Chapter 60: The Gu Family Brothers
After seeing the three hundred horsemen riding away in front of him, Zhu Dachun, who finally recovered from the shock, dragged his sick leg forward step by step, hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't help asking: "Lord Wang, what the hell is going on?"
Gu Xuan looked at the cavalry in front of him, and only turned around after a while, and explained to them with a spring breeze: "There are a bunch of horse bandits robbed on the road, and the ones over there are all captives, you can use them as coolies for a few days to sharpen your sharpness, and after you keep them, this king will be of great use, and these three hundred horses will all be handed over to Zhu Lao for the time being, and then Jinglong will come with you to train cavalry, no problem, right?"
When Zhu Dachun heard this, his face suddenly became a little embarrassed and said: "But Lord Wang, these three hundred horses have to eat a lot of grass every day, let's 。。。。。。 ”
He didn't finish what he said, but the person on the other side had already understood what he meant, Huangsha County is now a time when everything is in ruins, everything has just started, in order to recruit soldiers, and a batch of materials and salaries have been issued, these are all in Zhu Dachun's eyes, where is there still the spare strength to support a full three hundred war horses, I am afraid that Huangsha County will be poor in two days.
Lu Yi smiled slightly, stood next to him and comforted Zhu Dachun and said, "This will be solved in the future, Zhu Lao doesn't have to worry." ”
didn't care about these trivial matters, Gu Xuan turned around, faced the city gate, stuck his waist, and looked at the group of energetic, high-spirited, and decent soldiers in front of him, who had been trained to be decent, waved his hand violently, and said proudly: "Enter the city!"
A hundred people shouted in unison: "Welcome to the prince!"
The sound spread in the four fields, and the thunder shook the sky, and even Lu Yi in the back couldn't help but smile when he saw it.
finally has a batch of his own strength, starting from scratch, it is not easy to be like this, even Gu Xuan himself, he is already a little proud in his heart.
After everyone entered the city, the city gate was slowly closed under the effect of the mechanism, and Gu Xuan naturally didn't have to worry about the rest of the matter.
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After returning to the county government, Gu Xuan quickly dismissed the others, leaving Lu Yi alone to interview in the house.
After going through so many things, a lot of things can be said quite straightforwardly.
As soon as the person left, Gu Xuan couldn't wait to step forward and asked, "Sir, can the plan start?"
He had had some imagination and plans for the future of Huangsha County with Lu Yi before, step by step, and now it was finally time to start implementing it, and even he couldn't help but be a little excited.
Lu Yi stroked his long beard, stretched out his hand, and took the pen and paper from the table next to him, Gu Xuan understood, hurriedly walked up, and began to study ink for it.
Although the ink ingot was not a good product, Lu Yi didn't care too much, and when Gu Xuan finished grinding it, he took the pen and dipped it in the ink, wrapped his sleeve with one hand, and began to pen on the paper.
However, in three or two clicks, a small topographic map was outlined by Lu Yi, and this is not a superficial outline, in many places he has marked the specific scope of forces of each party, as well as the approximate deployment of troops, etc., and it can even be said that the entire situation in Youzhou, including the Shahai side, is all on this map, and it is meticulously visible, which shows that Lu Yi must be prepared, so he can be prepared.
Gu Xuan just swept it casually, and then made a little silent calculation in his heart, he knew that it was all true, even if there were some places that he didn't know very well, but he could also speculate that this was indeed the case, and he couldn't help but praise it sincerely: "Mr. is really talented!"
Lu Yi smiled and said proudly: "If it weren't for that, how could you dare to show ugliness in front of the prince." ”
After speaking, he pointed directly to the place of the sand sea, and directly introduced: "Lord Wang, please see, according to the minister's opinion, my Da Liang's only opponent in the south is nothing more than the defense of the country where my senior brother is located, this is not deliberately touted by the minister, you must teach the prince to know that the talent of the senior brother is still above the minister." ”
Gu Xuan also said this in order to make himself pay attention to this talent, and immediately waved his hand and said: "Mr. is talented, Xuan has seen it, so Mr. doesn't need to be too humble." ”
Lu Yi knew that he still didn't understand, so he shook his head silently and interrupted him: "This is not because of his self-humility, senior brother has always liked to do tricks and tricks, and he is extremely good at figuring out people's hearts. ”
He didn't want to mention Gu Xuan's sadness so bluntly, but in order for him to correctly recognize the enemy's strength and no longer take it lightly, he had to mention it.
Saying this, Gu Xuan immediately frowned, because that time was indeed the most embarrassed and desperate since he was born.
The place where the other party set up an ambush several times shows that the person who is thousands of miles away has completely seen through his inner thoughts, otherwise who would be so confident that he would set up an ambush in the most unlikely place to ambush himself, and as if he had a prophet, he even set up an elite soldier in advance on the way back, which is simply amazing, and the power of figuring out people's hearts is extreme, and the consequences are obvious, if it weren't for the coincidence of meeting Han Ruying's grandfather and grandson who came to collect medicine, he would have died in Yannan Mountain.
After Gu Xuan figured this out, he immediately said solemnly: "This person is really powerful, Xuan understands what Mr. means, Xuan will definitely treat him cautiously in the future, and will never dare to be contemptuous, Mr. Please continue." ”
Seeing that his prince had said this, Lu Yi continued: "Senior brother chose to defend the country, not to retire in this southern land, the minister dares to assert that in the near future, the defense of the country will inevitably take the initiative to attack Liangguo!"
Gu Xuan was shocked and said, "Is this true?" But what is the difference between this kind of behavior and a moth fighting a fire?"
It's not that he looks down on Weiguo, it's because the absolute strength of the two sides is too different, and it can't just be filled by some stratagems, Weiguo's side relies on the natural danger of Qilian Mountain, and may be able to barely defend, but if he chooses to take the initiative to attack, it can really be regarded as looking for death, in terms of numbers, combat effectiveness, Da Liang has a huge disadvantage, and he will not be Da Liang's opponent in any case.
Lu Yi didn't answer for the time being, but just picked up the pen and wrote five more words on the map, and then sighed lightly: "But what if you add them?"
Gu Xuan raised his eyes, from top to bottom, and read in turn: "Wei, Jin, Shu, Rakshasa ”
These five words represent the four major forces that are coiled opposite the Liang Kingdom, and if they are singled out, they are indeed not the opponents of the Liang Kingdom, but if they work together, it will be really difficult to do, at least if they start a war with the Quartet at the same time, the Liang Kingdom will not even be able to say that it will win.
However, Gu Xuan has a different opinion on this.
"Do you think that the sir, they will unite? But the national strength of Shu has been very weak since ancient times, but it is relying on the mountain for defense, and the people of Shu have not been warped in these years, their lives are too comfortable, and they have long lost their blood, plus the monarch of Shu is weak, and there is no enterprising heart, and the last point, Shu is mostly infantry, if they face the Youzhou army head-on, they are afraid that they will be defeated by a blow, how can they be so risky, accompanied by the initiative to attack? Besides, how can these four parties work together with a long distance between them, almost all of the South, and are they not afraid that their own side will send troops, but the other side will not move at all?"
This four-party alliance, not to mention other problems, because it is too far away, the transmission of information is extremely unsmooth, and if there is any emergency, it is impossible to directly notify other people, and who can guarantee that after you send troops, the other party will definitely send troops together?
This is a problem of human nature, especially as the monarch of various countries, if you don't think in the worst direction, just stupidly believe in outsiders, that is irresponsible to the country and the people, if it is not for the Quartet to work together, then they will be relieved by the Liang State to each break, to put it simply, if the Shu side of the army first, and the Wei Jin side did not have the slightest movement, then the Yanzhou army can be directly dispatched, run thousands of miles, gallop to the aid of Youzhou, and wait until all the elites of the Shu side are destroyed, after the tragic annihilation, hundreds of thousands of Youzhou troops can free up their hands again, and go to Yanzhou, then Wei and Jin are only afraid that they will not want to go out of Qilian Mountain again in this life, so if you want to send troops, you must work together, so that you can each contain part of the troops on the side of Liangguo, but the problem is, who dares to bet on the other party's trustworthiness?
Even if it is clearly the truth that if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, but there are not fools and arrogant people in the world, there are always people who feel that they have a dangerous terrain, and the Liang Kingdom will definitely not be able to attack it, so they are too lazy to take risks.
To put it bluntly, if I take a risk once, I may directly destroy the country, but if I don't take the risk, I can rely on the geographical advantage to last for another ten years, so why don't I choose to enjoy the extravagant life of the emperor for more than ten years? Even if it is because of my selfishness, it is the lives of the soldiers below that I have to do with it, even if the lives of the people in the country are destroyed and the people are displaced in the future, what does it have to do with me?
This is true human nature, and who can say that his ideas are wrong?
Lu Yi tapped the topographic map on the table with his fingers, and said calmly: "The prince is talking about the point, the skills that the minister and the senior brother have learned are the vertical and horizontal techniques of combining vertical and horizontal, and planning in the world, and even attacking the weak and the strong is the most basic art of combining and vertical, not the minister's mouth, but the prince, before victory, do not despise the enemy." ”
Gu Xuan pursed his lips, although he was not angry, he still bowed his head slightly and said, "Be taught." ”
Lu Yi turned his head and continued to explain to him: "In short, the alliance between Wei and Jin is imperative, this time that Wei Chi Dan suddenly led troops to attack the prince, so the minister can speculate that the senior brother must be no longer in Wei Guo at this moment, otherwise he will never allow that Wei Chi Dan to rashly send troops, and the minister dares to assert that the senior brother must have started lobbying now, and he should already be in the Jin State at this moment." ”
Gu Xuan frowned again and said: "Shangguan Ming, the old emperor of the Jin Kingdom, is mediocre and incompetent, and the great Situ Cai Jing only cares about fighting for power and profit, these people shouldn't agree so easily." ”
No one on his side took the initiative to send him information, and of course he didn't know everything that had happened in the Jin Kingdom.
Lu Yi could only sigh and said: "Lord Wang, what if the senior brother has already said that they have been moved? After all, the truth of the cold lips and teeth is the simplest, our Da Liang has made up his mind, and has been putting on a posture of wanting to go north to unify, does the Jin State still expect to be able to negotiate peace with the Liang State? In the battle of Yanran Lake back then, the millions of elites of the Jin State lost the hands of the Liang State, and how could they not repay such a sea of blood and hatred? Take a step back and say, the things there are not our business for the time being, what we have to do is to look at the present, this four-party cooperation, Wei Jin's side cannot be stopped for the time being, but as long as we take down the Rakshasa clan in the sand sea, it will be equivalent to cutting off the entire alliance, and this joint momentum will be considered to be broken by half. ”
Gu Xuan understood the truth, and immediately nodded: "This matter is imperative, even if it is not to destroy this alliance, when Daliang goes north in the future, it can reduce some resistance, and now that Huangsha County is short of people and things, it is necessary to recover these foreign races in order to seek long-term development." ”
Lu Yi immediately turned around and bowed his hand and said: "Since the prince understands, then please ask the prince to write immediately, ask the court to instruct the court, and recruit the Rakshasa clan!"
"This 。。。。。。 ”
Seeing that Gu Xuan was still hesitating when he heard this, Lu Yi immediately added another fire.
"Lord, let's not talk about whether we have enough things in our hands to impress the Rakshasa clan, just say that if we are private and take the place of the imperial court, if we are known by someone with a heart, we will make a fuss about it, and it will become ill-intentioned, and it will be very difficult for the prince to protect you. ”
Lu Yi knew Gu Xuan's concerns, in the final analysis, he just wanted to prove to Gu Cang that he had the ability and could help Gu Cang, so since he left the capital, he never took the initiative to contact the imperial court to ask for anything, but this time, it was really needed.
Sure enough, Gu Xuan immediately frowned and said, "Can't we delay it any longer?" Now that we have people, as long as we release the place where we open business, we can accumulate a lot of wealth in less than half a year." ”
As long as Huangsha County can resume its original function, as the only place of trade on the border, the financial resources will naturally roll in, and if they want to buy the Rakshasa clan when the time comes, they can complete it themselves, and there is no need to ask the imperial court for supplies at all.
But that takes a long time.
Lu Yi bowed deeply and continued to plead: "Time is not waiting, Lord Wang, everyone else is already acting, we must not delay it any longer." ”
Gu Xuan stood at the table, his expression kept changing, he thought for a moment, and finally he could only sigh, sat down on the chair next to him, and frowned deeply.
"Mr. Lao, please let me think about it again. ”
Lu Yi was helpless, and was about to persuade two more words to let Gu Xuan know the stakes, but unexpectedly, Gu Xuan, who was in the seat, suddenly spoke: "Sir." ”
The middle-aged scribe on the opposite side hurriedly bowed down and said loudly: "Lord Wang, please speak, the ministers will listen!"
Gu Xuan pondered for a moment, and then said in an extremely sincere tone: " Mr. might as well go back to the capital, Xuan thought about it again and again, and felt that Huangsha County was still too small, but Mr. was determined to be in the world, this point, Xuan is clear, if Mr. 's senior brother is really as Mr. said, has such a ability, and has begun to plan a conspiracy to subvert Da Liang, Xuan thinks, instead of selfishly leaving Mr. in this kind of projectile land to waste time, it is better to let Mr. go to the capital, and the second brother will definitely reuse Mr., when the time comes, Mr. will assist the second brother, based on Liangguo, and then play against Mr. Your senior brother, isn't it very good? In comparison, Xuan thinks that Da Liang needs Mr. more, well, these are Xuan's heartfelt words, and Mr. Wanwang can agree after thinking about it!"
As he spoke, he actually got up directly and stepped forward, bowing solemnly to Lu Yi.
These are indeed his sincere words, he talked about so much just now, these days, and after getting along with Lu Yi for so long, he has learned more and more about Lu Yi's talents, and he feels more and more that he should show his skills in a broader place and on a higher platform, instead of shrinking in such a small place with no future with himself, leaving him selfish, if Mr. can make Liangguo stronger, of course he wants Mr. to go to the capital, this is for the sake of Mr.'s future, but also for the sake of Da Liang's future, Mr. needs Da Liang, Da Liang also needs Mr。
After all, he is the fifth prince of the Liang Kingdom, Gu Xuan, the king of Hedong County, Da Liang is his home, and he can make Da Liang better, of course he can sacrifice himself without hesitation.
"Lord, no!"
Seeing this, Lu Yi was shocked, and hurriedly wanted to go up to support Gu Xuan.
But he didn't want to, Gu Xuan was like a stone that had taken root on the ground, he didn't get up at all, he just lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "Please also ask Mr. to agree to Xuan's request!"
It is not surprising that he suddenly had this thought, because in the final analysis, he is still a very unconfident person in nature, maybe because he has been bullied by his brothers since he was a child, or maybe because the status of Yongle Palace is really not high, so that he, the nominal fifth prince, is too aggrieved, in short, he has always been an inferior person, so he has always dared not fight, dare not rob, just think about escaping the capital, escape from those annoying battles, so even if he is humiliated by them like that in the Longxuan Pavilion, he can only escape, so even if he likes Fuyin so much, he doesn't dare to say it, so even if he is ridiculed by Xiaolu in front of everyone at the door of the prince's mansion, and didn't dare to refute, that's why he always wanted to prove himself to his second brother, and tried his best to prove himself.
And what Lu Yi said before, assisting the Ming Lord, dominating the world, and becoming the co-master of the human race, this kind of goal is really too far away and too ambitious.
This kind of thing, to do it, can only be done by someone like the second brother, he Gu Xuan doesn't dare to think about it, and he doesn't deserve to think about it.
So many years have passed, in fact, he is still the child who was bullied at the gate of the school palace, and he can only watch the second brother argue for himself and stand up for himself, not hesitating to offend so many people, at that time he was sitting in the carriage, poking his head out, and quietly watching all this.
Especially when he grows up, he hopes that the second brother is still the second brother who can bear everything and block the wind and rain in front of him, if he still only needs to sit in the carriage and watch quietly.
He still felt to himself that instead of tying Lu Yi to his side, it would be better for him to assist the second brother, which would be good for everyone.
"Lord Wang!"
Lu Yi watched Gu Xuan kneel all the time, and an irrepressible anger suddenly surged in his heart.
Gu Xuan knelt on the ground, just as if he hadn't heard the disappointment and anger implied in these two words, and said indifferently: "Mr. also wants to let go of his hands and feet and fight with Mr.'s senior brother, doesn't he?"
If Mr.'s senior brother is stronger, then Mr. will use the more powerful Da Liang to fight against him, presumably Mr. must also want to win against him, right?
Mr. can't lose, and Liangguo can't lose, so Mr. must go to the capital!
I, Gu Xuan, can't be selfish!
Lu Yi was so angry that he flicked his sleeves suddenly, and the wind he brought up even lifted the topographic map on the table to the ground, he behaved so gaffe for the first time, and shouted loudly at Gu Xuan in an almost decisive tone: "I, Lu Yi, really don't want to and dare not compete with my senior brothers and sisters, I just came to the south, but I Lu Yi dare to say that the people selected by my Lu Yi will never be any worse than the people they choose!
Gu Xuan's tone, as calm as before, was not moved at all: "But Mr. chose the second brother at the beginning, isn't it?" Xuan just wants Mr. to return to your original choice, and please agree to Xuan's request, please!"
Lu Yi was choked by his words, and finally could only sigh: "Lord Wang, you really underestimate yourself too much, and you underestimate your second brother too much!"
Hearing this, Gu Xuan on the ground finally raised his head and looked directly at Lu Yi opposite, with a trace of surprise and doubt hidden under the calm face on the surface.
"The second brother of the prince, with the talent of the heavens and the earth, is not that the minister is unwilling to go to the capital, but the capital where the prince is in charge, there is no need for the minister, the fifth senior brother of the minister is nothing more than a poisonous man who is good at intrigue and trickery, and he is a poisonous man who understands people's hearts, but the prince is a great talent who has the ability to change the world and the earth, senior brother, he will not be the prince's opponent, it's just, it's just 。。。。。。 ”
He really couldn't say the rest of the words.
Lu Yi sighed heavily, couldn't help but raise his head, looked at the beams on the roof that had been covered with cobwebs, and in a trance, he suddenly thought of the scene when he met Gu Cang for the first time.
On that winter afternoon, there was still a light snow outside, and the one on the opposite side was holding a flint in his arms, wearing a thick coat, and a stove next to him, Rao was so, still pale, bloodless young man, the young man who had not lived for a few days, but smiled more calmly than anyone else, it was he who let him come to Huangsha County, wait for someone, and said that if you don't want to, you can also go to the Fang Temple in Xicheng District of the capital first, and then observe him for a few more days.
He said that that person was the seed he left for the world, and he hoped that he could help with his heart.
At that time, he made a bet with himself, the bet was to let himself sincerely assist his fifth brother, and the bet was the whole world, and Lu Yi agreed.
Lu Yi actually wanted to tell Gu Xuan, Lord Wang, in fact, you don't know how much your second brother values you, and you don't know how good you are, you are the master of my Lu Yi, and I Lu Yi is willing to gamble his life to assist.
Do your best, and then die, no matter what, I won't change my will!
Such two brothers both wanted to give the best things to each other's two brothers, how could he bear to tell Gu Xuan the fact that the prince was actually dying?
But if you Gu Xuan don't fight anymore, no one will bless you in the future.
Lu Yi's voice was suddenly so low that it was almost inaudible.
"In short, you have to work hard, don't live up to the prince's expectations, and don't say anything like letting the minister go to the capital. ”
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