Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Chapter 286 The Son of Heaven Sees His Uncle Emperor

On the outskirts of Xinye, a table was set up in front of Liu Xie's imperial tent. On the table were a jug of wine and several cups of dried melons and fruits.Liu Xie drank it alone.

An attendant from the small yellow gate trotted over from a distance, bowed beside Liu Xie and said, "Your Majesty, he is here." Liu Xie raised his mouth and said, "Xuan!"

"Xuan Fen Wu General Liu Bei's account in front of the saint..." Huang Men, who had just called out the first sentence, was corrected by Liu Xie: "Give him the title of Emperor Uncle."

The eunuch of the Yellow Gate quickly shouted again at the top of his voice: "General Xuan Fenwu, Emperor Uncle Liu Bei's tent..." The last sound of his words was still dragging.Liu Bei had already entered the gate, kowtowed three times and bowed nine times, and came to Liu Xie respectfully.

"My minister Liu Bei greets His Majesty, long live my emperor." After Liu Beishan shouted long live, Liu Xie stretched out his arms and then turned his palms, and said softly: "Uncle, please forgive me!"

Seeing Liu Xie admitting that he was the emperor's uncle, Liu Bei thanked Liu Xie with a flattered expression before standing up.

"The emperor asked someone to send a letter to the palace, saying that he wants to meet me, what's the matter?" Liu Xie asked pretending to be suspicious, but it was clear from his immature face that he knew what he was asking.

Liu Bei replied with fear and trepidation: "Your Majesty must have known about the recent changes in the Linjiang Kingdom. I am just a guest general of the Linjiang Kingdom, and should not have participated in the Linjiang King's internal battles. But all I did was for the prosperity of my great man." ah…"

"Oh, what does the emperor mean by that?"

Liu Bei did not answer Liu Xie's words immediately, but looked suspiciously at Liu Xie left and right.Liu Xie immediately understood his intentions, and said, "There are no outsiders here. I came out this time in the name of a hunting tour, and only brought my trusted and close ministers with me. Those who were recommended by the princes to the court have stayed in Wandu."

Only then did Liu Bei boldly say: "Your Majesty really wants the world to fall apart like this? Is he only willing to be an emperor in name only like the Emperor Zhou in the Warring States Period?"

Liu Xie's expression became solemn, and he said with certainty: "Of course not. The power in the world should belong to the emperor, otherwise, let alone the emperor, even the big man is in name only."

Liu Bei immediately said with tears in his voice: "Thinking that my great ancestor raised the three-foot sword, slashed the white snake, raised righteous soldiers, wiped out the tyrant Qin, and eliminated the overlord, only then can this great unification of the great Han foundation of more than [-] years be achieved. But now the world has the power of the Han. However, the great Han court can only enforce orders in this small area of ​​Nanyang, and the rest of the territory falls into the hands of different surnames. Every time I think of this, I can’t sleep at night, and I feel ashamed when I think that I can’t help His Majesty to help the Han Dynasty..."

Seeing Liu Bei talking nonsense nonsense, Liu Xie quickly stopped him: "Oh, there's nothing you can do about it. The situation is stronger than others. Over the years, I have not fallen into the hands of a certain prince, and I have been reduced to a puppet. It's lucky. Uncle, please tell me about your current strategy to help the Han family. What does it have to do with this Linjiang country?"

Liu Bei wiped his tears and said: "If the Holy Majesty wants to accumulate strength, Zhongxing is a big man. It is not enough to rely on such a small piece of land in Nanyang. At least one of the princes who is close to the Central Plains, has considerable strength, and is loyal to His Majesty. Looking at the world, but None of the princes met this condition."

Liu Bei paused for a moment, then continued: "The Kingdom of Linjiang should have been usable by Your Majesty. Since the Kingdom of Shu was destroyed by foreigners, Liu Biao was the only clan member of the Han family among the princes. But he has served as the Since the governor of Jingzhou, he has been staying out of it all the time, not fulfilling his duty as a clan member of the Han family. There are reasons for his own troubles, and it is also inseparable from the forces he relies on in Jingzhou."

Speaking of this, Liu Bei stopped talking until Liu Xie said: "Keep talking." He continued:

"Liu Biao relies on aristocratic families, and only cares about the interests of the local family, so how can he care about the safety of the big man. But Liu Qi, the son of Liu Biao, has a heart for the Han. So after Bei Zi surrendered to Linjiang Kingdom in Jingzhou, he intentionally made a deal with him. Liu Qi has a relationship. I hope that after Liu Biao wins the Linjiang throne a hundred years later, he can work together with Bei to support the Han Dynasty with Linjiang as the foundation! Unexpectedly, these aristocratic families in Jingzhou forged Liu Biao’s suicide note , made Liu Cong from the Cai family in Jingzhou the king of Linjiang. This is why Bei..."

Liu Xie took Liu Bei's words with a slight smile: "This is why the Jiangling Mutiny was launched as a last resort. It's really hard to be an emperor. In fact, you don't know, but before the news that you want to see me came, I was ready to issue an imperial edict to pass you a secret audience." .But I don’t want to question you about the Jiangling Mutiny.”

Speaking of this, Liu Xie's complexion changed, and his immature face became extremely serious and solemn, deliberately pretending to be the majesty of the emperor, and said in his mouth: "I just want to know, is the emperor's uncle sincerely wanting to help me and help the Han family, or is he trying to borrow money from me?" This signboard of the big man has become your own domineering career? I can ask a messenger to ask this question, but if I want to ask you in person, I need you to look me in the eyes and answer!"

Liu Bei was shocked, and then knelt down on the ground again, but his back was straight, his eyes met Liu Xie's gaze and he said: "Heaven above, if Bei Ruo has a little disloyalty to His Majesty and the Han Dynasty, and a little bit A lie. If you don’t do your best to help the great Han rejuvenate and help the imperial court truly unify Kyushu, you will be struck by lightning and be punished by cutting off your children and grandchildren!”.As he spoke, he hammered his chest with his fist.

Under Liu Bei's stare, Liu Xie seemed uneasy instead, with a trace of shame flashing across his face, he quickly said: "With your words, I am at ease, please get up quickly, uncle emperor. Please sit down."

Then, Liu Xie personally poured a jug of wine and ordered Huangmen to give it to Liu Bei.Liu Bei gulped it down and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

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In Yiling City, after waiting for many days, Kuai Yue made his own decision after collecting and confirming enough information.

During these days, Liu Xie, the emperor of Wandu, issued an edict acknowledging the fact that Liu Qi was attacked as the king of Linjiang.Liu Bei's powerful generals successively attacked and wiped out three remnants of the Cai family.

The remnants of those aristocratic families had no one to take the lead, so naturally they couldn't unite.In fact, even if someone picks the head, it may not be able to hook up.

Most of the main members of these aristocratic families have been arrested by Liu Bei.The remnants are all scattered in corners and key places like Yiling.In the end, if he didn't take refuge in other princes, he could only be defeated by Liu Bei one by one.

Kuai Yue thought about defecting to other princes when he had nowhere to go.But only Liang State is next to Yiling.And he had an affair with Feng Yu, he didn't want to defect to Feng Yu, and Feng Yu didn't necessarily take him in.So he can only choose to surrender to Liu Bei.In this way, the entire Kuai family might be preserved.

Cai, who was placed in a certain room in the mansion, wanted to urge Kuai Yue to take action as soon as possible.But a large group of slaves and servants rushed in, and bound her and Liu Cong without any explanation.

In the post house in Yiling City, the eight Liang scouts were also captured by Yiling City soldiers without any explanation.

Chapter 287

A long procession came out of Yiling City and headed for Jiangling along the official road covered with weeds.This team is composed of more than a thousand soldiers and ten prison carts, which are escorted by Kuai Yue himself.Of course, the ten prison cars contained Cai's mother and son, as well as the eight scouts.

Kuai Yuece stepped forward immediately, and happened to be parallel to the prison cart containing Cai's family.When Cai saw him, he yelled at him. It was nothing more than breaking his promise and disregarding the affection of his in-laws.Kuai Yue, however, remained calm and didn't care, he laughed and said:

"Save your energy. This is a couple of Linniao who are in a catastrophe, and they are flying separately. What is the relationship between our two families? A Jingzhou family like ours, even Liu Bei, depends on us to help Only then can we turn around in Jingzhou. As long as we abandon your Cai family, we believe that we can still keep our wealth in Jingzhou."

"Kuai Yue, you stupid ass is talking about dreams! Then Liu Bei is..." Cai was still yelling, and even tried to persuade Kuai Yue to "get back when he lost his way", but Kuai Yue ignored her and sped up the horse to the front up.

The captain of Kuaiyue suggested to him: "Prefect, the wharf of the Yangtze River is ahead, where civilian ships can be recruited. Let's change the water route, and we will be able to reach Jiangling in a day and a night along the water."

Kuai Yue thought for a while, and said: "No, we can't go by water. The eight prisoners here are from Liang Guo, which means that Feng Yu has already intervened in this matter. We can't deal with Liang Guo's navy, so it's better to go by dry road to be safe. In addition, Liu Qi Liu Bei wants to live. We are boating on the river, if something happens, it will be difficult to explain."

Almost at the same time, more than [-] warships appeared on the Yangtze River in Yiling, and they were the navy led by Gan Ning himself.This fleet is going down the water, coming quickly to the east.It's just that these ships did not display any designation signals, but instead hung out the black sails commonly used by river bandits on the Yangtze River.

The sporadic Yiling warships in charge of guarding the river along the way did not dare to intercept them, but sent people to report to Yiling City in a hurry.

Before and after the Jiangling Mutiny, Liang Guo did not act on the surface.But in fact, Feng Yu concentrated his troops in Jiangzhou.

Although this Jiangzhou is not a border city adjacent to Linjiang Kingdom in Jingzhou.But it is close to the Yangtze River, and it can reach Yiling in two days and one night, and Jiangling in three days.If the world changes, Feng Yu can send troops to Jingzhou immediately.

When Chen Tiao's spies in Yiling sent the news that Cai's mother and son had arrived, Feng Yu ordered Gan Ning to lead some sailors and scouts to Wu County.As soon as Kuai Yue's team escorting the prison carts left Yiling City, the fleet sailed down the river and into the Jingjiang River.

The navy of Linjiang State in Jiangzhou belongs to the State Army and is dispatched by the Palace.Now most of the warships of this navy are assembled in the Mianshui channel of Yicheng.Therefore, Kuai Yue himself did not have many warships, which was the reason why he chose to take the dry road, and also the reason why the Yiling warships did not dare to intercept the water pirate fleet.

Gan Ning stood on the bow of the boat and looked around, but there was no fleet on the vast river.Not even a small fishing boat.Suddenly, there was a scream of a peregrine falcon in the air. Gan Ning looked up and saw a peregrine falcon hovering in the air.

His eyes quickly swept to the shore, and finally found a person standing alone among the reeds on the shore.

Gan Ning ordered the left and right: "That must be our secret spy scouts, quickly send people to connect with them, and send some other scouts ashore to assist them."

Qu Qing was still standing next to Gan Ning. While exercising his muscles, he said, "It seems that the other party did not go by water. We can only go ashore to intercept them. Fortunately, our boat is faster than theirs."

Gan Ning nodded and said, "That's right, we're going to risk going ashore, but Brother Dianqing, you don't have to go ashore to take this risk, you just guard the fleet in the river. Didn't you just become the groom's officer not long ago? Put your wife at risk of becoming a widow."

Before Dian Qingyueyu, she got married and started a family.The bride is the girl from the refugee family who lived with his family in the abandoned city of Shandu in the early years and called him Brother Qing all the time.

Hearing this, Dian Qing gave a pissed voice and said, "In this way, you shouldn't even go ashore, because you haven't even married yet..." Gan Ning interrupted him with a strange grin: "Hey, you don't have a wife It doesn’t mean you haven’t experienced that.”

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Kuai Yue's team had already reached a small river branch and stopped suddenly.This river is a tributary of the Yangtze River. There was originally a wooden bridge on the river, connecting the two ends of the official road.But now the bridge has been broken in two and collapsed near the river.

Kuai Yue was startled when he heard the soldier's report, and hurriedly asked, "Have the scouts who were spying ahead come back?"

"Report to the prefect, they left the team an hour ago to investigate ahead, and have not yet returned. But it is not yet the agreed time to return..."

Kuai Yue yelled: "Too bad, there must be an ambush here...".Kuai Yue's inference is very simple. If those scouts were normal, they would have reported the broken bridge in advance.So either the bridge was just cut off, or the scouts were killed.

Sure enough, Kuai Yue's voice did not fall.Arrows flew out of the reeds beside the small river like locusts.The crossbowmen of the Liang Army Navy were half-buried in waist-deep water, covered by reeds half a person's height.Naturally, Kuai Yue's soldiers could not find out in advance.

These soldiers from Yiling County who were exposed on the shore were already thinly armored, so they were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another.

"Fight back!" Kuai Yue screamed.Before his crossbowmen could draw their bows, Gan Ning in the water pointed his saber in the air and ordered, "Stop shooting arrows! Kill!"

The [-] elite soldiers of the Liang Army Navy dressed as water bandits rushed out of the reeds and rushed towards Kuai Yue's team like a tide.Before anyone arrives, let's shoot a javelin first.However, these javelins were thrown at the enemy soldiers within ten battles, because they were afraid of hurting the people in the prison cart.

These soldiers rushed through the corpses of javelins and arrows all over the place, and fought with Yiling soldiers.

Even if the soldiers of the Liang Guo Navy were on land, their individual combat power was much higher than that of Kuaiyue's county soldiers.Under the fierce offensive of the opponent, the latter was repeatedly pierced through the body by the spear and his head was chopped off by the blade, but the casualties caused to the opponent were not many.

When the two sides were fighting fiercely, Kuai Yue heard the sound of horseshoes coming from behind. He turned his head and saw a group of "horse thieves" coming from behind. They were Liang Jun's cavalry scouts...

After a while, Kuai Yue's brigade was left with nothing left, and corpses were strewn all over the ground.Gan Ning was secretly thinking that his actions were surprisingly smooth when he heard a loud shout: "Everyone put down their weapons, I know that you are here for them, if you don't surrender, I will kill her!"

Kuai Yue has already secretly lifted Cai out of the prison cart, with a weapon across her neck.

Phew... Phff, a heavy arrow pierced through Kuai Yue's head in an instant, moving forward and then exiting.When Kuai Yue's body fell, Liang soldiers rushed up, and the remaining dozens of Yiling soldiers begged to surrender.

Chapter 288

"Hurry up! Damn it, hurry up! Whoever drags me back, I will break his leg when I go back!" Zhang Fei, whipping his horse, urged the soldiers behind him loudly at the same time.The poor soldiers who were walking on foot could only keep up with the generals on horseback by running as hard as they could.

In Kuai Yue's reply to Liu Bei, he had already informed that it was several Liang Guo scouts who rescued Cai's mother and son.So Liu Bei didn't dare to take it lightly, and sent Zhang Fei to Yiling to meet Kuai Yue.

At this time, a scout from Zhang Fei's personal soldiers flew in front of Zhang Fei's horse, and hurriedly said: "Report! Report to the three generals that the bridge over the river ahead was broken, and a large number of corpses of Yiling soldiers were found on the other side of the river!"

Zhang Fei slapped his thigh: "Hey! You are a step late." After saying that, he rode his horse and whipped to the side of the small river.Without waiting for the brigade from the rear to build a bridge and build a road, he found a river by himself and only flooded to the shallow part of the horse's neck, and waded across the river.

Zhang Fei came to the scene, carried the snake spear, and walked around twice, but saw corpses all over the place, but no one was found alive.The doors of the cages of the ten prison cars were all wide open, so the inside was naturally empty.Suddenly, he found a corpse with a heavy arrow in its head and luxurious clothes.He recognized this person, it was Kuai Yue, the prefect of Yiling.

He pulled out the heavy arrow with a bang. This heavy arrow was shot by Dian Qing, but it was slightly different from the heavy arrows that Dian Qing and Liang Junchang's archers used every day.This is the arrow specially made by Feng Yuyao Workshop for this operation.

Feng Yu didn't want to cover up, he knew very well that it was impossible for Liu Bei not to guess that he did this.So as long as Feng Yu doesn't leave evidence for Liu Bei, it's fine.

Zhang Fei touched Kuai Yue's body again and found it was still warm.At this time, the soldiers in the rear had already tried their best to cross the river one after another.Zhang Fei shouted: "Rectify the formation, the enemy has not gone far, let me chase!" The surrounding soldiers cried out in their hearts: "It's hard."

Zhang Fei and others followed the traces of the fallen vegetation, followed the small river, panting, and chased to the edge of the Yangtze River, only to see black sails in the river.Gan Ning's warships had already sailed to the center of the river and went up the river.Zhang Fei was so angry that he threw his snake spear to the ground.

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A few days later, Gan Ning's fleet sent Cai's mother and son to Jiangzhou, where they were temporarily arranged in a mansion.That day, someone came to visit them.

When Cai came to the hall, he saw that the other party was a young man with a handsome face and a burly figure about his own age, but casually dressed.Seeing Cai Shi coming in, the man also got up from his seat, cupped his fists and said politely to Cai Shi:

"Madam Cai has settled down. If there is anything else you need, just give orders. This is only a temporary residence. When you arrive in Yibin, the capital, Liang Guoguo will find you a suitable place for permanent residence."

Mrs. Cai thought that he was a local official in Jiangzhou who was in charge of receiving her, so she said all blessings: "Please trouble my lord, I don't have any requests, I just hope to see King Liang, and thank him in person for saving my life."

The visitor smiled slightly and replied indifferently: "To tell you the truth, Madam, Gu is the King of Liang, Feng Yu. It's just because it is inconvenient for me, Liang Guo, to allow Madam to take refuge in Liang Guo, so Gu came to see Madam in such a low-key manner. I hope Madam forgive me."

Mrs. Cai never thought that the other party was the King of Liang himself, Hua Rong turned pale and bowed to Feng Yu to thank him: "The lady is here to thank the King of Liang for saving my son and me."

"Ma'am, you don't need to be too polite. Your husband is the king of Linjiang. Counting from the time he entered Jingzhou alone and met Gu, it can be regarded as a friendship with Gu for about ten years. It is also right for you to lend a helping hand in this crisis. "

Of course, Feng Yu's motive for saving Cai's mother and son is not as simple as he said.In fact, Feng Yu's motivation at the beginning was.If Cai's mother and son are held in the palm of their hands, then Jingzhou will experience great turmoil.He will be able to use Cai's mother and son as his grasp, and can take advantage of the chaos.

This is not only to improve their own strength, but also to prevent Cao Wei and Sun Wu from taking the opportunity to annex Jingzhou and break the balance of the world.But the subsequent development not only exceeded the expectations of the princes of the world, but also exceeded Feng Yu's expectations.There are two main points,

One is that the alliances formed by the local aristocratic families in Jingzhou quickly disintegrated under Liu Bei's various means.Except for some small-scale resistance, and several marginal county forces defected to Soochow and Nanyue, the expected large-scale Linjiang civil war did not start.

The second is the public support of Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, for Liu Qi and Liu Bei.Although the court represented by the Son of Heaven has little strength, the words of the court still carry a lot of weight when the power of the various princes is balanced.

In this case, Feng Yuruo can of course rely on Liang Li to take Jingzhou by force.But in this way, he is bound to become the target of the princes of the world, and will inevitably make wedding dresses for others in the end.Moreover, he couldn't bear to cause another major war in the world that had just been peaceful for a few years because of his own initiative.

So at this time, Feng Yu gave up his original plan.But since Cai's mother and son have been rescued, let's do it to the end, not to mention eight of his own scouts were detained by Kuai Yue.So he sent people to pretend to be river bandits and water robbers to rob the prison car.

What kind of person Cai is, of course he also knows that Feng Yu will not save himself just because of his friendship with Liu Biao.Besides, Liu Qi is also Liu Biao's biological son. This reason is really far-fetched.

She suddenly knelt down and knelt down to Feng Yu and said: "The woman has nothing to repay the kindness of the king of Liang for saving her. I beg the king of Liang to send troops to help the woman and my son to quell the civil strife in Linjiang. I will cut off half of Jingzhou to Liang Guo to thank Liang The grace of the king to rebuild."

Feng Yu, who was frightened by this move, took Cai's hand and helped her up, regardless of whether the man and the woman would accept or not, and said, "My wife is also the body of a queen, how can I do such a big gift, please hurry up. But this matter is after all Inside the Linjiang royal family..."

Cai took out a piece of paper from her pocket again emotionally and said: "No, although Liu Qi is the eldest son, the late king did not pass on to him, and the throne should belong to my son. This is the posthumous note written by the late king, and it is stamped with a seal. Yin, this is the evidence that the two thieves Liu Bei and Liu Qi framed our mother and son!"

Feng Yu took the letter paper, looked at it and sighed, and then told Mrs. Cai about the recent situation in Linjiang Kingdom in Jingzhou one by one.He comforted and enlightened Cai and said:

"Ma'am. Given the current situation, it doesn't make any sense whether the suicide note is true or not. May I ask, which is bigger or smaller, the emperor's edict or the Linjiang king's suicide note? In addition, this matter is ultimately a family matter of the Linjiang royal family. I am alone." It is not appropriate for outsiders to interfere too deeply. Madam, listen to Gu's persuasion, you are a weak woman after all, and you should think about your future life for yourself."

When Cai heard Feng Yu's words, Lihua burst into tears, not because Feng Yu couldn't help her.It was Feng Yu's words that touched her.Ever since she married Liu Biao who could be her grandfather as a political victim, she has never lived for herself...

Chapter 289 Denial

In the early summer of the seventh year of Jian'an, Liu Qi wrote to the court of the Han Dynasty, claiming that Feng Yu, the king of Liang, interfered in Linjiang's internal affairs and abducted the prisoners of Linjiang Kingdom without permission.Of course, Liu Qi is just a puppet, all of this is Liu Bei's idea.

Liu Xie immediately issued an edict asking Feng Yu to go to Wancheng to face the saint and explain the matter face to face.Of course, Feng Yu would not put himself in danger. He used the excuse that he was supervising the war and suppressing bandits in Myanmar, so he could not obey the order.However, in order to take care of the emperor's face, he entrusted Fa Zhengdai to go to Wandu himself to accept the emperor's face-to-face questioning.

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After Fazheng kowtowed and worshiped nine times in the Hall of Qinzheng, Liu Xie neither let him die, nor gave him a seat.Instead, he asked directly, "What do you think Liang Guo thinks about Jiangling?"

Liu Xie wants to guide Fazheng to argue about the right and wrong between Liu Qi and Liu Cong, Liu Bei and Cai.In this way, Liang Guochao interfered in Linjiang's internal affairs.

Fazheng Shi Ran said: "As an outsider, Liang Guo is not suitable for commenting on the internal disputes among the Linjiang royal family. Your Majesty will decide what is right and what is wrong."

Seeing that he was not fooled, Liu Xie asked again: "Let me ask you, why did your country of Liang want to rob the important criminals of Linjiang country? This is something beyond the rules!"

Fazheng, who was still kneeling, asked, "Your Majesty, why did you say that? When did our country of Liang rob people from Linjiang? When did we interfere in their internal affairs?" Actually, it wasn't that Fazheng was pretending to be confused. It's that he really doesn't know about it.

Liang Guo has a strict secrecy system, and the rescue of Cai's mother and child is classified as top secret, only one level lower than extreme secret.Not to mention the eight scouts, Gan Ning, Dian Qing and other generals who knew the details.Even the soldiers of the Liang Army dressed up as bandits and water robbers were forbidden to talk about this matter to anyone without knowing the real purpose of the operation and Cai Shi and Liu Cong.

Liu Xie saw that he hadn't been able to trick out what he wanted to hear, so he asked further: "However, Kuai Yue, the prefect of Yiling of Linjiang Kingdom, wrote to Linjiang King Liu Qi and Linjiang Protector General Liu Bei in his letter, Eight Liang Guo scouts rescued the Linjiang criminals Cai and Liu Cong. Then they were robbed by your Liang army on the way to Jiangling under the escort of Kuai Yue."

Fazheng was stunned for a long time before he laughed dumbly and said: "Your Majesty, how can Kuai Yue's one-sided remarks be taken seriously? We all know that he is from the Kuai family in Jingzhou, and he is related to the Cai family of the Cai family. He deliberately provokes Liang Guo and Linjiang. It is also possible for countries to fight each other. This is a simple strategy to drive away tigers and devour wolves. As for my Liang army going deep into Linjiang to rob people, it is even more nonsense. Dare to ask the Holy One, he Linjiang has provided evidence ?”

Liu Xie clapped the case and said: "It's still too late for you to tell the truth. If you continue to lie again and again, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

Although Fazheng prostrated himself on the ground in fear, he was actually not afraid.He argued loudly: "Your Majesty, I beg you to learn from me. Both the minister and the King of Liang are loyal to the emperor and the Han Dynasty. What I said here is not a bit false."

Liu Xie sneered and said, "When Zhang Fei, the general of Linjiang, arrived at the scene, he found that more than [-] warships were retreating in the direction of your country of Liang. May I ask, besides your country of Liang, who else has the ability? Mobilize more than [-] warships? Don’t say that this is a one-sided statement. Zhang Fei did not see it alone. All his soldiers also saw it. If so many people tell lies about the same thing, Can you match the caliber?"

Facing Liu Xie's barrage of questioning, Fazheng said calmly: "According to what the Holy Majesty said, did Zhang Fei just rely on deduction to conclude that the dozens of warships belonged to our country of Liang?"

Liu Xie twitched his lips and said sharply: "Not only Zhang Fei deduced this, but I also deduced this. The warships Zhang Fei saw didn't fly banners, but hung black sails. However, Jiang Pirates can have [-] Is it a fast ship!?"

Fazheng smiled indifferently, and argued, "The Holy Majesty has lived in the palace for a long time, so he doesn't know about it. Now our Han Dynasty has only a few million people, and several major princes also choose cities to live together, so there are many bandits gathering in the rivers, seas, mountains and fields. Some of them even It is not surprising that the country is rich enough to equip more than [-] warships. Therefore, I dare not say whether they are really Jiang Pirates. But I can guarantee that it is indeed possible for a powerful Jiang Pirate to organize such a fleet. .”