Three Kingdoms: Heir of Wolong, my father-in-law is Guan Gong

Seeing Cao Pi's hesitation, Sun Quan added fuel to the fire: "Emperor Wei, if you station a heavy army in Shouchun, I will also station a heavy army in Hefei."

"Not to mention the military expenditure involved, it is also easy for the soldiers and people on both sides to fear each other."

"On the contrary, if you withdraw the heavy troops, I will also withdraw the heavy troops, so that the merchants can trade with each other without any scruples in Shouchun."

"I am farming in Hefei, and you are farming in Runan and Qiaojun. Both sides can get what they need, so why not?"

"For you and me, a truce is the best thing to do to support the people."

"You don't want to fight Liu Bei, and I don't want to fight Liu Bei either."

Cao Pi was silent.

Although what Sun Quan said made sense, Sun Quan was famous for being capricious.

With Shouchun's troops withdrawn, who knows if Sun Quan will take the opportunity to capture Shouchun again.

a long time.

Cao Pi asked: "King Wu, I have something that I don't understand."

"I also understand your reasons for not wanting to have a head-on conflict with Liu Bei."

"However, with the current situation, why does King Wu need to be the King of Wu of the Han Dynasty again?"

"Wouldn't it be more majestic to be emperor in Jiangdong?"

Seeing that Cao Pi was encouraging him to become emperor again, Sun Quan couldn't help but sneer secretly.

proclaim oneself emperor?

When the time comes, Sun Quan also wants to become emperor!
however.

Now is not the best time for Sun Quan to proclaim himself emperor.

Cao Pi was waiting for Liu Bei to die, and Sun Quan was also waiting for Liu Bei to die.

As long as Liu Bei was alive, he would not be able to allow Sun Quan to proclaim himself emperor.

But once Liu Bei dies, it will be difficult to say.

Cao Pi would take advantage of Liu Bei's death to send troops to attack the Han.

Taking this opportunity to proclaim himself emperor, Sun Quan can truly establish himself as an emperor in the world.

If Liu Chan wants to unite with Sun Quan to resist Cao Pi, he must recognize Sun Quan as the emperor; if Cao Pi does not want Sun Quan to help Liu Chan, he must also recognize Sun Quan as the emperor.

Even if there was opposition in Jiangdong, Sun Quan could put down the rebellion while Liu Chan and Cao Pi were fighting each other.

This is what Sun Quan learned after suffering many losses.

As long as Liu Bei is alive, he cannot easily proclaim himself emperor!

Sun Quan smiled calmly: "Emperor Wei, I haven't argued with you about spreading rumors in Jiangdong, so why bother using such boring tactics again."

"When the time is right, I will naturally proclaim myself emperor and stand proudly in the world."

"If Emperor Wei is really sincere, he should agree to my proposal and use Shouchun as a co-governing area. Neither side is allowed to send troops, only officials to manage merchants."

"The nobles in Jiangdong are all profit-seeking. In addition to bringing out war horses, Emperor Wei also had to get something to interest the nobles in Jiangdong."

"For example, books, string music, etc. can make the nobles happy."

"As long as there are Jiangdong nobles interested in Shouchun, there will be fewer businessmen going to Changsha."

"Even if it cannot be completely controlled, it can allow businessmen under Liu Bei to exchange less grain and rice."

"This is the real commercial sanction!"

Being able to say these words, it is obvious that Sun Quan had a very in-depth study of Changsha.

If those in power control things too harshly, it can easily arouse the disgust of private businessmen.

To achieve the goal, private businessmen must be willing to actively and willingly trade on the mutual market.

in this way.

Sun Quan would not openly offend Liu Bei too harshly, but he could also reduce the export of grain and rice to Liu Bei and increase the import of war horses to Cao Pi.

At the same time, it would also allow Cao Pi to withdraw the garrison in Shouchun, providing an opportunity for the future Northern Expedition to compete for Yuzhou and Xuzhou.

Cao Pi was silent again.

a long time.

Cao Pi, who carefully considered the pros and cons, said: "I will withdraw the troops stationed in Shouchun."

"However, I cannot rule Nanyang together with King Wu, at least not openly."

"If I give up Shouchun, it will be difficult for me to convince the ministers in the court, and it will also arouse Liu Bei's vigilance."

"Nominally, it is still governed by officials sent by me. Secretly, the King of Wu can appoint officials to pretend to be merchants and settle in Shouchun."

"What does King Wu think?"

After weighing it for a moment, Sun Quan said: "The Emperor Wei is cautious and admirable. According to Emperor Wei's proposal, Emperor Wei will still govern Shouchun on the surface."

"As a sign of sincerity, I will only keep two thousand troops in Hefei."

After carefully discussing the details, Cao Pi and Sun Quan made an agreement to use Shouchun as the place of mutual trade.

In this regard.

Both parties are very satisfied.

The two ships separated from each other. Zhuge Ke looked at Cao Pi's ship going away, worried: "King Wu, beware of Cao Pi's deception."

Sun Quan believed and smiled: "It doesn't matter. Now it is Cao Pi who wants something from me, not me who wants something from Cao Pi."

"Show some sincerity first, and then see Cao Pi's reaction; if Cao Pi is not sincere, I will lose some grain and rice at most."

"Mi Fang from Jingzhou recently acquired the skill of making rock sugar from soybean juice. Rock sugar is very popular in Changsha."

"On the surface, I exchanged grain for Cao Pi's war horses. Secretly, I asked merchants from Jiangdong to use Shu brocade, jacquard damask, rock sugar and other rare items to trade with merchants from the north."

"This way both sides won't offend."

"Although Liu Bei has won many times now, it is still difficult to continue the Northern Expedition; as long as Changsha is still trading grain, Liu Bei will only turn a blind eye to Shouchun's transaction."

"What's more, the soldiers and people under Liu Bei's rule have all gone to create fancy clothes, delicious food, and strange skills. If things continue like this, who will still be willing to farm?"

"If this goes on and on, Liu Bei will eventually suffer the consequences."

"Zhuge Qiao is still too young!"

Looking in the direction of Jingzhou, Sun Quan couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth: I have studied Guanzi, Salt and Iron Theory and other great works of sages in the past few years, and I have gained a lot of experience. I have already seen through your tricks.

The mutual market establishment in Shouchun was very smooth.

As Sun Quan expected, merchants from Jiangdong had long wanted to trade with the north.

With Changsha in the west and Shouchun in the north, it is simply a paradise for merchants from Jiangdong!

Exchange of what is needed is the essence of a businessman.

Use grain and rice to exchange for Shu brocade, jacquard damask, rock sugar and other rare items under Liu Bei's rule, and then use some of the rare items to exchange for northern war horses, ores, books and other things Jiangdong lacks.

All of a sudden.

Jiangdong's commerce has become more developed. Although the land and population are not as good as those of Cao Pi and Liu Bei, the wealth growth rate is faster than that under the rule of Cao Ren and Liu Bei.

Seeing the growing treasury, Sun Quan was so happy that he couldn't help but smile.

What was the war about?
All you get is money and food!

With enough money and food, who dares to underestimate Jiangdong?
Jingcheng.

The Shouchun mutual trade and the unprecedented prosperity of Jiangdong's commerce had already reached Zhuge Qiao's ears.

"Although Sun Quan was cautious, he still took the bait."

"Businessmen pursue profit. Once they form a force, the situation in Jiangdong will change qualitatively."

Putting down the information in his hand, Zhuge Qiao had a smile on his face.

Xu Shu frowned and looked at it for a long time, not quite understanding the intention: "Bosong, Jiangdong is getting richer and richer, aren't you worried about Sun Quan's backlash?"

Zhuge Qiao asked for rice wine and ordered the chef to prepare several dishes to go with the wine.

After pouring a bottle of wine for Xu Shu, Zhuge Qiao asked with a smile: "Mr. Xu, have you ever heard of the theory of managing the four people?"

Xu Shu nodded: "Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants are all the pillars of the country. But what does this have to do with Jiangdong?"

Zhuge Qiao poured himself another bottle of wine: "Yes, it has a lot to do with it."

"Although Guan Zi talked about the Four People, most of the emperors and ministers since the Han Dynasty supported Confucianism and regarded scholars as the first among the Four People."

"As a result, the nobles have now become the pillars of the country, while farmers, industry and merchants are just slaves and servants of the nobles."

"The gentry enclosed land to raise tenant farmers and used businessmen and industry as servants, forming a gentry manor headed by both large and small gentry."

"The gentry manor is like a small kingdom, with farmers, industry and merchants all working for the gentry."

"If this situation cannot be changed, in a hundred years these small kingdom-like gentry manors will surely devour each other and grow like the other countries in the Spring and Autumn Period."

"In the end, it will also evolve into the top seven of the Warring States Period, with only a few of the strongest gentry estates left."

"I call it: gatekeeping!"

"No matter who becomes emperor in the future, he will be restricted by the family; even if the emperor wants to marry a woman from a wealthy family, he has to look at the family's face."

"Just like Zhou in the eyes of other countries in the past, he was only pursued as the leader of the Communist Party in name only."

Zhuge Qiao drank the wine in the bottle in one gulp: "Everyone often says that Cao Pi controls the weather, Sun Quan controls the territory, and your Majesty controls the people."

"And I think that Cao Pi's monopoly on the benefits of the gentry, as well as the seven northern states and a large population, means that he has taken advantage of the right time, place, and people."

"To say that Sun Quan has the power and your Majesty has the peace is just self-deception."

"People always have to recognize reality!"

Xu Shu felt the same way: "Bosong's words are reasonable. Meng Gongwei does not want to go south with me but only wants to stay in the puppet Wei. He also thinks that Cao Pi has taken advantage of the right time, place and people."

"The Yizhou and Yongliang that your Majesty acquired are only remote small lands. They can neither win the hearts of the people of the Central Plains nor the prosperity of the Central Plains."

Zhuge Qiao smiled and said: "Therefore, I will not compete with Cao Pi for time, nor will I compete with Cao Pi for location, location, and people."

"What I fight for is the people, the people, the peasants, farmers, industry and merchants!"

"Under Cao Pi's rule, the nobles were the leaders, and the farmers, industry, and merchants were just slaves and servants of the nobles."

"Even if Your Majesty inherits the Han Dynasty, it is impossible for the northern nobles to surrender to Your Majesty."

"Unless Cao Pi is harsh on the nobles in the north, and your majesty can provide more benefits to the nobles, it will be possible for the nobles in the north to abandon Cao Pi and follow your majesty."

"However, Chen Qun's selection of ninth-grade Zhongzheng is the most suitable method for the nobles under the current situation; even if His Majesty also uses Ninth-grade Zhongzheng, he will only be imitating others."

"In the fight for the gentry, neither Your Majesty nor Sun Quan can compete with Cao Pi."

"But the four peoples include not only the gentry, but also farmers, industry and merchants."

"Your Majesty values ​​benevolence, morality and care for the people, and what we are fighting for is scholars and farmers; I value the promotion of commerce with unique skills, and what we are fighting for is industry and commerce." "Only with workers and peasants as the foundation, and supplemented by scholars and merchants, can the four people truly become the pillars of the country. ”

"Scholars value power, businessmen value profits, and these two peoples will compete for farmers and workers. No matter who becomes stronger, they will try to cannibalize farmers and workers and turn them into slaves and servants."

"I deliberately promoted the prosperity of Jiangdong's commerce. I wanted to use Sun Quan's hands to observe the battles between scholars and businessmen to gain experience and lessons in governing."

"My original intention is to use merchants to check the scholars, and to use the scholars to restrain the merchants, so that farmers and workers have room to survive."

"As for farmers and workers, they are not qualified to compete for power and profit. Only by maintaining a balance between scholars and merchants can they not be overly oppressed by the powerful scholars and merchants."

"Cao Pi and Sun Quan both thought that I only thought about the Northern Expedition."

"However, there is no opponent who can check the noble clan. Even if I destroy Cao Pi with my army, the Han Dynasty will evolve into a more terrifying clan than the Yuan clan, the fourth generation and the third prince."

"More than Cao Pi and Sun Quan, I want to have a truce to support the people!"

"It's just that the people I want to support are not scholars and merchants, but farmers and workers!"

Zhuge Qiao once again mentioned the Four Theory of People, Farmers, Industry and Business, and he had a deeper understanding than before.

As a non-professional researcher on the four peoples, Zhuge Qiao gained all his insights with the continuous increase in power and experience in the past few years.

When it comes to professionalism, Zhuge Qiao is not as good as those masters, but when it comes to implementation, Zhuge Qiao believes that the direction is right.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are indispensable.

It is unrealistic to eliminate the gentry.

Unless no one studies and no one serves as an official, this gentry cannot be eliminated.

A farmer can become a scholar, a worker can become a scholar, and a businessman can also become a scholar.

If you can't eliminate the nobles, you have to create a rival for them.

In the current social environment, among the gentry, peasants, industry and commerce, the only ones who could rival the gentry were merchants.

Although the Shang Dynasty is very weak now, and when the Shang Dynasty becomes strong, it is easy for the Shang Dynasty to be too big to lose. However, compared with the Shang Dynasty being the only one, the competition between the two strong ones is the most beneficial to the farmers and workers.

If scholars want to seize the right to speak, they must improve the wages of farmers; if businessmen want to seize the right to speak, they must improve wages to workers.

As for the collusion between scholars and merchants, that is not what Zhuge Qiao needs to consider at the moment.

The food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step. Letting farmers and workers live as citizens instead of as tenant farmers, workers, and servants is the problem that Zhuge Qiao needs to solve urgently.

Only when farmers and workers become the people can the power of farmers and workers be brought together.

otherwise.

It will become like Wang Mang's restructuring. Scholars will oppose it, businessmen will oppose it, and even farmers and workers will oppose it.

It is believed that Wang Mang deprived them of the qualification to be tenant farmers and servants, causing a crisis of survival.

In anything you do, you must first ensure your survival before you can talk about your ideals.

The core reason why Zhuge Qiao can control the overall situation is that Zhuge Qiao is climbing the technology tree, and Sun Quan is just using these technologies to prosper business.

Even if Sun Quan values ​​technology, so what?
Sun Quan did not have the concept of future generations of machinery in his mind, nor did he know which technologies of later generations could be applied to the current environment.

For example, people who have never seen a Quyuanli have a hard time imagining that there is a creation like the Quyuanli. Only generations of people discovered that the Quyuanli is more useful through exploration, and then a genius appears. These ideas were grouped together to create the prototype of the first generation Quyuan plow.

Such as printing, seals have been around for thousands of years, but no one can think of printing, let alone movable type printing.

For example, papermaking has been around for hundreds of years, and Cai Lun has also improved it, but it is still dominated by inscriptions on silk and bamboo slips.

Zhuge Qiao himself does not have these specific technological manufacturing methods. If Zhuge Qiao is asked to make paper, Zhuge Qiao will not be able to make it.

however.

Zhuge Qiao was able to put forward this concept and tell it to Ma Jun, Pu Yuan, Li Zhuan and other geniuses who had a talent for creation.

For example, to what extent does paper need to be suitable for movable type printing?

Once the concept is proposed, these geniuses have the direction and motivation for research and development.

Zhuge Qiao only needs to invest a lot of money, food and titles for research and development, which is enough for these geniuses to lead the craftsmen to develop what Zhuge Qiao wants.

The Qin and Han Dynasties had many advanced technologies, such as bronze gears, which appeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Just because it was not taken seriously, crafts such as bronze gears were buried without playing their due role.

Or maybe it just became a rare treasure wanted by the rich and powerful.

For example, cast Tianlu shrimp toad, overturning the car and thirsting for black money, four-pronged money, filigree welded beads gold belt buckle with seven dragon pattern, hollow jade belt plate with pheasant and peony pattern, copper vermillion bird crest for screen, plain gauze robe, horn-shaped jade cup, gold Jade clothes, bronze calipers, etc.

All prove the advanced technology of Qin and Han Dynasties.

It's a pity that most of these crafts serve the enjoyment of the powerful, and few of them are truly beneficial to the people.

For Zhuge Qiao, there is no need to cheat in order to climb the technological tree.

Even if Zhuge Qiao has a cheating system and can reward complete craft drawings, if no one is willing to study and implement it, the cheating will be the same as not cheating.

For a true craftsman genius, the most disgusting thing is to follow the same pattern, which will make the craftsman genius feel like he is just a waste.

Only when geniuses like Ma Jun find pleasure and achievement in research and exploration can they develop world-famous creations.

If he only built it based on the complete process drawings given by Zhuge Qiao, Ma Jun would not have any sense of accomplishment.

On the contrary, if Zhuge Qiao gave him a half-finished product or only a concept, Ma Jun would have a sense of participation and accomplishment.

Zhuge Qiao did not take measures to open up mutual markets in Shouchun, but devoted his energy to Jingzhou's industrial and peasant policies and their implementation.

With Zhuge Qiao's current prestige and power, he can do far more than before.

The first and second periods of the Jiangwu Hall only provided the soil for new ideas to germinate, and they were far from what Zhuge Qiao expected.

Zhuge Qiao did not set up a martial arts lecture hall this time, but directly recruited troops in ten counties in Jingzhou, including Changsha County.

The soldiers recruited must all have a clean family background, be literate, have no history of breaking the law, be unmarried, and be between sixteen and twenty-five years old.

Compared with the first recruitment in Shu County, Zhuge Qiao changed the age range.

After all this time.

Zhuge Qiao is serious about training the new army, instead of just trying it lightly like the previous two times.

He will do whatever he has power and prestige. Zhuge Qiao has always been very cautious in this regard.

The new military number is "Blue Wing Army", with Zhuge Qiao's Five Hundred Wudang Flying Cavalry as the core.

There are five divisions, with Ma Zhong as the chief general of the Blue Wing Army, which means "the common people have two wings, soaring into the sky and the earth".

The Blue Wings consist of one thousand cavalry and four thousand charioteers.

The chariots of the Blue Wing Army are not ancient chariots from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the concept of chariot formations proposed by Zhuge Qiao.

Exclusively for handsome cars: guide cars.

Light combat vehicles: tiger vehicles, street fighting vehicles.

The tiger cart is a flatbed cart with a large square log on both sides. A bunch of long guns are tied to the square logs respectively. The spear points are outside the front of the cart. There is a tiger carriage on the flatbed cart with the tiger's mouth open. Five spear points protrude from it, and there are seven forward-stretching spear points in the entire vehicle. Operated by a sergeant.

The street fighting vehicle is a unicycle with a baffle on the head and both sides of the body.

The head baffle is twice as high as the two side baffles. There are 12 round holes in the upper part. Five long guns are placed along the bottom of the car. The front of the gun comes out of the baffle and is pushed in by a sergeant.

Tiger carts and street fighting vehicles are light tanks and are easy to maneuver.

Not only can they push the cart into narrow fields, roads, and alleys, but they can also form a formation in the wilderness and use it as a charging chariot.

Medium tank: Ruyi tank.

The car has a wooden sign with an animal face, dozens of large guns, and a soft sign with a felt curtain hanging down.

Each vehicle is operated by 2 people and can cover 50 people

When marching, they are used to carry heavy equipment and armor. When encountering the enemy's formation, Ruyi's chariots are used outside, and accommodation is encircled into camps.

These chariots are all derived from Song chariots, and there are patterns that can be restored in later generations.

In order to build a chariot that can be used in battle.

Zhuge Qiao also specially invited Ma Jun to Jingzhou.

Although each emperor of the Song Dynasty was more bizarre than the other, when it came to cold weapons, the Song Dynasty was the master of all.

Due to limited knowledge, Zhuge Qiao can currently allow craftsmen to build fewer types of Song chariots.

It's like the Privy Council General Liu Hao's hundred-man chariot; Zongze's fifty-five-man chariot; Li Na's twenty-five-man chariot; and the Zhilizhou Supply Depot Deputy Song Shouxin's battle sword The wheeled invincible chariot, the village bicycle chariot, and Guo Shen's single-column charging invincible meteor crossbow chariot. These only exist in written records and no drawings have been circulated, and Zhuge Qiao cannot imagine them out of thin air.

In addition, Zhuge Qiao's chariot formation concept also includes the serial stone-firing chariots that were practiced in Nanyang last time, as well as the continuous ballista chariots and Wugang chariots that existed in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The establishment of the Blue Wing Army was essentially Zhuge Qiao's attempt at the Song chariot concept.

If it succeeds, Zhuge Qiao will be able to have a "coordinated battle between cavalry, tanks and artillery" in the cold weapon era.

Although they are all chariots from the cold weapon era, it is difficult to resist the manpower in front of the chariots.

In the fourth year of Zhang Wu, the Han Dynasty did not continue the Northern Expedition, but chose a truce to support the people.

Cao Pi believed that this was the result of commercial sanctions with Sun Quan.

In the past few years of the conflict between Han and Wei, Xianbei became stronger and stronger. Kebineng, Mika, Suli, etc. ceded territories to rule each other, and each had their own boundaries. They also jointly vowed not to sell horses to Cao Pi.

And because Kebi was able to trap and kill Fuluohan, the brother of the Xianbei master Budugen, he annexed the Fuluohan tribe and had a grudge against Budugen.

Bu Dugen moved more than ten thousand soldiers to Taiyuan, Bingzhou, to offer horses to Cao Pi.

Su Li, a lord from the eastern part of Xianbei, also sold thousands of horses to Wei.

In November of the fourth year of Zhangwu, Tian Yu led his light cavalry to falsely attack Kebineng's army and his commander Suonu. Kebineng was dissatisfied and led his troops to attack You and merge with the two states.

Liu Bei was furious after hearing the news, so he sent envoys to Yecheng, willing to temporarily stop fighting with Cao Pi and make peace, and wanted to help Bingzhou protect the Xianbei captain to recruit and attack Ke Bineng together.

After discussing with the ministers, Cao Pi temporarily reached a truce agreement with Liu Bei.

Liu Bei then ordered the hussar general Ma Chao and the chariot general Zhang Fei to lead the cavalry northward along Hedong County and enter Bingzhou.

In March of the fifth year of Zhangwu (225), Ma Chao, Zhang Fei, and Qianzhao defeated Kebineng in Yunzhong County.

Qianzhao also stationed troops in Xingbei, so he went to Shangguancheng to frighten the barbarians. The barbarians from far and near all respected Qianzhao.

Zhang Fei strongly invited Qianzhao to return to the Han Dynasty, but Qianzhao refused. Qianzhao said that he would not participate in the civil war in the Central Plains in his life, and only wanted to frighten the Hu people at the border.

At the same time, he conveyed to Zhang Fei the intention of protecting Wuhuan Colonel Tian Yu. No matter who was the orthodox in the Central Plains, both of them wanted nothing more than to guard the border.

After Zhang Fei and Ma Chao returned to Chang'an, they conveyed their intentions.

When Liu Bei learned about the ambitions of his two old friends, he was filled with emotion, so he gave up the plan proposed by Fazheng to counterattack and merge with the state, and continued the truce to support the people.

Cao Pi saw that Liu Bei had not started another war for two years, but instead helped Qianzhao defeat Xianbei Kebineng, so that the northern border was freed from foreign troubles.

Cao Pi concluded that Liu Bei was old and weak, and his mentality became unstable.

In October of the fifth year of Zhangwu, Cao Pi fell ill.

The imperial doctor of Wei advised Cao Pi to eat less sweets, but Cao Pi refused to listen. He had a special liking for the rock sugar from Jingzhou, and even asked the chef to develop countless sweet delicacies.

Cao Pi didn't listen. (End of chapter)