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The queen, Pang Tong, with his book boy and two servants, arrived at Zigui City. Liu Jing had already ordered him to be released, which made Pang Tong both ashamed and glad. It was because Liu Jing ignored the past and did not regard him as a prisoner of war, but released him and allowed him to return home. This favor made Pang Tong uneasy.

Fortunately, he left Liu Bei in a decent way and didn't have to go to Jiaozhou with him. Deep down, he didn't want to go to the barren areas in the south. At this time, Pang Tong was thinking about returning, and he just wanted to return to his hometown as soon as possible.

They entered Zigui City, and it was noon. Zigui City had returned to its former peace. For Zigui, food is the best stabilizer. If the food is obtained, the people will be grateful and naturally they will not make trouble again.

However, many shops are open, but none of them open in more than a dozen taverns and hostels. They will recover, but it is not a good thing for Pang Tong and others who are hungry. They just hope to come to Zigui County for a good meal, but none of them open.

On the corner of the street, Pang Tong stretched his neck to wait for news from his servant. One of his servants was negotiating in the tavern opposite. Soon, the servant came back in disappointment and said, "Master, they said that the main reason was that there was no food. All the inventory in the store was taken away by Liu Bei's army in the past. Now it is too late to prepare. I am afraid it will take ten days to open."

Pang Tong was disappointed. He had known that he should have taken the bag of rice that Liu Zheng gave before leaving. He wanted to be noble at that time, but now he was hungry. He was helpless and didn't know what to do.

At this moment, a yamen runner walked forward quickly and bowed and smiled, "May I ask, Mr. Pang."

"In the Xia Pang Shiyuan."

Pang Tong was a little strange. How could a yamen runner know him? He suffered repeated setbacks. His noble temper has changed a lot after he was over. Although the other party was just a yamen runner, this is the territory of others. More importantly, he was hungry and had no choice but to do anything, Pang Tong was very polite and asked with a smile: "Is there anything wrong?"

"My county magistrate invites me, please follow me."

Pang Tong hesitated for a moment, and then followed the yamen runners to the county government. The back house and warehouse of the county government had been burned down, but the main body in front was still intact, and many people were cleaning up the burned ruins on their own.

Pang Tong walked into the county government office and walked towards him a taxi about ten years old. He bowed and smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Pang."

"This is our county magistrate." The yamen runner next to him introduced with a smile.

Pang Tong had never seen this person before and asked with a smile: "May I ask the county magistrate's surname"

"In Sima Yi"

Pang Tong was stunned. Isn’t Sima Yi not Liu Jing’s military advisor? Why did he become the magistrate of Zigui County? What’s going on?

Sima Yi smiled slightly and said, "The county magistrate of Zigui County, the county magistrate is still in Nanjun. Before he arrived, I will take charge of the county magistrate for a few days to survive the county magistrate's addiction."

Only then did Pang Tong realize that he quickly saluted again: "It turned out to be Sima Military Advisor, Pang Tong was disrespectful."

Sima Yi laughed and said, "Mr. Pang went to have a meal first. After dinner, let's talk. I have been recognizing the name of Feng Chu for a long time."

Pang Tong's face turned red. When he went to the city to inquire about the tavern, Sima Yi probably knew it. Although he was a little embarrassed, he was hungry in his stomach. He couldn't take care of it anymore, so he bowed and said, "Thank you, Sima Military Advisor."

Sima Yi ordered the yamen runners to take them to the back for dinner. He looked at Pang Tong's back with his hands. Although it was his first meeting, he had already felt Pang Tong's down-and-out aura. He couldn't help but smile meaningfully.

After lunch, Pang Tong became much more energetic. He sat in the meeting hall and slowly drank a cup of hot tea. At this time, Sima Yi walked in quickly and said apologetically: "There are so many things, Mr. Pang has been neglected."

"Where do you want to thank Sima Military Advisor for your reception?"

Sima Yi also sat down and said with a smile: "Mr. Pang doesn't know where to go. If he wants to go to Gong'an County, we can provide a boat and let him take a boat to go."

Pang Tong shook his head, "I have nothing to do with Jingnan anymore. I plan to return to my hometown and return to Longzhong, Xiangyang."

"Oh So that's it. Do you have any plans for Mr. Pang in the future?" Sima Yi asked tentatively.

"I wanted to go back to my hometown to farm, but I guess I was in poor health, so I planned to accept a few students and teach as a career."

Sima Yi nodded, "It's a pity to accept a few students with Mr. Pang's talent. A few days ago, I asked my uncle to add a deputy director to Jingzhou Academy to see if Mr. Pang is willing to surrender."

Pang Tong was stunned. It turned out that he wanted him to go to Jingzhou Academy, but Pang Tong thought that Sima Yi wanted to persuade him to surrender, so that he would be suspected of rebel against the Lord. But if he went to Jingzhou Academy, that would be another matter. Jingzhou Academy was originally merged with the Pang family's Lumen Academy. It was natural for him to go to the academy to assist his uncle.

However, although I was very willing, I couldn't speak directly. He pondered for a while, "Let me discuss with my uncle and listen to my uncle's opinions, how to do it."

Sima Yi was secretly happy, and he agreed. He smiled and said, "No problem, I will send someone to send Mr. Pang back to Xiangyang, so I won't have to work so hard."

This time, Pang Tong did not refuse anymore. He stroked his beard and smiled, "Then thank you for your arrangements from the Sima Military Advisor."

After thinking about it, Pang Tong asked Shutong to take out a letter from the book box. This was originally a Bashu plan he was going to give to Liu Bei, but now he didn't want to give to Liu Bei anymore, so he handed it to Sima Yi and said, "This is some of my ideas about seizing Bashu, and I hope it will be useful to Sima Military Advisor."

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After seeing Pang Tong off, Sima Yi rushed to the camp outside the city. As soon as he walked to the central army's tent, a personal soldier smiled and said, "The governor of the state said he would ask the military advisor to enter the tent directly, and there is no need to report it."

"You lazy guys, can't you shout "Can't you? What if there is anything inconvenient for the provincial governor?" Sima Yi smiled and criticized several personal soldiers.

Several personal soldiers stuck out their tongues and quickly reported loudly: "Qi Bingzhou Governor, Sima Military Advisor is here."

"Please enter" Liu Jing's voice came from the big tent.

Sima Yi pointed a few personal soldiers with his hands, and then quickly walked into the big tent. In the big tent, Liu Jing was eating alone and flipping through a book casually. When he saw Sima Yi coming in, he smiled and said, "The military advisor didn't have lunch, come and have dinner together."

"Thank you, the governor of the state. I have used lunch in the county government. Please use it for your own use."

Liu Jing nodded, ate the meat naan in his hand, drank another bowl of soup, and ordered his personal soldiers to say, "Check it out."

Several personal soldiers came in to clean up the dining table and served them two more cups of hot tea. Liu Jing then asked with a smile: "How is it? Have you met Pang Tong?"

"I saw him and felt he was a little down"

Sima Yi smiled and said, "They have been out of food for a day, so they went into the city and looked for a tavern, but the whole family did not open."

Liu Jing couldn't help laughing, "How could it be so embarrassed? Didn't Liu Zheng give them food?"

"It must be given. I guess he is quite noble and refuses to accept it. In addition, Pang Tong has agreed to be the deputy director of Jingzhou Academy, but he is more tactful and needs to discuss it with his uncle."

"This is the best way to slowly make him loyal to me, and you still have to reuse him in the future."

At this time, Sima Yi took out Pang Tong's letter from his arms and handed it to Liu Jing and smiled: "This is what he wrote about taking Shu, saying it was for me to refer to it, but in fact it was to let me pass it to the provincial governor. From this point, it can be seen that his desire to enter the officialdom has not cooled down."

Liu Jing was quite interested in Pang Tong's strategy of taking Shu. He took the letter and opened it and read it, and said with a faint smile: "He suggested taking advantage of Liu Zhang's suspicion about Pang Xi, as well as the conflict between the Dongzhou scholars and the local Bashu faction, and using the strategy of killing the soldiers of the two peaches to provoke them to kill each other and then gain profit from it. This should be the advice Pang Tong gave to Liu Bei, but it also has advantages."

Sima Yi whispered: "The so-called two peaches, one is Wucheng, one is Zigui, and the scholars, one is Pang Xi, and the other is Yan Yan, and then Liu Zhang. This plan is feasible."

Liu Jing nodded, "It should be said that one Tao is Jianping County, one Tao is Shangyong County, one scholar is Liu Zhang, one scholar is Zhang Lu, and another scholar is Liu Bei."

The two looked at each other and laughed together

After Liu Bei captured Zigui County, Badong County Magistrate Pang Xi became nervous. He realized that Liu Bei was preparing to attack Badong County and immediately asked Chengdu for help. Liu Zhang was unable to transfer troops from Chengdu, so he ordered Badong County Magistrate Yan Yan to lead an army of 10,000 to Badong County for reinforcements.

But Pang Xi did not want Yan Yan to come to support him. He and Yan Yan have always had evil relationships. Although they were neighbors in different counties, their relationship was in the same situation. Although there were conflicts between the Dongzhou scholars and the Bashu faction, the main reason was that when Zhao Wei rebelled, Pang Xi and Yan Yan had a battle. Pang Xi was defeated and Yan Yan killed many tribes. The two formed hatred at that time.

When confronting Liu Bei's army, the two led 10,000 troops each, about twenty miles away from Wucheng, but the two barracks were ten miles apart and had no contact with each other.

Yan Yan is about 60 years old this year, with a head of half and eight feet tall. He used a 60-pound Wuding sword to open a mountain knife, which was unfair to ten thousand men. In Bashu, there was a northern gun and a southern sword. The northern gun was Zhang Ren from Chengdu, and the southern sword was Yan Yan from Bajun.

Yan Yan was a harsh and serious person. His Yan family was also the first aristocratic clan of Ba County. He himself served as the governor of Ba County, which made Yan Yan the leader of the genius in Nanyizhou.

In the big tent, Yan Yanzheng discussed countermeasures with his aide Peng Li. Peng was from Guanghan. He was originally a Shuzuo under Zhang Song. He was implicated in the Zhang Song case and was shaved as a slave. He had a good relationship with Yan Yan, so he hid in Yan Yan's mansion and became his aide.

Just this morning, Yan Yan received a secret letter from Liu Zhang, ordering him to take over Jianping County and seize Pang Xi's military power at the same time. This made Yan Yan feel very embarrassed. If he was in Ba County, he could do it.

But this is in Badong County, which is Pang Xi's territory. Pang Xi was an official in Badong County and his roots were already deep. How could he seize Pang Xi's military power? Liu Zhang took it for granted.
Chapter completed!