Chapter 546: Sun Quan Becomes Emperor
In order to avoid tomb robbers from robbing the tomb in later generations, Liu Yi also specially set up a large number of traps and some negative attributes in the mausoleum.
"Bo Yuan." Zhang Fei and Liu Yi stood outside Liu Bei's mausoleum, looking at the statue of their brother, and suddenly turned their heads and asked, "I heard that you want to build a temple for your eldest brother?" ”
"Naturally, it will be established." Liu Yi nodded and said.
"Then after I die, can I and my second brother also be enshrined in it, behind my brother." Zhang Fei asked.
"Why do you say such unlucky things?" Liu Yi frowned, after Liu Bei's death, both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei seemed to have suddenly lost their spirits, which was not a good thing.
"People...... Do you have to die? Zhang Fei looked at the statue of his brother, and suddenly grinned: "If there is really another world after death, I want to continue to follow my brother." ”
Although he was laughing, Liu Yi was a little depressed, and he was about to say something, but he saw Zhuge Qiao walking quickly, bowed to the two and said, "Hussar General, Sikong, the prime minister invites the two of you to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss important matters." ”
"What happened?" Liu Yi nodded, it was not good to go and relieve Zhang Fei again, so he asked while pulling Zhang Fei to run towards the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Just now, an envoy from Wu came to tell him, Wu Lord Sun Quan called the emperor, changed the Yuan Huanglong, and announced it to the world!" Zhuge Qiao bowed and said.
Liu Yi raised his eyebrows when he heard this, turned his head to look at Zhang Fei, but saw that Zhang Fei was silent.
If this was Zhang Fei in the past, he would have jumped to scold people a long time ago, but now, Zhang Fei was silent and didn't seem to care, Liu Yi even hoped that Zhang Fei would be able to jump and scold people now.
"Let's go." Liu Yi sighed in his heart, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are now holding a depression in their hearts, this depression is not the kind of external one, but because of Liu Bei's death, it is born internally, and their nature is suppressed, probably because there is no love in life, and it is difficult for them to be interested in everything in the world.
In the left prime minister's mansion, Pang Tong, Guan Yu, Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Li Yan, Dong He and other important ministers of the court have arrived, Zhuge Liang is sitting on the phase, and there is not much anxiety, Sun Quan will be called the emperor, and he is somewhat psychologically prepared, but the other party chooses to be the emperor at this point in time, which is a little subtle.
Zhang Fei went straight to Guan Yu's side, Liu Yi shared the table with Pang, and the rest of the people also sat down in turn according to their status.
"Everyone is here." Zhuge Liang nodded with Liu Yi, looking a little haggard, these days, Liu Yi is busy, he is also not easy, the pacification of all parties, especially Shu and Jingxiang, who have just won Guanzhong and Heluo, also need to be appeased, Liu Chan is not very careful, even if he does, Zhuge Liang will not rest assured.
"I don't know what you think about Sun Quan's claim to be emperor?" Zhuge Liang looked at the ministers and asked.
For a long time, the relationship between Jiangdong and Han is very complicated, they are allies, but there is no less calculation behind it, everyone knows this, and under the pressure of the Han Dynasty, they maintain the alliance between the two sides, and can buy sophisticated equipment from the Han Dynasty, so Sun Quan has been holding his tail and being a man, and he has not been called the emperor, although he has not been called a minister, but in the past few years, people have been imperceptibly treating Jiangdong as their own family country, and now the subject country wants to be independent, and everyone will feel a little unhappy and even betrayed.
"Prime Minister." Dong He got up, bowed down and said: "At present, not long after the death of the first emperor, the domestic situation is turbulent, at this time, I think that I should not rashly fight with Eastern Wu, so as not to incur Eastern Wu and Cao Wei to join forces with our Han Dynasty." ”
Huang Quan pondered: "Having said that, I'm very worried about whether Dongwu and Cao Wei still have a collusion or secret alliance, and recently the animals have suddenly increased the number of weapons purchased, so we must be guarded against." ”
Sun Quan's claim to be the emperor is undoubtedly a kind of encroachment and betrayal for the Han Dynasty, after all, before that, even if Sun Quan seized one side, he was nominally a Hanchen, but now he has established himself as the emperor, although he did not say it explicitly, but it is tantamount to breaking this relationship, and Sun Quan could not have thought of this.
Zhuge Liang nodded lightly, Lianwu resisted Cao, this is Zhuge Liang's strategy for Liu Bei when he first came out, what Longzhong said at the beginning, has now been basically realized, got the whole territory of Jingzhou and Shuzhong, and took advantage of Cao Pi's death, captured Guanzhong and Luoyang, the original strategy of Longzhong has now been basically realized, and then the Three Kingdoms Dingli, the original strategy, in fact, has not made much sense now, after destroying Cao Wei, it must be peaceful Jiangdong, Sun Quan must also know this, so it must be advantageous to unite Wu to resist Cao, But now it is difficult to do this, and Sun Quan must have his own set of strategies to balance the development of the two families.
At this time, he was called the emperor, but he did not turn against the Han, and even sent an envoy, perhaps to test the reaction of the Han, but it is also possible that he reached some agreement with Cao Wei.
If it's the latter, then it's a big problem, but what's bad is that after Zhuge Liang calculated it himself, he felt that the latter was more likely, and now he summoned a group of ministers to come over to listen to their thoughts and opinions.
His eyes fell on Pang Tong and Liu Yi, and Zhuge Liang asked, "Shi Yuan, Bo Yuan, I don't know what the two of you think?" ”
Pang Tong groped his chin and said, "It's really not easy to fight with Jiangdong right now, but the other party suddenly increased the purchase of weapons...... Not to mention that they don't use so much, can Soochow's financial resources support it? ”
"Shi Yuan is talking ......"
"I'm worried that this batch may have been bought for Cao Wei." Pang Tong closed his eyes and thought: "Now that the first emperor has died, it is not strange that Cao Wei and Jiangdong joined forces to attack, of course, it is not good to fight with him first, you can send someone to Jiangdong to congratulate, but the matter of weapons, our army has recently fought with Qianghu, and the army has insufficient reserves to suspend the transaction, slow down, what is the truth of this, and he will surface." ”
Now that it is possible for Soochow to secretly think about dealing with the Han Dynasty, let alone doubling the resources, it will not work as usual, it is a capital enemy, and it may still be two.
This kind of practice, how much will have a certain impact on the Han Dynasty, the Han over the years to develop funds, part of the Han internal capital flow and the wealth generated, but also a large part of the deal, through the arms trade with the Eastern Wu obtained, now all of a sudden cut off this business, although the Eastern Wu can not get advanced weapons, but the Han side, will also lose a large amount of development funds.
Liu Yi now also understands the mentality of those who are at war between the two countries, but are still willing to take risks to do business with outsiders, others may not know very well, but as the actual controller of Tiangongfang and Shaofu, this year's loss, if converted into coins, is two or three hundred million!
Today's military trade is in the hands of Liu Yi alone, if this right is dispersed, then Pang Tong's proposal may be dissatisfied and opposed by many people.
After thinking about it, Liu Yi said with a smile: "In addition, the trade with Jiangdong can also be appropriately reduced. ”
"Why is that?" Dong He frowned.
"Now the state of trade between our dynasty and Dongwu is like this, our dynasty buys some raw materials such as silk, copper and iron, salt and other raw materials from Dongwu at a low price, and then comes to our dynasty to process them into weapons or cloth, clothing and even various exquisite finished products and then sell them back at a high price, it seems that Dongwu suffers, but in fact, the coarse salt of Dongwu can be made into refined salt in my court, but they can't do it themselves, their silk can be made into exquisite and durable clothes in our court, and even have a certain defensive power, but Dongwu can't do it himself, On top of the raw materials, our dynasty also has its own production, which is self-sufficient enough, so the Eastern Wu is more dependent on our dynasty, they have no trade with our dynasty, the economy, living standards and even military industry, will regress by ten years, and our army has no Eastern Wu, you can find the Qiang people, the Huns, the Western Regions to trade, and even earn greater benefits. ”
"I've been thinking before, my dynasty can't pin all the raw materials on Dongwu, now Guanzhong, Xiliang has been down, the Silk Road has been held in the hands of our dynasty, if this road is well managed, it is enough for my dynasty to have higher income, Sun Quan is now called the emperor, of course, there are reasons for the turmoil in my dynasty due to the death of the first emperor, but I think, there are also reasons why Sun Quan failed to recognize the facts, it is necessary to make him sober."
Liu Yi had already begun to plan to open up the road between Xiliang and the Western Regions, and even build a jumping wooden track to speed up the trade between the two sides, without having to limit his eyes only to the country, since Sun Quan didn't understand his own status, playing with them and other small actions, then congratulations or congratulations, the friendship should still be a friendship, but it should also let the other party know the weight of themselves, the confrontation between Cao Wei and the Han Dynasty, he should not intervene in it, the situation of the three worlds must be broken, otherwise it will be more difficult to unify, the land of Jiangdong, At the moment, it is obviously not as tempting as the Central Plains, but it can't be let them make trouble all the time.
"Wonderful!" Pang Tong stroked his palms and smiled, shocking Jiangdong, this method is the best, after all, the two sides still have an ally in the name there, the Han is now strong, and naturally pays more attention to the skin, Sun Quan does not take the initiative to tear up the covenant, they cannot take the initiative to be this villain.
"Okay, so according to your time, tomorrow in the court, I will advise Your Majesty, and there is one more thing!" Zhuge Liang took out a piece of bamboo paper and handed it to everyone to cross, and his expression was also a little gloomy: "Recently, I received information that Wei General Xu Huang has gathered heavy troops in Hanoi and Puyang, but this matter needs to be discussed with you. ”
Xu Huang is probably the only remaining well-known general of Cao Wei now, Xu Huang moved, does this mean that Cao Wei is ready to take advantage of Liu Bei's death and the turmoil within the Han to wave his troops to attack the Han?
"There are 50,000 troops left in Luoyang, occupying all the dangers, and it is not easy for the Wei army to attack." Pang Tong pondered: "But if Cao Wei has a movement, I'm afraid it is not more than this, I suggest, the enemy does not move, I do not move, but ready to rush to the aid of all parties at any time!" ”