Chapter 1252 Double Dragon Secret Talk

On the outskirts of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Liu Spare's two fingers pulled out a bamboo stick from the wooden fish barrel. The top of the dark blue bamboo stick was cut into a sharp sword shape, which looked gloomy and solemn like a real sharp sword. He raised his elbow slightly and threw it out gently.

The bamboo stick drew an arc and fell on the ground covered with yellow sand. The executioner not far away shouted loudly and clasped the wide-edged knife with both hands and waved it. The iron blade easily cut the flesh and blood, cut off the neckbone, and cut off the whole head from a tall body. The head rolled several times on the ground and rolled to Liu Bei's feet. The eyes of the deceased were still round, full of unwillingness and indignation, and Liu Bei's compassionate and indifferent eyes looked at each other, forming a sharp contrast.

And this head is just the beginning. With the clean and neat performance of the first executioner, the other executioners were not willing to show weakness. Then they shouted loudly and their hands fell with knives. For a moment, the blood splashed on the yellow sand was full of drinking, and the rolling heads were like a ball competition, scratching at Liu Bei's feet.

It was not until the last head under his feet stopped rolling, and Liu Bei looked at the dead bodies all over the ground that he sighed and looked away from the ground. Several sergeants next to him shouted loudly, "After the execution, the head of the thief has been executed several times!" The sound resounded throughout the campus. However, in strong contrast to Liu Bei's compassionate eyes, after shouting excitedly, those soldiers shouted autonomously, "Uncle is powerful!"

"Uncle is powerful!" The rest of the soldiers felt goodwill in Liu Bei's stunned and then warm smile, and shouted again.

Then without instructions, someone attentively brought a copper basin containing water and a few peach leaves. Jingzhou custom, wash your hands with clean water after seeing blood. The fragrance of peach leaves can cover the smell, otherwise you will be killed by the dead soul following the smell of blood. Liu Bei never believed this, but there was no special reason to oppose it.

He smiled at the soldier who brought the copper basin to express his gratitude. Although these were not soldiers under his command, he did not hesitate to smile. Then he washed his hands and looked up at the sky. Today, the sky in Xiangyang is gloomy, and there is a large group of lead-gray clouds gathered at the head of the city, and there is no wind. It won't rain in this weather, but it's very easy to get foggy. Once the fog is shrouded, the whole city will become white and blurred, and nothing can be seen clearly, which makes people impetuous.

"What a good weather for the scene." Liu Bei sighed secretly.

It has been almost a month since Liu Bei came to Jingzhou. Nominally, he came to help Liu Biao in Jingzhou quell the rebellion. Therefore, he has had to do some superficial work this month. Thanks to Kuai Liang's energy in Jingzhou, Liu Bei got a lot of money and military food, and also exchanged 5,000 equipment and horses from the Ma family. After being fully equipped, the combat effectiveness of the 20,000-man Liu Bei army has directly increased several levels. For those bandits who occupy mountains and rob houses, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as driving tigers and sheep.

After the First World War, Chen, the leader of the personal guard, once sighed in Liu Bei's ear: "With this clever armor, the general will dare to kill 3,000 Jingzhou cavalry head-on with 500 guards!" After hearing this, Liu Bei looked happy and sad. Fortunately, his military strength can already let go of the battle in Jingzhou; but he is worried that he is already different from Ma Chao's strength. You know, the Ma family alone has a total of 50,000 cavalry in Chang'an. And its own military equipment armor is still a defective product that the Ma family has eliminated for more than a year...

At the thought of this, Liu Bei's eyebrows were even more worried, and he was not even in the mood to smile back at the soldiers who saw him back. Until he entered his mansion in Xiangyang, he was not completely enlightened, and then he went straight into a quiet room in the backyard.

"Why is the general so deep in his eyebrows?" A teenager turned around and didn't even see Liu Bei's face, so he judged Liu Bei's worries: "If Liang guessed well, but for the chaos and bandits in Jingzhou, the lord is worried that Liu Biao will excuse him to leave?"

Liu Bei smiled bitterly. Since the teenager came under his command, Liu Bei felt that all his mind could not escape his star-like eyes. However, Liu Bei never hates this. He doesn't need to hide his thoughts and useless old man now. On the contrary, Zhuge Liang, an enterprising and vigorous young talent, is exactly what Liu Bei needs most.

Liu Bei is more grateful to be able to get a young genius like Zhuge Liang. He remembered that before he was ready to enter Jingzhou, he suddenly received a letter from Mr. Pang Degong from Jingzhou Shuijing. The letter said that he was going to be moved to Chang'an by the Ma family, and a son of an old friend was going to Xiangyang soon and asked Liu Bei to take care of him. Liu Bei had a letter with Mr. Shuijing. Although he did not meet him, he knew each other. Naturally, he agreed and sent Chen to pick up Zhuge Liang.

As soon as Zhuge Liang arrived in Liu Bei's army, he showed unparalleled wisdom. Several times, Liu Bei valued Zhuge Liang more and more, and gradually developed to the point that he would come to Zhuge Liang's residence as soon as he had something on his mind.

"I'm not worried about this matter. Since Liu Jingzhou invited me to Jingzhou, he will not really do it for those thieves." Liu Bei sat in front of the main room and poured a cup of tea and drank it: "The person he was worried about was that the Han Dynasty was bullied by Cao thieves. The emperor was angry and drew his sword. The thief minister dared to force each other, forcing the emperor to make Cao thief king of Wei. Han Shiweiyi, being trampled on the soles of his feet like this, is really heartbroken!"

Zhuge Liang smiled when he heard the words. He sat opposite Liu Bei and shook the feather fan before saying, "The general thought there was still prestige in the Han Dynasty? In those years, Li and Guo Yan and other people broke through Chang'an, and the position of the general and the three princes were just like rotten vegetables in the vegetable market to be asked for by Li Wei and Guo Yan? Speaking of this, Liu Bei was slightly excited and opened his mouth to speak, but was stopped by Zhuge Liang with a fan: "General, don't think that the emperor is forced to make Cao the king of Wei, and it is a great honor to be king alone. The two are called kings, which is provocative. Does the general think that he really wants this title of the King of Wei to Cao Cao?

Liu Bei frowned again and said no. Yes, he can also see that in the short term, this is a sign of humiliation that the Han Dynasty was completely defeated by Cao and forced to bow his head. But in the long run, the title of 'king' is really not good. As Zhuge Liang said, it is a supreme honor to be a king, but if there are more kings, it is worthless. The Ma family in Chang'an is resting and recuperating. It seems that there is no desire to show their teeth, but who can be sure that Ma Chao will not be angry because of Cao Cao's title of the king of Wei? Even if he doesn't care, can his whole group allow Cao Cao to be so provocative?

"Like what you said, is your majesty's way to get it?" Liu Bei opened his mouth tentatively, but was sneered by Zhuge Liang: "Does Han still have this qualification? The emperor has endured for many years, thinking that Zhizhu is holding it, and always regards the Chang'an Ma family as a great enemy in life. Finally, he lost all the games in Cao Cao's matter. Perhaps, he thought Cao Cao was still Dong Zhuo, but unfortunately, he was a little too confident.

Zhuge Liang didn't say anything more about the following words. After all, the matter in Xuchang has been settled, and it is meaningless to discuss it. And Liu Bei has always lived as the Han emperor, so he naturally doesn't want to listen to the words of demeaning the emperor. After Zhuge Liang's eyes turned around, he suddenly lit up again and asked Liu Bei mysteriously, "General, can you see this in the incident with Liang Huangling incident?"

"What does Mr.'s words refer to?" Liu Bei was really surprised. His body suddenly leaned slightly and said, "Is there any inside story?"

Zhu Liang looked at Liu Bei's eyes as if he did not seem to be hypocritical, and then asked, "General, can you imagine who is the most beneficial to break between the Han Dynasty and Cao?"

"Ma family?" Liu Bei said this sentence almost reflexively, but then after thinking about it, he added, "Maybe there is still Jiangdong Sun's family? ..." The small voice of the last sentence is almost negligible. There is no other reason. It is really too heavy for the Ma family, a huge thing, stuck in the hearts of the princes of the Han Dynasty.

"Yes, the Sun family may indeed make a profit, but if it hadn't been for Sun Ce's great life, he would have been shot to death by Cao's Jing'an Cao, and how much ability would he direct such a good play?"

"Mr. Zhuge's meaning is that this is related to the Liang Huangling incident and the Ma family in Chang'an?"

"I don't know anything about it, but Liang knows that any event that is obviously beneficial to people can't be just a coincidence." Zhuge Liang was a little too difficult to understand, but the next sentence was straightforward: "General, do you know that there is a person named Mu Yang in the shadow of the Ma family?"

Liu Bei shook his head, but at the same time, he suddenly felt that after the espionage work hosted by Chen Deng in Xuzhou was interrupted, it seemed that he should establish a complete spy system again. And the person who presided over this spy system... is far away in front of us!