Zhang Xi was summoned by Liu Bei to the mouth of the Youjiang River and participated in an important military meeting.

This military meeting was not about military action, but about a private affair of the main family.

Jiangdong sent an envoy, saying that he heard that Liu Bei did not have a wife, so he wanted to marry Liu Bei and came to test Liu Bei's intentions.

Obviously, in the eyes of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, this is a signal that Jiangdong is preparing to marry Liu Bei.

Marriage is not a unilateral willingness, these are communicated in advance, and both parties are willing, so they will send someone to the matchmaker and go through the process.

Otherwise, one party rashly sent a matchmaker to come over to talk about the matchmaker, but the other party directly refused, isn't that a shameful thing?!

Therefore, the envoy sent by Jiangdong only came to probe the situation, and only said that he was married, and he didn't even say who the object of the marriage was.

But it doesn't matter if you don't say it, everyone is smart, and you can guess who it is.

Sun Quan and Liu Bei are both monarchs of one party, if they want to marry, or if they marry when Liu Bei has no wife, it must be Sun Quan's side to marry a relative, otherwise it can't be called a marriage.

As for Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang is the only one who is of his generation and has not yet married.

Sun Ce has three daughters, the eldest daughter is married to Lu Xun, and the remaining two daughters are indeed of the age of marriage, but if they marry Sun Ce's daughter, this generation will be completely messed up, and Liu Bei will become Sun Quan's niece and son-in-law.

You know, if you really have to count by age, in fact, Liu Bei and Sun Jian are the same generation, and Sun Quan is also a junior, but they are both princes, so they barely flattened the relationship.

Therefore, it is impossible for Sun Quan to marry his niece, this is not a marriage, this is a provocation to the relationship between the two families.

As for marrying Da Qiao or Mrs. Xu, unless Sun Quan is brain-dead.

Therefore, as long as the two parties have the intention of marrying, then Sun Quan has only one choice, and that is his own sister, Sun Shangxiang.

Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others were discussing the pros and cons of Sun Shangxiang after he got married.

Marrying a wife is a big deal, not just a matter of Liu Bei's multiple wives.

In particular, this wife is still from Jiangdong, representing the interests of Jiangdong, and it is related to the covenant between the two families and the future development route.

Liu Bei originally meant to refuse.

Although he does not have a main room, he has the concubine room of Mrs. Gan.

The only pity is that Mrs. Gan is born as a singer, and with this identity, it is okay to be a concubine, but when she is in the main room, she will be looked down upon by the world, especially the big families.

This is the reason why Liu Bei has never straightened Mrs. Gan.

In this regard, Liu Bei is indeed inferior to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao's Mrs. Bian was also born as an advocate, but she was also established by Cao Cao as the main room.

It's just that in this life, Mrs. Bian has also suffered the shame of the family, and even later, the Yu family of her granddaughter-in-law said to her face that the Cao family likes sluts, and sooner or later she will die because of this.

So, Liu Bei did this, and he really couldn't say whether he didn't look down on Mrs. Gan, or loved Mrs. Gan.

Because Zhang Xi's little wings were fanned one by one, Mrs. Gan did not die of illness at the end of last year, and now she is alive and well, so Liu Bei himself does not have much intention of marrying a wife.

But the question now is whether Liu Bei is marrying a wife, which is no longer Liu Bei's family matter.

After all, this matter was brought up by Jiang Dong first.

Although Liu Bei's power has made great progress, it is still not as good as Jiangdong's power, so Liu Bei needs a stable development environment.

And deepening the relationship with Jiangdong is obviously more in line with the interests of the current Liu Bei group.

Therefore, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang rarely unified their opinions this time, and they supported Liu Bei to marry Jiangdong's wife.

It was Xu Shu who raised objections.

It was not that he was against Liu Bei marrying a wife, he felt that Jiangdong's purpose was not pure, and it might just be an excuse to deepen the alliance to force Liu Bei's group to make concessions to the land of Jingzhou.

One is the mouth of the Youjiang River in Nan County, and the other is part of the county seat of Changsha County, both of which may be the purpose of Jiangdong.

Again, in the long run, Liu Bei will definitely find a way to develop westward and enter Xichuan to expand his foothold. And Jiangdong, let them develop northward and face Cao Cao's pressure alone, they will definitely not agree, so sooner or later they will also set their goal on Yizhou.

The current Liu Bei Group Jiangdong Group is almost equally divided into the Yangtze River natural insurance, of which Liu Bei Group occupies the upstream, and Jiangdong Group occupies the downstream.

If the Jiangdong Group wants to enter Bashu, it must pass through Liu Bei's territory. Once the two parties have an in-law relationship, do you say that we will agree or disagree at that time?!

You can't fight with your own people for someone else's territory, right?!

So it's better not to get married, and the future of the province is unclear.

Liu Bei saw that this was not a problem, and it happened that the spring ploughing was over, and the Taishou and the county officials from all over the country had to come to Wuling to report the spring ploughing situation, so he simply took advantage of this reason to bring all the civil and military officials together, and everyone discussed it together.

Of course, Jiangxia's Guan Yu can't move lightly, just in case, then let Zhang Xi come to visit.

Therefore, this military discussion was really not a few strategists discussing behind closed doors, but including Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Chen Zhen and other civil and military officials, all came.

Even Kou Feng, as a Changsha general, officially attended such a high-level military conference for the first time, and he was happy for this Erha, but he didn't notice that his brother was now looking at him with a very vicious look.

This Kou Erha, the rumor-mongering thing last time is not over!!

Let's talk about it after the meeting.

As for Zhang Xi, after listening to Liu Bei's military discussion, he also fell into deep thought.

Do you want to agree to the marriage?!

Theoretically speaking, marrying Jiangdong at this time will have more advantages than disadvantages.

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong are right, Liu Bei needs a stable development opportunity, marriage is good for consolidating the alliance, and there are only multiple women, which cannot have much impact on the power of Liu Bei's group.

As for what Xu Shu was worried about, it didn't matter at all. In these years, who has become a warlord, who is thinner than whom, it is not a lot to find excuses, and he will not have to borrow the way to the Jiangdong Army because of a marriage.

But emotionally, Sun Shangxiang was not happy to marry the lord Liu Bei, and he ran away from marriage.

After this period of contact, Sun Shangxiang, although sometimes a little emotional, likes to draw a sword at every turn, but he is really not bad.

Moreover, Zhang Xi's purpose of approaching her may not be pure, but she really regards Zhang Xi as a friend.

Zhang Xi was very entangled and embarrassed for this.

As for the reactions of Liu Beijun's other generals, they were somewhat different.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei both thought it didn't matter, anyway, it was just Liu Bei's multiple wives, and they couldn't interfere in the affairs of the army.

Civil officials will think more, for example, Mi Zhu said that if he can marry Jiangdong, then the tentacles of Liu Bei Group may be able to enter Jiangdong Of course, Mi Zhu considers this issue from the perspective of doing business.

But Chen Zhen, Jian Yong and others all expressed their opposition.

I am not afraid of the lord's many women, but I am afraid that Jiangdong will also take this opportunity to meddle in the affairs of Jingzhou.

Especially Jiangxia and Changsha.

Needless to say, Changsha has half of the territory of Jiangdong, and if it continues to be infiltrated by Jiangdong, it is difficult to say whose family is in Changsha County.

Jiangxia is now the most important place in Liu Bei's group, which is considered to have the best economic development, and has not been affected by any war, and at the same time, it is the closest to Jiangdong, and the south bank of the Yangtze River is directly bordered by Jiangdong.

When Huang Zu was stationed in Jiangxia, Jiangdong fought several times, obviously aiming for Jiangxia.

Now with the excuse of in-laws, Jiangdongda can use the word of marriage to infiltrate around Jiangxia.

In these years, the imperial power does not go to the countryside, even if the county commanders are all members of Liu Bei's group, but it is difficult to say who those Jiangxia families and village elders listen to, who to pay taxes, and who to fight.

I couldn't prevent it, so how could I give them an excuse to meddle in again.

In this way, the opinions of a group of people were deadlocked, and only Zhang Xi, a heavyweight strategist, had not yet spoken.

In this case, Liu Bei had no choice but to speak in person and ask Zhang Xi's opinion.

And Zhang Xi is still entangled. He felt that he couldn't seem to be sorry for his friends, but he couldn't seem to be sorry for his father-in-law.

Liu Bei asked, and Zhang Xi naturally couldn't help but speak.

"This is a family matter of the lord, and the lord should have decided it with all his might." Zhang Xi first said a nonsense, and then sighed faintly and said, "It's just a wife, after all, it's the main mother. I don't know what the son Liu Chan means, how. ”

Liu Chan is a three-year-old child this year, what can he say.

But what Zhang Xi said suddenly made Liu Bei and the others change their faces.

is not stupid, obviously understands the intention of Zhang Xi's words - if Liu Bei marries Jiangdong's wife, then Liu Chan is considered a concubine or a concubine.

If you count it. Then it means that the son born to this Jiangdong wife is the son-in-law.

Liu Bei is fifty years old this year, God knows when he will be able to give birth to his son-in-law again, and he doesn't know if Liu Bei can wait until his son-in-law grows up.

And even if the son-in-law grows up, there is no guarantee that the son-in-law is biased towards Jiangdong and alienates the Jingzhou Group and Liu Bei's old ministers.

In this way, it is nothing more than repeating the old path of Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, which may eventually lead to division within the group and infighting.

This is what Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others don't want to see.

If you count the concubines. So what should Mrs. Gan do, do you want to hand over the three-year-old Liu Chan to his wife to raise and deprive Mrs. Gan of her custody rights!?

But in this way, the relationship between Liu Chan and Jiangdong will be closer in the future.

In case Liu Bei succeeds to the throne a hundred years later, it is still the current situation, then Liu Bei's group will completely become a vassal of Jiangdong.

After Zhang Xi said this, the scene suddenly fell a little silent.

And Zhang Xi also shut up at this time and stopped talking.

Now, Sun Shangxiang, I'm very worthy of your friend.

(End of chapter)