"Lord, something happened in Chengdu." Dian Wei broke in one step, ignoring Sima Hui's presence, and hurriedly reported to Liu Xieyu. Liu Xie was stunned, Dian Wei is not a person who does not know the seriousness, and if he can let him break in regardless of etiquette, what happened there in Chengdu is probably not trivial.

After receiving the news handed over by Dian Wei, Liu Xie's face changed greatly just after reading it, but he didn't expect Liu Bei, a guy who has always maintained a benevolent image in front of people, to order the slaughter of the city this time!

"Mr. Sima, I have official business to do, so I will leave here today, and I would like to ask Mr. to carefully consider my invitation." Liu Xie Zhengse said to Sima Hui.

Although Sima Hui was curious about what kind of news Dian Wei sent, which made Liu Xie's face change greatly, he was a steady person after all, and he knew what to ask and what not to ask. Seeing Liu Xie's farewell, he got up and sent Liu Xie out of the door, and agreed with Liu Xie that he would come to visit after he thought about it clearly.

After bidding farewell to Sima Hui, Liu Xie returned to Xiangyang with Dian Wei, and on the way, Liu Xie ordered people to inform important officials from all over the country to return to Xiangyang, and there was a big event to announce.

Chengdu was slaughtered, and this matter is not trivial. Although the lives of people in troubled times are as cheap as grass, the act of slaughtering the city in order to vent their personal anger will definitely be spurned by the righteous people. Liu Xie was very distressed, when the imperial court recovered Bashu, the population of Chengdu reached 300,000, and after these years of governance, I dare not say more, let alone about 400,000. Now that they have all been destroyed by Liu Bei's slaughter of the city, I am afraid that there will not be many people who can survive by luck.

Liu Bei's most difficult thing for Liu Xie to deal with was the popularity that Liu Bei had worked hard to manage over the years, Liu Bei's other skills were not worth mentioning in Liu Xie's eyes, how could Jingnan's war potential be compared with the area controlled by Liu Xie. And those civil and military generals under Liu Bei, Liu Xie also has enough confidence to bully more and less. Only this person can hope that it can be settled by not relying on financial resources and manpower.

It is said that Liu Bei's invasion of Bashu was a great rebellion, and when Liu Xie sent troops to fight, there were still people in the court who hoped that Liu Xie could consider it carefully, focus on negotiation, and try to avoid the two soldiers from meeting each other, and the reason for this phenomenon was that Liu Bei's people were looking to make trouble. There are many righteous people and gentlemen who think that Liu Bei is a virtuous person and do not want to see Liu Xie and Liu Bei kill each other.

But now, Liu Bei destroyed the Great Wall and brazenly ordered the slaughter of the city in order to vent his momentary anger. Although this incident has caused a lot of losses to Liu Xie, it is not entirely right to say that there is no benefit at all, at least it can be used by Liu Xie to attack Liu Bei's popularity, so that Liu Bei's subordinates will be separated from morality because of this massacre.

Shaking his head vigorously, Liu Xie tried his best to shake off the emotions that were not suitable for this time, and walked into the palace with a calm face. The palace is the residence of the late King of Jing, Liu Biao. After Liu Biao was named King Jing, he ordered the construction of this Jingwang Palace in Xiangyang City. And the scale of this palace has even surpassed Liu Xie's palace in Chang'an, but now it is cheaper than Liu Xie.

Liu Xie, in line with the principle of not wasting, set aside part of the original Jingwang Palace as the official office of Xiangyang, and left a part as his palace in Jingzhou.

No one knows why Liu Xie is angry, Liu Xie was fine when he went out in the morning, and I don't know if he was provoked by someone who didn't have long eyes outside. The officials who were uncertain speculated whether they were children of their own families, while the officials who did not have this worry seemed calmer, waiting for Liu Xie to reveal the answer.

"Mr. Xeno, have you arrived?" Liu Xie asked Kuai Yue softly. Kuai Yue is the new pastor of Jingzhou, and he is more familiar with the officials of Jingzhou than Liu Xie.

"Holy Lord, it's already here." Kuai Yue replied respectfully.

"Then Mr. Tiredness read this to the people."

"No." Kuai Yue agreed, took the note handed over by Liu Xie, and read aloud: "Han Anjun Zhao Yun and Sima Yi reported that the traitor Liu Bei had already fled, and he slaughtered Chengdu before escaping...... Only read the beginning, Kuai Yue couldn't read it anymore, and in troubled times, killing people seemed to be a very common thing. There are many stories of slaughtering cities, but generally those who slaughter cities are bandits and grass bandits, and I have not heard that there will be direct participation of the army. And Liu Bei is not the kind of ruthless person in Kuai Yue's impression, but he didn't expect that people should not be good-looking, and he didn't expect Liu Bei to really do something that ordinary people would not do.

Not only Kuai Yue was shocked, but also those Jingzhou officials who had not been in office for a long time were also shocked. It is impossible for Liu Xie to deceive them with false news, which means that the slaughter of the city is indeed true. But the main messenger turned out to be Liu Bei...... To be honest, Liu Bei's reputation in Jingzhou is slightly higher than Liu Xie's. Especially among the poor and common people, there are more people who have a good impression of Liu Bei than Liu Xie.

When Liu Xie won Jingbei to select officials, he did not interfere too much in Jingzhou's officialdom in line with the principle of Jingzhou's affairs and Jingren's rule, and most of the officials were selected from Jingzhou, except for some people placed in key departments. Among these people, many people still have their hearts set on Liu Bei, but either out of family pressure or out of consideration of their own future, they led the officials of the imperial court to do things for Liu Xie. For these people, Liu Xie knows it well.

"Holy Lord, is this news true?" Someone asked Liu Xie out loud.

"I intend to allocate some supplies to Chengdu, since you have doubts, then you can go there yourself." Liu Xie glanced at Song Zhong, who was speaking, and said.

"Weichen commands, I don't know when to leave?" Song Zhong didn't make an excuse to refuse, and asked after receiving the order.

"The sooner the better, right now the White Emperor City is still under Liu Bei's control, you need to rush to Hanzhong, and then bring relief supplies to Shu from there."

"Yes, then Weichen retired."

After sending Song Zhong away, Liu Xie talked to everyone about business, "I originally intended to wait for Jingbei to stabilize before sending troops to recover Jingnan, but now I have changed my mind......"

"Holy and slow." When Kuai Yue heard this, he immediately became anxious. Not long ago, he had taken out a lot of grain from the Jingzhou treasury to relieve the victims, and now Liu Xie said that he would send troops to the south, and there was not much food in the treasury, and the aid that Liu Xie said was also on the way. In this case, Kuai Yue had to speak out to stop it, and persuaded Liu Xie to temporarily extinguish the wrath of the thunder, even if he wanted to send troops, at least he had to wait for the Jingzhou Treasury to prepare enough food.

Liu Xie is not an unreasonable person, Kuai Yue's reason is very legitimate, and Liu Xie said that he wanted to send troops, but he just wanted to see the reaction of Jingzhou officials, and he did not really plan to send troops now. Don't look at the fact that there is no Liu Bei in Jingnan at this time, but Liu Bei's Li Yan, Lou Gui, Jian Yong, Jiang Wan and others who stayed in Jingnan are not mediocre people, and with the water army left by Guan Yu, they will guard the river without leaking. Without the backing of a strong navy, it was not easy for Liu Xie to cross the river.

said that the purpose of sending troops was actually to take this opportunity to ruin Liu Bei's reputation and disperse the hearts of Liu Bei's internal people. The slaughter of the city is usually something that only tyrannical people can do, and those who read are basically self-conscious, and do not want to have anything to do with such people with bad reputations.

A person's good name requires ten years or even decades of hard work, and a family's good name requires the joint efforts of several generations. But ruining a good reputation doesn't have to be so time-consuming and laborious. A rumor, a crime, is enough to completely destroy a good name.

Although the book says that human nature is inherently good, in fact people seem to be more willing to believe that human nature is inherently evil. It is not easy for a good thing to spread, and most people will doubt the truth of the matter after hearing it. But if it's a bad thing, most people's reaction after hearing it is basically not hesitant to believe it. Then, through their own "artistic processing", they will tell the acquaintances or unfamiliar people.

Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. The news that Liu Bei led the army to slaughter Chengdu quickly spread to all corners of the world under the instruction of Liu Xie. And the consequences were just as Liu Xie had predicted before, Liu Bei's reputation was completely stinky. The number of people who knew Liu Bei seemed to have increased a lot overnight, and those people all told others about the unknown bad things that Liu Bei had done in the past, and the description was detailed, as if those people were also present at the time and witnessed them.

At this time, Liu Bei, who had become the focus of public opinion in the Han Dynasty, was walking with his army in the deep mountains and dense forests. Fortunately, there is Shamoke, a Wuxi barbarian who lives in the mountains all the year round, as a guide, otherwise Liu Bei really suspects that he will not be able to turn around in his life.

The Han army did not chase after him, so that Liu Bei's arrangement in order to block the pursuing soldiers became an ornament. Although this result was disappointing, it also allowed Liu Bei to preserve his strength to the greatest extent. Jiangling was lost, and the plan to attack Bashu was thwarted again, and Liu Bei now only had one Jingnan left to live in. Once the imperial court goes south, if Liu Bei is defeated, then he can only continue to flee south with people, but Lingling and Guiyang in Jingnan can already be regarded as semi-uncivilized areas, if he continues to go south, will Liu Bei be the monkey king in the jungle in the future?

Defending Jingnan is Liu Bei's biggest goal at present. Guan Yu is no longer there, Liu Bei is like a broken arm, but if you want to take revenge, you must first ensure that you can survive. Surviving this attack by the imperial court can at least buy Liu Bei three years of development time. This is what the military advisor Zhuge Liang said to Liu Bei.

Although the imperial court is now said to have a great business, after experiencing this series of foreign wars, I am afraid that the grain and grass accumulated over the years will also begin to be urgent, and judging from the means of the imperial court in the past, the imperial court will not leave the newly acquired Yanyu Erzhou alone, and the materials for reconstruction will definitely have to be deployed, so that there will be fewer resources for Liu Xie to continue to mobilize troops.

As long as he survives the next attack of the imperial court, Jing Nan will have a chance to fight with the imperial court, and as for what will happen in the future, it is better to wait until he survives the current difficulties before thinking about the future.

Ma Liang's resignation made Liu Bei's subordinates less available, and Zhuge Liang was busier than usual. Fortunately, Zhuge Liang is very capable, and he handles the affairs of three people in an orderly manner, which makes Liu Bei feel a little relieved. If you want to talk about the slaughter of the city, Liu Bei did regret it afterwards, but it has come to this point, and the regret is only maintained for a while, and Liu Bei can't take care of it and regret it.

There are no Han pursuers behind him, but the danger in the deep mountains and old forests is even more terrible than the pursuers, and those poisonous insects and poisonous snakes that come out of nowhere may bite you and take your life at any time. After nearly half a month into the mountain, more than 100 people were attrition in non-combat, and what was even more serious was that the death of these people made people panic. Sleeping in the same tent, and waking up the next day to find that his companion had died of purple lips and poisoning, the fear made it difficult to calm down.

Although Shamoke knew to collect some insect-proof herbs to protect the safety of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and other major figures, he couldn't care about the safety of ordinary soldiers. Even if he had that energy, there were not enough herbs for Liu Beijun to use.

"Shasha, how long will it take to get to the next campsite?" Liu Bei asked as he planned to sit on a stone and take a rest. Shamoke grabbed Liu Bei, leaned over to the side of the stone and sniffed it with his nose, turned his head and said to Liu Bei: "Lord, go over the hill in front of you, and the army can rest." ”

"Shasha, is there anything strange about this stone?" Liu Bei asked curiously.

"Look, my lord." Hearing this, Shamoko picked up a piece of hair that had fallen from an animal near a stone.

"What kind of animal is this?"

"It should have been dropped by the bobcat, and this stone should be where the bobcat usually basks in the sun. Don't worry, there are so many of us, the lynx won't dare to come. ”

"Oh." Liu Bei nodded, he didn't think about resting anymore, since Shamoke said that he could rest if he climbed another mountain, then he worked hard and continued to hurry.

"Brother, brother, what do you think I've hit this time? What a big guy. Zhang Fei's loud voice came from a distance, and Liu Bei couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

This Zhang Fei is really not suitable for being a literati, after the army enters the jungle, he has the best spirit, and he has the leisure to leave the brigade and go hunting nearby.

"Yide, what did you hit again?" Liu Bei saw Zhang Fei's excited look on his face, and asked helplessly.

"Bring it up and show it to my brother." Zhang Fei waved to the crowd, and immediately someone came over carrying a giant python.

Liu Bei has seen snakes and pythons, but what he saw this time is the first time in his life. This python is more than ten meters long, and the python head has been smashed by Zhang Fei, but the python's body is still intact.

"Yide, you're not hurt?"

"Brother, don't worry, when we found this guy, it was lying on the ground motionless, and if you look closely, its belly is bulging, it must have just eaten, so I picked it up."

"I wonder what this beast is devouring?" Liu Bei glanced at the bulging belly of the dead python and muttered to himself. Zhang Fei, who was on the side, immediately rolled up his sleeves and said, "It's not easy for my brother to want to know, wait for me to dissect it." ”

"No, no." Shamoko suddenly stepped forward to stop him.

"Shasha, what's wrong?" Liu Bei asked puzzled.

"Lord, this is not an ordinary python, look at this head, I'm afraid it's the python king in the jungle in this area." Shamoke stopped Zhang Fei from getting close to the python corpse, and explained to Liu Bei.

"What about the Python King? It's not like I'm killed. Shamoko, you get out of the way. ”

"Oops~ Third General, why don't you understand? The python king you killed, its descendants are bound to take revenge, what we need now is to hurry up and get out of this jungle as soon as possible, instead of continuing to delay time here. ”

Zhang Fei didn't care about Shamoke's explanation, but Liu Bei was already a little aware that something was wrong, looked at Shamoke and asked, "Shasha, is the python king's revenge very serious?" ”

"It's serious. We Wuxi man called this kind of python a dragon. In the past, there were people who did not believe in evil, and killed this python, but they were retaliated against that night, and it is said that thousands of large and small snake pythons appeared, besieged the person's village, and the whole village called those snake pythons to be bitten to death. ”

"Then how do you avoid the revenge of these snake pythons?" Liu Bei asked nervously.

"Each dragon has its own territory, and as long as they leave this jungle, they will not retaliate. Lord, let's hurry up and give the order to go. Originally, we could have rested by climbing over the hill in front of us, but now we had to go as far as we could before it got dark. Shamoke looked up at the sky and urged Liu Bei.

"Brother, don't be nervous, I want to see how this python king's disciples and grandsons take revenge on me?" Zhang Fei said to Liu Bei indifferently.

"Shut up! Know what's in trouble all day long! Uncle Zhi, you came just in time, immediately pass on my general's order, the whole army will speed up the march without stopping for a moment, and then you will take over the position of vanguard. ”

"No." Chen Zhiyi, who had just rushed over from the rear army, hurriedly received the order and rushed to the front army with people.

"Brother, what about me?" Zhang Fei, who had just been deprived of his position, asked Liu Bei stupidly.

"You? Act with me. You are too worry-free, and I don't feel at ease if you don't stay around. Liu Bei glanced at Zhang Fei and replied angrily.

"Huh...... That's a good idea. Zhang Fei said with a grin.

No one expected that such a thing would happen, and it was impossible to say that he didn't complain about Zhang Fei in his heart. But Zhang Fei is brave and martial, and he is Liu Bei's third brother, even if he is dissatisfied, he can only hold back. In this jungle, if you break away from the brigade, I am afraid that you will not survive a day. Everyone could only curse a few words of relief in their hearts, gritting their teeth and hurrying to march, during which they missed the camping place, if it were not too dangerous to rush in the jungle at night, Shamoko would insist on continuing to hurry, instead of finding a nearby relatively safe place to camp.

Finally able to stop and rest, Liu Bei was in the mood to ask Sha Moke at this time, "Shasha, let's get rid of those 'chasing soldiers', right?" ”

"This, it's hard to say, and please ask the lord to order to raise guard tonight, and everyone should not sleep too hard." Shamoke said to Liu Bei in his heart.

"Who?" Liu Bei was about to ask Shamoke what preparations he needed to make tonight, when Zhang Fei, who was beside him, suddenly shouted and ran towards a nearby big tree.