Mi Han

Chapter 99 The Guilty Zhu Huan
Today's Jiangdong is no longer what it was in Sun Ce's era, where heroes don't care about their origins.

With the gradual cooperation with the Jiangdong family and the withering of the important officials of the Huaisi faction, many middle-level positions in the Jiangdong army are gradually replaced by the children of the Jiangdong family.

And the captain in front of him is from the Zhu family of Wu County.

With an extraordinary background, he naturally knew Sun Huan, who was hailed by Sun Quan as "Yan Yuan of the Clan", and who had infinite glory in the past.

At this time, a famous soldier from Jiangdong came to report to Captain Zhu, saying that his trebuchet was ready and ready to release stone bullets.

But it was his report, which he wanted to claim credit for, that aroused Captain Zhu's wrath.

Captain Zhu slapped the Jiangdong soldier hard.

"You want to die."

Captain Zhu's sudden roar and threats frightened this unknown Jiangdong soldier.

After Zhu Xiaowei finished beating and scolding the Jiangdong soldier, he immediately ordered all the soldiers present not to act rashly.

All Jiangdong soldiers who were fixing the catapult immediately stopped all movements in their hands, so as not to irritate the enemies on the city wall and make them do anything unfavorable to Sun Huan.

After repeatedly ordering all the Jiangdong soldiers present not to move rashly, the Captain Zhu immediately ran back to the tent and reported what happened on the city wall to his brother Zhu Huan in the barracks.

Lu Meng, who is in the commanding tent of the army, is studying "Ouyang Shangshu".

Ever since he was warned by Sun Quan to read more in his early years, Lu Meng has developed a habit of studying various classics in his spare time in the army.

"Shangshu" is one of the most famous Confucian classics.

Later, due to different transmissions, each great Confucian had a different understanding of "Shangshu", and gradually formed different schools of learning "Shangshu".

Among these many schools, the "Ouyang Shangshu" handed down by the great Confucian Ouyang Sheng is undoubtedly the most mainstream school.

For example, the Hongnong Yang family of four generations and three fathers, after the ancestors were fortunate to be taught "Ouyang Shangshu", because of the handed down Confucian classics as the foundation of family management, the family gradually began to prosper.

In order to make the family a top family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the most basic and important condition is that the family should have the right to interpret a piece of classics, such as the "Meng Shi Yi" written by the Yuan family in Runan.

And studying Confucian classics is the first step for contemporary scholars to formally become officials.

This is the reason why many top aristocratic families can endure for a long time, and they can keep producing disciples and old officials.

But such aristocratic families are only a handful in this world.

This is the unique politics of Confucian classics in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although Lv Meng is smart and eager to learn, he learned a lot of classics and history books through his own efforts in his early years, which made his knowledge no less than that of ordinary Confucians.

But when he was facing the mainstream schools of thought in the world, Lu Meng was unable to learn the essence of them because of the obscure and difficult to understand text.

Just like the book "Ouyang Shangshu".

Although Lu Meng got the book, he didn't know the essentials of it.

And recently Lu Meng saw that Sima Yi happened to be in the tent. The Sima family in Hanoi was also a famous family in the world.

So Lu Meng started to discuss "Ouyang Shangshu" with Sima Yi.

No matter how famous the Sima family in Hanoi is, it cannot be compared with the Hongnong Yang family. Therefore, Sima Yi had never studied the book "Ouyang Shangshu" before.

Now Lu Meng wants to discuss and study "Ouyang Shangshu" with him, which also makes Sima Yi, who loves Confucianism, very happy.

Although Lv Meng and Sima Yi have never studied "Ouyang Shangshu", they are both knowledgeable and intelligent people, so they have gained a lot from mutual learning, research and verification.

Because he was afraid of Sima Yi's status as Cao Cao's envoy, and Sima Yi's own conversation and knowledge were extraordinary, so as long as Sima Yi was not suspected of leaking secrets, Lu Meng still treated Sima Yi as a friend most of the time.

It's just that in the process of the two studying together, the keen Sima Yi found that Lu Meng was a little absent-minded.

The reason why Lu Meng was absent-minded was that he was waiting for a voice.

What Lu Meng was waiting for was the sound of a large catapult flying out and hitting the city wall.

What he was waiting for was also the screams of the Jingzhou soldiers who were hit by the stone bullets fired by the trebuchet.

The walls of Gong'an City are high, and it's hard to say whether an ordinary trebuchet can hit the stone bullets into the city wall, let alone break the wall.

Therefore, Lu Meng specially transferred dozens of large-scale trebuchets from Jiangdong from Xunyang City this time.

These dozens of large trebuchets were completed after several years of painstaking efforts by various craftsmen in Jiangdong.

Since the day it was built, it has been prepared for a strong city like Hefei.

Although it has been improved, Jiangdong's large trebuchet still cannot cause too much damage to the city wall.

But it was enough to pose a certain threat to the guards on the city wall.

That's why Lu Meng sacrificed this big killer in time after not letting the public security guards rest for many days and being mentally exhausted.

Lu Meng expected that as long as the catapult bombarded the Public Security City for ten and a half months, the morale of the public security soldiers who had not been able to get a good rest would definitely be severely hit.

At that time, the situation will develop in his favor.

But what I didn't expect was that after waiting for a long time, Lu Meng, who was in the Chinese army tent not far from the front line, still didn't wait for the voice he wanted to hear.

Could it be that this large trebuchet took too long to fix?

Because it was the first time to use the improved large-scale trebuchet, Lu Meng felt at a loss for a while.

But just when Lu Meng was focusing on two tasks, studying and worrying about the front line, the curtain of his central army tent was suddenly lifted by a general, and then the general walked directly in front of Lu Meng.

Seeing that Zhu Huan broke into his big tent without reporting in advance, Lu Meng felt a little displeased.

But before he could blame Zhu Huan, Zhu Huan reported to Lu Meng,

"The governor, the captain of Wuwei, was hung on the city wall by the thief."

Zhu Huan's words were concise and to the point, but it was just this short sentence that made Lu Meng's face instantly gloomy.

Lu Meng was so angry that he slammed the "Ouyang Shangshu" on the desk.

Mi thief, what a vicious heart.

No wonder, no wonder, there has been no sound coming from the front.

And Zhu Huan's words made Sima Yi, who was flipping through the classics, almost tear off a page of the book.

Then Zhu Huan reported to Lu Menghui, "Now this matter has been known to General Zhenglu, and he and the generals are now outside the city defense pool, thinking about rescuing Captain Wuwei."

After hearing Zhu Huan's words, Lu Meng could no longer keep calm.

He stood up with a whoosh, and then ordered his followers to fetch the sword bestowed by Sun Quan.

Lu Meng came to Zhu Huan and told him, "Seal the news, this matter must not let the soldiers in the other three camps know."

After speaking, Lu Meng rushed towards the moat outside the Public Security City.

After Lu Meng left, the silent Zhu Huan took a deep look at Lu Meng's back, and there was a little apology in his eyes.

He didn't tell Lu Meng, only he knew about this matter from the beginning.

Thinking of the letter sent from home, Zhu Huan felt extremely annoyed, but in the end he could only sigh.

Home country country, home in front of the country.

(End of this chapter)