Chapter 921: Zang Ba's Change
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Sima Yi actually ran faster than Zang Ba Zhu Shuo's team, he not only brought back 50,000 troops, but also directly looted Peiguo County in Yuzhou.
After Sima Yi retreated to Xuzhou, he did not retreat directly to Jiangnan with Cao Wei's army, but directly occupied Huaiyin according to his plan, and strengthened it at all costs, and also asked Cao Pi to build a sailor at the beginning, turning Huaiyin into a land and water fortress.
When Zang Ba's army retreated, Guangling County had 100,000 troops and 20,000 sailors, and behind Huaiyin, there were 800,000 people who died but Jiang and relocated in Peiguo, so that they could continue to cultivate and develop. After resisting Lu Peng's attack, he made full preparations.
Cao Pi relied on Sima Yi very much, and named Sima Yi as the governor of Jiangbei and the civil overseer of the army.
Zang Ba has been very depressed recently, and after handing over the military power to Sima Yi, he always hides and drinks alone, and when he gets drunk, he then falls asleep and no longer cares about the military.
This made Sima Yi and Zhu Shuo, who were in their eyes, anxious in their eyes.
Zhu Shuo said to Sima Yi: "You and I are the four friends of Cao Pi, the king of Wei, and we should treat Cao Wei from the beginning to the end, but now that the general trend of the world has changed, some people will inevitably deviate from morality, and at this point, there is nothing to be done, especially when passing through Xuzhou, Lu Peng rode alone on the side of the road to meet Zang Ba, and said the nature of the warlord melee and the relationship between personal ideals, which is not only an impact on Zang Ba, but also a touch to me, in fact, I also began to doubt whether my decision was right or wrong. ”
Sima Yi asked gloomily on the spot: "How do you understand?" ”
Zhu Shuo said bitterly: "We learn literature and martial arts, and our original ideal is to use this body of knowledge to do something for the people of the world, to quell this war as soon as possible, and to let the people live a peaceful and prosperous life again." ”
Sima Yi sighed softly, and he couldn't forget the feelings of the four friends in the mountains and forests, and the feelings of worrying about the country and the people, and it seemed that it was yesterday.
But as far as the past has gone from being in danger to fighting Liu Bei, as Lu Peng said, in fact, he and his best friends are getting farther and farther away from the original heart of serving the country and the people.
Zhu Shuo said: "At the beginning of Gu Mountain, I once told Zang Ba that Lu Peng had entered Xuzhou, and our purpose of urging Liu Bei in disguise had been achieved, and he could surrender to Lu Peng, but Zang Ba was grateful for the old master's kindness and rejected my suggestion. ”
"You're right." Sima Yi did not blame Zhu Shuo for his mistake in persuading his own people to defect to the enemy, but gave him approval, Zhu Shuo just smiled indifferently, everyone was sympathetic, and they all knew what the other party thought.
Zhu Shuo said leisurely: "Things have come to this point, rather than making Zang Ba lose confidence in Cao Wei Jiangshan, just relying on a feeling to insist, it is actually cruel to him, especially his home is here, even if people go to Jiangnan and are absent-minded, they are still walking dead, so why harm people?" ”
Sima Yi sighed: "It's a pity, we have no choice." And then he said no more.
Although the south of the Huai River is no longer as dry and cold as the north, the cold here makes the two people from the north feel more uncomfortable.
The cold here is cold, the kind that is cold to the bones, so that no matter where you hide, you can't escape it.
But this kind of coldness in the bones will become the norm, and from now on if you don't bear it, you must endure it, in the north, in fact, both of them understand that they can't go back, at least when Lu Peng is alive, there is absolutely no hope.
Zang Ba can surrender to Lu Peng, but the two people here can't surrender to Lu Peng no matter what.
They and Cao Pi are called the Four Friends, which is known to the world, not to mention the four friendships, it is the infamy after a betrayal that makes the reserve of the two literati unbearable.
The second one, Zang Ba has no worries behind him, in fact, it is the same everywhere. But Sima Yi and the others couldn't, because they had a huge family burden behind them.
On the surface, Lu Peng uses both grace and power for the family, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that Lu Peng's jealousy of the family is deep-rooted to the point of paranoia, but he is different from his father-in-law.
His father-in-law is in the line of color, that is a real knife killing, not long after Gongsun Chan ruled the north, he directly wiped out hundreds of families. Lu Peng is smiling and compromising with the family, but those who cooperate with him were sent to the bitter cold land of the grassland by him, although there is the possibility of developing into a future vassal state, but the hardships can be imagined.
And the most important thing is that now that Lu Peng is so gentle and generous to them, it's not that he can't make a move on the Central Plains, once he pacifies the Central Plains, will he let those grassland families become princes and threaten his rule again? Just from the fact that although he did not claim the title of emperor, but put the Central Plains' henchmen in Yanzhou and Yizhou and other places in all directions, and still did not move in Youzhou, which was regarded as a border desert and war-torn place by the Central Plains, it is enough to explain the problem, he is a kind of emperor guarding the country to the world to announce that in the future, it will become the center of his rule, and at that time, those emerging vassal states will become his bedside.
Therefore, if you want to prevent the family behind you from being destroyed in the distant future, and in the future, your family will continue to grow and develop, you must draw a clear line with Lu Peng, the destroyer of the family.
"I'll go and persuade Zang Ba, I can't bear to see him so depressed." Sima Yi still stood up, took a pot of old wine, and walked towards the courtyard where Zang Ba lived.
When Sima Yi stepped in, he directly saw that the door of the hall above the lobby was open, and Zang Ba did not light a charcoal brazier, so he sat on a chair, holding a wine jug in one hand and a wine glass in the other. Even if Sima Yi walked in, he was indifferent, because his eyes were scattered, and he couldn't see anything clearly at all.
Sima Yi walked into the lobby, pulled a chair, and sat opposite Zang Ba, but didn't say anything.
The knot in his heart has to be opened by himself, and it is useless for others to say anything, so Sima Yi is sitting here, just accompanying him, ready to listen to what he says.
The silent time passed little by little, the sun slowly set in the western mountains, when the last afterglow was about to dissipate, Zang Ba raised his head, and his eyes were bright again: "Sir, I want to understand, people live but have a clear conscience, a righteous adherence is the driving force to live, save the world, although it is my heart, but I really can't do anything, since this is the case, I will retreat and accept my kind of kindness." Then he smiled: "When people live, they must always do what they can." ”
Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief and drank all the wine in the jug in his hand. That's really not what it means on the second floor.,It's not okay at all.,
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