Chapter 080: The Trend of Profit
Wei Ba didn't speak. He could understand Zhao Su's ambivalence at the moment. Although Zhao Su is the son of everyone, he is not a powerful person, but he wants to be a fairy. Let him do this, for Wei Ba, it is to take advantage of his good manners, but for the Zhao family, it is just a trick that is better than nothing. The so-called large-scale netting, focusing on cultivation, of course, it is better to have gains, but not gaining is just a loss of Zhao Su's life.
The biggest feature of the Zhao family is that it has a super reproductive ability. Zhao Su's great-grandfather Zhao Xuan gave birth to seven sons, five daughters, and seven sons all inherited his strong ability, and in Zhao Su's generation, he actually had more than 50 brothers and brothers.
For the Zhao family, the death of a Zhao Su is insignificant, anyway, a person like him who wants to be an immortal will not have much interest in the future. If it was before, this cultivator still has some meaning, Hanzhong used to be the heavenly way of the Heavenly Master's Dao, and it was a peaceful and prosperous era in troubled times. But after Zhang Lu was captured by Cao Cao, this dream has long become a joke. A stubborn character like Zhao Su is also a waste of resources to keep it.
Therefore, the Zhao family almost did not hesitate, and agreed to Wei Ba's proposal. Zhao Su had an opinion, but in front of his grandfather, who was nearly seventy years old and too strong to speak, he didn't even have the courage to say a word, so he could only obediently obey orders.
"I said, I'm probably going to say goodbye forever, so you don't have anything to say to me?" When death came, Zhao Su still couldn't get rid of his bad habit of rapping, and he didn't say a word about Wei Ba.
Wei Ba was so annoyed that he put down his pen, crossed his hands, hugged him in front of his abdomen, and looked at Zhao Su directly, Zhao Su saw that Wei Ba was finally willing to pay attention to him, and he was so excited that he squeezed his eyebrows, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see the slightest bit of the reserve that everyone's children should have, so Wei Ba couldn't hold back his face, so he had to smile and say: "Have a good trip." ”
Zhao Su nodded again and again, looked at Wei Ba happily, and waited for a long time, but Wei Ba did not follow, he was a little disappointed: "Just these four words? ”
"If that's not enough, I can sing you a song. Although there is no easy water here, there is water. ”
"Don't!" Zhao Su shrunk his neck, got up and left: "I don't want to learn Jing Ke." If it really comes to that point, I will definitely give all the jihua to the account, surrender Xiahou Mao, and maybe be a general of Duliao or something. ”
"hahaha......" Wei Ba daxiao. Zhao Su waved his hand and walked away, as if he was going to a banquet, or going to the mountain to talk to his Taoist friends, where was a little generosity to die. Seeing that he was about to walk out of the gate, Wei Ba suddenly shouted, "Gongpu, stay." ”
Zhao Su turned around and said with a playful smile: "What's the matter, you can't bear me anymore?" ”
"Your Zhao family doesn't care about you, so why should I care about you." Wei Ba said jokingly, and as he spoke, he took out a squarely folded piece of paper from his arms, walked forward quickly, and handed it to Zhao Su. He patted Zhao Su's hand gently. "An idea from a master who wants to help you."
"Superior?" Zhao Su was skeptical: "What kind of masters can you have, speaking of which, aren't they just a few martial artists?" ”
"Don't underestimate me, the hidden dragon and crouching tiger around me are far from what you can imagine." Wei Ba said and pushed Zhao Su out of the door. Zhao Su was confused, but he didn't insist, tuck the paper into his arms, turn around and strode away.
Elway turned out of the inner room, frowning slightly: "This person is so frivolous, can he do it?" ”
"He's a pretended evasion, and that's what really shrewd." Wei Ba pulled Elk Wei to the table and sat down, "You don't believe him, you should be able to believe me, right?" Jihua does not make it, you are unscathed. But my Wei family is a catastrophe, and I don't dare to be careless based on this alone. You say, don't you? ”
Elway smiled silently: "That's right, my Elk family has come to this point, what else is there to lose." ”
"This ......" Wei Ba smiled, not knowing how to comfort Elway. If it weren't for the elk family to help Liu Bei regain his prestige, Liu Bei might have disappeared in the long river of history at that time, how could there be a later Zhaolie Emperor. But the fate of the Elk family was too miserable, first Mrs. Elk and her two daughters were lost in Changban Slope, and then Elfang and Guan Yu had a bad relationship, and Wu was surrendered, and Elk Zhu then died of illness, and all the investments of the Elk family were declared failures, and they were all defeated, and they lost all their money.
Elk Wei was not convinced, he wanted to make a comeback, but with the strength of the Elk family alone, there was no chance at all now. This time he was in charge of the baggage camp with Zhao Guang, but he was just an envoy to talk about comfort, and Elk Wei didn't have any hope, but when he learned about Meridian Valley Jihua from Yang Wei's mouth, he suddenly realized that the opportunity had come, so he took the initiative to find Wei Ba.
It was precisely because of similar interests that Wei Ba accepted him and handed over the jihua proposed by Elwei to Zhao Su for him to execute.
"Oh, yes." Wei Ba turned around and picked up the account book from the case: "This is the 110,000 stone rice that has just been delivered, if nothing else, it is enough for the army to eat for a year, you and Zhongde discuss how to arrange people to properly protect it." It may not be possible for those mountain people to attack head-on, but it is very easy to burn food or something. ”
"I know this, I have already discussed it with Zhongde, and I will not take it lightly." Elk Wei took the account book, checked it, glanced at Wei Ba, and turned to leave. Wei Ba didn't say anything, Elk Wei may not know much about war, but Zhao Guang is a cautious person, and it is not easy to rob him of grain and grass.
I have to say that if there is no preconceived prejudice, Zhuge Liang arranging Zhao Guang to be in charge of the baggage camp is a very correct choice.
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A day later, good news came from the front line, Fu Xing and Zhang Wei defeated the remaining men and horses in Xicheng County, killed more than 100 people in battle, captured more than 200 alive, and ran away more than 50. Victory in the first battle. They had already entered Xicheng and then defeated the troops sent by Shen Yi to support, beheading more than fifty people again.
When the news reached Anyang, Zhuge Qiao was very happy and informed the whole army of the news, and the soldiers were jubilant and emotional. Many people envied Fu Xing and Zhang Wei for their meritorious service, and they asked for battle, but they were stopped by Zhuge Qiao. Zhuge Qiao said that although our army was victorious, it was facing only the men and horses of Shenyi in Xicheng, if it was rashly pressed too tight and too deep, the battle line would be too long, and if Shenyi and Meng Da cut off the back road, the pressure would be too great. Our task is to contain them, with our backs to Hanzhong, and wait for Meng Da to attack, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
The generals felt that Zhuge was reasonable, and they didn't talk much, but just seized the time to train their men and horses, and at the same time eagerly waited for the news that Meng Da came to attack the city, so as to make war achievements.
Wei Ba knew that Zhuge Qiao didn't come to Anyang to recover the three eastern counties at all, he just put pressure on Shen Yi and Meng Da to attract their attention, and even colluded with Meng Da Haode, so that Meng Da had the opportunity to increase his troops openly, repair the city, and prepare for the next backlash. If there is no external pressure, his sudden preparation for battle will make Sima Yi of Wancheng notice. Now that Zhuge Qiao's army is pressing the border, everything is logical.
In this case, how could Zhuge Qiao move forward rashly. He stopped the army in Anyang, and he had already clearly stated his purpose for the battle, but those people didn't know what he really thought, or they pretended not to know, so they made the move to ask for war.
Wei Ba watched coldly. If the trend of history has not changed, then the next step will be the performance time for Sima Yi's shining debut. Sima Yi had already had experience in leading troops in battle before this. In the autumn of last year, Sun Quan took advantage of Cao Pi's death and Cao Rui's accession to the throne to send the left general Zhuge Jin to divide his troops into two ways to attack Wei, but Zhuge Jin was repelled by Sima Yi and beheaded more than 1,000 people. It's just that Zhuge Jin has never been among the famous generals, so this battle has little weight. Sima Yi's real fame in the battle was to defeat Meng Da with lightning speed, from Meng Da's announcement of the incident to being beheaded by Sima Yi, it was only 24 days before and after, which can be described as a god speed.
Wei Ba didn't know if history would continue to be staged, after all, there were only a few strokes of that war in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and in Zhuge Liang's related books, he didn't mention much about it, and he didn't know what the specific process was. He was even a little strange, if Zhuge Liang really had a plot against Meng Da to contain Sima Yi, it would definitely be something worth writing about, was it just because this plan was not successful enough and failed to play a role as scheduled, so he just brushed it off?
That's really a hero by success or failure. In fact, Wei Ba felt that it was indeed a good plan to plot against Meng Da to not only recover the three eastern counties, but also effectively contain Sima Yi in Wancheng. As for Zuihou's unsuccessfulness, it was not Zhuge Liang's fault, but because his opponent Sima Yi was too clever, and he suddenly rushed out like a dark horse, disrupting Zhuge Liang's deployment at once.
Except for him, a prophet, who would believe that Sima Yi would have such an ability at the moment? Not only did the people of Shu Han not believe it, but I am afraid that even Cao Wei would not believe that Sima Yi would be so strong.
And although Wei Ba knew this result and knew that it was still possible, his biggest distress was that no one would believe him at all. He may have the power of a prophet, but he does not have the prestige of a prophet. It is precisely because of this that he bluntly singled out his two prophecies to Zhuge Qiao. It's not that he doesn't know that he will be feared if he does so, but he needs to build up his prestige in the short term, so that he can be qualified to make his voice heard and influence the course of history.
Pretending to be amazing has always been the only way to become famous quickly. What he should have done has been done, or is being done, and next, all he needs is to wait, for the time is ripe, for his prophecy to come true.
At this moment, Ma Tan rushed to Anyang.