Sun Quan's voice directly broke through all the arguments and silenced the entire audience.
"What? Liu Bei's envoy? Is he the Liu Bei who was beaten so hard by Cao Cao that he had to gather in new areas?"
"Hmph, this coward who only knows how to run away, didn't he send the envoy to form an alliance with us?"
"Bah, it's just an idiot's dream!"
There is a saying that the best way to turn an enemy into a friend is to give them a new enemy.
Now it was better, the civil officials stopped arguing, the generals stopped scolding, and everyone began to give their "warmest" greetings to Liu Bei's envoy who had not yet stepped through the door.
There were already many beads of sweat on Lu Su's head, who was still waiting outside the door.
"Kong Ming...are you sure?"
"Hehehe... Zijing, why don't you see my brother? My brother should be able to tell you whether I am sure or not."
Zhuge Liang looked quite arrogant. Ever since he had Yi Xiaotian, he had been thinking about the four characters "strategizing" on his forehead. He thought that this title seemed to have been taken away.
I know how frustrating it is.
Only——
Only in terms of quarreling, Zhuge Liang thought he was the best in the world.
Lu Su wiped his sweat again and pointed to Zhuge Liang's robe:
"Kong Ming, dust yourself off, it will be a fierce battle later."
——
"Liu Beijun's envoy has arrived!"
Lu Su's high-pitched voice sounded from outside the door, and suddenly there was silence in the banquet. A young man over eight feet tall, wearing a turban on his head and holding a feather fan suddenly appeared at the door.
He quickly walked into the door, and soon stopped in front of Sun Quan, and bowed respectfully to Sun Quan.
In an instant... the whole hall exploded.
The reason is simple: Zhuge Liang is too young.
"Whose little kid is this?"
"How dare a young brat come to negotiate as a messenger?"
Someone yelled directly. The generals saw that Zhuge Liang was thin and weak, so they immediately banged the table to scare him.
Where are the civil servants?
Wen Chen’s mouth is poisonous:
"What do you think it is? It turns out that Liu Bei's subordinates can't even invite an envoy. They want a little kid to come to the battle..."
"Lord, I think Liu Bei has no sincerity in forming an alliance. Instead, he sent this person just to humiliate you, my lord!"
Sun Quan held his breath, but he still didn't have an attack after all, but the words in his heart had already cut the speaker into pieces:
"You mentioned my age, why should you take me with you!!"
"Ahem——"
In front of outsiders, these old guys in Jiangdong Hall seemed to be very discerning and gave Sun Quan some face.
As soon as Sun Quan coughed, everyone stopped scolding and talking.
"Please tell me your name when you come."
Sun Quan's face was expressionless. In fact, he felt that the other party was too young. Could it be that Liu Bei really looked down on him?
"I am Liu Yuzhou's military advisor, Zhuge Liang. Just call me Kong Ming..."
"Zhuge Liang?"
Someone started shouting again during the dinner.
"I remember Zhuge Liang, isn't he the younger brother of Zhuge Ziyu, the chief historian?"
"Oh oh oh, I remember, Zhuge Ziyu once said that he had a younger brother who was working as a farmer in Longzhong, the countryside. Could it be this person?"
"Farmer? How dare you, a mere farmer, dare to ascend to an elegant place?"
Those nobles who had a very clear concept of superiority and inferiority became angry when they heard that the envoy in front of them turned out to be just a farmer.
"Lord! Liu Bei sent this person here to humiliate us! He turned out to be... a farmer!"
"I'm so angry! I'm so angry!"
With the civil servants fanning the flames, the generals felt that they had been greatly discriminated against. They all drew their guns and knives with all their teeth and claws, pretending to capture Zhuge Liang.
It was Sun Quan who stood up and stopped it at this time, but by now, the matter seemed to be a little difficult to handle.
Zhuge Liang's face stiffened for a moment. He really didn't expect that his brother could cause trouble for him even if he was not present.
He had no choice but to take the lead:
"Since you all know Liang's brother, it's easy to talk about the matter."
"Wu Hou! Liang came here this time just to discuss the Sun-Liu alliance with you. I wonder what Wu Hou wants?"
Well, everyone in Sun Quan was dumbfounded. The ministers who had just been calmed down by him were now completely ignited by Zhuge Liang.
"Lord! We can't fight! We can't fight this battle!"
"Lord, I can see it. This person is clearly here to split the hearts of my Jiangdong army! Don't listen to this person's slander!"
Lu Su also had a big head. He glanced at Zhuge Liang helplessly and found that Zhuge Liang was closing his eyes to rest, and he was already a little desperate.
Before coming to Zhuge Liang, he had experienced this kind of thing for a long time.
I thought that winning Jiangxia would give these veterans more confidence and trust in Sun Quan, but I didn't expect...
Finally - just when everyone was talking, and some even wanted to hug him to death, imitating the example of a wave of sages who had admonished him to die, Sun Quan had not yet spoken, but Zhuge Liang spoke.
"It turns out... there are only a bunch of cowards in Jiangdong, so I really came to the wrong place."
"If Marquis Wu is willing to sit back and watch the desolation of life in the east of the Yangtze River, the collapse of the noble clans, and the destruction of civil and military forces, then Shu Liang can do nothing. We will run north and join Wu Ju in the north——"
"Good boy, you are so slanderous, my lord, let me kill him!"
Zhang Zhao wears a sword and goes to court, which can be regarded as imitating the actions of the general Huo Guang. In his heart, he positions himself as a figure like Huo Guang. He assists the young master Sun Quan to rise to power and helps the Jiangdong building to collapse. When was he called a coward?
He drew his sword and was about to kill Zhuge Liang, but Sun Quan suddenly came to the rescue.
"Wait! Let me come!"
Sun Quan had no choice but to draw his sword, and walked in front of Zhuge Liang ahead of Zhang Zhao. With the sword in his hand, he seemed to be threatening Zhuge Liang.
But Zhuge Liang remained motionless.
"Zhuge Liang, why did you say this?"
"Where did you come from?"
Zhuge Liang smiled.
Although he had selfish motives, he wanted to rely on Soochow to preserve Liu Bei's vitality and thus retain the opportunity to dominate the world.
But he also looked down from the bottom of his heart on these people in the hall who were eating corpses.
The hall was still noisy, but Zhuge Liang started a debate with them——
But the main argument has never been refuted by the other party.
Sun Quan listened carefully, and even after the officials had completely lost their arrogance, Sun Quan was still thinking about what Zhuge Liang said:
"A force of 800,000 troops by land and water are arriving quickly. Cao Cao should have taken Jiangling by now and followed the Yangtze River to near Wulin."
As soon as they heard 800,000, even the faint of heart would be scared out of their wits.
He kept saying, "Don't fight, don't fight." But Zhuge Liang replied:
"Eight hundred thousand is just a lie. It was boasted by Cao Cao. Why should we be afraid?"