Chapter 098: Jiangdong Dynasty Meeting
"Oops! Brother Zhuge , you said you would come! And so kind! Why do you bring so much money! Hahaha, I'm too embarrassed not to accept it! Hey, look at ......" Zhou Yu said as he hurriedly stood up and went to open the Nanmu box.
When Father Zhuge and Lu Su heard Zhou Yu's words, their heads were suddenly full of black lines and their faces were full of cows! The glorious image of Zhou Dudu's inevitability of fireworks in the world collapsed in an instant. In fact, this is nothing, isn't it even Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, the founding prime ministers of the Great Han Gao Emperor Liu Bang, who accepted bribes? At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the politics were dark, the family monopolized the political power of the imperial court, and it became an open secret that the imperial court bought and sold officials. Cao Cao's father, Cao Song's position as a lieutenant, was bought by the Cao family at a great cost.
Zhou Yu was born in a bureaucratic family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he was born in the bureaucratic system of the late Han Dynasty. At this time, bribery and bribery almost became a normal social interaction activity, and it was not spurned like later generations. When Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, in order to kill the obstructive Zhi Jinwu and assassinate Shi Ding Yuan, he also spent a lot of money to bribe Ding Yuan's subordinate Lu Bu to succeed.
The reason why Zhou Yu thinks that Daddy Zhuge is in this box contains bribed gold, in fact, there is also a historical background. Because in that era, as an envoy, in order to successfully lobby the authorities of all parties, they usually had to bring a large amount of gold and silver to win over the more powerful ministers of the group, which is also the so-called "up and down". In fact, this is equivalent to the public relations funds of later generations, and there are some differences between it and bribery. This kind of public relations behavior was relatively common in the society at that time, so when Zhuge Dad visited late at night and sent a heavy box, Zhou Dudu naturally thought that you were going to engage in public relations! But when Zhou Yu opened the Nanmu box, he couldn't laugh. Damn it! A box of bamboo slips, what's going on?
Zhou Yu turned around, looked at Father Zhuge with a question mark in his head, and asked very embarrassedly: "Mr. Wolong, what are these?" β
Father Zhuge was sitting in a precarious position, shaking the feather fan gently, and replied calmly: "Governor, you can see it yourself!" β
"Look at your uncle!" Zhou Yu scolded in his heart. In the middle of the night, he didn't let Lao Tzu sleep well, and he also sent Lao Tzu such a big box of broken bamboo slips. Is it possible to ask Lao Tzu to fight at night and read at night?
Zhou Yu picked up a book and originally just wanted to browse it perfunctorily, but he didn't expect it to be indifferent, and he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat! Hurriedly dropped the roll in his hand and picked up a roll from the big Nanmu box and looked at it, then dropped another roll and picked up another roll. I just threw it away and watched it for about ten minutes. Governor Zhou Dadu threw the last roll of bamboo slips in his hand back into the box, and let out a long sigh!
"Governor, how do you feel?" Father Zhuge had a gloating expression.
Zhou Yu's expression was gloomy, and he said with some frustration: "Shocking! Shocking! If it weren't for Mr., where would I have thought that these Geng Geng Liangchen, who are usually full of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, would be such a servile villain in private! It's really ...... Ay! β
So what exactly is the bamboo slip in this Nanmu box? It turned out that after learning of Liu Ba and Cao Cao's conspiracy to kill Zhou Yu that day, Lu Su took two measures, on the one hand, he personally went to meet Wu Hou Sun Quan to ask for reinforcements to save Zhou Yu, and on the other hand, he ordered his subordinates to go to Liu Ba's residence to capture Liu Ba, the spy leader of the Northern Army, under the guidance of the detailed work that had already confessed. I don't want Liu Ba to be extremely alert, he seems to have sensed that the limelight is wrong, and he actually made a trick to get rid of the golden cicada and escaped from under the noses of Lu Su's subordinates. No one knows where Liu Ba went. But the arrest was not in vain. Due to Liu Ba's hasty escape, he did not have time to destroy many confidential documents in his residence.
As a result, the flattering letters and letters written by these Jiangdong scholars to Cao Cao all fell into the hands of Zhuge Father and Lu Su. Lu Su originally wanted to give these things to Sun Quan, but Father Zhuge saw the extraordinary value of these letters, and thought that if they were used properly, they would become the last straw that crushed the surrender faction.
So, in the middle of the night, Father Zhuge and Mr. Lu Su came to visit our Governor of Zhou with such a box of surrender letters from Jiangdong Wenwu.
Zhou Yu is such a shrewd character, at a glance, Father Zhuge and Lu Su both put on an unfathomable look. An old ploy came to mind in an instant. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, "Does Mr. mean ......?"
"Lead but not start, knock on the mountain and shake the tiger!" Lu Su said a word.
The four scheming guys in the living room all smiled lewdly and smiled at each other.
At the beginning of November in the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), Cao Cao's million-strong army Chen soldiers Jiangxia coerced Jiangdong. Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, ordered an envoy to send a letter of surrender to Sun Quan, the general of Wu County, Jiangdong, hoping that Sun Quan would understand the current affairs, obey the mandate of heaven, understand the righteousness, and lead the people to join him. When the letter was sent to Jiangdong, there was an uproar within the Jiangdong group, and the voice of persuading Wu Hou Sun Quan to surrender shook the sky. In order to keep the foundation of Jiangdong that the Sun family has run for three generations, in order to balance the surrender faction led by Zhang Zhao, the chief of Jiangdong. Marquis Sun Quan of Wu accepted the suggestion of Changshi Lu Su and Lu Zijing, and recalled Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, the governor of Jiangdong Naval Division, who was training Wu Jun's naval army in Poyang Lake, and strongly advocated resisting Cao.
On November 3, the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Marquis Sun Quan of Wu held a meeting of Jiangdong civil and military ministers at the Zhaoyang Hall of the Pastoral Mansion of Chaisang Prefecture, and decided to make the most consultative discussion and ruling on the issue of the Northern Army War and the peace.
The first rays of the morning sun shone into Chaisang City, and the people of Chaisang City did not get up early to go to the market to buy the food, vegetables and household goods they needed as usual. It's not that the people of Chaisang City are particularly lazy today, it's that they can't get out. Because the city of Chaisang is under martial law again.
The Governor's Guards blocked the main thoroughfare of Chaisang City, and unless there was a high-ranking official, roaming the streets without permission was to be regarded as an enemy to correct the law. The people didn't know what was happening in Chaisang City today. It is said that this year's Chaisang City seems to be particularly unpeaceful, and there was only an assassination incident last month, and the soldiers of the government blocked the whole city for several days. It's like this again today, could it be that another big man was assassinated? These assassins are really arrogant enough, they come out like this every once in a while, and they don't know how many days they will stop.
But this time, the people of Chaisang guessed wrong. The sun was rising high, and the thick fog in the city was gradually dissipating in the early morning. Cars of adults from various prefectures began to appear on the streets. One after another, plus the accompanying servants and guards, the main road to the Wuhou Prefecture Pastoral Mansion was filled with Jiangdong civil and military vehicles. A hundred steps away from the Wuhou Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, Sun Huan, the commander of the Escort Army, and his younger brother, Sun Qian, the deputy commander of the Escort Army, were checking the identities and cars of the adults who came to participate in the court meeting one by one. In the middle of the road, there were several sturdy bars to resist horses, and according to the rules, the ministers of civil and military affairs who went to the governor's palace to attend the court meeting had to get out of the car and walk in. As for their servants, guards, and carriages, they had to stop there. This is mainly to prevent terrorist attacks by enemy counterparts, assassins and other lawbreakers.
Two o'clock in the morning, now eight o'clock in the morning. The master of ceremonies of the Hou Mansion walked out of the gate of the Hou Mansion and sang: "The auspicious time has come, the court meeting has begun, the guards are solemn, and the idlers are not allowed to enter!" Guanββ" The guards slowly closed the door of Wuhou's Mansion, which means that the court meeting has begun, and no one is allowed to disturb the adults to discuss state affairs halfway. Brother Sun Huan strode into the state minister's mansion with a team of escorts and went straight to Zhaoyang Palace. Sun Quan opened the court meeting, and without the protection of his cousins, how can he be at ease?
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