A dinner lasted for several hours, until everyone was drunk and dispersed.

The next day, Du Xi, who was supposed to listen to Kuai Yue's words, still went to the palace, revealed his identity, and wanted to ask to see the king of Chu.

As a result, after waiting for a long time, he failed to be summoned by the king of Chu, and finally shook his head and left the palace.

In the following days, Du Xi came to see him three times a day, and at the same time visited the house of a courtier, and finally on the fourth day, Liu Biao summoned him in the palace.

Although Liu Biao was called the King of Chu, his palace complex was not small, at least half the size of the palace of Wei, and the time from Du Xian's entry into the palace with the Yellow Gate to his entry into the council hall was longer than the time he spent in Wei.

"Foreign minister Du Xian, meet the king." Du Xi slowly walked into the conference hall, saw the white-haired Liu Biao on the throne, and bowed down.

"Bold, why don't you kneel when you see the king!" Before Du Xi got up, there were people on both sides of the civil and military who scolded loudly.

Du Xun straightened up, looked at the person who scolded him, and said: "The king of Chu hasn't spoken yet, why are you making a noise here, you can put the rules of Chu in your eyes, and you can put the king of Chu in your eyes!" ”

When he came back to his senses, he secretly glanced at Liu Biao, saw him frowning, and hurriedly knelt down in front of Liu Biao, and kept apologizing.

"Get up." Liu Biao glanced at the panicked man, wrote down his name in his heart, but sentenced his career to death in his heart, so he said lightly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

It's just that at this moment, the man's forehead was already sweating, and when he heard Liu Biao's words, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a sigh of relief, and retreated to the ministers.

Liu Biao only looked at Du Xian at this time, and saw that he was dressed in the official mansion of the Wei State, and his demeanor was calm, neither humble nor arrogant, not at all like an envoy in another country, but a little bit of the demeanor that he had when he entered Jingzhou alone.

Liu Biao admired this kind of courageous person, and when he saw Du Xian daring to scold Chu Chen in the court of Chu State, he actually had a good impression in his heart.

So he said to the chamberlain beside him, "Go and add a seat, it's in the middle of the court." ”

As soon as Liu Biao's words came out, the ministers were shocked, they had already heard of Liu Biao's attitude, and they were not very enthusiastic about the alliance, so they only met Du Biao today, but they didn't expect to arrange such a high seat for him now.

You must know that among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, only a few people such as Kuai Yue have the qualifications to sit, and this Du Xian will be favored by Liu Biao, which is a little surprising to them, even Kuai Yue and others are no exception.

Kuai Yue and the three of them glanced at each other, and a trace of joy flashed in their eyes, they had always hoped to form an alliance with Cao Cao to jointly eliminate Yuan Shu, the great plague of Jingzhou, and at the same time expand the territory, which was already a good start.

"No!" The attendant on the side was not stunned, and after hearing Liu Biao's order, he immediately carried out his order.

Soon, the chamberlain took a cushion and placed it in the position designated by Liu Biao.

"Sit." Liu Biao pointed to his seat and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Du Xun was not polite, bowed down to thank him, but he did not sit down immediately, but said: "This is a gift from the King of Wei to the king, this is a gift list." As he spoke, he took out the gift slip from his sleeve and presented it with both hands.

Liu Biao ordered the waiter to take the gift list, opened it and saw that there were several hundred-year-old wild ginseng written on it, and one was five hundred years old. ”

Du Xi thanked him again before sitting down.

Seeing Du Xun sitting down, Liu Biao said: "Your envoy is coming, Lone already knows, unfortunately a few days ago, he was not in good health, he neglected Zixu, and Lonely's fault is also." ”

Liu Biao's change was beyond everyone's expectations, and Liu Biao's explanation can already explain a lot of things.

Du Xi smiled modestly and said: "The king has a lot of opportunities, so naturally his body is important, so he doesn't care. ”

Liu Biao nodded, and then asked: "Zixu came to know, I don't know how King Wei plans to form an alliance?" ”

Du Xi said: "Great King, the King of Wei wants to sign a formal alliance with the Great King, and the two countries will join forces to fight against Yuan Shu within five years, one side is attacked by Yuan Shu, if there is a request for help, the other side must send troops to assist." ”

"That's all?" Liu Biao frowned and asked, he didn't believe that Cao Cao had spent so much manpower and material resources just to sign such a covenant with him.

"Of course, the two countries can also exchange caravans, and if Wei rises up to attack Yuan Shu one day, it will also ask the king to send troops, and the territory conquered by the two countries will belong to each of the two countries." Du Xun added.

"Okay, the alliance has been agreed." Liu Biao listened to the decision directly.

Hearing Liu Biao's words, Du Biao was suddenly stunned, he didn't expect that Liu Biao would agree to the alliance so happily, he had prepared a lot of rhetoric in the past few days, and now everything is needless to say.

But that's fine, he has a lot of effort left, so that he can get up early to complete the mission and return to Wei.

Now that the alliance has been negotiated, Du Xi also relaxed, answering Liu Biao's various questions, and at the same time rejecting Liu Biao's faint solicitation.

Subsequently, Liu Biao ordered people to draft the letter of alliance, in duplicate, stamped with the printing of the king of Chu, and handed it to Du Xi, who also handed over the letter of alliance prepared by Cao Cao in advance to Liu Biao, so that the alliance between the two countries was officially reached.

At noon, Liu Biao deliberately left Du Xian and set up a banquet in the palace, accompanied by Kuai Yue and others, and Hao Sheng entertained Du Xian.

After the banquet dispersed, Liu Biao looked at the subordinates left behind by him and said, "Are you very strange about Lone's change today?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Kuai Yue asked, "I wonder why the king agreed to the alliance?" ”

Liu Biao looked up at the sky and said with emotion: "Lonely time is running out. ”

Kuai Yue and the others looked at the aging Liu Biao, and there was a little bad feeling in their hearts, at this time Liu Biao was really old, his temples were white, and he was gloomy.

Seeing that Kuai Yue and the others did not answer his question, Liu Biao smiled and said: "We have been friends for many years, what else is there to taboo, Gu is now in his prime, and his life is not long." ”

Kuai Yue and the others hurriedly said: "The king will definitely be able to live a long life." ”

"Hehe, you don't have to comfort Gu, the reason why Gu changed his mind and decided to form an alliance with Wei is because Gu is too unsuccessful, so he wants to find a strong reinforcement for him, and Jiangdong Sun Jian is adjacent to Chu, and at this time, only Wei is the best choice."

"The king is wise." All the people bowed in unison.

Liu Biao looked at a few people and said: "Among the orphans, only Qi'er still has some ability, and after a hundred years of loneliness, I hope you can continue to work together to help my Chu country win the world." ”

"I will live up to the king's love." This is Liu Biao's entrustment in advance, and it is foreseeable that their status in the Chu State will definitely be greatly improved in the future.