Chapter 077: Zhuge Qiao's Choice

What to do when you meet a boss who doesn't listen to you? There are three options: first, the boss of the Xiangshang Division reports to the next level; Second, persuade again until he listens or he gets angry and expel you; Three, resign yourself to fate.

The third option is undesirable and seems somewhat irresponsible, and the second outcome is even less desirable because it actually does nothing and does great harm to oneself. Only the first option seems to be preferable, but what if there is no boss above the boss? For example, a courtier faces a king.

When your boss has the power of life and death and can at least easily influence your future, not only does the first option become a pipe dream, but even the second option is extremely dangerous. If you can't stay in one company, you can jump to other companies, but if you can't stay in an empire, you have very limited options left, either die or defect. The former may die by themselves, and the latter may be able to live, but it is also possible that the whole family will die.

So on second thought, the third option is the only viable option. And Zhao Yun chose the third type.

Wei Ba could have chosen the third option, if Daddy Wei Yan could be as low-key as Master Zhao Yun. But now he knows that if he wants to change his father Wei Yan's temper, he is afraid that it will be more difficult than defeating Cao Wei.

Someone once said that God said to someone, I can fulfill your one wish. Someone was very happy and said, "I want to live forever." God said that this was too high a requirement to be possible. Someone retreated and said that he hoped to make Chinese football win the Shijie Cup once. God was silent for a long time, and then said, Let's consider the first willingness.

It is easier for God to make someone immortal than it is for Chinese football to win the Shijie Cup.

For Wei Ba, it was easier to defeat Cao Wei than to get his father to change his stinky temper.

Because at least one more thing is possible.

Save yourself, save your parents, brothers and sisters, and even the entire Wei family.

Wei Ba hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "If Master ...... him?"

"Don't talk about it, I don't know." Without waiting for Wei Ba to finish speaking, Zhao Guang interrupted Wei Ba's words and turned around and entered the cabin. Wei Ba opened his mouth, closed his mouth in a daze, and looked at Fu Xing in embarrassment. Fu Xing also smiled bitterly, shook his head, looked at the never-ending river, and suddenly sighed: "The cold winter is coming, and even the water is much shallower." ”

After listening to Fu Xing's words, Wei Ba suddenly thought of the saying "Longyou was played by shrimp in the shallows, and the tiger was bullied by dogs in Pingyang", and inexplicably thought of the encounter in Yangping Mountain, and remembered the girl's slender figure. If that girl is a tigress, won't Lao Tzu become a vicious dog? Phew, Bah!

Wei Ba thought about it, if he really can't be a dragon and tiger, what if he can't be a vicious dog? Anyway, no matter how good his father and son are, they are also arrogant and domineering warriors, and they can't be humble gentlemen, rather than being treated as a frog and cooked in warm water, why not fight hard, maybe they can turn over the salted fish, at least they can be wanton.

The idea was certain, and Wei Ba suddenly became relaxed. He smiled and said, "Zhong Jian, I want to play this game with Zhuge Qiao, are you interested?" ”

Fu Xing only hesitated slightly: "I'm having a good time, Brother Zhongde is too calm and not killing enough, try it with Zhuge Duwei, maybe it will be more fulfilling." ”

Wei Ba haha smiled and stretched out his finger to Fu Xing: "You kid is not calm enough, juvenile heart, juvenile heart." ”

Fu Xing squinted his eyes and tilted his head to look at the jade pendant hanging on Wei Ba's waist: "Each other, the prime minister's hard work is completely wasted." ”

Wei Ba said angrily: "For the livelihood of the world, I can't care about the prime minister's love." ”

Fu Xing couldn't help but laugh, hahadaxiao.

……

Wei Ba said that he would do it, and pulled Fu Xing to find Zhuge Qiao. Zhuge Qiao has been idle for the past two days, as soon as he heard that Wei Ba had a game, he first shirked it twice, and then when he heard that it was a tactical deduction, he immediately threw his worries out of the clouds. As soon as Wei Ba explained the rules, he quickly understood, and the three of them deduced with great interest.

However, at the beginning, they encountered new problems. On the question of whether Zhuge Liang can successfully take Longyou, Zhuge Qiao has different views. He believes that people think about Han, as long as the army is out of Qishan, Longyou will inevitably respond, so the army will not spend any time on the siege at all, as long as it quickly breaks into Longshan and occupies the passage from Guanzhong to Longyou Longxian and Xiaoguan, Longyou and even the entire Liangzhou are in the bag of Shu Han.

Their disagreement is on whether the people's hearts are available, Wei Ba and Fu Xing's opinion is that the people's hearts may be available, but they will not play such a big role, and some people may surrender, but all of them will surrender without a fight, which seems unlikely.

Zhuge Qiao insisted that as long as the army came out of Qishan, the entire Longyou would definitely surrender without a fight.

On this issue, Wei Ba is not good at arguing, or it will become to destroy his own prestige and increase the morale of others, and in the case of paying great attention to the call for righteousness, this handle cannot be sent to the hands of others.

"Well, let's discuss each of the two situations, how about it?"

Zhuge Qiao thought for a while and reluctantly agreed.

After the two sides restarted the deduction and increased the popularity of the people, Shu Han's victory rate increased. However, it is only an improvement, still not more than half, the most haode situation is that Shu Han occupies the right side of Long, and won the first phase of the battle, but in the next protracted war, Shu Han's strength is insufficient, and the situation of long distances still cannot be solved. The people's desire can make the city surrender without a fight, but it cannot turn the mountains into flat land, and the canyons into thoroughfares.

After several deductions, Zhuge Qiao's face also became ugly. He slowly put down the small flag representing the strength of the army in his hand, and waved his hand tiredly: "Ziyu, Zhong Jian, I'm a little tired." I'm going to Anhan tomorrow, and there are a lot of things to arrange in advance, so I won't play yet. ”

Wei Ba gave Fu Xing a look and got up to say goodbye.

The two didn't speak until they returned to their own boat, and Fu Xing said disdainfully: "He just wants to save face and refuses to admit defeat." What a tiredness, it's clear that there are no tricks. ”

Wei Ba comforted: "Okay, he just has a plan in his own heart, I believe he will tell the prime minister about this result." Regardless of the outcome of Zuihou, we have done our best and are patiently waiting for the result. ”

Fu Xing snorted, stopped talking, and sighed. After a while, he suddenly said, "If I knew it would be a result, I wouldn't have played this game with you." The thought of it being a must-lose game is boring. ”

Wei Ba glanced at him: "Have you ever seen an immortal?" ”

Fu Xing was stunned for a moment: "Who will not die?" ”

"That's it. Everyone is born to die, so what are you trying to do? weishenme doesn't mix and wait for death? ”

"This ......" Fu Xing was dumbfounded.

"What matters in life is the process, not the result." Elk Wei suddenly walked out of it, looked at Wei Ba, his eyes flashed, and then said: "People will eventually die, so how to live is the most important thing." Ma Fubo said that the eldest husband would rather be a horse leather shroud than die between the beds, at the hands of his children. Instead of living silently for a hundred years like Feng Tang, it is better to live a short life as vigorous as Huo Piao. ”

Wei Ba and Fu Xing looked at each other, and after a while, he asked in a loud voice, "Captain Elk, are you...... When did it come? ”

Elway chuckled: "I heard that you guys played games all night, I was very curious, and I came to take a look, I don't know if I can have the honor to watch." ”

Wei Ba was embarrassed. Elway is the lieutenant general of the baggage battalion, he has been in the baggage camp for so long, but he has never had any contact with Elway, and he didn't even call Elway to play this game. It's not that he looks down on Elway, it's mainly because he's afraid that Elway will avoid suspicion and doesn't want to get too close to him. Now that Elk Wei has taken the initiative to come to the door, of course he is in the right place.

"How can you do it by watching, if you want to come, you will have a big fight, how about it?" Wei Ba squinted his eyes and deliberately made a provocative jiashi.

Elk Wei pouted: "Are you bullying my Elk family people who don't understand the military?" Don't forget, although I haven't fought a war, when it comes to calculations, I won't throw in the towel easily. ”

"That is, the Elk family has been in business for generations, how can it be a weak hand in terms of calculation." Zhao Guang also walked out of it and gave Wei Ba a look: "Ziyu, you have met an opponent today." ”

Wei Ba was overjoyed, rubbed his hands and said, "I can't ask for it, I can't ask for it." ”

……

Zhuge Qiao drooped his head and sat quietly in front of the desk, the cocoon paper spread out on the desk was empty, and a few paper balls were set aside, slowly blown by his heavy breathing.

He struggled a little.

After several rounds of deduction and competition with Wei Ba, the shock he felt far exceeded Wei Ba's estimate. He was well aware that he had actually magnified his advantage to the extreme, but the odds weren't good enough for him. If Wei Ba's setting is followed, then this Northern Expedition will become a disaster, and the consequences will not only be as simple as a failure, but may even destroy the hope of the entire Northern Expedition in this operation.

If a war has not yet begun, and the outcome of defeat is decided, then what is the point of persistence in this war?

Zhuge Qiao wanted to give his father a wake-up call, but he was very worried that he would annoy his father because of this. Defeating before a battle is not only a matter of demoralizing, but it may also make my father feel that he is cowardly and not enough to achieve great things. He knew better than Wei Ba how strong his father's faith was, and of course he knew better than Wei Ba how unreliable his father's faith was.

If only confidence could be won, then in the battle of Yaoting, the first emperor Liu Bei would not have been defeated in the hands of Lu Xun and destroyed most of the elite Liliang of Shu Han.

To say it or not to say it, it's a tough choice.

Zhuge Qiao weighed it for a while, zuihou raised his face palely, wrote a few words on the paper, folded it carefully, called a personal guard, and said in a dumb voice: "Give this to Wei Ba Wei to join the army." "—————— ask for recommendations, ask for collections!