The Three Kingdoms: The Cold Gate World

Chapter 348
In summer and autumn, on the official road from Chang'an to the southwest, there are more than ten thousand troops. The central army guards a carriage, and on the left and right sides there are two generals on horseback. They are tall and majestic, with firm faces. It was the tiger idiot Xu Chu and the evil Lai Dianwei.

In the carriage, Guo Jia knelt quietly, with stacks of bamboo slips in front of him, which were detailed battle reports of Cao Cao leading his troops south to occupy Jingzhou. These all happened a month ago, and the battle reports have only now reached Guo Jia. In the hand, it can already be called super fast.

There was another person sitting in the carriage, young and beautiful, with a detached temperament. Zhen Mi, who was wearing a white sleeved dress and pleated skirt, looked at Guo Jia quietly. It seemed that Guo Jia's expression when she was concentrating made her never get tired of it.

The focus of the Zhen family's business operations these years has been on Chang'an, and Zhen Yu can't do it alone. Fortunately, there is a fourth lady at home, Zhen Rong, who doesn't like reading. This fourth lady has rarely appeared in Guo Jia's sight in recent years. The reason is that she studied business with her eldest brother Zhenyu, and soon became independent.

Guo Jia had a diplomatic war with Cao Cao in Luoyang a few months ago. The Zhen family specially supported Qian Liang on behalf of the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce. Unfortunately, Guo Jia was just bluffing and did not accept the kindness of the Chamber of Commerce. He didn't take out his money to fight Cao Cao to the death, there is no need to owe the chamber of commerce a favor for their money and food, not to mention that someone will see the nature of the war afterwards, and when the time comes, Guo Jia will be crowned as greedy and cleverly set up a name to search for people's anointing The hat is not worth the candle.

When Cao Cao had occupied Xiangyang, Guo Jiacai withdrew his troops from Chang'an, and withdrew bit by bit.It just so happened that Zhen Mi, the fifth young lady of the Zhen family, was visiting Chang'an and was planning to return to Chengdu, so Guo Jia took her with her along the way.

After reading the battle report, Guo Jia closed his eyes and sighed softly.

"Underestimate the enemy, Cao Mengde."

When Cao Cao went south this time, Man Chong was the only military adviser to accompany the army. Among the famous generals, only Cao Ren, Cao Chunlejin, and Li Tong were of average reputation.

If Jingzhou surrendered generals are added, there will only be more Wenpin.

The beautiful and delicate Zhen Mi stroked the hair that fell to her chest by her ears, looked at Guo Jia in puzzlement and asked, "What does your envoy mean by this? Didn't the King of Wei already conquer Jingzhou?"

The news of the fall of Jingzhou spread earlier, but the detailed military intelligence was sent to Guo Jia later.

Cao Cao won Jingzhou, and his power shocked the world. Many people thought that the troubled times were coming to an end, and the one who ruled the world would be Cao Cao, the king of Wei with literary and martial arts!

Guo Jia rolled up the bamboo slips and held them in his hands, and said softly to Zhen Mi: "There are no outsiders here, just call me brother-in-law, you don't need to see outsiders. I said that Cao Mengde underestimated the enemy, not because he underestimated Jingzhou, but because he underestimated Sun Quan." and Liu Bei."

Zhen Mi didn't seem to dare to look at Guo Jia, and when Guo Jia looked at her, she looked away slightly.

"The leader of Liu Bei's defeated army, Wu Hou Sun Quan is young, and it is not unreasonable for Cao Cao to underestimate them."

Guo Jia thoughtfully, nodded in agreement and said: "What my little sister said is true. Liu Bei has been in exile for half his life. He has been defeated and defeated repeatedly. In Xuzhou, Liu Bei was frightened by Cao Cao and fled. It is expected that Cao Cao despised him. At that time, Sun Wentai was unstoppable and powerful in the battle against Dong Zhuo, but Cao Cao was defeated by Dong Zhuo. In the position of Marquis Wu, Sun Quan is only 27 this year and has never faced such a big scene, so it is reasonable for Cao Cao to despise him."

Sun Jian died at the hands of Huang Zu, Liu Biao's subordinate, and Liu Biao was frightened to death by Cao Cao. Comparing the two, the judgment will be judged.

Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou without bloodshed, and Jingzhou obviously has a wider territory than Jiangdong, with more soldiers and horses. Thinking about it this way, it seems that the possibility of Jiangdong's surrender is very high. Therefore, Cao Cao did not take Liu Bei seriously at all, and he still has the ability to resist Jiangdong, who was born in China, also had the mentality of swallowing it in one bite.

Xia Houyuan, Li Dian, Yu Jin, Xu Huang and other generals Cao Cao did not bring with them, probably because Cao Cao was worried about the changes in the battle situation in Luoyang in the north.

Jingzhou was already the meat of Cao Cao's mouth. Faced with this situation, what Cao Cao worried about was that Guo Jia would attack Luoyang and cut off the connection between Hebei and the Central Plains.

"Brother-in-law doesn't seem to be worried about the current situation at all. Once King Wei conquers Jiangdong, in the future..."

Zhen Mi still has some understanding of the situation in the world. If Cao Cao and Sun Quan are wiped out, then the world will be left with Guo Jia and Cao Cao, and Guo Jia only has three points in the world, and Cao Cao has seven points. No matter how you look at it, Guo Jia seems to have no Room to turn around.

Guo Jia didn't answer Zhen Mi's words directly, but smiled inscrutablely.

worried?

Why worry?

Everything is developing towards Guo Jia's expectation.

The situation is under control.

Thinking of this incident, Guo Jia said in a slightly ironic tone: "Liu Bei lost his wife again in Changbanpo. Fortunately, he had a Zhao Zilong who rescued his only bloodline, but his wives, concubines and daughters died in Changbanpo. Cao Mengde He actually said that Liu Bei is the hero of the world, I don’t know if he regrets it now. But it’s true, even a scholar like me was looked down upon by Cao Cao, ha ha.”

It's not that Liu Bei's family is not prosperous. He has many sons, many daughters, and many wives. It's a pity that he has left countless wives, concubines and children who died on the battlefield during his wandering life. The glorious deeds of Zhao Zilong's heroic rescue of Liu Chan were recorded, but it was forgotten that Liu Bei's two daughters died there.

Zhen Mi's eyes are beautiful, with a clear aura. She looked at Guo Jia, pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Brother-in-law is underestimating himself. According to my younger sister, my brother-in-law is like, like the one in the story my brother-in-law told me before." Characters, world-renowned martial arts masters fought back and forth, but finally met an unknown sweeping monk, that is the master master who does not show his talents."

Guo Jia was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Zhen Mi in surprise, with nostalgia in his eyes.

In the past, when he told stories to Zhen Tuo, Zhen Dao, Zhen Rong and the others at Zhen's house, he told many stories about martial arts novels of later generations. No impression.

Laughing self-deprecatingly, Guo Jia did not expect that after so many years of cultivating his mind and character, he rarely went out to fight, and finally ended up with such an image in Zhen Mi's heart.

Perhaps, in the eyes of the people of the world, he has downplayed his desire to be the hegemony of the world, otherwise he would not have given Cao Cao the opportunity to sweep Jingzhou.

Guo Jia looked at Zhen Mi with a suspicious smile, and asked, "I remember you were a baby at that time, did these stories tell you out of the blue?"

When mentioning the incident at that time, Zhen Mi's face suddenly flushed with embarrassment.

Looking away, Zhen Mi nodded and said in a soft voice: "The fourth sister told the younger sister. The fourth sister must be dizzy and dizzy after reading for half an hour, but she can write down the stories told by her brother-in-law silently."

Thinking of her childhood, Zhen Mi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and she felt ashamed.

At that time, Guo Jia hugged her, coaxed her to sleep, and even changed her clothes.

While Zhen Mi was in a daze, the carriage suddenly swayed sharply.

The road from Chang'an to Chengdu has always been rough and difficult. The wheels of the carriage ran over a large stone and bumped a bit.

As a result, the back of Zhen Mi who was sitting in the car knocked her head on the door panel behind her, then fell to one side, and fell into Guo Jia's arms.

Guo Jia has long been used to this kind of bumpy situation, so he used his hand to support the door panel to stabilize his body, and caught Zhen Mi with the other hand.

"Little sister, are you okay?"

Zhen Mi blushed and her heart beat, she put her slender hands on the back of her head, and moaned softly a few times because of the pain.

Guo Jia quickly held her down, stroked her cloudy hair with both hands, and asked her to bend down to check the situation behind her head.

"It's okay, it's just a little swollen, and it will disappear naturally in a few days."

Guo Jia smiled and lifted her up, but Zhen Mi's head was hanging on her chest, touching her hair and wondering what she was thinking.

There was a sudden silence in the carriage. Seeing her shy and timid appearance, Guo Jia realized something, so he sat upright and picked up the bamboo slips to read.

Once upon a time, Guo Jia dreamed of living the life pursued by many men, red sleeves add fragrance, drunk lying on the lap of a beautiful woman, etc., all of these, he has realized, and what is more, is greed, greedy people will not have a good death.

What's more, he is nearly forty now, and Zhen Mi is only in her early twenties, Guo Jia really can't afford to ruin her happiness.

The two of them suppressed their own concerns and avoided talking about them, and they were silent all the way.

Yizhou Chengdu
Lu Su naturally knew that Guo Jia was not in Chengdu, but in Guanzhong.But he still came to Chengdu.

In Jiangdong, Zhuge Liang was staging a good show of verbal war against Confucianism. Lu Su knew that Sun Quan would never welcome Cao, so the current situation in Jiangdong was just to unify internal thinking, and let the faction descending from Cao turn to support Sun Quan.

The purpose of Lu Su's trip to Chengdu was to let Guo Jia join the Sun Liu Alliance, and the three families rejected Cao Wei.

He didn't have time to go north to Guanzhong to meet Guo Jia in person, but it wasn't impossible to get Guo Jia to help Jiangdong.

When he came to Chengdu and met all the officials of Yizhou Prefecture, the first thing Lu Su thought of was two people.

Xi Zhicai and Qin Mi.

These two were the right-hand men under Guo Jia's rule, one was a central and prudent adviser, and the other was a role model for civil servants and political affairs.

One thing Lu Su admires about Guo Jia is here.

Xi Zhi is Guo Jia's good friend, there is no need to talk about his ability, he is naturally a leader among others, it is reasonable and reasonable for Guo Jia to entrust him with a heavy responsibility.

However, after Guo Jianeng took control of Yizhou, he had extraordinary respect and trust in Qin Mi, which showed Guo Jia's scheming skills.

Guo Jia uprooted the Yizhou gentry, and Qin Mi was a representative of the younger generation of Yizhou gentry. The lower-level people would see if Guo Jia could treat everyone equally, and Guo Jia promoted Qin Mi and trusted Qin Mi. , Let everyone see that Guo Jia not only knows how to use, but also dares to use talents from Yizhou, and the Qin family used to be Guo Jia's enemy!

Lu Su admired this kind of power tactics from the bottom of his heart.

The reason why Lu Su was unwilling to be loyal to Sun Ce in the past is also the same.

Most of the people Sun Ce employs are people who are congenial to him, such as Zhou Yu, Tai Shici and so on.

In Lu Su's eyes, such a monarch is immature and difficult to become a hegemony, because the most important skill of a monarch who aims at the world is the way of employing people. People who are good at it, and use it properly without flaws, especially to convince the public.

Obviously, Sun Ce could not meet Lu Su's requirements. Although Sun Quan was not as brave as Sun Ce, in terms of the emperor's mind, Lu Su was more optimistic about Sun Quan, so he became an official to assist Sun Quan.

(End of this chapter)