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Chapter 176: Lu Meng's Clan is Destroyed
"Can anyone tell me what happened?"

In Luoyang, Cao Pi looked at the important ministers in front of him and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He never thought that Liu Chan would be so fierce. Three thousand soldiers evaluated the Eastern Wu. What kind of martial virtue is this!

"Yanlong, tell me, what kind of monster is Liu Chan? Where did his Kingdom of Shu get three thousand pieces of armor, heavy armor at that!"

Yanlong is Sun Zi, an unknown character in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but very famous in official history.

Sun Zi came from a humble background, but with his talent and diligence, he gradually emerged in the Cao Wei regime.

He once served as Shangshu Lang, Zhongshu Ling and other positions, and was a capable assistant to Cao Pi.

The most important contribution was his statecraft and legislation.

Sun Zi made achievements in agriculture, economy, law and other fields, laying a solid foundation for the stability and development of Wei State.

Moreover, Sun Zi was a person who had no background or bloodline, and was promoted only by his own efforts and abilities. It can be said that Cao Pi could replace a large number of civil and military officials, but Sun Zi could not be replaced, because Sun Zi was his God of Wealth.

But even the God of Wealth could not prepare three thousand sets of heavy armor for him, so Cao Pi wanted to know where Liu Chan got the three thousand sets of heavy armor, and they were full-body protective armor. Cao Wei did not have many sets of such armor!

"Your Majesty, I don't know. We don't have this kind of armor. Moreover, this kind of armor is not iron armor, but hundred-refined steel armor. We can't make more than 3,000 pieces of hundred-refined steel armor. We don't have so much hundred-refined steel. This must have been made by Pu Yuan, the master craftsman of Shu."

Sun Zi also gave a bitter smile. If his Great Wei Kingdom had so much refined steel, then the finances of Great Wei would go bankrupt. Even Great Wei could not produce so much refined steel.

"Your Majesty, please order a ban on the sale of Shu brocade. Every time Wei buys a piece of Shu brocade, it provides half a set of armor to Shu, so please ban the purchase of Shu brocade!"

Sun Zi had no other choice but to ask Cao Pi to ban the purchase of Shu brocade.

"Yanlong is right. Come, tell the civil and military officials and the common people of Wei not to use Shu brocade. Let us buy Wu brocade instead... Forget it, let the people weave their own cloth!"

Cao Pi didn't know how to give the order halfway because the Wu Kingdom was gone!
Originally, Cao Pi planned to change Shu brocade to Wu brocade, just like in history.

The land of Shu was poor and the population was sparse. In order to increase income, Zhuge Liang vigorously developed the weaving of Shu brocade based on the characteristics of Shu. In order to set an example, Zhuge Liang also planted mulberry trees and wove brocade himself.

Shu brocade became a best-seller during the Three Kingdoms period due to its low price and high quality, and became a pillar industry of Shu. Later, the Taiping Hundred Coins issued by Shu used Shu brocade as a reserve.

Not only that, Shu brocade also provided the Shu Kingdom with a steady stream of financial income, which supported Zhuge Liang's several northern expeditions. Even the existence of the Shu Kingdom afterwards was largely due to the income brought by Shu brocade.

In order to stop this kind of behavior of aiding the enemy, Cao Pi called on the people to boycott Shu brocade for the sake of Wei State, and earnestly explained the dangers of buying Shu brocade.

The government also officially cut off transactions with Shu brocade and instead purchased the more expensive Wu brocade.

However, in the eyes of dignitaries, Wu brocade is not as exquisite and gorgeous as Shu brocade, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is not as thick and durable as Shu brocade. It is simply a defective product with high price and low quality.

This gave rise to a large amount of smuggling of Shu brocade, which not only failed to stop the sales of Shu brocade, but also resulted in a large loss of tax revenue from formal trade. In the end, the trade had no choice but to be reopened.

However, in this world, Cao Pi couldn't buy Wu Jin even if he wanted to.

Because the King of Wu of Wei was dancing for Liu Chan!
Li Shimin (Liu Chan) really liked this kind of dance king of a fallen country. The Turkic dance king Jie Li Khan was often pulled out by Li Shimin to perform dances. Now Li Shimin could not see Jie Li Khan dancing, so he could only watch the King of Wu of Wei dance.

I have to say, she is worthy of being the one following Zhou Yu, her husband looks so pretty when he sings and dances!

At this time, Li Shimin (Liu Chan) was sitting in the place where the King of Wu of the Wei Dynasty had stood. This was also the place where Sun Quan first surrendered his life in Hefei.

It was here that Zhang Liao's army of 800,000 defeated the Eastern Wu army, and it took all morning!

In short, this is a place where King Wu of Wei can break down his defenses.

Li Shimin was surrounded by the second generation of important officials of Shu. He brought all the second generation of Shu with him. These people also brought their own troops. Although it was only a part of the troops, the troops brought by thirty to fifty second generation officials totaled nearly ten thousand people.

Therefore, when Li Shimin's 3000 troops defeated the Eastern Wu, he actually led more than 3000 people. However, the leading force was his heavy armored infantry, and the remaining were all newly trained elite soldiers of the Shu Kingdom. If these people were released, they would be able to lead to people.

This is the real role of those troops. These people are grassroots officers and are the tentacles that allow a general to control the troops.

In the world of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the most representative personal guards are Guan Yu's swordsmen, Gongsun Zan's White Horse Volunteers, Yu Jin's Taishan Soldiers, and Lu Bu's Xianzhen Camp.

In short, these people are very capable and it takes time to train them. It was these troops that Sun Quan lost in Hefei. The Battle of Hefei can be said to have blew up Sun Quan's grassroots officer system.

So when Sun Quan came here, he was very angry.

In his opinion, this is the place where he became famous. Before, he was the world-renowned Sun Quan, and Sun Zhongmou was the one who defeated Cao Cao, who had the greatest hope of unifying the world. But after leaving here, he became Sun Shiwan.

"King Wu of Wei, the scenery of Xiaoyaojin is quite nice. Please dance for our Majesty here!"

Huang Quan's son, Huang Chong, brought his 300 troops and Wu Wangsun Shiwan to Liu Chan and ordered him to offer his military services to Liu Chan. Also coming with him were the entire families of Lu Meng and Lu Xun.

“Please be the husband song!”

Huang Chong pulled Sun Quan in front of the crowd, placed an unsealed sword in front of him, and asked him to dance the husband's song that Zhou Yu had danced in the past.

Sun Quan's purple hair and beard began to tremble. He had never suffered such a great humiliation.

"Are you humiliating me?"

Sun Quan looked at Liu Chan who was sitting above him and said with gritted teeth, "Don't forget, my sister was your mother."

"Yes, that's why I didn't kill you. Cao Cao was right when he said, 'If you want to have a son, you want him to be like Sun Zhongmou.' You are really a good son."

When Li Shimin looked at Sun Quan, he remembered Cao Cao's words: If you want to have a son, you should have one like Sun Zhongmou. Now it seems that this is really a good son!
"By the way, kill Lu Meng's entire family!"

Li Shimin issued an order at this time. After this order came out, everyone trembled, because they never thought that Liu Chan would issue such an order. This was an order to exterminate an entire clan.

"Your Majesty, such an order is a violent one!"

"This order must not be issued. It will bring infamy to your majesty forever."

"Your Majesty, you should leave incense in the ancestral temples of surrendered generals, but you must never massacre their entire families!"

The second generation had all met Liu Bei and knew what kind of kind person he was, so they didn't want Liu Chan to issue such an order. "Your Majesty, even if it's General Guan who's seeking revenge, you shouldn't kill the whole family!"

Huang Chong also jumped out to stop it.

He believed that Liu Chan did this to avenge Guan Yu, and once this was done, Liu Chan's reputation would be completely ruined.

"Sir, I killed Lu Meng's family today for no other reason than to avenge my second uncle. I would avenge my second uncle on the battlefield. I killed Lu Meng's family today for the White Clothes Crossing the River, for a thousand years to come!"

Lu Meng's crossing the river in white clothes seemed to be a good strategy, but after it was implemented, it was not much better than Sima Yi's fart.

Crossing the river in white clothes was also an event that destroyed a thousand years of trust and loyalty.

Before Lu Meng used the strategy of crossing the river in white clothes, all merchants in the world could do business freely. Even merchants from enemy countries who came to do business here would be ignored, because they were just doing business and at most would gather some local intelligence. This kind of thing would be considered reasonable and legal, and was an inevitable necessary loss.

Because during wars, sometimes the army’s food and fodder supplies are insufficient, and merchants are needed to supply them.

In the past, merchants could travel between hostile armies to trade, and even allow the armies of two hostile countries to trade while fighting each other.

This matter was recognized by both the enemy and us, but after Lu Meng appeared in the scene of crossing the river in white clothes, merchants became characters that could be killed when seen on the battlefield.

No one knows whether the enemy merchant caravan appearing on the battlefield will be another White Clothes Crossing the River incident that destroyed the thousand-year-old trust.

From then on, it became a consensus that all merchants could be killed.

The damage caused by this incident to the entire nation is not much better than the fart Sima Yi pointed at the Luo River.

Li Shimin naturally knew the consequences of this incident, so he wanted to kill Lu Meng. The whole family told everyone that the thousand-year-old love could not be broken, otherwise the family would be exterminated.

After hearing what Li Shimin said, the second generation of Shu Han all fell silent, because they did think about how great the damage of Crossing the River in White Clothes was, which was just like the Spring and Autumn Period turning into the Warring States Period.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, people still had to observe etiquette when fighting wars, but in the Warring States Period, wars were fought with all possible deception.

So they are very clear about how big these problems are.

If you want to restore the broken trust, you need to use blood to restore it.

Who carried out this kind of thing.

Then whose family will be destroyed!

This was not something Li Shimin came up with. Li Shimin was used to doing everything he could. However, many people in the chat group brought up this matter.

All the group members in this world brought up this matter, which forced Li Shimin to pay attention. He needed to care about everyone's thoughts because he had already seen what this chat group could bring to him.

The fact that one can wear hundreds of kilograms of armor, carry dozens of kilograms of weapons, and run three thousand miles without stopping within half a year has already brought him great benefits.

And this kind of martial arts is only the entry-level one in the entire chat group. There are many martial arts in the chat group that are stronger than this one, and there will be more powerful martial arts in the future, so Li Shimin needs to be evaluated in the entire chat group, so he needs to restore his destroyed righteousness.

"Kill them all and leave no one alive!"

After hearing Liu Chan's explanation, Huang Chong immediately ordered everyone to prepare to kill, but was stopped by Liu Chan who brought a sack.

"Put them all in sacks, and let the cavalry trample them into pulp! For those who want to destroy the thousand-year-old integrity of China, we must be as cruel as possible!"

After giving the order, Liu Chan drank a glass of wine. The second generation of Shu Han all broke out in cold sweats. They saw another way of ruling that was different from Liu Bei's benevolence. This way of ruling could be summed up in two words: domineering.

However, they still obeyed Liu Chan's orders, brought sacks, put all of Lu Meng's family members in them, and then galloped away on their horses, trampling them into meat paste in front of all the surrendered officials of Eastern Wu and the defenders of Hefei.

"King Wu of Wei, why don't you dance?"

When the cavalry was stampeding, Huang Chong kicked Sun Quan out and asked him to start the formal dance. Sun Quan also started tremblingly. His dance was not pretty at all, but it made everyone break out in cold sweats.

The Liu Chans were here drinking wine, eating meat, and listening to this song of heroes. The background music, apart from the drums, flutes and pipes, was the screams of Lu Meng's people and the sound of the horse's trampling. Apart from that, there was no other noise outside the entire Hefei city.

The Cao Wei soldiers in Hefei city who were watching this scene were all trembling with fear. If they were not holding weapons in their hands, they would have fallen to their knees.

Many of the Cao Wei generals guarding here had already vomited. They had seen people killing people, but had never seen such cruelty.

When this news spread back to Shu Han and Cao Wei, everyone was dumbfounded. They had never thought that the son of Liu Bei, who had been kind and righteous all his life, would be so cruel.

Throughout the history of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei fought for decades and never killed prisoners or massacred cities. The only inhumane thing he did was to seize Yizhou from Liu Zhang.

Apart from this, Liu Bei never did anything that went against his own morals in his life.

So, people from Shu Han and Cao Wei wanted to know what was going on with Liu Chan?

But after knowing why Liu Chan killed Lu Meng's family, everyone stopped talking, because after knowing the plan of crossing the river in white clothes, no one thought that this was a good plan, but that another bottom line had been broken.

At the same time, the garrisons in various places also issued an order to their soldiers that any merchant caravan that was not on their side could be killed.

When this order was issued, everyone knew what it meant. It meant that the caravans would no longer follow the expeditionary army with food and supplies to replenish the army's food and fodder. They would stay away from the army.

From now on, when the army goes to war, it can only rely on the country's logistical supply, which is actually very difficult. Even the Qin Dynasty that unified the world and the Han Dynasty that defeated the Huns needed to rely on merchants to provide part of the supplies for their army.

Merchants are also needed to provide them with a variety of supplies.

After Lu Meng performed the trick of crossing the river in white clothes, all these things disappeared.

Therefore, the fact that Lu Meng's entire family was killed was acknowledged by the leaders of all forces and even publicized.

Because this kind of thing has to be dealt with.

(End of this chapter)