"Peace without fighting? Let me tell you, Kong Ming, have you taken your medicine today?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang below in confusion. Small ⊙
"Take medicine? My lord, Liang, I have never been sick." As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, he saw Xu Shu's smile next to him, and he immediately realized that this lord was saying that he was sick. It's so angry and funny, you say you are angry, such a second-hand lord, even said in public that his subordinate Minister of the Ministry of Justice is sick again, what kind of mentality is this.
You can laugh, this kind of protagonist is what makes Zhuge Liang feel that the truth is also a feeling of his own, not as polite as others, and feels a kind of hypocrisy.
"My lord! Originally, Liang advocated that the lord should send troops to attack Jiangdong. That's because with Jiangdong, Jiangdong's people's support and Jiangdong's soldiers, my Yangzhou army will have one more elite, but now Jiangdong, hehe! The hearts of the people have been lost, and they are extremely poor, do you really want a Jiangdong like my lord?" Zhuge Liang said with a smile to Liu Mang, the people of Jiangdong now have a deep hatred for the Yangzhou Army, and seven or eight villages have been slaughtered. If it was just the massacre of the village, then it would be nothing, but being coaxed by those who cared, coupled with civil disturbances, the tyranny of the Yangzhou Army spread all over Jiangdong in a short while.
Just like Liu Daer spread rumors about Liu Mang in Yuzhou when he was in Yuzhou, making the Yangzhou army a butcher. In this way, any common people who dare to surrender will naturally have to fight to the end.
This is the case in Jiangdong now. The people have basically lost their favor with the Yangzhou Army. Now that the Yangzhou Army has sent troops to attack Jiangdong, not to mention consuming a lot of manpower and material resources to fight it down. Governance is also an issue. We can't really station 30,000 elite soldiers and horses near Kuaiji like Sun Ce did back then. This pay is completely out of proportion to what you get, so who will do it.
"Could it be that Jiang Dong just let him recover slowly?" Liu Mang was dissatisfied. He finally beat Jiang Dong Sun Ce like a dead dog. will be a disaster.
"Hehe, my lord, if we don't attack Jiangdong, someone will help us deal with our little overlord." Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up.
"En?" Liu Mang frowned, and someone else helped them deal with Jiangdong Sun Ce? Jiangdong Sun Ce's nearby enemies are himself and Liu Biao from Jingzhou. Although it is said that the two had the feud of killing their father, it was Liu Biao who killed Sun Ce's father, not Sun Ce who killed Liu Biao's father. If Liu Biao's strength had not been lost or his strength had greatly increased, it is still possible to annex Sun Ce. Now Even Jingzhou himself can't protect himself, so who else does he want to attack
"It's not Liu Biao of Jingzhou. The person who helped us get rid of our little overlord is in this Jiangdong." Zhuge Liang said with a smile, "This person is our little overlord's younger brother, the second son of Jiangdong, Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou." Zhuge Liang faced Liu Mang spoke.
"Sun Quan. Sun Zhongmou? Isn't he imprisoned? How could he help us?" Liu Mang didn't understand. The coup d'état of Sun Quan, the second son of Jiangdong, had completely failed and now he has been imprisoned by his brother Sun Ce. I'm in jail. It's hard to protect themselves, but can they help Yangzhou deal with Jiangdong
"Hehe, Guan Jin can still come out!" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.
"So what can we do if we come out? Alone? How can our second grandson deal with his elder brother alone?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang.
"Our second grandson is not alone." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang, "On the contrary, the power of the people behind our second grandson is even greater than our Lord of Jiangdong."
Is there someone in Jiangdong who is more powerful than Sun Ce? Isn't this a joke? Liu Mang is ready to continue to spray our Mr. Zhuge Kongming and let him go back to take medicine. But Xu Shu next to him spoke first.
"Kong Ming, do you mean those Jiangdong gentry?" Xu Shu saw it much more clearly than Liu Wei. In a state, those who can be more powerful than the lord are naturally those noble families. Of course, it is impossible for a family or two to fight against the lord of a state, but if these five families, ten or even twenty families Woolen cloth.
The gentry has never stopped since the beginning of feudal society. These gentry can even determine the life and death of a dynasty. Wasn't the establishment of the Li and Tang Dynasties because of the closing of the nobles
In Jingzhou, the top three of the Huang family, the Cai family, and the Kuai family can unite and send our Lord Liu Biao back to his hometown.
Among Jiangdong, this gang of Jiangdong gentry is still very powerful.
"Kong Ming, how do you know that the second son of the grandson can escape from birth, and how do you know that the gentry in Jiangdong will support the second son?" Liu Mang has a lot of questions. Zhuge Liang's intelligence is better than his. The protagonist of the group needs to be detailed.
"Haha! My lord, my elder brother told me all of this." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang with a smile.
"Your brother? Zhuge Jin?" Liu Mang was surprised. Although Liu Mang didn't know much about this Zhuge Jin, he knew that he was also a kind of loyal person. Now, he will not betray.
"Could it be that Mr. Zhugejin wants to take refuge with me in Yangzhou? If that's the case, the king will definitely welcome him." Liu Mang also thought that Zhugejin could be an official in Yangzhou, not to mention Zhugejin's ability, but to say that this person is Zhuge Liang My eldest brother, with Zhuge Jin here, let this Zhuge evildoer be embarrassed again.
"My lord, you have misunderstood. My elder brother is still a loyal minister of our Marquis Wu, at least for now!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said to Liu Mang that the reason why Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang parted ways was not only because of their political opinions. In addition to the disagreement, there is another reason that these gentry know a truth, that is, eggs will never be put in the same basket. If Zhuge Liang loses, then at most Zhuge Liang’s lineage will be wiped out, absolutely not If Zhuge Jin was involved, Zhuge Liang would just cry if Zhuge Jin was destroyed. This can ensure that the Zhuge family will continue to pass on.
"Then how did you know about Kong Ming?" Liu Mang was even more surprised, and you said that your elder brother told you, and that your elder brother was a loyal minister to the Marquis of Wu. What the hell is going on.
"My lord. Please also read my brother's letter." Zhuge Liang said as he took out the letter from Zhuge Jin to Zhuge Liang from his pocket.
Liu Mang looked over. There is nothing on it, except for greetings, there are some entrustments, at most, some brothers have been busy recently, and he, Zhuge Jin, has been promoted to an official.
"What can these explain?" Liu Mang didn't understand. Isn't this just an ordinary family letter, everyone knows how to write it.
"Hehe, the lord's letter tells us too much. At least I can figure out that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce didn't surrender to me at all. Yangzhou's heart can be seen from my brother's family letter. " Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.
"Hehe!" Liu Mang was a little embarrassed to mention this matter. Indeed, if Liu Mang had listened to Zhuge Liang's words, he would not be in this state now. But now it is impossible to save, so Liu Mang can only admit it by gritting his teeth.
"Please look, my lord, my eldest brother told me that he has no time due to his busy schedule!"
"Is this how you see that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce have no intention of surrendering?" Liu Mang asked suspiciously
"Of course, my lord, if you say that the lord of a state has surrendered, once he surrenders, everything has nothing to do with him, do you think the Jiangdong officials will be busy?" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang thought about it and it was true. If a company is to be fully taken over by others, then everything in this company has nothing to do with the former boss. How could the former boss think about helping the new boss
"But what if Mr. Zhuge Jin is a rigorous person?" Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang. There are really people with a deep sense of responsibility. Even if they want to leave a position, they must do everything well, even if It was the minute before the day before, and he was going all out.
"Hehe, my elder brother does have this possibility! But my lord, don't forget, if my elder brother wants to be busy, he must have something to do? It's really not easy for him to be busy as a newly appointed ambassador." Jiang Dong It can be said that it is basically abandoned, and some small things can be handled by grassroots officials, and there is no need for Zhuge Jin, the ambassador, to do it.
"So the only thing he can be busy with must be a major event. What is the lord Jiangdong most lacking now?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang.
"The most lacking thing?" Liu Mang frowned. "The most lacking thing should be the army!" Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang nodded, "It's true that what Jiangdong lacks most now is an army, and if you want to build an army, you must have money and food, and my elder brother should be busy with money and food. As for where the money and food come from." Zhuge Liang smiled and said nothing.
"Jiangdong is already impoverished, and the rich are those gentry!" If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu wanted to get money and food, they had to suck blood from behind the gentry, as well as the pensions of those soldiers who died in battle. money.
This number must not be in Xiaoshu, so this gang of gentry will be in trouble.
And if these gentry want not to be sucked by Sun Ce, there is only one possibility, and that is to change the lord.
In the past, these gentry might not have dared, but it is different now. In the past, it was because Sun Ce had 100,000 armored men in Jiangdong, but now, Sun Ce has 10,000 people around him. The gentry suck blood, it depends on whether these gentry are willing or not.
Because the gentry also has the capital to fight with the lord. And don't forget that there is another piece of news, that is, who was our original Jiangdong envoy? It was our Lord Zhang Zhaozhang. Beat Zhang Zhao back to Xudu, which is tantamount to letting the Zhang family give up everything and start over in Xudu.
What's more, it was introduced by Marquis Wu and Sun Ce. If you go to Xudu, people will definitely brand you as Jiangdong. Everyone may think that you are Sun Ce's spy.
"The little overlord Sun Ce wants money and food to build an army! The impoverished Jiangdong can only get it from those gentry, those gentry are unwilling, they don't want to be sucked by Sun Ce, then they have only one way to go! Change the lord!" Liu Mang seemed to suddenly Got it.
"But they changed their lord, why didn't they consider our Yangzhou!" Liu Mang said a little depressed, Sun Ce can't do it, you can come to Yangzhou, right, Yangzhou is also a good place. Liu Mang is also a good protagonist.
"Haha, my lord. You may be a wise master, but you are not a good person in the eyes of those Jiangdong gentry." Zhuge Liang teased Liu Mang.
"Hmph!" Liu Mang snorted coldly, he naturally knew that his image in the eyes of the Jiangdong gentry was a butcher, a greedy butcher, even worse than Sun Ce's image in the eyes of the Jiangdong gentry, because Liu Mang killed more than a dozen gentry families in Wancheng, and even killed the family members who brought the private soldiers of those gentry families.
Later, what Liu Mang implemented in Yangzhou was that the land belonged to the conquest. All land sales can only be sold to the government, which frightened our Jiangdong gentry even more.
Each of their families has a lot of land, tens of thousands of acres of land, if you take all these lands for him, what else can he use to make money, you must know that this land tax is occupied among their assets More than half of it.
Food is even more valuable in troubled times. This is their iron rice bowl. If you smash their rice bowl, they will certainly not be polite to you.
So for the Jiangdong gentry, although Sun Ce is a blood sucker. But at least it can give people a way to survive, and our Master Liu Mang is different. It's directly cutting off the people's money. If they don't fight with you, it's a ghost.
"Okay, okay! It's not that I didn't compensate them, I bought the fields with money!" Liu Mang said to his subordinates, but all his subordinates rolled their eyes. Did you sell them with money?
Yangzhou was originally a land without an owner, and it was occupied by you. You killed all the owners in Lujiang, such as Xinye, Yuzhou, etc., because you were afraid that your highness, the King of Shu, would move away one by one. Where is there a piece of land? It was bought by Your Highness the King of Shu.
Liu Mang also seemed to know that he had said something wrong, but it didn't matter. Over the years, Liu Mang had developed a thick-skinned habit.
"So what should we do now according to Kong Ming's intention?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang beside him.
"If nothing else, we can just wait." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.
"Do nothing?" Liu Mang frowned, it's not Liu Mang's style to do nothing and wait here.
"If the lord really wants to do it, that's okay. That's to send an envoy to Jiangdong to make peace." Liu Mang found out that he was tricked by Zhuge Liang. What do you mean I really want to do it? Obviously you dug a hole for me You dance well.
"Sure!" Liu Mang nodded, and was about to ask his subordinates to send envoys to Jiangdong to make peace with that Jiangdong Sun Ceyan.
"My lord, don't forget to bring ten thousand shi of grain and grass!" Zhuge Liang continued to say to Liu Mang.
"Bring food and grass?" Liu Reck frowned. "Why bring food and grass?" Liu Mang was already very upset by making peace with Jiang Dong, and giving back food and grass to Jiang Dong was just helping the enemy? You must know that what Sun Ce lacks the most is food and grass.
"My lord, doesn't my lord want your official secretary anymore?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang with a smile.
Only then did Liu Mang remember that his Minister of the Ministry of Officials, our good man, the honest Master Lu Sulu, is still in Jiangdong.
"He, Sun Ce, dares to detain Zijing?" Liu Mang asked with a frown. The two countries are at war and the envoy has not yet been killed. It is good for Sun Ce to be an enemy of himself, but you can't keep Liu Mang's envoy.
"My lord, what do you think of Zijing's talent?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang.
"I have a respectful son, and a great cause can be expected." Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang. Of course, these words are too much. Although Lu Su is a talent, he has not yet reached the point where Liu Mang must be Lu Su. Liu Mang praised Lu Su, Lu Su's talent may be a bit difficult to govern a country, but it is more than enough for a state, and Zijing can do it like a fish in water for a bureaucracy.
"My lord, you can see Zijing's talent, so don't you think that Zhou Yu can't see it?" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang. Although Zhuge Liang's words are not pleasant to listen to, you can tell what it means, and Liu Mang's feelings are worse than others.
"Didn't he see it at the beginning?" Liu Mang said unconvinced.
"At the beginning, it was because Zhou Yu was busy with Jiang Xia's affairs." Sun Ce went south to attack Lujiang and took away tens of thousands of elites. Zhou Yu only had 40,000 people on the ground, but he wanted to suppress Jiang Xia's navy with 70,000 people. The pressure was overwhelming. It's really not young, so naturally I can't take care of Lu Su.
Later, Lu Su was defeated, and Zhou Yu was even more difficult to speak for Lu Su. Later, our second son Sun brought Lu Su to Yangzhou, and our Shu King Liu Mang took advantage of it.
But now it is different. Jiangdong is very depressed now. Naturally, Lu Su's talent and Zhou Yu would not let it go. If Lu Su joins Jiangdong again, Jiangdong's strength is really not to be underestimated.
This Zhou Yu and Sun Ce will not kill Lu Su, but you have nothing to do to keep Lu Su.
"With 10,000 grain and grass, he, Sun Ce, is willing to let him go?" Liu Mang frowned. In Liu Mang's heart, Lu Su was worth a million, and with 10,000 stone grain and grass, do you think he sent beggars away? In the peaceful and prosperous age, 10,000 stones of grain and grass would only cost four to five hundred gold.
"Hehe, my lord. This food is usually not suitable for your appetite, but if you are hungry, it will be really delicious. Ten thousand stones, hehe, even if Zhou Yu is not willing, he, Sun Ce, will happily respect you It was sent back to us!" Zhuge Liang said with a sneer, "What's more, the master's ten thousand stones are not just for redeeming Zijing."
"Huh? Is this ten thousand stones worth so much?" One Lu Su is worth a million, and seeing Zhuge Liang's intentions, he can exchange it for other things.
"My lord. If this Sun Ce has money and food to form an army, who do you think is the greatest threat?"
Yangzhou is naturally impossible. If there is great harm to Yangzhou, Zhuge Liang will not send it away. The biggest threat is naturally our second son Sun and the gentry group behind him. Once Sun Ce's soldiers and horses are formed, they are still playing a fart. Hurry up and go back wherever you came from. So Liu Mang's ten thousand grains to Sun Ce did not aggravate Jiangdong's strength, but aggravated Jiangdong's internal friction.
"Haha, if that's the case, I'll give Sun Ce 20,000 shi." Liu Mang is very generous, he doubled it to 20,000 shi. Let our second grandson be more anxious.
"My lord, there's no need for that!" Zhuge Liang shook his head. Ten thousand shi, hehe, it is naturally a wealthy family for the common people, but it is really a drop in the bucket to be put into the army. This ten thousand shi can make him Sun Ce and Sun Bo Fu salivated, and it could also make Sun Ce and Sun Bofu hungry and make him weak. It would be bad if it was given too much and the difference in strength between the two brothers would increase.
'Okay, if that's the case, where is Yang Hong! "Liu Mang nodded and began to issue orders to the Yangzhou Wenwu below.
"The old minister is here!" Yang Hong stepped forward and cupped his fists at Liu Mang.
"Yang Hong, let your Ministry of Foreign Affairs send envoys to Jiangdong to make peace with the Marquis of Wu and Sun Ce. Bring 10,000 stones of food and grass, and bring Zijing back to me smoothly!" Liu Mang said to Yang Hiro said.
"My lord, there is no need to send anyone, the old minister will go there in person!" Yang Hong said to Liu Mang.
"Uncle Hong, do you want to go there in person?" Liu Mang frowned, because Yang Hong is not young anymore, he is much older than Chen Gong, and his body is not good in all aspects. It would be bad if you were sick on the trip to Jiangdong.
For Yang Hong and Liu Wei, he was treated tenderly as a family member, because Yuan Shu, the cheap father-in-law of Yuan Fang's father Liu Wei, died early, so Yang Hong became Yuan Fang's only relative, and Yuan Fang took Yang Hong As the second father, Liu Mang naturally has a good relationship with Yang Hong, and he calls him Uncle Hong.
"My lord, the dog is still in Jiangdong! I, a father, don't worry about it." Yang Hong said to Liu Mang.
"Yang Chen?" Liu Mang seemed to know the name.
"Exactly, Quanzi followed Lu Shangshu to protect Lu Shangshu's safety." Yang Hong said, "It's just that he failed to complete the task, and he was still trapped in Jiangdong."
"Uncle Hong, after Yang Chen comes back, let him come to me to listen to the order." Liu Wei said to Yang Hong, to come to Liu Wei to listen to the order, even though Liu Wei didn't give any official position, but this sentence is already worthwhile. Liancheng, even being a personal guard by Liu Mang's side will have a bright future. For example, Guan Hai and Zhou Cang, although they don't command the army, their status in the army is not inferior to anyone .
"The old minister thanked the lord on behalf of the dog, but the lord, the dog is used to being wild, and may not be used to staying by the lord's side!"
"En?" Yang Hong actually refused, Liu Wei was a little puzzled, this is a great future for your son, no matter how many people want it, they can't get it.
"Haha! My lord is my lord, my father's father is a talented man." It was Xu Shu's words next to him that made Liu Mang understand. It's not that Yang Hong didn't want Yang Chen to come to Liu Mang's side, but Yang Hong thought that he My son is not capable enough now, and it will be a vase when he is next to the lord, so it is better to practice hard outside and have talent before returning to Liu Mang to listen to orders.
"So everything is up to you!" Liu Mang also shook his head with a smile. (to be continued..)
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