Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 971 Jane in the Emperor's Heart

"Your Majesty, the servant of the Overseas Mansion, Duke Zhou, the commander of the Yangzhou navy, is waiting ahead with the navy!" Gan Ning hurriedly reported, Liu Qu laughed when he heard it, looked at Jiang Wei at the side, and said, "I'm here early I just heard about this person, but since he became the throne, he has only met once. He has to deal with overseas affairs, and he can’t even imagine seeing him. It’s really great to be able to see him this time. Boyue, this person is a genius , you can humbly ask him for advice!"

Liu Qu said, and then he galloped towards the front. He didn't lie.

"Zhou Yu and Lu Sujian's assertiveness stands out from the crowd, and they are truly geniuses."

However, when Liu Qu arrived at the front, he was stunned. In front of him was a mighty navy army, and Zhou Yu was standing at the front. But the problem was that among those soldiers Around him, many people were kneeling on the ground. They were all tied up, naked and tattooed. No matter how they looked, they looked like natives from outside Jiaozhou. The smile on Liu Qu's face gradually froze.

"Chen Yu, pay homage to Your Majesty!" Zhou Yu bowed to the emperor, Liu Qu helped him up, and then hurriedly asked, "Duke Zhou, who are these people?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, these are all bandits who caused chaos outside Jiaozhou. When I learned that there were bandits attacking Jiaozhou, I sent troops to conquer them. Within fifteen days, I defeated all these bandits, captured them, and killed the six chieftains." There are 6000 thieves, and more than [-] prisoners." Zhou Yu said seriously, and the generals around him looked particularly proud, and they did it beautifully.

Just relying on the land army of less than 2000 people, they killed nearly ten thousand bandits. Hearing that the emperor was very angry with these bandits, he wanted to come here in person. I was helping the emperor to deal with them. Big trouble, how will the emperor reward himself?Of course, this reward is still light, the important thing is that the emperor will remember us in the future, and it will be no problem to be promoted in the future. This is called Jane in the heart of the emperor!

Everyone is extremely happy.

Liu Qu was stunned for a long time, looked blankly at the prisoners kneeling on the ground around him, let out a long breath, then looked at Zhou Yu, and said, "Okay, as expected of Duke Zhou, we will kill these bandits within fifteen days. It’s gone, I’m very pleased, that’s great!” He said, but Zhou Yu shook his head and said: “Your Majesty has a high reputation, I don’t interfere with this matter, these generals in Yangzhou, with With less than two thousand soldiers, they defeated the bandits."

Hearing Zhou Yu's words, many generals of the navy straightened up, and Zhou Yu introduced them to Liu Qu one by one.

Liu Qu looked at them dully, "Okay!"

"You are fine!"

Liu Qu obviously wrote down these people one by one, which made them even happier.

After getting acquainted with these people, Zhou Yu asked the emperor to go to the Yangzhou navy camp. The two walked in the middle, and Liu Qu said, "Actually, these bandits are not necessarily the masterminds. I learned from Captain Gan that They don't dare to provoke big men. I think there must be some black hand behind them. I want to find out who is behind them." Liu Qu was talking, and Zhou Yu said in surprise: "Your Majesty said it is true!"

"I thought so at first. After investigation, I found out that these people traded with the Mojie Kingdom with fur and wood, and exchanged leather armor and swords."

"Hahaha, good! This damn Mojie country actually funded bandits!! I will definitely not forgive him this time!" Liu Qu said angrily. He said: "Don't bother Your Majesty, I have already reported to the Guishuang garrison. At this time, the Mojie Kingdom has probably been defeated. Maybe the king is on the way to be escorted!"

"What?! You!!!"

"good very good!!"

Many school lieutenants looked at the emperor's ferocious face due to excitement, and couldn't help but feel happy in their hearts. Now, they can finally be in the emperor's heart!
Sitting in the mansion, met many generals of the navy, and gave rewards, Liu Qu left here angrily, went to the study to rest, the emperor was exhausted after a long journey, everyone thought so, They all left separately and rested for a whole day. Liu Qu summoned Zhou Yu just now. Because this time he came for a conquest, most of them, like state herdsmen, did not know about it. Zhou Yu was in command of the navy, Only now are you qualified to know and come to greet you.

"I'm in the palace, and I often hear Fajun mentioning Your Excellency. Fajun respects Duke Zhou very much. When I saw you today, Duke Zhou deserves to be an important minister of the country." For Zhou Yu, even if he ruined his own affairs, Liu Qu is also very respectful. Zhou Yu has also heard the bad name of the emperor. It is said that he is not easy to get along with and has a bad temper. But today, when I saw him, the emperor is obviously such a refined person. Sure enough, the words of the officials in the temple are unbelievable. of.

Zhou Yu was cold by nature, but he did not appear cruel to the emperor. Liu Qu chatted with him a lot about the situation of the navy, and asked about the situation overseas. However, there has been no harvest, the main problem is the ship, the ship cannot sail such a long distance, and it is easy to wipe out the whole army when encountering some disasters."

"I sent people to the Gongfu, hoping that they could help design new ships. I have been researching and developing them all these years, but there are still no good results." Zhou Yu frowned and said, "We also met a few Merchants, according to what they say, they come from a place farther than Anxi, but we have seen their ships, and they are not as strong as ours, and I don’t know how they came here.”

"However, Your Majesty, overseas matters cannot be slackened. I heard that some ministers in the temple want to reduce the support for the overseas government. What was consumed by its own support, the overseas government is still developing several islands in the sea area. There are salt, iron, and even silver and gold. There are quite a few islands, which are very suitable for farming on the side of Yankang Island. We also found a small island, although the island is small, there are many household registrations!"

Zhou Yu explained the overseas situation to Liu Qu. Liu Qu, who was depressed because of the war, suddenly became interested in overseas and asked some things, "What do they look like? There are oceans all around, will they sink? Going down?” Zhou Yu answered the emperor’s strange questions one by one. Liu Qu was interested in overseas, which was exactly what Zhou Yu wanted. Overseas houses almost became the temple’s most important source of income at the beginning.

However, in the following period of time, the Overseas Mansion has not achieved much. There are already many mansions that want to attack the Overseas Mansion. After all, the Overseas Mansion has always been the first support object of the temple. The second is the Agricultural Mansion, and the third is the Gongfu. However, Zhou Yu knew in his heart that as long as there is the support of the emperor, no matter how much the officials discuss it, it is useless. Since the emperor can personally lead the army here, Zhou Yu can understand that, No one in the temple could persuade this man.

And in the words, he also discovered the character of the emperor, he is playful, and he likes those novelty things the most. After seeing through the emperor's temperament, Zhou Yu immediately sent someone to ask everyone in the Overseas Mansion to donate some unique overseas items. new gadgets, preferably ones for fun.

Zhou Yu gave an order, and everyone started to act. Those who are interested can naturally guess who these things are dedicated to. Everyone is desperately preparing for them. After a few days, someone presented novelty gadgets from all over the world, some of which looked strange. There are some strange-looking animals, and someone even spent a lot of money to get a few masters from the side near Guishuang. This surprised Zhou Yu, and after thinking for a long time, he still sent it to the emperor.

After that, there were more and more things, all kinds of strange things, such as rickety people, rickety women, naked rickety women, naked but not rickety women, etc. Some of them were angry. Zhou Yu almost spurted blood and severely punished the overseas mansion After a few bastards, no one offered such strange things anymore.However, it turns out that these actions of Zhou Yu are very useful.

Liu Qu was having a great time, and at the same time, he was more and more interested in overseas. He even wanted to go overseas. Zhou Yu didn't dare to take the emperor to overseas, but he still took him on board and went to After a trip to Yizhou, there was an unprecedented scene, the blue ocean and sky stretching as far as the eye can see. This beautiful scene made Liu Qu a little obsessed, but Liu Qu didn't like the name Yizhou very much.

After returning, he must have summoned a group of ministers and changed the name.

Liu Qu thought so, after staying in the Overseas Mansion for a period of time, he traveled around Yangzhou again. He had never been to the South, and although he still failed to fight this time, it was also an opportunity to inspect the South. , the emperor strictly asked the overseas government not to disclose his whereabouts, so he inspected Yangzhou in the name of the overseas government. Such a tour really made Liu Qu discover some problems.

The biggest problem in Yangzhou is that there are too many merchants. Originally, merchants should not be a big problem, but the problem is that there seem to be far more merchants and merchants here than farmers. Liu Qu found that there is a lot of arable land, and the cultivation is not food. On the contrary, what are the so-called herbal medicines, tea and so on, the people here seem to be very rich, and there are basically no poor people on the road, but Liu Qu still feels something is wrong.

He has never had a good impression of merchants. Of course, the merchants in Yangzhou are still in their duty and have not seen any bullying. The problem is that the merchants in Yangzhou seem to have a very high status. He saw the city guards They showed respect to the merchants, and even officials and merchants laughed and had meals together. The merchants rode in the best carriages, wore decent clothes, had a high status and were full of arrogance.

Liu Qu's eyes gradually became cold.

(End of this chapter)