"Why can't I go," Pang Tong was slightly stunned, he didn't know what he couldn't go, he hadn't been to the land of Sichuan and Shu, and he had walked with the horse team at home once.

The mountains are difficult to walk, but it is not impossible to go, although there are many miasma in Shu, but as long as you pick the season, it doesn't matter.

"You, there is still a use for him," Xu Zhen smiled bitterly, waving his hand, he understood that in fact, Pang Tong didn't have to fight for this credit, but he was just curious why he couldn't go, but it was not easy to explain.

However, in fact, this is also Xu Zhen being too careful, as long as he does not anger Liu Zhang, he will naturally be in no danger.

went to see Zhang Song and said that he asked him for drawings, but it is not clear whether Zhang Song is really antipathetic now, and he needs to find someone to negotiate and inquire before he can get the result.

Yes, Kong Ming is the best.

Even if he is discovered by Liu Zhang, he can be regarded as his own messenger to affinity with Sichuan and Shu, and now he is not in a state of bad relations with Liu Zhang at all, and he will be treated as a guest.

In addition, there is a lot of trade between the two places, and the friendship between them is ...... In Xu Zhen's words, it is a hookup.

Now that he is in this capacity, many people are willing to hook up with him, and I don't know how many cover letters are burned every day.

Xu Zhen has never wasted time on these things, but he will look at the strategy, the cover letter is basically for the officials below to read, if he thinks it is a manufacturable material, worthy of attention, he will submit it to him and look at it, if not, then naturally forget it.

The Xiliang Riding Merchants passed through the north and south, and invested a lot of money to build it within a year, which was managed by the Shi clan, and Xu Zhen also intended to transform the Shi family into a chaebol.

Of course, it is the kind that he can control, earn them enough money, and he is still the maker of the currency circulation, so that even if there are not so many officials to be sealed, and there are no titles to ask for, it is enough for him to have a good share of the subordinates.

so that it will not collapse.

"Master, if I go, how can I talk to him?"

"Do you want me to meet with the ministers of Yizhou, or go to find the person named Zhang Song and Fa Zheng alone, if so, do you want to prepare a ceremony and visit Liu Zhang."

"If it is, as the history of the Xiliang Thorn, write a letter and send it to Shuzhong first, see what Liu Zhang's attitude is?"

"Very good!"

Xu Zhen nodded, thinking deeply, Kong Ming was really thoughtful in terms of etiquette, and he had to be a little more thoughtful, "Then I'll leave it to you, you can write as much as you want, and you can come as much as it is convenient." ”

"The main thing is to make it easier for you to find that pine and not be noticed by others."

"If I expected it to be true, Zhang Song does have drawings of Sichuan and Shu to give, but he himself is still hesitating, so this time, don't coerce, let him make his own decisions, you can show the benefits."

"I want Sichuan Shu, it is half of the big man in hand, in the future to welcome the Son of Heaven, they are all heroes, if you don't welcome the Son of Heaven, you can also work hard to get the founding of the country, and you can also put hundreds of officials."

"Understood."

Zhuge Liang has heard these words many times, and in his opinion, now is indeed the time, but in Master's words, there is still hesitation.

He's still thinking about ifs.

On the second day, taking advantage of the good weather, Zhuge Liang finished writing the letter and asked the fast horse to send it to Sichuan and Shu, and passed it to Liu Zhang to wait for a reply.

The journey is relatively fast, and it is estimated that within 15 days, there will be a reply, so that during this time, you can calm down and brush up other experiences at a glance.

I didn't expect to wait for this, so I almost waited until autumn.

Xu Zhen looked at the rice ears and crops in the field, they were all golden, and the cotton in various places was also harvested quite a lot, and the cloth was not only obtained by his own cultivation, but also from trade.

In the name of Ma Chao, the Xiliang horse merchant went to Qianghu three times, and each time he returned with a full load, and sold the deposited Tiangongyuan goods through the tooth shop.

Then they exchanged gold, silver, cloth, horses, etc.

After the climate warmed up, there were many horse merchants in Qianghu, and Xiliang had more grazing, so there were many cattle, sheep and horses, and in the autumn season, there were four or five thousand more war horses.

Although Xu Zhen can't do that everyone has a war horse in hand, almost all elite troops can add a Qu military waiter, and there are hundreds of cavalry.

In the same way, armaments can be strengthened.

The land of several states is enough to raise millions of troops, but he is still suppressed at about 400,000, focusing on high-quality and scattered towns and guards.

On the one hand, it is used to feed the people.

On the other hand, this is used to reassure Xu Du, so he has some hidden strength, and if he consumes fame and hearts to recruit troops, he can now immediately exceed 500,000.

But the bigger the number, the more Xu Du won't give him a chance, and it's actually a good thing to boil frogs in warm water like this now.

Xu Zhen knew very well that he couldn't be so aggressive in fighting with the Shi clan, and the bigger the spies in the future, the more he needed their help.

Otherwise, the existence of two different schools in a country will definitely cause a fight, even if he is riding a car now, he will not dare to rise up the kind of rhetoric that a hundred schools of thought fought back then.

Only dare to gather the rest of the people of the genre into the Tiangong Academy, and let themselves show a hundred flowers blooming within the controllable range, rather than the entire Han.

Some people can detect this, but there is nothing they can do.

After all, they haven't even figured out the territory yet.

While Prime Minister Cao was thinking about his unification for thousands of years, Xu Zhen was already pursuing how to become another Wang Mang.

The main thing is that in the eyes of these advisers, he is really a strengthened version of Wang Mang, in addition to those surprising ingenuity, he also has an unrivaled ability to govern the army.

At present, there are only two people who can attack in the future, one is Prime Minister Cao Cheng, and the other is Xu Cheqi.

After entering the duke, it is the beginning of taking another road, after all, Wang Mang also first arrived at the position of the duke, placed hundreds of officials, founded the country to set up a ceremony, and finally dared to take the road of being the emperor with strong soldiers and horses.

At this time, Xu Zhen received news from the south again.

The army was defeated several times and could not enter the Yangtze River moat.

So Jia Xu came to speak again.

Jia Xu, who was in a hurry, walked in from outside the door, and knelt down in front of Xu Zhen, and his old face was a little more joyful.

He has deep bags under his eyes at the moment, his face is dark, and it looks like he didn't sleep well yesterday, or he didn't sleep at all.

Seeing this, Xu Zhen, who was originally reading a book, still had the heart to read it, so he immediately interrupted his progress and gained a pitiful 11 self-discipline points.

opened the mode of meeting guests to discuss and debate, and he knew that Jia Xu must have come to persuade him to march into Jizhou immediately.

Take Jizhou and directly threaten Xudu, then the prime minister can only suffer from the enemy on his back and become defeated, which will be the best turning point for the people.

This time, Jia Xu wanted to make sure that this was definitely not a ploy by the chariot and the prime minister.

They have cooperated with each other too many times, and it is frightening.

"Sir, you don't have to stay up all night, I let you pay attention to the situation in the south, so that you can control the timing at any time, not let you always think about the eastern expedition to Jizhou, if I send troops, it will definitely be an unrighteous army."

"Whether it is unrighteous or not, but if it is profitable to march into the army, it can overpower righteousness!" Jia Xu said eagerly, as if he had already guessed what Xu Zhen would say, it seemed that he didn't sleep last night, not insomnia, but thinking about how to argue, "Now is not the time when the scholars were in power, and the riders don't need to be afraid of the reputation of the scholars." ”

"Look at the prime minister, when has he ever been afraid of human speech? It is said that people are terrible, but the male lord is not afraid, if the capture of Jizhou can make millions of people return to their homeland with high spirits, isn't it a good thing? ”

"These people, although it is the desire of the people to follow you from Jizhou, but in the end, what they want is already profitable, and it is not profitable, why should they follow?"

"For example, in Xiliang, all the generals of the Ma clan hate the Cao clan because of the death of General Fubo, and with the help of this principle, they can attack, and they are not considered an unrighteous army."

"Haha!" Xu Zhen smiled dumbly, "If this is the case, people may ask, whether Xu Zhen demoted Ma Chao, or Ma Chao demoted Xu Zhen." ”

"Why did Xu Zhen want to fight the Cao family for Ma Chao? Ma Teng was originally going to the strategy, and the relief was that the princes of the world were restrained by the Son of Heaven, and the matter of the edict of the year was announced to the world again, and the news spread very slowly in these years, so it was still necessary to wait. ”

"Don't miss the opportunity, never lose it again!"

Jia Xu was so anxious that he stood up and said to Xu Zhen: "You know, once Prime Minister Cao Cheng wins, he can tell the world, and if he returns to unification, the chaos in the Han family will be over!"

"If you come out to mobilize troops again at that time, it will be like Han Xin back then, no one responds!"

"Isn't he always losing?"

"How difficult!" Jia Xu immediately held on and sighed, "With a million troops backed by, how could it be defeated by Jiangdong?" As long as the tide recedes, the moat is weak, and it is natural to cross the river and attack. ”

"Moreover, if you are attacked by land, you can enter from the south, if you dare to abandon Jiangxia Liu Bei and go straight to Jiangdong, you can still win, and you will not be defeated no matter what!"

Jia Xu pondered for a long time, and he understood that he had indeed received a lot of news of defeat, but he didn't move his bones, and to put it bluntly, the total loss of men and horses was only 20,000.

And the troops of the Southern Expedition stationed in Jingzhou can definitely afford it, and it can even afford it several times, but at this time, Jiangdong was also consumed by thousands of elites.

Sooner or later, their morale will be crushed by this huge numerical difference, and when the time comes, the army will be defeated and collapsed, and no matter how good the generals are, it is impossible to slowly wear out the enemy's army by fighting one battle at a time.

Xu Zhen fell silent, he knew that Jia Xu had done his homework, and if he talked to Dian Wei about this, he was afraid that a few words would make him shut up and drink.

The rest of the generals are the same, because they are generals, and their orders will be obeyed, which is the duty of the sergeant in the army, but the military division is different.

He is a master of strategy and strategy.

At this time, Xu Zhen was about to ask a question.

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

Jia Xu was stunned.

His eyes blinked several times, he didn't expect that the rider would suddenly get distracted, and one of them would be entangled and debated on the tip of his tongue in an afternoon today, but he didn't expect a sentence to hit his heart and make him stunned on the spot.

After thinking about it for a long time, Jia Xu still didn't know how to answer, mainly because if he said so, he would inevitably be a little sad and ashamed.

If you lie, you will be seen.

Is he in it for fame and fortune? Yes and no.

But it must be for the sake of living out his old age in peace.

If he wants to sit firmly in peace and not be burdened by the war in his last years, he has to make suggestions, because now he wants to go back to Xudu, it is impossible.

And according to the judgment of the situation, the car rider now occupies a huge advantage, and he can't lose, as long as he is willing to put down his face and be a treacherous, then the world will be at his fingertips.

"Decay...... The old man is afraid that he will be old, and he will no longer be able to help him ride, if it is delayed for another ten years, how can he still devise a miracle plan? At that time, it will really be as the car rides a letter to say, with the intention of killing the thief, but the powerless to return to the sky! ”

"I see."

Xu Zhen laughed at this time, "Then you believe my assertions, I expect that the prime minister will lose." ”

"In the battle of Chibi, he will definitely suffer a great defeat, and then withdraw to Xudu and concentrate on the north."

"Therefore, it is the best policy to make every effort to benefit Yizhou in this matter."

"What's the point?!"

Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, looking at Xu Zhen's face in disbelief, he speculated hundreds of times, pretending to be a minister of Jiangdong, and constantly overestimating Zhou Gongjin, there was only one countermeasure to get along.

"Fire Attack!"

Xu Zhen said firmly.

The stone in Jia Xu's heart suddenly fell into his stomach, and then he was very happy, and immediately got up and bowed deeply to him, "The car ride is worthy of being a car ride, it seems that you have also been paying attention to the situation in the south, so to speak, even if I have no power to return to heaven in the future, I can still win." ”

"Don't be afraid," Xu Zhen still smiled confidently, even unfathomable, "I am powerful, but I can return to the sky, if you run out of oil and the lamp is dry, I can burn the seven-star lamp and borrow another ten years for you." ”

The corners of Jia Xu's mouth twitched.

Okay, that's the kind of thing you can say...... Just deceive others, I, Jia Xu, who read the books of sages, will never believe these crooked theories, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to engage in peace with Zhang Jiao and them back then.

"The rider laughed, the old man has been unable to do it recently, and he is weak and panicked, but I am afraid that he is already old, and I don't know how much time there is, but I still want to see the ambition of the rider to be realized."

My ambition?!

Xu Zhen felt that Jia Xu might have been thinking too much about it all along, and his ambition was not Ninth Five-Year at all, that is, he wanted a higher position to brush more attributes and abilities, and to be an immortal person in the future, which was better than anything else.

But if the troubled times are calm, with the attribute of "Han Soul", you can't let the Han be destroyed, and you can be the person behind the Son of Heaven.

In the future, who can be designated as the Son of Heaven is it, being an ancestor is better than anything, but now the ability is not yet able to reach such a mystery, but it is also the main general who swept Liuhe, if you really want to say ambition, it can be determined to fight out.

There is only the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the harvest is definitely not much, but if all the Guishan, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, etc. are captured, and then countless slaves are collected, and the Han people are sent to rush to develop and build a new civilization, it will be a lot.

In the future, it will only grow exponentially more than it is now.

Therefore, being a general of the expedition to the west is really his current ambition, and the more territories the better.

Of course, this ambition can't be said, after all, ordinary people can't understand it.

"Then you, then you have to live for a few more decades," Xu Zhen said with a wry smile.

In this regard, Jia Xu has never understood why.

But months later, he heard news that shocked him.

Cao Jun was really defeated, and burned hundreds of miles with a fire, and Jiangdong Zhou Gongjin really completed his small and broad, burned the prime minister back hundreds of miles away, and fled back to Xudu.

This was something that happened a month ago, and for more than a month, Jingzhou was in turmoil, as if it had returned to the chaos of the late Han Dynasty at the beginning, so the news could not spread so quickly.

The outposts he sent were all dead, all of them in the midst of the plunder.

He really expected it.

And now, for them, is what they really call a turning point.