"Is this the capital of the Tang Kingdom?"

Sun Qian stood in front of the gate of Jinyang City, looked at Jinyang with people coming and going, and let out a sigh of emotion: "If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have thought that the bitter cold place in the mouths of the people in the past would be so prosperous now." ”

Sun Gan tidied up his clothes, took out the document to prove his identity, and said to the soldiers guarding the city gate: "Annoying, Sun Gan, the envoy of the Lu State, asks the King of Tang for advice. ”

The soldier guarding the door didn't react at once, looked at Sun Gan and said: "Go and go, what is the country of Laoshizi Lu, I haven't heard of it, and besides, King Tang is what you want to see." ”

Hearing the soldier's words, a trace of anger flashed in Sun Gan's eyes, and he scolded loudly: "This is the hospitality of your Tang Kingdom? It's a long insight! ”

Sun Gan's words attracted a lot of onlookers, Sun Gan saw this, sneered and said: "I am the envoy of the Lu State, on the order of the King of Lu, I came to envoy to your country, I never thought that the Lu State was actually despised by a pawn, from this point of view, the Tang State is really some arrogant people. ”

Sun Gan's words immediately attracted the angry eyes of a large number of people, they have always been proud of being a Tang person, but they didn't expect to see someone insulting Tang Guo at the door of a house, but fortunately, they were still rational and did not directly fight Sun Gan.

"What, you still can't do it?" Sun Gan looked at a few eager men beside him, with a cold face, and Sun Gan's bodyguard did not show weakness, protecting Sun Gan and confronting the people.

"What's going on?" The commotion at the city gate attracted the attention of the guard, who lined up the crowd and came to the door, and asked when he saw a few people facing him.

The soldier called out to Captain Zhang respectfully, and then told him about the incident.

After hearing this, Captain Zhang frowned, turned his head to look at Sun Gan, but his eyes were slightly unhappy, and he asked emotionlessly: "You said that you are the envoy of the Lu State, do you have a certificate?" ”

Sun Qian also heard the soldier call him the captain, presumably this person was the city gate guard, so he also put away his cold expression, took out the identity document and the official document, handed it to the captain, and said, "This is the certificate." ”

The lieutenant took the document and opened it to see that Sun Gan's name was written on it, as well as his current official position in Lu State.

Most of the official positions in various countries inherited the Han Dynasty and implemented the system of three princes and nine secretaries, and this great Honglu was one of the nine secretaries.

Sun Qian saw that the lieutenant opened the document and watched it seriously, he sneered in his heart, and said secretly: Pretend, as if you are really literate.

The lieutenant was slightly shocked when he saw that Sun Gan's official position in Lu was not low, and at the same time, his attitude had changed.

After a while, the lieutenant returned the text to Sun Qian, bowed slightly and said: "I don't know that Lu Guoda Honglu is here, please forgive me for my negligence." ”

"Those who don't know are not guilty, and I was wrong just now." Sun Qian said magnanimously.

As everyone knows, Sun Gan was extremely surprised in his heart now, especially when this lieutenant called out his official position, Sun Gan was even more surprised.

Could it be that the ordinary generals of the Tang State are already literate?

Sun Qian's heart couldn't help but become solemn.

"Please wait here for a while, and I will report it immediately." The captain ignored Sun Gan's shock, and saluted and said.

"Well, just go, Lieutenant, I happen to be here to enjoy the scenery of the Tang Kingdom." Sun Qian suppressed his thoughts and said lightly.

The lieutenant nodded, ordered his corporal to take care of him, and hurried to the city.

In the palace of the Tang King, Zhang Zai, who was idle, suddenly received a report from the soldiers that an envoy from Lu had arrived.

"Go and invite the envoy to the palace" Zhang Zai faintly guessed Sun Gan's purpose, and then ordered.

After the others left, Zhang Zai continued: "Go and ask the prime minister." ”

After a while, the king came to the point and asked, "I don't know what happened when the king called?" ”

Zhang Zai told Sun Qian's envoy, and Zhang Zai asked, "I don't know what Mr. thinks?" ”

Wang Meng stroked his beard and said: "With the national strength of Wei, it is more than enough to destroy the Lu State, and the alliance between Wei and Jin can be regarded as our enemy, so it is not impossible to send troops to threaten the rear of Wei." ”

Wang Meng was concise and to the point, and quickly said his thoughts.

Zhang Zai nodded, he also thought that he could send troops, according to the informant, the Lu State was much weaker than the Wei State, not only in terms of national strength, but also in the combat power of the soldiers and the comparison of talents.

From the comparison of troops alone, the two countries are not much different, but the combat effectiveness is not the same, the armament of the soldiers of the Lu State has been abandoned for a long time, since Tao Qian was still the state pastor, even if Liu Bei recruited the soldiers later, the combat power of the soldiers has not increased much.

As for the generals in the army, there are dozens of generals of the Wei State, all of whom are capable of recruiting and fighting well, while General Liu Bei only has two people, although there is still Lu Bu, but the two have always had a disagreement, and it is impossible to cooperate seamlessly.

And in terms of strategists, Liu Bei was even more crushed, and now Liu Bei has no clear conspiracy, and Chen Deng is very selfish, and has the intention of colluding with Wei.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the state of Lu will definitely be destroyed.

"It seems that Li Jing's army is going to move." Zhang Zai sighed.

Li Jing was now stationed in Hedong, and it was also the only place where he could directly send troops to threaten the Wei state.

At present, the Sili region has been divided, the Tang State occupies Hedong, the Wei State has fought Hanoi and Henan Yin, and the other counties are occupied by Li Dao and others.

This required Li Jing to put enough pressure on the Wei army in the Hanoi area, and it was best to take Hanoi, and then threaten Yanzhou and force Cao Cao to lead the army back to help.

"King, the envoy of the Lu State has arrived."

After a while, the guards at the gate came to report that Sun Gan, the envoy of the Lu State, had arrived.

Zhang Zai and Wang Meng glanced at each other, and said loudly: "Please!" ”

Outside the gate of the palace, Sun Qian tidied up his clothes and walked towards the palace with his head held high.

"Foreign minister Sun Qian pays a visit to King Tang." Sun Qian bowed and said loudly.

"Excuse me, seat."

Zhang Zai looked at Sun Qian, dressed in green clothes and wearing a scarf, probably running around for days, so he looked a little tired, but his graceful bearing was still difficult to hide.

"King Xie."

Sun Qian thanked him, then walked to Zhang Zaizhi's seat and bent down to sit down.

"I don't know why your envoy came?" Zhang Zai looked at Sun Qian, didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly.

"Qian's trip is to promote the alliance between the Tang and Lu families." Sun Qian never mentioned asking for help.

"Oh, my Tang Kingdom oppresses Yuan Shao in the east, Nanping is a small country, fertile for thousands of miles, and Wufu is rich in people, so why do you need to form an alliance with others?" Zhang Zai looked at Sun Qian with interest, wanting to hear what could come out of his mouth that could move him.

When Sun Qian heard Zhang Zai's words, his heart tightened, the strength of the Tang State was obvious to all, but for the sake of this alliance, he had been preparing for a long time, and of course he would not give up lightly.