Zhao Xing sat firmly in Crouching Tiger City. He had already received the battle report of Qingxu Dajie in the first time, and now he was patiently waiting for Yuan Shao, his opponent, and his subordinates, to be escorted to the Jin Kingdom by Peng Jian.

Zhao Xing had already figured out how to deal with Yuan Shao, an old boy, and his two sons, a large group of small families. Of course, Zhao Xing was more concerned about the few available people under Yuan Shao, such as Yan Liang and Wen Chou among the military generals, and Fu Zhu, Judge, Xun Chen, Xin Ping, Xin Bi and others among the scribes. As long as these people are willing to sincerely serve the Jin Kingdom, there is no doubt that they will have the space and stage to display their talents in the future.

Zhao Xing is not a person who is jealous of his talents, and he has never felt that he has many talents under him. In the process of the rapid expansion of the Jin Kingdom, no matter how many talents there were, Zhao Xing could arrange suitable positions for them. In Zhao Xing's opinion, if anyone feels that they have too many talents under them to use, they can only say that this master has no way, and there is no other explanation.

Talent is one of the most valuable resources, and although it can be renewable, it is often irreplaceable. Sometimes the appearance of a person often changes the trajectory of things that should have developed, and the most typical example is Zhao Xing himself.

In the days of waiting for Yuan Shao's arrival, Zhao Xing thought that he would have nothing to do, but he received an urgent report from Jia Xu on the Western Front. After reading the secret letter, Zhao Xing showed a surprised and strange expression.

Jia Xu said in the letter: The people of the Sima family seem to be in a hurry to exchange again, but they still don't want to use either Fa Zheng or Zhang Ren as a bargaining chip, and they put forward a compromise opinion, saying that they can exchange a new strange person for the antidote to Sima Fang. And according to Jia Xu's analysis, if the Jin State insisted on only Zhang Ren or Fa Zheng, then they would rather stop the exchange than agree to it.

Zhao Xing was surprised that the people of the Sima family were really ruthless and vicious enough, and the pro-Laozi was in a coma on the hospital bed, and these sons were able to do everything without being shocked, still putting the interests of the family first, and even disregarding the life of the head of the family.

Zhao Xing felt strange that the person proposed by the Sima family in exchange was actually a usable talent, and if he wanted to talk about the potential value, he was afraid that it would be even higher than Zhang Ren. According to the Sima family's style of never willing to suffer losses, how could they be willing to exchange this person for it?

So who is this person proposed by the Sima family? This person's name is Li Hui (Note 1), whose name is De'ang, and he is a native of Yuyuan, Jianning (present-day Chengjiang, Yunnan).

Li Hui served as a superintendent in the county in his early years, and his brother-in-law was the county magistrate of Jianling County. Because his uncle was a powerful wealthy family in this area, Dong He, who was too shou at that time, suppressed the matter and did not remove Li Hui from office. This time, the natives in the Nanzhong region rebelled, and the Sima family was afraid that the Jin State would ask for Zhang Ren and Fa Zheng, so they really appointed these two people to quell the rebellion, but Fa Zheng found Li Hui and strongly recommended it to Sima Lang.

When Sima Lang received Fa Zheng's letter of recommendation, he was worried about how to ask the Jin State for an antidote. Because Meng Guang, who went to Jingzhou not long ago to look for Zhang Ji, had returned to Chengdu and reported to Sima Lang that Zhang Ji had been received to the north by people from the Jin Kingdom. Sima Lang heard that Zhang Ji was actually picked up by someone sent by the Jin State, and at that time he felt that Zhao Xing really left no room for doing things, and forcibly broke off the idea of the Sima family asking someone to treat Sima Fang, which was really a bad thing, very hateful!

However, Sima Lang was angry, but he still wanted to save his old father in the eyes of the matter, so he discussed with Sima Yi who to use in exchange for the antidote. At this time, Fa Zheng's letter of recommendation arrived, so Sima Yi immediately suggested that this little-known Li Hui and exchange the antidote.

Sima Yi's plan is very simple, that is, the Yizhou side insists that Li Hui is a rare talent, and in terms of ability, he is not inferior to Fa Zheng and Zhang Ren, so using Li Hui in exchange for the antidote, the Jin State will not suffer. As for whether Li Hui has the ability or not, the people of the Sima family really don't know, unless they, like Zhao Xing, also crossed back.

After reading Jia Xu's letter, Zhao Xing immediately replied to the letter, to the effect that it could be exchanged, but try to get some other benefits from Yizhou, such as letting the Sima family provide a batch of Chinese herbs for free or something. In fact, this time, Zhao Xing learned the lesson that when he asked the imperial court to ask for Zhong Xuan, Du Ji and others a few years ago, he was secretly intercepted by Liu Bei, and did not show too much eagerness and expectation.

Zhao Xing proposed to ask the Sima family to extort some more benefits, but in fact, he was also covering for Li Hui to get it smoothly. With his understanding of Sima Yi, this person is suspicious and calculating others all the time, if the Jin State is too generous and eager to change Li Hui's hands, then it is very likely to arouse Sima Yi's suspicion, so that Sima Yi discovered Li Hui's true value, and as a result, he changed someone else to exchange with the Jin State again.

In fact, Sima Fang's life and death did not have much impact on the Jin Kingdom, as long as Sima Yi was alive, the Sima family would not become weaker. Therefore, if you can exchange Sima Fang's life for many benefits, even including Li Hui, a living map who is very familiar with the land of Yungui, this deal will be earned by the Jin Kingdom.

After receiving Zhao Xing's reply, Jia Xu was also a little unexpected. He also thought that Zhao Xing would definitely be very annoyed, and maybe he directly canceled the exchange in a fit of anger, because even Jia Xu didn't know about this Li Hui that the Sima family used to exchange. However, since Zhao Xing agreed to the exchange, he naturally had his reasons, and Jia Xu didn't ask much, so according to the strategy set by Zhao Xing, he first entangled with Wang Ti for a long time, and then proposed the additional terms of the Jin Kingdom.

Wang Lei saw that Jin Guo agreed to the exchange, although the additional terms made people feel uncomfortable, but after all, it was expected to realize the exchange that he felt was a little impossible to complete smoothly, so he quickly contacted Yizhou and conveyed Jin Guo's request.

Sima Yi, who was sitting in Hanzhong, couldn't help frowning when he saw that the letter sent by Wang Lei listed a long list of additional terms. Sima Yi really hated Zhao Xing in his heart, because the amount of medicinal materials and ores listed on this list was just on the verge of Yizhou being able to bear it but would be very difficult, that is, he was in the situation where he wanted to refuse but was a little unwilling.

Sima Yi believed that Zhao Xing saw through Yizhou's intentions, so Jin Guo simply put aside the exchange of Zhang Ren, Fa Zheng and others as bargaining chips, and asked Yizhou for a large number of medicinal materials and cherished minerals. As for Li Hui, on the contrary, he has become the addition of this exchange, which is dispensable for a while.

In the end, the people of the Sima family turned their hearts sideways, gritted their teeth, and agreed to the exchange conditions offered by the Jin State. Not long after, Li Hui carried a letter of recommendation that had not yet cooled down in his arms, and came to the direction of Wudu with a cart transporting herbs and ores.

Note 1: According to historical records, when Zhuge Liang conquered the southwestern ethnic groups, Li Huicheng undertook many important tasks and played a huge role in the pacification of the southwestern border wars by the subject country.

Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", commented on Li Hui with the words "Gongliang Zhiye". "Public" means to know the general, "bright" means to be reasonable, and "career" is to have a sense of dedication and achievements, and later generations recognize that this evaluation is true.