Li Feng looked at Wei Ba in surprise. Wei Ba's face was a little dark, his eyes were a little dark, and his complexion looked really bad. He quickly comforted: "Ziyu has been too busy recently, probably because she is tired, just take more rest.
, I think that's not a problem."
Wei Ba blinked and said it again, saying it word by word: "I'm going to be sick..."
Li Feng was embarrassed and turned his head and looked at Fa Miao.
The two of them came from Guanzhong to attend Wei Yan's funeral, and they had to have private contact with Wei Ba. Wei Ba suffered serious losses in the Battle of Pengcheng, and the Wei family had accumulated many years of martial soldiers, heavy armored soldiers, and the newly formed cavalry soldiers.
Almost all the losses are gone, and it is impossible to recover in a short period of time. If you want to speed up the recovery, you will inevitably ask Li Yan for help. So Li Feng came here this time as a benefactor. He was very polite on the surface, but his expression was in a state of mind.
But his compliment was fully revealed. When I arrived in Yiyang, the first issue to discuss was the price of horse armor.
Wei Ba didn't say anything at that time, but he could tell that he was very unhappy. Later, for a while, he had not seen Li Feng. It didn't matter. He knew that it was possible for Wei Ba to use a little surname at this time, but
He really turned against the Li family father and son, but he didn't dare.
Li Feng was confident and fearless.
Now that he heard Wei Ba say he was going to be sick, Li Feng subconsciously thought Wei Ba was trying to trick him again. After Wei Ba repeated it, he realized that Wei Ba might have other meanings, but he just couldn't hear it.
He had no choice but to ask Fa Miao for help.
Fa Miao coughed and exchanged glances with Wei Ba: "Someone wants to deal with the general?"
Wei Ba nodded and sighed softly: "Tiger falls into Pingyang. The Prime Minister denied my suggestion and wanted to transfer Ma Zhong to preside over the war on the Eastern Front, and to put Zhuge Ke under Lu Xun's tent. In order to avoid bigger
I had to get sick after the conflict. After the funeral of my father, I went back to my fiefdom to recuperate, and my brothers would guard the tomb in Yiyang. Major General, you are also careful. The war is dangerous and not safer than Chengdu. Don’t let Guanzhong suffer any losses.
”
Li Feng finally understood this time. Zhuge Liang wanted to force the Wei Ba brothers to keep mourning and drive them out of the army temporarily. With the strength of the Wei brothers, it is obviously unlikely that they will completely deprive their military power, but using this opportunity to use morality
The name forced them to be unable to move for the time being, but that was completely possible. Wei Ba temporarily retreated, and Li Yan lost his support and he would face Zhuge Liang's counterattack alone.
Why was Wei Ba forced to retreat? Because he lost his battle and his strength was damaged. With Wei Ba's ability, he may fail. Who can guarantee that Li Yan will not defeat the battle? As Wei Ba said, there is no unbeaten in the world.
General, unless you don’t lead troops to fight. As long as you are on the front line, you may fail. As long as you fail, your strength will inevitably be damaged.
Wei Ba's strength is so strong that Li Yan and his son dare to beat him. After he suffered setbacks, he had to bear it for a while, let alone Li Yan.
Li Feng's face became very ugly. Now he knew that Wei Ba was frustrated, which was not good news for them.
"This time the loss is too great. I want to rebuild the Wushu and the heavy armored soldiers, and the cavalry must be reorganized. There are too many places to spend money, so I can't take care of the horse armor for a while. Major General, I'm so embarrassed,
This business cannot be completed, I will compensate you for your losses. Please give me a few good words in front of the general, hoping that he will not blame me."
Li Feng was anxious and angry. He just wanted to lower the price. Wei Ba was even more ruthless and simply stopped selling. How could this work? He was still counting on horse armor to enhance the strength of Guanzhong. Now Zhuge Liang wants to deal with their father and son, if they are strong
Isn’t it worse to be inadequate?
"This... Ziyu, if you want to use money, you can say it, how can you just go back on your word?" Li Feng said with a smile: "Besides, don't you have to do business anymore, isn't it tighter? Price matters,
We can discuss it. We have been working with you for a long time. How can we not help you at this time?"
Wei Ba bowed and thanked him: "I am grateful, but the gap is too big. I am really embarrassed to extend my hand to the general. I know it is not easy for the general." He paused and said: "This time I lost more than 20,000 yuan.
For people, the pension for soldiers alone is a huge sum of money. I am afraid that the taxes in the area under my jurisdiction are not enough, so I must ask the Prime Minister's Office to help me. If it is not enough, I will ask the general to donate generously."
Li Feng was shocked. Wei Ba's move was cruel enough. Not only did he intercept all the finances and taxes of the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction, he also asked the Prime Minister's Mansion for money. How much does it cost? You should know that for now, Shu Han
The biggest source of taxes for the imperial court was Jingzhou, Jiaozhou and Yizhou under Wei Ba’s rule, and the taxes for Yizhou were only enough to be normal expenses of the imperial court and could not support other places at all. Of course, even if there were, Zhuge Liang could not give it to Li Yan.
Guanzhong is currently only able to stabilize by Wei Ba’s blood transfusion. If Wei Ba cuts off supply, what should Guanzhong do?
Li Feng's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he regretted it. If he had known this, why would he have bargained with Wei Ba for the price of horse armor, and now Wei Ba bit him back. This loss was a huge loss.
Wei Ba didn't look at Li Feng, and turned to Fa Miao and said, "Boyuan, have the priests of Guanzhong ruled here?"
"A few are here."
"I'd like to find time to invite them to come. I want to collect the sacrificial wine from Tianshidao to summon my father's soul."
"This is what I should do, I'll contact you."
Wei Ba nodded, got up to see the guests, and sent Li Feng, who had not yet come back to his senses, out of the door. When the wind blew, Li Feng woke up and hurriedly pulled Fa Miao and said, "Boyuan, this
But what should I do?"
Fa Miao patted Li Feng's hand: "Major General, have you forgotten? General Cheqi is military affairs, and military affairs must be controlled by the general. If the general doesn't nod, the Prime Minister's Mansion will not be able to make the decision. Wei Qiqi now has
It’s hard, the general reaches out to help, it’s a good time to show kindness.”
Li Feng suddenly realized and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling relieved.
Two days later, Mrs. Xi sent someone to notify Li Feng, requesting to cancel the order of Ma Kai and pay the penalty for liquidated contract. Li Feng did not dare to collect it, and he persuaded him with kind words. Not only did he not dare to lower the price, but he took the initiative to request it. He did not see it.
In the case of a piece of horse armor, we should pay all the payment in full first to help the Wei family overcome the difficulties first.
At the same time, he wrote to Li Yan to inform him of Zhuge Liang's situation. When Li Yan received the news, he was angry and angry. It was so angry that Wei Ba had reached this time and did not forget to threaten him.
It was Zhuge Liang who was so bold that he had to attack Wei Ba while attacking him. After thinking about it, he felt that there was no benefit in turning against Wei Ba at this time. Although Li Feng's decision was a bit hasty, it was a proper way. He immediately
He sent someone to send Ma Kai's payment for the goods to Wei Ba, and at the same time wrote a handwritten letter to Wei Ba, swearing that he would advance and retreat with Wei Ba and would not let Zhuge Liang succeed.
Then, as a general, he sent a official letter to Chengdu.
...
With a "bang", the thick account book was thrown on the desk. Zhuge Liang blushed and glared at Liao Li: "Gongyuan, what did you do, you, the Prime Minister? Wei Ba said that if you don't pay the tax, you won't pay it.
Now?"
Liao Li rolled his eyes, raised his hand and took off the seal from his waist, placed it in front of Zhuge Liang, bowed his hand, turned around and left.
"You!" Zhuge Liang was furious and looked at Liao Li's back as he was gone, but he didn't know what to say. It was easiest for officials in the Han Dynasty to resign. He didn't even have to write a resignation report. Once he handed over the seal, he ran away. The work was natural.
The deputy took over. Liao Li handed over the seal to him, and even waived the handover work.
It was not until this time that Zhuge Liang discovered that there was something wrong with Liao Li's attitude.
Liao Li has always been a very utilitarian person. He wanted to be an official, but he wanted to be a magistrate. He was demoted because he was dissatisfied with his official position too low. Now he actually threw away an official position like the Deputy Prime Minister.
, what does this mean?
Of course, Zhuge Liang did not believe that Liao Lihui regarded wealth as dirt. It would be strange if he could change it until Liao Li's age. Liao Li did this with only one explanation. With years of experience, he realized that there was another stir in the court.
In order to avoid being accidentally injured, he simply resigned first.
Or just say it directly, Liao Li doesn't want to support him at all, let alone be misunderstood by Wei Ba, so he should be cleared of himself as soon as possible.
Zhuge Liang walked around two circles and saw the empty case, and then realized the serious consequences of Liao Li's resignation. Although Liao Li was not the same as him, he did not take on all the official duties of the Prime Minister's Office, but Liao Li's ability
It is obvious to all. After Liao Li's barrier, at least 70% of the matters have been solved. He just needs to check it again. Even so, he is still very tired. Liao Li gave up and suppressed all the official duties.
Come on, what will happen?
Do you want me to die sooner?
Zhuge Liang looked at Yang Yi and Jiang Wan, speechless for a moment.
Yang Yi looked at Zhuge Liang with a gaze and licked his lips.
...
Xiang Lang put down the book, touched his naked forehead, and pondered for a moment: "It seems that although this battle suffered a little loss, it may not be a bad thing. This kid has made progress again, and this move takes retreat as an advance,
I'm going to make the Prime Minister embarrassed again."
Ma Su covered his mouth and smiled, nodding repeatedly: "I heard from the boy of the Gu family say that the Prime Minister is defending, Wei Ba is attacking, and the initiative is Wei Ba. After all, the Prime Minister cannot win. Originally, I still
I don't believe it very much, but now it seems that he really hit it. Even if Wei Ba suffered a loss, he still firmly grasped the initiative. Just like in the battle in Pengcheng, he would rather die than to refuse
Losing power.”
Xiang Lang raised his eyebrows: "Gu Tan?"
Ma Su nodded.
Xiang Lang pondered for a moment, looked at Ma Su, raised his gray eyebrows and then flattened: "You Chang, just listen to it as a gossip, and you don't feel any crisis?"
Ma Su was stunned for a moment, then woke up and said embarrassedly: "Not it, right?"
"Not?" Xiang Lang sneered: "Gu Lu is a family of in-laws. Since Lu Xun decided to support Wei Ba, can the Gu family fall behind? I think you have been in Chengdu for a long time and have a relaxed heart. Are you planning to have a good relationship with me?