Chapter 74

"Ha ha ha ha! Why are you so quiet? " Chen Ren, pretending to be drunk, walked unsteadily to Zhang Zhao and Zhang Dan. "Today is the Lord's Guild banquet. Don't you two be so disappointed? Come on, come on! I'd like to propose a toast to both of you

Zhang Zhao is different from Zhang Zhen. Although he knows Chen Ren is extraordinary, he still looks down upon Chen Ren. After all, Chen Ren is just a martial arts man in Zhang Zhao's eyes. In the face of Chen Ren's toast, a trace of disdain flashed in Zhang Zhao's eyes, and he ignored Chen Ren at all, which made Zhang Gu, who had already raised his glass of wine, feel a little embarrassed.

Zhang Zhao? Chen Ren glanced at the old goat bearded man. To be honest, Chen Ren looked down on the old man from the bottom of his heart. In history, when sun CE was dying, he said that "internal affairs should not be decided by Zhang Zhao, and foreign affairs should not be decided by Zhou Yu". It is estimated that it is not because of Zhang Zhao's good ability in internal affairs, but that Zhang Zhao represents all the Jiangdong aristocratic families. What else does Jiangdong aristocratic family have to contend with in Jiangdong? As for foreign affairs, of course, we can't rely on these aristocratic families. Sure enough, when Cao Cao invaded, Zhang Zhao took the lead to surrender? If Zhang Zhaozhen's ability was better than Zhang's, then Cao Cao would not have left Zhang Zhen in Xuchang in history.

However, Chen Ren was not angry because of Zhang Zhao's scorn, but happily touched Zhang's Cup in the air and drank it down. However, Chen Ren's performance in the eyes of Cheng Pu and others on the other side is a different attitude. First of all, naturally, he was angry because of Zhang Zhao's arrogance. Then he felt sad for Zhang Zhao. It seemed that none of Chen Ren's people had a good end.

After Chen Renjing had drunk, he went back to his seat. Lu Ji, who was behind Zhang Zhen, sneered: "a martial man, would you like to pay homage to Zhang Gong?" Looking back, Lu Ji looked contemptuously at Chen Ren, and even glanced at himself. Zhang Gong in Lu Ji's mouth was naturally not himself, but Zhang Zhao with a proud face around him.

How can great things happen if you are arrogant and don't know things? Zhang Zhen made a comment in his heart. When he turned his head, he found that Xu Sheng, who was behind Zhang Zhao, was looking respectfully at Chen Ren's back. Zhang immediately understood that different from the literati like them, Chen Ren, as a dragon general, was probably the most admired person among the young generals in the world. He turned his head and looked at Chen Wu, the only two generals on their side.

Sure enough, although Chen Wu was still as expressionless as before, his hot eyes were directly on Chen Ren. However, when he found that Zhang Zhen was looking at himself, Chen Wu quickly picked up a glass of wine to cover up his gaffe.

As soon as Chen Ren took his seat, he winked at Guo Jia. Guo Jia immediately got to know him, took up his glass, and went straight to Zhang Zhao and Zhang Zhen. Although Zhang Zhao didn't think highly of Guo Jia, a poor student, after all, Guo Jia was still a literati. When he saw him, he also came to propose a toast. Even though he filled the glass in front of him and held it in his hand, he looked at Guo Jia with a smile. In his heart, he regarded Guo Jia as a gap in Sun Jian's old army.

Just as Zhang Zhao was about to take up the wine glass and make Guo Jia polite, Guo Jia went directly to Zhang Dan and raised his glass to him and said, "Mr. Zi Gang, when students were studying in Yingchuan, they had heard of his name for a long time. A few days ago, he was busy with his official business and couldn't come to see him. Today, I'd like to propose a toast. In the future, please give me some advice!"

Zhang Zhen quickly responded, but he glanced at Zhang Zhao, who was angry and blue, and then looked at Guo Jia with a smile of banter. Zhang immediately understood Guo Jia's intention, and immediately could not help but cry in secret. But now he has been made to ride a tiger by Guo Jia, so he has to drink this glass of wine. The original sweet wine is more bitter than Huanglian.

Guo Jia swayed back to her seat and secretly winked at Chen Ren when she turned her head. Chen Ren raised his glass with a smile, and paid a distant tribute to Sun Jian, who had been sitting on the top of the table with a cold eye. The monarch and his ministers looked at each other and laughed at each other?

After a while, Sun Jian got up and said, "I can't drink enough. Let's go on and have a rest first."

"Please!" After seeing Sun Jian away, Zhang Zhao couldn't sit still any longer. With a cold hum, he got up and went away. Zhang Pang just wanted to persuade him, but he met Zhang Zhao's cold eyes. He had no words in his heart, so he had to give up. After Zhang Zhaoyi left, representatives of Lu Ji, Yu Fan and other aristocratic families left the table one after another, closely following Zhang Zhao. Only Zhang Zhen had made up his mind and sat still.

Those representatives of the aristocratic families looked at Zhang Dan with contempt and then left. Only a few people, such as Xu Sheng and Chen Wu, looked at Zhang Zhen with a trace of envy. For a time, the seats on the right side of the family were empty, leaving Zhang Zhen alone to pour and drink.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" Chen Ren and Guo Jia simply picked up the wine table in front of them. Laughing, they went to sit down next to Zhang Dan. They disdained to kick away the wine table used by Zhang Zhao and others and set up their own.

Zhang Zhen looks at Chen Ren with deep feeling. In retrospect, they have been calculating themselves since Chen Ren toasted, in order to make Zhang Zhao have a strong sense of difference and finally spread their anger on themselves. Looking at the mediocre looking man in front of him, Zhang Zhen didn't know why. Although he knew that he was a martial arts man, he had a strong feeling in his heart that the plot just now was designed by this man."Brother Zigang! Just take it easy Guo Jia patted Zhang on the shoulder as if he were very familiar with him. Who would have known that this was the first time Guo Jia spoke to Zhang Zhen today.

Zhang Gu shook his head with a bitter smile, pointed to Chen Ren and Guo Jia and said, "you two! Oh! It's really done me harm

Chen Ren said with a smile, "brother Zigang, why did you say that? Is it true that brother Zigang has no faith in the Lord The meaning of Chen Ren's words is that since Zhang Zhen has devoted himself to Sun Jian, and if Sun Jian can succeed, he will naturally be in no danger.

Zhang Zhen was staring at Chen Ren tightly, and suddenly said, "I have a lot of confidence in Chen Zici."

"Er." Chen Ren was blocked by Zhang Zhen's words. Although Chen Ren always liked others to think him a counselor, in fact, Chen Ren had been hiding his clumsiness in the face of the enemy. Since Zhang Zhao and others took refuge, Chen Ren has never offered any advice to Sun Jian in the public. Therefore, in the eyes of Zhang Zhao and others, Chen Ren is still a martial arts man. However, listening to Zhang's tone, he seems to see through his disguise, which makes Chen Ren feel embarrassed.

When he saw Chen Ren eat shriveled, all the people present were looking up and laughing. Even sun CE, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin secretly covered their mouths and laughed. Fortunately, Chen Ren was thick skinned enough to cover up his embarrassment by drinking, and then glared at Sun CE and the other three who were laughing happily.

But to Zhang Zhen's surprise, after Zhang Zhao and others had gone for a long time, Sun Jian, on the pretext of resting, came back. But when he saw Sun Jian looking at his smiling face, Zhang Zhen understood it completely. Then he went to Sun Jian and knelt down directly: "my subordinate, Zhang Gu, is willing to work for the Lord and the public."

Although Zhang Zhen and Zhang Zhao had given this ceremony to Sun Jian when he joined Sun Jian not long ago, Sun Jian naturally knew the meaning of this ceremony when he was loyal to Sun Jian again. He immediately lifted up Zhang Zhen and said with emotion: "I have Zi gang. The matter of Jiangdong is settled."

In this era, both the literati and the generals are eager to be appreciated by the superior. At this time, this sentence of Sun Jian immediately let Zhang Gu get rid of the unhappiness of being forced to leave the Jiangdong aristocratic family camp, and began to serve Sun Jian wholeheartedly.

Sun Jian took Zhang Dan's hand and directly sat down at the seat below. Instead, he let the other subordinates disperse, leaving only Chen alone. Then he said to Zhang Jian, "what good strategies can Zi Gang teach me about Jiangdong?"

After thinking for a while, Zhang said to Sun Jian, "my Lord! Now, in the east of the river, the LORD takes it as if he were searching for something! Yan Baihu in Wujun and Wang Lang in Kuaiji are all ants. It's enough for the Lord to send a general! But it's easy to get the land of Jiangdong, but difficult to get the heart of Jiangdong! "

Sun Jian and Chen Ren both nodded at the same time. Zhang said, "the heart of Jiangdong lies in the Jiangdong aristocratic family, but the Jiangdong aristocratic family is not as united as it looks. Although Zhang, Xu, Lu and Yu are the four leading families, they are also secretly intriguing. Zhang Jia is the first of the four in name, but it is also the concern of the other three. The strength of the Xu family is second only to that of Zhangjia, and it is also a school of its own. Although the Lu family and the Yu family are slightly inferior in strength, they collude with each other, but they are not afraid of the other two. The rest of them are attached to these four families and are living on and on. "

Both Sun Jian and Chen Ren are suddenly enlightened. Although they have known for a long time that the relationship between the Jiangdong aristocratic families is not so harmonious, only people in the Bureau like Zhang Zhen can understand this in detail.

"What should we do according to what brother Zi Gang said?" Chen Ren continued to ask. He knew that Zhang Zhen was not a simple character. Since he knew about the Jiangdong family, Zhang's plan was more effective than his own.

Zhang Zhen was embarrassed by Chen Ren's question. After all, he had come to calculate Sun Jian on behalf of Jiangdong aristocratic family. Who knows that these two cups of wine today will bring him to Sun Jian's side, and he has to plan against Jiangdong family. It's really unpredictable!

The question still needs to be answered. Zhang Zhen replied: "in fact, the strategy of the LORD was very correct. Starting from these declining families, we can cause a lot of trouble to Jiangdong aristocratic family, but we can't hurt their muscles and bones. If we want to solve the threat of Jiangdong aristocratic family to the Lord's rule, first of all, we can not rely on force. In this way, even if one or two families can be solved, the rest will be tightly held together, which will cause great danger to the Lord! "