"Look at it, you all take a look, Ao Lie dared to threaten a certain person, is it tolerable or unbearable, and what else is Liu Bei is a wolf ambition, in a certain way, he Ao Lie is the biggest careerist!" Hanzhong Taishou Fuzhong, Zhang Lu roared in an angry voice, and while roaring, he threw the letter written by Ao Lie on the ground.

Yan Pu, the first strategist under Zhang Lu, walked over and picked up Ao Lie's letter, read it carefully and carefully, and then handed the letter to the others for the generals to circulate.

"My lord." Yang Song, another strategist that Zhang Lu relied on very much, said: "Ao Lie was named the king of Yan by the Son of Heaven, judging by his various actions, he does not look like a traitorous person, but this letter is written unceremoniously, and the threat is on the paper. ”

Yan Pu immediately agreed with Yang Song's words: "Lord, it should be like this. The strength of our army is slightly inferior to that of the Yan army and the Jingzhou army, and at the moment it is only limited by the geographical situation, Ao Lie and Liu Bei cannot transfer all the men and horses to Dongchuan, which gives me the opportunity for us to be left and right, we should preserve our strength, and let them decide the two first. ”

In fact, Yan Pu and Yang Song have always been on the wrong track, Yan Pu is upright, and Yang Song is greedy for money and lustful, these two rarely have the same opinion, but when Hanzhong encountered an unprecedented crisis, these two stood on the same front. The opinions of these two strategists reached an agreement, and the other generals under Zhang Lu also echoed and expressed their support for the views of these two people.

Zhang Lu pondered for a while, agreed with the opinions of the two strategists, then sat down and wrote a reply letter to Ao Lie, which probably meant that he was willing to follow the advice of King Yan and not send troops to attack Xichuan for the time being, so as not to give Liu Bei an opportunity. Zhang Lu also made a request in the letter. If Liu Bei sent troops to attack Dongchuan, he hoped that Ao Lie would put righteousness first and lead troops to come to the rescue. In this letter, Zhang Lu's tone was extremely polite, and no one could have imagined that he was so angry at the beginning of receiving Ao Lie's letter. The face of a politician is best explained by Zhang Lu's body.

At the end of the meeting, Zhang Lu waved his hand for the generals to exit the lobby. Yang Song's younger brother Yang Bai quietly came behind Yang Song and looked around to see no one. asked in a low voice, "Big brother, what do you think?" Didn't Liu Bei send someone to send a lot of treasures to the eldest brother, and let the eldest brother instigate the lord to send troops to Xichuan? Why did the eldest brother do the opposite when he was in the council just now? ”

Yang Song stretched out his hand and made a silent gesture, turned his head and looked around again, making sure that there was no one around, and then said with a gloomy face: "Do you want to die?" What is this place? How dare you talk about such a thing? I'll talk about it when I get home. After being reprimanded by Yang Song, Yang Bai immediately shrank his neck and followed behind Yang Song without saying a word. All the way back home.

After entering the door of his house, Yang Song gave Yang Bai a color, and the two brothers walked towards the study. Go to the study and close the door. Only then did Yang Song speak: "Second brother, it's not for my brother to say you, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, and we are secretly doing business." You can't say it, otherwise, sooner or later, you will lose your head! ”

Yang Bai hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes." The eldest brother taught a lesson, and the younger brother wrote it down. Seeing that Yang Bai knew that he was wrong, Yang Song's face relaxed, and then said leisurely: "Who is Liu Bei?" At the beginning, he joined Liu Biao, but forced Liu Biao to die of a violent illness, but he Liu Bei took the opportunity to occupy the four counties of Jingzhou in the south, and the ambition of the wolf son can be seen. Now that he has entered Sichuan to hook up with Liu Zhang, sooner or later he will take Yizhou for himself, but it is ridiculous that Liu Zhang is mediocre and weak, and he still doesn't know that he lured the wolf into the house. If there is no Ao Lie's sideways intervention, it is nothing for us to sell Liu Zhang to Liu Bei, but with the arrival of Ao Lie, we can't do that, we sell the master, just to seek glory, and the price he Liu Bei paid is far from enough for us to sell Zhang Lu. Although there is a fight between the east and the west, but it is a cold trend, if we covet that little profit, and sell Xichuan to Liu Bei, Dongchuan will lose its support, if Ao Lie really enters Dongchuan, we will die without a place to be buried. ”

After Yang Bai listened to Yang Song's explanation, he suddenly realized and said: "So that's the case, so what should we do in the future?" ”

Yang Song looked at the ceiling with gloomy eyes, and said in a low voice: "Strange goods are good to live in, we have a treasure in our hands, are we afraid that we won't be able to sell them for a good price?" Whoever pays the highest price, we will sell the east and west to whomever the two rivers are sold. You go and send someone to inform Liu Bei, now that things have changed, Ao Lie has been stationed in Wuwei, if you want Zhang Lu to send troops to Xichuan, let Liu Bei send this number over again, one less son, this thing will never be possible. As he spoke, Yang Song slowly stretched out five fingers.

Yang Bai was stunned for a moment, and then asked in a low voice: "Let Liu Bei send another five hundred catties of gold?" Yang Song turned his head and glared at Yang Bai angrily, and shouted: "Can five hundred catties of gold buy East and West Liangchuan?" Is your brain broken? It's 5,000 catties! Tell Liu Bei that there is a fixed price, and there will be no counteroffer! You idiot! ”

It can be said that one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the news of Ao Lie's garrison in Wuwei County also reached Chengdu. Liu Zhang hurriedly summoned all the ministers to discuss what Ao Lie's intentions were. Among the officials in Yizhou, many people have a deep-rooted traditional concept, believing that Yizhou is a country of abundance, which has always been coveted by people, and all those who bring troops to Yizhou are indiscriminately regarded by these people as wanting to seek Yizhou. Therefore, a considerable number of officials did not have a good impression of Ao Lie, the king of Yan who was personally crowned by the Son of Heaven, and thought that Ao Lie must have come to seek Yizhou, and advised Liu Zhang not to let Ao Lie enter Sichuan.

If there are stubborn people, there will definitely be flexible people, Fa Zheng is in the ranks of flexibility, he stood up and said to Liu Zhang and the generals: "Lord, everyone. Previously let Liu Bei enter Sichuan, a certain had tried his best to dissuade him, and in the end Liu Bei still entered Sichuan, at that time, I didn't hear you say that Liu Bei entered Sichuan to seek Yizhou, why did Ao Lie come, you were so opposed to it? In terms of fame, Ao Lie is a clan relative of the Han family and the king of Yan who was personally crowned by the Son of Heaven, while Liu Bei has been expelled from the ranks of clansmen; In terms of strength, Ao Lie dominates the six northern states, and now he has won Liangzhou, and his territory is not only ten times that of Liu Bei: in terms of conduct, Ao Lie has repeatedly turned the tide and is about to fall, and his will can be seen by the sun and the moon; However, Liu Bei took advantage of Liu Jingsheng's serious illness to usurp Jingzhou. Compared with these two people, which is superior and which is inferior, it is clear at a glance, I really don't understand why you respect Liu Bei, but you are afraid of Ao Lie like a snake and scorpion? ”

"Fa Xiaozhi (the word of Fa Zheng) is not good! It is precisely because Liu Bei was born in the last few years and fledgling that he can be used by me, on the contrary, Ao Lie is like a mortal Da Luo Jin Immortal, whose strength is far above my Yizhou, how can we control it? We are only trying to get rid of Zhang Lu's troubles, and all considerations should be based on this perspective, and other aspects have nothing to do with us! The die-hard Pang Yi stood up to refute Fa Zheng.

With the debate between the two, the officials under Liu Zhang's command were gradually divided into two factions, one was the flexible faction represented by Fazheng, including Huang Quan, Wang Lei, Zhang Song, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan Wu Ban, Wu Yi, Zhang Wei, Zhang Yi and other more than 20 well-known civil and military ministers, and the other faction was the diehard, among which the representative figures were Xu Jing, Zhang Su, Meng Da, Gao Pei, Yang Huai and other more than 40 people. Interestingly, the changeable Zhang Song is the younger brother of the diehard Zhang Su, and the two brothers are actually in two factions. In addition to these two factions, there are also some ministers who do not express any opinions, among which there are Liu Ba, Qin Mi and other people who are not prominent in official positions, most of these people are specialized in a certain aspect, for example, Liu Ba is good at managing money, Qin Mi is good at observing the sun, moon and astrology, obviously the discussion between the two factions is not a topic they like to participate in.

The quarrel between the two factions made Liu Zhang suddenly feel a headache, and shouted: "Okay! Shut up! There is no point in discussing this now! This mansion is for you to discuss the purpose of Ao Lie's visit, not to let you compare who is better between him and Liu Bei! ”

Seeing that Liu Zhang was angry, the two factions stopped arguing and quieted down. After a while, Huang Quan stood up and said: "Lord, I think that Ao Lie's original intention to come this time is nothing more than two points, one is to compete for Hanzhong; Second, restrict Liu Bei. And these two points are beneficial and harmless to Yizhou, so a certain suggestion is better to ignore Ao Lie and let it play. ”

Fa Zheng immediately chimed in: "That's right! Ao Lie only brought less than 50,000 troops this time, and he could not pose any threat to Yizhou at all, and Liangzhou was initially decided, he wanted to transfer people and horses in Liangzhou, and it was by no means possible to do it in a moment and a half, so it can be inferred that Ao Lie will not be able to form a real threat to Yizhou within a year, this point, Ao Lie himself must also know that he will never make a stupid move to hit a stone with an egg, and send troops to attack Yizhou, not to mention, Ao Lie is a clan member of the Han family, and he can not afford to be charged with the following crimes. ”

Huang Quan and Fa Zheng's inference has been infinitely close to the truth, which not only makes the changemakers nod their heads, but even the diehards have to agree. In essence, these two factions only have different political views, but their original intention is to maintain the rule of Yizhou, and there may be quarrels internally, but externally, they work together and unanimously externally.

"Okay, then let Ao Mohan go, dismiss." Liu Zhang was convinced of Huang Quan and Fa Zheng's inference, and waved his hand to end the meeting.

On the other side, in Jiameng Pass, Liu Bei was also discussing Ao Lie's purpose with Pang Tong, and the conclusion he reached was not much different from Huang Quan and Fa Zheng's inference, in this regard, Liu Bei was very angry, every time Ao Lie would appear at the most critical moment, blocking his dream of going further, but under Pang Tong's persuasion, Liu Bei still reluctantly accepted such a result, canceled the plan to send troops to Dongchuan, and operated in Jiameng Pass with peace of mind. That's the long-term solution. (To be continued......)