After the completion of Ruxuwu Fortress, Chen Deng and Guo Jia respectively advised him on the fact that Jinling City did not have a navy as a barrier.
The potter also knew the seriousness of this matter.
If this matter really got out of hand, he would have no choice but to rely on Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and other Yangtze River pirates' army.
The pottery merchant immediately wrote a letter himself and sent someone to deliver it to Gan Ning on his behalf.
It's better to prepare early.
In addition to sending a letter to Gan Ning, Tao Shang also asked Chen Deng to choose a diplomat who was good at diplomacy to take his place in Xiangyang, Jingzhou.
He wanted the famous official to convince Liu Biao, the now powerful Jingzhou boss, on his behalf.
Within a few days of the completion of Ruxuwu, Yuan Shu's army, under his own command, arrived at the plain position to the west of Ruxuwu, and set up camp according to the water level upstream, approaching Ruxuwu where the pottery merchants were.
After Yuan Shu set up camp, he sent someone to send a letter of war to the pottery merchants.
This letter is not so much a letter of war as a letter of coercion and inducement to surrender.
In other words, it's not an exaggeration to say it's a letter that's threatening.
Yuan Shu's words in the letter were extremely arrogant. He first rebuked the potter's Danyang Prefect for being unfairly named because he was conferred by the traitor Dong Zhuo. Then he solemnly stated that Wu Jingcai should be recommended by himself.
He became a reasonable candidate for Danyang County Governor. One of the reasons he came this time was to retrieve Danyang County for Wu Jing, which should not be managed by pottery merchants.
Second, Yuan Shu also reprimanded the pottery merchant for colluding with Yuan Shao's traitor and willingly obeying Yuan Shao's traitor's command. He even intended to make Liu Yu, the shepherd of Youzhou, emperor, which was really treasonous.
Third, he claimed that he was leading a hundred thousand elite troops, who were invincible and the thieves were restrained. Before attacking Danyang County in the east, his troops and horses were invincible wherever they went. Yuan Shu even boasted in his letter,
With his current power, it is no problem to defeat three or five Danyang counties.
Finally, Yuan Shu made a profound summary, hoping that the pottery merchants could assess the situation and offer Danyang County to Danyang County, which would still protect the young and old in the county.
If the pottery merchant could understand the current situation and surrender, Yuan Shu would make the pottery merchant a rich man and live a lifetime of wealth in the name of his former alliance against Dong Zhuo.
If the pottery merchant persists in his stubbornness, then unfortunately, when the city of Jinling is destroyed, there will be no chickens, dogs, humans and animals left, and the pottery merchant himself will have to have his heart and lungs ripped out, his bones and tendons broken.
The tone of Yuan Shu's letter was extremely arrogant. Judging from the tone of his letter, it seemed that he was already sure of victory, while the pottery merchant and others were like fish on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered by him at will.
Being arrogant, that's all.
After hearing that Yuan Shu's envoy had completed his belief, Xu Chu was the first to feel a little unbearable before others had done anything.
But he saw Hu Chi striding forward, grabbing the messenger by the collar, and violently pulling him in front of him, glaring at him fiercely, and roared: "You thief Yuan Shu, how dare you do this?
Let’s see if a certain family kills you, the vassal traitor who delivered the message, first, and then kills Yuan Shu later!”
After saying that, Xu Chu took out the knife from his waist and made a move to chop the messenger's head.
When the messenger saw this posture, he immediately became anxious. While struggling ineffectively, he said in a panic: "The two armies are fighting, Bu Zhan is here to envoy! Bu Zan is here to envoy!"
Xu Chu took a deep breath at the ground and said in a naive voice: "Bu Zhan is here to envoy? Then you can just pretend, right? It's useless to say anything else! A certain family must change this rule today.
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"Zhongkang, stay!" Chen Deng stood up in a hurry, shouted to Xu Chu, and said: "When the two armies are fighting, don't kill the envoy. The envoy of the other side is right. Zhongkang must not make any mistakes, lest he be blamed by the world.
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Although Xu Chu was still angry when he heard this, he still regained some consciousness. He stopped his hands angrily and turned to look at the pottery merchant.
Tao Shang didn't show any anger at all. He just nodded calmly and said calmly: "What Chen Deng said is correct. Zhong Kang, let him down."
Xu Chu refused to accept anyone, but regarded the words of the potter as an imperial edict. Seeing that he had said so, he no longer made it difficult for the messenger. However, when Hu Chi threw the messenger in his hand casually, he immediately threw the messenger away.
Squatting down, he stood aside angrily.
The pottery merchant looked at the messenger with a smile, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry for frightening you."
The messenger was sitting on the ground, still immersed in the fear of Shi Cai. Hearing this, he stood up in a hurry, bowed and said: "No, no, Mr. Tao is too polite."
Tao Shang raised his eyebrows when he heard this. The other party didn't call him Fu Jun, which obviously meant that he didn't recognize his identity as Danyang County Sheriff.
"My generals were a little agitated just now. Their tempers are a bit irritable. They are not as well-educated as Tao. I hope the envoy laughed, so don't be surprised."
The messenger shook his head vigorously when he heard this and was speechless, but his mood calmed down.
The pottery merchant took a scroll of slips and started writing on it. While writing, he said to the envoy: "It is said that it is not polite to come back but not to go back. Mr. Yuan was so kind and wrote to me. Tao is not very grateful. I am so kind."
Bian also wrote a letter, which the troublesome envoy took back for Tao. When he presented it to Mr. Yuan, he said that Mr. Yuan was kind and sincere, Tao accepted it. He only wrote this letter as a way of thanking Mr. Yuan and talking about his feelings. He also asked Mr. Yuan to read it carefully.
Of."
The messenger didn't dare to say no at this moment. He took the pottery merchant's letter, thanked him profusely, and then ran out of the pottery merchant's camp as fast as he could.
Looking at the disappearing figure of the messenger, a strange smile appeared on the corner of the pottery merchant's mouth.
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After returning to Yuan Shu's camp, the envoy did not dare to stay and went directly to Yuan Shu's Chinese army commander's tent.
At this moment, Yuan Shu was gathering civil and military officials in the tent to discuss how to attack Ruxuwu. When he heard that the envoy had returned, he immediately ordered someone to call him into the tent.
After a while, he saw the envoy running into the commander's tent with a embarrassed look on his face.
Seeing the pale face of the envoy, Yuan Shu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked curiously: "What? You look so embarrassed? Could it be that the pottery merchant is making things difficult for you?"
The envoy calmed down his uneasiness and respectfully reported back to Yuan Shu: "Returning to what the general said, Tao Shang's generals learned the meaning of the general's letter. They were all annoyed and very angry, especially one named Xu Chu.
He even wanted to kill his subordinate, but was stopped by the pottery merchant. Under the protection of the pottery merchant, the subordinate managed to escape death and came back alive."
When Yuan Shu heard this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"It seems that Yuan Mou has underestimated this pottery merchant. He is young and well-educated. The content of Yuan Mou's letter was deliberately written in a rude manner, just to force him to fight. I can't tell
This guy is quite smart, and he is actually very polite to you?... He is really not angry at all?"
The envoy nodded vigorously and said: "Not only was he not angry at all, he also spoke kindly to his subordinates, so as to comfort him. To be honest, among his subordinates, Tao Shang, the Taiping Gongzi, is really well-deserved.
, this young man is really a gentleman... Oh, by the way, Tao Shang also asked his subordinates to send a reply letter to the general."
Yuan Shu was surprised when he heard the words, and said: "Okay! There are comings and goings, and the boy from the Tao family knows the rules... Yang Hong, go get the letter and read it to Yuan. Look, this gentleman Tao is...
Do you have anything to say to Yuan?"
In Yuan Shu's tent, counselor Yang Hong went out after hearing the words, took the pottery merchant's letter from the envoy, and opened it to read.
Yang Hong was just about to read it, but when he read the first sentence, his eyes suddenly widened, his face was full of shock, his mouth opened and closed, and he couldn't read.
Yuan Shu waited for a long time, but Yang Hong didn't say anything, and he was quite dissatisfied: "What are you doing? Why don't you read it? Don't you know the characters?"
Yang Hong glanced at Yuan Shu cautiously and said awkwardly: "General, it's just a reply letter. There's nothing to read. I think it's not too late for you to read it yourself after the discussion."
"No!" Yuan Shu seemed to be unable to read the hidden meaning in Yang Hong's words, and said proudly: "Read it now! Read it and let me listen! I just want to see how big this kid is, how big the city is.
I am so humiliated and yet so calm and composed, hehe, Yuan is somewhat interested in him now."
When Yang Hong heard this, his Adam's apple rolled involuntarily, and he thought to himself that if he recited this, you might not be interested in him right away.
But seeing the arrogant expression on Yuan Shu's face and the curious expressions of the generals next to him, Yang Hong also knew that he was riding a tiger at this moment, so he could only slowly read out the contents of the letter to everyone present.
"Yuan Shu, I'll fuck your mother-in-law..."
"Bang!"
Before he could finish the sentence, he saw Yuan Shu falling down from the couch over there, almost falling to his knees.
"General!"
"Lord!"
Zhang Xun and Ji Ling hurried forward and helped Yuan Shu up from the ground.
Yuan Shu held up the slightly skewed helmet on his forehead, looked around, suddenly strode forward, kicked Yang Hong back, and became angry: "You bastard! How dare you scold me! Are you looking for death?
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Yang Hong stood up in a hurry, bowed to Yuan Shu and begged: "General, you wrongly blame this subordinate. What I just read is the content of the letter written by the pottery merchant to you.
Ah! It’s not what I said! General, my subordinates will not dare to do it again! This letter... this letter... do you see it?"
Yuan Shu looked at Yang Hong fiercely, then turned to glare at the messenger who came back with the letter, pointed at Ji Ling and said: "Ji Ling, read it!"
Ji Lingnai is a military commander, a man of heroic nature and not afraid of others.
But when he saw that this man just took the slip away from Yang Hong's hand, he was not afraid of anything, and read loudly at the top of his voice: "Yuan Shu, screw you! Are you angry with me when you write a letter? A gentleman will never take revenge."
Overnight! If you are angry with me today, I will take advantage of today to get this anger back no matter what I say..."
Inside the tent, there was silence, and you could hear the falling leaves.
The corner of Yuan Shu's mouth twitched, he turned to look at the trembling messenger, and sneered: "Is this what you call a gentleman? Is this what you call cultured? Is this what you call not angry at all?"
The envoy was completely stunned at this moment. He looked at Yuan Shu blankly and murmured: "It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be like this... He, he did look like he was fine just now..."
Yuan Shu was too lazy to pay attention to him, turned to Ji Ling and said: "Keep reading!"
Ji Ling had no vision and continued carelessly: "Yuan Shu, you said in your letter that I am not worthy of my reputation as Danyang Prefect. Wu Jingcai should be Danyang Prefect. But the problem is that Wu Jing is already disabled. He is stupid and bedridden. He is not worthy of his name."
What’s the use of living up to the name?”
Yuan Shu's face became darker and darker.
"I'm really not afraid to tell you that I was the one who killed Wu Jing! Your Grandpa Tao found someone to kill him! How about it? Hahaha! You can bite me if you have the guts!"