More than twenty meters away from Liu Bei, in the middle of the Chinese martial arts, he fell to his knees and said in a very respectful tone: "The Eastern Wu envoy Lü Fan has seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. ”

"Please." Liu Bei stretched out his right hand with a very atmospheric look and made a motion to get up.

Lu Fan got up as he said, first glanced at Liu Bei in the main hall, and then slowly lowered his head, which was a sign of his respect.

"Well, Mr. Ziheng, I don't know what happened to you coming to my Han Dynasty?" Liu Bei is no stranger to the name of Lu Fan, and in order to show his closeness, he asked by calling the other party's name.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, on behalf of my King Wu, the envoy Lu Fan requests you to send troops to Yuzhou, eradicate the violent people Zhang Chao and Zhang Zhiyuan, and contribute to the peace of the world. In order to show the sincerity of our king, I am willing to send Yuzhou to the Han Dynasty, and I also ask for permission. After speaking, Lu Fan fell to his knees again.

Lu Fan came to the rescue, which did not surprise Liu Bei at all. After hearing this, he didn't immediately agree or refuse, but looked at the ministers, he wanted to see what kind of attitude everyone had first.

It seems that he knew that Liu Bei would behave like this, and without waiting for others to say anything, Zhuge Liang said first: "Your Majesty, the Celestial Dynasty carried out a killing act, slaughtering the common people in the world, and after destroying the Wei State, he took the initiative to provoke a war against Eastern Wu, which made people and gods angry, and asked the emperor to agree to Lu Fan's request, for the people Li Minji, send troops to Yuzhou, and do things that are peaceful in the world, so as to show the might of our Han Dynasty." ”

Zhuge Liang made his position clear so quickly, which was a bit unexpected by Liu Bei, he thought that the prime minister would make the last statement.

And just as Zhuge Liang's voice fell, another person walked out of the hall, this person was not good-looking, slightly shorter, and looked uninhibited, looking very inconspicuous. But as soon as he appeared, his voice was indeed very loud: "Your Majesty, Minister Zhang Song thinks that you can't send troops now. ”

Zhang Song, whose name is Qiao, was a native of Chengdu (now Sichuan) in Shu County in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and was once a subordinate of Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang. After Liu Bei entered Xishu, he quickly took refuge in Liu Bei and became one of his very dependent ministers.

In history, Zhang Song said that Zhang Ying was ready to attack Zhang Lu, which was adopted by Zhang. secretly helped Liu Bei, but unfortunately his brother Zhang Su denounced him, and Liu Zhang was angry and beheaded him. But in this life, many people have changed their orders because of Zhang Chao's appearance, and he is also one of them. Now Fei Dan is alive and well.

As soon as Zhang Song stood up to object, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense. Everyone knows that Zhang Song represents not an individual, but the entire former Yizhou interest group, and this is also the only force that dares to stand up with Zhuge Liang and wrestle his wrists.

Although Zhuge Liang is said to be unparalleled in wisdom, not everything can be solved. It's like for the Yizhou locals, because they occupy a favorable location, they have always been valued by Liu Bei. But the so-called one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and it seems difficult for Zhuge Liang to coexist with him.

In order to gain Liu Bei's reuse and support, they often become hostile in many things. In other words, if Zhuge Liang agrees, they will oppose it. Perhaps, in their opinion, once Zhuge Liang has the upper hand, it will be difficult for them to survive. For example, Fa Zheng, one of the local representatives of Yizhou, is an example.

Fa Zheng was born in a wealthy family in Yizhou, and it can be said that he is quite famous in the local area. But it is such a person, and because he was captured by the Celestial Empire when he followed Zhuge Liang to fight, although it seems that it was because Fa Zheng was careless, but after analysis, many people came to the answer, which was clearly caused by Zhuge Liang's jealousy and jealousy.

It can be said that because of the Fazheng matter, it has become even more difficult for the original Yizhou map and Zhuge Liang to coexist.

This is what happened now, as soon as Zhuge Liang said he agreed, Zhang Song spoke out against it.

After Zhang Song took the initiative to stand up, Liu Ba, Huang Quan, Wu Yi and other Yizhou ministers spoke out in agreement.

Zhang Chao's strength is obvious to all.

Destroy Yuan Shao, Ping Cao Cao, defeat Sun Jian, it's a good thing that you don't have trouble with them now, who would have thought that you could take the initiative to provoke Zhang Chao?

Yizhou is known as the country of abundance, and it has been a treasure land since ancient times. Enter the Central Plains and point to the world. With such a unique environment, even if the Han family is in danger and the princes of the Central Plains are dominant, the land of Xishu is still not subject to the war, and it is even more developed than before.

With such a strong foundation, I'm afraid that even the Celestial Empire will not attack for no reason. If they are given some time to develop, who can say that they will not really take the initiative to go out and point to the Central Plains one day?

Of course, this is not said one day, not now. At present, Yizhou should still focus on development, and accumulating strength is the king.

The original Yizhou interest group composed of Zhang Song and others is thinking and doing what they are doing day by day, and Zhuge Liang is naturally very clear. Although it is true that Liu Bei is the emperor, he does have a lot of power as the prime minister, for example, the intelligence network of Xishu is under his jurisdiction, so he knows exactly what these people do every day.

Since Fa Zheng was captured by Zhang Chao and used by him, the original Yizhou Group began to look at himself unpleasantly, Zhuge Liang did not give any explanation for this, and he did not need to explain anything to these people. In short, he is dedicated to the Han Dynasty, as for whether others will have misunderstandings, hehe, who dares to ensure that everyone can understand what they do?

There is no explanation, which does not mean that Zhuge Liang does not care, on the contrary, he is still very angry about the original Yizhou Group doing against him everywhere. Now that the Celestial Empire is getting stronger and stronger, the summoning of Western Shu should concentrate all forces, at least the military and civilians to resist foreign enemies. But these people really ignore the overall situation of unity for their own selfishness, how can he be happy?

As for Zhang Song and others who think that accumulating strength and developing the economy, Zhuge Liang is even more scoffing, without a strong military force as a guarantee, then the wealth you use is just for others.

Now seeing that as soon as he said that he was going to send troops, Zhang Song and others stood up against it, Zhuge Liang was even more angry, so he turned around, looked at Liu Bei and said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Chao defeated Cao Cao, and now he is in danger of Eastern Wu, this is the general trend." And now, under the repeated battles of the Celestial Empire, it is the time when the strength is the weakest, if we can't take this opportunity to take it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find such a good opportunity in the future, and ask the emperor to investigate. ”

Seeing Zhuge Liang begging again, Liu Bei fell into a state of deep thought again.

He is naturally very clear about Zhang Chao's strength, although he has no real meaning to have a battle with Zhang Chao, but if the other party can defeat Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, then he should be able to defeat himself. And now that the other party has not come to deal with him, he did take the initiative to attack, will this anger the other party?

Emotionally speaking, Liu Bei didn't want to see a powerful Celestial Empire, but he was worried that he would not be Zhang Chao's opponent, and he was afraid that once he lost the first battle, he would even lose the current Xishu.

It is related to his own life and death, which makes Liu Bei have to be cautious before making a decision. Even if Zhuge Liang repeatedly asked for troops, he didn't give an answer immediately, because in his opinion, what Zhang Song and others said was also reasonable, the current Xishu is not strong enough, and it should still be developing.

Liu Bei didn't say anything, and Lu Fan became a little anxious.

Maybe now Liu Bei does not send troops, and Xishu will also be annexed by the Celestial Empire in the future, but Dongwu is afraid that he will not be able to wait for that time.

The battle of Runan, although it was the king of Wu himself, but when it comes to the number of troops, there is still a big gap, and Lu Fan can even predict what the final result will be. If Xishu really does not send troops, then Dongwu has no possibility of survival at all.

"Your Majesty Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Dongwu sincerely hopes that you can think about the stability of the world, send troops to Yuzhou, and stop the encroachment of the Celestial Empire. Lu Fan was afraid that Liu Bei would refuse, if this was the case, then there would be no chance to move the other party. In order not to make this worst situation happen, he took out the hole cards given by the second highness Sun Quan this time.

When he met Zhuge Liang yesterday, Lu Fan didn't mention this matter, because he believed that as a wise man, Zhuge Kongming could see that once something happened in Eastern Wu, Western Shu would not be much better. But now Liu Bei is indeed trusting again and again, and he doesn't dare to delay.

One million stone grains and grass is indeed a lot of money, enough for a million army to eat for several months. But now Lu Fan really has to show his hole cards, for Dongwu, after the development of peace in recent years, there is some food, but the population is insufficient. Now you can send these extra grains to Xishu in exchange for the temporary peace of Dongwu, no matter how you look at it, it is worth it.

"Millions of stone grains and grass!"

As soon as Lu Fan's words came out, the hall suddenly became lively.

None of the identities that can enter the hall are simple, and they naturally know what Lu Fan's promise represents, which means that the military rations sent by Xishu this time are completely supplied by the other party, if this is the case, then this battle is really the beginning.

When Zhuge Liang heard Lu Fan's words, he was stunned at first, and then he was happy in his heart. He didn't blame the other party for hiding anything, as long as Liu Bei agreed to send troops. So he set his eyes on Emperor Yuan of Han again, waiting for the holy decree.