After a few words of appeasement, Wang Shang hurriedly left the Meng Mansion.

As for Meng Biao's words, Wang Shang naturally would not believe them all, especially the fact that Jin Jue would immediately launch an attack on Chengdu City next spring. There is plenty of food in Chengdu, which means that in the past, Liu Zhang would store most of the grain in Shu County and Guanghan County in Chengdu. In this way, Jin Jue's army is relatively short of food.

Wang Shang thought of this that the reason why Jin Jue would massacre the Shu sergeants was not because he did not have the idea of taking the stored grain from these people's homes.

This point, Wang Shang also thought wrongly, relatively speaking, Jin Jue's army was indeed more short of food than Liu Zhang's army, especially Jin Jue was ready to recruit Shu people as soldiers and expand his troops to besiege Chengdu City.

However, for Jin Jue, it is very difficult to use his previous strategies and methods to attack the city, but it is very simple for Jin Jue himself to trap the entire Chengdu City.

As long as all the soldiers in Chengdu can be trapped in the city, and then defeat the possible reinforcements, everyone in Chengdu will become a turtle in the urn.

Jin Jue really didn't mind besieging Chengdu City for three years.

Even in the past three years, the situation in Yizhou, and even the situation in the whole country, will change greatly. Even if Cao Cao suddenly broke out in the small universe, defeated Liu Bei, and won the entire Xuzhou, even if Yuan Shao exploded, he won Gongsun Zan and Lu Bu's merger at the same time within three years. But for Yizhou, the influence is very small.

Liu Biao, the only one who could pose a threat to Yizhou, had a very difficult time trying to break through Guling County, which Pang Xi was in charge of guarding. Unless, Liu Biao can gather all the troops in Jingzhou and hand over the military power to Gan Ning, there is still a little hope.

As for the other generals in Jingzhou, Huang Zhong, Wen Ping, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. Among them, Huang Zhong still has a little ability, but he is still a lot worse than Gan Ning. Wen Ping is only good at defensive warfare, and the two real cronies of Liu Biao are good at water warfare, and if they want to attack the danger, they really don't have that ability.

However, with Liu Biao's suspicious character, did he dare to put all his forces in the hands of a Gan Ning who he had always been suspicious of? Even Huang Zhong didn't entrust him with a heavy task, let alone Gan Ning.

However, Wang Shang still listened to Meng Biao's suggestion, he had already made a plan in his heart, early tomorrow morning, he immediately went to see Liu Zhang, imploring the lord to exchange Huang Quan back, if Liu Zhang refused to reuse this person, he would find Huang Quan into his own subordinate.

It's a pity that the plan can't catch up with the rapid changes, and the next day, Wang Shang asked for Huang Quan's appointment letter from Liu Zhang, and Jin Jue has already sent Zhang Long to lead himself and Ma Han's soldiers to rob Niuhua County at the first time, a total of 30,000 Shu soldiers, and besiege the entire county.

Jin Jue's task to Zhang Long was that he only needed to besiege the city, and did not need to do any siege or completely block the city, and after Fu Tong arrived in Niuluo County, he would assist Fu Tong to besiege the city together.

In the end, Wang Shang's father and son were busy and tossed a big circle, except for getting the loyalty of those useless scholars and patriarchs, they did not find a useful way and no one could find it.

On the third day, bad news came suddenly.

Meng Biao is dead!

Meng Biao didn't even survive the two years of Jian'an, so he died of illness.

Before he died, he dictated a secret letter written by his son Meng Ming, which was also personally handed over by Meng Ming to Wang Shang, who came to mourn his friend.

After paying homage to his friends, Wang Shang returned home, and only then did he open the last secret letter that Meng Biao left him. Unfolded it, he was almost scared to death by what was in his mind.

It turned out that Meng Biao made it very clear in the letter that Wang Shang should not only be careful of Jin Jue, but also Liu Zhang.

Be careful of Liu Zhang, what?

Beware of Liu Zhang's cowardly personality attack!

After hearing that Lu Bu came suddenly, coupled with the fact that the Dongzhou soldiers he had always trusted were surrendering without a fight in front of Jin Jue's army, the timid Liu Zhang may not have made a sudden decision and took the initiative to choose Kaicheng to surrender to Jin Jue.

In this way, Jin Jue will be able to take down the entire Yizhou without much effort, even if it is just for the sake of face, he will not treat Liu Zhang badly. But at that time, it was the entire Yizhou scholar class that was really sacrificed.

Because Jin Jue does not play cards according to common sense, once he takes Chengdu City, the entire Yizhou clan will inevitably be reshuffled. Perhaps, Jin Jue will look at Wang Shang's face and will not move the Wang family.

However, what about after Wang Shang's death?

Wang Shang can see that his son Wang Lei is not only mediocre, but also upright and does not know how to be flexible, he is just an ordinary person, and it is already good for him to be able to keep the family business. Expecting him to become a great weapon, it is better to simply let him return to the mountains and forests, no longer go out, and maybe be able to protect the leader in this troubled era.

However, Jin Jue's wanton robbery of the land of the scholars and local tycoons in Shu County is actually cutting off the roots of their scholars, and without the cornucopia of land that can continue to generate income, if only gold and silver treasures are left in the family, sooner or later they will be destroyed by the losers in the family.

As the old saying goes, you can't be rich for three generations!

So, how to ensure that Liu Zhang made this kind of decision that was extremely unfavorable to the various families in Yizhou at the beginning of the war?

Meng Biao did not give an effective method in the secret letter, this kind of thing, for a dying person, reminding Wang Shang in advance, has already done his benevolence and righteousness, how can he leave a solution in black and white?

In fact, after Wang Shang saw the content of the letter, he had already thought of a solution. However, he could not bear the consequences of doing so alone.

Therefore, as a last resort, Wang Shang once again asked his son Wang Lei to gather the scholars of the whole city and the people who participated in the last meeting to the Taishou Mansion, nominally to sacrifice for his friend Meng Biao, but in fact, he wanted to use the secret letter left by Meng Biao to collectively get an idea.

Of course, in view of Wang Shang's own and Meng Biao's views on Zhang Song, Wang Shang still did not invite anyone from the Zhang family to attend this meeting.

……

Wang Shang excluded the Zhang family twice in a row, but the Zhang family was not angry about it.

Because of Zhang Song, Liu Zhang was also a little distant from Zhang Su. No matter how loyal Zhang Su is to Liu Zhang, if he gains the trust of the other party, his loyalty will be weakened a little.

When the news of Jin Jue's march into Guanghan County had just reached Chengdu City, Zhang Su's cousin Zhang Yu suddenly left Chengdu City with his family, and when Zhang Su and Zhang Song found out, they were all surprised.

(End of chapter)