Five days later, in Nanjun.
After Gao Yi conquered Gan Ning, he took a boat to Xiangyang City, the capital of Jingzhou.
Although Xiangyang City belongs to Nanjun, it is located in the Nanyang Basin.
It is adjacent to the Hanshui River in the north, and further north is a farming plain with thousands of miles of fertile soil, which is a battleground for military strategists.
Therefore, after Liu Biao took office as the pastor of Jingzhou, he directly regarded Xiangyang City as his home base.
And they made every effort to develop the local economy and agriculture, build urban defenses, and build Xiangyang City into the most important town in Jingzhou.
On the same day, Gao Yi had just arrived in Xiangyang City when he was invited to a banquet by Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, where he planned to discuss the alliance.
At the same time, Liu Biao expressed his importance to this alliance and specially invited more than ten prominent families in Jingzhou, including Kuai, Huang, Cai, Pang, Xi, Yang, and Zhuge, to attend the banquet.
"I never thought that your envoy would be Shouchun Hou's cousin. How disrespectful and disrespectful!"
When he learned that Gao Kun, Gao Yi's pseudonym, was actually Gao Yi's cousin, Liu Biao, who was originally stern, rarely smiled.
The representatives of other famous families at the table also became more polite.
Soon, in the lively scene of changing cups and changing cups, musicians playing music and dancers dancing, Gao Yi and Liu She reached a consensus.
It was agreed that after two months, each side would send 50,000 troops. Starting from Jiujiang and Jiangxia, they formed a northwest horn force and captured Lujiang in one fell swoop. Finally, Lujiang County was divided equally between the north and the south.
During the banquet, representatives from major aristocratic families in Jingzhou came to toast one after another, hoping to get acquainted with Gao Yi, a young talent with someone behind his back.
Gao Yi had indeed drunk a lot of wine, but the alcohol content was very low, so he was not drunk at all. He just felt like urinating and had to leave the table temporarily.
After a while, under the guidance of the beautiful maids in the mansion, Gao Yi finished draining the water and prepared to return to the table to drink three hundred cups.
But when Gao Yi walked halfway, he suddenly heard bursts of fairy sounds coming from the courtyard next door, which was particularly pleasant to the ear.
It seems to be floating on the top of the clouds like a fairy sound, ethereal, dreamlike, and imaginative.
Gao Yi asked the maid next to him.
"The courtyard next to it is so lively. Who is playing music?"
The beautiful maid hurriedly explained: "Reporting to your envoy, in the courtyard next to me, the young ladies from the aristocratic families who are accompanying me this time are holding a Qingfu Banquet."
"There are Miss Yueying from the Huang family, the two Miss Xue'er from the Zhuge family, and the eldest young master from the Zhuge family..."
I heard that there was actually a banquet in the courtyard next door, and almost all the talents and beauties from Jingzhou gathered there.
Gao Yi naturally wanted to go and observe.
It was definitely not because of the dozens of young, beautiful and curvaceous Jingzhou beauties at the banquet, but because Gao Yi was thirsty for talents and wanted to meet the rumored Crouching Dragon Phoenix.
In the courtyard at this time.
A pair of twin sisters, as quiet and elegant as angels, sit in the pavilion like stars over the moon, playing musical instruments attentively.
The graceful girl in a moon-white dress is her sister Zhuge Mengxue. She is playing the guqin to her heart's content as she plucks the strings with her delicate fingers.
She has a beautiful face, a plump body, and a delicate face with a full smile. She is gentle, charming, and full of tenderness, like a blooming lotus.
The sweet girl in a blue dress is her younger sister Zhuge Ruoxue. Her pink lips are as tender as rose petals and she is playing the jade flute hard.
She is in the prime of her life. She has delicate features, sweet and lovely appearance, petite and exquisite figure, but she also has a willow waist, peach buttocks, and a childlike face.
Wait until an ensemble is finished.
The handsome men and beauties around gave bursts of applause to the two Miss Zhuge in the pavilion.
Zhuge Mengxue and Zhuge Ruoxue also behaved in a particularly gentle and generous manner, giving a gentle salute to everyone in return.
Wait until the applause around him ends.
Suddenly there was a burst of applause at the courtyard gate.
It attracted all the talented people and beauties in the courtyard to look sideways.
I saw a handsome young man wearing a green shirt and a Confucian robe slowly walking into the courtyard gate.
Black hair like ink, handsome face like snow.
His face is like a crown jade, and his lips are as if they were greased.
A pair of starry eyes as deep as a cold pool.
Two thin lips curled up into a slight smile.
With his handsome and regular facial features, coupled with his almost perfect appearance, it is easy for him to win the favor of ignorant girls.
"Wow! He's so handsome! He's my type."
"Yeah! I feel like I'm going to fall in love."
A noble lady from an aristocratic family with nymphomaniac eyes tightly grabbed the sleeve of the girl in a blue dress next to her and said infatuatedly:
"Sister Yueying, this man is so handsome! Do you know him? Why have I never seen him before?"
The girl in the blue dress obviously has slim and graceful curves and is very charming, but her face is covered by a gauze, making it difficult for people to see her appearance clearly, giving her a hazy beauty like a flower in the mist.
The girl in blue skirt is named Huang Yueying, and she is the legitimate daughter of the famous Huang family in Jingzhou.
Although she covered her face with a veil and was incompatible with the people around her, no one dared to say anything behind her back.
Because her father, Huang Chengyan, was a famous scholar in Jingxiang, with wide contacts and profound knowledge.
Her uncle, Cai Mao, was a powerful figure in Jingzhou and was in charge of the 120,000 naval troops in Jingxiang.
The most powerful one is her charming aunt Cai Yu'er, who is the first wife of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao's wife.
Looking at her close friend who was full of nymphomaniacs, Huang Yueying stretched out a jade finger, tapped her forehead lightly, and said coquettishly:
"I don't go out much on weekdays. How can I know a few people? Just ask Kong Ming! He has a lot of friends, so he might know this person."
The noble girl hurriedly cast a questioning look at the young man next to her.
The young man wore a ganaou cloth crown on his head, held a white feather fan in his hand, and wore simple and elegant robes. His every move exuded the wisdom of a Confucian scholar.
It was Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty in later generations.
Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly, saying that he didn't know who was coming.
Just when Zhuge Liang was about to ask about the visitor.
The young man in Confucian robes at the courtyard gate had already raised his hands to the people around him and said with a smile:
"I am Gao Kun, who came from Xuzhou. I just heard the sound of the piano and flute ensemble. I thought it was very beautiful, so I came to bother you. I hope you will understand me."
Before anyone could say anything, a fat man with an ugly black face said drunkenly: "Gao Kun? So you are the envoy from Xuzhou who came to form an alliance."
"There really is no one under Shouchun Hou's command. He is so poor that he has to send a yellow-haired kid as an envoy. It's really ridiculous!"
Suddenly hearing this, Gao Yi was not angry, and asked without changing his expression: "I don't know why your Excellency slandered my Xuzhou civil and military affairs. Do you think that my lord's subordinates are all a bunch of unintelligent people?"
The dark-faced fat man took out the wine gourd from his waist, took a swig from the gourd, and said drunkenly in a rather arrogant tone: "Idiot? This word is quite appropriate..."
The fat black-faced man burped from wine and was about to continue spouting wild words when several fellow clan brothers rushed over.
One person took the wine gourd from his hand, and the other quickly held his mouth. The remaining people smiled apologetically:
"Your Majesty, please don't be angry. Because of our ugly appearance, our brother was suddenly rejected by the girl he liked. He was frustrated in love, so he drank a few more drinks."
"What we just said was all nonsense from our clan brother. I have offended many people. I hope your envoy will forgive me! I hope your envoy will forgive me!"
Seeing Gao Yi's expressionless face, the man couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He tremblingly pulled the dark-faced fat man's clothes and hurriedly said:
"Pang Tong, brother Tong, you should hurry up and admit your mistake! If it ruins the important matter of the alliance between the two states, I think Pang De's punishment of us all kneeling in the ancestral hall will be light."
"Maybe, our brothers will be kicked out of the house and live on the streets!"
Suddenly hearing the words "Pang Degong", Pang Tong, who was still alone and drunk, burped seven or eight times in a row, and his whole body suddenly became sober.
"Then what? I...what did I just say! Did I say something wrong again...is my cousin going to punish us by kneeling in the ancestral hall?"
