"What did you say?" Sun Quan did not fully understand what Zhuge Jin said. He looked at Zhuge Jin in surprise.

"I mean, the real Liu Jing died many years ago. This Liu Jing is a fake. He doesn't know his true identity. This person has been pretending to be Liu Biao's nephew."

"absurd!"

Sun Quan would not believe such nonsense at all. He shook his head with some displeasure, "If he pretended to be a fake, can he hide it from Liu Biao? Will Liu Biao make his fake nephew become the prefect of Jiangxia, Ziyu, where did you hear these nonsense?"

Zhuge Jin sighed. He knew that this kind of thing was hard to believe, and he didn't even believe it at the beginning, let alone Marquis Wu.

"Reporting to my lord, this is what Liu Bei said to me personally. Moreover, Liu Biao had never seen his nephew before. Liu Jing's parents died, so he took him to Jingzhou. And the only uncle's family who knew his identity also died a few years ago was also killed in a fire. It's really suspicious."

Sun Quan pondered and said nothing. With Liu Bei's identity, he would not do such naive and stupid things. Is there really a problem?

He picked up two letters and read them carefully. This was the letter from Liu Du and Liu Pan. The letter said that Liu Jing broke his leg when he was a child and his legs were slightly limp, but the one he saw Liu Jing was walking vigorously and not at all limp.

There is also Liu Jing who did not have a Shanyang accent at that time. It was Liu Bei who helped him hide it. Liu Du had long discovered something was wrong, but he did not dare to say anything.

Although these evidences did not completely convince Sun Quan, at least he was a little shaken. He knew that it would not be groundless, and 40% of him believed Liu Bei's evidence in his heart.

After pondering for a long time, Sun Quan returned the letter to Zhuge Jin and said to him: "Whether Liu Jing is true or false is not important to Jiangdong. We should care about the interests of Jiangdong. It is more in line with Jiangdong's interests in forming an alliance with Jiangxia. In this way, this thing should have never happened. Do you understand?"

"But" Zhuge Jin still had some moral concerns. How could Jiangdong form an alliance with the scammers?

Sun Quan looked at him coldly, "I have said that Zhuge joins the army. This incident has not happened. I hope you don't publicize this matter to the outside world and don't harm the interests of Jiangdong because of your brother Zhuge Liang."

Sun Quan said this very seriously. Zhuge Jin's face turned pale. He shook his head, "I will never abandon public because of my personal gain. It's just because of morality. If Liu Jing's identity will hurt Jiangdong's interests, then the empress will not disclose this to anyone."

Sun Quan also felt that his words were too heavy, so he relaxed his tone and said to Zhuge Jin earnestly: "Ziyu, you don't know some things yet. The emperor has appointed Liu Jing as the governor of Jingzhou. Moreover, in order to make Liu Jing surrender, Cao Cao granted him the King of Xiangyang and his descendants forever. If Liu Jing surrendered to Cao Cao, it would be a fatal blow to Jiangdong, so I must tie the interests of Liu Jing and Jiangdong together."

Zhuge Jin suddenly realized that the lord was afraid that Liu Jing would surrender to Cao Cao. He was also a person of insight. He immediately thought of the consequences of Liu Jing surrendering to Cao Cao. He nodded silently and asked after a while: "What should Liu Bei do?"

After pondering for a moment, Sun Quan said slowly: "I'll visit Liu Bei now and have a talk with him."

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There are two large mansions in the east of the Tao family, one in the Dongwu City, and the other is located in Dantu County by the Yangtze River. The Tao family has more than 20 large warehouses in Dantu County. Dantu is the economic important place of the Tao family, and Dongwu City is just to facilitate contact with the government.

Currently, Tao Lie's third son Tao Yuan is responsible for the Tao family's trade in Jiangdong. However, he happened to go to Xuzhou these days and was not in Jiangdong. Despite this, Liu Jing's move into Tao's house was not affected at all.

The pottery house covers an area of ​​about 20 acres and is located in the west of Dongwu City. At the entrance is a river with a feasible cargo ship of 500 stone, which leads directly to the Xu River and finally enters the Yangtze River.

Long before Liu Jing arrived, the Tao Mansion of the Eastern Wu received Tao Sheng's order and began to arrange the arrangements early to prepare for the son-in-law's move in.

The Tao family's housekeeper's surname is Han. He is a middle-aged man in his forties. He is careful and thoughtful, and extremely shrewd and capable. He even prepared residences for Liu Jing's soldiers.

"Son-in-law, please rest assured. Our house is big, and there is no problem with living in five or six hundred people. Moreover, Guanyun Building, the largest tavern in Dongwu City, is also the industry of our Tao family. I have arranged it, and food and accommodation will definitely not be a problem."

Liu Jing's accompanying soldiers were about 200, and more than 20 war horses, all arranged one by one by Butler Han. The two of them had a room and the food and accommodation conditions were very good. The war horses were also taken care of by the groom, which made Liu Jing very satisfied. He really felt like he was going home.

"Thank you, butler Han, for your worries."

"You're welcome, son-in-law, son-in-law is our glory. When we go out, we have a bright face. It's too late for everyone to be happy."

Butler Han was very good at speaking. He arranged for Liu Jing to live in a separate courtyard with special maids, while Li Fu and Jiang Wan lived in the next yard.

After lunch, everyone took a nap. After washing the fatigue of the journey, Liu Jing washed up for a while and walked into the next courtyard with his hands behind his back. This was the residence of Li Fu and Jiang Wan, but only Jiang Wan was seen, and Li Fu disappeared.

Liu Jing asked with a smile: "Where has Master Li gone?"

Jiang Wan hurriedly said, "Mr. Li went out at noon and said he would go shopping and would be back soon."

Liu Jing heard Liu Min talk about Li Fu's habit, probably because he went to find a woman. He asked more questions, so he sat down and asked Jiang Wan and smiled and said, "I probably wrote two letters to Gong Yan in February. I wonder if Gong Yan received it?"

Jiang Wan shook her head, "After the ancestral worship, I left home and never went back. I'm sorry, I didn't see the young master's letter."

Liu Jing nodded and smiled, "Actually, I want to govern the country with Gongyan. I heard Liu Biejia say that Gongyan has unique experience in governing the country. He also recommended it to Jingzhou. Unfortunately, the governor of the state thinks that Gongyan is young and refuses to use it, so I am willing to listen carefully."

Jiang Wan is an open-minded person. He knew that Liu Jing was sincerely asking for advice. After a few words of modestness, he smiled happily: "I said, governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food. Many people think that only when the people are rich can the country be strong. In fact, it must be divided into short-term and long-term. A country's strength lies in the richness of materials. In the short term, it can be traded and traded, and mining and minted money. In just a few years, the country's warehouse will be sufficient. This is actually buying materials from other countries. Once other countries react and cut off trade, the financial resources will be cut off, so it can only be done in the short term."

"What if it lasts for a long time?" Liu Jing asked again.

"The key in the long term lies in the population size, and there must be enough population. Some people farm, some people work in hand, some people do business, some people live and live in peace, and wealth gradually accumulates. How can the country not be strong in ten or twenty years?"

After a while, Jiang Wan saw that Liu Jing was concentrating when he heard this, he continued: "The Yellow Turbans were in chaos in the late Han Dynasty, and the warlords rose up and fought against each other. The suffering was the civilians. I have been traveling abroad for many years and deeply felt that the population in various places has dropped sharply, especially in the Central Plains. I often traveled for more than ten miles but could not see any figures. The villages were deserted, and the fertile fields grew grass, which was extremely desolate. On the contrary, Jingzhou, Bashu and Jiangdong were breeding due to the lack of war. In addition, a large number of northern people fled south, and the population exceeded that of the Central Plains."

Liu Jing nodded silently, and he sighed, "But I feel that the population of Jingzhou is still too small."

"No!"

Jiang Wan shook his head, "The population of Jingzhou is not very large. The key is that the government has a small registered population, and a large number of people have become vassals of powerful people. The vassals controlled by Huang Zu are nearly 80,000. Not to mention the Cai family and Kuai family, if the princes of the great families can break the separatist control of Jingzhou by the powerful people, Jingzhou's strength will definitely reach another level."

Jiang Wan's words all reached Liu Jing's heart. He is worthy of being a famous prime minister of Shu Han in history. He looked at the problems thoroughly. Liu Jing stood up and bowed deeply to Jiang Wan, and said sincerely: "Liu Jing has the world in his heart, but he is suffering from the lack of talents. I beg you to help me."

Although Jiang Wan did not receive a letter from Liu Jing, she received a letter from her master Liu Xian two years ago, asking him to become an official in Jiangxia. Liu Min and Zhou Buyi also wrote letters to invite him one after another.

It was only because Jiang Wan felt that he had not achieved his studies, so he had not gone to find Liu Jing for a long time. This time he met in Jiangdong, which was natural. Seeing that Liu Jing was quite sincere, he smiled and said, "If the young master does not mind Jiang Wan being stupid, he is willing to work hard for the young master."

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Just when Jiang Wan finally decided to be loyal to Liu Jing, Sun Quan was having a good chat with Liu Bei at the Guiguan Hotel in Dongwu. Liu Bei had a reputation all over the world, known to everyone, which made him have a personal charm and made people willing to date him.

On the other hand, when Liu Bei quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion and attacked Dong Zhuo, he had a good relationship with Sun Quan's father Sun Jian. From this point of view, Sun Quan respected Liu Bei quite much.

However, whether it was respectful or had a lot of fun, Sun Quan did not talk about the serious matter with Liu Bei. He just talked about the relationship, which was also a compensation for his neglect of Liu Bei a few days ago.

A special trip to visit the door was actually a respectful attitude, which gave Liu Bei enough face and wiped out the dissatisfaction of Liu Bei's neglect.

"Haha! Thinking of the ancestors of Wu Hou, he was really brave and powerful. I still remember that my ancestor Lu and I were surrounded by tens of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves and could not get out of the siege for several years. In the crisis, it was Ling Zun who led a thousand elite troops to kill him. He was like a siege and defeated tens of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves. Thinking about it now, it seems that it was yesterday, but almost twenty years have passed in a flash."

Sun Quan was very focused. He admired his father since he was a child, but he did not know much about his father's deeds. It was rare to hear something from Liu Bei. He bowed deeply and thanked him: "Thank you for telling the father's past. I now know that the uncle and his father have such a deep connection. Zhongmou is rude."

Liu Bei quickly asked to smile and said, "Marty Wu, don't be polite!"

In addition to Zhuge Jin, Zhang Zhao was also here. He and Liu Bei were also old friends, so he accompanied Sun Quan to visit him.

Seeing that it was too late, Zhang Zhao coughed gently and reminded Sun Quan that he could talk about the important things. Sun Quan understood it in his heart, so he turned the topic to the important things.

After pondering for a while, Sun Quan smiled and said, "Actually, this time I invited the emperor and Prince Jing to come to Jiangdong. The main reason is that I want to be a peacemaker to promote the reconciliation between Wuchang and Jiangling, so that you can form an alliance and jointly attack Cai Mao."
Chapter completed!