Mi Han

Chapter 329 A Seed of Boren's Hatred

Since he didn't intend to refuse, Liu Bei put away the letter in his hand, then looked at Jiang Ji and said, "I agree with what your Lord said in your letter."

For a great talent like Jiang Ji, Liu Bei was quite kind.

But thinking of Cao Pi, Jiang Ji's master who overthrew the Han Dynasty, it was really hard for Liu Bei to have any good feelings for him.

Under this state of mind, Liu Bei couldn't help but use the title of the most noble in the world.

And this "Zhen" also changed Liu Bei's tone from gentle to sharp, and made him have an aura that cannot be looked directly at.

Since the world was in turmoil for decades, the authority belonging to Emperor Han has almost disappeared in the world.

In the past, when Liu Xie, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, called himself "Zhen" at the court meeting, he was not respected by the officials, but sometimes secretly ridiculed by the officials.

But when Liu Bei, the emperor of the Han Dynasty standing in front of Jiang Ji today, called himself "Zhen", although his clothes were not as magnificent and dignified as Liu Xie back then.

However, Jiang Ji's heart palpitations still palpitated by the aura he displayed with his elevated posture and his own majesty and demeanor.

The direct reason why Jiang Ji felt palpitations was that the Han army had just won a big victory enough to be recorded in history.

As for the root cause, it may be that the orthodox thought of the Han Dynasty that has been rooted in the hearts of the people of the world for hundreds of years is faintly playing a role in Jiang Ji's heart.

Jiang Ji was born in a famous family, and most of his ancestors were Hanchens.

Under the influence of heart palpitations, Jiang Ji bowed to Liu Bei and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

After becoming a Hanchen, it is of course a normal thing to respect Han Emperor Liu Bei as "Your Majesty".

But when Jiang Ji finished this normal thing, a look of panic appeared on his face after he could barely react.

Now Jiang Ji really wanted to slap himself.

Liu Bei could see the panic on Jiang Ji's face, but Jiang Ji's panic made Liu Bei's eyes warm.

No matter how accurate Liu Bei's judgment was, Jiang Jifang would suddenly address him as "Your Majesty", which surprised him a bit.

However, from Jiang Ji's reaction, it can be seen that he is different from many ministers who opposed Wei, and he may still have the word "righteousness" in his heart.

In history, it was the word "righteousness" that killed Jiang Ji.

Liu Bei, who admired Jiang Ji more and more, saw that the frightened look on Jiang Ji's face became more and more serious, so he spoke softly and comforted him:

"Don't worry, Zitong, there are only you and me on the city wall today, and what happened today will not be spread."

Liu Bei's consolation made Jiang Ji, who was in panic, gradually calm down.

In fact, Liu Bei and Jiang Ji are currently surrounded by Liu Bei's Habayashi guards, but as ordinary soldiers, no one in the world will believe what they say.

So the real meaning of Liu Bei's words is that he and Jiang Ji are the only ones around who can be believed by the world at present, and he will not publicize Jiang Ji's reaction just now.

In other words, without the evidence of a third celebrity, even if he publicized Jiang Ji's reaction today, Jiang Ji could still defend himself.

It was precisely because he knew the deep meaning of Liu Bei's words that Jiang Ji slowly regained his composure.

After regaining his composure, Jiang Ji looked at Liu Bei with grateful eyes.

People in the world say a lot about Liu Bei's tolerance and benevolence, and what happened today is enough to prove it.

If Han Chen accidentally called him "Your Majesty" in front of Cao Pi today, what would Cao Pi do?

Jiang Ji thought of the answer almost instantly.

Because of the sharp contrast, Jiang Ji's gratitude to Liu Bei became stronger and stronger.

No wonder Pei Qian, Chen Qun, Tian Yu and other Wei officials who had a past with Liu Bei all praised Liu Bei in private.

Under the strong gratitude in his heart, a seed was quietly buried in Jiang Ji's heart.

After Jiang Ji regained his composure, he looked at Liu Bei who had a gentle smile on his face, and he was deeply afraid that he would say the wrong thing again.

So he hurriedly bowed to Liu Bei, and then left the city wall in a panic.

Now that he has obtained Liu Bei's promised attitude, of course he has to return as soon as possible to report the news to Cao Pi.

As for the follow-up series of handover matters between the two parties, Jiang Ji had already lost his mind to get involved.

Liu Bei looked at Jiang Ji's figure leaving in a panic, his original gentle gaze disappeared instantly, and now what appeared in his eyes was a pensive look.

Seeing little knowledge, from Jiang Jifang's performance, it can be seen that perhaps the hearts of the people in this world have begun to change again.

Maybe this kind of change is still very slow now, even only in the hearts of a small number of people, but it has already begun after all.

As long as he and his successors can continuously water and fertilize this seed.

Then one day, this seed will always grow into a giant tree in the sky, which will continuously deliver vitality to the big man.

It's just this tiny seed, he can tell Zhuge Liang and Mi Yang, but he has to try his best to prevent the enemy from discovering its existence.

Jiang Ji thought that Liu Bei comforted him just now because he was lenient, which is not wrong.

But what Jiang Ji didn't know was that sometimes benevolence and strategy are not opposites.

At least that's the case with Liu Bei's political skills.

With such complicated thoughts in his heart, Liu Bei beckoned to Dong Yun from afar.

Dong Yun, who had just left, did not leave the city wall, he just waited for Liu Bei's orders at a distance.

So when Dong Yun saw Liu Bei calling him, he immediately walked quickly to Liu Bei.

Before and after Dong Yun came to him, Liu Bei said to Dong Yun, "Dong Qing immediately set off for Xinye to convey a message to General Zuo for me."

Hearing that Liu Bei asked him to take on the important task of conveying oral instructions, Dong Yun's face suddenly became solemn.

Being an envoy of the Son of Heaven represents both a great honor and a heavy responsibility.

With serious thoughts, Dong Yun heard the content of the oral order that Liu Bei asked him to convey:

"Order Zuo General to take Xia Houshang, Man Chong and other prisoners to Xinye quickly."

After knowing the content of Liu Bei's oral order, Dong Yun immediately came to Xinye City.

Because of the convenience of water transportation, Dong Yun came to Xinye City soon after.

When Dong Yun arrived outside Xinye City, Mi Yang had already known the news in advance from Zhoutai's report.

Then Mi Yang immediately let Zhoutai leave the city and brought Dong Yun and others in.

After Dong Yun and others were brought into the lobby of the county mansion by Zhou Tai, Mi Yang looked at the old acquaintance Dong Yun in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little bit smiling.

In the past, whenever Liu Bei wanted to send an envoy to contact him or reward him, the envoy was basically Dong Yun.

Now Dong Yun is about to become a dedicated liaison between him and Liu Bei.

It was just a smile, and Mi Yang, who was well versed in etiquette, still welcomed Dong Yun's arrival with a big gift, and then he learned Liu Bei's oral order from Dong Yun.

After Mi Yang heard Liu Bei's verbal instructions, although he was surprised because of the sudden incident, he did not hesitate.

He immediately returned to his seat, quickly wrote a handwritten letter, and then he called Ding Feng to let him rush back to the west city.

Xia Houshang, Man Chong and others were all Wei officials with high status, such important prisoners were closely guarded by Mi Yang.

So without Mi Yang's handwriting, it would be difficult for others to take them away.

After completing this matter, Mi Yang backed away, then looked at Dong Yun and asked him the doubts in his heart.

Because Mi Yang and Dong Yun have some relatives, and because they have been together many times in the past, the relationship between Mi Yang and Dong Yun has become closer, so Mi Yang feels relieved to ask Dong Yun for news.

What Mi Yang wanted to know was why Liu Bei suddenly had such an idea.

Only under Mi Yang's inquiry, Dong Yun shook his head in response to Mi Yang.

It's not that Dong Yun didn't want to tell Mi Yang, it's just that he just watched Liu Bei receive Jiang Ji from a distance that day, and didn't know the content of the conversation between Liu Bei and Jiang Ji.

After Dong Yun shook his head, Mi Yang immediately agreed.

In the past, Dong Yun took the initiative to mention his actions several times when he was on a mission.

With such obvious goodwill, if Dong Yun really knew something, he would not have told him.

Now he shook his head, which could only prove that he, as Liu Bei's close minister, did not know the purpose of Liu Bei's move.

But because of this, the curiosity in Mi Yang's heart became more and more serious.

In the far west city, there is a courtyard.

The people living in this courtyard are Xia Houshang and Man Chong who were captured by Mi Yang at the beginning.

This courtyard was originally Shen Yi's private place.

Because Shen Yi liked to do some shady things in this courtyard at the beginning, so this courtyard was built very remote.

At the beginning, Mi Yang wrote to Liu Bei and asked Liu Bei what to do with Xia Houshang and other captives, but Liu Bei just replied with the words "be kind first".

Because of these four words, Mi Yang couldn't imprison them in a dark dungeon full of snakes, rats and ants.

And because of the remoteness of Shen Yi's courtyard, Mi Yang took advantage of the situation and ordered Xia Houshang and others to be imprisoned in this courtyard.

Remoteness can effectively cut off the connection between this courtyard and the outside world.

It's just that at this time, the courtyard that was supposed to be quiet because of its remoteness, kept shouting from inside.

The reason for these shouts was that two people were exercising martial arts in this courtyard at the moment.

The two people exercising each other's martial arts, one is Xia Houshang, and the other is Chang Diao, the general under the command of Cao Ren in the past.

As captives, it is naturally impossible for them to have weapons.

So Xia Houshang and Chang Diao are currently using wooden sticks.

But precisely because both of them use wooden sticks, they are even more carefree when they fight.

With both of them exerting their full strength, the sound of wooden sticks hitting their bodies continued to resound in the deep courtyard.

And since neither of them was wearing armor, when the opponent's wooden stick hit them hard, the pain was very intense.

Cries of pain continued to come from the mouths of Xia Houshang and Chang Diao, but compared to Chang Diao, Xia Houshang made more cries of pain.

Chang Diao was appreciated by Cao Ren at the beginning because of his extraordinary martial arts.

Although Xia Houshang is a relative of Cao Wei's clan, he has been pampered since he was a child, and he is lacking in martial arts.

But no matter how much pain the wooden stick on his body caused him, Xia Houshang never said anything to stop the competition.

Every time he let out a cry of pain, he would grit his teeth and rush towards Chang Diao again.

Xia Houshang's behavior made Chang Diao start to tie his hands and feet.

Xia Houshang's status was beyond his comparability.

If this beats him to any good or bad, even if he can return to the north in the future, there will only be a dead end in the end.

The most important thing is that in the past six months, Xia Houshang has often challenged him to compete.

In the last competition not long ago, Xia Houshang was directly bedridden for half a month under his heavy blow.

This incident left Chang Diao with lingering fears.

As Chang Diao intentionally released the water, Xia Houshang received fewer and fewer attacks, but Zheng made him furious.

After half a year of constant sparring, Xia Houshang couldn't be more clear about Chang Diao's martial arts.

It was easy for him to see that Chang Diao was releasing water on purpose.

Chang Diao's move made Xia Houshang, who was eager to improve his martial arts, feel a kind of humiliation.

Xia Houshang was furious, and launched a more violent attack towards Chang Diao.

Under Xia Houshang's increasingly violent attack, Chang Diao could only use all his strength to fight against Xia Houshang.

But not long after Chang Diao exerted all his strength, Xia Houshang, whose martial arts were not as good as Chang Diao's, was hit in both legs, and he fell to the ground suddenly when he was caught off guard.

After a heavy sound of falling to the ground sounded, Xia Houshang fell heavily to the ground.

And after Xia Houshang fell heavily to the ground, he immediately felt bursts of pain from up and down his body.

It's just that the bursts of pain didn't make Xia Houshang frown. How could the pain in his body be compared to the pain in his heart.

To this day, Xiahou has not forgotten what Cao Ren said to him before his death.

He still hasn't forgotten that he was the one who killed Cao Ren.

Under such a strong sense of guilt, the reason why Xia Houshang did not commit suicide and apologize was simply because he could kill a deer for revenge one day.

So he can't slack off for a moment, a day.

Whether it is in the art of war or martial arts, he must further develop as soon as possible.

Xia Houshang, who had such a purpose, did not blame Chang Diao who knocked him down.

He just struggled to get up from the ground, thinking about continuing to compete with Chang Diao.

Seeing Xia Houshang's acting like Chang Diao's, panic appeared on his face.

But fortunately at this moment, a group of Han troops who broke through the door rescued him.

This [-]-strong Han army team was led by Meng Da and Ding Feng.

After seeing the hundreds of Han troops rushing in, all the Wei generals in the courtyard, except Man Chong and Xia Houshang, all had a big change in expression.

The menacing attitude of Meng Da and Ding Feng, no matter how you look at it, it seems that the comers are not kind.

Everyone thought their time of death had come.

After Meng Da and Ding Feng led their troops into the courtyard, they saw the current scene in the courtyard.

Compared to Ding Feng's surprise, Meng Da seemed indifferent.

In the past, he had stood on the high platform outside the courtyard to monitor Xia Houshang and others many times, so this scene was no surprise to him.

And Meng Da smiled disdainfully after seeing the frightened expressions on the faces of Chang Diao, Wang Shuang and others.

Then he directly ordered a group of Han troops behind him to come forward and tie up Xia Houshang and others in the courtyard.

Facing the wolf-like tiger of the Han army with superior numbers, Chang Diao and others had no choice but to catch them without a fight.

Only Xia Houshang, when more than a dozen Han soldiers walked up to him, he subconsciously clenched the wooden stick in his hand.

His eyes were full of unwillingness and hatred.

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