Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 783 The arm can't twist the thigh

Zhuge Liang hurriedly left by boat, and the yamen in Guangzhou gradually returned to calm, but the war from the northwest to the southeast was about to start, and Lantian was also making intensive deployments.

Jiaozhou was in the stage of vigorous development, and it was impossible to mobilize troops, horses, money and food from Jiaozhou to support Guan Yu's Northern Expedition. However, the Lantian Secret Order Army Workshop hurriedly produced winter clothes, armor, and weapons, and prepared equipment for the Northern Expedition army in advance.

In addition, Lantian also urgently summoned the three prefects, Mi Fang, Hao Pu, and Xi Zhen, and asked them to prepare for battle at any time, and asked each county to form a water transport fleet. As long as there is a war in the north, each county will go to Xiangyang as planned Transport food.

As soon as the three prefects left, Lantian appointed Zhonglang General Wu Ban as the governor of the Dian Army, and asked him and several generals of Bing Cao to secretly go to Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang to recruit reserve personnel for the upcoming war and disperse them. We train while participating in autumn harvest in each prefecture.

At the end of July, Shi Zhi was sent to Hepu and Jiuzhen as envoys to report Lantian's decision to replace the prefect face to face.

In early August, while Zhuge Liang was still on his way back to Chengdu, Liu Bei's envoy Yiji came to Guangzhou again, and what Yiji sent was a reward for recovering Rinan County.

Gao Shun was granted the title of General Pingnan, and he was given the honor of Gao Liangting; Sha Moke was appointed General Danglu, and he was awarded the title of Lin Tinghou; Lanyuan was appointed General Jingnan; Li Yi was appointed General Yamen; Chu Qing was appointed General Pian; Ling is a brave general.
General Pingnan's military rank in the Shuhan side is higher than that of the generals of the four expeditions of Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Pang De, and Meng Da, and second only to the generals of the four expeditions of Lantian and others. (Note: Shu Han and Cao Wei's order of the generals of the four campaigns is different. Cao Wei's order from high to low is Zhen Anping, and Shu Han is Zhen Anping from high to low.)

In addition to affirming Gao Shun's command of the Southern Expedition Army to recover Rinan, Liu Bei gave Gao Shun the title of General and made him a Marquis.

Gao Shun had already relinquished his military power at this time, and General Pingnan could only be regarded as an honorary title. Under Lan Tian's ingenious persuasion, Gao Shun finally accepted Liu Bei's affirmation of himself, and was temporarily ranked No. 1 under the Quartet Generals.

Because of his outstanding military exploits, the barbarian Sha Moke was the second general in the Southern Expedition Army to be conferred the title of Marquis. His reward was even higher than that of his son-in-law, Lan Yuan. Liu Bei's move has a strong role model, and he wants to tell Civil servants and military generals under his command, as long as they are willing to contribute to the country, even foreigners will reuse and reward them heavily.

When Yi Ji arrived in Guangzhou with his seal and ribbons and rewards, Shi Zhi and Shi Yi went to the Longbian prefect's mansion hand in hand.

Shi Xie who was "in bed for a long time" suddenly appeared in good spirits, and there were also the prefect of Jiuzhen, Shi Hui with "sores on his back", and the descendants of Shi Gan, Shi Song, Shi Kuang and other scholars in the hall.

The scholars traced back to the last neat gathering, when Lan Tian served as the prefect of Lingling and secretly supported Lai Gong and Sun Quan's people to fight.

"My brother is full of spring breeze. It seems that you have a good time in Guangzhou. I heard that you are the prefect of Hepu who came to win the second uncle? I am afraid you have forgotten your surname?" Shi Hui took the lead in breaking the dullness in the hall.

Because Shi Zhi was a concubine, he felt inferior in front of Shi Hui for a long time. He found the value of life during his stay in Guangzhou, so he worked diligently in the post of the head of the Commerce and Trade Department.

"Why do you need to tease the third brother? If you really forget your roots as a brother, you can avoid this experience and just take up the post with the army." A confident scholar is no longer as weak as he used to be.

"Hmph, brother is really domineering. You have already learned how to threaten your elders. What kind of filial piety is there? You were a hostage in Guangzhou, and you actually got the prefect of Hepu for yourself. This is really admirable. What did Lantian eat from you? Medicine?" Shi Hui snorted coldly.

The scholar only squinted his eyes and confronted each other: "I went to Guangzhou for the sake of the scholar's family as a hostage, and I did everything without regret. The third brother has repeatedly despised his elder brother. How can you talk about filial piety?"

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Shi Hui wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Shi Xie's arrogance, who angrily reprimanded the two of them: "You can stop the verbal war, what's the point of arguing in front of two uncles and brothers?"

"Brother, Lantian is so aggressive, why don't we go against him directly? Anyway, only my nephew has already returned, and our soldiers and horses from the three counties can organize [-] to [-] soldiers," Scholar Yi stroked his beard to suggest.

Shi Xie frowned, and asked Shi Zhi in a deep voice: "Ji'er has been in Guangzhou for these years, and Lan Tian should be the most clear about what's true. What do you think of Second Uncle's suggestion?"

"Father and the two uncles should have read the recent Lingnan Daily. It is not a lie to go to four cities in two days and destroy the country in fifteen days. There are a total of more than [-] soldiers in Linyi Kingdom, and Gao Shun only brought five "Thousands of stream barbarians, five thousand trapped troops" Shi Zhi didn't understand what he said, meaning don't let your imagination run wild.

Shi Yi continued to ask: "After Gao Shun's conquest of Linyi, he has returned to Guangzhou with the rebel army, which means that there are only some barbarians left in Rinan County. Why don't we expand to the south? It is not easy for Lantian to organize an expedition."

"Don't." Jiuzhen Taishou waved his hands straight away, and he explained with a sad face: "Although the fallen army returned to Guangzhou, the Wuxi Man is not easy to mess with, especially the leader Shamoke is a ruthless character. Zeng Yi Fan Shanhu, the No. [-] warrior of the Cham tribe, recently recruited the war elephant army of the Cham tribe, and often drove the war elephants to the north of Hengshan Pass to graze."

"Drove the elephant to the north of Hengshan Pass, just to eat grass? Did you eat up all the grass in Rinan County?" The youngest son Shi Song showed a puzzled expression.

"Shut up." Shi Hui glared coldly, thinking that you are stupid enough.

Shi Yi frowned and did not speak, Shi Zhi continued: "The [-] troops stationed in Guangzhou have once defeated Sun Quan and Cao Cao head-on. It has expanded to ten thousand people, and now the navy is stationed on Zhuya Island, its intention is self-evident."

"It seems that Lantian doesn't want to wait any longer. Big brother, why hasn't there been any news from Jiangdong? Did Sun Quan see through your scheme?" Shi Yi asked dejectedly.

"It's too far away, how can I know? Just know some news?" Shi Xie has never relied on Shi Zhi like this.

Shi Zhi frowned and replied: "I just heard that there was a war in Huainan. General Lan summoned the prefects of Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling a few days ago, as if to prepare them for war. Guan Yu may send troops to attack Wei at any time, probably for the sake of Solidarity with our ally Sun Quan."

"When did Guan Yu become so magnanimous? Did he forget that Sun Quan attacked Jingzhou three years ago?" This time it was Shi Hui's turn to say something stupid.

Shi Xie shook his head lightly: "Where did you see the magnanimity? It's just that Guan Yu learned that Cao and Sun had turned against each other and wanted to find an opportunity to take advantage of it. No wonder Sun Quan didn't respond. It turns out that we are too busy to take care of ourselves. Our situation is difficult."

"Brother, why don't we settle in Lantian for the time being? Our arms can't stretch our thighs." The scholar confessed, thinking that he might as well retire from his old age and return home if he was so worried, so that he could at least be a rich man.

(End of this chapter)