Temporarily letting go of the fleeting thought, Liu Fengsui and Sun Shangxiang, accompanied by Xiao Qiao's mother and daughter, entered the mansion.

This visit is nothing more than Sun Shangxiang and her sisters recounting their old feelings, and Liu Feng asking for a warm and caring word.

Before leaving, Liu Feng left some cloth, gold beads and other rewards.

In the afternoon, the husband and wife took their leave.

After getting into the car, after a few steps, Sun Shangxiang suddenly said: "Husband, I have something I want to discuss with you." ”

Liu Feng was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "It's such a coincidence, I also happen to have something I want to ask my wife for." ”

"What's the matter?" Sun Shangxiang asked with a smile.

"Madame, let's talk about it first." Liu Fengdao.

Sun Shangxiang smiled and said: "That's the case, what do you think of the female baby Ayu?" ”

Liu Feng's heart moved slightly, and he had vaguely guessed a few points.

He didn't wear it at the moment, thought about it and said: "This Ayu niece is beautiful and decent, and she knows at a glance that she is a lady from a famous family." ”

Hearing Liu Feng praise Zhou Yu like this, Sun Shangxiang's expression became more and more joyful, and he hurriedly said: "I also think that Ayu is a very good child, since you think so too, husband, then why don't we set this doll for Ayu and let Ayu be our daughter-in-law in the future?" ”

I see, Sun Shangxiang really thought of going with him.

Zhou Yu, this little girl, is of the highest quality in terms of appearance, surname, and background, if Xiao Liu Yu can marry her as a daughter-in-law, she will definitely be a virtuous helper.

Of course, this is only one aspect, the reason why Liu Feng values Zhou Yu is mainly because of her family background.

Zhou Yu's ancestors, within four generations, there were three three dukes, although they are not as prominent as the Yuan family, but they are also a veritable well-dressed family. Back then, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu got along, and they were also considering using the influence of the Zhou family.

Liu Feng is surnamed Liu from his uncle, although he is a big family in Changsha and is known as a descendant of the Han family, but in the final analysis, Liu Feng is still originally surnamed Kou, and he himself plans to restore his surname Kou after seizing the world in the future.

However, the surname Kou was not born in a famous family, so Liu Feng had to marry with the family and get closer to the family in terms of identity.

Although Liu Feng married Sun Shangxiang, the Sun family was originally a second-class scholar clan in Huaisi, and now that the Sun family has been destroyed, its influence will only become smaller and smaller.

Therefore, if you can let your son marry with the Zhou family, the benefits are naturally self-evident.

Moreover, Zhou Yu was extremely influential in the Eastern Wu army, and if he married Zhou Yu, it would be equivalent to giving Ling Tong and other Eastern Wu generals a reassurance, which would also be conducive to winning their hearts.

Under such a trade-off, such a good thing as the best of both worlds, how could Liu Feng not agree.

Sun Shangxiang first mentioned this matter, but Liu Feng wanted to tease his wife, so he pretended to have a worried expression and sighed: "Ayu, this child is good, but she is a few years older than our family Ayu, is it a little inconsistent at this age." ”

Sun Shangxiang immediately "puffed" him, pretending to be displeased: "When you married me, I was three years older than you, at that time, why didn't you feel that your age did not match, but Baba still had to come to Jiangdong to ask to marry me." ”

Liu Feng pretended to be surprised and said strangely: "Really? It turns out that you are three years older than me, madam, I didn't know it, if I had known......"

As soon as he heard this, Sun Shangxiang's face changed, and he twisted Liu Feng's arm and said angrily: "What if you knew earlier, do you still want to regret it?" ”

Seeing his wife in such a hurry, Liu Feng felt very cute, and couldn't bear to tease him any longer, so he laughed.

When he smiled like this, Sun Shangxiang immediately understood, and couldn't help but turn his anger into joy, and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you are making fun of me again, they are all the overlords of the five states, and they are still like children." ”

Liu Feng restrained his smile, waved his hand, and said: "Madame's lesson is that Xiaosheng knows his mistakes, and Xiaosheng apologizes to Madame." ”

"Oily cavity slippery." Sun Shangxiang burst out laughing, pushed him, and said very seriously: "Husband, I mean this seriously, do you think it's okay." ”

Liu Feng no longer teased her, and said with a slight smile: "Actually, I don't hide it from Mrs., what I wanted to discuss with Mrs. you just now is exactly this matter." ”

"Really?"

Sun Shangxiang's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly: "Husband, have you wanted to kiss Ah Yuding's doll for a long time?" ”

Liu Feng nodded solemnly.

Sun Shangxiang was overjoyed and said with emotion: "I didn't expect you, husband, to think of a piece with me." ”

Liu Feng caressed her face and said with a smile: "This is called the connection between husband and wife, and its benefits are gold......

…… On the same day, he and his wife agreed, and the next day they went to Zhou's mansion in person to discuss the matter with Xiao Qiao.

Because of the death of Zhou Yu, the male surnames of the younger generation such as Zhou Xun and Zhou Jun have not yet become a climate, so the power of the family has been greatly affected.

Now the unexpected proposal of the Liu family naturally made the Zhou family very excited.

With Liu Feng's current strength, he has great hope of winning the world, and even if he doesn't succeed, he can become the overlord who divides half of the country. And Liu Yu is Liu Feng's eldest son, that is, the undisputed heir of the Liu family in the future.

If Zhou Yu can marry Liu Yu in the future, the Zhou family will be equivalent to becoming a "relative", how can the Zhou family refuse such a prosperous good thing.

So, after a short discussion, the Zhou family readily agreed.

After that, the two families chose a good day and auspicious day, and after a simple ceremony, they decided to do this family affair for two boys and girls who were not yet adults.

#####刘封扫灭东吴之后的一年多时间内, the whole world experienced a brief lull.

Liu Bei, although he cultivated Tuntian in Shangluo, Shangxian and other places south of Chang'an, trained soldiers, and created an intention to prepare to attack Nanyang through Wuguan.

In fact, as Lu Xun speculated, Liu Bei's momentum is greater than his actual action, and he has never had a substantive action.

Despite this, Liu Feng still had to increase the garrison on the Nanyang side, so that the strength of Wei Yan on the line from Nanyang to Xiangyang reached 50,000.

As for Cao Ying, due to the alliance with Liu Bei, which allowed him to relieve the pressure on the west, Cao Ying was able to move most of his forces eastward and build an arc-shaped defense system against Liu Feng on the front line of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Qingzhou.

In terms of troops, after Cao Ying suffered several heavy losses, the field strength other than the county soldiers had dropped from 400,000 to more than 200,000.

However, since Cao Ying still possessed all of the five prefectures of Si, Hebei, He, You, and Qing, as well as most of the two prefectures of Yan and Henan, the total number of Dingkou under his command still far exceeded the total population of Erliu, and its war potential was still undoubtedly the first in the world.

Therefore, in less than a year, Cao Ying replenished himself with as many as 50,000 new troops.

Although the 50,000 new troops have not yet been systematically trained and their combat effectiveness is inferior to that of the regular army, the huge potential of their soldiers is evident.

Cao Ying's rapid expansion of the army sounded the alarm for Liu Feng.

Liu Feng realized that if he continued to condone Cao Ying's recovery, it would not be long before Cao's strength would surpass him again with his majestic population advantage.

At that time, the situation in the world will be a completely new situation, and the initiative will return to Cao Ying's hands, which Liu Feng cannot tolerate.

At the end of the summer of that year, Liu Feng had to put the battle of the Northern Expedition on the agenda in advance.

Except for some Jiangdong officials represented by Yu Chuan and Gu Yong, there were not many opposing voices, especially the military general system, which was unprecedentedly unanimous, and they wrote letters to ask for war, wanting to make contributions to the Northern Expedition.

After some discussion with Pang Tong, Xu Shu and other strategists, Liu Feng decided to launch the Northern Expedition in the autumn.

At present, the army in Liu Feng's hands has 80,000 Yizhou legions.

Jingzhou descendant group, the original troops, plus the surrendered generals of Guan Yu, Cao Ren, Wen Ping, Cao Hong and other subordinates, as well as Shamoke's Wuxi barbarian soldiers, and the expansion of the army over the years, the total strength reached 130,000.

In terms of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan originally had more than 100,000 soldiers, but because of the losses in the battles of Chaohu and Lukou, Liu Feng dared to surrender more than 60,000 Wu soldiers, plus the troops recruited in the Lianghuai area recently, the strength of the Yangzhou army can reach about 80,000.

This means that Liu Feng can mobilize a total of more than 300,000 troops.

In addition to the troops left behind in the rear, Liu Feng's troops available for the Northern Expedition reached 250,000.

After careful deliberation all night, Pang Tong finally drew up a set of four-way Northern Expedition strategy for Liu Feng.

One route was Gan Ning and Jiang Qin led 40,000 water troops, sent from Pengcheng, went north through Surabaya, broke the enemy's Rencheng County, Dongping Kingdom, Jibei Kingdom, and entered the Yellow River through Juyeze.

One route led by Ling Tong and Pan Zhang led an army of 40,000 sailors, also from Pengcheng, advanced northwest through Bianshui, broke the enemy's Peiguo, Liang and Chen Liuguo, and entered the Yellow River from Shimen north of Xingyang.

These two lines of soldiers and horses, because they want to take the waterway, are all Wu Zhong soldiers.

At the same time, Liu Feng took Xu Shu as his protector and led an army of 20,000 to supervise the march of the soldiers and horses on these two roads.

In the middle of the road, Liu Feng ordered Zhang Ren, Zhang Wei, Ma Zhong and other Shu generals to lead an army of 50,000 troops, starting from Shouchun, along Yingshui to the northwest, through Runan County, and directly taking Xuchang, the seat of Yingchuan County.

Wei Yan's department on the south road, led an army of 50,000, went north from Wancheng, passed through Luyang and Yangcheng, and went straight to the Yuyuan Pass south of Luoyang.

Liu Feng had 40,000 generals, entered Pengcheng from the north of Shouchun, sat here, unified the dispatch of the army, and acted cheaply.

The four-way army, with the vanguard waterway armies marching together, the goal is to attack Luoyang together.

At the same time, while attacking Luoyang, the Northern Route Navy wanted to cut off the connection between Luoyang and Hebei Prefectures.

On the one hand, Liu Feng wanted to prevent Cao Ying from collecting grain and grass from Hebei, and on the other hand, it was also to block Cao Ying and the Han Emperor he controlled south of the Yellow River.

In this battle, Liu Feng wanted to annihilate Cao Ying and his main force on the front line of Luoyang, and complete his work in one battle.

A few days later, the news of Liu Feng's army's northern expedition reached Luoyang, and there was an uproar in the government and the opposition.

(To be continued)