After several days of painful torture, Liu Bei finally arrived in Jianwei after going through hardships. Fortunately, the prefect who guarded Jianwei was Li Hui promoted by Liu Bei. Although this person was a scholar, he had a strategic vision and managed Jianwei in an orderly manner. He was also very loyal to Liu Bei. In history, it was Li Hui who lobbled Ma Chao, who lived under Zhang Lu's command, and Ma Chao was able to serve Liu Bei, which made Liu Bei successfully take over Yizhou. It can be seen that Li Hui's talent is indeed extraordinary.

As soon as Liu Bei arrived at Jianwei, Li Hui greeted Liu Bei, and found the best medical officer in the county to deal with Liu Bei's injuries. He did not despise Liu Bei at all because of Liu Bei's huge power and a left ear. He still looked down on Liu Bei as usual, and respected Liu Bei as the upright King of Hanzhong.

At the same time, Li Hui also issued a manifesto informing the prefect of Yongchang County Huo Jun and the prefect of Ke County Ma Zhong, who gathered their respective subordinates to come to Jianwei to serve the king and continue to support Liu Bei's rule. After receiving Li Hui's proclamation, Huo Jun and Ma Zhong each led their elite subordinates to gather in Jianwei County. In a few days, an army of 100,000 people were gathered again, allowing Liu Bei to drive them.

Liu Bei's desire for power was deeply hidden in his heart, and he burst out again with the assistance of Li Hui and the other two. He immediately promoted Li Hui and the other two levels and promoted them to the extraordinary. At the same time, he promoted some officials under the rule of the three, such as civil officials Fei Shi, Yang Hong, Zhou Qun, military generals Lu Yi, Wu Lan, etc. While Liu Bei reorganized his style, the civil and military officials who escaped from various battlefields in northern Yizhou also went to Jianwei to rejoin Liu Bei, including the generals Xiang Chong, Fu Jian, Fu Tong, and his son. As the advent of these people, the flames of revenge in Liu Bei's heart burned wildly, and it was out of control.

Under the burning of the flames of revenge, Liu Bei made a crazy decision to borrow soldiers from the Southern Barbarians in the South Central region, follow Yuan Shao, and use the method of borrowing soldiers from the foreigners Wuhuan to retaliate against Ao Lie and realize his dream of regaining control of Yizhou. As soon as Liu Bei's idea was introduced, it was opposed by many important civil and military officials of his subordinates. After all, no matter what, the dispute between Shu Han and Northern Han belonged to the internal conflicts of the Han people. It can only be digested internally. Once the Southern Barbarians borrowed soldiers, it would not be an internal conflict, and the war would be directly escalated to ethnic conflicts. At that time, once the war was started, it would be an ending that would last forever and no one would have a way out.

Although the subordinates and important officials repeatedly advised each other, Liu Bei finally decided to borrow troops from the Southern Barbarians to defeat Ao Lie and drive the Han army out of Yizhou. Seeing that Liu Bei had made up his mind, the civil and military officials were not good at persuading him. He could only obey Liu Bei's intentions and elect Fei Shi as the contact ambassador, and went to Nanzhong to discuss specific matters with the barbarian king Meng Huo.

Fei Shi was proficient in the dialect of Nanzhong and was well-intentioned. He was the most suitable person to be an envoy at the moment. Liu Bei had no objection to this, so he ordered Fei Shi to start his journey immediately and rushed to Nanzhong.

The Nanzhong region is a general term, named after it is located in the south of Bashu, including the southern part of Yongchang, Jianning and Khan Ke. Here, Yi people and Han people live in mixed places. The Dali Kingdom of the Song Dynasty in the later period was part of Nanzhong. It can be said that the Nanzhong region has a complex terrain, endless jungles, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is a good place to establish a base. Therefore, it also breeds the psychological tendency of the Yi people to be independent. Since decades ago, they no longer obeyed the rule of the Han Dynasty, and recommended people with courage and courage as leaders, called him the "barbarian king" and unified management of the Nanzhong region.

The current barbarian king is Meng Huo. Meng Huo is well-read the Han Dynasty's calligraphy, proficient in military strategy, and is extremely brave. He has a high prestige in the Nanzhong region. When Liu Bei first entered Yizhou, he wanted to completely eliminate Meng Huo's power, but he was dissuaded by Fa Zheng and others under his command. He believed that it was better to be relieved than to be blocked, and it was better to be grateful for education than to be killed. He should be persuaded to Meng Huo's power with temptation, and finally, Nanzhong was completely included in the territory of Yizhou. Later, Liu Bei gradually lost himself in his luxurious life due to busy affairs and lavish life, so he put down the affairs of Nanzhong. Now it seems that this has become a good thing, the premise is that Fei Shi can persuade Meng Huo to send troops to support Liu Bei, and Meng Huo can convince his ten cave masters to gather the power of the entire Yi tribe to send troops to Yizhou.

After Fei Shi arrived in Nanzhong with Liu Bei's famous post, he met the barbarian king Meng Huo and his cave masters, and had a detailed discussion with each other. In the end, Fei Shi, on behalf of Liu Bei, promised Meng Huo and others that as long as they could help Liu Bei drive away Ao Lie's Han army, the Nanzhong region would allow the Nanzhong region to officially become independent, and the Shu Han army would never invade the territory, and maintain close and friendly relations with Nanzhong for generations. When Nanzhong encountered natural disasters, Shu Han would also unconditionally provide materials to Nanzhong from the standpoint of partners and friendly neighbors.

Faced with the favorable conditions offered by Fei Shi, Meng Huo even omitted the bargaining and agreed directly. Meng Huo was not a fool. He knew that if Liu Bei had not been forced to a certain extent, such favorable conditions would not be offered. It would not be realistic if he wanted to squeeze some water from Liu Bei. However, while Meng Huo agreed happily, he still proposed an exchange condition to Fei Shi, that is, all the costs of the barbarian soldiers' exponentially, that is, Liu Bei would pay for all the costs of the barbarian soldiers. This condition seemed simple, but there was a lot of fluctuations in it. For example, Meng Huo only dispatched 50,000 barbarian soldiers, but asked Liu Bei for military pay for 100,000 people, or asked Liu Bei exponentially for money and grain on the grounds that the Yi people had a large appetite. Even if Liu Bei knew that it was wrong, there was no possibility of refusing, because Meng Huo was his only reinforcement now, both Meng Huo and Liu Bei knew very well.

Fei Shi spoke up in front of Meng Huo's lion. After several consultations, she had to grit her teeth and agree. After all, he came with Liu Bei's death order, so Meng Huo must be sent to the army.

On the second day after the two sides reached an agreement, Meng Huo and Liu Bei secretly reached an agreement and presented it to Ao Lie's desk in the form of a Moss code. Needless to say, in the remote Nanzhong region, the only one who can obtain first-hand information in such a short time is the only shadow!

Looking at the information in front of him, Ao Lie's brows gradually frowned. Now Yizhou has just been pacified, and many things have not been sorted out. The prisoners of Shu soldiers who have been subdued have not yet undergone systematic training and are likely to rebel at any time. Moreover, the war on the battlefield in Jizhou has been delayed for too long. If it is delayed, some variables may occur. Ao Lie still needs to rush back to Jizhou as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation. It is impossible for him to stay in Yizhou for too long, and of course he has no time to pacify Liu Bei and Meng Huo's joint trouble.

After thinking about it for a while, Ao Lie was still a little confused, so he convened his important officials and held a military meeting to analyze and judge the current situation, and discuss the next specific actions.

As the oldest important official, Xun Yu was the first to speak: "Yu thought that Yizhou was a country of heaven, and we must not lose control of Yizhou. Otherwise, it would be easy to rekindle Liu Bei. However, the foundation of our country is still in the north, and Jizhou has a gateway to the north. There must be no mistakes. Therefore, Yu advocated that some of the troops be left to guard Chengdu. With the strength of Chengdu and the surrounding natural dangers, he adopted a defensive strategy to deal with Liu Bei and Meng Huo's coalition forces. King Yan should return to Jizhou as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation to calm people's hearts."

Ao Lie sighed and said, "Wen Ruo's words make sense, which is basically the same as what he thought. However, we need to further discuss the specific personnel division, whether to leave most of the people or bring most of them back to Jizhou; in addition, who will guard Chengdu and consolidate the results we have achieved are the most appropriate?"

Pang Tong stood up and said, "King Yan, Wenruo has said just now that Yizhou is the country of Tianfu. It was through this place that Emperor Gaozu achieved the prosperity of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years. Therefore, Yizhou will be our next important strategic location and must not be abandoned. Tong suggested that most of the troops be left to guard Chengdu. The King of Yan only needed to bring a few elite troops back to the north, and cooperate with Gongming and Junyi's troops to resist Cao Cao. As for the candidates to guard Yizhou, Tong elected Kong Ming and Kong Ming's civil and military strategy to take on this great task. At the same time, Tong also voluntarily stayed to assist Kong Ming and guard Yizhou together."

In history, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang had some contradictions, but now, because of the butterfly effect brought by Ao Lie, Pang Tong's heart knot was unraveled by Zhuge Liang, making the relationship between Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang more intimate. The contradictions in history have long been eliminated and invisible.

Hearing Pang Tong's recommendation, Zhuge Liang said: "It's not appropriate! Shi Yuan and Liang must not stay at the same time. One person must stay by the King of Yan and assist the King of Yan to coordinate the overall situation."

Ao Lie turned his head and looked at Jia Xu who had not spoken, and asked, "Wenhe, what do you think?"

Jia Xu smiled slightly and brought out his unchanging response: "Since the King of Yan has made a decision in his heart, why ask again?"

Upon hearing this, Ao Lie smiled helplessly and scolded: "You old fox, don't say the truth!" After a pause, Ao Lie continued: "Well, this matter is settled like this. Except for the four elite troops, the rest of the people stayed to guard Yizhou for the time being. After the conquered Shu soldiers surrendered, they were changing defenses. As for the people who stayed to guard Yizhou, Kong Ming would be the one who took charge. Shi Yuan went back to the north with someone, and the war there could not be relaxed at all. In addition, Wei Yan,

Jiang Wei and Wang Ping stayed to assist Kong Ming, Meng Qi and Pang De in Hanzhong, ready to support the battlefield in Yizhou at any time. As for Liangzhou, it will be temporarily left to Ma Dai to take charge of it." Ao Lie knew in his heart that Zhuge Liang's talent was infinite. The bigger the scene, the more he responded easily. Moreover, in history, the story of Zhuge Liang's seven capture of Meng Huo was a familiar and interesting story for everyone in later generations. Ao Lie was relieved to leave Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was governing Shu was a good story in history.

As for Wang Ping, he joined the army after the Han army captured Hanzhong. Ao Lie knew that Wang Ping was a good general in history, so he just conducted a brief investigation and granted him the position of a fourth-rank general, and temporarily served as deputy general under Zhuge Liang. Ao Lie made this arrangement and also had the intention to cultivate Wang Ping. He hoped that Wang Ping could learn more from Zhuge Liang. Similarly, it was the same for keeping his disciple Jiang Wei, the only thing he could do was to do was to stay. Ao Lie hoped that Jiang Wei would receive a more recent baptism and mature as soon as possible.

After Ao Lie made the decision, a group of civil and military generals bowed to Ao Lie at the same time and said loudly: "No!" At this point, even if the next strategic direction is basically decided, the Han army will be divided into two battlefields to fight. Zhuge Liang stayed in Yizhou and jointly resisted the coalition forces of Liu Bei and Meng Huo with Wei Yan and others, and was responsible for the transformation and governance of Yizhou. Ao Lie returned to the north and led most of his elites to compete with Cao Cao!
Chapter completed!