"There is only one thing that I don't know now, that is, why is Lu Ren like this?"

Zhuge Liang was slightly stunned, and asked rhetorically: "The lord doesn't know where he is?" ”

Liu Bei frowned: "Thinking carefully about what Lu Ren has been doing, it really makes people wonder which family he intends to be." He was originally an old minister of the Cao thief, and later abandoned the Cao thief, but after arriving in Yizhou, he had many contacts with the Cao thief; He is a son of the Jiangdong Lu family, and he and Sun Zhongmou are feuds, but the relationship between him and Sun Zhongmou is very close; Look at Jingzhou again, he has close contacts with Liu Jingsheng and Cai Mao, and he has a secret song with Gu, and there are many helps...... What the hell do you think he's doing this, sir? ”

Zhuge Liang just smiled helplessly after hearing this, and then slapped the feather fan in his hand, and sighed lightly: "There is such a thing, if you think about it in a complicated way, you can't think about it clearly." But if you really want to put it simply, it's very simple. Lord, in fact, from the bottom of it, there is really no need to be so wary of Lu Ren. Because at the end of the day, to put it bluntly, there is one word: profit. ”

"Leigh?"

Zhuge Liang nodded very hard: "Yes, he wants to take advantage of the battle between the candidates to profit from it." Don't hide it from the lord, Liang once went to Yizhou before going out of the mountain, and specially tested Lu Ren's method of governing the people.

"Lu Ren traded in Yizhou and the Central Plains, and among them, he made the most profits, and the candidates did not dare to restrict it, and even expected the more the better, which was all kinds of armor and weapons produced in Yizhou. Lu Ren used this to open up trade routes, and he was able to traffic other goods produced in Yizhou, and in order to strengthen their armaments, the local princes would not care about other commercial things.

In this way, his business will naturally become bigger and bigger. But if he does his best to help one side of the candidates, there is certainly a chance for these candidates to sweep the world with their strong financial resources, but after sweeping the world, the demand for armaments will inevitably decline, and the candidates will have the opportunity to limit his Lu Ren's trade.

In that case, maybe he can become the first in the world, but he will also become the first target of the candidates. As the saying goes, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, Lu Ren saw this, and knew that he was not a person who could dominate the world, so he chose to support it in many ways...... In other words, Lu Ren is like treating all the candidates as a big tree that can block him from the wind. But what he needed was a forest, not a tree. ”

When Lu Ren met Zhuge Liang in the early years, he found that Zhuge Liang's insights were somewhat beyond this era, so Lu Ren's thoughts Zhuge Liang was also one of the people who could figure it out, but it was not very comprehensive. Now that Zhuge Liang has figured out this, he will tell Liu Bei, although Liu Bei can't be regarded as fully understood, he can also understand a little.

Liu Bei groaned: "In other words, Lu Ren will definitely support Bei and Sun Quan against Cao behind his back?" Because he just wants us to confront each other, so that he can profit from it? ”

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "Yes." Therefore, the lord should not pay attention to Lu Ren now, and it is best to plan how to unite with Sun Quan as soon as possible. Liang Bucai, I would like to ask for my life to go to Jiangdong and my party. ”

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "No! Mr. is now the guchi, sooner or later I have to discuss big things with Mr., and there is no room for mistakes! In the matter of envoys, it is better to choose someone else as the one who is prepared. ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "Lord, it's not that you are arrogant, it is true that only when you are bright can there be hope." The overall situation is important, and the lord is bright. It's just that now we have to wait for an opportunity. ”

Liu Beiqi said: "Opportunity? ”

Zhuge Liang nodded: "Cao Gong's army is about to overwhelm the border in the near future, forcing Jiangdong, and Jiangdong will soon have an envoy here." ”

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But after some tossing, the situation in Jingzhou has become very interesting.

If it is according to the original historical process, Cao Cao sent troops to Jingzhou in the autumn and July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, and then spent about two months marching and fighting, that is, a series of battles at Bowang Xinye Changbanpo, and then Cao Cao stayed in Jiangling for about two months, and it was the Battle of Chibi around December.

But the current situation is ...... Only in February, Cao Cao's vanguard took Jingzhou in the north, and Cao Cao himself and his main force Nima were still in Yecheng and Xuchang. However, it is precisely because of the tens of thousands of people who are still only the vanguard troops, and of course some of the men and horses that Liu Cong and Cai Mao brought with them after they surrendered, it is already a bit beyond their strength to conserve and clean up the territory they have occupied, and it is obviously impossible to further settle Liu Bei who is waiting for him on the Jiangxia side, and in the eyes of Xia Houdun and others, Liu Cong and Cai Mao, the two surrendered goods, also have to keep an eye on, isn't it?

Liu Bei didn't say anything, stayed on Jiangxia's side and waited for Sun Quan's people to come over, and at the same time, from time to time, he took offense as defense and sent some guerrilla troops to add chaos to Xia Houdun; The two factions under Sun Quan's account began to quarrel over how to face the current situation.

And these are all things between the upper class people, what is the situation of the lower class people?

As soon as the war broke out in Jingzhou, a large number of refugees and displaced people immediately appeared. At this time, I don't know where the rumor came from, that is, starting from Changsha to the south, arriving in Guiyang, then turning to Shaoguan, and then from Shaoguan to Guangzhou, you can take a boat from Guangzhou to Yizhou.

Yizhou is a great place! Let's not talk about how Yizhou lives and works in peace and contentment, just say that Jingzhou, which has been peaceful for more than ten years, can no longer stay after the war, and on the Jiangdong side, after Cao Cao's main force goes south, it will definitely attack Jiangdong, so Jiangdong will also fall into the war soon, so if you hide in Jiangdong, you will have to flee again later. Since this is the case, it is better to simply flee away this time and flee directly to Yizhou.

As a result, many displaced people began to run along this route. The road from Changsha to Guiyang is easy to say, after all, this road is the head of the government, the road is easy to walk and you can buy food and drink on the road, everyone is mainly worried about the mountains when you go to Shaoguan after going out of Guiyang, this Nima is definitely not good to walk?

But what is surprising is that when the first part of the displaced people walked out of Guiyang, they found that this road did not seem to be so difficult, and the reason was that there was a caravan guiding everyone's way forward...... Although Xu Shu was sent by Lu Ren to Quanzhou and Guangzhou only a month ago, before Xu Shu went to Quanzhou and Guangzhou, Lu Ren had already sent other personnel to do some preliminary work in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, and the caravan by land was naturally indispensable. In other words, Xu Shu's task is to co-ordinate, not to build. Now that the situation in Jingzhou has been as Lu Ren expected, these small caravans should naturally play their role, right?

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In the blink of an eye, it has been almost a month since Xu Shu came to Quanzhou. In this month's time, Xu Shu has turned the entire Quanzhou City to a thorough turn. He is the mastermind sent by Lu Ren, how can he do it if he is not familiar with the territory?

On this day, Xu Shu came to the dock again and stopped for a long time. I don't know when Xu Shu fell in love with the beautiful scenery of the sea and sky, the peace of the sea when it was quiet, and the fury when it was angry, all of which were firmly imprinted in Xu Shu's heart. The most important thing is that Xu Shu wants to try his luck again and see if he can meet someone......

"Mr. Xu!"

A delicate woman whispered to Xu Shu behind Xu Shu, and Xu Shu's heart moved slightly, and he hurriedly turned around, because this woman was the person Xu Shu wanted to meet.

"Miss Yang Qing, Xu Shu is polite!"

Yang Qing smiled shyly and asked, "Mr. Xu likes to see the sea very much, right?" I passed by just now and saw Mr. Xu standing motionless on the shore, just looking at the sea in a daze. Mr. Xu, you are from Yingchuan, and it is normal that you haven't seen much of the sea, just don't be motionless on the shore like this. The climate on the southern coast is hotter than in the Central Plains, but now that it is almost Mid-Autumn Festival, the wind on the seaside is strong, and the humidity is extremely heavy...... I don't want to be like last time, and I am so helpless to see you in a fever and unconscious, and I have to run more than a mile to even call a few people who can help me carry you to the room. ”

Xu Shu's face flushed slightly. A few days ago, Xu Shu came to the beach to watch the sea view, because he was fascinated by it, he stood until night, and after standing in a daze, he was blown out of a serious cold by the extremely humid sea breeze, and fainted on the shore. It happened that Yang Qing passed by and rescued him, and took care of Xu Shu until the fever subsided.

Yang Qing glanced at the sea view and asked, "Mr. Xu, don't you mind if I sit here for a while?" ”

"No, don't mind!"

Not only didn't mind, Xu Shu also said a little anxiously.

Yang Qing picked a suitable sea rock and sat on it, pulled up his culottes to reveal his snow-white calves, and immersed himself in the sea water to play with the seawater. And Xu Shu has been in Yizhou for a lot of time, and he has long been surprised by the fact that women on the beach are playing in the water like this, but seeing that Yang Qing's knowledgeable appearance does not look like those bold and bold fisherwomen, he immediately asked curiously: "Please forgive me for taking the liberty of being here, is Miss Yang a resident of Quanzhou?" ”

Yang Qingdao: "Me? I can't be considered from Quanzhou. I was originally the addresser, some time ago because of some changes in the family moved to Yizhou, was arranged by Lu Yizhou to go to Mr. Zhang Zhongjing to learn the art of medicine for a period of time, and recently because Quanzhou needs a group of people to temporarily transfer to Quanzhou. ”

Xu Shu nodded, Yang Qing is one of the unique female officials in Yi and Quan, and her position is the drug superintendent...... It's roughly the same as the director of a modern local hospital. After Xu Shu came out of Liu Bei, he had almost always been by Lu Ren's side, so he was familiar with the government affairs of Yizhou, and naturally he had long known that Lu Ren's Yi and Quanzhou had used many talented women as officials.

At the beginning, of course, Xu Shu didn't understand or even rejected it, but when these female officials showed their talents, Xu Shu had to secretly convince in his heart. is not only convinced of those women, but also convinced that Lu Ren dared to use talented women so boldly, after all, at that time, this could be said to be a big thing in the world, but Nima Lu Ren still dared to do it...... (To be continued.) )