How much power does one person have? Maybe it's small, maybe it's big, and it has to do with the ability that the person has and the position he is in. If he is an ordinary person, his power may only change his own and his own destiny, but if he is a person with ability or status, then his power can change the fate of thousands of people and even the fate of the entire country.www.biquge.info It's like...... It's like the dead Lu Su.

Lu Su, who used to be the left governor of Jiangdong, was certainly not an ordinary person, and the trust he possessed from Sun Quan also made his ability enough to influence the entire world. The words he said to Sun Quan before his death were firmly remembered by Sun Quan in his mind, and after returning to the palace, he recorded them and handed them over to several of his cronies to discuss, added many plans, and directly determined this strategy that was related to the general trend of the world in the next few years - Sun Wu, who had been hovering between Cao Wei and Li Tang, once again had his own clear strategic goal: to unite Cao Wei to resist Li Tang.

“…… The threat from that country to the west is growing. We have to have a way to deal with it. However, we all know that with the strength of our family, we are never the opponent of the other side, so we must unite the enemies of our enemies as our allies. …… Yes, we must unite with Cao Wei, otherwise we will most likely be defeated by that. Although it is a bit self-evident to say this, at this point we need to recognize our current situation. For a long time in the future, we and Cao Wei will both lose and prosper......" On the main hall of the palace, Sun Quan, who had just changed into a white suit, said loudly to his courtiers in the main hall: "In order to form an alliance with Cao Wei, I plan to send someone to propose to Cao Wei, and I plan to marry the second princess Sun Wei to Cao Wei's crown prince Cao Rui, and take a princess of Wei as a concubine for my crown prince Sun Dengqiu, and exchange the warship construction technology for Cao Wei's artillery casting technology. Wei's navy lacks the necessary shipbuilding technology, and our navy lacks corresponding artillery support, only the combination of our two sides can completely defeat Li Tang's army at sea. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming......!" Sun Quan's words had already been discussed by the ministers. Although it was the first time he said it, because there was not much inquiry in his words, everyone knew that this was his own majesty had made up his mind.

"Then Your Majesty, are we going to ...... Li Sheng's shop with us," a minister suggested tentatively.

"We're just going to unite with Cao Wei. This union is only superficial. Our ultimate goal is to be a fisherman, so we try our best to reconcile with Cao Wei without messing with Li Sheng. We can do it in private, but on the surface we have to strictly follow the original treaty. I don't want to happen again, like the last time Li Sheng raided Jianye. Sun Quan said loudly.

"No......!" The people took the order.

Next, I arranged a series of candidates. Sun Quan sent Yu Tuo as an envoy to Luoyang to seek alliances. But since it's not a 100,000-strong thing. Yu turned and didn't go fast, so when he was about to arrive in Luoyang, he suddenly got something very unfavorable to the purpose of his trip: Cao Pi died.

Cao Pi's death was different from Lu Su's death. No matter how Lu Su says, he is just a courtier, and no matter how high his specifications are, he will only have an impact within a few ranges, but Cao Pi is the emperor, and his death is Cao Wei's national funeral. According to the practice of not marrying for three years at the national funeral, Yu turned over a very important task here, but there is no need to talk about the marriage of Sun Wu and Cao Wei.

“…… It's a headache. How did this happen to me? After getting the news, Yu Fu no longer dared to move forward "slowly", but hurried to Luoyang and lived in the post house of Wei in the name of the messenger of mourning.

Because he was the first messenger to come to mourn, although everyone understood that he was not really here to mourn, Cao Wei still gave him extremely high standard treatment.

After that, since Yu turned over with his own ability, the dragon and the phoenix passed in the whole process, and most of the joints of the alliance were opened up by means such as personal visits. He persuaded most of Cao Wei's side that after the entire funeral ceremony, he put forward the proposal for this alliance, but basically no one objected.

Regarding the alliance plan mentioned by Sun Wu, the people on Cao Wei's side did not value Sun Wu's proposal to marry, but on the deal made by Sun Wu's side: exchanging artillery technology for warship technology, which was a great attraction for Cao Wei's people. They knew that among the navies of the countries, in terms of shipbuilding technology alone, even Li Tang's side was not as good as Dongwu's side. Just by looking at the fact that they can directly use ordinary wood as the keel to build a huge ship of 20,000 stones, you can take a closer look.

"A good cannon needs a good ship." Cao Wei's people are not stupid, of course they understand this.

Everyone is willing to do transactions, as for marriage outside of transactions. There is some room for negotiation between the two sides. Of course, this does not mean that this matter is not good, and the two sides cannot get along. It's just that Cao Pi died, Cao Rui became the emperor from the crown prince, and Cao Rui has no wife. If the matter of marriage is mentioned in this regard, even if it is not discussed in terms of the current national mourning, I am afraid that it will never be. The world's Youyou people will say this: "Sun Quan wants to marry his daughter to Cao Rui in order to seize the foundation of the Cao family." "Cao Rui is the emperor, so Sun Wei, who is Cao Rui's first wife, is naturally the queen, and if there is no accident, then Sun Wei and Cao Rui's eldest son may naturally become the crown prince of Great Wei. At that time, Cao Rui will have a "hundred years", and the crown prince will be on the throne, won't Sun Wu have the opportunity to control the lifeblood of the Cao family? Maybe it's too early to say this, but people like Jia Xu, Chen Yu, and Chen Qun can see this clearly, and they don't want such a thing to happen - because Cao Wei hesitated a little when it came to getting married. It is no wonder that when the new monarch was first established, his monarchy had not yet been fully grasped, and the courtiers of the older generation such as Jia Xu were still very capable in these major events.

“…… So don't talk about getting married, it's not very suitable to talk about this now. Let's talk about marriage first, shall we? As one of Sun Quan's ministers, he still has a deep understanding of Sun Quan's intentions, he knows that Sun Quan did not use such a relationship to plot Cao Wei's intentions, and he also understands what position this matter occupies in Sun Quan's strategy, he saw where Cao Wei's crux of this matter is, so he boldly said such a solution to the problem, "First set a marriage, After the three-year national funeral is over, the wedding will be officially held at the appointed time. ”

At first glance, this solution seems to be no different from the original proposal. But in Jia Xu's ears, they all understood that Sun Wu was showing his sincerity and explaining to himself that they didn't have such dirty ideas on their side. “…… Make an appointment for a wedding? This is where the key lies in this path. What Yu Chuan actually promised them was that even after the three-year state funeral, they would not be married immediately, and the time of this was up to you to decide, and you could have canonized Cao Rui, the new queen, before that.

“…… In that case, we have set things up? "Since Yu Tuo has made such a promise on behalf of Sun Wu, it is naturally difficult for Jia Xu and them to shirk. First, there is no need to shirk such a good thing; Second, having a relationship with Sun Wu has no intention of adding a layer of guarantee to the existing covenant. Although the people here know how strong this guarantee is, they don't believe in it themselves, but the rest of the world believes in it. So for the sake of the people of the world to believe this, they also confirmed it.

After everything was over, Yu Pan naturally said goodbye. As for the betrothal, it was only understood among the people, but it was not spread to the world. After all, engagement is a "happy event", and now that Dawei is in the midst of a state funeral, it is not easy to mention this matter. However, such a major agreement had to deceive the people below, and the monarchs and important ministers between the three kingdoms understood this. Not long after Yu turned up and returned to Jiangdong, Li Tang, who got the exact news, convened an emergency cabinet meeting because of this. The resolution reached between Eastern Wu and Northern Wei was indeed a big deal for Li Sheng. Although this major event was fundamentally caused by the plan on his side, the appearance of this event was much more than his side expected. How to deal with it? Faced with the unmistakable message from the other party, Li Sheng couldn't help but be a little nervous. They all paid attention to one point: "Have we grown strong enough to deal with the simultaneous attacks of Cao Wei and Sun Wu?" ”

“…… Your Majesty, this is Weichen's comfort, Weichen forgot that Cao Wei still had such a tail in Liaodong. Luo Zhao, who was full of white hair, said in a deep voice.

Perhaps because of the shipbuilding technology on Sun Wu's side, at the same time that the alliance completed the peace, Jia Xu made a move against the Gongsun family in Liaodong. For a while, the detectives were everywhere, the source of the gunsmoke, and where was Gongsun Kang, who had been exposed to the conspiracy, was Jia Xu's opponent, and he immediately became Jia Xu's prisoner. Later, Jia Xu was charged with conspiracy and rebellion, and played the Wei Emperor Cao Rui, razed the three clans of the Gongsun family, and took over all the foundations of the Gongsun family, including the fleet and the shipyard of the Gongsun family. This is what happened on October 30 of this year. Jia Xu really used a thunderous means to eliminate the uneasy hidden danger of Wei in Liaodong at once, and even doubled the power of Wei's navy, which directly caused the retreat of Li Tang's Beiyang Navy -- now that Cao Wei's naval strength has risen greatly, the warships of Li Tang's Beiyang Navy are no longer enough to suppress Wei's coastal areas.

Due to the suddenness of this incident, Luo Zhao's white clothes did not get the relevant news, which caused Li Sheng's side to suffer a large loss: a large amount of materials were directly detained by Cao Wei's sailors because of this one. Before getting the definite news, thirty treasure ships had already been hijacked, and the losses on Li Tang's side reached the point of two million silver coins.

This is not a small amount. Naturally, someone needs to come forward to take responsibility, and the main reason for all this is the lack of intelligence, and it is natural that Luo Zhaozi came out to ask Li Sheng for his guilt.

"Zhong Ming, it's not your fault either. Now that Cao Wei's 'ghost scheme' is no longer under our 'white clothes', it is normal for you to have some deficiencies occasionally, but don't blame yourself anymore. I have always been reluctant to judge people by their faults, and everything is like a war, and there is never always a winner. That's the end of it. The key now is how to solve the joint problem of Cao Wei and Sun Quan. Although our strength is far above Cao Wei and Sun Wu, it is doubtful whether we can adapt to the cooperation of the two of them. Well, I'd like to hear your thoughts on what this is all about. Li Sheng opened his mouth leisurely, while appeasing Luo Zhao, who was blaming himself, while raising the most critical issue at the moment.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Sheng said that the matter was over, and this Luo Zhao naturally had no reason to kneel down and ask for guilt, he bowed down to Li Sheng a few times, and then quietly retreated, but as in the past.

Next, to discuss the way to deal with it, Liu Ba, who was the commander of the door, suggested on the spot that Li Sheng send someone to Jiangdong to ask about such a situation: "...... We also had a paper alliance with Jiangdong in the past, saying that we would gather the strength of Jiangnan to fight against Cao Wei. Although the Jiangdong side did not understand the 'betrayal of the alliance' on this, it formed a family with Cao Wei's side and made a technical transaction with it, which is clearly a violation of the alliance. I think we need to warn Koto about this kind of thing. Although this warning is not useful, it is also an indication of our attitude. ”

"That's right!" Li Sheng nodded understandingly. He knew that this matter did not have any effect on alleviating the matter, and Sun Quan's side had already made a decision on the matter of forming an alliance with Cao Wei, and he would definitely not change it because of what he said, but even if it was so, he would have to go over and ask about it. After all, this is a matter of righteousness, who let the alliance with Sun Quan's side not break on the surface - heh, no matter what, this righteousness still has to be focused.

"Your Majesty, the crown prince is twenty-two, and he is looking for a weak crown adult, and His Majesty should choose a concubine for His Royal Highness the Prince. Since Sun Quan of Jiangdong wants to marry the Cao family and it is not conducive to us, then we naturally can't make them happy like this. Why don't we also seek a family affair from that Sun Quan, we ask Sun Quan for His Royal Highness the Prince! Seeing that the topic was brought to Sun Quan, Liao Li, who had always rarely spoken at such a military strategy meeting, spoke. He gave Li Sheng and them such a seemingly shady idea.

"Uh...... What did you say? Li Sheng couldn't help but be startled when he heard Liao Li's words, and suddenly became a little stunned, "Talking about this, why did it get to my son?" Li Sheng was a little confused.

"I would like to ask Your Majesty to ask Dongwu for the crown prince." Liao Li looked at Li Sheng's stunned face, but calmly said it again.

"I heard you right. You said you want Bin'er to marry Sun Quan's daughter? Li Sheng clearly heard it, but he didn't seem to believe that someone really said such a point, so he wanted to confirm it again.

"That's true." Liao Li nodded heavily with that ugly face.

"Why do that?" Li Sheng asked puzzled. He thinks Liao Li has to give himself some explanation on this point.

"Your Majesty, imagine if Sun Quan married both a daughter to Cao Wei and a daughter to us. So what will happen to Sun Quan in the eyes of the world? Liao Li smiled slightly, but asked Li Sheng rhetorically.

"How? If this is the case, the people of the world are afraid that they will regard Sun Quan as a weak and incompetent wallgrass, a fisherman who sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight. Li Sheng was slightly stunned when he heard Liao Li say this, and then subconsciously replied, and then came to his senses: "You mean to use the strategy of courting relatives to disrupt Sun Quan's calculation of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight?" ”

"Exactly!" Liao Li nodded heavily.

"Uh...... I still have to take a closer look at this matter. If Bin'er is willing, I will naturally agree. After all, there is nothing wrong with the scheme itself. But if Bin'er doesn't want to, I don't have anything to say. I am the emperor and Bin'er's father, and I don't want Bin'er to live a happy life. Li Sheng nodded and said lightly. This is Li Sheng's current decision, and it is also his final decision.

"Nuo ......" Since Li Sheng said so, these cabinet officials under Li Sheng can't say anything more. They all know the personality of their sovereign: although their sovereign is good at accepting advice many times, he is very stubborn and does not listen to anyone when it comes to other things. Just like right now.

"Alright. Let's talk a little bit more about the issue at hand. What Liu Ba and Liao Li said earlier are all ways to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Its role is also limited. I wondered, do you have a better way? When Li Sheng heard them agree, he happily raised the original question again: how to deal with the damned alliance of Wei and Wu.

"Did the lord turn what was originally virtual into reality? Cao Wei has already built another 10,000-stone battleship, and like us, it is also an all-artillery battleship; And Sun Wu is also building a 20,000-stone battleship. This is a very bad thing for us. Although it is still a matter of whether they can create it or not, if they do, I am afraid that our navy will no longer have an advantage at all. Although Cao Wei and Sun Wu's artillery is heavy, it is also a cannon after all. Its power is enough to bombard our warships. Xu Shu said worriedly.

This is also a fact. In the eyes of those who are not very familiar with naval warfare, naval warfare seems to be a matter of no fancy affairs, and whoever has a large ship and a large number of cannons seems to be able to win the battle -- this is also a simple truth. Although it may not be the whole team, it is also ten against seven or eight, which is not much different. Therefore, these people under Li Sheng were wary of the shipbuilding matters on both sides of Cao Wei and Sun Wu. They were very worried that Cao Wei and Sun Wu had really built the battleship.

"Hmm...... It makes a lot of sense to say that. Cao Wei's shipbuilding technology is far inferior to ours, but Sun Quan's shipbuilding technology is not to be underestimated. Although it is not necessarily said that the bigger the ship, the better, but if they do build a warship of more than 10,000 stones, it will be a real threat to our current warships. Li Sheng said for a while, but he agreed with Xu Shu's statement: "Yuan Zhi, do you mean to start building our original 8,000-stone battleship on paper like this?" ”

"Exactly." Xu Shu nodded heavily, "After building the battleship of eight thousand stones, we should also build a warship of a larger specification." The 8,000-stone battleship is just the beginning. ”

"Just the beginning? Yuanzhi, you're wrong. Zhuge Liang on the side heard Xu Shu say this, but he quickly went out and said: "As far as our current technology is concerned, the eight thousand stone battleship is already our limit. Although we can build a warship with more than 10,000 stones, what do we use to drive such a large hull? The ship is big, but the ship is very heavy, and the speed must not be fast, so why should we worry about their Wanshi battleship in such a situation? Besides, this naval operation is not something that can be formed into a combat force by one or two warships. Even Wanshi's warships need to be ten or twenty ships in size to form. If we use a battleship of 8,000 stones to form a combat power, and then seek a battleship of more than 10,000 stones to form a combat power, I am afraid that not only will it last for a long time, but even the money and food will need to be consumed a lot. ”

"Then what do you think of Kong Ming?" Li Sheng asked Zhuge Liang directly. He knew a little bit that Zhuge Liang seemed to have been looking for someone to study the matter of the navy in the recent time.

"My lord, do I think you want to directly develop a warship of more than 10,000 stones?" Zhuge Liang thought about it and tried to make such a suggestion.

"More than 10,000 stones? Maybe you want to, maybe not. Li Sheng thought about it for a long time, but gave such a very vague answer.

"How?" Hearing what Li Sheng said, everyone in the hall was very puzzled by this.

"I don't want to set a hard and fast rule on how many stones our ships have to reach. I just want to determine one thing, what level of speed, defense, and attack must be achieved by our ships. Cao Wei and Sun Wu are both working on more powerful warships, so naturally we can't lag behind. I think that our new warship should be like this: it can reach a speed of 70 miles per hour under favorable wind conditions, and 20 miles per hour by water ships in adverse wind conditions; It can resist the two salvo attacks of our battleship with 5,000 stone at a mile away, and at the same time can be equipped with 100 800 jin artillery and 20 2,000 jin guns. Li Sheng thought for a moment and said his own standard, "If we can reach such a level, then with our cannon, we will completely gain a great advantage over Cao Wei and Sun Wu." ”

"Your Majesty plans to equip the new warship with two thousand pounds of cannons?" Zhuge Liang heard Li Sheng say so much, and immediately understood what Li Sheng's plan was: "Your Majesty wants to develop a warship with excellent defense and extremely high speed, and has an extremely long range." Combat with such a battleship. We could have attacked from a greater distance. In this way, it is like in the old days when we had a bed crossbow and the opponent only had bows and arrows, because we attacked them from outside the enemy's range, so we would take almost no damage. ”

"Exactly." Li Sheng nodded heavily: "As long as the range of our artillery is stronger than theirs, the power of our artillery is greater than theirs, and the speed of our warships is faster than theirs." Then we will never lose to them in battle, as long as we are really serious about arranging the battle line that we had planned. ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" There are not many people who really understand the arrangement of these naval warships, although there are many people under Li Sheng who understand, but most of them are young students, but they have not yet risen to the level of Shangshu, so Li Sheng is the only one who is familiar with naval affairs in this hall. Since Li Sheng himself said it so surely, because of Li Sheng's status and Li Sheng's own ability, those ministers who didn't know much about it naturally had no choice but to respond in such a low voice.

"Alright, alright!" Li Sheng didn't seem to see such a scene, but he waved his hand again and again and said: "I'm not used to hearing such words, so it's better to say less in the future." All of you in the hall are my cronies and courtiers, so there is no need to make any false courtesy. Let's continue to discuss how to deal with the alliance between the two countries. Well, the strength of the Navy needs to be strengthened, and the final refitting of the Army must also be accelerated. At such a critical time, Sun Wu and Cao Wei naturally had capable people on their side who understood that there could never be distrust between them, so it was very likely that they would withdraw the defense of the border between the two countries and focus their attention on our side. It is to be expected that the enemy we will face will be much more powerful than we originally thought. To do this, we need to seize the time and be ready to meet the enemy at any time.

"Does Your Majesty think that the enemy will attack us soon?" Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu both heard the nervousness and worry in Li Sheng's words, and hurriedly asked.

"Isn't that so?" Li Sheng was somewhat strange about this.

"Your Majesty, Cao Wei and Sun Wu have just formed an alliance, and although there is a sense of urgency that they have to be so united under our coercion, it will take some time for the forces between the two sides to be integrated and the water armies between the two sides to be redressed and redressed. At present, when Cao Pi died and Cao Wei was mourned, Cao Wei's side decided that it was impossible to make any war against us because of this. Because that is unfilial piety to Cao Pi, you can't use swords in the national funeral. Since Cao Wei didn't dare to move, then Sun Wuzi didn't dare to move either, maybe they would use some conspiracies against us between the two, but they still wouldn't do large-scale moves. In terms of Cao Wei's three-year mourning, we still have at least three years to prepare. Zhuge Liang explained to Li Sheng with a smile.

"That's true." Everyone nodded earnestly and affirmatively.

"Are you not afraid, in case...... Sun Quan's guy has a character named Lu Meng under him, and what he is best at is sneak attacks. Li Sheng felt that something was wrong, and immediately reminded everyone: "Don't forget the way of the art of war." When we think that everything may not be like that, the enemy is the most likely to deliver the most fatal blow to us. But this is something that can't be guarded against. ”

"Your Majesty? Did Lu Meng's sneak attack get a lifetime? If Cao Pi is here, we will naturally be wary of Lu Meng's sneak attack, but at the moment, Wei is in a national mourning. It is absolutely impossible for them to send troops, and with the power of Eastern Wu alone, even if they use sneak attacks to gain temporary benefits. But how long can Sun Wu last in the national battle caused by this sneak attack? Sun Wu's place is very large, but Sun Wu's strategic depth is not broad. As long as there is a surprise attack along the Yangtze River and then Jianye, Soochow will have nothing to do. Sun Quan is not a fool, he sees such things very clearly, so he will definitely not send troops to provoke a decisive battle between us and them so easily. Xu Shu opened his mouth and gave Li Sheng such a detailed explanation.

"Is this true?" Li Sheng was vaguely still a little unconvinced.

"That's true!" Everyone is gone, and they seem to be able to give a twelve-point guarantee on this matter.