"This matter is easy to hear. Zhuge Kongming once had a confidant named Samoko, who was the barbarian king of Wuxi and a very prestigious person among the southern barbarians. The emperor can send him to southern barbarians, and he will definitely be able to recruit an army of barbarians, and then promise With its many benefits, it can naturally be used by our army to achieve the emperor's purpose," said Sima Yi, who remained silent. Lin Nan nodded and said: "Then let's do it like this, Prime Minister Tian, ??and ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to make a budget and prepare to hire one hundred thousand Southern Barbarian troops." "One hundred thousand? Your Majesty, this is probably a big expense. Ah, now our country has millions of soldiers, and the annual military expenditure has accounted for 40% of the annual tax revenue. In order to fight this war, Wei Chen has made a budget and doubled the military expenditure. In other words, in order to fight this war, Wei Chen has already made a budget. In the battle to destroy Wu, a total of 800,000 troops were used, and military expenditures accounted for 80% of tax revenue. If another 100,000 Southern Barbarian troops were hired, I am afraid that this year's finances would be overrun. The financial budget for building water conservancy, paving roads, building schools and other infrastructure is likely to be greatly reduced," Tian Feng said worriedly. Lin Nan thought for a while and then said: "What Prime Minister Tian said is not unreasonable. It's just that the battle to destroy Wu is inevitable. I will attack Wu with an army of 800,000 people. Before attacking, I will definitely make a first order." War letter, if the Wu State is willing to surrender, then this war can be resolved. If it does not surrender, it must be attacked and destroyed. This is the great cause of reunification. I must complete it, end this troubled world of war and disputes, and create a new one. In the prosperous times, if this year's budget exceeds the budget, some of the treasury that has been reserved over the years will be withdrawn. As long as the Wu Kingdom is destroyed, it will be settled once and for all. " "I understand what the emperor wants, so I will do what the emperor wants and let it go again. The Ministry of Revenue will write a financial budget and then submit it to His Majesty for review," Tian Feng said. "Well. That's it for today. The Privy Council will formulate the force distribution map and strategic map, and the Senate will formulate the financial budget. We will meet again in two days." Lin Nandao. "I will retire!" The cabinet ministers present stood up one after another and resigned in unison. Lin Nan nodded and said to Jia Xu: "Guozhang. You stay, and everyone else has dispersed." Everyone left here, and Guo Yuan was brought to the front of the palace by Lin Heng. Guo Yuan met the cabinet ministers. After they dispersed, they stood aside, waited quietly, made way for them, and saluted politely. The cabinet ministers also exchanged pleasantries with Guoyuan. Wait until all the cabinet ministers have exited the hall. Guo Yuan then went straight into the main hall, then bowed to Lin Nan and said, "Guo Yuan, the Minister of Rites, comes to see the emperor." "Get up and speak. Minister of the State, I heard from Wei Wei that you have something important to ask me?" Lin Nan picked up the matter. He looked at the map on the table, then walked to Guoyuan and asked kindly. Guoyuan stood up and said to Lin Nan: "Your Majesty. Lu Fan, the Marquis of Pingnan of Wu State, came to the capital secretly alone and is now being placed in the post house. It is Duke Dingguo and General Huwei. I sent someone to deliver it, and I also met with Marquis Pingnan. He just said that he wanted to meet with the Holy Emperor, and that he had an important mission that might affect the future fate of our country and the state of Wu. I didn't dare to delay, so I came immediately. Report and ask the emperor to make a decision. " "Lu Fan is Sun Ce's confidant, and Sun Ce treats him no less than Zhou Yu. Shi Xie, who defeated Shanyue and conquered Jiaozhou, heard that Lu Fan had the most credit, so he was named the Marquis of Pingnan. He formed an envoy to go out with great fanfare. Instead, he came alone in secret. There must be something important. Minister of the State, you will lead the way. I will go with you to see Lu Fan at the post office. "I obey the order." Lin Nan turned to Jia Xu and said, "Abbott, please come with me." Jia Xu said, "Yes, Your Majesty." So, Lin Nan took Jia Xu and Guoyuan out of the palace together. , two people, Zhu Gongdao and Zhu Gongping, accompanied him to serve him. Lu Fan received a grand reception in the State Guesthouse of the Huaxia Kingdom. This is the highest post house of the Huaxia Kingdom and is usually the place where foreign guests are received. Wang Gui from the barbarians from all directions and envoys from the Wu Kingdom came to the capital of the Huaxia Kingdom. Most of them stay here. The etiquette of a country will often show the strength of the country. Lin Nan is a modern person and naturally knows this, so he specially set up a State Guesthouse as the office of the Ministry of Etiquette and the highest place to receive foreign guests. However, not all foreigners or foreign envoys can enter the State Guesthouse. Except for the Wu Kingdom, Wang Guicai of the Wuwan, Nanxiongnu, Dongyi, Dayuan, Wusun, Shanshan, Yutu, and Shule tribes Can enter, but the Wanggui of Xianbei, Xiqiang, and Northern Xiongnu are not eligible to enter the state guesthouse. The reason is that these three tribes are easy to rebel and have brought many disasters to the Huaxia Kingdom. The Japanese people are even more ineligible. , although the Huaxia Kingdom abolished slavery, Lin Nan doubled down on the issue of the Japanese, making the Japanese men permanent miners and the women becoming female slaves of the Huaxia Kingdom without any political rights. Since Gan Ning conquered the Japanese state, Lin Nan spent a year migrating all the people on the Japanese islands to the mainland to mine in the northeast mining belt, while the women migrated to Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou areas. The land is a slave. The Japanese country, on the other hand, left it as an overseas base and left reserves to garrison it, becoming a training ground for naval training. In the State Guesthouse, Lu Fan waited anxiously and was restless. He was carrying a task entrusted by Sun Ce. He had to complete this task no matter what, and he had to go back as soon as possible. Just as Lu Fan was pacing around anxiously, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. He hurriedly went to open the door. When the door opened, he saw Lin Nan standing at the door, with Jia Xu and Guoyuan behind him. , his face immediately turned from worry to joy, and he hurriedly knelt down to Lin Nan, shouting loudly: "Foreign Minister Lu Fan, please pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor!" Lin Nan personally helped Lu Fan up and said with a smile on his face: "Hurry up, Marquis Pingnan. As soon as I heard that you were coming, I immediately came out of the palace to see you. Marquis Pingnan arrived in such a hurry, is there anything important?" Lu Fan looked at the people behind Lin Nan, Said: "Your Majesty, can you stand aside?" Lin Nan chuckled, then walked straight in, and slowly said to Lu Fan: "Ping Nanhou, what you want to tell me, I will tell these ministers sooner or later. "If that's the case, what's the difference between letting them know one day earlier or letting them know one day later?" Lu Fan said: "In that case, the foreign minister should speak frankly." Lin Nan made the first decision. After sitting down on a chair, he pointed to the seat next to him and said to Lu Fan: "Ping Nanhou, please take a seat. Sirs, please take a seat too. Let's talk slowly." Lu Fan, Jia Xu, Guoyuan , Zhu Gongdao, Zhu Gongping and others sat down one after another, and then Lu Fan opened his mouth and said: "His Majesty the Great Emperor. The foreign minister came on the emperor's order, mainly because he wanted to talk to His Majesty the Great Emperor about the future of Huaxia and Wu. " After hearing this, Lin Nan became a little interested, but did not show any abnormality on his face. He said to Lu Fan: "Oh, then I am all ears. Mr. Ping Nan, please speak frankly. " Lu Fan. He immediately took out an unopened secret letter from his arms and handed it to Lin Nan. He said slowly: "This is a letter that my lord gave to Your Majesty. He said that Your Majesty should open it personally. The foreign ministers came to China to meet Your Majesty. Everything they did was recorded in this secret letter. Please take a look at it." Lin Nan took the letter, opened it and took out the letterhead. It turned out to be a piece of fine silk. The raw material used to write the letter is actually human blood. This is a blood letter. Lu Fan saw Lin Nan take out the blood letter. He also frowned. His Majesty the Emperor actually used his own blood to write a blood letter. This shows the importance of the content in this letter. No wonder he was asked to rush to China immediately and arrive in Luoyang secretly. But he had never seen the contents of the letter. Jia Xu, Guoyuan, Zhu Gongdao, Zhu Gongping and others were also suspicious for a while. What kind of thing is it that is so urgent that it is necessary to write a blood letter? The key is that the other party is still the emperor of a country. After Lin Nan completely opened the blood book, he read it carefully word by word, but saw that it read: "Bofu Wu'er. My father was seriously injured, and he knew that he would die soon, so he wept and cried before he died. After my father's death, Jiangdong was entrusted to you. However, there is something you don't know. When the princes of the world jointly attacked the Dong thief, my father and Lin Zinan secretly made an alliance. The forces under their control were combined into one, and they jointly assisted the Han Emperor and achieved great achievements. However, the development of things exceeded his father's expectations. Lin Nan had extraordinary vision and ambition. He was not someone who could be inferior to others, and he would definitely become emperor in the future. In the world. After my father's death, it is estimated that nothing will happen to Soochow and Beiyan within ten years. But if Soochow faces danger from Beiyan in ten years, please remember my father's words, never fight with Beiyan. Yan is the enemy. It is the best policy for Northern Yan and Soochow to merge into one to realize what Lin Nan said. My father also checked the historical records and found out that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the two prime ministers of Zhao Gong and Zhou Gong were called "Gonghe". 'There is a precedent. If the two families cannot be successfully merged into one, you will surrender to Beiyan. Doing so will save the entire Sun family and protect the people of Jiangdong from suffering. It¡¯s tied to you, please be careful.¡± After reading this blood letter, Lin Nan couldn¡¯t help frowning, and pictures of him and Sun Jian emerged in his mind, from fighting against the traitors together in Liangzhou. From the beginning, he had a subtle relationship with Sun Jian, so that until later, the two of them had been calling themselves brothers. After reading this blood letter, Lin Nan felt as if his heart had been hit hard by a heavy hammer, and the scene of the old oath with Sun Jian also appeared in front of him. Sun Jian was extremely sincere to him, but he was always taking advantage of Sun Jian, which made him feel despicable. Jia Xu saw Lin Nan¡¯s face rising.With the change of the times and the addition of sentimentality, you will know the weight of this bloody letter. He and Lin Nan have been together for almost twenty years. Although Lin Nan was somewhat kind-hearted in the early days, after experiencing many twists and turns, he has gradually become hard-hearted, at least showing no mercy to his enemies. But now, he saw an indescribable expression on Lin Nan's face. This expression seemed to be exactly the same as what he had seen back then. He frowned and hurriedly said to Lin Nan: "Your Majesty. , Now the arrow is on the string" Lin Nan suddenly came back to his senses when he heard Jia Xu's reminder, folded the blood letter, and then glanced at Jia Xu, his eyes filled with a different feeling. That kind of look is trust. He stuffed the blood letter into the letter, sneered, and said to Lu Fan: "Ping Nanhou, your master asked you to show me this blood letter. I think he must have something to say, right?" Lu Fan Although Fan didn't know what was written in the blood seal, he was quite clear about what Sun Ce asked him to do. He immediately stood up, then took three steps back, knelt on the ground respectfully, kowtowed to Lin Nan and said: "Your Majesty, Lu Fan, I bow to the emperor, long live my emperor!" "What are you doing?" Lin Nan suddenly saw Lu Fan's behavior and was a little puzzled, because Lu Fan no longer claimed to be a foreign minister. , but changed his title to minister, which obviously meant that he regarded himself as a minister of the Huaxia Kingdom. "Your Majesty, please listen to me." As Lu Fan spoke, he took out another thing from his arms, which was a scroll. Then he opened the scroll, lowered his head, and presented it in front of Lin Nan. Dao Lai said, "This is a map of the three states and sixteen counties of Soochow. It is also the territory map of the Kingdom of Wu. I was ordered by the King of Wu to come here to present the map this time because I want to proclaim myself a vassal to the emperor" "Profess a vassal?" Lin Nan said to Lu Fan's answer was simply unexpected, because with Sun Ce's character, he was obviously a master who refused to surrender, how could he surrender to the Huaxia Kingdom so easily. Lu Fan noticed that Lin Nan and the ministers present were a little surprised, so he hurriedly explained: "My Lord said, Huaxia and Wu are brothers and allies No, no, no, now they should be called uncle-nephew allies, nephews. Naturally, I did not dare to go against my uncle, and the late king also left a last word that he must not be an enemy of the Huaxia Kingdom. Therefore, after much thought, my lord decided to abdicate the throne, consider himself the king, profess his vassalage to the Huaxia Kingdom, and send protons to the Huaxia Kingdom. The country" After hearing this, Lin Nan frowned. If he accepted Sun Ce as a minister, then this battle would not need to be fought, and unity would be formed on the surface. However, he was also worried about whether Sun Ce was sincere in professing vassalage to the Huaxia Kingdom. If he was not sincere, then it would be like sitting back and watching the Wu Kingdom linger. Moreover, the soldiers and generals of the Wu Kingdom were not weak, and the civil servants and generals were even more talented. Jiji, coupled with the fact that Huaxia's economic center of gravity has begun to move south, the commercial port located on the border between Huaxia and Wu has developed much faster than the domestic ones. In the long run, it will inevitably pose a threat to Huaxia. The meaning of surrender is very simple, that is, I surrender to you, but keep the original things. National politics, military, and economy are all relative. This is undoubtedly Sun Ce's strategy to delay the war. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!