There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

Zhuge Liang had very good eyesight. Seeing that Shi Xie's expression was a little off, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please don't misunderstand. Our senior brothers speak a little bluntly, please don't take it to heart."

Shi Xie hummed in his heart.

This is also called speaking straight?

It's winding!

Zhuge Liang continued: "Actually, the teacher must believe in the government, otherwise the two of us would not have made a special trip to Jiaozhou, and the two of us said this out of good intentions. After all, we are obsessed with the authorities. Bad."

Shi Xie half closed his eyes, and stroked his beard slowly.

After a long time, he said with emotion: "I understand what little friend Zhuge said, don't worry, I know this matter well, let's eat first! Let's talk about it later."

Both Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are people who have experienced a lot of troubles, and they are not idle people. They naturally understand the truth of the point.

At that moment, the three of them exchanged cups and said some insignificant words.

After eating, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi went to the posthouse to rest under the leadership of the waiter.

They don't have much to worry about.

Everything that needs to be said has been said, and the next step is basically nothing to do with them. As long as Shi Xie is not a fool, he will definitely investigate.

Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are smart people, they can see that Shi Xie must wait for someone else, if he wants to investigate this matter carefully, he will surely succeed.

Shi Xie has been running Jiaozhou for many years, and his energy here is not comparable to that of ordinary people.

A tiger is not scary when it is napping, but once it wakes up, it is like a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests.

After Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi left, Shi Xie took a deep breath, calmed down, and began to carefully review the recent events in his mind.

As he got older, he became more stable in his work. He was not in a hurry to start investigations immediately. Large-scale investigations would only scare the snake away. Shi Xie was used to smoothing out his own thinking first, and then followed the thinking he found to find a breakthrough.

Shi Xie was very patient. He just thought about it quietly, and he thought about it for two full hours.

Two hours later, Shi Xie ordered his personal guards to find his brother Shi Yi secretly.

The four brothers of the Shi family ruled the four counties of Jiaozhou respectively. Only at this time of the year did they return to Jiaozhi to worship their ancestors and worship the sky, and report to the work of each county by the way.

This has been a custom in Lingnan for a long time, and it has been handed down since Da Shixie led Jiaozhou.

And this year's memorial ceremony, counting the time, is almost a few days away.

Usually, all arrangements for the memorial service are left to Shi Xie's brother, Shi Yi.

But this year, Shi Xie felt that he was getting old, and sooner or later the foundation of Jiaozhou would be handed over to his son. Some things, it was time for his son to start taking care of them. After all, he was the future master of Jiaozhou.

Therefore, Shi Xie handed him over to his successor, Hui Hui, for offering sacrifices to heaven.

After thinking for two hours, Shi Xie instinctively felt that he might have missed something in this matter.

"Brother, this year's ancestor worship is entrusted to Hui'er, how is the preparation going?"

Shi Yi hurriedly said: "Hui'er is still very diligent, everything is implemented in an orderly manner, better than my younger brother in previous years."

Shi Xie let out a sigh, and said again: "The old man has been busy with business recently, so I didn't have time to ask more details. Hui'er's arrangement of the memorial service is different from your previous years."

Shi Yi hurriedly said: "The little brother also knows that the big brother is busy with business, so he didn't bother him with these things. This year's memorial ceremony, Hui'er has made a lot of changes. First of all, the place where the heaven is worshipped is changed to Nanshan."

"Nanshan?" Shi Xie narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Why did you suddenly change places?"

"It is said that Hui'er found the original alchemist from Congzhong. He did divination and checked Fengshui. He saw that Nanshan outside our Jiaozhi City is a treasured place of Fengshui, with good luck, so he cast an earthen platform on Nanshan!"

Shi Xie frowned, and said, "Isn't it a bit of a joke to change the place of sacrifice based on the words of the wandering warlock?"

Shi Yi said carelessly: "If the child wants to do it, let him do it! It's not a big deal."

Shi Xie didn't argue with Shi Yi much, and said, "The question is, is it safe to worship heaven in Nanshan?"

Shi Yi nodded confidently and said, "I've also thought of this point. Hui'er has already made complete preparations. Hui'er has arranged soldiers to guard all the main roads near Nanshan. Ping's soldiers and horses have been transferred to Nanshan in case of accidents!"

"What?" Shi Xie's face finally changed: "You said he transferred all his troops from Songping to Nanshan?"

Shi Yi looked at him puzzled, and said, "That's right, on the day of offering sacrifices to heaven, isn't it normal to deploy soldiers and horses to prevent accidents? Brother, why are you panicking?"

Shi Xie slapped the table heavily, and said angrily: "Jiaozhi has ready-made soldiers and horses. Why did he go to Songping to transfer troops? Could it be that Songping's soldiers are more elite than Jiaozhi's? Doesn't it cost money and food to deploy soldiers and horses?"

"This..." Shi Yi was speechless all of a sudden: "Brother, I didn't think that much, and maybe Hui'er didn't think that much either."

"You don't think much, but he doesn't necessarily think less!"

Shi Xie suppressed the anger in his heart, and said: "Pass my military order, the soldiers and horses in the city should not move rashly for the time being, everything is as usual, you send someone to hold my talisman, go to Jiuzhen County to dispatch soldiers and horses here, the old man wants to see Look, what tricks this son of mine is playing with me."

"promise."

"Don't tell me a word about today's matter."

"Brother don't worry, younger brother dare not."

A few days later, officials at all levels of Jiaozhi went to Nanshan to worship together with Shi Xie.

Before leaving, Shi Xie sent someone to send a message to Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, telling them to wait for a while, and after offering sacrifices to heaven, everything would naturally come to light.

Inside the station.

"It seems that Shi Xie's old fox smelled something." Zhuge Liang smiled while shaking his feather fan.

Sima Yi yawned lazily: "When you sacrifice to the sky, it seems that the people who acted are quite calculating, but since Shi Xie has already become suspicious, it is basically not difficult to put down the chaos."

Zhuge Liang nodded in agreement and said, "Then let's just wait for the good news. I heard that Shi Xie's son Shi Hui is the one who presided over the arrangements for the Jiaozhi Nanshan sacrifice this time. If there is no accident, the person Zhou Yu contacted at the Shi's house is undoubtedly him."

Sima Yi said: "No matter who Zhou Yu contacted, since it has been concluded that this matter is inseparable from the Shi family, then I have to ask old Shi Xie to show some sincerity when I say anything later."

"Brother, what do you mean?"

"Let him send troops, but not to help Zhou Yu attack Nanchang City, but to attack Zhou Yu together with the soldiers of Nanchang City."

Zhuge Liang smiled when he heard the words, secretly thinking that his senior brother is really a master who does not suffer.

A day later, Nanshan's army of worshiping heaven returned to Jiaozhi, and Shi Xie came to the posthouse to meet Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi in person.

The old man probably knew that he couldn't hide it, so he simply told the truth when he met him.

"Thank you two friends for reminding the old man on behalf of the prime minister. Unexpectedly, that rebellious son actually hooked up with Zhou Yu, intending to take advantage of Nanshan to sacrifice to heaven, to put the old man and a few younger brothers under house arrest, and to lead Jiaozhou himself. It's ridiculous that the old man even joked about Sun Wentai's unworthy child. , shame, shame."

Chapter 872 The Bold Ding Feng

Shi Xie stopped Shi Hui's rebellion in time through the reminders of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.