After a year and a half, Deng Zhi was once again ordered to send an envoy to Jiangdong, but as usual, he stayed in Jiangling for a while.

Actually, Deng Zhi also knew that going to Jiangdong this time would basically not have any good results, but the upper branch and the lower subordinates, the Son of Heaven wanted to send someone to Dongwu to "hold him accountable", and as an old acquaintance, he could only come back again.

And when Deng Zhi arrived in Jiangling and met the so-called messenger sent by Dongwu, he actually knew in his heart that he could only go through the motions when he sent Jiangdong this time.

Zhang Xi can see what he can understand, how can Deng Zhi, who has been an envoy to Soochow all the year round, not see it.

Therefore, when communicating privately with Zhang Xi and the two, Deng Zhi really couldn't help it and complained to Zhang Xi.

There is only one core point - our big man, is it too polite to Soochow?!

People have hit our doorstep, no matter what kind of strategic considerations there are, so often send envoys to communicate, and if the communication fails, it can only be stopped.

Doing so will only make Dongwu's side more fearless, and it will also make the envoy like himself look very aggrieved in front of Dongwu.

Deng Zhi really complained, and even said that if he really couldn't do it, he hoped that Zhang Xi could help him ask for his life with Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, and let him go to the front line in Luoyang to confront the Wei thief, so that Jiangdong could talk to Sun Shiwan in the past.

It can be seen that Deng Zhi is really annoyed with his mission to Soochow.

But. I can't help it.

Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang didn't want to continue to accommodate Dongwu like this, but in today's general trend of the world, Cao Wei has weakened it, but Dongwu has also taken advantage of the situation to rise a lot.

Not to mention anything else, the Eastern Wu in history has never set foot in the Huainan territory, let alone occupy the entire Xuzhou and half of Qingzhou.

Soochow's current strength is much stronger than the one in history.

And now Sun Quan is only in his forties, if according to his historical lifespan, he is still in the prime of life, and his brain is not completely confused.

Especially on the Jingzhou side, in order to support the Northern Expedition a few years ago, all the strategic arrangements were inclined to the north, and now even if you want to start Eastern Wu, you need to make some strategic adjustments and focus on the south.

At least, the current Gangneung is not ready to become a base for the southern expedition for the time being.

The navy has just become an army, and although Yang Wei has recently engaged in a beautiful water battle and suppressed the Baqiu naval army of Eastern Wu, it is more of a training and a pinching point to avoid the main force of the Eastern Wu naval army at Lukou, which does not mean that the Jiangling naval army has the ability to resist the Eastern Wu naval army.

As for the army, Zhang Xi is now also trying to recruit and expand troops as soon as possible, but due to the loss of Dingkou in the four counties southeast of Jiangling, the first thing Zhang Xi has to do now is to restore the production of the four counties and expand the county troops, so he can only move backwards.

In the final analysis, if you want to turn your face with Soochow, it still takes time to prepare, so this time, no matter how difficult it is for Deng Zhi to go to Jiangdong, he also needs to try his best to maintain the relationship between the two countries.

It is not necessary to return to the previous alliance to resist Cao Wei, at least not to completely break down the relations between the two countries, but to win time with Jiangling to resume development and accumulate forces for the southern expedition.

After Deng Zhi listened to Zhang Xi's reason, he could only sigh. The world is like this, what else can he, who is an errand runner, do?

After complaining about this matter, Deng Zhi pulled out another thing under the small talk.

In May of this year, Shizhong Pang Tong returned to Chengdu from Luoyang, not only bringing Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition report, but also Zhuge Liang's request to the Son of Heaven to move to Chang'an and the overall Northern Expedition plan.

In this letter, Zhuge Liang described in detail the necessity of the Son of Heaven to move to Chang'an, especially emphasizing that once the Son of Heaven Liu Chan moved to Chang'an, the people of Guanzhong and Heluo would inevitably eat pot pulp to welcome the Son of Heaven, and the soldiers of the Northern Expedition would be grateful for the presence of the Son of Heaven and would fight bravely.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Zhuge Liang told Liu Chan that moving to Chang'an can gain a large number of military and people's hearts, which will be of great benefit to Liu Chan to establish his prestige as the Son of Heaven.

This alone is enough for Liu Chan to be tempted.

Liu Chan is not really a fool, he just has a clear understanding of himself, knowing that he is inferior to Zhuge Liang and others in both government and military affairs, and Zhuge Liang and others, whether out of the grace of the first emperor or their loyalty to the Han, will not betray themselves. Since this is the case, it is not a bad thing to hand over the government to Zhuge Liang and others, and to be idle.

But this does not mean that Liu Chan does not want to become an emperor with real power.

And if the emperor wants to have real power, two things are indispensable - the military heart and the people's heart.

If it is an auxiliary minister like Cao Cao, then Liu Chan will not want to touch these two things in his life, and it is the most appropriate choice to be a mascot in the deep palace.

But Liu Chan's auxiliary minister, is Zhuge Liang, have you ever seen a powerful minister who does not stay in the court all the year round, does not cultivate cronies in the court, and does not promote his relatives to hold real power? !

On the contrary, in these years, whether Zhuge Liang is sitting in Chang'an or garrisoning Luoyang, he has never forgotten to tell the Son of Heaven to have his own ruling team and win the hearts of the people and the army in the world. A posture that wishes that the Son of Heaven would be on top and hold real power.

This is the fundamental reason why Liu Chan can trust Zhuge Liang, what Zhuge Liang does has always been for the Han, not for himself.

This time Zhuge Liang wrote to Liu Chan, hoping that Liu Chan could move to Chang'an, in fact, the subtext is to let Liu Chan go to Chang'an, on the one hand, to gather the military and people's hearts in Guanzhong, Heluo, Qinzhou, Liangzhou and other places, on the other hand, you can also get rid of the Chengdu family family's containment of the government and form your own ruling team.

Even Zhuge Liang made it clear that he would stay on the front line in Luoyang to block Cao Thief's possible counterattack, and he would not return to Chang'an, which made it clear that he was telling Liu Chan, you can do it casually, if something really happens, then I will help you with it.

Do you think Liu Chan can not be moved?

But it's useless for Liu Chan to be moved, the courtiers in Chengdu are about to fry.

Yes, you Zhuge Liang didn't mention the matter of moving the capital at all, but the move of this son of heaven to Chang'an and the general imperial Northern Expedition is actually no different from moving the capital, right? !

Others don't talk about him, the courtiers from the Yizhou family must be directly opposed.

Qin Mi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, directly played the Son of Heaven, saying that Chengdu is the national capital, and the Son of Heaven sits in the national capital, oversees the overall situation, and dominates the Quartet, which is what the wise Son of Heaven should do.

As for foreign conquests, this should have been something that the courtiers and generals should do, if it is not done well, it is the responsibility of the courtiers and generals, why should the Son of Heaven drive the expedition himself?!

Again, the Son of Heaven is the foundation of the country, and it is easy to drive the conquest in person, which is not beneficial to the country, and if it is frustrated, it is easy to shake the country's foundation. Therefore, Qin Mi strongly opposed the move of the Son of Heaven to Chang'an.

And the rising star of the Yizhou faction, the Prime Minister's Mansion persuaded the study to engage in the Zhou Dynasty directly borrowed the astronomical astrology theory, and forced Chen Xingxiang to move, and the Son of Heaven should not leave the capital lightly, otherwise there may be disaster.

All in all, the Yizhou faction definitely doesn't want Liu Chan to move north to Chang'an today's step is relieved, and Liu Chan may directly announce the relocation of the capital in Chang'an, and the interests of the Yizhou faction will be lost by nearly half.

And the Jingzhou faction in the middle of the court, and even the Dongzhou faction, have shown a very strange calm on this matter.

For the Jingzhou faction, in fact, the Son of Heaven moved to Chang'an, which was also beneficial to them.

After all, the distance from Chang'an to Jingzhou is definitely much closer than the distance from Chengdu to Jingzhou, and the distance is much easier.

But the problem is that Chang'an is located in Guanzhong, and Jingzhou is still a little southerly, although compared to when the Son of Heaven was in Chengdu, the Jingzhou faction can get more benefits, but in fact, this benefit is not too great.

It's not Luoyang!!

Yes, rather than moving the capital to Chang'an, the Jingzhou faction actually hopes that the Son of Heaven can move the capital to Luoyang. The distance between Luoyang and Jingzhou is much closer, and the Jingzhou family, the Yingchuan family, and the Heluo family are actually developed from the same development line from the historical origin, and they have mutual friendship with each other.

If the Son of Heaven moves the capital to Luoyang, then the Jingzhou faction doesn't mind supporting it and touching the Yizhou faction, but moving the capital to Chang'an. The Jingzhou faction believes that it seems that there is no practical benefit in offending the Yizhou local faction because of this.

As for the Dongzhou faction, in fact, for the Dongzhou faction, they are now the most uncomfortable, and they are also the most non-human faction.

In terms of overall interests, the Dongzhou faction has been in Sichuan for too long, and their interests are entangled, and they are already completely in Yizhou, but at that time, the Yizhou locals still did not accept them very much, so they would huddle together to keep warm.

However, in recent years, with the growing strength of the Jingzhou faction in the imperial court, as well as the distrust of the two emperors of Ji and Han towards the Yizhou faction, the Yizhou faction had to cooperate with the Dongzhou faction to unify their positions with the outside world, and they were all regarded as the Yizhou faction, so as to resist the growth of the Jingzhou faction.

Therefore, in the matter of moving the capital, if the Dongzhou faction is purely out of interest considerations, it should stand with the Yizhou local faction.

But. There is another factor in the Dongzhou faction that needs to be seriously considered.

How did the Dongzhou faction appear back then?!

The war in Guanlong led to a large number of Guanlong people, families, and refuge in Sichuan, and Liu Yan, the pastor of Yizhou at that time, used these people and families who fled into Guanzhong to form Dongzhou soldiers to fight against the local family forces in Yizhou.

Yes, the Dongzhou faction was the earliest, and they were all representatives of the Guanlong family.

Although some families like the Deng Zhi family who fled from Jingzhou to Yizhou for refuge later were accepted, the overall power was still dominated by the family whose ancestral home was Guanlong.

Now that the Son of Heaven is going to move to Chang'an, if it goes well, then for the Dongzhou faction, at best, it is an opportunity to get rid of the Yizhou local faction and grow independently.

I didn't go back to Guanzhong before, because I had been in Sichuan for too long, and the family interests had already taken root in Shudi, but if the Son of Heaven really moved the capital to Chang'an, it would be compared to the benefits that could be obtained in Guanzhong, and this Yizhou family business could not be abandoned.

It's just that there is a certain amount of risk to be taken here, after all, the Son of Heaven just moved and did not explicitly say that he wanted to move the capital.

In case the opposition is too loud in the future, the Son of Heaven will not move the capital to Chang'an, and at this time, the Dongzhou faction will press the treasure capital on the Son of Heaven to move the capital to Chang'an, then the Dongzhou faction will really not be a person inside and out.

So, the Dongzhou faction hesitates. Try your best to find suitable evidence to prove that the Son of Heaven does have the intention of moving the capital.

It just so happened that at this time, Deng Zhi was ordered to send an envoy to Eastern Wu to pass through Jiangling

(End of chapter)