The hustle and bustle of the crowd had almost gone, and when Liu Yi and Zhuge Liang returned to the hall here, only the servants and maidservants of the General's Mansion were cleaning up the leftovers, and when they saw the two of them coming, they saluted one after another.

Liu Bei didn't stay here and wait for them, Zhuge Liang took Liu Yi straight through the hall, and when he came to the back hall, Pang Tong, Guan Yu, Ma Liang, Chen Dao, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian were already seated in the back hall.

After the salute, Liu Yi gestured to Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang nodded, and looked at everyone: "Since the Battle of Chibi, our army has occupied the land of the five counties of Jingzhou for more than a year, with the help of Lai Boyuan, this year, the agriculture and mulberry animal husbandry in Jingzhou have flourished, and the money and grain are abundant, and now, our army has trained 70,000 elite soldiers. ”

From these things, Liu Yi's help to Liu Bei is not insignificant, Nanjun won, although Jiangdong has a lot of grievances, and he is still arguing about this matter, but according to the original agreement, this Jingxiang land, whoever lays down the two families is whoever, Liu Bei is now ceding Jiangxia, which is morally defensible.

The wealth brought by the prosperity of the fishing village is not to mention for the time being, driving the wealthy families everywhere in Jingzhou to follow suit, as well as the promotion of Quyuan plough and new seeding machine, this year, Jingzhou's economic development has enriched Liu Bei's confidence a lot, even if there is no manpower hired by Liu Yi in Tiangongfang, the forged weapons are much stronger than ordinary weapons, and the most important thing is that the efficiency is fast and saves money.

After all, according to Liu Yi's method of hiring, it is okay to give some elite forging weapons, but it is not worth it if it expands to the whole army.

Today's Liu Bei can be said to be a soldier with enough food, although he did not plan to send troops immediately, but at this time, both Liu Bei and these subordinates felt that they could start preparing for the next plan.

Raise grain and grass, hoard soldiers and horses, and then march to Xichuan.

Liu Yi didn't speak much in this core meeting, after all, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, two high-IQ talents, are here, and their majors are also counterpart, so he doesn't need to speak at all, Liu Bei expects Liu Yi to be able to perform, and Liu Yi can only say hehe.

His level can also bully and bully Han Xuan, a real decision-making on major matters, if he doesn't know history, he can also talk about the three parts of the world, how to implement it, Liu Yi can't think of it.

Now Liu Beibing has enough food, according to the analysis of Zhuge Liang and others, if it is only to attack Xichuan, it is enough, but there are two problems that need to be solved.

The first is in what name to fight? Although it is said to be just a pretense, but without this pretense, it is morally untenable, not only giving other princes an excuse to attack, but also the people of Shuzhong will not accept it, and the famous teacher is a big problem that plagues Liu Bei.

The other is the timing, Cao Cao is now busy with internal problems, and he has not dealt with the thorns of Zhongma Chao and Han Sui, so he can put it aside for the time being, but Jiangdong's attitude cannot be ignored.

After all, not long ago, Sun Quan wanted to attack Xichuan by the way, but was rejected by Liu Bei Yizheng's words, such as the princes surnamed Liu today are left with these two, and Liu Zhang didn't provoke you, why do you fight, at that time, Liu Bei directly took Guan Yu to block the banks of the Yangtze River, blocking Sun Quan's waterway, Sun Quan had no choice but to give up the plan to attack by the road, plus Zhou Yu also hung up later, and the matter was over.

Okay, you won't let me fight, but now you turn over and run to fight the same sect by yourself, what will Sun Quan think after he really sends out the army?

The excuse for attacking Yizhou is easy to find, but Sun Quan's attitude has to be considered, which is also Liu Bei's biggest headache now.

"As far as I know, there are two major factions within this Shuzhong." Pang Tong knelt opposite Zhuge Liang, squinted his eyes and smiled: "The local forces in Shuzhong are a faction, but since Liu Yan entered Yizhou, it has been suppressed several times, and then the world is in turmoil, a large number of people in Guanzhong and Jingzhou have entered Sichuan, and there is a saying that Dongzhou Shi, Liu Yan in order to suppress the Shu sergeant clan, a large number of Dongzhou Shi, and then later, Liu Yan passed away, and Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, the two sides did not reduce the open and secret fighting, but intensified. ”

Liu Zhang himself obviously does not have the ability to balance the dispute between these two major factions, and Pang Tong's intention is naturally to win over one party, let it be an internal response, and find a way to respond to Liu Bei's troops and horses into Sichuan.

Zhuge Liang's meaning is similar, you need to wait for an opportunity, now it is best to still be a strong soldier and a strong horse, accumulating a foundation, even if they have enough food and food now, they can't stand the toss, Shuzhong must fight down, whether it is Cao Cao or Sun Quan, it is impossible to give them a second chance.

Therefore, the timing of this dispatch must be cautious, and Jingzhou must also leave a general to guard it, in case Cao Cao or Sun Quan take advantage of it.

"What do you think?" Seeing that the two major military divisions had already explained their thoughts, Liu Bei couldn't help but look at Liu Yi.

What's the matter with me? Liu Yi looked at Liu Bei a little confused.

"I have roughly the same idea as Kong Ming, Xichuan wants to take, but Jingzhou cannot afford to lose, compared to Cao Cao, I am more worried about Jiangdong, now the situation of the three, our army is the weakest, and now it is still a vassal of Jiangdong, if the lord seizes Xichuan, it is the two states of the herd, the strength and weakness of the situation change, Sun Quan may not be willing, although even Sun Kang Cao, but Jiangdong must not be guarded against!" Liu Yi said to Liu Bei.

This is Cui Zhouping's words, but it is also the key contradiction between Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the three-legged momentum is complete, the former alliance becomes fragile, the weak fashion can work together, but if one side grows, the other two have the possibility of turning enemies into friends.

Historically, it is indeed the case, after Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, Sun and Liu fought against each other, until Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang was in power, and the relationship between the two parties slowly recovered, but the opportunity to unify the world was lost, not only Shu Han lost, but also Cao Wei or Eastern Wu lost this opportunity.

"There will not be many in the next place, after returning to Changsha this time, I will choose a dangerous place to set up a checkpoint outpost, if the lord sends troops, he will closely monitor the movement of Jiangdong and prevent it from taking advantage of it, but the most critical thing is the land of Nanjun!" Liu Yi said in a deep voice.

The four counties of Jingnan together are not as good as a southern county, and the four counties of Jingnan can bear it if they are lost, but if the southern county is also lost, it will be too big a blow to Liu Bei's group.

Of course, Liu Yi is now vigorously developing Changsha and building a new city here, which also means to develop Jingnan, but even if he continues to engage in construction and vigorously develop agricultural and mulberry breeding, Jingnan wants to develop to the level of Nanjun, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take at least ten years.

Attacking Xichuan is obviously impossible to give Liu Bei ten years, so this matter has to be done slowly, the battle still has to be fought, and once the battle is fought, it will definitely delay the development.

When everyone heard this, they also nodded, Liu Bei's most important territory now is the land of Nanjun, and there is really no room for loss here.

"When will the new city be built?" Pang Tong asked curiously.

"I will try my best to build the new city before the spring planting." Liu Yi said, now that the city wall and some important buildings have been built, the rest of the thing is a large number of houses and some public facilities, these things are not high-tech, as long as there are enough people, Liu Yi estimates that they can be built before spring ploughing.

Liu Bei is not too concerned about this matter, after all, a city, in Liu Bei's opinion, can not give him much improvement in his current power, if it were not for the buildings handled by Liu Yi with all kinds of strange effects, Liu Bei would not have used Changsha's two years of taxes to build a city for Liu Yi, but now I heard that the city is about to be built, but I have some expectations.

"In that case, this matter is according to your words, Kong Ming." Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang and said.

Zhuge Liang bowed slightly, and Liu Bei smiled: "The matter of contacting Sichuan and Shu will be handled by Kong Ming." ”

In fact, if you follow the principle of who makes the idea and who does the work, this matter should fall on Pang Tong, but Liu Bei and Pang Tong have been together for two months, and they also have a certain understanding of Pang Tong, and the ability is not to say, but getting along with people and communicating with others is definitely not Pang Tong's strength.

"Whoa!" Zhuge Liang smiled and accepted the appointment.

After everyone said some trivial things again, it was not early, so Liu Bei left everyone to stay in the general's mansion for one night.

Early the next morning, Liu Yi first went to supervise the construction of the temple, assigned the matter, and had his own officials to supervise, Liu Yi went to Zhuge Liang's mansion, first, to eat, and secondly, to see how Deng Ai's studies were doing.

Speaking of which, since Xiakou separated, it has been two years since I saw him, and the half-grown son in the past is now a little more mature, although he is happy to see Liu Yi, he is not as stumbling as before.

"The student has seen the sir."

Looking at the decent Deng Ai, Liu Yi always felt that he was watching a miniature version of Zhuge Liang, and looked at Zhuge Liang with some amusement: "I was trained by you to be so old-fashioned at a young age, I regret handing him over to you." ”

"This son is quite precocious, but I want to thank Boyuan." Zhuge Liang didn't care about this, a gentleman is like a jade, he should be more steady, and he is frizzy and frizzy, how to take on a big responsibility in the future?

"I'm going back to the fishing village tomorrow, but if there's anything you want me to explain, or if you have a letter from home, I'll help you bring it back." Liu Yi stretched out his hand to touch Deng Ai's head, but found that Deng Ai had grown a lot taller, and it was a little bad to touch his head again, so he patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Yes, sir, wait." Deng Ai nodded, he had already prepared, and he ran back quickly, and soon came to Liu Yi with a big burden on his back, bowed down and said, "Sir, this is a family letter written by Ai these days, and there are some things that my mother likes, please hand it over on my behalf." ”

There are no valuables, they are all some daily miscellaneous items, Liu Yi looked a little sour in his heart, nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will hand it over to her personally." ”

"The students still have some questions, although the teacher has already taught them, but the students want to hear the views of the master." Deng Ai said again.

"Oh? Test me? Liu Yi said with a smile.

"Students don't dare."

"Let's go, talk inside."

"Whoa!"