The first month of the fifth year of Kaiping (331) arrived unexpectedly.
The ceremony was solemn and solemn. Envoys from all over the world and all tribes from all directions entered the capital and presented various tributes to the emperor of Daliang for his longevity.
Everything seems to be thriving, everything is thriving, this is the glorious atmosphere of the dynasty.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the meeting of Mangshan Mountain climbing high, and all the wise men arrived.
At this time, a report from Jingzhou military came: Shao Shen, the prince of Julu, defeated the Jin army under Yidu City, beheaded more than a thousand people, and the Yiling tribe was desperate and killed the prefect to surrender.
Half a month later than the previous guarantee, but it is pretty good that Badong, Jianping and Yidu are counties with regions spanning both sides of the river. However, coincidentally, the county seats are all in Jiangbei. After taking them down, you can even appoint the prefect.
It's right.
In addition, the Chengguo army has also arrived in Badong.
Their navy went downstream and first went to Nanpu. Muqiu led more than 2,000 people to defend here. He formed troops and let go of some of them. After failing to surrender, he became angry and began to siege.
However, their main force still went to Yufu.
Shao Shen's envoy shuttled through the mountains of the three counties, recruited barbarian chiefs and cave owners from all walks of life, and tried his best to persuade them to send troops to provide food and reinforce Badong.
After watching it, Shao Xun was quite satisfied and announced it in public at the climbing meeting.
For a moment, the congratulations shook the sky and the earth, and it made people wonder if it had woken up the new souls and old ghosts under their feet.
The highlight of the climbing meeting is of course to choose a horse for Princess Shao of Xiangyang. This is a thing that no one can say, and he has to pretend not to know, but he knows it well. Princess Shao Chufeng Hongnong,
Later, he was renamed the Princess of Xiangyang.
No one would be so stupid that she called her third princess and her life mother in public, and she was Empress Yu, and she was the legitimate daughter in the folk. Naturally, there is no need to say much about the value of her identity.
Young handsome men from all walks of life pretended not to know anything, while showing their best condition, such as poetry, books, etiquette, and even riding horses and shooting arrows, they insisted on distinguishing themselves from others, and the competition was extremely fierce.
The princess of Xiangyang is quiet and even a little shy. She has been studying since childhood and is well-educated. Such a life experience has cultivated her to be a complete "face control". She likes handsome boys, abilities, and family background.
In the end, she actually chose a martial arts student from Puyang martial arts.
This person's name is Fang Lun, a native of Pingyang, and has almost no family background. He is the same age as Shao.
This year is his last year in Puyang martial arts. He was awarded the position of team leader for his hard work and outstanding skills. After the Yin Gun Zuoying Division was in charge, he joined the army as a supplementary officer. He was 18 or 19 years old martial arts student.
If you are not outstanding, you obviously are not qualified to come to Mangshan.
After the news spread, the children of Luoyang ministers were in an uproar.
Although the martial arts students were also jealous of his son's ability to marry Mr. Shao's daughter, they were unanimous at this time. Even the one with a bright mind had already begun to think about how to make friends with Fang Lun as classmates and improve their prospects in the imperial guards.
Of course, they are not smart enough. Anyone with a real discerning eye knows that Fang Lun will not go to the left camp of Yingui. How could the emperor and son-in-law still be the team leader? Whose face was there?
Fang Lun may eventually return to the Silver Gun Left Camp to control the imperial guards for the emperor, but it is definitely not now.
But no matter where he goes, as the number one topic of discussion in the first month of the fifth year of Kaiping, Fang Lun is destined to be talked about by many people because he is too topical. Is it possible that someone can reach the top with just one face?
After the meeting of climbing high, Shao Xun returned to Luoyang. Before leaving, he sent an envoy to Pingcheng and asked Duke Dai when he would come to Luoyang.
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Compared with Luoyang, the atmosphere in Wuchang in the first month is a bit uneasy.
The three counties of Padang, Jianping and Yidu were destroyed. After the news came back, the morale of the shogunate could be seen to the naked eye.
The Navy was probably the last psychological defense line in Wuchang, because after the defeat of the Land Division and the loss of thousands of troops,
They rushed to Jiangling, caught two patrol ships of the Liang Kingdom Navy, sunk one, and captured one, which slightly restored some morale.
But they had no choice but to sit and watch the Liang people collect all the lands of the three counties in Jiangbei.
It has come to this point, and everything seems to be clear.
"But I can't do this!" In the Governor's Mansion, Zhuge Hui sighed to his second son Zhuge (shu), "The court officials cannot see that the king's army is not strong enough, they will only feel that they have lost their troops and lost their territory again."
"So my father still has to send troops north?" Zhuge asked.
"That's right." Zhuge Hui nodded and said, "Send some barbarians to the north to plunder, and it won't matter if they fail. Jingzhou's world soldiers have just expanded, so they really can't be used now.
Zhuge knows it.
My father really didn't want to fight, but he had no choice but to deal with it. If the court was dissatisfied, according to the current situation, it would be a small defeat and would not be punished severely. At worst, he would be exempted from office.
Is this really a bad thing? At least Zhuge doesn't think so.
In fact, he was very puzzled by his father's generation's insistence on "burying the Sima family with burial". When is it now, and you still have to fight desperately, what's the point?
Of course he also knew that some things were not that simple. If a person simply considered seeking profit and avoiding harm,
That was quite terrible. In short, he was helpless, but he would not openly oppose his father's choice.
"Grandma!" A crisp sound rang out of the door.
Zhuge Hui and his son looked at each other, but saw their second daughter Zhuge Wenbao holding a wine pot in one hand and holding her sister Wenxiong's hand in the other.
His wife, Kong, was in charge of the servants and maids in the courtyard, and turned around to look at her husband from time to time, with concern in her eyes.
Zhuge Hui and his son looked at each other, put away the sadness on their faces, and showed a little smile.
"Grandma, eat meat today." Before Wen Bao could speak, the five-year-old Wen Xiong started to speak loudly.
Both father and son laughed.
Zhuge Hui got up and walked over, picked up his little daughter, and said, "Do you like eating minced meat?"
"I like it." Zhuge Wenxiong nodded seriously, then pointed to the ladder outside, and said, "Grandpa and second brother are going to climb high and eat meat minced."
Zhuge Hui laughed and said, "Grandpa is the governor of four states, how can he do such a thing as a rogue thing? It's not appropriate,
Zhuge took a celadon double-eared pot from his second sister. The pot was still warm, and it was made of pepper and cypress wine made in the twelfth lunar month last year. It was a traditional custom in the Han Dynasty. Now there is not much left, and it is just right for the drink today.
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"Just have dinner in the study." Zhuge Hui put down his little daughter and ordered.
Zhuge Wenbao responded and carefully checked the incense in the copper furnace. Seeing that it was almost burning out, he ordered the maid to pick up some new ones.
"The elder sister did these things back then, but now it's the second sister's turn to be the leader." Zhuge smiled.
Zhuge Wenbao smiled with a pursed lips, and then said a little sadly: "I wonder what my elder sister is doing now?"
"Do you miss her?" Zhuge cleaned up the debris on the desk, put down two wine bowls, poured half a bowl of wine for his father, and asked casually.
"Yeah." Zhuge Wenbao said, "I have never been separated for so long and I miss you very much."
Zhuge poured half a bowl of wine for himself, then sat down, sighed, "My eldest sister is in Jianye, so she should be fine. But my third brother is in Pingyang, so the situation is probably much more difficult."
"Didn't the third brother just ask someone to send a letter back?" Zhuge Wenbao said strangely.
When talking about this letter, Zhuge Hui and Zhuge’s father and son’s faces darkened again.
However, Zhuge Hui had been through the storm for a long time and quickly changed the topic. Looking at his second daughter, he joked: "Wen Bao has been fourteen years old since the Chinese New Year. Yang Taifu has a Jiaer, and he wants to hire you as a wife. How about it?
"
Zhuge Wenbao blushed and said, "I want to accompany my grandmother."
Zhuge pretended to be unhappy.
"I have to accompany my second brother." Zhuge Wenbao said again.
Zhuge "turned anger into joy" and smiled and said, "It's not in vain that my brother brought you so many rare treasures. The battle begins,
I don’t know when it will calm down, but others can’t buy it even if they want to. In the future, it will be more than enough as a dowry."
Zhuge Wenbao finally got defeated and went out with a blushing face.
Zhuge Wenxiong chased her and ran out, but halfway through, he turned back, getting tired of his brother Zhuge.
Zhuge hugged his sister on his lap and said to Zhuge Hui: "Grandpa, marriage with Yang Family is a good thing, but it may not be settled in Yang Wei's family. There are Yang Family in the north, one by one."
Zhuge Hui reached out to stop his son's words and said, "It's too urgent, wait first."
Zhuge knows it.
The Zhuge family's two generations actively married the Yang family and Deng family, and it was nothing to marry the second daughter to the Yang family, but now it is impossible to do it.
After his third son Zhuge Heng went to Pingyang and married the Deng daughter, he lived in the Deng family. He lived in seclusion on weekdays. He had almost no contact with others except as a contact person to avoid being known.
After all, he is the governor of the Great Dynasty and should pay attention to his influence.
"You mentioned the matter of goods just now."
Zhuge Hui said, "Stop with the north first, and let's talk about it after the war is over. During this period, you will study at home and always take up the post in the future. This family cannot be just for your father and your elder brother, you will also have to share the responsibility.
stand up."
"Yes." Zhuge bowed his head and received the teachings.
"After the first month, you go to Changsha." Zhuge Hui said again: "After the New Year, you have to launch troops against Ningzhou. This battle is mainly based on tutoring and pacifying. The leader of the people sent his sons and nephews to Changsha to find a way to get in touch."
"Grandpa really intends to listen to Wang Yan?" Zhuge was a little surprised.
"I always have to save some face." Zhuge Hui sighed, "Otherwise, the old friends in the court would not be able to help me."
Zhuge was speechless, and then couldn't help asking, "What if the Liang people took the opportunity to go south?"
"With the navy here, they can't come. Besides, my father would not send a large army to the south. This battle is used to suppress and pacify, mainly relying on pacification." After Zhuge Hui said, he paused, and looked at the distant sky outside the window, and said
: "If this is true, it is God's will. God will destroy Jin."
Zhuge nodded and thought to himself that the chariot and cavalry generals of the Great Prefecture Dynasty were like this, and it would be a matter of time before the demise was over.
Then he asked again, "Grandpa, do you think the Liang people can defend Badong? If you cannot transport food from the river and transfer by land, it would be good if you can get one or two trucks of grain. It is all difficult mountain roads.
"
Zhuge Hui did not answer, took a sip of wine, and said, "If you can't take Badong back, you will be a thief. Yu Funa and other dangerous places, Luo Xian held on for half a year with two thousand people. Why did he take it as a thief?
?I have always known this person, Qiu Zongkuang, who is good at calculating and profit-willing. Since he joined the Liang Kingdom, he must have thought it clearly and would definitely not surrender. Moreover, the Liang people sent reinforcements, which is even more important.
It’s hard to fight. Badong is in hand, so it’s not that difficult to enter Shu…”
Where is the difficulty in entering Sichuan from Jingzhou? The difficulty lies in the Three Gorges.
Where is the Three Gorges? Behind Badong.
As long as you defend Badong, there will be no danger from the Yangtze River to Sichuan. It is a smooth road, provided that you can defeat the opposite naval army.
Zhuge Hui was not so pessimistic and disappointed at the beginning.
Things are all developed step by step.
In his opinion, the newly built Naval Commander of Liang was not a match for the Shu people. They could not go upstream and directly attack Shu. However, the naval commander was not much stronger than the one who became a thief. Maybe one day they would be defeated by the Liang people.
It's right.
Chapter completed!