Chapter Seventy-Three: The Debate of Heavenly Questions

The Debate of Heavenly Questions

With the messenger's report, the hall immediately fell silent, and they all focused on Sun Quan to see if he could listen to the advice of the ministers just now;

Sun Quan also stared at the three ministers who had just admonished, and after a while of hesitation, he "passed on the envoys of Shu Han"

"Alas!" Just now, the three ministers sighed and retreated to their places.

At this time, outside the hall, Zhuge Qiao and Ma Jian had already collapsed in, and slowly walked to the center of the hall, "Shu Han envoy Zhuge Qiao, Ma Jian to meet Wu Hou" Zhuge Qiao and Ma Jian hugged their fists and bowed to Sun Quan, who was sitting on the top seat.

The officials on both sides looked at the two of them in unison, looking at the young man who dared to act as an envoy before he was twenty years old;

"It's Bo Song! I wonder if you're used to staying at your uncle's house? Ever homesick? Sun Quan looked at Zhuge Qiao carefully and asked meaningfully

"Xie Wuhou is worried, and now his father and mother love him at home; This time, on the orders of the Han Emperor, the envoy to Eastern Wu came for the Battle of Jingzhou," Zhuge Qiao responded;

"Could it be that Liu Bei wants a truce" Without waiting for Sun Quan to answer, Zhang Zhao immediately stood up and began to ask Zhuge Qiao;

"It can be said that it is a truce, or it can be said that it is not a truce," Ma Jian confidently responded;

"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Zhao asked puzzled;

"This time, my lord sent the two of us as envoys to ask Wu Hou for the land of Jingzhou, and if Wu Hou returns, there will naturally be a truce; If Wu Hou does not return, naturally my lord will not truce, although our army was injured in Yidao, but Yizhou reinforcements are coming to Jingzhou in a steady stream, one of the five tiger generals Zhao Yun is also stationed in Yong'an, if Wu Hou has no result, our army will be overwhelmed by the army, and he will take back Jingzhou" Ma Jian towards Sun Quandao;

The civil and military officials in the hall were also talking in whispers; After all, if what Ma Tan said is true, then Soochow is indeed about to face a life-and-death war.

"You Shu Han really think that I Dongwu is so easy to bully, if I Dongwu sent out the army of the country, your lord Liu Bei would have retreated to Yizhou a long time ago," Kan Ze stood up and retorted;

"Jingzhou is the city that my Eastern Wu soldiers fought desperately, it was borrowed by your lord and refused to return it, my lord took it back himself; How can you let your lord again" Zhang Zhao was also shocked by Ma Yan's words, and he actually opened his mouth to Jingzhou;

"This lord is right, my lord once borrowed Jingzhou, but my lord only borrowed one county in Nanjun, but you have recovered the whole of Jingzhou; And under the relationship of being allies of each other, he actually killed my lord's second brother Guan Junhou, are you still reasonable" Ma Yanyi asked Zhang Zhao sternly.

Zhang Zhao's face was helpless, speechless, and he turned around and stood back;

"What a good debater, but your lord was pursued and killed by my governor under the city of Yidao, leaving behind the wounded soldiers and fleeing for his life alone; And when our army killed more than 10,000 people, why didn't you see that your lord had the strength to capture Jingzhou" Bu Qi saw Zhang Zhao retreating, and immediately stood up and asked Ma Yan.

"If you have to mention the attack on the camp in Yidao City, then my lord will overestimate you and wait, I didn't expect that what you are proud of is actually a sneak attack again and again, the dignified land of Jiangdong, now there are only generals who can sneak attack" Ma Tan smiled at Bu Qi;

"The winner is king, so why care about any strategy" Bu Qiu continued to argue, but if you were careful, you could see that a cold sweat was already breaking out between Bu Qi's eyebrows.

"Did you really win? In order to prove our sincerity, my lord specially asked me to bring the body of General Pan Zhang back to Wu Hou; Later, you can ask General Pan, did you really win" Ma Tan fought back mercilessly;

Bu Qi suddenly sweated profusely and didn't know what to say;

"Since the military strength of Shu Han is so strong, and Liu Bei is also the imperial uncle of the Han family, why didn't he set up the banner of the Han family to attack Cao Wei in the north when Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, but attacked the Eastern Wu that was inseparable from Cao Wei, is your lord afraid of Cao Wei?" Xue Zong asked when he saw that Ma Tan was so discerning.

"My lord acts as a man in this life, and the word 'righteousness' comes first; in the past, the love of the three righteous brothers in Taoyuan can be learned, but you Dongwu sneaked into Jingzhou and beheaded his second brother; how can my lord be at ease in the Northern Expedition, so he first raised troops in Dongwu, just to get an explanation" Ma Tan continued without the slightest concession.

"What explanation do you want," Xue Zongshun asked.

"The land of Jingzhou" Ma Liang stared at Xue Zong and said heavily;

Zhuge Qiao stood motionless beside him and watched Ma Jian debate; It's just that what surprised him was that he still underestimated Ma Tan, thinking that the Jiangdong literati would be able to stump Ma Jian and suppress the arrogance in his heart, but he didn't expect the Jiangdong literati to be defeated by him one by one, which also contributed to his own self-confident arrogance.

"In the past, there was Zhuge Kongming's tongue to fight my Jiangdong Confucianism, and now there is your Ma Tan fighting the ministers alone, and there are so many Shu Han debaters; It's just that I don't know if I have learned anything in my chest? Zhang Wen saw that Xue Zong was about to be defeated, and immediately stood up;

"The three-foot boy in Yizhou is still in school, let alone me?" Ma Tan replied

Zhang Wen said with a smile: Since you have made a big statement, please ask the sky immediately: Does the sky have a head?"

Ma Tan was immediately startled when he heard Zhang Wen's question, beads of sweat covered his entire forehead, and he couldn't answer for a long time; Looking at Zhuge Qiao, expecting Zhuge Qiao to answer, the confidence in the previous debate in his eyes was gone.

Zhuge Qiao looked forward to this scene finally happening, and he was happy at the moment; And the question raised by Zhang Wen is also recorded in the book, Zhuge Qiao slowly replied to Zhang Wen: "There is a head"

"Where's the head?" Zhang Wen continued to ask.

"In the West, the 'poem' cloud: is to look at the west." In this way, the head is also in the West. Zhuge Qiao responded

"Heaven has ears? Zhang Wen asked again

"The heavens are high and the ears are humble. "Poem" cloud: 'The crane sings nine gao, and the sound is heard in the sky. 'How can you hear without ears?' Zhuge Qiao responded

"Is there enough for the sky?" Zhang Wen asked again

"There are enough. "Poetry" cloud: 'The day is difficult. 'How can you step without feet?' Zhuge Qiao responded

"Does the sky have a surname?" Zhang Wen asked

"How can you have no surname!" Zhuge Qiao responded

"What's your last name?" Zhang Wen asked

"The surname is Liu." Zhuge Qiao responded

"How do you know?" Zhang Wen asked again

"The Son of Heaven's surname is Liu, so I know it." Zhuge Qiao responded

"Born in Donghu?" Zhang Wen asked again

"Although he was born in the east, he was not born in the west," Zhuge Qiao responded.

Zhuge Qiao's language was clear and he answered questions fluently, but he frightened the civil and military ministers in the hall, and Ma Jian even cast a convincing gaze; Zhang Wen was speechless!

Zhuge Qiao asked again, "Sir, a famous scholar of Eastern Wu, if you ask questions based on heavenly affairs, you will be able to deepen the truth of tomorrow." The chaos of the past is divided, and the yin and yang are dissected; The light and clear ones rise to the sky, and the heavy turbidity condenses to the earth; To the defeat of the Gonggong clan, the head could not touch the Zhou Mountain, the heavenly pillar was broken, and the earth was lacking: the sky was tilted to the northwest, and the earth was sunk to the southeast. Since the sky is light and clear, why is it tilting to the northwest? I don't know what it is? May the sir teach me. ”

Zhang Wen was speechless, and thanked, "I don't mean that there are more heroes in Shu!" When he heard the speech, he made the servant suddenly open his mouth. ”

[The last Tianwen is taken from the debate between Qin Mi and Zhang Wen in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is extremely classic; It's just that this place has been replaced by Zhuge Qiao, I hope everyone will like it; The author asks for recommendations and collections, and I wish everyone a good mood every day]