The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

The four counties in the south of the Yangtze River are not the generosity of Soochow. They were originally four remote and poor areas. To be honest, Liu Biao and Cao Cao's control over these places is also very weak, so it is basically no cost for Liu Bei to send troops to attack these places. What kind of strength-it depends on the spread.Otherwise, why did Zhou Yu say that the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River are the emperor's uncle? The infrastructure in these four places is poor, and the tax revenue cannot be raised. They have the same virtue as the bald eagle's Detroit. There is no meat to eat, and the tasteless chicken ribs are discarded—oh This concept will be created by Boss Cao during the Battle of Hanzhong-but Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei can only continue, barren land is better than no land.Besides, Zhuge Liang, who is engaged in infrastructure construction, is very familiar with it, so why not just start over from scratch, this is the talent and skills of the people of the Celestial Dynasty.So Liu Qi's appointment as Jingzhou Shepherd came down, and the appointment of Zhou Yunan County's prefect was also down. Zhuge Liang smiled and laughed that Cao Cao was also a man with a clear mind. up.Liu Bei changed the name of Youjiangkou to Public Security in a high-spirited manner, and pinned his infinite good expectations.

Among the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhao Yun applied for the occupation and governance of Guiyang.Zhuge Liang was very satisfied, even if Zhao Yun didn't take the initiative to apply, she planned to arrange Zhao Yun.Because Guiyang is relatively the most important geographical location among the four counties, Zhuge Liang is still not at ease when handing it over to other people. Of course, at this time, Zhang Fei went to help Zhou Yu, and Guan Yu went to cut Cao Ren's back with the emperor's uncle. Such an important place would not be handed over. For Zhao Yun, no one else can go.

Before Zhao Yun went to Guiyang, Zhuge Liang told her to have a good relationship with Zhao Fan, the prefect of Guiyang, and Zhao Yun nodded.Zhuge Liang finally asked meaningfully: "Zhao Xiaoyun, are you not married yet?"

This inexplicable question made Zhao Yun's hair stand on end. In a hurry, he took thousands of people and ran to Guiyang.

The process of occupying Guiyang was quite simple. Two guys who were too good at cooking came out and resisted Zhao Yun's moves. When they saw that their skills were not good, they got off the saddle, dropped their helmets and armor, shouted that they couldn't beat them and surrendered. It is said that Zhao Yun is too powerful and Liu Bei is the emperor's uncle and the prefect who decides to surrender for the sake of the people of the city.A good city came into Zhao Yun's hands like a joke. Zhao Fan respectfully led people out of the city to meet Zhao Yun. The seals and ribbons were symbolically handed over to Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun symbolically returned them.Zhao Yun looked at the opponent's actions and didn't intend to bargain with him at all. Knowing that Zhao Fan surrendered sincerely, he went into the city with Zhao Fan without worrying about bringing a personal soldier.

Zhao Fan is indeed sincere. Anyway, he is not taken seriously by following Liu Biao and Cao Cao. It is not a matter of loyalty. Whoever he follows is not following. Uncle Liu Huang is a good person. The treatment of people and others remains the same, and the officials who were originally are still the officials.

Besides, who is it to receive Guiyang, Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong who became famous in the first battle in Changban!This face, the other three counties may not be able to have it!Zhao Fan still felt quite smug.When he was happy, he couldn't help being nervous, and sent someone to invite Zhao Yun to dinner, and he danced and ordered people to prepare dishes for the guests.

But when Zhao Fan saw a beauty in his thirties with two maidservants in front of him, he immediately became honest, cleaned up his clothes, and stood aside with his hands down: "Sister-in-law."

It was Mrs. Fan, wife of Mr. Zhao Fan, who came.

Fan's face was sullen: "You are the prefect of Guiyang, how can you be so rude!"

It is said that the eldest brother is like a father and the elder sister-in-law is like a mother. Zhao Fan has always been in awe of this unsmiling sister-in-law, so he did not dare to contradict Fan when he reprimanded him. He just apologized and said that he was excited to invite Zhao Yun.

Fan frowned: "Who is Zhao Yun?"

Zhao Fan took the opportunity to brag about Zhao Yun's achievements in Changbanpo, saying that Zhao Yun is a great hero known to everyone in the world.

Fan gave Zhao Fan a disgusted look: "You are not prudent in your conduct, and you only want to use the merits of others to show yourself, and they don't speak harshly. If you are friends with you, you must not be a gentleman!" After finishing speaking, he walked away, Zhao Fan retreated behind repeatedly.

At this time, Zhao Yun didn't know that he was already a bad image of a "non-gentleman" in Fan's heart. When Zhao Fan invited her to be a guest, she agreed without hesitation.At Zhao Fan's house, a banquet was held in the hall, and the guests and the host had a good time.

At that time, the alcohol content of the water was really low, and it was not a problem to drink for a day, it was just "changing clothes" a few times.Zhao Fan and Zhao Yun drank happily, so Zhao Fan didn't pay much attention to what he said, and he said what he thought: "The general's surname is Zhao, and Fan Yi's surname is Zhao. The general is really determined, and Fan Yizhen is determined. Thinking about the past, Xu is of the same clan. , I would like to call him my brother."

Although Zhao Yun drank a lot, his mind was still sober. He knew that Zhao Fan did this to consolidate his position as a surrendered general and to win people's hearts. It was nothing to agree, so he readily agreed.

Seeing Zhao Yun's straightforwardness, Zhao Fan was a little embarrassed, thinking about what to do to show his sincerity and gratitude for Zhao Yun's magnanimity, so he made up his mind to invite Zhao Yun to the back hall, ordering to wash the cups and drink more, and the road dishes outside No need, I brought some food from my own kitchen, and then called my servant: "Please come to the inner hall to see my wife."

Going through the house to enter the house, the wife does not avoid it, is a profound manifestation of the friendship of ancient people.Zhou Yu and Sun Cesheng paid homage to their mothers; Cao Cao was able to see Cai Mao's wife, that's what they meant.Of course, a good purpose does not necessarily have a good result. For example, the former is a good story through the ages, while the latter is a joke through the ages.

Zhao Fan is still courteously persuading him to drink, and the congregation has already hurried into the inner hall, but before seeing Zhao Fan's wife, he ran into Fan's family first.

Mrs. Fan called the servant who was in a hurry, and asked that it was Zhao Fan who wanted to sell his wife, and she was a little angry: "Why are you so busy! Let me go and see first!"

After repelling the attendants, Mrs. Fan came forward. The servants saw the angry face of the eldest lady, none of them dared to speak, and none of them dared to stop her. Mrs. Fan went directly to the compartment in the back hall, and was about to break in, hesitating For a moment, if it feels inappropriate, let's observe in the cubicle first.

Sitting in the guest seat was Zhao Yun, who was different from Fan's initial imagination, that was not a bearded warrior with rough voice and rough manner.Mrs. Fan watched with her own eyes that Zhao Yun picked up the wine bottle calmly, raised his hand to respect Zhao Fan, said "please" clearly, and drank it happily. He looked like a 20-year-old with the vigor of a [-]-year-old. He has a long beard, so he looks like a young man, with bright eyes, sharp brows, full forehead, and his hair is combed back tightly and tied with a blue cloth scarf.She was also wearing a straight train of the same color, her cuffs were tightly tied, her exposed fingers were long and slender, and her knuckles were slightly protruding, making her look very powerful.

"lady?"

Fan Shi turned around: "What's the matter?"

The servant girl didn't know how to answer the words for a while, the madam was about to go to the hall in a rage, but she stopped here and didn't know what she was looking at, and the anger on her face dissipated completely.She had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Ma'am, Zhao Yun is opposite the prefect."

Zhao Fan in the seat became a little impatient, and looked back repeatedly, probably wondering why his wife hadn't come out yet.

It's not an option to hide all the time, Fan thought about it, then turned out from the back of the cubicle and walked into the back hall.

Zhao Fan looked back and saw Fan's family, he was startled, and quickly stood up to salute. Zhao Yun saw the woman who came out suddenly, and thought that it was probably Zhao Fan's family member, so he also stood up quickly.

"Why did sister-in-law come here?" Zhao Fan asked cautiously.

"I heard that the prefect and the brother of General Zhao are well-suited, so I come here to congratulate you." Fan bowed calmly, then knelt down beside the food table, stretched out her thin hands, and picked up a wooden ladle to fill the two with wine.

Zhao Yun already knew from Zhao Fan's address that this woman in clean clothes was Zhao Fan's sister-in-law, but he didn't know the details, so he could only look at Zhao Fan suspiciously.

Zhao Fan said: "Don't worry, brother, this brother's wife is also my sister-in-law Fan."

Zhao Yun didn't dare to be negligent: "Since that's the case, I don't dare to bother my sister-in-law to give a gift. Please leave, Yun."

Mrs. Fan was not annoyed, and said calmly while filling up the wine: "I respect the general's name. This time, brothers are commensurate with each other and have a good relationship with the family, so I specially drink this cup. Why do you want to rush? Please use up this bottle, I will Retire."

Zhao Yun had no choice but to stand up and drink a bottle. As expected, Mrs. Fan was straightforward. Seeing that Zhao Yun had drunk, she saluted deeply and retreated into the inner hall.

Seeing Fan's departure, Zhao Yun breathed a sigh of relief, now this gender awkwardness is really speechless, Fan's here, she really can't take a bite.But Zhao Fan watched Fan's activities quietly from the sidelines, and he knew it in his heart, so he had a plan.

Sitting down again, Zhao Yun stretched out his hand to break a chicken leg.Zhao Fan looked at Zhao Yun and asked abruptly, "Does your brother have a family?"

"Huh? No." Zhao Yun didn't pay attention, and focused all his energy on the chicken thigh. The chicken thigh was chewy and fragrant, but it also had many tendons, and it was difficult to pull.

"Just now, my sister-in-law met the general, what did the general think?"

"Madam is so heavenly and human." Zhao Yun wanted to say that she was beautiful and had a good temperament, but felt that Zhao Fan might not understand it, so he dragged out a word.

"So Fan is willing to protect the general's relatives, I wonder if he will?"

Zhao Yun broke off the chicken thigh with great difficulty, but when he was holding the chicken thigh and was putting it in his mouth, he was a little dazed when he heard this sentence, he raised his hand and put it down again.

Zhao Fan felt that there was hope: "my elder brother passed away for three years, and my sister-in-law lived here as a widow. It was not the end. My younger brother often advised him to choose another spouse. However, my sister-in-law and my first brother got married when they were young. The number of younger brothers is for marriage, but they are all ordinary people, unsuitable for matching. Now that the general is here, I see that the sister-in-law's intention is to form a good relationship, and make a good family. What is the general's intention?"

Zhao Yun was a little silly: "You mean you want my sister-in-law to marry me?"

"Exactly."

"No."

Zhao Fan originally thought that it was a sure thing, but was hit hard by Zhao Yun's "no way out" that had no way out.

"Why not?" Zhao Fan felt a little offended, "Could it be that my sister-in-law is ugly?"

"It has nothing to do with that." Zhao Yun spoke coldly. "I can't marry."

"Since it's irrelevant, why refuse the good thing? Fan Bucai, Mu General Deyi, is willing to send him with a dowry." Zhao Fan was a little anxious.This is an extremely beneficial marriage from any point of view, why did Zhao Yun reject it so simply?

"If you can't marry, you can't marry."

"General..."

"Thank you for the hospitality, and Yun will choose another auspicious day to thank you. Let me go." Zhao Yun didn't want to be entangled, so he got up and walked out.

Zhao Fan became angry from embarrassment behind him: "How rude!" Zhao Yun pretended not to hear it.

As soon as Zhao Yun left, Zhao Fan looked at the mess in the back hall, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He kicked over the food table that Zhao Yun had used, and when he turned around and was about to kick over the one in front of him, he suddenly stopped.

Because Fan Shi was standing right in front of him.

"Sister-in-law..." Zhao Fan always respected Fan, and immediately restrained himself.

Fan turned her head to look at the entrance of the back hall, Zhao Yun went out from there: "General Zilong is gone."

She said declarative sentences not interrogative sentences.

Zhao Fan didn't know what to say, but Fan sighed heavily: "What a strange man."

"Sister-in-law, Zhao Zilong doesn't know the truth, so there's no need to..."

"If I get to be the wife of General Zilong, I am willing to spend all my family resources; the world is far and wide, and I will let you do what you want."

Zhao Fanxin said yes, I would still be willing to pay another city for this relative, but this guy is not sensible.However, Fan's next sentence reminded him: "You can write to the emperor's uncle and the military adviser. If you speak well, you will surely succeed."

So Zhao Fan wrote to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang about the situation.Liu Bei said I have no objection, ask the military adviser, Zhuge Liang was so confident that he almost scolded Zhao Yun, but fortunately Huang Yueying reminded him that you had time to scold her and wrote the reply letter, so Zhuge Liang held back and immediately sent Zhao Yun wrote back with just one sentence: Zhao Xiaoyun, you just married Mrs. Fan, don't talk nonsense!

The reason why Zhuge Liang didn't write it down was because Zhao Yun had become a miscellaneous general, and she could understand this reason herself: marrying the Fan family was not a personal issue, but a political issue.If you don't marry the Fan family, Zhao Fan will of course suspect that you don't trust him or that you have the possibility of changing Guiyang's personnel one day.

Zhao Yun was extremely stubborn on this issue, and her reply was very simple: just don't marry.Then, as if I felt that the meaning of writing was so simple, I psed a sentence at the bottom: Fan's ≠ Huang Yueying, my name is not Zhuge Liang.

But before this letter reached Zhuge Liang, something happened to Guiyang: Zhao Fan got the dowry of Luo Fan after receiving Zhuge Liang's comforting reply, but everything was ready, so he sent someone to make a tentative reminder. When I asked Zhao Yun, the reply I got was still two words: no.

This time Zhao Fan got serious, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became, he felt that Zhao Yun, you tm was playing with me, in order to avoid the end of being disarmed and executed one day, Zhao Fan decided to act first.

The atmosphere in Guiyang City was a little strange those few days, Zhao Yun felt it keenly, he told his own soldiers to be careful, and sent people outside the city to inform the troops stationed there.At night, two people who claimed to be Zhao Fan's deputy asked to see Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun thought about it, and after arranging his own soldiers, he met with these two people, who reported to Zhao Yun that Zhao Fan was planning to rebel.Zhao Fan didn't really surrender to the general from the beginning, all he did was to stabilize the general, so that he could wipe out the general and the soldiers and go to Prime Minister Cao to ask for credit.The time for the rebellion was set at night two days later.We admired the general's name and couldn't bear the general being harmed, so we came here to report.

After Zhao Yun listened calmly, seeing that the two of them stopped talking, Zhao Yun asked: Are you gone?Two people replied: no more.

Well.Zhao Yun immediately shouted: "Come on, take these two down!"

The two were panicked and shouted innocent. Zhao Yun's soldiers are not vegetarians. They are super-class special forces who escaped with Liu Bei for so many years and specialize in protecting Liu Bei in various extreme environments. , before and after less than ten seconds.

Looking at the two people bundled into rice dumplings, Zhao Yun sighed: "Did Zhao Fan ask you to come?"

The two shook their heads again and again.

"Don't pretend, Zhao Fan didn't teach you how to speak as a spy? What you just said, I knew it was false from the first sentence. Of course Zhao Fan was sincere when he left the city to surrender. If it was false, then his attention It must be around false surrender, and superfluous things will not be done at all. Even if he wants to dispel my doubts, it is superfluous to invite me to dinner and let me see his wife. He would not do that if he pretended to surrender. So you two are He came to lie to me, and must have been instructed by Zhao Fan. The rebellion is true, but the time is false. I want to mistake it for two days, but in fact, it is tonight."

After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he stopped looking at the astonished eyes of the two men, and directly ordered his followers to get ready.A death order was issued: do not disturb the people, complete all battles before dawn, capture Zhao Fan alive, and not escape one person.

At nightfall, someone reported to Zhao Yun that a torch at the west gate had been lit and then extinguished three times. Zhao Yun knew that Zhao Fan had taken this as a letter to lead people to attack the army left outside the west gate. She had secretly divided up most of the soldiers outside the west gate. To the south gate, and the soldiers at the west gate were alerted to a sudden attack, so Zhao Yun was not afraid. He personally led people to the south gate, took control of the place, locked the switch and let his own people in, and took over all administrative affairs in a short time. Then Zhao Yun immediately led people to control Ximen, and surrounded Zhao Fan with the army he had left outside Ximen.

Zhao Fan was a sneak attack, and there were not many people in the first place. If you find out that the main force is not outside the west gate, you will know that it is not good.