Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

After confirming again and again that he heard correctly, Liu Biao suddenly recalled that what Li Yi said at the beginning seemed to mean the same thing, and he himself misunderstood that Li Yi wanted to run away.

However, Li Yi's decision still made Liu Biao feel a little unbelievable, and couldn't help asking again: "Is Yunlong really going to live in Xiangyang?"

Li Yi nodded and smiled, "It depends on how Zhou Mu acts."

"how do I say this?"

"Just wait for the state pastor to sort out the officials of Nanyang counties properly. As the prefect of Nanyang, Li Yi will naturally return to Wan County."

Liu Biao was silent, and Li Yi's statement freed him from all kinds of calculations, but Liu Biao couldn't be happy, and instead had mixed feelings in his heart.

Before Liu Biao was worried that Li Yi was plotting something wrong, but Li Yi simply told him that he only wanted one Wancheng, and all the appointments of other local officials would be handed over to Liu Biao. I feel a little embarrassed.

Now Li Yi even expresses his willingness to move in, or more precisely, to go to Xiangyang, and wait for Liu Biao to make arrangements for Nanyang before leaving.

At that time, Li Yi only had Wancheng in his hands, and it would be difficult even if he wanted to stir up trouble.

Liu Biao felt very ashamed, really.

He has always been kind to others, and he doesn't like to conspire to harm others. Li Yi has no enmity or grudge against him, and he is not a person of great evil. On the contrary, he has contributed to the country and society. However, because of various doubts, Liu Biao will not be challenged for his own power. Li Yi was forced to this point, making him, the state shepherd who was mostly kind in his bones, feel speechless to face Li Yi.

Liu Biao waved his hand intentionally, allocated a large sum of money to Li Yi, and told him to go to Wancheng to build a mansion by himself, and go there in style.

However, rationality told Liu Biao that although doing so would make him appear magnanimous and relieve the guilt in his heart, but if Li Yi really stirred up trouble, it would be too late to regret it.

Therefore, Liu Biao suppressed the shame in his heart, and said: "It's so good, ah, by the way, Yunlong came to Jingzhou to help the old man a lot, and the old man didn't have much to give away, except that there is another hospital in Xiangyang, which is so-so It is just right to give it to Yunlong as a place to stay in Xiangyang."

Li Yi didn't refuse, and thanked with a smile: "Thank you, Zhou Mu, to be honest, I wanted to buy the yard where I lived temporarily a few days ago, but I was ashamed of money, so I didn't dare to speak."

Liu Biao showed a smile on his face and sighed, "With a prefect like Yunlong, the people of Nanyang will be at peace in the future."

Li Yi bowed, and replied in a low voice: "With the state shepherd here, the people of Jingzhou are at peace."

Liu Biao was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that Li Yi was saying that he was willing to stay in Xiangyang honestly and not do anything, so that Jingzhou would be stable.

Thinking of this, Liu Biao felt that he was too careful and really wronged Li Yi.

Although Liu Biao would not let Li Yi leave just because his heart softened, Liu Biao secretly decided to make up for Li Yi in other ways.

But at this moment, Li Yi didn't feel how wronged he was.

At the beginning, Li Yi did have a lot of resistance to this kind of political concession.

But after weighing it, Li Yi chose to accept it calmly.

First of all, he wanted to dispel Liu Biao's wariness, but he really couldn't think of a better way.

In addition, choosing to stay in Xiangyang is not without benefits.

You must know that many of the people plotted by Li Yi live in Xiangyang, and there are quite a lot of talents. Wan County is much more convenient.

Of course, there are disadvantages to Li Yi's living in Xiangyang, and that is to delay his attack on Jingzhou and his construction plan in Wan County.

However, after weighing it, the overall advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and Li Yi is happy to do so.

In the next two days, news continued to spread from Nanyang to Xinye. Ji Ling's soldiers and horses had indeed begun to retreat, but Xinye did not rashly send troops to regain the territory. It was not until Ji Ling almost completely withdrew from Nanyang that Liu Biao finally got a chance. reacted.

But Liu Biao's decision surprised many people.

Liu Biao’s candidate for the commander-in-chief of the three armies to regain Nanyang was not Wang Wei, whom everyone was most optimistic about, or the literary appointment that the lieutenants expected, or the long-awaited old Huang Zhong, or even Liu Qi, Liu Biao’s own son, but Cai Mao. Cai He, the younger brother of the clan!

This decision surprised many people. After all, now that Ji Ling has retreated, the commander of the three armies is just a job to take credit. Everyone thought it would be Liu Biao's own confidant, but they did not expect to end up with the Cai family.

But it’s not incomprehensible when you think about it, the price is too obvious, Liu Jingzhou is too thin-skinned to take it by himself, and besides Liu Biao’s own family, the only ones in Jingzhou who are most qualified to pick up the price for nothing are the Cai family.

This result caused countless people to envy and hate the Cai family, but Li Yi shook his head secretly, thinking that Cai Mao had done a little too much, he should be more generous, and wanted to reap all the benefits in his own backyard, which would be hated ah!

Afterwards, Cai He took thousands of soldiers and horses to kill Nanyang, "invincible" along the way, really majestic, and Liu Biao and other Jingzhou civil and military returned to Xiangyang together after seeing that the overall situation was settled. Of course, Li Yi was also there in.

It is worth mentioning that it may be because Li Yi made too much concessions, and Liu Biao felt embarrassed. Wang Wei did not trouble Li Yi, but apologized to Li Yi. As for Wang Yi himself, he disappeared. Later, Li Yi went to find someone After asking, I found out that instead of being promoted by Liu Biao, Wang Yi was sent to Jiangling to stay away from Li Yi, which was regarded as a gesture of goodwill.

After returning to Xiangyang, Liu Biao really gave Li Yi a huge house. There were no less than two hundred male and female servants, all of whom served Li Yi alone. From the accounts of the State Shepherd's Mansion, it can be seen that Liu Biao is really generous.

And coincidentally, this house is across the street from Cai Mao's mansion, which is convenient for Li Yi to contact Cai Mao.

Ordinarily, the current Jingzhou should be stable for the time being, but on the third day after Liu Biao returned to Xiangyang, a sudden news directly caused the prefectural pastoral government to be thrown into chaos like a bolt from the blue.

Cai Mao was seriously injured and may not be able to survive.

Everyone was shocked when they got the news, even Liu Biao and Li Yi were no exception.

You know, Cai Mao also participated in the last banquet in Xinye, talking and laughing with everyone, it's only been a few days, how can it not be done?

Immediately, Liu Biao brought Li Yi and several Jingzhou important officials to visit him, but found that the facts were worse than everyone thought.

Cai Mao's wound festered, his fever persisted, and he had been in a coma for a whole night

There are no antibiotics these days, and Cai Mao is wounded on his chest, so the current situation is basically a doomsday.

Liu Biao couldn't sit still immediately, Cai Mao was the key to his stability in Jingzhou, if Cai Mao died, the order of his state shepherd might not be effective if he left Xiangyang.

Liu Biao was very anxious and angry, so he summoned Cai Mao's personal servant to ask, and only then did he know that Cai Mao's wound had festered a few days ago, but Cai Mao insisted on not revealing it to the outside world.

After Liu Biao found out, he was silent for a long time, and then borrowed a quiet room in Cai's house, and summoned Li Yi and Kuai Yue, his two confidantes.

That's right, now Liu Biao has already regarded Li Yi as half of his confidant, except for calculating Li Yi's affairs, most other aspects are willing to call Li Yi to discuss.

Cai Hao's fall was so sudden that Liu Biao lost his usual patience, and said straight to the point: "To tell you the truth, the commander-in-chief of the Xinye army and horses, I originally paid attention to Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng, but that night Degui saw me overnight and asked me to change it." That's why I decided to make Cai He the commander in chief."

"Well, I only thought at the time that Degui was paving the way for his younger brother. Now it seems that Degui probably knew that he was sick at that time, so he didn't do it for Cai He, but to leave a place for his Cai family. ensure."

When Liu Biao said this, tears came down suddenly, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he turned sideways to cover his face with one hand, very sad, obviously not pretending.

Li Yi lowered his head and didn't speak. What happened so suddenly made his heart flustered, and in Liu Biao's state, he really didn't know what to persuade.

After all, Kuai Yue had dealt with Liu Biao a lot, and knew Liu Biao better. He sighed and said, "Please forgive De Gui, the governor of the state. He is the minister of the governor of the state and the head of the Cai family."

Liu Biao waved his sleeves, and said sadly: "Without Degui, it would be difficult for me to enter Jingzhou. I have always used Degui as my right-hand man, and I only hope that there should be no gap between them. The old man understands why!"

"If there is something good or bad about De Gui, as long as the old man is still in Jingzhou, if there is something wrong with the Cai family, how can the old man just sit back and ignore it? Could the old man be responsible for him?"

After Liu Biao finished speaking, he wiped away his tears again, looking very sad.

"Ugh!"

Li Yi couldn't help but sighed, he understood why Liu Biao's emotional reaction was so intense, probably because Liu Biao felt that he trusted Cai Mao, but Cai Mao didn't trust him, and Liu Biao even thought that Cai Mao gave him a favor in the end.

Li Yi said in a low voice: "The military commander's loyalty to the state shepherd is unquestionable, but if he explained this matter early, if he is fine in the future, wouldn't it be a fake disease to threaten the high position of the state shepherd Xu Cai's family?"