On the outskirts of Yangzhai City, Sun Jian was inspecting the soldiers' encampment.
I saw this tiger standing on the edge of the camp with his hands behind his back, his expression as cold as ice. On the surface, he was urging the soldiers to run back and forth to set up tents, but the light in his eyes flickered on and off, as if he was thinking about something.
matter.
Behind Sun Jian, a big man stepped forward and stopped beside Sun Jian.
The man had a strong beard and a plain appearance. He was Cheng Pu, a commander in Sun Jian's command, and his most trusted right-hand man.
"Why did my lord keep threatening Kong Ni so much today?"
Cheng Pu and Sun Jian had a close personal relationship, and he did not mince words. He directly asked the question that had been hidden in his heart: "In any case, Kong Min is also the governor of Yuzhou appointed by the imperial court, and is our ally in the crusade against Dong Zhuo... My lord, today
When we meet, our words and deeds contradict each other, which is quite inconsistent with our usual style... Could it be that there is some difficulty?"
Sun Jian sneered, with a hint of irony in his laughter. After a while, he slowly took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Cheng Pu: "Read it yourself."
Cheng Pu doubtfully took over the brocade silk with the secret written on it, unfolded it, and after a while he said in surprise: "Gong Yuan wants to declare his lord as the general Polu and lead the governor of Yuzhou?! Isn't the governor of Yuzhou Kong Niao? Isn't Gong Yuan like this?"
What's your idea?"
Sun Jian said slowly and calmly: "What's the idea? Ha! I helped him force Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou, to death, and killed Zhang Zi, the prefect of Nanyang for him. Now that he has captured Nanyang County, his strength has greatly increased! Jingzhou now has no owner and is running its own affairs. It will be impossible for him to do so in the future.
For him to control... Now in the southeast, Jingzhou and Yangzhou are no longer in great danger. If he can regain the land of Yuzhou, he will have fulfilled his long-cherished wish to span the three states... Who can rival the heroes in the world? "
Cheng Pu's face showed an angry look: "You are not satisfied with killing Wang Rui and Zhang Zi!? Now you want me to kill Kong Ni, my lord? He will get all the benefits, and you will bear all the sins! My lord, this is unavoidable for you.
Isn’t it worth it?”
Sun Jian sighed and said helplessly: "The fourth and third sons of the Yuan family are famous all over the world! Your honorable Yuan Shizhi in Runan, who in the world can compare with him? Yuan Jiujiu is also the second son of Sikong Yuan Feng, he is quite chivalrous...
I pay homage to the general! It will become a trend in the long run... I am making a sword in his hand today just in the hope of finding a good destination. After all, this world is turbid when you look at it."
Cheng Pu was silent for a while and then said: "My lord has been humiliating Kong Ni frequently today to force him to resist... or to find a reason to kill him on the spot?"
A cold light flashed out of Sun Jian's eyes, a light like a hungry wolf seeing its prey.
"Originally, Sun thought so, but after seeing Young Master Tao, he had to give up."
Cheng Pu thought carefully for a while and said: "That boy? I think he is only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a rough mouth and a straight mouth. Can he still stand up for Kong Ni?"
Sun Jian smiled and said: "What he did today was to stand up for Kong Ni all the time. Although his words and deeds were mostly humble and tolerant, his purpose was to calm things down... He didn't even want the military rations and equipment that Kong Ni gave him.
Yes, I have made it clear that I am determined to stand aside Kong Ni."
Cheng Pu stroked his beard and said slowly: "So what if you stand aside? I have heard for a long time that Tao Qian of Xuzhou is a dim-witted man, and the young man under his knees is just a rotten scholar! Are we still afraid that he will not succeed in the Xuzhou army? I have heard that Tao Qian of Xuzhou is a fool.
Shang has an army of 10,000... It is not the general's boast that the Xuzhou army is only 10,000. The general only needs 3,000 troops and horses to kill them all without leaving a single person behind!"
Sun Jian turned around and looked at Cheng Pu, shook his head and said: "Actually, I had the same idea as you at the beginning. Tao Qian flattered the famous family and the people he used were all ordinary people. How powerful can the Xuzhou Army, except the Danyang Army, be?
I'm not afraid of his Xuzhou Army... But today I saw that this man's words and deeds are very good, and secondly, there is a general standing behind him. He is similar in stature to me, and he has the posture of a warrior in his movements. He is definitely not easy to deal with.
, with that person here, we might not have been able to touch Kong Ni just now."
Sun Jian was talking about Xu Chu.
Cheng Pu suddenly realized: "I have also noticed the person my lord is talking about... But in the vast land of Xuzhou, it is reasonable to have one or two brave men and tigers here and there."
Sun Jian sighed: "It's okay to be a warrior... But what I have to deal with is Kong Min. If the Xuzhou army can't provoke him, then let's not provoke him. After all, they are all allies. In the crusade against Dong Zhuo, we will need their help.
There is no need to provoke the next enemy out of thin air.”
Cheng Pu sighed in his heart that this was the case, and then said: "What my lord said is that Yuzhou is what Mr. Yuan wants to get involved in. We really don't need to establish the Tao family of Xuzhou as our enemy... But if we don't take action today, how do our lord plan to accomplish it in the future?"
Sun Jian smiled sinisterly, a smile that made people tremble: "Let's give him a hundred thousand stones of food and grass first, and then slowly force him. No matter how good-tempered this old man is, he will definitely not be able to sit still. Sooner or later, he will follow him.
The day we fell out."
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Sun Jian was thinking about Kong Ni outside Yangzhai City, and Kong Ni was thinking about Sun Jian inside Yangzhai City.
Kong Niao was sitting on the soft couch, his nostrils were opening and closing, his face was red and his neck was thick, he was obviously very angry. The pottery merchant looked at him and he couldn't help but feel happy...
Just outside the city, the old boy was treated like a bunny by Sun Jian. Now that he entered the city and couldn't see Sun Jian, his temper obviously got worse.
"Sun Jian is bullying too much!" Kong Min gritted his teeth, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be squeezed together: "Shu Zian dares to bully me like this? With Yuan Shu's support, he dares to shout at me! Who am I? The Emperor
The imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty decreed that he should be appointed as the governor of Yuzhou! He opened his mouth and dared to ask me to ask for one hundred thousand stones of food and grass... If I don't give it to him, what would he dare to do to me? This treacherous traitor!"
The potter grinned.
What you say is really poor, rebellious ministers and traitors... This word should be used to describe Dong Zhuo, right? If you use this word to describe your own allies, then who do you think you are?
Kong Min had complained enough and turned to look at the pottery merchant and said, "Sun Jian insults me like this. What should I do according to my nephew's wishes?"
The pottery merchant said calmly: "He is so rude, I would like to ask Uncle Shi to send troops to clean it up!"
Kong Niao felt as if he had swallowed a fat fly. He couldn't spit it out or swallow it. He would have done it long ago, so why wait until now?
"Um..." Kong Ni hesitated for a moment and said: "A soldier's weapon is a weapon. Sun Jian and I are allies. If there is an internal strife, these people under my command will not do anything lightly or harshly, and a few lives will be lost by then.
It feels like it’s not worth it.”
Tao Shang smiled and said: "Uncle Shi's words are quite reasonable. It's just that people don't want to hurt tigers, but tigers can hurt people's hearts. With Sun Jian's behavior outside the city today, my nephew feels that Sun Jian has murderous intentions towards Uncle Shi. Uncle Shi cares about it."
I wanted to coexist peacefully with him out of friendship, but unfortunately he didn't appreciate it."
"My nephew thinks that Sun Jian wants to kill me?" Kong Min's face turned pale in an instant: "How did my nephew tell that?"
Tao Shang couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. He really felt deeply sorry for the vision and emotional intelligence of this celebrity Kong, and he didn't know how this old boy lived to this day.
"Uncle Shi, don't you think Sun Jian's attitude is really rude? Just looking for trouble?"
Kong Min frowned and said: "He is rude to me, so he must kill me? What my nephew said is unreasonable... There may be many situations for being rude, for example, if I owe him money
If I don't pay it back on purpose, he will be very rude to me."
Tao Shang sighed, shook his head and said: "Uncle Shi, believe me, if you owed him money and refused to pay it back, Sun Jian's first action when he saw you outside the city today would be to kneel down to you instead of yelling at you.
.”
Kong Min: "..."
After a long time.
Kong Ni's expression gradually became serious: "Why does Sun Jian want to kill me?"
Tao Shang said: "Because you are the governor of Yingchuan."
"Why did Shibi kill me when I was the governor of Yingchuan?"
Tao Shang said: "Because Yuan Shu is greedy for the land of Yuzhou?"
"Why did Yuan Shu insist on occupying the land of Yuzhou?"
Tao Shang said: "Because Yuzhou is part of his strategy across Jing, Yang and Yuzhou, and Runan is the hometown of Yuan Shu, the Yuan family has great influence here... The answer is that simple."
This simple answer is really outrageous.
Kong Niao's hands hidden in the sleeves of his robe were clenched tightly into fists, with the joints turning white and making a slight crunching sound. They were both officials of the Han Dynasty, and they were also comrades in the allied forces who conquered Dong Zhuo. Yuan Shu was fighting for his personal ambitions
, to be able to deliberately hurt his colleagues so cruelly, is simply worse than a beast.
Of course, when Sun Jian followed Yuan Shu's secret order and killed Zhang Zi, the governor of Nanyang, and Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou, Kong Niao's feelings about these things were at best just shock, and his personal feelings towards Yuan Shu were far from the level of anger...
...but now that he has become the next lamb to be slaughtered, Kong Niao can no longer control his emotions.
Human beings are such creatures. They don't care about things that don't concern them. Once things do concern them, they will scold them.
"Yuan Shu and Sun Jian are really bitches!" Kong Min cursed at the top of his voice.
The pottery merchant sighed helplessly... A gentleman from a well-known family was forced to swear. This is a precursor to the collapse of rituals and music.
"Good nephew!" Kong Min suddenly turned to look at the pottery merchant and said angrily: "Since Sun Jian and Yuan Shu want to plot against me, I will not stop doing anything and fight them to the death. What do you think?"
"I think it works. Uncle Shi is really a hero!"
Kong Niao stood up suddenly and strode out of the hall. As he walked, he raised his voice and said: "I will order the troops right away and fight Sun Jianjian to the death!"
The pottery merchant picked up his goblet (a goblet was a vessel used by people in the Han Dynasty to drink water), took a sip of water, and lightly tapped the tabletop with his fingers. While tapping, he said to himself: "One, two, three...
return!"
"Good nephew!" Kong Min suddenly stopped, turned around with a crying look on his face, and said: "I can't fight that bitch Sun Jian!"
"Uncle Shi, come on, sit down, sit down." The potter stood up, walked over and took the crying Kong Niao back to the kneeling cave, held him down and sat down, poured some water into the glass, and said: "
Uncle Shi, just vent your feelings, some things can’t be taken too seriously..."
Kong Niao raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp, feeling angry and miserable at the same time: "They are too bullying! I think that since I took office, I don't say how well I have done, but I have also been conscientious and cautious, and worked hard without complaining.
The superiors dare not let down the imperial court, and the subordinates cannot bear to deceive the people... But they are good, they will deal with me if they say they want to deal with me..."
"Soldiers will block it, water will cover it, and the soil will cover it. My nephew will help Uncle Shi to kill these two idiots." The pottery merchant consoled him.
When Kong Min heard this, he immediately became energetic. The pottery merchant had just told him this outside the city, and he didn't take it seriously at that time...
However, at this moment, Kong Ni simply regarded these words as a life-saving decree.
"My dear nephew, what's your clever plan?"
Tao Shang smiled and said: "It's actually very simple. Yuan Shu thinks that Sun Jian is his sword. If he uses this sword to get rid of the governors from various places, half of the country will be his. We only need to change three points. First,
The first point is to let Yuan Shu know that even if he gets rid of the governors in various places and wants to capture half of the country in the south, he still lacks the strength; the second point is to let him know that Sun Jian, the Jiangdong tiger he trusts most, is his true
Third, we need to let him know that we are the ones who can best support him right now."