On the first day of June, a day of court.

Since Liu Xie ran away, the court discussion has changed a lot and he has to hurry to follow the power. It is not so formal. It is Liu Bei who summoned the ministers who stayed in Chang'an to discuss matters in Beigong.

The level of ministers who could attend the meeting was further reduced. Some officials who were only 600 stones, but who were more important in charge of the matter could also give some opinions. Many times, Liu Bei was not too obsessed with the court etiquette, and even asked casually during the court discussion, "What do you think Boya/Gongda/Xiaozhi think?"

The 600-stone Jingzhao Yinhushao was a member of Wang Bi, and of course he was qualified to attend the meeting. He still played his "straight-to-heart" image, helping those who want to make trouble, and playing the role of making a name for himself, and giving a lot of opinions.

After the dynasty was dispersed, Wang Bi thought with satisfaction: "Why am I making trouble? Wei Kangwei and others want to disgust Liu Bei in the future, so they can also make more excuses and public opinion basis. Liu Bei wanted to ask the princes of Guandong to buy grain to provide disaster relief, so there must be more obstacles. In this way, Wei Kang and Wei Ji can further take advantage of the year of disaster. Liu Bei will further avenue the people's strength in Guanzhong in the future, and will delay more.

And we can also further use Wei Ji, the branch of the Hedong family, as a link, to try to destroy the relationship between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. As for ourselves, we will be scolded after a touch of oil and gain the reputation of being honest. We can still run back to Cao Zhengdong. It will be a three-killing victory."

Wang Bi was detained by Li Jue in the past two years and served as an official in Chang'an for two years. He was really frustrated. But his heart was always loyal to his former lord Cao Cao.

When Li Jue was detained, he just sent someone to stare at him, and the servants and guards around Wang Bi still ran away. So more than a year ago, Wang Bi successfully re-established a secret contact with Cao Cao. Cao Cao was surprised and happy to learn that Wang Bi was still loyal to him. He followed the situation and let Wang Bi lurk in Chang'an, pretending to be sincere in doing things for Li Jue, giving advice, and gaining trust, he would act as a spy who spyed on the court.

From Cao Cao's standpoint, Wang Bi's main advantage is that he is very loyal. As for other talents, they may not be that outstanding.

For someone who only has the most reliable loyalty, sending to lurk as a double-faced spy is of course the use of maximizing interests.

Other people who are strong and loyal but may not be reliable, even if they have better acting skills and are more sensitive to spying, Cao Cao has to worry that they will be undercover for a long time and will get more benefits and trust from the opposite camp, and will be devious.

Just like many undercover agents who have been involved in the HeiBang films have been much faster than the police force. When the old boss asks him for evidence of his crime, he will just use "SIR, what are you saying? Our clubs are all legal and good citizens."

Since Li Jue was defeated and besieged in Chang'an City, Wang Bi used Zhao Wen and Zhang Yi to escape from Chang'an City with clever intention, and then took the initiative to contact Cao Cao and inform Cao Cao of the new situation in Guanzhong.

Therefore, Cao Cao actually evaluated the subsequent trend as early as early May, and even Chang'an City was still in the siege, and Li Jue was not dead.

A smart person like Cao Cao, of course, should try his best to maximize his interests. Although the situation is unclear, Cao Cao should keep waiting and not turn against Liu Bei or any of the two Yuans, but this does not affect Cao Cao's layout of a few steps of leisure and makes other princes turn against each other.

Therefore, Wang Bi's actions these days were all completely used as guns by the Guanzhong family, but in fact there was another mastermind behind it.

...

Wang Bi thought about how to better complete the boss's mission before running away, and returned to the mansion with a wandering place.

After arriving at home, he went straight into the back hall and noticed that there were two seemingly relaxed swordsmen leaning on the stone table outside the corridor. He was so familiar with these swordsmen that he immediately realized that it was the lord who sent someone to contact him and learn about the latest information.

His confidant servant vaguely knew how to identify the token, and the visitor walked through the side door every time, so he would not delay. When the servant saw the visitor showing the token, he put it directly in, and would never attract attention on the road.

Wang Bi did not dare to neglect. When he came to the study, he saw a young scholar who was the person in charge of contacting him, named Xue Ti.

Xue Ti is still very young now, but he is only in his twenties and is not very talented, but he is really trusted by Cao Cao and often holds positions like military supervisors.

In history, Xue Ti made his fortune when Zhang Miao and Chen Gong surrendered to Lu Bu for Yanzhou. Xue Ti discovered some abnormalities from Chen Gong and immediately went straight to Juancheng to find Xun Yu. Cheng Yu reported it. Although he failed to catch Chen Gong's actions in advance, Xun Yu had time to prepare. So later, Lu Bu was destroyed, and this person was completely trusted by Cao Cao.

Later, Liu Bei got Yizhou, and Cao Cao moved the strategic focus westward. He only left Zhang Liao and other generals with different surnames to tie a small number of troops to defend Sun Quan in the two Huai Rivers, and sent Xue Ti to monitor Zhang Liao. (When Cao Cao wanted to operate multiple lines in the later period, only Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun and other generals with their own family were tied with tens of thousands of people without supervision, and foreign generals with thousands of soldiers were required to monitor them)

To put it bluntly, this person may not be very capable, but he is also absolutely loyal, so he has to ask for a confidential matter.

"The king is engaged in it, and the court discusses hard work." Xue Ti immediately stood up and saluted him when he saw Wang Bi.

Wang Bi raised his hand slightly and signaled to stop it: "Hey, everyone is working for the lord, how can you be called the imperial official position? This time, what are you anxious to know? If the lord needs it, I can get out of my position at any time."

Xue Ti was not polite and said directly: "At the beginning of the month, I passed on the disaster in Guanzhong that Brother Wang mentioned and Liu Bei's response. Xun Sima was not very interested, but Cheng Changshi attached great importance to it.

He advised the lord that if Liu Bei succeeded in fighting disaster relief in Guanzhong, he would definitely be able to retain more than 2 million people in Guanzhong. Within a few years of rest and recuperation, he could become a powerful Qin force, and the threat to the world may not be lower than that of Dong Zhuo at that time.

Only by trying to stop it can the war potential of Guanzhong's external expansion be destroyed to the greatest extent. If more than one million Guanzhong people are attracted to flow to Sili, Hedong, and Nanyang to feed back to Guandong and decline after the war, then Liu Bei's rise can be delayed.

Cheng Changshi Gong was planning logistics. According to his estimate, Yuan Shu was unlikely to transport grain to Chang'an to sell for profit. Yuan Shu was not a person who cared about small money. Moreover, the 600-mile mountain road of Wuguan Road was easier to walk than Shu Road, and the cost of transportation was not small.

Now that he can use grain to support Guanzhong, Yuan Shao, Hebei, is the most dangerous. Yuan Shao has stored countless grains in Yecheng and Henei. If it is profitable, and the relationship between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao will improve, as long as Yuan Shao advances west along the Yellow River and walks a little along the land route around Hedong when crossing Shaanxi, and uses troops to protect the key transportation of the Baibo thieves, then the transportation cost of Yuan Shao selling grain to Guanzhong is the lowest.

At the same time, Yuan Shao was happy to see small profits. Liu Bei has also had a lot of rare wealth and goods over the years. The huge Shu brocade, green porcelain, steel, and precious gems in the south are all favored by the princes of Guandong. If the two families hit it off and each takes their needs, it will be very harmful."

(Note: Before Cao Cao took over the emperor, the other officials under his command were of very low rank, and Xun Yu could only be Sima, the General of the East, with a rank of one thousand stones. Cheng Yu was the Chief Secretary of the General of the East.)

Xue Ti recounted Cheng Yu's worries, and Wang Bi nodded repeatedly when he heard this.

Cheng Yu is worthy of being a vicious logistics master under Cao Cao's command. He is very good at calculating such a person with no food to run.

Xun Yu probably could see that, but Xun Yu couldn't bear to do such a thing after all - he used the food famine to force millions of people to flee and migrate, and maybe half of them would starve to death on the way. They were all great men, and such vicious ideas could not be made.

Wang Bi digested it for a while and then said, "Then what else can I do here? Letting me mess up before is already my limit. What is the relationship between Liu and Yuan? How can I interfere with Cao, a clerk? Did the lord really agree to implement this suggestion in Cheng Changshi? I asked me to tell you that the lord is in the place of four battles, so it would be bad for him to cause trouble."

Xue Ti laughed and said, "This is what you see is far less than that of the lord and Cheng Changshi. It is precisely because Yan and Xu were in the four battles and were surrounded by the two Yuans and Sun Ce, so they could not see the surrounding princes being harmonious with each other.

If Yuan Shao and Liu Bei have a feud, then Yuan Shao will win over the lord, and Liu Bei can win over the lord. The lord will worry both sides, as long as he is worried about competing with Yuan Shu for the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Moreover, Cheng Changshi also said that Yuan Shao and Liu Bei seemed to have a very harmonious possibility, but in fact they were just a surface kindness. Yuan Shao had a fatal injury, that was, he proposed to support Liu Yu as the emperor. But that time, our lord was impartial and righteous, sent troops westward and respected the royal family.

So Yuan Shao never expected that Your Majesty would live to this day. As long as Your Majesty lived one more day, and not living as a 'hostage by a treacherous minister', as long as Your Majesty's edict Yuan Shao had no reason to refuse, then Yuan Shao would be like a sharp sword hanging on his head, and he would not be able to rest for a day, and he would always worry that Your Majesty would pursue his crime of supporting Liu Yu. Cheng Changshicai said that as long as there were one or two counselors around Yuan Shao, he would urge this spark to lure Yuan Shao to continue to treat Yuan Shao and Li Jue's attitude, it would be no difficult to fight against him."

Wang Bi is indeed far less politically sensitive than Cheng Yu. He never expected that there was such an insurmountable chain of suspicion between Yuan Shao and the emperor, because he was afraid of being liquidated by Liu Xie, and even if Liu Xie was not "killed", Yuan Shao had the motivation to think that he was kidnapped.

Thinking about this, Wang Bi took a deep breath: "What should I do?"

Xue Ti: "Changshi Cheng didn't understand the situation in Guanzhong at that time, so he was not good at commanding too carefully. But in short, wasn't Hedong Wei Ji and Jingzhao Wei Kang used you? You can let these aristocratic families tied to you and act in advance to resist trade with Hedong.

Or it destroys the friendly attitude of the Guanzhong family towards Yuan Shao, and even if one of them secretly contacts Yuan Shao, it will spread the blame to Yuan Shao for "The new dynasty in Guanzhong may have to settle Yuan Shao's support for Liu Yu". Anyway, it is to ask the two families to suspicion.

On the other hand, the Wei family is not a prominent family in Hedong, and only some branches are in Fengyi County? In this case, they should be able to use the sphere of influence of the Hedong County family. At that time, if Yuan Shao's lard is really shocked and he wants to sell grain to Liu Bei, he will sell the guard information of Yuan Shao's grain team to Baibo thieves, or come forward as a member of the Wei family to entertain Yuan Shao's grain supervisor, paralyze their vigilance, and let the Baibo thieves and Wei family join forces to rob them in Hedong, and then frame Liu Bei...

All kinds of back-ups are different, but they are just adapting to the situation and destroying the relationship between the two families. As for the bargaining chips to convince the Wei family, just say that Yuan Gong can kill Gongsun Zan in the day, and this year the military front will definitely point to Zhang Yan and Bai Bo. The Wei family will do this with all their might. If Yuan Shao tries Bai Bo, wouldn’t they just go back to their hometown to join Yuan Shao? Why are they afraid of Liu Bei? However, these words cannot be said from the beginning. They must be completely on the pirate ship and can only be said when it is difficult to get off, so that they can force them to go all the way."

There is no doubt that Xue Ti's IQ is just a message. All of this is designed by Cheng Yu remote control, which is relatively rough and general, but the general direction is absolutely correct.

Even Li Su is currently focusing on "controlling locusts and droughts". Before he came up with a specific plan to purchase food from outside, Cheng Yu actually took the lead and blocked Li Su's backhand that had not yet taken out.

"Okay, I'll do it in the next few days." Wang Bi thought about it, and although he had not completely sorted out, he still gritted his teeth and agreed first.

...

Xue Ti was tired from here, so he must stay in Wang Bi's mansion for a few days and witness and find out some of the situation with his own eyes. Since he had finished talking about the main things, Wang Bi would ask his family to have some wine and meat and eat with Xue Ti first.

While preparing wine and food, Wang Bi also said ashamedly: "In the year of the disaster, there are only the small fish that are several inches long in the Wei River. The other livestock and meat are gone. Don't be careless, eat some coarse grains."

Officials of the 600-stone square-size officials could only treat them to a relatively poor meat dish, which shows that the disaster has indeed reached a certain level.

Xue Ti was not particular, and chatted with Wang Bi and waited for food, but at this moment, a senior citizen suddenly rushed in outside the door.

Xue Ti was caught off guard, and of course his identity could not be revealed. At this moment, Wang Bi asked him to walk behind the screen and hide in the female yard behind. Wang Bi was not very strong, and he could not afford a large mansion in Chang'an City, where every inch of land was valuable, so he only entered two or three houses, so he really didn't have much space to hide.

As soon as Xue Ti hid behind the screen, the visitor walked into the living room openly. It turned out to be Li Su's chief clerk Deng Zhi. Deng Zhi and Wang Bilai said familiarly:

"The king is engaged in it and does a good job. The prefect is very satisfied with you and the aristocratic family that resists disaster relief. He is very satisfied with the inability to lead the snake out of the cave. This time, when you are just admonishing you, you are boasting about your reputation. The prefect is following the flow of the prefect, and plans to upgrade you to another level. At that time, you may be able to serve as the right general's prefect. Don't be anxious. These fruits and money will also be rewarded by the prefect."

The reason Deng Zhi said this was of course because his people had long been secretly staring at Wang Bi's mansion. Xue Ti brought a sneaky person to visit from the side door, and without stopping at the door for a long time to wait for the notification, he flashed inside. The whole process was also in the eyes of Deng Zhi's people's guards.

Deng Zhi was also ordered by Li Su. When Xue Ti came in, he should have had a hot chat with Wang Bizheng. He would try the depth of the dates or no dates.

Wang Bi's face changed slightly, but he did not doubt the original intention of Deng Zhi and Li Su - mainly because he has been famous by rumors in the past few days, and Li Su did not reveal the tendency to punish him secretly or to rise openly or fall secretly.

But he really didn't expect that Li Su was so "generous" and really gave him Wang Bi promotion and reward to deal with rumors from the outside world.

What rhythm is this?

Xue Ti, behind the screen, originally intended to eavesdrop, but he couldn't help but listened to Deng Zhi's announcement of reward and said some words of "Li Su seeing that he performed well and would be a confidant in the future", and he couldn't help but be confused:

This Wang Bi did not always tell his lord that he "bears humiliation and burdened with heavy burdens for his lord's great cause, and was almost exposed several times."

But why is he actually having a good future with his new master? He is getting faster than being with his lord?

He was a little confused for a while, until he heard Deng Zhi want to get up and say goodbye. Xue Ti hurriedly tiptoed to the backyard of the female family to see the scenery, as if he had never stayed behind the screen for an extra second.
Chapter completed!