Zhuge Liang's remarks caused everyone present to be silent.
What a child who understands justice well. Although he is only ten years old, his magnanimity and loyalty have far exceeded everyone's imagination.
Zhuge Jin opened his mouth even more when he heard this. He looked at Zhuge Liang blankly and moved his lips. At this moment, he really didn't know what to say.
But the Tao merchant sighed, stood up, walked in front of Zhuge Jin, and bowed to Zhuge Jin in salute.
"Brother Zhuge, Tao apologizes to you for what happened today. Your brother's behavior really moved Shang deeply. Tao is willing to make an oath to Brother Zhuge here. Tao is willing to do whatever it takes to make your brother a
Among the outstanding talents of the next generation, there is no one who can surpass him in the world. Please believe me, Brother Jin."
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Zhuge Xuan and Zhuge Jin finally went to Yuzhang County, but Zhuge Liang stayed with the pottery merchant from then on.
After seeing off Zhuge and his son, the Tao Shang asked people to arrange a room for Zhuge Liang in his own home, and took the children back to the Governor's Mansion to pick them up and have a good rest. Then the Tao Shang himself had a formal meeting with Tao Qian.
Tao Qian suddenly brought Mi Zhu and Cao Bao to the posthouse to see him today. It was definitely not just because of this trivial matter with the Zhuge family. He must have something urgent that he wanted to discuss with him, so he came suddenly and cut off the mess quickly.
to resolve the affairs of the Zhuge family.
"Father, Mi Gong, and Cao Gong came to me suddenly. I wonder if there is something important?"
Tao Qian touched the white beard on his chin, squinted his eyes and said, "Zidu."
The potter didn't react for a while, and then he suddenly realized.
By the way, my current cousin is Zidu.
It will take time to get used to it in the future.
"I was originally thinking of letting you rest at home for a while before going to Danyang County to take up the post, but now it seems that it is unlikely."
Tao Shang's heart skipped a beat.
It turned out that he wanted to urge me to go to Danyang County to take office as soon as possible. Why was he so anxious all of a sudden?
Seeing the confused expression on the pottery merchant's face, Cao Bao suddenly coughed and said to the pottery merchant: "My lord, it's not that I am urging you, but it is actually Yuan Shu who moved too fast. The scouts came to report that Yuan Shu has already
Wu Jing was sent to Danyang to replace Zhou Xin. If you don't take action, I'm afraid it will be too late."
Mi Zhu also nodded and said: "Sir, Wu Jing is Sun Jian's brother-in-law, and he is quite capable. If he really gets Danyang County, with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian backing him up, it will be difficult for him to deal with him in the future.
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When the pottery merchant heard this, his heart suddenly dawned, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
It's good that Wu Jing is here.
It is said that it is difficult to defeat one person, but it is easy to defeat two people. Yuan Shu's Wu Jing and Yuan Shao's Zhou Xin, as long as one of these two people is here, it is not easy to rob Danyang County, because it will easily offend one of them.
any of.
But if both of them are here, then this matter will be solved easily.
"My father understands what I mean. My child will pack up and go to Danyang County. But before leaving, my child wants to ask my father for someone to go with me to Danyang County to rectify people's livelihood."
When Mi Zhu and Cao Bao heard this, they couldn't help but feel happy.
The two of them had each recommended their brothers to Danyang County to assist the pottery merchant. Now they each naively thought that the person the pottery merchant asked Tao Qian for would be the person they recommended.
Thinking of this, Mi Zhu and Cao Bao couldn't help but puff up their chests and wait for Tao Shang's next words.
Tao Qian stroked his beard and said unhurriedly: "Who do you want?"
"Chen Deng, Magistrate of Dongyang County, would you please father lend me this man."
Mi Zhu and Cao Bao's smiles suddenly stiffened.
"Huaipu Chen Family..."
Tao Qian touched his beard and pretended to think for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay! It's rare for you to speak back to me, so the matter is settled. You first pack up your troops and go to Danyang County to take up your post.
Over in Dongyang County, I will arrange for the selection of the county magistrate separately. After the handover between Chen Deng and the new officials is completed, I will send him to Danyang County to take up his post."
After a pause, Tao Qian added another sentence: "The premise is that you must first be able to figure out a way to deal with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu."
The potter smiled and said nothing.
Wu Jing and Zhou Xin were nothing to him.
"Father, don't worry, my son will definitely do a good job in taking office."
Hearing this, Tao Qian nodded happily and said, "Okay, okay, if you have this confidence, that's the best! Let's go home!"
After that, he stood up, leaned on crutches and walked happily to the door of the mansion first, followed closely by the pottery merchant.
Cao Bao and Mi Zhu followed Tao and his son with downcast eyebrows, feeling extremely depressed.
When Tao Shang went to Danyang County, why did he ask Tao Qian to ask for people from the Chen family? How could he ask for people from the Chen family?
Mi Zhu shook his head secretly, feeling deeply puzzled. Mi Fang had been going out with him for nearly a year. Logically speaking, the pottery merchant would have asked Tao Qian for him. Besides, I had to ask my little sister to communicate with the pottery merchant many times.
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Even though the pottery merchant looks down on my stupid brother, why won't he still accept the beauty trap? My sister has quite big breasts, is it possible that this boy doesn't like this?
Or maybe my sister is not enthusiastic enough?
At this moment, Mi Zhu officially took stock of herself.
My girl has big breasts, but her personality is too shy. Tao Shang must have thought she wasn't hot enough.
I have to teach him more when I go back, and then think of a way to open the business to Danyang! Let the girl take the helm this time, it’s necessary!
Cao Bao was also extremely depressed. He told his silly girl to go up to the pole more often to get close to the pottery merchant. Didn't this stinky girl not take it seriously?
No, you have to find a way to urge her! It’s necessary! As for the pottery merchant, don’t think that you can escape by running to Danyang County, this matter is endless! I have many ways to get the girl to go to Danyang County with you and pay for it!
Brat, you can't run away!
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On the way back to the Governor's Mansion, Tao Shang asked Tao Qian something.
"Father, are the Danyang elite soldiers in your hands very capable of fighting?"
The pottery merchant was stunned when he heard this. He didn't understand why the pottery merchant asked him about this. The old man rolled his eyes and said proudly: "Why do you suddenly think of asking this? Of course my Danyang soldiers can fight."
"The Danyang soldiers, don't they particularly like to rebel?"
When Tao Qian heard this, he swayed and almost fell off the carriage.
"Who, who told you?"
The pottery merchant smiled when he heard this but said nothing.
After all, he comes from later generations, and based on some clues recorded in history, he can grasp some insider information.
Tao Qian was silent for a long time and then said: "My son, the so-called Danyang elite soldiers do not refer to ordinary people in the eighteen counties of Danyang. If you go to Wanling County, Moling County, Hu She and other counties in the county to recruit soldiers, then
The recruited soldiers are no different from normal soldiers, and their fighting spirit is not strong."
Speaking of this, Tao Qian paused, seeming to recall something.
"To recruit the so-called Danyang elite soldiers, we refer to the tribal mountain people living in Danyang County and surrounding counties, such as Beishan, Lianshui, Hanjiang and other places. There are many barbarian villages in these places. The so-called mountain barbarians
Mixed residence refers to them. They are the predecessors of Danyang elite soldiers. However, although they are brave in battle, it is difficult to accept their loyalty... Back then, my father also relied on his identity as a native of Danyang County.
We, the Tao people, have been in contact with the people of Hanjiang for several generations, so we were lucky enough to recruit an elite Danyang army. Even with these elite soldiers, it took me a lot of troubles, effort and money to get them to return.
Otherwise...hehe, those mountain people wouldn't be able to convince me so easily."
Tao Qian's words fit perfectly with some of the deeds that the pottery merchant knew in his previous life.
The so-called elite soldiers of Danyang do not refer to the citizens of the eighteen counties of Danyang, but to the mountain people who live in the mountains and barbarians living around the dangerous mountains and rivers in the territory.
These mountain people are brave and tough, and can best fight against heaven and earth.
The people of Danyang Mountain are good at everything, but they have one shortcoming. They are very fierce when they attack their enemies, and they are extremely powerful when they attack their own lord.
The leaders of Wei, Shu and Wu all recruited Danyang's elite soldiers.
The bravery of Danyang's elite soldiers has indeed brought benefits to the big men of the Three Kingdoms, but water can carry and capsize a boat. Cao, Sun, and Liu, the three elder brothers, have also suffered losses from Danyang's elite soldiers.
Let’s talk about Cao Cao first.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms says: Taizu had few soldiers, so he went to Yangzhou with Xiahou Dun and others to recruit troops, and went with Danyang to recruit 4,000 soldiers. When they returned to Longkang, many soldiers rebelled.
"Book of Wei" says: The soldiers conspired to rebel and burned Taizu's tent at night. Taizu killed dozens of people with his sword, but the rest were invincible, and they came out of the camp; among them, there were more than 500 people who did not rebel.
Imagine that Cao Cao, the leader of the Three Kingdoms, recruited 4,000 Danyang elite soldiers. When he returned to Longkang, only 500 people did not rebel, and the remaining 3,500 people rebelled. This is a kind of situation.
What kind of horrific situation?
It is probably more dangerous than the Battle of Chibi!
Poor Cao Cao was sleeping in the middle of the night, but he was driven around by more than 3,500 Danyang elite soldiers who were rebellious under him. I don't know if he was naked or not. It was very likely that he just wore a pair of briefs and started fucking. Anyway, that's it.
The scene must be wonderful.
However, Cao Cao was indeed very brave. Wei Shuyun said: Taizu killed dozens of people with his sword before leaving the camp. It can be seen that the world only saw Cao Cao's talents and general strategies, but ignored that Emperor Cao Wu was actually a solid general!
As for Liu Bei, after taking over Xuzhou in history, he also had a group of Danyang soldiers as his team. Unfortunately, these Danyang soldiers were fed to unfamiliar wolves. When Liu Bei went away, Xu Dan, the leader of the Danyang soldiers, led thousands of
Yu Danyang's troops stationed at Baimen in the west of the country rebelled and drove Zhang Fei out of Xuzhou.
Poor Liu Bei had just acquired a large state as his base, but was betrayed by Danyang soldiers and ended up living on the streets wearing briefs again.
Sun Quan was even more naughty. The Danyang Mountain people in his territory cooperated with Baiyue and rebelled almost every year. If they didn't rebel, it would be like they couldn't celebrate the New Year.
But I have to say that Sun Zhongmou is also a ruthless character. Aren't you the opposite? OK, I will fight the barbarians with the barbarians! Old Sun recruits a large number of Danyang people every year, and then uses them to suppress the Danyang people's rebellion.
One rebellion every year, one suppression every year, and one recruitment every year. This became the trilogy of processes that Emperor Wu had to go through every year after inheriting the inheritance. It was like an annual summary. There was a fixed date every year. If the people of Danyang Mountain had not rebelled yet,
Sun Quan would feel uncomfortable all over his body, always feeling like he was missing something to do, and then he would urge his subordinates: Go and send someone to urge the people of Danyang Mountain, it’s time to rebel!
With some historical information for reference, and Tao Qian's explanation of Danyang's elite soldiers to the pottery merchant, the pottery merchant couldn't help but smack his lips. A plan to use Danyang mountain people to get rid of Wu Jing and Zhou Xin was revealed.
Gradually taking shape in the mind.
"Father, how many of the elite Danyang soldiers you have in your hands can you lend to me as envoys? It doesn't need to be many, just a hundred or so will do."
Tao Qian said proudly: "My son finally opened his mouth with me, how can I not respond? One hundred people are not enough, I will give you one hundred and fifty!"
This is my biological father, so open and bright.
Seeing the depressed expression on the pottery merchant's face, Tao Qian couldn't help but feel happy: "You brat, I'm teasing you. I'll allocate two thousand Danyang soldiers to you. Is that okay?"
"Father, try to select those with high loyalty among the people you give me. Danyang soldiers are very traitorous. I don't want to worry about this when I get there."
Tao Qian nodded and said: "Don't worry, my soldiers have been training for several years. Not to mention that each of them swears loyalty to the death, but if they want to rebel, it is easy and impossible. How can they compare with those newly recruited soldiers?"
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After hearing Tao Qian's words, the pottery merchant felt relieved.
"Son, this time I go to Danyang County, I want to let you take someone with you. That is your brother Tao Ji. He has been assisting me in managing Danyang's elite soldiers. With him helping you, you can rest assured about the management of Danyang's elite soldiers.
, and your brother is also highly skilled, much better than you two brothers. I am getting old, and the brothers in your clan should also support each other in the future. After all, no matter how talented a member of the noble clan is, he is still an outsider, and he is still a member of the family.