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Seeing that Liu Zhang hesitated for a long time and remained silent, Li Li smiled disdainfully, and said unhurriedly: "It has been a full six years since the incident, maybe Ji Yu will deliberately forget what he did for his brother after taking charge of Yizhou, and even think that what I did is not worth mentioning at all, or I am sentimental and complain about others."

Ji Yu didn't appreciate this at all, let alone be grateful, and even secretly laughed at me for being ignorant and naïve, being smart but being mistaken by being smart, and taking the blame on myself. However, the virtuous brother should know that the foolish brother was born poor, his parents died early when he was a child, and he was self-reliant and thrifty. All along, I have never taken advantage of others, I don't want to owe others favors, I do anything but have a clear conscience, and I am not afraid of people's words.

In addition, I am a bit of a petty child. I don't want to take advantage of others, I don't owe favors, others owe me sooner or later, whether he remembers the old debts or not, I always remember. To tell you the truth, today I am going to ask for debts, and it is time to fulfill my promise. These words are soft and hard, and the flesh is thorny, and they are majestic in the calm voice, as if they have cleared the fog and seen the truth.

Liu Zhang was shocked when he heard this, Huo Ran looked up at Li Li, and said angrily: "Fulfill the promise? Where do you start with this, Yizhou is the foundation of my Liu family, what does it have to do with the general? What's more, now that nearly 200,000 troops under the command of the general are coming to the city, my Yizhou is already in danger, and the matter has come to this, why should the general be coy? If the general wants to take Yizhou, he will attack the city directly, and Liu will swear to live and die with Chengdu! As soon as these words came out, it meant that Liu Zhang completely tore off his hypocritical face and no longer wanted to make a false deal with Li Li. No longer cares about other things, goes straight to the topic, and competes with Li Li with real knives and guns.

Thus. Liu Zhang had suddenly realized at this moment, and completely realized that the proud act he had always thought he had won was actually just Li Li's deliberate attempt to gain him into the house.

When he met Li Li in the Qinglou, it seemed to be accidental, but it was inevitable. It must be known that there are many beautiful wives and concubines in Li Li's mansion, and his own power is monstrous. What kind of beauties do you want, why do you have to go to the Qinglou to look for flowers and ask willows. Therefore, that encounter itself was a game, a game that deliberately let Liu Zhang take the initiative to get into. But this bureau was not a scam, because he had nothing at the time, and there was no value in being cheated at all.

Subsequently, Liu Zhang deliberately climbed high. Trying to get on a relationship with Li Li. In this way, lives are preserved. As everyone knows, Li Li also has this intention, so the two sides hit it off, moving around frequently, coming and going closely, and the friendship is getting deeper and deeper. Li Li promised him to help him sit on the position of Yizhou pastor, and Liu Zhang casually agreed. After the promise is completed, he obeys Li Li's orders, and Li Li is the first to look forward. Followed by. Li Li fulfilled his promise, let him return to Yizhou, sent elite armor soldiers to escort him along the way, and helped him sit firmly in the position of Yizhou pastor.

After taking Yizhou, Liu Zhang once thought that he was meticulous and skilled, deceived Li Li's trust, and with the help of Li Li's power, he successfully inherited the position of state pastor left by his father Liu Yan, sat in Yizhou, and divided one side. For six years, he has always believed that he is in charge of Yizhou, and it should be so, and Li Li's help to him is only a small achievement, and it is not worth mentioning at all; Even if there is no Li Li to help, he Liu Zhang can still sit in the position of Yizhou pastor and still be able to take charge of Yizhou.

It is because Liu Zhang does not feel ashamed of Li Li, and he does not owe Li Li anything, even if he owes it, it is only a little personal debt. However, what is this personal debt to the princes of the shepherd side, it is completely negligible, who will take this personal debt to heart. It is with this kind of thought in mind that Liu Zhang has sat in Yizhou with peace of mind for six years, holding more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, enjoying glory and wealth, leisurely and happy, and completely forgetting that he had made a solemn promise to Li Li.

Six years passed in a flash, and Zhao Wei's rebellion made Liu Zhang realize for the first time that his position as the state pastor was not stable, and he would be replaced by someone with bad intentions if he was not careful. This made him feel the crisis for the first time, and he really deeply realized that even if there was no Liu Zhang in Yizhou, there were still countless people who could withdraw the state and county, and it was not necessary for him. Therefore, when he put down Zhao Wei's rebellion, he finally realized that what Li Li had done for him at the beginning was not worth mentioning, and its potential effect was immeasurable; It was precisely because of the strong deterrence of Li Li and his Xiliang Army that he was able to take charge of Yizhou in peace.

On the other hand, since the Yizhou army rushed to the aid of Zhang Lu and participated in the battle of Hanzhong, bandits have been raging in Yizhou, and the undercurrent is surging, and it is no longer as stable as before. This phenomenon did not attract Liu Zhang's attention at first, and naturally he would not know the hidden reasons. It wasn't until Zhao Wei openly rebelled that Liu Zhang realized that the source of the chaos in Yizhou was because he lost Li Li's support, so that some people with bad intentions no longer had the heart to fear, and finally showed their true colors, brazenly launched a rebellion, and blatantly rebelled and seized power.

Before Zhao Wei's rebellion was quelled, Liu Zhang received a secret report and learned that Li Li's army took advantage of the civil strife in Yizhou to attack Shu Dao, and the troops attacked Yizhou in two ways. At that moment, the panic in Liu Zhang's heart was beyond measure, and for the second time in his life, he felt the arrival of the crisis, and realized that Zhao Wei's rebellion and the entry of the Xiliang army into Sichuan must be inextricably linked, otherwise how could there be such a coincidental thing in the world. It's just that he can't figure out what the relationship between the two is, so that Zhao Wei launched a rebellion that Li Li secretly instigated, right?

The front door hits the wolf, and the back door goes into the tiger.

In the past three months, Liu Zhang has been so busy and exhausted that he has been slightly drunk after a few glasses of wine, and he didn't expect to see Li Li sitting next to him as soon as he opened his eyes.

In the confusion, after listening to Li Li's words, Liu Zhang completely sobered up, and his mind was clearer than ever.

At this moment, Li Li claimed to "come to the door to collect debts", Liu Zhang was immediately furious, and refuted it sternly without showing weakness.

However, at the moment when the words fell, Liu Zhang faintly realized in his heart: "I have no use value, now the time is ripe, Li Li no longer needs him to sit in Yizhou, this time I came to take back the custody from him and really collect Yizhou." ”

The reason why he has this thought, or enlightenment, is because he feels that he has been "guarding the backyard" for Li Li all these years, so that Li Li does not have to worry about the safety of the hinterland of Liangzhou at all, and he leads the troops to fight outside all the year round without any worries.

During the six years that he was in Yizhou, he did not take the initiative to send troops to attack Liangzhou and intrude on Li Li's rear foundation. Not only that, but he also restrained Zhang Lu in Hanzhong for Li Li, so that he did not dare to act rashly, until Li Li freed up his hand and recovered Hanzhong. After losing Hanzhong, instead of playing a role in containing the Xiliang army, Liu Zhang did not move, and invisibly guarded the southwest gate for Li Li.

It is precisely because of his existence that the rear of Xiliang under Li Li can enjoy peace and stability for a long time, without worries. So much so that during the Central Plains War, Li Li could send hundreds of thousands of troops to the Central Plains to participate in the war without any scruples, and successively exterminated Huainan Yuan Shu, Xuzhou Lu Bu and other small princely forces, and in the case of the disastrous defeat in Jizhou, the rear was still stable.

In other words, except for him Liu Zhang, no prince sitting in Yizhou would be as peaceful as him. In the past six years, if other princes are sitting in Yizhou, then Li Li will always face great pressure. Whether it was the early Sili War, or the subsequent Central Plains War, especially when Hebei was defeated, the princes sitting in Yizhou would wait for the opportunity to send troops to attack Liangzhou on a large scale, invading Li Li's rear, making it difficult to take care of the head and tail, and the enemy on his back. If this is the case, even if he cannot capture the hinterland of Xiliang, he will definitely be able to contain a large part of the troops under Li Li's command, forcing Li Li to never get rid of the clamp of the Yizhou army, and he will definitely not be able to achieve today's brilliant results, let alone capture half of the country so easily.

Therefore, in a sense, Liu Zhang has been in Yizhou for more than six years, although he has not been nominally included in Li Li's rule, but in fact he has been "guarding the courtyard" for Li Li, relieving Li Li's worries and allowing him to let go of his hands and feet and wantonly conquer the princes of the Central Plains.

On the contrary, if Liu Zhang intends to compete with Li Li and insists on being an enemy of him, then the situation in the world will change accordingly.

Even when Zhang Lu occupied Hanzhong, Liu Zhang was able to persuade Zhang Lu to jointly send troops to invade the rear of Xiliang, even if he could not capture Liangzhou, he could also stir up the restlessness of Xiliang and Erzhou, making Li Li anxious and had no time to take care of anything else. Even if Li Li had the intention to send troops to exterminate him, with the thousands of miles of Shu Road, the Yizhou Army was fully capable of blocking the Xiliang Army from the Shu Road, so that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry could not step into Yizhou for half a step. It must be known that if the Yizhou Army fights the Xiliang Army head-on, relying on the incomparable geographical advantages of Shu Dao, it will not be a problem at all to stalemate with the Xiliang Army for three years and five years.

However, the fact is that Liu Zhang did not pose a threat to the Xiliang army at all after sitting in Yizhou, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was in peace. The only fly in the ointment is that after Liu Zhang took charge of Yizhou, he no longer contributed money and grain; Otherwise, it is no different from completely surrendering to Li Li.

Thinking about this clearly, Liu Zhang realized that he thought he had a plan, but he was actually calculated by Li Li. He thought he was superior and took advantage of Li Li once, but he didn't know that he had been used by Li Li all along. Although he did not admit that he was ashamed of Li Li, he feared Li Li in his heart and did not want to be his enemy, so he indirectly stabilized the rear for Li Li and guarded Yizhou, and won six precious years for Li Li to lead the army to conquer the world.

?????? After Liu Zhang figured out the key links, he was able to get through all the ways, and all the contexts were presented in his mind. Suddenly, his heart was sad, depressed and depressed, and he had mixed feelings.

However, when he slowly calmed down, the guilt that had been pressing in his heart for six years and the huge pressure he had borne in recent months disappeared, and the loneliness and desolation that filled his heart also dissipated, replaced by unprecedented relief and relief.

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