The weather in Xiangyang was completely beyond Zhang Song's expectations...
Zhang Song suddenly changed his itinerary and did not rush to see Liu Bei. Instead, he took a convenient and fast bus to wander the entire Xiangyang area.
This is not a big deal. Because of the benefits brought by convenient transportation, Xiangyang is full of atmosphere, which makes Zhang Song stunned and praised.
I don’t know what’s going on. There have been several times when he has the opportunity to change the more prosperous and noisy Jiangxia, but I missed it every time. I don’t know if it’s so-called worship of the will of heaven?
It took about half a month to watch Zhang Song and the guards around him in Xiangyang.
It was not impossible to put it in the past, but even a fool could see that his identity was extraordinary.
The situation is right now, and taking the bus at the airport is not conspicuous at all, and the speed is not slower than that of a thousand-mile horse. You can also take a closer look at the situation along the way.
In short, after observation, Zhang Song confirmed that Liu Bei, the lord of Xiangyang, was an existence that could entrust major events.
So, after finishing the "inspection" trip, Zhang Song did not waste his time and went straight to Xiangyang City to secretly meet Liu Bei.
"Yizhou Zhang Song?"
Liu Bei was shocked when he heard the news and said with all his head: "How come this guy suddenly came to ask for a meeting?"
Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Lord, don't worry, it should be a good thing!"
A good thing?
Liu Bei suddenly became interested and hurriedly summoned Zhang Song.
By the way, in terms of attitude towards dealing with people, Liu Bei, who was born in a poor family, was much more dignified than Lao Cao.
He did not despise Zhang Songwu because of his short figure and vulgar expression. On the contrary, he was polite and considerate.
That's how it moved Zhang Song very much.
God knows that because of his appearance, he thought he was a talented man, and how much hardship he suffered in Yizhou and how many times he was rolled his eyes?
So much so that with Zhang Song's talent, his mentality is inevitably distorted and imbalanced.
Of course, he can't blame him for saying something about his origin. If Liu Bei was thrown out of eight streets, but if he didn't look good, he would suffer a loss.
This is still a matter of judging the Eastern Han Dynasty. If it were the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Song would probably have been with Zhong Kui.
He felt respect from Liu Bei, a famous prince, and Zhang Song was immediately excited and presented the map of Yizhou directly.
Ahem, unlike various maps that can be easily purchased in modern society, ancient social maps are military secrets and things that are absolutely prohibited from being circulated.
Liu Bei was as if he had obtained a treasure from the Yizhou map, so he was naturally more enthusiastic and polite to Zhang Song, a good traitor.
In short, Zhang Song went to Xiangyang this time and felt that he had found the right person.
As for Liu Bei, after two years of rest and the emergence of government vehicles, his rule has flourished and has accumulated enough capital for external expansion.
I had a headache before and expanded my object, so if I don’t want to fall asleep, someone will give me a pillow.
Yizhou is a good place. It was where Emperor Gaozu started his career.
If he could occupy Yizhou, not only by imitating Emperor Gaozu and unify the world, he could at least use the advantages of geographical advantages to achieve true hegemony of the princes.
Compared with Jingzhou, which was the place where the four battles were fought, the conditions in Yizhou were obviously much better.
Liu Bei was moved at the first time...
Of course, it is not that easy to send troops to Yizhou.
Not to mention that Yizhou has a complex terrain, it is very difficult to enter.
The leader of Yizhou alone was Liu Zhang, who was also a relative of the Liu clan. It was a headache for Liu Bei and it was difficult to act rashly.
After all, his benevolence and righteousness label has been maintained for many years and he does not want to collapse his personality rashly.
When he was in Jingzhou, he had several opportunities to become the governor of Jingzhou with justification, but in the end he gave up. Isn’t it just to maintain the reputation he had finally established?
After most of his life, Liu Bei naturally knew that reputation was a good thing, sometimes better than the official position of the state governor.
Liu Bei was defeated and fled many times, but every time his confidant followed him closely, and there were few who deviated from him. This is the benefit of his reputation of benevolence and righteousness.
At this time, no matter how eager it is, it is not easy to seize the foundation of the same clan and ruin its reputation.
After hearing this, Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and said disapprovingly: "Lord, we are not very familiar with Yizhou after all, so why not listen to Zhang Song's solution?"
Of course Zhang Song has a solution!
"Liu Yizhou and Zhang Lu, Hanzhong, have a bad relationship, and have even reached the point of fighting each other!"
"In theory, Zhang Lu only occupied a part of Hanzhong and could not compete with Liu Yizhou at all. Liu Yizhou was afraid of the Five Dogs of Rice Sect!"
"Zhang Daoling, the founder of the Five Dok Rice Sect, is a first-class existence in the Taoist sect and is known as the Taoist sect Heavenly Master!"
"Zhang Daoling first destroyed the temple in the southwest of the mountain, which caused the witch sect and many lewd blood sacrifice temples to break the heads, thus establishing the Taoist sect's status in the southwest!"
"The Five Dogs of Rice Sect was created by Zhang Daoling. Not to mention the number of believers, just being a Taoist master of the Five Dogs of Rice Sect is extremely scared!"
"It's not that the Yizhou army cannot solve Zhang Lu, but the generals in command are unwilling to offend the Five Doks of Rice Sect too ruthlessly. The lesson of Taipingdao is not far away!"
"So, as long as the envoy is willing to act as the vanguard against Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, it will be easy for Liu Yizhou to persuade him!"
Liu Bei was speechless for a moment...
Who knows that there are so many broken things in the remote Yizhou?
By the way, the Yizhou family, including Liu Zhang, the governor of Yizhou, was unwilling to offend the Wudou Mi Sect, and he was not happy.
When they fought with the Taiping Taoist believers, Liu Bei and the three brothers suffered a lot.
Unlike normal history, believers in Taipingdao in this world really have magic in their bodies, and they can't even call the wind and rain. They can still summon the Yellow Turban Warriors and gather the gods of faith to possess them.
If it weren't for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's fierceness, Liu Bei would not be able to survive the chaos at that time.
As for the White Horse Gongsun, Lao Cao and others, they all rely on the elite military formation of the Han Dynasty to fight against the mobs of Taipingdao.
Zhang Jiao almost overthrew the Eastern Han Empire, not to mention that he was much bigger than Zhang Jiao’s Taoist gentry master Zhang Daoling.
"Lord, don't worry, Liang has a way!"
Unlike Liu Bei's frowning face, Zhuge Liang was still calm and looked like a wise bead.
In fact, it is indeed...
Others are afraid of the Five Dogs of Rice Sect, but Zhuge Liang, as a master of the generation, is not afraid at all.
"If you want to preach, let's give Zhang Lu and the Taoist sect the face!"
Zhuge Liang smiled leisurely and said, "But Zhang Lu must hand over the secular power in his hands, which is inevitable!"
Liu Bei suddenly realized, nodded repeatedly and said, "What the military advisor said is reasonable!"
As long as the Five Dok Rice Sect or the skeleton of the Southwest Taoist Sect still exists, it will not affect the expansion of Taoist missionary influence. I think those Taoist masters will not object.
If it is only targeted at Zhang Lu, it would be much easier...
In this way, there is nothing to worry about.
After discussing with Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei immediately gave Zhang Song an accurate reply.
If Liu Yizhou voluntarily requested support from Liu Bei's army, he would lead troops into Sichuan as soon as possible, of course, there would not be too many troops.
Zhang Song was naturally very satisfied and politely refused Liu Bei's attempt to stay, quietly left the Xiangyang County Magistrate's Office and rushed back to Yizhou to operate the matter.
But he didn't know that after he left, the confident expression on Liu Bei's face disappeared, replaced by a lot of worry.
"Military advisor, if we send troops to Yizhou, there will be problems in the rear of Xiangyang, I am really worried!"
As he said that, his eyes looked towards Jiang Xia.
Zhuge Liang frowned and said in a deep voice: "The lord's worries are not unreasonable, but there is no need to worry too much!"
"Liu Jiangxia is quite gentle and usually does not easily move the knife, otherwise Jingzhou will have already been full of war!"
Old Huang Zhong alone can suppress Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Liu Bei's army, as well as Zhao Yun, the peerless generals.
The emergence of the agency's vehicles made Zhuge Liang understand that the military power that Jiang Xia could mobilize was much stronger than Xiangyang.
As long as Liu Qi is willing, he can mobilize more than one million troops in just a short time through communication between government agencies and vehicles and convenient transportation networks.
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Moreover, the millions of troops have been trained for a long time.
If Liu Qi commanded a million troops to crush him, Xiangyang and Nanjun would not be able to resist it at all.
But Liu Qi clearly has such an advantage, but he is devoted to Jiangxia's internal development. From this, Zhuge Liang concluded that Liu Jiangxia did not have much thought about fighting for dominance in the world.
Such speculation is naturally quite beneficial to Liu Bei Group.
Not to mention that with the promotion of the agency's vehicles, Xiangyang and Nanjun can also mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops, and can also make support requests to Jiangxia at critical moments.
Of course, Liu Bei may have paid a huge price for this. The biggest possibility is to let Liu Qi completely control Jingzhou and become the veritable governor of Jingzhou.
Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang had a long consensus on this.
Liu Qi is still very reliable. If he can occupy a larger and better territory in the future, it is not impossible to give up Jingzhou.
However, the premise is that Liu Qi cannot show any hostility, otherwise Liu Bei will not be easy to bully.
Obviously, so far, Liu Qi's "sincerity" has been shown enough, and Liu Bei has nothing to say.
If it were him, who had the strength to sweep Jingzhou and the title of Jingzhou's governor, he would have been unable to help but unify Jingzhou.
However, Liu Qi did not act like this, and everyone in the Liu Bei group looked up to him.
This time, Liu Bei had the opportunity to intervene in Yizhou and even annex Yizhou in one fell swoop, so he carefully considered the matter of Jingzhou.
If he is not here, unless Zhuge Liang is in charge of Xiangyang all year round, Liu Bei will never dare to rest assured, even if Guan Yu is in charge of Jingzhou.
Besides, in order to intimidate the Taoist masters of the Wudou Mi Sect, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, all had to enter Sichuan, and Liu Bei needed their powerful force to intimidate the heroes of Yizhou.
After all, Zhuge Liang is the military advisor of Liu Bei's group, so it is impossible for him to stay away from Liu Bei for a long time, otherwise who would know what would happen?
Human nature cannot be considered, obviously Liu Bei did not mean to test Zhuge Liang...