Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 378

"My Great Wu is not Qin, and your majesty is not King Huai of Chu. If your country is not at ease, you can choose the place for the banquet." Zhuge Ke said.

The corners of Liu Chan's mouth turned up, and he jokingly said, "If I hold a banquet in Jiangzhou, I wonder if Lord Wu would dare to go to Jiangzhou?"

Zhuge Ke's expression remained unchanged, and he said neither humble nor overbearing: "The supreme protects ten thousand people. If your majesty dares to let Yong'an go, the supreme will lead ten thousand people to the Jiangzhou meeting."

Liu Chan laughed and said, "Yuan Xun is a wonderful person!"

After a pause, Liu Chan said: "Thank you, Lord Wu, for your kindness. Let me think about it for a few days before I give you an answer. Envoy Wu will have to travel along the way, so he can leave first."

"promise!"

After Zhuge Ke withdrew, Liu Chan stood up, pointed to the memorial on the case, and asked, "I don't know what Zhuqing thinks that Lord Wu invited me to a banquet?"

Li Fu held the wat board in his hand and said solemnly: "I would like to report to Your Majesty, I think this matter is inappropriate. Your Majesty is the ruler of a country, so you must not go into danger. If there is any misfortune, no one can trust you. Besides, the people of Wu are capricious." , not to be trusted. The former emperor went to Jiangdong to marry his relatives, and Zhou Yu was in danger of being left in Soochow."

"Fortunately God blesses me, the great man, so that the late emperor can return to the country safely. I hope that His Majesty will not do such a dangerous thing, and then the great man will be in a dilemma!" Li Fu persuaded earnestly.

After the Battle of Chibi, Lao Liu wanted to go to Jiangdong to meet Zhou Yu. Zhuge Liang worried that Lao Liu would be detained by Zhou Yu, so he tried his best to persuade him.But Lao Liu had a stubborn temper and insisted on going to Jiangdong.

After Lao Liu arrived in Jiangdong, Zhou Yu immediately wrote to Sun Quan, asking him to detain Liu Bei.However, Sun Quan did not follow suit, but was worried that Lao Liu would be detained. If Cao Cao in the north went south by then, no one would be there to help him.So Sun Quan thought it over and over again, and let Liu Bei go back.Lao Liu, who returned to Jingzhou, was terrified and grateful.

Therefore, what Li Fu said was that he was worried about Sun Quan's actions, so he detained Liu Chan and forced the big man to cede his interests.

Liu Chan smiled and said nothing, but looked at the other people in the hall, and said, "I wonder if you have other opinions?"

Fei Yi murmured for a while, then cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I think this is not the case. In the past, when the late emperor went to Jiangdong and King Huai of Chu went to Qin, Lord Wu should have no such thoughts. If Eastern Wu intends to do something wrong , how could I, a big man, choose to hold a banquet at the junction."

"Of course, if you want to go to the meeting, your Majesty must be on guard."

Liu Chan pondered a little, and said: "I think it's the same, but I think Lord Wu invited me to the meeting, not to celebrate my great man's victory over the Liang, but for another purpose. Deng Dudu went to Wuling County, moved Wuxi barbarians to Han Soochow must have known about this matter. However, Lord Wu did not instruct his master to inquire about the crime, and Zhuge Ke did not talk about it, and everything seemed to have never happened, so I thought Lord Wu held a banquet for this reason!"

As he said that, Liu Chan looked at Zhuge Liang and asked, "I don't know what the Prime Minister thinks?"

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, and came out of the queue and said, "I would like to report to your majesty, what your majesty said is very true. I thought that Zhuge Ke's visit to my great man was for this reason. Dudu Deng entered the country without authorization and removed more than [-] people from the Eastern Wu. It is impossible not to know about this matter. But why did he keep his face, I thought he was trying to find out if my big man had any intention of attacking Jingzhou."

"Inviting Your Majesty to the meeting is for Master Wu to find out whether my big man really intends to invade Jingzhou. After all, my big man entered the country without reason, and it is inevitable that the people of Soochow will think about it. Therefore, I think that Your Majesty can go to this meeting, and with the heart of Dongwu , It is clear that Governor Deng was chasing the bandits and strayed into Wuling, and it was not deliberate."

Liu Chan paced back and forth on the steps and thought about it. It can be said that the move of the Wuxi barbarians into the Han territory was initiated by the big man.Soochow’s lack of response to this is abnormal, and Dahan is also prepared to deal with it. Now that Sun Quan asked him to go to the meeting, it was a friendly signal from Soochow, hoping to understand the real intentions of Dahan’s senior management.

If the big man doesn't go to the meeting, it will increase the gap between the two sides.From this point of view, for the sake of the covenant between the two parties to jointly fight against Wei, I still have to go to the border to attend the meeting in person to show Soochow that the big man has no intention of spying on Jingzhou.

Liu Chan stopped in his tracks and said in a deep voice: "This matter was caused by moving the barbarians from Wuxi to Han. It is not surprising that Soochow has made such a move. Today, in order to conquer against Wei, the alliance between Han and Wu still needs to coexist. Go to the appointment of the Lord of Wu every day to show that I am a big man and have no intention of attacking Jingzhou."

Li Fu hesitated for a while, gave up his persuasion, and cupped his hands and said: "Since this is the case, Your Majesty should choose elite soldiers to accompany you, and take strict precautions so that the Wu people will not have an opportunity."

Liu Chan nodded and ordered: "Gongyuan drafted an imperial edict for me, dispatched the left and right governors of Yulin and the red armor guards to accompany them, ordered the governor of Jiangzhou to lead the water army to guard, and ordered the governor of Yong'an (Chen Dao) to send scouts to spy on Wu Jun. intelligence."

"Promise!" Liao Li replied with a straight face: "Your Majesty, please order me to serve you, and go east with His Majesty to the meeting."

Liu Chan glanced at Liao Li, then glanced at the people below, and said, "Yes, Chen Weiwei and Fei Shizhong will go to the meeting with me. When I'm not in Chengdu, the prime minister will handle the military and state affairs."

"promise!"

"Is there anything else going on?"

"The governor of Liangzhou has something to do."

Holding Wei Yan's memorial, Dong Yun came out and said.

"The governor of Liangzhou made a statement that during the war between the Han and Wei Dynasties, Bilu and Qin Hu jointly returned to the Hu tribe who surrendered against Wei, and went deep into the Hexi counties to plunder. Now in the early An of Hexi, the Wei Dudu wants to lead the army northward to fight against Bilu and Qinhu. The western border of Yi'an River is peaceful."

Liu Chan opened Wei Yan's memorabilia to read, and couldn't help frowning when he saw the content inside.According to Wei Yan's memorandum, there was a large population of [-] people, who lived in Heishui and the Hexi Corridor in the north of Jincheng, Wuwei, and Jiuquan.

You may not be familiar with the term "bilu", but you may be more familiar with another noun, that is, Lu Shuihu and Qin Hu.

Lushuihu is widely distributed in the northwest land, and is divided into three major tribes, the Anding Lushuihu in the Jingwei River Basin, the Linsong Lushuihu in the Hexi Corridor, and the Huangzhong Lushuihu in the Hehuang Valley.Lu Shuihu often served as a vassal state of the Central Dynasty, and was conscripted many times to conquer the Western Regions and the Huns, gradually accepting Han culture.

Qin Hu, also known as Jie Hu, is a Caucasian from the Western Regions and a native of Kangju in Central Asia. When the Xiongnu conquered Jie Hu in the Western Expedition.Jiehu became a slave of the Huns and entered the fortress with the Huns.After the collapse of the Xiongnu, the Jiehu people who were slaves fled to Hexi, joined the barbarians, and stole Liangzhou.

After the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government lost control of Lushuihu. In the Linsong Lushuihu in the Hexi Corridor, it colluded with Jiehu people, Qiang, and Di, and ravaged one side, and was called a barbarian.

When Cao Zhen, the general against the Wei Dynasty, pacified Liangzhou, Lu Shuihu and Jiehu refused to accept it and rebelled.Cao Zhen led the generals to attack the Hu allied forces, and won a complete victory. They beheaded tens of thousands of people, gained tens of thousands of lives, more than one million sheep, and six to seventy thousand cattle.These captured Hu people were either official slaves or placed in Hexi.

This time, the barbarians outside the Great Wall joined forces with the barbarians who were placed in the interior of Hexi to plunder the people of Liangzhou.

At its peak, there were 300,000 to 200,000 Luo people, and there were six to seven people in one land, and their number was about [-] to [-].Despite the blows, there are still [-] to [-] captives, nearly [-].

Liu Chan couldn't make up his mind, looked at Zhuge Liang, and said, "What does the Prime Minister think about this matter?"

Zhuge Liang stroked his beard and meditated for a long time, then said: "My Majesty, the matter of attacking the Hu is no small matter. The great Han Liangzhou Chuan, should focus on rest and recuperation. You can recruit the governor of Wei to Chengdu, and order the crusade against the barbarians."

"Yes, according to the words of the prime minister. Recruit the governor of Liangzhou to enter Chengdu to discuss the crusade against the captives."

"promise!"

(PS: I’m on my way today, I’m in a hurry at the airport)
(End of this chapter)