"What is the old man's opinion?" A child of the clan asked.

Old Man Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "I have a handful of old bones, what ideas can I have, but I think that Lord Zhou Mu must be blinded for a while, our Chengdu Hao clan should join hands and hold together, no matter how cold-blooded the State Mu is, it is impossible to kill our Chengdu Hao clan like Jiangzhou Hao Clan, right?" Our strength is not comparable to those hillbillies in Jiangzhou.

In addition, I hope that everyone will join me in petitioning the state pastor at the Ghost Festival sacrifice ceremony five days later, the four branches cannot be opposed, but please ask the state pastor to stop the land order and price limit order, and also let our wealthy family have some room to survive. ”

A fat man echoed: "That's right, what kind of land order, we have tied the canals in our own land, see how those mud legs farm, and the price limit order is better said, we simply don't sell it, and within a month, Liu Zhang will have to compromise with us." ”

"No, no." An old man who looked old and dignified said repeatedly: "This is a blatant confrontation with the Mufu, let's not take this step unless it is absolutely necessary." ”

"Why not?"

"Have you forgotten about Jiangzhou?"

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A group of people were arguing with each other, and suddenly a young man who was no more than twenty years old shook a folding fan and said in a clear voice:

"I want to petition you to go, and if you want to fight against the pastoral government, I Liao Li will not accompany you, now the assets of our Liao family in Chengdu are basically transferred, and the land is sold to the government at three times the price, making a lot of money, until the Ghost Festival sacrifices, the day after tomorrow, our Liao family will all move out of Yizhou, but it is ridiculous that you people are still willing to surrender to Liu Zhang's obscenity, and pay for this kind of tyrant."

"Ugh." Old Man Yan sighed helplessly: "Although Liu Zhang is violent, my Yan family has lived here for generations, how can I bear to leave my homeland and leave my hometown." ”

Liao Li said proudly: "Our Liao family is different, we not only have industries in Chengdu, but also in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, Jiangdong Sun Ce is just for his own use, we are going to move to the relatively peaceful Jingzhou this time, take root in Wuling, and have nothing to do with the tyrant Liu Zhang." ”

Liao Li said this, and smiled softly: "But our Liao family is not a ruthless person, we have dealt with you for so many years, and I will give you a good idea to survive, Brazil Pang Xi, with heavy troops, has always been dissatisfied with Liu Zhang, you should contact him more." ”

As soon as Liao Li's words came out, the eyes of the other clans lit up at the same time, and they felt reasonable, the reason why the Chengdu clan could not rebel was because there were no soldiers, if there were Pang Xi's soldiers, the Chengdu Hao clan could contribute countless money and food, and then they would do the internal response, it was not impossible to go down to Chengdu, and now the Yizhou clan was boiling with resentment against Liu Zhang, and Pang Xi's army would inevitably be widely responded.

Just when everyone was showing hope, a voice from a pile came out: "The Liao family is really a good calculation, and before leaving, they will give us a poisonous plan to destroy themselves, Wuling is also a good place, but I don't know if Liu Biao, who is not enterprising, can hold there." ”

Everyone followed the prestige together, only to see a young man sitting comfortably on the beam, looking at the pastoral scenery outside, Liao Li said coldly: "Wu Ban, you are afraid that it is because your clan brother Wu Yi is a general under Liu Zhang, and the clan sister Wu Yuan is married to Liu Zhang's brother Liu Mao, so help Liu Zhang speak." ”

Wu Ban laughed, and said without looking back: "Jingzhou, the place of the four wars, now the peace is just because the princes from all walks of life have not freed their hands, Liu Biao does not want to forge ahead, and he will destroy himself, and there will be a big war in Jingzhou at that time, unless there is a male lord who dominates the world, the war in that place will never be broken, you pick there to take root, and laugh to death." ”

"You ......" Liao Li's mouth trembled, but he couldn't speak.

Old Man Yan stepped forward and said to Wu Ban: "The Wu family is huge, and Wu Bangongzi is here on behalf of the head of the Wu family, does the Wu family want to support Liu Zhang?" ”

Wu Bandao: "I can't talk about support, but as Brother Liao said, our Wu family has too much to do with the state pastor, and we won't do anything rebellious, but this doesn't mean that we will go against you, you have to go to petition, our Wu family will also go, you oppose the land order and the price limit order, we also oppose it, but the so-called collusion with Pang Xi, forgive us for not being able to accompany us, who is Pang Xi?" The dog of Shubei's household, will he be the opponent of the state herdsman? ”

Wu Ban's words were placed in the past, and these clansmen would only think that they were compliments, but after the Battle of Fucheng, these clans all thought that Pang Xi was indeed not Liu Zhang's opponent.

"Collusion with Pang Xi, there will be no recovery, our Wu family will never do it, you can do it yourself."

After Wu Ban finished speaking, he jumped off the crossbar and left, everyone else looked at Old Man Yan, Old Man Yan sighed: "Let's petition first, no one is allowed to contact Pang Xi, wait for changes." ”

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In the early morning of the middle of the moon, the morning light shone softly on the majestic Dongling Platform.

The east spirit platform is the official place of worship, in the center of an artificial lake, the four sides are communicated by the stone bridge, the east and west are the arch bridge, the north and south are the flat bridge, the stone wall of more than ten zhang in length and width stands on the east spirit platform, the altar is all two, there is an iron chain bridge of wooden planks hanging in the air at the top of the stone wall, and the hill on the opposite side is connected.

The seventeen-vertical staircase reached a quarter of the stone wall, each step of the staircase seemed much higher than the normal staircase, some wizards wore red robes, holding a black wood snake-headed staff in their hands, climbed the stone steps with difficulty, some women on the suspended iron chain bridge held incense sticks all over the top of the stone wall, all lit, and suddenly the smoke was filled, and the whole altar was wafting with the smell of altar incense.

Yizhou civil and military officials entered Donglingtai from the arch bridge, and the representatives of the clan also entered from the Pingqiao one after another, and as soon as the Han surnamed Yin raised his eyes, he saw three rows of strange things in the center of the venue, which he had never seen before, and couldn't help but step forward to take a look.

"What is this for?" The big man surnamed Yin really couldn't guess what it was.

"It should be Hu Bed." A child of the clan guessed as he observed.

"Nonsense, how can the Hu bed be so narrow."

Another noble boy propped his chin with his index finger and said: "I think it's a sacrifice, you see it's flat and neat, and there is a retaining wood behind it, just for fear that the sacrifice will fall." ”

"Old man Yan, you are well-informed, what is this?" A young man asked.

Old Man Yan was embarrassed all of a sudden, and he was embarrassed to say that he didn't know, frowning and thinking for a while, and said affirmatively: "According to the old man's observation, this is the Hu bed where the sacrifices are placed. ”

"Oh, I see, old man." All the children of the family nodded knowingly.

At this moment, those high-ranking civil and military officers in Yizhou came over and sat on the "Hu bed where the sacrifices were placed", they had already been told that this was a chair for sitting, and it was also a chair production line set up by Wang Fu, and the first batch of chairs produced, at the request of Liu Zhang, were used to make a propaganda at this festival ceremony.

Old Man Yan's face instantly turned into a ripe persimmon.