Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6678 Finally Coming

For many things, the conclusions drawn from different standpoints are completely different. The behavior of letting the butt decide the head may seem stupid, but there is an irrefutable logic behind it.

From Da Qiao's point of view, what she did was actually very clear. After Zhou Yu's accidental death, she tried her best to protect her sister as an elder sister. As for the question of whether Zhou Yu was real or not, although Da Qiao was curious, it was not the current priority. Protecting her sister would make it meaningful to do subsequent research on these things. Otherwise, if Xiao Qiao died, then any subsequent issues would be meaningless.

But from the Zhou family's point of view, as a prosperous and wealthy family, they have a lot to consider. The fact that the head of the family was replaced made the Zhou family extremely uneasy. After all, their family really has mountains of gold and silver to inherit, and now Zhou Yu, who is considered to be the pillar of the family, has been replaced. If they don't guard against others taking action against their family, then they really have a problem with their brains.

It's just that there are many members of the Zhou family, and different people have come to different conclusions after looking at these events. Zhou Jun, standing on the overall situation, believes that someone wanted to take advantage of the accidental assassination of their own head of the family to seize power in Jiangdong when Mr. Wu was away and create a fait accompli. As Zhou Yu's family, their Zhou family was caught in this vortex. The mastermind behind the scenes, even if he didn't take action now, would definitely take action later.

This is why Zhou Jun, after comprehensively comparing the strength of both sides, suggested accepting this deception first, and then finding a way to contact Sun Ce and let Sun Ce handle the matter.

Zhou Jun also knew that Zhou Yu’s death would be a huge blow to Sun Ce, which might lead to crazy behavior. But in the current situation, if Sun Ce didn’t come back, who knows what the mastermind behind the scenes would do.

If we really talk about this idea, no matter how it is handled, it will not be wrong, but it cannot be said that any family can be united, and people's experiences lead to different thinking.

Zhou Shu brought up another possibility, a possibility that should not be raised in the inner hall of the Zhou family in front of a group of Zhou family leaders. That is, after Zhou Yu's death, Da Qiao came first, and Zhou Yu was replaced by someone else. In this case, is there a possibility of being abandoned after having done his work?

Even a wealthy family like the Zhou family has almost realized by now that the family's accumulation of hundreds or thousands of years is just bullshit to some top figures.

The trend that Chen Xi created allowed truly top-level individuals to easily surpass a family's accumulation of thousands of years. In other words, if in the past, the elders and senior members of the Zhou family still believed that there would be no Zhou Yu without their Zhou family, and Zhou Yu was just a part of their Zhou family, they would drive Zhou Yu and Zhou Yu would have to suffer. After all, without the legacy of their ancestors, how could Zhou Yu survive?

Therefore, the logic of the nobles and wealthy families at that time was that without the family, there would be no such strong individuals.

But everything that happened afterwards was really a reversal of the destiny for the nobles and the aristocrats. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu proved with facts that the thousand-year accumulation of the nobles and the aristocrats for generations was almost meaningless to the strong individuals. The top individuals surpassed the thousand-year accumulation of the nobles and the aristocrats in the blink of an eye.

The Zhou family, which was one of the most powerful families in the Han Empire, suddenly realized a fact when Sun Ce and Zhou Yu reached the top, that is, the hundreds of years of hard work of their ancestors were not as valuable as a single word of Zhou Yu. The terrifying power of one person's success bringing prosperity to the whole family was fully demonstrated in Jiangdong, where each of Zhou Yu's three six-fold smelting guards sealed off an island.

Although it is not a big island, it is about one thousand square kilometers, which was the size of a county in the past and belonged to the fiefdom of a county marquis. Moreover, because it was Zhou Yu who initiated it, these islands were carefully selected. They either have mines or renewable resources. It is truly a typical example of someone who has followed Zhou Yu for more than ten years and finally made it.

To be honest, the situation of the Zhou family in the past hundred years was worse than this.

Therefore, if the Zhou family, a wealthy family with a long history, has not realized the problem at this point, then it would be a miracle. It is also for this reason that from that time on, Zhou Yu's words were truly law in the Zhou family. This is also why in the past, the Zhou family had many cases of ignoring Zhou Yu's orders. To put it bluntly, at that time they did not think that Zhou Yu was special.

On the other hand, after realizing that Zhou Yu is special, certain things need to be considered, such as the situation where Zhou Yu is dead.

"Suppress Zhou Shu and lock him up in the dungeon." After hearing Zhou Shu's words, Zhou Jun gave the order to the brothers beside him without hesitation for even a second. This possibility could not be considered.

Zhou Shu was stunned, and looked at Zhou Jun angrily. However, before he could speak, Zhou Jun said coldly, "The governor was replaced only because the situation was very bad. Someone might have the idea of ​​replacing him, but if it is as you think, Jiangdong will never have peace again."

"Although Mr. Wu has many problems, he is at least trustworthy." The son of Zhou Shang, Zhou Yu's uncle, also spoke up. Although the Zhou family has big problems, as a serious official family, they are more or less aware of the current situation and those things are absolutely not allowed to be done.

"That has to be Lord Wu!" Zhou Shu gritted his teeth and said, "Think about what Sun Zhongmou has been doing recently. If the governor who is being replaced now stands in Sun Zhongmou's position, then the shift of the Star Palace may not be impossible. It's hard to say!"

Everyone present had a gloomy look on their faces, but Zhou Jun was silent for a while and then asked someone to suppress Zhou Shu first. Some things should not be discussed now. This extremely dangerous idea should never be chosen unless it is absolutely necessary.

Although Zhou Jun suppressed Zhou Shu, once certain things are spoken, they will inevitably leave an impact, and the top leaders of the Zhou family will inevitably consider such things. This was the reason Zhu Helai gave to Meng Kangbu at the time - Zhou Yu is definitely dead, but I cannot guarantee whether he will be resurrected, but Sumatra must be in chaos now, and people's hearts are confused. No matter what, this is an opportunity to win in chaos. It would be best if Zhou Yu died and could not be resurrected, but if he can be resurrected, this node is also an opportunity.

Meng Kangbu had a bunch of reasons to refute, but in the end he did not refute, because he also knew that what Zhu Helai said was correct. A person of Zhou Yu's level, even if his death was faked, would cause turmoil in the world. To put it bluntly, there are not many people of Zhou Yu's level who are qualified to be lured by someone who faked his death.

Montcomb felt that his navy had the qualifications to be lured, but after realizing this, he prepared some special plans. Even if he was lured, he would not necessarily suffer heavy losses. War is like walking on the edge of a knife, so how could he not take some risks?

Just as Zhu Helai and others said, the fortified Ceylon could only last two to three years. What about after that? What should we do next? The decisive battle was their estimate, and they were sure that there was nothing wrong with this estimate, but what if the decisive battle was postponed?

These are issues that have to be considered. From a purely naval perspective, Meng Kangbu's choice is correct, but considering the Kushan Empire as a whole, Meng Kangbu actually has no choice. Since he has no choice, and there is such an opportunity, he can really take a gamble.

"Have you received the intelligence from Kushan?" Pang Tong looked at the important personnel in front of him who were planted by Zhou Yu in the Kushan intelligence system. After such a long period of silence, they finally received the news that Kushan asked these intelligence personnel to paralyze the Yonggu Fort at the northwest corner of the Malacca area. How can we describe the difficulty of this task? It's not big, but it's not small either.

After Sun Ce entered Sumatra, Zhou Yu built a large number of permanent artillery batteries along the coastline. In Zhou Yu's words, no matter whether my navy can defeat you or not, I will not give you the chance to pass through this side. If you want to pass through this side, as long as I still have a few broken sampans and the protection of the artillery batteries, you can forget about passing through here today.

This idea is outrageous, because unless you have the ability to go south of Australia to pass Malacca, you can only go through those straits. There are rogue waves on the sea south of Australia and underwater cliffs under the sea. Even with modern navigation, when you have to go south of Australia, you have to stick to the Australian coastline, so this route is not advisable.

Therefore, in theory, the only way to enter the Pacific Ocean from the Indian Ocean is through the straits blocked by Zhou Yu. However, these straits were all built with permanent artillery forts by Zhou Yu.

This resulted in the entire Kushan navy being blocked in the Indian Ocean and unable to enter the Pacific Ocean even though Zhou Yu's main navy was ambushed and suffered heavy losses, posing a threat to the Han Dynasty. In other words, even when Zhou Yu was half-dead, he still consolidated the existing strategic advantage of the Han Dynasty navy. Of course, this was not only due to Zhou Yu's ability, but also to Celian's ability.

When Celian was in Malacca, he considered building various permanent artillery batteries to suppress the Han navy, but this plan was eventually abandoned due to cost reasons. The power of the artillery batteries was relatively small and they were distributed in a small area. This was why it did not take much effort for Zhou Yu to capture Malacca after he conquered Celian.

After Sun Ce and Zhou Yu took control of Malacca, the things that Celian had used against them were naturally used by them to deal with the Kushan Empire.

Zhou Yu even specially upgraded the original semi-permanent artillery to permanent artillery, and greatly increased the number. However, as the Kushans' skills, tactics and defensive secrets improved, the power of these artillery gradually failed to keep up. After much deliberation, Zhou Yu purchased new electromagnetic crossbows for upgrades.

But this thing is much more expensive, and requires precise calculation of the firing range, coverage, and defense zone, and then maintenance.

After having this thing, the Kushans would be even more afraid to cause trouble. This is a castrated version of the seventh-generation ship's main gun, which is powerful enough to kill most fleets.

Therefore, even though the number was smaller, Zhou Yu successfully suppressed the Kushan Empire's ambition to cross the Indian Ocean with these things and pinned them down to the west of Malacca.

However, the intelligence that Pang Tong had received indicated that the Kushan Empire was preparing to destroy two permanent artillery positions. Although other artillery positions could be used after the destruction of these two artillery positions, several vacant areas would appear on the entire coverage area, allowing the Kushan navy to quickly cross or retreat. It was obvious that when the other party noticed the permanent artillery positions of the Han Dynasty, they had considered how to take them down, and which artillery positions to take down in order to complete the task most easily.

"Finally, I've got the news." Pang Tong sighed. If he couldn't get any more news, Pang Tong felt that he needed to inform Zhou Yu and revive him. After he controlled Zhou Yu's body to walk out of the ice cellar, Pang Tong realized a fact, that is, no matter whether he dealt with the families involved or not, the entire Jiangdong was in a situation of collective deterioration.

Even though Cai Mao's navy was still training hard, Pang Tong was still worried about the rapid decline in administrative efficiency in the entire Sumatra region. In addition, the Kushans had not reacted to the news of Zhou Yu's death. If it dragged on, Pang Tong could only persuade Zhou Yu to accept the fact. Fortunately, it finally came.

"Go and carry out your plan." Pang Tong looked at the Kushan spies with dull eyes. These were the people Zhou Yu had planted in the opponent's intelligence system to pass on some unimportant but confirmed true information to Kushan from time to time. Now these people have received an emergency notice from their superiors. Pang Tong thought that it was finally time to close the net.

After watching the Kushan spy leave, Pang Tong let out a sigh of relief, and then notified Chen Xi according to the method they had discussed earlier.

There was no way. Zhou Yu originally asked Chen Xi to tell Sun Ce, Xiao Qiao and Zhuge Jin that he was not dead, but Chen Xi only told Pang Tong and gave Pang Tong his own means of contact. Now it was time to activate this means of contact.

In Chang'an, Chen Xi, who was considering holding a small imperial examination before the grand military performance at the end of the year, received a special signal. The signal did not transmit any information, but after the signal was activated, it proved that in Pang Tong's judgment, the Kushans had taken action and the opportunity had come.

"Zichuan, the last big question in mathematics is given to you." Li You looked at Chen Xi who suddenly became numb and did not feel strange. This guy was often like this. So he continued to ask about the relevant content of the mathematics exam. For so many years, the last question in mathematics was always given by Chen Xi, and this question has always been the dividing line between humans and gods.

In other words, anyone who can solve the last problem, even if they didn't figure it out on the spot but just provided the correct idea, is basically at the god level.

But most of the time, there is only one solution to the final big question in math that requires a lot of points. There is no way around it because the gap in mathematical proficiency among people is so huge that if you can't figure it out, you just can't figure it out.

"Ah, what, what did you say?" Chen Xi was distracted. On the one hand, he was trying to contact the Divine Land, preparing to use some means to release Zhou Yu from the Divine Land and have Sun Ce forcibly drag him back, while listening to Li Youxian's nonsense.

"Isn't there an imperial examination before the grand martial arts performance this year? It's the last big question in mathematics, and it's your turn to set the questions. Make them a little difficult." Li You said casually. Li You didn't pay much attention to other subjects, because he could basically answer them. Even if he couldn't answer them completely correctly, he could at least get an excellent answer. But numerology was too much. There were even situations where he read the question but still had no idea what it was. It seemed as if he had not even learned the Chinese language well.

"Is this difficult?" Chen Xi frowned and looked up at the guys around him. Okay, everyone wants a computer. Numerology is the best way to distinguish human logic and thinking ability. If you can, you can, and if you can't, you can't. Every genius has important value to the times. Especially after the spiritual talent is opened, it is directly a supercomputer, which has amazing value to the country.

"Let me think about it." Chen Xi lowered his head and continued to multitask. His super strong spiritual talent had begun to move eastward to suppress the divine land, while his brain was working at high speed, looking for a suitable topic.

"Oh, I thought of one. If the interior angles of parallel lines are known to be equal, please calculate the radius of the earth." Chen Xi thought about it and gave a random big question.

Li You was silent for a while, then repeated the question, "If the interior angles of parallel lines are known to be equal, please calculate the radius of the earth."

After repeating it twice, Li You fell completely silent. What the hell is this question? I didn't receive any information. Every word passed through my brain but didn't leave any trace. It's right, exactly right. The big question on numerology has just a taste. After you read the question, you didn't receive any information.

"Can anyone really solve this kind of problem?" Jiang Wan was puzzled, and then looked at Chen Xi and asked, "Lord Chen, this kind of problem doesn't even have complete information, how can it be calculated?"

"That's none of my business. Anyway, it can be calculated." Chen Xi curled his lips and said, the last big question in numerology is interesting only in this way, otherwise how can one choose a god.

"I'm superficial." Jiang Wan said after a moment of silence. He thought he should not say that he was proficient in numerology in the future. Is this a question Chen Xi asked? This is a club to hit someone in the face.

"What questions? What questions? I heard some math problems in the next room." Xu Yue came out from another room. When he heard that there were math problems, he stopped working.

Recently, Xu Yue was severely punished by Li You for delaying deadlines, taking private jobs, etc., and Li You took Xu Yue to his own workplace, prepared an inner room for Xu Yue and asked Xu Yue to work with him. To others, this was undoubtedly a sign of the Censor's appreciation, but to Xu Yue, damn it, Li Wenru was not a human being again!
"If it is known that the interior angles of parallel lines are equal, please calculate the radius of the earth." Li You said unhappily, and Xu Yue was stunned for a while after hearing it. Li You saw this and raised the corner of his mouth. It turns out there are math problems that you are confused after listening to.

"Oh, my mind hasn't turned around. Isn't it enough to just calculate the triangle?" Xu Yue was stunned for a few seconds before realizing how to calculate it. "No, after this, I still have to calculate pi. Fuck, I'm leaving!"

Slipped away