"Not fighting, go to the peace? I said Kongming, have you taken medicine today?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang below in confusion.

"Take medicine? Lord Liang, you've never been sick." As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, he looked at Xu Shu's smile beside him. He immediately reacted. This lord was saying that he was sick. Zhuge Liang was so angry and funny. You say you're angry. Such a second-hand lord actually said in public that his subordinate, the Minister of Justice, was sick again. What's your mentality?

You say this, laugh, such a lord makes Zhuge Liang feel the reality and the feeling of his own people. He is not as polite as others, and feels a kind of hypocrisy.

"Lord! Originally, Liang advocated that the lord send troops to attack Jiangdong because he got the hearts of Jiangdong. With the hearts of Jiangdong, the soldiers of Jiangdong, and the soldiers of Jiangdong, my Yangzhou will have another elite force. But now in Jiangdong, haha! The hearts of the people have lost and are poor again. Do you really want Jiangdong like lord?" Zhuge Liang smiled at Liu Mang and said, Jiangdong is now deeply hatred for the Yangzhou army. Seven or eight villages have been slaughtered. If the village is just slaughtered, then it is nothing, but being coaxed by those who are interested, and the people are in chaos. Suddenly, the tyranny of the Yangzhou army spread throughout Jiangdong.

Just like when Liu Da'er was in Yuzhou, he spread rumors about Liu Mang in Yuzhou, the Yangzhou army became butchers. In this way, if any people dared to surrender, they would naturally fight to the end.

This is like this in Jiangdong now. The people basically have no good feelings for the Yangzhou army. Now that the Yangzhou army has sent troops to attack Jiangdong, it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and it will be a problem to conquer. It is impossible to really station 30,000 elite troops near Kuaiji like Sun Ce. This effort is completely inconsistent with the gain, so who can go?

"Did Jiangdong keep him slowly recover from his anger?" Liu Mang was dissatisfied. He finally beat Sun Ce in Jiangdong like a dead dog. If you give Sun Ce time and the Sun Ce Jiangdong army recovers his anger, it will be another disaster.

"Haha, if you don't attack Jiangdong, there will be someone who will help us deal with our little overlord." Zhuge Liang's eyes turned light.

"Yeah?" Liu Mang frowned. Someone helped them deal with Sun Ce in Jiangdong. The enemy in Jiangdong Sun Ce was his neighbor, and he was Liu Biao from Jingzhou. Although the two had a grudge to kill his father, it was Liu Biao who killed Sun Ce's father. It was not Sun Ce who killed Liu Biao's father. If Liu Biao had no loss of strength or his strength had increased greatly, it would be possible to annex Sun Ce. Jingzhou itself is now hard to protect himself. Who else would he want to attack?

"It's not Liu Biao in Jingzhou. This person who helped us deal with our little overlord is in this Jiangdong." Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "This person is our little overlord's younger brother, Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou, the second son of Jiangdong, the second son of Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"Sun Quan. Sun Zhongmou? He was imprisoned! How could he help us?" Liu Mang didn't understand. The coup of Sun Quan, the second son of Jiangdong, had completely failed. Now he was imprisoned by his brother Sun Ce. He was unable to protect himself. He could still help them deal with Jiangdong in Yangzhou?

"Haha, you can still come out even if you enter the pass!" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"So what can I do when I come out? Just rely on our second son Sun to deal with his brother?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang.

"Our Second Prince Sun is not alone." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang, "On the contrary, the power of the people behind our Second Prince Sun is even greater than that of our Lord of Jiangdong."

There are still people in Jiangdong who are even more powerful than Sun Ce's? Isn't this joking? Liu Mang is going to continue to criticize our Mr. Zhuge Kongming and asked him to go back to take medicine. But Xu Shu next to him spoke first.

"Kongming, do you mean those Jiangdong gentry?" Xu Shu could see much more clearly than Liu Mang. In a state, those who could be more powerful than the lord were naturally those geniuses. Of course, one or two families would not be able to confront the head of the state, but if there were ten families, or even twenty families.

The aristocratic people have never stopped since feudal society. These aristocratic people can even determine the life and death of a dynasty. Wasn’t the establishment of the Li Tang Dynasty because of the nobles being brought to the limit?

In Jingzhou, the three families, the Huang family, the Cai family, the Kuai family, can unite and send our Lord Liu Biao back to his hometown.

These Jiangdong gentry members are still very powerful in Jiangdong.

"Kongming, how did you know that the second son of Sun could escape from heaven, and how did you know that the Jiangdong gentry would support the second son?" Liu Mang had a lot of questions. Zhuge Liang's information was actually more detailed than his lord.

"Haha! Lord, all this was told by my brother." Zhuge Liang smiled and said to Liu Mang.

"Your brother? Zhuge Jin?" Liu Mang was surprised. Although Liu Mang didn't know much about Zhuge Jin, he knew that this person was also a kind of person who valued loyalty. This person was not a loyal person, but as long as his lord was still there, he would not betray him.

"Mr. Zhuge Jin also wants to surrender to my Yangzhou? In this case, I will definitely welcome you." Liu Mang also thought that Zhuge Jin could be an official in Yangzhou. Not to mention Zhuge Jin's ability, he said that this person was Zhuge Liang's eldest brother, and Zhuge Jin was there, so that this Zhuge monster would show off again.

"Lord, you misunderstood. My brother is still a loyal minister, our Lord Wu, at least now!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said to Liu Mang. The reason why Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang parted ways was not only because of their disagreement in politics, that is, these gentry knew one truth, that is, eggs would never be placed in the same basket. If Zhuge Liang lost, then at most Zhuge Liang's lineage would be destroyed and would never be implicated. Similarly, if Zhuge Jin was destroyed, Zhuge Liang would only cry. This can ensure that the Zhuge family will continue to pass on.

"Then how did you know Kongming?" Liu Mang became even more surprised. You said that it was your brother who told you, and that your brother was a loyal minister from Wu Hou. What was going on?

"Lord, please read my brother's letter." Zhuge Liang said as he took out the letter from Zhuge Jin to him from Zhuge Liang.

Liu Mang looked over. There was nothing on it. In addition to greetings, there were some instructions. At most, some brothers were busy recently and Zhuge Jin was promoted.

"What can these mean?" Liu Mang didn't understand. Isn't this just an ordinary letter to home, and everyone can write it.

"Haha, there are so many things that my lord tells us. At least I calculated that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce did not surrender my Yangzhou heart at all, which was seen from my brother's letter." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"Haha!" Liu Mang was a little embarrassed when talking about this. Indeed, if Liu Mang had heard Zhuge Liang's words, he would not have been like this. But now it is impossible to save it, so Liu Mang could only grit his teeth and admit it.

"Please look, my elder brother told me that he has no time for busyness recently!"

"It is from this that you can see that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce have no idea of ​​surrendering?" Liu Mang asked in confusion?

"Of course, lord, think that if the lord of a state surrenders, once he surrenders, everything has nothing to do with him. Do you think the administration of Jiangdong will be busy?" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang thought about it and it was indeed the case. If a company was to be fully accepted by others, then everything in the company had nothing to do with the former boss. How could the former boss have to do his best to help the new boss?

"But what if Mr. Zhuge Jin is rigorous?" Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang. There is really a person with a deep sense of responsibility. Even if they want to leave a position, they have to do everything well. Even if he is a day or a minute before, he will do his best.

"Haha, my eldest brother does have this possibility! But lord, don't forget that if my eldest brother wants to be busy, he has to do something. It's really not easy for him, a new chief envoy to be busy." Jiangdong can be said to have been basically abandoned, and some small matters can be handled by grassroots officials, and there is no need for Zhuge Jin, the chief envoy to do it.

"So the only thing he can be busy with is a big deal. What is the lord Jiangdong's most lacking now?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang.

"What is missing the most?" Liu Mang frowned. "What is missing the most should be the army!" Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang nodded, "Yes, what Jiangdong lacks the most now is the army. If you want to build an army, you must have money and food. My eldest brother should be busy with money and food. As for where this money and food come from, hehe." Zhuge Liang smiled and said nothing.

"Jiangdong is already poor, and the rich are the gentry!" If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu want to get money and food, they must suck blood from behind the gentry, and there are also pensions for the soldiers who died in battle. All these are money.

This number must not be in the small tree, so these gentry will be in trouble.

If these gentry members want to avoid being sucked by Sun Ce, there is only one possibility, that is, to change to a lord.

In the past, these gentry might not dare to do so, but now it is different. In the past, it was because Sun Ce was under the command of Jiangdong, and now, there are only 10,000 people around Sun Ce. In this way, he still wants to suck blood on these gentry. It depends on whether these gentry are willing or not.

Because the gentry also has the capital to fight with the lord. And don’t forget another news, that is, who was our original Jiangdong Chief Envoy, our Lord Zhang Zhao. He is the leader of the Jiangdong gentry, but he was dismissed by Sun Ce and he had to beat Zhang Zhao back to Xudu. This is equivalent to making the Zhang family give up everything and start again after Xudu.

What's more, it was introduced by Wu Hou Sun Ce. If you arrive in Xudu, people will definitely mark you with the mark of Jiangdong. Everyone may think that you are Sun Ce's spy.

"The little overlord Sun Ce wants money and food to form an army! Jiangdong is poor and can only ask for it from the gentry. Those gentry don't want it. They don't want to be sucked by Sun Ce. Then they only have one way to go! Change the lord!" Liu Mang seemed to understand suddenly.

"But they change their lords, why don't they consider our Yangzhou!" Liu Mang said a little depressedly, Sun Ce can't do it, you can come to Yangzhou, right? Yangzhou is also a good place. Liu Mang is also a good lord.

"Haha. Lord. You may be a wise lord, but you are not a good person in the eyes of those Jiangdong gentry." Zhuge Liang teased Liu Mang.

"Hmph!" Liu Mang snorted coldly. He naturally knew that his image in the eyes of these Jiangdong gentry was a butcher, a greedy butcher, even worse than Sun Ce's image in the eyes of these Jiangdong gentry, because Liu Mang killed more than a dozen families of big and small gentry families in Wancheng, and even killed the families of those private soldiers of the gentry.

Later, Liu Mang implemented the conquest of land in Yangzhou. All land transactions could only be sold to the government, which even more scared our Jiangdong gentry.

Their homes have a lot of land, thousands of acres of land. If you collect all these lands for him, what else can he use to make money? You must know that this land tax accounts for more than half of their assets.

Food is even more valuable in troubled times. This is their iron rice bowl. If you destroy other people's jobs, they will certainly not be polite to you.

So for the Jiangdong gentry, although Sun Ce was a blood-sucking man, he could at least give people a way to live, but our Lord Liu Mang was different from drinking. It directly cut off their wealth. If they don’t play with you, they will have a ghost.

"Okay, OK! I didn't compensate them. I bought the fields with money!" Liu Mang said to his subordinates, but his subordinates were all rolling their eyes. Did you sell them with money?

Yangzhou is originally a land without a border, and you have occupied it, and you have killed all the lands of Lujiang, such as Xinye and Yuzhou, because you are afraid that your King of Shu will be moved away one by one, so where is there a piece of land that you bought by Your King of Shu?

Liu Mang seemed to know that he had said the wrong thing, but it didn't matter. Over the years, Liu Mang has developed the habit of being shameless.

"So what should we do now according to Kong Ming's intention?" Liu Mang asked Zhuge Liang next to him.

"There is nothing else, we can just wait." Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang.

"Do nothing?" Liu Mang frowned. It was not Liu Mang's style to do nothing.

"If the lord really wants to do it, it's OK, then it's sending an envoy to Yanhe, Jiangdong." Liu Mang then realized that he was cheated by Zhuge Liang. What do I really want to do it? It's obviously you who dig a hole and let me jump.

"Accurate!" Liu Mang nodded and prepared to send an envoy under his command to Jiangdong and Sun Ceyan.

"Lord, don't forget to bring 10,000 stones of food and grass!" Zhuge Liang continued to say to Liu Mang.

"Bring food and grass?" Liu Mang frowned and said, "Why are you bringing food and grass?" Liu Mang was very upset with Jiang Dong. He also gave food and grass to Jiang Dong. Isn't this just to support the enemy? You should know that what Sun Ce lacks the most is food and grass.

"Lord, don't you want your Minister of Personnel?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang with a smile.

Only then did Liu Mang remember that his Minister of Personnel, our great man and honest man, Master Lu Sulu is still in Jiangdong.

"He, Sun Ce, dare to detain Zijing?" Liu Mang asked frowned. The two countries were still killed. It is good for Sun Ce to be an enemy of him, but you can't leave him, Liu Mang's envoy.

"Lord, what do you think Zijing's talent?" Zhuge Liang asked Liu Mang.

"I have Zijing, and great achievements are expected." Liu Mang said to Zhuge Liang. Of course, this is too much. Although Lu Su is a talent, he has not yet reached the point where Liu Mang must have Lu Su. This is Liu Mang's praise of Lu Su. Lu Su's talent may be a bit difficult to govern a country, but a state is more than enough. Zi Jing is doing it like a fish in water for a Ministry of Personnel.

"My lord, you can see Zijing's talent. Do you think Zhou Yu can't see it?" Zhuge Liang said to Liu Mang. Although Zhuge Liang's words were not nice, you can see what he meant. Liu Mang is worse than others' feelings.

"Didn't he see that at the beginning?" Liu Mang said dissatisfied.

"At the beginning, it was because Zhou Yu was busy with Jiangxia's affairs." Sun Ce went south to attack Lujiang and took away tens of thousands of elite troops. Zhou Yu had only 40,000 people on the ground, but he wanted to suppress the Jiangxia naval army and attack 70,000 people. The pressure was really great, so he naturally couldn't care about Lu Su.

Later, Lu Su was defeated, and Zhou Yu was even more difficult to speak for Lu Su. Later, our second son Sun took Lu Su to Yangzhou with him, which made our King of Shu Liu Mang get a bargain.

But now it’s different. Jiangdong is very depressed now. Lu Su’s talent is naturally not let go. If Lu Su joins Jiangdong again, Jiangdong’s strength is really not something that young.

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce will not kill Lu Su, but you have no way to stay Lu Su.

"Ten thousand grains, is he willing to release the people?" Liu Mang frowned. In Liu Mang's heart, Lu Su alone is worth one million or ten thousand stones of grains. Do you think you can send beggars? It's only four or five hundred gold in the peaceful and prosperous era.

"Haha, lord. This meal is not suitable for your appetite on weekdays, but if you are hungry, it will be truly delicious, ten thousand stones. Haha, even if Zhou Yu doesn't want to, Sun Ce will happily send Zijing back to us!" Zhuge Liang sneered, "What's more, lord's lord's 10,000 stones are not just about redeeming Zijing."

"Yeah? These ten thousand stones are so valuable?" Lu Su is worth millions. Looking at Zhuge Liang's meaning, he could exchange it for other things.

"Lord. If Sun Ce had the money and grain to form an army, who would you say the most threat to?"

It is naturally impossible for Yangzhou. If it is harmful to Yangzhou, Zhuge Liang will not send it. The biggest threat is our second son Sun and the gentry group behind him. Once Sun Ce's troops are formed, they will be a big deal. Hurry up and go back where can they go. So Liu Mang gave Sun Ce this 10,000 grain, which did not aggravate the increase in Jiangdong's strength, but also intensify the internal friction in Jiangdong.

"Haha, if that happens, I will give him Sun Ce 20,000 stones." Liu Mang was very generous, and he doubled it all at once and turned into 20,000 stones. Let our second son Sun be a little more anxious.

"Lord, there's no need!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and ten thousand stones. Haha, giving it to the people is naturally a wealthy family, but putting it into the army is really a drop in the bucket. This ten thousand stones can make him salivate, and it can also make him Sun Ce and Sun Bofu not have enough to make him lose his strength. If he gives too much, the strength of the two brothers will be hugely different.

‘Okay, if that’s the case, what’s Yang Hong!” Liu Mang nodded and began to issue orders to the Yangzhou civil and military officials below.

"Old minister is here!" Yang Hong walked up and clasped his fists at Liu Mang.

"Yang Hong, let your Ministry of Foreign Affairs send an envoy to Jiangdong and make a good talk with the Wu Hou Sun Ce. Bring ten thousand stones of food and grass and bring Zijing back smoothly!" Liu Mang said to Yang Hong.

"Lord, there is no need to send someone. The old minister goes there in person!" Yang Hong said to Liu Mang.

"Uncle Hong, do you want to go there in person?" Liu Mang frowned, because Yang Hong is not young anymore, he is much older than Chen Gong, and his body is not very good in all aspects. If he is sick on a trip to Jiangdong, it will be bad.

Yang Hong and Liu Mang were still treated as family members. Because Yuan Fang's father Liu Mang's cheap father-in-law Yuan Shu died early, Yang Hong became Yuan Fang's only relative. Yuan Fang regarded Yang Hong as his father, so Liu Mang naturally had a good relationship with Yang Hong, calling Uncle Hong.

"Lord, the dog is still in the east of Jiangdong! I, a father, don't feel at ease." Yang Hong said to Liu Mang.

"Yang Chen?" Liu Mang seemed to know the name.

"It is precisely that the dog son will protect the safety of the Lu Shangshu with the Secretary of Lu." Yang Hong said, "but he failed to complete the task and he was still trapped in Jiangdong."

"Uncle Hong, after Yang Chen comes back, please let him come to me to obey the orders." Liu Mang said to Yang Hong. When he comes to Liu Mang, he doesn't give him any official position, but this sentence is already expensive. Even if he is a personal guard by Liu Mang, it will have a bright future. For example, Guan Hai and Zhou Cang, although they do not command troops, their status in the army is not inferior to anyone.

"The old minister thanked the lord for his lord on behalf of his lord, but the lord is used to being wild and may not be used to staying by his lord!"

"Huh?" Yang Hong actually refused. Liu Mang was a little confused. This gave your son a great future. Many people couldn't get it even if they wanted it.

"Haha! The elder is the elder, the elder, the strict father is a talented son." It was Xu Shu's words next to him that made Liu Mang understand. It was not that Yang Hong who didn't want Yang Chen to come to Liu Mang's side, but Yang Hong thought that his son was not capable enough now, and he was also a vase next to the lord. It would be better to practice hard outside and have talent before returning to Liu Mang to obey the orders.

"Everything will be yours!" Liu Mang also smiled and shook his head. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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