Mi Han

Chapter 774: One wrong step, heartbroken

Chapter 774: One wrong step, heartbroken

Zhou Qian’s answer gradually dissipated the light of hope in Lu Dai’s eyes.

Lu Dai would not suspect that Zhou Cang was deceiving him. Besides, Zhou Cang's answer was consistent with Sun Quan's usual character.

But before that, Lu Dai couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope - hoping that Sun Quan could be more tolerant.

Lu Dai stared at Zhou Qian in front of him with a worried look on his face. He knew that Zhou Qian might be the only one who could help him right now.

"Ziyu."

Lu Dai first changed to a more intimate name.

"Chaisang is our army's retreat route, and it concerns Dai's life. How can Dai sit idly by and watch Chaisang be lost?"

From what Zhou Qiang said just now, Lu Dai thought that Zhou Qiang was doubting his loyalty.

In order to prevent Zhou Qian from further misunderstanding, Lu Dai directly told Zhou Qian another reason why he must save Chaisang.

You may doubt my loyalty to Your Majesty, but you can never doubt that I will not cherish my own life.

After explaining the reason, Lu Dai looked at Zhou Qian, hoping to see a look of approval on Zhou Qian's face.

But Zhou Qian was always in deep thought, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

"What is Ziyu thinking about?"

Lu Dai asked in confusion.

Lu Dai's words woke Zhou Qian from his thoughts.

Zhou Qian looked at Lu Dai deeply, and he answered slowly:

"I'm thinking about Han Zong in Yongan City."

After listening to what Zhou Qian said, Lu Dai was still a little confused.

Why did Zhou Qiang suddenly mention Korean variety shows?

But as soon as he changed his mind, Lu Dai couldn't help feeling depressed.

My goodness, Zhou Qiang’s words are full of hidden meanings. He is hinting that he may have the same idea as Han Zong.

Indeed, no one would doubt that Lu Dai did not value his own life.

However, given the current situation, if we value our own life, do we have to rescue Chaisang?

If I could learn Korean.

Not to mention that one’s life can be saved, even the wealth and glory for the rest of one’s life is not guaranteed.

Zhou Qiang’s words made Lu Dai angry and helpless at the same time.

Lu Dai didn't dare to explain any further, for fear that the more he explained, the worse it would get.

After seeing Lu Dai's anxious and depressed look, Zhou Qian's eyes turned, he sighed and said:

"Lü Gong, our two families are related by marriage, how could I not trust your loyalty?"

Zhou Cang's wife, Zhang, was from the same clan as Lu Ju's wife.

"But as an envoy, I cannot express personal feelings in front of all the generals."

Zhou Qian's words made Lu Dai nod subconsciously.

Then Lü Dai heard Zhou Qian continue to say:

"And think about it, Lord Lu, I would have some misunderstandings even though I was outside Yong'an City, let alone Your Majesty who is far away in Jianye City?

In recent years, Your Majesty has become increasingly suspicious. How many ministers have been demoted because of Your Majesty's suspicion?

You and I have witnessed these things.

What you should care about is not what I think, but what His Majesty thinks!"

In private, Zhou Cang was not as fierce as he was in front of the generals just now.

Zhou Qian’s words made Lu Dai’s face even uglier.

What Zhou Qian said was exactly what he was worried about.

"The reason why Dai has been delaying the dispatch of troops is that he is worried that Mi Yang may have a backup plan.

Moreover, in order to prevent being surrounded and attacked for reinforcements, even if Dai wants to send troops, it is better to be slow rather than hasty.

At least they must arrive at the same time as Ziheng's reinforcements, which would be the safest strategy."

Seeing that Lu Dai could think of "it's better to be slow than to be hasty" even without his warning, Zhou Qian smiled but was fearful in his heart.

If you are not in a hurry, how can I become rich?

To block someone's wealth and status is like killing their parents!

"Lü Gong!

You are knowledgeable about military affairs, so your concerns are not wrong.

But you know about military affairs, does Your Majesty know about it?"

Zhou Qian asked a question whose answer was well known to everyone.

"In the eyes of His Majesty, what he wants is very simple. He wants Chaisang to be worry-free, and he wants to see loyal and capable generals serving the king.

As for other things, they were not even in his consideration.

If there are still capable generals in Jianye City, they might still advise Your Majesty.

But which of the great Wu generals are currently in Jianye City?

In the past, if it was Zhang Gong

When mentioning Zhang Zhao, Zhou Cang sighed subconsciously.

When Zhang Zhao was in court, as the leader of the Huai and Si officials, he was indeed the supporter of Lu Dai in the court.

But now in Lu Dai's memory, Zhang Zhao and Sun Quan are still in a state of rupture.

Zhou Cang had another reason for sighing whenever he mentioned Zhang Zhao.

As the saying goes, the fox will be sad when the rabbit dies.

Your political leader Zhang Zhao offended Sun Quan and was directly sealed off in his palace by Sun Quan.

If you go against Sun Quan's wishes again, will your fate be better than Zhang Zhao's?

Zhou Qian's verbal hints were useful.

After recalling Zhang Zhao's end, Lu Dai couldn't help but shudder.

Although the winter river breeze is cold, it is not as chilling as the way Sun Quan treats his old ministers.

Under Zhou Qian's step-by-step inducement, Lu Dai fell into endless panic.

If there was no precedent, no matter what Zhou Qian said, Lu Dai would never have this feeling.

But there were too many precedents for Lu Dai to refer to.

After a long period of deep thought, Lu Dai seemed to have made an important decision.

Lu Dai bowed deeply to Zhou Cang and asked:

"Dai wants to write a letter to His Majesty, and I hope Ziyu can convey it on his behalf."

Lu Dai knew that the only person who could help him at the moment was Zhou Cang, probably because Zhou Cang was Sun Quan's envoy.

It would be fine if Zhou Qian had not arrived in Yong'an, but if he had already arrived in Yong'an and secretly submitted a memorial to Sun Quan, it would undoubtedly be a contempt for Sun Quan's authority.

The only reasonable thing to do is to let Zhou Qian submit the memorial on his behalf.

After hearing Lu Dai's request, Zhou Qian thought about it for a moment and agreed to it.

Seeing that Zhou Cang was willing to help, Lu Dai couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Zi Yu is truly a loyal minister to the country!"

Lu Dai and Zhou Qian communicated privately for a long time.

Although the generals were curious about what they were talking about, they could only guess silently in their hearts.

When Lü Dai brought Zhou Qian back to the generals, the generals thought that Lü Dai would issue an order to prepare for war.

Unexpectedly, Lu Dai said to the generals:

"The envoy has come from afar. After he has rested, we can discuss the strategy of advancing together."

Lu Dai's words caused quite a stir among the generals of Eastern Wu.

The generals of Eastern Wu thought that Zhou Cang's words just now were so sharp that Lu Dai would not dare to delay any longer.

结果

All the generals couldn't help but look at Zhou Cang, only to see that Zhou Cang's face was gloomy at this time. It seemed that he had just had an unpleasant conversation with Lu Dai in private.

Without attracting too much attention from the generals, Zhou Cang led his entourage towards the Wu army camp.

Looking at Zhou Qiang's departing back, many Wu generals had a vague ominous premonition in their hearts.

The tent that Lu Dai arranged for Zhou Qian was very spacious.

As night fell, candlelight was still flickering in Zhou Qian's tent.

Seeing Zhou Cang in deep thought, his brother Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder:

"Brother, why did you agree to Lu Dai's request today?"

Zhou Qiang's parents died early, and he raised Zhou Yi single-handedly since childhood. The two brothers have a deep relationship.

Zhou Yi knew Zhou Qian's secret.

Zhou Yi's question woke Zhou Qian from his thoughts.

Zhou Qian glanced at his puzzled brother and asked with a smile on his face:

"Then what do you think I should do?"

After hearing Zhou Qian's question, the young Zhou Yi immediately answered:

"Brother, since you are Sun Quan's envoy, why don't you just hand over the staff and force Lü Dai to send troops?"

Zhou Yi's words made Zhou Qiang smile and shake his head.

"You think things are too simple."

“Although Sun Quan did not want to spread the oral instructions to others, which would cause unrest in the Chaisang army, I am the only one who knows about it.

But Lu Dai is not a fool. If I directly convey a false order, or force him to send troops by using the authority of the envoy, as the saying goes, everything is excessive or insufficient, Lu Dai will definitely be suspicious.

Once he starts to doubt, many things will be beyond my control."

"Think carefully, although I did not tell Lu Dai about His Majesty's instructions today, in other aspects, how could I give others a chance to criticize me?

Not only will I not be able to give others a chance to criticize me, but I'm afraid Lu Dai will be very grateful to me now.

Only by being more loyal than anyone else can I defeat the truly loyal subjects."

Zhou Qian’s words caused Zhou Yi to think deeply.

But Zhou Yi still didn't understand why Zhou Cang agreed to help Lu Dai deliver the memorial.

“Even if my brother wanted to gain Lu Dai’s trust, he shouldn’t have agreed to help him submit the memorial.

I think Lu Dai would certainly express his concerns to Sun Quan in his memorial.

Once this memorial is delivered to Sun Quan, wouldn't it be exposed that my brother had not made his instructions clear to Lü Dai?"

When he thought of this, Zhou Yi's face was full of worry.

However, when Zhou Qian saw the worry on Zhou Yi's face, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"You have read the Records of the Grand Historian, but do you know Guo Kai?"

"Guo Kai?"

Guo Kai's deeds are not recorded in much detail in the "Records of the Grand Historian". Normally, even if someone has read "Records of the Grand Historian", they would not specifically remember his deeds.

"In the past, the famous general Lian Po of Zhao State was demoted by the King of Zhao. Later, the King of Zhao regretted it and wanted to recall Lian Po to serve him.

Guo Kai was afraid that Lian Po would return to compete with him for power, so he devised a clever plan.

As he was talking, Zhou Cang thought of Guo Kai's actions in history and felt greatly inspired.

"Not letting the envoy of King Zhao see Lian Po is the worst policy. Making the envoy of King Zhao one of our own is the best policy!"

When Zhou Qian finished saying this, Lu Ju's voice came from outside the tent.

Upon hearing that it was Lu Ju who came in person, Zhou Cang stood up and went out of the tent to greet him.

After seeing Lu Ju, Lu Ju solemnly took out a memorial from his arms and handed it to Zhou Cang.

"My father once said that he hopes Ziyu will treasure this memorial."

Lu Ju's words made Zhou Qian feel awe-inspiring.

Zhou Cang solemnly put away the memorial, and then promised Lu Ju:

"Please rest assured, Shiyi, I will definitely do what Lu Gong asks today!"

After seeing Zhou Cang's serious look, Lu Ju left with peace of mind.

After Lu Ju left, Zhou Cang returned to the tent with the memorial.

After sitting down, Zhou Qian opened the wax-sealed memorial and read it carefully under Zhou Yi's astonished gaze.

After reading the contents of the memorial, Zhou Qian chuckled:

“Veterans are veterans, and their ideas are indeed unique.

Everyone's eyes were on Chaisang, but he was vaguely worried about the large amount of military supplies outside Yong'an City."

Zhou Qian praised Lu Dai generously.

But after praising Lu Dai, the smile on Zhou Qian's face gradually disappeared.

A hint of coldness appeared on his face.

"What a pity, what a pity!"

Looking at the candlelight in front of him, Zhou Qian placed one end of the memorial in his hand on it.

The flames soon jumped up on the memorial.

Looking at the memorial in his hand that was gradually covered by flames, Zhou Qian's eyes became colder and colder:

"The Grand Marshal will not allow such an experienced person to exist in Dongwu!"

"Breathing!"

I don’t know if it’s because the weather has been cold recently, but Mi Yang sometimes can’t help sneezing.

Is it possible that someone is constantly nagging at me?

Or is there someone using his name to do evil?

Thinking of this, Mi Yang touched the beard that was growing longer and longer on his chin, and couldn't help feeling a little worried.

It doesn't matter if your reputation is used, as long as things don't get messed up.

Seeing that Mi Yang in front of him was a little dazed, Dong Yun kept coughing.

But no matter how much he coughed, Dong Yun found that Mi Yang had not come back to his senses.

With no other options left, Dong Yun simply shouted in a low voice:

"Da Sima!"

Mi Yang was awakened from his thoughts by Dong Yun's low shout.

"Ah, Xiu Zhao, please continue reading. I am listening."

Looking at Dong Yun standing in front of him holding the imperial edict and not leaving yet, Mi Yang finally replied with this sentence.

Dong Yun and Mi Yang were close friends.

In the past, whenever Liu Bei had an imperial edict to give to Mi Yang, he would send Dong Yun as the envoy.

After Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, he continued this tradition very well.

The imperial edict that Dong Yun read today did not contain any important content.

Roughly translated to:

"My cousin has done something great again!"

"Then I will reward you!"

“What, Wu Gou dared to invade our territory.

Look at me writing an edict to scold him!"

Of course, in this edict, Liu Chan also considerately gave Mi Yang a patch.

Recently, the news that Shamoke built a temple for Mi Yang reached Chang'an, which aroused the suspicion of some ministers in Chang'an.

Building temples is exclusive to the emperor, how can the ministers get involved?

However, when some impeachment memorials were sent to Liu Chan, he was very angry.

"The barbarian etiquette is different from that of the Chinese. What can we play?"

Liu Chan scolded the ministers who impeached Mi Yang, and issued a special edict to explain Shamoke's behavior.

Today, Liu Chan's edict was delivered to Mi Yang.

After Dong Yun finished reading the imperial edict, he walked a few steps closer and asked Mi Yang softly:

"The Prime Minister asked me to ask the Grand Marshal: Do you want to destroy the country?"

After hearing what Dong Yun relayed, Mi Yang laughed.

Seeing that Mi Yang didn't answer and was still laughing, Dong Yun had the urge to hold his forehead and sigh.

He is now the Grand Marshal, but his temperament is still the same as before.

In fact, it was not only Zhuge Liang who wanted to ask Mi Yang about this matter. All the court officials, including Dong Yun, also wanted to know what Mi Yang was trying to do.

Chang'an is far away from Jingzhou, and some messages have their own order of transmission.

The military intelligence originally transmitted from Jingzhou to Chang'an was that Han Zong, the defender of Yong'an, was going to surrender the city, and the Grand Marshal was going to send troops to support him.

This is something that everyone in Chang'an can understand. They don't want to discourage loyal ministers.

Later, in order to assist Lu Xun, Cao Wei sent troops to attack Yiyang County, which made the officials in Chang'an very calm.

When enemies come, we fight them with soldiers; when floods come, we block them with earth.

But as time went on, after more and more military intelligence was sent to Chang'an, the officials in Chang'an soon discovered that something was wrong.

How come there were wars in Yiyang, Gong'an and Chaisang all at once?

The situation is changing too fast!

It took less than half a year for a local war to evolve into a battle for the nation's destiny.

Who wouldn’t be shocked by this change?

Even Zhuge Liang couldn't sit still.

Facing Dong Yun's question, Mi Yang said innocently:

“The Prime Minister blamed the wrong person.

It was Cao Xiu and Lu Xun who had evil ambitions, and I was just "passively" counterattacking. "

Mi Yang thought that his explanation would be accepted by Dong Yun.

Unexpectedly, Dong Yun said after hesitating for a while:

"The Prime Minister said that if the Grand Marshal pretends to be innocent, it just proves that everything was secretly planned by the Grand Marshal."

Dong Yun's words left Mi Yang speechless.

There is no time to talk today.

Seeing Mi Yang choking up, Dong Yun added the last words for Zhuge Liang:

"The Prime Minister asked me to convey: Chang'an has no money.

Please exercise some restraint, Grand Marshal."

Mi Yang felt hurt when he saw that someone with whom he had a close relationship could say such "heartless" words.

"I don't want to ask Chang'an for money and food. I will find a way myself!"

Just when Mi Yang was sad, an urgent message was delivered to him.

After reading the urgent news, the "sadness" on Mi Yang's face instantly disappeared.

"My granary is here!"

(End of this chapter)