I thought that Bingzhou Mu, who was eager for talents, would be ecstatic when he saw him, but unexpectedly, he had already forgotten him without a trace, which made Sima Yi feel even more disappointed. He could only take out the letter from his arms angrily, bowed his hands and said: "Sima Yi, the villain, pays homage to Yuan Bingzhou. He is here to deliver the letter as entrusted by Mr. Jushu!" After hearing what Sima Yi said, Yuan Mai was a little surprised. , I wonder how Jushou became familiar with Sima Yi? He was actually appointed as an envoy to deliver the message. He couldn't guess the reason for a while, so he had no choice but to stop thinking about it. But it turned out that during the days when Jushou was in Hanoi, he had been searching for talents in the field for Yuan Mai, hoping to find useful talents to strengthen the Bingzhou Army. I heard that Sima Yi from Wen County was a talented person, but because he was seriously ill and unable to get out of bed, he had been recuperating in Huai County and was personally invited by Yuan Mai. Jushou often came to chat with Sima Yi in his spare time. After many contacts, he saw that Sima Yi was well-spoken and had a strategic mind. He was a rare talent. Jushou even took great pains to win over Sima Yi. Finally, a few days ago, he convinced " Sima Yi, who had just recovered from a serious illness, came out to serve Yuan Mai. So taking the opportunity of delivering official documents, he sent Sima Yi to Yecheng to meet Yuan Mai, and took a letter of recommendation with him. It¡¯s just that Sima Yi was arrogant. He originally thought that Lord Zhou Mu would be ecstatic about his arrival and dismounted to welcome him. He didn¡¯t intend to produce Jushou¡¯s recommendation letter. Who knew that he was self-defeating? He actually forgot who he was! Thinking about it, he is from a famous family and is the descendant of the fourth generation and the third prince. He controls hundreds of thousands of powerful soldiers and has a large number of civil servants under his command. With everything going on day by day, there is no time to think about a little person like myself. It is natural to just put it behind you. Yuan Buying did not dismount, so he immediately opened Jushu's letter and read it. The content was to request that Shenpei be buried richly and his family be pardoned. After all, Shenpei was an important minister in Hebei and Yuan Shao's right-hand man. The Minister of Humerus led the civil and military officials during Yuan Shao's period and was very prestigious among the noble families in Hebei. Burying him generously can, firstly, reassure the old ministers who follow Yuan Shao, and secondly, establish the demeanor of a benevolent king among the nobles of the family. "Well, what you said is polite!" Yuan Mai nodded after reading the letter, turned to ask Chen Lin beside him: "Where is the body of Shen Pei at this moment?" Chen Lin saluted immediately and said: "Return to the Lord's question. Shen Pei Zhengnan's corpse is being parked in the corpse room, and after the burial site has been selected, it will be buried with other Jizhou soldiers who died in the battle!" Yuan Mai turned his eyes and said solemnly: "Shen Pei was an important minister of humerus when my father was alive! Although he lost his virginity and followed Yuan Shang, it was not his fault. He deserved a grand burial because of his hard work in the past. How could he be buried with ordinary generals? This is absolutely impossible. " "My lord is wise, and I will kneel down and thank you for judging Zhengnan!" The Lord's benevolent act, the people of Hebei are so lucky!" Hearing what Yuan Mai said. Chen Lin, Chen Zhen, Puyang Xing and other Yuan Shao's old staff behind the horse all dismounted and knelt down to kowtow, firstly to thank their former colleagues, and secondly to congratulate themselves. It is said that one emperor and one courtier, but since Yuan Mai can be generous After buying a funeral and judging a match, you wouldn't be too mean to these living veterans of Yuan Shao, right? Yuan Mai was very satisfied with the attitude of the staff. He could feel that people's hearts were gradually returning to him. When everyone expected him to return, he would become the overlord of Hebei. He glanced at Chen Lin and said, "Chen Kongzhang, you are good at poetry and poetry. Etiquette, I will leave the matter of the funeral and mating to you. Go back to Yecheng immediately. There is no need to follow the army!¡± , and rode back to Yecheng. Seeing Yuan Mai's calm arrangements, but not favoring him, Sima Yi stood in front of the horse and sweat broke out on his forehead again. He really didn't expect that he was so insignificant in the eyes of this young prince, like a feather. , dispensable When thinking of this, Sima Yi felt a little regretful. ¡°Had I known this, I shouldn¡¯t have easily agreed to Jushou¡¯s invitation. I should have pretended to be ill at home for another three to five years and waited to see how the situation would change. If you have destiny, you will achieve great things sooner or later; if God doesn't care about you, you can just be a commoner who has no trouble with the world, cultivate the land, and enjoy the happiness of others, which is better than being ignored like this. This feeling really makes you sad. People are unhappy. "Yuan Shijun, you still have a letter in your hand!" Sima Yi raised his arm, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his clothes, and softly reminded Yuan Mai who was about to go. That was a letter of recommendation written by Jushu to Yuan Mai. In the letter, he strongly recommended Sima Yi, saying that he had the talents of Wang Zuo, just like Guan Zhong was reincarnated and Jiang Shang was reborn. He asked Yuan Mai to make sure to use him again. This recommendation letter and the documents were all handed into Yuan Mai's hands by Sima Yi, but he held them in his hands as if he had forgotten them. Sima Yi stood in front of "Chuanyun Wuzui" in despair, as if he felt that this beautiful war horse had a sense of ridicule in his eyes. This made Sima Yi feel extremely ashamed. If I had known that Yuan Mai could rise so strongly, I should have agreed to his recruitment and assisted him when he first captured Hanoi; at that time, he was just a miscellaneous general, with a lack of talents under his command, and the territory in his hands was only Hanoi. It was a small land. If I hadn't kept my eyes high and had a wait-and-see attitude at that time, I would have been the founder of the Bingzhou Army by now, right? "Alas I'm just one move away from you, I'm so short-sighted!" Sima Yi sighed in his heart. While blaming myself, I felt even more unhappy. It was not so much that I had made a mistake in my judgment, but that Yuan Mai's performance was so incredible. From a county to dominating a state, this was originally a difficult and tortuous road. , even if he has a great strategy and talents, it may take three to five years. However, Yuan Mai only took less than two years to occupy the entire Bingzhou, plus Hanoi and Sizhou. The three counties of Hedong and Pingyang have now captured half of Jizhou; this performance is beyond what a genius can describe! Although Yuan Mai easily obtained the Bingzhou Army because he was Yuan Shao's son, he was able to enjoy the gains; but he took down the three counties of Sizhou and formed a Bingzhou Army of more than 100,000 people, but it was a real effort; now he has once again captured half of the land in Jizhou , it is also relying on the reputation accumulated in daily life, and assisted by strategies, that we have achieved today's achievements. If it is called luck, it is better to call it "destiny". "Well, it seems that this guy has destiny to help him, but I underestimated him before!" Sima Yi relied on his slender neck and quietly glanced at Yuan Mai while lowering his head, unconsciously feeling a hint of admiration in his heart. . He muttered something in his mind. "There is still a letter in my hand, of course I know it!" Yuan Maiyun agreed to Sima Yi lightly, then slowly opened the letter and began to read it slowly. I saw that just as I expected, this letter was really a letter of recommendation written by Jushou, strongly recommending Sima Yi to me. I couldn't help but smile in my heart. After all, Sima Yi couldn't hold back his anger. A man with great ambitions can hold back for a while, but when he sees the world's general situation turbulent, he will inevitably be unable to restrain his ambitions. If you think that Sima Yi was persuaded by Ju Shou, Yuan Mai thinks that this is not accurate. The more important factor is most likely that he captured Yecheng and became the most powerful warlord in Hebei. Sima Yi felt that he had the hope to achieve great things, so Only then would he go out to help him, otherwise, with this guy's cunningness, he would have betrayed Jushu's face so easily, just using the donkey to ride down the slope. "Are you really as powerful as Mr. Gong and Mr. Yu said?" After reading the letter, Yuan Mai accepted it with a smile and stared at Sima Yi and asked. If Sima Yi had followed Sima Yi's original plan, after hearing Yuan Mai's question, he would have to boast and seek an important position for himself. However, after being tossed by Yuan Mai like this, his confidence was no longer enough. He thought for a moment, then handed over his hand and said: " I just know a lot about Taoist strategy. I haven¡¯t seen what Master Jushu wrote in his letter, so I dare not make false claims.¡± Yuan Mai looked interested and asked, ¡°Since you know a lot about Taoist strategy, you can help me analyze it. "Given the situation I'm in now, how should I plan my next strategy?" After hearing Yuan Mai's question, Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief. His opportunity finally came, and he hurriedly shrugged, frowned, and said solemnly: "In the humble opinion of ordinary people, the most important thing for you now is to clear Hebei. While Cao Cao's Guandu is damaged and his vitality has not yet recovered, when the strong wind sweeps away the fallen leaves, he can hold the three states of Hebei, Qing, and You in his hands. , Only by accumulating strength can we be invincible! " Yuan Mai nodded, not satisfied with Sima Yi's answer. His words were far from the sense of being in a commanding position. Anyone with a little bit of brains could figure out what Sima Yi was saying. Such a conclusion and such a strategic plan are not enough to show Sima Yi's excellence. "Then what?" Yuan Mai stroked the increasingly thick beard on his chin and continued to ask. Sima Yi cautiously replied: "In the humble opinion of the common people, Cao Cao's troops in the Central Plains are well-prepared and it is difficult to attack them at once. After pacifying the four northern states, we should avoid their sharp edges and adopt a roundabout strategy. First, go west to wipe out Yong. , Liang, and then south to Bashu. The sect leaders of these two places are weak. It is easier to capture Yizhou and Yongliang than to capture the Central Plains. Then go south along the Yangtze River, use the geographical advantages to pacify Jingzhou, and then try to conquer Soochow. The strongest Cao Cao is wrapped up in the middle. In this way, he may be able to conquer the world as soon as possible!" "Okay, not bad!" After hearing Sima Yi's analysis, Yuan Mai couldn't help but praise him. Not to mention whether Sima Yi's strategy can be successful, but his far-sighted vision has already been shown.??His argument is similar to the later Yuan Dynasty's detour to Bashu to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. This statement is comparable to Zhuge Liang's three-point strategy in the thatched cottage. It seems that Sima Yi is indeed a strategist of the same level as Zhuge Liang. With the help of such talents, great achievements can be expected.