Regarding Liu Biao's move to fund the construction of Phoenix Academy, Zhuge Liang was happy to see it come to fruition.

Anything that can counteract the influence and prestige of the Jin State is worthy of praise and support for the central court of the Han Dynasty. The enemy of the enemy, naturally, is the easiest to become an ally. Although the relationship between Phoenix Academy and Taihang Academy cannot be simply evaluated as hostile, there is no doubt that it plays a very important role in guiding the direction of the people of the world.

Luoyang Taixue, as the highest institution of learning in the Han Dynasty, will be challenged by both the Taihang Academy in the north and the Phoenix Academy in the south in the future, but compared with the deviant Taihang Academy, the newly established Phoenix Academy has been labeled as traditional and righteous from the beginning, so it will not pose a fatal threat to the status of Taixue.

In fact, during the postponement of the feast, Zhuge Liang did not appear at the top of Phoenix Mountain, and he was having a secret meeting with a very important mysterious visitor in the post house of Xiangyang City.

The person Zhuge Liang saw was Sima Yi, the second son of Sima Fang, the pastor of Yizhou.

Sima Yi, whose name is Zhongda, was born two years earlier than Zhuge Liang, and is now the Taishou of Hanzhong County, Yizhou, directly commanding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the most elite in Yizhou, and guarding each other with Wudu County of Liangguo, becoming an iron wall between the north and south of the Han Dynasty of the Sima family, stubbornly guarding the road to Shuzhong in Chang'an and the west of Longxi, making Yizhou actually a region that is difficult for the imperial court to control, and allowing the Sima family to become increasingly powerful in the southwest.

Because of the time relationship, Zhuge Liang no longer had time to Lang Fei on the road to Shuzhong, so when he was in Yangzhou, he sent a skilled messenger to get rid of the suspicious people around him, and secretly sneaked to Yizhou to send his handwritten letter to Sima's family.

In the letter, Zhuge Liang briefly analyzed the current situation, and made no secret of the fact that the Ming Liang Kingdom was actually controlled by Zhao Xing, and the Sima family was now under the threat of Zhao Xing.

After receiving Zhuge Liang's letter, the Sima family immediately sent Sima Fu (Sima Fang's third son, Sima Yi's younger brother) to Hanzhong to temporarily replace Sima Yi as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and asked Sima Yi to go to Xiangyang to meet with Zhuge Kongming secretly, and have full authority to deal with the matter of the imperial court and Yizhou jointly fighting against Zhao.

In another time and space, Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang became rivals for decades, until one of them died with hatred and could not enter Chang'an for the rest of his life, while Sima Yi's descendants established the short-lived and rancid Western Jin Dynasty.

In the time and space of Zhao Xing's existence, by mistake, two undying opponents actually came together to drink and talk happily, and discussed strategies to deal with Zhao Xing. This bloody thing is neither the first nor the last. As long as Zhao Xing continues to promote his unique ideas and insists on transforming the decaying Han Dynasty, more heroes like Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Jian, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, and Sima Yi will gather together in the future to fight against his progress.

After Kong Ming saw Sima Yi, he first inquired about the current situation in Yizhou, and told Sima Yi about the harvest he had made all the way south from Yanzhou.

The reason why Zhuge Liang's conversation with Sima Yi was so open and frank was because he felt from Sima Yi the wisdom and sharpness that he had only experienced in Zhou Yu not long ago. Talking to people as smart as him, some so-called scheming is not needed at all. Everyone understands people, and they can detect the meaning of each other's words from each other's demeanor and expression.

This is the advantage or disadvantage of smart people talking to smart people. The advantage is that it can greatly reduce the probability of laryngitis attacks, and sometimes even a shocking conspiracy can be set in a few words, and the disadvantage is that there seems to be no secret between each other, and after a few words, they don't know what to do, and time passes too slowly.

Sima Yi asked Zhuge Liang very directly: "Yizhou responded to the call of the imperial court, which can naturally reduce the pressure on Yizhou to fight against the Liang State independently, but it also means that from now on it will completely break with Zhao Xing and confront the Jin State on the bright side, I don't know what compensation the imperial court can have for such a risk?"

Zhuge Liang sighed in his heart that "people's hearts are insufficient", and then replied expressionlessly: "The land obtained by Yizhou in the north, except for the Sili region, the imperial court will all acquiesce to return to Yizhou in the future." "What Kong Ming means by this is that when everyone besieged Zhao Xing together, Yizhou sent troops from the southwest to dig out the heart of the Jin Kingdom, and how much territory could be harvested would belong to the Sima family in the future, if you have the ability, even Liangzhou will be given to you!

Sima Yi also nodded expressionlessly, and said: "This is very good, the Sima family will fully support the imperial court's action, first capture all the Jin merchants in Yizhou, and then force the Jin State to come up with enough benefits in exchange!

"This Sima Yi is really powerful, although he did not propose a plan to draw salaries like Lu Su, but he can keenly perceive that a plan is difficult to shake the Jin Kingdom, and it can be regarded as a superb strategy. Zhuge Liang's evaluation of Sima Yi in his heart has increased his level again.

Kong Ming did not immediately say Lu Su's plan to draw salaries, but asked rhetorically: "Naturally, there is a plan to arrange, and there is also a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, which needs to be dispatched in the center after I return to Luoyang, and coordinate the joint operation of various states, and I will put it forward later to discuss it with you." Since Brother Zhong Da thinks that it is difficult to bring down the Jin Kingdom with a strategy, I don't know what he thinks?"

Sima Yi was not polite, and said directly: "Gao Jian can't talk about it, I want to put forward a little plan for Brother Kong Ming's reference." Then, Sima Yi told all the plans he had figured out to deal with Zhao Xing along the way, only to hear Zhuge Liang's face change greatly.

Sima Yi said: "To deal with Zhao Xing of the Jin Kingdom, the strategy of cooperation is naturally the first among the yang schemes, but it is not advisable to take some ruthless measures to achieve the purpose of interfering with his vision and affecting his decision. For example, instigating the rebellion of two forces that were not loyal to Zhao Xing, Gongsun Zhan of Youzhou and Ma Teng of Liangzhou; for example, encouraging the rebellion of the big families who had a grudge against Zhao Xing's policies in the three states of Youzhou and Liang; for example, sending a large number of small groups of officers and soldiers to disguise themselves as soldiers of the Jin State and burn and loot in the territory of the Three Prefectures of Youji and Liang, thus ruining the reputation of the Protector Army; for example, sending a large number of assassination squads to pick out the Taishou and county orders appointed by Zhao Xing in the Three Prefectures of Youji and Liang, making it difficult to promote their new policies; for example, expelling the displaced people infected with the plague to move to the central area of the Jin Kingdom, causing a large area of the Jin Kingdom to be infected with the plague......”

As Sima Yi's poisonous tactics came out one after another, Zhuge Liang, who advocated using Yang to defeat Zhao Xing, felt chilled the more he listened. He couldn't help but think, if Zhao Xing was destroyed one day, when the imperial court was ready to eliminate the situation of separating the warlords of various states, how would the imperial court deal with the ruthless character of the Sima family in front of him, who was nearly twenty-one years old?

Without waiting for Kong Ming to raise objections to his strategy, Sima Yi still said expressionlessly: "I know that Brother Kong Ming disdains the strategy of the party in his heart, but the strong enemy is in front, and cutting off Zhao Xing must be done in this battle." Presumably, you also know that if you miss the past two years, when Zhao Xing completely develops Youzhou and Liangguo, at that time, even if you and I are ambitious, we will be weak and eventually become prisoners of the order."

Sima Yi's last words stimulated Zhuge Liang fiercely, although he didn't say anything at the time, but Kong Ming believed that as long as he returned to Luoyang and informed Liu Bei of Sima Yi's poisonous scheme, the court would adopt it eight times out of ten.