Central Asia, Yangon.

In the communication cabin, Lu Ren sat on the ground very invisible, holding a big coconut in his hand, sucking coconut water while listening to Xun Yu over there telling about the current situation. Hearing a certain place, Lu Ren smiled evilly: "Lu Zijing and Zhao Zilong didn't fight under Guiyang City?" ”

Xun Yu stroked his beard and smiled: "Lu Zijing is a smart person, where will he lightly start the sword soldiers until the last resort?" In addition, according to the news from Jianye's detailed work, Zhao Yu was Sun Quan who met him in the morning, and Lu Su hurriedly left Jianye in the afternoon and rushed back to Chaisang, which shows that Lu Su deduced our intentions at that time. And such a person who knows it well will not easily start a war with Liu Bei, so that Sun Quan will completely fall into our trap. ”

Lu Ren nodded: "Indeed, Lu Su is a wise person who should not be taken lightly. But he shouldn't let Zhuge Liang snatch Guiyang away so easily, right? ”

Xun Yu said: "Of course. And Zhuge Liang snatched Guiyang like this, which is always unjustifiable in terms of reason. By the way, Yihao, do you know what excuse Zhuge Liang used in a hurry? ”

"What excuse?"

Xun Yu smiled again: "The excuse Zhuge Liang came up with was that he heard that there had been bandits near Guiyang recently, and he was afraid that Guiyang would be lost, so he sent someone to help you guard Guiyang City...... It's. ”

Lu Ren also shook his head: "I don't have much time left for Zhuge Liang, of course he casually found an excuse to send Zhao Yun out in a hurry." Anyway, as long as Guiyang is snatched down and created a fait accompli. But next, what is the difference between Zhuge Liang and Lu Su? ”

Xun Yu said: "Whether it is Zhuge Liang or Lu Su, they all know the importance of the Sun-Liu alliance working together to fight against Cao, so they don't want to fight if it is not necessary." And it should be Zhuge Liang who took into account that Sun Quan was indeed too much of a loss this time, and it was inappropriate to give Sun Quan some sweetness, so on the bright side, he told Sun Quan to borrow Guiyang temporarily. ”

Lu Ren squirted out a mouthful of coconut water: "Borrow again?" It's a shame that Zhuge Liang can figure it out! How many years has this South County been borrowed? Now he borrows Guiyang from Sun Quan? ”

Xun Yu said: "Since both sides don't want to fight, and Guiyang is Yihao, you are rightfully assigned to Sun Quan, then both sides must have a reasonable excuse to go down the steps, otherwise one of the sides will not look good after all." Oh, Zhuge Liang in order to appease some of Sun Quan's grievances, so he agreed with Lu Su that Sun Quan would take eighty percent of Guiyang's annual taxes, and Liu Bei would only leave two percent to raise the army. ”

Lu Renle was happy: "If that's the case, it sounds like Liu Bei is helping Sun Quan work." The land helps you take care of things, and the things help you to peace, but you take the money you collect. ”

Xun Yu said: "After all, Liu Bei's side still lost some money this time, and it is not okay not to make some concessions." Again, Liu Bei's side seized Guiyang, in order to find the tax in Guiyang? ”

Lu Ren said: "This is it! But Xun Gong, we also have to pull some skin about this matter, right? ”

Xun Yu learned Lu Ren's habit and shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands again: "This is our business!" After all, on the bright side, we only have security personnel in Guiyang, not even the city defenders, so where can we stop the people who come to seize it? Besides, we have rightfully assigned it to Sun Quan, could it be that something has happened now, and Sun Quan can still have the cheekiness to ask us to fight it down and then hand it over to him? That's too much to say. Of course, you still have to pull a little bit of the skin, but the old man can deal with it calmly, Yihao, you don't have to worry. ”

Lu Ren nodded: "According to the current situation, Liu Bei was completely dragged into the water by us, so we shouldn't have to worry about anything about Sun Quan...... What is the situation on Cao Pi's side now? ”

Xun Yu put away the smile just now, and said, "Cao Pi's army has gathered most of it, and the vanguard force has also arrived in Nanpi. The old man had instructed Lu Lingqi, Tuoba Yu, and Murong Ziying in Liaoxi to gather troops to prepare, and Liu Ziyang in Liaodong to reinforce all parts of Liaoxi at any time, and then Deng Shizai led the Liaodong Navy to patrol the Bohai Sea area, on the one hand, to guard against Cao Pi's possible sea advance, and on the other hand, if Cao Pi insisted on going to war, Deng Shizai would find an opportunity to carry out harassing attacks on the Jiaodong Peninsula. ”

Lu Ren nodded again, Xun Yu's arrangement was more reasonable. After thinking about it again, Lu Ren asked, "How is the situation on the other side of Wajima?" ”

Xun Yu said: "The old man understands what you mean, Yihao. Don't worry, Lu Boyan sent a telegram, saying that it would not take long to completely stabilize the situation on Wajima, and that Ling Yuan's naval army would also be sent to the Bohai Sea to help in the war. We have limited troops, so we have to use as much as we can. ”

Lu Ren said: "To be honest, I really don't want to fight this kind of battle, but when it comes, I can't fight it." Xun Gong, please think of more ways in other places, and try not to use war to solve this incident as much as possible. ”

Xun Yu smiled bitterly: "Do you think the old man doesn't want to?" The old man has been doing it! It's just that...... Alas! ”

Seeing Xun Yu sighing, Lu Ren told Xun Yu to write a lot of letters to the Central Plains, but there was no response. But there is nothing that can be done, because Lu Ren knows that Xun Yu, or the influence of the Xun clan in the Central Plains, is not as good as before, after all, Xun Yu has been bringing the Xun clan to Yizhou for more than ten years. It is said that people go to tea and cool, and the Xun clan has not had any movement in the Central Plains for more than ten years, and its influence on other clans will naturally drop to a very low standard.

After a few more discussions, Cai Yan suddenly rushed into the communication room on Xun Yu's side, and when he saw Xun Yu, he didn't care about saluting, so he hurriedly said to the two: "Yihao, Xun Gong!" Big things are not good!! ”

Lu Ren and Xun Yu were both stunned, and Lu Ren immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cai Yan breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't care about tidying up the clothes and hair that were a little messy because he was running all the way, and said anxiously: "Mr. Zheng, Mr. Zheng, Mr. Zheng, he ...... Passed by. ”

"What!?"

Lu Ren and Xun Yu were shocked at the same time. Mr. Zheng in Cai Yan's mouth is of course referring to Zheng Xuan, the master of scripture in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Zheng Xuan is the treasure of Zhenzhou here in Lu Ren! You must know that Zheng Xuan's influence on the literati subclass in China at that time was not a joke.

However, after being shocked, Lu Ren was really helpless. Zheng Xuan was originally supposed to die of illness in Jian'an five years ago, and Zheng Xuan was already seventy-three years old at that time. Later, Lu Ren managed to abduct Zheng Xuan to Yizhou, and quietly "renewed his life" for Zheng Xuan, so around the thirty years of Jian'an, the old man Zheng is almost 100 years old.

Due to the high degree of body aging, the effectiveness of cell activators is decreasing fiercely, and a medicine that can be effective for ten years for young people in their twenties has only one year of effect on Mr. Zheng's body. And Lu Ren has been in Central Asia for the past two years, and he didn't care about Old Man Zheng, and he didn't pay attention to it, if Old Man Zheng got sick or something, the old man couldn't stand it. According to Shirley, unless Old Man Zheng is taken to the "secret realm" and sent to the medical cabin, it will be difficult to hang his life with medicine alone.

In short, Old Man Zheng just left. However, in the past 20 years in Yizhou, Old Man Zheng has left a lot of things for Lu Ren and helped Lu Ren a lot. Now that he suddenly heard that Old Man Zheng was gone, Lu Ren put aside those political use values, and he was indeed very sad about the death of Old Man Zheng in his heart.

The three of them were silent for a while, and finally Lu Ren beckoned to Xun Yu first: "Xun Gong, I can't leave here in Central Asia, and I will ask you to take more care for me for Mr. Zheng's funeral." ”

Xun Yu nodded: "It should be." Mr. Zheng is also my teacher, how can I be lazy? ”

Cai Yan was completely relieved at this time. Then he looked at the two of them first, and then took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Xun Yu: "This is sent by Mr. Zheng's grandson, and it is said that it is a testament left by Mr. Zheng to Yihao." ”

Lu Ren and Xun Yu were stunned again, and then Xun Yu took the letter and opened it for a closer look. And after reading it, Xun Yu couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "Mr. Zheng has a heart!" I didn't expect him to bother to help you with Yihao before he was about to die. ”

As soon as Lu Ren heard this, he vaguely understood something in his heart, and then looked at the letter displayed by Xun Yu, Lu Ren's people fell silent, and only after a long time did he say: "When the situation is stable, I must take the time to go back and pay a good tribute to Mr. Zheng." ”

The letter that Zheng Xuan left to Lu Ren was not so much an open letter as it was for Lu Ren. In the letter, Zheng Xuan emphasized the unreasonableness of Cao Pi's military action this time, and also expressed strong reproach and dissatisfaction with Cao Pi. At the end of the letter, Zheng Xuan expressed the hope that after he died, Lu Ren could send him back to his hometown Gaomi for burial, so that the fallen leaves could return to his roots.

Generally speaking, it is not necessarily useful for literati to write these things, and if those warlords who are divided really want to fight, where will they care if you literati are there? But! This also has to look at what kind of identity, status, and fame the literati who wrote this thing have, and Zheng Xuan's influence on the literati in the Central Plains is a joke? What's more, this is Old Man Zheng's last words, and the weight is heavier!

In other words, if Lu Ren makes Zheng Xuan's testament public, it may not be easy to say whether it will have any substantial impact, but it will definitely trigger some reactions from the literati in the Central Plains.

In fact, there are still many scholar clans in Cao Wei out of consideration of their own interests, and they do not approve of Cao Pi and Lu Ren turning their faces to war, but because Cao Pi seized the excuse that Lu Ren "killed" his beautiful concubine and the son in the womb, even if Cao Pi seems to be a little bent on going his own way, these scholar clans are not too fierce to oppose Cao Pi's actions.

But now? Zheng Xuan's last letter was made public, which was tantamount to allowing these scholar clans to find a reason to stand up against Cao Pi's army, a point where they could exert their strength, so that they could justifiably oppose Cao Pi's action. And Lu Ren and Xun Yu are both old fritters, so why can't they think of these? Therefore, the letter that Zheng Xuan left to Lu Ren is of extraordinary significance, at least it can give Lu Ren an advantage at the level of "reason".

After sighing heartily, Lu Ren's eyes drifted to Xun Yu's body, and Xun Yu nodded to Lu Ren silently, indicating that he knew what to do next, but Xun Yu immediately added a sentence: "Even so, the matter of armament must not be relaxed, after all, no one knows whether Cao Pi will take such a big step and insist on doing it." ”

"Xun Gong, keep an eye on it...... Wen Ji, take more money and food out and take care of the funeral for Mr. Zheng. Seriously, when it comes to this part, I have to use Mr. Zheng once, and I really feel a little sorry not to go......"

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The situation on the Huaxia side will be put aside for the time being, and now let's take a look at the Roman side.

Lu Lan has been in Rome for some time, and at the invitation of the Roman Emperor, she is temporarily teaching the "literary and artistic personnel" here in Rome as a song and dance teacher.

However, under normal circumstances, there is no need to go to Lu Lan to do everything personally, just guide it at the corresponding time. So more often than not, Lu Lan is either walking around Rome to see the ancient Roman civilization that is completely different from Oriental China, or he is busy with the Latin culture of Chinese song and dance scripts in his residence.

Lu Lan didn't go out today, and when she finished the translation and writing of some of the script content at hand and came out to breathe, what caught her eye was a large number of exquisite gifts from the Roman nobles, and then a lot of invitations to invite Lu Lan to the banquet. Lu Lan was also deeply helpless about this, because she knew that during this period of time, there were not a few people on the Roman side who had eyed her and coveted her, and even the Roman emperor had asked Lu Lan some very sensitive questions.

However, Lu Lan encountered a lot of this kind of thing at the beginning, and it is not difficult to deal with it now. Moreover, Lu Lan was going to leave Rome as planned after finishing the script at hand, and lead the fleet to the Americas through the Atlantic Ocean to see what the Mayan civilization region Lu Ren had said was like, so Lu Lan didn't have to care too much about the people on the Roman side.

He declined those invitations very casually but not rudely, and then arranged for someone to dispose of those gifts, and the money and food Lu Lan obtained would be used to help the poor people on the Roman side in the name of the nobles who gave the gifts...... Lu Lan used to do this before. It's almost over, and Lu Lan plans to go out for a walk......

He declined those invitations very casually but not rudely, and then arranged for someone to dispose of those gifts, and the money and food Lu Lan obtained would be used to help the poor people on the Roman side in the name of the nobles who gave the gifts...... Lu Lan used to do this before. It's almost over, and Lu Lan plans to go out for a walk......

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(Nanchang seems to have cooled down to more than ten degrees overnight, it was a little cold, and the bottle almost caught a cold...... ）