"I have never seen such a shameless person!" Huo Yi roared.

"Shadowless man! He is traitorous! He is shameless!" Yan Yu cursed.

"Dongwu dog thief, it's really a dog that can't change it." Even Chen Can, who has a good temper, couldn't help but shook his head and sigh.

"It's tolerant, who can't bear it!" Zhao Quan rarely dropped his book bag and shouted: "With the Jin thief, we can't beat us now, so we might as well fight Dongwu first, and then settle the score with the Jin thief!"

"Slow down! The two old generals, General Zhao, and Chen Biejia, what did the Dongwu dog thief do wrong?"

Doctor Su Ding and Doctor Su had always been very clear in his mind. After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Doctor Su actually raised such a question, which also made Yan Yu, Huo Yi, Zhao Quan and others stunned. Then Zhao Quan said angrily: "Su Ding, what do you mean by asking this? The Eastern Wu dog thieves were betrayal and married with the Jin thieves regardless of the alliance, trying to be unfavorable to our Han army. Isn't this a mistake?"

"But the question is, did the Dongwu dog thief betray the covenant?"

Doctor Su, who had a clear mind, raised an important question and said: "In the alliance we signed with the dog thieves in the Eastern Wu, there is an agreement not to allow the Eastern Wu to marry the Jin thieves' court? Since there is no such agreement, then Sun Hao and Sima Yan are just in-laws but not in an alliance. What qualifications do we have to blame Sun Hao? What reason do we use to accuse Sun Hao?"

Zhao Quan was stunned, Huo Yi, Yan Yu and Chen Can were stunned, and then he remembered that there was no agreement in the alliance signed by his army with the Eastern Wu that both sides were not allowed to become relatives with Emperor Jin or senior officials of the Jin court. Zhang Zhi immediately woke up and said, "It seems that sending envoys to negotiate must be useless. When we send envoys to protest this matter, Sun Hao would definitely cheat on the excuse that there was no such provision in the alliance, so that our protests would condemn the master's nameless."

Huo Yi, Yan Yu and others who were still angry just now were all deflated. Zhao Quanze quickly asked, "Hou General, then this matter cannot be done like this? Sima Yan and Sun Hao have formed relatives and have close contacts with each other. The Eastern Wu dog thieves may turn against us at any time and stab us in the back."

Zhang Zhi did not answer, and then thought for a while before saying, "This matter is a bit strange. Logically speaking, if the dog thieves in the Eastern Wu really want to join forces with the Jin thieves to attack us, they should have reached a secret alliance with the Jin thieves and then suddenly take action when our hinterland is empty. Why did Sun Hao do the opposite and deliberately make a family with Sima Yan with great fanfare, so that we can prepare in advance and not give him the chance to attack suddenly?"

"This is very strange." Huo Yi woke up and said: "The intentional disclosure of the news by the Eastern Wu dog thieves is not like they are preparing to attack us. On the contrary, they are like they are deliberately demonstrating to us, so that we know that they can join forces with the Jin thieves at any time, so that we don't forget their threats."

"The latter general, why don't you send someone to find out the situation?" Chen Can suggested: "Just use the excuse of protesting against the Eastern Wu's rebellion to go to the Eastern Wu to find out their real plans and then make a decision."

Hearing this, he saw Zhang Zhi nodding again. Su Dafu, who was under house arrest by Sun Hao in Jianye for nearly a year, was panicked and said hurriedly: "Hou General, don't send officials to this matter. The officials dare to bet that after the officials go to Dongwu, Sun Hao will definitely take the opportunity to blackmail and force us to pay tribute to him countless instant noodles and lunch meat. Maybe he will also force the General, you will hand over the divine power of obtaining instant noodles and lunch meat. At that time, the officials will neither agree nor bear the consequences of handing over these things."

The words of the diplomatic master Doctor Su reminded Zhang Zhi, which made Zhang Zhi suddenly think of a possibility and said hurriedly: "I understand. Sun Hao deliberately agreed to marry the Jin thief. He probably wanted to extort diplomatically and force us to give them a lot of instant noodles and lunch meat, and also make major concessions in other aspects in exchange for him to turn against the Jin thief and continue to join forces to attack the Jin thief."

With a word, Chen Can also immediately said: "This is possible, and it's very big. In recent years, we have exchanged instant noodles and lunch meat for many supplies to Dongwu. Our new money is also very popular in Dongwu. Just using the money, we don't know how much cloth and pig iron I bought from Dongwu. Dongwu must be jealous of our specialties and trade profits, so we deliberately improved our relationship with the Jin thieves and took the opportunity to extort us. Dongwu can definitely do such a thing!"

Huo Yi, Yan Yu and others nodded one after another, all thinking that this might be very big. Yan Yu also said: "The Dongwu dog thieves are jealous of our instant noodles and lunch meat for a long time. Now I know how our instant noodles and lunch meat come from. I definitely hope that we will share countless things with them, and no matter how much we give them lunch meat and instant noodles, it will not be satisfied. So if we send envoys to negotiate with them, they will definitely open their mouths and force us to make countless concessions in exchange for them to continue the covenant!"

Zhang Zhi nodded slowly and said, "It seems that it is time to give the Dongwu dog thieves a little color. These dog thieves bullied us and dare not break up with them. They have been creating friction on the border over the years and pretended to be bandits to rob. I don't know how many soldiers we have hurt and how many caravans we secretly robbed. If we make concessions this time, the Dongwu dog thieves will definitely be arrogant and make further demands."

"Hou General, what should we do?" Zhang Zhi asked quickly.

"First of all." Zhang Zhi said in a long voice: "We have to choose a courageous messenger first."

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Let’s take a look at the situation on Sun Hao’s side. In fact, the Jin court had sent an envoy to propose marriage and offered to marry Sima Yan’s daughter to his son without reminding others. The current Emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Hao, immediately understood that the Jin court was using a divisive strategy and attempting to break up the Han and Wu alliance through this move, and then induce Han and Wu to turn against each other and start a war.

However, Sun Hao did not immediately refuse the marriage. First, the Jin court also took advantage of the loopholes in the Han-Wu alliance and took the initiative to point out that the marriage between Jin and Wu did not violate the alliance; secondly, there was also a powerful pro-Jin faction in the Eastern Wu Dynasty. Under the leadership of Lu Kai, the left prime minister of the Eastern Wu, strongly agreed with the marriage, and advocated leaving a way out to prevent it. In addition, it was to take the opportunity to ease the relationship with the Jin court and reduce the pressure on the Northern Line of the Eastern Wu.

Not only the pro-Jin faction agreed with this marriage, but the egoists in the Eastern Wu Dynasty headed by the Right Prime Minister Wan Yu also believed that this was an opportunity to warn the Han army and force the Han army to concessions. They wanted to put pressure on the Han army by eased relations with the Jin court, forcing the Han army to provide a large amount of junk food for the Eastern Wu, and strange metals to cast new Han coins, so as to enhance the national strength of the Eastern Wu, resist the economic invasion of the Han army, and improve the embarrassing situation where the Eastern Wu currency was not as valuable as the Han army's currency in the local area. It had been cheated by Zhuge Villageman's straight hundred coins, and of course the Eastern Wu did not want to be cheated by the Han army's new coins.

He perfectly inherited Sun Shiwan's noble character, and at the same time, he did not violate the alliance with Sima Yan, and he coveted the junk food of the Han army very much. After thinking about it, Sun Hao agreed to the marriage without caring about the opposition of the pro-Han faction in the Eastern Wu Dynasty. He also deliberately made a noise to let the Han army know, forcing the Han army to send envoys to negotiate, and then prepared to force the Han army to make concessions in all aspects through negotiations.

In addition, Sun Hao of course prepared the conditions for renewing the alliance with the Han army early. In addition to requesting astronomical junk food assistance, the Han army also required the Han army to sell a large amount of aluminum alloy, as well as military supplies such as paper armor, gunpowder and steel-filled weapons to the Eastern Wu. If the Han army asked him to break off the engagement for his son, all of these numbers would have to be turned over.

Zhang Zhi and the Han army did not disappoint Sun Hao. After a while, Zhang Zhi indeed sent his old Wu Lian lackey Mo Sheng to Jianye to negotiate with the Eastern Wu court as an envoy. Sun Hao was overjoyed when he heard the news and immediately ordered the meeting. He also deliberately summoned the leader of the Jin army, Lu Kai and the representative of the Yiji Sect, Wan Yu, to accompany them, to help them deal with the Han army's criticism, and to force the Han army to resolve the issue of continuing the alliance through negotiations.

In a moment, Mo Sheng, who had met Sun Hao several times, was led to the hall and bowed to Sun Hao and said, "Mo Sheng, a scattered doctor in the Han Dynasty, has seen His Majesty the Emperor of Wu, His Majesty Jin'an."

"Doctor Mo is exempt from rituals. He is an old acquaintance, so there is no need to be so polite." Sun Hao replied with a smile, and then said hypocritically: "Why is Doctor Mo coming from thousands of miles?"

"Come and congratulate your Majesty."

Mo Sheng's answer made Sun Hao and Lu Kai beside him stunned, and Wan Yu said: "The descendant general of our Han Dynasty heard that His Majesty and Sima Yan became relatives, and also heard that although Sima Yan's daughter, Princess Xinfeng, was born with an extremely beautiful and intelligent and virtuous person, who was enough to be able to swear to His Majesty's princess, so he sent a young envoy to come and congratulate him and sent some gifts to congratulate him. This is the congratulations written by our descendant general to His Majesty, and there are also gift lists. Please check it out."

After saying that, Mo Sheng held up the letter of the country and the gift list with respect in both hands. Sun Hao, Lu Kai and Wan Yu looked at each other in a hurry, but he didn't expect that Zhang Zhi not only did not get angry about this matter, but also sent a gift to congratulate him. When the guards took the letter, they found that Zhang Zhi did express congratulations in the letter, Sun Hao was still a little embarrassed and said, "Thank you, Doctor Mo, but please rest assured that General and Doctor Mo are in the future. I am not a matter of...."

"Your Majesty does not need to explain." Mo Sheng interrupted: "The Later General knows everything. Although our two countries have signed an alliance to join forces to destroy Jin, they have not agreed that the people of the two countries will not marry Jin people. Therefore, His Majesty did not violate the alliance for his beloved son, and our Later General will never care about it."

When Sun Hao heard this, of course, he was so stunned. Lu Kai and Wan Yu also felt as if they had punched him with all their strength, as if they were hitting the air. The countless strengths held in his heart had nowhere to vent. Mo Shengze said politely: "Your Majesty, the young envoy came here on orders. In addition to expressing thanks to Your Majesty on behalf of the Later General, he had two other things to discuss with Your Majesty in person."

"What's the matter with negotiation?" Sun Hao asked.

"The first thing is the conflict between soldiers on the border." Mo Sheng replied: "In recent years, the Xiling Governor Lu Kang of your country has condoned his soldiers to repeatedly invade our borders, and repeatedly injured and even killed our border soldiers. There are even rumors that your country's border soldiers pretend to be bandits and wantonly rob our caravans and merchants. I hope that Your Majesty will issue an edict in person to strictly restrain your country's border soldiers, so as not to expand the trouble and affect the alliance between our two countries."

"You're talking nonsense!" Lu Kai heard this and hurriedly said, "It's clear that your soldiers were the first to start the trouble, killing and injuring our border soldiers on the Eastern Wu. Now the evil people are coming to complain first!"

"Our Han army has always been strict in military discipline. How could it be possible to do such a thing?" Mo Sheng's answer was obviously smelling of gunpowder and said, "Prime Minister Lu, please let me know your cousin, Governor Lu. If he does not restrain himself, he will bear all the consequences caused!"

Frightened by Mo Sheng's fierce words, Lu Kai subconsciously was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Prime Minister Lu, didn't your cousin, Governor Lu, always say that border conflicts are small friction?" Mo Sheng answered even more fiercely and said, "Our post-general said that since Governor Lu likes friction, we can have a general friction with him!"

Lu Kai's face changed, and he immediately understood that the Han army was about to take action on the border. Sun Hao's face was also blue and black, and said, "Very good. Since your country likes it, then we Dongwu will certainly accompany you to the end!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Mo Sheng thanked politely, and took out another letter of national letter and said: "The second thing that the later general asked the envoy to negotiate for him was that he hoped that your country could lend Jianping, Yidu and Nanjun to our Dahan army to station troops, so that our Dahan army could go north and attack the Jin thieves' army from both directions. After the thieves were defeated, they would return it as the original land!"

Before Mo Sheng could finish these words, Sun Hao, Lu Kai and Wan Yu had already changed their faces. Then Sun Hao clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "Do you want to borrow Nanjun, Jianping and Yidu counties?"

"Not bad." Mo Sheng said with a verbal remark: "These three counties not only border our territory of the Han Dynasty, but also border our Jin bandits Xiangfan and other places. It is much more convenient to send troops to attack Jin than to attack Hanzhong from the Qinling Mountains. Therefore, our later general hopes that Your Majesty will borrow these three counties from our Han army for a few years in the interest of the alliance."

Sun Hao's face turned even more pale, and he said word by word: "What if I don't borrow it?"

"Of course, your majesty has the final say." Mo Sheng smiled and replied, "But our later general said that even if your majesty does not lend it to us, we will have to borrow these three counties. At worst, it's just a little more effort."

"Doctor Mo, what you said seems to be declaring war."

Wan Yu spoke unbearably, and Mo Shengze immediately replied: "I dare not, the envoy is just conveying the original words of the general. As for how your country understands it, it is all up to you."

After saying that, Mo Sheng bowed his hand and raised the letter of the country again. The guards quickly submitted the second letter of the country to Sun Hao. Sun Hao opened the contents and saw that Mo Sheng's oral statements were similar. Zhang Zhi really shamelessly proposed to ask the Eastern Wu to lend Guan Yu's lost territory to the Han army. Sun Hao couldn't help but be furious. He first slapped the letter of the country heavily, and then roared: "Go back and tell Zhang Zhi that if he dares to cross the border, I will immediately lead the troops that have lost the country and fight another battle of Yiling with him!"

"Don't worry, your Majesty, I will bring your original words to you."

Mo Sheng's attitude was still neither humble nor arrogant, and then said, "By the way, I almost forgot that our rear general would also have a small envoy to inform Your Majesty of a small matter, that is, in the near future, our rear general will personally lead a large army to inspect the cities along the river, and it is very likely that we will visit Yong'an in person to inspect the defense. Please do not misunderstand and misunderstand. Our rear general only wants to inspect, not for anything else."

Hearing this, Sun Hao's face was of course too ugly. But Mo Sheng offered his farewell politely. As a result, as soon as Mo Sheng left, Sun Hao, who was extremely furious, immediately overturned the imperial case in front of him and shouted: "Transfer the imperial edict, immediately prepare for war. I want the imperial commander to personally fight with Zhang Zhi'er!"

"Your Majesty, calm down." Wan Yu quickly advised: "The three kingdoms of Wu, Jin and Shu are in power, Jin is strong and Wu and Shu are weak. If Wu and Shu turn against each other, they will only suffer losses and let the people of Jin reap the benefits!"

"Your Majesty, don't be afraid!" Lu Kai also spoke quickly and said, "The Jin people deeply hate the pseudo-Han thief army. Taking this opportunity, we might as well send envoys to the north and invite the Jin people to send troops to attack the pseudo-Han thief army. The Jin people will definitely agree. Then we share the land in Shu with the Jin people. Isn't that beautiful?"

"Prime Minister Lu, are you thinking too beautifully?" Wan Yu said: "How treacherous is the Jin thief? How could he take the thief from the fire to help us benefit from the Eastern Wu? Even if he agrees to form an alliance with us to attack Shu, the Jin thief will definitely just send troops to do whatever he wants, and then watch the fire from the other side of the river to reap profits. Besides, the Sichuan thief is advancing eastward, and the battlefield is under Jianping, and within the three counties of Yidu and Nanjun, do we dare to lead wolves into the house and let the Jin thief's army enter the country?"

"The people of Jin can send troops from Guanzhong." Lu Kai gritted his teeth and defended.

"Guanzhong?" Wan Yu almost laughed and said, "The Guanzhong army of Jin thieves had been killed by the pseudo-Han thieves, and suffered heavy losses. What strength does it have to attack Yizhou in Hanzhong? And even if there is, the Jin thieves would not really attack Hanzhong and Yizhou. They would only retain their strength and wait for our Dongwu and Shu people to suffer losses!"

After saying that, Wan Yu quickly said to Sun Hao: "Your Majesty, there is still room for rescue in this matter. Zhang Zhi's son sent troops eastward to seize the three counties of Jingzhou. The reason was only anger that we, Dongwu, got married with the Jin people, and we had no blood hatred with the pseudo-Han thief army. Your Majesty only needs to announce his retreat immediately and send envoys to communicate with Shu people. Zhang Zhi's rebel thieves will inevitably withdraw his troops. Then when the battle between Jin and Shu begins, we, Dongwu, can act according to the opportunity and be invincible."

After all, he is the so-called king of a country. Sun Hao must consider the overall strategy and hesitate for a long time before saying: "Tomorrow, the court meeting will be held, and all officials will be convened to discuss this matter. In addition, he will send a command to Lu Kang to strengthen his vigilance and prevent the pseudo-Han thief army from taking action suddenly!"

It was also coincidental that as soon as Sun Hao made this decision, His Highness hurried to the hall and whispered to Sun Hao in a duck's voice: "Report to Your Majesty, General of the Army, and General of Xiling, Lu Kang, urgently reported that more than ten days ago, the Yong'an army of Han State, used the excuse of our soldiers crossing the border and injuring people, and suddenly launched a large-scale move into Wu County, killing 68 soldiers on the border and injuring 59. Governor Lu was worried that this was a sign that the Han State was preparing to go to war with our Eastern Wu, so he asked Your Majesty to make up his mind early."

Sun Hao was stunned, Lu Kai and Wan Yu were also stunned at the same time, and then said in their hearts: "Following this situation, Zhang Zhi'er is really going to do it."
Chapter completed!