South of Xiangyang City, in front of Liu Qi's tomb.

Liu Feng propped himself on one knee on the ground, and the glass of water and wine in his hand was poured in front of the tombstone, with a faint sadness in his expression.

"Brother, because my brother didn't have time to see you for the last time, this glass of water and wine should be regarded as my apology to you."

The wine fell to the ground and quickly sank into the dry earth.

All kinds of old things came to mind, remembering that under Liu Qi's encouragement, he and he traveled through the flowers and spent all day drinking, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his sad face.

"The wine hurts, brother, you have to take it easy when you get there."

Liu Feng actually joked about the tombstone, and at this moment, his mood was not as sad as before.

People eventually die, although Liu Qi, this kid, was bitter in the first half of his life, but he had read countless beauties, and a few years before he died, he did a great career with himself, and there is no doubt that he will leave a name in history.

From another point of view, Liu Qi is also dead.

People cannot be resurrected after death, and those who are alive should know how to cherish the present.

Liu Feng is not the kind of sentimental person, after the initial sadness, he quickly regained optimism and positivity.

When he was talking to himself in front of Liu Qi's tomb, a horse galloped from Xiangyang City.

"My lord, Yizhou Dong Zhizhong is in an emergency."

Liu Feng had just returned to Jingzhou for less than half a month, and Dong He's urgent report arrived, and Liu Feng's expression suddenly became alert.

Folding the urgent report and looking at it, a trace of surprise suddenly flashed in Liu Feng's eyes.

After a moment's heaviness, he immediately turned over and got on his horse.

"Back to the city."

An hour later, in the meeting hall of the Xiangyang Chengzhou Governor's Mansion, Pang Tong, Liu Ba, Kuai Liang and other important ministers of Jingxiang arrived.

Liu Fenghuan glanced at everyone, took a deep breath, and said in a loud voice: "Everyone, I just received an urgent report from Yizhou, if the information is correct, Liu Bei has captured Hanzhong. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the hall.

Even if he was as resourceful as Pang Tong, he felt that what Liu Feng said was incredible at this moment.

Liu Feng then showed Dong He's letter to everyone, and the letter detailed the causes and consequences of Liu Bei's theft of Hanzhong.

"When Liu Bei had just entered Shu, Liu Zhang also met with him in person, and at that time Liu Bei had the opportunity to capture Liu Zhang and capture Yizhou without blood. However, at that time, Liu Bei was hindered by the name of benevolence and righteousness, and the people's hearts were not attached, so he did not dare to act rashly. Now he is so impatient, using this means to steal Hanzhong, it seems that he is really in a hurry. ”

Pang Tong's evaluation completely revealed Liu Bei's real surname.

Liu Ba nodded again and again: "Lord, Liu Bei seized Hanzhong by this shameless means, and the locals will inevitably complain and disagree, so why don't you take this opportunity to immediately send troops to attack Hanzhong, and take advantage of its unstable foothold to shovel one of them." ”

As if Liu Bei was a grudge in his previous life, Liu Ba's hatred for Liu Bei can be described as "ghostly", and once there is an opportunity, he will definitely encourage Liu Feng to start a war against Liu Bei.

"Right now, the people of Jingzhou are shaken, and the people of Jingzhou are shaken, and the soldiers are tired, and the people's livelihood is withering, even if there is a chance, I think it is not appropriate to raise troops again."

The person who raised the opposing opinion was none other than Kuailiang.

At this time, Liu Feng turned his attention to Pang Tong, and in terms of the overall situation, he still relied on the chief strategist the most.

Pang Tong seemed to have already made up his mind, just waiting for Liu Feng to ask, and said at the moment: "I agree with Kuaizhizhong's words, Jingzhou is the foundation of the lord, the foundation is unstable, and there is no need to talk about anything else." I think the most important thing for the current lord to do is to report to the court as soon as possible and announce the succession to the position of Jingzhou pastor, so as to appease the hearts of the people of Jingxiang. ”

In Liu Feng's original plan, he planned to inherit the position of state pastor after Liu Qi's death, but he unexpectedly obtained Yizhou, which made him have to take the position of Yizhou pastor first. At present, if he takes over the position of Jingzhou pastor, it seems a little inappropriate.

"How can there be a reason for one person to lead the pastor of two states, if the lord leads the pastor of Jingzhou, then who should be the pastor of Yizhou?"

Sure enough, Liu Ba quickly saw that something was wrong.

Pang Tong said lightly: "This is simple, Yizhou is a place, and there is no longer a state pastor, the lord only needs to appoint a trusted person, and go to Xichuan to serve as the assassin of Yizhou." ”

Although the assassin and the state pastor both lead the affairs of a state, their power and status are very different, among them, the assassin is full-time in government affairs and leads part of the military power, while the state pastor can hold the power of a state's military and political Jing Prison.

Although Liu Feng privately planned to change the position of Jingzhou pastor, he was actually not at ease to let anyone serve as Yizhou pastor, and now Pang Tong mentioned that the state pastor would be changed to assassinate the history, which is undoubtedly in line with Liu Feng's thoughts.

"Shi Yuan's words are reasonable, but I don't know if Shi Yuan has a suitable person in his heart to serve as the assassin of Yizhou?" Liu Feng asked happily.

Pang Tong turned his gaze to Liu Ba beside him, and said with a smile: "The most suitable person is right in front of you, why do you need to ask me." ”

He is going to recommend Liu Ba to serve as the assassin of Nayizhou.

Liu Feng was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood Pang Tong's intentions.

Liu Ba is a meritorious minister who followed his own army, and his talent in politics and the people, even Pang Tong is ashamed of himself, and Liu Ba is the best candidate to serve as the new leader of Yizhou who has not been in the army for a long time and has just experienced the war.

What's more, Liu Ba has never been very enthusiastic about attacking Cao Ying in the north, but he is very active in cleaning up Liu Bei, and he is transferred to Yizhou to be a neighbor with Liu Bei, who has just obtained Hanzhong.

However, Liu Feng also realized his other intentions from Pang Tong's recommendation.

Liu Ba does have the talent of the three dukes, but he has always been arrogant, and there has been a secret dispute with Pang Tong before, and now Liu Feng has added a great talent like Kuai Liang, and divided a considerable part of Liu Ba's administrative power, which Liu Ba has complained about in private.

If Liu Ba is sent to Yizhou, on the one hand, he can fully display his talents, and on the other hand, he can avoid fighting for power with Pang Kuai.

The four major families of Jingzhou Kuai, Cai, Pang and Huang have a close relationship, speaking of which there is also an in-law relationship between Pang Tong and Kuai Liang, with this relationship, and because Kuai Liang was later subordinated to Liu Feng, he naturally did not dare to covet Pang Tong's position as the head of the civil ministers.

Pang Tong's calculation is really shrewd.

After thinking about this section, Liu Feng smiled secretly in his heart, but said: "Thanks to Shi Yuan's reminder, yes, Zichu is the most suitable person." ”

Liu Ba didn't think so deeply, and naturally felt both surprised and delighted that Pang Tong recommended him to be a Yizhou assassin.

That's a state assassin history, thirteen states in the Han world, and there are only thirteen assassin histories in total, if Liu Ba can hold this high position at such an age, it will undoubtedly be a huge honor.

What's more, on the new and broad stage of Yizhou, if you are in charge as a thorn in the history, you will no longer be hindered by Pang Tong and Kuai Liang, and you can display your talents to the fullest.

Isn't all this what I dreamed of?

For a while, Liu Ba couldn't hide his surprise, but he was busy making some humble excuses.

"Yizhou, except for Zichu, I really don't worry about leaving it to others to take care of, the overall situation is important now, Zichu, you don't have to be humble anymore, you have to go to Yizhou this time."

Liu Feng's words were resolute and did not allow Liu Ba's refusal.

Seeing this, Liu Ba didn't make too many senseless politeness, and said happily: "Since the lord trusts me Liu Ba so much, then I can only do my best to govern Yizhou for the lord." ”

After finalizing the decision-making plan, Liu Fengsui officially inherited the position of Jingzhou pastor under the support of Jingxiang and his ministers, in front of Liu Biao and Liu Qi's father and son.

Soon after, Liu Ba was officially appointed to the post of Yizhou Assassin and went to Chengdu to take office.

After Liu Feng inherited the pastor of Jingzhou, he once again made an adjustment to the personnel of the two states.

Meng Da, who had meritorious service in Shu, was named General Pingnan and Taishou of Wuling.

Because Liu Feng considered that Meng Da's surname was repeated and could not be reused, but considering that he had great merit, if he abandoned it, he would not be afraid of chilling people's hearts, so he was named General Pingnan, above the miscellaneous general, and let him serve as the Taishou of Wuling, and he was not afraid of him if he stayed under his nose.

Ma Liang was promoted to the general of Xingye, and he was still the Taishou of Nanjun. Chen was promoted to a backbone general, commanding the army to guard the public security. Liu Mi was promoted to the general of Anhan, and he was still the Taishou of Changsha.

Wei Yan was promoted to general of Zhenbei because of his previous achievements in Xiangyang's defense against Cao's army, and his troops were stationed in Fancheng.

Jiang Wan, who surrendered from Wuxian, was recruited by Liu Feng as a bookkeeper and was in charge of Jingzhou's money and grain.

Kuai Liang was promoted to the general of Xinghan, led Nanyang Taishou from afar, and participated in the affairs of the former general's office.

As for the first strategist Pang Tong, he was promoted to the general of the military division, and concurrently left the history of the governor, and the affairs of the former general's office.

Liu Ba, who has already served as the assassin of Yizhou, participated in the affairs of the former general's office together with Kuai Liang.

Because Liu Feng presented himself as a former general and had the power to open a shogunate, he could open an exclusive shogunate.

He, a subordinate official of the shogunate of the former general's office, is like the emperor's inner dynasty, such as Pang Tong's military position, although it is not as good as Wei Yan, but because he is in charge of the affairs of the former general's office, his real power is far greater than Wei Yan.

The rest of Kuai Liang and Liu Ba all have the title of participating in the affairs of the former general's office, and their actual power is also greater than that of officials at the same level.

At the same time, Huang Zhong, who stayed in Zhenzitong, was promoted to the general of Zhenxi, and the rest of the Shu generals such as Yan Yan, Zhang Ren, Ma Zhong, Zhang Wei, and Zhang Yi were all promoted to miscellaneous generals.

In order to ensure the control of the generals of Yizhou, Liu Ba took up the post of Yizhou Assassin at the same time, and ordered all the generals in Shu to send their heirs to Xiangyang to serve as hostages.

Just when Liu Feng seized the time to restore the economy of Jingyi Erzhou and appease the hearts of the people, Liu Bei was not idle.

Although this emperor uncle of the Han Dynasty used despicable means to seize Hanzhong without blood, the people of Hanzhong were gentle and obedient under the influence of the Wudoumi Sect for many years, so there was not much resistance in Hanzhong, and Liu Bei actually won the hearts of the people in Hanzhong at an astonishing speed.

Under the turn of danger to safety, Liu Bei's ambition swelled again, on the one hand, he strengthened the defense force against Yizhou in the south, and on the other hand, he sent people to go deep into Longyou, using Ma Chao's reputation to tie up with the Qiang people.

At the end of winter and the spring solstice, the time enters the second year.

A piece of information from Xudu arrived in Xiangyang: 150,000 Cao troops had been sent from Xudu and were marching all the way to Guanzhong.

Cao Ying was finally going to make a move on Liu Bei.

(To be continued)