Under Lu Su's persuasion, Sun Quan finally suppressed the idea of snatching the military power from Lu Meng and Ling Chao. The next morning, the army unfurled their own flag. A large 'Sun' character was fluttering in the wind.
Along the way, Qin Feng led a group of civil and military officials to open the city gates and welcome Sun Quan. Qin Feng was very respectful towards Sun Quan's arrival and was very respectful towards Sun Quan.
However, Sun Quan did not have a good impression of this Qin Feng. The Emperor of Linhuai was just a dog under Sun Ce's feet. Sun Quan dispatched troops to help Jiangdong protect Linhuai from Liu Mang's Army and cause Jiangdong to lose the last piece of land on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Sun Quan also wanted to use Linhuai to establish his own troops. He wanted to attach himself to Jiangdong and form his own army.
Qin Feng was the first obstacle to Sun Quan's acceptance of Linhuai.
Qin Feng and his entourage quickly led Sun Quan and his entourage to the Governor's Mansion in the middle of the city. "Come, come, come. General Sun must be tired from the journey. Quickly follow this Qin to the Governor's Mansion for a rest. The banquet is ready!"
"En!" Sun Quan nodded and followed Qin Feng to the Governor's Mansion. As for the 50,000 soldiers, they were naturally led by their respective generals. They were either stationed in the city or outside the city. Hot food and hot water were also prepared in the Governor's Mansion.
Soon, the Governor's Mansion was in front of them. A group of people walked in and out of the mansion. They were all preparing for the banquet.
"General Sun, please!" Qin Feng welcomed Sun Quan in and was about to let Sun Quan sit on the main seat. Before he could say anything, Sun Quan directly went to the main seat and sat on it, turning the tables from guest to host.
"This?!" Qin Feng frowned. Although he wanted to welcome Sun Quan to the seat of honor, he still needed to be polite. Although Sun Quan was not only Sun Ce's second brother, he was also the second son of Jiangdong. Moreover, Sun Quan was also the commander-in-chief. Qin Feng was still very uncomfortable with Sun Quan's behavior. Sun Quan was Sun Ce's second brother and Jiangdong's second son. Sun Quan was also the commander-in-chief.
Fortunately, Qin Feng was also an experienced official. He quickly suppressed this dissatisfaction in his heart and smiled at Sun Quan. He sat below Sun Quan and clapped his hands. The servants nodded and the dishes were served one by one.
After eating and drinking to their heart's content, it was time to be polite. After that, there was Lun Ce.
As the master of Linhuai, Qin Feng opened his mouth and said, "This Qin is not talented. To be an official in Linhuai, I am worthy of Marquis Wu's recommendation. Only then can I educate the people. However, this Yangzhou Liu Mang was ambitious and wanted to drag the people of Linhuai into the abyss of suffering. He even sent troops to attack Linhuai. Fortunately, General Sun arrived in time and prevented this Liu Mang's plot from succeeding. This is the blessing of the people of Linhuai! Therefore, the first cup of wine is to General Sun! "Qin Feng raised his wine cup and toasted Sun Quan.
"Without Governor Qin's defense, we would not have lasted until the arrival of my army! Therefore, Governor Qin is also a meritorious official! "Sun Quan also returned the toast.
"You flatter me. General's troops are all elites. That's why Liu Mang was able to flee at the mere sight of them. General's troops are all elite troops. This Qin is ashamed of his inferiority. There are twenty thousand troops and horses on the way. If I can obtain general's guidance, that would be the best!" Seeing Sun Quan being polite to him, Qin Feng naturally had his own flattery skills. He belittled himself to elevate Sun Quan.
However, Qin Feng was immediately dumbfounded. This was because his politeness with Sun Quan immediately became the reason for Sun Quan to seize military power. "No problem. Governor Qin, where are Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang?" Sun Quan directly agreed.
"We are here!" Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang also followed Sun Quan to participate in the banquet.
"Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang, the two of you will obtain the tiger tally from Governor Qin. You will command his twenty thousand troops. You must train them to be as elite as our army! If not, I will definitely interrogate the two of you! "Sun Quan directly shouted to his two generals.
"Subordinate obeys!" Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang looked at each other and cupped their fists towards Sun Quan.
"Governor Qin, hand over the tiger tally!" Sun Quan looked at Qin Feng with a smile. Qin Feng was stunned.
"Ah ah!" Qin Feng's eyes widened as he looked at Sun Quan in disbelief. Sun Quan didn't play by the rules. Logically speaking, Sun Quan should be happy and humble when Qin Feng praised Sun Quan. Qin Feng said that if his subordinates could receive guidance from Sun Quan, it was just a formality. Sun Quan should have used the excuse that he was busy with work and rejected it. That way, one would flatter the other and the other would be happy. But now, Sun Quan directly treated Qin Feng's politeness as a fact. His outstretched hand was like a slap to Qin Feng's face. Qin Feng's face was blue and purple. The military power of twenty thousand troops! How could Qin Feng just hand it over?
Although he knew in his heart that it was easier to invite the devil than to send the devil away, and that Linhuai could no longer be protected, he could only go back to being a rich man. But who would have thought that it would be so soon? You should at least eat properly and get the military power by pushing the responsibility to each other! But Sun Quan directly stretched out his hand and asked for it. This was too unsightly. In any case, he had to defeat Liu Mang's army and take back Linhuai. After that, he would give Qin Feng some merit!
"What's wrong? Governor Qin, are you going back on your words? Is Governor Qin looking down on Sun Quan's training methods? " Although Sun Quan used a questioning sentence, his words were full of threats. His eyes narrowed.
"I!" Qin Feng was really riding a tiger. If he did not hand over the military power, Qin Feng would not be willing. But if he did not hand over the military power, the generals beside Sun Quan glared at him. Offending Sun Quan would make it difficult for him to survive in Jiangdong. After all, Sun Quan was the second son of Jiangdong. Qin Feng and Sun Ce are family. Qin Feng looked around, wanting to ask for help, hoping that someone can give him a way out.
But after looking around, no one dared to answer. Those who followed Qin Feng lowered their heads. For them, following Qin Feng was a promotion and wealth. At that time, Qin Feng was the local tyrant of Linhuai. He held the power of life and death in Linhuai. Naturally, they would follow his orders. But now, it was obvious who the lord of Linhuai was. The fifty thousand troops were already stationed in the cities along the way. It was time for the generals and officials to take their positions.
Qin Feng wanted to look at Sun Quan's subordinates, but those generals were glaring at Qin Feng. The only civil official who could enter the banquet was Lu Su. Lu Su pretended not to see Qin Feng's resentful gaze.
Seize the military power? Although his table manners were a bit unsightly, as long as Sun Quan didn't seize the military power from Ling Chao and Lu Meng, Lu Su didn't care about anything else. Perhaps Sun Quan would be able to calm his ambitions by taking the 20,000 troops along the way.
"Sigh!" In an instant, Qin Feng seemed to have aged several decades. He could only slowly and carefully take out a copper object from his bosom. The moment he took out this object, Sun Quan's eyes lit up. This was because this object was the Tiger Tally. It was the Tiger Tally used by the 20,000 soldiers in the cities along the way.
"This old official, this old official asks the two generals to help this old official train the twenty thousand soldiers along the way." Qin Feng had no choice but to lower his head and raise both his hands respectfully to raise the tiger tally above his head.
"Haha, haha, Governor Qin, don't worry, I will definitely let these twenty thousand Linhuai 'er soldiers roam the battlefield!" Although he did not obtain the military power from Ling Chao and Lu Meng, he still obtained twenty thousand troops along the way. Even if these twenty thousand troops were not on the same level, it was still an army.
"Yes, yes, yes!" After this banquet, Qin Feng ate it as if he was chewing wax. The banquet ended with Sun Quan feeling proud and Qin Feng feeling disappointed.
Sun Quan had become a big winner. Originally, he had fifty thousand troops. Even if Zhang Liao defeated five thousand of the vanguard troops, he still had forty-five thousand troops. It was just that twenty thousand of them were not his subordinates. Now that he had obtained another twenty thousand troops, it could be said that he had seventy thousand troops in total.
Seventy thousand troops was not small. Even Liu Bei who occupied Nanyang and Yuzhou did not have as many troops as Sun Quan. As long as he took Linhuai city, Sun Quan would be able to command a region.
Sun Quan's ambition was very big. He first wanted to take Linhuai and defeat Zhang Liao. Then, he would attack Yangzhou and obtain the territory north of Yangtze River. Zhang Liao only had ten thousand troops. This battle would be difficult.
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Compared to the life and death battle in Linhuai, Liu Mang, who was the master of Yangzhou, was also fighting a battle without smoke and blood. However, the degree of bloodshed was not inferior to that of a direct knife fight. In fact, it was even more bloody. There were conspiracies everywhere. If one was not careful, they would not even know how they died.
"Wenhe, is everything ready?" Liu Mang dressed up and asked Jia Xu.
"Everything is ready!" Jia Xu, the old fox, nodded.
"Alright, let's go!" Liu Mang and Jia Xu, if one looked carefully, one would notice that the two of them had completely changed after dressing up. Liu Mang had changed from a person wearing a royal attire to a person holding a feather fan. Jia Xu had also changed from a middle-aged scholar to an old servant.
"Yes, Milord!" Jia Xu nodded and said.
"Still call me Milord?" Liu Mang raised his voice.
"Yes, Young Master!" Jia Xu said to Liu Mang snappily. Although Jia Xu usually did not care about his attire, Jia Xu was also a person who was well-read and could be considered a famous scholar. But now, he was wearing a servant's attire. What was this? However, the two of them had important matters to attend to, so Jia Xu endured it.
Liu Mang and the others dressed like this in order to fool people. There were too many eyes outside Liu Mang's mansion. Before this, Liu Mang's men disguised as a young master and an old servant walked into Liu Mang's mansion and said that they wanted to visit Liu Mang. Now, Liu Mang was wearing the clothes that they had worn before. Above Liu Mang's mansion, there was a man wearing the King Of Shu's robe sitting in a conspicuous position in the courtyard to tell the spies that he was still in the mansion.
"That's right!" In Liu Mang's smile, the master and servant left Liu Mang's courtyard under the cover of Liu Mang's men.
"Humph! It turns out that the King Of Shu, Liu Mang, is just such a person. What courtesy? Bah! A virtuous person like me, Liu Mang must be blind to look down on Liu Mang! " Liu Mang pretended to scold Liu Biao's men who temporarily acted as his housekeeper in front of the gate of the mansion that Liu Mang gave to him.
"His Highness already said that you are a person who deceives the world to gain fame. You are a person without talent, yet you still dare to insult him like this. His Highness is magnanimous and is not willing to teach you a lesson. We are not as magnanimous as His Highness. If you don't scram, we will definitely beat you with sticks!!" Liu Mang's housekeeper also shouted at Liu Mang.
"Who are they?!" Such a thing happening outside of Liu Mang's mansion naturally could not be hidden from the spies. However, the spies soon received a piece of news. It was just a person who thought he was infallible and wanted to rely on the King Of Shu, Liu Mang. However, for some reason, he was beaten out by the King Of Shu, Liu Mang. He should be a person without talent!
"Young Master, Young Master! How can you beat people! “
"Scram!" Liu Mang's housekeeper kicked Liu Mang's body in fear. Liu Mang immediately fell down and staggered. He cried out in pain and left in a sorry state.
The more cautious ones still sent spies to follow Liu Mang and Jia Xu, just in case.
Since ancient times, Jingchu had produced heroes. Liu Mang and Jia Xu walked in Xiangyang City, looking at the scenery around them. When Liu Mang first came to Xiangyang, he was welcomed by Liu Biao, so he went to the Governor's Mansion in Jingzhou early and neglected the scenery in Xiangyang City. Later, because of a series of things, Liu Mang did not have time to see the scenery in Xiangyang City. However, he now had time to go shopping because there were spies following behind him.
"Wenhe! How many people are following us? "Liu Mang asked Jia Xu beside him.
"My lord, there are three more people. The biscuit seller, the one carrying firewood, and the one buying things!" Although Jia Xu was facing Liu Mang, he was scanning the surroundings. Jia Xu was an old fox. He naturally had his own way of distinguishing between spies and ordinary people.
The biscuit seller had already followed them for several streets. Although the biscuit seller was in the streets and alleys, he could not follow Liu Mang wherever he went. As for the one carrying firewood, he was even more ridiculous. This place was almost the inner city of Xiangyang. Buying and selling firewood was generally done in the outer city. In the inner city, there were some rich people. Can't you see that they all looked down on the one carrying firewood?
The last one was the one buying things. Originally, Jia Xu did not pay attention to him because there were so many people coming and going. How could he pay attention to a person who was buying things? However, perhaps this person was too focused on Liu Mang and Jia Xu, so he ignored his own actions. He was a man, but he stayed in front of a cosmetic shop for a long time. He even pretended to pick up the rouge and cosmetic powder. Was he a sissy? The other spies had already dispersed. This was because Liu Mang and the others had already strolled through several streets with the spies. Naturally, their patience was gone. Only these three people were still persevering.
"Let's go! Wenhe! It seems that we have to walk the streets! "Liu Mang waved his feather fan at Jia Xu and said.
"Walk the streets?!" Jia Xu did not understand Liu Mang's words, but he was used to it.
"Wenhe, I don't know if you can still do it!" Suddenly, Liu Mang stopped and smiled strangely at Jia Xu.
"What?!" Where was that? Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, but then he understood. He saw that Liu Mang took Jia Xu to a wine shop. This wine shop was extremely luxurious even in the inner city of Xiangyang. It had four floors and was densely packed with people.
There were two big words written outside the wine shop: Music Hall!
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