Wei Ba said easily, but Li Feng refused to believe it, he got up and walked to Wei Ba's side, propped his hands on the case, leaned forward, put on a serious expression, forced to look at Wei Ba's eyes, looked at Wei Ba without saying a word, and tried to put pressure on Wei Ba.

Wei Ba laughed twice and sighed: "It seems that you can't hide anything from the young general." ”

Li Feng smiled proudly, but still didn't speak, not only maintaining the coercion of the superior, but also making himself not so aggressive, trying his best to create a posture of not being angry and self-authoritative.

Wei Ba smiled secretly in his heart, but his face was very serious, and even faintly angry. "Major General, we found some warships that have just been built in Yuzhang Shipyard, using not oars, but very similar to the propulsion jishu of our army's warships, and the speed of the warships has been greatly improved."

Li Feng was taken aback, his scalp was numb for a while, and his face was pale. Last time, someone leaked the stone bullet to make jishu, and this time someone leaked the warship jishu, and some people are getting more and more rampant. Li Feng thought for a moment, and there was a strange sense of excitement in his heart, and his eyes slowly lit up.

"Who is it?"

Wei Ba shook his head: "I don't know yet, I don't know exactly how it was leaked." But don't worry, the young general, I have already imprisoned all the craftsmen of the Yuzhang shipyard, as long as the other party shows clues, I can catch the handle. ”

Li Feng just breathed a sigh of relief, Wei Ba changed his words, and said with some worry: "However, this matter is so important, I think the person who leaked the secret will not be careless, whether he can find tangible evidence, it is really hard to say now." ”

Li Feng's heart was said by Wei Ba in a few words. And happy and sad. In his opinion, the person who leaked the secret could only be Zhuge Liang, and the best one was Zhuge Liang, so that it would be easy for the General's Mansion to comprehensively suppress the Prime Minister's Mansion. Regardless of whether they were allies at the time or not, leaking such an important jishu would be treason for treason.

If there is evidence now, Li Feng is very worried that he will have a fast heartbeat and faint directly.

"Ziyu, this matter must be investigated urgently, and we must not let go of anything suspicious." Li Feng stared at Wei Ba. A wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Ziyu." This is a great opportunity. ”

"Whoa." Wei Ba hurriedly got up to receive the order, then paused again, raised his head and looked at Li Feng: "Young General, although the possibility is extremely small. But just in case. Shouldn't General Meng be informed? Let him check himself first? ”

In the excitement, Li Feng's mind turned very fast. He rolled his eyes and immediately understood what Wei Ba meant.

Zhuge Liang certainly has the biggest suspicion. However, the Xiangyang Sailor must also be ruled out in advance, if there is no conclusive evidence to prove the innocence of the Xiangyang Sailor, Zhuge Liang's crime cannot be confirmed. What's more, Xiangyang Sailor does have the possibility of leaking secrets, and there may be people who sell secrets for personal gain. Even Meng Da himself could not completely rule out suspicion.

Therefore, it has become a top priority to check the Xiangyang water division first.

Li Feng clenched his fists, smiled silently, and regained his composure. "Since you want to investigate, then it can't be Meng Da who investigates, I will report to the general and ask him to send someone to investigate this matter thoroughly."

Wei Ba didn't say anything more and remained silent. He estimated that Li Yan would definitely arrange people around Meng Da, and if Meng Da really had dealings with Sun Quan, it would be impossible for Li Yan not to receive any news. It is most appropriate to leave this matter to Li Yan. What's more, through Li Feng's mouth, sending this news to Li Yan's ears is more effective than saying it himself.

Li Feng returned to the first question: "Then when do you plan to withdraw your troops?" ”

"When is the young general going to attack Wu?"

Li Feng was a little puzzled: "Does this matter?" ”

"Yes." Wei Ba nodded affirmatively. "Major General, according to my guess, this time the general forcing Sun Quan to become a minister will probably not be the ultimate goal, but a beginning. Let Sun Quan be a vassal is to avoid the accusation of starting a war without permission, and to prepare for a large-scale attack on Wu in the future. ”

Li Feng's eyes were hesitant. In his letter to him, Li Yan was very annoyed that he had prevented the further development of the war, and it could be said that he scolded him for cutting his head and covering his face. However, these are private messages between father and son, and others can't see them, only knowing that he has been rewarded by the general, but they don't know that Li Yan is very dissatisfied with it. He is now busy taking over Nanjun, and he also wants to accumulate strength, attack Wuchang in the near future, and even recover the entire Jiangdong, so that Lao Tzu can see his ability and save some face.

Now Wei Ba put forward this conjecture, which hit his heart, but he couldn't easily show his attitude, so he could only listen to Wei Ba quietly.

"If you want to play smoothly in the future, you must continue to squeeze Sun Quan and drain his strength. It is far from enough to divide Nanjun and Changsha, and the 20,000 gold that he wants to compensate is not enough to paralyze him, and we need more means. ”

Li Feng was in a trance and understood, and suddenly came to his senses: "Ziyu, you tell me in detail." ”

Wei Ba picked up the chopsticks again, dipped them in the wine, and pointed out the country on the table. He said that to control the Yuzhang shipyard was to strangle the sailors of the Wu army and prevent them from having the possibility of revival. The Wu army has no water division, and the north and south of the river are isolated, and if they want to attack north, they will inevitably encounter a lot of trouble. He had two choices, one was to abandon the Northern Expedition and leave this opportunity to us, and the other was to ask us for help. If you want to ask us for help, you have to give a benefit, and this benefit is to give up control of the Yangtze River.

Changsha is the golden waterway between Yizhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou, many commodities in Yizhou are through this trade route, now the major general sits in Jiangling, Nanyang on the left, Jiaozhou on the right, back to Yizhou, looking at Yangzhou in front of Yangzhou, extending in all directions, you are in control of the world, if you want to accumulate strength is not a thing?

In a few years, Sun Quan will inevitably decline, and when the time comes, the general will give an order, the whole country will attack Wu, and the major general will go down the river, won't it be a matter of course?

After Wei Ba's explanation, Li Feng suddenly realized. That's right, how can you withdraw from Yuzhang, you should be stationed there and not leave, stab a knife in Sun Quan's heart, and let him bleed to death. As for the Yangtze River, it should be controlled in his own hands, this is a thick blood vessel, through this blood vessel, Sun Quan can be slowly sucked dry.

Without money, what else can Sun Quan do? This is a bloodless war, and if used well, it can achieve the goal of winning without a fight. As Wei Ba said, compared with this war, the previous ten days of vicious battles were just a wound on Sun Quan's body, and then it was the time to harvest, how could he stop there.

"Then what should I say to Du Qiong?" Li Feng looked at Wei Ba with a smile, and the defense in his heart was gone. Wei Ba is not only his most powerful fist, but also his brightest eyes. If it weren't for Wei Ba's guidance, how could he have thought so far.

"When will Sun Quan's 20,000 gold be paid off, and when will we withdraw our troops." Wei Ba smiled proudly: "When Sun Quan is anxious, we will give in one more step, and the young general will come forward and give Sun Quan a choice, we can not want the 20,000 gold for the time being, but ask him to lease the Yuzhang shipyard to us, and at the same time allow us to sail freely on the Yangtze River." Now that Wu is also a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, we can't help our Han sailors pass through, right? ”

"That's it." Li Feng clapped his hands, inexplicably excited. "If you can't talk about this, then don't do it, Du Qiong, the big Honglu."

Wei Ba hahadaxiao.

……

When the news came back to Wuchang, Du Qiong couldn't cry or laugh, but he was helpless. Now that Li Feng and Fei Yi are not in Wuchang, they can only be acted by him. Fortunately, Wei Xing was still in Wuchang and did not leave, and Du Qiong was honest and polite, and went to discuss with Wei Xing how to talk to Sun Quan.

Wei Xing had already received Wei Ba's secret order, and when he saw Du Qiong coming to ask, he immediately followed the instructions and gave him a face-to-face lecture.

With Wei Xing's support, Du Qiong was much more confident, and went to Sun Quan with great dignity, and said confidently that the war was over, the matter of the minister was finalized, and the prince was on the road, but there was still one thing that was not over. What about the 20,000 gold compensation? If you don't pay this money in full, General Zhennan won't withdraw his troops.

Sun Quan was so angry that he almost vomited blood. This time the loss was big, Wei Ba's three-way army invaded Jiangdong, successively defeated the army of 60,000 or 70,000 of Wu, and also took the entire Yuzhang shipyard, Wu suffered heavy losses, had to bow down, and suffered huge losses in fame and fortune. Obviously he was bullied and humiliated, and he had to pay a huge amount of compensation, what kind of world is this?

Twenty thousand gold, Sun Quan is so poor now, where can he get so much money in a hurry.

Sun Quan was really anxious, intimidating and pleading, using both soft and hard, but Du Qiong was unmoved this time, insisting that Qingshan would not relax. When Sun Quan was about to collapse, Du Qiong reminded him. In this matter, General Zhennan said that it doesn't matter, you still go and beg Li Feng. As long as Li Feng is relieved, there is hope for this matter.

Sun Quan was suspicious, so he had to send someone to Jiangling to ask to see Li Feng. After Li Feng made a gesture, he proposed that Wei Ba design a haode plan for him. The money can be given for the time being, but we have to lease the Yuzhang shipyard and ask for the right to free navigation on the Yangtze River.

Sun Quan received a reply and knew that it was a trap, but he couldn't refuse. Obviously, Wei Ba is not planning to withdraw, and it is a comfort to save 20,000 gold. Besides, opening up the navigation rights on the Yangtze River can also bring him some commercial taxes, which is not a bad thing. Now that the Yangtze River is actually in the hands of Wei Ba, he can only give it even if he doesn't want to, and with his current Liliang, he can't expel Xiahou Xuan and others out of the country at all.

However, Sun Quan was not restrained, and through many ways, he bribed Li Feng again, and Zuihou finally reached an agreement, Xiahou Xuan and others could stay in Poyang Lake temporarily, but Deng Ai had to withdraw from Yuzhang. Wei Ba agreed, and soon, Deng Ai left Yuzhang with 40,000 or 50,000 families of Shanyue, returned to Changsha, and took up the post of Changsha Lieutenant.

Prior to this, Zhang Biao served as the Taishou of Changsha, and Jin Dongliu was promoted to the governor of Jiangnan, fully responsible for the military ...... of the four counties in Jiangnan (To be continued......)

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