Zhang Xi saw Zhuge Liang's silent attitude, and immediately understood.

Obviously, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng did not approve of the immediate launching of the Fourth Northern Expedition.

War, no matter how well prepared you are, what you fight is money and food.

In recent years, the two major parts of the money and grain expenditure of the Northern Expedition have basically been spread over the heads of the Shu and Jingzhou families, and how much grain the people can have in their hands is considered good if they can survive.

Therefore, in addition to the embezzlement of the imperial court's tax finances, the families of the two places did not bleed.

Although it may not be without benefits, the problem is that after three Northern Expeditions in ten years, and now there is a fourth Northern Expedition, the families will also complain.

It's not that you won't be able to go on the Northern Expedition. Shall we rest?!

You can't really treat us like donkeys, can you!!

Therefore, although Pang Tong and Fa Zheng also understand Zhuge Liang's intentions, and they also know that Zhuge Liang's current idea is right, while there is still strength left, if they go down to Luoyang, it will naturally be the best ending.

But. They still have to object.

Last time, I played Guanzhong, with such a big harvest, you Zhuge Liang still know that it will take five years to recuperate, but now it's good, but only the Jingzhou family has a share, and the Yizhou family can only look dryly and come again? !

What if you can't beat it?!

Even if you can fight, what if the fight is very difficult and protracted?!

The consumption of money and food can't keep up with the speed of income, who is willing to do it!!

Therefore, within the Jingzhou family and the Yizhou family, most of them are not very interested in Zhuge Liang's idea of the Northern Expedition.

And Pang Tong and Fa Zheng, who are the representatives of their interests, can naturally only stand up and express their opposing opinions.

This led to Zhuge Liang having to seek the support of other important ministers, and use the power of the military and nobles to suppress the opposition of these families.

The first thing that needs to be supported is the support of Zhang Xi, who is now guarding Jingzhou.

In Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition plan, Jingzhou has always been a very important part, if even Zhang Xi does not support his Northern Expedition plan, then Zhuge Liang may really have to consider whether to postpone the Northern Expedition.

Therefore, the marriage of the children this time is secondary to Zhuge Liang, and the real important thing is to persuade Zhang Xi to accept his idea of the Northern Expedition, and write to the court together, asking for another Northern Expedition.

But the problem is that for Zhang Xi, when her daughter gets married, that's the big deal.

No matter what, wait until this wedding is over.

In this way, Zhang Xi used this incident as an excuse to temporarily shirk the meeting that Zhuge Liang persuaded him, returned to his home in Chang'an, and began to prepare for his daughter's marriage.

It's really not that Zhang Xi abolished his public because of his personal interests, it's such a big thing, Zhuge Liang has to give himself a time to think about it.

The Northern Expedition is not about buying vegetables on the street, this is a major event related to the life and death of tens of thousands of troops.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be overlooked.

This sentence is the only famous sentence of "The Art of War" that Zhang Xi remembered when he came to this world, and it is also the code of use of soldiers that he has always kept in mind.

In the past Northern Expeditions, as long as they were mentioned, everyone's focus was on how to fight, not whether to fight. But this time, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng both expressed their opposition, but Zhuge Liang wanted to win his own support to suppress the opposition, and Zhang Xi couldn't be cautious about this matter.

Yes, when everyone has the same goal, out of the filter factor of Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xi will generally support Zhuge Liang.

But the problem is that when everyone's goals are not the same, Zhang Xi will not worship Zhuge Liang as a god. Zhuge Liang is not infallible, and once they reach their position and make a wrong decision, then the price will be very large.

Therefore, Zhang Xi must have his own independent thinking. Do you want to support this Northern Expedition?

Focusing on Si Li, as Zhuge Liang said, now Si Li, whether it is people's livelihood or armament, is recovering in an orderly manner, especially in Yingchuan County, there is intelligence that Wang Ling is almost desperately recruiting county soldiers to strengthen the defensive strength of Yingchuan County.

Now that Yingchuan County has returned to the regular size of 20,000 county soldiers, if Wang Ling is given enough time, I am afraid that the strength of Yingchuan County will also rise to a terrible number.

There's no way, there's really nothing conducive to defense in that place in Yingchuan County, and the only Yingshui is not famous for its dangers, on the contrary, it is a river that has had a gentle flow since ancient times and is conducive to irrigation.

If you don't explode the army, he Wang Ling will take his head to guard Yingchuan County.

As for the situation in Henan County, Hedong County, and Hongnong County, Zhang Xi still believes in Zhuge Liang's story, Zhuge Liang is not the kind of person who deliberately lies in order to persuade others.

Therefore, Zhang Xi can understand the urgency of the Northern Expedition that Zhuge Liang said.

But the problem is that if you look away from Si Li and think about it on Jingzhou, Zhang Xi can suddenly understand why Pang Tong chose to oppose Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

The situation in Jingzhou is a little bad.

The front foot only fought with Dongwu, although Zhang Xi tried to control the scale as much as possible, and only limited to the level of border friction. But the problem is, what Dongwu thinks is not something that Zhang Xi can control.

Xiangyang sent troops to threaten Jiangxia, Jiangling sent troops to threaten the four counties of Jingnan, plus Deng Zhi's negotiation conditions, it doesn't look like it can be negotiated. If Soochow didn't choose to compromise with the Han, but directly chose to turn his face with the Han, it would be troublesome.

Basically, there is no need to think about it, as long as Jingzhou mobilizes troops to the north to cooperate with Zhuge Liang to attack Wei, then Eastern Wu will definitely repeat its old tricks and threaten Xiangyang and Jiangling.

And if you choose to go south to use troops against Eastern Wu, then the Northern Expedition can only come to naught.

Therefore, in this situation, let Zhang Xi make a decision, whether to support Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition plan, Zhang Xi really has to think about it.

Just taking advantage of the time to marry his daughter, Zhang Xi locked himself in the study alone, weighing the pros and cons back and forth, and thinking about his decision.

Outside the study, Sun Shangxiang was busy buying the necessary dowry for her daughter's marriage.

When she got married, Zhang Xi's status was not enough at all, although Sun Shangxiang was known as the little princess of Jiangdong, she was not a real princess, and the etiquette standards must not be compared with now.

Now it is a marriage between the Jingzhou Mu of the Han Dynasty and the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, all kinds of etiquette must be in place, and the dowry of the family cannot be missing, and the face of the Zhang family cannot be lost in vain.

Therefore, in this matter, Zhang Xi was complained by his daughter-in-law, saying that Zhang Xi was not interested in marrying her daughter at all, and she relied on her to work inside and out.

Of course, Sun Shangxiang just complained like this, Zhang Xi really wants to help, Sun Shangxiang has to stop Zhang Xi's current virtue, Sun Shangxiang, who has been a husband and wife with him for almost 20 years, can he still not understand, he must have encountered something difficult.

In this case, Sun Shangxiang will not cause trouble to Zhang Xi.

Another thing to say is that this kind of inner house matter should have been handled by she, the hostess, to complain and complain, but if Zhang Xi really wanted to intervene, Sun Shangxiang would feel unhappy.

complained, I just hope that Zhang Xi can coax himself, and by the way, he can also take the opportunity to revisit the relationship between husband and wife, and relieve Zhang Xi's current anxiety.

Yes, when he was young, Sun Shangxiang was indeed somewhat reckless and bold. But now that her daughter is getting married, she, the eldest lady who has been married to a wife for almost 20 years, can't be the same as when she was young.

So. Under Sun Shangxiang's careful management, Zhang Xuan's marriage ceremony can be said to be quite grand and lively.

And on this day, Zhang Xi also temporarily let go of the doubts in his heart, put aside all the chores, and with a very complicated mentality, watched Zhuge Qiao, the bastard, come to the door and take his daughter away.

Really, if it weren't for Sun Shangxiang stopping him, he kept talking about "etiquette" and "decency" in his ear, Zhang Xi really had the intention to let people stop him at the door and not let this bastard enter the door.

It's a pity that the daughter finally got married.

After the routine of welcoming relatives was over, Zhang Xi and Sun Shangxiang had to clean up and go to Zhuge Liang's mansion together, where they attended the official wedding banquet.

But Zhang Xi didn't expect that in addition to the official sacrifice to the parents of heaven and earth, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi came forward once, and the rest of the time, Zhuge Liang actually pulled Zhang Xi and hid in the study again.

Today is Zhang Xi's eldest son who married his daughter to Zhuge Liang, so the guests who came to congratulate were not only extremely numerous, but also of very high quality.

Not only the big and small government officials in Yongzhou, but even Liu Chan, the son of heaven who was far away in Chengdu, also sent his own envoys to send congratulatory gifts.

The person who came to send the congratulatory gift on behalf of Liu Chan was Wu Yi, and Wu Yi would go to Hanzhong after ending this trip to Chang'an and officially take up the post of the new Hanzhong Taishou.

By the way, the original Hanzhong Taishou Li Yan because of his meritorious service in supervising the transportation of grain and grass in the last Northern Expedition, under Fa Zheng's intercession, Zhuge Liang gave face, and then Fa Zheng transferred Li Yan back to Chengdu to serve as the secretary of the Criminal Department.

The original Shangshu Dong He of the Criminal Department died of illness last year, and this position has been vacant, and Li Yan has officially entered the decision-making level of the government.

But at the cost of losing his right to command his troops and defend one side.

For Li Yan, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

And Zhuge Liang, of course, had to seize this opportunity and take the opportunity to persuade Wu Yi to support his Northern Expedition plan.

After all, Wu Yi is not only a nobleman, but now he has also become a figure who commands the army and defends one side, and Zhuge Liang also needs his support now.

By the way, Zhuge Liang did not let Zhang Xi go, and asked Zhang Xi again about his thoughts on the Northern Expedition.

In fact, Zhang Xi was a little disgusted with Zhuge Liang's approach.

Today is the wedding day of my daughter and his son, and you are talking to me about dangerous military affairs on such an occasion. There's really no taboo at all?!

Yes, your son is adoptive, but my daughter is her own. If I turn around and be hindered by you, can I still quit my family?!

So, today Zhang Xi really felt that Zhuge Liang was a little too much, and his face fell directly.

But the problem is that when he was in the study and heard Zhuge Liang say his reason for doing this, Zhang Xi couldn't sit still.

In the past few days, Zhuge Liang received a hot news from Hebei.

Cao Ei, this strange thing, actually formulated a temple number for himself while he was still alive, and publicized it to the world.

Temple number, Wei Liezu.

The meaning of this temple number is extraordinary.

(End of chapter)