In fact, Zhang Liao''s behavior of making people shout red cloaks was just a test.


    He was not quite sure whether the so-called guy in the red cloak was the real leader of the horse thieves.


    But you can give it a try...


    ?It''s a pity that Ma Xiu didn''t know that Zhang Liao was testing.


    Matthew''s injured leg, which has not yet healed, is a constant reminder of his incompetence.


    Matthew licked his dry lips. The bumps of the war horse still caused some pain in his legs. He endured it and tried his best not to think about the wounds on his legs, so as not to be seen as weak by others.


    ?But Ma Xiu looked back secretly and saw Zhang Liao''s flag following closely behind him, and he suddenly became short of breath and panicked.


    How is this possible?


    ?Ma Xiu didn’t understand why he was still targeted by Zhang Liao even though he didn’t raise his banner? I planned to take advantage of the chaos to escape, thinking that it would be getting dark anyway, and as long as I survived this period, I would be safe, but I didn''t expect...


    Matthew turned around again and suddenly heard some chaotic shouts, and he was suddenly excited!


    Cloak!


    Damn cloak!


    Because he had an injury on his leg that had not yet healed, he was afraid of the cold and wore an extra cloak than usual. The cloak can not only be used to keep out the cold in the morning and evening, but can also be used as an extra layer of quilt when sleeping, or folded and placed under the legs to relieve the pain of pressure wounds. It has many uses.


    Matthew quickly tore off his cloak, threw it to a guard beside him, and shouted, "Tie it on!" Then run to the side! 』


    After Matthew finished shouting, he accelerated again, not paying attention to the look of the guard who was half a body behind...


    ??The guard looked down at the cloak in his hand, gritted his teeth, tied it on, and immediately turned his horse to walk to the edge of the queue. Then he turned his head and shouted to Matthew, "Young leader!" Leave it at that! 』


    ?Matthew didn’t make any move, as if he didn’t hear.


    ?Of course, even if he really heard it, he would still pretend that he didn''t hear it.


    Matthew has never read any books, and he has always scorned the Han people''s concepts of benevolence, righteousness, and morality, thinking that the Han people are hypocritical and that the scriptures are all lies. He thought he was very smart, saw through the treacherous plots of the Han people, and escaped the trap set by the Han people in the name of "benevolence, righteousness, and morality." However, he did not realize that the "benevolence, righteousness, and morality" of the Han people were not aimless...


    ?Most of the time, this kind of seemingly stupid moral restraint is actually the foundation for a strong organization, a team, and a society.


    ?Zhang Liao was not fooled, but because of Matthew''s superfluous move, he was sure that he was chasing a big fish.


    It’s very simple.


    ??Although Zhang Liao was not able to see through the figures hiding behind him and see the small movements of the horse on horseback, the majority and the minority were still clear at a glance.


    ?According to common sense, would someone abandon most of their guards and escape alone in an ingenious way? Especially when his whereabouts are revealed. Then there are only two possibilities. One is that the man in the cloak is not an important person at all and was forced to leave the queue in order not to affect others. The other possibility is that someone is replaced...


    ?Of course, if there is someone who does not follow common sense, Zhang Liao will not be able to guard against him. So in order to guard against a very small number of people who don''t act according to common sense, and then do it in a way that goes against common sense most of the time? This is obviously not a wise choice.


    The gap between the war horses is slowly reflected as time goes by and the distance increases. A serious war horse, with careful care and sufficient feed, will naturally have stronger physical strength and more endurance than those care horses carelessly taken care of by horse thieves...


    So Matthew was unlucky.


    Completely unlucky.


    There was actually no one around Matthew. There is no such person as loyal or as stubborn as Pound. What''s even more tragic is that all of this was caused by Matthew himself. Matthew talks about his family and brothers every day, but when something really happens, his behavior towards his family and brothers is completely exposed. Family members are used to deceive, and brothers are used to sell. Matthew believes that the benevolence, righteousness, and morality of the Han people are all deceptive, so he does not consider what will happen to the team if the leader really loses the "benevolence, righteousness, and morality." How has it become...


    ?When it is beneficial, Matthew can win over some people, but when the danger comes...


    When the first danger came, Pound died in his place.


    Matthew did not learn any lessons or achieve any amazing growth.


    So, when the second danger came, the guards who were still loyal to him were sent away by Matthew himself with a cloak.


    Those who had some sense of justice among the horse thieves he summoned were killed by Matthew himself.


    ?You can naturally imagine what kind of people the remaining people around Matthew will be like.


    This road, step by step, was walked by Matthew himself.


    ??Those horse thieves who were lagging behind in Ma Xiu''s queue saw that Zhang Liao was about to catch up with them, and some of them subconsciously hid to the side in a panic. Some were shot dead directly by Zhang Liao''s men, but others escaped under the sinking dusk.


    ?Hence, Matthew''s queue was like ice cream under the summer heat. Not only did its appearance begin to melt, but its shape also gradually collapsed. More and more horse thieves broke away from Ma Xiu''s queue and fled for their lives. Such a collapse occurred even in an instant, making both Ma Xiu and Zhang Liao stunned for a moment...


    Although there are some hills and meadows around Xihai City, most of them are relatively flat, so as soon as Matthew''s queue dispersed, it was really like a snooker billiard ball being stabbed hard. Zhang Liao and Matthew They met his eyes directly!


    ?At this time, there are still two or three loyal guards beside Matthew, but for the current situation, this number of guards is equivalent to being naked, or is the whole body just wearing socks?


    Matthew howled subconsciously, not knowing whether he was cursing those who abandoned him or venting his fear...


    There is a saying that good fortune never comes alone and misfortune never comes alone. This saying sometimes makes sense.


    I don’t know if it was because of exhaustion of stamina, something went wrong with daily maintenance, or something was caught by the horse’s hoof. Anyway, suddenly, Ma Xiu’s war horse stumbled and threw Ma Xiu’s whole body out!


    Matthew fell heavily to the ground. Because there was grass on the ground, he did not break his neck on the spot, but only broke his other good leg...


    Matthew''s two or three remaining guards tried to rescue them, but they were no match for the chasing Zhang Liao and others. They almost met each other, like a few scattered snowflakes meeting the flames. They just made a light sound and then is gone.


    Matthew was knocked unconscious and moaned in pain on the ground. When he came to his senses, he realized that he seemed to be the only one left in this world.


    ?Ma Xiu subconsciously twisted crazily on the ground, crawling away from Zhang Liao, dragging his injured and broken legs, struggling to survive.


    ?Zhang Liao reined in his horse and rode back again. He looked at Ma Xiu crawling on the ground and said, "Are you the leader of the horse thieves?" 』


    "No! "I don''t know whether it was fear or pain. Matthew burst into tears and denied it, "No, no! I''m not! 』


    Zhang Liao looked around, "But I think you are." 』


    ?Matthew finally collapsed.


    『Don’t kill me! Matthew shouted heartbreakingly, "I''m still useful!" There are many more things I can tell you! Many, many! 』


    ?Zhang Liao was determined now, so he smiled, dismounted, and stood in front of Ma Xiu with his sword in hand.


    "oh? What can you tell me? ” Zhang Liao looked at Ma Xiu.


    Matthew looked at Zhang Liao expectantly, looking completely pitiful, "I...I can tell you everything!" All in all! real! The contacts in Xihai City... and the ones I know... will tell you! all! As long as...just spare me! Just treat me like a fart and let me go! 』


    Zhang Liao thought for a moment and shook his head, "Oh, forget it, these are not important, the important thing is... I don''t like farting..."


    "No..." Matthew screamed.


    The sword flashed.


    Blood flew out.


    …_(:,　∠)_…


    The dusk is deep.


    Hushi General''s Mansion.


    ?After Feiqian Guo Tu and Feng Ji left, he did not end the meeting, but retained Xun You and Pang Tong.


    The attendant served some refreshments.


    The tea produced in Jiangjunfu today is similar to the tea produced in later generations. It is loose tea rather than group tea.


    The advantage of loose tea is that it does not need to be steamed but directly roasted, retaining the true color and true flavor of the tea. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to store. In addition, there is no grinding, crushing, foaming, etc. of Tuan tea. method. The Eastern tea ceremony of later generations basically preserved the Chinese tea-drinking habit during the Tang and Song Dynasties. For example, some people are excited about matcha because it is a foreign product. In fact, it has been popular in China for a long time and has fallen out of fashion a long time ago.


    The most fundamental reason why loose tea can finally defeat Tuancha is simplification.


    Boil water, brew it, and drink it.


    Return to the essence.


    This is enough. Although those techniques of fighting matcha tea are not called coquettish bitches, they do add too many things to the tea itself, and fail to highlight its true core.


    The core is the needs of people themselves.


    It’s like the politics of the moment.


    What is needed is good, what is not needed is superfluous, or the opposite.


    "Jiangdong..." Fei Qian held the tea cup and asked as if he was chatting normally, "What if we send some people...it is rumored that Baiyi Clinic can cure Zhou Gongjin''s disease?" 』


    Xun You was stunned for a moment, "My lord, this Hundred Medical Clinic is really capable of..."


    Fei Qian smiled and said: "There are many diseases in the world, more than tens of thousands, but the Hundred Medical Clinic is only one hundred doctors after all..."


    ?Can we still understand it this way?


    Xun You couldn''t help stroking his beard and remained silent.


    "Furthermore, according to someone''s knowledge, is Zhou Gongjin''s condition... called cough and asthma... what are the internal disadvantages, above and below the ointment?" Fei Qian sighed and said, "If Zhou Gongjin could have come to Chang''an a few years ago... maybe... now it is beyond human power after all..."


    ?According to the news from Feiqiang''s intelligence line in Jiangdong, Zhou Yu most likely suffered from respiratory infection, viral tracheitis and the like. This disease develops slowly in the early stages, often just like a common cold, and does not attract much attention. Of course, under the medical conditions of the Han Dynasty, even if it was taken seriously, there may not be any targeted anti-inflammatory drugs.


    At the initial stage, it may just be a cough, but in the advanced stages of this disease, it is easy to be complicated by obstructive emphysema as the disease progresses, so that the lung function is damaged, which greatly affects health and labor force. There will be some relief when temperatures rise in the spring, only to return again in the winter.


    Huaxia Traditional Chinese Medicine mostly uses convention to name this disease, that is, naming the disease based on its symptoms. Therefore, in many cases, it will appear to be somewhat inaccurate. For example, asthma is a disease, but all asthma and coughs are included in it. At some point, it will indeed lead to some problems, so that Mr. Zhou is very critical of traditional Chinese medicine. It’s just that what should be criticized is not the quackery, but the mechanism that continuously produces quackery.


    ??It''s like discovering kidney deficiency, not solving the real root cause of the disease, nourishing the deficiency syndrome, but using certain elixirs to continuously stimulate Yang Qi. What will be the final result...


    When Zhou Yu''s symptoms were mild, if he rested, generally speaking, the symptoms of tracheitis would become chronic, but it does not mean that it would worsen too quickly. It would be possible to delay it for more than ten or twenty years, but it is obvious that Jiangdong''s continuous changes made Zhou Yu unable to calm down at all.


    What ultimately led Zhou Yu to where he is today was illness, but it was not illness.


    "But..." Fei Qian turned the topic back, "Nevertheless, the health-preserving techniques of Dr. Hua from the Baiyi Clinic can prolong life to some extent..."


    This is true.


    ?There are many doctors in the Hundred Medical Center. Even if they cannot cure Zhou Yu''s illness, they can alleviate his pain and prolong his life to some extent.


    During this period of time, Fei Qian arranged a physical examination for the middle and upper-level officials in Chang''an.


    ?Hmm, that’s right, it’s similar to the employee physical examination in later generations.


    This is a benefit for employees, and it is also a benefit for bosses.


    "Physician Hua once said that the symptoms of cough and asthma are mostly caused by insufficient healthy qi, failure to protect the outside world, and the feeling of external evils, which invade the five internal organs, causing qi deficiency and dampness to accumulate, and the inability to absorb qi..." Fei Qian said slowly, "That''s it. When word of this spreads to Jiangdong... what choice will Sun Zhongmou make? 』


    "Nai Qi has no right?" ” Pang Tong laughed twice, “This sentence alone is enough to make that boy angry to death... But I estimate that Sun Zhongmou will definitely refuse to let Zhou Gongjin go... My lord, this strategy can be said to be a drain on the bottom of the cauldron... ”


    The matter of life and death is a great terror.


    This is something that all living beings have to face, but do not want to face.


    Hua Tuo is describing the symptoms of asthma in very normal sentences, but those restless and well-meaning guys in Jiangdong will probably be able to understand some special meanings from them.


    ??If the guys in Jiangdong can all be of the same mind, then Fei Qian''s trick will not be mentioned at all. But the question is here, can the people of Jiangdong be of the same mind?


    Fei Qian also laughed, and after a while he sighed slightly, "What a pity Zhou Gongjin." 』


    Pang Tong also stopped laughing, seemed to have recalled something, and said: "I am wrong, Zhou Langgu...tsk, tsk, I never thought that this would come after all these years, phew..."


    Fei Qian glanced at Pang Tong''s belly and said, "Shi Yuan, Doctor Hua also said that if your belly is not smaller, you will have trouble in the future..."


    "ah? ” Pang Tong touched his belly, showing a very helpless and distressed look, “This... is like this, do you still want to reduce it? 』


    Why should we lose the fat that we have gained through our own abilities?


    ?That''s right, after Pang Tong lost weight during his trip to Wancheng some time ago, his weight rebounded with a vengeance. Pang Tong stroked his belly and sighed, "I understand." 』


    Fei Qian looked at Xun You again and said, "Gongda, my shoulders and neck are sore. Doctor Hua also said that you should not sit for a long time and read...remember to use the ink I sent you..."


    Xun You handed over his hand and said, "Thank you for your mercy, my lord." 』


    Fei Qian nodded and said, "Observe Zhou Gongjin''s mistakes to learn from yourself." If Zhou Gongjin had lost his body, how could he have suffered from Jiangdong''s current terminal illness? When Zhou Gongjin died, Jiang Dong suddenly lost his smoothness and became suspicious..."


    ?This is almost an inevitable problem, but the problem is that when Jiangdong realized this problem, he still failed to really solve it.


    The problem in Jiangdong should have arisen during Sun Jian''s time, but Sun Jian did not take it seriously and did not solve the problem. So when Sun Ce came to the throne, he still wanted to deal with it simply, and the result was violent. . As for Sun Quan, his methods gradually matured in the later stages, but they are still problematic. It can even be said to be somewhat paranoid. It feels more like solving problems for revenge, even involving his own children. .


    "The disadvantages of Jiangdong are like the disease of Gongjin, who is already in a terminal state..." Fei Qian said slowly, "The people of Huaisi feel that they have meritorious service and despise the people of Jiangnan... The people of Jiangdong are more unruly and look down on the Sun family. Like a thief...civilian officials pride themselves on scriptures, and military generals pride themselves on being violent...Only Zhou Gongjin, who is from Huaisi and has a good relationship with Jiangdong, can be a civil servant with a feather fan and a silk scarf, and a military officer can roam the battlefield..."


    Xun You glanced at Pang Tong.


    Pang Tong looked as usual.


    If Zhou Gongjin either leaves or dies, all factions in Jiangdong will definitely be in conflict. ” Fei Qian continued, “By then the Jiangdong expedition to Sichuan may have gone unnoticed...”


    Pang Tong nodded and said, "It''s just as my lord said." The incident of Guan Jiangdong''s attack on Sichuan was the result of Zhou Gongjin''s desire to unify..."


    What Zhou Yu will do in the last period of time is actually not difficult to guess.


    Because Zhou Yu is a gentleman.


    The behavior of a gentleman is best guessed.


    ?Zhou Yu’s current strategy may seem complicated, but if you understand its core goal, everything will be simple. In fact, everything is for Jiangdong, or in other words, everything is for the inheritance left by Sun Ce.


    Under such a goal, Zhou Yu will try his best to transfer the unstable factors within Jiangdong through the war against Sichuan and Shu, allowing those unruly generals to retire with honor, or letting those double-minded civil servants wear The label of collaboration with the enemy may indeed be to obtain the land of Sichuan and Shu in the whole process, but the cleaning in this process is also indispensable.


    This is also a conspiracy.


    ?Fei Qian smelled something familiar to him.


    Xun You nodded at the side and said: "Zhou Gongjin relies on himself...he will never be able to escape from this game...Zhou Gongjin will definitely die in Jiangdong..."


    Pang Tong stroked his palms and sighed: "My lord has implemented this strategy, and there are rumors in Jiangdong that it will destroy Zhou Gongjin''s back-up force... It can be said to be a wonderful thing." If Zhou Gongjin didn''t come to Chang''an, he would take it by himself. No wonder others. Naturally, there would be no so-called mourning troops. If he came... Well, what Gongda said is true, he will definitely not be able to come. 』


    For a while, the three people became somewhat silent.


    This is the path Fei Qian gave to Zhou Yu.


    It doesn’t have to be Sunshine Avenue.


    But at least he will live longer than in Jiangdong.


    It’s a pity…