"What does Kong Ming mean is that this time the king was not Cao Cao's personal doing, but his subordinates?"

Liu Qi is not a fool, Zhuge Liang said this point, it would be strange if he couldn't think of it, think about it carefully, according to Cao Cao's cunning personality, how could he force the Son of Heaven to issue such a clear-eyed person, and he didn't know that beating was abnormal.

In this way, there is only one explanation, that is, it was all spontaneous by Cao Cao's subordinates, although he knew that it was not Cao Cao himself, but Liu Qi's face did not look good, but became even more ugly, he hung down the case fiercely, and gritted his teeth and said: "A group of ungrateful people, a group of unkind and unrighteous guys, they eat my big Han and Lu, but they are the forerunner of Cao Wei, damn it, really damn it!" ”

Even if it is a good gentleman like Liu Qi, who usually looks like a very good-natured person, he is already a murderer at this time, after all, the big man, according to the words of later generations, is equivalent to the family business of the Liu clan's family, in Liu Qi's view, the ministers under Cao Cao are pulling the money they distribute, but they are doing things that destroy their own foundation.

"No, I can't let Cao Cao go on to grow bigger, otherwise one day, my Han family will eventually fall in their hands, I immediately went to meet my father, and asked him to issue a message, lead the princes of the world, send troops north, and crusade against Cao Cao!"

Looking at Liu Qi, who was anxious and shaking a feather fan, Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly, and said loudly: "Did the lord have thought that the lord already knows, so will Liu Zhoumu, who is the pastor of Jingzhou, not know." ”

Zhuge Liang's words, at first glance, seem to be a bull's head and a horsetail, but Liu Qi heard it clearly, and his colleagues also understood the meaning of Zhuge Liang's words.

"This, this, maybe Father, just hasn't made up his mind yet. As long as I tried to persuade my father, I could always persuade him to send troops to the north. ”

Liu Qi shook his head and talked to the end. The voice gradually weakened, just as the so-called knowing son Mo Ruo's father, and vice versa, Liu Qi, as Liu Biao's parent, he understands better than anyone else. At this time, Liu Biao was not the person who rode into Jingzhou alone and had great ambitions, but an old man who only wanted to spend his old age in peace and protect the one-third of Jingzhou's acre.

"Is there no way, Kong Ming, you must ask for the Great Han, beg the Great Han Jiangshan!" Liu Qi was a little desperate, but when he saw Zhuge Liang sitting peacefully, hope rose in his heart, and he grabbed his hand and said in a loud voice.

"My lord. Fa Liang said a long time ago that if you want to save the Han Dynasty, the lord must become the pastor of Jingzhou, and Jingzhou is a place where the lord is given by God to revitalize the Han family, why is the lord hesitating! ”

As early as the beginning, when Zhuge Liang was loyal to Liu Qi, he offered a strategy, that is, to take advantage of Liu Biao's gradual decentralization of power, to erect Liu Biao and obtain the power of Jingzhou, and only that's it. was able to use all his strength to revitalize the Han family as quickly as possible, but unfortunately, this strategy was rejected by Liu Qi at the beginning.

How Liu Qi didn't know. Zhuge Liang's original strategy was very good for himself, as long as he obeyed Zhuge Liang's deployment, he Liu Qi would be able to become the next Jingzhou pastor, and even before that, he would be able to overhead Liu Biao. set life and death and snatched it together, but when he thought of his father, who was already dying, and thought of what happened when he was a child, Liu Qi couldn't bear this heart.

"Kong Ming doesn't need to say much, even if my father is old and has no ambitions, but it is impossible for me to do such a thing to my father, and I don't want to hear Kong Ming say such things in the future!"

Looking at Liu Qi with a firm face in front of him, Zhuge Liang secretly sighed in his heart, for Liu Qi to be able to endure his ** in the face of power and not do such a thing, Zhuge Liang admired it very much, but Liu Qi's character is not suitable to be a lord.

However, at this time, among the people who can be assisted by the Han family, there is only one Liu Qi left as the best candidate, so even if Zhuge Liang mixed admiration and disappointment in his heart, he did not give birth to the mentality of giving up Liu Qi, but shook the feather fan and thought of other methods.

Inside the room, it was quiet all of a sudden, and all that could be heard was the sound of the water droplets outside the room, ticking one drop at a time.

"Lord, if you don't choose the first strategy, then there is another strategy here, borrow a knife to kill!"

"Murder with a knife? Kong Ming, hurry up! ”

Zhuge Liang got up, came to the room on the hanging map, the feather fan was lightly placed on the top, and said to Liu Qi, who looked over: "Lord, please look, today, the strongest power is Cao Cao, whose people rule the northern land, and the elite soldiers under his command are countless, and the civil and military are all outstanding people in the world, and the remaining princes in the world are only Sun Jian, who rules Jiangdong, Liu Zhang, who rules Yizhou, and the remnants of the warlords Ma Teng and Dong Zhuo in Xiliang, as well as Liu Zhoumu, who rules Jingzhou, although Sun Jian in Jiangdong has been recuperating for several years, the soldiers are strong and strong, However, due to the external invasion of the southern barbarians, even if this person wants to send troops to the north, it is unlikely that in the short term, Jingzhou and Yizhou"

Zhuge Liang shook his head, Liu Qi's face flashed with some embarrassment, looked at the map, and changed the topic: "Kong Ming, the borrowed knife is not the Xiliang princes?" ”

Liu Qi changed the topic, Zhuge Liang didn't say much, and continued: "Exactly, today, if you are still fighting with Cao Cao, there are only the remnants of Ma Teng and Dong Zhuo in Xiliang, and these three parties, around Chang'an, have been fighting for more than a year, and this is the opportunity for the lord." ”

"Xiliang since ancient times, the people are fierce, the soldiers' combat strength is the highest in the world, and the Xiliang area is close to the outside of the Saiwai, the cavalry troops, compared with the inland and the south, can be regarded as a lot, however, Xiliang has a shortcoming, it is the bitter cold, the bitter cold of the Xiliang, resulting in the time of the Xiliang army's expedition, greatly short, which is also one of the reasons why Cao Cao's generals Le Jin were able to hold Chang'an for more than a year."

Liu Qi looked at Zhuge Liang, who sat back opposite him, and said thoughtfully: "Kong Ming wants to let me Jingzhou support Ma Teng and others?" ”

"Exactly, Jingzhou is rich, but Jingzhou, which has been peaceful for a long time, is the army has no fighting heart, on the other hand, Xiliang, years of war, soldiers and soldiers, at this time, if you can have the financial support of Jingzhou, coupled with the fierceness of the soldiers of Xiliang, it is enough to make Cao Cao not at peace for a period of time, and even be able to form an alliance with the princes of Xiliang, and wait until the future, attack Cao Cao from both sides." (To be continued.) )