Chengdu Imperial Palace, Wenliang Hall.

Summer has passed, and the weather in Chengdu is still a bit hot and unbearable. Several pots of ice were placed in Wenliang Hall, and the fat Liu Chan was still sweating. As for the hot weather, it was because of the hot weather, but because she was a little nervous when facing Xiangfu, then it was only

He knew it himself.

Liu Chan pinched his clothes and fanned the wind. He looked at Zhuge Liang pitifully, hoping that Zhuge Liang could understand his difficulties and end the get out of class early. His butt was already numb and his stomach was hungry. He returned to the harem early. Go, the Queen prepared the snacks for him and was looking forward to his arrival.

"Your Majesty, the old minister has been often confused and has little energy recently." Zhuge Liang stroked his forehead and sighed softly: "The old minister dreamed of the late emperor several times and asked about His Majesty's academic progress. The old minister is really... Alas, I can't speak out."

Liu Chan's face immediately collapsed, and he was unhappy. He asked the late emperor again, "Are you annoyed, Xiangfu?" My father didn't ask me to ask me for his dreams, but he always asked me to you? You just want to bring the late emperor."

Do you want to suppress me? My studies are not good, so I should be ashamed of me. Why are you ashamed of?

"Xiangfu, it's because I'm stupid and made it difficult for Xiangfu." Although Liu Chan was unhappy, he had to admit his mistake honestly, otherwise he would not know how to teach him a lesson. Xiangfu is really old and getting more and more.

Nagging and speaking is becoming more and more boring. After just a few words, it is not fun at all.

"It would be great if Wei Ba was there. He could understand the principles that Xiangfu said and could also tell me in an easy-to-understand manner." Liu Chan thought to himself.

"Oh..." Zhuge Liang also sighed secretly, a little at a loss. Zhuge Ke understood the truth as soon as he heard it, and Sun Deng could roughly understand it once he heard it. Why didn't Liu Chan understand it? Look at him

I'm afraid my heart will fly away long ago with that impatient look.

He was considering how to educate Liu Chan to be more attentive. Shangshu ordered Jiang Wan to walk in quickly, and he gave Zhuge Liang a wink. Zhuge Liang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and he saw a strong anxiety in Jiang Wan's eyes.

"Your Majesty, the infantry captain Xi Zhong has returned. The horse armor required by the imperial guards can be provided by the Wei family ironwork, but the payment is required first. In addition, the new tables and chairs required by Your Majesty. They offered 23 gold, which exceeded our budget.

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Liu Chan jumped up suddenly: "What, didn't Xi Zhong's new tables and chairs cost only ten gold? Does Wei Ba want to cheat me? Did he treat me as a sucker?"

Jiang Wan was shocked. Even Zhuge Liang was a little surprised. Liu Chan's reaction was too strong. His skill... was too agile.

Liu Chan also realized that he had lost his composure and quickly knelt down again, coughing in a fake manner. He waved his hand: "Don't worry about this matter, I will issue an edict..." Halfway through, he suddenly remembered that the Prime Minister was on the side.

, quickly turned his head and said, "Xiangfu, how should you deal with this matter?"

Zhuge Liang couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't care about the horse armor needed by the imperial guards, but he cared about the new set of tables and chairs. He thought for a while and said seriously: "Your Majesty, you have strong and weak branches. This is the way of governing that the former kings passed down.

.Now several armies are fighting outside, Chengdu is empty, which is not a blessing for the country. The purchase of horse armor is to enhance the strength of the imperial guards while the troops remain unchanged and protect His Majesty's safety. This is much more important than tables and chairs."

"That's it, that's it." Liu Chan nodded repeatedly: "But Ma Kai wants more money, and tables and chairs require less money. They said, the money owed by the Prime Minister..."

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Guard is Your Majesty's Imperial Guard."

Liu Chan blinked and didn't dare to say anything else.

"Not only is the imperial guards of Your Majesty's imperial guards, but even the soldiers under the command of General Li Yan and Wei Yan and his son are all His Majesty's army. Which troops should be equipped first should be determined by Your Majesty, but they cannot decide by themselves.

Is the money theirs?”

No matter how slow Liu Chan reacted, he could hear the meaning of this sentence. The imperial guards were the emperor's personal army, and everything should be supplied first. Wei Ba and others had the money to equip their own cavalry, but refused to equip the imperial guards. This was the loss of power of the emperor.

, it is very dangerous. But what can he do? Even Xiangfu is so powerful that he can't solve it. What can I do? What I can do is just ask Wei Ba for a new set of tables and chairs to play with. The war is so complicated

It’s better to worry about Xiangfu. Anyway, he is dead, and his nephew Zhuge Ke is worried about it.

Seeing Liu Chan's appearance as if he was not afraid of boiling water, Zhuge Liang felt a little discouraged. He also knew that Jiang Wan's coming to report this matter was just a cover, and there must be other more important things. He said a few words and announced today's course.

At this end, we left Wenliang Palace.

As soon as Zhuge Liang left, Liu Chan was liberated and ran to the harem. In the usual days, Zhuge Liang had to teach him a lesson, but he didn't have time today.

"What's up?"

"Fei Yi returns, Cao Rui sends an envoy and is willing to negotiate."

With a "pa" sound, Zhuge Liang's clogs on his feet suddenly stepped on the air. Fortunately, Zhuge Ke next to him was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and he supported Zhuge Liang.

"Uncle, it's okay."

"It's not a problem." Zhuge Liang limped to the side, leaned against the pillar, took off his clogs, and smiled bitterly: "I just said I can't wear this thing. It's cool to be cool, but it's inconvenient."

Neither Jiang Wan nor Zhuge Ke answered his words. They all knew that saying the clogs were fake and saying that Wei Ba was true. Zhuge Liang regretted that he compromised with Wei Ba and asked him to take charge of Southeast affairs. Last year, Wei Ba set up a bureau.

After forcing Sun Quan to surrender, Wei Ba set up a bigger situation today, and he was going to surrender Cao Rui. Last year, he jumped from General Zhennan to General Cheqi and Cavalry, using Zhu Ya as his fief, and the scale of the fief was actually

It is already the treatment of the king. If you force Cao Rui to surrender this year, how can you confer him? I am afraid it will be unreasonable not to confer him as king.

In contrast, Zhuge Liang's battle in Luoyang was very failed.

"Uncle, Cao Rui is willing to negotiate, but he may not be able to get the negotiations." Zhuge Ke comforted: "This is probably a delaying strategy."

"Yes." Zhuge Liang nodded, held Zhuge Ke's shoulder and walked forward slowly. They broke up with Jiang Wan, left the palace, came to the Prime Minister's Mansion next to the palace, and entered the study. Zhuge Liang sat down.

, thinking quietly, Zhuge Ke arranged to make tea. Not long after, Huang Yueying walked over from the backyard, followed by a maid, carrying a bowl of ginseng soup.

"What's wrong? I'm so nervous?" Huang Yueying handed the ginseng soup to Zhuge Liang and asked lightly.

Zhuge Liang looked at the golden ginseng soup and didn't move for a long time. These ginsengs are the supplements he must drink every day now, but these ginsengs were sent from the East China Sea by Wei Ba. They were all from Liaodong.

Authentic old ginseng.

"What happened in Liaodong?" Huang Yueying asked tentatively.

"No." Zhuge Ke continued, "Cao Rui is willing to negotiate."

Huang Yueying's eyes flashed, she glanced at Zhuge Liang sympathetically, reached out to pat his shoulder: "Okay, drink the ginseng soup. Otherwise, Wei Ziyu would find it boring."

Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly, lowered his head and took a sip of ginseng soup, and a faint bitter taste spread in his mouth. Zhuge Ke was also a little bored. While Wei Ba fought with Zhuge Liang to the death, he sent someone to give Zhuge Liang a high-end ginseng to take care of his body.

It seems that Wei Ba is more filial to Zhuge Liang than his nephew. In fact, they all know that this is Wei Ba's demonstration.

No matter how good ginseng is, can it cure life? Even if you live for another twenty years, can you still live longer than Wei Ba? As Huang Yueying said, I hope you will take good care of your body, just because Wei Ba thinks that your opponent is too weak and boring

That's it.

"You have to talk, you have to talk." Zhuge Liang slowly calmed down, "If you don't talk, you will disappoint everyone in the world. However, the conditions can be considered."

"Uncle said it is reasonable." Zhuge Ke said: "Cao Rui wanted to talk about it because he was not strong enough and wanted to use a slowdown strategy to delay for a while. Since that is the case, the initiative is still in the hands of the court."

"Who is better to talk about it?" Zhuge Liang turned his head slightly and asked back.

"Since the negotiation will definitely not be reached in the end, of course Fei Yi will go to the negotiation."

Zhuge Liang didn't say anything. Huang Yueying looked at Zhuge Ke with satisfaction. Since the negotiation will definitely not be successful in the end, and the construction will not be successful, of course, we cannot take it on him. It is of course their responsibility to let Wei Ba and Fei Yi do this.

Zhuge Ke is a smart man. With him giving advice around Zhuge Liang, he can share a lot of responsibility for Zhuge Liang.

"Yuan Xun, you're thinking too simple." Zhuge Liang sighed softly. "Will Wei Ba not think of what you think of? But why did he still cause this?"

Zhuge Ke was stunned, thought for a moment, and suddenly blushed.

The fundamental reason Cao Rui is willing to negotiate is that Wei Ba and Li Yan join forces to form a three-sided siege against Wei. In the end, Cao Rui was prompted to sit on the negotiation table because Wei Ba showed a new style in Bailang Mountain.

Weapon - Horse Armor. If Wei Ba did not show the Horse Armor, Cao Rui would not accept the invitation to negotiate. Fei Yi was in Jiangling a few months ago, and the invitation to negotiation had been sent to Luoyang long ago. Why?

Just agree now?

The overall situation is Wei Babu, and the initiative is always in his hands. If it is really a thankless thing, why should he do this? He can hide the horse armor and quietly equip it to Wei Jun.

A fatal blow. He could not accept Cao Rui's negotiation request and insist on Cao Rui surrendering.

He did this because it was profitable. Cao Rui was willing to negotiate, but it did not mean that he was willing to surrender. He could not give Wei Ba any benefits. Then the benefits that Wei Ba could get must be outside the State of Wei.

What are the benefits? Zhuge Ke thought of the Kingdom of Wu.

Wu and Wei seem to be incompatible, but from another perspective, Wu is the lesson of Wei. Wei will definitely put forward better conditions than Wu, and Wei Ba wants to lower Wei.

The country's expectations must first reduce the treatment of Wu.

In other words, Wei Ba set up a game, and it seemed that he wanted to eat Wei, but in fact he wanted to eat Wu first. He thought of the first floor, but Zhuge Liang suddenly thought of the second floor. He always felt his own.

His strategy is almost approaching his uncle, but he found that he is still a long way from his uncle.

I looked ahead, but suddenly I was behind. Even though I wanted to follow it, I hadn't done it.
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