"What? Quit? I'm hiring people now, and you actually submitted your resignation and said you wouldn't do it? This is truly abominable! Sun Quan saw Huang Gai's resignation, and immediately said angrily: "How can there be such a person in this world? Not only did he not do things faithfully, but he dropped the chain for me at this critical moment, and my resignation was not allowed! ”

At this time, I saw Yu Flip and said slowly: "Lord, what Huang Gai said is actually not unreasonable, three months is indeed too urgent, if you want to complete the task calmly, it will take at least half a year." ”

"Half a year? How can this be done? Half a year is enough time for Cao Thief to recover, at that time, it is not so easy for us to attack Xuzhou, not to mention, after half a year, it happens to be winter, most of the time is blowing the northwest wind, the weather is cold Needless to say, even our transportation of materials is a headwind, the materials can not be delivered in time, we will lose half of the war, plus the vitality of Cao Thief can be restored, we will be defeated! Sun Quan snorted and said with some anger.

"Actually, if you are in a hurry, and at the same time apply for some people to be requisitioned from Wu County, it is not impossible to build a good stone city, but it seems that the lower officials should take care of their reputation and do not want to fall into the name of 'cool official' among the people, so they submitted their resignation to the lord, but it is no wonder that General Huang has always loved the people like a son, and is quite famous among the people, and now he suddenly asked him to do something to coerce the people, he must not want to ......"

"Hmph, I know that this old man doesn't want to do things for me sincerely, and he doesn't care about the overall situation for the sake of his reputation, it's really hateful! I immediately wrote a letter to him, and I rebuked him to do my best for me. ”

Sun Quan was furious, so he wrote a sternly worded letter to Huang Gai, asking Huang Gai not to cheat and cheat, and to complete the mission, otherwise, he would be dealt with by military law.

Huang Gai originally thought that he would be able to get approval soon when he submitted his resignation, but he didn't expect to get a stern criticism from Sun Quan, saying that Huang Gai ignored the overall situation in order to cherish his reputation, which was a selfish idea, hoping that Huang Gai could take care of the overall situation and complete the task on time, otherwise, he would face the infamy of disloyalty and injustice pointed out by thousands of people, and he would also face the punishment of military law.

"Even if I complete the task on time according to your requirements, I will definitely be pointed out by Qianfu in the future, don't the people of Jiangdong hate me to the core? I have been faithful to you, but I have not spoken of righteousness to the people. Now Huang Gai is also in a dilemma, not knowing whether he should be loyal to Sun Quan or be righteous to the people?

After some consideration, Huang Gai felt that he should still be loyal to Sun Quan, no matter what, Sun Quan's strategy of attacking Xuzhou was indeed in line with the interests of Wu State, for the sake of the overall situation, even if it was a cool official, what did it matter?

Then Huang Gai apologized to Sun Quan in a letter, saying that he really only cared about himself before, and did not take into account the overall situation, so that he made a wrong decision, and now he has been assigned by the lord, and he has just woken up from a dream, and he is willing to do his best to complete the task within three months.

After that, Huang Gai seemed to be a different person, changed his leniency to the people, issued an order, requisitioned the people's power, asked the people to take office on a time limit, and stepped up their work, and if they disobeyed, they first ate a whip, and then they were put in prison and tortured, and issued orders to officials at all levels, and the county orders of each county were directly responsible for the work of collecting and distributing people's power in their own county, and if they could not be completed within the time limit, they would be directly dismissed.

Under Huang Gai's strict requirements, officials at all levels became nervous, and the people immediately complained, and the sound of crying in the villages and towns spread all over the four fields, because the grain was about to be harvested, but only the young children and old women were left in the family, and with their strength, they did not know how long it would take to finish cutting the rice in the fields?

After hearing that it was Huang Gai's order, the people did not believe it at first, but later learned that it was really issued by Huang Gai, and their attitude towards Huang Gai immediately changed from respect to hatred, and the voices of bitter scolding continued, and all kinds of vicious language emerged one after another.

At this moment, a rumor quietly circulated among the people, and this rumor saved Huang Gai's reputation, because it caused the people to turn their attention from Huang Gai to Sun Quan, the lord of Jiangdong.

The central content of this rumor is that the former Marquis of Wu, Sun Ce, was not killed by Xu Gongmenke, but was actually assassinated by the current Wu lord Sun Quan.

This rumor immediately caused an uproar and caused great repercussions among the people.

The migrant workers were already very dissatisfied with their current situation, but now that they heard such rumors, they naturally spared no effort to write rafters in order to vent their dissatisfaction.

"Third child, have you heard? It turned out that the former general of Po and Jiangdong Sun Lang was not killed by Xu Gongmenke, but was actually assassinated by people sent by Wu Gong. ”

"Huh? It's true? How can this be? What is this for? ”

"What else? In order to fight for power. You don't know, Sun Lang loved his younger brother very much, but no matter what, people have sons, and now the son is still young, once this son grows up in the future, how can it be his turn to succeed to the throne? So take this opportunity to kill his brother, and he will be able to take the throne under the pretext that his nephew is still young. ”

"That's ruthless! He was only fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, right? I have such a heart! ”

"Hehe, if you don't be ruthless, can you persecute our people like this? Besides, since ancient times, hegemons have been ruthless, and for those who are in the top position, what is family affection? Only power is the most real. ”

"That's ...... too."

"The officers and soldiers are coming, go quickly, go quickly......"

At the beginning, these words were still said behind the backs of the officers and soldiers, and later even the officers and soldiers knew about it, and when they listened to the people talk about these rumors, they almost turned a blind eye, which caused the people to be more bold, and while working, they loudly arranged all kinds of things that Sun Quan was not doing.

Only half a month later, the rumors became known among the migrant workers who built Stone City, and after another half a month, the rumors quietly spread throughout Danyang County through those officers and soldiers, and now Danyang County can be said to be known to almost everyone except for the party Sun Quan.

Huang Gai was originally prepared to take into account the overall situation and be loyal to Sun Quan even if he sacrificed his reputation and fell into the name of a cool official, but now after hearing this rumor, he was no longer willing to work for Sun Quan, and left a letter one night to explain his intention to resign, and then hung up his crown and left, and the construction of the stone city was forced to stop......