The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 447
On this day, after the news of Guan Yu's death had been held in Zhuge Liang's hands for a period of time, some rumors about it had already begun to spread in Chengdu.

The reason why Zhuge Liang did this was definitely not to deliberately conceal this from Liu Bei.It's just that if Liu Bei knows the news, in terms of the relationship between Liu Bei and Guan Yu, he will not only be heartbroken, but at that time, he may send troops to attack Soochow out of anger.

However, now that Cao Wei is eyeing the north, and Xishu finds it difficult to protect itself, how can he still send troops to attack Wu, causing both himself and Soochow to suffer?

In fact, Zhuge Liang was also very angry with Soochow.But anger cannot be a reason for action, everything should still be the most important thing in the world.

Furthermore, Jingzhou's army is still intact now, and in Zhuge Liang's view, it is actually enough to use their army to fight against the Wu army.

Therefore, based on the above reasons, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to temporarily withhold the information, with the intention of delaying it as long as he could.

However, no matter how dense the eggs are, there are gaps, and the news was still leaked out.So, for a while, General Zuo and Hanzhong Wang's mansion suddenly became lively.Yizhou officials came to ask about this one after another.Of course Zhuge Liang avoided seeing it, because this kind of thing would only become darker and darker, and the more it was explained, the more suspicious it would be.

As the matter spread, the news was quickly learned by Wu Cheng.At this time, Wu Cheng's stomach is already very big, and I'm afraid she will give birth in about a month.Therefore, Liu Bei is obedient to her now.

Wu Cheng felt that the news of Guan Yu's death might be an opportunity that could be used.

However, Wu Cheng is not a person with big breasts and no brains. Years of living in the Hou family have already made him familiar with political struggles.At least, Liu Bei is very wary of those around him by nature, and she knows it perfectly.Therefore, of course she would not report this matter to Liu Bei in person.

However, Wu Cheng still has a way.She first passed the news to Liu Feng, who was far away in Shangyong, so that he could also write a letter to Liu Bei on this matter.

Then, Wu Cheng reported the matter to Liu Bei through several Chengdu officials who took refuge in her.Of course, it is inevitable that they will add oil and vinegar to it.

Liu Bei couldn't understand Guan Yu's ability very well. What's more, although Guan Yu's Northern Expedition was unsuccessful, he still showed unparalleled ability. Together with his son Liu Chan, he successfully brought the army out of Nanyang County
——Liu Chan still showed his broad mind and attributed most of the credit to Guan Yu.However, Liu Chan actually made such a decision with the guidance of Ma Liang, so Liu Bei and even the people in the world now think that the repeated victories of the Nanyang Jingzhou Army are all due to Guan Yu's good leadership.

The reason why Ma Liang suggested this to Liu Chan is because doing so can make the prince avoid suspicion.After all, Liu Chan's identity is the eldest son of the King of Hanzhong. As long as he works hard and abides by his duties, he will be able to inherit the title in the future.On the contrary, if Liu Chan is too sharp now, he will be easily slandered and arouse Liu Bei's suspicion.

Therefore, when Liu Chan was in Nanyang, all the good news that Liu Chan sent to Chengdu was Guan Yu's first contribution, and he was at most second, and sometimes he gave the second place to Guan Xing and others.

Therefore, Liu Chan's good news also played a misleading role in Liu Bei's judgment of Guan Yu.Therefore, how could Liu Bei believe the words of those officials now?He immediately thought that these bastards were talking nonsense and cursing Guan Yu's death, which was really very ominous.He immediately scolded them severely and drove them out.

After Zhuge Liang learned of the situation, he thought it over again, knowing that it might be difficult to hide this matter.

Zhuge Liang couldn't help feeling very troubled in his heart.Because in the letter from Shizi a few days ago, he was asked to delay the news for a while, and the analysis in it was very reasonable, and the reasons were sufficient and detailed.Shizi is really a strange person. He completely analyzed Chengdu, Jingzhou, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, but about the possible changes in the whole world because of Guan Yu's sudden defeat.

Moreover, in order to let Zhuge Liang do his best, his close friend Shi Guangyuan was so rare that he also wrote him a letter, asking him to do his best to help with this matter.

Then, Wang Fu, the strategist of the Jingzhou Army, also wrote to Zhuge Liang.He actually asked Zhuge Liang in the letter to cover up the news of Guan Yu's defeat for a few more days.

In the end, even Guan Xing, a member of the Guan family, wrote a letter to Zhuge Liang.Nei Zhongqing sincerely begged Zhuge Liang to temporarily suppress the matter, otherwise it would not only be detrimental to the current situation of the Jingzhou Army, but also a great blow to uncle Liu Bei and third uncle Zhang Fei.

Zhuge Liang was so deeply moved by Guan Xing's understanding of righteousness that he didn't report the news to Liu Bei because of his father's deep hatred and asked to send troops to avenge his father.

Therefore, this time, Zhuge Liang is definitely not only for the sake of his son, but because he has been entrusted by so many people, and he also has a responsibility to Jingyi and Jingzhou, so he has made the greatest determination to make this matter go away. covered up.

But Zhuge Liang knew that this matter might not be covered up for a few more days.In fact, even in Chengdu, there will never be news, but Dongwu, Cao Wei, and Zhang Fei in Jiangzhou will know sooner or later.

How could Zhang Fei ignore this matter?He will definitely tell Liu Bei the matter as soon as possible, and then ask Liu Bei to send troops to attack Wu.Of course, at that time, Zhuge Liang himself would inevitably be punished by Liu Bei, and even suspected by Liu Bei. He deliberately concealed the news of Guan Yu's death because of bad intentions.

It can be seen that Zhuge Liang actually took a huge risk because of this matter.

So, in order to minimize the impact of this matter, and to prevent Liu Bei from making too impulsive decisions, Zhuge Liang thought of a person——Fazhengfa Xiaozhi who has been cultivating at home due to illness.

So Zhuge Liang visited Fazheng's home in person under the pretext of visiting Fazheng.Zhuge Liang did come to visit Fazheng several times when Fazheng just fell ill, but because more and more official business was on Zhuge Liang, he came less recently.

Fazheng's son, Fa Miao, hurried to the door to welcome Zhuge Liang in.

Then, Zhuge Liang had a secret conversation with Fazheng, and outsiders would naturally have no way of knowing about it.In fact, even Fa Miao, who had been waiting outside the door, had no way of knowing what his father had discussed with Zhuge Junshi this time.

A few days later, Liu Feng's statement on Guan Yu's defeat was delivered to Liu Bei.Due to Liu Feng's Shangyong, he is much closer to Jiangling City than Chengdu, so his news is of course more credible.So after Liu Bei finished reading, he was shocked and almost fainted, and finally turned into crying.

Liu Bei immediately sent the news to Zhang Fei in Jiangzhou.Then, after two days of being sad, Liu Bei made up his mind to attack Wu to avenge Guan Yu, and immediately called all the ministers to discuss the matter of sending troops.But it encountered boycotts from most ministers.

In fact, for Liu Bei's seal to reach Liu Bei's hands, it must first pass through Fazheng's Shangshutai.In this way, Fazheng and Zhuge Liang knew about it in advance.Therefore, Fazheng dragged the sick body and Zhuge Liang together, first summoned the senior officials in the city of Chengdu, let them breathe first, and explained the complexity of the matter, asking them not to agree to Liu Bei's attack on Wu.

Therefore, this matter was discussed and discussed, delayed and delayed, and Liu Bei's attack on Wu was still unable to obtain the consent of the ministers.For this reason, Liu Bei couldn't help but feel annoyed, almost angry, and lost his composure because of swearing at the court several times.

After Zhang Fei heard the news of Guan Yu's defeat, he immediately cried to death.After drinking away his worries for a few days, he really asked Liu Bei to cut Wu and avenge Guan Yu.

But when Zhang Fei learned that the ministers in the court were almost all against it, and only a few of Queen Wu's people supported sending troops, he couldn't help but yell, those people are just eating inside and outside!He even once suggested to Liu Bei out of righteous indignation that he no longer needed to seek the consent of the ministers, and just send troops arbitrarily.

But at this time Liu Bei had already recovered a little from the pain of losing Guan Yu.When he saw that Fazheng was dragging a heavy sick body, and he followed the ministers for so many days to persuade him that it was not appropriate to send out the Yizhou army to attack Wu at this time, he really began to hesitate in his heart .

And just because Zhang Fei was unable to attack Wu because of Chengdu's delay, he wanted to go to Chengdu to persuade Liu Bei that even if his eldest brother could not drive himself to conquer, at least let him be the third younger brother. When Jiangzhou sent troops, he suddenly received a letter from Liu Chan from Jingzhou.

Of course, the content of Liu Chan's letter must be to comfort Zhang Fei, and to persuade Zhang Fei not to encourage Liu Bei to send troops from Yizhou, and to let Zhang Fei be patient first, and not to send troops from Jiangzhou for the time being.

Of course, it is impossible for Liu Chan and Liu Chan to only give sticks and not Zhang Fei candies.He did arrange a timetable for Zhang Fei in the letter for him to send troops from Jiangzhou—at least until spring, and then Zhang Fei could advance both by land and water and send troops to Jingzhou.

Then, Guan Xing's letter urging Zhang Fei not to rush to send troops also arrived.

For Liu Chan and Guan Xing's two nephews, it is impossible for Zhang Fei to ignore them.Especially Guan Xing, who had just lost his father, but every word in the letter put the country first, so he couldn't help hesitating.Zhang Fei couldn't help but took the letter and sighed.

Then, Zhang Fei suddenly made up his mind.He immediately wrote to Liu Bei to submit the form, and attached Guan Xing's letter.

Looking at Zhang Fei's letter, Liu Bei reached out his hand to pick up another letter written by Guan Xing from the case, and was really deeply moved.He couldn't help but lamented Guan Xing's letter for a long time.

The matter of Liu Bei's imperial conquest was postponed again.

Until later, after Liu Chan brought back the corpses of Guan Yu and his son in their entirety, the dispute over this matter finally came to an end temporarily.

Next, whether Liu Bei should personally conquer the initiative fell into the hands of Liu Chan.

Liu Chan quickly got a reply from Sun Quan, and agreed that the two parties would negotiate in Zhugejin's barracks.It turned out that Jiang Qin's army was stationed near Zhijiang County, but Jiang Qin died in the battle with Liu Chan's army.Zhuge Jin, who led the army to support, replaced his command of the army, but the army's garrison remained the same.

After Liu Chan read the letter, he handed it over to Shi Guangyuan and Wang Fu, and said with a smile: "It seems that Sun Quan still has some conscience, not a completely cold-blooded person."

Shi Guangyuan nodded, and said: "In this case, we must act quickly, so as not to have more night dreams."

Wang Fu was also a little excited, he cupped his hands and said, "Fu will go to prepare for the trip immediately."

But Liu Chan stopped Wang Fu, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, don't be so anxious, we still have some time. Besides, let your subordinates handle these things, you don't have to do everything yourself."

Wang Fu's heart was really urgent, and the son obviously couldn't understand his heart, so he replied: "My son, this matter is of great importance, I don't feel relieved to leave it to others!"

Liu Chan pointed to Wang Fu's original seat and asked him to sit back first before talking.Wang Fu had no choice but to quickly sit back in his seat.

(End of this chapter)