There is little snow in Chengdu in winter, but it is cold and bitterly cold. Guan Yi has been working hard in the mountains of Zitong County for many years, and he drank a few glasses of spirits with Ehu before, so he naturally didn't feel cold, but obviously Zhuge Zhan, who was sitting opposite, was not as cold-tolerant as Guan Yi, and kept rubbing his hands while drinking wine.

Zhuge Zhan has a slender body, fair skin, three wisps of slight whiskers under his chin, and a trace of bookish air all over his body. Guan Yi instructed Ehu to move to Zhuge Zhan's body after burning the furnace, looked at his handsome face, and said respectfully: "I heard that General Wei is not in good health, and suddenly came to the cold house today, I don't know what to see?" ”

Zhuge Zhan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't dare to be a teacher!" Although Zhan said that he was sick, he also knew that the general broke through the Wei soldiers and saved our Han from danger. This time, one is to congratulate the general, and the other is to hear that His Majesty has ordered the general to lead his troops to the Sword Pavilion, and wants to assist the general in recovering the lands of Hanzhong, so I hereby have a word to inform the general. ”

"What does General Wei command, you should listen to it!" Guan Yi straightened his collar, just as the so-called Three Treasures Hall has nothing to do, Zhuge Zhan did not have anything to do with him before, but today he suddenly came to the door from the cold night, which was originally a little unusual, listening to the tone of his words, it confirmed the doubts in Guan Yi's heart.

Over the years, he has heard and witnessed all kinds of political power struggles in the imperial court, although he can't see or touch them, but they are more cruel than the real battles on the battlefield, and if he is not careful, he will be trampled under the feet of others, and he will not even have a chance to turn over.

Of course, this is not that Guan Yi has put himself on the opposite side of Zhuge Zhan. Guan Yi knew in his heart that although Zhuge Zhan was the son of Zhuge Wuhou, in addition to being born with the same appearance, he did not inherit his father's literary and martial arts. Since his debut, all the government measures, Zhuge Zhan has mostly relied on the reputation of Zhuge Wuhou to gain the recognition of the Shu people.

According to the historical process, militarily, Deng Ai sneak attack on Jiangyoushu, Zhuge Zhan was ordered to lead the troops to a decisive battle with it, but hesitated when entering the army, and did not adopt Huang Chong's suggestion to divide the troops to defend the dangerous pass in time, so that the Wei soldiers took advantage of the situation to drive straight in, and finally defeated Mianzhu, although Zhuge Zhan and his son Zhuge Shang died on the battlefield and won the reputation of taking righteousness by death, but in fact, the rapid demise of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Zhan was also inseparable.

At that time, even though the Han Dynasty at that time was terminally ill and in a time of internal and external troubles, since the Wei soldiers attacked Shu in three ways, the Han army adopted the strategy of surrendering the fortress and defending the fortified city. Although most of the Hanzhong Zhuwei was lost, but the Han, Le and Golden Zhuwei were still there, and the main force of the 30,000 Hubu Army led by the general Jiang Wei was in the Sword Pavilion, and there were still 50,000 Yulinwei who stayed in Chengdu.

Zhuge Zhan put down the wine bottle, stood up and walked around the hall, Guan Yi saw that his brows were deeply locked, and he didn't know what medicine he sold in his gourd, and he didn't squeak well.

"The first emperor started a business hard, but the middle way collapsed, before sending his father to a major event, since he tried his best to repay the country's kindness, his father's ambition was unsuccessful and died in Wuzhangyuan. Later, Jiang Wei Bingzhi succeeded him, during which the southwest border area of the Han Dynasty repeatedly attacked the Central Plains, and it has been 30 years and 8 years. Although it is for the revival of the Han Dynasty, the unification of the universe, but for decades of endless conquest, the Han Dynasty has withered in national strength, the people have complaints, and the eunuchs are also power-making, and the government is not raised. ”

Guan Yi frowned, although Zhuge Zhan didn't finish speaking, the meaning of his words could not be clearer. This is because he is dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's repeated attacks on Wei, but his efforts are in vain, and he consumes manpower and money and food. At the same time, he resented Liu Chan's close attendant Huang Hao for favoring power, participating in national politics, and corrupting the dynasty.

Zhuge Zhan stared at Guan Yi and continued: "Although Sima Zhao has the heart to swallow the Han, but the sky will not die Yan Liu, the general broke Deng Ai in the Jiang Youshu, Zhonghui has become a lonely army, and the Wei people are discouraged. With the talent of a general, once he enters the Sword Pavilion, the lost territory in Hanzhong will definitely be recovered. If this is the case, then the community is also lucky! ”

"Today, Han, Wei, and Wu are on one side, Han and Wu are both weak and Wei is strong. It is to visit Zhan late at night, and tell him frankly in his heart, if the general waits for the restoration of Hanzhong, he needs to be a general to raise soldiers, adjust the people's livelihood, and do not speak lightly and forge ahead, otherwise if things are not good, the foundation of the country will be lost, and the name of the general will also be damaged! ”

Guan Yi nodded, thinking that although Zhuge Zhan did not inherit Zhuge Wuhou's ability to govern the army, what he said just now also pointed out the current predicament faced by the Han Dynasty.

Before Guan Yi's grandfather Yun Changgong lost Jingzhou, the Han Dynasty had most of the territory of Yizhou, known as the land of abundance, and Jingzhou, the belly of the world, and its military strength was stronger than that of Wu, even compared with Cao Wei. However, after the loss of Jingzhou, the territory of the Han Dynasty was greatly reduced in an instant. Then the battle of Han and Wu Yiling, Emperor Zhaolie was defeated, the Han army in this battle was almost lost, the elite cavalry was almost lost, and the military generals of Wenchen were either killed or surrendered, and Emperor Zhaolie also died of shame and remorse, and became the weakest party in the three kingdoms in a blink of an eye.

After the heir Liu Chan ascended the throne, with the assistance of Zhuge Wuhou, after five years of recuperation, the Han gradually recovered its vitality, and Zhuge Wuhou obtained a large number of troops when he pacified the rebellion of the barbarian leaders Yonghong and Meng Huo in the rear, although the national strength of the Han Dynasty could not be compared with the heyday, but there was no big problem in separating the land of Yizhou and defending itself.

However, the Han court was originally a continuation of the orthodoxy of the Han family, and the restoration of the Central Plains and the revitalization of the Han dynasty was the lifelong dream of Emperor Zhaolie and Zhuge Wuhou and other ancestors, and it was because since the sixth year of the Han Dynasty (228 AD), the Han army has sent troops to the Central Plains more than ten times, hoping to establish the Central Plains and restore the Han royal platform, but they have repeatedly failed due to the disparity in strength. On the contrary, because of the narrow land and small number of people, the Han Dynasty was weakened step by step by the impact of the war that lasted for many years, and finally led to the Wei State taking advantage of the empty army to invade the country in three ways.

Zhuge Zhan's words, although Guan Yi also thought so, but he faintly felt that things were not so simple. This time he sent troops to the Sword Pavilion, he was ordered to assist the general Jiang Wei to recover Hanzhong, that is, he wanted to listen to the tune under Jiang Wei's account, not a military commander with decision-making power, Zhuge Zhan couldn't understand this, but listening to the meaning of his words, it was the intention to let himself replace Jiang Wei to preside over the northern military?

As soon as he thought of this, Guan Yi suddenly remembered a major event that happened in the court before - last winter, the general Jiang Wei's 11th Northern Expedition failed, and in the imperial court, a group of civil and military ministers led by Wei General Zhuge Zhan, auxiliary generals Dong Ju, Taichang Zhang Jun, Zhang Shao in the service, and Guanglu doctor Qian Zhou wrote to Liu Chan, the heir of the book, impeached Jiang Wei for attacking Wei but returned repeatedly without success, so that the Han people's power withered and the national strength was greatly damaged.

Although Liu Chan did not agree to the invitation of Zhuge Zhan and Dong Ju and others in the end, Guan Yi saw the problem through this matter. Although Zhuge Zhan understood that Jiang Wei had repeatedly sent troops to crusade against the Wei State, he followed the basic national policy of Emperor Zhaolie's "Han and thieves do not stand apart, and the royal industry was not biased", with the intention of recovering the Central Plains and rejuvenating the Han Dynasty, but he was dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's monopoly on military power, and insisted on going his own way to mobilize the Northern Expedition but never achieved the goal, which led to the continuous weakening of the strength of the Han Dynasty and the shaking of the foundation of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, the impeachment of Jiang Wei by Zhuge Zhan and others is not unreasonable. A data in the late Han Dynasty can illustrate the problem: at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were more than 1.1 million households in Shuzhong, with a population of nearly 6 million people, but after decades of war, the Han household registration was sharply reduced to less than 200,000 households, with a population of less than 1 million.

But even so, Guan Yi did not dare to completely agree with Zhuge Zhan's ideas, Jiang Wei had eleven crusades against Cao Wei, which was essentially a continuation of Zhuge Wuhou's Northern Expedition. The difference is that Zhuge Wuhou was a genius through the ages, the most outstanding politician and military strategist of the period, and had the ability to stabilize the country, so when he was alive, the politics of the Han Dynasty were clear, and the diseases of these basic national policies have not yet been clearly revealed. However, after the death of Zhuge Wuhou, his successors did not have the ability and talent of Zhuge Wuhou, and the political, military and economic affairs of the Han Dynasty naturally began to decline.

Therefore, Zhuge Zhan, Dong Ju and others put the responsibility for the decline of the Han Dynasty on Jiang Wei, which is obviously unfair - since the death of Zhuge Wuhou, Jiang Wei has continued to compete with the most powerful Wei State for decades with the weakest Han military force among the three kingdoms, so that Wei State is in a defensive state most of the time, although there are objective factors that Wei has been implementing the basic military strategy of attacking in the east and defending in the west, but it is enough to show that Jiang Wei is both civil and military, and he is actually a pillar of the Han Dynasty.

Taking a step back, even if Jiang Wei continues to adhere to the national policy of Fei Yi, Jiang Wan and others to stop fighting and recuperate from martial arts, the Han still can't avoid dying sooner or later.

The reason is very simple, Cao Wei occupies two of the three parts of the world, and its strength is far from being comparable to the land of Yizhou.

Throughout history, those who are self-contained and do not want to forge ahead will inevitably be annexed in the end, and Zhuge Wuhou and Jiang Wei and others are clearly aware of this problem, so they will use the power of a state to attack the powerful Cao Wei several times, in order to recover the Central Plains and restore the Han Dynasty. It can be seen from this that once Cao Wei is fully prepared, he will definitely send troops to conquer on a large scale, and the disaster of the Han Dynasty is inevitable.

The meaning of Zhuge Zhan's words was obviously to use himself to deprive Jiang Weizhi of power. As far as the public is concerned, Zhuge Zhan is to save the fate of the Han Dynasty. Privately, after Zhuge Zhan was relieved of Jiang Wei's power, he was able to monopolize power and take charge of state affairs. However, what made Guan Yi puzzled was that Zhuge Zhan hadn't had much contact with him before, so why did he trust himself and tell the secret in his heart to himself?

What's more, although he also has a prominent family background, for now, he has no foundation in the court, and the Guan family has long since declined, losing its past glory and glory. Even if he now has the merit of protecting the country and worshipping the general of the Han Dynasty, in front of a noble and high-ranking official in the Han court, he is still just a small role that does not enter the stream, and he does not even have the qualifications to accompany the last seat.

But Guan Yi was immediately relieved, due to the fiasco of Deng Ai, Wei's plan to attack Shu on three routes failed, and he reinforced the Sword Pavilion, and Zhong Hui's defeat must be sooner or later, and the Han army could naturally take advantage of the situation to go straight to Hanzhong and regain the lost territory. Once successful, Guan Yi's fame will naturally rise.

According to this, Guan Yi has the favor of the heir, the great defeat of Deng Ai and the recovery of the lost land in Hanzhong, and the shallow prestige of the family in the Han court, which will inevitably have a great chance to replace Jiang Wei in time. In this way, it can not only pave the way for Guan Yi's own career, but also achieve Zhuge Zhan's goal of overriding Jiang Wei.

As soon as he thought of this, Guan Yi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on his back. According to Zhuge Zhan's assumption, even if Guan Yi replaces Jiang Wei, in terms of his age and qualifications, he cannot pose a threat to Zhuge Zhan's monopoly of power. That is to say, Zhuge Zhan is just using the power of Guan Yi to cut off Jiang Wei, and once he grasps the real power, Guan Yi will inevitably become Zhuge Zhan's next target to be cut.

Therefore, Zhuge Zhan was not afraid that Guan Yi knew what he thought in his heart, not to mention that before Jiang Wei's 11th Northern Expedition, Zhuge Zhan, Dong Ju and others had already publicly expressed their heirs and wanted to cut Jiang Wei's military power, which was tantamount to an open break with Jiang Wei on the issue of governing the country and the struggle for power.

Perhaps, from Zhuge Zhan's standpoint, instead of letting Jiang Wei draw Guan Yi over, it is better to persuade Guan Yi to assist him and use it for himself.

Of course, all of the above are Guan Yi's thoughts of spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. The reason is that Guan Yi and Zhuge Zhan have very shallow relationships, and they are not sure what he thinks.

China's thousands of years of history of feudal dynasties, which dynasty and which generation is not a history of blood and tears in the struggle for power?

But these words naturally can't be said, otherwise I'm afraid that Zhuge Zhan will immediately classify Guan Yi as his opposite. Therefore, Guan Yi thought about it in his heart, but his mouth was sincere and fearful, and he said very humbly: "General Wei's words of Jin Yu, Guan Yi is deeply instructed, and he must keep it in mind, but I am afraid that Guan Yi is young, he is not a shallow learner, and he has the hope of disappointing the general." ”

Zhuge Zhan frowned, listening to Guan Yi's tone seemed to be humble and polite, but in fact, it was all empty words and clichés in the officialdom, and his mind was completely out of bounds, and he couldn't figure out his true thoughts for a while. After a while, he said: "I don't know when the general plans to send troops?" ”

Guan Yi smiled slightly, and said: "The last general has made it clear to Your Majesty, three days later is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and then the last general will send troops to the north and strike the bell with the general." ”

"In this way, I wish the general success and the honor of building a world!" Zhuge Zhan held the wine bottle, his eyes flashed, staring at Guan Yi tightly, but he didn't see any change on his face.