Chapter 1355 Return to Fate

After everyone left, Bai Xiaowen returned to the inner hall.

Not long after, Li Shuyi led Zhao Yun to come.

"General Zilong saw the confrontation in the lobby today?" Bai Xiaowen asked.

Zhao Yun was not used to being called Biao by Bai Xiaowen, but he didn't pay attention to these details, and just nodded silently.

"Things in the world are like this. What you see is only what others are willing to show you. Everyone has an unknown side, such as Liu Bei,"

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "The three brothers, Liu, Guan and Zhang, are indeed very loyal. But this kind of brotherhood is only suitable for traveling the rivers and lakes, not for fighting for hegemony. If you follow Liu Bei, no matter how brave you are, you will never be able to integrate into the inner circle of the three brothers." , is an outsider after all.”

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "I understand this too."

Bai Xiaowen said: "Since you understand that Liu Bei is not your master, why don't you switch to my account? Don't you hear that 'a good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a good minister chooses a master to do things'?" Today the world is ten, and I have nine points, The Jiangdong Sun Clan will be pacified soon. If you want to follow the Ming Lord and leave a name in history, I am the best choice."

Zhao Yun shook his head: "Uncle Liu Huang is always the lord I follow, and this will not change because of his defeat. Lord Yan kindly accepts it. I am willing to die with my lord, General Guan Zhang."

Bai Xiaowen sighed, he still couldn't recruit Zhao Yun.

"General Zilong, why don't you make an agreement with me?"

Bai Xiaowen activated the backup plan and said with a smile: "Three brothers Liu Bei, I don't have to kill them. But..." He paused.

Zhao Yun was a little suspicious, and then seemed to think of something: "Isn't Duke Yan using my surrender as a condition for letting Uncle Liu Huang and General Guan Zhang go?"

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "If I really made this condition, would you agree?"

Zhao Yun said without hesitation: "No. A man was born between heaven and earth, he does what he does and does not do it; his ambition is clear, and he does not bend. My ambition is to follow my lord and help the Han Dynasty, not to seal my wife Yinzi, leave a name in history. If my lord knew about this exchange condition, he would definitely not agree to it."

Bai Xiaowen shook his head: "Okay! Then I'll change the condition..."

...

That night, Bai Xiaowen hosted a banquet and invited Liu, Guan and Zhang.

The banquet was sumptuous, complete with singing and dancing, but the host was only Bai Xiaowen, and the guests were only Liu Guanzhang and three people; Ge Xuan was also there as a companion. A total of five people gathered in the hall to drink.

Liu Bei and the other three were indeed extraordinary people. They were clearly eating without their heads, but they were drinking to the brim, talking and laughing as usual.

Bai Xiaowen praised: "Your Excellency and the three brothers are true heroes."

When his face was red and his ears were hot, Liu Bei said: "If Liu Bei has a place of foundation, the people in the world will have nothing to worry about."

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "It's a pity, I know you are heroes, but Gu can't keep you."

Liu Bei said: "If you don't kill Liu Bei, I'm afraid Duke Yan won't be able to sleep. I'm fine if I die, I just hate the Han Dynasty."

Bai Xiaowen nodded and said: "Shortly after Gu Ping settled Yizhou, a messenger from Yedu arrived, and the ministers asked Gu to become the 'King of Yan' and add Jiuxi to show his glory."

Zhang Fei glared, then sneered: "Clay courtiers, woodcarved ministers! Manchu civil and military officials, including the emperor, are not allowed to be flattened and rounded by you."

Bai Xiaowen laughed loudly,

Said: "The three generals are not rough people. These two sentences are right on the point."

Liu Bei stopped Zhang Fei and said to Bai Xiaowen: "The general situation of the world is the way it is, and it cannot be changed by manpower. I hope that after Duke Yan unifies the world, he can implement a benevolent government, eliminate military disasters, and bring the world back to prosperity; the emperor of the Han Dynasty has never committed any crimes. , and hope to live forever."

Bai Xiaowen said solemnly: "Peace in the world is also Gu's wish; as for the Son of Heaven, he is also a person who knows the current affairs, so Gu will naturally not harm him, and he will be safe for the rest of his life."

Liu Bei was silent for a while, then got up and said, "My three brothers are already full of wine and food. Where is the swordsman? You can take the head of my class."

Bai Xiaowen showed an unbearable look on his face, and said, "You really can't surrender me?"

Liu Bei firmly shook his head.

Bai Xiaowen sighed, and waved his hand to order the waiter to bring in a tray with a jade pot and three gold cups on it.

The waiter poured the wine, and the wine in the jade pot turned yellow.

Liu Bei said with a smile, "My three brothers spent half their lives in the army, how lucky they are to be able to keep their bodies." Immediately, he took down a wine bottle in the middle.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each picked up a wine bottle, and the three brothers stood facing each other in a circle, raising their wine glasses.

"I don't want to be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but I want to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day. The queen of heaven and earth, learn from this heart; if you break this oath, heaven and man will kill each other!"

After drinking, the three brothers became fatigued one after another, and then fell to the ground.

There was a commotion outside and footsteps thumping. Zhao Yun entered the inner hall and saw that the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang had all fallen to the ground without breath.

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "Zilong doesn't need to panic."

Ge Xuan got up and said: "General Zhao doesn't know something. Pindao was entrusted by the young master to refine a furnace of 'Guiming Pill', which can also be dissolved in wine. After taking it, he will be unconscious for half a month, just like a dead person. ; After half a month, you will wake up."

After a pause, Ge Xuan said again: "General, if you don't believe me, you can go and find out."

Zhao Yun leaned over and checked Liu Bei's pulse. He found that there was no pulse and no breath from the end of his nose. He didn't feel his heartbeat until he probed into his chest.

Zhao Yun breathed a sigh of relief. He also understood that if Bai Xiaowen was willing to spend so much trouble, he would definitely not kill the three of Liu Bei.

However, Zhao Yun still asked: "I don't know how Duke Yan will deal with my lord?"

Bai Xiaowen said: "In the far east, there is a series of islands called Dongying. Gu has already prepared a fast boat to send Liu Bei and three people to Dongying, and then scuttled the ship to prevent them from returning to the Central Plains."

Bai Xiaowen had already checked in advance that the unification of the three kingdoms does not need to conquer Dongying, Nanyue, Beihu, and the Western Regions, but only needs to unify the fourteen states (including the newly drawn Yongzhou).

Zhao Yun was dubious.

Bai Xiaowen said: "After the agreement between you and me is completed, I will give you a chart and a big ship. You can take Liu Bei's family members to Dongying to find Liu Bei."

At this time, Zhao Yun could only trust Bai Xiaowen, so he bowed his hands and thanked him.

Yizhou has been settled, and Liu Bei has been settled. Bai Xiaowen ordered Zhang He to lead an army of 30,000 to march eastward along Bajun to meet Wei Yan and capture Jingzhou.

Bai Xiaowen led the rest of the soldiers and returned to the dynasty. However, when you click on the military parade, Ma Chao is missing.

When Bai Xiaowen asked, Ma Dai and Ma Yunlu knelt down and pleaded guilty.

It turned out that after Ma Chao excavated Pang Tong's tomb, dissected the coffin and slaughtered the corpse, he returned to his hometown to mourn for Ma Teng. I was afraid that Bai Xiaowen would not allow it, so I left without saying goodbye.