Zhao Yun stopped Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei was about to scold, but he heard a commotion behind him, and when he turned his head to look, he saw Liu Bei fall with his head up, blood spurting out of his mouth, and he was immediately shocked.

"Big brother! I don't want to kill people, I'm just talking, not really doing it, why are you like this. Zhang Fei paced back, and knelt down in front of Liu Bei with a plop.

Liu Bei didn't really faint, but it was just the upsurge of blood and qi, coupled with excessive suppression, that caused a temporary fainting, and he woke up in only a few seconds.

Kong Ming said: "General Zhang, don't be impatient, let the lord rest for a while, and the generals will go outside the tent first and wait." ”

Zhuge Liang spoke, and now it is very effective, and all the soldiers and soldiers withdrew from the hall.

It took Liu Bei a full ten minutes before he really came to his senses, and then asked Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, this Yang Xi is not in Jiangxia, why is there a random person, there is Chen Lin's talent, why not?" ”

I think that Chen Lin's essay directly cured Cao Cao's migraine, but that essay was not printed. Liu Bei knew that the Xiling County People's Daily was said to be 10,000 copies per issue, and at this time, I was afraid that the news was spreading in the streets and alleys.

Kong Ming smiled bitterly: "If it was ten years ago, there were few people in the world who could make this article. But now the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce occupies an area, there are many schools, and even more than a dozen universities, and there are more than 100,000 people who can make this article every year. ”

"So, what should I do?" Liu Bei was confused.

"My lord! Yang Xi this person, on talent and learning, no one in the world can be the right, Liang suggested that the lord should not change all changes, and do not make a clarification for the time being, so as not to have three hundred taels of silver here, and after some time, the people know the lord's great benevolence, and the lord can begin to control step by step. ”

After listening to Kong Ming's words, Liu Bei felt a little powerless, so he asked about Cao Cao's battle again, and learned that the battle report had not been returned, but he was also a little worried.

Don't worry about the impossibility, if Cao Cao fails, Yang Xi leads the army and horses to attack, and he has no choice but to retreat.

This is such a good city, a county has a population of hundreds of thousands, and he can't figure out how Yang Xi can do it.

Liu Bei asked if he could go to war and take the matter of Yi County, Kong Ming said: "The lord took Xiling, judging from the situation of entering the city, the city does not recognize the lord, if he sends troops again, I am afraid that there will be changes in the city, Yang Xi has been operating here for many years, and there must be foreshadowing." Moreover, if the lord takes Yi County again, and there are more than 100,000 people, but it is not easy to do, and there are not many soldiers and horses, and he has to divide the troops, if he increases his troops and comes, but how to hold it, he can only wait for Cao Cao's side to go smoothly, if it does not go well, he has to retreat. ”

However, he said that Mao Luan deployed a good strategy in accordance with the idea of civil recruitment, and only waited for Yang Xi's new battle order to come down.

If you just take back Xiling, it's very simple, blow up the city wall with a bombardment cannon, but Mao Luan also has to take into account that there are 100,000 county residents in Xiling City.

Once he did this, he would take Xiling City, and he estimated that he would also be drowned in saliva.

When Yang Xi received the battle report, he was also taken aback at first, and his heart jumped suddenly, but after thinking about it, with Liu Bei as a person, at least on the surface, Yu Min would not be harmed, so he calmed down and thought.

After thinking for half an hour, Yang Xi picked up his pen.

"With Lu Meng, the commander of the Jingnan Theater, he led 30,000 troops, went down the river, increased troops in Xiling, and surrounded Xiling City with the defenders of the Jiangxia Theater. The Ministry of Ordnance Industry allocated 40 cannons to the Jiangxia Theater. The specific tactics are as follows: first use the flying ball to scatter leaflets into the city, make an appointment to keep the county citizens away from the city wall, and then destroy the city wall with a bombardment cannon, raze it to the ground, and no longer set up a city wall. ”

Yang Xi was angry, he was really angry.

Liu Bei is in front of him, a small role, at least for now. But this little character actually ran to his own house to make trouble, and he must be severely punished.

After the war, Yang Xi decided not to rebuild the city wall, but to build a new city directly here, also known as Xiling City, south to the Yangtze River, across the river from Wuchang.

Yang Xi received the battle report, but Cao Cao had not received it, because Yang Xi's carrier pigeon was many times faster than Liu Bei's fast horse.

Liu Bei has been spending the past few days, and for a prince who has rejoiced everywhere he goes, this is simply a slap in the face.

It has been insisted on for four or five days, Liu Bei has not made any moves, and strictly restrains the army, so the situation is better.

In order to truly understand the thoughts of the people, Liu Bei was also deliberate, and changed into ordinary people's clothes with Kong Ming and others and entered the market.

"Lord, the people of Xiling City don't care at all about the entry of the army, how to do it, this school, even continue to hold classes, shops should be open and open, it's really a miracle." Zhao Yun couldn't figure it out, he said this, representing the thoughts of most generals.

Even Liu Bei himself felt incredible, and what was even more incredible was that on the street, there were still people who talked about how good or bad they were, and they didn't hide it, of course, most of them were extremely ugly.

Zhuge Liang said, "It's a pity that there is no university in this Xiling City, if there is a university, even if this battle is defeated, all the talents in the university can be taken away, which is not worse than a few cities." ”

Liu Bei nodded in agreement, and Kong Ming continued: "After these few days of observation, Liang has some experience. In this Xiling City, there are also some scholars who were once prominent, but they were forced to obey the control of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce. Now that the lord has arrived, he can contact one family and ask him to be the foundation of the lord, subsidize the use of grain and grass, and let the lord allow the title and official position, so that it can replace the current departments of Xiling County Government, so that Xiling can be in the hands of the lord. ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei really lit up in his eyes, this Xiling City is so rich, but it can only be seen and not used, but it makes Liu Bei almost want to vomit blood, if he can contact some old family groups to manage Xiling, this Xiling can really become his own city.

But Liu Bei didn't know that Yang Xi had a bombardment cannon, and Liu Bei had never seen it. When Yang Xi attacked Wuling, he was in Xinye, and when Yang Xi attacked Xuzhou, he was in the Han Dynasty, although he had heard that there were siege weapons, but he thought that it was a powerful stone machine.

So Liu Bei ordered people to start running around to investigate, looking for the family that had been dissatisfied with the control of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce. Kong Ming's strategy really worked, and there were thirty or forty old landlord families in the city who supported Liu Bei and donated property in a unified manner, and more than a dozen were waiting and watching.

These thirty or forty families are all old landlords before, although they are now integrated into the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and they are thriving in the local area, but the elders in the clan are not old, and they are still in charge of the clan.

Liu Bei invited more than 30 heads of families to assemble in the county government, and planned the positions of the county government from the beginning, leaving the original county government management personnel who were willing to surrender, and driving away all those who were unwilling to surrender, and even imprisoned.

In order to control the Xiling County People's Daily, Liu Bei did not hesitate to use the army, surrounded the newspaper, coerced and lured the personnel in it, and set up a new position on behalf of Liu Bei in the newspaper, and the review order, all articles waiting to be printed must be reviewed by the review order before they can be reported. This turned the newspaper into his Liu Bei's tongue, and he said it whatever he wanted.