If Liu Bei was still in Xuzhou, he would definitely not just ask for Yizhou so simply, at least he would have to give in a few times.

But after years of displacement, Liu Bei has deeply understood a truth.

A thousand birds are in the forest, it is better to have a bird in hand. If you want to regain your ideals and restore the Han River, you must have a stable and prosperous territory.

When he was in Jingzhou, in the face of Liu Qi's several concessions, Liu Bei did not think about the huge Jingzhou.

But his relationship with Liu Qi is really good, although he is already a prince, but he was born at the bottom, and his righteousness in the rivers and lakes has not changed, which makes him feel ashamed.

Just like he tried his best to avenge Guan Yu in history, he was like-minded, if it wasn't for Liu Qi's death, he would never have agreed to Liu Qi to give Jingzhou Qian to him.

However, Liu Zhang is different.

Except for the surname Liu, there is almost no friendship between the two parties.

There were even wars.

Half of Liu Bei's troops came from tens of thousands of Liu Zhang's subordinates who were captured in the Battle of Zigui.

So if Liu Zhang gave Yizhou to Liu Bei, Liu Bei would not have any psychological pressure.

What's more, Zhang Lu has almost destroyed Liu Zhang, and the current Yizhou is snatched back by Liu Bei from Zhang Lu.

Liu Zhang was cheeky to beg for it, but he thought that Liu Bei was a loyal person and wanted to engage in moral kidnapping. But I don't know that Liu Bei, who has experienced social beatings, is no longer what it used to be.

Now that time has passed, Liu Zhang's territory has been controlled by Liu Bei. Respect you, and call you brother. If I don't respect you, I will sink you into the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Therefore, in the case of Liu Zhang's acquaintance, Liu Bei does not mind going to the court to confer Liu Zhang as a king of Shu, as for whether Cao Cao agrees or not is another matter, then treat Liu Zhang as the king of Shu.

Anyway, the vassal kings who did not have real power in the Han Dynasty were no different from the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, and the decrees could not be issued out of the palace. When the time comes, build him a royal palace in another place, and he should raise a family of idlers.

At that moment, Liu Bei took over Liu Zhang's Yizhou Mu Dayin, and held him high in words, saying how Liu Zhang understood the righteousness of the clouds, and held a grand banquet to feast the ministers.

After coming out of Liu Bei, Liu Zhang's brain was buzzing, and the whole person was in a trance, and he couldn't remember many details of what Liu Bei said at the banquet.

I only remember that I seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, and in the end I was caught out, and I don't know how long it took to wake up, and it was like a world away.

"My lord."

Seeing Liu Zhang being drunk and leaving, Pang Tong got up and bowed to Liu Bei and said, "Congratulations to the lord, you have obtained Yizhou in the name of righteousness." ”

Liu Bei sighed: "If it weren't really a last resort, I wouldn't want to take away the foundation of the same sect." However, Liu Jiyu is not a person who supports the Han family, and his father also once had "Zi Xia suspected a saint in Xihe", which is not a good minister. ”

Zhang Fei drank a lot of spirits and shouted: "Big brother, this Yizhou should have been obtained by the big brother." Liu Biao and Liu Zhang's disciples, where can they compare to the wisdom and martial arts of the eldest brother. ”

"Okay, third brother, stop talking nonsense."

Liu Bei said: "If you have their land, you should respect them." ”

Zhang Fei muttered in his mouth: "This land was not given by them, it was taken by us with strength......"

"Third brother!"

Guan Yu also said: "You drank too much, go and rest." ”

Zhang Fei left.

Liu Bei looked at everyone and said, "You go back to the camps first, and prepare to attack the city on the same day." ”

"Yui."

Tai Shici, Guan Ping, Shiren and other generals were ordered to leave.

After a while, Fa Zheng came in and bowed his hand to Liu Bei: "Lord, did Liu Jiyu give Yizhou to the lord?" ”

Liu Bei nodded and said: "Well, I should come down, I will go to the court, please make him the king of Shu, and build a palace for him when the time comes, so that he can live for the rest of his life." ”

Fa Zheng said: "The lord can't let him be in Shu, although Liu Jiyu is cowardly, there are many people in Shu who disobey him." But his father still has some achievements, leaving some die-hard loyalists, if in Shudi, I am afraid that he will gather the old department to make trouble in the rear. ”

Liu Bei asked, "What does filial piety mean?" ”

"Just let him go to Jingzhou."

Fa Zheng said with a smile: "There should be more movement between the clans, the king of Chu must be lonely in Jingzhou, so he can go out and walk around more." Let Liu Jiyu go to Jingzhou, and Liu Xiu will come to Xichuan to find a place with beautiful scenery, build a palace for them, and worship money and slaves, which is also for their good. ”

Liu Bei pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and said, "Well, then do it according to the meaning of filial piety." This matter will be handed over to Xiaozhi, just before coming, Xiaoqing also said that he hopes that Kong Ming will come to Xichuan next year to deal with internal affairs, and Xiaozhi and Ziqiao will go to Jingzhou. ”

"Will I go to Jingzhou with Ziqiao?"

Fa Zheng was puzzled: "Why do you want to act in such an exchange?" ”

Pang Tong said: "In the same way as the exchange of the King of Chu and the King of Shu, Zhuge Kongming and Shen Xiaoqing were too deeply involved with the local family in Jingzhou, and when the decree was issued, they could not deal with these families when the family violated the people, but it was much easier to exchange actions." Kong Ming doesn't need to care about the Yizhou family, and Xiaozhi doesn't need to care about the Jingzhou family. ”

"I see."

Fa Zheng is very smart, so he naturally understands these truths, and nodded and said, "This is indeed the best way. ”

Liu Bei was behind him, he also drank a lot of wine, and walked out of the tent.

At this time, Guan Yu went back to his own military camp, Zhang Fei drank too much and went to sleep and rest, and the generals at all levels also went to do things, and only Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Mi Zhu, Sun Qian and others followed behind him.

A slight breeze came slowly, looking at the majestic snow-capped mountains in the southwest deep into the clouds, Liu Bei was also a little distracted in a trance, looking at the sky in the distance as if he was sobering up.

Fa Zheng still couldn't figure out Liu Bei's temperament, and he didn't know what he was thinking for a while, so he wanted to go up and ask, but Mi Zhu and Sun Qian stopped him, shook his head, and signaled him not to disturb Liu Bei, and the four of them stood silently behind Liu Bei and waited.

In fact, Liu Bei's expression is in a trance now, and he also feels like he is dreaming.

From the Yellow Turban Uprising, to being driven to Nanyang by Cao Cao, he has been displaced for more than 20 years. He was an imperial uncle in the imperial court and a state pastor in Yuzhou, Xuzhou, but he never had a piece of foundation that belonged to him, even when he was in Xuzhou, it could only be two years for a short time.

Now that I have been crisscrossing the north and south of the river for so many years, I finally have the two foundations of Jingzhou and Yizhou, and I feel like a world away for a while, and I have some unreal feelings in my heart, and I have gained and lost.

Looking at the sky in the distance for a long time, Liu Bei's eyes gradually changed from distraction to firmness, and finally his eyes seemed to slowly have light, and they became brighter and brighter.

"Let's go."

He turned back to a few people and smiled: "Go and rest early, you have to attack the city tomorrow." ”

With that, he turned and went back to the tent.

After he left, Fa Zheng asked Mi Zhu and Sun Qian, "What is the lord?" ”

Mi Zhu smiled: "Just look at this world." ”

Sun Qian also smiled: "Maybe it's because this heaven and earth has never belonged to the lord in the past, but since then, this heaven and earth has a foothold for the lord, so the lord sighed." ”

Fa Zheng then understood why Liu Bei looked at the sky and was silent for a long time, and sighed for a while: "The lord has fulfilled his long-cherished wish for many years, so he must be very happy." ”

Pang Tong said in a deep voice: "When Yizhou is really in the hands of the lord, the lord will be even happier." Let's discuss the plan to attack the city tomorrow, Shen Xiaoqing once said, the siege is the bottom, the heart is the top, what can you do? ”

Fa Zheng looked at Pang Tong and said with a smile: "Since Mr. Feng Xiao said that attacking the city is the bottom and attacking the heart is the top, he must already have an idea in his heart. ”

"Is there a way to be filial piety?"

Pang Tong asked.

Fa Zheng said: "Why don't we write out our own methods and compare them together?" ”

"I'll get you pen and paper."

Sun Qian saw that these two gods were about to show off their operations again, so he hurriedly went to the tent and took out a pen and paper.

Soon the two of them wrote down their own ideas on paper.

Mi Zhu and Sun Qian leaned over to take a look, and saw that two words were written on the note in the hands of the two people - family scroll!

Pang Tong and Fa Zheng glanced at each other and laughed at the same time.

Just like in history, Guan Yu sent troops to Xiangyang, flooded the Seventh Army, and shocked China, but was attacked by Lu Meng in white clothes across the river and attacked the rear.

Guan Yu won the battle, and he actually had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands.

However, due to Lü Meng's control of the soldiers' family rolls, the soldiers were completely discouraged and fled one after another, and finally defeated Maicheng.

Although Pang Tong and Fa Zheng didn't know about this matter, the reason is the same.

Now that they control Hanzhong, Zhang Lu's soldiers are all in the north, how long will it take to take advantage of this?

So on the second day, Liu Bei listened to the advice of the two, and did not attack the city as soon as possible, but chose to persuade him to surrender.

At the same time, he ordered Zhao Yun, who stayed in Hanzhong, to collect letters from the soldiers' families and ask them to write letters to their families, and there was no need to persuade them to surrender, as long as they wrote letters to their families.

It's just that this time and again, I have to gather many family members and send people to inquire one by one, which is indeed a bit of a delay.

It wasn't until October that the first batch of letters was delivered to Chengdu, and Yang Ang, who was stationed in Deyang, surrendered first.

Yang Ang had to surrender, and the old mother of the family sent a letter over, saying that Uncle Liu Huang treated their family very well, and also rewarded a lot of gold, silver, cloth, silk and silk, hoping that he would not die on the battlefield.

Immediately after November, Yang Ren couldn't resist surrendering, since Liu Beijun shot arrows in the city every day and distributed family letters, the army's morale was weakened, and there were even many cases of escaping out of the city with ropes overnight to surrender, and if he didn't surrender, he might be tied up by the soldiers and sent out of the city.

The key is that Liu Beijun sent the letter home, and the generals defending the city did not dare to order the soldiers not to take it or read it. In an era when the concept of family is much higher than the concept of the state, preventing soldiers from reading family letters is tantamount to death.

The angry soldiers don't care about their superiors or not, and those who flee are all good, and it is not impossible to provoke the anger of the public, and it is not impossible to rebel and kill the commander.

Yang Ren was in the city after several rebellions in the city that snatched the city gate and wanted to open the city to surrender, and finally couldn't withstand the pressure and chose to surrender out of the city, otherwise as a loyal minister who followed Zhang Wei to fight Cao Cao to the death, it would be impossible to choose this path in history.

By December, Zhang Lu's side couldn't hold it anymore. Countless letters were sent to the city every day, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, their morale was weak, and the commanders at all levels could not restrain them at all, and they were extremely resistant to even the daily patrols at the city gates, and there were even several armed fights with the commanders, and the entire army was about to become a powder keg.

In this case, Zhang Lu couldn't last long at all. Because Chengdu is not smaller than Luocheng and Deyang, Luocheng and Deyang City, even if there are soldiers who want to open the city gates, as long as the commander forcibly suppresses it, it can still be suppressed, and there are more than four city gates in Chengdu, and the area is not small.

There are seven or eight kilometers of the north and south city walls alone, and five or six kilometers of the east and west city walls, so that the soldiers in the city are extremely scattered, not only the soldiers are disheartened, but even the generals and middle and lower-level officers have no will to fight, and many people are already planning to open the city gate and surrender.

For this reason, Zhang Lu had nothing to do, and borrowed wine to kill his sorrows all day long in the Yizhou Mu Mansion.

"Ming Gong."

December 6th.

On this day, Zhang Lu was at the end of his rope.

He was paralyzed in the mansion, and he and the strategist Yan Pu were already cut off.

Looking at Zhang Lu drunkenly, his hair scattered, as if he was twenty years old, Yan Pu sighed: "Come down." ”

"Down?"

Zhang Lu said angrily: "What is he Liu Bei, just a rural village man, claiming to be a relative of the emperor, and he deserves to let me surrender?" I would rather be a slave for Cao Gong than a guest for Liu Bei. ”

Yan Pu said: "For example, today, the pattern of confrontation between the north and the south has emerged, although Cao Gong dominates the north, but has not yet touched Guanzhong and Xichuan, even if Ming Gong wants to return to the imperial court and attach the wings of Cao Gong, but Liu Bei has become a general trend, we can't do anything." ”

"Hmph."

Zhang Lu snorted coldly and took another sip of stuffy wine.

"Report!"

At this moment, the guards outside the door came in in panic, knelt on one knee, and said with a crying voice: "Liu Beijun has entered the city." ”

"What?"

Zhang Lu was shocked: "What's the matter? ”

The guard said: "The soldiers guarding the north gate opened the gate, and now the whole city has surrendered. ”

"Bang!"

When the wine jar fell to the ground, Zhang Lu's eyes widened and he sat for a long time.

After about a minute, he was stunned, slowly got up from the seat, shook his head, and said to Yan Pu, "Go out with me and surrender." ”

After all, I can't give up this life.

Chengdu is broken.

The city was in chaos.

In fact, although Chengdu was besieged for so long, it did not cause famine.

Because there is a lot of grain in the city, Liu Bei attacked Liu Zhang in history, and there were 30,000 elite soldiers in the city, and the grain was supported for a year, and the grain and grass were very sufficient.

And now Liu Zhang was in a hurry when he escaped, and he only had time to take part of his property, and he ran away without even disposing of the treasury and granary.

After all, his hope was that Liu Bei would help him take Chengdu back, so it was impossible for him to poison his property.

So as a result, there was enough food in the city, and there were no casualties among the people.

After Liu Beijun entered the city, he immediately scattered everywhere, accepted the surrendered Zhang Lu soldiers, dealt with the routs who made a rebellion, and sent a list to appease the people.

The law and order were chaotic in the morning, but by the afternoon, they had been completely calmed down.

Zhang Lu took Yan Pu and dozens of guards to the outside of the Yizhou Mu Mansion, and when Liu Bei's car arrived at the gate of the mansion, he knelt down to present the official seal of Hanzhong Taishou, kowtowed: "I wish to surrender to General Zuo!" ”

Liu Bei turned over and dismounted, went up to catch the official seal, and then helped Zhang Lu up, and said: "Zhang Gong is willing to surrender, then it is best, from now on, it is also a wonderful thing to concentrate on cultivation." ”

"Thank you, General Zuo."

Zhang Lu breathed a sigh of relief, at least Liu Bei didn't kill him, and let him continue to cultivate, which was already the best result.

Liu Bei held the official seal of Hanzhong Taishou in his hand, and there was also a Yizhou pastoral official seal on his waist.

He raised his head and looked at the huge Yizhou Pastoral Mansion.

Turn your head again and look far away!

Cao Mengde.

I have already decided two-thirds of the south, and Jiangdong is left unflat.

When I pacify Yangzhou and destroy the Sun family, I will fight you to the death again!