Chapter 423 Rage
To the north of Mianzhu, there is Jianshan Mansion.

The troops stationed at Baishui Pass finally could not hold on any longer and surrendered. After their equipment was handed over and sealed at Jiameng Pass, the infantrymen came along the plank road carrying their own luggage.

But after passing the Jianshan plank road, they will be gathered in batches for screening.

Each batch has about 200 to 300 people. First, the old and weak are eliminated and the young and strong are retained. Finally, their backgrounds are examined. Only after there are no problems will they be reorganized into auxiliary troops of a hundred people.

They were resettled on the spot and assisted in the construction of Jianshan Mansion.

As for the old and weak who were eliminated, they were given half a month's food ration and one hundred brand new five-zhu coins and then sent back home.

Fearing that the reorganization of the surrendered troops might lead to unexpected conflicts, Black Bear was always observing from the sidelines.

If something is not right, he will intervene immediately.

It's not that he is suspicious, but the current state of the army is unstable, and many military officers are full of resentment. If they are not strictly restrained, they are likely to take out their anger on the surrendered troops.

In half a month, the military officers and Taoists transferred from Guanzhong will arrive. After the two sides are mixed, these military officers promoted in the Hexi War will calm down.

When it was getting dark, his chariot turned south and moved slowly.

But behind me, the sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer. From the frequency of the sound, I knew it was an urgent messenger.

The two messengers also saw the convoy moving slowly on the road ahead. After slowing down and approaching, they shouted to the officers who were intercepting them: "Urgent news from Jingzhou!"

Soon this urgent report from Zhou Yu was delivered to the carriage by Yang Fu. Black Bear personally checked the ink to see if it was intact, and then Yang Fu opened it.

There were fine words written on the two pages. Black Bear held them and read them, with no emotion on his face: "Zhou Yu is anxious."

After folding the two pages of paper and handing them to Yang Fu, Black Bear picked up an orange, peeled it, put the orange flesh with the white fibers still attached into his mouth, and chewed it, feeling the slightly sour sweet taste.

Yang Fu also read quickly, with a look of surprise on his face: "Your Majesty, are you worried about the recurrence of Nanjun?"

"Yes."

Black Bear ate another piece of orange. "It takes five days to get from Nanyang to Chang'an. From Chang'an, we take the Ziwu Road to Hanzhong and then go to Mianzhu. It takes half a month. It's too late to say anything now. It's too late to mobilize troops."

The black bear turned his head to look at the white paper lantern with an expression neither sad nor happy, as if he didn't care at all about the gains and losses of Nanjun and Nanyang.

Yang Fu didn't even notice any subtle expression or reaction of anger. At this moment, he just felt as if he was standing in front of a riverbank or a hillside that was about to collapse.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Fu whispered, "Your Majesty, if you take Yizhou, you will not be able to rest assured in the southeast, and you will naturally compete with Jingxiang. Zhou Yu and Fu Xun acted on their own, and they were just taking the initiative. If Nanjun can be taken away by Pang Tong, it means that after Liu Biao's death, Liu Qi will not be able to hold Nanjun."

"Yishan doesn't need to explain to them."

Black Bear's face showed some impatience: "Liu Qi is the governor of Nanjun after all. He is the king. The people of Nanjun betrayed Liu Qi and welcomed Pang Tong. This is inherently immoral. Now Zhou Yu forced Liu Qi to resign on the grounds of mourning. How could the people of Nanjun welcome the new governor as Zhou Yu expected?"

"Perhaps he thinks that if I take Yizhou, the four counties in southern Jing can be conquered by issuing an edict. If the four counties in southern Jing are like this, the southern counties will not dare to cause trouble or rebel. But Liu Qi has lived in Jingxiang for more than ten years. Although he is weak, he is loved by the people of Jingxiang! If he forces Liu Qi to resign, the people of Jingxiang will definitely be dissatisfied!"

As he spoke, Black Bear smashed the half orange in his hand to the ground: "Liu Qi is a local lord after all. It is really too much for Zhou Yu and Fu Xun to bully him like this!"

Yang Fu was stunned. He took a cloth from the carriage shelf and squatted down to wipe the oranges that had been smashed into a puddle of water.

After wiping it clean, Yang Fu persuaded him, "Liu Qi is not talented enough, so it may be a good thing for him to leave the troubled Nanjun."

Black Bear tilted his head and looked at Yang Fu: "I know Liu Qi is soft-hearted and easy to bully, but what about Liu Bei! I can't bear to humiliate Liu Qi, how dare Zhou Yu do this! After all, Liu Qi has done me a favor, and the people of Jingxiang also think so. Liu Qi ended up like this, and I am still angry and ashamed, what will the people of Jingxiang think?"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Black Bear stood up and paced back and forth in the carriage: "I'm not his Sun Bofu, and he's not my childhood friend!"

I was so angry that my liver hurt. It was the first time I felt so angry that my stomach and heart ached.

Black Bear took more than ten breaths to adjust his state: "Since he wants to fight, let him fight. I want to see what he can do." Yang Fu dared not speak, and was a little bit unbelievable: "Your Majesty, do you think Zhou Yu will lose?"

"What do you say?"

Black Bear asked back angrily, waving his hand to signal Yang Fu not to speak again, and said weakly: "If I put myself in his position, what I would see is countless enemies inside and outside! It is easy to defeat the enemy in front of you, but it is difficult to defeat the enemy within!"

Yang Fu listened with half belief and half doubt, and didn't want to say anything more.

There is a limit to one's temper. If he continues to procrastinate, he will sooner or later have to bear the consequences of what he has been brewing tonight.

After Yang Fu left, Black Bear controlled Lu Bu to stand up and close the sliding door.

He picked up the two pages of letter again and read them, feeling that they were full of provocation and malice towards him.

This must be a temptation!
If I don't cooperate, will these people dare to mess things up?
After thinking about it, he picked up a pen and wrote down the next daily arrangements, preparing to allocate manpower to repair the plank road.

The mountain people in Taihang Mountains in later generations spent decades digging corridors and tunnels that could accommodate cars, so it should be possible here as well.

Even though there are differences in geology and stone hardness, they are all stones and cannot withstand fire or water.

Find something for the people of Yizhou to do, so that they don't have to worry about nothing.

Repairing the road to Hanzhong would naturally facilitate Yizhou's sale of Shu brocade to the north and west; it would also strengthen control over Yizhou.

After he calmed down, Black Bear controlled the chariot to slowly stop, and the more than 300 riders holding torches that were accompanying the chariot also stopped.

The battalion commander who led the team rode up to the carriage and asked, "Your Majesty?"

"Turn around and return to Jiange."

"Here!"

The camp commander immediately ordered the knights to spread torches to both sides of the road to provide lighting to facilitate the turning of the giant chariots.

Yang Fu also felt the change in the chariot's direction and sat in his seat with his eyes closed to rest.

There are fixed seats on both sides of the carriage, and there are many seats next to Yang Fu, all of which are Huangge secretaries.

Most of them were sitting or lying down to take a nap. Apart from the two secretaries on duty who were still copying the files, there was no one else.

The third carriage was loaded with heavy armor, bows, crossbows, spears, halberds and other weapons, and the last two carriages were filled with two groups of golden-armored guards.

Yang Fu closed his eyes. This was the first time he saw a black bear so angry.

The more obvious this anger became, the more Yang Fu felt that the other party was a normal person, a living person, and the initial feeling of awe gradually subsided.

But anger is the most damaging to reason. If we are controlled by anger, everyone will be unlucky and suffer.

For some reason, Yang Fu began to worry about Zhou Yu and Fu Xun.

Worried that they would mess things up and interrupt the good situation.

He was even more worried that Black Bear would do whatever it took to vent Liu Qi's anger... Not to mention Liu Qi, even Liu Bei and his gang were somewhat annoying in Yang Fu's eyes at the moment.

Yang Fu felt helpless. If nothing unexpected happened, he would soon be sent to be a county magistrate.

Being ranked among the two thousand stones is certainly important, but how can it compare to the present?

(End of this chapter)