Volume Four, Chapter 20, Voyage Countdown
Sun Ce of Jiangdong was a guy who was unwilling to surrender. Especially when he was a teenager, Lu Bu left him a deep psychological shadow. The shame of being captured back then made him want to defeat Lu Bu on the battlefield to prove his ability.
Zhou Yu's idea was similar. But he was more stable than Sun Ce. Faced with the split situation within the Jiangdong Group, he knew that this situation could not be unified in the fight. Running day and night among the undecided people, Zhou Yu finally reached a temporary consensus within the group with his and Sun Ce's personal charm: alliance, strategy of watching the battle, waiting for the opportunity. If the three Taozi brothers showed resistance, then alliance; if the Taozi brothers were vulnerable, or their performance was obviously to protect themselves and let Jiangdong die, then Jiangdong would never get involved. The blades rose together, and Jingzhou saw that Jiangdong refused to help, so he could only resist by himself. Jingzhou's soldiers were useless and the generals were brave. But they could not resist the gathering of powerful men and advisers in Bingzhou, and Hua Tuo, a historical cheating machine.
Faced with the resistance of the Jingzhou army, the Bingzhou army adopted the "car hanging tactic". It was to divide the 200,000 infantry army into four teams, commanded by four generals, attacking in turn every day and attack head-on, and not give the Jingzhou army a chance to breathe, but it did not pursue deserters. In addition, the 30,000 light cavalry was divided into hundreds of cavalry teams, three or five hundred men, and broke into the hinterland of Jingzhou, blocked traffic, cut off their contacts, and set fires outside the city from time to time, making the city behind it panic even in broad daylight and dared not go out.
At the same time, the Bingzhou Army also distributed a large number of leaflets. The people were also warm as spring to the captured soldiers. After education, they were released and only told them one thing: the imperial army attacking Jingzhou is now the imperial army, who was in the imperial edict of the emperor to attack Liu Dataozi, who had stolen the power of Jingzhou, pretended to be the royal family, and had no intention of making any other officials. If the military and civilians in Jingzhou resisted, it would be a serious crime of corruption and would suffer; but if the military and civilians in Jingzhou took action to welcome the imperial army, then the army would be exempted from the three-year taxes in various places that voluntarily surrendered. If anyone surrendered in the army, or killed Liu Bei's official generals to surrender, he would be rewarded.
Even if he was afraid of spending money, if this continues, in just one month, the southern county north of the Yangtze River was lost. Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the three brothers Taozi, fled to Changsha, Wuling and Lingling counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and stepped up their inspiration to send troops from Jiangdong. At this time, Jiangdong had no choice. The lips were lost and the teeth were cold, and it would be impossible not to fight. But if you fight, what is the difference between fighting and blocking a car by a mantis arm?
When Sun Ce in Jiangdong wanted to fight against the enemy, Zhou Yu also helped him to consolidate his army, Jiangdong welcomed a strange guest - Cheng Yu. Uncle Cheng still had the same style and mature charm as that of the past. Cheng Yu gave gifts everywhere in the Jiangdong Group in the name of the emperor's reward. It was said that His Majesty the Emperor commended everyone in Jiangdong Group for not being in harmony with Jingzhou, and provided spiritual support and willful encouragement for the court to eliminate the rebels. In order to express the emperor's happiness, the court promoted the people of Jiangdong Group according to the will, and gave "monetary" items from Sun Ce to the Jiangdong family.
Sun Ce was almost disgusted by this sugar-coated cannonball. Not to mention anything else, just a bunch of false titles made him sweat in a cold sweat, let alone those "monetary" items that were obviously cheap.
The emperor would not be so stingy. Then, there is only one answer!
Zhou Yu swore in the name of his grandfather that someone was manipulating it later, and the mastermind behind it was not someone else, but Ye Xiaoyi, who brought his ancestral treasure back.
Cheng Yu is a famous scholar and a high-ranking official. With his kind attitude and kindness and kindness, the masters and party of Jiangdong Group have a great impression of him and strongly opposed Zhou Yu and other pro-war factions. Sun Ce did not want to listen to this, but he was also depressed when he saw Zhou Yu's ancestral treasure taken out by Cheng Yu. He was caught by Lu Bu that year, but Zhou Yu redeemed it with this thing.
For Sun Ce, who is more than a bend, this humiliation is great enough. For Zhou Yu, it is not small. However, Cheng Yu treated this thing as Ye Xiaoyi's private gift and returned it to Zhou Yu. The two handsome guys in Jiangdong cannot say anything bad. And it seems to be giving Sun Ce and Zhou Yu a stairs. Cheng Yu expressed the deep thoughts of the "Court": the official ranks in Jiangdong are customized by the court, and tributes are indispensable every year, and the etiquette that should be available cannot be paid. As for sending Jiangdong people to the court to be officials, it can also be asked, but the court does not interfere with the specific internal affairs of Jiangdong, and Sun Ce will use whoever he likes.
What a perfect idea.
Ye Xiaoyi applauded and cheered for Guo Jia's delayed strategy. This was equivalent to having a small court within Jiangdong, giving all the power to Sun Ce, but Sun Ce admitted it and there was no loss in this way. Sun Ce's Jiangdong Group was completely hesitant. Lu Bu took the opportunity to continue to advance to the rest of Jingzhou and sent the three Taozi brothers back to his grandmother's house. From then on, the "Three Taozi brothers" became history. The orthodox "Uncle Liu" that was already suspicious was also invisible under the halo of Liu Ye, the authentic "Uncle Liu".
After the entire Jingzhou was obtained, Lu Bu did not make any move to force Jiangdong. He raised troops in Jingzhou to appease the people, and then continued to send people to repair the situation with the Jiangdong Group. He also asked the court to enthrone the Xiliang faction to give them actual benefits and official names. Then he led his troops to station next to Shu, forming an encirclement with the two groups of Guanzhong Army and the Xiliang cavalry.
Liu Zhang received a letter from Lu Bu, to be precise, a letter from Guo Jia. The letter advised him to put great cause first and consider it more for the people. Moreover, he was a royal family, and was deeply trusted by His Majesty Emperor Liu Bian. His Majesty hoped to "invite" him back to Yecheng from the difficult Shu area to help Lu Bu preside over the overall situation of the court. Of course, rewards are absolutely no shortage.
Shortly after Liu Zhang received Guo Jia's "corner greetings", the imperial edict also arrived. The emperor praised Liu Zhang in the tone of Liu Bian, praising his father and son for his hard work and great contributions, and guarding such a place to share the worries of the court. Now the situation is very good throughout the Central Plains, so I really hope that Liu Zhang will return to Yecheng to enjoy his happiness and leave the mess to others.
Compared with the war, Liu Zhang chose to escape. He put up a bed and received an order to return to Yecheng, while Lu Bu sent Xu Huang and Xu Rong to Shu. He continued to confront Liangzhou's troops in the north and south to encircle Hanzhong. After arranging the candidates for the remaining people in Jingzhou, he and Guo Jia returned to Jizhou.
Two major events happened in Jizhou. The first thing was that Liu Bian was sick. He was not an ordinary disease, but an infertility. Lu Bu was covered in dark lines when he heard this news. Although Guo Jia was enlightened, he didn't expect it to come so quickly. When they returned to Ye's mansion, they saw Hua Tuo spitting and giving lectures to the imperial doctors. The general idea was to tell them: Infertility is a disease of international difficult and complicated diseases, and there was basically no hope. What everyone can do is to try to supplement nutrition to His Majesty the Emperor, so that Emperor Liu Bian would not play hide-and-seek with the sisters in the harem all day long and eventually die on the woman's belly.
Conspiracy, this is an absolute conspiracy!
Seeing that Hua Tuo was not depressed at all because of the inability to cure the disease, Guo Jia found that this problem was very big. Although he could not think too seriously, Hua Tuo did not do his best to treat Liu Bian. He wanted to ask Ye Xiaoyi about the truth, but seeing that Ye Xiaoyi showed an indifferent attitude towards whether the emperor could have a child, he understood that Ye Xiaoyi was incompetent.
"Instruction? What are you instructing?" Ye Xiaoyi chewed the chicken wings innocently. "You are interested in whether Liu Bian can have a child, so you should care about the old man's younger brother. Alas, uncle is also sick." And it is a disease that cannot be cured. When Ye Xiaoyi talked about "Chen", that is, the old man's twin brother, his appetite immediately decreased.
She wiped off the greasy on her hands and took out a lot of medicine lists from the small box. It was all in Hua Tuo's font. From medicine to diet therapy, the prescriptions that can be found can be found, Hua Tuo made all the ingredients, but "Chen" is still terminally ill day by day. A few days before Lu Bu came back, he could get out of bed and have some food, but these days, he was lying on the bed and waiting for someone to feed him.
"Can't you save me?" Guo Jia and Chen's twin brother had a deep relationship. Although it was not as good as Chen Ji, Chen Chen brothers and Chen Qun, the man's face was very similar to that of the old man. When he met him and Ye Xiaoyi and others, he always felt like he had seen the old man himself, and he placed his grief for the old man on that man. This kind of spiritual comfort always made him and the other five people recall the warm and beautiful time of youth when he was tired.
"Go and have a look. I have sent someone to inform Brother Liao, Fro and others." Ye Xiaoyi sighed at the second major event. She was not only sad about the old man's brother's illness, but also worried that if the old man's brother had a good time, the officials of the court would have to reshuffle it. Because with Chen Qun's personality and Chen Ji and Chen Chen's reputation, all three of them had to go home to mourn.
If Chen Qun went to mourn, then who would fill the vacancy in the court? Is it time to let Liu Ye and other new generations show their strength? But the battle just passed, and the money and food were consumed a lot. I was not ready yet.
Ye Xiaoyi was very worried that things would continue to develop like this. After Cao Cao's battle, she attached more importance to intelligence infiltration. Ye Xuan is now very capable and can really compete with the super agents of the Investigation Bureau and the Intelligence Bureau. According to his return, Chen Qun's brother-in-law Sima Lang has a good relationship with Liu Ye, while Sima Yi and Liu Ye have a close relationship recently.
Liu Ye and the Sima family... Is this a strong alliance? But even if they succeed and get something, how can the Sima family members settle the land when they are divided afterwards? They are really challenging partners.
Ye Xiaoyi was worried for Liu Ye, and for the future of herself and Lu Bu. The development of things was faster than she thought. On the fifteenth day after Lu Bu and Guo Jia returned to Yecheng, the great scholar "Chen Wei" died of illness. The Chen family father and son resigned from office and went home to mourn. When scholars from all walks of life heard the news, they also came from all over the country to pay their respects. For a time, celebrities from all over the world poured into Yecheng, Jizhou, with as many as 50,000 scholars...
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Chapter completed!