Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 263 Lu Xun: I seem to see the empire is being destroyed

Ma Su stayed up all night,

When he finished all this and got Lu Meng done, the sky had already started to turn pale.Ma Di covered the quilt carefully, then opened the door and went out to take a breath of fresh morning air.

Today is the third day of March in the 232th year of Jianxing ([-]), and he managed to win another crucial site two years before Zhuge Liang's deadline.

The four major generals stood guard outside the room all night, listening to the sound of "clang, clang, clang" from inside for most of the night, and each had their own thoughts.

When they saw Ma Di coming out limping while leaning on the wall, they cast ambiguous and admiring glances.

Ma Su shook his head with a wry smile.

Things were not as the four generals imagined. He was limping, and [-]% of the reason was that he was beaten by Lu Meng, not because he was tired.

At this time, the door of the next room was pushed open, and another Third Miss Lu, Lu Yusheng, came out with two dark circles under her eyes. When she saw Ma Di, she let out a panicked "Oh", and quickly turned around and retreated into the room.

Uncle Ma suddenly felt a headache.

These two Miss Lu are too difficult to deal with,
Fortunately, the troubles come back to the troubles, and the anger returns to the anger. The two daughters also understand the importance of maintaining the two alliances, and the troubles are very measured.

Next, it was time to recruit soldiers and train soldiers, alienate Lu Xun, and wait for Sun Quan to make a move.

The loss of a continent out of thin air is equivalent to a heavy blow to Sun Quan's prestige. As long as Sun Quan can't swallow this breath and wants to regain his prestige, then he will definitely send troops to Jiaozhou.

Jingzhou, Jiangling City.

Lu Xun, who has been deprived of his military power and has nothing to do, is wandering aimlessly in the street.

Dozens of steps behind him, a pair of soldiers hung far behind, called protection, but actually monitoring.

Lu Xun sighed, feeling that he had fallen into an invisible political conspiracy with nowhere to go and no way to escape.

Frankly speaking, if it is marching and fighting, he is confident that he can see through any trick.But in terms of politics, his political talent is very average, and he really doesn't know what to do at this moment to get rid of Sun Quan's suspicion.

Or beware.

Judging from the fact that Sun Quan only deprived him of his military power but did not arrest him, it is very likely that Sun Quan had already found out that this time (the Jiaozhou Incident) had nothing to do with him. The deprivation of his military power was to prevent him from falling to Jiaozhou and Shisan.

Jiaozhou, Shi San.

Who is Shi San?
With too little information, Lu Xun couldn't figure out Shi San's true identity at all.

If it is necessary to say that Shi San's behavior style is most similar to which person in the world today.

That must be Ma Su, the general of the Shu Han Dynasty conquering the west!
Could it be Ma Di?
Lu Xun wasn't sure.

"This official, come to buy a fish, right? The tuna from the Yangtze River that was just caught."

A sudden voice interrupted Lu Xun's thoughts.

A rough-looking and majestic seafood vendor stood up from his booth, rubbed his hands, and looked over expectantly.

Lu Xun waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need it, and was about to leave when he suddenly saw a well-made long spear standing upright beside the fish stall. The most radiant light.There is a small flag hanging on the neck of the gun, with the words "Wei Fisherman" written on it, and the small flag flutters in the wind, hunting and hunting.

Wei fisherman?

Lu Xun was startled suddenly, as if struck by a thunderbolt, and secretly asked: Could this mighty man in front of him be the general of Shu, Wang Ping?
He tidied up his scattered thoughts for a while, glanced at the soldiers who stopped twenty paces behind him, and began to size them up carefully.

This fish stall is very small, with only a small bamboo basket lined with leak-proof oil paper, and there is only one tuna weighing about four to five catties in the whole bamboo basket.The fishing equipment is also extremely amateurish, not even a bigger fishing net.There is only one fishing rod casually placed aside.

"My lord, buy a fish."

The burly man hospitablely picked up the bamboo basket and handed it to Lu Xun for him to see.

Lu Xun didn't budge. He casually glanced at the fish, and then looked up at the man. The man was about 40 to [-] years old. His weather-beaten face was resolute and his eyes were quite sharp.

"How do you sell this fish?" Lu Xun asked.

"Fifty thousand dollars." The man replied.

"Fifty thousand? Why is it so expensive?"

"Hehe, my lord doesn't know something. Firstly, our Soochow money is worthless; secondly, this fish has a treasure in its belly, the night pearl!"

Lu Xun was taken aback again. With his IQ, it is naturally impossible not to understand the meaning of this sentence.

Without turning his head to look back, he took out ten big springs and five thousand from his cuff, took the bamboo basket, turned his head and left.

Originally, recently, Lu Xun was also thinking about the disadvantages of casting large coins in Soochow, and was about to write a letter to Sun Quan, stating the pros and cons, when he encountered the Jiaozhou Rebellion, and immediately put the matter behind him.

Today, the fish seller's words reminded him again.

The matter of currency is urgent.

When Liu Bei entered Sichuan 20 years ago, because the treasury was empty, he adopted the policy of legal rectification and ordered the officials to mint a large number of Shu Zhi hundred coins (one is worth one hundred five baht coins), plundering all the wealth in Shu, and making the treasury surplus .

In recent years, there have been frequent wars, the Soochow treasury is tight, and the great families are war-weary, and their enthusiasm for handing in supplies and money has been greatly reduced. Therefore, Sun Quan decided to cast Daquan iron coins, similar to the story of Liu Bei back then, plundering and harvesting the wealth of Wu.

The denominations of "Daquan" iron coins cast by Soochow are very large, and they are divided into four types.

Daquan [-], the official guide price is [-] Han five baht coins (after the Wei Dynasty, the Han five baht was renamed Wei five baht, which is a legal currency and circulates unimpeded in Wu and Shu);

Daquan is one thousand, and the official guide price is one thousand Han five baht coins;

Daquan [-], the official guide price is [-] Chinese five baht coins;

Daquan five thousand, the official guide price is five hundred Han five baht coins;

The issuance of Soochow's "big spring currency" had a strong impact on Soochow's economy.On the one hand, these four kinds of virtual money greatly stimulated inflation, making the people of Soochow miserable. At the same time, wealthy families and speculators in various places took the opportunity to privately mint imitation bad coins on a large scale, which further impacted the market.

On the other hand, in the trade with the Wei and Shu countries, this kind of Daquan currency with a legal value of five baht coins "five hundred", "one thousand", "two thousand" and "five thousand" is not recognized by the two countries at all. (Once it is approved, it means that the state of Wu has harvested the wealth empty-handed, and the most important thing is that this method of issuing additional currency is a trick left over from the two countries of Shu and Wei. How can it allow the state of Wu to reap the wealth in turn) .

Sometimes, Daquan currency can only be traded with the currencies of the two countries at a ratio of 1:1 (that is, one Daquan five thousand can be exchanged for one Shuzhi hundred, or one Wei five baht coin).

However, people from Wei and Shu came to Wu to trade after holding "Daquan Five Hundred", "Daquan Dangqian", "Daquan Two Thousand", and "Daquan Five Thousand", but they often came to Wu because it was the "legal currency" of Soochow. , and you can buy items at the original price and make a big profit.

Although this monetary policy has only been issued for more than four years so far, and it has filled Soochow's treasury in a short period of time, the fiscal deficit, currency depreciation, and inflation caused by this move are huge and irreparable.

Although Lu Xun was a representative of the aristocratic family and disapproved of Sun Quan's idea of ​​the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, but as the general of Wu and also the teacher of the crown prince Sun Deng, he did not want the Soochow regime to collapse at the beginning.

Because the Soochow regime collapsed, the disadvantages outweighed the advantages for the aristocratic family.

But now, he has no time to think about currency issues.

The situation before him and his Lu family was already very serious, life and death were only in Sun Quan's whim.

The move of the two Lu families in Jiaozhou to turn their backs to Wu and seek refuge with the "Shi San" directly made his situation very embarrassing.

Based on Lu Xun's understanding of Sun Quan, now that Sun Quan hasn't done anything to deal with him, it doesn't mean he will never be dealt with.

So, it's time to think about the way out.

When he got home, Lu Xun fetched a dagger and opened the belly of the fish, and sure enough, he saw a roll of letters wrapped tightly in oilcloth.

He wiped the blood on his hands, and couldn't wait to open it to read, only to find that it was a letter from his nephew Lu Kai.

The letter was very short, and it only briefly explained why the Lu family took refuge in "Shi San", and the core content was indicated in the last sentence "Scholar and Lu, share the world".

After reading the contents of the letter, Lu Xun remained silent for a long time.

Frankly speaking, the conditions offered by the "Shi San" to the Lu family are much more generous than what Sun Quan offered to the Lu family.

Although Sun Quan named him the Great General, under one man, above tens of thousands, when Sun Quan wanted to take back his military power and status, it was just a matter of one sentence.

And this is completely different from the way "Shi San" treats the Lu family.

"Shi San" not only married two women from the Lu family, but also handed over the only Jiaozhou, except part of the military power, to the Lu family.Even strictly speaking, Jiaozhou is the Jiaozhou of the Lu family, not the Jiaozhou of the "Shi San".

Facing Shi San's huge capital, who can resist the temptation?
Lu Xun felt that if he and his nephew Lu Kai lived in a different position, he might end up making the same choice as Lu Kai.

The most important thing is that Shi San's military ability is extremely excellent, and the Lu family's cooperation with him is simply a strong alliance. It is not possible to say that they can dominate the world, and it is not a problem to dominate Jiangdong and Chu.

Right now, Lu Xun's only concern is, is this Shi San Ma Di?If it is Ma Di, then what capacity does he use to cooperate with the Lu family?
Is it a Shu minister or an independent identity?

If it is Shuchen, then the prospect of cooperation is worth discussing; if it is an independent identity, then the prospect of cooperation is indeed good.

With this in mind, Lu Xun wrote back a letter.

In the letter, Lu Xun neither signed his own name nor mentioned Lu Kai's name, but only gave an ambiguous answer, and cryptically mentioned that Lu Kai should first rescue the Lu family members who were stranded in Jiangdong. It would be best if his family could be rescued together.

Although Lu Xun has reservations about the prospect of cooperation between the two, he also understands that there is no way out at this moment.

Once Sun Quan learned that the real talker of Jiaozhou power was the Lu family, he would definitely not survive.

Therefore, we must think about the way out as soon as possible.

While he was thinking, seven-year-old Lu Kang ran in, tilted his head, and asked like a grown-up: "What is father worrying about?"

The 50-year-old Lu Xun looked at this clever son, and instead of telling him the danger he was facing, he stretched out his hand and stroked the little guy's head, and said kindly: "In a few days, Dad will send you back to Wu County. Okay? Do you want to go home?"

Lu Xun originally had another son, the eldest son Lu Yan, but the eldest son died of illness before he was 20 years old.Lu Kang was his second son born at the age of 43, and he could be regarded as an old son. However, he did not spoil Lu Kang, and always educated this son with the strictest requirements.

Xiao Lukang nodded his head, said some thoughts, and then brought the topic back:
"Is the father going back together?"

Lu Xun shook his head and didn't speak, but what he was thinking was: From Sun Quan's recent arrangements, it can be seen that since he lost Jiaozhou, he has been under the strictest monitoring. The possibility of death.

Sun Quan is not a kind-hearted person.

Lu Xun suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly sent Lu Kang out to play, and quickly came to the book case, found out the information that the intermediary had sent back from Wei and Shu, quickly flipped through it, and quickly stopped his eyes on a marked The information dated half a month ago.

At that time, Jiaozhou had fallen, and intermediaries lurking in Shu and Wei had been investigating "Shisan" for half a month, but they did not find any clues about the identity of "Shisan" in the two countries.

However, a piece of information under this intelligence caught Lu Xun's attention.

"Since Ma Di, the general of Shu Zhengxi, left his post and returned home two months ago, he has been shutting himself out and no one has seen him."

When Lu Xun saw this information for the first time, he thought it was just that Ma Su had been fighting abroad all year round, and it was rare for him to take a rest, so he stayed at home and enjoyed the family happiness.

But now combined with the situation of the fisherman Wang Ping, after a thorough consideration, he realized that the third scholar was probably Ma Di, and Wang Ping did not rebel against Shu. Wu Guo's shocking plan.

In other words, Ma Di had planned a shocking plan at the beginning, but later had to temporarily change the plan because the situation changed too quickly.

Otherwise, how can a big future be an information messenger?
Isn't this overkill.

After repeated scrutiny, Lu Xun quickly sorted out the ins and outs of the whole matter.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Now that Shi San's true identity has been deduced to be Ma Di, he is relieved.

He can already be sure that although Ma Di won Jiaozhou as a minister of Shu, [-]% of Ma Di has changed his mind.

It's my own!

Because after taking Jiaozhou, Ma Di's contribution to the Shu Han has been so great that there is no reward.

The Shu Han originally had only one state, and it was as weak as a candle in the wind.Now counting Jiaozhou, the Shu Han already has five states in name, two of which were won by Ma Di alone (Liangzhou and Jiaozhou), and two states were won by Ma Di in cooperation with Zhuge Liang (Yunzhou and Qinzhou, that is, Nanzhong and the seven counties of Longyou).

If Zhuge Liang's position is used as a reference, how should Ma Di be rewarded for such a monstrous achievement?

Unable to award!

Therefore, Ma Di should also be thinking about retreat, and the joint control of Jiaozhou with the Lu family is likely to be the beginning of Ma Di's change.

This change is beneficial to the Lu family.

For Lu Xun, who is in a life-and-death crisis, there is only one way to survive at present, and that is to abscond.

He fled to Jiaozhou.

Before dark, Lu Xun went to the street again to find Wang Ping, and angrily returned the fish he had just bought back to the latter, accusing the latter fiercely that there was no such thing as a pearl in the belly of the fish. , and asked for [-] big money back.

Wang Ping seemed very surprised, and argued for a while, explaining that "there is no reason to return the sold fish", but in the end he couldn't hold back and returned the money.

The two parted unhappily.

midnight.

In Jiangling City, there was a piercing flute sound suddenly, which made people feel restless, and then quieted down after a while.

At the same time, Lu Xun stood in the backyard of his mansion, staring at a black eagle soaring from the city and disappearing into the southern sky, feeling a little turmoil in his heart.

He seemed to see that an empire was collapsing.

(End of this chapter)