Lu Dynasty

Chapter 623
Pang Tong is in Luoyang, but Xu Shu is far away in Jinyang.After Xu Shu rushed back, I immediately summoned him, Pang Tong, and Huang Yueying. Xu Shu was really happy to see Huang Yueying and Pang Tong.In fact, the counselors in the Han Dynasty all had a circle. As long as you can break through one of them, you can often bring everyone in this circle under your command.It's as if I took Guo Jia in, and Xi Zhicai naturally came to my subordinates. If Cao and Xun Yu hadn't known each other earlier, I guess Guo Jia would have brought all of Cao's advisers to me!And Xu Shu is the representative of that group of people in Jingzhou. Although his ability is not as good as Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, he is much stronger than Cuizhou Pingping!It was Xu Shu, Pang Tong, and Zhuge Liang that Sima Hui and Pang Degong really valued. They also wanted Xu Shu to be the main person who recommended Zhuge Liang, so Xu Shu's influence in Jingzhou was no less than Guo Jia's influence in Yingchuan!It's a pity that Xu Shu can't influence Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong!If Pang Tong is not too conceited, I might not be able to get him!But he influenced Huang Yueying, so it was a mistake!
Pang Tong was a little displeased when he saw Xu Shu. If Xu Shu hadn't spoken too well of me, Huang Yueying would not have run away from home.Even if he stays under my command now, he will not be misunderstood as elopement.When Pang Tong saw Xu Shu, he said angrily, "Brother Yuan Zhi, don't come here without any problems! It seems that my brother is quite proud of being under Prime Minister Lu's command!"

Xu Shu didn't know what Pang Tong meant. He only knew that Pang Tong and Huang Yueying had come to Luoyang, but he didn't know about the elopement.He didn't hear the meaning behind Pang Tong's words, so Xu Shu smiled and said: "The talents of scholars are ten times better than mine. Under the prime minister's command, you will be more proud than me! It's a pity that Kong Ming didn't come, otherwise we can discuss government affairs together, study Wouldn't it be nice to be able to drink and chat in your spare time in the military?"

"Not necessarily!" Xu Shu really didn't know that Pang Tong was misunderstood as elopement, but Pang Tong thought he was pretending to be stupid, so Pang Tong said in a strange way: "Brother Yuan Zhi, you and Kong Ming's Liang Zi married, even if he came to Luoyang, It is also impossible to have a drink with you!"

Xu Shu thought that he had never offended Kong Ming, so he asked doubtfully, "Why did I ever get along with Kong Ming?"

Pang Tong pointed to Huang Yueying and said, "Miss Yueying should have been Kong Ming's wife. If you hadn't spoken too well of Sili, she wouldn't have escaped marriage! Now everyone in Jingzhou laughs at Kong Ming, thanks to you. Do you think Kong Ming Can I not hate you?" As soon as Pang Tong's words came out, Xu Shu was stunned!

"Brother Xu, don't listen to him!" Huang Yueying laughed; "He's complaining that my father and Mr. Pang De thought I had eloped with him!" After finishing speaking, Huang Yueying told Xu Shu the whole story, and Xu Shu just stared at it. Cold sweat!
After Huang Yueying and the others finished talking about the past, they remembered me sitting at the head.Xu Shu smiled and said to me: "I was so happy to see Shiyuan and Yueying, I forgot that elder brother Lu has something to tell me. I don't know why elder brother asked me for something?"

I said with a smile, "I told you to come all the way. There are two things. The first is to let you meet Shi Yuan and Yueying. The second is that Zhuge Liang has come out of the mountain! He is training for Liu Bei in Xinye. If he Invading Wancheng, I am worried that Guan Ping and the others are not opponents! In our army, only Guo Jia, Jia Xu, and Pang Tong can compete with Kong Ming! Yuan Zhi knows Kong Ming very well, and if he faces him, he will not seek victory , but I want to be undefeated! I want you to go to Wancheng, and if Zhuge Liang comes to attack, you can also guarantee that Wancheng will not be lost!"

Pang Tong and Xu Shu looked at each other, and Pang Tong smiled and said, "Prime Minister, I haven't formally served you yet! Are you afraid that if you let me go to Wancheng, I won't return?" When Pang Tong's words came out, Xu Shu was shocked!Xu Shu knew that I was a nice person on the surface, but I was actually quite ruthless!If Pang Tong is really unwilling to work, I will probably kill him!

Just as Xu Shu was about to speak, I smiled and said, "Employees don't have to be suspicious! You have been under my rule for so long, you should be able to tell the good from the bad! Things don't just depend on what others tell you, you also have to see for yourself. ! Don’t look with your eyes, but look with your heart! From the heart, what is better under my rule than Jingzhou?”

"Sili is better!" Although Pang Tong is a counselor, he never acts against his conscience. The situation of Sili is obvious to all!Jingzhou is indeed rich, but the rich are from aristocratic families, and the people still have nothing to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies. However, there are very few rich and powerful families in Sili, but the people live and work in peace and contentment!Pang Tong said with a smile: "But Prime Minister Lu, you must know that I am a member of a large family, and your policies are very unfavorable to my family! For the sake of the family, I may also go against you!"

"Family!" I smiled at Pang Tong: "The family has bound China for thousands of years. It is said that the country is actually a family country! All aristocratic families put their own interests first, and often fight for the interests of the family. Harm the interests of the country! There are too many traitors! I know what kind of person you are, and you will never harm the interests of the world for the sake of the family! In fact, you also know that I am the best choice, why can’t you let go? What about your own face? Just like you are always obsessed with your own ugliness, but a man does not need to rely on his face to make a living! You can completely ignore other people's opinions, as long as you stick to your own opinions and ideas! If one day, we need to disintegrate you As for the land, I believe that your Pang family does not rely on land to survive!" To be honest, the grain production in ancient times is not enough for the family's expenses. If the Pang family relies on land Survive, the game is over!

Pang Tong laughed and said: "That's natural! But the prime minister's policy deprived the aristocratic family of the right to land. This is a right they haven't lost for thousands of years. Do you think they will be satisfied? Although I don't like the family, but It must not harm the interests of the family!"

"You, Pang Tong, don't just look at immediate interests!" I said helplessly, "Indeed, my policies are not beneficial to the aristocratic family, but my policies are beneficial to our entire country! When I rule the world, the world will abide by my policy." Policy. The land will not be annexed, and the people in the world will have enough food and clothing. This will greatly delay the decline of the dynasty! No matter how chaotic the court is, the people will not rebel, and the world will still not be chaotic! We Han people will always have a leader who can let the people live and work in peace and contentment! "Pang Tong was speechless. He didn't want to leave at first, but he couldn't bear the humiliation of being forced to stay by me, so he always wanted to talk to me.At the same time, he found that very few people under my command would question my decisions, which made it easy for me to make mistakes, so he wanted to be an admonishing minister under my command to correct my mistakes. There is no way to take him, neither to kill nor to abolish him!

(End of this chapter)