"I heard it right? Shunmin, you just said that Luoyang has opened the city? Sima Yan surrendered? But it's only July 5th now!"

"How dare I deceive Your Majesty in such a major event! Because the cavalry of the Shu bandits were covered by the cavalry, our school was unable to get close to the surrounding areas of Luoyang. We only knew that the Sichuan thieves brought 100,000 prisoners of war from Hebei and carried out large-scale tunnel excavation outside Luoyang City. In mid-June, our school saw from afar, the Shu thieves and the Jin army's catapults shot at each other... Then, on June 26, the nine gates of Luoyang opened wide and the flags of the Shu thieves were erected..."

"Hey! What a world's largest country! What a wise and resolute Sima Yan! Why did you use this strong city to consume the Sichuan thieves for several years? It's only been less than four months, but you actually surrendered? Shameless! A waste! He threw away all the faces of their Sima family!"

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry for me. The State of Jin has been destroyed, and now is not the time to blame the Sima family. The most urgent task is how our country responds. When I turned back from Wancheng, I met the General in Xiangyang. The General asked me to take the lead, and he arrived later."

Just as Wang Cheng finished saying this, the eunuch outside the door came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the general has arrived and said he wanted to see you right away."

"Please come in!"

"promise."

After a while, Lu Kang walked in under the guidance of the eunuch. When he was just at the door, he tripped by the threshold and fell down suddenly.

"Oh, young age, why is this?" Sun Hao was really dependent on generals like Lu Kang. Seeing Lu Kang fall, he stood up instinctively and thought of helping him at the door.

"Your Majesty stop!" He struggled hard to stand up, allowing Sun Hao to see Lu Kang's face clearly: his face was pale, but also golden. His lips were cyanotic and he was as angry as a frivolous person... What's going on? Are these my handsome and handsome generals?

"Young Festival, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Lu Kang's face, Sun Hao was really anxious and instinctively continued to move forward.

"I am infected with a bad disease, so I cannot be too close to Your Majesty!" After stretching out a hand and firmly preventing Sun Hao from approaching, Lu Kang still performed a great ceremony to Sun Hao in accordance with the etiquette and law: "I have been ordered for a short time, and I have given my sincere words to Your Majesty."

"Okay, okay, just say, I'm listening. Do you want to live anymore? You don't have the eyesight at all. Go and bring a Han chair to the General, come Shu chair. Then make a bowl of hot soup for the General."

Speaking of which, Lu Kang has been very tired in recent years. Especially in the past year, he first went south to Jingzhou, then west to Shangyong, and then north to Wancheng. After a lot of trouble, his body couldn't bear it anymore.

As a child of a super family, the Lu family's health is generally not very good. In the past, Lu Xun led his troops as a weak scholar, but was looked down upon by veterans such as Han Dang. Sun Quan put a little pressure and Lu Xun was angry to death. In the historical plane, Lu Kang also died in 274 AD, and was only 48 years old at the age of 48.

"Your Majesty." After drinking a bowl of hot soup and finally recovered, Lu Kang bowed to Sun Hao again: "The State of Jin has been destroyed, and the situation in our country is already extremely difficult. How should our country deal with it next? Does Your Majesty have any ideas?"

"This... I actually just received a report from Shunmin..."

"Then I dared to offer you my last strategy to Your Majesty."

"It's okay to say it out loud on the young day."

"Thank you Your Majesty. Your Majesty, the first thing is to send envoys to Luoyang and Chang'an to congratulate the great Sima and the emperor of the Han Dynasty!"

"Dahan? The meaning of Youth Festival is that we can't call Shu Dynasty in the face of official positions?"

"Your Majesty, this is the same time. The strength of the Sichuan thieves is several times that of our Great Wu. If the other party is unhappy due to verbal disputes at this time, it will be really not worth the loss."

"Okay... I'm sure this one is correct. Shunmin, write it down and ask the Prime Minister to come later to discuss the candidates for the envoy."

"Thank you Your Majesty. I will continue to say the second article: Jingzhou will give up Wancheng and defend the entire army to Xiangyang. Yangzhou will also send an order to Shiji to guard Shouchun and not cross the Huaihe River one step!"

"This? Young Festival, isn't that good? Shu thieves, no, the Han Dynasty is busy accepting the Eight Prefectures of Kanto at this time, why can't we take advantage of the situation and get a little more?"

"Your Majesty, if we don't leave Wancheng at this time, the Han Kingdom will probably not come to expel it. If Shi Ji crossed the Huai River to get Xuzhou, it would be not difficult. However, these places are all thousands of miles of plains, and without cavalry, they will definitely not be able to defend! In the early years, when our country and the Han Kingdom joined forces to fight against Cao Wei, our horses were all supplied by the Han Kingdom. Later, after the Han Kingdom took Guanzhong, the two countries had a feud, and the Han Kingdom cut off the supply of horses, and we turned to buy horses from Jin Kingdom. However, it had been a year since the war broke out.

A horse has not entered Wu! In the future, it is expected that there will be no large number of northern war horses entering our country... Not to mention, the heavy cavalry displayed by the Han Dynasty in Youzhou is simply unafraid of our country. Now, our country can only protect the two main strongholds of Xiangyang and Shouchun, and gain enough strategic buffer for the Yangtze River defense line. In these two places, Shouchun has the Huai River as a barrier, and Xiangyang is not far from the Han River. Our country's naval advantages can be fully utilized, and there is still the possibility of defending them."

"Uh..." Although I knew that Lu Kang was right, an extremely aggressive emperor like Sun Hao was still irresistible to the four words "expand territory".

"Your Majesty!" As a monarch and minister who had been dealing with each other for more than ten years, Lu Kang didn't know what the emperor was thinking: "Your Majesty must not make the gains and losses of one city and one place anger the Han Dynasty. Guan Zifeng is really capable of being unpredictable. If we don't leave in Wancheng and he will immediately send troops to attack, I will feel more relaxed. If he has not moved for a year or two, how dare you ask Your Majesty, do you sleep peacefully?"

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"And your Majesty, in recent years, my Great Wu has been sending troops to conquer every year. The national treasury has been overwhelmed. Moreover, since the beginning of summer this year, heavy rains have been falling in the Han River Basin. I am afraid that floods will break out along the Yangtze River soon. If you still fight with the Han Kingdom at this time, I may have something I can't bear to say."

"Young Festival is very true!" The person who said this was not Sun Hao, but the Prime Minister Wan Yu who rushed over hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the country has been doing well in recent years, but the more this happens, the more it happens, the scale will be huge! Now in June, I have received a report that the waters of Yunmengze have expanded by more than 10% compared with the same period last year. Penglize is also roughly the same. So this year must be a disaster year!"

"...Oh, okay, then, as the young minister said, we should withdraw troops from Wancheng. However, we have to wait for our envoy to pay homage to the Emperor of Han to take the initiative to express our friendship with the Han Dynasty. In addition, we will take advantage of this period of time to migrate the people of Wancheng to the vicinity of Xiangyang."

"Your Majesty is wise, and I will obey the order."

Waving his hand, Sun Hao turned his head worriedly and said to Lu Kang: "Young Festival, do you have anything else to say?"

"Your Majesty, luck is a mess. Although Your Majesty has worked hard for many years, our country's national strength has been recovering rapidly in recent years. However, due to the poor work of my ministers and others, it is still much worse than Guan Zifeng of the Han Dynasty. Now, the general trend of the Han Dynasty has been established, and the situation in our Great Wu is much worse than that of the emperor since the Great Emperor. Therefore, at this time, please keep a low profile and endure humiliation. When necessary, the prince of Jin can be handed over, even if the Han Dynasty wants us to hand over the hostages, it is not impossible!"

"..." To be honest, if it weren't for Lu Kang's death, what he said just now would be enough for Sun Hao to draw out his sword and kill Lu Kang on the spot!
Chapter completed!