Chapter 47 Come out with a plan

Just when Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were "like fish in water" in Fancheng all day long, the power storm in Xiangyang City became more and more violent as Liu Biao's condition worsened. Liu Cong, Liu Biao's second son, married a girl from the Cai family, and joined the line of Jingzhou's pro-Cao faction, trying his best to squeeze out his elder brother Liu Qi.Faced with his younger brother's approach, Liu Qi felt helpless. Looking at the people he was familiar with in the Xiangfan area, it seemed that there was only one guy named Zhuge Liang left who had some skills but dared not buy his relative Cao's account.

Zhuge Liang's uncle Zhuge Xuan and Liu Biao are old friends, and Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Chengyan and Liu Biao are also brothers-in-law (both married daughters of the Cai family), so Zhuge Liang and Liu Qi should have known each other a long time ago. He should also know a little bit, plus Zhuge Liang is a big celebrity in front of Liu Bei right now, so Liu Qi pestered Zhuge Liang all day long asking how to save his life, more or less trying to get closer to Liu Bei's group. Zhuge Liang was reluctant to answer Liu Qi's question at first.In fact, for the first step of the "Longzhong Opposition" to "take Jingzhou", Liu Qi is really a fat sheep sent to the door by himself. Liu Bei can use Liu Qi to sweep away the pro-Cao faction and become the overlord of Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang probably advised Liu Bei many times on this point, but Liu Bei obviously couldn't accept such insidious means, and he was reluctant to agree.

Faced with Liu Qi's stalking, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to give him a simple advice: stay away from Xiangyang, please transfer to another country. Interestingly, this is Zhuge Liang's first plan (clearly recorded in history) after he left Longzhong to join Liu Bei's camp, and this first plan turned out to be to help others with housework, which is really dumbfounding . A few days later, Liu Qi excitedly came to Fancheng to look for Zhuge Liang, and said: "Mr. Zhuge, your plan is really clever. I have already obtained the dispatch order to be stationed abroad. Look." One exhibition, with four large characters written on it: "Jiangxia Taishou".

Zhuge Liang almost spit out the tea in his mouth. He looked at the other party incredulously, and asked, "Master Liu, do you know how the former governor of Jiangxia, Huang Zu, died?" Liu Qi was a little puzzled by Monk Zhang Er: "Of course, last month, Jiangdong Sun Quan attacked Jiangxia, Huang Taishou died in battle, and Xiakou City was also captured... What does this have to do with me?" Zhuge Liang said: "Okay, so you are not too idiotic, then you can weigh it yourself. Is your ability to lead troops to fight better than Huang Zu? Can you beat Sun Quan?"

Liu Qi blushed a bit: "Of course it's better than that, and I have never led soldiers in battle." Zhuge Liang clapped his hands: "That's right, you go now to take over Jiangxia's prefect. If the Sun family calls again, you will fight hard and beheaded! If you retreat in defeat, it will be a lost army, beheaded! If you plan to use diplomacy The means to improve relations with the Sun family is collaborating with the enemy and treason, beheading! Your only chance is to defeat Sun Quan, but I don’t think you should have any hope, the sun can’t come out from the west.”

When Liu Qi heard this, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley, and he said with a mournful face, "Then I am doomed? You told me to ask me to be stationed abroad, how could this happen?" Zhuge Liang sighed and said: "I mean, you can please transfer to remote areas like Lingling and Wuling, where you can breathe some fresh air, play Tai Chi, play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and provide for the elderly! God knows you will send yourself to Go to the first-level war zone. This is good, people are so stupid that they don't even recruit gods." Liu Qi begged: "Mr. Zhuge, please save me quickly, you are resourceful, you must have a way."

Zhuge Liang spread his hands, and said helplessly: "The dispatch order has come down, what else can I do, I think you should go to the post obediently first, and then come back in the name of visiting the sick, and blow the wind to your father, otherwise , there is only one dead end." The above conversation is of course from the author's imagination, but the situation at that time was more or less the same. Liu Qi took over as the prefect of Jiangxia, and it seemed that the element of risking his life was much higher than the element of saving his life.Not long after Liu Qi went to Jiangxia, he came back to Xiangyang under the pretext of visiting a sick person, but Cai Mao and others didn't give him any chance. They blocked Liu Qi from the door on the grounds that Liu Qi was absent from his post and Liu Biao would be angry. His father and son were not allowed to meet each other, so Liu Qi could only cry outside the door for a while, and then returned to Jiangxia, waiting for the worst to happen.

However, the rapid changes in the political situation are always unexpected.Sun Quan didn't call again, and Cai Hao didn't kill him, but Cao Cao did it first. In July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an (AD 208), Cao Cao, the new prime minister of the Eastern Han Empire, made a large-scale southern expedition.