Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 490
News of the battle in Badong spread back to Jinling, to the city, and to all directions...

The Chu State, which had been dormant, unexpectedly sent troops to Yizhou because of the Hanzhong incident. It took less than a month from mobilization to the dispatch of troops, one month from dispatch of troops to the start of the war, and only three from the start of the war to the announcement of the establishment of Badong County. moon!
On the first day of the new year, Bai Tu responded to the people's petition in Jinling. Half a year later, a Chu county appeared in Yizhou...

Moreover, this time the establishment of a county into five counties was completely announced by the Chu State. After Zhao Yun announced the establishment of Badong County with the privilege of economic appeasement, Jinling immediately responded "valid".

Usually, even if the counties under the princes' own rule were to be re-divided, they would nominally report to the court first - although the local government offices must have been re-divided by the time the report was submitted, the official announcement would be made after the court's reply.

However, this time Jinling directly announced that "Chu Badong County" was valid, and had no intention of sending an envoy to Chang'an...

As for the reason why Chu State sent troops, although the reason Chu State itself preached was nonsense, it did point out the key point—Hanzhong.

The intention of the Marquis of Shu to pacify Hanzhong and then achieve the great feat of "annihilating Chu" must be nonsense. However, let alone the reason behind Chu's sending troops, the direct reason was obviously Zhang Lu's rejection by the court when he called him "Marquis of Hanning"!
Although the Chu army only occupies Badong, due to logistical difficulties, rugged roads and other objective factors, Yizhou Prefecture should be confident that the battle situation will be controlled in Bajun, but no one dares to guarantee it.

What if the Chu State devoted all its strength to condemn an ​​army of [-] to march westward?

For the Chu State, although it consumes a lot of money and even overdrafts the people, will Yizhou really be able to hold back the Chu State by then?
No matter whether others have confidence or not, Liu Zhang does not have it anyway!
After learning about Badong's military situation, Liu Zhang went from being incompetent and furious when he learned about the mobilization of the Chu army, to finally fearing and shrinking after the establishment of Badong County...

On the one hand, he sent envoys to Chang'an, and on the other hand, he sent envoys to Jiangzhou and Jinling.

It was Zhang Song who went to the imperial court, and Qin Mi who went to Jinling.

Liu Zhang was originally dissatisfied with Zhang Song because he often accused him of dereliction of duty recently and often warned him that Chu's praise of him was "rock bullets". When things go wrong, trust him twice as much!
There is no other reason. Although Liu Zhang also has a headstrong side, he is not domineering enough, or is too "cowardly", which is the opposite of Yuan Shao.

Historically, after Yuan Shao's defeat, the first thing he did was to order the death of Tian Feng, who predicted his failure, because Yuan Shao couldn't stand Tian Feng's ridicule in the future. If it were Liu Zhang, he would definitely go to Tian Feng for support as soon as possible - —Since you know that I will lose, you should also know how to make me win, right?

Based on this mentality, Liu Zhang entrusted Zhang Song with important tasks...

But this important task made Zhang Song very disdainful - Liu Zhang ordered him to go to the Chang'an court to convince the emperor and officials to put the overall situation first and confer Zhang Lu as the Marquis of Hanning.

After this time, I'm afraid everyone in the court will know how cowardly the Marquis of Shu is.

Along the way, Zhang Song said "I am Yan Zi" and "I am not angry" countless times...

Qin Mi was the governor of Yizhou and was from Guanghan in Yizhou. When Liu Yan was in charge of Yizhou, he recruited him several times, but he was declined. At the same time, he also recommended other talents to Liu Yan. Later, Liu Yan died. Later, when Liu Zhang succeeded, Qin Mi accepted the call.

Qin Mi himself is good at eloquence. This time he went to Jiangzhou. On the one hand, he wanted to inform Yan Yan not to have any overreaction. On the other hand, he also wanted to go deep into Chubadong County and go down the river to Jinling to appease Yan Yan. Zhao Yun of Badong County of Chu went to Jinling to negotiate peace...

Qin Mi was not worried about her own safety. As a "debater", what if she was not very timid?
As the most cooked thing besides food and medicine... a debater must be able to think clearly and speak eloquently under the heat of boiling water!
What's more, based on the reputation of the Chu State, there is a high probability that they will not do anything excessive to the "envoy".

But the purpose of this line of work made Qin Mi feel a little aggrieved.

He had already lost half of the county to the Chu State, and he was actually asked to go all the way to negotiate a peace?
Qin Mi therefore persuaded Liu Zhang: "My lord, it is easy to negotiate peace, but it is difficult to ask for mercy! If you can't make Chu feel afraid first, how can you ask for peace?"

"I can reopen the Jingyi trade route." Liu Zhang said righteously.

Qin Mi:......

Qin Mi also didn't expect that his lord could be so secretive and weak - do you want to lose face?I said you are begging for mercy!Don't you even object?Are you really answering me seriously?

Qin Mi felt very tired and just wanted to regard this mission as the last thing he did for Yizhou Prefecture. He made up his mind to resign and go home to write a book with peace of mind when he came back!
When Yan Yan stayed in Jiangzhou until July, he once again met the envoy from Yizhou Prefecture, and this time it was Qin Mi, who was in charge of governance in Yizhou, and he obviously had important instructions.

Regarding this, Yan Yan was really inexplicably nervous.

After hearing what Qin Mi conveyed the intention of Yizhou Prefecture, Yan Yan was stunned for a while, and then let out a long breath!

"Is Master Yan okay? My lord... he also has his own plans!" Qin Mi is an honest person, and he still serves as the envoy loyal to his duties and wants to appease Yan Yan.

"Qin Zhizhong, don't worry, Yan naturally understands the seriousness. It's just because he knew that the lord... well, he was relieved to know that the lord was in good health." Yan Yan explained forcefully.

In fact, Yan Yan was indeed "relieved", because the distance from Wancheng First Division and Xinye First Division was too close, even Yan Yan almost believed their nonsense!
Now it seems... the lord is still the same familiar lord, and he is still so cowardly. It was all rumors before.

Qin Mi looked at Yan Yan strangely and wanted to complain. At your old age, you don't have to worry about your master's health, right?
However, due to his temperament, Qin Mi always maintained himself as a moral gentleman, and his friendship with his friends was as light as water. To Yan Yan, a martial artist, his friendship was just that of an ordinary colleague, and he did not delve into the essence of it.

After understanding that Yan Yan had understood Liu Zhang's intentions well, Qin Mi then went to Badong, and Yan Yan also sent a team of soldiers to protect him.

Sure enough, after learning that Qin Mi was the envoy from Yizhou, the defenders along the way did not have any difficulty. They just limited the number of their honor guards to less than a hundred people, and then "escorted" them to Pingdu County under special supervision. They first came to meet Zhao Yun, the commander of the Wancheng First Division. !

Now Zhao Yun is in charge of Badong affairs...

Zhao Yun also understood the tactics of these envoys. As soon as they met, he preemptively cited Liu Zhang's crimes and explained Chu's self-defense stance.

Although Qin Mi was disdainful of this, he couldn't make any more excuses. After all... the bottom line given by Liu Zhang was too cowardly. The messenger's eloquence was important, but the support behind him was even more important!

Moreover, most lobbyists always say "I'm here to save you", as if analyzing from the other party's point of view, but Qin Mi didn't dare to say that, otherwise he would know...

If he said that he was "coming here to save the Chu State", the other party would definitely kill him immediately. "Sure enough, Yizhou is determined to destroy Chu State!"
Taking advantage of the trend, they promoted this as a threat to Yizhou...

(End of this chapter)