I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 404 The sinister and evil Du Yu

Everyone in the hall stood up and looked outside in unison.

That announcement made everyone in the hall feel like a bolt from the blue.

Sun Quan's eyes widened and he walked quickly: "Come in quickly!"

The messenger hurried in, holding a piece of information sent by Sun Wei.

"Your Majesty! Wuchang has been captured by the Shu army!"

It can be seen that the conditions of this messenger are more difficult than the previous one. He walked overland and rode a horse.

His lips were chapped, his face was pale, he was already very weak, and he was on the verge of collapse.

"How is this possible?" Gu Tan exclaimed, "Jiangxia County has 50,000 elite soldiers, and it's only been a few days!"

"Half a day!" Sun Quan said suddenly, the expression on his face froze, and his usually bright eyes suddenly became dull.

The energy in his body seemed to be drained out in an instant.

"The Shu army captured Wuchang in half a day..." Sun Quan murmured, "In half a day..."

Everyone stared at Sun Quan with wide eyes. Everyone couldn't believe it, but everyone couldn't help but believe it.

Sun Hong, who had been so righteous just now, began to sweat on his forehead.

What the hell!

This script is wrong!

"Your Majesty, Jianye has sufficient troops, and you are personally in charge. The top and bottom are united. As long as Li Jian is held back, the Wei State will send troops. Even if it is to attack Xiangyang, Li Jian will not dare to go deep alone for too long!"

Gu Tan was the first to react.

"As long as we can hold on, the situation will change."

Sun Quan was still silent.

Gu Tan added: "Your Majesty, we can't fight head-on. We should send people to sue for peace immediately. Li Jian must be afraid, and he doesn't want to fight us head-on."

This time, Sun Hong did not come out to speak. He shrank in the crowd and looked away.

Of course, the one who is most afraid is Sun Wei.

He is the supreme commander of this Jianye defense war, with 90,000 elite troops at his disposal.

Moreover, each county is still recruiting strong men, and they will come as soon as they can recruit another 100,000 people.

But when he heard that Wuchang had been defeated in half a day, Sun Wei became a little scared.

This battle seems to have exceeded expectations!

Sun Quan said: "Zitong, what do you think?"

Sun Wei immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think what Gu Taichang said is reasonable."

"Okay, Zizhi, you go see Li Jian again and ask him to make some conditions. Just say that as long as he withdraws his troops, I can agree to his conditions."

"Here."

In the evening, the river surface is sparkling.

Gu Cheng once again arrived at the Han army's main ship.

"General."

"There's going to be a war." Li Heng didn't even look at Gu Cheng. He sat there reading a book, the evening breeze caressing the tea in the cup, "Aren't you afraid that I won't let you go back this time?"

"The general is a hero of his time, how can he be the same as someone like me?"

Gu Cheng's tone completely changed, completely different from before.

"My Lord has said that there must be a misunderstanding. To show our sincerity, we are willing to give the general some property as long as the general can withdraw his troops."

"do not fight?"

"The fact that our friendship with the big man has lasted for so many years shows that it is extremely real."

"That's not what Zizhi said before."

"I was rude before."

Li Heng knew that Sun Quan had received the military report, and his attitude changed drastically.

"Does the envoy think that we can bribe our general with some property?" Du Yu said.

"That's not the case. If the general has any conditions, just ask for them."

Li Heng pretended to hesitate for a moment and said, "It's not impossible."

"Within one or two days, hand over fifty million catties of copper coins." There are about 63 copper coins in one catty, so 5000 million catties is 31.5 billion copper coins.

According to the monetary system of the Tang and Song Dynasties, it is equivalent to 315 million guan.

Most of China's copper mines are concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Jiangdong and Jiangxi.

The person who was most in need of copper coins was Sun Quan. Sun Quan's way to fight against the establishment of paper currency credit was to increase his reserves of copper coins.

But even if Sun Quan had more copper coins, he would not be able to come up with 31.5 billion coins in two days.

This condition was obviously Li Heng's deliberate attempt to embarrass Sun Quan.

"This..." Gu Cheng was suddenly in trouble.

"What?" Li Heng said lightly, "It's just the first condition, but you don't agree to it?"

"General, this is really..."

"see a visitor out!"

"I will return to consult with my lord."

"You don't even have the right to make a decision, why are you here to talk?" Li Heng said, "You have come here for the second time. Does Sun Quan think that by sending people to deliberately sue for peace and delay me, the Wei army will come for reinforcements?"

When Li Heng revealed his purpose, Gu Cheng's heart sank, but he said, "I definitely don't dare."

"Then please come back."

"General, please tell me about the second point?"

"Do you agree to the first point?"

"promise."

"The second point is that the migration of people on both sides can no longer be prohibited."

When Gu Cheng heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

That's it?

I thought the lion was about to open its mouth again.

"can."

"The third point is that Han merchants should no longer be prohibited from entering the Kingdom of Wu."

"can!"

"Gone."

"Gone?"

"Not satisfied?"

"No, no, I will go back immediately and report to my lord."

When Gu Cheng returned, it was already late, but Sun Quan and the ministers were waiting for him in the hall.

He told Li Heng's conditions, and when he mentioned the first point, everyone exclaimed.

"Li Jian clearly wants to fight!" Zhang Xiu jumped out, "We can't negotiate for peace, we have to take a tough stance!"

When Sun Hong saw Zhang Xiu jumping out, he felt that he could do it again. He also jumped out: "Yes, Your Majesty! We must fight the Shu army immediately!"

Gu Tan said: "Your Majesty, we can definitely give Li Jian a sum of money first to make Li Jian think that we are sincere. When he gets the first sum of money, he must be thinking about the second sum. By dragging him like this, he keeps getting money. I won’t say anything.”

"Your Majesty, Li Jian obviously mentioned this on purpose." Sun Hong said.

"But Li Jian's second and third points were very normal, and he also mentioned that the two countries should maintain trade in the future." Sun Quan said, "This shows that he is willing to cease war."

Sun Quan nodded and said.

"Now send an order to prepare the first sum of money and find a way to delay Li Jian."

"His Majesty……"

"No need to say any more."

Early the next morning, the first amount of money was delivered to Li Heng, totaling 100,000 pieces.

While eating noodles, Li Heng said to Du Yu: "Look, Sun Quan has planned to give us money in multiple batches, deliberately hanging us."

"When the time comes, the fight will begin." Du Yu also ate noodles, "As soon as we take action, the peacemaker's strategy will be broken, and the warlord will raise his head."

However, Lu Ju asked doubtfully: "Aren't the main war faction raising their heads to fight us head-on?"

This goes against our purpose!
Isn't it about outsmarting you?
Du Yu looked at Lu Zhi with a retarded look and said, "You are wrong. When the main war faction raises its head, the first thing it does is not to fight us head-on, but to clean up the main war faction first."

(End of this chapter)