Zhuge Liang's face showed a trace of gloom, since Lü Meng's sneak attack on Jingzhou, in just over a year, Jiangdong Zhu Ran, Lü Meng, Jiang Qin, and Gan Ning all died in the hands of the Han army. []

Because of this, the two sides have a deep grudge, if it is a national feud with Cao Wei, then it is more of a family with Jiangdong.

Zhuge Liang has had contact with Sun Quan, so Zhuge Liang can feel that Sun Quan is not the kind of person with a very large amount of energy, at least far worse than Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and the opposition of those Jiangdong courtiers is also a difficult barrier to cross.

Even Wu resisted Cao was a strategy set by Zhuge Liang when he was in Longzhong, and Zhuge Liang naturally wanted to continue to implement it. Of course, another reason is that the Cao family's power is too big, and if they don't unite with Eastern Wu, Shu Han can only be on the side of peace. Although it is not easy for Wei to find a cheap one in Yongzhou, it is also difficult to gnaw a piece of meat on Wei.

"Hey...... Shi Yuan, you also know that this alliance with Eastern Wu is as soon as possible, and if you form an alliance with Eastern Wu as soon as possible, you can put some pressure on the Cao family as soon as possible. Zhuge Liang said.

"Kong Ming, this alliance Jiangdong, is it difficult to say. It's hard, it's not easy to say. In this way, I'll go and find out our Majesty's tone first, as for the Jiangdong side, you have to rely on Kong Ming. ”

"Well, it's okay, I'll write one to my brother. letter, take a look at the situation in Koto. ”

……

"Your Majesty, this is news from Yecheng." Jian Yong held a thin document in his hand.

"Is there anything special about it?" Adou did not raise his head, but continued to criticize. Reading the folds in front of you.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Qiu has sent news that Cao Rong has worshiped the Guo family as his mother. And I heard that Cao Pi's health has not been good recently. In the past month, there has been no early pilgrimage. ”

"Oh?" Adou raised his head and suddenly asked, "My little friend Wang Xiaohu, how is he?" ”

"It's still the same, following Hua Tuo to do chores."

"Still doing chores?" Pander to. Dou nodded thoughtfully, and at the same time said: "I always feel that this Qi China is a little weird. ”

"Weird?"

"Hua Tuo is a miracle doctor in the world, if he can't be cured, this person must be hopeless. Judging from the information from Yecheng, Cao Pi's illness is getting worse day by day, so I feel weird. For such a long time, with Hua Tuo's medical skills, at least this disease will not deepen. On the other hand, Cao Pi is not as good as day by day. ”

"Your Majesty, what is your consciousness?"

"I think it's likely that the person who made Cao Pi sick was Hua Tuo!"

"What? Your Majesty, your consciousness is that Hua Tuo poisoned ......"

"Well, keep an eye on Wang Xiaohu, maybe the truth of the matter is on him." Adou sighed slightly.

……

Yecheng.

There are several heavily guarded places in Yecheng, and outsiders are not allowed to enter, and Hua Tuo's residence is one of them.

Hua Tuo knew the inside story of Cao Cao's death, so Cao Pi had long wanted to get rid of Hua Tuo, but now Cao Pi couldn't do without Hua Tuo, because the Dragon and Tiger Pill could only be refined by Hua Tuo alone, so Cao Pi could only be patient and keep Hua Tuo's life.

However, Hua Tuo's daily life is strictly monitored, and in order to prevent Hua Tuo from leaking news, Hua Tuo is absolutely not allowed to contact outsiders. And Hua Tuo's residence is even more heavily guarded, and Hua Tuo has no chance to leave on weekdays.

Huatuo House.

Wang Xiaohu stood beside Hua Tuo with a worried face: "Teacher, Your Majesty ate a full twelve pills of Dragon and Tiger Pill yesterday. ”

"Well, I know for the teacher." Hua Tuo didn't react much.

"Teacher, didn't you say before that if you eat too much of this Dragon Tiger Pill, I'm afraid you will die soon, why don't we reduce the amount a little!"

"No, to this extent, reducing the amount is harmful to the body, and you will die faster. Now I have added some calming things to the Dragon Tiger Pill, which can temporarily neutralize the medicinal properties of the Dragon Tiger Pill. ”

Hua Tuo said this, and sighed slightly: "But this is not a long-term method after all. I estimate that even if it were, it would only last three more months. ”

After Hua Tuo finished speaking, he took out a booklet with a brocade cloth cover from his arms, handed it to Wang Xiaohu, and said at the same time: "Xiaohu, this is a book for the teacher, some of the experience of practicing medicine for the teacher, all in it, now I will give it to you, and when it is later, you will take this thing away, the farther you go, the better!" I've got you covered with a way to escape. ”

"Teacher, what is your consciousness? Do you want to use that thing? ”

"Yes, only that 'full city drunk' can let you escape smoothly. And this 'full city drunk' is even better when it encounters fog, and there is often fog at night in Yecheng these days, which is your best chance to escape. ”

"What? No, I can't leave you alone! Let's go together! ”

"Silly boy, the teacher is too old to walk. Besides, if both you and I are gone, Cao Pi will inevitably send troops to chase after us, how far can we go. It's better to stay for the teacher and delay for some time......"

Full city drunk, is Hua Tuo in the study of hemp boiling when a kind of **, smell drunk, can spread with the air, as long as the dosage is enough, this powder is enough to permeate the entire city, so it is called full city drunk, the power is comparable to the large-scale biological weapons of later generations.

Hua Tuo calculated that a big city like Yecheng would require at least a thousand catties of drunkenness to stun the entire city. And this kind of drunken city is very complicated to make, and the materials are also very difficult to find, and several of the flavors of medicine are rare in the world.

However, fortunately, the Wei country has a rich foundation, and finally Hua Tuo gathered all the medicines and refined thousands of catties to get drunk all over the city, and because the materials were not enough, the effect of this medicine was also greatly reduced. But Hua Tuo also knows that now that the city is drunk, he can only refine so much, and if he wants to refine some more, there is a prescription, and there are no raw materials.

As Hua Tuo expected, that night, it was really foggy.

And Hua Tuo also took advantage of this time to release the full city drunk, and soon, this full city drunk filled Yecheng with the air, enveloping the entire Yecheng.

According to the different distances, the effect of the medicine is also different, people who are closer to Huatuo Mansion are more eroded by the medicinal power, and they will probably sleep for an hour or two, while those who are far away can be confused for half an hour, which is good. However, this was enough for Wang Xiaohu to escape from Yecheng.

……

Changan.

In the court, Zhuge Liang proposed to ally Jiangdong Sun Quan again to resist Cao Pi.

The courtiers of the court and China immediately began a heated discussion.

Now that Sun Quan has proclaimed himself emperor, the first point of forming an alliance with Sun Quan is to recognize the legitimacy of Sun Quan's throne. In the eyes of many ministers loyal to the Han family, Sun Quan is a traitor, and it is impossible to recognize the legitimacy of the traitor's throne.

Others agreed. Cao Wei is powerful, everyone knows this, just relying on the territory of Shu Han's two states, even if it can block Wei, it can only be said to be barely strong.

In later generations, the Xianbei people established the Northern Wei Dynasty, and later the Northern Wei Dynasty split into the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty, and then later divided into the Northern Qi and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the situation at that time was similar to today, the Northern Qi occupied the Guandong, the Northern Zhou occupied the Guanzhong, and the Southern Dynasty was in the south of the Yangtze River, which is like the Wei Shu Wu of the Three Kingdoms today. And the final outcome of this was that the Northern Zhou who occupied Guanzhong destroyed the Northern Qi in the east and unified the north. Later, Yang Jian, a powerful minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, usurped the throne, established the Great Sui, destroyed the Southern Chen, and unified the world.

However, at that time, the demise of the Northern Qi was more due to the Northern Qi itself. At that time, there were several generations of mediocre emperors in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the burden of accumulation was increasing day by day, and the conscription was becoming more and more complicated, resulting in the emptiness of the treasury, and the result was taken advantage of by the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

But at that time, the population of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was more than that of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the Northern Zhou Emperor operated for several generations to recuperate, and before the Northern Zhou Dynasty unified the north, there were nearly five million households and 30 million people, while the Northern Qi Dynasty had only 3 million households and more than 20 million people, and there was a gap in population.

But now, Hebei, Sili and other places have been cultivating for more than ten years and are slowly recovering their vitality, while Yongzhou has just experienced a catastrophe and population loss, so the current Shu Han is still far less powerful than Wei.

Moreover, when there is a problem within the Wei State itself, it will only be until the Sima family takes power. Now Cao Pi is not dead, and Sima Shi and Sima Zhao are still half-grown children, and it will be too long until passers-by know Sima Zhao's heart!

Adou can't wait, and some of the courtiers in the court who are older than the one can't wait. The reputation of this founding hero is not an ordinary temptation, the older people live one day less, if they can't wait for the day when Adou will be the leader of the world, the list of the founding heroes will be missing their own names, wouldn't it be a big loss.

In the end, after many days of discussion, Adou still decided to ally with Sun Quan, and all this mainly depends on whether Sun Quan is willing or not.

The next step was to discuss the candidates for the Koto mission.

In the past, the envoys to Jiangdong were all Sun Gan, Chen Zhen and Yi nationality, but now that Sun Gan is sick and has died, Yi nationality and Chen Zhen have become scholars, it is definitely impossible to send envoys to Jiangdong again.

At this time, Pang Tong proposed that Zhuge Jun, the captain of Changshui, send an envoy to Jiangdong.

Zhuge Jun is Zhuge Liang's younger brother and Zhuge Jin's younger brother. Send Zhuge Jun to Jiangdong first, and the soldiers in Jiangdong will not embarrass Zhuge Jun because of Zhuge Jin's face. At the same time, the matter of the alliance Jiangdong also needs Zhuge Jin to promote, and it is most appropriate to send Zhuge Jun to go.

Zhuge Jun has not done much since the official Shu Han, and he can only be regarded as decent. Compared with his two elder brothers, Zhuge is far behind. But this does not mean that Zhuge has no talent, if it is said that Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang are both prime ministers who govern the world, then Zhuge is more than enough to govern a state.

It's just that Zhuge Liang has a good reputation, and Zhuge Liang is afraid that others will say that he is nepotistic, so he has not promoted Zhuge Jun too much. And Zhuge Liang is very strict with his younger brother. Ordinary officials do 100 points, Zhuge all do 120 points, and they can't get Zhuge Liang's approval.

If it weren't for Pang Tong's proposal today, Zhuge Liang probably wouldn't have mentioned his younger brother.

And Zhuge Liang also understands that I am afraid that no one is more suitable to go to Jiangdong than his own brother. However, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhuge Liang said nothing. There is no support or opposition.

In the end, it was Adou himself who decided to go to Jiangdong by Zhuge Jun.

……

Jingzhou.

After being anxious with Sima Yi for so long, 6 Xun gradually realized that the gap in national strength could not be smoothed out in a while.

Although the sphere of influence occupied by Jiangdong has a lot of territory, the population is good, and there are few people living in Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River, and there is no population at all, and there is no productivity, and there is no source of soldiers. On the other hand, Cao Wei's side occupies the vast Central Plains, and even Youzhou and Bingzhou in the north are not much worse than the counties with more people in Jiangdong.

At this time, 6 Xun finally understood how correct Zhou Yu's choice was back then.

Thinking about Zhou Yu back then, he racked his brains for Jingzhou, was full of wisdom, and kept making Liu Bei uncomfortable, but on the surface, Zhou Yu never tore his face with Liu Bei, and the two sides still maintained an alliance relationship. Because at that time, Zhou Yu understood that Cao Cao was a behemoth, and even if he occupied Jingzhou with one Jiangdong alone, he was not Cao Cao's opponent.

And Zhuge Liang seems to understand this, the two sides are secretly fighting wits, but they always maintain a state of alliance, maintaining this tacit understanding of allies and opponents.

Thinking of this, 6 Xun shook his head helplessly, Zhou Yu is worthy of being one of the best wizards in the world, in terms of war, he may not be worse than Zhou Yu, but in this overall situation, he is far inferior to Zhou Yu, and he is not even as good as Lu Su.

At this time, 6 Xun suddenly remembered Lu Meng in his heart.

When he first attacked Jingzhou, Sun Quan was only in his thirties, and he was somewhat indecisive, if it wasn't for Lu Meng patting his chest and saying that he could take Jingzhou, Sun Quan would not have agreed to attack Jingzhou. As a result, Jingzhou was captured, but half of the Jiangdong generals died, and even Lu Meng himself was in a different place.

And if you calculate it carefully, the death of Lu Meng and the other soldiers was because they wanted to kill Guan Yu. Guan Yu was indeed defeated by Maicheng, but in the end he escaped. If Lu Meng hadn't wanted Guan Yu's life that day, maybe he wouldn't have been killed.

Now slowly recalling the situation of the day, 6 Xun understands that it is okay to capture Jingzhou, after all, the two sides have long agreed that Jingzhou was borrowed by Liu Bei, and it is at most a dumb loss to be recaptured by Jiangdong, but Guan Yu is absolutely unkillable. In a sense, Guan Yu is no longer just a general, but a symbol, a symbol of the face of the Shu Han.

"Shibei three days, should be impressed?" 6 Xun shook his head self-deprecatingly, and sighed slightly: "Brother Zijing, although Amon is no longer Ameng of Wuxia that day, but Amon is still Ameng, how can he replace Zhou Gongjin!" ”

"General, there is a person who claims to be a messenger from Chang'an, named Zhuge Jun, who asks to see the general." The Colonel's voice interrupted 6Sun's musings.

"Zhuge Jun? It sounds familiar, by the way, isn't Brother Ziyu's younger brother called Zhuge Jun? 6 Xun immediately recalled in his mind that the third child of the Zhuge family was called Zhuge Jun.

"What is this Zhuge all here for, is he here to visit relatives?" 6 Xun smiled slightly, and then said, "Go and invite Mr. Zhuge in, En...... This Mr. Zhuge is the younger brother of the general Zhuge Jin, and you can't slack off when you go. ”

……

6 Xun personally sent someone to escort Zhuge Jun south from the Yangtze River to Huainan to meet Sun Quan. And at this time, Zhuge Jin was also in Shouchun.

With Zhuge Jin here, Zhuge Jun's journey was much smoother, and he entered Shouchun City safely and steadily, without being troubled by the Jiangdong ministers.

When Zhuge Liang went to Jiangdong, he used to fight Confucianism with tongues, and Zhuge Jin had just mixed up with a small official at that time, so Jiangdong Confucianism would embarrass Zhuge Liang, and now Zhuge Jin is a general, and one person is above 10,000 people, that is, some people want to embarrass Zhuge Jun, and then there is a tongue war group of Confucianism, and they have to weigh Zhuge Jin's face.

Similarly, Sun Quan looked at Zhuge Jin's face, and did not give Zhuge Jun any disgrace, but only received Zhuge Jun in accordance with the general etiquette of receiving foreign envoys, and Zhuge Jun saw Sun Quan and directly clarified the idea of hoping to form an alliance with Jiangdong.

Like Shu, these Eastern Wu courtiers of Shouchun also launched a fierce discussion, supporting and opposing each other, each of them did not give in to each other, and the two sides fought for more than ten days, but there was no result in the discussion.

……

Shouchun, in the Imperial Palace.

Sun Quan stood next to the small pond and looked at the fish swimming in the water.

When a grain of fish food fell, the small fish suddenly rushed over, stirring up the calm water.

Sun Quan smiled slightly, and his originally tense heart suddenly relaxed a little. Then Sun Quan took the teacup from the hand of the waiter, took a sip of tea, closed his eyes, savored the fragrance of tea, and enjoyed this rare leisure.

In the distance, a young man about twenty years old walked over, Sun Quan looked up, and it was Zhuge Ke who came.

"Hehe, Yuan Xun is here, come here!" Sun Quan summoned Zhuge Ke to the front.

Sun Quan likes Zhuge Ke very much, because Zhuge Ke has been smart and clever since he was a child, and in comparison, Sun Quan feels that his son Sun Deng is too stupid and simple.

"Yuan Xun, recently, there has been a lot of debate about whether to form an alliance with Shu State, and it is difficult for me to decide for a while, do you think this alliance should be formed?" Sun Quan asked.

"Your Majesty, Cao Wei is powerful and cannot be defeated by my side, so the minister thinks that this alliance should be concluded. But well...... Hehe......" Saying this, Zhuge Jun suddenly laughed.

"But what?" Sun Quan hurriedly asked.

"However, the Central Plains occupied by Cao Wei is very extensive, and it should be made clear in advance which state and which place will be changed to whom. After all, this Liu family has no faith, and it is not the first time. ”

Sun Quan nodded, Liu Bei Jingzhou at the beginning, the result was that there was no repayment of the loan, and now that the alliance is formed again, Sun Quan is not willing to suffer any more losses, Sun Quan does not want to make a wedding dress for Adou for a long time.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the minister has a plan, I don't know if to talk about it."

"Say it......"

"Your Majesty, why don't you follow the example of King Qin Zhaoxiang and come to a martial arts alliance?" Zhuge Ke said gloomily.

"Wuguan Alliance? Could it be that your consciousness is? ”

"Your Majesty, I heard that the Liu family was the most daring, otherwise it would not have been possible to go to Jingzhou alone. However, Liu Jiazi was lucky that time, he escaped, and people can't always have such good luck. So why didn't Your Majesty follow the example of King Qin Zhaoxiang once? ”