It's no wonder that Pang Tong and others don't agree with launching the Northern Expedition, after all, in the past three years, a lot of things have happened within the Han Dynasty.

In particular, Zhuge Liang's reform of the employment system led to friction and competition between interest groups within the Han Dynasty.

In the original Han Dynasty, if the cage is divided into two political factions, the Yizhou faction and the Jingzhou faction, and if the division is more detailed, the Yizhou faction will be divided into the Yizhou native faction and the Dongzhou faction, and the Jingzhou faction is also mixed with some Yuancong factions, plus the representatives of the Yongliang family who are not very climatic, but in general, there are only two factions that are in direct competition with each other, the Jingzhou faction and the Yizhou faction.

But the situation is different now.

Externally, the Central Plains family faction led by the Yingchuan faction has joined the territory of the Han Dynasty, and these Central Plains families obviously also need to seek their own interests, and as an extremely profound Central Plains family, once they fully enter the Han officialdom, this is not something that the Jingzhou faction or the Yizhou faction can stop.

Internally, the current Dongzhou faction is also internally shaken about its belonging.

The Dongzhou faction was originally a collection of families who fled to Yizhou in the war, and was used by Liu Yan to fight against the Yizhou local faction.

Later, because the Dongzhou faction gradually gained a foothold in Yizhou, the interests and demands gradually coincided with the Yizhou locals, and the Han of this time and space did not lose Jingzhou, resulting in the Jingzhou faction being dominant, and the Dongzhou faction and the Yizhou localists had to unite and become the new Yizhou faction to fight against the Jingzhou faction together.

But now, with the entry of the Central Plains family with a deeper heritage and a larger number of people, the Jingzhou faction and the Yizhou faction both feel threatened, and there is a faint tendency to unite.

In addition, Zhuge Liang opened such an opening, requiring officials from this county not to serve in this county, but for the Dongzhou faction, they are interest groups, not regional groups.

For example, Li Yan, he is from Nanyang, but he is the leader of the Dongzhou faction. If it is divided according to Zhuge Liang's reform, Li Yan can actually be an official in Yizhou, taking into account the interests of the Yizhou faction and the Dongzhou faction.

This led to the fact that the people of the Dongzhou faction became fragrant and sweet in an instant, and became the target of the Yizhou faction and the Jingzhou faction.

At least for Li Yan, he also needs to think about what the future of the Dongzhou faction is. Whether to continue to rely on the big interest groups to survive, or to take this opportunity to expand and expand their sphere of influence and become another relatively independent force in the DPRK and China.

Obviously, in terms of Li Yan's human nature, he prefers the latter.

So at this time, Li Yan was actually not particularly in favor of launching any Northern Expedition. The internal distribution of interests has not been resolved, who has the heart to go to war outside.

As for Pang Tong, needless to say, he is the representative of the Jingzhou faction, and now he not only has to face the threat of the Central Plains family externally, but also has to coordinate the distribution of interests with the Yizhou family internally, and also needs to win the support of the Dongzhou faction. He didn't have the heart to engage in any foreign war.

As for Xu Shu, Xu Shu is now a representative of the Yingchuan faction who has been pushed to the forefront.

In fact, Xu Shu didn't want to stand at the front desk, after all, he was from a poor family, and he knew very well who these Yingchuan families really wanted to promote. That was Chen Tai, the son of Chen Qun.

It's a pity that Chen Tai was born as a general, and at least in five years, it is impossible for Chen Tai to gain the trust of the Han court, that is to say, if the Yingchuan faction promotes Chen Tai, he will have to lose the right to speak within the Han court for at least five years.

Therefore, the Yingchuan family sent people to contact Xu Shu privately, hoping that Xu Shu could stand up to represent the interests of the Yingchuan family, and in return, Xu Shu would be accepted by the Yingchuan family, and suddenly become a wealthy family from a poor family.

It may sound like a big deal, but it's actually really important. This means that even if the heirs of the Yingchuan Xu family are incompetent in the future, they can continue to serve in the imperial court with the support of the Yingchuan family and maintain the status of the wealthy family.

This is a matter related to the inheritance of the family, and the family is tantamount to promising Xu Shu to protect the inheritance of the Yingchuan Xu family.

Isn't this the struggle of the family for several lifetimes?

One more. In fact, Zhuge Liang also hopes that Xu Shu can stand up and become the leader of the Yingchuan family.

In this era, it is inevitable to deal with the big families, and the Central Plains family headed by the Yingchuan family is impossible not to seek the interests of the court A force that is not constrained by the court, Zhuge Liang will not be at ease.

Instead of letting the Central Plains family grow savagely within the imperial court, and in the end even Zhuge Liang didn't know what they would grow into, it was better to arrange a leader they trusted as their spokesperson, so that the communication between the two sides would be smoother.

The Yingchuan family can directly connect with Zhuge Liang and seek their own interests, while Zhuge Liang can also use the Yingchuan family to balance the Yizhou family and the Jingzhou family, and strive for the greatest interests of the imperial court and imperial power.

In this way, Xu Shu was asked by both sides to drive ducks to the shelves, and became the spokesperson of the Yingchuan family.

As for why not find Zhang Xi. Just kidding, that's the first person in the Han military now.

It is impossible for the Yingchuan family to take the initiative to contact Zhang Xi, adding a layer of suspicion of "getting involved in military power" to themselves, and Zhuge Liang will not allow the Yingchuan family to stretch out their hands to Zhang Xi, if they dare to reach out, Zhuge Liang will not mind chopping his hands.

Hawkers, it's a bit of a stretch.

In a word, the territory is bigger, there are more interest groups, and the power pains within the Han have also begun to appear.

Pang Tong, Li Yan, Xu Shu, Jiang Xu and others, each with their own political demands, and now the focus is also on how to obtain relatively stable discourse and political interests within the imperial court.

Plus. Internal strife aside, it is true that now is not a good time for the Northern Expedition.

"Doesn't the prime minister hear that "it's not a big deal"?! Li Yan stood up and arched his hand at Zhuge Liang and said, "Although Cao Wei is an enemy, he has lost his master, and it is unkind to cut him down at this time!! ”

That's a bit of a hypocrisy. However, it is indeed standing on the moral high ground.

Actually, everyone knows that Li Yan didn't say this to abide by any etiquette, he just felt that it was not suitable to send troops now, so he found a moral reason.

But the question is, it's easy for you to put it on those nerds who are looking for chapters and sentences, which one of you here is not a human spirit?!

Especially Zhuge Liang, who used to fight in Jiangdong.

"When the positive side reads "The Ram", don't you hear that "the king kills, the minister does not please the thief, and the minister is not the minister; The son does not take revenge, and the son is not the son"?! Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and said, "Cao thief killed the king and usurped the Han Dynasty, the Han family fell into decline, fortunately, the first emperor inherited the unification in Xichuan, the second ancestor of Wu, and rejuvenated the Han family If we do not kill the crime because of mourning, what are the ministers?!" ”

Our Ji Han inherited the two Hans, and the enmity of the two Hans is the enmity of Ji Han.

You don't care if Emperor Han Xian is still alive, at least at the official level of Ji Han, Cao Wei is the usurper of the Han Dynasty, such an enemy, you say that because they are dead, the monarch will not crusade, then what kind of Han are we, how can Ji Han still have the face to say that it is "the second ancestor of Heiwu"?!

This is tantamount to denying the foundation of one's own statehood!!

Look at it, the same book "The Legend of the Ram", people with different positions can quote different passages to produce completely opposite conclusions.

Actually, really, it's never Confucianism pedantry, Confucianism is actually the school that knows how to be the most flexible, and the real pedantic ones are those nerds who read books and read stupidly.

Temporarily solved the problem of righteousness, Zhuge Liang still wanted to continue to persuade the rest of the people, but at this time, Xu Shu stood up.

"Kong Ming, it's not that we don't want to go on the Northern Expedition, it's just . . . Now that Cao Rong is dead, Cao Fang is young, and the state affairs are entrusted to the ministers of the clan, Cao Wei is the time when the lord is suspicious. If we wait for the army to stand still, he will not have the pressure of external enemies, and there will be internal fighting, and sooner or later there will be disasters, and if we cut it down at this time, I am afraid that Cao Wei will have the same hatred of the enemy, so it is not beautiful! ”

Let's put it mildly, it's a bit of a practical dry thing.

And Zhuge Liang's response to this is also a lot more practical.

He didn't answer Xu Shu's question directly, but turned around, came to his desk, carefully opened a small box, took out a scroll from it, and handed it to Xu Shu.

At this time, not only Xu Shu was surprised, but everyone present was surprised.

This operation is a little too familiar. In the last Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang operated like this, thus determining the Northern Expedition plan in one fell swoop.

And wait until everyone present has read this secret letter. I was even more surprised.

The content of this secret letter is really too unbelievable.

It actually recorded all the details of Cao Rong's edict to Tuogu before he died.

And the most important thing is how Cao Rong wanted to entrust Gu Cao Yu on his deathbed but was refused, and how he accepted Sun Zi and Liu Fang's suggestion to temporarily add Sima Yi as a minister to Gu and let Sima Yi and Cao Shuang take charge of the government together.

This kind of thing is not something that a spy can find out at all.

After everyone read this secret letter, they all cast questioning glances at Zhuge Liang.

Even, everyone has already guessed who this secret agent who has been protected by Zhuge Liang alone.

(End of chapter)