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At first, I thought that we would take advantage of the situation and capture the Jiangling, but when I thought that Yuan Shu was about to suffer a crushing defeat, suddenly, the Liu Bei Army came over to support us.

Liu Bei Army had also built quite a few punching boat s, and were heading towards us, all the way while taking them. This caused us to lose a lot of our vitality, and we had no choice but to retreat according to Jiangxia.

Facing such power, I withdrew immediately and had my men retreat in Jiangxia.

Li Wa was a virtuous and intelligent woman, with both the inside and the outside. Everyone said that a stepmother was hard to be. Long before her, Yue Fei already had a wife and had two sons for him, the first son, Yue Yun, and the second son, Yue Lei.

Li Wa viewed the sons of her two ex-wives equally, and treated them as if they were her own children, nurturing them with utmost care and nurturing them into Yue Fei's right hand in the end.

And Li Wa here has some history. When Yue Fei was in Chang An, he came to me, then Li Wa brought Yue Fei's mother and children to search in the south. When Yue Fei was helping Lv Bu fight against Liu Biao's army, the couple gathered and moved together with Yue Fei to the east of the river.

Yue Fei raised his wine cup and said, "I want to toast my big brother. If big brother did not ask me to help General Wen Hou, how would I be able to reunite with my wife and children?"

"No need, no need, we're all family." I waved my hand.

At this time, Zhao Pu stood out and raised his wine cup as he walked around the table, and said: "Everyone, I actually have an idea, I wonder what you think?"

"Mr. Zhao, please speak." Yue Fei said.

Zhao Pu cupped his hands towards me and said, "My lord, now that the bandit Cao Mengde is ordering the heavenly prince to turn the Son of Heaven into his own backyard, and we have already seized a fifth of the world, but we have no names nor rights. I am presumptuous, but I feel that my master might be able to bestow the title of king, what do you think about us, the King of Jiangdong?"

"Shut up!" I shouted, "Such outrageous words, how dare you spout them nonsense. Have you forgotten how those bandits died?!"

"I know what the lord is worried about." Zhao Pu walked over and said. This fellow likes to talk back to me, but seeing how unique it is was is also the reason why I wasn't willing to kill him.

Zhao Pu first drank the wine in his cup, then said: "Master, that Cao Mengde called himself Sikong, but this was not given to him by the little emperor in the capital, it was only him bestowing it upon himself, using the Son of Heaven to stay by his side. Recently, Yuan Shu also had a plan to establish himself as the emperor, but because he was scared of our Jiangdong Army, he did not dare do anything!"

Zhao Pu took another step forward: "My lord, if my lord has always called himself a man, then wouldn't the people of Jiangdong bow down to me like that?! Furthermore, this will greatly increase the prestige of the Lord! "

Don't bring up the matter of claiming the king anymore. Although I am a prefecture overseer, I have already occupied half of the entire Yangzhou Prefecture, and less than half of the Jingzhou. If I am a king, then there will definitely be many famous cultivators of the Scholars who will oppose me. "No," I said.

Zhao Pu looked at me for a long time, then left. He was a smart person, and knew the meaning of my words, was that the time wasn't right yet, so he was very happy. Although he failed, he had a smile on his face.

Yue Fei coughed and said: "Big brother, what do you plan to do about the Jiangling?"

"If he, Yuan Shu, does not send out his troops, we will not go, but Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, is not an ordinary person, I do not believe that their Association will last long, we will just watch from the side, and see what kind of trick they will come up with in the end. Right now, our first concern is our own territory, the lives of the citizens, and also the fields!" "No," I said.

Everyone nodded.

I raised my wine cup, "For my Lin to have such achievements, everyone here must have contributed greatly. Let me toast everyone with this goblet of wine!"

"Report!" A wave of surprised exclamations caused the spirits of the people here to rise.

When a messenger arrived, he said, "General, the Southwest Army sent an envoy saying they want to negotiate!"

"Sure, please!" I said, standing up.

It was actually Fa Zheng, Zhang Ju Zheng and Yan Xiang.

Back then, when Yuan Shu, who wielded the Imperial Jade Seal, wanted to claim the throne, he asked his subordinates. Only when Yan Xiang quoted the story of Zhou Wen Wang, who had two-thirds of his world and still tried to persuade Yin He, was he not accepted, which led to Yuan Shu's defeat and death.

According to the current time points, Fa Zheng is still a subordinate of Liu Zhang. As for Zhang Juzheng, very few people know about him, so I only found out from the system that he was a hero that I summoned after asking for a bit.

This was the epic hero, people of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Divine Ming Sect was young, and all major military and political affairs were decided by Ji Zheng. During the past ten years, a series of reforms were carried out, and some results were obtained.

He searched the hidden fields of the landlords, introduced a flogging law, changed the tax system, and improved the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty; used the famous generals Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang to strengthen the northern borders and clean up the town's defenses; and used Pan Ziteng to preside over the Yellow River and the Yellow River, which was also quite effective.

Not long after his death, he was attacked by the eunuch, Zhang Cheng, and the old-fashioned bureaucrat. As a reformer, Zhang Juzheng was not inferior to Wang Anshi. He did not make a full rectification of the finances, avoided the sore spot of the ruling forces, and succeeded in his reform. As a Prime Minister, Zhang Juzheng did his best for the country and its people.

He definitely knew that the hero was one of Zhuge Yun's subordinates from before. Now that he was one of Wu Meiniang's subordinates, he knew that Wu Meiniang had his own methods too.

"Look at the seats." I waved back.

A few female servants came over and gave these three seats a look. I asked, "The three of you, why have you come this time?"

This … "Yan Xiang looked at the two people beside him and said," Let me talk about this matter. Currently, my master Yuan Shu, Uncle Liu Huang and General Liu Zhang have teamed up and have become the Southwest Army.

After saying that, dozens of large boxes were brought up. I took a closer look and realised that these boxes contained gold and silver treasures. At the same time, twenty beautiful ladies were brought over.

Yan Xiang said, "These are gifts from our three lords, please accept them."

As I looked at the ladies with their slim bodies and beautiful appearances, I said, "Sir, please speak your mind. We will not accept this result if we fail to accomplish it."

"Let me do it." Zhang Ju Zheng looked at me and said, "I have long heard that the General Lin is a man with deep ambitions. You benevolent lover, this time, you really are a dragon and phoenix amongst men."

"There's no need to speak the language, just get down to business." "No," I said.

Zhang Juzheng let out a hearty laugh and said, "Then I won't say anything in secret. General Lin thinks that if you were to go against Cao Cao and Yuan Shao from the north, what percentage of chances would you have?"