Three Kingdoms: The opening incorporates Li Cunxiao

Chapter 395: Accepting the Barbarian King with Small Favors

"You are the champion!"

"Okay, don't look at me like that. Put your weapons away, or anyone who is not afraid of death can come up and try."

Barbarians, you look at me, I look at you, and finally use your weapons.

Don't look at Zhang Wu who is now dressed in regular clothes, with only a sword hanging on his waist. He looks like a prodigal from a wealthy family, and there is nothing outstanding about him.

But just because his name 'Zhang Wu' is there, there are very few people in the world who dare to take action against him.

What's more, the barbarians have always liked heroes and despised scholars.

It's much better to give them a powerful general like Zhang Wu than to a counselor with a lot of mess in his stomach.

"Marquis Champion, we don't want to kill Liu Qi either. It was Cai Mao who told us to give us a hundred dendrobium grains after the incident is completed."

While complaining, Shamoko's stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

However, Zhang Wu really didn't expect that Cai Mao's capital for instigating these barbarians to work hard was just a hundred dendrobium grains.

That is the food and fodder consumption of a battalion of soldiers in one day.

After a long time, Liu Qi was so cheap in the eyes of these barbarians. I wonder if Liu Qi himself would be angry after hearing the news.

"Whether Liu Qi dies or not has nothing to do with me. Forget it, why are you talking about this? Come with me."

This Cai Mao is really unreasonable. After paying for the murder, he doesn't even care about his food.

Zhang Wu had no money on him and took a group of people directly to Kuai Liang's mansion to beg for food and drink.

At this time, Kuai Liang went out to find friends to play chess with.

The servants in the house don't care about Han or barbarians, as long as their uncle brings them back, they must be distinguished guests.

Naturally, we are greeted with good wine and good food.

During the banquet, the servants were very busy adding tea and wine.

Samoko had never seen such a battle before. As he ate, the nine-foot-tall man's eyes turned red and he was almost ready to cry.

Each of the barbarians had passed their initial excitement and fell silent.

Looking at Zhang Wushi's eyes again, it was like looking at his benefactor.

There is an ancient saying about the kindness of a meal.

In fact, the kindness in a meal is not all in the meal.

In this era, most people who can eat at the same table have close status. If the difference is huge, the superior will not bother to rank with the inferior. At the very least, they must be close in class. A scholar-bureaucrat will definitely not sit down at the same table with the head of Guizhou, and a distinguished nobleman will not drink with a white body.

Of course, warriors are not so particular.

Barbarians usually walk around the borders of Jingzhou, and even ordinary people will give them a blank look.

But today such a big man took them to eat and drink. With the huge gap, they naturally felt grateful for Zhang Wu's kindness.

"Tell me, Shamoko, why you are so miserable."

"Wuling County suffered a disaster at the beginning of the year. Liu Biao thought the Wuling barbarians were vulgar and refused to help. There was not much food left in the clan, so I could only do some shady things for Cai Mao in exchange for some food."

Zhang Wu was too lazy to talk in circles with him. He really wanted to speak politely, but he was really afraid that he wouldn't understand him due to his alarming IQ, so he said bluntly:

"There is no future with Cai Mao, so hang out with me. I will take care of the food problems of you Wuxi people."

Shamoko's eyes suddenly shone, and he quickly put down the wine cup in his hand and said, "Seriously?"

"This is natural, but since you are taking orders from me, you must follow the laws like the Han people." Zhang Wu inoculated them without leaving a trace, but in Samoko's view, these problems did not seem to be a problem.

"Of course, I will return to the clan to gather the warriors and serve the champion." "Don't talk nonsense, I am serving the King of Wei."

"Yes, serve the King of Wei!"

The barbarians are not useless. With these people serving, at least Cao Wei's fighting methods will be more diverse.

In the future, they will be of great use in dealing with battles in terrains such as mountains and hills.

Compared with the north, the terrain in the south is more complex. It does not mean that cavalry alone can conquer the world. It is always right to make more preparations.

After making up his mind, Zhang Wu was not stingy and sent tens of thousands of grains from the Kuai family, and sent his servants to help escort them.

After thanking Samoko profusely, he made an appointment to come back and pay his respects, and then left three times.

When Zhang Wu sent Samoko and others out of the mansion, he happened to see Xun Yu and Huang Zhong returning to the mansion, so he went to greet them.

"Zi Qian, who are these people?"

"Wen Ruo just met him before, how could he forget about it in the blink of an eye."

"I never thought that the assassins in the Zhou Mu Mansion were actually barbarians."

"Hey!~ Forget it, Cai Mao is quite interesting. If you leave these barbarians unusable, it will actually give me an advantage."

Xun Yu nodded and stopped asking.

It was true that he worked hard, but he didn't think that Zhang Wu couldn't even handle some barbarians.

"How was your harvest there?"

Xun Yu raised his hand and pointed upward: "Zi Qian, just wait and see, things are going to change in Jingzhou."

Once Liu Qi died, Cai Mao no longer had any scruples in his actions. For several days, large-scale recruitment and training of naval forces were carried out.

With the secret support of the Kuai family, Liu Biao couldn't do anything to him.

Even Huang Zu, the governor of Jiangxia County, was tied to the chariot.

July is over.

The envoy from Jingzhou entered Huainan and handed over the emperor's blood letter in Shouchun.

Liu Bei cried again like a show, and then "reluctantly" accepted the position of leader of the alliance.

Liu Bei thought that Cao Cao was powerful, and with this edict in hand, the southern princes would definitely attack him.

But he obviously made a mistake.

Sun Ce had made up his mind from the beginning to dominate Jiangdong and ignored the so-called emperor's edict.

Liu Yan occupied Bashu. Not to mention that he had no intention of obeying the imperial edict and pretended to be deaf and dumb. Even if he really wanted to get rid of the thieves, the difficulty of the road to Shu not only provided a barrier for Bashu, but also made it difficult for the army to get out. It is impossible to provide any effective assistance.

Liu Bei, who originally lacked Jingzhou's military support, this time Fei Fei did not wait for Cai Mao to turn around. Instead, even Liu Yao, who was still supporting him, used Yangzhou's busy internal affairs as an excuse to withdraw from Huainan.

Liu Bei really couldn't figure it out. When he proclaimed himself the leader of the coalition to attack Cao, he still had more than 100,000 troops from three families at his disposal.

But now that the emperor personally appointed him, he clearly had great righteousness, but he became a lonely man, with only 30,000 soldiers and horses in Huainan left.

Just like that, he took the lead to attack Cao Cao?

It's not like sending yourself to death.

It wasn't until Xu Shu rushed back to Shouchun from Yuzhang after hearing the news and read the edict that he immediately complained that he had been deceived.

(End of this chapter)