In an uproar, everyone's surprised eyes were thrown at Liu Feng, who seemed to be puzzled by Liu Feng's refusal to accept the big pie that fell from the world.

Even Liu Ba was so shocked that he didn't know what to do for a while.

Only Ma Tan smiled slightly and nodded secretly. Obviously, among all the people present, only Ma Tan, like Liu Feng, saw through the trap behind this holy decree.

Liu Feng blatantly refused to accept the order like this, Jiang Gan, who originally looked solemn, his expression softened, and an intriguing smile flashed on his face, it seemed that he had already been in his chest for Liu Feng's response, and he did not feel the slightest surprise and annoyance.

"General Liu, this is Your Majesty's heart, why don't you accept it?" Jiang Gan was asking knowingly.

Liu Feng smiled indifferently and arched his hand towards Jiang Gan and said: "Please ask Angel Jiang to return to Your Majesty on your behalf, Liu Feng is young, and he has no virtue or talent, so he does not dare to steal a high position." In addition, please also convey a message to Prime Minister Cao Cheng, just say that I, Liu Feng, have always admired his old man, and if I have the opportunity in the future, I will ask Prime Minister for advice or two. ”

Liu Feng used a sentence of "young, no virtue and no talent" to push away the emperor's appointment, but it is not disrespectful to the emperor, you must know that in this era, "refusal of officials" to a certain extent, is still a virtue respected by scholars, such as Cao Ying, Yuan Shao and others, when they were young, they had rejected the imperial court several times, but won the praise of public opinion.

Moreover, although Liu Feng tactfully cracked Cao Ying's plan, he did not say anything about it, and the last sentence indirectly expressed some friendship to Cao Ying.

In Liu Feng's view, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, Liu Bei is Cao Ying's mortal enemy, in the near future, maybe Sun Quan will also become his enemy, then at this time to establish a tacit understanding with Cao Ying, it may not be helpful to use Cao Ying to contain these two people in the future.

Jiang Gan laughed: "Since this is the case, then I will truthfully return to Your Majesty according to the general's words, and as for the general's admiration for Prime Minister Cao, I will also convey it." ”

Jiang Gan said and took the golden holy decree into his arms, and after a few movements, his whole person had become gentle and elegant, and he was almost like the previous angelic leader. As if it was just to complete a task before, it was a last resort, and when the task was over, it immediately returned to its original appearance.

"Thank you for the angel's understanding. Come on, go and arrange a banquet immediately, and General Ben will pick up the wind and wash the dust for Jiang Angel. "This kind of face-saving work, Liu Feng still has to do something.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Gan shook his hand casually, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about General Lao, now that the errand has been completed, I won't bother much, I will set off now to rush back to Xudu to recover my life." ”

Liu Feng actually didn't want to keep Jiang Gan more, lest Liu Bei take this as an excuse and go to Sun Quan to sue him, saying that he secretly married Cao Ying. Now that Jiang Gan is leaving, Liu Fengsuo's surname will not be kept, so he will personally send Jiang Gan out of the city immediately.

Out of the gate of the Zhennan General's Mansion, Liu Feng and Jiang Gan rode side by side and walked on the streets of Linxiang City.

Although Linxiang was besieged for several months and soaked in heavy water, with Liu Feng's efforts, the entire city quickly came out of the shadow of the war, commerce regained prosperity, and the streets and alleys lived and worked in peace and contentment.

Jiang Gan walked and observed all the way, and when he saw such a prosperous scene, he couldn't help but sigh: "It has only been a few months since Linxiang City was sacked by war, and General Liu was able to restore the city to such prosperity. ”

Whether Cao Ying said such a thing, Liu Feng is not sure, but Jiang Gan's sycophant is still quite useful.

came and did not be rude, Liu Feng immediately patted back: "Mr. Jiang has won the award, Jingzhou is the land of right and wrong, but Mr. has gone to danger several times, this kind of courage is really heroic." ”

Liu Feng's words are half heartfelt, Jiang Gan traveled all the way south from Xudu, crossed the area controlled by Eastern Wu and Liu Bei, and traveled thousands of miles to send him a holy decree, and he was able to come all over his body, if he didn't have a few catties and two, with Cao Ying's ability to know people, how could he send him an envoy.

Receiving Liu Feng's praise, Jiang Gan smiled and said nothing, obviously listening comfortably in his heart.

The two rode slowly, gradually opening up some distance from the entourage behind, Liu Feng turned his words around, and suddenly said: "When Shicai announced the decree in the hall, looking at Mr.'s performance, it seems that I had long expected that I would refuse?" ”

Jiang Gan touched a few strands of sparse beard and said with a smile: "What kind of person is the general, who can play Liu Bei around, in the dead land of Jingnan, a new world has been created alive, how can a mere discordant plan deceive the general." ”

It seems that because the scheme was discovered, Jiang Gan didn't care, and the surname Suo confessed to Liu Feng.

Liu Feng likes to confess, and this Jiang Gan invisibly made him a little more favorable.

Suddenly, Liu Feng realized that things were by no means as simple as he had thought before, you must know that there are many resourceful people around Cao Ying, even Jiang Gan can see that this plan will be seen through by him Liu Feng, as cunning as Cao Ying, knowing this, but why do you still use it?

Glancing at Jiang Gan, who had a mysterious expression, Liu Feng suddenly realized, and a chill surged on his back.

This holy decree, if Liu Feng was fooled into taking it, then it would naturally be the most in line with Cao Ying's intentions, but Cao Ying's intentions were by no means so simple.

The key lies in Jiang Gan.

Previously, Cao Ying had sent Jiang Gan south to Jiangling to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender, although Zhou Yu openly refused on the surface, but Sun Quan, who was very suspicious, secretly had some ripples in his heart. And this time Cao Ying used the same means to send Jiang Gan to Linxiang, even if Liu Feng openly rejected Cao Ying's "good intentions", but in the eyes of the outside world, it would still make people have a kind of speculation that Liu Feng was secretly "eyebrow-to-eye" with Cao Ying.

Moreover, at the beginning, Zhou Yu had to protect Liu Feng and prevent Liu Bei from attacking Linxiang, in the eyes of outsiders, Zhou Yu seemed to have something to do with Liu Feng, and the two envoys were Jiang Gan, the same person, and this person was Zhou Yu's classmate, which naturally caused the reverie of some people with a heart.

All kinds of connections, Liu Feng Fangwu seemed to have seen through Cao Ying's scheme, but in fact, unconsciously, he was irresistibly caught in the other party's more insidious scheme.

Cao Ying's scheming is really extremely dangerous.

Liu Feng was still thinking about whether he could secretly send Qiu Bo to Cao Ying and use Cao Ying, the "enemy of the enemy", to profit from it, but now it seems that it is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger.

After figuring out this section, Liu Feng's face immediately became gloomy, and he said coldly: "Prime Minister Cao's city is really unfathomable. Mr. Jiang, do you think I should tie you up and send you to Wu Hou for disposal? ”