Chapter Seventy-Two: Conjecture
Zhou Yu was about to pack his bags and go to Yangzhou, he planned to make a detour to his hometown Lujiang County first, and take Dian Wei with him to Yangzhou to rectify military affairs. In Luoyang City, except for the Biyuexuan Restaurant, Zhou Yu sold everything that could be sold, and the other wineries, cloth houses, grain shops, and horse shops that originally belonged to Biyuexuan were all replaced by Chinese Commercial Houses.
After everything was ready, Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, and Cheng Yu rode out of the south gate of Luoyang in a carriage, and there were several big cars outside the south gate, and there were more than 20 escorts.
"I don't know when I will be able to come back after leaving Luoyang, to be honest, I really don't want to leave." Guo Jia's face was ruddy and he shook the wine gourd in his hand, not that he drank too much, but was fed by Zhou Yu's good wine and meat, and his body basically recovered a lot.
"Fengxiao - it's better for you to stay in Luoyang, I will go to Yangzhou with Brother Zhongde to shepherd one side, and I can also practice with the Shanyue clan, every day I drink wine and the breeze blows, how good it is to fish on the Yangtze River, and there is another point that the women in the south of the Yangtze River are as picturesque and soft as water, and what more can I ask for in life!" Zhou Yu looked back at Luoyang and said to Guo Jia with a smile.
"Yes, yes, yes - Gongjin is right, let Fengxiao stay in Luoyang! The province went with us and worried about him, although the place occupied by the Shanyue clan is large, but it is not enough for the two of us to practice, and he is not us have to play. He must be allowed to stay, and he must fulfill the wish of Fengxiao. Cheng Yu, who was not smiling, also looked at Guo Jia with a smile, wanting to see what Guo Jia should do?
"Two, I just sighed for a while, I recently found out that Gong Jin is a troublemaker, where there is him, there is a good show, this is a natural wonder! With such a fun person on the side, I don't think I, Guo Fengxiao, will be lonely. Luoyang will come back sooner or later-" Guo Jia did not answer directly whether he stayed in Luoyang, he pointed the finger at Zhou Yu, staying by Zhou Yu's side was to solve the trouble for Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu heard Guo Jia say that he was a troublemaker, and he kicked Guo Jia in the buttocks, but it was just a joke.
"Get out of the way-get out of the way-Qingzhou Emergency-" When Zhou Yu and his party were standing at the gate of Luoyang City and sighing, the group quickly drove into the south gate of Luoyang, and the leader shouted Qingzhou Emergency.
"Something happened in Qingzhou?" The three of them had a thought flashing in their heads at the same time.
It was Zhou Yu who was a little shocked, wouldn't it be Tang Zhou, the bastard in history, who sold Zhang Jiao in advance? If this is the case, the day when Zhang launched the uprising is not far away, specifically when Zhang Jiao launched it after the Tang Zhou rebellion, Zhou Yu can't remember it clearly, anyway, it will be two or three months.
"What can happen to Qingzhou? At most, it's just a few bandits and the like, don't you come here a few times a year? "Guo Jia and Cheng Yu don't know what will happen next, they both think that the Han Dynasty is now full of bandits, natural disasters, insect disasters, and floods everywhere, which is just an exaggeration.
"Fengxiao, Zhongde, I have an ominous premonition, we should hurry to Yangzhou." After Zhou Yu finished speaking with a serious face, he beckoned an entourage to come, he whispered, and the entourage rode back to Luoyang City.
Guo Jia and Cheng Yu guessed from Zhou Yu's tone of voice that something big had happened in Qingzhou, and the two hurriedly got into the carriage with Zhou Yu.
"Gong Jin, what did you think of?" Cheng Yu asked first.
"Let's go—speed up—" Zhou Yu commanded the guards outside, then turned his head and said, "I think what I'm worried about is probably going to happen, and what happened in Qingzhou must be related to the Taiping Sect—"
"Could it be that the Taiping Sect has captured the county? However, although these people are powerful, they are all three-class and ninth-rate people, and it is impossible for them to have such great combat effectiveness? "After all, the Taiping Sect is an organization formed by religious beliefs, and most of them are mixed together with some poor people, and they cannot form enough combat effectiveness at all. No matter how poor the officers and soldiers of the counties of the Han Dynasty were, they were still officers and soldiers, at least in terms of combat experience and peacetime training, they were not comparable to the common people. No matter how weak the tiger is, it is not a group of sheep that can be bullied, and Cheng Yu and Guo Jia do not believe that the Taiping Church is rebelling.
"No-you think about it boldly, the Taiping Sect has been founded for more than ten years, and the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao in them may have been in the beginning to hang the pot to help the world, but after more than ten years of development, the number of disciples has grown to hundreds of thousands at once, and they can almost reach a hundred thousand responses to him. Many places are full of footprints of the Taiping Sect, and even people's homes enshrine Zhang Jiao's immortal tablet. Can such a god-like figure who is believed to be true to his heart to help the world? It can be seen from their kind of educated and classless acceptance that the plot is not small! There is also Yu Ji who we caught before, he is Zhang Jiao's uncle, but he and the Nanhua brothers used means to control some talented and potential people to help them win the world. Master and Uncle are those who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, is the rest of Zhang Jiao's business for so many years just for fame? Now his followers are all over the thirteen counties of Kyushu, and he only needs to ascend to the top and shout, so that he can respond everywhere and let the Han Dynasty blossom everywhere. According to the current military strength of the Han Dynasty, can it be able to fight fires everywhere? If it cannot be extinguished in a short period of time, it will form a prairie fire, which will be unstoppable and cause immeasurable consequences. Although Zhou Yu knew the trend of the later history, he couldn't show it in front of Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, he could only use the method of imagination to make them understand the seriousness of the matter, and now what he had to do was to speed up and go straight to Yangzhou, seize the military and political power in Yangzhou before Zhang Jiao's uprising, stabilize the situation first, and then consider exterminating Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Army.
"Gong Jin - this is just one of your ideas, but the marching formation must have good generals, and good generals can condense a plate of loose sand into a ball. Although Zhang Jiao has been in business for many years, he has relied on some means to coax some ordinary people, but there are some talented people who may not join the Taiping Sect and then bear the charge of being an anti-thief. There are no absolute talents and mainstays to support Zhang Jiao, and his men and horses are not enough to kill the soldiers and horses of the local states and counties. I think Zhang Jiao will rebel, but definitely not now! Guo Jia is good at marching and arranging formations, he poked at Zhang Jiao's weakness with one word, the lack of generals and strategists is the biggest point of the failure of the rebellion, Zhang Jiao will not be so brainless when he creates such a big family business.
"You know that when I saved the prince before, I met the divine envoy Zhang Mancheng and a Qu Shuai Bocai, from my point of view, this Zhang Mancheng is definitely a handsome talent, and he is very good at training the army with literature and martial arts, and it is a relatively tricky role. and Qu Shuaibo can be regarded as a second-rate fierce general, and it is absolutely no problem to charge into battle. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so I'm a little worried about whether the Han Dynasty can withstand such a blow, if it can't withstand it, the Han Dynasty will collapse in an instant-" Zhou Yu said with a worried face.
"Gong Jin, according to my theory, at the beginning of the struggle for the world, you must occupy the righteousness, otherwise rashly raising an army and rebelling will only lead to defeat. Don't say it far away, let's just say that Gaozu was under the command of King Chu Huai from the time of the White Snake Uprising, and he didn't dare to be the king until he broke Xianyang, and he didn't explicitly abolish King Chu Huai. Although the Han Dynasty was terminally ill, it had been precipitated for a long time, and it was not something that could be destroyed by a Taiping Sect without a foundation, but once the war broke out, it was the common people who were unlucky. I believe Gong Jin's words, it may be that there is a riot in Qingzhou. So what do we need to do next? "Cheng Yu's ability to look at the overall situation is better than Guo Jia, saying that fighting for the world is the righteousness, followed by the people's will, and it is impossible to win by relying on the people's will.
"Now no matter how great changes in Qingzhou are, first of all, we must speed up and go to Yangzhou to control the situation in Yangzhou, otherwise the rebellion will break out in full force, and Yangzhou will inevitably be involved in the war, and my goal is that as long as I am in charge of the party, we must ensure the safety of the people."
Guo Jia and Cheng Yu agreed with Zhou Yu's opinion, and they no longer went to Lujiang County, but directly passed through Guandu to bypass Yuzhou and enter Xuzhou, and went directly to Yangzhou by boat. Zhou Yu sent a message asking Dian Wei to leave enough guards for his family, and he went directly to Yangzhou Jianye County to wait. Everything is ready, there is already a bloody storm in Luoyang City, and the big war is about to begin.