Chapter 9: The Three Counties of the Jin Kingdom

The Great Jin Dynasty has been established for more than 10,000 years, and now the country is facing a large number of internal and external troubles, the domestic prime minister Shi Chong monopolized the dynasty, excluded dissidents, framed loyalty, corrupted the law, and did all evil, and increasingly powerful, endangering the imperial power, today's saint Sima Wen is obsessed with calligraphy and painting, ignoring the government and politics, and the power is falling, if it is not for the generalissimo Sima Zhan, the pillar of the town, to turn the tide, the internal ministers, and the foreign powers, the Great Jin Kingdom may have been surnamed Shi instead of Sima.

In recent years, Shi Chong's power has been increasing, and the princes in various places have been protecting themselves, coupled with successive disasters, the people are not able to make a living, resulting in rampant thieves, continuous riots, and beacon fires.

Zhuge Mou then introduced some of the larger forces in the country to Ziyang and others, as well as the power vacuum, focusing on the six counties along the death forest, with Chiyan County, Yunmeng County, and Shenghu County being the most important, Chiyan County is the only salt-producing place in the north, Yunmeng County is an important water and land transportation hub in the north, Shenghu County is not only a water transportation hub, but also an important barrier for the north to resist powerful countries, not only 100,000 army troops, but also 100,000 water troops stationed. However, these counties have been in war for many years, thieves are gathered, the people are poor, they are poor, and they are facing the forest of death, Shi Chong is not optimistic, Sima Mad is powerless to take care of them, and they are in a power vacuum. And there is also an unwritten rule that the previous champions of the new science and martial arts will be sent to Shenghu County for garrison training, and they will be crowned with a fief if they have meritorious performance.

When Ziyang heard Zhuge Mou's analysis, he felt that he really needed a talent like him to give advice for himself, otherwise it would be difficult to distinguish this complex situation on his own, and talents like Dapeng Huofeng were too simple-minded, after all, they were demon beasts, even if they opened their spiritual wisdom, they were still far behind the wise people among people, and their advantage was a unique magical spell. Like Yang Xing, he is still too young and lacks experience. Although Zhuge Mou looks young, he is full of maturity, calmness and ability that does not match his age.

To tell the truth, Zhuge Mou's talent is definitely one of the best in the entire Purple Source Continent.

Ziyang said: "Li Gongzi, let's tell you the truth, Dapeng and I, Huofeng lives in seclusion in the mountains all the year round, and knows very little about things outside the world, but in recent years, I have seen a large number of people fleeing into the mountains for refuge, disturbing our brothers' Qing Xiu, and knowing that the world is chaotic, the brothers discussed and decided to go out of the mountains to save the people in the fire and water, so they went to Yanchi County to participate in the martial arts, and was fortunate to meet the Yang Xing brothers, and wanted to go to the capital to gain fame and contribute to the country, but just now I heard that Li Gongzi say this, I do have a certain idea, see that Li Gongzi is extremely intelligent, strategic, dare to annoy Li Gongzi to plan a way to save the country and save the people for my brothers。 ”

Ziyang originally wanted to temporarily hide his idea of occupying the city, claiming the title of king, and accumulating strength, but only Dapeng and Huofeng knew about it, and did not tell Yang Xing.

When Zhuge Mou heard this, he was overjoyed, and happily gave a thumbs up and said: "Brother Tai is really a master, and I have long seen that Brother Tai has the lofty ambition to save the people from fire and water, and I Li also has this ambition, but people are light and weak, and they have Lingyunzhi and cannot be displayed. ”

When Ziyang heard this, he laughed and said: "The hero sees the same thing, but we just want to go through the official way, and Li Gongzi is just taking the folk road." ”

Zhuge Mou said: "Brother Tai's way is the best policy, and my Li's way is forced to be helpless, today God let me have the honor to meet Brother Tai and your brothers, it is a God-given fate, if Brother Tai does not give up, I am willing to respect Brother Tai, become a brother of life and death, achieve a career, and benefit the people." How does the brother think. ”

In Ziyang's heart, the real brother is frank and open, and Zhuge Mou uses a false identity to make Ziyang unhappy, although he values his talents, but what he values more is the loyalty and friendship between brothers, plus Ziyang worked hard from a slave to rule a star field in his previous life, and his ability to see and use people is first-class, although Zhuge Mou is well hidden in all aspects, but how can Ziyang not see that he has a special purpose in this half a day.

Ziyang said with a smile: "Hehe, brothers in life and death are brothers with the same fate in life and death, brothers who have gone through hardships and are of one heart and one mind in battle, Dapeng and I are brothers who share life and death." After speaking, he looked at Zhuge Mou happily.

Ziyang said this, and the basic meaning had been clearly told to Zhuge Mou, this is Yang Xing hugged his fist, knelt down on one knee forward, and swore: "Brother Ziyang, if you have a life, I am willing to go with you in life and death, if you violate this oath, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed." ”

Seeing this, Ziyang hurriedly helped Yang Xing up, and whispered: "Brother's heart, how can I not know." Then he said: "I said this for some people, some people call life and death brothers in front of us under false pretenses, it is not qualified, Brother Yang Xing don't misunderstand." Dapeng and Huofeng also hurried over to help Yang Xing up, pulled him aside, and said something. In their hearts, they had already identified Yang Xing as a brother.

Ziyang thought to himself, Yang Xing really needs to have a lot of experience in society in order to become a talent in Haotian, and he can't distinguish a little strategy.

Ziyang took Zhuge Mou's army like this, coupled with Yang Xing's reckless cooperation just now, Zhuge Mou's face changed immediately, although it was only for a moment, how could he escape Ziyang's eyes.

Zhuge Mou secretly exclaimed, "Could it be that this person can see my disguise technique, my disguise technique can't even see the young master with profound skills, how can he see it, is his skill even deeper than the young master? ”

Zhuge Mou is worthy of being a genius, Ziyang's words, he saw the key, and didn't think about the ordinary thinking of life and death brothers who need to run in for a long time, because he saw that Ziyang treated Yang Xing completely differently from himself, and Ziyang didn't know Yang Xing for a long time, and the reason for this difference was that there was no other reason except for Zhuge Mou's disguise technique.

Zhuge Mou's brain was running rapidly, looking for a suitable explanation. In the blink of an eye, Zhuge Mou changed his body shape, returned to his original appearance, bowed deeply to Ziyang and the others, and explained to Ziyang with a guilty countenance: "Brother couldn't stand Brother Tai just now, and when he was excited, he forgot to restore his appearance, how can he hide it from being a brother in life and death with Brother Tai, a gentleman should be frank and open." My original name was Zhuge Mou, and I was the champion of the new science and culture last year, but I disagreed with Shi Chong's old thief's political views, and was persecuted by him, so I left my post and left, bent on saving the country and the people, and eradicating the moths of Shi Chong's country. Although I have resigned, the old thief Shi Chong has always pursued me, and I had to change my name and surname and change my appearance to avoid the pursuit of the old thief Shi Chong. If the words just now caused inconvenience to Brother Tai, please forgive Brother Tai, all when I didn't say anything, for this reason, I Zhuge Mou is willing to punish three glasses of wine to apologize. ”

Ziyang thought to himself: "What a Zhuge scheme, he came up with countermeasures so quickly, and he turned my army into an army, and his talent and agility to this extent are indeed a rare talent." It's better to use it for the time being, to see what its purpose is, and the core thing is to prevent him. If he is a person sent by Piaoxue, needless to say, he will reuse it in the future, if it is sent by the Five Great God Emperors, he will use it to transmit false news, and use it with good intentions. ”

Thinking of this, Ziyang hurriedly stopped Zhuge Mou and said, "Brother Zhuge is too worried, since it is the enemy of Shi Chong's old thief, and my Yang Xing brother's whole family was also persecuted by Shi Chong's old thief, then Shi Chong's old thief is our common enemy, since they are all brothers, there is no need to say anything else, we have to think about how to develop and strengthen our strength." ”

Saying that, in order to show his sincerity, Ziyang took out 10 million Shi Ziyun Pavilion's food stamps and 10 million taels of Ziyun Pavilion's silver stamps, handed them to Zhuge Mou, and said, "If Zhuge brothers want to recruit troops and buy horses, these money and grain brothers will use them first." ”

As soon as Zhuge Mou saw Ziyang take out so much money and food at once, he said continuously: "I didn't expect that the eldest brother was so well prepared, and with such money and food, he could recruit nearly 10,000 people, and we had the most basic team." ”

Zhuge Mou put away the silver stamps, but returned the food stamps: "Said, the grain stamps of the Ziyun Pavilion are hard to find, and they cannot be used until the last resort, we can buy food with some silver taels now, once the war starts, it will be difficult to buy food, but the reputation of the Ziyun Pavilion is excellent, even during the war, it can be exchanged for grain without any difference, so we must use it carefully." If I don't have enough silver taels, I can exchange the calligraphy and paintings that my brother gave me for silver taels at the auction just now to buy food. ”

At this time, Zhuge Mou knew in his heart that he couldn't push it back, he could only accept it, and only by doing things beautifully could he gain the trust of Ziyang and others, and only then could he get the core secret.