Chapter 268: To Calm His Heart

"Sister, where is Lu Hou taking us?" Lu Pheasant is not qualified to call her husband, she can only use the title of knighthood, and she calls Zhao Wan "sister" is actually incorrect, she should be called "madam", but she doesn't know if she forgets or does it intentionally, she always calls her sister and never calls her madam.

Zhao Wan is only eight years old this year, six years younger than Lu Pheasant. She grew up in a wealthy family and knew the rules of the title very well, and naturally knew why Lu Pheasant only called her sister and didn't call her madam, but now it's not good to be serious. Getting along with the two sisters, she found that the two sisters had completely different personalities, the eldest sister had a lot of cleverness and knew how to accept the heir and was a little philistine, but the younger sister was hot-tempered and open-mouthed.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Wan really doesn't know why Lu Zhe found such two sisters, and what is even more absurd is that she didn't have an identity, or a dancing girl, a singer, a color queen, and a waiter, so she couldn't figure out what attitude to use to treat each other.

"My husband didn't talk about it." Zhao Wan called "husband" as a matter of course, this is because she is constantly reminding Lu Pheasant to understand her identity, and this is enough to express her inner uneasiness.

Now, Zhao Gao's identity is unstable, what will happen is unpredictable, Zhao Wan thought about it a lot before coming to Nanjun, the worst plan is that Lu Zhe will never admit that there is a marriage contract, after all, the matter about the marriage contract is only confirmed back and forth by letter, and there is no banquet and "fixed ceremony" on the "ceremony", it is not a valid marriage contract. Moreover, Zhao Gao obviously lost power, and there was no way to hide it if he wanted to investigate. LΓΌ Zhe was fighting with the Qin army, and no one knew whether the promise of the letter would be fulfilled. Unexpectedly, not long after she came to Nanjun, she was nervous, and when she heard that Lu Zhe had accepted the edict, she almost cried with joy and thanked the sky.

Whether it is against or not, it is too important for Zhao Gao's family, and Lu Zhe's acceptance of the edict means that there is no rebellion, so Zhao Gao's guilt will disappear because of Lu Zhe's edict, and it is not difficult to regain His Majesty's trust with Zhao Gao's means. The most important thing is that I will not be implicated at all.

Zhao Wan doesn't understand things between men. She didn't pay attention to the struggle for power and profit, but Fusu and Zhao Gao had a lot of contradictions, she knew that her father was afraid that Fusu would be liquidated after succeeding to the throne, so she took such a big risk to launch Hu Hai Gongzi and win over Lu Zhe in the hope of having strength in the military. But...... Is Lu Zhe really a person who can control zhì?

Before he came, Zhao Gaoyou introduced Lu Zhe to Zhao Wan, and he didn't say much about the governance of the military and people's livelihood, focusing on mentioning that there have been no women around Lu Zhe, and I don't know if he is very dull to women, or is there something unspeakable? After she personally contacted Lu Zhe. keenly found that all of Lu Zhe's attention and energy were on official duties, and he really didn't pay attention to women as rumored, which made her feel good.

"I heard that there is a big city between Yiling and Gangneung, the height of the city wall is seven or eight zhang, there are five or six city walls in total, and there are some water canals in the air that continuously and automatically send water from the Yangtze River into the city......

Zhao Wan listened to Lu Pheasant talking over there, and couldn't help but tremble in her heart when she heard the sentence "It only took a man less than a year to build a city with a city wall of hundreds of miles".

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Less than a year, nine months. In nine months, he commanded hundreds of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and built a heroic city in such a short time. We've met an amazing man! Lu Pheasant said with an extremely excited expression on his face, "What if you give a man a few years?" She looked at Zhao Wan with an unnatural expression with bright eyes, "When my sister was in Zhao Kingdom, I heard Zhao Wangxie's subordinate Chen Yu talk about Lu Hou. Praise is a figure who turns the clouds and rains, and if you give a few more years, you will be a rich man who can control the overall situation of the world. ”

The use of clouds and rain to praise people has a meaning in itself, and Lu Pheasant's cultural literacy is not high, and he probably didn't understand it, but Zhao Wan was shocked when she heard this description.

"Sister." Zhao Wan didn't want to listen to it anymore, the more she listened, the more scared she became, "Eat without saying anything." ”

Lu Pheasant was stunned for a moment. "There is such a man who can buy such a big business in less than a year," there was confusion and confusion, she saw the fear in Zhao Wan's heart, "What is my sister worried about?" Should be happy. ”

Is Zhao Wan happy? She asked herself several times, but there was no answer.

Besides, after Lu Zhe and Sima Xin got out of the cabin, Lu Zhe walked to the edge of the boat to look at the rolling river, looked around at nearly a hundred boats of all kinds, and finally stopped at the scenery on the north shore.

Sima Xin had opened his lips a few times, and he wanted to speak many times but didn't say it. Lu Zhe gave him the impression of being too cold, not to say rejection or difficulty, but a kind of indifference in character, which made it difficult to guess what was going on in his heart and what he would do in the next moment.

As the flagship, this is a three-story building ship, according to the current ship tonnage count, it should be five hundred, but it is not a warship but more like a cargo ship.

Most of the surrounding ships are also about 300 materials, basically some two-story building ships, these are actually the ships of the folk clans and gentry of Nanjun, who were temporarily requisitioned and called to transport troops for a fee.

Three-story ships can carry 700 people, two-story ships can carry 500 people, and there are hardly more than 500 ships walking on the Yangtze River today. This is because the riverbed of the Yangtze River has not been specially treated, some sections of the river are deep, some are shallow, and the larger the boats, the deeper the draft.

"Ji Bu has already led 50,000 troops to march first, and their destination is Fanyang." Blowing the wind, Lu Zhe didn't look back, "Our destination is also Fanyang." ”

Sima Xin recalled for a while before remembering that Fanyang was in Lujiang County, and Lujiang County seemed to be in the hands of a traitor named Huan Chu, and he asked with some restraint: "The lord is going to send troops to recruit rebellion?" ”

Something is wrong! Even if he had the intention to fight against him, Sima Xin thought that there was no need to immediately drive east after just a few games without resting, something must have happened in such a hurry.

"Hmm." Lu Zhe finally looked back at Sima Xin: "Xiang Liang, the head of the Xiang family, led 150,000 troops to force Lujiang County. ”

β€œοΌŸβ€ Sima Xin immediately understood. Xiang Liang fought Huan Chu, which was a dispute between the old Chu forces, but Lujiang County and Nan County were connected, once Huan Chu surrendered to Xiang, it would be equivalent to Lujiang County returning to Chu State, so how could Lu Zhe not be in a hurry.

"Before that, I had arrangements in Lujiang County, and the people sent had almost persuaded Huan Chu to come under my command. This time, Xiang Liang's soldiers forced Lujiang County, and Huan Chu was afraid that he would change his mind again, and when Xiang Liang got Lujiang County, he would continue to force Nanjun. Lu Zhe smiled at Sima Xin, and smiled a little coldly: "How can I allow Xiang Liang to get Lujiang." ”

The top and bottom of the Qin State only know the situation in the south on the surface but not on the inside, and the center is still like this, let alone Sima Xin?

Sima Xin's understanding of the south came from the intelligence of the center, and he only knew that Lu Zhe in the south occupied Nanjun, Hengshan County, and Cangwu County, and the rest were all the forces of Old Chu.

Obviously, the Xianyang Center counted as long as the place occupied by the Chu people was counted as the sphere of influence of the newly restored Chu State, and they did not know at all that the counties occupied by the Chu people were not equal to the Chu State.

The road was far away, and this army would need to walk for at least seven days before entering the territory of Lujiang County, and Lu Zhe had nothing to do and decided to give a general introduction to the situation in the south, so as not to make Sima Xin, who was about to become the second general of the left, unable to see the situation clearly.

Listening to Lu Zhe's steady voice, Sima Xin knew that the situation in the south was not at all what Xianyang knew, it turned out that the old Chu was not as powerful as it seemed on the surface, Lujiang County was occupied by Huan Chu, and a small part was occupied by a person named Zhou Wen, Changsha County had a person named Wu Rui and the four clans were fighting, and Huizhang (Zhang County) and Huiji County were occupied by the Chu State.

"That was the situation three months ago, and now Zhou Wen has been defeated, and he has come to defect, and now he is under my command, and he is serving as a garrison officer in Yan County." Lu Zhe saw that Sima Xin's face changed, but he didn't care, and continued: "Wu Rui of Changsha County also expressed his attachment.

Sima Xin's heart was as surprised as a stormy wave, he never imagined that Lu Zhe would have the ability to extend his tentacles to Changsha County and Lujiang County after occupying the three counties. He didn't know whether the Xianyang Center had received relevant information, and if it had received information, why there was a later edict.

In the final analysis, it is a matter of identity, whether the Xianyang Center knows Lu Zhe's actions in the south is not yet known, but the edict later is because the Xiongnu are about to go south, which Sima Xin's level is not enough to know.

"In this way, the Lord will already deal with Lujiang County and Changsha County?" Sima Xin didn't know why he was a little weak-hearted, and after he asked, he felt rude and out of shape, and looked at Lu Zhe with some apprehension.

More than a dozen of them were taken away without even bringing their own soldiers, and the inability to see the future was the main reason for the instability, Sima Xin would come over to ask Lu Zhe what arrangements he had for them, but he didn't expect to hear those secrets from Lu Zhe's mouth in person. He would definitely report Lu Zhe to Xianyang about the layout of Lujiang County and Changsha County a long time ago, but he didn't know what Lu Zhe's attitude would be after he knew about it, so he would be so cautious.

"Disposition?" Lu Zhe laughed for a while, and suddenly became expressionless, and asked, "You came here to ask me how to arrange the generals, right?" ”

It's too unusual, one moment he was still talking about the current situation in the south, and the next moment he suddenly changed the topic, Sima Xin didn't react for a while, and nodded with difficulty when he came back to his senses.

"In addition to you as the left lieutenant general, I still need to make actual observations about the rest of the generals." The implication was that Sima Xin could be the second general of the left Lu Zhe to meet the requirements of the center, and he continued: "You need to be cautious when opening a mansion and building teeth, do you understand? ”

Sima Xin understood, which shogunate would appoint an unfamiliar general to head the army? Therefore, Shao Ai, Li Heng, Zhou Xing and other people don't want to be any more generals, and the best result is to be retained as a captain, or stay in the Chinese army as a general.

Sima Xin has nothing to say about such an arrangement, he thinks about it from another angle, if he does it, he must not have the grace to leave people, and there is nothing to criticize if Lu Zhe can do this. (To be continued......)