The red clouds gradually faded away, and the moon and stars were scarce at night.
Liu Yi looked at the brightly lit Fengyicheng, frowning slightly, but his eyes were very alert. He lowered his head to think for a while and said to Xia Zhan, "Grandpa Xia, I feel something is wrong!"
Liu Yi suddenly felt like he was facing a formidable enemy.
Xia Zhan was licking his nostrils boredly under the tree. When he heard Liu Yi speak, the old man pulled his little finger out of his nostril, put his thumb and little finger together, and kneaded the snot stuck on his little finger into a ball. 'In one click, the snot ball bounced far away.
This disgusted Liu Yi to death.
Xia Zhan still had a childish heart, and when he saw Liu Yi staring at him disgustedly, he laughed loudly, put the little finger through his nostril into his mouth, sucked it back and forth, and looked at Liu Yi with a smile.
Liu Yi's mentality collapsed. He was about to cry but had no tears. He grinned and said mournfully, "Grandpa Xia, this junior is here to talk to you about business!"
Xia Zhan laughed loudly, the laughter echoed in the night sky, and immediately returned to the topic, "You kid, you finally figured it out."
The process of Xia Zhan pinching his nostrils made Liu Yi's nervous mood slightly relieved. He considered what Xia Zhan said and said, "Grandpa Xia, you already knew this, but you didn't tell me? Bad!"
Xia Zhan said, "Haha! Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Insight requires you to constantly refine it in practice! Ten thousand words from outsiders are useless."
Liu Yi nodded, but remained silent. He frowned and stared at Fengyicheng.
Xia Zhan stood up and looked around, and saw that the smoke was still rising from the Huang family's house, while other people had already turned off the fire and started to eat. He took a deep breath and said, "What is empty is real, and what is real is empty. Look at the Huang family cooking. The smoke lingered for a long time even after the meal. It was obvious that this was a deception trick used by the Huang family. The Huang family members may have been broken into pieces long ago. Before that, they ran to Taihao City and the Huang family house in Fengyi City. Third, I’m afraid there are only a few insignificant servants left, boy, our trip may have been in vain.”
"This... what should we do? Grandpa Xia!"
Liu Yi had just guessed that Huang Zhu had escaped. After listening to Xia Zhan's words, his face showed disappointment. However, he was not panic at all and said very deeply, "If the Huang family relies on Jiang Feng, with the Huang family's financial resources, Helping the Jiang family recruit troops will make Jiang Feng more powerful and even more difficult to match."
"Bah! Boy, I see you are not in a hurry, right?"
Xia Zhan thought deeply, and after a long time, he raised his eyes and stared at Liu Yi, trying to find clues in his eyes, "Did you, kid, have a back-up plan a long time ago?"
"Aren't you in a hurry?" Liu Yi smiled bitterly, "This junior is so panicked!"
Xia Zhan glared and said, "You are a bad boy and you don't speak a word of truth. Let's go into the city."
An old man and a young man followed Feng Cheng's tail, sneaked into the city, and went straight to the Huang Mansion.
Things turned out just as Xia Zhan expected. The Huang Mansion had long been empty. Not even a piece of rubble was left in Huang Zhi's treasure pavilion, except for a few fireworks used as a barrier and a few temporarily hired fire prevention miscellaneous personnel. There is nothing else in the Huang Mansion.
"Huang Zhu, an old money man, didn't even throw away a tea cup. He's really stingy. However, I also admire him for being able to escape the eyes and ears of my Red Tiger Guards with a huge amount of gold and silver!" Liu Yi pursed his lips and talked with him. Xia Zhan wandered around the Huang Mansion at will.
Xia Zhan wandered around and said idly, "Those who love money make mistakes due to greed, and those who are irritable do bad things due to anger. Huang Zhi will die sooner or later because of the word wealth."
Liu Yi nodded in agreement, "However, what is curious is what method Huang Zhi used to escape under our noses. Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is incredible!"
"It doesn't matter how the Huang family escaped under our noses!"
Old Xia Zhan strolled leisurely in the courtyard and said from a different angle, "How Huang Zhi escapes under the nose of your scolding tiger guard is what matters!"
Xia Zhan's words are self-evident. Maybe the Tiger Guards are not monolithic. There is a traitor in this.
Liu Yi scratched his head and laughed, "Oh! Eat the food one bite at a time and solve the puzzles one by one!"
Xia Zhan did not continue this topic or speak.
This is a problem within the family. After all, I am an outsider and a passer-by, and I am not suitable for giving too deep advice.
Liu Yi naturally understands the importance of priorities.
Nowadays, the Kuhu Gang has just surrendered to the Hirata Army and changed its name to the Kuhu Guards. People's hearts are unstable. As for how to deal with the Kuhu Gang at this time, the best way is to give favors and stabilize people's hearts. If we track down the traitor at this time, we will go to war. Not to mention, once the scale is not grasped well, it will create an impression of "eliminating dissidents" among the Tiger Guards, which will lose people's hearts.
Of course, Liu Yi knew that there was a traitor among the Tiger Guards. He understood, he was considerate, and more importantly, he had read a story in a book and understood the truth!
...
In the fifth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (200 years of the Han calendar), Cao Cao, the founder of Cao Wei, and Yuan Shao, the "Fourth Generation and Three Dukes", launched a fierce battle in Guandu. The strength of the armies of the two sides is very different. Yuan Shao's army has several times the number of soldiers and horses than Cao Cao's army. Most of Cao Cao's generals believe that the strength of the other side cannot be underestimated.
However, Cao Cao used clever tactics and finally succeeded in defeating Yuan Shao with a smaller number of people, forcing Yuan Shao to give up a lot of supplies and flee, and Cao Cao captured them one by one.
Among the many trophies of Cao's army, a general found a lot of letters.
The general opened the letter, looked at it carefully, and was instantly frightened. He hurriedly ordered his subordinates to collect all the letters and seal them. Then, he took one of them to meet Cao Cao, "My lord, this is a secret letter between Yuan Shao and our personnel!"
After reading a few letters, Cao Cao said to his generals: "Burn these all together."
The subordinate asked doubtfully, "Burn it? My lord, these people have rebellious intentions. Shouldn't they all be arrested and held accountable?"
Cao Cao waved his hand, "At first, Yuan Shao's troops were much stronger than mine. Even I felt that we were almost finished, let alone them. They couldn't help themselves."
The letters were eventually burned.
It turned out that these were written by officials and military generals in Xudu, Cao Cao's hometown, to Yuan Shao, many of whom wanted to make good friends with him to protect themselves. Cao Cao asked people to burn all letters in public. The generals who had contacted Yuan Shao would indeed feel panic at first, but they would feel ashamed after seeing this scene. In this way, they would become more grateful and the morale of the army would be higher. high.
In doing so, Cao Cao not only conquered the hearts of the people, but also stabilized the overall situation, making the Yuan family's civil and military ministers who were wavering after the war follow him wholeheartedly.
Subsequently, Cao Jun took advantage of this momentum and forced all counties in Jizhou to abandon their weapons and surrender.
Since then, Cao Cao's strength has greatly increased, laying the foundation for the subsequent unification of the entire north.
...
Liu Yi's situation at this time was just like that of Cao Mengde who had seized the letter.
Cao Cao, the greatest hero of all time, faced the turbulent situation like this, let alone Liu Yi, who also faced the turbulent situation.
Therefore, Liu Yi chose to endure the calm for a while!
Thinking of this, Liu Yi deliberately changed the subject and said coquettishly, "Grandpa Xia, let's explore the mansion first. If Yi'er guessed correctly, there must be a secret passage in the mansion that can lead directly to the outside of Fengyi City."
Xia Zhan did not refuse and readily agreed, and the two began to survey the surrounding situation.
The Huang Mansion is arranged according to the Eight Trigrams of Qimen. Unfortunately, Xia Zhan is a master at it. Therefore, the two of them only looked at it for a while, then explored a rockery by the lake. They felt a little surprised and stepped forward to take a look. The rockery It has been hollowed out, and a secret door blocked by large rocks is revealed in the empty mountain.
Liu Yi shouted and smiled, and with a push of luck, a secret passage appeared in front of the two of them.
Liu Yi narrowed his eyes, stood at the entrance of the secret passage for a while, then turned around and left.
"Aren't you going to go in and take a look?" Xia Zhan asked.
Liu Yi chuckled and said openly, "Now that it has happened, it doesn't matter where this path goes!"
Old Xia Zhan glanced at Liu Yi who was calm and composed, snorted and said, "You kid, you must be hiding something from me!"
Liu Yi sat casually by the lake and said in a low voice, "I did a little trick that a child should do, but it's not worth mentioning in front of Grandpa Xia!"
"On the way here, I was thinking, since you have guessed that Huang Zhi was going to join Jiang Feng, why did you go so slowly all the way!" Old Xia Zhan also sat by the lake and said slowly, "When we arrived at Fengyi City , but held back, instead listening to me talk about the past in the world to delay time. I judged, boy, you are deliberately letting the tiger return to the mountain!"
"In ancient times, when floods were raging, Gun used water blocking methods and set up embankments on the shore, but the water flooded higher and higher. In the end, it was in vain. Dayu planned waterways and led migrant workers for water control all over the place, digging mountains and building depressions wherever they happened. Embankments are used to dredge waterways and divert floodwaters into the sea, causing great floods. From this we can see that it is better to dredge than to block."
Liu Yi smiled brightly, "My father always taught the younger generation that things should be done according to the changing circumstances and the times. Today, Huang Shi has decided to surrender to the enemy. I will not hesitate to be a good person who goes along with the flow. If there is a killing spree in Fengyi City and the innocent people are affected, Am I not a sinner?"
Liu Yi was lying on the ground, looking at the stars in the sky and the earth. "Since Huang Zhi has already secretly transported the property out, it is better to let the Huang family go, so that I can assist County Governor Ying to successfully take over Fengyi County. As for the previous inventory of soldiers Ma Da went to war, it was just a show, and he took the opportunity to warn Huang Shi to get out quickly, and don't occupy the latrine without shitting."
"You have been a good person, but whether others appreciate it or not is another matter entirely!"
Xia Zhan sighed softly, "Kindness cannot control soldiers, and a little bit of unbearable pity is often the root of disaster. The Jiang family is already brave, but this time the Huang family has used wealth to support each other, and the two major disasters intersect, so they are very powerful. !”
Liu Yi bared his teeth and said with a smile, "At least, there will be no aristocratic families in the fertile wilderness of Fengyi County in the future!"
Xia Zhan's expression looked a little serious, "Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you that your Pingtian Army has just sprouted, and your generals are all mixed, and they are all young people. If you don't seize the opportunity to join forces vertically and horizontally to recruit talents to strengthen it, With such strength, I am afraid that in the future the whole army will be wiped out."
Liu Yi smiled mischievously, "Grandpa Xia hit the nail on the head, I admire you."
"But what if this junior poisoned the disaster?"
Xia Zhan looked at Liu Yi in surprise.
A plan within a plan? Chain plan?
Oh my God! Are Liu Quansheng's descendants supposed to be talented?
