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Half a month later, Wancheng, Nanyang.

"Hmph" Li Zhi was lying in his temporary residence in Wancheng, squinting his eyes, humming a small song and savoring tea, extremely leisurely.

Since Li Zhi exchanged for Nanyang and Jiangxia counties, he has been idle.

He handed over everything to Guo Yi and Ma Chao, and he checked them behind the two of them. He would only take action if something unexpected happened.

However, because Liu Biao has been recruiting soldiers for the past half month, Li Zhi has been very leisurely in the past half month.

"Master...Master..."

"..." After hearing the loud shout, Li Zhi was speechless and complained: "Should I reply now - Wukong?"

"Master! Liu Biao is moving!"

"..." Looking at Guo Yi who was sweating and breathing rapidly, Li Zhi rubbed his temple helplessly and said lazily: "Nonsense! Liu Biao is a living person, of course he will move. What are you talking about?!"

"No!" After hearing this, Guo Yi quickly shook his head, "Disciple means that Liu Biao's army has moved!"

"Liu Biao's army?" Because Li Zhi has not paid attention to Liu Biao's affairs in recent times, he didn't even know how many troops Liu Biao had, so he asked, "How many troops did Liu Biao recruit?"

"Seventy thousand army!" Guo Yi replied with a frown.

"Seventy thousand?!" After hearing this number, Li Zhi was a little surprised.

Originally, he thought that the number of family generals in those aristocratic families was only 40,000 to 50,000, but he didn't expect that the number would reach 70,000!

He knew that those aristocratic families were very thief and could not send all the family generals out!

In other words, even if they kill these 70,000 people, those aristocratic families may form an army of 70,000 people at any time!

"Hiss..." After thinking of this, Li Zhi rubbed his temples with some headaches, "The family in Jingzhou is quite fat, and it is more generous than those in the Central Plains!"

However, the more families there are in Jingzhou, the more they are greedy and occupy!

After all, if there is a way out, those who practice martial arts will not become family members in the aristocratic family!

Only when they are forced to go to the forefront will they sell themselves and become family members!

"That's right!" Guo Yi nodded with a heavy face after hearing Li Zhi's words, "I have investigated this matter specifically. Although there are not as many aristocratic families here as in the Central Plains, the land annexation is far greater than that in the Central Plains!

More than 80% of the land in Jingzhou belongs to aristocratic families, and most ordinary people can’t fill their stomachs in a year.

Most people sell themselves to aristocratic families in order to seek a way out!

Although the population of Jingzhou officials is only more than two million, there are actually more than four million people in Jingzhou!

And those missing people have become slaves or generals of the aristocratic families!”

"Hiss..." After hearing this, Li Zhi's eyes widened and gasped in disbelief.

He was really scared by the strength of the Jingzhou family!

You should know that when those aristocratic families are collecting slaves, they should not be the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. They all want young and middle-aged people!

In other words, most young and middle-aged people in Jingzhou have become slaves to aristocratic families, and the number is more than two million. This number is really scary!

Now he knows why

So those aristocratic families can easily select 70,000 generals who have practiced martial arts!

Nonsense! It’s not easy to select 70,000 people from more than 2 million young people?!

The war potential of the Jingzhou family is really terrible!

This also made Li Zhi even more sure of his idea of ​​peacefully regaining Jingzhou!

Although he may not lose even if he uses force, his generals are all generals after all. He has never been to the battlefield and is not as good as the elite group in Li Zhi's hands.

However, many ants bite the elephant to death. If the aristocratic family is forced to fight with him, even if he can win in the end, it will be a tragic victory!

By then, he may not have the energy to deal with Zhang Lu from Hanzhong and Liu Zhang from Yizhou!

After thinking of this, Li Zhi asked: "Yi'er, how have you done the matter of contacting the Jingzhou family?"

"This..." Guo Yi shook his head with embarrassment and said with a wry smile: "Things are very unsuccessful. Although those families accepted the gifts sent by their disciples, no one replied to them. Most of them were ambiguous."

"Haha..." After hearing this news, he not only wasn't angry, but instead chuckled, "No news is the best news, and ambiguity is their greatest support for us!

The reason why these aristocratic families are ambiguous and do not respond is because they are all waiting and watching!

As long as we can cleanly and neatly kill Liu Biao's 70,000 troops, those families who are waiting and watching will definitely be surrendering to us immediately. At that time, we will be able to easily recover Jingzhou!

so……"

Speaking of this, Li Zhi sat up from the chair, walked a few steps, looked at the distance, and said with a firm expression: "This war is victorious and not defeated!

Moreover, we must win cleanly and neatly! The victory is full of joy!

Let the families who are waiting and watching see the strength of ours! Only in this way can they shock and make them surrender!"

"No!" After hearing Li Zhijian's words, Guo Yi nodded with a serious expression.

At this moment, Ma Chao ran over, "Uncle! A team of people came from outside the city, saying that they were sending a letter to Liu Biao!"

"Oh?" Li Zhi was stunned for a moment after hearing Ma Chao's words.

What letter should I send at this time? Does Liu Biao still naively feel that there is room for reconciliation between them?

"Where are people?"

"Uh..." Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, and took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Li Zhi. He said embarrassedly: "Please forgive me, uncle, my nephew took the letter privately and took it over and let them go back."

"..." Li Zhi was silent for a while after hearing this, he took the letter and calmly taught him while dismantling it: "Meng Qi, forget it this time, but you and I will remember it firmly. In the future, you must not interfere in the matter!

This marquis is your uncle and can tolerate you interfere, but others may not be able to tolerate you!

If you continue to do your own thing in the future, Brother Meng De’s impression of you will definitely get worse and worse!

Then, your future..."

Speaking of this, Li Zhi shook his head and did not say anything more, but read the letter carefully.

"!!!" After hearing Li Zhi's earnest words, Ma Chao was scared out of cold sweat!

He didn't care much about it just now, but after Li Zhi said this, he immediately realized that he had committed a big taboo in the officialdom!

No one likes people who are smart, and no one wants their subordinates to make decisions for themselves without hiding them!

If Ma Chao doesn't change his habit of making decisions for others in the future, then he should not enter the officialdom, otherwise his fate will be very miserable!

After thinking of this, Ma Chao bowed deeply to Li Zhi silently.

He is thanking Li Zhi for his comments!

This is what people who are closer will say.

If the relationship is not very good...

I'll care about you to die!

"Hehe..." After reading the letter for a while, he suddenly laughed, "This Liu Biao is not stupid, he also knows how to treat him!"

After hearing Li Zhi's words, Guo Yi, who was standing beside him, asked curiously: "Master, what did you say in the letter?"

"You can see it yourself." Then, Li Zhi handed the letter in his hand to Guo Yi.

"..." Guo Yi took the letter and looked carefully and found that the reason why Liu Biao wrote a letter to Li Zhi was to provoke him!

That's right, he just wanted to stimulate Li Zhi to attack Xiangyang City!

The letters use a lot of indecent words, which is no different from a shrew scolding!

Liu Biao, a literati who has always paid attention to his appearance, was able to write such a letter, which shows that he was indeed forced into a desperate situation and could not even care about his face.

"Master..." Guo Yi frowned and asked after reading the letter: "Is this Liu Biao's conspiracy?"

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"It's not a conspiracy but an open conspiracy!" Li Zhi shook his head and said with a smile: "Liu Biao is learning to be a teacher, and he wants to give him a way to treat others with his body!

When he was fighting against Liu Biao and Liu Yan and others, he gave up other places except Hulao Pass and Luoyang, and relied on these two heroic cities to weaken their strength in batches before he could win the battle.

Now Liu Biao also wants to learn this method, give up other places, concentrate all his troops in the mighty city of Xiangyang, and then find a way to lead him to attack.

He just wanted to rely on the advantages of Xiangyang City's high walls to defeat him!"

"This..." Guo Yi hesitated for a while after hearing this, and then asked: "Then why don't we give up Xiangyang simply?

Anyway, Xiangyang is just a city, so it doesn’t seem like a big deal if it doesn’t matter, right?

As long as we occupy other parts of Jingzhou and then siege Xiangyang, after their food and grass are cut off, will we easily defeat them?"

"Although this method is good, it's too late to go!" Li Zhi shook his head and said, "First, we not only want to recover Jingzhou, but also Yizhou!

If I waited for too long in Jingzhou, it would leave too much preparation time for Yizhou. At that time, it would be difficult for me to subdue Yizhou!

Secondly, since Liu Biao dared to withdraw all his troops back to Xiangyang, it proves that he must have hoarded a large amount of food in Xiangyang!

It will take at least half a year to a year to drag them down!

However, if we cannot defeat Liu Biao cleanly like a fallen leaf with a sauce knife, the aristocratic families in Jingzhou will definitely feel that we are not irresistible!

At that time, they will definitely not be able to wait and see!"

Speaking of this, Li Zhi sighed long, "It was Liu Biao who saw this that he was afraid to stay in Xiangyang, waiting for his troops to attack!"
Chapter completed!