Sun Quan held the thin piece of paper, but it seemed to be holding a mountain weighing a thousand catties.

What I have been most worried about all along, is still going to happen.

Sun Quan felt very humiliated, what did Wei Ba and Li Yan think of Dongwu as something, waiting for them to come and eat fatty meat? Nor are they afraid of getting their teeth dirty. No matter how weak Jiangdong is, there is a huge territory, a population of millions, and an army of nearly 300,000, can they eat it if they want to? By doing so, they are ignorant and contemptuous of Jiangdong.

If they want to come, let them come and see whose victory is for Zuihou.

After gritting his teeth and being ruthless, Sun Quan calmed down and had to think about the predicament he was about to face. It is true that Wu has an army of nearly 300,000, but most of the troops are stationed in you, and the people and horses that can be mobilized are about 100,000, and now they are basically on the battlefield of Jianghuai, commanded by Lu Xun and Sun Shao, and are preparing to attack Qingzhou and Yanzhou. If they are transferred back from the front line, the Jianghuai land they have just captured will be regained and lost, not to mention attacking Jizhou and Youzhou, and completing the grand wish of sharing the world with Shu Han.

Could they be blackmailing? Sun Quan thought again. At present, the strength of Shu Han is not strong enough to support two fronts at the same time, Zhuge Liang occupies the right side of Guanzhong Longyou, although the food is not very sufficient, but he has mastered the important resource of war horses, as long as Zhuge Liang does not agree, it is not easy to attack Wu with Li Yan and Wei Ba's liliang alone. If he was trapped on the battlefield of Dongwu and couldn't get out, wouldn't Li Yan ask for his own hardships, and Zuihou let Zhuge Liang pick up the cheap?

Sun Quan hesitated, relying only on Li Feng's secret agreement with Wei Ba. Inspecting the Hepu shipyard was not enough for him to be sure that Li Yan would send troops to attack. Besides, it is not possible to build a large number of warships in a day or two, and it is simply impossible to achieve it without half a year.

Sun Quan thought about it and decided to send Zhuge Ke to Guanzhong again, firstly, to contact Zhuge Liang, report the news, and ask Zhuge Liang to block Li Yan in the court, and on the other hand, let Zhuge Liang send the war horse he bought as soon as possible. With these war horses. He can be a little tougher.

At this time, Sun Quan couldn't care about preventing the expansion of the Jiangdong family in the army. The country is about to be destroyed, and the lesser of two evils should be maintained, and the independent regime should be preserved first.

Zhuge Ke was sent to Guanzhong as quickly as possible.

……

After all, the spring breeze blew green the land of Guanzhong.

As the weather gradually warms up. Zhuge Liang's body seems to be getting better. At least I don't cough all night anymore. As the post-war affair slowly came to an end. Zhuge Liang also has some free time, and he doesn't have to be so busy day and night.

But he also paid a heavy price.

More than 10,000 soldiers were compensated and a large amount of material losses were lost. Coupled with the materials needed by the 40,000 troops who were still fighting in Huguan, it was like a heavy mountain pressing on Zhuge Liang's shoulders. Li Yan controlled the imperial court, except for sending him an official letter asking for guilt, there was no material support, in order to raise these materials, let the fallen soldiers rest in peace, so that Jiang Wei did not have to worry about baggage on the front line, Zhuge Liang scraped together, emptied the zuihou in the purse of a money, and even took out his private property in Chengdu, which was still not enough, zuihou had to bow his head to the Hanzhong led by Zhao Su to borrow, and finally got over this difficulty.

However, he still can't repay the biggest debt, he owes Wei Ba nearly 40,000 gold, and he hasn't paid it back yet.

Under heavy economic pressure, the only thing Zhuge Liang could call on was the war horse of Liangzhou, which was the greatest wealth he currently had. In order to get some money turnover from Sun Quan, he allocated 8,000 war horses to send to Eastern Wu as quickly as possible, and the first batch of 3,000 horses is currently on the way.

After these war horses arrived in Wuchang, they got the first batch of payment, except for Wei Ba's huge amount of money that was still unable to be paid for the time being, Zhuge Liang was able to do a lot of things.

Thinking that the difficulties were about to pass, Zhuge Liang's thin face could occasionally show some smiles.

What made him even happier was the battle in Huguan. At present, although Jiang Wei has not yet conquered Huguan, he firmly occupies the other counties of Shangdang, and the army sent by Sima Yi to the rescue of Shangdang was blocked by Wu Yi in the area of Shimen and could not advance. Just wait for the Huguan to be conquered, Jiang Wei can be regarded as having completed the task of occupying the party.

Zhuge Liang was very satisfied with Jiang Wei's arrangement, Wei Yan led 10,000 elite cavalry in the north to deal with Xiahou Ba, and Wu Yi led the army in the south to block the reinforcements from Hanoi, and at the same time sent people to guard the main road of Taihang Mountain to prevent the reinforcements in the direction of Jizhou, and personally led the army to attack Huguan. Jiang Wei made the most effective use of his limited forces, leaving Hao Zhao in a dilemma of having no help to wait.

Zhuge Liang believes that if Jiang Wei does not face Hao Zhao, who has been fighting for many years, I am afraid that Huguan will collapse without a fight. But this is not a bad thing, with a general like Hao Zhao as Jiang Wei's whetstone, the sharpened knife will be sharper, and it can even wash away the shame of the fiasco of Liupan Mountain.

As long as Jiang Wei can grow up, gain a firm foothold in the court, and establish his prestige in the army, the burden on his shoulders will be much easier.

This time, he didn't want to repeat the old mistakes of Ma Yan, and he didn't want to let go of another talent and let him become his enemy.

Jiang Wei wrote to him every day according to his previous habits, and he also replied to Jiang Wei every day.

If Jiang Wei's performance was expected by Zhuge Liang, then Huo Yi's performance was an unexpected joy. After Zhuge Liang led the main force to leave Xin'an, he arranged for Huo Yi to be stationed in Xin'an and guard the east entrance of Hangu. Because of the limited number of troops, he only left Huo Yi with 5,000 people, but Huo Yi firmly held Xin'an. Qin Lang led an army of 20,000 and attacked several times, but failed to conquer Xin'an. This also caused the Wei army to not dare to attack Shimen with all their might, which relieved Jiang Wei's pressure from the side.

If nothing else, Huo Yi will soon grow into a new general, and take on the important task of reviving the Han Dynasty together with Jiang Wei.

These are all good news, and they also make Zhuge Liang's mood a lot easier.

Zhuge Ke's arrival surprised Zhuge Liang very much.

"Aren't you on the front line, why did you get to Guanzhong?"

Zhuge Ke smiled and arched his hand: "The army retreats to Yingchuan to rest, there will be no major war for the time being, so I will take the time to come to Guanzhong to ask my uncle for benefits." Uncle, you've been recovering well for the past few months. ”

Zhuge Liang also smiled and asked kindly, "Has the Runan area started farming?" ”

"I've started farming, but it's not a big problem, it's a serious underpopulation." Zhuge Ke sighed and shook his head helplessly: "After we occupied Runan, we learned that the current population of Runan is less than half of the household registration, and it is a pity that those who flee south flee to the south, those who return to the north return to the north, and a large area of fertile land is barren." Uncle, I came on the orders of the king this time to ask my uncle to provide some new farming tools, so that we can cultivate more land, make up for the loss, and restore our strength as soon as possible. ”

Zhuge Liang was surprised: "I know that Hefei and Shouchun have been fighting for many years, and the population is very small, why is the population in Runan so small?" That's no less than Jizhou. ”

"It's not because of the two years of war."

"The fighting in the past two years has not been fierce, how can there be so many fewer people?"

"The war is not fierce, but there is Wei Ba in Jiangnan to tempt those foolish people. They probably thought that the war in Yuzhou would last for a long time, so many people fled south with their families. Nanyang is now in the hands of Meng Da, and we can't control the population of these people who fled south, and when we negotiate with Meng Da, Meng Da doesn't pay attention to it at all, but instead wantonly solicits troops from it. Meng Da took the lead, and of course the others were not far behind, Wei Ba's brother Wei Feng recruited no less than 2,000 households. Not only the generals in the army, but also those Nanyang families also arranged for people to return to their hometowns, reopen the manor, and absorb the displaced people. Uncle, you don't care about it, if it goes on like this, Nanyang and Nanjun will become emperors again. ”

Zhuge Liang frowned lightly and sighed silently. He knew all these things, but he couldn't control them. It was Li Yan who was courting the Nanyang family and enlisting their support. If he opposes it at this time, won't he directly offend those families?

Zhuge Liang took the initiative to divert the topic: "I can help you with farm tools." However, I'm afraid you didn't come to Guanzhong for such a simple thing as farm tools, right? ”

"Of course." Zhuge Ke looked around, especially at Yang Wei, who had a very ugly face. Zhuge Liang frowned and coughed lightly: "Yuan Xiu, you go to the workshop to get the drawings." ”

Yang Wei reluctantly answered, turned around and left. Just now when he heard that the families of the Jingxiang family returned to Nanyang to buy property, he felt a little lost, and felt that there was no benefit to be gained from following the prime minister, and he was almost blackmailed by Wei Yan while living in the old site of the Wei family's manor, but the Ma family and the Xi family are now making a windfall, so many people, what a lot of wealth. Now Zhuge Liang actually wants to avoid him to speak, obviously because he doesn't trust him, and he feels that there is a nameless fire in his heart.

Seeing Yang Wei walking away, Zhuge Ke lowered his voice and said: "Li Yan's son Li Feng has gone to Jiaozhou and is secretly talking with Wei Ba, and it is possible to launch an attack on Wu State. ”

Zhuge Liang was taken aback: "Is this news reliable?" ”

"It's not certain yet, but it's very likely." Zhuge Ke stared at Zhuge Liang's eyes: "Uncle, if Li Yan wants to make meritorious contributions, apart from attacking Wu State, what other way out?" ”

"But ......," Zhuge Liang muttered, "Nanyang's strength alone is not enough, he has to rely on Wei Ba's help." However, Wei Ba does not have the strength to destroy the Wu State at present, otherwise, he would have done it a long time ago. ”

"But if you join forces, it's very possible." Zhuge Ke said slowly: "What's more, Wei Ba still has the jishu of the warship in his hands. ”

Zhuge Liang laughed and glanced at Zhuge Ke: "The jishu of the warship is the real purpose of your trip, right?" ”

Zhuge Ke smiled and said nothing...... (To be continued......)

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