"I'm going to get sick." Wei Ba said.

Li Feng looked at Wei Ba in surprise. Wei Ba's face was a little gray, his eye circles were also a little dark, and he didn't look very good. He hurriedly comforted: "Ziyu has been too busy recently, probably tired, just rest more, I don't want to get in the way." ”

Wei Ba blinked his eyes and said it again, word by word: "I'm going to get sick...... Finish. ”

Li Feng was embarrassed, turned his head, and looked at Fa Miao.

The two of them came from Guanzhong to attend Wei Yan's funeral, and during this time, they had private contact with Wei Ba. Wei Ba's strength in the battle of Pengcheng suffered a serious loss, the Wei family's many years of accumulated soldiers, heavy armor, and just formed cavalry were almost lost, and it was impossible to recover in a short time, if you want to speed up the recovery, you will inevitably have to ask Li Yan for help, so Li Feng came here this time in the posture of a benefactor. He was polite on the surface, but the smugness in his demeanor was fully revealed. When I arrived in Yiyang, the first issue to be discussed was the price of horse armor.

Wei Ba didn't speak at the time, but it could be seen that he was very unhappy. Later, for a while, he never saw Li Feng. Li Feng didn't care, he knew that it was possible for Wei Ba to be a little petty at this time, but he didn't dare to let him really turn his face with the Li family's father and son.

Li Feng has no fear.

Now that he heard Wei Ba say that he was going to be sick, Li Feng subconsciously thought that Wei Ba was playing tricks again, and when Wei Ba repeated it, he realized that Wei Ba might have another meaning, but he couldn't hear it.

He had no choice but to ask Famiao for help.

Fa Miao coughed and exchanged a look with Wei Ba: "Someone wants to deal with the general?" ”

Wei Ba nodded. sighed softly: "The tiger fell in Pingyang." The prime minister rejected my suggestion, and wanted to transfer Ma Zhong to preside over the war on the Eastern Front, and to put Zhuge Ke under Lu Xun's account. In order to avoid a greater conflict, I had to get sick. After the funeral for my father, I went back to the fiefdom to recuperate, and my brother would guard the tomb in Yiyang. Major General, you are also careful, the war is dangerous, it is not safer than Chengdu, don't let Guanzhong lose. ”

Li Feng finally understood this time. Zhuge Liang wanted to force the Wei Ba brothers to keep filial piety. Temporarily drive them out of the army. With the strength of the Wei brothers. It is obviously impossible to completely deprive them of military power, but it is entirely possible to use this opportunity to force them to temporarily immobilize in the name of morality. Wei Ba retired for the time being. Then Li Yan lost his strategy. He will face Zhuge Liang's counterattack alone.

Will Wei Ba Weishenme be forced to retire? Because he lost the battle. Strength is impaired. With Wei Ba's ability, it is possible to miss, who can guarantee that Li Yan will not lose the battle? As Wei Ba said, there is no undefeated general in the world. Unless you don't lead troops into battle. As long as you are on the front line, you can lose. As long as you fail, your strength will inevitably suffer.

Wei Ba's strength is so strong that Li Yan and his son dare to look at it. After he was frustrated, he had to endure it for the time being, not to mention Li Yan.

Li Feng's face became ugly, and now he knew that Wei Ba's setback was not good news for them.

"This time the loss is too great, I have to rebuild the warriors and heavy armor, and the cavalry must also be reorganized, there are too many places to spend money, and the matter of horse armor will not be taken care of for a while. Major General, I'm really sorry, this business can't be done, I will compensate you for your losses, and please say a few kind words in front of the general, I hope he doesn't blame me. ”

Li Feng was anxious and angry, he just wanted to lower the price, Wei Ba was even more ruthless, and he simply didn't sell it. How can this be done, he is still counting on Ma Armor to enhance the strength of Guanzhong. Now Zhuge Liang has to deal with their father and son, if the strength is insufficient, wouldn't it be even worse?

"This ...... Ziyu, if you want to use money, you can say it, how can you say that you regret it. Li Feng said with a smile: "Besides, don't do business, isn't it tighter at hand?" As for the price, we can discuss it. Our father and son have been working with you for a long time, can we still help you at this time? ”

Wei Ba thanked him: "I'm grateful, it's just that the gap is too big, I'm really embarrassed to stretch out my hand to the general." I know it's not easy for a great general either. He paused, and then said: "This time we lost more than 20,000 people, and the soldiers' pension alone is a huge amount of money. I am afraid that the taxes in the area under my jurisdiction are not enough, and I will have to ask the Prime Minister's Office for further assistance. If it is not enough, ask the general to donate generously. ”

Li Feng was stunned, Wei Ba's trick was ruthless enough, he not only intercepted all the finances and taxes of the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction, but also reached out to the Prime Minister's Mansion to ask for money, how much does it cost? You must know that for now, the biggest source of taxes for the Shu Han court is Jingzhou and Jiaozhou under Wei Ba's rule, and the taxes in Yizhou are only enough for the normal expenses of the imperial court, and they can't support other places at all - of course, even if there is, Zhuge Liang can't take it out to Li Yan - Guanzhong currently relies on Wei Ba's blood transfusion to stabilize, if Wei Ba cuts off the supply, then what should Guanzhong do?

Cold sweat broke out on Li Feng's forehead, and he regretted it. I knew this was the case, why bother to bargain with Wei Ba for the price of the horse armor, but now I am bitten by Wei Ba, this loss is big.

Wei Ba didn't look at Li Feng either, turned his head to Fa Miao and said, "Boyuan, are Guan Zhongzhi's sacrificial wines here?" ”

"Here are a few."

"Find time to invite them to come, I want to gather the sacrificial wine of the Heavenly Master Dao and summon the soul of my father."

"This is the way it should be, I'll contact you."

Wei Ba nodded, got up to see off the guests, and sent Li Feng, who had not yet come to his senses, out of the door. When he went out, the wind blew, and Li Feng woke up in shock, and hurriedly pulled Fa Miao and said, "Boyuan, how is this good?" ”

Fa Miao patted Li Feng's hand: "Young General, have you forgotten?" The business of the general is military affairs, and military affairs must be decided by the general, and if the general does not nod, the prime minister's office will not be the master. Wei Che is in trouble now, and the general reaches out to help, which is a good time to show grace. ”

Li Feng suddenly realized, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and felt relieved.

Two days later, Mrs. Xi sent someone to inform Li Feng, requesting to cancel Ma Kai's order and offer liquidated damages. Where did Li Feng dare to accept it, he persuaded him with good words, not only did he not dare to lower the price, but took the initiative to ask that without seeing a piece of horse armor, he would pay all the money in full first to help the Wei family tide over the difficulties first.

At the same time, he wrote to Li Yan informing him of Zhuge Liang's situation against Wei Ba. When Li Yan received the news, he was angry and angry, angry that Wei Ba had reached this time, and he didn't forget to blackmail him, and he was angry that Zhuge Liang was so bold that he had to hit him while fighting Wei Ba. He thought about it and felt that it was no good to turn his face with Wei Ba at this time, although Li Feng's decision was a little hasty, it was not a bad way. He immediately sent someone to Wei Ba to send the money for Ma Kai, and at the same time wrote a handwritten letter to Wei Ba, vowing that he would advance and retreat with Wei Ba, and would not let Zhuge Liang succeed.

Then, as a general, he sent an official letter to Chengdu.

……

With a "snap", the thick ledger was thrown on the case, Zhuge Liang blushed angrily, and glared at Liao Li: "Gongyuan, you, the prime minister, did this?" Wei Ba said that if you don't pay taxes, you won't pay them? ”

Liao Li rolled his eyes, raised his hand to take off the seal ribbon from his waist, rested it in front of Zhuge Liang, arched his hand, turned around and left.

"You!" Zhuge Liang was furious, looking at Liao Li's back, but he didn't know what to say. The resignation of officials in the Han Dynasty was the easiest, and they did not even need to type the resignation report. Liao Li handed over the seal ribbon to him, and he was even exempted from the handover work.

It was only at this time that Zhuge Liang discovered that there was something wrong with Liao Li's attitude.

Liao Li has always been a very utilitarian person, he wants to be an official, he wants to be a high-ranking official, and he was demoted because he was dissatisfied with his official position being too low. Now he actually threw away the official position of deputy prime minister, what does this mean?

Of course, Zhuge Liang didn't believe that Liao Li would regard wealth and nobility as dung, and it was strange that he could change it when he lived to Liao Li's age. Liao Li did this, there was only one explanation, he sensed that there were more waves in the court with his years of experience, and in order to avoid being injured by mistake, he simply resigned first.

Or to put it bluntly, Liao Li didn't want to support him at all, let alone be misunderstood by Wei Ba, so he cleared himself up as soon as possible.

Zhuge Liang turned around twice and saw the empty case, and then realized the serious consequences of Liao Li's resignation. Don't look at Liao Li's heart with him, and he didn't undertake all the official affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but Liao Li's ability is obvious to all, after Liao Li's pass, at least seventy percent of the things have been solved, he just needs to review it again. Even so, he is still too tired to do it, Liao Li picks a pick, and all those official duties are pressed on him, what will be the result?

Is this asking me to die sooner?

Zhuge Liang looked at Yang Yi and Jiang Wan, speechless for a while.

Yang Yi looked at Zhuge Liang with blank eyes and licked her lips.

……

Xiang Lang put down the book, touched his smooth forehead, and muttered for a moment: "It seems that although this battle has suffered a little loss, it is not necessarily a bad thing." This kid has made progress again, and this move is to retreat into advance, and he will embarrass the prime minister again. ”

Ma Tan covered his mouth and laughed, and nodded again and again: "I heard that kid from the Gu family said a sentence, saying that the prime minister is defending, Wei Ba is attacking, and the initiative is Wei Ba, and the prime minister can't win after all." Originally, I didn't believe it a little, but now it seems that he really got it right. Even if Wei Ba suffers a loss, he still firmly grasps the initiative. Just like the battle in Pengcheng, he would rather die than lose power. ”

Xiang Lang raised his eyebrows: "Gu Tan? ”

Ma Yan nodded.

Xiang Lang pondered for a moment, looked at Ma Yan, and raised his gray eyebrows and flattened: "Young Chang, you just listen to gossip, and you don't feel a little crisis?" ”

Ma Tan was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and said a little embarrassedly: "Isn't it?" ”

"Not really?" Xiang Lang sneered: "Gu Lu is a family of in-laws, since Lu Xun has decided to support Wei Ba, can the Gu family lag behind?" I think you've been in Chengdu for a long time, so you're relieved. Do you plan to retire like me? ”

Ma Tan's smile froze, speechless

(To be continued......)