Volume 2 The Rise of Jingzhou Chapter 280 - The Choice of Everyone
"Yuan Zhi, time waits for no one, I know that you are not a person who values etiquette, and this time you can be moved by that Li Shu's words, I am afraid it is because you already have some ideas in your heart.
I don't have much to say about this, but I hope you understand... I can't wait to do this over and over again.
I hope you... Be able to understand! ”
Zhuge Liang and Na Xu Shu have also been friends for many years, of course he knows what is going on, and he also understands that Li Shu's words want to mess with his Xu Shu's mind, it is like a daydream.
There is only one possibility that can make Xu Shu so hesitant, that is, he Xu Shu is really tempted.
He didn't care about any etiquette or reciprocation, but he really wanted to join that majesty, but his best friend Shi Tao didn't deal with that majesty at all.
And he has already set his sights on that Xuande Gong, even if that Xuande Gong will still choose to return to the Han family in the future.
Maybe he will use some means, they will be in the future.... I'm afraid it's friend or foe.
The relationship between this brother and best friend, this is hard to find, the master who can fully trust him, and the two feelings are enough to make him completely confused.
Therefore, Zhuge Kongming did not blame him, and they still had time to pay some price for their feelings when they were young.
"Yuan Zhi, after three days, I will get up and go back to Wollongong, Longzhong, Nanyang, if you want, I will go on the road together.
If you don't want to... Liang said that you and I are the best in the world, since we are pretentious, then we shouldn't worry about these emotional trivialities.
Three days is enough, after three days, will you bid farewell to us on the city wall, or will you leave with us under this Chang'an city.
There should be an explanation! ”
After several arguments and no result, Zhuge Kongming finally gave an ultimatum, and Xu Shu saw that Zhuge Kongming was so resolute and speechless.
As for Li Shu on the side, he wanted to speak, but before he could speak, Shi Tao on the side made him shut his mouth with an angry glare.
After all, he's had a lot to say along the way.
And after stopping Li Zhi from continuing to talk nonsense, Shi Tao also followed Zhuge Liang and turned around and left directly, and after staying away from the hall, Shi Tao couldn't help but sigh when he looked at Zhuge Kongming's side face.
"Kong Ming, do you think Yuan Zhi will really follow me and wait to leave?"
"What does it matter if you leave or not?" After hearing this, Zhuge Liang directly asked a rhetorical question, and at the same time couldn't help but stop his steps, turned around and looked at Shi Tao with a very serious look.
"Then can Guangyuan tell Liang, if we leave, will Guangyuan join Liang and Yuan Zhi to go to Uncle Liu Huang, or someone else.
So as to give up that Cao Mengde? ”
"....." This time Shi Tao was really silent, it was not that he didn't know how to answer, but he knew his answer too well.
At this moment, he looked at Zhuge Kongming in front of him and seemed to understand his thoughts.
"It turns out... Kong Ming didn't want to force Yuan Zhi to leave, but to force Yuan Zhi... Stay..."
"Now that my Han court is in ruins, this court is the time to employ people, Yuan Zhi's ability has already been learned, and Mr. Decao also said that he can already go out of the mountain to serve people.
Since he can do this, then why not give Yuan Zhi this chance?
You and I both know very well that even if Yuan Zhi leaves with us, the three of you and me, and even Gongwei and Zhou Ping, are destined not to walk on the same road.
Liang has a life-and-death enmity with Cao Mengde, and what Yuan Zhi looks down on the most is Cao Mengde's all-encompassing methods.
But he Cao Mengde has already occupied the heart of the Central Plains, and Hebei is about to fall into his hands.
If it is about geography, most of the world has fallen into his hands, but if it is about strength, eighty percent of the world is already in the hands of him Cao Mengde.
In such a situation, whether it is because of your family background or because of your personality, you will not be his enemy...
In that case, why wait? ”
“.... I haven't had time to say goodbye yet, Zhou Ping and Gongwei also said that they want to have a good time with us in Lumen Mountain, and in the future..."
"We don't care about this last time to drink and talk, even if we don't say a word, we also understand what the other party's mind is.
Now that we've reached this point, let's not continue the stalemate.
Road.... After all, you have to go on your own! ”
After Zhuge Liang finally said these words, he really turned around and left, and his dashing back made him look so calm and wise.
That appearance made him look a little free and easy like an immortal.
"Zhuge Kongming.... Is this how life is so clear? Shi Tao looked at Zhuge Kongming's back and couldn't help but sigh.
He understood very well that Zhuge Kongming had such a temperament, not because he pretended, but because he really saw through the truth of this time, and even saw through the future of this time.
He knew better than anything what was going to happen next.
After so many years, compared to the few of them who were thinking about how to enter this great world and emerged, Zhuge Kongming was bent on seeking a degree, as if he was working behind closed doors.
He has the name of Wolong, but he has not done anything worthy of his reputation.
This is completely different from Pang Tong, who traveled to Jiangdong early.
Zhuge Kongming is like a hermit who overlooks the earth in mid-air, looks at the vast sentient beings in the troubled world, and proudly stands alone outside the troubled world.
He saw everything clearly.
Many people are worried that if he Zhuge Kongming continues to go like this, he will waste his talent and end up with a title in vain.
In fact, Shi Tao and they know very well that Zhuge Kongming doesn't care about this.
He never cared whether his reputation was big or great, and whether his ability was recognized or not recognized in the eyes of others.
He was able to attract his own recognition and even admiration, never because of his ability and vision, let alone because of his free and easy body.
It's that he has clearly seen everything so clearly, but he will still unswervingly go on for the little obsession in his heart.
He laughed at the fact that everyone could not get out of the quagmire of fame and fortune, but he fell into a deeper quagmire.
It was the quagmire that belonged to his own heart.
"You see us all so clearly, but you yourself have to go against the sky...
Zhuge Kongming, don't you really know that this is a dead end that you are taking?
Once you do enter this world, you will suffer more than all of us... Hey...."
A helpless sigh made Shi Tao also go in another direction, and the completely different direction seemed to mean that they would drift apart after parting ways in the future.
And under the rather simple dress that looked at it, Zhuge Liang's simple temporary residence, he didn't relax his mood when he just returned to the room.
Instead, he looked at a map in front of him, which was another map of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty.
At this time, Zhuge Kongming, his eyes were not in Nanyang, Jingzhou, where he was about to turn around, nor was it the southwest corner of his former goal to connect Jingchu to the vital place.
His eyes have been in this Hebei and Central Plains!
"Hebei... Nakahara... Hey~"
After being silent for a long time, Zhuge Kongming, whose face became more and more embarrassed, finally sighed helplessly, and he didn't know what to do in the face of this situation.
Because everyone in the world understands one truth.
In today's Han Dynasty, as long as someone holds Hebei and the Central Plains, it is almost a Han Dynasty....
"Four states in Hebei, three in the Central Plains, this is not a simple name, this represents the essence of my Han Dynasty, so this Cao Mengde defeated Yuan Benchu to lead away countless capable people.
Because they can't think of how to break this situation if they don't vote for Cao Mengde. ”
Just when Zhuge Kongming sighed, outside the Huguan of Bingzhou on the other side, Na Jia Xu also told Liu Xie about the most important situation of the big man.
The strength of the union of the land of Hebei and the land of the Central Plains....
In fact, there is no need for Jia Xu to say anything, Liu Xie looked at this familiar land, and he himself understood.
This has nothing to do with history books, nothing to do with anything else, but people with a little common sense know the importance of these two places.
Because they have another name in the later generations - the four provinces of mountains and rivers!
Liu Xie once saw a very interesting information, that is, the statistics of the resources of various provinces, and the four provinces of mountains and rivers once had one thing to dominate in this.
There is a province in the country's vegetable production that dominates - Shandong!
There is one province in the country's wheat production that can be called a unique one - Henan!
There is one province in the country's steel production that can kill the others in seconds - Hebei!
There is also a province in the country's coal production that directly crushes the contemporary - Shanxi!
Didn't these things exist today, 1,800 years ago?
Of course not, these things are even more important in this era.
In addition to vegetables, water transportation is also in a daze, and there are also pirates breeding on the sea, and vegetables are also one of the important burdens of the Han.
Among these five grains, the hinterland of the Central Plains is also the most fertile, and the grain reserves are also the world's pride in Yuzhou, and Xun Wenruo's governance of Yuzhou can be called a miracle.
And this steel does not have it, but the iron ore in the land of Hebei is enough to support the forging of armor of a million troops, and the coal in Bingzhou.... In other words, graphite has also become an indispensable thing in the Han government-run workshops decades ago.
The status of the four provinces in later generations is very embarrassing, but in this era... It's something that can make almost anyone feel hopeless.
"Granaries, vegetable gardens, sea-to-sea warships to transport supplies, iron ore, graphite, weapons and armor forging..."