Liu Bei, who is far away in Xunzhou, is sitting steadily in the palace hall. Except for Guan Yu, Pang Tong and others who are guarding the border, the civil and military ministers of your highness are already waiting here. Zhuge Liang is the leader of the officials, so naturally he should be in the hall.

We were waiting for Liu Bei to announce something, but this time Zhuge Liang ran to Liu Bei's side...

As we all know, the Shu Han minister who was most dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang was Li Yan himself. He believed that Zhuge Liang was so aggressive that his national power was almost exhausted and he was still going on the Northern Expedition. As a result, after Zhuge Liang's death, Jiang Wei's uncontrolled Northern Expedition completely deprived Sichuan of its combat effectiveness. Li Yan

Yan's views are both right and wrong, but if there had been no Northern Expedition, would Cao Wei have given up so easily?

"What are you worried about, Your Majesty?" Shangshu Ling Fazheng stepped forward and bowed.

Liu Bei turned to face Fazheng, who had stepped forward to ask. Zhuge Liang once said that a few years after Fazheng died of illness, Liu Bei launched an army to attack Wu. He said: If Fazheng is upright, he will be able to stop our Lord from conquering the East.

In the eyes of Liu Bei, Fazheng's status is on par with Zhuge Liang, and even higher than Zhuge Liang. Unfortunately, God is jealous of talents, and Fazheng died young, which is why Zhuge Liang said that.

"Ma Su, come and talk to Xiaozhi." Liu Bei no longer wanted to say this, so he asked Ma Su, who was in charge of the intelligence agency, to explain to Fa Zheng why Liu Bei was so melancholy.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Su saluted Fazheng and wrote down all the recent events in bamboo sketches. In order to make things easier, they had formed an intelligence group of 3,000 people. The members of the intelligence group in charge of the Central Plains reported to the group that

The Ming Dynasty declared war on the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, and the Zhao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty jointly sent troops. This is not the most uncomfortable thing. A country that has just been established for two months can actually have the combat power to march north. Is this still human?

What made Liu Bei even more depressed was that Wang Mang actually got in touch with Ying Zheng and Li Shimin, the two eldest brothers, and carried out a vigorous new reform policy in Yinzhou. Soochow also carried out an economic reform and bordering with Chu and Sui.

During the military reform, Wei also had a friendly exchange with Tang Dynasty, but they were the only country that could do diplomacy.

"Many things have happened recently. The number of troops participating in the war in Hongzhou has reached as many as two million. Yingzheng is still deploying troops from the country and marching towards Hongzhou. If the fight continues like this, the number of troops fighting in Chong'an County will reach three

More than a million people." Ma Di described the situation of the battle in Hongzhou to Fazheng in detail. Fazheng, who originally thought it was nothing serious, immediately opened his eyes wide and could not utter a word.

What you need to know is that in ancient times, the number of soldiers participating in wars could not reach 3 million, let alone more than 2 million. A full battle would only be between 1.5 million. Now it is good, 3 million people are all

Come out, are you planning to carry out a large-scale crowd tactics? If the crowds are crowded, the people on the opposite side will be squeezed to death?

"...Your Majesty, I understand your Majesty's melancholy." Fazheng suddenly nodded and expressed his deep sympathy for Liu Bei. This news is indeed a big news for them.

It's almost the second year, and their strength has not increased yet, and has even declined a little. Zhuge Liang is also trying to find ways to solve the country's problems in all fields. The Chongming Mountains in the south are full of swamps and depressions, and it is impossible to live there.

There are no people, so in order to develop the economy, we must communicate with the north.

Zhuge Liang originally wanted to have a friendly exchange with Soochow, but Sun Ce came to power and kicked Sun Quan out. This was good, the alliance was gone, and the relationship that could be exploited was also broken. At least before, he could still use his brother Zhuge Jin's

The relationship was maintained for a while, but now that Sun Ce has come to power, the relationship has been shattered.

No one had any good ideas, so Li Yan, the Central Protector, stepped forward and made a suggestion to Liu Bei.

"Your Majesty, I propose to ally with Cao Cao in the north to open up the main road for our country's economy." Li Yan believed that now is no longer the days when the Han and the traitors were in conflict and the king's industry was not at peace. The most important thing now is to let the country gain a foothold in this world.

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"You think so too..." Liu Bei was still a little hesitant. Everyone was thinking about the Northern Alliance with Cao Cao, but Zhuge Liang had a bitter look on his face. He also wanted to try again to see if Sun Ce could win over him, but in the end

As soon as I chatted with Zhuge Jin, I immediately told him that it was impossible.

Now the contact with the State of Wu was completely severed, and Zhuge Liang was also disheartened. He could only follow everyone's suggestions. Since the Wu State in the east was no longer accessible, he contacted Cao Cao and Li Shimin. After all, the territory of Xunzhou

It also borders the Tang Dynasty. As long as the relationship with the Tang Dynasty is good, it doesn't matter if Cao Cao doesn't go there.

"Your Majesty, I would like to recommend a person to represent our country as an envoy!" Seeing Liu Bei's determination to unite Tang and Wei, Zhuge Liang spontaneously felt the need to recommend one person to him.

"Who does the Prime Minister want to recommend?" Liu Bei asked curiously.

"Deng Zhi and Deng Bomiao." Zhuge Liang still used Deng Zhi as the envoy. You must know that Deng Zhi was a very outstanding diplomat and handled diplomatic affairs very well with the state of Wu. After Liu Bei's death, he

Guarding Yong'an successfully blocked Lu Xun's surprise attack. It can be said that Deng Zhi was a Confucian general capable of both literary and military skills.

"Bo Miao, come forward." Liu Bei called Deng Zhi, who was standing under His Highness.

A handsome and serious-looking minister came over. He was none other than Shangshu Deng Zhi.

"Your Majesty." Deng Zhi stepped forward and paid homage.

"I heard that you did an excellent job in diplomacy with Soochow. This time I want you to go to Tang and make friends with Li Shimin. Is it feasible?" Liu Bei extended an olive branch to Deng Zhi. It depends on whether Deng Zhi wants to take over this important task.

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"I obey the decree." Sure enough, Deng Zhi still hoped that he could make a name for himself in the diplomatic community. After all, he had gained mature experience in more than ten years of diplomacy with Soochow.

Then, there were differences in the selection of the person to send the envoy to the State of Wei. Some said that Ma Di should go as the envoy to the State of Wei, some said that Qin Mi should go as the envoy to the State of Wei, and some said that Jian Yong should go.

Most of the people who asked Jian Yong to go were the people who had followed Liu Bei in the early years, but Jian Yong was indeed a eloquent person. When Liu Bei was in poverty, Jian Yong saved Liu Bei's life every time. He was a lifesaver.

"I recommend a person who will take over Soochow's diplomatic work." Deng Zhi thought of him. After he died of illness, the person who took over Deng Zhi's work was the person Deng Zhi least wanted to see.

"Who?" Liu Bei saw that the Shu Han had many talented people, so he shut up the quarreling ministers and asked Deng Zhi to recommend someone.

"Zong Yu." After Deng Zhi said this person's name, the officials all looked back. Zong Yu, who was at the end of the hall, attracted attention.

After Deng Zhi died of illness, Zong Yu accepted the imperial appointment and was responsible for the mission to Soochow, and also took over the defense of Yong'an. He also had an episode with Deng Zhi. As a cavalry general, Deng Zhi met Zong Yu after he returned from the battle.

Yu had just taken over the military power and said: Why did you only take charge of the army when you were sixty years old? Zong Xu replied: You are still in charge of the army at the age of seventy, why can't I take charge of the army at the age of sixty?

It was because of this little incident that the arrogant Deng Zhi was defeated by Zong Yu, but also because of this little incident, the two of them also developed a certain friendship.

"Zong Yu heard the decree and asked you to be the general of the expedition to the west and the official of Guanglu to go on an envoy to the state of Wei." Liu Bei also called Zong Yu in front of him and entrusted him with the important task of going on an envoy to the state of Wei.
Chapter completed!