Waiting, long and endless waiting. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Although it is only a few hours of night in terms of time, as long as you close your eyes and sleep a good night, but this sleep, Li Sheng can't sleep. He used to be a person who fell asleep easily, but tonight, he completely lost sleep. He was worried, worried that the people around him would leave him after hearing about his ambitions.

"After all, they don't have a reason to follow themselves." Li Sheng thought with a headache, "Now the time is not as good as in the past, the world's heroes are decreasing one by one, and the unified wheel is slowly advancing." Everyone thinks that the sooner the world is unified, the better, but what I'm doing now is to block the wheel. ”

He thought about it and smiled bitterly, and suddenly remembered that in the past, in modern times, the history teacher often said in class: "Reunification is the general trend, and anyone who wants to hinder reunification will eventually be ruthlessly crushed by history. ”

"Hehe, what a sharp heart-wrenching word. If I fail, I am afraid that later history books will laugh at me and say, 'It is because of that man that this world has been in the war for a few more years!' He tried in vain to resist the heavens with his own strength, and was finally crushed by the wheel of history!'" Li Sheng fell on the couch in the big tent, thinking about some things and laughing at himself for his actions.

Of course, he also understands that if he wins, everything will be completely different. The history books of later generations will undoubtedly attribute all the good words of praise to themselves, and write about the mistakes and setbacks of the enemy. As long as he can win the world and treat the people a little better, then his act of resisting reunification today will undoubtedly become a trivial matter. After all, in the world in front of us, all parties are still divided and divided, and even if you add one more, it is not a big deal.

"But ah, there's always something like a sinner in that way." Li Sheng always has such an indescribable awkwardness in his heart. He didn't think it was exciting for him to rush into the already chaotic situation to dominate the world, but he also didn't think it was normal to hand over the world and Jingzhou to someone like Cao Cao.

"The world can't rule Cao Cao." After experiencing the Xuzhou Massacre, he has always had this idea in his heart. Although Cao Cao only did such a massacre in Xuzhou once, and Cao Cao has not targeted the people since then, except for the chaos caused by Liu Bei's mud and water in Jingzhou a few years later, Cao Cao's army is still considered to be a strict military discipline for most of the people, but Li Sheng is still afraid in his heart, he is afraid that Cao Cao will be so stimulated and act so violently. Such thoughts may be the same as the fear of seeing a murderer with a knife. People always have unforgettable memories of the major events they have experienced.

Therefore, whether it is Li Sheng or Kong Ming, or Xu Ding, Peng Ling, Song De, Zhou Li, Zhou Rui and other people who have experienced the Battle of Xuzhou, they all have an extremely disgusted thought of Cao Cao and his forces in their hearts. It was precisely because of this idea that Li Sheng decided to compete with Cao Cao. This may be a selfish act of revenge, but if he doesn't do this, Li Sheng is always a little unwilling in his heart.

"Therefore, this matter must continue no matter what, and Cao Cao must be eliminated." Li Sheng didn't know if he could hold out until the end, but there was only this reason for him to finally devote himself to the road to world domination.

"What a headache...... Li Sheng thought, and suddenly stood up and stepped out of the tent. He felt a little depressing to be alone in this tent, so he thought of going outside. After all, he couldn't sleep right now.

After getting out of the tent and looking up at the night sky full of stars, Li Sheng took a deep breath of the cool air that belonged to early autumn and walked around the camp casually. As he walked, he continued what he had just thought. At this moment, the camp seemed very empty and quiet, and most of the soldiers were still in a deep sleep—they did not have the same troubles as Li Sheng, but they slept soundly.

"I really envy them." Looking at the tent where all kinds of snoring sounds were faintly heard, Li Sheng thought faintly, and said this softly inadvertently.

"Why do you think that? You must know that soldiers also have soldiers' troubles and sorrows. A calm voice sounded behind Li Sheng.

"Master Peng can't sleep too?" Li Sheng asked rhetorically. The voice was familiar. Li Sheng didn't look back and understood that the owner of this voice was one of his first two masters - Peng Ling and Peng Ziyue.

"Me?" Peng Ling smiled, "How could I not sleep?" But the night is so tempting tonight that I am afraid that any fool will be bewitched by the darkness of the night and sneak out to see the stars. ”

"Master......" Li Sheng was amused by Peng Ling's words, but quickly lowered his head again.

"Are you confused?" Peng Ling asked him, "Why do you look so depressed?" You weren't like that when you were in the tent earlier. ”

"Alas! That's what I'm saying to you, and a lot of it is half-truths. Li Sheng smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I am still hesitant whether I want to dominate the world." Although I already have that set of plans in mind, do I want to do that? Just as Master Huang Zhong said, my participation is likely to prolong this war, and more people will die. ”

"Huh!" Peng Ling smiled when he heard this, "Are you worried about this?" ”

"Yes!" Li Sheng nodded heavily, "There are enough people on the earth who have died, and I really don't want to see more people die." Why do we have to fight among ourselves? Li Sheng became more and more bitter as he spoke, and he frowned tightly.

"It's really a problem." The smile on Peng Ling's face deepened, he looked at Li Sheng, who was distressed by this, and asked softly: "Do you think other people in the world, such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Ma Teng, and Sun Ce, will have similar troubles?" ”

"This ......" Li Sheng paused for a moment, thought quietly before replying, "They may not have such distress." ”

"'Since ancient times, meritorious deeds have come first, and it is not a pity to have the lives of ants.'" For Cao Cao and them, it may be the most important thing to make contributions to their careers, to leave their names for themselves, and to leave profits for those who are behind them, as for the lives and interests of the people, they are afraid that they will not think of it. Therefore, they will not have such annoyances as you at all. Peng Ling's words seemed to be very calm and calm, but Li Sheng clearly felt the sadness from his words.

"So......" Li Sheng opened his mouth, but he didn't know what he should say.

"There's no such thing anymore." Peng Ling smiled and gently patted Li Sheng's shoulder: "Don't you think that instead of handing over the world to them, it is better to put the world in your own hands?" You are a person who truly sees the people as a people, unlike most of them who only see the people as their slaves, as objects to be used by themselves. Let such a person take the world, but I am afraid that the people will also live a very hard life. So, I don't think you should be confused any longer. I probably understand what you are worried about, but trust your masters, they will give you a satisfactory answer. ”

"Really?" Li Sheng subconsciously wanted to confirm again.

"Really!" Peng Ling nodded heavily: "I think our team will not dissipate because of your ambition, but will continue to grow because of your ambition." Jingzhou must be given a new owner, and many people here think so. ”

"Oh!" Li Sheng replied softly, the shadow in his heart seemed to be dispelled by Peng Ling's words, and he smiled confidently: "It seems that I have to work hard." ”

"yes!" Seeing Li Sheng's smile, Peng Ling felt very relieved, and he smiled brightly: "Let's work together!" Let this world not fall into the hands of those who only do their best. ”

"Hmm!" Li Sheng nodded heavily, and a lot of pride suddenly surged in his chest. He raised his eyes to the eastern sky, and stared silently, at the black that was no different from the surroundings. Although there was nothing special about it now, Li Sheng clearly understood that in more than an hour, it would be the place where the light would appear first.

"All of this is similar to what I am now!" He said.

*****

The sun rises in the east and caresses the land with its own brilliant and gentle light. A new day has begun. The barracks regained its vitality with the first rays of the morning sun. The well-rested soldiers came out of their tents and threw themselves into the new day's training in a tense and orderly manner.

"In front of the enemy, as long as you have not fought with the enemy, then some training that should be done in ordinary times still has to be done.

"This is a new regulation issued by Li Sheng, and it has been required to be implemented from the very beginning of his takeover of the army. He didn't want the soldiers to improve their abilities when they fought the enemy, but he wanted to use this order to tell the soldiers: "As long as you put on this uniform, you can't give up training unless you take it off." ”

"What a troublesome order!" Some soldiers thought unhappily. But an order is an order, and whether they really want it or not, as long as the order is given, they must carry it out. There was no way, they could only do it helplessly, just doing it while muttering and cursing their superiors in a low voice: "It's okay, what are you doing with this strange idea?" ”

For such a curse, Li Sheng, who gave this order, was naturally not clear. He thought about it for almost a night last night, and he fell asleep in a daze for half an hour before dawn. At the moment, although he insisted on getting up on time, his spirit was not very good. Always sitting on the handsome seat in the big tent with a tired face and yawning. Even if the people below brought him the breakfast he needed early, according to his custom, he couldn't lift his spirits at all.

"I really want to go to sleep again." He thought to himself, struggling with his eyes.

At this time, the curtain of the big tent was lifted. In a crisp sound of armor crashing, two mighty warriors in iron armor walked in through the tent door that faintly revealed the early morning vision. As soon as they saw Li Sheng sitting above, the eyebrows on their faces shook involuntarily, and they knelt down in armor with great difficulty.

"Huh? What's going on? Li Sheng felt very strange about this, and he slowly stood up and leaned forward in surprise, trying to understand something. But the other party lowered his head and completely hid his entire face in the shadow of the front of the helmet, so that Li Sheng could not see it really.

"Who the hell are these two?" Li Sheng was weird. Because the other party was wearing armor, his body and actions were very different from usual, and Li Sheng naturally couldn't recognize them. He had no choice but to look at it in a daze, his face as calm as possible that seemed to be somewhat untenable.

"Minister!" The man who bowed down on the ground spoke. The words that seemed to have been tempered thousands of times came out of their mouths neatly, and Li Sheng was surprised for a moment and didn't know what to say: "Minister, Huang Zhong (Wei Yan) see the lord!" ”

"Huh?" Li Sheng, who was quickly overjoyed, blinked his eyes and finally came to his senses. He hurriedly left the handsome position, came to the front of his two teachers, helped the two of them up, and then gently wiped the cold sweat on his head and said, "How can the teacher give me such a big gift?" Again they are in armor, and they are kneeling. I'm so grateful that you're willing to help me, how can I accept this? ”

"The so-called 'Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher'! Since we intend to help you, we must determine the name of this king. From now on, you are my king, I am your minister, and the respect that should be there must be must not be neglected. After all, 'no rules don't make a circle!' Huang Zhong explained with a smile. His slightly deep words made people feel his sincerity from the heart at once.

"Ahh I don't care so much. Master is Master, and I will call you that in the future. Li Sheng said a little shyly. He looked at the two people in heavy armor, rolled his eyes, and asked, "Don't you take off this burden?" I'm a little tired looking here. ”

"I don't want to." Wei Yan pouted, "It's not all Brother Han Sheng's words. He said it was more formal. ”

"But that's too formal." When Li Sheng heard this rather ridiculous explanation, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly, "It seems that I have to use this newly acquired lord to give you an order first." ”

"What order?" Wei Yan asked.

"From this day onwards, until I am under my account, the prostrations of prostrations will be abolished! Those who have a military position in the body, this law marches military salute! Saying that, Li Sheng made a demonstration with his modern military salute, which was not very standardized, and then continued: "The junior officer must take the initiative to perform this military salute when he sees the superior officer, and the same superior officer must also return a military salute to the subordinate." As for civilian officials, those who have no military positions can bow their hands and salute! Here, too, he made a demonstration with his own less standard movements.

"What do you think of this?" When everything was over, Li Sheng asked the two masters what they thought about this place.

"It's a lot simpler, and it's a great change. It's a little hard to get used to at the moment, but it's better than kneeling. "Huang Zhong's words are always so fair.

"It's just ......" Wei Yan frowned, he was only a few years older than Li Sheng, but he spoke much more directly than Huang Zhong: "Zixu, I always feel that there seems to be a little less flavor in your movements. I can't tell you exactly what it tastes like, but I think it's still a little lacking. ”

"Huh?" Li Sheng's mouth opened wide in surprise. He never thought that he would be corrected for his mistakes in military posture in the era of the Three Kingdoms. "Isn't Master Wei Yan never seen such a posture before? How did he see it? Li Sheng didn't understand this, but he also understood that it was indeed his own shortcomings. So, he admitted this very shamefully, and said, "I also came up with it on a whim." As for whether there is a taste or not, where it needs to be improved, you real soldiers need to improve. I hope that this posture has a majestic momentum that is intimidating. After all, the etiquette of a soldier is to have a masculine beauty. ”

"Hmm!" Huang Zhong and Wei Yan nodded again and again when they heard this, "Yes, yes." ”

After a while, everyone under Li Sheng's tent came. Everyone gathered together.

Zhou Rui, who was very curious, saw Huang Zhong and Wei Yan's appearance in heavy armor was a little strange, so he asked what he was doing?

Huang Zhong said that he and Wei Yan had sworn allegiance to Li Sheng. Suddenly, it resonated with other people in the tent: "Alas, we haven't been like Zixu to perform the gift of allegiance!" Although they all knew that they had already sold their lives to Li Sheng, it was not proper to not salute.

So, they knelt down one after another and solemnly swore an oath to Li Sheng. made Li Sheng scramble again.

"There's no need to do this." Li Sheng muttered, and it was easy to help them up one by one, and then he said the thing he had just talked about with Huang Zhong, and said, "Don't bow down in the future!" It makes me feel bad. ”

"However, if you change the etiquette without permission, I'm afraid that Lord Liu Biao won't look good." Luo Zhao said with a little worry. He is in charge of intelligence matters, and he usually does what Wei Yan said about the "unsightly" things, so he knows very well what he will do and where he will offend anyone. He felt that Li Sheng seemed to be in too much of a hurry on this issue.

"This ......" Li Sheng choked up suddenly, not knowing what to say. He had to admit that when he gave this order, he was a little too happy, thinking only about how to do it, and forgetting that he seemed to have no right to do it in his own capacity at the moment.

"What should I do?" He had a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much about it." Shi Tao shook his head lightly and said, "Lord Liu Biao appointed the lord as the commander of Xiyang County and supervised the suppression of bandits in the four northern counties of Jiangxia, and he also has a certain amount of power. If the people of the headquarters were ordered to implement the new regulations with such authority, Lord Liu Biao would naturally not say anything. As for the other generals, officials, and the like, from now on, they will all be under the orders of the lord alone? Naturally, this will not spread the matter from our side to Liu Biao. Unless, we have someone here who leaks it. ”

Leak? At the mention of this, everyone hurriedly waved their hands, and said no.

The matter was largely decided in this way, and after discussing some specific matters with his subordinates, today's morning meeting was dismissed like this. Because he knew that the other party might surrender, and his side had already formulated corresponding countermeasures based on such a thing, Li Sheng had no intention of entering the army except for instructing the soldiers in the battalion to step up their precautions and prevent accidents. The men sent to Jiangxia to persuade Huang Zu had already set off, and what Li Sheng was doing now was to stay here quietly and wait for Huang Zu's reply to arrive. After all, only at that time will the battle in Xiyang really end.

Five days, after five days, Li Sheng and the others saw a road of people coming from the southeast to their side. At the beginning, Li Sheng did not support this team, so he ordered the battalion to be ready to meet the enemy. But when the people and horses got close and the banner was fully displayed, Li Sheng breathed a sigh of relief - this was the Jiangxia Huangzu soldiers and horses, and among them was the envoy he sent a few days ago to follow.

Li Sheng took a closer look at the team and found that in this team, except for the one hundred and ten people who looked particularly majestic under the leadership of the previous officer, although the rest of the team also looked like some soldiers, they gave people a bad feeling, as if they had never experienced the battlefield at all.

Li Sheng ordered someone to inquire, and the report was: "Those weak ones are the reserve soldiers of Jiangxia Huangzu." At present, he is led by a newly returned partial colonel, escorting Jiangxia Changshi Huang Jing to Xiyang to deal with the surrender of the Xiyang bandits. ”

"Huang Jing? Is that Huang Zu's nephew? Li Sheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he came to his senses: "I'm afraid I'm here to make money again." "Li Sheng is the Xiyang County Commander directly appointed by Liu Biao, and he has not been under Huang Zu's tent, and he is not familiar with those people under Huang Zu, and some have only heard rumors about some of them. For this Huang Jing, what Li Sheng knows is the image of a money-greedy and lustful bastard. This is the information that Luo Zhao gave him, because the attention of Li Sheng's intelligence officers in this section was focused on the four counties of Jiangbei and Xiangyang, and he also knew about Huang Zu alone for Jiangxia, and the others did not spend much energy.

"I'm afraid so." Luo Zhao beside him smiled bitterly, "However, as long as we are willing to give it up." Huang Jing is not difficult to deal with. Although the lord is currently the commander of Xiyang County appointed by Liu Biao, he is still in charge of Huang Zu of Jiangxia County, so he naturally needs to have a good relationship with Huang Zu. I heard that Huang Zu was very wrong about his own nephew. He changed his words and carefully mentioned Li Sheng.

"Don't you kiss your family! I still know that. Li Sheng nodded heavily. However, he really has no interest in such a person who has no level and only relies on connections to obtain an official position. He raised his eyes to look at the team that was getting closer and closer to him, and focused on the group of people who appeared to be outstanding, and his heart couldn't help but move.

"Zhong Ming, you go and inquire about the news of this group of people." Li Sheng pointed at these people and ordered.

"Them?" Luo Zhao followed Li Sheng's index finger and instantly understood what Li Sheng was thinking: "The lord saw their majesty and had the idea of loving talents? ”

"I'm too young and I have too few people under me, and I'm still too far from where we want to be. I need more and more people to help me. It seems that he is not having a very easy time in the Huang Zujun like that, and I want to ask him over. If you can. Don't you think that their heads have the same as those of Huang Zhong and Wei Yan? Huang Zu is a stupid talent, he really can't recognize talents. Li Sheng pouted and said.

"Can it be compared to Huang Zhong and General Wei Yan? Isn't it too much for the lord to say this? Or has the lord heard of this person for a long time? When Luo Zhao heard Li Sheng's words, he couldn't help but have countless thoughts in his heart. However, since it was ordered by Li Sheng, he naturally did it with his heart, and quickly agreed to the order.

Since the people approaching the camp had been confirmed to be Huang Zu's team, the entire camp naturally didn't need to be so nervous except for some necessary defensive measures. Li Sheng ordered the gate of the village to be opened, and he led the subordinates under the tent in the army to step out of the gate with their own personal guards to greet them. Li Sheng stepped forward alone to make a wish, and stood sideways on the side of the camp gate, posing in a welcoming manner.

After staying in the "ancient times" for so long, and having already communicated with all kinds of people, Li Sheng already understands what kind of attitude to use for what kind of person. In his opinion, since Huang Jing is a greedy and lustful person, he must also like other people's compliments. It was the first time I had met him at the moment, and it was obviously necessary to show some respectful appearance and make a good impression on him. After all, this is also to get along with Huang Zu behind him. So, Li Sheng gave the other party such a high-level welcome ceremony.

"When the enemy saw each other, he had to fight every day. It is a sin that the unknown envoy came early and could not travel ten miles to greet him. At present, I also asked the envoy to enter the account to rest, and I arranged for someone to prepare the banquet, and asked the envoy to wait for a while. When the other party approached, Li Sheng hurriedly greeted him, and said such a thing, and he himself was a little ashamed to hear it. As he spoke, he cautiously observed Huang Jing, who was still sitting on the horse, and saw that he looked a little happy, and couldn't help but feel secretly proud in his heart: "It seems that a good effect has been achieved." It seems to be the right way to go. ”

At the moment, he and his party were welcomed into the village and settled, and Li Sheng confessed and left. After all, he is not the kind of guy who is very good at interacting with people, and it would be better to kill him if he accompanied such a boy to talk about those things like the wind and snow. At that moment, he handed over the one named Huang Jing to his "famous son" - Shi Tao to deal with. Li Sheng thought that with Shi Tao's communication skills and his own personality, he should be able to win his favor by getting along with Huang Jing.

"However, Shi Tao seems to be very reluctant to do this, yes!" Thinking of the bitter and flat-mouthed appearance he showed when he handed over this task to Shi Tao earlier, Li Sheng was a little amused. It's just that after laughing, he still has to admit something: "It seems that my manpower is still too small." ”