In the evening of the same day, the potters set up a big banquet in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, and the famous civil and military generals in the whole Pengcheng came to participate.

Although the power of the potters is growing, such feasts are generally very rare.

Tao Gongzi actively responded to the call for thrift and thrift.

But no matter how diligent and thrifty you are, sometimes you should engage in team building, eating and drinking is just a situation, the important thing is to improve the morale of these civil and military generals, so that everyone can find motivation and centripetal force.

The banquets of the Han Dynasty were relatively easier to deal with than those of later generations, and the formal occasions of this year were not eaten around a large table, but each sat on the couch, each person had a small low table, and the dishes were also divided into separate meals.

Although it has been more than six years since he traveled back, the potter is still very unaccustomed to it, and this way of eating feels similar to eating KFC or McDonald's in a fast food restaurant in the previous life, except that in the later life, he eats fried chicken burgers, and in this life, he eats roe deer venison.

Xu Chu and Xu Shi Hanniang, as the first meritorious ministers, were arranged at the head of the ranks of military generals.

Xu Chu is a local Xiaohaoqiang in Qian County, although he is a close confidant of a pottery merchant, but his status in Xuzhou has not been high, and to put it bluntly, he is not a scholar.

However, this is not what it used to be, after the two husband and wife fought against Zulang, coupled with the intentional support of the pottery merchants, the Xu family finally began to step into the top aristocratic circle, although they are still not nobles, but at least they are considered wealthy.

In addition to the dishes, sake is indispensable, and the graceful local maiko and musicians are indispensable.

It was a very cheerful feast.

Xu Chu has been in the army these days, restrained by the military order, and Xu Hanniang is in charge, he has never drunk, and now that he has a chance, he finally let himself go.

Xu Chu drank so many meat and vegetables that he couldn't even straighten his tongue, and when everyone asked him about the military expedition this time, he was also drunk and loose-eyed, and he could only babble and repeat two words...... "drink" and "drink".

Xu Hanniang looked at Xu Chu's bear-like dog meat, and hated to beat him at the banquet.

For the sake of the face of the potters and everyone, she gritted her teeth and endured it.

Just wait to get home and wait for this bastard to sober up, and then pick him up.

However, there are some things at the moment, Xu Hanniang still has to explain to everyone led by the potter.

Xu Hanniang said to the pottery merchant: "Taifu, although Zulang has been destroyed, but after our exploration and inquiry on this expedition, we learned that now in the mountains of our Jiangdong, there are still a lot of thieves who are ready to move, gather the mountain people, and intend to sit big, among which the more famous ones are Pan Lin, Fei Zhan, Mao Gan, Jin Qi and other Shanyue Qu Shuai, all of them are strong and strong, and they will inevitably become a disaster after a long time, although they are not as famous as Zu Lang now, but they still need to ask Taifu to make a plot as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble to Jiangdong in the future." ”

Xu Hanniang went on an expedition once, and she was able to explore the Shanyue situation in Wu so clearly, which really made the potters feel very admired.

Regardless of whether the mother-in-law is fierce or not, with this exquisite mind alone, Xu Hanniang can be regarded as Xu Chu's virtuous helper.

The potter drank another glass of wine and asked the people: "What Mrs. Xu said is very important, Shanyue seems to be unpleasant, but in fact it is very important, if the rear of Jiangdong is unstable, it will have a great impact on our army's future war on the northern front. ”

Chen Deng stood up and said to Tao Shang: "Dealing with the Shanyue sect thieves is not the same as the Baiyue in the south, blindly countering the rebellion and suppressing the bandits is by no means a long-term way, I am afraid that it is peaceful and reversed, and it is necessary to have a capable person with both wisdom and strategy to preside over the overall situation, or recruit, or caressing, or suppressing, all depending on the situation, and the cover can not sit and talk." ”

Tao Shang looked at Chen Deng with a smile and said: "Such a talent, I'm afraid that only Brother Yuanlong or Fengxiao can be a talent." ”

Chen Dengchang sighed and said, "I also want to solve the repeated rebellions of Shanyue in Jiangdong for Taifu, but now that the north is restless, Yuan Cao and I are about to compete for power...... I raised my own value under the bottom, but I thought that I and Guo Fengxiao were indispensable to Taifu's side at the moment. ”

As soon as Chen Deng's words came out, among the people present, many local scribes in Xuzhou were unconvinced, but because of the status of the Chen family in Xuzhou, they did not dare to refute.

What do you mean, as long as you and Guo Jia are capable people, we are all waste?

The potter pondered, and what Chen Deng said was indeed the truth.

Large-scale plot Shanyue, such a complex situation requires the use of troops, but also the use of brains, but also to be good at diplomacy and politics, it is really a trivial job, but it is not a fierce general like Xu Chu or a person like Mi Zhu who is a little biased can oversee.

It must be a one-in-a-million all-rounder.

In addition to Guo Jia and Chen Deng, there are also Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi under his command, but the potter still hopes that they will experience it again and stay by his side to help him.

Guo Jia also drank a lot today, unlike Xu Chu, although he drank a lot, his brain was sober.

"Yuan Long said this, there must be some world-famous genius recommended to Taifu, right?" Guo Jia asked drunkenly.

Chen Deng smiled and said, "Those who know me, Feng Xiao...... Yes, I really know that there is a capable person, but my ability is only hearsay, whether he is really capable, Chen Mou does not dare to grasp. ”

The potter narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Deng with a complicated gaze.

For the talents recommended by Chen Deng, the potter is still a little careful in his heart.

Because people like Chen Deng belong to the double-edged one.

He was faithful to himself.

But the Chen family is also the head of the Xuzhou Shi clan, and Chen Deng did not forget to fight for the interests of the Xuzhou Shi clan while working hard for himself.

If the talent he recommended is a native of Xuzhou, the potter really has to weigh it.

It has increased the energy of the Xuzhou Shi Group, which is not conducive to balance.

However, Chen Deng's next words made the potter feel a lot more at ease.

"The person recommended below does not live in Xuzhou."

The potter looked at him suspiciously, and said, "Not a native of Xuzhou?" Where is that who can make Yuanlong treat him so differently? ”

Chen Deng said to the Tao Shang: "The person recommended below, the ancestral home is our Xuzhou, but he has left Xuzhou many years ago, and his person is a native of Dongcheng County, Linhuai County, named Lu Su, and the word is respectful." ”

"It's him." The potter's heart began to beat.

Although in this era, the potter has never seen Lu Su's face, but in his previous life, the potter also carefully studied the history of the Eastern Wu family, and he has some self-identification with Lu Su.

Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng, and Lu Xun are well-deserved Sun Wu Siying generals, and everyone in the world is convinced, they are all the henchmen of Sun Quan, the Emperor of Wu, among them, Zhou Yu relied on the fierce battle of Chibi to become famous, Lu Xun relied on the battle of Yiling to become famous, and Lu Meng relied on white clothes to cross the river to become famous.

What does Lu Su rely on?

In fact, after careful speculation, you will find that Lu Su is actually the chief designer of the Jiangdong strategy in history!

The design and layout he made for the development of Jiangdong is enough to describe it as terrifying.

The statement that Lu Su is a good man is purely a random arrangement of later generations - nonsense.

After the fierce battle of Chibi, Lu Su asked Sun Quan to lend half of the southern county to Liu Bei, mainly because Cao Cao's deployment of troops and horses on the southern front at that time was extremely focused on Eastern Wu.

Historical records record: 'the army to the war, as a light boat, water control army, from the vortex into the Huai, out of the fertilizer water, the army Hefei' and so on...... Every military move of Cao Jun meant that Cao Cao's main attention at that time was on Sun Quan.

Boss Cao's determination to cramp and peel the skin of the blue-eyed child can be revealed.

However, after Lu Su tried to lend half of the southern county to Liu Bei, the situation in the south was different, Liu Bei replaced the Eastern Wu in Jingzhou to directly face the edge of the Cao army, which greatly attracted the Cao army's military deployment in Huainan, shared the flank pressure of the Eastern Wu, and even changed the military strategy against Hefei and Xuzhou in the following years, the offensive and defensive transposition of the Eastern Wu and Cao army.

The world always says that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, but in fact, it should be said that Lu Su borrowed Jingzhou.

This borrowing is actively borrowed, actively given, you don't want to!

Moreover, after Zhou Yu's death, as soon as Lu Su took office, he repaired Yiyang City, which was less than 100 miles away from Changsha City, and used heavy troops to closely monitor Liu Bei's territory in Jingnan.

From a military point of view, this city is almost going to be repaired to Liu Bei's face.

It's a bully!

A few years later, when Liu Bei faced huge military pressure from Hanzhong in Sichuan and Shu, Lu Su, who was the military chief at that time, did not get used to Liu Bei, but asked Liu Bei to redivide the territory of Jingzhou, and use Xiangshui as the boundary to divide Changsha, Jiangxia, and Guiyang counties east of the three counties under the rule of Eastern Wu.

Liu Bei's mood at that time must have been very complicated.

borrowed half of Nanjun and served as a watchdog for Sun Quan for nine years under Cao Ren's military pressure, but the surname Sun and the surname Lu are now taking advantage of the danger of others, so I can return two and a half counties!

There is no more loss-making business in the world than this.

Who dares to say that Lu Su is a good man, Liu Bei will definitely whip him with a big-eared scraper.

And from the potter's personal point of view, Lu Su also did an extremely secret and terrifying thing.

Of course, this is just the potter's personal guess.

That is, he recommended Pang Tong to Liu Bei.

This Mr. Feng Xiao, who had served as Zhou Yu's subordinate Gongcao, was arranged by Lu Su to go to Jingzhou and recommended to Liu Bei when Liu Bei had just settled in Jingzhou.

Dongwu needs Liu Bei, but it is not for him to live next to each other in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River all the year round, and the tiger needs to use it, but it cannot be used by his side for a long time.

It would be better for Sun Wu to send them to the west to contain Cao Cao, and it would also make his own strategy of taking all the south of the Yangtze River faster in the future.

Pang Tong, it's up to you to give full play to your talents and let Liu Bei carry out the Great Western Expedition.

Pang Tongzhi went to Liu Bei proudly, seeing that Lu Su's plan was about to come true, but a sudden change almost made Lu Su's plan stillborn.

Liu Bei's first reaction when he saw Pang Tong was: It's too ugly.

It's so ugly that I don't really want to use it.

So Liu Bei sent Pang Tong away and asked him to try to defend the Leiyang County Order.

Pang Tongzhi came complacently, and was finally arranged to go to the countryside.

Lu Su almost died of anger after knowing this.

Cut the meat and feed it to Liu Gou, but this Liu Dog is still not on the road? Liu Bei, do you have any opinions about me?

The big designer did not give up, he personally wrote and sent Liu Bei a letter of "Pang Tong Instruction Manual." ”

It shows that Pang Tong is talented, and he is by no means a talent of a hundred miles......

After Liu Bei got Lu Su's letter of recommendation, and after Zhuge Liang's persuasion, he finally let go of the mustard in his heart and began to reuse Pang Tong.

And after Pang Tong gained power under Liu Bei, he began to spare no effort to do what Lu Su wanted him to do.

Pang Tong spared no effort to urge Liu Bei to go west, seize Yizhou, and take Hanzhong...... Threaten Guan Long!

The entire power of the Liu group was almost entirely tilted to the west, and not only did the main battlefield of the Cao army shift to Guanxi, but the pressure on Eastern Wu in the north decreased sharply.

And this powerful imperial ally has been held in Xichuan since then, and his influence in the Jingzhou region has become a vacuum, and he can no longer threaten Eastern Wu, leaving only a very flawed Guan Yu.

The next step may be to take Jingzhou under the premise of sufficient strength, and then go up the river, take Yizhou, and prepare for Hanzhong one by one; Or plotting against the Central Plains, in short, Soochow is in an invincible position that can be attacked, retreated, and defended.

But the only thing beyond Lu Su's calculation is that Pang Tong died, which made Liu Bei's army out of control in a certain sense, which was the only place that Lu Su, a black-bellied designer, had not designed well in his life.

Although there are some shortcomings, Lu Su has planned for Jiangdong for half his life, and he is the chief designer of Jiangdong.

……

The potter put down the wine cup and looked at Chen Deng calmly: "Where is this Lu Su now?" ”

Chen Deng arched his hand and said: "After this person left Dongcheng, he should live near Chaohu Lake, I heard that he and Sun Ce's mastermind Zhou Yu are old acquaintances, tonight I accidentally heard that his grandmother died, Lu Su has returned to Dongcheng to handle the funeral, if Taifu is interested in this person, you might as well send someone to summon him, test his knowledge, and see if it can be used......"

When the words fell, he saw the potter shake his head and said: "Prepare for the fast horse, set off overnight, and I will personally go to Dongcheng to meet him." ”

"Huh?"

Everyone didn't expect that the pottery merchant's Yaxing was so high, for a person who had just been recommended by Chen Deng, he actually wanted to meet immediately?

Chen Deng didn't know if he really had the ability or if he was famous.

It should be known that Dongcheng is not close to Pengcheng.

Guo Jia hesitated, stood up and said: "Taifu, now that Xu Sheng, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Zang Ba and others' soldiers and horses have not returned on the road, Zhang Xun has no faith in persuading Huainan Lei Bo and others, is it not ...... to wait?"

When the words fell, he saw the potter stretch out his hand to stop him.

"None of these things are big things for me now, and going to the East Side is the most important thing for me right now...... You and Yuanlong help me take care of the affairs of the family, I went to Dongcheng, saw Lu Su, and returned immediately. ”

The potter had nothing else on his mind right now.

For him, the importance of Lu Su is comparable to half of Jiangdong.

Once Lu Su leaves Dongcheng and returns to Chaohu again, he will be preempted by Zhou Yu.

……

Linhuai East City.

Lu Su is a person of filial piety, although he has left the old mansion all these years and has been wandering outside, but this time the death of his grandmother also made him run back to his hometown thousands of miles away.

In fact, when he went back to his hometown to arrange a funeral for his grandmother, filial piety was one of them, and the other was that Lu Su also had to think about Zhou Yu's invitation to him some time ago.

When Zhou Yu was the head of the nest, he had some friendship with Lu Su, and the two also valued each other very much.

To a certain extent, he and Zhou Yu are also close friends.

But Zhou Yu invited him to defect to Sun Ce some time ago and speak his conscience, but Lu Su didn't want to go...... At least you have to think twice about going.

Sun Ce is a capable person, Lu Su knows this, but his people are too heavy, although he is replacing Yuan Shu to occupy Huainan at the moment, but he is in the company of the tiger wolf Lu Bu.

These two fierce generals may be able to make a career, but it is not the career that Lu Su wants.

Lu Su didn't want to mix too much with people who were thirsty for killing, it didn't do much good.

But if he doesn't obey Sun Ce, if he really wants to take a career in office, Lu Su really doesn't have a good way out at the moment.

Yuan Shu also invited him back then, but he politely declined.

These people are not the people he likes.

"Childe, there are guests outside who send filial piety gifts, saying that they are going to mourn the old lady."

The butler's words pulled Lu Su out of his reverie.

"Who is it?"

The butler presented a greeting note and a gift list.

Lu Su roughly swept it and sighed secretly: "What a big stroke." ”

Then he looked at the payment and couldn't help but be stunned.

There is no name in the payment, and there is only one surname.

"Tao?"

Lu Su closed the sticker, pondered for a moment, and said, "Go out with me to greet you." ”

The potter stood outside the mansion, and after a while, he saw a lean and swarthy man wearing a white filial piety robe walk out.

Judging from his age, this person seems to be Lu Su.

"I've seen Taifu." Lu Su respectfully greeted the pottery merchants.

Tao Shang smiled and helped him up: "Tao did not write his name on the post, how did Zijing know my identity?" ”

Lu Su's answer was very simple: "Guess." ”

The potter looked up at the door plaque and said, "Since Tao is here to mourn, then he will go in first to pay tribute to the ancestors, what does Zijing think?" ”

Lu Su made way for the potter and said, "Grandmother Su Dai, thank you Taifu for your condescension...... Taifu, please get started. ”