"What a pity! was still killed by Cao Xuan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

The one who made this exclamation was Chen Gong, who had just returned from Jiaozhou. In fact, Lu Ren has already sent personnel to the coastal areas of Jiaozhou to set up trading sites very early, and there has been a little bit of movement in Jiaozhou, so now in the Zhuya and Guangzhou areas, a considerable number of residents are actually "stolen" by Lu Ren from Jiaozhou.

However, due to the limitation of strength, Lu Ren was not able to take any big action against the Jiaozhou area for the time being, so he could only build a trading station and absorb some more people under the premise of maintaining a certain amount of trade with Jiaozhou. And because of his special status as a guest, Chen Gong would not officially be from Lu Ren, so he asked for orders to go to Jiaozhou several years ago, with a Lu Ren's ......

In modern parlance, Chen Gong's situation is a bit like a so-called "chain dealer" or "agent", in charge of the affairs of the trading site in the Jiaozhou area. At the right time every year, Chen Gong will come to Yizhou to report to Lu Ren on the work situation, and at the same time to see if Lu Ren has any suitable things here that can be moved to Jiaozhou to sell.

I won't talk about this, just say that after listening to Chen Gong's exclamation, Lu Ren and Shirley glanced at each other, and then shook their heads together. In fact, later generations have analyzed too much about Lao Cao's ability to escape with his life, and the most are two opinions.

The first opinion is that neither Sun Quan nor Liu Bei dared to take off Lao Cao's head from their own side, so they were driving Lao Cao to each other's area. Because once Lao Cao's head is taken off by his own side, then he will face the crazy revenge of Lao Cao's descendants. Although Sun Quan and Liu Bei won the Battle of Chibi, they were still absolutely weak in terms of overall strength, and it took a while to recover their strength during the war, and they could not retaliate with the crazy descendants of Lao Cao, who owned half of the world;

The second opinion is about what Zhuge Liang said: "Watching the sky at night, Cao Thief has not died, and it is also a good thing to leave this favor in Yun Chang". If the first opinion is put aside, then Zhuge Liang is mainly worried that if Lao Cao dies, the situation in the north may have unforeseen major changes. One of the most likely is that Cao's sons are vying for power, which in turn leads to a new round of chaos in the north. In view of the fact that Liu Bei has no territory and no strength now, if it really triggers a great chaos in the north, even if Liu Bei's side can get some benefits in the chaos, the person who can really get the biggest sweetness will be Sun Quan, not Liu Bei.

In contrast, once Sun Quan's power has expanded rapidly, it will be difficult for Liu Bei to compete with it, and it is very likely that the world will be Sun Quan, which is not what Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei want to see. And if Lao Cao is still in charge in the north, the Sun and Liu families must maintain an alliance posture...... To put it simply, keeping Lao Cao's life is to maintain a situation where the three families check and balance each other, and at the same time can buy time and space for Liu Bei's expansion of power.

At that moment, Lu Ren smiled and explained these to Chen Gong. Speaking of which, the current Lu Ren is the lord of Yizhou after all, and showing some good insight in a timely manner will bring confidence to the staff. And after Lu Ren finished saying these ready-made analyses, Chen Gong nodded suddenly and approvingly.

The next thing is Lu Ren's own side. First of all, since the Battle of Chibi has been fought, all families are in a state where they have to recover their strength after the war, which is a good opportunity to make money and "steal" people. At this point, it is mainly due to the fact that the Yangtze River waterway can no longer run, and the connection with Liu Bei can only rely on the line from Guangzhou to Guiyang; On Sun Quan's side, due to the existence of the Lu clan of Wu County, there is basically no problem; Lao Cao's side should send envoys to have a relationship with Lao Cao again, after all, Lao Cao's side has a solid foundation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and this Nima is the most profitable area, and there is no problem.

Thirdly, some of the things Lu Ren had on hand would take about one to two years, and Lu Ren now had more or less spare energy on hand and could start extending his hand to other regions. However, at present, the main area is in the Sanya area of Zhuya. Because Lu Cheng and Lu Xin, who were on the other side of the Pearl Cliff earlier, sent news that they had found a surface-type iron-rich ore with rich reserves, good quality, and quite easy to mine in Sanya. Lu Cheng and Lu Xin have already selected a suitable site for building a city and a port near the mine, and now that the infrastructure construction in the urban area has begun to take shape, Lu Cheng and Lu Xin naturally hope that Lu Ren can send more people to carry out the next step of development work. For this reason, Lu Renke sent Zhen Mi, one of his wives, to Zhuya.

In terms of time, when the development work on the other side of Zhuya is almost completed, many things here in Lu Ren should also be almost completed, and then according to the strategic plan formulated by Lu Ren, Lu Ren can take Zhuya New City as a foothold and go to Jiaozhou and Annan from both sea and land routes to loot the population, with the intention of using these captured people to supplement the huge labor demand in Zhuya and Guangzhou.

During this period, on the side of foreign enemies, Lu Ren was more worried about what adverse impact Sun Quan's side might have on his side. Although Sun Shangxiang will definitely try to maintain a friendly relationship between Lu Ren and Sun Quan, and Sun Quan's eyes will definitely be focused on the land in Jingzhou during this period, who can say clearly about the messy things in the troubled times?

Jingzhou's wealth and strategic significance were indeed coveted by Sun Quan for a long time. And when Sun Quan was going to sweep Jing Chu, he didn't want anything to go wrong in his backyard. Therefore, in terms of potential, Sun Quan should have worked hard to maintain friendly relations with Lu Ren during this period. But on some things, Lu Ren didn't dare to take it lightly.

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As soon as the Battle of Chibi was over, a contradiction broke out between the two families of Sun and Liu, and the center of the contradiction was the dispute over the ownership of Jingzhou. Like the original history, Zhou Yu's troops sent to the Nanjun area, and fought with Cao Ren, the guard general in the Nanjun area, in the end, but in the end, Liu Bei, who was sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, picked up a big bargain. Of course, Zhou Yu was angry, but for the sake of the overall situation, he still had to temporarily withdraw his troops and support Sun Quan, who was attacking Hefei.

Liu Bei worked hard to get Jiangling in Nanjun, plus the original Jiangxia, and the Jingnan area has basically been included in Liu Bei's hands. It's just that the joy in the banquet is joyful, and the next day of the banquet, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang discussed with the army, and Zhuge Liang reminded Liu Bei without worrying that it is easy to excessively intensify the contradictions between the Sun and Liu families by relying on Jingzhou in this way. Liu Bei now needed time to consolidate his de facto possession of Jingzhou, and at the same time needed to maintain a relatively good relationship with Sun Wu to deter Lao Cao in the north.

At this point, it may be said that Lu Ren has somewhat miscalculated on this issue. Lu Ren originally thought that the trend at this time would still be like the original history, "Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, borrowed and did not pay it back", but ignored that he had been implementing the Taohui strategy before, and as a businessman, he would not have a big impact on Zhuhou. But now Lu Ren is already an official candidate, and he has made a qualitative leap in his influence on the candidates. What's worse is that Zhuge Liang has been to Yizhou before, and he is relatively familiar with the situation in Yizhou, so when Zhuge Liang formulated the strategic plan at this time, he included Lu Ren in it......

On the Jiangdong side, not to mention how depressed Sun Shangxiang was after sending Zhao Yu away, just to say that as soon as Zhao Yu left on the front foot, Sun Quan summoned Zhang Zhao, Lu Su, Lu Meng and others to discuss the issue of Lu Ren.

"Lu Ren's Yizhou and Huiji face each other across the sea, and although Lu Ren secretly helped each other in the Battle of Chibi before, he thought that Lu Ren's move was a self-preservation plan, and he was really forced to do it! Moreover, although the warships of the other sea had never appeared on the waterway of the Yangtze River, the news that came back from Yiqing and Youzhou was by no means as useless as he himself said.

"I think that although Yuan Shao's third son is not as good as Yuan Shao, it has also made Cao Wei jealous, but Lu Ren's sea fleet can take away a large number of people from the northern coastal land, which is tantamount to pulling teeth from the mouth of a tiger in Gu's opinion. If you don't have a strong force, you really can't do this. From this point of view, Lu Ren's military strength should not be underestimated. If he invades the coast of our Jiangdong from the sea, my Jiangdong may not be able to resist it. Therefore, thinking that Lu Ren is in Yizhou is tantamount to a tiger and a hungry wolf lying in front of the east gate of my Jiangdong. But I wonder what a few people think about this? ”

Zhang Zhao stroked his white beard and gently said, "What the lord said is very true!" Zhao also thought that Lu Ren was in Yizhou, although he had a good relationship with my Jiangdong because of the momentary situation, but after Cao Guibei returned, his potential danger had gone, and it was inevitable that he would peep at my Jiangdong after a long time. I think he used to only boast of being a businessman, but as soon as the time came, he immediately changed and became the state pastor of Dahan Xinzhou, which shows his obscure ability. And Yizhou and my Jiangdong Huiji and Wu County are only across the sea, and the other business is extremely profitable, and there is no worry about money and food. If I Jiangdong sit idly by and let it sit on the defensive, it will be a trouble for my Jiangdong henchmen in the future! What's more, then Lu Ren took advantage of the convenience of the merchant to make friends with the Cao and Liu families, if he had bad intentions and secretly united with either of the Cao and Liu families, my Jiangdong would be in great danger if the east and the west could not be taken into account! ”

Lu Su had just returned from Liu Bei not long ago. Out of consideration for the overall situation, although he tried his best to persuade Sun Quan and Zhou Yu to maintain, at least maintain a good alliance with Liu Bei on the surface, but Lu Su had no such concerns about Lu Ren. And when Lu Su was there with Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang had vaguely told Lu Su in his speech, saying that Lu Ren's strength was by no means as bad as Lu Ren himself said, in fact, he was secretly reminding Lu Su to be careful of what Lu Ren might do on his side, so Lu Su really didn't have a good impression of Lu Ren at this time...... (To be continued.) )