Yang Si smiled and said: "You don't need to be excited, throughout the ages, there have been countless cases of winning the war but losing at the negotiation table, how can we be the only one?" That's the power of politics. Pen ~ fun ~ cabinet www.biquge.info What's more, the victory or loss of a local war will not affect the development of the general trend at all, and the competition between countries is the strength of the country, not the number of troops. Similarly, the competition between martial arts gangs is the strength of the overall strength, not the number of disciples. In terms of the current situation, Meng Caiyi does have the capital to oppress people so unreasonably, but it is no wonder that Wen Shizhong bowed his head in humiliation. ”

Wu Ruotang said angrily: "In this way, Wen Shizhong has to agree if he doesn't agree, and he has to agree if he agrees, there is no choice at all?" His Mom's ...... If we knew this was the case, why did we work so hard last night? It's better to lie in the warm quilt and hug the woman to be happy. ”

Yang Si shook his head and said with a smile: "It's different. If we hadn't defeated Meng Caiyi's ambush in Shen Yuan last night, Xiangyang would have fallen into Meng Caiyi's hands within a few days, and then we would only have the life of a rat. And now, although Meng Caiyi has a great hope of getting the Yangtze River water transportation, he can't deal with us blatantly. Xiangyang fell into the hands of Meng Caiyi and the Yangtze River water transport fell into the hands of Meng Caiyi, for Wen Shizhong, this ending is almost no different, but for us, the difference is big. ”

"Huh!" Wu Ruotang sneered: "I don't see any difference. As soon as the Yangtze River water transport fell into the hands of Meng Caiyi, the Wen family in Xiangyang would be finished sooner or later, and we, too, would have to flee for our lives sooner or later. ”

Yang Si laughed and said: "The end of the Wen family in Xiangyang is the trend of the times, and it is unimaginable, but with me Yang Si here, whether Xiangyang will change its surname to Meng, it is difficult to say......" The laughter was full of confidence.

Seeing that he was so confident, Wu Ruotang couldn't help but be a little moved, and said: "Since the dead fat man dares to speak so loudly, he must have some ghost idea, and he shouldn't recruit it from the truth." ”

Yang Si smiled slightly and said, "Actually, the reason is very simple. If you were Wen Shizhong instead, what would you do in the face of Meng Caiyi's aggressive peace conditions? ”

Wu Ruotang groaned slightly, and said: "Void and wrong, don't ask for other laws." ”

Yang Si clapped his hands and smiled: "Exactly!" War? There is no capital and Mengcai clothes. And? It is clear that it is to lure the wolf into the house. The only way is to agree to it for the time being, but use many excuses to shirk and ask for a postponement to buy time. And at this time, it is time for you and me to appear on the stage. As the saying goes, if you are in a hurry to go to the doctor, Wen Shizhong will definitely find us in addition to finding a way for himself, hoping that we will deal with Meng Caiyi for him. ”

Wu Ruotang sneered: "What's the use of begging us? You and I have no money and no power, so we have to use our bare hands, what can we do to deal with Meng Caiyi? Dead fat, you're overestimating yourself. ”

Yang Si smiled and said: "Whether we can deal with Meng Caiyi or not, that's another matter, the key is that Wen Shizhong begged us to make a move." ”

Wu Ruotang's heart jumped, and he vaguely grasped Yang Si's thoughts, and suddenly felt that his throat was dry and astringent, and said in a dumb voice: "Liu Bei...... Liu Bei...... Borrow Jingzhou! ”

Yang Si laughed: "You finally understand." What I said about 'Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou' is actually a plan to kill people with a knife and oppose customers. borrowed the knife of Meng Caiyi, but it was Wen Shizhong who killed it! This is a God-given opportunity, and God wants to send us a Xiangyang for nothing. ”

Wu Ruotang was dizzy for a while. Everyone in the world knows that Yang Si's wisdom is unparalleled in the world and he has no last resort, but who would know that he is so powerful! Compared with his means of strategizing, turning clouds and rain, and treating the heroes of the world as chess pieces in his hands at the moment, his unpredictable use of troops on the battlefield is just a small way!

Yang Sisi people, the wizards of the world, even if Zhuge Wolong is reborn, it is nothing more than that.

"Xiangyang, if it is in Wen Shizhong's hands, it will be swallowed by Meng Caiyi one day. Therefore, we might as well replace the Wen family and take Xiangyang in our hands. With Xiangyang as the foundation, we have the capital to fight against Meng Caiyi and the Huaxi Sword Sect. Yang Si said leisurely, as if he had taken Xiangyang into his own hands.

"Even if we get Xiangyang, are you sure to win against Meng Caiyi and Huaxi Sword Sect? I'm afraid it may not be! ”

"So what's the matter? We have nothing, and at most we are back to the current state of having nothing. Xiangyang was not ours in the first place, and if we lost, we just gave Xiangyang to them, and we didn't lose anything. It's like a poor egg goes to the casino, the first one wins a hundred taels of silver, but the second one loses back, and it comes out as a poor egg, but what if the second one wins again? Yang Si said with a smile, his face full of expression like a gambler.

"Huh! Well, this one! Wu Ruotang was speechless. Yes, it's a big deal to start over, and for a person who has nothing, what is there not to lose? Some may say that this is the typical gambler's mentality, but there are many wonders in this world that are created by such risk-taking gamblers! In the past, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was just a cloth cloth, but because he dared to take risks, he achieved a generation of emperors. If, when he was holding on to Xiang Yu and Chu Han in Hanzhong, he was willing to defend himself and be satisfied as a king of Hanzhong, then there would be no later Han Empire. Who can say that he didn't have the idea that "I have nothing in the first place, at most according to the old nothing"?

Wu Ruotang suddenly felt that he was so lucky. Because Yang Si is his comrade-in-arms, not an enemy.

At this time, in the study of the Wen Mansion, behind the wide desk, Wen Shizhong buried his head in the mountains of official documents, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and his expression was solemn. The white hair on the temples looked more and more silvery white against the dark brown bookcase behind him, like frost and snow.

"Maybe it's time to retire!" Wen Shizhong looked at the words and numbers in front of him, and a deep tiredness suddenly rose in his heart. Once upon a time, what was once a fascinating cause has become so pale today. Standing at the pinnacle of power for decades, I suddenly looked back, but found that only this room with a few zhang square radius was truly my own. Because I have spent most of my life here. The innocent laughter of childhood and the reckless fencing singing of youth are now like a dream when I think about it, so distant and illusory. If you could turn back time, would you still embark on this lonely and lonely road to hegemony?

The window opened without wind, and a dark shadow slipped in like a ghost.

"Third uncle, nephew Wen Cone led one hundred and twenty disciples, and came to listen to the dispatch on the order of the lord of the valve." The man leaned forward to the table and gave a slight win.

As if he already knew that this person was coming, Wen Shizhong nodded slightly and raised his eyes. But I saw that this Wen cone tiger had wide waist bones, a black suit, a short beard under his lips, and his eyes were shining, revealing a rebellious and unruly color in the flash. There are two fine iron halberds inserted inverted between the waists and backs, which are the unique weapons of the Wen family in Guanzhong, "Wenhou Halberd".

"It's been a hard time for you. Big brother is good? Wen Shizhong got up from the table and took Wen Cone's hand and sat down on a chair beside him. But in my heart, I was extremely disappointed, how could one hundred and twenty people cope with the situation in front of them?

"Thank you for your concern. My father has always been in poor health, especially in recent days, the Sword and Sword Shadow House and the Immortal Dynasty have waved their troops south for no reason, peeping at Guanzhong, although I don't know what they want, but the heart of the Wen family to coerce me has been revealed. In this regard, my father was very worried, and in less than half a month, he became a lot haggard......"

Wen Cone is the fifth son of Wen Yan, the lord of the Wen family in Guanzhong, and his martial arts are the second generation of the Wen family, and he can be said to be an outstanding figure in this generation of the Wen family. It's just that he seemed to be extremely worried about his father Wen Yan's physical health in his words, but there was no worry on his face, and he unconsciously revealed the subtext of blaming Wen Yan for being cowardly and afraid. Wen Shizhong was greatly displeased in his heart. Wen Yan is not only the head of the Wen family, but also his eldest brother, the two have been friends since childhood, and have a deep relationship, although because he was ordered to leave Guanzhong to Xiangyang to develop water transportation, the two have not seen each other for decades, but the brotherhood is getting deeper and deeper. Now that he saw that his brother's son had no respect for Wen Yan in his words, he was naturally very unhappy. The warrior of Wen Cone didn't know how to observe words and emotions at all, and he didn't notice that Wen Shizhong's face was quite grim, so he just blindly said that he would continue: "In fact, when the Sword and Sword Shadow Building and the Immortal Dynasty sent people to Guanzhong to negotiate iron orders, I persuaded my father not to trust others. How could they be so kind and cheap to our Wen family? It's a pity that my father is old and mediocre, and in order to please my father, the eldest brother vigorously instigated him on the side...... Now, in order to complete this batch of orders, most of our manpower has been sent to various mines and foundries, so that there is an accident that cannot be deployed and is exhausted, and it is impossible to cope with this critical situation. Fortunately, the opponent suddenly withdrew his troops for some reason, otherwise, our foundation in Guanzhong would be in danger......"

The eldest brother in Wen Cone's mouth refers to Wen Yan's eldest son, Wen Shuo. As the eldest son of the lineage, Wen Shuo's talent is mediocre, and he despises his brothers, and even Wen Yan himself has written to ask Wen Shizhong's opinion, and wants to set up another son to inherit the position of the lord, but Wen Shizhong said that "the young and the young are orderly, the ancient avenue, if the prince is abolished for no reason, it is easy to cause trouble". However, because Wen Yan was very critical of Wen Shuo on weekdays with a mentality of hating iron and not steel, Wen Shuo had no prestige in the clan, and the brothers below naturally had the heart to replace. Among them, Wen Yan's second son, Wen Qiang, and Wen Cone in front of him are the most. Wen Shizhong heard Wen Cone attack Wen Shuo intentionally or unintentionally, and his heart was even more angry, and then a deep sadness swept over. The Wen family in Guanzhong has stood in Jiangbei for nearly 300 years, and there are few people in Jiangbei who can do it, however, since the ancestors created the foundation of Guanzhong a hundred years ago, they have been unable to expand an inch of land for a hundred years, and they have always lived in Guanzhong. The reason for this is precisely because the children of the clan are proud of themselves as famous families, arrogant and extravagant, only greedy for small profits and ignorant of great righteousness, and only know how to fight for power and profit all day long without knowing how to make good governance. Seeing this, the ambitious self left home at a young age and went to Xiangyang to create the Yangtze River water transportation system. However, what is sad is that when he wakes up alone, how can everyone be drunk, and looking at the whole clan, no one except himself can clearly realize that the Wen family is on the verge of a catastrophe, and there is a disaster of destroying the family and destroying the clan at every turn. He had asked his brother Wen Yan for help before, hoping to send the elite children of the clan to support Xiangyang, because the Yangtze River water transportation is the economic lifeblood of the family and must not be taken away by anyone. The iron ore of the Guanzhong mine will eventually be exhausted, but the Yangtze River water transport is a lifeline flowing with gold, and the water of the Yangtze River will never be exhausted, it is an inexhaustible cornucopia. Especially in the past ten years, the output of the Guanzhong mine has been declining, and the orders for iron tools have also decreased sharply, and the family's huge source of operating funds has long been transferred from iron casting to its own water transportation system in Xiangyang. If the Yangtze River water transport system collapses, the Wen family itself will fall apart due to financial constraints. But despite his repeated analysis and the fact that he had a strong relationship, his brother still only sent more than 100 people. Especially the leader is still this Wen Cone who only knows how to compete for power and is extremely selfish. Alas, could it be that providence? No matter how hard he tries, the Wen family still slowly falls like the twilight sunset, and it can be redeemed by himself alone.

Wen Shizhong waved his hand to interrupt Wen Chong's speech, and said tiredly: "Okay, you don't need to say any more, find a place to settle down first, and I will look for you if there is something." Wen Cone was stunned. He thought that he would lead his troops to support Xiangyang, and Wen Shizhong would be grateful, because he took the opportunity to slander his brother Wen Shuo, hoping that after Wen Shizhong listened to his own words, he would turn to support himself and add an important weight to his own struggle for the position of lord. Unexpectedly, he still had a lot of wonderful slanderous words to say, so Wen Shizhong issued an eviction order, and his expression was cold, and there was no joy in his words, which was very different from the scene he imagined. The look of anger and resentment flashed in Wen Cone's eyes. Finally, he replied "yes" and slipped away through the window.

His expression naturally looked in Wen Shizhong's eyes. Wen Shizhong shook his head and sighed, if such a narrow-minded person did nothing, it would be fine, but once he ascended to the high position of the lord, he was afraid that the Wen family would immediately fall into a bloody storm and cause the disaster of defeat. Compared with him, it seems that Wen Shuo is more suitable to inherit the position of lord of the valve.

Hehe, is this the outstanding son of the Wen family? At the same time, Wen Shizhong also thought of the scene where his two sons were also fighting for power, and he only felt miserable in his heart. Although I don't want to, for now, I can only borrow those two people. Although there will be hidden worries about attracting wolves into the house, do you have any other better options?

"Someone! Go and invite Yang Si and Wu ...... Lin Siruo and the two gentlemen came to see me......" Wen Shizhong took a deep breath and threatened, his words full of helplessness and uneasiness. (To be continued.) )