The Three Kingdoms

"It depends on your own ability. I think it's only for talents. If you have the ability, you will go up, and if you don't have the ability, you will abdicate!"

"This humble minister will not disappoint His Majesty!"

"I don't care about this matter. Speaking of business, Bashu needs the strong support of the Ministry of Commerce. After all, Bashu is waiting to be rebuilt, and the road is difficult. Without the support of the Ministry of Commerce, it is difficult to improve people's livelihood!"

Sun Quan enjoined and said.

"We have already prepared for this. We have also discussed with some chambers of commerce. There are business opportunities in Bashu, and it will be a matter of time for merchants to settle in. But in the final analysis, if you want to get rich, you still need to build roads. If the Ministry of Industry does not build roads, No businessman is willing to go to Bashu to do business!" Mi Zhu complained with a wry smile.

"You're really slippery!"

Sun Quan smiled and said: "Zhenhui will instruct the Ministry of Industry. The road must be repaired, but the funds may still need the help of the Ministry of Commerce. Your Ministry of Commerce must support it well when the time comes!"

"Yes!"

"By the way, do you still remember the battle in Jizhou?" Sun Quan asked, "That was the foundational battle for your merchants to turn their backs. After that battle, the merchants thrived!"

"Your Majesty wants to repeat the old trick?" Mi Zhu's eyes brightened.

"Yes!" Sun Quan nodded: "The war without gunpowder smoke is what I want to love. I can't fight it in the past few years, but we can also weaken Cao Wei's power as much as possible!"

"What about His Majesty's goal? Or Jizhou?"

"No. This time, my goal is Cao Wei's lair, Yuzhou!" Sun Quan said: "After the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce, the first task is to submit a detailed plan!"

"Wei Chen understands, then Wei Chen will retire first!"

Mi Zhu nodded, and then left the imperial study.

Sun Quan continued to process the memorials. After processing a large stack of memorials, it was already afternoon. He suddenly remembered something and drove away from the Forbidden Palace.Went to the mansion of the old man Cai Yong.

"How is Daddy today?" Sun Quan walked in, looked at his wife Cai Yan, and asked.

Cai Yong suddenly became seriously ill ten days ago.I can't afford to be sick.

"Husband, the imperial doctor said, daddy is only a few days away!"

Tears welled up in Cai Yan's eyes, and she leaned her head on Sun Quan's shoulder: "It's all my fault, knowing that Daddy is in poor health, I still want to hurt his heart. That's why he was so ill. up!"

"Sister Cai, don't blame yourself, life and death are destiny, dad is very happy!"

Sun Quan said comfortingly, "I'll go in and see him!"

He opened the door and walked into the room. There was a strong smell of medicine in the room. A young man was serving Cai Yong on the bed.

"The last general, Cai Feng, see Your Majesty!"

When the young man saw Sun Quan walking in, he quickly got up and saluted.

"You go out for a while, I want to have a good talk with the old man!" Sun Quan said in a deep voice.

Cai Feng was originally the son of Cai Fu, the housekeeper of the Cai family. He later joined the Jiangdong Army and is now a division commander. Cai Zhi, who grew up watching him, is the adopted son of the moth, and inherits the incense of the Cai family.

"No!" Cai Feng nodded and exited the wing.

"Cough cough!"

Cai Yong was lying on the bed, coughing continuously.

"Father, you still need to take good care of your body!"

Sun Quan sat in front of the bed and looked at the old man. At his age, he would never get sick.

"Zhongmou, I can't pass this test!"

Cai Yong said quietly, people say that the end is coming, there is always a hint of premonition, this is really true, he has already felt the passing of life.

"Father, what are you talking about?"

Sun Quan gritted his teeth, his emerald green eyes were a little red, although he had good words with old man Cai, among the people he respected most, old man Cai was ranked among the top three.

"Life and death are destiny, idiot, why can't you see through it?"

Cai Yong looked at Sun Quan's face lovingly.

"I am the Son of Heaven, and I can fight for your life to heaven. As long as you don't give up, the imperial physician will definitely cure you!" Sun Quan gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"Qin Shihuang was also the Son of Heaven back then. He devoted himself to immortality and fought for his life against the heavens. In the end, he died on the sand dunes at the age of less than sixty years old. I have passed my sixtieth year, and my heart is enough!" Cai Yong was a little free and easy.

"Father, don't talk nonsense!"

Sun Quan's mood was a little strained.

"Haha, why is Sun Zhongmou, who has always been unrestrained and unrestrained, so affectionate!" Cai Yong laughed loudly, "It really doesn't look like a decisive and decisive Soochow Emperor!"

"Old man, don't think I won't dare to touch you just because you're lying down!"

Sun Quan was furious.

"Little bastard, don't think that I won't scold you now that I'm lying here dying!" Cai Yong widened his eyes and looked at Sun Quan: "It's not a day or two that the old man thinks you're not pleasing to the eye, my daughter just follows you, You have learned to be so lawless, and you don't know etiquette, justice, and shame!"

"Old man, in fact, sister Cai is not to blame for that incident!"

Hearing this, Sun Quan understood Cai Yong's knot in his heart, and he immediately said in a deep voice: "Everyone has ideals and things she wants to do. She did nothing wrong for the ideals in her heart!"

"I know she did nothing wrong, but Sun Zhongmou, do you know how many years I have studied?"

Cai Yong's eyes were a little far away, and there was a sneer on his pale face: "I have been reading sage books since I was four years old. I have carved too many Confucian classics in my bones. There are some things that I just don't recognize!" To be continued.

[Text Chapter 998 Thoughts of Two Generations]

In the wing room, the atmosphere was a little gloomy.

The relationship between Sun Quan and Cai Yong has never been very good. It’s not that they hate each other. On the contrary, Sun Quan respects Cai Yong very much. Cai Yong is actually very satisfied with this son-in-law, but the two of them are equal to the collision of ideas from two eras. , so Mars always hits the Earth.

Sun Quan represents a kind of modern progressive thinking. He respects Cai Yong, but he cannot admit that Cai Yong has been guarding the old ideas inherited from Confucianism.

Cai Yong couldn't be said to be dissatisfied with Sun Quan, his son-in-law, he just couldn't bear Sun Quan's way of thinking that was different from ordinary people and his behavior that was always beyond this era and despised etiquette.

So whenever the two get together, it becomes a situation of mutual irony.

"Father, if we want to progress in this era, we can only move forward, not backward, and we can't keep holding on to some old ideas."

Sun Quan sat in front of the bed, looked at Cai Yong, and said in a deep tone: "I have never doubted the teachings of the Confucian school. If there is no flexibility, there will be many fewer opportunities, won’t it?”

In his heart, Cai Yong is regarded as one of the most respected elders in this world. Now that Cai Yong is seriously ill, life and death are at stake. He has already done what he can do. Zhang Zhongjing finally gave him the answer that there is no power to return.

He is not a doctor, nor is he a god. Zhang Zhongjing even said that there is no way to save him. What else can he do?