Wei Ba walked into the public hall and saw Jiang Wan who was busy. Jiang Wan's eyes were exhausted. Zhang Biao stood in front of him and was talking excitedly. Seeing Wei Ba walking in, Zhang Biao hurriedly put away his waving.

With his sleeves, he saluted politely: "General."

Jiang Wan also stood up and bowed.

"What's the matter? You're so happy?" Wei Ba said with a smile.

No matter how good Jiang Wan has a good temper, she almost scolds people. Is this happy? Is this happy? Can't the general see that Zhang Biao is demonstrating to me?

Anger burned in Jiang Wan's heart, but when the words came out of Jiang Wan's mouth, they were still so calm and calm.

"It's nothing. Zhang Boda came to ask for military rations, saying that the military rations for the past month were less than 200 stones, so he insisted that I supply him."

Zhang Biao is Jin Dongliu's Sima, and he is responsible for the military rations every month. Originally, Li Yan appointed Jin Dongliu as the General of Pinglu in the name of the emperor, but was rejected by Wei Ba and demoted to one level.

Only the General of the Central Army of Pinghu. In this way, Zhang Biao's official position could not be too high, but Zhang Biao didn't care. He knew that Jin Dongliu was Wei Ba's confidant, so he asked him to assist Jin Dongliu, which was Wei Ba's right.

His trust.

Although it was not very honorable to assist a poor scholar in Shu County, Zhang Biao accepted it happily. Zhang Biao knew the open and secret struggle between Wei Ba and Zhuge Liang, and he was also very concerned about Jiang Wan's intention.

He knew very well that he was deliberately trying to find Jiang Wan for the difference in grain of 200 stones.

This is not a personal opinion on Jiang Wan. On the contrary, Jiang Wan has a good temper and a loyal person. Everyone, including Zhang Biao, admires her very much, but it is related to the position. They have to express their opinions.

"General, I don't agree with these words from Jiang Changshi." Zhang Biaoyi said sternly: "What's wrong with two hundred stones of grain? A soldier only has one stone and eight dou of grain a month, and more than two hundred stones can give way to one

More than a hundred soldiers were having a meal. In order to reduce consumption, General Jin had minimized the number of soldiers. Now there are only more than 200 guards around him. He refused to deduct ordinary soldiers, so he lacked these foods.

Half of the people in the military camp will go hungry. This will affect the combat effectiveness. Who will be responsible then?"

Wei Ba turned his head and looked at Jiang Wan, his face also looked a little unfair: "What the hell is going on?"

Jiang Wan sighed: "General, the food for 5,000 people is collected once a month, which is nearly 10,000 stones. When it is distributed, there is inevitably some error. The error of 200 stones is already very small."

Zhang Biao blurted out: "Then why didn't you give me two hundred stones?"

Jiang Wan retorted slowly: "Didn't you give me more? Last month, you didn't receive more than 100 stones, and you didn't see you say a word."

Zhang Biao was stunned, and then said righteously: "I can allow you to make mistakes once, but I can't allow you to make mistakes continuously."

Wei Ba burst into laughter. He raised his legs and pretended to kick him, stared at him and scolded, "I think you are trying to trouble Jiang Changshi on purpose? If there is nothing else, get out of here."

Zhang Biao turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Wei Ba again. "Boda. Wait, there is something here that you just need to come up with an idea." He said, and took out Li Yan's order: "Pu

The cavalry general asked Fangling to attack Xiangyang. He asked us to allocate some more food and grass, and you can see. Can we still draw it out?"

Zhang Biao didn't say anything, and looked at Jiang Wan. He was a wise man, so of course he knew the purpose of Wei Ba leaving him here. He was arranged by Li Yan, and Jiang Wan was arranged by Zhuge Liang, so there was a proof of what happened.

, Wei Ba will not be passive in the future.

Jiang Wan pondered for a moment: "Although we still have some surplus grain, tribes keep coming out of the mountains. We don't leave any food, how can we place them at that time? Besides, if there is a war, the food consumption will be greatly reduced.

What if Jiaozhou has no time to supply it?”

Zhang Biao nodded in agreement: "That's true. As the saying goes, if you have food at home, you won't feel panic. If you don't have more than a month's storage of grain, it will be very dangerous. If General Cavalry wants Fang Ling to send troops, should he be transferred from Chengdu.

It's convenient."

Seeing that Jiang Wan and Zhang Biao had similar opinions, Wei Ba did not say anything else. He called Yang Xi and asked him to write a reply letter to Li Yan to express his difficulties. Then, he expressed his concerns about the war in Xiangyang.

, I believe that it is not appropriate to launch the battle in Xiangyang under the current circumstances, and if I can wait until the autumn harvest, the situation may be better.

...

Upon receiving Wei Ba’s reply, Li Yan smiled slightly and slowly folded the official documents.

"What do you think Wei Ba really means?"

Hu Zhong thought for a while: "I think he really has no food. Since he took Yulin last year, he has been transporting grain to Chengdu and Guanzhong. In half a year, Jiaozhou's reserves should be almost the same. Recently, the market has been on the market.

The grain prices on the market have begun to rise, which is also related to the decrease in the number of rice coming from Jiaozhou."

Li Yan raised his eyebrows: "I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about his attitude towards the war in Xiangyang."

Hu Zhong hesitated a little. After he thought for a long time, he said carefully: "General, I think General Zhennan's suggestion is a mature statement. Now attacking Xiangyang, it is probably difficult to achieve results. Xiangyang City is solid and difficult to attack last time

General Zhennan and Lu Xun worked together to attack the city, but in the end they did not make a full contribution. Now, just Meng Da and the others are probably..."

"Without Wei Ba, you can't attack the city?" Li Yan sneered.

"What the general said is very much." Hu Zhong smiled slightly and leaned towards Li Yan: "But have the general ever thought that the Prime Minister would train troops in Guanzhong. After the autumn, there would be enough food and the troops of the army were trained to go to Longyou.

It is bound to win. If Meng Da can conquer Xiangyang and attack Wanluo before this, that would be the best, but if Meng Da returns in vain and even has setbacks, then the general's face..."

Li Yan was stunned and a little worried. He knew very well that Meng Da would be able to return safely after leaving Xiangyang. There was no need to think about such a good thing as conquering Xiangyang. After all, going to go to Xiangyang is just an excuse to intercept food.

Forget it. But if Zhuge Liang sits in Guanzhong, trains troops and trains troops, and then launches a large war in the autumn, then he is very likely to win. Although the Wei State also has military farms in Hedong and Nanyang, its scale is obviously not as large as Guanzhong. As for Longyou

The scale is even smaller, and most of them rely on the support of Hedong. The longer the delay is, the more beneficial it is to Zhuge Liang, and it is even possible to drag Zhang He to death directly.

If Meng Da is defeated and Zhuge Liang is defeated, wouldn’t he cause trouble for himself this time to incite Meng Da to send troops?

"What should I do?"

"General, I think I can collect grain in Chengdu under the name of Prime Minister's use of troops. If someone resists, of course I will blame the Prime Minister for being powerful and powerful. Even if the food is insufficient, the Prime Minister will not blame the general. As long as the Prime Minister fails, even if Meng Da fails, I will definitely blame him.

Nor can you blame the general.”

Li Yan raised his eyebrows and pondered silently. After a long time, he slowly said, "The plan is a good plan. However, the opportunity must be grasped just right." He looked at Hu Zhong, but Hu Zhong was confused.

Looking at him, obviously not understanding how to grasp the opportunity just right.

Li Yan smiled, and his smile was unfathomable.

...

Outside Li Miao's courtyard, Peng Heng and Chen Ming walked forward and backward. When they reached the side door, they stopped and looked around quietly. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, Peng Heng was right.

Chen Ming nodded, flew over the courtyard wall, and fell silently as if he was a raccoon cat.

He squatted on the ground, listened with his ears, looked around, and soon saw the bedroom with lights on. The courtyard was silent, with only the sound of Li Miao occasionally turning the pages of the book, and the occasional coughing sound.

Peng Heng got up, walked quickly to the door, and knocked gently on the door.

"Tu tuk!"

The room was silent. After a moment, Li Miao could not hide his panic: "Who?"

"I am Xuan Yu."

"Xuan Yu?" A voice came from the room, and I don't know what fell to the ground.

"If you don't open the door, it's not good to be seen." Peng Heng laughed, held his arm and leaned against the wall.

Before he finished speaking, the door creaked open, and Li Miao poked half of his face, and even in the darkness, he could see the cold sweat on his forehead.

"What are you doing when you come back? You still think it's bad for me?"

"Who told you to die?" Peng Heng pushed Li Miao away, walked into the room, glanced around, sniffed again, and couldn't help laughing: "Uncle, I've been doing a good life recently, I can't stand it.

Such a good book can afford such a good wine.”

"This wine is okay, is this book very good?" Li Miao walked over and wanted to block the bottle on the table, but Peng Heng took the lead in grabbing the hand, leaned to his nose and smelled it, and smiled and said: "

My uncle is still so stingy when he has money. His nephew travels thousands of miles to see you, and he still has to hide some good wine."

"What do you know? Mrs. Xiahou is no longer in Chengdu. How long can I drink after sitting in the empty house?" Li Miao saw Peng Heng's attitude of taking it alone, and said angrily: "Can you blame me for your Peng family? It's your father.

He made a ruthless statement and offended the late emperor and the prime minister..."

"Liu Bei is dead, I will dig his grave one day. But the village man in Zhuge is not dead yet." Peng Heng interrupted Li Miao and said straight to the point: "I came this time just to figure out Li Yan's mind.

What happened? Zhuge Villager promised him what good things and actually asked him to take charge of Chengdu affairs?"

"Li Yan?" Li Miao sneered: "He is just a self-righteous dog. Don't look at him jumping happily now, he will be skinned and eaten by the Prime Minister sooner or later."

Peng Heng's eyes flashed: "How do you know?"

"Hmph." Li Miao smiled proudly: "Do you think this wine came in vain? I was the one who was entrusted by Mrs. Xiahou to Jiangzhou to ask Li Yan to send troops to support Wei Ba. I didn't understand it at that time, and later I did not understand.

I figured it out. Although Li Yan thought he was very clever, he was still used by Wei Ba in the end. He wanted to pull Wei Ba to fight with the Prime Minister, but he thought he was clever and wanted to play with these two people in his palms.

, How can it last long?"
Chapter completed!