Chapter 142: Another war of words

The things Liu Hou gave them were enough for them to protect themselves temporarily, but they couldn't make any big moves. They are also only a firearms unit that has not yet taken shape, and they need to intensify their training during the period they are stationed there, so as to become a qualified firearms unit.

And after Zhao Tong left the guard regiment (that is, Yulin Wei), the vacant position was topped by Mi Zhao, and Yulin Zhonglang will be the emperor's guard leader, what is needed is absolute loyalty, or is it the most reassuring to be held by Xun Qi.

It's just that Yulin will be a big official of two thousand stones, and it is obviously not good for Mi Zhao to be in a high position as soon as he graduates, so Liu Hou only gave him the official position of a battalion commander, and he didn't even have the acting Yulin general, but in fact, he needs to bear the responsibility that Zhao Tong assumed before.

And the position of the Yulin General is temporarily vacant, but the discerning person knows at a glance that this vacant position is set up for Mizhao, after all, he is already exercising the power of the Yulin General, as long as his qualifications and abilities arrive, and he does not make any mistakes, it will be a proper thing to be Yulin Zhonglang.

There were four battalions in the Guards Regiment, and Mi Zhao's classmate Kong Ci became the commander of another battalion, and the original battalion commander was promoted to the combat unit as the regiment commander. There are also two battalion commanders, one named Li Yi and the other named Ma Bing, and these two people can also be regarded as the queen of Xungui.

Li Hui is Li Hui's son, and Li Hui is Liu Bei's old subordinate, he first came out of Jianning County as the post governor, and then took refuge in Liu Bei, for Yizhou Gong Cao Shuzuo, the main book, moved to the state to do not drive. After Liu Bei became the emperor, he served as the governor of the capital, he had the credit of linking Ma Chao to Liu Bei, in the original history, he also followed Zhuge Liang to conquer the south of the middle of the great merit, and finally worshiped the general of Anhan, the marquis of the Han Xingting, and led the Jianning County Taishou.

To say that none of this can attract Liu Hou's attention, and the most important thing about Li Yi is that in folklore, Li Yi married Guan Yinhua, the daughter of Guan Gong. However, in this time and space, Guan Yinhua has become one of Liu Hou's queens, and it is obvious that Li Yi has no chance.

But these original historical trajectories did not affect Liu Hou's trust in Li Yi at all, and Li Yi was also one of the sons of Xun Qi who was sent by his father to study at the Dahan Longteng Academy early, and both father and son were loyal to the Liu regime.

After Liu Bei's death, Liu Hou naturally served as the dean of the academy (oh, Liu Hou called himself the principal in order to have the feeling of Jiang someone), and all the students who graduated from the academy were considered protégés of the Son of Heaven, and they had a natural loyalty to Liu Hou.

Ma Bing is not an ordinary person, he is the son of Ma Liang, as has been introduced earlier, Ma is the best of the five constants, Bai Mei is the best, Ma Liang is the best of the five brothers of the Ma family, and his son Ma Bing is also one of the few people with a good reputation among the sons of famous ministers of the Shu Han Dynasty.

Among the four battalion commanders, except for Kong Ci, who was born in an ordinary person, the other three are all relatives of the Emperor, among which Mi Zhao belongs to a foreign relative, and has the closest relationship with the royal family, which is also the main reason why he can act as the Yulin General.

Although Liu Hou ordered the withdrawal of troops to Jingzhou, he still had to bargain for a little bit in words. Before withdrawing the army, in addition to arranging the remaining troops in Maicheng and adjusting the generals of Yulinwei, he also asked Guo Youzhi to write a letter to Sima Yi.

Of course, the letter also described the national righteousness first, and said that he originally wanted to go north to help Wei deal with the Xianbei barbarians, but there was not enough food and grass to make the trip. The Shu army now had to return to Jingzhou to raise grain and grass first.

The letter also asked Sima Yi to deal with the Xianbei people within three months, so as to prevent the barbarian foreign tribes from continuing to plunder our Chinese people. If he fails to deal with the Xianbei people within three months, he will be too incompetent, and then the Shu army will go north to "help" them resist the foreign invasion.

Compared with Sima Yi's letter, which was full of traps, troublesome, and difficult to deal with, this letter could only be said to be a piece of lip service. The letter first said that the Shu army retreated to Jingzhou because it was to raise grain and grass, which left a step for future affairs and a backhand.

In case Xianbei really didn't have Kou Bian, it was Sima Yi who fabricated it out of thin air to fool people, in case he wanted to use this incident to discredit Liu Hou and make him an eternal two hundred and five, then Liu Hou could use this step to minimize the adverse effects of this matter.

He could have argued: "I wasn't fooled away by Sima Yi, I went back to raise grain and grass because of the lack of grain and grass, and it has nothing to do with Sima Yi's big fool." He can't even admit that he has received Sima Yi's letter, so that no one will have a way to prove that he was deceived by Sima Yi.

Of course, the key to this matter is to see who will win in the future. Whoever wins and gets the world will naturally be written by whom, and the guidance of public opinion will naturally be in whose hands, so this letter is at best just a cover for ugliness and cannot play a decisive role.

In addition, the letter finally "threatened" Sima Yi, saying that he would go north in three months to "help" solve the Xianbei problem, which was just Liu Hou unwilling to withdraw in vain, and left behind cruel words when leaving. Just like those old boys who have been bullied, they will definitely say something similar to "You wait, I will not let you go" before leaving.

Soon, Liu Hou led the army back to Jingzhou, and Sima Yi, who had led his troops north early, also received a reply from Liu Hou on the way. After continuing to pretend for a while, Sima Yi let out a long sigh and said quietly:

"Alas! The little emperor of Shu didn't even probe to check whether Xianbei was really Koubian, so he withdrew as soon as possible. They didn't even seize this opportunity to march north. Is it really that people are rigid when they have no desire? Could it be that this little emperor of Shu really regards the safety of the people in the north as more important than his own interests and reputation? Or is he simply a fool who doesn't see anything?

Impossible, even if he is a fool, the people around him are all human spirits, how can he not seize this opportunity? ”

"Master, what are we going to do now?" The old servant waited behind him as always, and after seeing Sima Yi finish muttering to himself, he opened his mouth to ask.

Sima Yi raised the letter paper in his hand, smiled bitterly, and said:

"Hehe, I really didn't expect that this time Yang Mou couldn't help him, with this letter, even if the old man wants to discredit him, it is not so easy to ruin his reputation. What else can we do, the Shu army has retreated instead of advancing, and now it has returned to Jingzhou, and all the arrangements we made before are completely useless.

The use value of the Xianbei people is gone, since we have already gone north, we will step up the march and continue to go north, and strive to rush to the border as soon as possible to send the Xianbei people back to their grassland. ”

Sima Yi wrote to Liu Hou this time, using a yang strategy, that is, no matter how Liu Hou responded, he would fall into a calculated strategy. It has been said above that the march to the north and the retreat back to Jingzhou will both be successful, and not only that, even if Liu Hou does not move, it is also wrong to stay in Maicheng.

If Liu Hou did not move in Maicheng, Sima Yi would send someone to smear Liu Hou, saying that he was the emperor of the Han people in vain, and watched so many people in the north suffer under the butcher's knife of the foreigners, and even only cared about internal fighting, only caring about grabbing interests and territory, and refused to back down, so that the Wei State could free up his hands to fight against the foreigners.

Such a selfish person, who does not care about the life and death of the people, and ignores the sufferings of the people, is not worthy of being the emperor of the Han people, does not deserve to get this world, and so on. Sima Yi's backhand didn't even count the three stinkers.

However, it doesn't matter if you get it or not, Liu Houcai doesn't care how many changes are contained in Sima Yi's move, and no matter how many evil intentions you contain in this matter, he only uses the method of "no matter how many moves you make, I will only use one move" to deal with it.

No matter how many evil intentions you contain, I will only take the path that is most beneficial to the people, but this path is also the best way. You are an upright conspiracy, I should take brilliant countermeasures, I am righteous in my heart, and if I don't act for my own selfishness, you naturally can't count me.

Just like what is said in "Tricky Expert", if the other party is not greedy, even if the tricky expert comes out, he will not be able to trick him.

Sima Yi's strategy, the biggest pitfall is to take advantage of people's greed, ordinary people know that there are aliens behind the enemy to make trouble, most of them will think that their opportunity has come, can take advantage of the enemy's own time, more profits.

Sima Yi's biggest arrangement is also made around this point, if Liu Hou really can't resist this temptation and brazenly goes north to grab the territory, he will fall into the trap arranged by Sima Yi in advance, and he will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

As for the other methods of smearing, they are used to supplement the back hand when this biggest pit does not work. Unexpectedly, Liu Hou never thought of going north to take advantage of the chaos to grab benefits, so Sima Yi's biggest arrangement was useless, and the only thing left was to use it to smear Liu Hou.

However, now this letter has also made at least half of Sima Yi's smear back hand be abolished, which makes Sima Yi very depressed.

Not to mention that Sima Yi went north to drive away the Xianbei people, and at the same time made some literati destroy Liu Hou's reputation, and said that after Liu Hou returned to Jingzhou, he also found some scholars and took the lead in launching a public opinion attack on Sima Yi.

However, in this era, there are no tools of public opinion, no television, no radio, no newspapers, and no Internet, and these advanced propaganda tools are all gone, and the only tool of public opinion is the verbal criticism of readers.

As a result, a strange phenomenon appeared in Wei and Shu during this time. There was an abrupt and inexplicable truce, and then scholars from both countries talked about or wrote articles to smear each other's monarchs or commanders.

The main target of Wei's attack was Liu Hou, the emperor of Shu, and the tone was nothing more than stupidity, self-indulgence, wishful thinking, women's kindness, false compassion, etc. Of course, because Liu Hou married three queens at once, personal life style issues such as absurdity#lewdness, lustful as life, and daytime propaganda #lewdness must have been mentioned many times.

In addition to Sima Yi and Cao Pi, the targets of Shu attacks were mainly to accuse them of colluding with foreign barbarians to harm the common people, and for their own selfishness, leading the people of the north to be slaughtered, enslaved, and insulted, etc., and angrily denounced the two as traitors, not only unworthy of being generals and emperors, but also not even qualified to be human beings.

Of course, the style of personal life, which is the most popular thing for the broad masses of the people, is also indispensable. After all, Cao Pi's wife is much more than Liu Hou, and his romantic anecdotes are often mentioned even in later generations more than a thousand years later.