Chapter 154 10. Zhuge Liang vs. Agents

After kidnapping the prefect Zhang Yi, Yong Kai occupied Nanzhong and sent his most proud apprentice Meng Huo to go deep into the minority tribes in the frontier to spread rumors. Meng Huo said: "Folks, folks, I am Meng Huo, your confidant. I have come to tell you that your misfortune has come. Do you know who that is, Zhuge Liang? It is the migrant worker who hoeed the land in Nanyang." , he is currying favor with Liu Bei now, and when he becomes the prime minister, he is going to attack you. Why did Zhuge Liang want to attack you? Because he has a bad heart, and he hates you when he heard that you are living happily in the mountains. So he sent Officials and soldiers will go into the mountains, and you will be forced to hand over 300 dogs from each family. Ordinary dogs are not acceptable. They must be black from the chest up and snow white from the chest down. Do you have 300 long dogs? Is this a strange dog? In addition, Zhuge Liang also asked you that each family must pay him three buckets of agate. May I ask if your family has so many agates? By the way, there are also broken logs, which are only found in our mountains. The length is less than two feet long. But Zhuge Liang asked each of you to hand over three thousand pieces of broken wood that are three feet long. Do you have this type of broken wood?"

The local ethnic minorities were all frightened when they heard Meng Huo's words, and said, "This Zhuge Liang is really not a thing. Why is he so evil-minded? You will wonder if you don't beat him to death when he comes." Meng Huo laughed and said, "I know you all share the same hatred, but Zhuge Liang is not easy to deal with. You should listen to me and organize. I will lead you to defeat Zhuge Liang." When the matter got serious, Zhuge Liang was very angry when he heard this, and said: "You wait for my school to correct this official document, and then settle the score with you, Meng Huo."

At this time, the secretary Yang Yong came in and said to Zhuge Liang: "Prime Minister, the dog looks after the house, the ox pulls the cart, the cook cooks, and the cleaner cleans the house. Every trivial matter has a specific person to do it. Use your energy to consider longer-term national affairs. But you even do the copying of official documents, sending and receiving proofreading. You can't trust anyone, and if you refuse to delegate power, you will only tire yourself out." Zhuge Liang stood up solemnly, saluted Yang Yong, and said, "You are so right." Then Zhuge Liang sat down and continued to proofread the official documents and correct typos.

After proofreading the official documents, Zhuge Liang raised a strong force and rushed into Nanzhong.The old rich man Yong Kai was still giving a speech on the street, calling on the people to get up and make Zhuge Liang: "Get up, everyone, Zhuge Liang is a grasshopper after autumn, and he really won't be able to jump for a few days..." Before the speech was over, Zhuge Liang's The soldiers had arrived, and Yong Kai was killed on the spot. The master died, and his apprentice Meng Huo was very sad, so he gathered a barbarian army and came to fight Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang obviously liked Meng Huo very much. He easily defeated the barbarians, captured Meng Huo, and let him go on purpose.Meng Huo was not angry, so he gathered his troops and came back to fight, but Zhuge Liang caught him again.The third time Meng Huo fought back and was caught again, Meng Huo was finally at ease.There is a book called "Han, Jin, Spring and Autumn". I felt that three captures and three attacks were not enough, so I added four more times.Later, even the official history was copied blindly, coupled with the novel's extreme deception, the result was seven captures and seven attacks, which seemed to have replaced the official history.

It doesn't matter if it was captured seven times or three times, in short, Zhuge Liang caught Meng Huofei more than once, but refused to kill him. He must let him lead a small number of people to a well-off life. Why is this? This is because Liu Bei cast a spell on Zhuge Liang before his death, comparing Zhuge Liang with the incompetent Cao Pi.Therefore, Zhuge Liang must make the Northern Expedition. Only by looking for Cao Pi as an opponent can he be worthy of his strategy and wisdom.However, the Kingdom of Shu is too small, and there is a shortage of war resources. Zhuge Liang is reluctant to waste even a little bit of resources in southern Xinjiang.The cheapest way is to rule barbarians with barbarians.So Zhuge Liang chose the young Meng Huo to manage the frontier for him.

Because Meng Huo is young, this means that the power structure in the frontier will remain stable for a long time.And if inland officials are appointed, which one of those guys is a fuel-efficient lamp?Could it be that if you can fish, you can fish, and if you can be greedy, you can be greedy, and it is really not worthwhile to get angry and complain in the end. After subduing Meng Huo, Zhuge Liang pointed out and taught Meng Huo while proofreading the official documents and correcting typos.It is reported that Meng Huo later became an official in the Shuhan government and was promoted to Yushi Zhongcheng. In short, the Sinicization was serious.And the barbarian soldiers trained by Meng Huo were good at climbing mountains, so Zhuge Liang took them to the Northern Expedition and became a special force, known as the flying soldiers.

The four southern counties have been settled, and Zhuge Liang finally started his Northern Expedition.As mentioned earlier, those heroes who ruled the roost for a while, such as Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, are all dead. The subsequent period of history will be Zhuge Liang's one-man show alone.