Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 618 Tai Chi Pushing Technique and Xu

The hexagrams that Yu Fan occupied in Jiangxia spread to the major military camps for some reason. Sun Quan often heard discussions when he was patrolling the camps. Every time he heard the words "little man stripping the hut", he always felt that he was slapping himself in the face. , so he deliberately took the opportunity to talk things out, so as to block Yoyo's mouth.

In November, news of the annihilation of Lu Meng and Pan Zhang's entire army was intentionally spread to Chaisang by Su Fei, and according to Lan Tian's wishes, Jiang Dong was asked to redeem them with money, grain, cattle and sheep.

(There were population transactions during the Three Kingdoms period, for example: "Three Kingdoms·Chen Tai Biography" records: The nobles in the capital sent more treasures, because the slaves and maidservants in Tai City, Tai all hung them on the wall, did not issue their seals, and conscripted them as ministers, and returned them. )
Because of the private soldier system implemented in Jiangdong, the trilogy is the private property of the main family, which can be inherited, gifted or even traded. Lan Tian proposed this model. 500 yuan, and 5000 million yuan for senior generals.

(The price of captives refers to a certain degree: In "The Biography of Ren Gu", Yang Jun and others jointly bought a servant with 250 pieces of cloth, and later the servant's family used 600 pieces of cloth to redeem it. The price of cloth in the late Han Dynasty was 450-7200 yuan. The median value is about 27000 yuan/horse, the purchase price is about [-] yuan, and the redemption price is about [-] yuan)
On the list given by Su Fei, there are 2 ordinary soldiers, with a subtotal of one billion yuan; 60 ordinary generals, with a subtotal of 5000 million yuan; three intermediate generals, with a subtotal of 16 million yuan; one senior general, with a subtotal of 5000 million yuan; [-] million yuan; [-] billion yuan is required for full redemption.

"Su Fei, how dare you do this." Sun Quan was furious when he read the letter, and he drew his sword and chopped off a corner of the case table.

Although Su Fei's exorbitant asking price was rude, it proved that Lu Meng and other generals had failed, and the gloomy emotions fell on the heads of everyone in the hall. They looked at each other in blank dismay and remained silent.

At present, it is impossible to fight head-on, whether to redeem or not is a problem, and where to get the money to redeem is even more problematic, because the military expenditures for repeated wars are very heavy, and the money and food left over from the treasuries of various places cannot make ends meet. Sun Quan often has to rely on the support of the rich.

Sun Quan usually spends extravagantly on food and clothing. When money was tight, he even borrowed money from Lu Fan. Later, with Hu Ke's business, he had his own money bag.

"My lord, I don't think Su Fei can decide on such a big matter as the redemption of prisoners of war. It should be ordered by Guan Yu or Lan Tian." Zhuge Jin reminded.

Sun Quan gritted his teeth: "Guan Yu is not so shameless, it must be Lan Tian's idea."

Zhuge Jin looked solemn, frowned and continued: "Now that the generals are defeated and captured, it is useless for the lord to be angry. Why don't you send people back to Jianye to raise money, and at the same time send people to Jingzhou for peace talks. The captured generals are Jiangdong. Cornerstone, no matter how high the price is, we must redeem it first, let's find a way to bargain."

Sun Quan thought that the person with the [-] million yuan must be Lu Meng. No matter how bad this confidant is, he would be less worried than Lu Xun. He had to find a way to redeem him first, so he nodded in agreement: "Ziyu is right. You and Kong Ming are brothers. If you go to Jingzhou as an envoy, you will not be harmed, and Lao Ziyu will go to Jiangxia to see if you can negotiate a price and redeem Ziming first."

"The minister is willing to act like a dog and a horse." Zhuge Jingong turned and left.

"Ziyu, I'll fix two copies of the book and hand them over to you right away, and then you go back to Jianye immediately and hand them over to Ziheng (Lu Fan) and Yuan Tan (Gu Yong), and try to raise funds as much as possible," Sun Quan continued to order.

"The last general obeys orders." It was Yi who clasped her fists together.

Zhuge Jin was ordered to go to Jiangxia as an envoy. Su Fei said that he could not decide, so he brought him directly to Fazheng Office, and offered to redeem Lu Meng with [-] million yuan. Fazheng said that all the captives would be held in Jiangling, and he would ask Xu Shu how to deliver the captives. , Let Zhuge Jin wait for a reply in Jiangxia.

More than ten days later, Xu Shu wrote back, saying that he had no right to deal with these captives, and that the decision rested with Guan Yu and Lantian, and they needed to send someone to Xiangyang to ask for instructions.

Zhuge Jin waited in Jiangxia for a month, and finally waited for Xu Shu's final news. Guan Yu and Lan Tian said that they could not directly redeem the generals, and those parts should be redeemed together, and there was no room for negotiation on the price.

"Mr. Xiaozhi, our common enemy should be Cao Cao. This time, the lord was instigated by traitors. After returning to Chaisang, he has already repented. However, General Guan and General Lan are so strong, and the Sun and Liu families are really irreparable. Is it?" Zhuge Jin asked desperately.

Fazheng seemed very embarrassed: "Ziyu should know General Guan's temper. Only the King of Hanzhong can persuade him. General Lan can think of a way. The Lord's sneak attack is really unreasonable and too much. Jingzhou has done a lot this time." It is only natural to ask for some compensation, and you should understand it."

"Of course I can understand. In fact, if you occupy Jiangxia, you won't lose Xiangyang," Zhuge Jin muttered with his head bowed.

Fa Zhengxu focused his eyes and said: "An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, these cities are all bought with the lives of soldiers, but the Sun and Liu families are allies, and you are both reneging on the alliance for the second time."

Zhuge Jin immediately changed the topic and sighed: "Hey, it's done. It's useless to say anything now. Compensation for the loss is very reasonable, but the price is too high."

"I don't think it's better than this. Ziyu went back to Chaisang to explain the situation, and raised as much money, food, cattle and horses as possible. I was under the care of my younger brother in Sichuan, so I had to look down and ask General Lan to intercede, and see if I can win for you. For a moment, there is no guarantee of success." Fazheng replied solemnly.

"It's better to be filial and straightforward." Zhuge Jin bowed to thank him. ,

Fazheng quickly helped him up, and comforted him: "Prime Minister Zhuge has been working hard to unite Sun Kangcao. Sun and Liu are good in-laws, and it is better to eliminate the country's thieves. I am just pushing the boat along with the flow."

"Yes, yes," Zhuge Jin nodded repeatedly.

When Zhuge Jin returned to Chaisang, it was the beginning of December, and it was the time when Guan Yu sent troops from Xiangyang to surprise Deng County by water.

When Zhuge Jin saw Sun Quan, the wine glass was thrown on the ground, guessing that his master had just lost his temper, he sat down and relayed the opinions of Xu Shu and Fazheng.

After hearing this, Sun Quan said indignantly, "Ziyu is too honest. You stayed in Jiangxia for a month, but you didn't get any good news. Could it be that Xu Shu and Fazheng jointly deceived you?"

Zhuge Jin quickly waved his hand: "People of insight know that Cao Qiang and Sun Liu are weak. It is Cao Cao who benefited from our two families' quarrel. Fa Xiaozhi said that he lied to me and it doesn't make any sense."

"But they are taking advantage of the fire to rob. If Jiangdong really raises the 16 billion, I don't know how many civil uprisings will be provoked." Sun Quan frowned, and he was very willing to spend money for himself. You can't beg those big families in a humble manner.

Seeing this, Zhuge Jin kept silent, thinking that you believed in Lu Meng too much at that time, and now it would cost [-] million yuan to redeem him. Wouldn't it be good to use this money to raise soldiers and build ships?
"Ziyu, you have been in Jiangxia for a month, do you know how many troops there are?" Sun Quan asked suddenly, patting his thigh.

Zhuge Jin was taken aback, and replied: "Uh, there should be quite a lot of them. There are more than [-] infantrymen, led by Xu Shuang, the deputy general of the trapped camp."

Digression: The currency stock of Jiangdong in the article is only an inference. The source of the inference is "Three Kingdoms Lv Meng Biography" "Meng was the prefect of Nanjun, and he was granted the title of Marquis of Chanling, and he was given 1 million yuan and 10000 catties of gold. 'At the end of the Han Dynasty, 105000000 catty of gold = [-] coins, a total of [-] coins. Sun Quan rewarded so much at one go, and also rewarded other soldiers. Soochow should be quite rich.

The [-] million here is understood as the [-] million of the modern quantitative unit (Zheng Xuan commented on the Book of Changes that "one hundred thousand means one hundred million", if the one hundred thousand yuan is used here, it does not match the five hundred catties of gold), because there is no historical data on Soochow's financial revenue It can be tested (maybe the author did not find it), if there is any exaggeration or inappropriateness, please forgive me.

(End of this chapter)