Seeing such a scene, Meng You's eyes moistened. He said, "Look, our soldiers don't want to fight at all. How can we win this army and the generals as enemies?"
Meng Huo sighed, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Meng You said, "Should I say that my brother would listen?"
Meng Huo sighed and said, "Daddy tells me to keep this foundation well at the end of his life. Don't think about fighting, but I just don't listen. Now, oh, it's too late to regret!"
Meng You said: "My eldest brother has persuaded you many times, but you just refused to listen. The eldest brother became angrily and went into seclusion. If I persuade you again, wouldn't it be the same as elder brother."
Meng Huo nodded, raised his head, and said to Liu Xun: "Eight captures and eight strokes are unprecedented. Although I am an outsider, I still know the courtesy and the word shame." After speaking, Meng Huo turned over. Kneeling down, kneeling down on the ground, stripping his upper body naked, and apologizing for his guilt. He said: "The general's great grace will never be forgotten. From now on, my tribe will be attached to the lord, and will no longer deceive the southern and central tribes of the mausoleum. Rebelled against the general."
Liu Xun smiled and said, "Meng Huo, are you convinced this time?"
Meng Huo said sincerely: "There are many tiger generals under the lord's account, and Zhuge Liang, a military strategist, has a brilliant plan. And the general is benevolent and righteous, I am convinced!"
Liu Xun sighed and said: "This general just sighed to hear you. I ran for nearly a thousand miles from north to south, and my life almost ran away. But I can hear you, a healthy man. , Is still very worthwhile. To tell the truth, I am also very convinced by you. It is not terrible to lose. It is rare to have repeated defeats and repeated defeats. This makes me sincerely admire."
Meng Huo didn't expect that the general he had hated would admire him, an enemy who had been arrested eight times. Hearing his sincere words, it was not like being perfunctory, but even more moved, and said, "Thank you, General!"
Liu Xun said: "We don't know each other, we have life-long friendship, although we keep our necks unchanged!"
Meng Huo couldn't help nodding when he heard the words, tears filled his eyes, and said, "Although the neck remains unchanged!"
Liu Xun laughed and said, "You're done, you're done!"
A few days later, Liu Xun celebrated with a wine in Sanjiang City, guessing a coin during the banquet, and everyone enjoyed it. Halfway through the wine, a rattan soldier holding a large wooden box, came to the front of Wutugu, and respectfully handed it over. Wu Tugu readily took it, waved the soldier to retreat, opened the lid of the box, stretched out his hand, and said, "General, this is a soft armor made of Chinese mountain rattan. It is extremely soft, no different from your inner robe. , Can be worn next to the body. After putting it on, you will not be afraid of cutting with swords and spears. It is really a self-defense weapon. This armor is made by a master tailor of the previous generation, and it is only one piece in the country. Well, the special messenger rushed back to the country to fetch it and dedicated it to the general." After speaking, he respectfully handed the wooden box to the servant behind him.
The servant put the wooden box on the case. Liu Xun looked down and saw that inside the box was a golden short-sleeved gown. Lifting it up, the hand was very light and the texture was soft. Baby, said: "There is only one in the Great Kingdom. How can I be embarrassed to accept such an expensive gift?"
Wu Tugu said: "The general can obviously use fire to wipe out our army, but he can't bear to do it. I have never seen such a benevolent and righteous person. I am grateful to the general for his great kindness for his life. What is the soft armor worth? If the general doesn't accept it, I will kneel down." After speaking, I knelt to the ground before the case.
It turned out that when Wu Tu Gu was captured, he was very stubborn and refused to give in. Pang Tong led him to the food truck, pointing his finger at the food truck, and said to him that only the upper layer in the food truck was actually made of grain and grass, and the rest were flammable materials such as sulfur. If Lei Duangukou was attacked with fire instead of poisoned water, all 30,000 people would be burned to death in the valley in less than an hour. Of course, Wu Tugu knew that the vine armor was not afraid of knives and guns, but was afraid of fire, and was speechless when he heard the words.
Liu Xun hurriedly rushed forward to help him up, and laughed: "Don't do this, okay, I will accept it."
After drinking three rounds, Zhuge Liang, who was sitting in the banquet room, said, "General Meng Huo, I heard that seven or forty-nine heads are used to worship Kunming Lake every year. What's the reason?"
Meng Huo put down the wine lord, sighed deeply, and said, "I can't do the Lord for this sacrifice. The sacrifices are all decided by the local wizards and elders. I can't intervene. ."
What Meng Huo said made Meng You suddenly think of something. He said: "Not only that, the wizards and elders colluded every year to excuse the sacrifices and uncle Hu's wife to collect taxes from the common people to search for money, and the money collected was several million. Money, but they only use two or three hundred thousand of them to marry Uncle Hu's wife, and the wizard will share the remaining money with his men and take them home. When it comes time to marry Uncle Lake's wife, The witch inspected the beautiful woman in the small family and said, "This woman is suitable to be He Bo's wife." She immediately gave her a bride price to marry. Give her a bath and wash her hair, make her a new silk floral dress, and let her live and bathe alone. Fasting; and for this, I made a house for her to live and fast by the river, and put up red-yellow and red silk tents. The woman lived there and provided her with cattle, sheep, and pork. After more than half a month, everyone again decorated and decorated the bed pillow mat that looked like a married daughter, let the woman sit on it, and then floated it into the river. At first it floated on the water, and it sank after several tens of miles. ."
"Unreasonable!" When Liu Xun heard that such a thing happened, he threw the wine lord in his hand and smashed his fist on the case in front of him. He said sharply, "Meng Huo, as the leader of the South Central Region, the army is in your hands. As long as you want to control, how can you not control it!"
Meng Huo had never seen Liu Xun so severe. Seeing Liu Xun’s fierce gaze, he was trembling with fright, and said, "The general is not angry, but I don’t want to worry about it. The general does not know that the local wizards represent the gods. The will, so everyone believes in wizards. I can’t shake them. Besides, there is collusion between elders and wizards. The reputation of elders is so high that I can hardly shake them!"
Meng You sighed and said, "Those people with beautiful women are worried that Da Wu will marry them for Hu Bo, so most of them took their daughters and fled away. Because of this, the city is becoming more and more empty. This situation has been going on for a long time since the beginning. The common saying among the common people is that if you don’t marry a wife for Huber, the flood will flood and drown all the common people. Everyone is both. Suspicion and trust, hate and helplessness, so this rule has been passed down."
After Meng You finished speaking, the audience was silent, sighing.
Military strategist Zhuge Liang asked: "When is the sacrifice to Uncle Hu and his wife married?"
Meng You replied: "The second rainy season in March every year. That is two days later."
Liu Xun looked at Kong Ming's confident eyes and knew that he had a countermeasure, so he smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Kong Ming is already in his mind. This matter is left to you."
Zhuge Liang took the order happily, and then said: "Meng You sent people to notify the wizard and elder. When it comes to marrying a wife to Uncle Hu, I hope that the elder and wizard will go to Kunming Lake to send the bride. I also want to send this woman off."
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On the day of marrying a wife for Uncle Lake, Zhuge Liang went to Kunming Lake to meet the elders and wizards. The leaders, officials, wealthy and powerful people, and local elders of tribes in the southern and central regions will also gather here. There are also 10,000 or 20,000 people watching the excitement. That witch is an old woman, over sixty years old. There were a dozen female disciples who followed, all wearing silk singles, standing behind the old witch.
Seeing that everyone was there, Zhuge Liang said, "Call Bo Hu's wife to come over. Let me see if she is pretty or not."
People were puzzled, but they still helped the woman out of the curtain and walked to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang looked at the woman, then turned around and said to the elders, wizards, and elders: "This woman is not beautiful. Uncle Huber must be very dissatisfied. Trouble the great wizard sends a disciple for me to Kunming Lake to report to Uncle Huber. I need to find a beautiful woman again and send it to him a few days later."
Zhuge Liang gave an order, and the wizard and the elder did not react. The two Han soldiers picked up a disciple of the wizard and threw her into the river.
After a while, Zhuge Liang said to the witch, "Why hasn't your disciple come back for so long? Send another disciple to urge her!" So he threw one of her disciples into the river. After a while, Zhuge Liang said: "Why is this disciple for so long? Send another person to urge them!" So he threw another disciple into the river. A total of three disciples were thrown.
After waiting for a long time, there was no movement on the surface of the lake. Zhuge Liang said, "Wizard, these disciples of yours are all little women, so they have no experience and cannot explain things clearly. Ask the wizard to explain the situation for me." So he threw the wizard into the river again. . With a hairpin in his hat, Zhuge Liang held a feather fan, bent over, respectfully, and stood facing Kunming Lake for a long time. The elders, the third elders, and others were all panicked and frightened.
Zhuge Liang said, "What should I do if the witch and witch's disciples are not coming back?" He wanted to send another elder or three elders to the lake to urge them. When these people heard it, they were shocked, knowing that it was going or not. They were so scared that they kowtow on the ground, and they knocked their heads to pieces. The blood on their foreheads shed all over the ground, and their faces looked like dead gray. The color is like dead ashes.
Zhuge Liang sighed, pretending to say: "Well, let's stay and wait for them for a while."
After a while, Zhuge Liang saw that the time was right, so he said: "It seems that the dream that Uncle Hu gave me yesterday is true."
The elder wiped the blood and sweat from his face and asked, "Excuse me, what did Uncle Hu tell the military division?"
Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan and slowly said, "Uncle Hu said. I have already married a lot of wives, and I don't want to marry again. If you don't believe me, you can go to the lake and ask!"
The elders and the onlookers said one after another: "Believe, believe!"
Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to say: "All future sacrificial activities will be presided over by sacrificial officers appointed by the general. Anyone who violates the regulations will be thrown into Kunming Lake. In addition, the use of human heads is too bloody. We will use beef, mutton and flour in the future. The steamed buns come to offer sacrifices."
After speaking, Zhuge Liang waved his big hand and eight soldiers brought a basket of steamed buns over. Zhuge Liang worshipped and threw the steamed buns into Kunming Lake one by one...