With the effect of sentence support, Zhang Xi suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

Although there is no help from Zhang Wei and Deng Ai, it is somewhat comforting to have one more sentence of support.

Now Zhang Xi doesn't have to worry about the fact that there is no one to help him for the time being, and the rest of the thing is to wait for Zhuge Liang to form a group and go to the front army, and then officially set out on the expedition.

In June of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, Zhuge Liang spent more than a month to finally form the Northern Expedition Front Army.

Liu Bei officially took the stage in Chengdu to pay homage to the generals, with the military general Zhuge Liang as the leading general, Shangshu Lingfa Zheng, and the Xinghan general Zhang Xi as the auxiliary, leading 30,000 troops and stationed in Hanzhong.

These three people went to Hanzhong, on the one hand, to pave the way for Liu Bei's rear army, and on the other hand, to make various preparations for the Northern Expedition.

In the past, Zhang Xi commanded the Hanzhong army, including Wei Yan, and trained his soldiers to deal with the Northern Expedition.

In the past, the purpose of Fazheng was to receive information from the north, analyze it, and analyze the appropriate strategy for advancing based on the intelligence.

In the past, Zhuge Liang still did his old job, hoarding grain, grass and ordnance in Hanzhong, and planning the logistics support of the entire Northern Expedition army.

These three people went over first, and after making all the preparations, Liu Bei would lead the rear army and the famous generals to go out together.

After all, Liu Bei is going to go on an expedition, this movement is insignificant, and once Liu Bei is stationed in Hanzhong, it means that the Northern Expedition is about to begin, and Cao Wei will definitely respond accordingly.

Therefore, Liu Bei is trying to leave as late as possible, in case Cao Wei finds out the news and triggers a chain reaction, it will not be good.

But in fact, although Yizhou is far away from Yecheng, it is impossible for Cao Wei to be uneasy about such a big place as Yizhou.

Liu Bei made a decision to go on the Northern Expedition in April, and no matter how concealed the preparations were, it was impossible to hide it from everyone.

What's more, it took Zhuge Liang a month to form the front army, and when the front army set off, Liu Bei personally paid homage to the general and sent him out of the city gate, which obviously indicated that Yizhou would have a big military operation.

And now Yizhou, Nanzhong has been pacified, and Sun and Liu have just negotiated a new alliance, and it is impossible to turn around in the short term. If you really want to use troops, you can only go north to attack Cao Wei.

Cao Wei's meticulous work detected this obvious troop movement, and hurriedly passed the news to the north, and passed the news of Liu Bei's possible attack north to Yecheng.

At this time, Cao Pi, who had just succeeded to the throne of Wei and finished the funeral of his father Cao Cao, was wondering whether he should let a certain son of heaven in Xudu move his position and give way to himself.

The Cao family has been fighting in the south and north for so long, and the result of Cao Cao's hard work is not just for this day.

Even Cao Cao himself said, "Let the Mandate of Heaven be Lonely, and Lone is the King of Zhou Wen", doesn't this mean that after Cao Pi succeeds to the throne, he can start the process of usurping Han and becoming self-reliant? !

Cao Pi really thinks so, he has even begun to instruct his own people to do things in the government and the opposition, make some so-called auspicious rui, and interpret some so-called proverbs, especially the sentence "Those who represent the Han Dynasty should be Tu Gao", Cao Pi took it out again to talk about things.

This sentence has been handed down from the time of Emperor Xiaowu of the former Han Dynasty to the present, and it has been almost three hundred years, and it is still so enduring.

The sentence "On behalf of the Han Dynasty, when Tu Gao" is actually a truncated sentence, that is, something taken out of context, the original words of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty are "The Han has six or seven misfortunes, and the law should be ordered again, who should be the descendants of the clan?" Six, seven, forty-two generations of Han, when Tu Gao also".

It probably means that the Han Dynasty has calamities, and the descendants must bear these calamities and help the Han Dynasty continue the national ancestry.

And six, seven, and forty-two are multiplication formulas, which means that the Han Dynasty should have forty-two emperors, or does it refer to the four numbers six, seven, four, and twelve, which add up to a total of 29, implying that there were 29 emperors in the Han Dynasty. It's hard to say.

From a consequentialist point of view, it should be the latter.

From Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, to Liu Xie, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, counting the three young emperors before and after, plus the abolished emperor Liu He of the Han Dynasty, there are exactly 29 emperors in total.

But this is a consequential backwards, and it is difficult to say that it is a real interpretation, or that those in power can interpret these figures as they wish, as long as they make sense.

What is really troublesome is the interpretation of "when Tu Gao" in the past dynasties.

Two hundred years ago, Gongsun Shu thought that this was talking about himself, because his surname was Gongsun.

The surname Gongsun, those who know know it, in the Spring and Autumn Period, only the direct descendants of the royal family or princes can be called so, therefore, Gongsun Shu believes that his surname fits the word "Gao" in "Dangtu Gao".

After all, the identity of the ancestor is very noble.

Therefore, Gongsun Shu claimed the emperor according to Shu, and also built a White Emperor City to hypnotize himself.

Then Liu Xiu wrote a special letter to tell Gongsun Shu, the Gongsun mentioned by "Dang Tu Gao" is talking about me, the descendant of the dignified Han clan, and the gold content of my Gongsun is much higher than your surname.

Besides, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also said that when the Han Dynasty is in trouble, it is for the descendants of the Han family to stand up and eliminate these calamities, so this person who should be Tu Gao refers to the descendants of the Han family like me, not you, surnamed Gongsun.

Then, Emperor Guangwu won, and naturally some people think that this is Emperor Guangwu in line with the prophecy, so he won the world.

But in this proverb, the Han family is not only a disaster, after all, the "six or seven dooms" can't be said, so people in this era think that the Han Dynasty will have another disaster after all, and this disaster may not be able to avoid the past.

So more than ten years ago, there was a dry bone in the mound called Yuan Shu, and it was believed that the "Tu" in "when Tu Gao" represented the meaning of the road, and it happened that Yuan Shu was the word "highway".

And the Yuan family, the fourth and third dukes, is indeed a top family in the late Han Dynasty, so the word "high" can also correspond.

Therefore, Yuan Shu, a stupid fork, thought that the destiny of heaven was in him, and Sun Jian happened to get the jade seal, and Sun Jian was Yuan Shu's subordinate at that time, and Yuan Shu coerced Sun Jian's wife to hand over the jade seal after Sun Jian's death.

After getting the jade seal, Yuan Shu thought that he was "destined for heaven" and brazenly proclaimed himself emperor. In the end, I couldn't even drink the honey and died of depression.

And now, in order to usurp the Han Dynasty and stand on his own, Cao Pi has also begun to play the idea of this sentence.

And a group of literati under Cao Wei can really connect Cao Wei with this sentence.

Cao Pi is the king of Wei, the word Wei, in ancient times, through "Wei", has the meaning of high mountains. Doesn't this correspond to "when Tu Gao"?!

Coupled with the situation at that time, the world was divided into three, and the Cao family accounted for two, in this situation, Cao Pi wanted to usurp the Han and stand on his own, could he still find someone who was willing to hold stinky feet? !

Therefore, during this time, Cao Pi was busy increasing the rationality of his usurpation of Han self-reliance, and desperately made people advocate the connection between Cao's family and this "Dangtu Gao". The next step is to prepare to usurp the Han and stand on its own.

At this time, Cao Pi received a detailed report from Yizhou, saying that Liu Bei was trying to transfer troops north to attack Yongliang.

Cao Pi is a person, although he is more than a star and a half worse than his father Cao Cao, but in the end he is not with the faint king and the stupid. Although the measurement is a little smaller, and the moral character of being a person is a little worse, there is no shortage of brains.

As soon as he ascended the throne, he faced Liu Bei's advance, Cao Pi immediately responded, convened his civil and military personnel, and discussed what to do about this matter.

Therefore, Cao Pi hurriedly recruited the southern general Cao Ren, the central leader Cao Xiu, Xiahou Shang, Shangshu Chen Qun, Taiwei Jia Xu and others to discuss countermeasures.

At this time, the general Xiahoudun had died of illness, Cao Hong stayed in Chang'an, and Cao Pi borrowed money from Cao Hong in his early years, and Cao Hong hated Cao Hong for not borrowing, so in the Cao clan, the generals who could have a certain ability, that is, Cao Ren, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Shang and others.

To be honest, Cao Pi in history, unlike his father Cao Cao, did not like the Cao clan generals to control too much power in the court.

On the one hand, it was Cao Pi who fought for power with his younger brother Cao Zhi at the beginning, and Cao Zhi did not lack the support of some Cao clans around him, especially the children of the second-generation Cao Xiahou clan, these people, Cao Pi did not trust.

On the other hand, in order to usurp the Han dynasty and establish himself, Cao Pi made deals with the clans in the north and made some compromises, requiring the children of the Cao clan to vacate some places to meet the needs of these clans to enter the core of the court.

Therefore, Cao Pi really didn't want to discuss this kind of thing with the generals of the Cao clan.

But there is no way, Cao Pi has just succeeded to the throne at this time, and his prestige and control are insufficient.

Forget about government affairs, Cao Pi has his own set of teams, but he doesn't necessarily have to rely on the generals of the Cao clan.

But at this time, the military power is basically in the hands of the generals of the Cao clan, and Cao Pi has not had a chance to completely take it back, so he can't talk about it with these uncles and brothers.

As for Chen Qun and Jia Xu. These two are old foxes, who wouldn't know that Cao Pi came to them to make up the numbers?!

If Cao Cao was in power, Cao Cao would still ask Chen Qun and Jia Xu about this kind of thing, but now this King of Wei is Cao Pi, who is not a person with a big measure.

What's more, Chen Qun still has political ambitions pinned on Cao Pi, intending to persuade Cao Pi to implement the Jiupin Official Law he designed, so it is impossible to speak against Cao Pi.

And Jia Xu, the old fox, knows how to protect himself too well, and knows how he should speak in the face of Cao Cao, and in the face of Cao Pi, it is best for him not to say a word.

After all, with the original sentence "Thinking about Yuan Benchu, Liu Jingsheng and his son" at the bottom, his glory and wealth are guaranteed enough, why do you have to tell the truth to offend Cao Pi.

Therefore, in the matter of Liu Bei's possible north attack on Yongliang, these two old foxes basically didn't say a word.

Cao Pi had no choice but to ask Cao Ren, Cao Xiu, and Xiahou Shang.

And Cao Ren is an elder after all, and he is the only one among the existing generals of the Cao clan who can be called a famous general, although he got a nickname of "slippery side Taishou" a few years ago, but this nickname, in the Cao Wei group, can never be said publicly.

After Cao Ren listened to Cao Pi's inquiry, he also frowned.

(End of chapter)