The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 238
"My lord, I have another clever plan to deal with Li Yuan." Guo Jia had already thought of a plan to deal with Li Yuan.

Hearing that Guo Jia had a clever plan, Cao Cao urged: "Feng Xiao, tell me quickly."

"I wonder if my lord has heard of the Hanoi Sima family?"

"Could it be that you mean Jingzhao Yin Sima Fang?" Cao Cao knew that it was because Sima Fang's son, Sima Lang, served under his command.

"That's right, Sima Fang has several sons. His eldest son, Sima Lang, works under the lord's command. His second son, Sima Yi, is 17 years old. Although he is young, he is resourceful and smart. His resourcefulness is much stronger than that of his elder brother, Sima Lang. He has a stable and mature personality, and he can be so mature at such an age, which shows that he is a man of considerable wealth." Guo Jia introduced Sima Yi to Cao Cao.

"Yes, I have visited Sima Fang's family and met Sima Yi once. This son is indeed different." Xun Yu had been to Hanoi a few years ago and had some friendship with Sima Fang.

"But what does Sima Yi have to do with us dealing with Li Yuan?" Cao Cao was a little confused.

"My lord, Li Yuan established the Lumen Academy to recruit students. We can let Sima Yi go to Xiapi to study and hide his identity. With his talent, he can be a teacher in a few years. With Li Yuan's emphasis on talents, Sima Yi will definitely be in his place. Sima Yi is extremely talented and should be able to hold an important position, once he becomes an important minister next to Li Yuan, he will become an important chess piece for us to deal with Li Yuan in the future." Guo Jia said the strategy in his mind.

Cao Cao couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat after hearing this, because Guo Jia's strategy was too powerful this time. He arranged for a person to study at Lumen Academy and become an official under Li Yuan's command in the future, so that he could continue to provide them with Li Yuan's information. He is really a man with profound strategies, and he can destroy Li Yuan's forces from the inside. This plan is really powerful.

"Feng Xiao's plan is clever, but the Sima family is quite famous in Hanoi. It may not be so easy to hide Sima Yi's identity." Although Xun Yu felt that this plan was feasible, it still had some flaws.

"I can discuss it with Sima Fang in advance and find someone to pretend to be Sima Yi, so that we can deceive the world." Guo Jia was full of confidence, even if Li Yuan went to Hanoi to investigate, he would not be able to find any flaws.

"Okay, just do as Feng Xiao said, you go to inform Sima Fang and persuade Sima Yi to work for me!" Cao Cao ordered.

"It's my lord. This subordinate is going to persuade Sima Fang and Sima Yi in person." Guo Jia clasped his fists.

When Cao Cao was planning to deal with Li Yuan, Liu Bei was a little embarrassed by Li Yuan's strategy. Since he was defeated by Li Yuan and Cao Cao's coalition forces, Liu Bei led the remaining thousands of troops to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao. They are all relatives of the Han family. For the sake of the same clan, Liu Biao took Liu Bei in, and Guan Zhang is both a powerful general in the world, so Liu Biao also meant to use Liu Bei.

In the beginning, the two Liu got along very well, and Liu Biao admired Liu Bei quite a lot. He often held banquets for Liu Bei, a small banquet for three days, and a big banquet for five days. He also introduced important officials under his command to Liu Bei.

However, Li Yuan used Xi Zhicai's strategy to confer Liu Bei as the governor of Jingzhou and let him take charge of Jingzhou's military and political power. , If Liu Bei is the governor of Jingzhou, wouldn't he be on an equal footing with Liu Biao.

Li Yuan's plan was a very obvious conspiracy, but it did make Liu Biao feel jealous of Liu Bei, no longer so enthusiastic about Liu Bei, and alienated him intentionally or unintentionally, which made Liu Bei hate Li Yuan even more.

In Xiangyang City, Liu Biao was discussing important matters with his subordinates.

"My lord, Liu Bei is a wolf with ambition. It is absolutely not good to seek refuge with us. Today, the emperor rewarded Liu Bei as the governor of Jingzhou. It is obviously to compete with us for the power to control Jingzhou. We might as well drive him out of Jingzhou to avoid future troubles." Cai Mao had long ago He was dissatisfied with Liu Bei, so he always wanted to drive Liu Bei out of Jingzhou.

"Brother Degui's words are wrong. It was not Emperor Xian who promoted Liu Bei to the governor of Jingzhou but Li Yuan. This is a very obvious conspiracy. As we all know, Li Yuan has brought Emperor Xian to Xiapi. The purpose of this move is to drive a wedge between us and Liu Bei, if we drive Liu Bei out of Jingzhou, we will be fooled by Li Yuan." Kuai Liang disagreed with Cai Mao's suggestion.

"Humph, Kuai Liang, why do you always fight against me? Although this is Li Yuan's strategy, anyone with a discerning eye can see Liu Bei's ambition. When Liu Bei took refuge in Kong Rong, he didn't kill Kong Rong and seize Beihai. Didn't you Would you still believe this kind of hypocrisy who is benevolent on the surface but is actually cruel and ruthless?" Cai Mao has always been at odds with the Kuai family, often quarreling over trivial matters.

The Cai family and the Kuai family are both distinguished families in Jingzhou and the two largest gentry families under Liu Biao's command. Their words can often affect Liu Biao's decision.

"Although there are rumors about Liu Bei's murder of Kong Rong, there is no clear evidence, so it cannot prove that Liu Bei is the murderer. As the saying goes, rumors only stop with wise men. We can't doubt Liu Bei because of this, and it is unlikely that Liu Bei will do it as a member of the Han clan. This kind of thing." Kuai Yue retorted that he was the younger brother of Kuai Liang, and the Kuai brothers were the pillars of the Kuai family.

"Okay, okay, don't quarrel. Xuande and I are both clan members of the Han family. I can't drive him out of Jingzhou, otherwise people will say that I, Liu Biao, are ruthless." Liu Biao sat weakly. Sitting on the chair, his eyes were dull, as if he was about to fall asleep.

Liu Biao is 54 years old this year, he is old, and he has long since lost the desire to dominate the world, so he has always focused on self-protection, and never took the initiative to send troops to attack anyone, even when the princes were in alliance. It doesn't mean that he is a useless person, how can a stupid person rule Jingzhou for decades, Liu Biao is worthy of any prince if he really wants to fight.

"My lord is wise." Kuai Liang was very satisfied with Liu Biao's decision.

"But my lord, we have to guard against Liu Bei." Cai Mao still didn't give up, as a traditional force in Jingzhou, he didn't want outsiders to interfere in Jingzhou's affairs.

Liu Biao waved his hand at Cai Mao, "Degui doesn't need to worry, I know exactly what Xuande is thinking, now he has to rely on me to help him with thousands of troops, and I still have [-] troops in Jingzhou, so we There is no need to worry too much about it.”

"It's my lord." Seeing that Liu Biao had made up his mind, Cai Mao stopped talking.

"My lord, I think Li Yuan should be guarded more than Liu Bei." Kuai Liang was very wary of Li Yuan.

"Kai Liang, Li Yuan and our army have always kept the water in the well, so why should we guard against him? I really worry about it." Cai Mao didn't care about the three sevens and twenty ones, anyway, he just went against the Kuai family.

(End of this chapter)