Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 401 New 3 Kingdoms 41

"Zhuge Liang called himself Crouching Dragon, and the dragon is a symbol of the emperor? Second brother, what books do you usually read?" Liu Bei asked Guan Yu.

"Brother, you know, I read the Spring and Autumn Annals." Guan Yu was intuitively puzzled when he heard Liu Bei's question.

"In that case, you can be considered literate." Liu Bei nodded.

"Brother, of course I can read and write." Guan Yu stroked his beard again.

"Second brother, the weapon you use is called Green Dragon Crescent Blade. Since the dragon is the emperor's symbol, can I understand that you want to be a powerful minister like Dong Zhuo and hold the emperor in your hands as a puppet. Just like when you hold the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and kill people everywhere, you control the emperor and rule the fourteen states of the Han Dynasty?" Liu Bei asked with a smile.

Guan Yu was about to explain when Zhang Fei gave him an assist.

"Brother, my second brother and I are devoted to following you to build a career. We only know how to fight and kill people, and we have no second thoughts!"

"Third brother, the weapon you use is the Zhangba Snake Spear. The snake is called Qianlong, and it will eventually survive the thunder calamity and evolve into a dragon. This dragon is the sign of the emperor. The reason why you follow me, your eldest brother, is that you actually want to be the emperor, right?" Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei again.

Hearing Liu Bei's words, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei felt extremely uncomfortable. How could the names of the weapons in their hands be related to the emperor? How could the elder brother guess about them?

"Brother, if you have something to say, just say it clearly!" Guan Yu said, squinting his eyes and stroking his beard.

"Gongyou, your name is Qian. Qian means sky, and emperor means son of heaven. Gongyou, you are the father who wants to be the emperor! You want to do something and let your son become the emperor after you die." Liu Bei ignored him and looked at Sun Qian who was standing aside.

Sun Qian was also unlucky. The act of excluding Zhuge Liang was done by Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Now Liu Bei wanted to shift the blame and drag him into the criticism as well. This was extremely shameless.

If I had known that it would be so hard to go back to Jiangxia, I would have spent the rest of my life eating and drinking in Jiangdong instead of helping the Han Dynasty. If you want to drag me into this, then no one should play. At this moment, the honest man Sun Qian was also angry.

"My lord, if we convict people according to General Guan's inference, then there will be no one in the world who is not guilty."

"Second brother, think about how Emperor Gaozu was a knight who killed a white snake and started an uprising against Qin, and finally established the Han Dynasty. He could tolerate Confucian scholars pointing at his nose and scolding him. After Emperor Xuan ascended the throne, he took the initiative to change his name for the convenience of the people to avoid taboos. I, Liu Bei, am far inferior to Emperor Xuan in virtue, let alone Emperor Gaozu. But I am not as despicable as you, convicting a person based on his name! There is no such thing as this in the world!"

Liu Bei's first few words were very normal, but with the second half, everyone felt like the whole room was filled with saliva from his mouth.

"Before I went to Jiangdong, I told Mr. Kong Ming to be fully responsible for the reorganization of the army, to lay off and relocate the wounded and disabled soldiers who cannot fight, to recruit strong men from Jiangxia and refugees to join, and asked you to listen to him. But what did you do!" Liu Bei pointed at Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and questioned.

"Brother, can't we three brothers achieve great things on our own? Why do we have to go to those arrogant scholars? What good ideas can they have? Xu Shu, who is a little further away, wants us to farm as soon as he comes. Can farming create a world?"

Guan Yu was very sad. He felt that he was truly doing this for the good of his elder brother Liu Bei, but he did not appreciate it at all.

"This Zhuge Liang who just left, he wanted to farm as soon as he arrived, that's all, but he also wanted to interfere with the army. Brother, in troubled times, the army is the foundation of life, my third brother and I will not believe him."

"Brother, I just can't stand Zhu. We have worked so hard for so many years, but why should everyone including you listen to him when he comes? He doesn't even appreciate the hat we gave him. My second brother and I feel so frustrated! This is your career, but Zhuge Liang's enthusiasm is obviously ill-intentioned. He regards it as his own."

Zhang Fei originally thought that Zhuge Liang had left, and without such an annoying person, the three brothers would be more relaxed in the battle. Moreover, the second brother said that Zhuge Liang had ulterior motives, and it would be better if he left. Unfortunately, he could not kill him with one blow.

"So, you are doing this for my own good!" Liu Bei folded his hands and said, "Okay, now that Mr. Kong Ming is gone, what are you two going to do next?"

"Of course we should send troops to Xiangyang, kill Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, and recapture the entire Jingzhou. Then we will integrate our forces and attack in three directions. My eldest brother will lead one direction, I will lead one direction, and my third brother will lead one direction. We will attack Cao Cao, Xuzhou, and Jiangdong respectively." Guan Yu said, stroking his beard.

"Yes, send troops to Xiangyang! Big brother, you give the order! I, Zhang, will be the vanguard general, leading the troops into Xiangyang City and poking ten thousand transparent holes in Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan! Hahahaha!" Zhang Fei became excited when he heard about fighting.

"Get out!" Liu Bei pointed outside the door and shouted.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not understand Liu Bei's painstaking efforts at all. They had been fighting everywhere before and could not understand the situation in the world. They were like a lone boat drifting on the water, with no direction and no safe port to anchor.

After Zhuge Liang came out of seclusion, Liu Bei was able to free himself from the quagmire of disorderly warlords and the drifting with the tide. Like the two forces of Cao Cao and Sun Ce, he had a clear understanding of the situation in the world and knew what to do in the future. This finally allowed him to see a glimmer of hope for success.

But when he came back from Jiangxia a few months later, he learned that Zhuge Liang had been driven away by such malicious speculation. Liu Bei had no idea how to implement the strategic details he had planned or how to modify them when encountering unexpected events.

"Brother, are you going to hate me and my second brother because of a corrupt scholar?" Zhang Fei also got angry.

"How dare I hate you! You, Guan Yu, treat everyone in the world as grass, looking down on this and that; you, Zhang Fei, are always shouting and yelling without any manners, poking this and that. I, Liu Bei, can't afford to offend you, and I'm also afraid of being suspected by you, Guan Yu, saying that I, Liu Bei, have ulterior motives towards Liu Bei's foundation; I'm afraid of being poked in ten thousand transparent holes by you, Zhang Fei!"

Liu Bei expressed all the cowardice and humiliation he felt after escaping from Jiangdong in this sentence, and mocked Guan and Zhang mercilessly.

"You guys aren't leaving, are you? I'm leaving!"

Liu Bei waved his hand and left the hall to get some fresh air outside, but the result was not good. He felt more and more exhausted the more he went outside.

Because people on the streets were talking about it, that is, everything was far-fetchedly linked to the dragon and the nonsense that it was all about coveting Liu Bei's career, and now it has spread all over the streets.

In short, no one under Liu Bei's command was truly willing to serve him. They only served him temporarily because they were greedy for Liu Bei's career. Sooner or later, they would pick peaches and then throw Liu Bei away after they had taken advantage of him and eaten him up.

The gloomy look on Liu Bei's face finally disappeared, and he began to feel fear. These words were only circulating in Jiangxia now. In a few days, the whole Jingzhou would know about it, and then it would spread to the princes of the world.

Don’t even mention face, there’s no chance of turning things around!

At this time, an inconspicuous small boat was sailing slowly in the Yangtze River, with Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu sitting opposite each other at the bow.

Zhuge Liang's first thought after leaving Xiakou was to return to Longzhong. However, when he arrived at the dock, two people put a dagger at his back and sent him onto the ship. When he entered the cabin, he saw that the person inside was his good friend Xu Shu.

When Xu Shu saw Zhuge Liang coming, he ordered the boat to set sail, leaving the dock and heading down the river.

"Yuanzhi, there has been no news about you since we were defeated in the battle. Why did you appear in Jiangxia yesterday? Who do you work for?" Zhuge Liang took a long time to ask this question.

"Kong Ming, why don't you make a guess?" Xu Shu said with a smile.

"I came out of seclusion to assist Liu Xuande because I saw hope in him to support the Han Dynasty, but I was rejected. Now I have lost all my fighting spirit and am no longer the Zhuge Kongming of the past." Zhuge Liang talked for a long time but he couldn't guess what he meant.