Chapter 6642 New and old grudges

Chapter 6642 New and old grudges
In terms of navy on the Han side, Zhou Yu is second to none, followed by Gan Ning. And if we look at it from a global perspective, in addition to Zhou Yu's super-strong power, there is also Meng Kangbu who is almost at the top, followed by Gan Ning and the backbone members of the Ceci family.

In other words, there are many people at the same level as Gan Ning in Kushan, which is why Kushan was able to fight Zhou Yu even though it was at a disadvantage in the previous naval battle.

Just as Zhou Yu said at the time, there was a problem with both the seventh-generation ship and him, that is, there was only one, and it was impossible to target all opponents at the same time.

Sometimes the Han Dynasty had to divide its troops. After the division, Zhou Yu's main force could still face Meng Kangbu and others, but if the detachment sent out to support encountered the backbone of the Sisi family headed by Ben Bhutto, it would not be a problem to suffer heavy losses.

Gan Ning estimated that after he obtained the seventh-generation ships, there might be no difference between him and Zhou Yu in frontal combat. He would have more powerful firepower and stronger combat effectiveness, but there would be some gaps in mobility, flexibility, strategy and tactics. But overall, if it was a group battle, there should be no difference between him driving the seventh-generation ships to fight the Kushans and Zhou Yu commanding the navy to fight the Kushans now.

After all, the seventh-generation ship is a super battleship. Even if there is a gap between the two sides in command and strategic and tactical levels, the combat effectiveness built up by the seventh-generation ship can still make Gan Ning and the former Zhou Yu stand on the same level. In other words, after Gan Ning took over the seventh-generation ship, he can still replace Zhou Yu, who commanded the navy of the previous era.

As a result, many things need to be discussed.

"Are all the aristocratic families in Jiangdong fools?" Gan Ning said with a sigh.

"You can ask Zichuan about this kind of question. By the way, do you need to go to Sumatra with me? If you want to go, you can go with me." Mi Zhu seemed to remember something and said to Gan Ning casually, "Or do you want to go directly to the Donglai Shipyard after reporting here?"

"Under the current situation, we can only go to the Donglai Shipyard first. Meng Kangbu has some doubts about the assassination of the governor, so he has not attacked yet, but after the intelligence is confirmed..." Gan Ning sighed. He must send the seventh-generation ship there before Meng Kangbu's army arrives in Malacca, otherwise it would be difficult to solve the problem after the seventh-generation ship has gone there.

"Is that so? Then maybe you and Wenru will go to Donglai, Wenru will conduct the examination and you will conduct the sea trial." Mi Zhu thought for a while and said, and Gan Ning's eyelids twitched slightly when he heard it. Going to Donglai with Li You, Gan Ning was somewhat panicked. Although he had not done anything wrong, just thinking about going out with Li You, Gan Ning felt that something was wrong.

"Go to the Executive Yuan quickly. Even if some things have been confirmed, a formal dispatch document needs to be issued and you need to carry it before the seventh-generation ship can be driven away directly." Mi Zhu looked at the sun and signaled Gan Ning to deal with it quickly, while Chen Xi is back. Otherwise, after a while, you won't know where to find Chen Xi.

"I'll go right away." Gan Ning nodded to Mi Zhu, then bowed and left, heading straight to the government office. As soon as he arrived at the government office, he saw Chen Xi, just as Mi Zhu had thought, was about to run away, but when he saw Gan Ning, he sat down again.

"Xingba, you're back so soon." Chen Xi greeted Gan Ning with a smile, then reached out to Zhuge Liang and asked him to hand him the dispatch document he had written earlier.

After all, he was preparing to run away, so he had to deal with some important things in advance. In this way, even if someone came back and asked for documents, he could get them here directly without having to look for Chen Xi again.

"I rushed back as soon as I received the news. It's such a big matter, I dare not delay." The nonchalant look on Gan Ning's face had completely disappeared at this time, leaving only a serious look.

"You know the current situation. Zhou Gongjin is not here, so you have to drive the seventh-generation ship to Malacca first. My requirements are not high. The Jinqu can be put aside for now, but Malacca must be defended. We must not let Meng Kangbu break through the blockade like Celian did back then." After Chen Xi handed the dispatch document to Gan Ning, he spoke with a very serious expression.

"Is the commander-in-chief really dead?" Gan Ning asked with a complicated look after taking the document. It was not that he could not shoulder the responsibility, but Gan Ning had realized that the power he could exert by commanding the seventh-generation ships would not be much stronger than Zhou Yu's previous power.

At the very least, if Meng Kangbu still chooses not to fight Gan Ning head-on, Gan Ning will have no way to deal with Meng Kangbu, which is very annoying.

Chen Xi thought for a moment and said, "We are investigating the cause of death."

"Hasn't it been confirmed that it was done by the Kushan veterans?" Sometimes Gan Ning knew everything, but forgot to think before speaking.

"Even if it was done by the Kushan veterans, being able to ambush and kill Gongjin on the roadside is still a big problem. The management and intelligence involved here, even if the Kushans can provide part of it, everyone knows what the other part is." Chen Xi said with a sigh.

Although it has not been verified yet, some things are public. It is normal for the Kushan princess' party to assassinate Zhou Yu. After all, Zhou Yu killed Liu Yang. It is normal for this group of people to avenge the princess. The abnormal thing is how this group of people seized this opportunity.

accidental?

What a joke, there is no way this could happen by chance.

"What's the reason?" Gan Ning said with a gloomy face. Even from his point of view, Zhou Yu should not die at this time. After all, the Kushan navy has not been destroyed yet. If Zhou Yu died, the burden would be on his shoulders. One mistake would cause big problems.

"It's probably because of the Enfeoffment Order and the successful sea trials of the seventh-generation warships." Chen Xi thought for a moment and said, "It can only be said that Gongjin found the wrong time, and his Enfeoffment Order was indeed a bit radical. Of course, it is also possible that he overlooked something."

After Zhou Yu was killed, Chen Xi reviewed everything that happened in Jiangdong, and finally found that Zhou Yu's assassination was unexpected, but also inevitable.

If Zhou Yu had listened to Chen Xi's advice, carried out military reforms early on, and issued an edict to favor the Jiangdong aristocratic families, many problems would not have escalated to this point.

After all, in the early years, even if Zhou Yu had implemented a deep-level grace order on the Jiangdong families, considering the pressure brought by the Kushans, this group of people would have endured it for the time being, no matter how much resentment they had. After all, it was only a temporary loss, and they would definitely make up for it later. Moreover, to touch Zhou Yu at that time was equivalent to touching everyone's future. At that time, everyone saw very clearly that without Zhou Yu, Jiangdong would have no future.

Therefore, even if the current measure, which is more ruthless than the conventional Enfeoffment Order, is implemented, the Jiangdong family will accept the reality. After all, even if there is a loss, they will receive more compensation in the future than the current loss. Moreover, things have come to this point, can they still get out of it?

But Zhou Yu was in high spirits at the time, and the military system of Jiangdong had not collapsed. It was not easy for Chen Xi to deal with the matter without Zhou Yu's permission, so he could only give Zhou Yu advice.

As a result, it was delayed again and again until now. After the collapse of the Jiangdong military system, Zhou Yu carried out military reforms while splitting up the Jiangdong families, which involved too many interests.

It is true that even after the split, the Jiangdong family is much stronger than it used to be, and has more development potential than before, but this is a comparison with the past, not the future.

If you look into the future and see that you can make further progress, you will naturally be able to endure hardships. But if you look back at the past and see that you had a better life, then you will naturally complain about the present. Or maybe you won’t even complain about the present, you will just curse.

The Jiangdong family was able to accept Zhou Yu's split because, on the one hand, they knew that their previous performance was indeed shameful, and on the other hand, it was also a display of their obedience and willingness to continue to follow.

But after Zhou Yu sent the officers and soldiers of Jiangdong to Eastern Europe, he began to carry out drastic reforms. The Jiangdong families thought that splitting one family into three or four families was enough, but Zhou Yu ended up splitting them into a lot of them, which seriously crossed the bottom line of the Jiangdong families.

Even though the bottom line was trampled upon, no noble family dared to take action against Zhou Yu. At most, there were many words of dissatisfaction circulating among Ye Diao, but Zhou Yu turned a deaf ear to them.

This made the Jiangdong family very dissatisfied, which laid the basis for them to indulge the assassin later.

Although we don't dare to assassinate Zhou Yu, if there are assassins already, and we just sit there and do nothing and let them take over, then we really dare to do it and we are very brave.

"The result is that you just know the truth but don't report it, and just go with the flow, right?" Gan Ning said with a serious look of disapproval.

"Yes, judging from the intelligence that Zhuge Jin has urgently sent back, compared to the controlled personnel like the Pang family, some families should have known about the Kushan assassins before, but just ignored their actions. Gongjin himself also wanted to put on a show, so he deliberately reduced the number of his own guards, and the Kushan assassins seized the opportunity." Chen Xi said helplessly.

The Jiangdong noble family who let these Kushan assassins go did not expect that these guys could actually kill Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu, who heard the news and was ready to act out a show with the Jiangdong noble family, did not expect that the people who came would be Kushan assassins, and each of them was extremely brutal, and they took him away directly.

"In short, due to a series of coincidences, this has become the case. I guess the members of the Jiangdong noble families involved in this matter are now in a state where they want to commit suicide but dare not do so." Chen Xi said helplessly. Chen Xi had no choice about this matter. Zhou Yu himself was at least half responsible.

Gan Ning was somewhat powerless to complain when he heard what Chen Xi said, but he had to admit that Chen Xi was right. The people involved in the case from the Jiangdong family must be in a state where they want to die but dare not die. Even if they really didn't want to kill Zhou Yu, they just used the Kushan assassin to scare Zhou Yu severely at this point in time, so that Zhou Yu would realize the current situation and stop doing it.

But when Zhou Yu really died, the truth or falsehood of the above things no longer mattered, everyone had to die!
Not to mention from Sun Ce's point of view, from Chen Xi's point of view, these people are going to die. Although it is not considered to be collusion with Kushan, it is also a serious dereliction of duty.

"I heard Zi Zhong say that this actually involves me and the seventh-generation ships?" After Gan Ning roughly understood the real situation in Jiangdong, he said with some fatigue.

"Yes, but this aspect is not a very important factor. It can be roughly regarded as the fluke mentality of the Jiangdong family. In short, the Jiangdong family has been completely weighed this time, and it is collectively weighed." Chen Xi said expressionlessly. To put it bluntly, if the people involved in this incident really want to be accused, the first thing they should be is collusion with the Kushan Empire, treason, murdering the governor-general of the four seas, and undermining the national security of the Han Empire. All of the above are crimes of the three or nine clans.

Even with Chen Xi, these crimes were reduced from nine clans to three clans. After all, this incident was completely different from the previous ones. Xu Jing's crime was at most treason, but this time he was blamed for something else, which was endangering national security and outright treason.

This is also the reason why Chen Xi did not want Sun Ce to participate in the investigation. If Sun Ce investigated, the annihilation of the three and nine clans would be justifiable. After all, this time the matter was really weighed.

"Will they be desperate?" Gan Ning said with some solemnity. He did not think what Chen Xi said was serious. As the top leader of the navy, Gan Ning knew very well what Zhou Yu represented. Without Zhou Yu, even with the seventh-generation ships, there would be loopholes in the coastal defense. This alone was enough to arrest many people. When it came to treason, Nine Clans Candy Crush was never a joke.

But precisely because of this, Gan Ning couldn't help but worry that those families that had already been stripped of their nine clans would be desperate. After all, the worst thing that could happen was that the nine clans were stripped away. Now that things had come to this, it would be better to bet on the Kushans. In this way, even if the bet was lost, it would still be the same.

In other words, laws or social rules are no longer enough to keep people on the right path.

Even if you work hard, conscientiously, abide by the rules and be an honest person for decades, but in the end the result is that you still receive the same social treatment as others who indulge themselves in youth, show off at will, trample on the rules, go to jail and then get out, with no hope of turning things around. Will you still stick to the rules?
Most don't.

Gan Ning did not have this awareness, but Gan Ning was thinking that now that Zhou Yu was dead, and he died at the hands of the Kushan assassin, what was even worse was that there was no way to prove that he had no connection with the Kushan assassin. Instead, there was evidence to prove that he deliberately indulged the Kushan assassin, and the crime of treason had been committed.

Then going a step further and directly surrendering to the Kushan Empire would be the same thing, after all, there was no other choice.

"Some people will be desperate and do whatever they want." Chen Xi nodded seriously, then slowly leaned back in his chair and said in a deep voice, "In fact, I also want to see which families will choose to join the Kushan Empire."

"Ah?" Although Gan Ning was mentally prepared, he still felt a little scared when he heard Chen Xi's words. This was no joke. People would really die from this, and many of them would die.

"There will definitely be some guys who will make such a choice. I have no way to stop them, nor do I want to stop them. I think it is inevitable to be idle and do nothing. But if they do nothing and cause losses, and instead of thinking about solving the problem, they still want to evade punishment and choose to fight, then don't blame me for being ruthless." Chen Xi said calmly, "If you admit what you did, some people will die, but not your entire family. If you commit treason, your entire family will die."

"Is that so?" Gan Ning said nothing more after hearing this. He felt that this approach was good.

"Sending Zi Zhong over is actually a statement of attitude, proving that this matter will be handled by Chang'an, not Sun Ce. I want to see whether the Jiangdong family is still worthy of trust." Chen Xi crossed his hands to support the lower half of his face, and said with a bit of coldness.

Chen Xi had already thought about the matter of Zhou Yu very clearly. Chang'an sent a veteran to investigate and first suppressed the intelligence line on Sun Ce's side.

It is true that if Jiangdong wanted to, there would definitely be a way to contact Sun Ce. But at this stage, under the premise that Chen Xi did not tell Zhuge Jin that Zhou Yu was still alive, Zhuge Jin would never dare to inform Sun Ce without confirming certain information. After all, Sun Ce came back in a rage, and there was no definite information, and the dead would flow like a river of blood.

Therefore, the next period of time will be the investigation period in Chang'an. Mi Zhu will tell the Jiangdong families everything that needs to be said. Those who are willing to surrender during this period will still die, but their families will be given lighter sentences. After all, Zhou Yu is dead, and Chen Xi can no longer hold it high and let it go easily. He can only say that those who deserve to die will die.

It can be said that Chen Xi has given enough excuses. Under such circumstances, if the Jiangdong family still conceals something, or even chooses to betray the Han Dynasty because the matter is too big, then Chen Xi actually has nothing to say, and let them die.

Because to some extent, even though Mi Zhu went there with Chen Xi's seal, he still could not convince the Jiangdong family that Chen Xi did not want to investigate further and wanted to give him a lighter sentence. The possibility of treason was already very high, so there was nothing to say.

"Do you have a goal now?" Gan Ning hesitated for a moment, but still asked.

To be honest, this question should not be asked, because after asking, it is easy to become defensive against a certain family, and once certain behaviors occur, they will inevitably be noticed by others, leading to unnecessary impacts.

"Yes, but I can't tell you. Let's see what the situation is over at Zi Zhong's end. It's hard to say what the situation is right now. I'm just guessing." Chen Xi replied calmly, but still did not say what he was guessing. There are some things that cannot be said at Chen Xi's level.

Jiangdong and Wujun Zhang families are about to explode now. Compared to other families, they are just sitting there doing nothing but eating and drinking. This time, they really added fuel to the fire. After all, their relationship with Zhou Yu is very bad. Even if they work under Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, they cannot change the bad relationship between the two sides. They have no choice but to follow Sun Ce and Zhou Yu here.

After all, this family has some self-awareness and knows what their own situation is. If they really want to get a fiefdom in Central Asia, the capital of the Wujun Zhang family is not even enough. So even though their relationship with Sun Ce and Zhou Yu is not very good, they still choose to follow Sun Ce and Zhou Yu south to conquer Southeast Asia.

During this period, the capital invested by Wujun Zhang family was no less than that of other families. As one of the famous families in Jiangdong, Wujun Zhang family can be said to have provided great support.

Therefore, although Sun Ce and Zhou Yu felt that this family was quite foul-mouthed and hostile to them, they did not cause trouble for this family. In the end, they still divided the land among these families according to their merits and contributions.

This is how the Wujun Zhang family came to be, which now occupies an island, has a huge fiefdom, and even a small fleet. It can be said that the Wujun Zhang family finally reached its peak in this generation.

Because of this, although this guy was unhappy with Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, he did not deliberately cause trouble for Zhou Yu because of previous events. Until this year, Zhou Yu led his troops to besiege the Wujun Zhang family and then forcibly split up the Wujun Zhang family.

To be honest, although the Wujun Zhang family was split up, the clan's centripetal force is good. Moreover, when the family was unhappy with Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, the head of the family Zhang Dun suppressed the resentment within the family with his superhuman vision and forcibly tied all family members to Zhou Yu and Sun Ce's warships. Then we have the current super Wujun Zhang family.

Therefore, even if the family was forcibly separated by Zhou Yu's Enfeoffment Order, they were generally united under the name of the former head of the family. After all, the head of the family has proved his excellence over the years, and everyone is not a fool. Do they really think they can own the current fiefdom on their own?

It's good to lean on a big tree for shade. Back then, because of the relationship between the Wujun Zhang family and Zhou Yu, 90% of the people thought that they should defect and head north to join other forces. Only the head of the family, Zhang Dun, endured the humiliation and showed everyone a way out, believing that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu could succeed. This is how the current super Wujun Zhang family came into being, and how such a large fiefdom was established.

So Zhou Yu broke up this family. Except for a few guys who couldn't see the general trend and believed that they had achieved what they had today through their own efforts and had nothing to do with the historical process, social development, and the vision of the leader, and after they completely cut off contact with Zhang Dun, the others basically maintained a good relationship.

It is precisely because of this that what happened later happened. Zhang of Wujun said that Zhou Yu bullied me. Damn it, I have nothing to do today, I want to fight with you, and settle all the new and old grudges together.

That’s right, new grudges and old grievances are not only about the Enfeoffment Order, but also that Zhou Yu’s fiancée was actually the young lady of Zhang from Wujun. Although it has not been finalized yet, your parents brought up the matter this year, and the other party’s parents agreed, so the matter was finalized. You are all wealthy families, and although it has not reached the level of three books and six ceremonies, it has basically been settled.

But when Zhou Yu met Xiao Qiao, he gave up the idea. Wujun Zhang was dumbfounded. How could this happen? Damn it, breaking off the engagement, fuck you, are you Zhou family so shameless? You are riding on my face and attacking me. I will explode with you.

Of course it didn’t explode, but Zhang family of Wujun was very unhappy about this. Extremely unhappy.

I got up late today, so I’ll update this much for now. I’ll make up for it tomorrow.