Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1554 Expansion of the Army
It was very difficult for Sun Ce to figure out Cao Cao's thoughts.

First, Cao Cao's city is too deep.

Second, although Sun Ce has learned to deal with it calmly, he has always been in the skill of fighting mind and eye, and does not have much talent.

Although during the meeting, he was able to stabilize his mentality and respond freely to whatever Cao Cao said, but that was just one of the plans he had imagined countless times in his mind.

So I can handle it.

But if he wanted to rely on this meeting to figure out the mind of the great hero who is holding the emperor to make the princes, it is basically difficult to do.

Of course, this meeting, Sun Ce still thinks it was a success.

He still thinks that he coped well and couldn't figure out Cao Cao's thoughts, but he can express his thoughts to Cao Cao.

Now it's up to Cao Cao how to deal with it next.

"What Cao Mengde thinks is actually not important, but what the king said is what he wants is the most important thing!" Lu Su's mouth raised a playful smile: "This person has the appearance of a hero, the heart of a powerful minister. , but may not be willing to replace him, many people may think that the throne is what he wants, but I think that Cao Mengde may not be willing to be emperor!"

"why?"

This made Sun Ce a little puzzled: "Zijing, that position is so attractive, not to mention him, even my father, myself, are all moved, how could he not be moved!"

"Being moved doesn't mean you're willing to move!"

Lu Su said softly: "Looking at these years, King Wei's attitude and actions towards the Son of Heaven show that he is more willing to hold the Son of Heaven hostage and order the world, and be a powerful minister instead of replacing him!"

"He wants to be Huo Guang?"

Sun Ce stared.

"Not necessarily!" Lu Su shook his head: "It's true that he wants to be a Hanchen, but he may be smarter than Huo Guang!"

"How to say?" Sun Ce became interested. His greatest interest now is to understand Cao Cao. Only by understanding Cao Cao can he have the courage to stay here in Xudu, otherwise he has to find a way out of the city.

"What will happen to Huo Guang?" Lu Su asked.

"Being liquidated!" Sun Ce thought for a while, and said, "I'm afraid this is the inevitable result. If he dare not take that step, dare not be Wang Mang, he will naturally be liquidated!"

Huo Guang is a generation of power ministers. He had the opportunity to overthrow the Han Dynasty and replace it, but in the end he only became a power minister, controlling power instead of taking positions.

This gave the Han Dynasty a chance to come back later.

The entire Huo family was slaughtered because of this.

"Cao Mengde is not Huo Guang, so the Cao family will not end up like the Huo family!" Lu Su said: "Cao Mengde's power is in the court. Cultivate Cao Zixiu, this person is an unstoppable hero, there is a big one, I am alive, inside and outside the court, listen to me, I am dead, whatever you want, leave a way for the court, and for the Cao family, as for what will happen in the future If you do it, then it’s up to future generations, don’t care about his affairs!”

"Someone with such an idea?" Sun Ce frowned.

"What your majesty thinks does not mean that others think so, so don't try to figure out Cao Mengde's thoughts easily, or you will fall into Cao Mengde's scheme!"

Lu Su reminded: "Not only Cao Mengde, but also Zimulongtu tomorrow. They are all unworldly heroes with different thoughts from ordinary people. The more they speculate, the more different they appear!"

"Understood!"

Sun Ce took a deep breath and calmed down.

Sometimes he is more depressed.

Not as good as Cao Cao, he admitted that Cao Cao and his father, Sun Jian, were of the same generation, and it was meaningless to argue, but he was somewhat upset when Mu Jing kept pushing him down.

Among his peers, only Mu Jing could put him under enormous pressure, allowing him to suppress his temper even if he had a temper.

His growth was due to Sun Jian's education and Mujing's contribution. It wasn't for Mujing, the bright pearl in the sea, shining a peerless light that shines on the world, and would not have given him such great pressure, and would not have taught him to learn to be humble. Learn to be patient.

"The King of Wei wants me to come forward to persuade Liu Xuande to come to Xudu!" Sun Ce regained his senses and became more energetic. He is the kind of person who is more frustrated and has fighting spirit. Others may be depressed, but he does not Yes, he looked at Lu Su and asked in a low voice, "How do you think I should respond?"

"You agreed?" Lu Su asked.

"Yes!"

Sun Ce nodded.

"Good thing!" Lu Su replied softly, saying: "This is an opportunity. The king alone is no match for King Wei's prestige. If we can unite with Uncle Liu Huang, Jiang Dong and Youyan, we must consider what Wei Wang wants to do." Take a look at your combined combat power!"

"Then tell me, will Liu Xuande join forces with me?" Sun Ce hesitated: "This person is very thoughtful and difficult to calculate!"

"There is no need to calculate him, as long as there is interest!"

Lu Su said: "Liu Xuande is the uncle of the current emperor. This is a good name, but under the good name, there is also an unshirkable pressure. If Hebei is destroyed and he does not enter Xudu, then he may be charged with splitting the big man. He can't take it!"

Perhaps it could be said that Youyan couldn't bear the combined attack of Central Plains and Jiangdong.

"So he will come to Xudu sooner or later!"

Sun Ce understood it, and said, "It's much easier this way. I just need to write a confidential letter to him, and then explain the reasoning to him clearly. I believe he won't reject me!"

"not enough!"

Lu Su said: "It's not enough just not to refuse, we also need him to take the initiative to meet him to form a deterrent effect!"

"What does Zijing mean?" Sun Ce frowned, a little confused.

"We must let a person of weight, on behalf of Jiangdong Wu, use Youyan!" Lu Su said: "Otherwise, if there is no sincerity, it will be difficult to convince him to trust us. Without trust, there will be no alliance, even if it is a face-to-face Discord will lead to defeat on the battlefield!"

"It makes sense!"

Sun Ce thought for a while and said, "Others are not qualified. There are not many people in our old Sun's family who can be used. The second child can be alone. It is enough to suppress Jiangdong. Let uncle go!"

Sun Jian also has a younger brother.

Named Sun Jing, Sun Youtai.

This identity is enough to replace Jiangdong Wu and take a trip to Youyan.

He immediately wrote two secret letters, then waxed them and sent them to Jiangdong immediately. One of the secret letters was for Sun Jing, and the other was for Sun Jing to take to Youyan.

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Entering the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Taiwu, there is a vast expanse between the heaven and the earth, and the silver equipment is no longer limited to the city, but covers the earth. The vast snow has dyed the sky and the earth into white.

Yudu City.

Enter Daming Palace.

Mujing sat in the middle, with braziers on the left and right sides, but the heat was not volatile enough, as long as he sat on the chair for too long, he would feel a little chilly.

From time to time, I have to get up and move around.

At this time, he especially missed the air conditioner.

But air-conditioning is hopeless. If you think about floor heating, it is possible. You don’t need to be tall, but there are local methods of floor heating, which can also be used for heating.

"Aqiu!"

After he sneezed, his nose felt much more comfortable, and he focused on the notebook on the table again.

There was coming and going, he put on Hu Zhao, how could Hu Zhao let go so easily, and naturally he would give him some priority in business affairs.

Hu Zhao didn't need to do anything, all he needed to do was send more playbooks to the ninth floor, which was enough to make Mu Jing gnash his teeth and hate him to the bone.

This trick, Zhi Mujing, shouldn't be too easy.

At this time, Mujing couldn't give in.

Can only stalemate.

Anyway, he's been so busy recently that he doesn't even have the heart to flip cards to make a baby when he goes back at night. If he can, he really wants to kill Hu Zhao directly.

"Type the memorandum from the Yongzhou side, and tell the Zhengshitang that they will handle this matter. Governor Huangfu's proposal, they can discuss it as appropriate!"

Mu Jing approved a bright red reading on the playbook, handed the playbook to Huo Yu, and said coldly.

"Yes!"

Huo Yu took the lead.

"Pang Shanmin!"

"Your Majesty, the official is here!" The young man walked in from the outside.

"Take this melody back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and you go and tell Prime Minister Hu that you don't want to send trivial things to me. If they can't do it, tell me earlier, and I will replace you!"

Mu Jing said viciously.

"Your Majesty, do you want to pass on the original words?" Pang Shanmin is the nomination certificate sent by the Pang family. The representative of Pang's admission to the official position also represents Pang's closeness, and it also represents Pang Degong's mind. Small officials, but the seventh-rank officials in front of the prime minister's gate, those under the emperor's command, not to mention the seventh-rank officials, fifth- and sixth-rank officials, are replaced by people, and those who can go up to nine floors are all confidantes of Mu Jing's confidants, the elite of Ming Dynasty. Among the elite, any memorial here can directly shake a county, or even a state.

"Exact words!"

Mu Jing said fiercely.

He can't get used to this problem. If he wants to fight, he will continue to fight.

Mu Jing also knew in his heart that the two years without war must have been a time of fighting among court officials. The court is still in harmony now, because everyone has not figured out the bottom line in the new dynasty, but it is impossible for them to be in harmony all the time. So harmonious.

Monarchy, ministerial power, military power, political power, and power struggles are sometimes more brutal, much more tragic than fighting outside.

If the New Deal wins and completely becomes the mainstream policy of the Ming Dynasty, many people will at least resign and return to their hometowns, and even worse, they will be liquidated.

And when the New Deal was defeated, let alone what would happen to Mu Jing, even his minions, Xu Shu, Wei Ke, Jiang Wan, Kuai Liang, etc., would be kicked out regardless of their official positions.

This is politics.

"Yes!" Pang Shanmin accepted the order, took a large chorus book, and left the ninth floor.

At this time, Mujing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He took a sip of hot tea, looked at the large chorus on the desk, and his face grew long again.

"Your Majesty, please join me in politics!"

"Let him come up!"

Mujing said while reviewing the playbook.

"Yes!"

Soon someone brought Xi Zhicai up, but there was no need to bring one, he walked in leisurely by himself.

Although the outer area is relatively strict, the interior of the Daming Palace is actually not too strict. Although Mu Jing can guard against them, the Ming officials, they can only be in the dark. The small officials below, if they want to go up to the nine floors to see the emperor, they just need to inform them.

"I haven't seen any movement from you recently. I thought you should be hibernating. What kind of wind brought you here!" Mu Jing put down his writing brush, ignored the notes he was reviewing, stood up and moved his body.

Regarding Xi Zhicai, I don't seem to have any impression of it recently. He is low-key, not only Xi Zhicai, including Huang Zhong, the entire Privy Council is very low-key.

Perhaps this is the last wish of the Privy Council, unwilling to participate in the power struggle between Hu Zhao Caiyong and Mu Jing, unwilling to put too much energy on the New Deal, but to concentrate on military affairs.

As for Mu Jing, Hu Zhao, and Cai Yong, they also deliberately put them aside, and they would not drag the Privy Council in if the army was outside.

Of course, if the Privy Council wants to hide from a major event that involves the entire imperial court, it is impossible to avoid it.

"A copy of the military expansion plan you proposed before has already come out. Our boss asked me to review it for you first, to see if you have any other ideas, and then we can change it!"

Xi Zhicai will not be too polite to Mu Jing, especially if it is not a court gathering, not a meeting in Zhaoming Pavilion, when they are alone, they will not deliberately distance themselves from Mu Jing.

This is his cleverness, he knows how to advance and retreat, but he also knows Mujing's thoughts, it's not easy to be alone, sometimes, you need one or two people who talk about your thoughts, in front of outsiders, and when there is no one, That's a different attitude.

This is also one of the reasons why he has always been by Mujing's side, the number one adviser, and the number one confidant.

He came this time to expand the army.

The expansion of the army was secretly ordered by Mu Jing to Huang Zhong and Xi Zhicai. Before the Zhaoming Pavilion meeting, even the Political Affairs Hall and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were hiding it.

Mu Jing has already started preparing for the expansion of the army since he withdrew his troops.

The Ming Dynasty ruled half of the world in the Western Dynasty, Guanzhong, Jingxiang, Bashu, Jiaozhou, Xiliang, these places belonged to Mujing, and the population also accounted for more than half of the country.

The line of defense was stretched even further.

Today's military strength is no longer enough to support Ming's request for unification of the world.

Military expansion is naturally the only way.

But it can't be fanfare, it will attract attention.

Can only come quietly.

Mu Jing opened Xi Zhicai and handed over the plan. He looked carefully, and it should be a plan that Huang Zhong, Xi Zhicai, Li Yan, Chen Gong, Zhang Liao and others participated in.

"Too petty!" Mu Jing thought for a while and said.

"Then what do you mean?" Xi Zhicai asked.

"I will give the world three years, and I will also give us three years. If you don't know how to fight for three years, once you make a move, it will be a thunderbolt!"

Mu Jing looked at Xi Zhicai and said, "You should understand me, the last thing I want is to fight a tug-of-war, it will hurt us Daming too much!"

From a certain point of view, war is lost regardless of victory or defeat. It is the people who lose and the economy that loses.

The huge destruction caused the population to drop sharply and the economy to regress.

These are all big questions.

And what Mu Jing wanted was to set the world in one battle and not give them time to delay, so he needed more military support and more combat power support.

(End of this chapter)