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Finally, Li Ji lowered his eyes slightly and asked rhetorically.

“Moreover, if we do not fight today, and the Kingdom of Linyi inches forward, continuing to encroach on Jiaozhou, even to the point of plundering the Central Plains, are we to have our descendants go and conquer the Kingdom of Linyi again?”

These words were resounding and powerful.

It could be said that he completely stripped the Kingdom of Linyi of its legitimacy from the perspectives of law, righteousness, and politics, thoroughly defining the Kingdom of Linyi as a nation that the Great Han must conquer.

The faces of the people present were mostly flushed with excitement, further and thoroughly recognizing the necessity and importance of conquering the Kingdom of Linyi.

It was not just to retrieve the grain seeds, but more importantly, to eliminate a scourge for the Great Han and a scourge for future generations!.

Sun Ce was even more fired up upon hearing this, wishing he could pick up a weapon and rush to the Kingdom of Linyi to start a massacre, using blood to wash away the shame that Qu Lian had once left on the Great Han.

“Teacher, Sun Ce requests to be a vanguard soldier!”

Sun Ce couldn't help but shout loudly.

“You want to go?” Li Ji confirmed.

“How can a true man be timid when fighting for his country?” Sun Ce replied without hesitation.

Upon hearing this, a smile appeared on Li Ji's face, and he said.

“That's good, Ce'er. Instead of holding a secular ceremony as your coming-of-age ceremony, why not use the conquest of a foreign country as your rite of passage, what do you think?”

These words were extremely bold, causing goosebumps to rise all over Sun Ce's body with excitement, and he said.

“Please bestow a courtesy name, teacher. When my horse tramples the capital of the Kingdom of Linyi, I will bathe in the blood of the descendants of the traitor Qu Lian in their capital, and tie up my hair to mark my coming of age.”

At this moment, Sun Ce exuded an unspeakable heroic spirit, causing everyone to look at him with admiration.

Li Ji pondered for a moment and said.

“'Bo' is for the eldest son, and 'Fu' implies a military tally, hoping that you will hold military power in the future and fight for the lord and the country, so I will take 'Bo Fu' as your courtesy name.”

“Bo Fu?”

Sun Ce muttered to himself, knelt down to Li Ji, and saluted, saying.

“Thank you, teacher, for giving me my courtesy name.”

Immediately, Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu beside him and pulled Zhou Yu down as well, saying.

“Please also give Yu, my brother, a courtesy name, teacher.”

Seeing this, Zhou Yu did not resist and saluted, saying.

“Please, Marquis of Guoshi, bestow a courtesy name.”

Even though Zhou Yu was quite proud in his heart, he also knew that it was an honor to have Li Ji, who was famous throughout the world, personally give him a courtesy name.

Li Ji pretended to ponder for a moment and replied.

“Yu and Jin are both beautiful jade, and with Zhou Yu's talent, it is expected that he will be enfeoffed as a marquis and appointed as a prime minister in the future, so I will take 'Gong Jin' as his courtesy name, what do you think?”

“Thank you, Marquis of Guoshi.”

Zhou Yu said gratefully.

Including Liu Bei, everyone else also offered simple congratulations to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.

Immediately, Liu Bei returned to the main topic, saying.

“What Zikun said is very true. It is not that I am unwilling to exchange grain seeds through trade, but that the Kingdom of Linyi is deceiving our Great Han too much. Only by sending troops to punish them is the right thing to do.”

“But Zikun, who do you think should be the commander?”

After a pause, without waiting for Li Ji to speak, Liu Bei continued to add, saying.

“Now, there are many affairs in Yangzhou, and Zikun cannot leave to handle them personally, so Zikun cannot be the commander.”

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Li Ji.

Liu Bei understood Li Ji.

Compared to the busy and complicated governance, Li Ji undoubtedly had a greater interest in leading troops to destroy a country.

However, before Li Ji could even make a suggestion, Liu Bei preemptively predicted Li Ji's thoughts and directly blocked this possibility.

Of course, Li Ji also knew that Yangzhou was newly settled and in a period of reform, and he really couldn't leave yet.

Listening to Liu Bei's question, and without waiting for Li Ji to give an answer, Xu Sheng, Gan Ning, and Jiang Qin once again requested to fight, all hoping to lead troops to conquer the Kingdom of Linyi.

“Gan Xingba, Jiang Gongyi, you have previously followed Marquis of Guoshi on a distant expedition to Yingzhou. This time, it is my turn to lead troops to conquer Linyi.”

The usually steady Xu Sheng said with a bit of gritted teeth.

When Li Ji went on a distant expedition to Yingzhou, almost every general was arranged to participate, except for Xu Sheng, who was arranged to stay behind in Wu Commandery, which made Xu Sheng accumulate resentment for several years.

Not long ago, when the so-called anti-Wu allied forces came to attack, Xu Sheng, who had been sharpening his sword for several years, thought he would be able to show his skills, but after the trebuchets launched a large number of incendiary bombs, those thieves knelt down and surrendered one after another.

This almost made Xu Sheng pass out in anger in private. He had been sharpening his sword for several years, and he finally had a chance to draw it, but before the blade could even cut down, the enemy knelt down first.

In the end, Xu Sheng felt that his blade had not yet seen blood.

It is true that Xu Sheng agreed with benevolent governance, but he did not want his blade to be a blade of kindness.

However, Jiang Qin, who usually had a very good personal relationship with Xu Sheng, did not give in at all at this moment, saying.

“That's wrong. How can matters of state be privately decided based on personal feelings? It is precisely because I have followed Marquis of Guoshi on a distant expedition overseas and have rich sailing experience that I should lead troops to go.”

Gan Ning said anxiously.

“In terms of sailing experience, I, Gan Xingba, am the most experienced, and I have the Jinfan Pirates under my command. Taking down the Kingdom of Linyi can be said to be as easy as turning over my hand. Please, Lord and Marquis of Guoshi, allow me to fight. If I don't win, you can cut off my head.”

“The Jinfan Pirates may be brave, but are the brave soldiers under my command inferior?” Xu Sheng also retorted unceremoniously at this moment, losing his usual composure.

Among the three naval generals, there is no doubt that Xu Sheng is the best in terms of commanding and training troops.

It is true that the Jinfan Pirates are all brave and fearless, but if they were to fight in a frontal formation, the naval forces under Xu Sheng's command would not necessarily be inferior to the Jinfan Pirates.

And Li Ji's favorite candidate for the commander of this expedition to conquer the Kingdom of Linyi was undoubtedly Xu Sheng, so he also focused the most attention on Xu Sheng.

Immediately, Li Ji asked Liu Bei, “Lord, I once heard that Wen Xiang also has an important task in the 'Great Military Exercise', and needs to lead heavy armored elites to demonstrate it?”

Liu Bei nodded, indicating that it was correct.

After seeing the heavy armored soldiers led by Gao Shun's “Trapped Camp” of about a thousand people in Luoyang, which made it difficult for tens of thousands of cavalry to do anything in a short period of time in Pingyuan, Liu Bei, after returning to Wu Commandery, also began to try to build heavy armored soldiers.

In this era where “horseshoes” had not yet appeared, the relatively fragile hooves of ordinary warhorses could not be covered with heavy armor for battle.

This also led to the absence of true heavy cavalry in this era, and made heavy armored soldiers seem to have become the nemesis of cavalry.

And Wu Commandery undoubtedly had the capital to build heavy armored soldiers, and Liu Bei tried to entrust this task to Xu Sheng, who was quite good at commanding and training troops, and required him to build at least a prototype before the “Great Military Exercise”.

Xu Sheng was very anxious when he heard this.

Xu Sheng was naturally very proud to be entrusted with the important task of building a heavy armored force by Liu Bei.

But compared to leading troops to conquer Linyi and retrieving grain seeds to be famous in history, Xu Sheng would almost undoubtedly choose to go on the expedition.

Suddenly, Xu Sheng thought of someone and quickly said.

“Lord, I recommend a talent who can replace Sheng in building heavy armored soldiers!”

(End of this chapter)