu dominate Yizhou alone, but the opportunity has been lost, and further down, the situation will be very chaotic, and Liu Yi is not sure what will become of the future.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu hung up at this time, although Liu Yi regretted the fall of such a hero, Zhou Yu secretly wrote to him last year, inviting him to Jiangdong, anyway, for Zhou Yu himself, Liu Yi has a good impression, but from his own standpoint, Liu Yi is very glad that Zhou Yu died at this critical time.

The fourteenth year of Jian'an and the fifteenth year of Jian'an, these two years are for Liu Yi, in addition to pacifying the four counties, it is the calmest and most fulfilling idea after coming to this era, engaging in construction and economy in Changsha, in addition, there is no need to worry about military disasters, and there is no need to worry about survival.

But if you look at the world, it seems to be calm, in fact, in addition to Liu Bei has been immersed in development and laying a solid foundation, Cao Cao and Sun Quan have never stopped, not to mention the victory or defeat of the Battle of Hefei, just the secret planning and calculation, has never stopped.

Not long ago, Cao Cao issued a merit-seeking order to the world, recommending talents no longer limited to virtue, as long as they are talented, they can be hired.

For Cao Cao's merit-seeking order, there are supporters and some opposition, but it is undeniable that with the issuance of this merit-seeking order, many scholars who have missed their careers because of character problems have seen hope, according to Mi Zhu, there are many people in Jingzhou who have voted for Cao Cao.

Among these people, there are even talents who have invested in Liu Bei but have not yet been officially reused.

"Hey, what kind of merit is this?" Zhang Fei listened to Mi Zhu's narration, and couldn't help but complain: "I don't know who is gathered around the Cao thief?" ”

Mi Zhu didn't have much opinion on this, because Cao Cao's order to seek talent is not only for the scholar class, but regardless of origin, as long as there is talent, it can be used to measure talent, to a certain extent, it has broken the view of the door, and the Mi family has wasted much effort in order to promote from the wealthy businessman to the scholar class?

Cao Cao's paper order to seek merit, also means that if there is a wealthy businessman like the Mi family, if you want to enter the official career, you don't have to be as difficult as before, if it weren't for the Mi family now has a foundation here in Liu Bei, the Mi family ten years ago would definitely be moved in the face of this kind of thing.

"A person of high moral character may not be able to be a good official." Liu Yi smashed the walnut and threw a petal into his mouth, and when he heard what Zhang Fei said, he couldn't help laughing and said: "The three generals followed the emperor's uncle to fight in the south and the north, and they should have seen many people who were virtuous and noble, but they would govern a mess under their rule." ”

"It's a lot, but you can use people with both ability and political integrity!" Zhang Fei nodded in agreement when he heard this, but then retorted.

"If you are ruling the world, you should be like this, but now in troubled times, the king is the minister, and the minister also chooses the king, how many people have both ability and integrity, why should you use it? Have the three generals ever thought about it? Liu Yi asked with a smile.

"Uh......" Zhang Fei looked at Liu Yi: "No, if it doesn't work, I will grab it first, and then my brother will come forward to scold me, and then I will admit my mistake to him." ”

Liu Yi: "......"

It makes sense, this routine, a thief!

Liu Yi and Mi Zhu couldn't help laughing, these words sounded a little confusing at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, it is really quite feasible.

"But how many can you grab then?" After Liu Yi laughed, he thought for a while and said: "Don't talk about Cao Cao, let's say that under the rule of the emperor now, the five counties must have Taishou, the county Cheng, the master book, the engagement, and the captain, and dozens of cities down, county orders, county lieutenants, and county officials, just these, there will be two or three hundred people, in addition, there must be many talents like Kong Ming in the imperial uncle's mansion to give advice to the imperial uncle, and the generals in the army are not counted. ”

"But you can't use anyone as long as they have talent, right?" Zhang Fei said dissatisfied.

"It can be used, and as for its virtue, one can be bound by the law, and the other can be used first...... Post-depreciation! Liu Yi was a little hesitant in the end, in fact, he wanted to say that he would use it first and then kill, but if he really said it, who knew that Liu Bei would be able to solve it himself in the future?

"Don't talk about this, Uncle Huang naturally also has Uncle Huang's way of employing people, there are pros and cons to this merit-seeking order, I believe that Uncle Huang and Kong Ming have trade-offs in their hearts, and Cao Cao is now in the land of seven states, naturally lacking talents, I am only the land of five counties now, and there is no need to think about this problem now, you can slowly find a solution in the future." Liu Yi pondered.

In short, first to promote the printing technology, maybe when it is really time to go out of the Central Plains, you can carry out the imperial examination, but this kind of thing, you must not be able to do it yourself, this is a confrontation with the scholar class, successful, it is likely to be used to vent the anger of the scholars, if it fails, then the first to die is yourself, you have to find a substitute for the ghost to come out.

This matter is somewhat unauthentic, and Liu Yi is still hesitating whether to let it be carried forward in his own hands?

Previously, he gave those words to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei never replied after that, and he didn't know whether he forgot or was stopped.