After Liu Bei listened to Zhuge Liang's persuasion, he immediately sent sentinels and meticulous spies from Jiangxia County to pay attention to the military situation in the direction of Nanyang County in the northwest.

Jiangxia County, controlled by Liu Bei, faces Runan County across Tongbai Mountain in the north. Infiltrate all the way west along the Tongbai Mountain area, and you can reach the junction of Nanyang County and Yingchuan County.

Because between the two counties, the Tongbai Mountains are also the dividing line. However, the control of the princes of all walks of life over the border mountains is relatively weak, and it is still easy for third parties to infiltrate with small groups of mountain scouts.

While sending sentry agents, Liu Bei was not idle on the other side, so he sent Zhuge Jun as a messenger at the same time, and went down the river to Xuzhou first, and then from Xuzhou to Qingzhou, to warn Yuan Tan.

The roads in the mountainous areas are difficult to navigate, and it will take at least half a month for the infiltration sentry in the Tongbai Mountains to make a round trip. As for Zhuge Jun's way, it will take at least a month to get to Yuan Tan, and it will take at least two months to go back and forth.

Liu Bei originally wanted to wait for Tongbai Mountain to have a slight eyebrow on the road and remind Liu Biao. As a result, half a month later, when the sentinel scout came back in early April, Liu Bei was stunned to find that there was no longer such a need, because Liu Biao had already retreated back to Wancheng.

"Could it be that Brother Jingsheng's soldiers and horses were severely injured by the Cao thief?" Hearing the news of Liu Biao's withdrawal, Liu Bei's first reaction was that Liu Biao had failed miserably.

He even had a trace of unbearability in his heart, feeling that "if I had been vigilant earlier, asked Kong Ming more, and reminded Brother Jingsheng earlier, would it be different."

For a moment, Liu Bei also blamed himself, "After killing Sun Ce, I was too lax, and I wasted too much time in celebrating pleasures."

However, when the sentry scout revealed all the information he had heard, Liu Bei's guilt dissipated instantly, because the follow-up development was not what Liu Bei thought at all.

According to the report of the sentinel, the follow-up is as follows:

"Back to my lord! Liu Biao did lose twice in Yexian and Bowang last month, but the losses were not big! But Cao Cao took advantage of the victory to sue for peace, and also returned the newly captured Bowang County to Liu Biao, and returned the Jingzhou army prisoners captured in the previous two wars.

Cao Cao also recognized Liu Biao's rule over Wancheng, promoted Liu Biao to the rank of general Zuo by the will of the imperial court, and affirmed that Zhang Xian's previous claim to be the pastor of Jingzhou was a misunderstanding, and it was the edict of Huan Jie, and the Jingzhou Mu recognized by the Xudu Imperial Court was still Liu Biao. Liu Biao also recognized Cao Cao's peace negotiation. ”

After Liu Bei heard that all the beginnings and the whole story were quite surprised, he was quite surprised for a while, and once again found Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong to discuss countermeasures.

When Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong heard about it, they were also slightly surprised, but they were not surprised, obviously they knew too much about Liu Biao's temper of "accepting it when it is good, and not going back".

After all, Liu Biao in history, in the six or seven years after the Battle of Guandu, also rode the wall left and right, swaying non-stop. After a while, he wrote a letter to persuade Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, and then admitted Cao Cao, and if he couldn't beat him, he would join.

It is not surprising that an old man in his sixties has no longer ambition and hesitates.

And in the original history, with Liu Biao's strength, he couldn't even get Wancheng back. In this life, it can be regarded as benefiting from the butterfly effect, because it took Cao Cao two more months to defeat Yuan Shao in Guandu, and Liu Biao did not have to level Zhang Xian in person, so he freed up his hands to fight Wancheng in advance, so he won Wancheng.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the division of Jingzhou originally included Wancheng/Nanyang County, and Liu Biao was very satisfied if he could get back "what should have belonged to him".

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"Brother Jingsheng actually made peace with Cao Thief? Just want to take Wancheng back and accept it when you see it? How should our army respond to this? Brother Jingsheng won't be co-opted by Cao Cao and become our enemy, right? Faced with this situation, Liu Bei took the lead in expressing his main concern.

Zhuge Liang reacted quickly, and immediately analyzed: "Liu Biao didn't even dare to continue to fight Cao Cao, how could he dare to be our enemy?" He should just want to occupy Wancheng first, slowly control Nanyang County, and wait for another opportunity in the future to make a move.

Compared with Liu Biao, we should pay more attention to Cao Cao, Cao Cao in Ye County, Bowang can be regarded as taking advantage of the victory to seek peace. And since ancient times, most of the battles have been pursued by victory, how can there be peace by victory? This further shows that Cao Cao just wants to concentrate his forces and launch a new round of war against Yuan Shao in the short term.

I estimate that it is too late to send Ah Jun to envoy Yuan Tan and warn Yuan Shao. But at least we've done what we need to do. ”

Liu Bei listened, and he no longer dwelled on the irreparable matter, anyway, even if he was expected by the Zhuge brothers, the loss was only Yuan Shao, and he had no direct interests.

Liu Bei retracted his thoughts, focused on the present, and continued to ask: "Brother Jingsheng will not be completely pulled over by Cao Cao, this is a blessing in misfortune, so can our army take advantage of this to warn Brother Jingsheng?" Of course, you can't force Brother Jingsheng to Cao Cao's side. ”

After knowing that it was impossible for him to be directly victimized, Liu Bei thought about getting something. Although Liu Biao's peace talks with Cao Cao have no direct relationship with Liu Bei's camp, Liu Bei can be regarded as a force that "actively serves clothes and leads the edict", and he can morally condemn Liu Biao to pave the way for the future.

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong obviously thought of this, and they thought in more detail than Liu Bei. Pang Tong didn't get a chance to perform in the past few days, so he immediately offered advice:

"My lord, I thought we could send an envoy to appropriately condemn Liu Biao on this matter, as a Han Chen, he should continue to respect the edict of the cloth belt. By the way, it can further win the hearts of the Jingzhou scholars.

In this way, we can bury Liu Biao's peace talks with Cao Cao as a fumbler, and now we will not do anything to him for the time being, and when the time is ripe in the future, we can pinch one more handle in our hands. ”

Liu Bei felt quite reasonable, nodded slightly, and asked Zhuge Liang's opinion again.

Zhuge Liang's thoughts are actually similar to Pang Tong's, but he doesn't need to be in a hurry to perform, he can think slowly and think in more detail. At this moment, he was named by Liu Bei, and he slowly added:

"I thought what Shi Yuan said, in principle, there is no problem, but it can be more delicate. For example, we can give Liu Biao a step down. As we all know, there are serious divisions among the various factions in Jingzhou, including the Hanmen scholars, the exiled Beishi, the small and medium-sized Haoqiang, and the Cai and Kuai clans who are friendly to Cao.

Liu Biao is old, how can he have the energy to deal with everything personally? I think that no matter whether he finally decides to continue to resist Cao or negotiate peace on this, there will be people to advise him.

For example, if Liu Biao decided to resist Cao, it was most likely the initiative of Ji Bo and others, or Liu Pan and Huang Zhong seeking war.

And Liu Biao chose peace talks, before making a decision, there must have been Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Kuai Liang, and Kuai Yue to persuade peace. We can ignore Liu Biao's decision-making, only stare at the comments of Cai Mao and others, and say that this matter is 'Liu Biao's mistaken belief and slander', and also give Liu Biao a step down.

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In this way, the effect of our condemnation will be stronger, and Liu Biao will be less stimulated, and he will be more able to save his own face and not fall to Cao Cao. If there is really something wrong in the future, we will attack Jingzhou, and the reason is more sufficient. ”

Liu Bei woke up in an instant, isn't this just the same as the "Qingjun side", but now it has become the "Qingzhou pastoral side", and he never said that the state pastor surnamed Liu had a problem, but only said that there were traitors around him who deceived and pulled his hind legs, destroying the great cause of the clan's feudal clans to defend the Son of Heaven.

In this way, it is indeed of great help to better win the hearts of Jingzhou people to themselves.

This opportunity for diplomatic condemnation should not be wasted in vain.

Even if he doesn't plan to do anything to Liu Biao, it's always good to pinch an extra claim in his hand first.

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In the next few days, Liu Bei sent Sun Gan to Liu Biao to "condole" according to the plan made by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, and expressed "regret" for Liu Biao's act of peace talks with Cao Cao.

He also said that if Liu Biao was willing to repent and reform and launch an offensive again, Liu Bei was also willing to add troops to help the war.

Of course, Liu Biao expressed his shame and refusal, saying, "Cao's army has defeated Yuan Shao, and now the power is great, Yuzhou is no longer empty, and it is not a good opportunity to enter the army."

Sun Qian also pretended to persuade hard, telling Liu Biao, "Cao Cao took advantage of the victory to seek peace, which shows that his heart is weak, and he must draw troops to fight Yuan Shao again, and Jingsheng Gong must not be concealed by Cao Cao."

In the face of Sun Gan's persuasion, Liu was embarrassed on the surface, he didn't want to do his best to bear the damage, he just wanted to take advantage of Cao Cao's death with others. So even if he knew that what Sun Qian said was true, he didn't want to change.

Instead, he fantasized that "if Yuan Shao is not convinced, makes a comeback, and has a big battle with Cao Cao similar to the Battle of Guandu, and bites Cao Cao, it will not be too late for me to do it."

However, as Liu Biao, he definitely can't say this kind of dirty idea, so in the face of Sun Gan's condemnation, Cai Mao and Kuai Liang refuted it.

Cai Mao refuted unceremoniously: "Hmph, Liu Bei can sing high-pitched and claim to be the first batch of edicts to rebel, but everyone in the world knows that he thunders and rains!" It's been a year since the edict was issued, why didn't you see him send troops to attack Cao?

Although our lord's troops are weak, his heart to uphold the righteousness of the world has not diminished, and he still fought with Cao Cao and recaptured most of Nanyang County. So far, has Liu Bei ever taken a county from Cao Cao? And the face to condemn my Lord? ”

Of course, Sun Gan couldn't break Liu Bei's reputation, and argued with reason: "Although our army has never taken the prefecture and county from Cao's army, it is also caused by the Jiangdong Sun thief's rebellion and containment of our army!" The situation of our army is not as good as that of Jingshenggong, and we are suffering from the enemy on our backs.

Your army was able to go north with all its strength last winter, wasn't it because our army first extinguished Zhang Xian, and then asked Jingsheng Gong to reappoint Wuling, Lingling and other county guards, and let the coerced Guiyang Taishou Zhao Fan anyway and obey Jingsheng Gong again.

The Jiangdong Sun clan has always been a feud with your army, if it weren't for our army to isolate Huaisi and Yuzhang, I'm afraid that your army would have to be distracted to deal with the Sun family! Our army has been busy pulling out the thorns in the back, where is the spare strength to go north? The land of Huiji has not yet been leveled, and when the south is stable and rectified a little, it will naturally go north! ”

Sun Gan's words beautified Liu Bei's conquest of Jingnan into the state of conquering only one Changsha County where Zhang Xian himself was stationed, and the other three counties were all said to be "still ruled by Liu Biao's people", thus finding a sufficient excuse for Liu Bei's busy and uninterrupted efforts in the past year to directly attack Cao.

Cai Mao didn't expect the other party to be so forceful, and at first glance, she didn't know how to refute it, and she was stunned for a while.

Kuai Liang hurriedly jumped out to save the scene and stirred up the water: "I'm afraid Mr. Gongyou's words are inappropriate!" Since ancient times, it has not been heard that the rebels do not get rid of the culprits and the first evil, but focus on the henchmen! The former general He Jin was a eunuch, listened to Yuan Shao's foolish strategy, recruited Dong Zhuo into Beijing, and caused chaos in the world.

If you listen to Cao Cao's words, 'But the punishment of the head is evil, it is enough to pay a jailer', how can there be more than ten years of trouble? It can be seen from this that rebellion should be smashed into the heart, the first evil will be punished, and the rest of the people will submit to themselves, which is the method of quelling the chaos with the least number of evils! ”

Sun Qian didn't let it go at all: "Mr. Zirou is known as a master in the world, and today he is so strong, and he is also at this time and at that time." At the time of He Jin, the world had not yet been completely chaotic, but it was naturally possible to solve the scourge of the Ten Permanent Servants.

But if it has been at war for more than ten years and is falling apart, how can rebellion be solved by killing the first evil? If the punishment of the first evil is effective, after Wang Yun killed Dong Zhuo, why was he immediately destroyed by Li Dao and Guo Yan? Dong Cheng and Lu Bu conspired with Xu Du to punish Cao, why were they counterattacked by the group?

The lessons of Wang Yun and Dong Cheng have already taught the latecomers a lesson, so my lord decided to fight steadily, not to rush forward, and not to dare to expect to finish the battle in one battle. ”

Kuai Liang heard Sun Gan cite the example of Wang Yun and Dong Cheng, and the two sides could not convince each other for a while, and in the end, Kuai Liang could only prevaricate Sun Gan's condemnation on the grounds that "one day Liu Bei's army officially went on a northern expedition and directly attacked Cao, our Jingzhou army will naturally consider helping each other again".

Although this verbal cannon failed to persuade Liu Biao to immediately start another war against Cao Cao, it can be regarded as portraying the pro-Cao faction in Jingzhou more clearly. Even Kuai Liang Kuai Yue couldn't hide it.

After Sun Qian left, in just a few days, the whole of Jingzhou had already formed a consensus on Liu Biao's promise to Cao Cao to negotiate peace: the envoy originally did not want to negotiate peace with Cao Cao, and the envoy was also loyal and wanted to save the driver, but he was deceived by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun and Liang Yue, so he chose the wrong means.

These rumors, not only spread by Sun Qian according to Zhuge Liang Pangtong's plan, but also spread by Liu Biao's own people, can be regarded as a gold paste for Liu Biao's behavior, and Liu Biao's own responsibility is removed, which makes Liu Biao even more detached.

After all, Liu Biao doesn't want to have a reputation for cowardice, he prefers that outsiders will say that "Liu Biao is not really cowardly, but was deceived and instigated by Cai Mao".

And Liu Bei's camp can be regarded as pulling a fig leaf for himself "after killing Sun Ce, he did not immediately reinforce Yuan Shao and did not immediately attack Cao", in exchange for a more flexible timing choice.

In the future, as long as Liu Bei needs it, he can recuperate for a few more months, digest his own territory, and engage in a little slower farming construction with a slightly slower investment payback cycle.

For example, the princes who respect the edict camp today are Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, and Liu Biao. As long as Yuan Shao and Liu Biao believed in Liu Bei and accepted Liu Bei's Xu Xu Tuzhi, Liu Bei's righteous reputation would not be damaged.

As for the other princes such as Liu Zhang, Ma Teng, Zhang Lu, and Shi Xie, they were not originally in the camp of the edict, and some even respected Cao Cao's side and were Cao Cao's allies/subordinates.

Whether Liu Bei killed Sun immediately after killing Cao Cao, they didn't care at all, and they were not qualified to care.

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