Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei seeks the master and seeks to conquer the world

Chapter 269 Fishing in Troubled Waters, Zheng Ping Goes North by Boat

Bohai County, Nanpi City.

An unexpected visitor came to the city, it was Guo Tu, Yuan Shao's trusted adviser.

As soon as Guo Tu saw Zhang Yun, he took out Yuan Shao's secret order: "General Zhang, the general has military orders!"

Zhang Yun glanced at the content of the military order, and his expression changed suddenly: "Guo Shizhong, is this really the general's military order?"

Guo Tu sneered: "General Zhang, do you think I will still lie to you? If there is no secret order from the general, how could I come to Nanpi to suffer?"

Zhang Yun still had doubts in his eyes: "He doesn't understand! Wouldn't it damage the general's reputation to attack Duke Xuande's soldiers at this time?"

Guo Tu's gaze became more sinister: "General Zhang, then Liu Bei is Qingzhou Shepherd of the Puppet Dynasty and the enemy of the General. You call Liu Bei Duke Xuande, are you still thinking about the old love?"

Zhang He broke out in a cold sweat, and quickly argued: "Shizhong Guo misunderstood, that Xuan, that Liu Bei is the enemy of the general, and naturally He is also the enemy."

"He is just worried that the general's reputation may be damaged."

Guo Tu's tone was not kind: "Liu Bei is just a false court official, how dare he get involved in the general's killing of Gongsun Zan."

"If he didn't plan to deal with Gongsun Zan, how could the general allow Liu Bei to send troops to Jizhou?"

"This time, the general wants Liu Bei to understand that if he meddles indiscriminately, he will die!"

"From now on, all the soldiers and horses in Nanpi City will be dispatched by me, Guo Tu."

"General Zhang, don't make mistakes!"

Zhang Yun hurriedly bowed his hands in salute, and lowered his posture: "Don't doubt Guo Shizhong, He's family and relatives are all in Zhuocheng, so how can there be two hearts?"

"It's good to know!" Guo Tu shook his sleeves with an arrogant expression: "Prepare a house for me, if you want to bring a pool, prepare some pretty maids for me, don't prevaricate with pickled things."

Zhang He secretly clenched his fists and agreed to Guo Tu's request.

"The general is going to kill Zhao Yun, and He and Duke Xuande have formed a deadly feud." Zhang He couldn't help but secretly sighed.

His family members were in Zhuocheng, so Zhang Yun dared not disobey Yuan Shao's orders.

Thinking of the future feud with Liu Bei, Zhang Yun felt depressed for a while.

Before Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan supported the new emperor, Liu Bei could be said to have supported and recommended Zhang He.

Zhang He was also a Hanchen before, even if he was under Yuan Shao's command, he would not feel any discomfort.

After all, Zhang He is capable and he is from a noble family in Hejian, Yuan Shao will not abandon Zhang He just because Zhang He has some friendship with Liu Bei.

But it's different now, the two emperors are in the same sky, and Zhang He and Liu Bei belong to two countries.

When Cao Cao was spreading rumors, although Yuan Shao ordered Zhang He to garrison Nanpi, he asked Zhang He to move his family to Zhuocheng.

Obviously, Yuan Shao had suspicions about Zhang Yun!
After all, Zhang He has an old relationship with Liu Bei, if he can't control Zhang He's family, Zhang He will vote if he is not careful.

Guo Tu came to Nanpi to prevent Zhang He from disobeying the military order and letting Zhao Yun go by finding an excuse.

Leling City.

The flag of the Sixth Battalion of Qingzhou dances with the wind. Liu Bei claims to have stationed [-] elite soldiers here.

Before that, the Sixth Battalion set up flags and bluffed, which meant that Sun Jian's [-]-battalion was actually stationed in Leling City.

This information was also brought back to Zhuocheng by Xun Chen, and it was unanimously approved by Yuan Shao and his men and women.

Sun Jian also believed that he was in Leling City for bluffing.

But today, Sun Jian is going to reject his previous judgment.

"Guan Junhou, General Dian, why are you two here?" Sun Jian looked at Guan Yu and Dian Wei in astonishment.

If only Dian Wei came to Leling City, Sun Jian would not be so surprised. After all, Dian Wei is only the deputy general of the Ruishi Battalion, and there is no guarding one side now.

But Xuzhou Mu Guanyu came to Leling City, which was beyond Sun Jian's surprise.

Guan Yu stroked his beautiful beard, Danfeng's eyes were as lonely as ever: "Received the military division's military order, Guan chose a thousand elites to go north secretly."

Dian Wei also said: "I am the same. The military commander ordered me to lead a battalion of [-] elite soldiers and secretly go north to Leling City. But I am not called Dian Wei now, but Zhang Fei now."

"Remember, my name is Zhang Fei now!"

"My weapons have all been replaced with big snake spears."

Dian Wei spoke to me one by one, and the tone of his speech was quite similar to that of Zhang Fei at first glance.

Guan Yu came to Leling City, and Dian Wei pretended to be Zhang Fei to come to Leling City. This abnormal deployment made Sun Jian asked in surprise: "Could the military commander want to attack Nanpi?"

Guan Yu shook his head: "The military adviser only asked Guan to go north to Leling City to wait for the opportunity, but did not tell Guan about the rest."

Dian Wei's answer was the same: "I got the same order as my second brother, to go north to Leling City and wait for the opportunity."

Sun Jian frowned: "Waiting for the opportunity, that is whether to fight or not to fight. Could it be that Yuan Shao is worried that Yuan Shao will go back and kill General Zhao, so he asked me to respond?"

Dian Wei was too lazy to think, and said: "This time I brought Mr. Zigang, and my second brother also let Mr. Yuanlong join the army. General Sun, is there anyone in your army who can make suggestions?"

"I'm waiting for the general, why bother to think hard, let a few marching military divisions discuss it."

It has to be said that Dian Wei learned Zhang Fei quite alike. If Sun Jian didn't know Zhang Fei, he probably would have believed in the "fake Zhang Fei".

Sun Jian shook his head, "We don't have marching divisions in our army."

Dian Wei's eyes widened: "No way? You don't even have a military adviser in your army, and you can't even find anyone to consult with you during the war?"

Sun Jian couldn't help sighing: "Originally, I left the position of marching military adviser to my son Sun Ce's brother-in-law Zhou Yu, so I didn't ask General Zhengbei to appoint a wise man."

"As a result, Ayu went to the White Robe Camp as a military adviser."

Thinking that both Sun Ce and Zhou Yu had gone to the White Robe Camp, Sun Jian felt a toothache.

Without Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, is the broken barracks still called broken barracks?

Sun Jian looked behind Guan Yu and Dian Wei, Chen Deng and Zhang Hong, who were marching military advisers, bowed their hands together and said, "The two gentlemen are here, do you know what we are going to do next?"

Zhang Hong smiled lightly: "Since we are waiting for the opportunity, then naturally we just need to wait for the opportunity."

"General Sun must conceal our whereabouts, and don't let Yuan Shaojun in Nanpi notice something strange by leaking the news."

"When the time comes, there will naturally be countermeasures."

Chen Deng also said with a smile: "I have guessed a thing or two about the purpose of the conspiracy. But this is not the time to tell the truth. As brother Zigang said, General Sun only needs to conceal our whereabouts."

"The Sixth Battalion set up a flag, false and true, which happened to be our cover."

Seeing that Zhang Hong and Chen Deng were half-talking, Sun Jian knew that the secrets in it were beyond his current self's ability to know, so he didn't ask any more questions, but instead opened up a new area for the two thousand new soldiers in the city alone. The barracks station.

At the same time, a large number of spies were also sent to Bohai County to inquire about intelligence.

And this time.

Zheng Ping, who was deployed in Hebei, was listening to music and dancing on a merchant ship.

The two young boys, Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun, were sitting against each other, fighting happily on the chessboard.

Da da da.
There was a sound of footsteps, and another handsome young man came. It was Liu Ye, one of the three outstanding youths in Qingzhou: "Military teacher, further ahead is the mouth of the Juma River. The interrogation is relatively strict. The sky will enter the river again."

The Juma River originates from the depths of the Taihang Mountains, flows along the Taihang Mountains in the Grand Canyon, flows from west to east, through Shidu, and from Yidu to the North China Plain.

The location of Zheng Ping's fleet happened to be at the mouth of the Juma River.

"Who is checking now?"

"Xu You's nephew Xu Yi."

"Give Xu Yi a boat, and say that Youzhou is at war recently, and it is not convenient to sell salt. I hope Xu Yi can help find some buyers. We will sell the salt here at the mouth of the sea."

"Military division, is this movement too loud?"

Liu Ye was a little worried.

Although the north and the south have not banned trade, the situation between the north and the south has become somewhat tense recently, and the inspection of merchant ships has become more stringent than before.

Zheng Ping shook his fan and laughed lightly: "Is this still a big noise? I didn't go directly to the west of Juma River and enter Zhuojun, so I was already restrained."

Liu Ye suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Military division, do you still want to take the Juma River to Zhuojun?Yuan Shao is really blind!

Although Liu Ye served as Zheng Ping's assistant on the ship this time, he didn't understand Zheng Ping's purpose for going north.

Zheng Ping's verbal reason is very simple, to bring Liu Ye, Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun to see the world.

"Don't panic! We're just salt merchants, who will have trouble with money?" Zheng Ping said in a calm tone: "The dispute between the North and the South is not about the people, Yuan Shao is not stupid enough to use force against the salt merchants."

Although Liu Ye is talented, but now he is just a young man who has not seen much in the world.

Seeing too little, this understanding naturally cannot keep up with Zheng Ping's thinking.

Unlike Yuan Shu, a heterogeneous member of the rich and noble family, Yuan Shao's way of doing things is more inclined to the orthodox way of the rich and noble family, putting interests first.

If the general of Zhuocheng was replaced by Yuan Shu, facing the salt merchants from Qingzhou, Yuan Shu would just say: Grab!

Yuan Shao is different, Yuan Shao's way of doing things is also a way of benevolence.

Unlike Liu Bei's benevolence, Yuan Shao's benevolence is more reflected in tolerance.

Be kind and tolerant, and be attached to the world.

Speak decisively in the face of danger, and step forward wisely and bravely.

Shi Buende, the world's gentry benefited from it.

Therefore, even if Yuan Shao knew that it was a salt merchant from Qingzhou, he would not snatch it like Yuan Shu, nor would he prefer to kill by mistake like Cao Cao.

Up and down.

If Yuan Shao is like this, the civil and military under Yuan Shao's command will naturally not worry about it. Finding buyers for the salt merchants in Qingzhou will be judged as collaborating with the enemy.

Profitability is the most important thing.

Of course, it is not ruled out that someone will deliberately use this matter to make things worse.

Xu Yi got the benefit, and the investigation of this salt merchant fleet was not so strict.

After all, this salt merchant fleet will not enter the Juma River, but just dock at the mouth of the Juma River near the Bohai Sea.

Naturally, Xu Yi would not miss such a risk-free and beneficial thing.

soon.

Xu Yi found a buyer and booked all the salt purchases for Zheng Ping's caravan.

shore.

Xu Yi hosted a banquet in honor of Zheng Ping, who called himself "Xu Ping".

"Brother Xu is heroic, it's an honor to meet Brother Xu!" It seems that Xu Yi's attitude towards Zheng Ping is very friendly because he has the same surname as Xu.

Zheng Ping's appearance has changed a lot. Not only has he gained a long beard, but he is also ten years older. Xu Yikou, who is nearly thirty years old, insists on calling Zheng Ping his brother.

Zheng Ping warmly responded to Xu Yi: "If it wasn't for the help of my virtuous brother, I would have lost everything when I came to Youzhou to sell salt for my brother this time."

Xu Yi laughed: "Brother Xu is too polite. When you come to Youzhou to sell salt, as long as you report my name, Xu Yi, no one will dare to stop Brother Xu's fleet."

While chatting and laughing, Zheng Ping asked someone to fetch another sandalwood box, and carefully pushed it in front of Xu Yi: "My dear brother, this is dragon saliva from the depths of the Eastern Sea."

"Brother intends to give it to the emperor in Zhuocheng, and I ask my virtuous brother to do it for me."

Xu Yi didn't answer, but asked meaningfully: "Brother Xu, you gave dragon saliva to the emperor, but not to the general, I'm afraid it's not easy to handle."

Zheng Ping explained: "Young brother misunderstood. How could the general value this quality of dragon saliva? But giving it to the emperor is different."

"This can be more or less beneficial."

Xu Yi pushed the sandalwood box back and declined politely: "Brother Xu, it's not that I won't help you, but that I'm not qualified to see the emperor at all. Naturally, you won't get the benefits you want."

"Brother Xu, I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. The Son of Heaven is just a marionette. If you have the heart, why don't you please the General."

"This dragon saliva, although the general doesn't like it, but the youngest son of the general, Mr. Yuan Mai, must be able to look up to it."

"The general dotes on the young master very much. If the young master is happy, the general will give you whatever you want."

Zheng Ping pretended to be happy: "Really?"

Xu Yi's eyes were full of arrogance: "Based on the relationship between my uncle and the general, such secrets can still be found out. If Brother Xu trusts me, how about giving this dragon saliva to the young master for Brother Xu?"

Zheng Ping pushed the sandalwood box to Xu Yi again, and said with a smile: "Of course, I trust my virtuous brother."

Xu Yi put the sandalwood box into his arms, couldn't hold back the joy in his eyes, and asked, "I don't know, brother Xu, what benefits do you want?"

Zheng Ping glanced around vigilantly, then approached Xu Yi, and lowered his voice: "Brother, I just want an order to avoid death."

"Exemption order?" Xu Yi squinted his eyes, and asked tentatively, "Brother Xu, do you want to be an internal response?"

Zheng Ping shook his head: "Brother misunderstood. It's just a decree to avoid death. This should be a brother. If the general wins, then the brother can guarantee that the salt merchants in Qingzhou will respect the general. "

"But if the general loses."

Zheng Ping cut off the words on purpose, but Xu Yi also understood that the salt merchants in Qingzhou were going to be fools!

"Brother Xu, I understand what you mean." Xu Yi's eyes rolled: "I can only ask for this order to avoid death for you."

Zheng Ping took out another sandalwood box and handed it to Xu Yi: "Naturally! I heard that my good brother likes to add Lin'er. This is a thousand-year-old ginseng plant. It is a small gift from my brother to your son. Please accept it."

Xu Yi's eyes widened in an instant, he snatched the sandalwood box away, sniffed the old ginseng's year, and then laughed loudly: "Brother Xu, you are welcome, what gift do you want for the kid?"

After Xu Yi left happily, Zheng Ping returned to the boathouse, wiped his face, and restored his normal appearance.

"Sure enough, Xu Yi is as greedy as Xu Ziyuan."

"Of course, the more greedy Uncle Xu You is, the easier it is for my plan to succeed."

　Begging for a monthly ticket

　　
　
(End of this chapter)