Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6618 High Value

Zhuge Jin thought of all kinds of possibilities, but he never thought that the Pang family would be involved in this matter. After all, Zhou Yu's will clearly stated that he wanted Pang Tong to take over his position temporarily and handle all matters. This kind of trust was not just trust in ability.

In fact, as colleagues for so many years, even if the judgment is not based on Zhou Yu, but only on Zhuge Jin's judgment, Pang Tong is trustworthy. To put it bluntly, even if the Pang family has any bad ideas, as long as Pang Tong doesn't want it, it will never be realized.

This is the confidence of a top wise man. Without this ability, how can one be a top wise man? Even in the chaos like the Xun family, after Xun Yu wins, he can at least ensure that he knows what the Xun family has done.

What does the head of the family do? Take the blame? How is it possible that the head of the family would be willing to take the blame? This must be something that the head of the family acquiesces to, or even nods in agreement with. If there is no nod of agreement from the head of the family, how can you just let the head of the family take the blame without knowing anything?

What a joke, he is a puppet, not the head of the family.

There is no wise man better than Pang Tong in the Pang family, nor is there a wise man like Zhuge Jin who is slightly weaker than the top one but can also reach the stage and possesses some independent ability. Therefore, if this matter involves the Pang family, it will inevitably involve Pang Tong.

"Impossible!" Zhuge Jin forced himself to suppress the shock in his heart, and then made his own judgment very decisively. At this time, he must believe in Zhou Yu and his own judgment, otherwise something big would happen. What's more, there was really no need for Pang Tong to do this.

That’s right, it was unnecessary for Pang Tong. As for the Pang family, it wouldn’t be that serious, but now that Zhou Yu had been assassinated, all suspicions needed to be paid attention to.

"That's my judgment, too, but..." Zheng Du looked at Zhuge Jin with a gloomy expression and said, "After our careful investigation, this is all the traces we can find."

"Have those people who were exploring the brain intelligence of the deceased been controlled?" Zhuge Jin didn't care how much impact Zheng Du's words would have. He had to stabilize the situation first. Only by stabilizing the situation would there be any meaning in the follow-up. Otherwise, the overall situation would collapse now, and everything would be nonsense.

"The area has been blocked and controlled by trustworthy people." Zheng Du was also a cautious person. Although he was frightened by the intelligence he had discovered, he still made the right judgment quickly.

"Call Pang Shiyuan here, I will talk to him. I don't believe that anyone can hide the truth from the Grand Commander-in-Chief by doing things under his nose. Since the Grand Commander-in-Chief believes in Pang Shiyuan, then we have to believe him too. Even if he is wrong, we have to follow his will now." Zhuge Jin spoke decisively, and Zheng Du's heart sank when he heard this, and he became wary of Zhuge Jin.

Although Zheng Du had doubts in his heart, he also knew that this was Zhuge Jin's plan to deal with the overall situation. Zhou Yu died in an assassination, so we cannot just consider the issue of Zhou Yu's death, not to mention that the five assassins themselves had huge problems, but we cannot consider that aspect now.

Pang Tong was soon called over by Zheng Du. Zhuge Jin looked at Pang Tong and didn't know what to say, but after a while, he directly handed Pang Tong the information that Zheng Du had extracted from the brains of the three assassins.

Pang Tong took the information, glanced at it, his expression did not change, but his pupils suddenly shrank, and then he tried his best to return to normal. Even with Pang Tong's qualifications, it was impossible for him to remain indifferent to such information.

"This is the situation." Zhuge Jin looked at Pang Tong and said calmly, "Shi Yuan, the governor's last wish is for you to take over, but this is the information we got from probing the brains of the assassins. Now it's your turn to defend yourself. I need a reasonable excuse to tell others."

It is obvious that Zhuge Jin was thinking from the overall perspective, postponing the assassination issue and first solving the possible self-destruction problem of the Eastern Wu forces.

"The Pang family doesn't have a sixth-level warrior." Pang Tong said seriously, "Let alone a sixth-level warrior, our family can't even find a fifth-level warrior. In fact, Ziyu, you overlooked the most important point. With veterans of this level, even the top families in Jiangdong can only cooperate with them, and they can't be used as warriors."

In the current environment, as long as the fifth-level smelting guy doesn't have any serious black material, he can make a living anywhere he goes. At this level, why not just be a death warrior?

What position do you hold to make a brother of this level serve as your death warrior? How great a favor must this be to repay him with your life? Or did you do something like assassinating Zhou Yu? Are you mentally ill and unable to think straight?

The immortal old soldiers are called soldiers only because people are used to calling them that. In fact, in the Han Dynasty, where the internal Qi out of the body is less than 100, there are less than 200 immortal old soldiers who have reached the sixth level of smelting.

Among these less than two hundred immortal veterans, the lowest level is Er Xiong, who has 600 stones and is responsible for guarding the agricultural grain in Yanzhou, and Wei Jun, who has 600 stones and is a roving ranger who can run around the map and capture people.

In fact, these two people are exceptions among exceptions. The former has a problem with his brain. Liu Bei dare not give him a high official position and can only give him the position of gatekeeper. Even the level of Qu Chang was considered by Liu Bei for a long time and finally he did not give him the position. The only gatekeeper positions with the lowest salary of 600 stones are the gate of Weiyang Palace and the twelve city gates of Chang'an. The problem is that if Er Xiong were to do the latter thirteen positions, he would really offend people.

Therefore, Yanzhou Nongliang gave Erxiong a top-notch position as a gatekeeper. Generally speaking, when Yanzhou Nongliang held high-level meetings, Erxiong had to be called to attend the meetings. Even if Erxiong did not speak the whole time and just buried his head in eating, he still had to attend the meeting. This was the rank of the position.

As for Wei Jun, the problem with Wei Jun was that his official position could be moved around, from Liaodong to Liaoxi, from Liaoxi to Bingzhou, from Bingzhou to Yongzhou, and then to Yizhou. He could mobilize 55 people anywhere as a roving guard...

Unlike other bureaucrats who would lose their combat effectiveness once they left their jurisdiction, Wei Jun was considered half an imperial envoy, so when they were given official positions at that time, they really didn't dare to give him a rank higher than two thousand stones, or even a thousand stones. A military officer with a rank of one thousand stones who could appear anywhere and mobilize local troops, how should I put it? The military officer who protected Di Renjie in the film and television drama "Detective Di Renjie" only had this power.

As for the other veterans who had been tempered in the sixth level, Jiang Guang was the Zhongshan Commandant, with a rank equivalent to two thousand stones. Although Sun Er had retired from the army for many years, when he returned, he was first appointed as the Hejian County Commandant, with a rank equivalent to two thousand stones. After the Jizhou incident was settled, Sun Er was appointed as the Jizhou General and Chief Instructor of Jizhou's Military Service, with a rank equivalent to two thousand stones.

In fact, any veteran who can reach the sixth level of smelting and is still on the front line, as long as they are under Liu Bei's command, basically have a twelfth-level title or above. Even Zheng Ke, a front-line centurion who has basically no command ability and relies entirely on actual combat to suppress and reap the rewards, has now reached the thirteenth level of title.

As long as you don't want to work anymore and retire and return to the Central Plains, Liu Bei will be able to pick and choose and find a suitable position for you with a rank of more than 2,000 stones.

In fact, because the Han Dynasty has once again started universal military service, there are still many counties in the country that have not yet arranged for county lieutenants. The minimum requirement for the position of county lieutenant is that you must know military affairs and be able to fight. To be arranged as a county lieutenant after retiring from the front line, you either rely on your command ability on the front line to reach the 14th or 15th level of nobility, or you are at the sixth level of smelting. There is nothing much to say, and relatively speaking, the latter is more accepted.

After all, the latter is really good at fighting. He parachuted in. No matter they are locals or outsiders, they are all convinced that this world is about violence after all.

Even if you don't want an official position or inherited land in the country, Liu Bei can still find a place that satisfies you and grant you a fiefdom.

If you want the kind of black soil that the Yuan family has, which is vast, sparsely populated and unattended, that's no problem. Just go to Outer Northeast China, close to the coastal area, like Kang Guang and his men did, and draw a county with a radius of thirty or forty kilometers that no one will manage.

You said you are from Yongliang and are not very suitable for the Northeast. That's no problem. Go to Central Asia. We will arrange formal fief documents for you and you can directly find a place to enclose land. You can do whatever Bi Laoliu does. There are still millions of bandits converted from the Parthian people waiting for you to absorb. We are not afraid of you enclosing too much. As long as you can control them, it doesn't matter how much you enclose.

What? You don't like Central Asia either, and you think there are more fruits in the south, and three harvests a year is good feng shui, so you want to be a rich landlord. That's no problem. The Isthmus of Kra, the Canal, the north of Jiaozhou, and the Indochina Peninsula have a total of more than two million square kilometers of fertile land. You can directly choose the terrain you want, and then circle a county just like in Outer Manchuria. After you make your choice, you can get a shot at the Medical Academy and start construction.

Therefore, when it comes to the level of the sixth level of smelting, it is already equivalent to the size of a family. If they want an official position, they have it; if they want a title, they have it; if they want a fiefdom, they also have it; and the quality of their fiefdom is actually very good.

Of course, this is all based on a prerequisite, that is, you are under Liu Bei's command, and you have to transfer to the rear to make arrangements. If you are on the front line, you can only take the military merit route.

If they were not under Liu Bei's command, it would be relatively troublesome. Forces like the Yuan family and Jiangdong, which have already stabilized their base, are still okay. They can basically get fiefs close to those of the current retired personnel under Liu Bei's command. At most, they do not have much choice.

As for Cao Cao's side, just look at Xu Yuan. He is a definite big brother, but he only got the basics. If he is willing to switch to Liu Bei's side, he can actually have a background. It's just that Xu Yuan is the kind of righteous man who can work for Liu Bei, but he has to wait until Cao Cao's side is completely finished before he can switch to Liu Bei's side.

By the way, Chen Xi does not recommend that veterans who want to be enfeoffed go to Central Asia. It is not that Central Asia is not good, but Outer Northeast and Indochina are both conventional construction models. If Central Asia is chosen, the development efficiency will be higher than Outer Northeast and Indochina, but the risk will be much higher.

If you really want to gamble on future interests, you might as well continue to stay on the front line if you have the confidence to go to Asia to take a chance. At the very least, if you really want to gamble on the future, you should gamble on the Indus-Ganges. At least the latter far exceeds other places in terms of interests and future.

If one really does not want to take the gamble, returning to serve as an official after retirement and receiving a fiefdom at home, or going to Indochina and Outer Northeast China to seek fiefdoms are all very good options, especially Indochina, one of the major grain producing areas in the world. In the agricultural era, with the Han Dynasty currently possessing medical means to solve malaria and schistosomiasis, it is an absolutely good place.

After killing Celian, the dividing line between the Han Dynasty and Jiangdong was the Isthmus of Kra Canal dug by Jiangdong. The Han Dynasty controlled the Isthmus of Kra Canal (Chapter 4289), and the north of it belonged to the Han Dynasty, and the south was handed over to Jiangdong as a fiefdom.

However, the actual controlled area of ​​the Han Dynasty only reached the southern part of Jiaozhou. From the south of Jiaozhou to the north of the Kra Isthmus, the vast Indochina Peninsula composed of Mon State, Pyu State, Khmer tribes, Funan State, Shanmaling, Langyaxiu, etc. was actually a semi-controlled area.

In fact, after the queen of Funan, the southernmost kingdom, surrendered, this area became a semi-lawless place. In theory, it belonged to the Han Dynasty, but due to population and military strength issues, Liu Bei and Chen Xi semi-left it alone.

After all, as long as Wenjia and the lower reaches of the Ganges are taken over to the west, these places will be like the south of the Yangtze River. The Han cultural circle can take hundreds or even thousands of years to slowly digest them.

In other words, this place was where Liu Bei had initially thought of enfeoffing his officers and soldiers, but after much deliberation Chen Xi decided that it would be better to enfeoff the most important areas of Kushan.

Although the Indochina Peninsula is a pretty good place, it was able to support 50 to 60 million people in the feudal era relying on its climate and soil. It is better than the Sumatra Island that Jiangdong got. Even if it is not as good as Java, a magical place where God automatically fertilizes, Java Island is only tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the reserved Indochina Peninsula is a full two million square kilometers, which is enough to kill Jiangdong.

After all, the core area of ​​Kushan is too far away from the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty cannot actually control it no matter what. At that time, it will inevitably need to consider enfeoffment. As long as it is enfeoffed, it will inevitably become too prosperous. But it is impossible to just abandon it. So instead of handing it over to others, it is better to let its own family enjoy it.

At that time, Chen Xi was worried that Liu Bei would not be able to accept this reason, but after Liu Bei stood at the map and looked at it for a long time, he finally accepted the proposal. Just as Chen Xi said, since they had to divide the land anyway, it would be better to be generous and let the brothers have fun.

As a result, the Indochina Peninsula, which was originally intended for enfeoffment, has actually been vacated. Due to Chen Xi's small-scale village and stockade merger, large areas of uninhabited areas have now appeared. This is also the reason why some Kushan pirates could sneak into the Han territory by reaching Indochina by water.

In fact, there are few people and a lot of land, and the uninhabited area is too large, so Chen Xi has no idea what to do.

As a result, Liu Bei actually has about two million square kilometers of good places available but cannot distribute them. After all, the final war has not yet arrived, and no matter how outrageous Liu Bei is, it is impossible for him to give a fiefdom of tens of thousands of square kilometers to a twelfth or thirteenth-level nobleman as a prince.

To be honest, the baronies given to Kang Guang and his group were actually seriously exceeded. It's just that the fiefs given to people abroad are relatively large nowadays, so it is not very noticeable. But if Liu Bei really wanted to give hundreds of miles of land to non-marquises, it would really be a slap in the face of the marquises.

When the Qin State was first enfeoffed, it only had 0.06 li of land, and li of land is equivalent to square kilometers. If we calculate based on Wang Xi's level, who was directly enfeoffed with square kilometers, this thing can enfeoff Qin States.

Therefore, when it comes to enfeoffment of veterans, Liu Bei has always given more than the quota, but up to now, there are very few veterans willing to retire and take the route of enfeoffment. After Lu Su leaked the news from Chen Xi, the middle-level officers who were still on the front line were even more reluctant to retire.

After all, if he retreats now, he will only get 50 miles of land. Although Qin Bo can choose any of Outer Northeast, Indochina Peninsula, and Central Asia, which is much stronger than other forces, it is rubbish compared with the core area of ​​Kushan.

Therefore, fewer people are retiring now. Even those who have retired, such as Li Tiao, have actually been privately advised by Chen Xi to take a rest when they need to, and to go to the war when the time comes. Don't give up your own interests just because you can't stand it.

The benefits of the final war are too great. If you do not participate in the final war and run away now, the benefits you can get are really a lot, but compared with the benefits of the final war, it is only about one twentieth.

On the other hand, the more modern it is, the clearer the value of top veterans becomes. No matter if it is a retired old man who has already fulfilled his merits, or a frontline old man who has not yet fulfilled his merits but has already secured his future, it is basically impossible for them to risk their own lives to kill Zhou Yu's life.

Zhuge Jin just subconsciously regarded these people as powerful warriors, but ignored other things. Pang Tong directly pointed this out and directly resolved his own suspicion.

"That's right." Zhuge Jin nodded. He had been discussing Zhou Yu's death with Sun Quan alone and had completely overlooked this point. You know, even in Jiangdong, no, precisely because in Jiangdong, veterans of this level are more valuable and more worthy of being united.

The big families in Jiangdong do have veterans who have reached the fifth level of refinement, and there are even a few who have reached the sixth level of refinement. However, in the current environment, it is unlikely that veterans who have managed to reach the fifth level of refinement will serve as suicide warriors, because few people can afford the price.

Not to mention the Jiangdong aristocratic families, even the Guanxi generals have to respect human rights when facing veterans who have been refined through the fifth level. As for the higher level veterans who have been refined through the sixth and seventh levels, to put it bluntly, when Kou Feng sees Qi Xuan, he will have to call him "Uncle".

What's wrong with being a marquis? After decades of seven-level training in his own family, as long as the sons of the family are not playboys, there is no problem in calling them uncles when they meet, right?
There were only about ten people in the entire Han Empire who could use the six-fold smelted soldiers as death squads, and only three or four families could do it. And to mobilize the six-fold smelted soldiers to kill Zhou Yu, there were probably only one or two people who could do it.

After all, Zhou Yu is of certain rank. To be able to become a fifth-level veteran is quite something. To put it bluntly, at this stage, except for a very small number of gifted or too old veterans of the Han Empire, all of them have seen Zhou Yu with their own eyes.

I'm barely back, but I haven't written any updates yet. I still got up early this morning to do some work. It's miserable.