System Blessing: The Young Master of the Dong Family and Diao Chan's Fate

Inside the military tent, Zhuge Liang looked upward with lifeless eyes.

This life-and-death ordeal gave him new insights into many things, and also helped him better understand human nature.

"Kong Ming!"

"I heard you woke up?"

Xu Shu lifted the curtain and said with some joy.

"woke up."

"I didn't expect that I would be saved by Yuanzhi. This time... cough cough... cough cough, thank you very much."

Zhuge Liang wanted to get up, but he was so weak that he could hardly sit up.

"You keep it first."

"You were in a coma for three days and three nights this time. Fortunately, the high fever has subsided."

Xu Shu touched Zhuge Liang's forehead and said with a smile.

"Yuanzhi... am I in the army?"

Zhuge Liang asked curiously.

"Yes, in Cai Mao's army."

"We are now in Zigui."

Xu Shu nodded and said.

"Zigui?"

"Alas, after going around in circles, I'm here again."

A trace of fear flashed in Zhuge Liang's eyes, and then he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He was hunted down in Zigui.

When Liu Bei let him go, he was deeply moved and swore that he would not take up an official position as long as Liu Bei was still raising an army to fight against Dong.

As a result, not long after arriving in Zigui, he met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei who came in masked.

It might be helpful if others masked their faces.

But what's the point of you two wearing masks?

One has a beard as long as a bell, and the other has eyes as big as bells.

The most important thing is that he didn't even change his weapons.

Is it true that wearing a mask is not to conceal one’s identity, but to show respect?

"Kong Ming, what happened?"

Xu Shu looked at Zhuge Liang with some curiosity.

After they parted that day, Xu Shu thought that Zhuge Liang would still follow Liu Bei stubbornly as before.

"Ugh."

"Come to think of it, it was because you scolded me and woke me up that night."

"Making great achievements is indeed my ideal after studying hard."

"But if this achievement requires the sacrifice of tens of millions of lives, wouldn't that go against my ideals?"

"After returning, I pondered for a long time and ultimately decided to persuade Lord... General Liu to give up, so that the people could soon experience peace."

"But no matter how I tried to persuade him, he refused to give up."

Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Kong Ming."

"Everyone says you're incredibly intelligent, but why can't you see things clearly?"

Xu Shu gave Zhuge Liang a speechless look.

Wanting to see through people's hearts and see things thoroughly has little to do with intelligence.

What really enables people to see through things is experience.

What Zhuge Liang lacked was exactly this kind of experience.

Xu Shu had been on the run and had seen the good and evil of human nature, so he could understand that Liu Bei could not be persuaded, and he was also able to establish good relationships with many people when he first joined Liu Bei's army.

This is due to experience, not because Xu Shu is more capable than Zhuge.

"I took it for granted."

"I'm afraid General Liu's departure from Zigui will cause more trouble."

Zhuge Liang sighed and looked towards the entrance of the military tent, as if he could see through the walls and see the warships heading towards Yizhou.

"Do you know about Xiangyang?"

Xu Shu looked at Zhuge Liang and asked with some reluctance.

"What's going on in Xiangyang?"

Zhuge Liang asked back with some suspicion.

"After General Dong took control of Xiangyang, he massacred most of the nobles in Jingzhou."

"Among them, the Pang and Kuai families were not spared."

"You'd better go to Xiangyang as soon as possible, maybe you can save your two sisters."

Xu Shu looked at Zhuge Liang and reminded him.

"I expected that."

"General Dong doesn't represent the aristocracy, so he will definitely clear away all obstacles."

"I'm aware of this matter. I'll rush to Xiangyang as soon as possible... But I have to wait until I'm fully recovered. Otherwise, in my current state, I won't be able to move."

Zhuge Liang sighed helplessly.

With his political acumen, he can naturally see this aspect clearly.

The Dong family does not represent the interests of the gentry or the powerful class.

This is also the reason why the Dong family did not usurp the Han Dynasty and establish their own kingdom.

They needed to use the name of the Han Dynasty to clear these obstacles. When the new dynasty was established, everything was new, and the blame would remain on the Han Dynasty rather than the new dynasty.

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