When the first ray of sunshine in the morning shone on the Wu Palace in Yecheng, Gao Fei climbed out of bed, stretched out, refreshed himself, opened the window and looked up at the bright sky, and was greeted by a burst of fresh air.
, there is a slight floral fragrance in the air, which goes straight into people's hearts.
After a simple breakfast, Gao Fei went straight to Ouyang Yinying's room, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
However, after Gao Fei waited for a moment, there was no response from the room. When he knocked on the door again, he pushed the unlatched door open with too much force. To his surprise, there was something in the room.
Empty.
"Xiao Ying doesn't come home at night. Could it be said that he has already settled Zhou Yu?"
With a trace of doubt, Gao Fei turned around and left the room, and walked to the front hall where he lived with a smile. When he saw Gan Ning and Wenpin were in the front hall, he shouted: "You two got up very early.
Well."
After Gan Ning and Wenpin saw Gao Fei, they immediately stood up and bowed very respectfully: "See you, Your Majesty."
Gao Fei waved his hand and said: "There is no need to be so polite in private. We are all brothers in need, so there is no need to be too formal. By the way, did Sakura stay away from home last night, or did she go out early in the morning?"
Gan Ning and Wenpin looked at each other, and after looking at each other, they asked in unison: "I don't know, I will go find the princess right now."
"It doesn't matter, Sakura is already an adult and has her own sense of discretion in doing things. However, I do like that she stayed up all night instead of going out early in the morning."
"Why does your Majesty think so?" Gan Ning asked puzzledly.
Wenpin hurriedly interjected: "You are stupid. If the princess does not return home all night, it means that she has already dealt with Zhou Yu."
Gan Ning suddenly realized, but there was a trace of worry on his face, and he said: "Your Majesty, the princess is always the princess. If the news of not returning all night spreads, I'm afraid the impact will not be good."
"Well, that's what I said. This matter is kept confidential. Wenpin, you go to Zhou Yu's house now to pick up the princess. Don't arouse others' suspicion..." Gao Fei said.
"No need." Ouyang Yinying walked in from outside the front hall and directly interrupted Gao Fei's words.
"See the princess!" Gan Ning and Wenpin said in unison.
"You two generals don't need to be so polite."
Gao Fei saw that Ouyang Yinying's eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes and asked, "Xiaoying, couldn't you have been up all night?"
Ouyang Yinying nodded and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about my marriage to Zhou Yu. I have already explained everything to him. However, I have one more thing to say to your Majesty..."
Gao Fei saw Ouyang Yinying hesitating and said, "But it doesn't matter."
"I chatted with Zhou Yu all night, and I also revealed in my words that he was asked to go to the Yan Kingdom, but he didn't appreciate it. Based on my understanding of Zhou Yu, he should not go back to the Yan Kingdom with the king."
"It's something that was expected." Gao Fei was not surprised at all and said calmly, "This is exactly what I hoped for. Xiaoying, then you can stay and work as an undercover agent for me in Wu Kingdom. With my
According to the prediction, Zhou Yu will definitely become the leader of the Wu Kingdom.
A mainstay of the state. With you by his side, I can also understand the development of the state of Wu. In the next few years, Shi Jie will be responsible for trade with the state of Wu. You can let Shi Jie pass the news to the state of Yan to officially launch the uninterrupted business.
The work of the Word.”
"Brother, aren't you afraid that I will turn on Zhou Yu?"
"Afraid... why not afraid... However, if that is really the case, I have nothing to say. I can only blame myself for choosing the wrong person. However, I can tell you something that will happen in the future."
"What happened?"
"In the next few years, two people will become famous in Jiangnan. Both of them are famous for their beauty. They are a pair of sisters. Men are all lustful, and Zhou Yu is no exception. In the future, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce will definitely marry each of them. One of the sisters, and they will also become a couple. As long as you stay by Zhou Yu's side with peace of mind and help me spy on the military situation, I will take these sisters away with me when I leave Wu State to avoid future troubles. . ”
Ouyang Yinying frowned, doubting Gao Fei's words, but he had been with Gao Fei for several years, and every time Gao Fei's predictions were surprisingly accurate, this time she felt a little scared. Every person in love People are selfish and don't want to share their significant other with others.
She asked suspiciously: "How does the king know the future?"
"Haha, I am the reincarnation of Ziwei Emperor Star. I know both my past life and my next life." Gao Fei joked.
Ouyang Yinying responded immediately without any hesitation: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will not disappoint Your Majesty's expectations. However, don't forget what Your Majesty promised me."
"Don't worry, I won't forget that Zhou Yu's dislike of me now is entirely because we are not in the same camp. When the world is mine in the future, he will naturally understand me. However, according to age, you are three years older than Zhou Yu , Zhou Yu doesn’t have any feelings about this sibling relationship, does he?”
"Why do you need to go into so much detail, Your Majesty? The matter between Zhou Yu and I is our own business. As long as two people are sincere, why should we care about age?"
"Okay, as long as it can be done, I won't care about so many things. I will go to see King Wu now and arrange the marriage as soon as possible, and then I will wait to have a little nephew in my arms."
After Ouyang Yinying heard this, her face turned red, she turned around and walked away, saying, "I won't talk to you anymore."
Gao Fei laughed there, looked at Ouyang Yinying's back, and said: "You have a good rest these two days, everything will be decided by me and King Wu."
"promise."
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In the main hall of Prince Wu's palace, Sun Jian sat next to Gao Fei with a look of joy on his face and asked: "Xian brother, does that boy Zhou Yu really agree?"
Gao Fei nodded heavily and said, "Yes, I agree."
Sun Jian burst out laughing and asked: "My dear brother, Zhou Yu is a person who accepts death and is usually very arrogant. How did you get him to agree to this marriage?"
Gao Fei smiled, and then told what happened to Ouyang Yinying and Zhou Yu when they were young.
After hearing this, Sun Jian nodded slightly and said: "I didn't expect that Zhou Gongjin and the princess had such a past. However, the princess is three years older than Zhou Gongjin. Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"
"Female junior, holding a gold brick. Even Zhou Yu didn't dislike it, so why did King Wu start to dislike it?" Gao Fei said.
"Haha, as long as this marriage is successful, then the marriage between our Wu Kingdom and my brother's Yan Kingdom will be successful. If there are any beauties in our Wu Kingdom in the future, I will also send them to the Yan Kingdom, and we will form the Qin and Jin Dynasties. Well, why not do it?" Sun Jian said.
"Well, Brother Wentai, the marriage is finally done. Then let's talk about the next move."
After hearing this, Sun Jian naturally understood what Gao Fei meant, and his face gradually darkened, and he asked: "Brother Xian, the navy in Jingzhou is very powerful. I have asked Bo Fu to go to Chaisang to train the navy. If we have to wait until the navy
I'm afraid it will take some time to become trained, and Wu State is not very wealthy now. On the surface, it is stable, but in fact it is in the south.
Shanyue has always been a headache for people. There are many people in Shanyue and there are many tribes. Although I have controlled some Shanyue people, there are only a few tribes. Compared with the entire Shanyue, it is really a drop in the bucket. Not only that,
Shi Xie, who is entrenched in Jiaozhou, is also secretly recruiting troops. The situation in Wu is not very stable."
Gao Fei was very aware of Sun Jian's difficulties. He loved the Three Kingdoms and naturally had a lot of research on the history of the Three Kingdoms. Moreover, when he was doing business in his previous life, he also read "The Three Kingdoms" and used some of the principles in this book to manage him.
Aiwujiwu's company, he will naturally consult some classics, such as "Three Kingdoms", "Book of the Later Han", etc., so he also has a very good understanding of the Shanyue nation.
A common name for the people in some mountainous areas distributed in present-day Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. It is an ethnic mixture formed by the descendants of the ancient Yue and other indigenous peoples as the core, and gradually integrated into the Han immigrants. The degree of Hanization varies.
, the level of social productivity is also the same.
Shanyue is a branch of Baiyue. According to its literal meaning, it originally refers to the ancient Yue people living in the mountains.
Due to the integration of ethnic groups since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Shanyue has become indistinguishable from the Han people, including some Han people who entered the mountains to escape government taxes. Therefore, although Shanyue is referred to as a race, it is actually a mixture of ethnic groups distributed in the southern mountains, among which
There are Han people and Yue people, so they are also called "mountain people". The earliest source of the word Shanyue is in the "Book of the Later Han" written by Fan Ye of the Song Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The production method of Shanyue is mainly based on agriculture, growing grains, and because "the mountains produce copper and iron", they often "cast their own armor". They are widely dispersed, live in small groups, and are good at practicing martial arts. They rely on the mountain dangers to form armed groups.
Its leader has many titles such as "Shuai", "Dashuai", "Zongshuai", etc., and is semi-independent of the central feudal regime.
The Shanyue were very brave and good at fighting in the mountains. They would also use the copper and iron produced in the mountains where they lived to forge to be self-sufficient, and they had repeatedly attacked the settlements where the Han people lived.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Sun family initially settled in Jiangdong, where there were many mountains and mountains and were widely distributed. They often united with the "zongbu" (a local armed group organized based on the clan township) in various places to fight against them, and became
The thorn in the side of the Sun Wu regime.
Therefore, Lu Xun told Sun Quan that if Shanyue was not pacified, it would be difficult for Soochow to manage the north, so he personally led his army to pacify Shanyue. He also used the strong as soldiers and the old and weak as farmers, thus gaining tens of thousands of elite soldiers. From then on,
The State of Wu still conquered Shanyue from time to time in order to continuously develop the south of the Yangtze River.
After decades of brutal conquest by Sun Wu, most of the Shanyue people in the south of the Yangtze River were forced out of the mountains and moved to the plains. Some were used to replenish the army; some became registered households, transferred their rents, or became private tenants. A large number of Shanyue people came out of the mountains.
Jiangnan Economy
The development of Shanyue played an important role and greatly accelerated the process of Sinicization of Shanyue itself. Although there were still sporadic records about Shanyue in historical records until the end of the Southern Dynasty and even the early Sui Dynasty, most Shanyue had already been completely integrated with the Han people by this time.
When Sun Jian participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, many of his subordinates were Shanyue people who had surrendered to him. I have seen their high-level combat abilities and they were very brave.
"What Brother Wentai is worried about is exactly what I am worried about. However, with Brother Wentai's great talent and broad strategy, it is just around the corner to pacify the Wu Kingdom. Why don't Brother Wentai imitate my method of appeasing the Wuhuan people, use both soft and hard tactics, and pacify Danyang first?
Shanyue in Wujun, Kuaiji and other places." Gao Fei suggested.
Sun Jian shook his head and said: "The population in the east of the Yangtze River is sparse, and the total military strength of our Wu State is only 80,000, while the number of Shanyue in Danyang, Wu County, Kuaiji and other places is as many as hundreds of thousands or even millions. With our current
With our own strength, to deal with so many people, we can only hit an egg against a stone."
Seeing that Sun Jian had no confidence, Gao Fei smiled and said: "Why is Sun Wentai, known as the Tiger of Jiangdong, so unsure of himself? Even if there are millions of people in Shanyue, it is nothing to worry about. The people of Shanyue are different from the Han people. They
They are not united and live together in clans. This is
Their weaknesses. As long as you focus on their weaknesses and take advantage of them, they will definitely play a good role. Brother Wentai has Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong under his command. Both of them are masters of politics. Wentai
If brother takes the opportunity to ask, you will definitely gain something unexpected."
Sun Jian shook his head and sighed: "Although Er Zhang is unmatched in terms of governance, using troops against Shanyue is a military matter. I'm afraid Er Zhang is not up to the task."
"Haha, then let me recommend someone. This person will definitely be able to shoulder the important task of pacifying Shanyue for Brother Wentai."
"Oh, who is that person?" Sun Jian asked hurriedly.
"Zhou Yu, Zhou Gongjin." Gao Fei urgently hopes that Zhou Yu can take control of the military power of Wu State as soon as possible. At the same time, he also vaguely feels that Shan Yue is a scourge. He can completely kill people with his sword and borrow the hands of Wu soldiers to attack Shan Yue first. In this way,
, Wu State has something to do, and if it is not stable internally, it will never think of going to the Central Plains to fight for supremacy, and he can go all out to deal with Cao Cao.
"He? How can he, a little kid, shoulder such an important task? I thought the people recommended by the wise brother were Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zu Mao, Zhu Zhi and others."
"Aspirations do not lie in age. Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zu Mao, Zhu Zhi and others are all old members of Brother Wentai. In terms of combat capabilities, they can be said to have experienced hundreds of battles. They are indeed much better than Zhou Yu, but in terms of combat ability, they are indeed much better than Zhou Yu.
In terms of resourcefulness, I'm afraid the five of them together can't be as good as Zhou Yu."
When Sun Jian heard that Gao Fei said Zhou Yu was so powerful, he thought to himself: "Is Zhou Yu really as powerful as Zi Yu said? But from Zi Yu's perspective on people, if Zhou Yu is not a person with outstanding talent and learning, how can he be willing to do so?
Marrying the princess to Zhou Yu? Are there thousands of talented people in Wu State who are not as good as one Zhou Yu? Is Zhou Gongjin really qualified?"
Seeing Sun Jian's hesitation, Gao Fei said: "Brother Wentai, this is not like your style. When did you start to be afraid of wolves in front and tigers in back?"
Sun Jiandao: "If you are not in the position, you will not seek the government. When I stepped up to the throne of the King of Wu, I realized the heavy responsibility I shouldered. In the past, I only fought as a general and never considered so much.
, as long as I can win the battle. But it’s different now. As the king of Wu, I have to weigh the left and right sides of any decision I make to see what I can do to benefit the country of Wu. No wonder, my dear brother, I must be a wise brother.
Do you feel the same way?"
Gao Fei felt cordial when he heard Sun Jian tell the truth in his heart. As the leader of a country, he must consider things more carefully. Sun Jian's inner voice was also Gao Fei's inner voice. Being a king is not
It's so easy. On the surface, it looks very beautiful and majestic. In fact, he has more troubles than anyone else. He has to intervene in anything that happens in the country, for fear that the foundation of the country will collapse.
"It's always cold at high places. Brother Wentai has spoken my mind. However, please believe me, brother Wentai. If Zhou Yu is re-employed, we will definitely be able to pacify Shanyue."
"I have deep faith in brother Xian, and I absolutely believe in brother Xian's vision. However, if I use troops against Shanyue, what if Liu Bei from Jingzhou takes the opportunity to attack me? Liu Bei is no longer what he used to be. He is now Jingzhou
The master of Liu Biao is even better than Liu Biao. In a short period of time, he
Within, he occupied the entire territory of Jingzhou, which Liu Biao wanted to do but could not do before. His two sworn brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were ten thousand enemies. The navy of Jingzhou has always been very powerful, and our navy of Wu State
The navy is just a scratch creation and cannot be compared with the Jingzhou navy." Sun Jian said worriedly.
"What Brother Wentai is worried about is indeed true, but there is no way to deal with Jingzhou's navy. Jingzhou's navy was established earlier, and the warships are mostly large-scale ships, and they can fly down the river from upstream.
However, this is the advantage of Jingzhou Navy, and it is also a disadvantage. The water network in the south of the Yangtze River is dense, and the rivers
There are countless rivers and lakes, and the small rivers in Qianmo are even more densely packed. If Brother Wen Tai can take advantage of this and take the initiative to retreat and lure the enemy deeper, then the large warships of the Jingzhou Navy will not be able to sail in the small rivers, and Brother Wen Tai will
You can use walking boats and stern boats to attack the ships of the Jingzhou Navy.