The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Back then, it was quite difficult to take out [-] gold. This is not to say that the Cai family did not have such a small amount of money, but it was not easy to take out in a short time.

Although there are many big families in Xiangyang, each family has some money, and even Liu Biao himself can easily give out a few thousand gold, but a few thousand gold and tens of thousands of gold are not the same.

It is absolutely impossible for Liu Biao himself to come up with so much money in a short period of time, even if it embezzles the court's taxes, it is difficult to come up with so much money.

"Impossible, tens of thousands of gold, it is definitely not possible to get it. If you really want so much, then our negotiation will be out of the question."

After thinking about it again, Liu Biao made a statement immediately after he was sure that he could not afford so much money.

Liu Biao's direct refusal made Liu Zheng realize that he was talking too loudly. After all, the fleet under his command only earned more than 2 gold in one year. This is the result of including many routes.

And it's just the money earned, without taking into account costs and other payments. The real money that can be earned in a year is actually just over 1 gold.

Although Liu Biao is the state shepherd of Jingzhou, he only occupies three counties in Jingzhou, which is much smaller than Jingzhou in history, so it is normal to have no money.

After all, he still needs to support an army of 10,000+, which is a bottomless pit. Even if Liu Biao can receive a lot of tax money, he can raise an army of 10,000+, and the money spent is also a lot.This made Liu Biao unable to spend much money at all.

"Okay then, let's reduce some, ten thousand gold! It can't be less."

Liu Zheng took a step back.

Liu Biao on the tower fell into deep thought. Although the amount of [-] gold was within the range he could bear, it was a pain in his heart to give it to Liu Zheng directly.

Li Yan, who was standing beside Liu Biao, suddenly walked up to Liu Biao, and after speaking a few words into Liu Biao's ear, Liu Biao nodded.

"Okay, I promise you, but [-] gold is still too much. I can't get it out for a while. You give me two days to raise money. After two days, I will send the money and people outside the city. You come from Xiangyang. How about leaving the city?"

Liu Biao agreed, but he was playing his own tricks.

Although it took two days to raise money, his real intention was to delay the time for two days. After all, it was already the sixth day, and in two days, by the eighth day, the reinforcements from Changsha must have arrived.

When the reinforcements from Changsha come to Xiangyang and the offense and defense are reversed, Liu Biao will not be so passive. At that time, he will be in an advantageous position and can bargain with Liu Zheng, not even bargaining with Liu Zheng, but directly encircling Liu Zheng , and wiped out Liu Zheng outside the city of Xiangyang.

Although Liu Biao's calculation was really good, Liu Zheng saw through this little trick at a glance.

But Liu Zheng is confident, let alone two days, even if he is asked to wait a few more days, Liu Zheng believes that Cai Mao's reinforcements will not be able to reach here, because he believes in Wenpin and Gan Ning. Cai Mao can definitely be blocked.

If they can't stop it, they must have sent someone to send a letter to Liu Zheng.

Now he has not received the messenger sent by the two at all, which naturally means that Cai Mao's army is blocked by them and cannot advance at all.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you here for two days!"

Chapter 517 Resignation

Liu Zheng quickly agreed to Liu Biao, knowing that Liu Biao was playing tricks, but he still agreed.

This is mainly because Liu Zheng has no choice. Cai Yao's mother and son are in their hands. For Cai Yao's mother and son, Liu Zheng can only accept Liu Biao's proposal.

After the negotiation was completed, Liu Zheng really withdrew his troops, but instead of letting his troops leave Xiangyang directly, Tai Shici and Zu Lang divided the elite soldiers into small armies and scattered them around Xiangyang City.

Originally, Liu Zheng only surrounded one gate of Xiangyang City, but now Liu Zheng has surrounded all four gates of Xiangyang City. In this way, no one in Xiangyang City will be released.

Before Liu Zheng was willing to let the people in the city escape, it was because Liu Zheng didn't care about these people. Whether they go or stay has nothing to do with Liu Zheng. Liu Zheng only needs to lay down the city. Slow or will gather.

But now, because Liu Zheng has taken care of it, he will naturally not let people leave. If the person he wants to kill or protect, hides among these people and escapes, then it will be too late for Liu Zheng to regret it.

Two days passed quickly.

To the surprise of Liu Biao and the guards in Xiangyang City, after two days, there was still no sign of the reinforcements they were expecting.

Liu Biao's mansion in the city, Liu Biao summoned a group of civil servants and generals in the city, trying to find a way to solve the current situation.

"Li Yan! What about the reinforcements you are talking about! Now two days have passed, where did the reinforcements led by that guy Cai Mao die?"

Liu Biao's face was obviously angry, with that kind of furious look, he almost made a move on the people present, if he didn't like to make a move, he was afraid that he would explode on the spot.

Now Liu Biao, who is angry, even omits the name of Li Yan, and directly calls him by his name, which shows that Liu Biao is really disappointed in Li Yan.

Two days ago, Li Yan said in Liu Biao's ear that as long as there is a delay of two days, reinforcements will surely arrive. Calculated according to the time, even if Cai Mao delays some time in Changsha, it will definitely not take two days. As soon as Cai Mao's men arrive, they can fight back against Liu Zheng.

Now that the reinforcements have not arrived, Liu Biao is furious, but he can only start preparing money according to the previous agreement with Liu Zheng, intending to send Cai Yao out in order to protect himself.

Kuai Liang, who was standing beside Liu Biao, also had a solemn expression on his face. He was not concerned about the safety of Xiangyang City, but the reinforcements he had sent out had not arrived for so long, and he began to worry about those reinforcements.

"My lord, I'm afraid we won't be able to wait for reinforcements."

Kuai Liang was silent for a moment, and finally chose to speak.

Kuai Liang's words immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, and everyone turned their attention to Kuai Liang.

Liu Biao, in particular, was surprised by Kuai Liang's words and immediately questioned him.

"Zirou Kuailiang, what did you say? Why are you so sure?"

"My lord, according to our previous guess, it will take at most five days to travel from Changsha County to Xiangyang, but it has already been half a day now. Cai Mao and others have not come here yet, so there are only two results."

"First of all, the soldiers and horses we sent out to ask for help did not send the news to Changsha County at all, and were stopped by Liu Zheng's people."

"Secondly, the news reached Cai Mao in Changsha County, but Cai Mao's men were blocked by Liu Zheng's men, and they couldn't come to support us at all."

With a gloomy face, Kuai Liang began to explain his views to Liu Biao.

"According to my speculation, the second option is more likely. Half a month ago, we got the news that Liu Zheng had gathered [-] troops in Yuzhang County."

Liu Biao replied immediately after hearing Kuai Liang's explanation.

"It seems to be true. Our spies in Yangzhou reported that Liu Zheng gathered several battalions under his command in Yuzhang. It seems that Wenpin, Gan Ning, and Taishici are in command."

Because Liu Zheng's current status is quite special, there will still be some enemy secret operations in Liu Zheng's army. Although these secret operations may not have a high status, it is still very easy to pass back some obvious news about Liu Zheng's army to Liu Biao .

Therefore, most of the names and appearances of the commanding generals of the battalions under Liu Zheng are known to Liu Biao and others, just like Liu Zheng also knows the generals under Liu Biao.

"That's right, my lord, we are here now, and we only saw Tai Shici and another general. Some spies said that that man was called Zu Lang, who was a former Poyang Lake water thief. The general status of the first battalion in the army, but he is different from Liu Zheng's several major generals in the navy, so he should not be underestimated either."

"It's up to you to say, of course we know that these enemy troops should not be underestimated, otherwise they wouldn't be besieged here."

Cai Zhong was a little impatient and complained.

"Now we know that Tai Shici and Zu Lang are the only ones outside the city, but Wenpin and Gan Ning's [-] soldiers and horses are not here. There is only one possibility, which is to intercept Cai Mao's reinforcements in Changsha County. gone."

"It's a piece of cake to stop Cai Mao's troops with Wenpin and Gan Ning's two troops. I don't want to grow others' aspirations and destroy my own prestige. Thinking back a few years ago, Sun Jian, the fierce tiger in Jiangdong, did the same thing. He was defeated by Gan Ning."

"It can be seen that the strength of Gan Ning's troops is second to none even under Liu Zheng's command. I don't think our reinforcements from Changsha will be able to reach them."

As the chief counselor under Liu Biao's account, Kuai Liang should have discovered these problems earlier, but in the past few days, Liu Zheng's troops did not completely attack the city, and they could not know who Liu Zheng's troops were outside the city. Commanding the army, the information is not transparent, and it is impossible to judge based on these.

Now that he has some information in his hands, Kuai Liang can speculate on the outcome of Xiangyang City.

Because of Li Yan's words, Liu Biao had some expectations for Changsha's reinforcements, and hoped that once the reinforcements arrived, they would immediately change the situation and sweep away the depression these days, but now he heard Kuai Liang After speaking, Liu Biao's mood became even more depressed.

If you can't wait for reinforcements, you have to accept your fate, send someone to raise money, and do what Liu Zheng said.

"Zirou, what good strategy do you have?"

"My lord, it's not that Zirou is useless, it's that Liu Zheng is so aggressive, too fierce, I really can't do anything about it."

Kuai Liang also sighed to himself, at this point, there is no way to escape, so he had to do what Liu Zheng said.

Seeing this, Liu Biao could only sigh to himself.

Chapter 518 See you at last

From his anger at the beginning, to his unwillingness later, to his acceptance of fate, Liu Biao knew that he had no choice but to accept the condition of compensation.

Their initial plan was to wait for two days. If the reinforcements came, they would tear up their faces with Liu Zheng and wipe out the remnants of Liu Zheng. If the reinforcements did not come, they could only accept Liu Zheng's conditions. .

After having nowhere to go, Liu Biao quickly asked people to prepare all the money Liu Zheng needed.

As soon as the agreed time came, Liu Biao sent someone to open the gate of Xiangyang City a little.

Then he sent a few soldiers to transport the boxes full of gold out of the city bit by bit, including Cai Yao's mother and son, were safely escorted out of the city by Liu Biao.

Cai Zhong gloomily stared at Cai Yao's mother and son who were sent out by Liu Biao.

Although Cai Zhong is very reluctant to see this happen, because once they lose Cai Yao's mother and son, they will lose the means to restrain Liu Zheng.At that time, it will really become the fish that Liu Zheng slaughters at will.

But Cai Zhong had no choice. After all, he was not the leader of this incident. He still had to listen to Liu Biao's opinion.

Liu Biao said that he would agree to Liu Zheng, and he said other opinions would not change Liu Biao's mind. If he forcibly stopped, it would only offend Liu Biao and backfire.

After Liu Biao sent all the properties demanded by Cai Yao, mother and son, and Liu Zheng out of Xiangyang, Liu Zheng quickly sent someone over to count the payment.

In doing so, one reason was to check whether the money promised by Liu Biao was in place, and the other reason was to take Cai Yao's mother and son into Liu Zheng's camp for safety reasons.

Although Liu Zheng was in a hurry, in order not to let Liu Biao and others in the city find out, he did not go directly to pick up Cai Yao's mother and son, but let Zulang's people pick up Cai Yao's mother and son, and waited until Cai Yao came to Liu Zheng's university. Camp time.

Liu Zheng finally met Cai Yao who had been away for several years.

Cai Yao entered the big tent, and when she saw Liu Zheng, the tears in her eyes could no longer be held back, and the drops slipped down, leaving a circle of tears on her cheeks on both sides.

The red lips parted lightly, and the teeth were as white as jade. Cai Yao had so much to say, but when it came to her mouth, she couldn't say a word.

She missed Liu Zheng so much. For the past three years, she hadn't spent day and night in the torment of missing Liu Zheng, but she was stubborn and never took the initiative to find Liu Zheng, preferring to bear the torment by herself.

But when he actually met Liu Zheng, the stubbornness in his heart still wanted to leave him with some self-esteem, instead of surrendering directly, he threw himself into Liu Zheng's arms.

After all, she has no status. Although she has Liu Zheng's child, Liu Zheng doesn't seem to know it, and Liu Zheng's big marriage some time ago, married Zhang Muyu, made Cai Yao sad for a long time. I can forget the love for Liu Zheng in my heart, but I don't.

On the contrary, some things, the more you want to forget, the more it lingers in your mind.

"Yaoer."

Cai Yao didn't take the initiative to say hello to Liu Zheng, but how could Liu Zheng hold back.

He was already anxiously pacing left and right in the big tent, but when he saw Cai Yao coming in, he couldn't bear it any longer, he stepped forward a few steps, and then hugged Cai Yao.

Cai Yao just lay in Liu Zheng's arms, tears soaked Liu Zheng's corset.

Not waiting for Liu Zheng and Cai Yao to embrace each other sweetly, the baby in Cai Yao's hand cried out in a childish voice.

Because of Liu Zheng's rudeness, the little baby who was originally under Cai Yao's hands was frightened. After all, he was only two years old, so he had never seen such a battle before.

Attracted by the child's crying, Liu Zheng and Cai Yao separated, and Cai Yao slowly squatted down.

Then pick up the child on the ground.

"Don't cry, A-Dong, hug me."

Cai Yao coaxed the child, and Liu Zheng's eyes immediately fell on the child. As for the child's appearance, although he was a bit familiar and looked timid, there was still a bit of harmony between his eyebrows and eyes. Liu Zheng is very similar.

Of course, it is more like Cai Yao, the eyebrows and eyes are simply copied from Cai Yao's face.

"His name is Adong?"

Liu Zheng didn't know how to speak, although he was 100% convinced that the child in front of him was his son, but without Cai Yao's approval, Liu Zheng couldn't just speak directly.

"Well, he was born at the beginning of winter. Since he didn't have a name, I named him Adong."

Cai Yao explained something to Liu Zheng.

Following Cai Yao's words, Liu Zheng's thoughts returned to the day when he had an indescribable relationship with Cai Yao.

It was a New Year's Eve, and there was no snow in Jiaozhou during the New Year's Eve. If you conceived at the New Year's Eve and gave birth to a child in Xiangyang, it would indeed be winter again.

So naming this child A-Dong is exactly in line with the time speculation.

"Adong, it's a good name. I like winter the most. It is a harbinger of the recovery of all things."

After being praised by Liu Zheng, coupled with his mother's comfort, the little baby stopped crying. Looking at Liu Zheng, Shui Lingling's eyes shone with bright brilliance. It seemed that he was a little curious, not at all. Not afraid of Liu Zheng.

Cai Yao is also savvy and coaxes little A-Dong.

"A-Dong, come and call Dad."

That little A-Dong was really obedient, and yelled at Liu Zheng in a childish voice.

"father!"

Liu Zheng was surprised and delighted at the same time.

When the little baby shouted like this, Liu Zheng didn't need to continue to question Cai Yao anymore. The matter had already been cleared up, and the child was his son.

"Yaoer."

Liu Zheng looked at Cai Yao excitedly, and then at Xiao Adong.

"I didn't give him a name. I wanted to keep it for his father to give him. Now that I finally see you, this child, let you come and give him a name."

Cai Yao looked at Liu Zheng, and a heart disease that was on his heart finally had a solution.

"Since it's your name, let's just call it Liu Dong."

How could Liu Zheng choose a name? Anyway, Cai Yao already called this kid A-Dong, so Liu Zheng could just call him Liu Dong.