Zhuge Jin's envoy to Youzhou was apprehensive, and he did not have much illusions about the purpose of his trip. All the people in the world know that Lu Peng is bent on sweeping Liuhe, turning chaos into unity, and someone is helping to destroy a force, and he can't ask for it. At this time, if he still remembers the brotherhood of the covenant, he has to see if there are any sows in the trees in the inn.

Jiangdong to this day is also to blame, when Sun Liu united, in fact, Zhuge Jin was inclined to Lian Cao to deal with Liu Bei and Lu Peng, although he was Zhuge Liang's own brother, but because he was a brother, he knew Zhuge Liang's personality, when Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, he asked Liu Bei to directly replace Liu Biao, and when he accepted Liu Zhang's invitation to Xichuan, he implored Liu Bei to take Liu Zhang's place, but was preempted by Lu Peng. After receiving Emperor Han Xian, he saw the overall situation and decided to replace Liu Bei with Emperor Han Xian, anyway, Zhuge Liang, a brother, is only interested in interests, and is not emotional.

If you unite with him, you will trap yourself, and you will directly offend Cao Cao.

The result was like that, even Liu's faction succeeded under Zhuge Liang's flickering, and had nothing to do to attack Cao Cao, but hundreds of thousands of troops, all the belongings in Jiangnan were packed up by Cao Cao, and finally blocked by Cao Cao's house, which had to beg Liu Bei, but Cao Cao was repulsed, but Luzhou and Jiujiang were also "borrowed" by Zhuge Liang.

Zhou Yu vomited blood and died of anger.

The loss of soldiers was almost gone, and the pillar Zhou Yu also died, and Jiangdong immediately became an unpopular force.

Now Cao Liu is united again, pressing Jiangdong with overwhelming momentum, Jiangdong will be destroyed overnight, there is no way, at this time, I remembered that this Lu Peng came.

In fact, even if Lu Peng rescued, it was just for Jiangdong to survive for a while, and he was finally taken by Lu Peng, maybe when the rescue arrived in Jiangnan, it was the day of Jiangnan's collapse, what is his mission this time? Set the fox to keep the geese.

Now the situation in Jiangdong is that Lu Peng's rescue is also dead, and if he doesn't rescue, he will still die, but he will die in whose hands.

Cao Wei entered Jiangdong, and Sun Quan died without a place to be buried, but when Lu Peng entered Jiangdong, he may have been gentle with Sun Quan.

In fact, the surrender faction Zhang Zhao and others, the reason why they resisted desperately this time was for this purpose, they did not give up the idea of surrender, but prepared to sacrifice Jiangdong to Lu Peng.

As a result, he came to ask for help, but Lu Peng had an ambiguous attitude and put himself in the post house, although he ate and drank well every day, but no matter how he asked to see Lu Peng, he refused to meet.

Just when he was in a trance, an official hurriedly ran over and invited Zhuge Jin: "King Tang set up a family banquet at home and invited Mr. to the banquet." ”

Dinner? What do you mean? Zhuge Jin really didn't understand what medicine was sold in Lu Peng's gourd, but since he was invited, he could only go to the banquet and explore Lu Peng's tone by the way.

Riding in a four-wheeled carriage, he rushed to Lu Peng's Tang Palace. Zhuge Jin entered the Tang Palace's mansion for the first time, standing in front of the gate, looking at this mansion, the door is not tall, nor magnificent, and not according to the level of the imperial court, set up a main gate and two side gates, just a middle gate, it is so open, there are servants in and out, there are also all kinds of pedestrians, but there are no officials wearing special clothes in Youzhou. There was no concierge to block the entry of guests, only two men, as guards, who carried out a simple body search on those who entered, and let them go immediately.

There were no officials waiting to be summoned in front of the gate, and he carefully asked the accompanying officials, and the official said: "According to the rules of the Tang King, all government affairs are handled in the lobby, and the family does not receive any officials, nor does it work, according to the meaning of the Tang King, the family and the country are separated, which is also the fundamental difference between our Youzhou and other places." In other places, officials and their families live behind the yamen, so that there is no separation between official and family affairs, but we stipulate here that no officials are allowed to live in the yamen, and officials sent to various places have a subsidized housing subsidy. ”

Zhuge Jin stood here for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart for Lu Peng's decision.

There is no distinction between housekeeping, which is a common problem in the world, but Lu Peng's simple point separates housekeeping, so as to avoid the corruption of the officials who invisibly form the substitution of the family for the country, and avoid the private use of public power.

After a polite body search, he didn't take off the sword that symbolized his identity hanging from Zhuge Jin's waist, but let him bring it in.

After entering the courtyard, looking at it, it is not the kind of luxurious mansion that is extremely poor and luxurious, a simple courtyard house, divided into a few houses, and there are no maids and servants who come and go, but a few are busy coming and going.

Such a scene is very different from the extravagance and erosion of the wealthy families in Jiangnan.

Standing in this courtyard, Zhuge Jin was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "Lu Peng has the world, of course." ”

Just as he was sighing, Lu Peng, the Tang King who was usually dressed, walked out of the lobby, raised his hand and greeted Zhuge Jin: "Distinguished guests come to the door, wait slowly, hurry in and warm up." Then he went down the steps directly, grabbed Zhuge Jin's hand, and pulled him directly into the hall.

The hall is very warm, I think it is the role of the earth dragon in the north, but there is no imaginary song and dance in the hall, there is no style of bell ringing and dining, just in the middle of the ground, there is an octagonal table, a few chairs on all sides, Mr. Big and Mr. Two who have seen it for a long time, and Pang De are all there, and Xu Jie, who cannot be missing at any time.

Lu Peng pulled Zhuge Jin to the table, and said with a smile: "Everyone has seen it, these are my brothers, my brother Zhao Yun is outside, but he is absent, but it doesn't matter, or he is not good at banquets, come, Mr. hurry up and sit down." ”

Zhuge Jin was polite and sat down in the guest seat, so everyone sat down around the table to eat.

The dishes were not sumptuous, but really, Zhuge Jin really didn't understand why Lu Peng was like this, so he just moved cautiously a few times, drank a shallow cup, put it down, and waited for Lu Peng's inquiry.

Seeing Zhuge Jin like this, Lu Peng nodded outside. Then one of the servants closed the door, and the hall fell silent.

Lu Peng smiled but said very seriously: "There are no government officials of mine today, just brothers in the family, so I have a very important matter, which is regarded as a private relationship between friends, and I want to ask Mr. Zhuge for advice, the reason why I do this is that I don't want to see the question you answered, so that the officials know, which will affect the correct judgment ability of the officials, and also let me have a bottom in my heart, and then decide the correct decision on Jiangdong." ”

Zhuge Jin solemnly waited for Lu Peng's inquiry.

Lu Peng stared at Zhuge Jin's eyes and asked word by word: "Sun Quan, do you have the heart to be the emperor?" ”

(End of chapter)