Chapter 99 The Guilty Zhu Huan (I never break my promise, please read it!)
Today's Jiangdong is no longer what it was in Sun Ce's time, where heroes do not care about their origins.
With the gradual cooperation with the Jiangdong family, and the decline of important officials of the Huaisi faction, many middle-level positions in the Jiangdong army are now slowly replaced by children of the Jiangdong family.
The captain in front of him came from the Zhu family of Wu County.
With his extraordinary background, he naturally got to know Sun Huan, who was hailed as "Yan Yuan of the Clan" by Sun Quan and had great prosperity in the past.
At this time, a famous Jiangdong soldier came to Captain Zhu and reported that his trebuchet was ready to release stone bullets.
But his report, which he originally wanted to take credit for, aroused Colonel Zhu's anger.
Lieutenant Zhu gave the Jiangdong soldier a hard slap in the face.
"You want to die?"
Captain Zhu's sudden roar and threats frightened the unknown Jiangdong soldier.
After Captain Zhu beat and scolded the Jiangdong soldier, he immediately ordered all the soldiers present not to move rashly.
All Jiangdong soldiers who were fixing the trebuchet immediately stopped all movements in their hands to avoid irritating the enemies on the city wall and causing them to make any unfavorable move against Sun Huan.
After repeatedly ordering all Jiangdong soldiers present not to move rashly, Lieutenant Zhu immediately ran back to the camp and reported what happened on the city wall to his clan brother Zhu Huan in the military camp.
Lu Meng in the army commander's tent is studying "Ouyang Shangshu".
Since being warned by Sun Quan to read more in his early years, Lu Meng has developed a habit of studying various classics in his spare time in the army.
"Shangshu" is one of the most famous classics of Confucianism.
Later, due to different transmissions, each great Confucian had a different understanding of "Shang Shu", and different schools of studying "Shang Shu" gradually formed.
Among these many schools of thought, "Ouyang Shangshu" handed down by the great Confucian Ouyang Sheng is undoubtedly the most mainstream one.
For example, the Yang family of Hongnong, the fourth generation of the Three Dukes, gradually began to prosper after their ancestors were fortunate enough to be taught "Ouyang Shangshu". Because of the handed down classics as the basis for running the family.
In order for the family to become a top family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the most basic and important condition is that the family must have the right to interpret a classic, such as Yuan's "Mencius' Book of Changes" of Runan.
Studying Confucian classics is the first step for contemporary scholars to formally enter officialdom.
This is the reason why many top aristocratic families can endure for a long time and continue to produce disciples and old officials.
But there are only a handful of such aristocratic families in this world.
This was the unique Confucian politics of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Although Lu Meng was intelligent and studious, he had studied many classics and history books through his own efforts in his early years, making his knowledge no lower than that of ordinary Confucian scholars.
But when he faced the mainstream schools of thought in the world, Lu Meng was unable to learn the essence because of the obscure and difficult texts.
Just like the book "Ouyang Shangshu".
Although Lu Meng obtained this book, he did not know the key points of it at all.
Recently, Lu Meng saw that Sima Yi happened to be in the tent. The Sima family in Hanoi was also a prominent family in the world, and Sima Yi had been well-read and immersed in Confucianism since he was a child.
So Lu Meng started to discuss "Ouyang Shangshu" with Sima Yi.
No matter how famous the Hanoi Sima family was, they could not compare with the Hongnong Yang family. Therefore, Sima Yi had not studied the book "Ouyang Shangshu" earlier.
Now Lu Meng wanted to discuss and study "Ouyang Shangshu" with him, which also pleased Sima Yi, who loved Confucianism.
Although neither Lu Meng nor Sima Yi had ever studied "Ouyang Shangshu", they were both knowledgeable and intelligent people. Therefore, they both learned a lot from each other's learning, research and verification.
Because he was afraid of Sima Yi's status as Cao Cao's envoy, and Sima Yi's own conversational knowledge was extraordinary, so as long as Sima Yi was not suspected of leaking secrets, Lu Meng mostly treated Sima Yi as a friend.
But while the two were studying together, the keen Sima Yi discovered that Lu Meng was a little absent-minded.
The reason why Lu Meng was absent-minded was because he was waiting for a sound.
What Lu Meng was waiting for was the sound of a large trebuchet flying out and hitting the city wall.
He was also waiting for the screams of the Jingzhou soldiers after they were hit by the stone bullets fired from the trebuchet.
The public security city has a high wall. It is hard to say whether an ordinary trebuchet can hit the stone bullet into the city wall, let alone break the wall.
Therefore, Lu Meng specially transferred dozens of large trebuchets that were the only ones in Jiangdong from Xunyang City this time.
These dozens of large trebuchets were completed by various craftsmen in Jiangdong after spending countless efforts and several years.
From the day it was built, it was prepared to be a fortified city like Hefei.
Although it has been improved, Jiangdong's large trebuchet still cannot cause much damage to the city wall.
But it was enough to pose a certain threat to the guards on the city wall.
That's why Lu Meng would use this killer weapon in time after the police defenders were mentally exhausted from not allowing them to rest for many days.
Lu Meng expected that as long as the trebuchet bombarded the public security city for ten days and a half, the morale of the public security soldiers who had not been able to get a good rest would definitely be greatly affected.
At that time, the situation will develop in his favor.
But what he didn't expect was that after waiting for a long time, Lu Meng, who was in the Chinese army's tent not far from the front line, still didn't hear the voice he wanted to hear.
Could it be that this large trebuchet took too long to be fixed?
Because it was the first time to use the improved large trebuchet, Lu Meng felt uncertain for a moment.
But just when Lu Meng was doing two things, studying and worrying about the front line, the door curtain of his central army tent was suddenly opened by a general, and then the general walked directly in front of Lu Meng.
Lü Meng was a little unhappy when he saw that Zhu Huan broke into his tent without reporting it in advance.
But before he could say anything about blaming Zhu Huan, Zhu Huan bowed to Lu Meng and reported,
"The Grand Governor, the Commander-in-Chief of Wuwei was hanged on the city wall by thieves."
Zhu Huan's words were concise and concise, but just this short sentence made Lu Meng's face instantly turn gloomy.
Lu Meng was so angry that he slapped the "Ouyang Shangshu" in his hand on the desk.
You thief, you have a vicious heart.
No wonder, no wonder, there has been no sound coming from the front.
Zhu Huan's words also made Sima Yi, who was reading the classics, almost tear out a page of the book.
Then Zhu Huan reported to Lu Menghui, "Now this matter has been known to General Zhenglu. He and the generals are now outside the city protection pool, thinking of rescuing the military guard captain."
After hearing Zhu Huan's words, Lu Meng could no longer remain calm.
He stood up with a whoosh, and then ordered his followers to get the sword given by Sun Quan.
Lü Meng came to Zhu Huan and told him, "Seal the news. This matter must not be known to the soldiers in the other three camps."
After finishing speaking, Lu Meng rushed towards the moat outside the Public Security City.
Zhu Huan, who had a silent face, took a deep look at Lu Meng's back after Lu Meng left. There was some apology in his eyes.
He did not tell Lu Meng, he was the only one who knew about it at first.
Thinking about the letter sent from home, Zhu Huan felt extremely angry, but in the end he could only sigh.
Home, country, country, home is in front of the country.
(End of chapter)
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