At night, a cold moon hangs high in the sky.

Several maids stood in the courtyard of the boudoir, standing in a forest.

In the deep and silent courtyard, a small window slowly opened, revealing a beautiful face, a pair of beautiful eyes looking at the sky, that is the direction of Soochow, but also the direction of home.

Standing in the window is Sun Shangxiang...

Other people's women's boudoirs are all pink, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, embroidery, rouge, but Sun Shangxiang's house is full of axes, hooks and forks, swords everywhere, bows everywhere...

A wide variety of swords, a variety of bows.

- Sword Fairy, Bow Waist Ji.

This is Sun Shangxiang's name in Soochow.

This girl who married forty-eight-year-old Liu Bei at the age of nineteen has now become a twenty-five-year-old young woman, and a woman of such a gorgeous age should have ushered in the most attractive and promising time in her life.

On the other hand, Liu Bei, six years have passed, he is even older, and even in Sun Shangxiang's memory, Liu Bei has not entered her boudoir for three years.

Even if Liu Bei has never cut Sun Shangxiang's use, her status is extremely high in the entire Shu County... But if you really want to talk about the evening, I am afraid that Liu Bei will spend much more time with Fazheng than Sun Shangxiang.

People say, this is because of Sun Shangxiang's sword-wielding female guards?

But Sun Shangxiang felt that it was a joke.

If you say it, a heroic man who has been a horse all his life and is admired by everyone will be terrified because of some female guards with swords.

Even... was so frightened that he didn't dare to show his true colors as a man in front of her.

Such men...

How can you capture Sun Shangxiang, a young woman?

"Li Qingxiao—"

At this moment, Sun Shangxiang was looking at the sky and muttering the name...

When she received the red sac during the day, the content of it surprised Sun Shangxiang, originally this "Li Qingxiao" was just the "maid of Dongwu" that she inserted into Li Yan's mansion, and it was already an unexpected joy to be successfully adopted by Li Yan as an adopted daughter.

Undoubtedly, this added another crucial stroke to Sun Shangxiang and Soochow's plan.

At this moment, Sun Shangxiang's pupils narrowed faintly, almost narrowing into a slit, the originally dignified and beautiful eyes like stars, at this moment, there was a little more bewitching, a trace of loneliness fell on his smooth face, pursed his lips, and opened his mouth slightly.

"It's not in vain that decision I made two years ago..."

At this moment, Sun Shangxiang, her thoughts crossed the lofty mountains and mountains of Bashu, crossed the Han River, Xiangshui... Stuck in the picture two years ago, when she was in the city of "Mrs. Sun".

Even after two years, on the pretty face of the smiling Yanxi, there are still many wings and imaginations in a pair of narrow and beautiful eyes that are groaning, which is really a very special memory.

It was two years ago, because Sun Shangxiang was arrogant, more than 100 sword-wielding maids stood inside and outside the boudoir, and Liu Bei didn't like it.

Her subordinates have repeatedly violated the law and discipline, and Liu Bei has no choice but to build a new city near the public security city, named it - Mrs. Sun City!

Nominally, a city was built for Sun Shangxiang.

But in fact, who doesn't know, it's just that Liu Bei doesn't like Sun Shangxiang and wants to keep his distance from her.

But it is also an expedient measure to avoid the rupture of the Sun-Liu alliance!

After that, Liu Bei was invited by Liu Zhang to enter Shu, and Sun Shangxiang also had his own plans.

At that time, Sun Shangxiang received two letters from Soochow.

One was written with her childhood sweetheart Zhu Ran, with sincere words, hoping that she would return to Soochow, and also mentioned... Zhu Ran will always wait for her.

The other letter was sent by Sun Shangxiang's second brother Sun Quan, which also mentioned that he should return it to Soochow in the name of "visiting relatives", but he would bring Liu Chan over.

- Exchange Liu Chan for Jingzhou.

Sun Shangxiang had already intended to follow his brother's plan, take advantage of his late mother's serious illness, return to Soochow to visit relatives, and then bring Liu Chan back.

This was already the best arrangement...

But at this moment, Sun Shangxiang heard something in "Mrs. Sun City".

It was discussed by several teaching gentlemen when they passed by Mrs. Sun's city and tasted tea at the tea stall.

said that Liu Bei's son Adou is not qualified, Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying have been married for more than ten years but have no heirs, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's children are also brave and martial, lacking some mental spirituality, especially Guan Yu's fourth son Guan Lin, who has been weak and sick since he was a child, and he can't write or martial arts...

It seems that these teaching gentlemen are from Jiangling City, and what they say is that Uncle Liu Huang's side is "green and yellow", which is a huge hidden danger!

Oh, yes!

After such a "second generation" grows up, how can they bear the hope of Keding the Central Plains and reviving the Han Dynasty?

It was this incident that made Sun Shangxiang realize.

The three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang are no longer young, and Zhuge Liang has no queen, but her grandson Shangxiang is still young, she is dedicated to Wu, and she can also use her own way to control Shu Han with the plan she and her second brother Sun Quan set at the beginning.

So, Sun Shangxiang picked up the two letters, he first shook his head at Sun Quan's letter, and then looked at Zhu Ran's letter.

"Yifeng, I'm sorry... The children of the Sun family, they would rather die on the battlefield than die in the hotbed-"

With this sentence, Sun Shangxiang resolutely replied to the second brother Sun Quan, "The plan remains the same, my sister will, as always, spread the maids all over the important ministers under Liu Bei, one thinks that Dongwu is the eye, and the other is to stay with Liu, Guan, and Zhang for a hundred years, and my sister should control the court here!" Cited as the arm of Soochow! ”

As the daughter of Sun Jian, the "Jiangdong Tiger";

As the younger sister of Sun Ce, the "Little Overlord of Jiangdong", Sun Shangxiang has her own "personality" and "persistence" in her bones...

Her obsession with Dongwu is too deep, and because of this, she chose to give up "returning to Wu", such an opportunity to be with Brother Yifeng day and night as a "hotbed", she chose to "go to Shu" and devote herself to her territory.

Recalling this past again, Sun Shangxiang's mood and mood are incomprehensible...

The upturned nose and the brow curved like the moon are trembling slightly against the night wind at this moment.

At last, she settled down again, and ordered her maid to fetch pen and ink, and wrote on letterhead.

- "Brother Yifeng, Shang Xiang misses you..."

Only these eight words were written, Sun Shangxiang shook her head violently, and she realized that she had written it wrong.

She tore off the cloth and placed the eight words "affectionate" on the candle flame and lit it...

At this time, Sun Shangxiang no longer had tenderness in his eyes, and became resolute and strong.

She pursed her lips and wrote another.

- "Second brother, more than 20 Jiangdong maids have all entered the mansion of high-ranking officials in Shu County, and they are the eyeliner of the little sister, one of them is even more in love with Liu Adou, the second brother can rest assured, control the plan of the court here, everything is going well!" ”

After writing this letter, Sun Shangxiang carefully wrapped it and handed it to her henchman maid.

At the same time, he did not forget to instruct the maid, "Pass on the oral order of the lady, Li Yan's adopted daughter Li Qingxiao is knowledgeable and reasonable, and she is quite loved by the eldest son, tomorrow Er and others will go to the Li Mansion and inform General Li that this lady wants to summon Li Qingxiao into the Zuo General's Mansion, accompany the eldest son, and dress the eldest son... I hope that General Li will cut his love—"

With Sun Shangxiang's orders.

A sword-wielding maid arched her hand one after another: "Yes..."

The tone is crisp, but extremely neat, like... These maids who made Liu Bei quite jealous and worried about "being born under the elbows", they were well-trained one by one.

And looking at the battlefield of the entire Three Kingdoms, there is a strange phenomenon in Soochow.

That is, many generals and governors will suddenly "die of natural causes", or "death of natural diseases"!

This brings us to an interesting story about the "handmaiden".

A servant girl "coincidentally" entered the general's or governor's mansion, she is no different from ordinary servants, hard-working, loyal.

Decades, even more than a decade, have never made this general suspicious.

Suddenly, one day, the servant girl received a secret order.

- She's activated!

Then, within a few days, the general was "died of natural causes";

Or after some time, the general will "die of natural illness"!

Other people's maidservants want the master's money, but the maidservants of Soochow can't keep it all want the master's life!

Xu Kun, Tai Shici, Zhou Yu, Sun Yi...

Presumably, if they lived, there must be something to say-

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Jingzhou, in front of the official office of Xiangyang City, the capable guards stood strictly, and when they saw Guan Lin walking quickly, they knelt on one knee one by one, moving neatly, but they didn't say a word.

Guan Lin's casual smile gradually converged here, his expression became fierce and solemn, and he strode into the door and sat down in the hall.

The guard at the door, Elk, announced in a loud voice: "Something! ”

Several soldiers who had been waiting in line outside the door were all in uniform red suits, each holding a plate of bamboo slips, and they placed them on Guan Lin's desk one by one.

A handyman held the water cup, Guan Lin took a sip, and asked casually.

"Is my dad's wounds healed?"

Zhuge Ke on the side stepped forward and replied: "The second general's left arm has all healed, and he has resumed martial arts practice every day..."

"It doesn't hurt when it's raining on a cloudy day, does it?"

Guan Lin added a question.

He knew that Guan Yu, the father in history, also recovered his left arm after being hit by an arrow, but it would be painful when it was cloudy and rainy, so he had to scrape the bones to cure the poison.

This time, scraping bones to cure poison is in the front... Guan Lin is also not sure if his father's shoulder injury will leave the root of the disease.

"The second general's injury, Doctor Zhongjing went to see it, and it rained on a cloudy day as usual."

Guan Lin suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhuge Ke.

Now, Lu Xun has gone to Jiaozhou;

Liao Hua and Hou Yin returned to Jiangxia;

Miyang assisted his father Mi Fang in building the city;

Zhang Xingcai has been back to Jiangling to see his mother Xiahou Juan for more than ten days, and in addition to the guard of Shiwu by Guan Lin's side, only Zhuge Ke is the only one who can be discussed.

Guan Lin picked up the water on the table and drank it all, no longer chatting with Zhuge Ke, his expression became serious... Moaned loudly:

"Concert!"

Immediately, a guard replied, "Mi Fang Taishou and Captain Hao Zhao are building new cities in Jiangling and Changsha respectively, and the progress of the new city has been completed more than half, which is the current drawing of the construction of the new city." ”

As he spoke, the guard placed a handscroll on Guan Lin's desk, which depicted the construction of Changsha and Jiangling New Town.

Guan Lin noticed that in fact, the framework of the entire new city had already been completed, and if it were not for Hao Zhao's design, which insisted on adding another wall to the walls of the old and new cities, the new city would have been completed long ago.

Of course, the gold and silver spent... It is also an extremely scary number.

More than 10,000 migrant workers, the mountains of stones, wood...

The daily cost is an extremely scary number.

Seeing this, Guan Lin couldn't help but look at Shiwu beside him... It's like sighing.

- "Fortunately, I met a 'big dog'!" If you don't have this 'big dog', build a new city with wool!"

In fact, according to the trajectory of history, after the Gouda family was annexed by Eastern Wu, a large amount of gold and silver was wasted on buying iron cables, and then, iron cables crossed the river, so as to prevent the Wei and Jin dynasties from going south.

Now... When he came to Guan Lin, the money of the Shibian family was changed to Guan Lin to build a new city to prevent Dongwu from backstabbing.

From this point of view, one gift and one reduction are far from the same...

Coupled with Sun Quan, he is by no means a reliable ally!

The Northern Expedition is important, and it is even more important to prevent him from backstabbing!

At this time, the second guard replied: "Yu Taishou, news came from the flying pigeon in Shuzhong, General Zhang Fei won a great victory in Bameng Mountain... Kill the enemy generals Xiahoude, Xiahoushang, Yan Pu... Recruit the enemy generals Wang Ping, Pu Hu, Du Hao... The entire Ba Hao tribe has all surrendered to Uncle Liu Huang, and now they are all incorporated into the army of the three generals! Even the thief general Zhang He was cut off by the three generals, and now the three generals have subdued Sanba and captured Zitong, and the soldiers are pointing straight at Hanzhong! ”

With the return of the guards, Guan Lin was surprised and delighted...

Surprisingly... Uncle Zhang's hanging, this perspective is too much!

Happily, not only did they subdue Sanba, but even Zitong was defeated, and even the Bajia tribe was also absorbed...

Guan Lin couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's worthy of my third uncle Zhang, even Zhang He broke an arm, in such a short period of time, he fought and won successes, subdued Sanba, and captured Zitong, this is a good thing... Bashu's chess is alive all of a sudden, if you can play Hanzhong again, then the pressure on Jingzhou's side will be sharply reduced, but..."

Guan Lin shook his head slightly, he suddenly thought of the Ba Yan tribe, you know, this tribe... It was the tribe that made the "crossbow of white bamboo" to shoot the white tiger during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and all of them in the tribe were "archers"...

Let Uncle Zhang lead that... What a waste.

Such a tribe should be handed over to Huang Zhong, and then form a sniper... Ah no, it's a sharpshooter!

That's how they can get the most out of their sitting.

Thinking of this, Guan Lin asked directly: "Is there any news of the old general Huang Zhong, Mrs. Huang Yueying, and Mrs. Xiahou?" ”

Then...

A guard who was in line stepped forward first and reported: "For more than ten days, in the Shuishui Villa, Old Man Huang and Mr. Liu made seven versions of the 'compound bow' according to the drawings of the son, and the old general Huang Zhong is trying, but now it still has not reached the ideal range, and Mrs. Xiahou and Miss Xingcai are also among them..."

Speaking of this, the guard continued: "Madame Huang left for the north yesterday to go to Xiangyang City at the invitation of Gongzi, and it is expected that she will arrive tomorrow..."

With this report, Guan Lin bowed his head again.

Not to mention that Huang Yueying rushed to Xiangyang, which is related to Guan Lin's plan, "flooding Fancheng" in July and August next year;

This compound bow alone... Didn't it come out for more than ten days?

That's a little bit...

For a while, Guan Lin felt that he was naïve?

He thought that this "Mongolian compound bow" would be as easy as the "Zhuge Repeater", "Eight Bull Crossbow", and "Kick Zhang Crossbow" to be made by Huang Chengyan and Liu Ye, but the result was.

- "I still underestimated the difficulty of making this 500-step range 'Mongolian Compound Bow'!"

Oh, yes...

In later generations, it took two to three years to make a "Mongolian compound bow" of the highest quality, and each step needed to be completed in a specific month and at a specific temperature.

It's okay to make it reluctantly...

It's just that the power and range are far apart!

Of course, Guan Lin also underestimated the persistence of Huang Chengyan, Liu Ye and Huang Zhong.

Especially Huang Zhong, because of his son, he will be persistent to the extreme even if he only has a range of "twenty steps".

"Continue—"

Guan Lin waved his hand and asked the guards to continue to report.

As the "Xiangyang Taishou", everything is very complicated, and many things need to be handled by Guan Lin...

Of course, militarily, Guan Lin has been given full authority to his father Guan Yu.

But even so, all kinds of government affairs are not easy.

It took a full morning to deal with an official business, and after the last scribe reported the matter of Jingzhou's "paving into acres", Guan Lin stretched his waist and was relieved...

But it was only at this time that Zhuge Ke opened his mouth.

He looked left and right... Guan Lin immediately saw what he meant, "Let's all retreat first, Zhuge Yuanxun stay-"

With this voice, all the scribes and all the guards in the main hall of the entire government office retreated.

There are only two people left in the entire room, Guan Lin and Zhuge Ke.

Zhuge Ke was about to speak.

Guan Lin took the lead, "Let me guess, Yuan Xun is reporting Boyan's itinerary?" Or has Hongyan made a breakthrough? Or..."

In the end, Guan Lin's gaze was fixed on Shouchun City on the map, and his hand also crossed from Shouchun City to Dongwu...

He took a deep breath before he groaned, "Or maybe it's about that Hua Tuo's female disciple Zhuo Rong... Or is it news about Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan, and Ling Tongling's public achievements? ”

Really...

When Guan Lin led the words to Zhuo Rong, Zhang Liao and Ling Tong, Zhuge Ke pursed his lower lip, his face became serious, and his tone was meticulous.

"Bo Yan arrived in Jiaozhou three days ago, and he has already gone to sea by boat... I went to Jiaozhou Lingshan Guziyang, as for... Zhuo Rong, Ling Tong and Zhang Liao..."

Zhuge Ke pondered for a moment, but still opened his mouth and said: "Their situation is not good... In more than ten days, Zhang Liao begged Cao Cao six times, asking Cao Cao to let him let go of Zhang Liao's life-saving benefactor Zhuo Rong, and even in the end, Zhang Liao has been imprisoned by Cao Cao, saying that it is to let him calm and calm, in fact... But the school government was sent to investigate the collusion between them! ”

Speaking of this, Guan Lin interrupted: "This is the news sent back by Sima Yi? Or is it a linguist? ”

"Both!" Zhuge shook his head, and then continued, "As for... According to Ling Tong, his situation in Eastern Wu was even more dangerous than that of Zhang Liao of Cao Wei... For Zhuo Rong, he asked Ying to fight Shouchun four times... But without exception, they were rejected by Wu Hou, plus... Previously, Wu Hou said that he was protecting his people on the surface, but in fact, he was imprisoning his people, which caused Ling Tong and Wu Hou to quarrel wildly..."

In the end, Zhuge Ke's tone carried a lot of loneliness.

"Yunqi, you should know what the consequences of Ling Tong so blatantly despise Sun Quan?"

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(There's another chapter tonight)

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