I thought that the thirsty and talented Bingzhou Mu would be ecstatic when he saw him, but he didn't expect that he had forgotten himself without a trace, which made Sima Yi feel lost. He could only take out the letter from his bosom and said, "Villain Sima Yi, please visit Yuan Bingzhou, I came here to deliver the letter because I was entrusted by Mr. Fu Zhu!" ”

After listening to what Sima Yi said, Yuan Mai was a little surprised, I don't know how he got acquainted with Sima Yi? He was even appointed as a messenger to deliver the letter, but he couldn't guess the reason for a while, so he had to stop thinking about it.

However, it turned out that during the days when he was in Hanoi, he had been searching for wild talents for Yuan Mai, hoping to find available talents and strengthen the strength of the Bingzhou Army. I heard that Sima Yi of Wen County is a talent, but because he is seriously ill, he can't get out of bed, and he has been recuperating in Huaixian County, and he was personally invited by Yuan Mai.

In his spare time, he often came to chat with Sima Yi, and through many contacts, he saw that Sima Yi was very eloquent and strategic, and he was a rare talent; Frustrated Zhu took great pains to win over Sima Yi, and finally persuaded Sima Yi, who had just recovered from a "serious illness", to go out of the mountain and work for Yuan Mai a few days ago. So he took the opportunity of sending the official document to send Sima Yi to Yecheng to meet Yuan Mai, and carried a letter of recommendation with him.

It's just that Sima Yi was arrogant, and originally thought that Lord Zhou Mu would be ecstatic about his arrival, and he dismounted to greet him, and he didn't plan to take out a letter of recommendation from frustration, but who knew that it was self-defeating, and people actually forgot who they were!

Think about it, people are famous and noble, after the fourth generation and the third duke. With more than 100,000 male soldiers in his hands, he has a large number of martial arts under his command, and he has every opportunity, so how can he have time to think about his little person, and it is natural to leave it behind.

Yuan Mai didn't get off the horse, so he immediately opened the letter of frustration and read it, but the content was to ask for a rich burial of the trial and pardon for the sins of his family, after all, the trial was an important minister in Hebei, Yuan Shao's right-hand man. The Minister of the Humerus. During the Yuan Shao period, he led the civil and military officials, and was very prestigious among the Hebei clansmen. Bury it thickly, firstly, to calm the heart of the old ministers who follow Yuan Shao, and secondly, to establish the demeanor of a benevolent monarch among the clan gates.

"Hmm. Mr. Gong and Mr. are polite! Yuan Mai nodded after reading the letter. Turning his head, he asked Chen Lin beside him, "Where is the corpse being judged at this moment?" ”

Chen Lin immediately saluted and said, "Back to the lord's question." Zhenzhengnan's body is parked in the mortuary, ready to be buried with other Jizhou soldiers who died after choosing a burial site! ”

Yuan Mai's eyes turned. He said in a deep voice: "The trial is the humerus minister when my father was alive, although he lost his body to follow Yuan Shang, but the fault is not him, thinking that he has worked hard in the past, he should be buried solemnly, how can he be buried with ordinary generals, this matter is absolutely impossible!" ”

"The lord is wise, and the ministers kneel down to thank the lord for his benevolence and righteousness, Hebei has a Ming monarch like this, and the people are very fortunate!"

After listening to what Yuan Mai said, Chen Lin, Chen Zhen, Pu Yangxing and other Yuan Shao's old aides after the horse dismounted and knelt on the ground to thank them, first, to judge and thank their former colleagues, and second, to rejoice for themselves; It is said that once the son of heaven is a courtier, but since Yuan Mai can buy a funeral trial, then for them, the living Yuan Shao ministers, they will not be mean, right?

Yuan Mai was very satisfied with the statements of the staff, and could feel that the people's hearts were being attached step by step, and the day when everyone expected to return was when he became the overlord of Hebei, he glanced at Chen Lin: "Chen Kongzhang, you are good at resignation, good at etiquette, and the matter of thick burial and matching will be handed over to you, return to Yecheng immediately, you don't have to follow the army!" ”

"No, Lynn takes the order!"

Chen Lin gave up his hand, turned the horse's head, took a few followers, and returned to Yecheng on horseback.

Seeing Yuan Mai's calm arrangement, but he did not favor himself, Sima Yi, who was standing in front of the horse, sweated again, he really didn't expect that he would be so insignificant in the eyes of this young prince, just like a feather, dispensable......

When he thought of this, Sima Yi regretted it a little.

Knowing this, I shouldn't have easily agreed to the invitation of Frustration, I should have pretended to be sick at home for another three or five years, and waited to see how the situation changed. If you have a destiny, sooner or later you will become a great thing; If God does not love himself, he will be a common man who has no quarrel with the world, ploughing the fields and farming, and enjoying the joy of being others is better than being ignored like this, this feeling is really unpleasant.

"Yuan Yuanjun, you still have a letter in your hand!"

Sima Yi raised his arm, wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with his shirt, and softly reminded Yuan Mai immediately.

It was a letter of recommendation written by Fu Zhu to Yuan Mai, and in the letter, he strongly recommended Sima Yi, saying that he had the talent of Wang Zuozhi, just like Guan Zhong was reincarnated, Jiang Shang was reborn, and Yuan Mai was asked to reuse him. This letter of recommendation and the documents were handed over to Yuan Mai by Sima Yi, but this guy held it in his hand, as if he had forgotten it.

Sima Yi stood in front of the "Cloud Piercing Dark Horse" in frustration, as if he felt that this beautiful war horse had a mockery in his eyes. This made Sima Yi's shame in his heart indescribable.

knew that Yuan Mai could rise so strongly, and when he had just taken Hanoi, he should have agreed to his recruitment and assisted him; At that time, he was just a miscellaneous general, there was a lack of talent under his hands, and the territory in his hands was only a small piece of land in Hanoi.

"Alas...... Chess is a bad move, and the vision is really short-sighted! Sima Yi sighed in his heart.

At the same time, he was a little resentful in his heart, not so much because he made a mistake in judgment, but because of Yuan Mai's performance, it was too incredible, from a county to a state, this was originally a difficult and tortuous road, even if it was a strategy, there was a talent through the heavens and latitudes, but I am afraid that it would take three years and five years, and Yuan Mai only took less than two years, has occupied the entire state, plus Sizhou's Hanoi, Hedong, Pingyang three counties, and now won half of Jizhou; This kind of performance is not just something that can be described by geniuses!

Although the reason why Yuan Mai easily obtained the annexation of the state, because he was Yuan Shao's son, he was able to sit back and enjoy his success; However, the three counties of Sizhou were taken and the regiment of more than 100,000 people was formed, but it was really hard work; Now that he has won half of the land in Jizhou again, he also relies on the reputation accumulated in ordinary times, and then assists him with strategy, so that he has today's achievements, and if it is called luck, it is better to call it "Destiny".

"Well, it looks like this guy has the help of destiny, but I underestimated him before!"

Sima Yi leaned on the slender neck, and quietly glanced at Yuan Mai when he lowered his head, and unconsciously gave birth to a trace of admiration in his heart. muttered to himself in his heart.

"I still have a letter in my hand, I know it!"

Yuan Maiyun agreed to Sima Yi lightly, and then slowly opened the letter and read it slowly. I saw that as expected, this letter was really a letter of recommendation written by Professor Fu, and he strongly recommended Sima Yi to himself. I couldn't help but smile in my heart, this Sima Yi couldn't hold his breath in the end, a person with great ambitions can endure for a while, but when he sees the general trend of the world, he will inevitably be unable to hold back his ambition.

If you think that Sima Yi was persuaded by frustration, Yuan Mai thinks that this is not accurate, and the more important factor is very likely that he won Yecheng and became the most powerful warlord in Hebei.

"Do you really have what Mr. Gong said is so powerful?" After reading the letter, Yuan Mai accepted it with a smile, stared at Sima Yi and asked.

If it was according to Sima Yi's original calculation, after listening to Yuan Mai's question at this moment, he had to boast and seek an important position for himself, but after being tossed by Yuan Mai like this, the confidence in his heart was already insufficient, and he pondered for a while, and then arched his hand and said: "The villain is just a rough and strategic, and I haven't seen how Lord Fu Zhu wrote it in the letter, so I don't dare to say anything." ”

Yuan Mai looked very interested and asked, "Since you are rough and strategic, then you can help Ben Mu analyze, with the situation I am in now, how to plan the next step?" ”

Hearing Yuan Mai's question, Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief, his opportunity had finally come, and he hurriedly shrugged his shoulders, frowned, and said solemnly: "In the humble opinion of the grass people, the most important thing for you at present is to sweep away Hebei, taking advantage of the damage of Cao Cao's Guandu and the time when the vitality has not yet recovered, when the leaves are swept away by the wind, hold the land of Hebei, Qing, and Youzhou in the palm of your hand, and accumulate strength, so that you can be invincible!" ”

Yuan Mai nodded, he was not satisfied with Sima Yi's answer, his words were far from a lofty feeling, as long as he was a strategist with a little brain, he could come to Sima Yi's conclusion, such a strategic plan was not enough to show Sima Yi's superiority.

"And then?" Yuan Mai touched the beard that was getting thicker and thicker under his jaw and continued to ask.

Sima Yi replied cautiously: "In the humble opinion of the grass people, Cao Cao's soldiers in the Central Plains are well fed, and it is difficult to plan for a while. First sweep to the west to wipe out Yong and Liang, and then go south to Bashu, the suzerains of these two places are weak, and it is much easier to think than to capture the Central Plains. After taking Yizhou and Yongliang, then go south down the river, pacify Jingzhou with the help of geographical advantages, and then map Dongwu, and finally wrap the strongest Cao Cao in the middle, so that he may be able to win the world as soon as possible! ”

"Good, good!"

After listening to Sima Yi's analysis, Yuan Mai couldn't help but praise him. Not to mention whether Sima Yi's strategy can succeed, but his far-sighted vision has already been expressed, and his argument is similar to the later Yuan Dynasty's detour to Bashu to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. This remark is enough to be compared with Zhuge Liang's three-point strategy in the thatched house. It seems that Sima Yi is indeed a strategist at the same level as Zhuge Liang, and with the assistance of such talents, a great cause can be expected. (To be continued......)