Early in the morning, Zhang Fei took the appointment letter and went directly to the government office, he was going to see Liu Qi, and resigned in person to let him be appointed as the county order.

However, when Zhang Fei came to the door of the mansion, he also ate a closed door. The difference is that Zhang Fei doesn't have such a good temper, since Liu Qi didn't see him, he simply threw all the appointment letter and seal ribbon to the doorman guarding the door, along with Guan Yu's appointment letter and seal ribbon, and then patted his ass and walked away.

The guards guarding the door hurriedly informed Liu Qi, who was in the palace, who heard that Zhang Fei had handed over the seals of him and Guan Yu, and resigned from the office, although he was not very happy, but he could not do anything.

After all, there are policies and countermeasures, and Liu Qi is not ready to press step by step, for fear of forcing Zhang Fei to be in a hurry, and then with Zhang Fei's force, who can hold him?

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are both enemies of 10,000 people, and they are also Liu Bei's sworn brothers, judging from this matter alone, it seems impossible to separate Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei by simple means.

So, Liu Qi waved his hand, and it was just like that, if he wanted to completely separate Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, there was only other way.

Liu Qi doesn't care about whether Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will take office, what he cares about is whether Liu Bei will lead the army to Nanyang to take office, if Liu Bei doesn't go, it will be easy to do, that is, disobey orders, directly dismiss, and then he can do whatever he wants, in this way, it is Liu Bei who is at fault first, so no one will say that he is really unloading and killing donkeys.

Liu Qi sent his henchmen to spy on Liu Bei. Let's see if Liu Bei has any movement today. Half an hour later, the henchman came back to tell him that Liu Bei had ordered all the 10,000 soldiers and horses in his department. has already been on the road, and the rest of the army has been handed over to Yokono General Huang Zhong, who led the army and went to the barracks to report to the military division general Sima Yi.

That is to say, although Sima Yi's strategy was not able to divide Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, it pulled Huang Zhong back over. Becoming his direct subordinate is undoubtedly a good thing for Liu Qi.

Another half hour passed. Sima Yi took Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong, four newly promoted generals, all to the palace hall and officially came to see Liu Qi, the governor of the capital.

Liu Qi naturally had good words, and constantly cheered up the four newly promoted generals. And these four generals will be relied on by Jingzhou in the future.

These days. Jingzhou has undergone a series of changes, and after the changes in the wind and clouds, the sky above Jingzhou has gradually become clearer. Zhang Xiu surrendered, Cai was uprooted, Liu Bei was transferred to Xinye, and most importantly, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao finally handed over all the power to his eldest son Liu Qi. Let Liu Qi take full charge of the affairs of Jingzhou, after suffering defeat. Liu Biao seems to have changed as a person, and began to ignore Jingzhou, and lived in the mansion with peace of mind.

Two days later, Liu Biao gathered civil and military officials at all levels in Xiangyang City and officially announced that he had stepped down and that all his positions and powers would be succeeded by his son Liu Qi.

In today's Jingzhou officialdom, there is no Cai, and there is no opposition, and the methods used by Liu Qi to deal with the Cai family also show his amazing moves, and it also makes those people remain more silent.

In addition, Liu Biao also wrote a special article for people to announce to the entire Jingzhou, and since then, he has completely retreated into the background.

According to Sima Yi's suggestion, Liu Qi first put forward the "I am the most talented" recruitment policy, as long as you think you are talented and capable, you can come to Xiangyang to sign up, after passing a series of assessments, you can directly become an official, and then show your talents.

I have to say that this so-called "I am the most talented" is actually modeled after the imperial examination system held by Zhang Yan, but it is just a change of soup but not a change of medicine, and it is adopted in an emergency, so it will look a little rough.

But the difference is that the "I am the most talented" advocated by Sima Yi is not limited to civil and military affairs, literati can come, and martial artists can also come. For the current Jingzhou, what is lacking is not a civilian official, but a military attaché. Because Jingzhou is located in the south, and this area is fertile with water and soil, it is a natural treasure land, and there has been no turmoil, so the whole region tends to be stable, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no such fierce folk customs as close to the northern ethnic minorities.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou was turbulent, but Jingzhou became a place of escape, and Liu Biao wantonly provided necessary schools for scholars who came to Jingzhou for refuge, so Jingzhou also became a place of university in the world. Perhaps because of the edification, various counties have also established schools, and Lang Lang's reading can be heard every time.

Moreover, Liu Biao also attaches more importance to literati, believing that intelligence is the only way to solve problems, so there are more literati and fewer martial artists in Jingzhou, coupled with the uncontrolled oppression of the army by Cai's party, so that the enthusiasm to join the army is not very high, and the phenomenon of eating vacancies is also relatively common, and corruption is more serious. Therefore, Jingzhou's army may be okay to use to protect the territory and the people, but it is really used in the war, which is simply a plate of scattered sand.

Liu Biao's war against Zhang Yan this time is a very good example, although the number of troops is large, but they have not been fought, once engaged, they can immediately distinguish the advantages and disadvantages.

Sima Yi happened to see this drawback in Jingzhou, so he thought about rebuilding an army belonging to Jingzhou, and when he killed Cai's party, he killed many corrupt generals in the army, resulting in the middle leadership of the army being broken, so Sima Yi thought of relying on "I am the most talented" to select new and young generals, inject fresh blood into the army, and hope to make Jingzhou's existing army glow with new vitality.

When the first fire is over, the second fire will follow, that is, to replace the unqualified officials in Jingzhou with the people in the first fire, and to reconstruct the middle leadership of the army. Then, the third fire is to train the army while rectifying the rule of officials.

When the time is ripe, he will let Zhang Yan lead the army south, and then persuade Liu Qi to surrender to Zhang Yan, so as to achieve the goal of taking Jingzhou without blood.

Once Zhang Yan went south to Jingzhou, he would inevitably take advantage of the victory, his first target must be the Sun clan in Jiangdong, then the army of Jingzhou will come in handy, perhaps Zhang Yan will let Sima Yi lead the army of Jingzhou, down the river, directly to Nanchang, and Zhao Yun's army located in the east of Nanchang, as well as the army of Zhang Liao and Gan Ning on the north bank of the Yangtze River, forming a three-sided attack, so as to capture Jiangdong in one fell swoop and destroy Sun.

After Jiangzhou and Jiangdong were destroyed, then only Yizhou was left in the world and was not pacified, and then Sima Yi took the initiative to ask for orders to pacify Shudi, so that the world could be unified.

Of course, this plan was conceived by Sima Yi, and he also said in the letter he had just asked Zhou Yuncong to send out of Lu that as long as Zhang Yan nodded and agreed, within five years, Zhang Yan would definitely be able to pacify the world and establish immortal merits, and his name Sima Yi would also be remembered by history for his dedication to Jingzhou, Pingjiangdong, and Dingbashu.

Although Sima Yi is very young, he has deeply understood the truth of the law of the jungle, and after Zhou Yuncong revealed his identity, Sima Yi also stayed awake all night.

He is choosing, whether to choose to resist Zhang Yan and change his life against the sky, or choose to adapt to the situation and build momentum with the momentum.

In the end, Sima Yi made his choice, he chose the latter, he was unwilling to change his life against the sky, because the probability was too small, and Zhang Yan had already taken advantage of the time, place, and people, if he wanted to extract teeth from the tiger's mouth, it was very dangerous, and if he was not careful, he might even lose his life.

Moreover, Sima Yi felt even more enthusiastic when he learned that everything Zhang Yan had done to him was a huge conspiracy, and he was also willing to accept this great challenge in order to show Zhang Yan his strength.

Facts have proved that Sima Yi did it, and he did it very well, and now he has become a person under one person and above ten thousand people in Jingzhou, and he is one step closer to what he wants to do. Then the next step, it's time to start cultivating your own power, and turn Liu Qi into a puppet who can be at his mercy.

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Liu Bei left, and when he left Xiangyang, he didn't look back, and he didn't have any memories of this cold city.

He led only the 10,000 soldiers, most of whom were infantry, and the one who followed him was the personal guard Chen Dao, while Zhang Fei went back to Changsha to find Guan Yu, preparing to take Guan Yu to Xinye together, and the three brothers would reunite together.

When leaving, Liu Qi's other appointment letters were also announced, and the four county guards appointed by him as the governor of Jingnan were all changed by Liu Qi, and Yi, Jiang Wan, Ma Liang and others were all transferred to Xiangyang.

And it wasn't until he left Xiangyang City that Liu Bei figured out that Liu Qi no longer seemed to be the Liu Qi he knew before, that life was threatened everywhere, with a father and no father, and now Liu Qi has changed a person, a cold-blooded, ruthless person, I don't know when the road began. But Liu Bei didn't notice this until the moment he left Xiangyang City.

Perhaps, all of this has something to do with that person, the person who Liu Qi has always obeyed him, Sima Yi.

Liu Bei led the army for several days in a row in frustration, and then came to Chaoyang County.

Chaoyang County and Xinye County both belong to Nanyang, and the two counties also border, but Chaoyang County is to the south of Xinye County. When he arrived in Chaoyang County, Liu Bei got the news from the scouts that after Zhang Xiu led the Han army to occupy Wancheng, the county town of Nanyang County, an army of 5,000 people directly occupied Xinye County.

Xinye County was occupied by Zhang Yan's army, so Liu Bei lost the purpose of this march, so he had the army temporarily stationed in Chaoyang County, and then wrote a letter and sent someone to Liu Qi asking for instructions on the next step. (To be continued......)