A fast horse galloped into the city of Chengdu, and soon, the military report of Longyou's great victory was delivered to the face of Liu Chan, the son of heaven.

Liu Chan stretched out his chubby fingers and scratched his chubby face. The flesh on his face swayed and swayed, making a microwave.

"Prime Minister...... Not coming back? Liu Chan blinked his eyes and looked at Dong Yun puzzled: "If he doesn't come back, who will preside over the reward?" ”

Dong Yun's face was serious, but a hint of pride flashed in his eyes. "Bixia, the prime minister has just taken Longyou, everything is waiting to be lifted, and I am afraid that I will not return to Chengdu in a short time. However, in the absence of the prime minister, the matter of the reward can be handed over to the hussar general. He is the main general of this Nanyang War, and he is the minister of care left by the first emperor to Bixia, and he is responsible for rewarding the merits of the war, which is very suitable. ”

"Oh." Liu Chan nodded as if he didn't understand, held his cheeks, tilted his head, and thought about it. "Where is the hussar general?"

"In Jiangzhou." Dong Yun finally couldn't help laughing, he coughed: "The hussar general has been stationed in Jiangzhou for a long time, and there are many old officials in the old department, this time I triumphed, of course, I have to stop in Jiangzhou." ”

Liu Chan's brows furrowed, and he waved his hand impatiently: "Jiangzhou can go at any time, let him go back to Chengdu quickly." If the prime minister doesn't come back, no one will take care of this mess. ”

"Yui." Dong Yun hurriedly responded, said a few more words, and got up to say goodbye.

When Dong Yun left, Liu Chan got up in a hurry, trotted to the Jiaofang Palace, and said breathlessly: "Queen, queen......"

Empress Zhang hurriedly greeted her, and was startled when she saw Liu Chan's appearance. “bixia。 You're ......."

"The prime minister won't go back to Chengdu, the prime minister won't go back to Chengdu, he wants Li Yan to preside over the reward, Wei Ba is fine."

Empress Zhang suddenly realized and couldn't help but smile. After Wei Ba left Wancheng, news about him kept coming. First, his self-impeachment form arrived in Chengdu, and then Lai Min wrote to Bixia as an old minister of the East Palace, crying out for Wei Ba, and then the report of the little spy Zhang Xingcai also came. Zhang Xingcai followed Wei Ba all the way to Xiangguan, and then to Jiaozhou. All the way to the shores of the sea. Had fun along the way, ate happily and were in a very good mood. After she reported to the Son of Heaven what she had seen and heard along the way and a lot of delicious and fun things, she added: Wei Ba is good. Under his rule. The people's livelihood in Jiaozhou is stable. Thriving.

Liu Chan didn't have the intention of condemning Wei Ba, in his opinion, Wei Ba did indeed do something out of line this time. Dare to pretend to be the prime minister's handwriting, and what is even more ridiculous is to dare to privately engrave the prime minister's seal, which is a big crime no matter how you say it. However, daring to do something on the prime minister's head, Liu Chan has a lot of admiration for Wei Ba, these are all wishes that he can't even think of, and Wei Baquan helps him complete it.

However, although Liu Chan had the intention to favor Wei Ba, he didn't have the guts. He could only send Wei Ba's self-impeachment form to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and as for what to do with the Prime Minister's Mansion, then he just asked. These days, he has been spending his time in anxiety and anticipation - uneasiness because he is afraid that the prime minister will take the opportunity to deal with Wei Ba, and anticipation because the interesting things that Zhang Xingcai helped him collect are on the way. While looking forward to it, he was worried that after Wei Ba was disposed of, these things would be the first time and the first time he was zuihou.

Now, the prime minister did not come back, nor did he express his opinion on Wei Ba's treatment, but pushed the matter to Li Yan, and Liu Chan felt much more relieved. In his opinion, Li Yan and Wei Ba have been fighting side by side for so long, which is somewhat affectionate, and Li Yan has always been at odds with the prime minister, so he will definitely favor Wei Ba, maybe Wei Ba can escape because of this.

……

Jiangzhou, Li Yan looked at the documents that had just been delivered, and then looked at his son Li Feng, and laughed angrily. He flicked his sleeves and smiled contemptuously: "The prime minister is really a good means, hiding in the pass and not coming back, but he handed over this problem to me." Did he really think he could just dodge? ”

Seeing his father so calm, Li Feng's mood was a little lighter. After he received Bixia's edict, he immediately realized the difficulty of this, so he rushed to it day and night. Wei Ba offended Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang didn't deal with it himself, but pushed this matter to his father Li Yan, how should his father deal with it? accepted Wei Ba's self-impeachment form, and punished Wei Ba, which was to be a villain for Zhuge Liang and turn his face against Wei Ba; If Wei Ba is not dealt with, it will be perverting the law for personal gain, and he may even be charged with forming a party for personal gain.

It's a dilemma. Li Feng couldn't think of a more hode way to solve this problem, and now that his father didn't think so, he could finally rest assured.

Seeing Li Feng's relieved appearance, Li Yan couldn't help frowning. He was disappointed by his son's helplessness. Wei Ba is much younger than him, but he can swing vertically and horizontally in the court, advance and retreat freely, and even make waves, while Li Feng is standing in the near future, and he is in a hurry when he encounters a little thing, where does he have the demeanor to do big things?

Could it be that the glory of my Li family can only end with me? If you want to continue your wealth, you can only rely on Ma Jian and Wei Ba to take care of it?

Li Yan was a little unwilling, but there was no more way to do it for a while. He pondered for a long time: "You go to Jiaozhou." ”

"Going to Jiaozhou?" Li Feng was surprised: "What are you going to do in Jiaozhou, what should I do in Chengdu?" ”

"You go to meet Wei Ba, I'll come by myself about Chengdu." Li Yan sighed and suddenly remembered Hu Zhong. If Hu Zhong is not Zhuge Liang's person, this matter can be handed over to Hu Zhong, and Hu Zhong will definitely be able to handle things properly.

Pity.

……

In March, Xuwen County, Hepu County.

The turquoise water rattled against the white sand on the shore, and then slowly receded. The warm and slightly fishy sea breeze blows refreshingly. Tall coconut palms line the coast, like sentinels, guarding this rich land.

Wei Ba was dressed in a spring shirt, holding his legs, sitting on a reef, looking at the island in the distance, which was just a line, and he was a little distracted for a while. That island is called Hainan Island in later generations, now called Zhuyazhou, in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhuya has been divided into the territory of the Han Dynasty, placed Zhuya, Dan'er two counties, to the Han Zhao Emperor, the national strength is not good, can not be effectively controlled, the province of Dan'er, merged into Zhuya, to the Yuan Emperor, even Zhuya is stopped, retreat to the north of the strait.

It's not that the Han people don't want to occupy this land, it's that the internal friction in the court has consumed the national strength, and the heart is more than enough but the strength is insufficient.

If you don't talk about the Mengyuan Empire, which has nothing to do with the Han people, it is said that the territory of the Manchu Empire also surpassed that of the Han Dynasty. However, the expansion of the Manchu territory mainly came from the incorporation of Xinjiang and Tibet into the Chinese territory, and the others were not larger than the territory of the Han Dynasty. Later, Vietnam was still only a part of the Great Han Jiaozhou, and it was only after hundreds of years that it broke away from the control of the Han Dynasty and established itself independently, and Zuihou became an adversary.

Wei Ba didn't know if history would go that way.

"If you can live this life on that island, it will be a happy thing in life." Wei Ba pointed to the sea and sky in the distance, and said with a smile: "I don't know if the hussar general can fulfill my wish." ”

Li Feng smiled bitterly, looked at Zhang Xingcai who was running barefoot on the beach in the distance, listened to Wei Yinglan's excited shout, pouted, and said in his heart, General Zhennan, don't pretend anymore. If you are really willing to give up everything and return to this broken island, no one can stop you. There are more people who have signed their jobs, and you bring your family to that island, even if you are called emperor behind closed doors, no one will care about you. The question is, can you?

Li Feng knew very well that it was impossible for Wei Ba to really give up his existing interests, and this was understood by anyone with a clear mind. He rushed all the way from Chengdu, and after entering Wei Ba's jurisdiction, he heard a lot of rumors, some expressed dissatisfaction, some expressed anger, and the generals who had just returned from the victory in Kunyang even threatened him that if General Zhennan was really dismissed by the hussar general, the hussar general would go out on the expedition in the future, and he would not want them to contribute a little more.

Li Feng is not shrewd enough, but he is not a fool, he knows very well the consequences of making enemies with Wei Ba, not to mention that he still came here with a request.

Li Yan asked him to come to Jiaozhou to find Wei Ba, but he didn't simply ask what Wei Ba meant, there was no need to ask at all, Li Yan knew it clearly. Li Yan wants to make a deal with Wei Ba.

In other words, Li Yan asked Wei Ba to help him again.

Zhuge Liang took Longyou, and then changed Wei Yan from the general of Zhenbei to the general of Zhenxi, and still led the former military division, it seems that the official position has not been promoted, but giving Wei Yan the opportunity to take Liangzhou is to show favor to Wei Ba. After Wei Jun withdrew from Longyou, taking Liangzhou was like probing for things, and it didn't take any effort at all, with Wei Yan's ability, what was the difference between letting him go to Liangzhou and sending credit to him?

Zhuge Liang's intentions were very clear, and while he appeased Wei Yan, he retained the initiative to punish Wei Ba. If he punishes Wei Ba, Wei Ba is for Wei Yan's meritorious service, as long as Zhuge Liang does not do too much, he will not resist too much, and if Zhuge Liang only has a verbal reprimand and does not harm Wei Ba's actual interests, then he is extrajudicial to Wei Ba. If he goes further, he recognizes Wei Ba's overstepping his authority, thinking that this is an expedient measure, and the merits outweigh the faults, for Wei Ba, this is Hong Enhao.

However, only Zhuge Liang can do these things, Li Yan can't do them. Whether Li Yan deals with Wei Ba or not, it is a tricky matter. Zhuge Liang handed over this matter to him, which really tested Li Yan's wisdom, but this was not just as simple as embarrassing Li Yan, he was laying the groundwork for the next battle.

Li Yan took Nanyang, Zhuge Liang took Longyou, whose credit is greater? It seems that it is evenly divided, and Li Yan also took the lead and had a slight upper hand. But if you take a longer view, it's a different story. Zhuge Liang took Longyou, but did not return to the court, but made persistent efforts, and then sent Wei Yan to take Liangzhou.

This is not good news, which shows that Zhuge Liang has no intention of ignoring Li Yan's challenge at all, and he wants to use greater combat exploits to overwhelm Li Yan.

After starting with Liangzhou, he had a source of war horses, so he could form cavalry, and then, he could wave his army to the east, directly take Hedong and Merge Prefecture, until he recovered all the land belonging to Shu in the distribution plan with Wu, and completed the immortal achievement of recovering the Han Dynasty.

But what else can Li Yan do? He couldn't do anything. He could only sit in Chengdu and watch Zhuge Liang make contributions. At that time, Zhuge Liang didn't need to say a word at all, and he could easily make him retreat...... (To be continued......)