Longxi Xiangwu

Li Dao, the general of the imperial chariot and cavalry, was waiting anxiously in front of the city gate. Longxi can't feed the soldiers under his hands, and there is not much grain in stock at the moment, if it weren't for the imperial court envoy two days ago saying that the military food was already on the way, Li Wei might have led his troops into Tianshui County to plunder.

As soon as he arrived, Li Dao was overjoyed when he saw it, and without waiting for the person on the horse to get off the horse and stand firmly, Li Dao impatiently stepped forward and grabbed the collar of the visitor and asked, "But do you see the people and horses of the imperial court?" ”

"The little one came to report to the lord on the order of General Duan Xuan, and he did see the people of the imperial court."

"Can the imperial court send grain and grass?" Li Dao immediately asked the question he was most concerned about.

"There's no end in sight."

Hearing this answer, Li Dao was overjoyed, and immediately wanted to personally bring someone to greet him, but just as he was about to turn over and get on his horse, he seemed to think of something, and turned around and asked, "Do you know who the envoy sent by the imperial court this time is?" ”

"The little one knows, it's Mr. Jia."

For Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe, Li Dao still has a good impression in his heart, if it weren't for his persuasion, he wouldn't be where he is today, and now when he hears that the old man is visiting, Li Dao can't help but be secretly happy. Of course, it is natural to be happy to see the old man, but the bigger reason is that Li Dao needs someone to give him advice and point out a clear way.

Originally, Li Dao had a bad relationship with Guo Yan, and when he encountered any major events that could not be decided, Li Wei would usually discuss with Guo Yan. But after the two led the troops to Longxi, Li Dao felt that the relationship between himself and Guo Yan seemed to be not as good as before. He felt that Guo Yan seemed to be secretly wary of himself, and the tacit understanding that he could understand what the other party was thinking almost without speaking seemed to have disappeared with the two of them stationed in Xiangwu and Yanxian respectively.

Not long ago, the military rations in his army were in an emergency, and Li Wei originally wanted to ask Guo Yan to borrow something for emergencies, but Guo Yan not only did not borrow it, but told Li Wei that it was the evil deeds of both of them who went to the imperial court, and wanted Li Dao to lead the troops back to Chang'an with him. Li Dao had already wanted to agree, but after looking for a witch maiden to ask for divination according to the custom, the result was that the eastward journey was unlucky.

Li Dao is a very superstitious person, seeing that Wu Bu is like this, he dispelled the idea of leading his troops to return to the east, and considering his friendship with Guo Yan, Li Dao kindly persuaded Guo Yan not to lead his troops to return to the east. As a result, Guo Yan was so angry that he didn't suppress the fire and scolded Li Dao. Originally, Li Daonian didn't want to turn his face with Guo Yan for the sake of many years of friendship, but at this time, Li Dao received news that the amount of grain in Guo Yan's army was far more than Guo Yan himself told him, which made Li Dao feel very dissatisfied.

After the unhappy breakup, Li Dao began to be wary of Guo Yan, but he didn't know that Li Wei found out that Guo Yan had done many things behind his back, among which the practice of secretly wooing Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and others made Li Dao most dissatisfied.

The Xiliang Army is not a whole, Dong Zhuo was like this when he was alive, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others were all Xiliang Army, but they did not belong to each other, and everyone only recognized Dong Zhuo. As soon as Dong Zhuo died, except for the Flying Bear Army, which originally belonged to Dong Zhuo's lineage, which was divided by various forces, the rest of the people also went their own way. The reason why Li Dao can represent the Xiliang Army is only because he is the strongest, like Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou, Li Dao does not have the power to command at will.

After the Xiliang army arrived in Longxi, Li Dao occupied Xiangwu, Guo Yan occupied Yan County, Zhang Ji occupied Shouyang, Fan Chou occupied Lintao, and the rest of the weak forces were attached to the wings of these four people. Now Guo Yan is secretly contacting Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, what is this trying to do? Deal with me?

The boat of friendship will capsize. Although it has not yet reached the point where the two sides tear their faces, Li Dao has realized that he can't obey Guo Yanyan like before.

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"Wenhe, how are you doing?" Seeing Jia Xu, Li Wei stepped forward and asked with an enthusiastic face.

"Huh...... Thanks to childishness, everything is well. Jia Xu replied with a smile on his face.

The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and when they entered the city and entered the mansion, the guests and hosts sat down, and Jia Xu got down to business. "This time, the imperial court learned that the grain and grass of Zhiran was in an emergency, and immediately prepared 100,000 stone of grain and ordered me to send it.

"Hahaha...... This is also thanks to Wen He's previous advice, otherwise there would be no Li Dao today. By the way, will all the 100,000 stone grain belong to me? Li Wei laughed, and then asked the question he was most concerned about.

"This is not true, you are short of food here, presumably Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others are also short of food, you can only keep part of the 100,000 stone grain, and the rest will be distributed to others."

"Huh? But in this way, 100,000 stone of grain is a bit insufficient. Li Wei frowned a little unhappily and said.

"Zhiran is confused, although the imperial court is not able to provide enough food and grass for Zhiran at the moment, this does not mean that there are no people in Longxi who can provide food and grass for Zhiran."

“…… Wenhe, don't you want to persuade me to attack Han Sui and Ma Teng? Li Wei looked at Jia Xu suspiciously and asked.

"Hehehe...... was childish, Jia Xu didn't say it. ”

"Who is that Wen He referring to?"

Jia Xu didn't sell Guan Zi either, and asked Li Daodao: "Can you know Song Jian in the child's place?" ”

"Song Jian? Is that the thief who claims to be the king of Pinghan? "Li Dao really knows Song Jian, during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, this person rebelled with Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others, and after being defeated by Dong Zhuo at that time, he led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Caohan, and proclaimed himself the king of Heshou Ping Han there. Although it was also changed to a hundred officials, but at that time, the imperial court was being disturbed by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and there was no time to take care of Song Jian, who was a family, and calculated the time, Song Jian, the grass-headed genius, had been doing it for almost nine years.

"These 100,000 stone grains are not so much relief food allocated by the imperial court to you as military rations for you. Thinking that Song Jian was a greedy person, in the past nine years, he must have hoarded a lot of grain and grass, and the court had no time to deal with him before, but this is not surprising that Song Jian is strong and strong. Childish, I won't hide it from you, the court is recuperating now, and there is only so much food that can be given to you, and if you don't want to ruin your reputation, then you must find a way early. ”

Li Wei didn't care about his reputation, but he also understood that it seemed that the gains outweighed the losses by turning against the court for a little food. And now that he and Guo Yan are having an awkward relationship, he alone can deal with Lu Bu and the Bingzhou army under his command, Li Dao is really not 100% sure.

"Then Song Jianzhen is so easy to deal with?"

Hearing Li Dao ask this, Jia Xu knew that this guy was tempted, and then nodded with a smile: "Don't worry, that Song Jian can persist to this day, it's just that no one takes him seriously, not how powerful he is." ”

……

left 100,000 stone of grain to Li Wei, who distributed the grain to other people for Jia Xu, and Jia Xu did not return to Beijing immediately, but continued to the west with dozens of followers. Li Wei was curious and asked to know that Jia Xu was a native of Wuwei, and now he can be regarded as a prominent person, and this time he took the opportunity to send grain to get the permission of the imperial court, allowing him to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors after completing the task.

Regarding Jia Xu's return to his hometown, Li Wei didn't think much about it, if a person is rich and noble, if he doesn't return to his hometown in fine clothes, wouldn't it be equivalent to traveling at night in brocade clothes. And Li Wei didn't care about thinking about whether Jia Xu had any other purpose for returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors this time, Jia Xu handed over the major matter of distributing 100,000 stone grain to him, and Li Dao was now thinking about how to distribute the 100,000 stone grain.

According to Li Dao's original thoughts, he wanted to swallow the 100,000 stone grain alone. But he also knew that Jia Xu would definitely inform Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou about this along the way. The points are certain, but how many points you have, then you need to think about it.

Sure enough, as Li Wei expected, on the third day after Jia Xu left, Guo Yan, who was closest to him, arrived in the dust. As soon as they met, they asked where is the 100,000 stone grain? Li Wei's heart sank when he heard this, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to repair his friendship with Guo Yan, but he didn't expect Guo Yan to open his mouth to be food, which made him lose the mood to repair the relationship with Guo Yan all of a sudden.

Guo Yan can't be in a hurry if he doesn't want to. In the past, Li Dao and Guo Yan were Meng Bujiao, Jiao was not detached from Meng, Li Dao was decisive, Guo Bi was resourceful, and the two joined forces, even Lu Bu did not dare to underestimate him. But now the two have a disagreement, Guo Yan realized the insidiousness of the imperial court not long after he came to Longxi, but Li Wei was blindfolded by the court's reward, and he didn't believe that the court was as insidious as Guo Yan thought, and the witches around him who were bought by Jia Xu made it worse, which made the relationship between Li Dao and Guo Yan worse and worse.

This time, the imperial court sent 100,000 stone of grain, and Guo Yan almost instinctively felt that this was a delaying tactic of the imperial court, especially after knowing that the distribution of the 100,000 stone grain was handed over to Li Dao, which made Guo Yan believe in his own judgment. Guo Yan knows that the court is weak at the moment, even if there are more than 100,000 Baibo thieves, but as long as he joins forces with Li Dao, it is not difficult to control the weak court at this time, even if Lu Bu has the state army in hand, Guo Yan is also not afraid. But Li Wei's non-cooperation made Guo Yan's plan to return to the east unable to proceed for a long time. For this reason, Guo Yan hated the witch beside Li Dao to the core, and he was also disappointed in Li Dao. It was this disappointment that made Guo Bi plan to give up Li Dao and contact Zhang Ji and Fan Chou to return to the east, but Li Dao refused, and Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, who were not as strong as Li Dao, also refused.

"Childish, how are you going to distribute this 100,000 stone grain?" The guest sat down, and Guo Yan immediately couldn't wait to ask Li Daodao.

Li Wei was originally a little dissatisfied with Guo Yan talking about food as soon as he came, but now when he heard Guo Yan open his mouth and mentioned 100,000 stone of grain, he immediately shook his head and replied: "Don't worry, this 100,000 stone of grain was given to us by the imperial court to our Xiliang Army, and now Zhang Ji and Fan Chou have not arrived, so let's discuss how to divide these grains after the two of them arrive." ”

The more Li Wei refused to tell Guo Yan, the more Guo Yan wanted to know. It wasn't like this before, no matter what Guo Yan asked in the past, Li Dao wouldn't hide it, which is like now, pushing back and blocking. The more Li Dao refused to speak, the more Guo Yan suspected that Li Dao had a ghost in his heart and wanted to swallow the 100,000 stone of grain alone.

100,000 stone grain, it seems like a lot, but if it is divided by more than 100,000 Xiliang troops, there will be nothing left. In Guo Yan's eyes, these 100,000 stone grains were poisons sent by the imperial court, specifically to separate the interior of the Xiliang Army. And hand it over to Li Dao to divide, with Guo Yan's understanding of Li Dao, this big head will definitely be left to Li Dao himself, but in this way, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among others, and at that time, more than 100,000 Xiliang troops will be scattered, and the imperial court can easily break them.

"Childish, the court has bad intentions, why don't you understand?" The bitter persuasion was ineffective, and Guo Yan couldn't help but be anxious, and complained without words. didn't want to complain about it, but it attracted Li Dao's rebuttal, "There are so many, why are your suspicions so serious?" If the imperial court really wants to deal with us, why should it send 100,000 stone of grain when it is in trouble? ”

"That's a delaying tactic by the imperial court."

"Hmph, why didn't I see it."

"Because you ......" Guo Yan originally wanted to say that it was because you were stupid, but the words stopped in time when they came to their mouths.

Li Wei didn't understand Guo Yan's hard work, and when he saw that Guo Yan didn't say anything halfway, he asked, "Because of what?" ”

"Because you're stupid!" Guo Yan couldn't hold back, and finally said something that he hadn't said for many days, but as soon as this sentence came out, the two ended in unhappiness.

Li Wei was in no mood to pay attention to Guo Yan anymore, no matter how much he was a bastard, he would not be able to splash five steps with Guo Yan because Guo Yan said that he was stupid, but depression was inevitable, so after breaking up with Guo Yan, he stayed alone in the back house and drank sullen wine.

As the so-called borrowing wine to drown his sorrows, Li Dao had something in his heart, and the more he drank this wine, the more depressed he became, and he threw away the jar without wine, and Li Dao shouted: "Bring me wine." ”

When the wine delivery came, a woman gently put a wine jar the size of a human head on the table, and softly persuaded Li Dao: "General, drinking too much hurts your body, please take care of your body." ”

Li Dao looked up drunkenly, recognized the person, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Beauty, you come to drink with me." ”

Li Wei firmly believes in the way of witchcraft, and every time he encounters a major event, he will find witches for his calculations, and he also has a soft spot for the witches who are witches. The Qu family who delivered the wine in front of him was one of Li Wei's most favored witches. However, Li Dao didn't know that this Qu clan had already been knocked down by Jia Xu with a silver bullet offensive, and it became the eyeliner that the imperial court placed next to Li Dao. Li Wei will have quarreled with Guo Yan to this point, and Qu's contribution is indispensable.

"General, what's the trouble?" Qu sat down beside Li Dao and asked while pouring wine for Li Dao.

"Alas~" Li Dao sighed when he heard this. People who are in a lost mood generally want to have someone to talk to around them, Qu is Li Dao's favored person, there are many things Li Dao may not say to his real wife, but Qu rarely hides it. And Qu was speechless for a long time after listening to Li Dao's confession.

Li Wei couldn't help but wonder when he saw this, if he wanted to put aside the usual, Qu would say a few words to comfort himself after he finished saying what he thought in his heart, why didn't he say a word this time?

"Beauty, why don't you speak?" Li Wei asked curiously.

“…… General, it's not that the concubine doesn't want to say it, it's just that he doesn't want the general to think that the concubine is sowing discord. Qu hesitated for a moment, and then said softly.

When Li Dao heard this, he was even more curious, and couldn't help urging: "Stir up discord? If you have something to say, I don't blame it. ”

Qu Shi first filled up the wine for Li Wei, and then said slowly: "The general's surname is Li, Guo Yan's surname is Guo, and you two are not biological brothers, why does the general care so much about what Guo Yan wants to do?" You must know that even if they are brothers, there are times when they turn against each other, not to mention that Guo Yan and the general are not brothers. ”

"But we have a good relationship, I really treat him as a brother."

"But Guo Yan may not regard the general as his own brother. In the past, the general had a good relationship with Guo Yan, that was because Guo Yan felt that he could get benefits from being a brother with the general, but now Guo Yan feels that he can't get benefits from the general, and the general is naturally no longer a brother in Guo Yan's eyes. And now the general in the Xiliang Army is the most powerful, if Guo Yan wants to master the Xiliang Army, he can't avoid the general's pass......"

"No, Guo Yan shouldn't be like this." Li Wei shook his head in disbelief.

"It is difficult to draw dragons and tigers, and it is difficult to draw bones, and you don't know your heart. General, if Guo Yan really didn't have the heart to replace the general, then why did he secretly contact Zhang Ji and Fan Chou behind his back, but only leave the general behind, you must know that if Zhang Ji and Fan Chou really join forces with Guo Yan, the general's position in the Xiliang Army will be dangerous. ”

Originally, he was not very sober because he drank some wine, but now that he was mentioned by the Qu family, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, the thorn in Li Wei's heart was immediately stirred. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that what Qu said made sense, and the more I thought about it, the more angry I became. The most angry thing is betrayal, Li Dao asked himself if he was sincere and befriended Guo Yan, but he didn't expect to be kindly treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, and the two brothers were good in person, but behind his back, he wanted to stab himself.

"Humph! Guo Youduo! Li Wei put the wine glass on the table and said hatefully.

Qu saw that the heat was almost the same at this time, so he no longer arched the fire, and while persuading Li Wei to drink less, he poured wine for Li Wei, and as for Guo Yan's matter, Qu no longer mentioned a word.

"Beauty, calculate for me, if I lead the troops to the west, what will be the result?" When he was almost finished, Li Dao opened his mouth and said to Qu.

Qu nodded when he heard this, and ordered someone to remove the remnants of the table, and he went back to the room to get the magic weapon to be used by Wu Bu, and after a Wu Bu, Qu said to Li Dao with a confident face: "General, according to the hexagram, the general will have a great harvest on his westward journey." ”

"Okay." Li Dao said hello happily.

"General, are you going to fight Liangzhou?" Qu asked softly.

"It's not Liangzhou, it's Song Jian of Caohan. This bureaucrat took advantage of the Han Dynasty to take advantage of his own time to claim the King of Pinghan, and now it has been nine years, and it is time for him to know the consequences. ”

"But will Guo Yan be willing to go with the general?"

"Guo Yan? Hum! If he doesn't go, don't think I'll give him a grain of grain. Li Wei snorted coldly.