"Peace without a fight? I said, Kong Ming, have you taken medicine today? Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang below suspiciously.

"Take medicine? Lord, Liang, but he has never been sick. As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, looking at the smile of Xu Shu on the side, he immediately reacted, this lord is saying that he is sick, Zhuge Liang is simply angry and funny, you say you are angry, such a second cargo lord, he actually said in public that his subordinate criminal department Shangshu is sick, what kind of mentality do you have.

You say this laugh, this kind of lord is what makes Zhuge Liang feel that the truth is also a kind of feeling of his own person, not as polite as others, and feels a kind of hypocrisy.

"My lord! Originally, Liang advocated that the lord send troops to attack Jiangdong, that was because he got Jiangdong, had the hearts of the people in Jiangdong, and those soldiers in Jiangdong, and my Yangzhou soldiers and horses would have one more elite out, but now Jiangdong, hehe! The people's hearts have been lost, and they are poor, do you really want Jiangdong like the lord? Zhuge Liang smiled at Liu Mang and said, the people of Jiangdong now have a deep hatred for the Yangzhou army, seven or eight villages were slaughtered, if only the village was slaughtered, then there was nothing, but it was coaxed by people with a heart, coupled with civil unrest, all of a sudden, the tyranny of the Yangzhou army spread all over Jiangdong.

Just like when Liu Daer was in Yuzhou, he spread Liu Mang's rumors in Yuzhou, making the Yangzhou army a butcher, so that if any of the people dared to surrender, they would naturally fight to the death.

Now Jiangdong is like this, the people basically have no good impression of the Yangzhou army, and now the Yangzhou army sends troops to attack Jiangdong, not to mention that it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources to fight down. Governance is also an issue. You can't really be like Sun Ce at the beginning, stationing 30,000 elite soldiers and horses near Huiji. This is not proportional to what you pay and what you get, so who goes.

"Could it be that Jiangdong just left him to slowly recover his anger?" Liu Mang was dissatisfied, and finally beat Jiangdong Sun Ce like a dead dog, if you give Sun Ce time again, this Sun Ce Jiangdong Army will be angry, then it will be a disaster again.

"Hehe, my lord, if we don't attack Jiangdong, naturally someone will help us deal with our little overlord." Zhuge Liang's eyes turned over.

"Huh?" Liu Mang frowned, is there anyone else who can help them deal with Jiangdong Sun Ce? Jiangdong Sun Ce's nearby enemy is himself and another is Liu Biao of Jingzhou. Although it is said that the two have a grudge against their father, but it was Liu Biao who killed Sun Ce's father, not Sun Ce who killed Liu Biao's father, if Liu Biao's strength did not lose or his strength increased greatly, it is still possible to annex Sun Ce, and now Jingzhou itself is difficult to protect, who else does he want to attack?

"It's not Jingzhou Liu Biao, this one who helped us deal with our little overlord is in this Jiangdong." Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "This person is the younger brother of our little overlord, Sun Quan, the second prince of Jiangdong, Sun Quan Sun Zhongmou. Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"Sun Quan. Sun Zhongmou? Isn't he being imprisoned? How is it possible to help us? Liu Mang didn't understand, the coup d'état of Sun Quan, the second son of Jiangdong, had completely failed, and now he was imprisoned by his brother Sun Ce. It's hard to protect themselves, and they can still help Yangzhou deal with Jiangdong?

"Hehe, you can still come out if you enter it!" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"What if you come out? Single-handedly? How can our second son deal with his brother alone? Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang.

"Our second son is not alone." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang: "On the contrary, the power of the people behind our second son Sun is even greater than that of our Jiangdong lord. ”

Is there anyone in Jiangdong who has more power than Sun Ce's power? Isn't that a joke? Liu Mang is ready to continue spraying our Mr. Zhuge Kongming and asked him to go back to take medicine. But Xu Shu on the side spoke first.

"Kong Ming, what do you mean by those Jiangdong scholars?" Xu Shu can see much more clearly than Liu Mang. In a state, it is naturally those scholars who can be more powerful than the lord, of course, it is impossible for one or two families to confront the lord of a state, but if these five families are ten, or even twenty.

The scholar clan has never stopped since the beginning of feudal society, and these scholars can even decide the life and death of a dynasty.

In Jingzhou, the Huang family, the Cai family, and the Kuai family will unite to send our Lord Liu Biao back to his hometown.

In Jiangdong, this group of Jiangdong scholars is still very powerful.

"Kong Ming, how did you know that this second son of Sun could escape, and how did you know that this scholar clan in Jiangdong would support this second son?" Liu Mang has a bunch of questions, this Zhuge Liang's information is even more detailed than that of him, the leader of the group.

"Haha! Lord, this qiē is all my brother suing me. Zhuge Liang smiled and said to Liu Mang.

"Your brother? Zhuge Jin? Liu Mang was surprised, although Liu Mang didn't know much about this Zhuge Jin, he knew that this person was also a kind of person who valued faith and righteousness, this person was not a die-hard loyalist, but as long as his lord was still there, he would not betray.

"Could it be that Mr. Zhuge Jin also wants to take refuge in my Yangzhou, in this case, this king will definitely sweep the couch to greet him." Liu Mang also thought that Zhuge Jin could be an official in Yangzhou, not to mention Zhuge Jin's ability, just said that this person was Zhuge Liang's eldest brother, and Zhuge Jin was there, so that this Zhuge demon would be embarrassed again.

"My lord, you misunderstood, my brother is still loyal to our Lord Wu Hou, at least for now!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said to Liu Mang, the reason why Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang parted ways, in addition to the disagreement between the two people, there is another reason, that is, these scholars know a truth, that is, eggs will never be put in the same basket, if Zhuge Liang loses, then at most Zhuge Liang's vein will be destroyed, and it will definitely not affect Zhuge Jin, and if Zhuge Jin is destroyed, Zhuge Liang will only cry. This can ensure that the Zhuge family will continue to be passed on.

"Then how did you know about Kong Ming?" Liu Mang is even more strange, you said that your brother sued you, and said that your brother was loyal to Wu Hou. What the hell is going on.

"My lord. See also my brother's letters. Zhuge Liang said and took out Zhuge Jin's letter to Zhuge Liang from his arms.

Liu Mang looked over. There is nothing on it, except for greetings, there are also some entrustments, at most, some brothers have been busy recently, and he Zhuge Jin has been promoted.

"What does this mean?" Liu Mang doesn't understand, isn't this just an ordinary family letter, everyone can write it.

"Hehe, there are really too many things that my lord told us in this letter. At least I calculated that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce did not surrender to me at all, and Yangzhou's heart was seen from my brother's family letter. Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"Huh!" Liu Mang was a little embarrassed to mention this, it is true that if Liu Mang had listened to Zhuge Liang's words, he would not have been like this. But now it can't be saved, so Liu Mang can only grit his teeth and admit it.

"Lord, please see, my eldest brother sues me that he has not had time to be busy lately!"

"It's from here that you see that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce don't have the idea of surrendering?" Liu Mang asked suspiciously?

"However, my lord, do you think that if he surrenders to the lord of a state, once he surrenders, all the Yiqiē has nothing to do with him, do you think that the officials of this Jiangdong will still be busy?" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang thought about it, and it was indeed the case. If a company is going to be taken over by others, then everything in this company has nothing to do with the former boss. How could the former boss talk about helping the new boss anymore?

"But what if this is Mr. Zhuge Jin's rigorous personality?" Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang, there are really people with a very deep sense of responsibility, even if they are leaving a post, they have to do a good job, even if it is the day before and the minute, he is going all out.

"Hehe, my eldest brother does have this possibility! But don't forget, my lord, if my eldest brother wants to be busy, then he has to have something to do? It's really not easy for him to be busy as a newly appointed chief envoy. "Jiangdong can be said to be basically deserted, and some small things can be handled by grassroots officials completely, and there is no need for Zhuge Jin, the chief envoy, to do it.

"So the only thing he can be busy with is that it must be a big deal, what is the Lord Jiangdong lacking the most now?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang.

"The most missing?" Liu Mang frowned, "What is most lacking should be the army!" Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang nodded, "That's right, what Jiangdong lacks most now is the army, and if you want to build an army, you must have money and food, and my eldest brother should be busy with money and food." As for where the money and food come from, hehe. Zhuge Liang smiled and didn't speak.

"Jiangdong is already poor, and those who are rich are those scholars!" If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu want to get money and food, they must suck blood from behind the warriors, as well as the pensions of those soldiers who died in battle, these are all money.

This number must not be in the small tree, so these warriors will be unlucky.

And if these scholars want not to be sucked by Sun Ce, there is only one possibility, and that is to change the lord.

In the past, these warriors may not dare, but now it is different, in the past, it was because there were 100,000 people in armor under Sun Ce in Jiangdong, but now, Sun Ce's surroundings are full of 10,000 people, such a look, and now I still want to suck blood on these warriors, it depends on whether these warriors are willing or not.

Because the scholars also have the capital to fight with the lord. And don't forget that there is another piece of news, that is, who is our original Jiangdong envoy, it is our Zhang Zhao Zhang, he is the head of the Jiangdong clan, but he was deposed by Sun Ce, and Zhang Zhao will be sent back to Xudu, which is equivalent to letting the Zhang family give up everything and start over in Xudu.

What's more, it was introduced by Wu Hou Sun Ce, if you go to Xudu, you will definitely be branded as Jiangdong, and everyone will think that you are Sun Ce's spy.

"The little overlord Sun Ce wants money and food to form an army! Jiangdong is poor and can only ask for it from those scholars, those scholars are unwilling, they don't want to be sucked by Sun Ce, then they only have one way to go! Change the lord! Liu Mang seemed to understand all of a sudden.

"But they changed the lord, why don't they consider us Yangzhou!" Liu Mang said a little bitterly, Sun Ce can't do it, you can come to Yangzhou, right, Yangzhou is also a good place. Liu Mang is also a good lord.

"Haha. Lord. You may be a master, but you are not a good person in the eyes of those Jiangdong scholars. Zhuge Liang teased Liu Mang.

"Humph!" Liu Mang snorted coldly, he naturally knew that his image in the eyes of these Jiangdong scholars was a butcher, an insatiable butcher, even worse than Sun Ce's image in the eyes of these Jiangdong scholars, because Liu Mang had killed more than a dozen large and small scholars in Anhui City, and even the family members with those private soldiers of the scholars were killed.

Later, Liu Mang implemented in Yangzhou that the land belonged to the conquest. All land sales can only be sold to the government, which scares our Jiangdong clan even more.

They have a lot of land in their families, thousands of acres of land, if you give him all these land, what else will he use to make money, you must know that this land occupies more than half of their assets.

In troubled times, food is even more valuable, this is their iron rice bowl, if you smash other people's rice bowls, of course people will not be polite to you.

So for the Jiangdong Shi clan, although Sun Ce is a bloodsucker. But it can give people a way to live, and our Lord Liu Mang is different. It's directly cut off other people's financial routes, and people don't play with you to have ghosts.

"Alright, alright! It's not that I didn't compensate them, and I didn't buy all the fields with money! Liu Mang said to his subordinates, but their subordinates were rolling their eyes one by one, did you sell it for money?

Yangzhou was originally a borderless land, occupied by you, and the owner of Lujiang was killed by you, like Xinye, Yuzhou, these lands are because I am afraid that your Royal Highness the King of Shu will move away one by one, where is there a piece of land that Your Royal Highness the King of Shu bought.

Liu Mang seems to know that he said the wrong thing, but it doesn't matter, over the years, Liu Mang has developed a cheeky habit.

"So according to Kong Ming's meaning, what should we do now?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang on the side.

"Nothing else, we just wait." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"Nothing?" Liu Mang frowned, it is not Liu Mang's style to do nothing and wait here.

"If the lord really wants to do it, it's okay, that is, to send an envoy to Jiangdong to make peace." Liu Mang found out that he was pitted by Zhuge Liang, what do I really want to do, obviously you dug the pit and let me jump.

"Accurate!" Liu Mang nodded, and prepared to ask his subordinates to send an envoy to Jiangdong to make peace with Jiangdong Sun Ceyan.

"Lord, don't forget jì, bring 10,000 stone of grain and grass!" Zhuge Liang continued to say to Liu Mang.

"Bring grain and grass?" Liu Mang frowned: "What are you doing with grain and grass?" "Talking to Jiangdong has already made Liu Mang very unhappy, and giving grain and grass to Jiangdong is not funding the enemy? You must know that what Sun Ce lacks most is grain and grass.

"Lord, doesn't the lord want your minister's book?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang with a smile.

Only then did Liu Mang remember that his official Shangshu, our good man, and the honest Master Lu Sulu were still in the Jiangdong.

"He, Sun Ce, dares to detain Zijing?" Liu Mang frowned and asked, the two countries are at war and don't kill the envoys, this Sun Ce is not bad with his enemies, but you can't leave his Liu Mang's envoy behind.

"Lord, Zijing's talent, what does the lord think?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang.

"I have a son, and a great cause can be expected." Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang, of course, this is too much, although Lu Su is a talent, but it has not yet reached the point where Liu Mang has to be Lu Su, this is Liu Mang's praise for Lu Su, Lu Su's talent to govern a country may be a little difficult, but a state is more than enough, a ministry, Zijing is like a fish in water.

"Lord, you can see Zijing's talent, don't you think that Zhou Yu can't see it?" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang. Although Zhuge Liang's words are not good, you can see what it is, and his feelings are worse than others.

"Didn't he see it at the beginning?" Liu Mang said unconvinced.

"At the beginning, it was because Zhou Yu was busy with Jiangxia's affairs." Sun Ce went south to attack Lujiang and took away tens of thousands of elites, but he Zhou Yu only had 40,000 people on his hands, but he wanted to suppress the Jiangxia Navy with 70,000 people, this pressure was really not small, so he naturally couldn't take care of Lu Su.

Later, Lu Su was defeated, and Zhou Yu was even more difficult to speak for Lu Su, and later, that is, our second son Sun was sent to Yangzhou with Lu Su, which made our Shu King Liu Mang pick up a bargain.

But now it's different. Koto is very depressed right now. Lu Su's talent, Zhou Yu naturally won't let it go. If Lu Su joins Jiangdong again, the strength of this Jiangdong is really not small.

This Zhou Yu and Sun Ce will not kill Lu Su, but you have no way to leave Lu Su.

"10,000 grains and grass, he Sun Ceken releases people and horses?" Liu Mang frowned, in Liu Mang's heart, Lu Su is worth one million, 10,000 stones, grain and grass, what do you think is called Huazi? In the peaceful and prosperous era, 10,000 stones, grain and grass are only four or five hundred gold.

"Hehe, my lord. What about this meal, it is not appetizing on weekdays, but if it is in this hungry time, it is really delicious, 10,000 stones, hehe, even if Zhou Yu is unwilling, he Sun Ce will happily send us back! Zhuge Liang sneered and said, "What's more, the lord's ten thousand stones are not just redeeming Zijing." ”

"Huh? This 10,000 stone is so valuable? "One Lu Su is worth a million, and looking at Zhuge Liang's meaning, he can exchange it for other things.

"My lord. If this Sun Ce has money and food to form an army, who do you say is the biggest threat? ”

Yangzhou is naturally impossible. If there is a big danger to Yangzhou, Zhuge Liang will not send it, and the biggest threat is naturally our second son Sun and the Shi clan group behind him. Once Sun Ce's soldiers and horses are formed, they will still play a fart. Hurry up and go back to where you came from. Therefore, Liu Mang's 10,000 grains were given to Sun Ce, not to exacerbate Jiangdong's strength, but to intensify Jiangdong's internal friction.

"Haha, in that case, I'll give Sun Ce 20,000 stones." Liu Mang was very generous, and it was doubled all of a sudden, becoming 20,000 stones. Let our second son be more anxious.

"My lord, this is not necessary!" Zhuge Liang shook his head 10,000 stones, hehe, it is naturally a rich family for the people, but it is really a drop in the bucket when put into the army, this 10,000 stones can make him Sun Ce and Sun Bofu salivate, and it can also make him Sun Ce and Sun Bofu unable to eat enough and make him have no strength. If you give too much, it will not be good if the strength of the two brothers is greatly disparity.

'Okay, in that case, where is Yang Hong!' Liu Mang nodded, and began to give orders to the Yangzhou civil and military forces below.

"The old minister is here!" Yang Hong stepped forward and hugged his fist at Liu Mang.

"Yang Hong, with your Ministry of Foreign Affairs, send an envoy to Jiangdong to make peace with that Wu Hou Sun Ce. Bring 10,000 stones of grain and grass, and bring Zijing back to me! Liu Mang said to Yang Hong.

"Lord, you don't need to send someone, the old minister will go over in person!" Yang Hong said to Liu Mang.

"Uncle Hong, do you want to go over in person?" Liu Mang frowned, because Yang Hong's age is not young, he is much older than Chen Gongdu, and this body is not very good in all aspects, if he is sick, it will not be good.

For Yang Hong and Liu Mang, he is still treated as a family member, because Yuan Fang's father Liu Mang's cheap father-in-law Yuan Shu died early, so Yang Hong became Yuan Fang's only relative, Yuan Fang regarded Yang Hong as his father, Liu Mang naturally had a good relationship with Yang Hong, calling Uncle Hong.

"My lord, the dog is still in the Jiangdong! I'm not at ease as a father. Yang Hong said to Liu Mang.

"Yang Chen?" Liu Mang seems to know the name.

"Exactly, the dog protects Lu Shangshu's safety with Lu Shangshu." Yang Hong said, "It's just that I couldn't complete the task, and I was still stuck in Jiangdong." ”

"Uncle Hong, after Yang Chen comes back, you let him come to me to listen to the order." Liu Mang said to Yang Hong, go to Liu Mang's side and listen to the order, don't look at Liu Mang's lack of official position, but this sentence is already priceless, even if you are a personal guard by Liu Mang's side, it is also promising, you say Guan Hai and Zhou Cang, although the two do not command the army, but the status of the two in the army is not inferior to anyone.

"The old minister thanked the lord on behalf of the dog, but the lord, the dog is used to it, and he may not be used to staying by the lord's side!"

"Huh?" Yang Hong actually refused, Liu Mang was a little incomprehensible, this is a great future for your son, no matter how many people want it, they can't get it.

"Haha! The boss is the boss, the strict father is a talented son. It was Xu Shu's words on the side that made Liu Mang understand, this Yang Hong didn't want Yang Chen to come to Liu Mang's side, but Yang Hong thought that his son was not capable enough now, and when he got to the lord's side, it was also a vase, so it was better to have a good experience outside, and then return to Liu Mang's side to listen to the order.

"It's up to you!" Liu Mang also smiled and shook his head. (To be continued......)