Panting with difficulty and coughing violently, Lu Meng used his prestige to suppress Ling Tong: "Don't fight, resolutely don't fight, as long as we hold Chaisang firmly, we can win the final victory, you must firmly believe this." ”

Although Ling Tong couldn't bear to contradict this dying governor again, he looked at Liu Bei's navy who was struggling to cut the iron cable in front of the Hengjiang iron cable outside, and he was still full of worry: "If Liu Bei's sailors chisel the five iron locks, they can go up the river in an instant and go straight to Jingzhou, now the people of Jingzhou are not stable, all our soldiers are on the periphery, they rush in, and the entire Jingzhou will collapse in a blink of an eye, and then our peripheral soldiers will be gone, isn't the governor worried about this matter?" ”

Lu Meng wanted to answer, but it turned out to be another heart-rending cough, as if he was going to cough out his own lungs, and after a long time, he finally calmed down under the servant's back and forth, and when he took away the handkerchief covering his mouth, a red blood appeared.

In the midst of everyone's exclamations, Lu Meng pushed away the concerned people who rushed over, and grabbed Ling Tong's hand, which was trembling and cold, as if it had been born from hell, and there was no temperature at all.

Ling Tong was also full of tears at this time, looking at this dying-level governor, he leaned down to comfort him: "The governor is in good health, the riverside is cold, let's go back to the city to recuperate." ”

Lu Meng shook his head with difficulty: "I know that my illness is no longer good, and the day before, I had already written to our emperor, asking him to send a competent person to take over my burden." ”

As a result, as soon as he said this, Ling Tong, who was still full of compassion and gratitude, couldn't help but suffocate, and the hand that was held by Lu Meng couldn't help but pull back.

Because Ling Tong was very dissatisfied with Lu Meng's arrangement, according to the procedural rules, there are two people here, the Metropolitan Governor is Lv Meng, and the deputy is himself, if he follows the rules, Lv Meng should promote himself to become the Metropolitan Governor after his death and take over everything here. Ling Tong also thought that he had this ability.

However, Lu Meng did not do this, he knew that he was about to die, but he wrote to Sun Quan, not to recommend himself to take over his position, but to ask Sun Quan to find someone else to replace him, this is contempt for himself, this is absolute distrust of himself, so a spontaneous jealousy and anger filled Ling Tong's heart.

The people in the sickbed are the most sensitive to others, and this slight movement was immediately felt by Lu Meng, so he sighed and explained to Ling Tong: "Jiangdong talents are withering, and the war is continuous, although I have the heart to hand over this Chaisang heavy responsibility to you after I go, however, after I think twice, I still give up this idea, do you know why?" ”

Ling Tong pouted, why? It's not that you despise me and think of ways to suppress me.

Lu Meng had already seen Ling Tong's thoughts, so he sighed and said earnestly: "A man is about to die, his words are good, a bird is about to die, and his song is also mourning, I am about to leave, please ask the general to listen to me and tell me what I think." ”

Now that Lu Meng had already said this, Ling Tong also looked at him as a dying person and listened to what he had to say.

Lü Meng asked Ling Tong to take him to his secret room, of course Ling Tong couldn't refuse, after the two of them came to the secret room, Lü Meng Ping retreated from the people who served him left and right, leaving only himself and Ling Tong, so he grabbed Ling Tong's hand again, and sighed: "In the last years of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the eunuchs were in power, and the relatives were rampant, and the rivers and mountains of the Great Han Dynasty like an iron bucket collapsed, and the ancestor of you and me, Gonglie Ancestor Emperor (Sun Jian), participated in the alliance of the princes of the 18th Road, and bravely killed the enemy to serve the country, but was calculated by those greedy princes, and almost died before Tongguan, But God blessed, but because of the blessing of misfortune, he got the jade seal of the country, but at that time he did not claim the title of emperor, but borrowed some soldiers and horses from Yuan Shu with the national jade seal, so that there was today's Jiangdong, and Sun Ce did not claim the title of emperor in this good situation, so he stabilized Jiangdong. ”

Of course, Ling Tong was familiar with these past things, and he didn't know why Lu Meng talked about them, but he still listened patiently.

After wheezing and coughing for a while, Lu Meng sighed: "Originally, this country was passed to our emperor, if he still kept a low profile, connected Liu Bei well, and formed an alliance with Lu Peng, it would be the overlord of the late Han Dynasty, but first he was too lazy to form an alliance with Liu Bei, and wanted to grab Cao Cao's territory, this is the first mistake in strategy, Cao Cao, traitorous male, Liu Bei traitorous male, are not something we Jiangdong can afford to provoke, even if Cao Cao was defeated by Lu Peng, but the fierce generals in his hands still exist, His talent still exists, and the family is still loyal to him, attacking the north from the south, which is even more impossible, but for a while he was confused by Cao Cao's new defeat, and the Northern Expedition did not succeed, but let Liu Bei take advantage of the situation to take our two states and counties, which greatly weakened our strength. ”

For such a situation, Ling Tong also expressed helplessness, he was indeed blinded by Cao Cao's defeat at that time, but he forgot that a tiger is always a tiger, even a sick tiger is not a cat.

"If that's the case, forget it, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be when Cao Wei went south to the south of the Yangtze River, and suddenly became the emperor, this is definitely the biggest failure in the world, and it suddenly became the target of everyone, not only Lu Peng broke the alliance with us, and transferred back their naval army to no longer help us exterminate Cao Pi, who was unstable on his heels, but set up a powerful enemy, especially the fierce Liu Bei, who was eyeing us, it was this as an excuse to call on the heroes of the world to crusade against us, and we were passive in the general righteousness."

"Liu Bei is going to fight against us sooner or later, this is already an open secret, Lu Peng broke with us in this name, but after all, it has no real sword and gun against us."

"You are confused, general, Lu Peng's wolf ambition, his heart is more terrible than Liu Bei, even if we defeat Liu Bei, we will have to face that Lu Peng directly, we may still win against Liu Bei, but in the face of Lu Peng, we only have a dead end, we should not be the emperor in the first place, we should continue to unite with Lu Peng, first destroy Cao Wei, solve our back, and then unite with Lu Peng to solve Liu Bei."

"Then in the end, won't we still be swallowed up by Lu Peng?"

"That's what it turned out to be, but it wasn't."

These words were very winding, so that Ling Tong did not understand.

Lu Meng said: "Cao Wei, we can't surrender, because he has no future, Liu Bei, we can't surrender, because he still has no future, but after the extermination of Liu Bei and Cao Pi, we can surrender to Lu Peng generously, that is not surrender, that is cooperation, with the reputation of righteous brothers, Lu Peng can't be in front of the world, how to our lord, then he has only one way, continue to recognize the status of our lord Wu Wang, can only pinch his nose and hand over Jiangnan to us to manage, This is the only good thing we can do. ”

Ling Tong pondered for a while, and finally couldn't help but nod, thinking about it in the long run, this is indeed the case.