The Shuhan Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 73
Debate
Following the envoy's report, the hall fell silent immediately, and all eyes were on Sun Quan, to see if he could listen to the advice of the ministers just now;

Sun Quan also stared at the three ministers who had just entered the admonition, and after hesitating for a while, "pass on the envoys of the Shu Han"

"Alas!" The three ministers sighed and retreated to their seats.

At this time, Zhuge Qiao and Ma Di had already collapsed outside the hall, and walked slowly to the center of the hall. "The envoys of Shu Han, Zhuge Qiao, and Ma Di paid homage to Marquis of Wu."

The officials on both sides looked at the two of them together, looking at this young man who dared to serve as an envoy when he was less than 20 years old;

"It's Bosong! I wonder if you are still used to staying at your uncle's house? Have you ever been homesick?" Sun Quan looked at Zhuge Qiao carefully and asked meaningfully

"Thank you Marquis Wu for your concern, now my parents love me and my mother loves me; this time I was ordered by the Emperor Han to go to Soochow for the battle of Jingzhou," Zhuge Qiao replied;
"Could it be that Liu Bei wants a truce?" Before Sun Quan could answer, Zhang Zhao stood up and asked Zhuge Qiao;
"It can be said to be a truce, and it can also be said not to be a truce," Ma Su responded confidently;
"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Zhao asked puzzled;

"This time my lord sent me two as envoys to ask Marquis Wu for the land of Jingzhou. If Marquis Wu returns, then naturally there will be a truce; if Marquis Wu does not return, naturally my lord will not truce. Our army was wounded in Yidao, but reinforcements from Yizhou are coming to Jingzhou continuously, and Zhao Yun, one of the five tiger generals, is also stationed in Yong'an. If Marquis Wu fails, our army will surely suppress the situation and take back Jingzhou by ourselves." Ma Di towards Sun Quan;
The civil and military officials in the hall were also talking quietly; after all, if what Ma Di said was true, then Soochow was indeed about to face a life-and-death battle.

"You Shuhan really think that Dongwu is so easy to bully. If I sent out soldiers from Dongwu, your master Liu Bei would have retreated to Yizhou long ago." Kan Ze stood up and retorted;
"Jingzhou is a city that my soldiers of the Eastern Wu fought to the death. Your lord borrowed it and refused to return it. My lord took it back by himself; how can I let it go to your lord?" Zhang Zhao was also shocked by Ma Di's words. Open your mouth to Jingzhou;
"My lord is right. My lord once borrowed Jingzhou, but my lord only borrowed a county in Nanjun, but you took back the entire Jingzhou; and even under the relationship of mutual allies, you actually beheaded me. Guan Junhou, the second younger brother who is married to the Lord, do you still have reason?" Ma Di asked Zhang Zhao righteously and sternly.

Zhang Zhao was helpless, speechless, turned around and stood back;
"What an eloquent, but your lord was chased and killed by my governor at the foot of Yidao City, leaving behind wounded soldiers and fleeing alone; and when more than [-] people were beheaded by our army, why didn't you see that your lord captured Jingzhou? Strength?" Seeing Zhang Zhao retreating, Bu Zhi immediately stood up and asked Ma Su.

"If you insist on mentioning the attack on the camp in Yidao City, then my lord overestimated you too much. I didn't expect that what you are proud of is actually the sneak attack again and again. Now only Is he a general who can sneak attack?" Ma Di smiled at Bu Zhi;

"The winner is the king, so why care about the strategy?" Bu Zhi continued to argue, but if you were careful, you could see that Bu Zhi was already sweating between his brows.

"Did you really win? To prove our sincerity, my lord asked me to bring General Pan Zhang's body back to Marquis Wu; you can ask General Pan later, did you really win?" Ma Di fought back mercilessly;

Bu Zhi was sweating profusely all of a sudden, not knowing what to say;

"Since the military strength of the Shu Han is so powerful, and Liu Bei is also the uncle of the Han family, why didn't you raise the banner of the Han family to attack Cao Wei in the north when Cao Pi usurped the Han, and instead attacked Dongwu, which was incompatible with Cao Wei. Are you afraid of Cao Wei?" Xue Zong saw Ma Di Asked so discerningly.

"My lord has been doing things for people in this life, and the word 'righteousness' comes first; in the past, the friendship between the three brothers in Taoyuan is a lesson from heaven and earth, but you, Dongwu, attacked Jingzhou and beheaded his second brother; how can my lord feel at ease in the Northern Expedition, so he first raised troops in Soochow, only I want an explanation," Ma Di continued without giving in.

"What explanation do you want?" Xue Zongshun asked.

"Land of Jingzhou" Ma Liang stared at Xue Zong and said it heavily;
Zhuge Qiao stood motionless and watched Ma Di debate; what surprised him was that he still underestimated Ma Di, thinking that Jiangdong literati would be able to embarrass Ma Di and suppress the arrogance in his heart. Unexpectedly, Jiangdong literati were defeated one by one It also fueled his own self-confident arrogance.

"In the past, Zhuge Kongming fought with my Jiangdong Confucian scholars, and now you, Ma Di, are fighting against the officials alone. The Shu Han has so many eloquent talents; I just don't know if I have learned anything in my chest?" Zhang Wen immediately stood up when Xue Zong was about to lose. ;
"The three-foot children in Yizhou are still in school, let alone me?" Ma Su replied

"Zhang Wen said with a smile: Since you have made such a big statement, please take the sky as your question: Does the sky have a head?"

Ma Di was shocked when he heard Zhang Wen's question, beads of sweat covered his entire forehead, and he couldn't answer for a long time; he looked at Zhuge Qiao expecting Zhuge Qiao to answer, and the confidence in the previous debate in his eyes was gone.

Zhuge Qiao expected this scene to finally happen, and was overjoyed at the moment; and the question asked by Zhang Wen was also recorded in the book, Zhuge Qiao slowly replied to Zhang Wen: "There is a head"

"Where is the head?" Zhang Wen continued to ask.

"In the Western "Poetry" it is said: It is to look after the west.' Based on this, the head is also in the west." Zhuge Qiao replied
"Does the sky have ears? Zhang Wen asked again
"The sky is high but the hearing is low. "Poetry" says: "He Ming Jiu Gao, the sound is heard in the sky." How can you hear without ears?" Zhuge Qiao responded.
"Is there enough in the sky?" Zhang Wen asked again
"There are feet. "Poetry" says: 'The sky is difficult.' How can we walk without feet?" Zhuge Qiao responded.
"Does heaven have a surname?" Zhang Wen asked

"How can you have no surname!" Zhuge Qiao replied
"What's your surname?" Zhang Wen asked

"My surname is Liu." Zhuge Qiao replied
"How do you know?" Zhang Wen asked again
"The Son of Heaven's surname is Liu, so I know him from the past." Zhuge Qiao responded.
"Is the day born in the East?" Zhang Wen asked again.
"Although he was born in the east, he did not live in the west," Zhuge Qiao replied.

Zhuge Qiao spoke clearly and answered questions fluently, but he frightened all the civil and military officials in the hall, and Ma Su even cast admiring glances; Zhang Wen was speechless!

Zhuge Qiao asked again: "Sir, the famous scholars of Eastern Wu, since they ask about the affairs of heaven, they must be able to understand the principles of tomorrow. In the past, the chaos was divided, and Yin and Yang were dissected; the light and clear floated up to form the sky, and the heavy and turbid ones condensed down to form the earth." ; until the defeat of the Gonggong family, the head touched the mountains, the pillars of the sky were broken, and the earth was missing: the sky tilted to the northwest, and the earth sank to the southeast. The sky is light and clear, so why is it tilting to the northwest? things? May sir teach me."

Zhang Wen was speechless, but thanked him, "Unexpectedly, there are more heroes in Shu! Just hearing the speech made me feel relieved."

[The last Tianwen is taken from the debate between Qin Mi and Zhang Wen in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

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