Lu Dynasty

Chapter 557 Revisiting Sima Hui

When Liu Pan told Liu Biao that there was something strange about his death, Cai Mao was really nervous. He was afraid that Liu Bei and Liu Qi would also see something unusual, and he was even afraid that Liu Bei would really follow Liu Pan's instigation to perform an autopsy on Liu Biao!Liu Biao was actually poisoned to death by poison, as long as the autopsy is sure to find something!It is infidelity for a minister to kill the lord. If Cai Mao's murder of Liu Biao is leaked, even if he defected to other princes in the future, he will not have much development.But Cai Mao didn't expect that Liu Bei not only failed to expose him, but also helped him cover up the cause of Liu Biao's death, which made Cai Mao very puzzled!However, if you don't understand it, you can't understand it. Cai Mao's top priority is to win over officials and generals in Jingzhou.As long as these people are of one mind with Cai Mao, it doesn't matter how Liu Biao died!At that time, no matter who Cai Mao wants to defect to or stand on his own, with Jingzhou as the foundation and the support of Jingzhou officials, Cai Mao will be able to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai!
Cai Mao's thinking is quite beautiful, but will things develop as he expected?In other words, among the four major families of Cai, Pang, Huang, and Kuai in Jingzhou, the power of the Kuai family is comparable to that of the Cai family, and the Huang family and the Pang family are in an alliance. The Pang family would not support the Cai family to lead Jingzhou.As for other officials and generals who do not belong to the four major families, it is useless even if Cai Mao wins them all over, because they have no troops and real power!What's more, Liu Bei, Liu Qi, and Liu Pan would never sit back and watch Cai Mao lead Jingzhou. Now that Cai Mao has killed Liu Biao again, can they do nothing?
Liu Bei finally persuaded Liu Pan not to open the coffin for an autopsy and came up with an idea to prove Liu Biao's cause of death.As the saying goes: smart people use their mouths, but stupid people use their hands.Liu Pan, a reckless man, followed Liu Bei's idea. He took a few people to wait at the door of the doctor who treated Liu Biao every day, and kidnapped the doctor when everyone was not paying attention!As for the servants, Liu Qi knew the servants who took care of Liu Biao, and when they came out to help Mrs. Cai buy things, Liu Qi led someone to beat them up!The eldest son of Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou, is beating his own servants in Jingzhou. Who else would dare to take care of him except the Cai family?

After the doctors who treated Liu Biao and the servants who served Liu Biao were arrested and taken to Xinye, Liu Bei frightened them first, and then tried them again.Liu Bei is fine, although he has received a lot of care from Liu Biao, but his many years of fighting career has made his heart as hard as a stone, at least he can stay calm!But Liu Qi and Liu Pan couldn't do it. They gritted their teeth and wanted to eat Cai Mao's flesh and blood!Unfortunately, even if Liu Pan and Liu Qi knew the cause of Liu Biao's death, there was nothing they could do.You know, Zhang Yun, the commander of the navy, is a die-hard follower of Cai Mao. He and Cai Mao are in charge of the entire Jingzhou navy, and there are also Cai Mao and Zhang Yun in the infantry. With nearly 20 Jingzhou troops!And how many people did Liu Bei have?Liu Bei stayed in the small county of Xinye, and it was already the limit to support an army of 3 people. Although Liu Qi's Jiangxia was a big city, it often fought with Soochow there, and Liu Qi only had 5000 to 4 troops!Liu Pan is even more pitiful than Liu Qi and Liu Bei. He belongs to Changsha, but he is only a general in a small county under Changsha's jurisdiction. It is too much to have 20 troops!Although it is often said that soldiers are more expensive than elites, but [-] to [-] people are against [-] people. In the absence of senior advisers, Liu Bei and Cai Mao will definitely lose if they fight hard!Liu Bei once again felt his own inadequacy, he thought about it, and felt that only Sima Hui could help him, because the person Liu Bei came into contact with with the highest intelligence who had never been an official was Sima Hui!
Liu Bei and the others knew the truth about Liu Biao's death, but there was nothing they could do. The helpless Liu Pan and the sad Liu Qi looked at the powerless Liu Bei, and all of them felt sad in their hearts!Gritting his teeth, Liu Pan suddenly stood up with a dark face and swore to the sky: "I, Liu Pan, swear to the sky, whoever can avenge my uncle, I will repay him with my life, even if I die, I will not hesitate! After taking the oath, Liu Pan said goodbye to Liu Bei and returned to Changsha!Liu Qi was very moved when he saw Liu Pan's appearance. After all, Liu Pan was only Liu Biao's nephew, and he was indeed Liu Biao's biological son!Liu Qi also wants to avenge Liu Biao, but he is different from Liu Pan. Except for Liu Bei, he believes that there will be no princes who are willing to treat him kindly, even if he has no ambitions!Now that Liu Pan is gone, it's okay for Liu Qi to stay in Xinye. He also said goodbye to Liu Bei and went back to Jiangxia!
After Liu Qi and Liu Pan left, Liu Bei felt that his advisers were lacking. In the current situation, no one could give him a good idea!Suddenly Liu Bei remembered what Sima Hui said: Crouching dragon and phoenix chick can be safe in the world!So Liu Bei asked Sha Moke and Wei Yan to prepare a generous gift to visit Sima Hui, and wanted to get information about Wolong and Fengchu from Sima Hui's mouth!

Sima Hui received Liu Bei's greeting card, how could he not know what Liu Bei wanted to do!But Sima Hui didn't want Liu Bei to know the information about Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong so easily.What's more, Zhuge Liang is only in his early twenties. Although he has outstanding intelligence, there are still some young people who are frivolous!You know, what Zhuge Liang is going to deal with now is not Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and others from Yingchuan College, but Guo Jia and Jia Xu, who are also top counselors with him!In history, if Guo Jia hadn't died when Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, and Cao's suspicion made Jia Xu have to protect himself wisely, it would be difficult for Zhuge Liang to get ahead!Just like Chibi Fire Attack, Cheng Yu had already reminded Cao, but Cao refused to listen.If Jia Xu reminded her again, maybe Cao would pay attention to it!But Jia Xu was afraid that reminding Cao again would make him unhappy, so he didn't speak.Otherwise, whether the Chibi fire can burn is still a question mark!But Sima Hui couldn't find anyone to recommend Zhuge Liang. Among the people he knew, they were either lacking in intelligence or weak in character. The best candidate was Xu Shu, but... Sima Hui thought of Xu Shu who had defected to me, and then looked at Liu Bei's worship Tie, can only sigh!
Liu Bei will arrive as scheduled, but Sima Hui doesn't know what to do!When Sima Hui looked at Liu Bei's greeting card and was worried, he suddenly thought of a person, and that person was Yi Ji who had listened to Sima Hui's lectures.Yiji has complained many times that he has become an official and can no longer join Liu Bei, and Yiji also admires the talents of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong!Jingzhou is just that big, and these talented people are all acquaintances, and even relatives!So Sima Hui immediately sent someone to invite Yiji, and wanted him to pave the way for Zhuge Liang!

(End of this chapter)