From the beginning of the reduction of grain and grass, Liu Bei felt that something was wrong, and he sent a messenger to Xiangyang to ask Liu Biao the reason.

Liu Biao is a kind-hearted guy, for Liu Bei's inquiry, he directly said that Jiangxia County was looted by the Jiangdong Army, although it is now recovered, but the people's livelihood is withering, and it is a time when there is no success, Jingzhou must ensure the survival of the people of Jiangxia County.

Liu Biao even wrote: The virtuous brother has always been benevolent and righteous, and he will never watch the people suffer, and he also asked the virtuous brother to understand the difficulties of being a brother and persist for a longer period of time.

When Liu Bei received such a reply, he felt like he was lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot.

There was a shortage of food in the army, and the soldiers would complain if they couldn't eat enough, and some people sent by Cai Mao were constantly stirring up, and Liu Beijun was in chaos.

If it was Liu Bei before, he would definitely be in a hurry.

Now it's different, with the existence of Xu Shu, Liu Bei quickly stabilized the situation.

Xu Shu immediately took remedy, let Liu Bei open the treasury and give various rewards, and stabilized the army's morale as quickly as possible. At the same time, Xu Shu even arranged for some old people in the army to go to the soldiers who had newly joined Liu Bei's army, shouting about the cold and asking for warmth, remembering the bittersweet memories, and working together.

Most of the soldiers in these years were uneducated and scheming, and it didn't take much time to be united.

Liu Beijun's crisis has been temporarily alleviated. Xu Shu understood that grain and grass would not be so abundant in the future, so after discussing with Liu Bei, he appointed Mi Zhu as the person in charge of grain and grass in the whole army to purchase from other places.

Mi Zhu himself is a businessman, and he is familiar with this kind of thing, and he uses his ability in business to get a lot of money for Liu Bei, but these cannot fundamentally solve the problem of Liu Bei's lack of food and grass. The main reason is that Liu Bei's capital to Mi Zhu is too small. Mi Zhu has no way to increase his profits beyond his ability.

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, Liu Bei re-attached importance to this brother-in-law, Liu Bei was secretly glad that he was wise and martial at the beginning, and did not let this money-making expert go.

Cai Mao saw that Yin had no effect, so he adopted the countermeasures of his staff, and issued an order to transfer troops openly, asking Liu Bei to transfer troops and horses to Jiangxia to assist in the garrison, and did not dispatch many people at one time, just like 2,000 people.

Liu Bei can't help it now, and he can't get along for two thousand people and Cai Mao. Xu Shu knew that since Cai Mao could dispatch two thousand people at one time, there would definitely be a second, third, and fourth time, until Liu Bei's forces were directly weakened to the point where Cai Mao could not be dangerous.

Xu Shu said: "Lord, you must not promise Cai Mao!" ”

"Yuan Zhi, this official knows Cai Mao's intentions, if there is a first time, there will be a second time, but now that we send someone to the fence, if we don't agree, Cai Mao will definitely attack us in the name of rebellion." Liu Bei was very helpless, Cai Mao used a yang scheme, and he couldn't agree if he didn't agree.

"Lord, there is a law below to ensure that Cai Dejun has no reason to trouble the lord." Xu Shu said with a smile.

"The plan will be released!" Liu Bei was excited, having a military advisor is different.

Xu Shu gently said his plan next to Liu Bei's big ear, Liu Bei's face became a little solemn when he heard it, and said, "Yuan Zhi, isn't it a little unkind. ”

"Lord, this is also a last resort!" Xu Shu persuaded.

After Liu Bei thought about it for a while, he still implemented it according to Xu Shu's strategy, and now he didn't want to be slaughtered by others.

Liu Bei began his own countermeasures, and he gave Mi Fang this task to do.

For a while, there were a lot of bandits and bandits around Xinye, they didn't know where they came from, they came out all of a sudden, and they specially picked the counties around Xinye to do it, robbing some rich families and wealthy families, and they didn't pay attention to the people who didn't have much oil and water.

What's more, these thieves are all ruthless, and they have harmed those rich and wealthy families so badly that even the defenders of the county town have no way for them.

And there is nothing wrong with Shinno alone.

The guards around Xinye hurriedly asked Liu Bei for help, but Liu Bei refused in great embarrassment on the grounds that he did not have a military order and dispatch order from Lord Shi. In fact, this was Xu Shu's strategy, to disrupt the situation in the neighboring counties, and let the other garrison generals speak for Liu Bei.

When the surrounding guards saw this posture, they really couldn't embarrass Liu Bei, so they could only carry it themselves, anyway, these thieves couldn't threaten their safety now.

Xu Shu felt that Mi Fang was not ruthless enough, so he gave an order for Mi Fang to attack the defenders to expand his strength.

Mi Fang led Liu Bei's troops who disguised themselves as thieves, and with the help of Xu Shu's advice, attacked the defenders of a county town and beheaded the main general.

Xu Shu ordered Mi Fang to make this matter as big as possible, and it was best to make the other guards feel scared.

Mi Fang naturally followed Xu Shu's orders, he killed all the defenders, then seized their ordnance, and also waved the banner of the Yellow Turban Party to attack other counties.

As soon as the banner of the Yellow Turban Party was played, the whole Jingzhou was in chaos. Jingzhou has not encountered a yellow turban for many years, and people have forgotten the word yellow scarf.

At first, Cai Mao thought that Liu Bei was responsible for the bandits around Xinye, and the purpose was to refuse his order to transfer troops, but Mi Fang played the banner of the Yellow Turban Party, and Cai Mao dispelled Liu Bei's suspicion. Liu Bei is a relative of the Han family, which is recognized by the world, the Yellow Turban Party is to overthrow the Han Dynasty, how could a Han clan member do something to overthrow his own rule, this is not reasonable and logical.

Xu Shu caught a little bit and helped Liu Bei deceive everyone.

Mi Fang broke through several county seats, and his momentum became bigger and bigger, absorbing a lot of troops and displaced people. At the same time, he also pretended to attack Xinye under Xu Shu's hint. Of course, it's impossible to really fight.

Liu Bei also raised his army and attacked decently, and the two staged a good show together.

In the end, Mi Fang performed a posture of being afraid of Liu Bei's strength and turning to other counties to attack. Liu Bei continued to stay in Xinye, and did not dispatch a single soldier.

Liu Bei's outstanding performance attainments made his reputation improve a lot again in the Nanyang generation, and many people who had not yet received the scourge of Mi Fang dragged their families to Xinye, thinking that the powerful Liu Bei and Liu Xuande could protect their safety. This has increased the population of Xinye County in disguise. Liu Bei appeared in person again, constantly comforting the people, shouting for warmth, so that the people could feel his benevolence and righteousness, and they could live in Xinye forever.

Sure enough, the people were very moved, where were there officials who were so considerate of the people in these years, and they were willing to stay in Xinye.

This was planned by Xu Shu in advance.

In this way, let alone Cai Mao, even Liu Biao can't sit still.

Liu Biao immediately wrote a letter of condolence to Liu Bei, which was almost all brotherhood and friendship of the same clan, and finally symbolically asked Liu Bei why he did not pursue the Yellow Turban in the case of a big victory, which led to the misery of the people of Nanyang.

Liu Bei sneered in his heart, brotherhood and friendship of the same clan? When I used the knife before, I didn't think of this.

Liu Bei wrote a touching letter, indicating that due to the shortage of food and grass, the soldiers' combat effectiveness was low, and many soldiers fought hungry. If you pursue, I'm afraid you'll be counterattacked.

At the end of the letter, Liu Bei also expressed concern about the situation in Jingzhou. If Jingzhou continues to be chaotic like this, then Cao Cao and Liu Yu, who border Jingzhou, may not be able to resist their ambitions and make a move on Jingzhou.

Liu Bei's brain couldn't think of this, this was taught to him by Liu Bei's military advisor Xu Shu.

Xu Shu and Liu Bei still underestimated Liu Biao too much. Liu Biao is a figure who single-handedly dealt with Jingzhou, and it can be seen from Liu Bei's reply that Liu Bei is worried about Liu Biao on the surface, but in fact, he is threatening him with this.

"Liu Xuande, you are not a son of man!" The elegant Sven Liu Tingshi scolded loudly.

scolded is scolded, but Liu Biao has to think about the consequences. As Liu Bei said, if the yellow turban is left alone, it will definitely mess up the entire Jingzhou. In the end, Cao Cao and Liu Yu must have been cheaper.

Liu Biao is old and just wants to protect his one-third of an acre. Fighting for domination in the world, such a dangerous thing, Liu Biao has long experienced enough. Liu Biao knew that whether it was Liu Bei, Cao Cao, or Sun Ce, they were all hungry wolves, ready to bite when he wasn't paying attention. Even Liu Yu is not a good bird in Liu Biao's eyes, and Liu Biao estimates that Liu Yu is now thinking about how to bring Jingzhou under his rule.

Isn't Liu Bei a living example? I was really blind to put this white-eyed wolf into Jingzhou, but now I actually threaten my own Jingzhou assassin history.

Liu Biao secretly hated that he was too old, if he was ten years younger, would he still be threatened by Liu Bei? He was killed with a backhand.

But now Liu Biao can only be aggrieved and agree to Liu Bei's request for grain and grass.

Xiangyang quickly sent Liu Bei the grain and grass that had been deducted before, and Cai Mao couldn't oppose it if he wanted to. Liu Biaoyi said that if Liu Bei was not allowed to send troops, he would let Cai Mao destroy the Yellow Turban by himself. Cai Mao, who was timid and afraid of death, did not agree, and at the same time, Liu Biao looked at him with an unkind face, and Cai Mao could only swallow his anger.

Liu Biao also wrote a letter to Liu Bei, hoping that Liu Bei would focus on the overall situation and eliminate the Yellow Turban Party that caused chaos in the world.

Liu Bei received the letter from the grain and grass and Liu Biao, and he was happy to bloom, and smiled at Xu Shu: "Strategist, Liu Jingsheng really sent the grain and grass, and our plan was successful." ”

Obviously it was Xu Shu's strategy, but Liu Bei insisted that it was us, and it was really thick-skinned.

Xu Shu was silent, still thinking about other strategies in his heart.

"Strategist, do we need to send troops to attack, and then let Mi Fang come back." Liu Bei was smiling all over his face, and his mouth was almost closed.

"Nope! That's not enough! Such a little food and grass will send us away, when we are asking for food! Xu Shu said with a firm face.

Liu Bei was shocked, could it be that Xu Shu had other plans?

Xu Shu stuck to Liu Bei's big ears again and said his plan softly.

Liu Bei showed excited eyes after hearing this, and immediately agreed to Xu Shu's plan.

Next, Liu Bei sent troops, almost except for the remaining troops, all other troops were invested, and he completely had the posture of eliminating thieves for the country.

Before Liu Bei sent out the troops, he spoke impassionedly in front of the whole army and the people.

But in fact, Liu Bei started acting again.

Liu Bei informed Mi Fang in advance when his army would arrive, and Mi Fang immediately moved, and even attacked other county seats.

With the existence of such a strategist as Xu Shu, Liu Bei and Mi Fang staged a chase show in Nanyang. It's just that the garrison generals in Nanyang counties are suffering, they can hear all kinds of rumors every day, and they are wary of the Yellow Turban Party led by Mi Fang every day. Some counties with lax defense were broken by Mi Fang. The guard, of course, was killed.

The situation in Nanyang is not getting better at all.

As a result, Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, was greatly dissatisfied, and gave an order to ask Liu Bei why he allowed the yellow turban to run rampant.

Of course, Liu Bei has a reason, this was originally planned by Xu Shu.

Liu Bei talked about his heart of eliminating thieves for the country and the people, and almost dedicated his life to the Han Dynasty. It's just that the Yellow Turban thieves in Nanyang have become a climate, and the garrison generals of each county are their own masters, so they can't form a unified dispatch, and intelligence and troops can't be concentrated, giving the Yellow Turban thieves an opportunity to take advantage of. Liu Bei hoped that Lord Assassin Shi would be able to give correct tactical guidance.

When Liu Biao heard this, he was so angry that he opened the table.

"Liu Xuande! You've got a lot of skills! That's not enough food and grass to stuff your mouth! Liu showed what Liu Bei was thinking, Liu Bei wanted the command of the army in Nanyang.

Liu Biao felt that he was calculated by Liu Bei, which led to a dilemma now.

"Liu Xuande, the old man let you be arrogant for a while. Isn't that it? The old man gives it to you! "Liu Biao is a hero, and he can endure things that ordinary people can't bear.

Liu Biao wrote a letter to Liu Bei again, and by the way, he brought what Liu Bei wanted, a letter of appointment.

In his letter, Liu Biao highly praised Liu Bei's heart for the country and the people, and expressed his approval of Liu Bei's opinions. Now the wise Jingzhou Assassin Liu Jingsheng appointed the Xinye garrison general as the general of the Dangkou, temporarily leading the Nanyang military, and the Nanyang generals must support and jointly exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves.

Liu Biao played a game of words, not only writing the word "temporary", but also not asking the general of Nanyang to obey Liu Bei's command, leaving a lot of leeway for himself.

Liu Bei was very dissatisfied, Liu Biao's appointment was equivalent to not saying anything.

Xu Shu thinks that Liu Bei has now realized the established plan, and he can no longer stimulate Liu Biao, lest Liu Biao jump off the wall in a hurry, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Liu Bei naturally understood what Xu Shu meant, didn't Liu Biao say that he was temporary, then he would be able to let the Yellow Turban Party continue to exist in Nanyang. Anyway, Mi Fang is his subordinate, and when will it be calmed down is not Liu Bei's words.

Liu Bei was prosperous in Nanyang County and became a force in Jingzhou that attracted the attention of many people.