Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Li Yi went on to say: "Because of the defeat outside Kaiyang City, Zang Ba suffered a lot, and the main force under his command was almost wiped out, and because Tao Qian often didn't follow Tao Qian's orders in the past, Tao Qian held a grudge. No, but now the situation is reversed. Tao Qian has been looking for trouble with Zang Ba recently, wanting to take over his military power. Zang Ba's life is very difficult. Therefore, I intend to win over Zang Ba, but it is not easy to come forward in person. Once attracted Tao Qian being vigilant is not beautiful."

"So, I am going to instruct Chen Deng and Tao Qian to make friends with Zang Ba in secret, and help him get through the current crisis. When he goes north in the future, it will not be difficult to subdue Zang Ba. With Zang Ba echoing in Langya, under the attack from the north and the south. , getting Xuzhou is effortless."

"How do you feel, sir?"

Jia Xu cupped his hands and said, "My lord is thoughtful and far-sighted, and my subordinates admire him very much."

Although he knew that Jia Xu was flattering, Li Yi was still a little happy, and continued: "Since the gentleman has no objection, this matter is settled like this, but the specific arrangement, I have to trouble the gentleman. In addition, Chen Yuanlong has Wang Zuozhi Cai, I really appreciate it, and you should pay more attention to it, sir."

Jia Xu showed a look of interest in his eyes, and said: "Chen Deng can get such praise from the lord, and the subordinates will naturally get closer to him."

Li Yi nodded, and said: "Then there is Hebei. I intend to contact Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army, but the journey is too long and the supplies are not smooth. It is not very useful to just communicate with envoys, and, alas, Today's Gongsun Zan is no longer the white horse general who shocked the frontiers in the past. To me, he is not much different from Yuan Shao. In comparison, I care more about Zhang Yan. In the future, I will collect Xuzhou, Yuzhou, After Yanzhou, if Zhang Yan can join me, the decisive battle with Yuan Shao will be very convenient. However, although Zhang Yan was born in a yellow scarf, he has already been granted an official status by the court, and his power is not weak. He is known as a million people. I intend to make arrangements early, but There is no magic trick."

Jia Xu bowed his head and thought for a while, then said: "As long as my lord can win Yanzhou and other places, it is not difficult to take Zhang Yan. As for the arrangement in advance, it should be arranged, but this arrangement does not have to fall on Zhang Yan himself."

"Although Zhang Yan was appointed Zhonglang General by the imperial court, the imperial court still regards him as a thief. Zhang Yan and others act the same as before. They often plunder Jizhou, Bingzhou and other places. That is why Zhang Yan is not tolerated by Yuan Shao. .”

"But the lord is different. The lord came from a humble background, and successively recruited Liu Pi, Gong Du, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao and other generals who were born in the yellow scarf. The presence of four people is enough to make Zhang Yan feel at ease."

"So, as long as the lord finds one or two people to promote him before contacting Zhang Yan, and make him a general, or even a marquis of Ting, then let him go to recruit Zhang Yan, maybe Zhang Yan will not accept his position as a general. reason?"

Li Yi thought for a while, and agreed: "Sir, what you said is true. I just left Gong Du in Yangzhou. If Yangzhou is useful in the future, sir, you can let him practice a lot. Besides him, I will also promote Zhou. Cang, although these two men don't have the talents of generals, they are loyal and reliable, even if there is no reason for Zhang Yan, they are worthy of reuse."

At this point, the main thing was almost talked about. Li Yi poured Jia Xu a glass of wine, drank together for a while, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Sir, there will be no accidents in Zhang Xiu's affairs, right?"

Jia Xu smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lord, Zhang Xiu already knows that the lord didn't deliberately target him in the matter of Chang'an back then, but he was bumped into by the lord just at the right time, so although Zhang Xiu was very upset, it was just anger." It's boring, and the situation in Chang'an is difficult, so Zhang Xiu has no other choice."

"Before this subordinate left, he had already handed over Zhang Xiu's matter to General Pin. If everything goes well, the Lord will see Zhang Xiu waiting in Wancheng when he passes through Nanyang this time."

Recalling how Zhang Xiu was bullied by him, Li Yi couldn't help laughing, and said with emotion: "Zhang Xiu, I'm also looking forward to it, but I don't know what kind of expression he will have when we meet? "

After Li Yi returned to Shouchun, it was delayed for several days before Li Yi really set foot on the rules.

In the past few days, Li Yi called military officials several times, said a lot of things, and basically explained and arranged everything he could think of.

In addition, Chen Deng and Mi Zhu also quietly came to Shouchun and met Li Yi. Since they took office in Xiapi and Guangling, they have performed very well. Li Yi was able to successfully conquer Yangzhou. Their contribution is actually no less than that of the front line General, it was only because of his status that he was not directly rewarded.

However, Chen Deng is a young and promising resourceful man, Li Yi still has a life-saving grace for him, and the other is Li Yi's in-laws, so the two of them don't care about the small profits in front of them, which makes Li Yi very sad. It was a relief, and he paid more and more attention to the two of them, and finally waited until the two left first, and Li Yi set off on his return journey.

When going back, because of different ownership, Li Yi's army went in three ways, some went back to Jingzhou by water, and some went directly to Jiangxia from Yuzhang, while Li Yi himself took more than 5000 people to go. By land, head for Nanyang.

Li Yi's journey, in addition to his own soldiers and horses, many officials he recruited in Yangzhou, such as Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Yu Fan, He Qi, etc., all accompanied him. In addition, there were family members of officials. At least, especially the Sun family, the whole family was moved to Jingzhou by Li Yi.

However, the Sun family was not unhappy at all. On the contrary, they were very grateful to Li Yi, because after learning that Sun Ce was fighting to the death to attack and kill Li Yi, they were really terrified. They were afraid that Sun Ce would die. Li Yi put the blame on them.

As a result, Li Yi just asked them to move, and did not turn their backs on the liquidation. He even played the role of the emperor on behalf of Sun Quan, and let Sun Quan inherit Sun Jian's title. Whether these things are from the perspective of the Sun family or outsiders, Li Yi is definitely very good to the Sun family. Quite kind.

In addition to the Sun family, there is a larger group of Bu Zhi clansmen.

Mi Zhu recommended Zhang Hong and Bu Zhi, saying that they were talented, and after they were summoned to Shouchun by Li Yi, Kuai Yue and Jia Xu also spoke highly of them, so after actually meeting Li Yi, the two got it very easily. Bu Zhi was put by Li Yi's side, and Zhang Hong was assigned to work with Gongcao.

These are considered temporary jobs, let them get familiar with them first, after Jingzhou, Li Yi will make other arrangements.

As for Bu Zhi's younger sister Bu Zhi, Li Yi hasn't revealed his thoughts for the time being. After all, this kind of thing still needs to pay attention to appearance, and Li Yi will definitely promote Bu Zhi in the future, so I went to see Bu Zhi now. It is inevitable that people will think that he is promoting his brother-in-law and nepotism.

On the contrary, if Li Yi promotes Bu Zhi first, and then goes there, others will think that this is Bu Zhi's good performance, and Li Yi admires him very much, so he married their family.

For the same thing, if you switch the order a little bit, you can get a completely different effect. Li Yi is already very proficient at this little trick.

On the third day after Li Yi left Shouchun, the army entered the territory of Yuzhou, and then Kong Rong was not calm, and regardless of how many of his envoys had been cut off by Li Yi, he directly sent someone to send a letter to question Li Yi, why? If you want to send troops to Yuzhou, do you want to ignore the war caused by the people of Li and warn Li Yi to leave Yuzhou as soon as possible, otherwise Kong Rong will be rude.

This time, Kong Rong's envoy escaped unharmed. Li Yi didn't kill anyone. He just asked the envoy to tell Kong Rong that the straight line between two points is the shortest. In other words, it will cost a lot of money and food, Jingzhou's money and food are actually the money and food of the big man, and he asked Kong Shijun to consider the money and food of the big man, so don't worry about it.

Li Yi's reasons are of course nonsense. It is indeed shorter to go to Yuzhou, but the supply is a big trouble, far more expensive than the detour from Yuzhang, but Li Yi just wants to go Yuzhou, because he did it on purpose, he just wanted to provoke Kong Rong, to see if Kong Rong dared to touch him.

As long as Kong Rong dares to touch him, there is no need for Jia Xu's strategy. Li Yi will let Kong Rong know what it means to blackmail people and what it means to touch porcelain. If you don't send Runan out, you will never end with Kong Rong.

It's a pity that Kong Rong is a human being and lacks blood. Although he was pissed off by Li Yi's explanation, he didn't dare to get rough on Li Yi after all. The messenger annoyed Li Yi, but did nothing else.

Li Yi was very disappointed that he failed to touch porcelain in Yuzhou, but this does not mean that Li Yi has nothing to gain.

The last time Li Yi sent troops to Xuzhou, he went to Yuzhou, but it was an excuse at that time, but this time Li Yi didn't say hello at all, and directly led more than 1 people through the hinterland of Yuzhou, as if entering the land of no one. However, Kong Rong, the governor of Yuzhou, did nothing, not even stopped him. This was a fatal blow to Kong Rong's prestige in Yuzhou.

You know, Kong Rong's prestige in Yuzhou is not very good. The last time he sent reinforcements to support Xuzhou, he was killed by Cao Cao before he left Yuzhou. Kong Rong was very embarrassed. Many people in Yuzhou thought that Kong Rong was incompetent, and officials at all levels were dissatisfied with him.

This time Li Yi did it again, completely crushing Kong Rong's reputation to nothing.

At the same time, Li Yi's reputation in Yuzhou has soared.

Although Li Yi's soldiers and horses have entered Yuzhou, it is not the first time. The common people have gotten used to it, and Li Yi's army is strictly disciplined, and they have never committed any crimes against the people along the way. The common people are not very afraid of them. On the contrary, they will Taking advantage of the arrival of the army, take the opportunity to sell some mountain products for food and earn some money.

During such contact, the common people would naturally ask what happened to Li Yi's army, and Li Yi also specially arranged for people to publicize his deeds to the common people, so the soldiers and horses of more than 1 people became an army. Propaganda brigade, wherever they go, they will publicize Li Yi's glorious deeds,

For example, Li Xianghou, Yi Bo Yuntian, rushed thousands of miles to help Xuzhou for the people.

Li Xianghou was full of courage, so he went to the meeting alone, and Sun Jiana bowed his head.

There are even mysterious sayings that Li Yi is actually a god-man in the sky, who is dedicated to saving the suffering of the people.

In short, it is shameless to blow Li Yi to death, so that the people of Yuzhou are fascinated, and they can't wait to become the people under Li Yi's rule immediately.

Chapter 597 I Can Trust Zhang Xiu

Ordinary people just listen to Li Yi's various propaganda in Yuzhou and don't think too deeply. However, a considerable number of Yuzhou aristocratic families and local officials have noticed some unusual flavors from it, and even The wise man asserted that Li Yi is likely to reach out to Yuzhou.

This is a great thing, and it can even affect the world pattern. However, although some people saw Li Yi's ambitions, no one stood up to do anything against Li Yi.

Because the majestic governor Kong Rong didn't move, why are these little people panicking?

On the contrary, after realizing Li Yi's thoughts, some local officials and children from aristocratic families began to visit Li Yi one after another, hoping to form a good relationship with Li Yi, and some even directly recommended themselves, asking to work under Li Yi's command .

This phenomenon is not surprising, because in the past year, more than half of the world was at war, and the various forces fought fiercely. In such a chaotic world, people like Kong Rong put aside good and evil Don't talk about it, he can only let me take advantage of it.

Faced with the chaos in the world, people of insight in Yuzhou are also thinking about the future. Whether they want to protect themselves in the troubled times, or take the opportunity to make a career, they must choose a strong character, prestige, and enterprising. Heart, the most important thing is to rely on capable people. There are so few people in the world who meet this condition, such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Li Yi and so on.

However, Yuan Shao is too far away, and Cao Cao has too many troubles. After a comprehensive comparison, Li Yi naturally became the first choice of a considerable number of Yuzhou people.

Li Yi naturally felt the close attitude of the Yuzhou family and officials. He was very surprised and pleasantly surprised, because the effect was much better than he expected.

At the same time, it also made Li Yi feel a little lucky. After winning Shouchun, Li Yi didn't plan to go to Yuzhou because he felt sorry for the exhaustion of the soldiers.

But after the conversation with Yu Fan that day, Li Yi decided to continue to show his power, and only then did he plan to march from Yuzhou.

Facts have proved that this decision is very correct, and the harvest is also very rich.

Even Li Yi has some expectations. If the imperial court really sends a Yangzhou shepherd over, he can recruit a few soldiers in Runan, and will those under him directly turn against him?

It would be extremely interesting if that happened.