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Sun Luban angrily broke into the palace of the king of Yue, angrily told Sun Shao what Xie Jing said, and shouted that he would lead his troops back to the side of the Qing monarch, kill all the ministers around Sun Quan, and let Sun Deng return to Jianye to continue to be the prince. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Her voice was amazingly loud, Sun Shao's ears were buzzing, even the harem heard it, Guan Feng put down his son, hurried over, and met Xiahou Hui with a big belly, the two smiled bitterly at each other, and shook their heads in unison.

Sun Shao frowned, beckoned Sun Luban not to get angry, and sat down and said well. Sun Luban was furious, and although he sat down, he still waved his arms and shouted loudly. Sun Shao had no doubt at all that if it was in the Wu Palace, Sun Luban would definitely kill those annihilators she thought were on the spot.

"Big Tiger, you are also a general with troops now, why are you so impulsive?" As soon as Guan Feng entered the palace gate, he lowered his face and blamed. Sun Luban belongs to the lawless category of people, at home, only Zhou Xun's words can she still listen to a few words, in the palace, only Sun Shao and Guan Feng's words work, and everyone else ignores them. Especially for Guan Feng, she has always been grateful for Guan Feng's help, and she has great respect for this sister-in-law, seeing that Guan Feng is unhappy, although she is anxious, she has to put away her temper.

"What's going on, making Big Tiger so angry?" Guan Feng turned to Sun Shao and said angrily: "Are you angry with the big tiger again?" ”

Before Sun Shao could speak, Sun Luban hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, this is not about Brother Wang, it is Wu Guo who has an accident." She picked up the important things and said it again, and then insisted that Sun Quan had a minister around him to divide their father and son, so that Sun Deng, the prince, worked as a supervisor in the Yuzhang porcelain factory, and was framed for murdering Sun Wei.

Xiahou Hui smiled silently when she heard this, Guan Feng also smiled bitterly and shook her head, she was slow enough about political schemes, but she also knew that this was not a matter of destroying ministers, this was simply Sun Quan's own distrust of Sun Deng. It is impossible for Sun Shao to come forward to help Sun Deng solve this matter, and Sun Luban wants to lead his troops back to Qingjun's side, which is not reliable. Sun Luban's current soldiers are the soldiers of the Yue State, Sun Shao has been trying his best to avoid a war with the Wu State, can the Yue soldiers go to fight the Wu State? What's more, it's Sun Luban to go.

"Big Tiger, this is your nonsense." Guan Feng sank his face and pushed Sun Luban reproachfully: "Even if there is a gap between Zigao and your father, it is also father and son, and your eldest brother is separated from them after all, you let him help you fight Wu Guo?" Does that make sense? Besides, if there is really going to be a fight, others will definitely say that King Wu's father and son are not in harmony, and they want their daughter to bring troops back to help, isn't this a laughing stock? ”

Sun Luban rolled his eyes and was silent, but his face was still unconvinced.

"Okay, eldest princess, my own family, if there is anything you can't say, maybe you misunderstood." Xiahou Hui gently persuaded: "To say that King Wu asked the prince to guard the Yuzhang porcelain factory, although it is a little inappropriate, it is not necessarily a bad thing. As you know, Yuzhang's porcelain is the main export of Wu, why is the price so high? On the one hand, of course, the quality of Yuzhang's porcelain is successful, and on the other hand, it is also because it is the only one, there is no semicolon, and I don't know how many people are aiming at Yuzhang porcelain factory. Your father should be careful. ”

"Then he can't suspect that Zigao killed Sun Wei." Sun Luban said indignantly: "I know best who Zigao is. He has no mother since he was a child, and he is most concerned about our younger brothers and sisters, and he has never been willing to fight, how can he bear to hurt his grandson? On the contrary, it was the stinky woman who thought she was young and beautiful, and she charmed her father, and she was bent on letting Sun Jian take the crown prince. Unfortunately, her luck was not good, and Sun Xi died at the age of twenty. Providence is like this, how can the disaster be blamed on Zigao? ”

Xiahou Hui smiled slightly, Sun Luban's view of things was a little unreliable, she had opinions about Sun Xi's mother, Mrs. Wang, and she didn't even have a good impression of Sun Wei, and she actually had some schadenfreude about Sun Wei's death. She stepped forward, held Sun Luban's shoulder, and laughed softly: "You, don't think so badly of your father. It is possible to listen lightly and credulously, but it is unlikely to really kill the child. Even if Zigao is really suspicious, at most he has taken the position of the crown prince and degraded to a commoner, how can he kill Zigao so seriously? As for you, don't be in a hurry, send someone back to ask about the specific situation first, and then find out. ”

"Well, if that stinky woman is making trouble, you have to help me fix her." Sun Luban took Xiahou Hui's hand and said.

"Don't worry, if someone really wants to bully Zigao and your grandmother, your eldest brother will definitely not sit idly by." Xiahou Hui patted Sun Luban's hand, pushed her and said, "Aren't there some secret soldiers in the fifth battalion?" Send a few back to Jianye to take a look, and you can write to ask your grandmother yourself, and it's not too late to find out the situation. ”

Sun Luban nodded again and again, clenched his fists, and strode away again.

Sun Shao smiled bitterly: "Yuanrong, do you need to add fuel to the fire again?" Big Tiger is already enough to cause trouble, and you still push her again? ”

Xiahou Hui smiled and said lightly: "You don't know the temper of the big tiger yet?" If you don't let her do it, the more she has to do it, the more she has to do it, and the surname Suo asks her to find out, which saves trouble. If there is really something annihilating, it should indeed be removed earlier. Otherwise, if there is a matter of cannibalism between father and son, not only will the prestige of Wu be damaged, but even my Yue country will be affected. ”

Sun Shao blinked his eyes and didn't say anything. With his understanding of Xiahou Hui, he didn't believe that Xiahou Hui was really just to appease Sun Luban, maybe she was thinking of something, but it was just hard to say it directly. However, since he didn't say it directly, there was no need for him to stop it.

"When the monsoon rises in May, I will go to Axum to discuss matters with the Romans. After the New Year, I will go to Tianzhu to check the situation of grain preparation, and the matter of Funan will be handed over to the two of you. Sun Shao beckoned the two to sit down, and arranged as usual: "The affairs of the court, there are the prime minister, the imperial historian and the great farmer order and others to discuss, you don't have to interfere too much, they have been in power for many years, I can still trust them." The affairs of the palace, the martial arts have a silver screen, and the literary affairs have a graceful appearance, and I am also very relieved. It's just that this accident may take a long time, and the people and horses of Shu and Wei will probably arrive in Funan in autumn and winter. ”

Guan Feng nodded, and said with some worry: "King, since Wei Shu's men and horses are coming in autumn and winter, why not wait another year?" Although it is said that the king has 20,000 sailors and 15,000 Wu soldiers this time, I always feel that it is still too few. In particular, there are almost no cavalry, what if the Sassanids see our falsehood and become ill-willed? ”

Xiahou Hui also had the same concern: "The king, what the queen said is very true. Although the sailors were foot soldiers when they came ashore, and those who attacked and defended the city were not worried, without cavalry, they could not fight against the Sassanids, who were mainly cavalry. Ardashir is a tyrant, he negotiates with us on the one hand, but at the same time he keeps attacking the Romans, and it seems that the heart of the Romans will not die, and I will hinder the country, how can he give up? ”

Sun Shao did not answer them immediately, because during this period of time, in order to discuss the matter of sending troops, there were many ministers who disagreed, and Prime Minister Yu Fu had not agreed to send troops, he felt that he could use diplomatic means to contain the Sassanids, let the Romans take a breath, and prolong some of the time to fight with the Sassanids.

Yu is experienced, his opinions represent a lot of opinions, even some of the more calm generals in the army such as Lu Xun, Yue Hai and others agree with his opinions, Sun Shao is unwilling to disobey the will of everyone, but he can't bear to give up the country of Axum that the Romans sent to his mouth, if he occupies the country of Axum, then he has stepped on a foot in Africa, even if he is not in a hurry to develop now, it is also a good foreshadowing for the future.

"I'll be careful, this time I'm not going to fight them." Sun Shao explained: "If it is just a negotiation, the Sassanids may not take us seriously, only if the warship sails to the Persian Gulf and let him see our strength with his own eyes, he can really sit down and negotiate." ”

Guan Feng and Xiahou Hui saw that Sun Shao had made up his mind, so they had no choice but to stop persuading each other. They also knew that Sun Shao was not an impulsive person, and since he was determined to lead his troops to Axum, thousands of miles away, to meet the Romans, he naturally had his reasons and arrangements.

In February of the fifteenth year of the Republic, Sun Shao left the city of Temu and rushed to the island of Ceylon. The general Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen rushed to greet him, and the king of Sinhala, Nimar, also came with his ministers to greet him, and when he saw his daughter Yesudhara and his grandson Sunni, he smiled happily and hugged Sunni and kissed his face.

Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen took Sun Shao to inspect the warehouse. In recent years, Tianzhu has increased its financial resources because of doing business with the Yue Kingdom, and it is said that the son is living better, and there is no need to fight and plunder as before, except for the sporadic attacks on Salbaha and Ferroz within the Chola, everyone rarely fights, and wholeheartedly engages in production, and the output of grain and cotton has increased significantly, this time Sun Shao is ready to balance the strength of Rome and Sasanian, and a large amount of grain is not shipped from Funan, but purchased from Tianzhu. Grain, cotton and all kinds of other materials, this is an astonishing business, Sun Shao specially sent Zhang Wen to Tianzhu to take charge of this matter, just in the hope that he can reduce the price more. Zhang Wen lived up to his mission, he unprecedentedly gathered more than a dozen small Tianzhu countries, including Zhu Luo, Zheluo and Pandia, to bid one by one, to inspect their supply capacity and price, so that those excited Tianzhu people killed each other, and the price fell again and again, and finally almost started with sixty percent of the original estimated price.

"Ceylon has only half of its grain, and it is all reserves." Zhang Wen pointed to the tall granaries and said with three points of pride: "Considering the distance, it was originally the most cost-effective to concentrate the granaries in Karachi, but I was worried that it was too close to the Kushan and Sassanids, and the Tianzhu people were vulnerable, in case they robbed it, it would not be cost-effective, so I only arranged half of it there, and now the right general's sailors are guarding there, as long as the king gives an order, the right general will escort the supplies westward and meet the king in the Gulf of Aden." If this is just a negotiation and there is no need for war, this grain should be enough, in case things are not harmonious and the war drags on for a long time, I can arrange for someone to ship it from here at any time, directly across the Arabian Sea, to the Gulf of Aden, the distance is longer, if it is in the wind season, it will take a month, not in the wind season, it may take a month and a half to two months. ”

Sun Shao nodded again and again, Zhang Wen can be said to have prepared all kinds of situations, no matter whether he goes to fight this time or not, at least there will be no problems in the part he is responsible for.

"Megumi, you've done a good job." Sun Shao praised.

"Hehe...... Zhang Wen laughed, and said: "Actually, the minister has never explained anything to the king in Shangshu. ”

"What's the matter?" Sun Shao smiled quietly.

"The minister could have lowered the price of the Tianzhu people a little more, and it could probably be reduced by about one percent, but after the minister weighed it, he still traded with them at the current price. In general, I will probably spend 100 million to 120 million more money this time. ”

Sun Shao was still silent, he already knew about it. This time, about 3 million stone of grain and various materials were prepared, and the original funds were about 2 billion yuan, and in the end, Zhang Wen adopted the method of bidding, and only spent 1.3 billion yuan to get the thing done, but Sun Shao got the news from many sources, saying that the Tianzhu people were depressing each other's prices, and in the end it was very miserable, almost a small profit for sale-of course, because the quantity was huge, although it was a small profit, but it was still profitable-but Zhang Wen did not choose the one with the lowest price, but chose a relatively high price, But the more powerful countries cost more than 100 million dollars.

For the rich Yue country, more than 100 million yuan is not a big number, and these materials are not given in vain after they arrive in Rome, and they have to be exchanged for more benefits, but 100 million yuan is not a number in Yue Guo - enough to kill 100 corrupt officials - if Zhang Wen is guilty of corruption because of this, then he has ten heads that are not enough to cut off, no matter how bad it is, he can also be convicted of dereliction of duty, and his career will end in the end.

"Why?" Sun Shao looked at Zhang Wen for a while, and saw that his face was calm and there was no worry, so he asked slowly.

"The minister fears that the war with the Sassanid will be protracted." Zhang Wen put away his smile at this time, showing some worry: "If you want to increase the number of troops at that time, the amount of various materials will be greatly increased, so that the Tianzhu people can taste some sweetness, and the follow-up acquisition will be smoother." I have already booked this year's harvest with them, and in two months, the first rice crop will be in storage. The population of Tianzhu is nearly ten times that of Funan, and although the price of buying grain from Tianzhu is higher, the transportation distance is closer, the time is shorter, and the overall cost is less, and in general it is still cost-effective. If you press them too hard this time, they will not be profitable, and they will only add a lot of complications to the business negotiations in the future. ”

After Zhang Wen finished speaking, he looked at Sun Shao quietly, Zhuge listened directly, and hurriedly said: "The minister can prove that he didn't get a profit from it." During the period when Ji Xiang presided over the acquisition in Tianzhu, all expenses were accounted for, and the gifts given by those Tianzhu people were also recorded. ”

"Hehe, it seems that the two of you are going to reconcile." Sun Shao laughed.

When Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen heard this, their faces suddenly changed, and the two took a step back, lifted up their clothes and knelt on the ground, and said in unison: "Please King Mingjian!" ”

Sun Shao put his hands behind his back and looked at the two of them condescendingly, with a look of hesitation flashing in his eyes. He is not disgusted with Zhang Wen's self-assertion, doing business is not to kill everything, but to make people profitable, which is his consistent proposition for long-term cooperation, and in general, Zhang Wen's approach is right. It's just that Zhuge took the initiative to defend Zhang Wen, so something was wrong. Sun Shao has a secret soldier in Ceylon, it is impossible to be ignorant of Zhang Wen's situation, and he is not a person who easily condemns the minister, even if Zhang Wen is guilty, he will not take Zhang Wen down now, at least take him back to Funan, hand him over to the Tingwei Mansion to find out the truth of the matter, and then punish him according to his crime. Zhuge Zhi was so anxious to explain to him, which showed that their relationship was very good, so good that Zhuge Zhi could ignore his own safety. He sent Zhang Wen to Ceylon, on the one hand, for business matters, on the other hand, it was for the purpose of checking and balancing Zhuge Zhi, the division of labor between civil and military, and mutual checks and balances, which is the unwritten rule of the Yue Kingdom.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen, but from the perspective of governance, he can't tolerate such a thing, maybe Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen are really innocent, but after opening this opening, it will be difficult to guarantee that there will not be a situation where the civil and military are colluding, and his move to delegate power to the minister will become a stupid move to dig his own grave.

"Get up." Sun Shao waved his hand, and in a moment he had already made a decision, he had to separate these two people. Zhang Wen wants to arrange the subsequent material matters, and he can't move for the time being, so he can only transfer Zhuge away.

Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen also came back to their senses at this time, fine beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads, and they lowered their heads with palpitations, but they didn't dare to look at each other, just now in the short few breaths, they already felt the danger. Sun Shao is usually very easy-going with the minister, but he is ruthless when he really punishes people. When he was still in Qian Tangcheng, he vigorously suppressed corruption, and the first thing he did was to remove Lu Ji, the imperial historian who was ineffective in supervision, and now the two of them have committed taboos in the officialdom, if Sun Shao wants to take the opportunity to punish their crimes, then Zhuge Zhi is not helping Zhang Wen, but pushing himself into the fire pit.

Sun Shao didn't say anything, just comforted them a few words, and then continued to check as usual, after checking all the matters, he was very satisfied with Zhang Wen's work, and also agreed with his practice of giving profits to Tianzhu people. After Zhang Wen withdrew, Sun Shao left Zhuge Zhi.

"Ji Gong, how many years have you been in Ceylon?"

Zhuge thought for a moment: "Ten years." ”

"In the past ten years in Ceylon, your achievements have been remarkable, and you have been promoted a long time ago, but what about you, you are too low-key, and you are usually reluctant to report your merits, and I don't even know when you have to make meritorious contributions. This time, Zhou Xun returned to Temu City to report on his work, and he was aggrieved for you, and I only knew some of the circumstances, and I really wronged you. ”

Zhuge listened directly, and a warm current surged in his heart, and he hurriedly thanked him: "This is all the duty of the minister, and there is no grievance at all." ”

Sun Shao waved his hand and continued: "If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and if you have faults, you will be punished, this is the rule that I and the monarchs have set at the beginning. You have merit and should be rewarded. Supposedly, you should have been promoted to governor by now. But as you know, the island of Ceylon belongs to Sinhala, and Sinhala is our vassal state, not our county, and I cannot have a governor here. Of course, in fact, you, the general of Ceylon, have the same important surname as the governor, if not more than that. ”

"The minister doesn't dare to be."

"Deserved, deserved." Sun Shao laughed softly: "I bought so much grain in Tianzhu this time, I think you can also see that this is not only to aid the Romans. I can tell you unequivocally, I'm going to take the Arabian Island. The island faces the sea on three sides, and in addition to the garrison on land, I will add two governors, one to the Red Sea and one to the Persian governor. ”

Zhuge Zhi was suddenly moved, not to say whether he could be a general, but to say that Sun Shao would tell him such a thing bluntly, that is, great trust in him - Sun Shao didn't say it, they could vaguely guess some clues, after all, the operation of purchasing so much grain was too big to be completely covered, but people, including Zhuge Zhi, only guessed that Sun Shao was going to occupy Aksum, but they did not expect that he would occupy the Arabian Island, and he would also station sailors in the Persian Gulf.

"The ministers are willing to follow the king in battle." Zhuge knelt on the ground and said loudly.

"Let's go to the Red Sea." Sun Shao leaned over and patted Zhuge Zhi's shoulder gently: "Get up, I'll explain the general situation of the Red Sea to you first, and then you ask Chen Hai for the detailed place, he has been to the Red Sea a few times." He smiled and said, "You have to be careful, that ruler has been coveting this Red Sea Governor for a long time, and he has urged him to sign that pirate, for the sake of the Red Sea Governor, he and Chen Hai have parted for more than two years." ”

Zhuge laughed, very happy: "Thank you for the king's trust." The ministers must have guarded the coast of the Red Sea for thousands of miles, and without the order of the king, neither the Sassanids nor the Romans could go to sea. ”

"A must." Sun Shao and Zhuge looked at each other and smiled.

Sun Shao transferred Zhuge Zhi, and then rearranged the generals stationed in Ceylon, considering that Zhang Wen was going to stay in Ceylon for a period of time, he took a lot of thought, if he didn't consider Zhang Wen's situation, Lu Mao, who had been the head of the pirates for several years, was now the most suitable general to protect Ceylon, but Lu Mao and Zhang Wen were both people surnamed Wu Si, and putting them together was easier than Zhuge Zhi and Zhang Wen to come together. He thought about it for a long time, and suddenly thought of He Jing. He Jing is a member of the He family in Yuejun, he has been fighting with Lu Xun in Tianzhu all these years, his surname is extravagant, and Lu Xun's humble gentleman style is not compatible, the two of them do not get along very well, presumably and Zhang Wen will not be too compatible, and the He family is good at jungle warfare, and it is the most suitable to arrange him to the mountainous and forested Ceylon Island.

Sun Shao made up his mind and immediately arranged for someone to go to Panyue to transfer He Jing to the south to take over Zhuge Zhi and grant the general of Ceylon.

(To be continued)