Zheng Du's words caused Guo Youzhi to fall into silence for a while.
Although Guo Youzhi was not born in the Prince's Palace.
But as a talented person in Jingzhou, he can be regarded as a junior whom Liu Bei values very much. With his humble personality, he has a good relationship with everyone.
Therefore, Guo Youzhi is relatively familiar with His Highness and the officials of the Prince's Palace around His Highness.
Zheng Du was right, that His Highness was indeed a being with a very special personality.
However, even so, Guo Youzhi was still a little worried.
"Even though His Highness has a good character, Mr. Zheng, you are so secretive..."
"After all, he is the prince, the prince of a powerful man. He obeys His Majesty's orders because he is obedient and reasonable. He obeys the Prime Minister's orders because the Prime Minister has taught him so much.
But I am not the Prime Minister, so telling His Highness will easily make His Highness worried, and may lead to problems.
Secondly, if I tell His Highness...it will also make His Highness...ahem... feel disgust in his heart! "
"..."
"But it doesn't matter. I've finished what I need to do. I just need to wait for the time to come so that His Highness can introduce the Jiangdong soldiers and horses into Jiaozhou..."
"Yes, we have already done the work...introducing Jiaozhou?" Guo Youzhi finally lost his composure this time and looked at Zheng Du with a horrified look on his face, "What are you doing by introducing Jiaozhou? Your Highness is the body of my great man worth thousands of gold. What is he doing in Jiaozhou?"
"Of course we are escaping from Sun Quan's pursuit!"
"..." Guo Youzhi didn't know how many times he had been frozen in place, and he also didn't know how many times he had been so shocked that he didn't know what to say. "Mr. Zheng, can you speak clearly?" , the war is over..."
"Who told you that the war was over?" Zheng Du frowned again, and looked at Guo Youzhi in front of him and snorted coldly, "Cao Pi retreated because he was repulsed by us.
As for not pursuing Cao Pi to expand the victory, it is because we do not have enough troops and horses to continue the pursuit.
And Jiangdong swallowed enough land, and there was nothing he could do without cavalry.
Otherwise, now that we have gone straight to Luoyang, how could such a thing happen? "
"But..."
"As for Jiangdong..." Zheng Du snorted coldly at this time, "Who told you that Your Majesty is ready to let Jiangdong go?
They stabbed Jingzhou in the back, killed General Guan Yu, and set fire to Yiling so much that His Majesty almost ran away alone. Even this time... they wanted the benefits and did not intend to pay for them.
Such allies had no choice but to form an alliance with them in the first place.
Do you know why you were repeatedly controlled by Jiangdong?
You think Jiangdong is a humble gentleman who cares about the world like Lu Zijing, but in fact they are just a bunch of short-sighted people who just want to live a stable life.
But it's different now. You were beaten... I, a big man, was beaten like this. It doesn't matter whether I can fight for the world or not.
Now my big man's rule is to survive.
And I am not that Zhuge Kongming, who has no world, no rules, and I am not a gentleman!
Jiang Dong kept repeating this over and over again because he knew that I, a big man, wanted the world and had the opportunity to win the world, so I had to endure and hold back no matter how great the grievances I suffered.
But I am different. Now I want to tell them that this big man does not want the world.
Whoever makes the big man unhappy will be unhappy if the big man risked his life.
This is true externally, and it is also true internally!
On the other hand, Jiangdong had already almost captured Jiaozhou, and now it has teamed up with us to conquer almost all of Jingzhou.
Moreover, Zhuge Kongming also had a conversation with Lu Xun, and they agreed that he would send troops to Wanluo in the future, and we would attack the northwest and divide the world equally.
Sun Quan has seen the hope of pacifying the world. Although the hope is slim, it is better than being trapped in a corner.
This is hope.
Hope can bring people confidence, but sometimes...this hope can also make people confused and painful.
Because if you have hope, you can't give up at will. Even if they suffer great grievances, they have to find a way to move on. "
"..." Guo Youzhi looked at Zheng Du who was talking eloquently and couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "So...that's why Mr. Zheng asked me to wait for all the people to migrate.
Even at the expense of demolishing houses and city gates..."
"Firstly, it's because the big man is too poor, and he has to accumulate little by little without any foundation. Secondly... this also puts Sun Quan at a disadvantage.
He thought that if he wanted Wancheng, then Wancheng would be his?
He thought he had obtained large areas of land in Xiangfan and Nanyang, and that these lands were his?
He didn't know how Cao Pi was defeated in the first place, right?
I just used the Prime Minister's...His Royal Highness's original plan on Jiang Dong.
There are a lot of soldiers and horses in Jiangdong, but in the final analysis they are just a group of mountain warriors. There are not many people who are really useful, and most of them are attached to the wealthy families.
Moreover, although Jiangdong has a large population, there are not many real Han people. Jiangdong has developed well in recent years.
I have to say that Sun Quan has some abilities.
But he was advancing too fast, and the population of Jiangdong was insufficient. If he wanted to defend his cities and counties, he had to continue to increase the population.
Shanyue... Jiangdong has almost cleared their mountains in recent years. Even the sheep on the grasslands of northern Xinjiang cannot be allowed to be cleared like this.
Now if they want to continue to gather the population, they can only go to Huainan to find a way. With no corvee, no military service, no need for farming, etc., they can move the people of Cao Wei and Huainan to the interior of their Jiangdong.
Then he continued to attack Shanyue, hoping to take the opportunity to get more people from Shanyue.
Going back and forth, this population is never enough.
This time I took the initiative to persuade His Majesty and the Prime Minister to give up a large amount of cities and land.
If Sun Quan did not want to follow in the footsteps of Cao Pi, he would have no choice but to continue to move the population towards Jingzhou, and the number would not be 12,000 or 20,000, or even 100,000 or 200,000.
But...how long does it take for Jiangdong to move like this?
Although Cao Pi was defeated, the foundation of Cao Wei was still there, and the foundation left by Cao Mengde and Xun Wenruo was still there.
In as long as three years or as short as one and a half years, Cao Wei's power can be restored to a full extent.
When Cao Pi comes back, how much land will Sun Quan be able to keep?
But from Nanyang to Jiangling, how many people need to be filled?
When that time came, on the one hand, Cao's army was massacred without mercy, and on the other hand, regardless of their life or death, they were moved to Jiangdong in Jingzhou.
Who do you think the people will choose? "
"...Choose...choose me?"
"It seems that you are not stupid." Zheng Du just glanced at Guo Youzhi and did not praise him, "But before that, we still have to do something.
For example, Jiangdong has been stuck in the quagmire of war.
But... the big man can no longer be defeated.
But it doesn't matter whether the prince of the Han Dynasty... is defeated or not. "
