Although he had long believed that it was only a matter of time before he surrendered to Wenpin, it really came true, which still made Wang Xuxi uncontrollable. Alone in the Wenpin Mansion with him to talk about the art of war, exchange of ambitions, the two are like old friends for many years, open their hearts to each other about life, under the dim oil lamp, warm wine watering, both of them are drunk, and finally sleep in the same bed, like friends of life and death for many years.

The next day, Wen Ping volunteered to accompany Wang Xu to Huang Zhong's mansion, willing to help and admonish. Huang Zhong was persuaded by Liu Biao and Fu Zhu yesterday, and he had to lead Wen Ping to come in person, so he had no worries. When Wang Xu invited him with sincerity, he was immediately moved, and immediately packed up his family to pack up his family, and the whole family followed Wang Xu to Xiangyang to remember his wisdom.

Wang Xu made a decision, and in order to show his trust in them, he immediately appointed Wen Ping as the Zhonglang general and concurrently served as the Nanyang Taishou, commanding the military and government of Nanyang and guarding against the Central Plains. Huang Zhong is a Zhonglang general, and before he hangs his post, he follows Wang Xu around. The skills of the two of them, all the generals in Jingzhou know about it, and they know that it is not easy for Wang Xu to recover, and they have no complaints about their arrangements. As soon as he returned to Xiangyang, he received good news again, Tian Feng, Wang Fei, Han Meng and others, who were far away in Jiangzhou, explained Yan Yan, and persuaded each other with all their hearts.

Wang Xu, who was far away in Xiangyang, in order to appease Qixin, immediately appointed him as the Jiangzhou Taishou and Zhonglang General, assisting Tian Feng, Wang Fei and other armies to defend Jiangzhou, and maneuvering with the main force of Yizhou to fight for a chance to relieve Jingzhou's qi. Since then, Jingzhou has been completely stable, and although several major families have served Wang Xu, they have been deprived of most of their land in the past years of war, reducing the family's private soldiers. As for the military-political power of the central apparatus. Under Wang Xu's high degree of centralization of power. No one can turn the sky upside down. Therefore, although these families received many preferential treatment and prospered, they lost the ability to compete with the military and political institutions, and the centralization of power in Jingzhou was successfully completed......

In the early spring of 195 A.D., history was delayed slightly, but it still repeated itself as it had been predicted. Cao Cao hit Jingzhou and conquered Xuzhou at the end of last autumn, and his spirit was unbeatable, and the former Jiujiang was too guarded to make Chang ridicule him as a eunuch. He killed him in a fit of rage, but he didn't expect to be angry, Chen Gong, Xu Yan, Wang Kai and Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao, who were already suspicious of his conduct, intended to rebel, and the Yanzhou scholars were also disgusted with Cao Cao.

It happened that at this time, Lu Bu led his own troops to leave Yuan Shao and defect to Zhang Yang, passing through the territory of Chen Liuzhang Miao, and the two fell in love, which angered Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Yinglu Bu was the pastor of Yanzhou, and all the counties of Yanzhou except for Cao Cao's henchmen were surrendered. Fortunately, Cheng Yu, Xiahou brothers and other ministers and good generals are around. Only then did some areas not be lost, so as to slow down the map. Subsequently, Cao Cao's squad fought back, confronted the Puyang area with Lu Bu, and fought fiercely throughout the winter.

Jiangdong, which had changed dramatically, rose sharply, and fought fiercely between Sun Jian and Liu Jian for half a year, but each had its own victory or defeat, although Sun Jian occupied an absolute advantage, but could not attack for a long time, with the advent of winter, after occupying more than ten counties, he died down and waited for the next year to fight again. This time, Liu Miao was suddenly able to fight with the Sun family for so long, in addition to a few famous ministers and generals such as Tai Shici and Hua Xin, who tried their best to resist, but also because not long after the war started last year, a mysterious young strategist Jiang Wu suddenly came to vote, claiming to be the descendants of Jiang Shang and Jiang Ziya, and rarely showed up on weekdays, but it really blocked the pace of the Sun family......

Wang Xu sat leisurely in the pavilion in the middle of the lake in the main courtyard, enjoying luscious fruits and snacks made by Diao Chan himself, watching Xu Shu, Zhao Yu, Cai Yan and several maids frolicking, which was very comfortable. Diao Chan, who was becoming more mature and beautiful, sat quietly beside her, looking at the man she had dreamed of.

A rush of footsteps interrupted the comfort of this moment, and Xiao Min, a close-quarters maid, trotted in broken steps. "Master, Wang Yun and Lord Wang ask to see you!"

"Huh?" responded weakly, Wang Xu was a little helpless. This Wang Yun is also full of food, and he can't get good food and live in Jingzhou, but he has to toss all day long. But he has the blood edict of the little emperor in his hand, and it is Wang Xu's shield for "attacking the city and pulling out the village", so he has to be "coaxed" to do it.

smiled and looked at Diao Chan beside him, and then asked unhurriedly: "Cicada, are you going to meet your father-in-law?" ”

Diao Chan hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'll visit his old man again the next day." ”

"Oh, that's fine!" Originally, Wang Xu wanted to take Diao Chan over to prevaricate, but seeing that he didn't want to, he got up and left alone. "Then you play, I'll take a look."

"Hmm!" Diao Chan responded obediently.

Walking out of the main courtyard and seeing Wang Yun anxiously outside the arch, Wang Xu smiled slightly, and greeted him from afar. "My father-in-law is here, why don't you send someone to inform me first, and I can greet you personally."

Wang Yun raised his head when he heard this, and smiled kindly on his face. "The virtuous son-in-law has a heart, and the old man understands it."

said, and didn't wait for Wang Xu to say more, he had already turned to the things he had raised countless times. "The old man doesn't want to bother, but the matter has been delayed again and again, I'm really worried, I can't sleep every day, and I don't know how to eat!"

"Hey!" Wang Xu pretended to sigh helplessly, shook his head and said, "It's just a pity that my troops are insufficient, otherwise why would my father-in-law be so anxious." ”

"How can it be insufficient?" Wang Yun suddenly became anxious: "Liu Biao has surrendered, Jingzhou has recuperated in a few months, Yizhou has also been suppressed by the virtuous son-in-law, the Central Plains are in a scuffle, Jiangdong Liu Jian and Sun Jian have no time to fight against the enemy, and this is the best time to wave the army to capture Chang'an." As long as the Wuguan is won, Li Dao, Guo Yan and other generations will not be captured, and then they will save the saint and the Manchu Dynasty, and there will be elite soldiers and good generals, and it will not be easy for the world to be calm. ”

Wang Xu had long been tired of hearing these words, and was completely unmoved, and sighed to himself: "What my father-in-law said is very true, but the reality is that I really don't have the ability to fight now." Not to mention that Wuguan is a dangerous pass, it is really difficult to overcome, even I don't have the strength to fight with the Xiliang bandits! ”

Wang Yun was obviously a little annoyed, and said eagerly: "You said before that Liu Biao threatened you, but now that Liu Biao has been removed, and there are no forces around you to threaten you, why do you still say this, could it be that Shi Xian's son-in-law shirked it?" According to you, there will never be a chance to save Your Majesty? ”

"Father-in-law is angry, there must be a chance, but now is not the time at all!" Wang Xu was not angry, pretending to be aggrieved.

"Shangyong and the soldiers of Jiangzhou can't move, that's the root of suppressing Liu Yan. The Nanyang sergeant can't move, that's to defend against the Central Plains heroes to attack Jingzhou, last year Cao Cao's sneak attack on thousands of miles of you also knew that it almost defeated my Jingzhou army, can you be sure that he or Lu Bu will not covet the rich land of my Jingzhou? The garrisons of Jingnan counties in various places must guard against the barbarians, and they must not move. Yu Zhang wants to guard against Liu Jian and can't move, after all, he was in a hurry by Sun Jian, who knows if he will escape to my Jingzhou. In this way, there is only the newly recruited sergeant outside my Xiangyang City, not to mention that the number is not enough, but this has just been recruited, and the armor is not yet fully equipped, so in the face of Wuguan danger, isn't this going to death? ”

Hearing this, Wang Yun's breath calmed down a bit, but he still said stubbornly: "Even so, it is not a problem for the virtuous son-in-law to transfer three to five thousand elite soldiers from the front line, and it is also a powerful force to gather together. ”

Wang Xu smiled bitterly, he was really speechless for this whimsical, but single-minded man. "Father-in-law, it's not that you don't know anything about military affairs at all, if you want to take the Heavenly Danger Wuguan and fight against Li Dao and Guo Yan's Xiliang Iron Cavalry, is it possible that there are no 108,000 people? I transferred that little force, and all of them may be lost in Wuguan, so how can I have the strength to attack Chang'an? What's more, you also know what kind of person Liu Yan is, what if he sees an opportunity to join forces with Li Dao and Guo Yan? Do you really think that I am a heavenly general? Besides, if you go and look at my Jingzhou treasury, you will know, do you think that siege equipment, grain, grass, money and grain can support my Jingzhou to fight on several fronts again? ”

Wang Xu did not cheat on this, the inventory of Xiangyang Mansion is indeed not much, in addition to suffering painful losses last year, the most important thing is that most of them are constantly transferred to Jiangzhou County and Shangyong County, which is to prepare for entering Shu. Wang Xu is not without ideas about taking Chang'an and coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but without a stable rear, it is really worth the loss to spend a lot of money to fight Chang'an.

"Really?" Wang Yunhu said suspiciously.

"Really!" Wang Xu nodded affirmatively, and said generously: "In order to resolve my father-in-law's misunderstanding, I would like to let you check the Jingzhou Treasury, you just need to go to Zhao Huan, and he will arrange it." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Yun already believed most of them, but he still said unrelentingly: "Then I'll go now." ”

"Congratulations to my father-in-law!" Wang Xu bowed his hand, watching Wang Yun go away, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile. The treasury, just look at it, there are really not many, as for Huan Su, I have long known how to send Wang Yun, it is estimated that I will go around and take a turn around, and I will just find an account book and prevaricate and go away with a drink.

Thinking about it, he was about to return to the main courtyard to enjoy the joy of family, but a member of the escort team rushed to the front, and shouted from afar: "Report to the general, Jiangdong Sun Jian sent an envoy to arrive at the post house at noon, and when he heard the news, he personally rushed to make arrangements, and ordered his subordinates to come and report to the general." ”

"The envoy of the Sun family?" Wang Xu frowned, and asked suspiciously, "Who is the leader, what can I say?" ”

"General Hui, the leader is Sun Jian's son, Sun Ce! It is said that he came to welcome his relatives. ”

"Kissing?" Frowning slightly, Wang Xu suddenly slapped his thigh. "How did I forget this, according to the agreement, February 18 this year is the day when Wang Meng marries the daughter of Sun Jian's eldest brother Sun Ben." (To be continued......)

PS: Whew, some support!