Chapter 268 Marriage
Temporarily put down the flashing idea, Liu Fengsui and Sun Shangxiang, accompanied by Xiao Qiao's mother and daughter, entered the house.
This visit was nothing more than Sun Shangxiang's sisters recounting the past, and Liu Feng asked for warm words of concern.
Before leaving, Liu Feng left some gifts such as cloth and gold beads.
In the afternoon, the couple left.
After getting on the car, after a few steps, Sun Shangxiang suddenly said, "Husband, I have something to discuss with you."
Liu Feng was stunned and said with a smile, "It's such a coincidence that I happen to have something to ask for my wife's opinion."
"What's the matter?" Sun Shangxiang asked with a smile.
"Madam, let's talk about it first." Liu Fengdao.
Sun Shangxiang smiled and said, "It's like this. What do you think of Ah Yu's girl just now?"
Liu Feng's heart moved slightly and vaguely guessed a few points.
He didn't wear it at the moment. He thought for a moment and said, "This Ah Yu's niece is beautiful and decent. At a glance, she knows that she is a lady from a famous family."
Hearing Liu Feng praise Zhou Yu like this, Sun Shangxiang looked more and more happy. He hurriedly said, "I also think Ah Yu is very good. Since your husband and you think so, why don't we make this baby marriage for Ah Yu and let Ah Yu be our daughter-in-law in the future?"
So that, Sun Shangxiang really thought of him.
Zhou Yu, a little girl, is of the best in terms of appearance, surname, and origin. If Xiao Liu Yu can marry her as a daughter-in-law, she will definitely be a virtuous assistant.
Of course, this is only one aspect. The reason why Liu Feng values Zhou Yu is mainly due to the background of her family.
Zhou Yuzu, within four generations, there were three three princes. Although he was not as prominent as the Yuan family, he was also a veritable family. In those years, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu got married, and they were also considering the influence of the Zhou family.
Although Liu Feng's surname from his uncle, Liu, is a member of Changsha and is known as a descendant of the Han Dynasty, but in the final analysis, Liu Feng was still originally surnamed Kou. He himself planned to restore his Kou's surname after seizing the world in the future.
However, Kou's surname does not come from a famous family, so Liu Feng must marry the family and be close to the family in identity.
Although Liu Feng married Sun Shangxiang, the Sun family was originally a scholar of Huai Sici, and the Sun family has been destroyed, and its influence will only become smaller and smaller.
Therefore, if you can let your son marry the Zhou clan, the benefits are naturally self-evident.
Moreover, Zhou Yu is very influential in the Eastern Wu army. If he is married to Zhou Yu, it is equivalent to giving Ling Tong and other Eastern Wu generals a reassurance pill, which is also conducive to collecting their hearts.
Under such a trade-off, how can Liu Feng not agree to such a good thing as the best of both worlds?
Sun Shangxiang first mentioned this matter, but Liu Feng also wanted to tease his wife. He pretended to be worried and sighed, "A Yu is a good child, but she is several years older than our A Yu. Isn't this age a little inconsistent?"
Sun Shangxiang immediately said, "Pooh" him and pretended to be unhappy and said, "When you married me, I was three years older than you. At that time, why didn't you feel that your age was wrong, but you still had to come to Jiangdong to marry me?"
Liu Feng pretended to be surprised and said strangely, "Really? It turns out that madam, you are three years older than me. I never knew it. If I had known..."
Hearing this, Sun Shangxiang's face changed, twisted Liu Feng's arm and said angrily, "What if I had known? Do you still want to go back on your word?"
Seeing his wife's anxious look, Liu Feng felt very cute and couldn't bear to tease her any more, so he laughed.
When he smiled like this, Sun Shangxiang immediately understood that he couldn't help turning anger into joy. He laughed and scolded, "Okay, you are making fun of me again. They are all the hegemons of the five states, and they are still like children."
Liu Feng restrained his smile, bowed his hand, and said with a straight face, "Madam's lesson is that Xiaosheng knows his fault, and Xiaosheng apologized to his wife."
"The oily cavity is smooth." Sun Shangxiang smiled and pushed him and said seriously, "Husband, I'm serious about this. Do you think it's okay?"
Liu Feng stopped teasing her and said with a smile, "Actually, to tell you, madam, I just wanted to discuss it with you."
"Really?"
Sun Shangxiang's eyes lit up and said excitedly, "Husband, have you wanted to kiss this doll for a long time?"
Liu Feng nodded solemnly.
Sun Shangxiang was overjoyed and sighed, "I didn't expect you to think of me."
Liu Feng stroked her face gently and said with a smile, "This is called a couple's heart connection, and its profit is broken..."
... On the same day, the couple agreed, and the next day they went to Zhou's house in person to discuss this matter with Xiao Qiao.
Because of the death of Zhou Yu, the male surnames of the younger generation such as Zhou Xun and Zhou Jun have not yet become popular, so the power of the family has been greatly affected.
Now the unexpected marriage proposal of the Liu family naturally makes the Zhou family very excited.
With Liu Feng's current strength, there is great hope of winning the world. Even if he can't, he can become a hegemon who divides half of the country. Liu Yu is Liu Feng's eldest son, that is, the undisputed successor of the Liu family in the future.
If Zhou Yu can marry Liu Yu in the future, the Zhou family will be equivalent to becoming a "foreign relative". How can the Zhou family refuse such a prosperous good thing?
So, after a short discussion, the Zhou family readily promised.
After, the two families chose Liang Chenji. After a simple ceremony, they decided to have this marriage for two underage boys and girls.
##########In more than a year after Liu Feng wiped out the Eastern Wu, the whole world experienced a short period of calm.
Liu Bei, although in Shangluo, Shangxian and other places south of Chang'an, he trained soldiers to create an intention to attack Nanyang through Wuguan.
In fact, as Lu Xun speculated, Liu Bei's momentum is greater than actual action, and there has always been no substantive action.
Despite this, Liu Feng had to increase the garrison of Nanyang, so that the number of troops from Wei Yannanyang to Xiangyang reached 50,000.
As for Cao Jian, due to the alliance with Liu Bei, it could relieve the pressure on the west, Cao Jian was able to move most of his troops to the east and build an arc defense system against Liu Feng on the front lines of Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Qingzhou.
In terms of troops, after several heavy hits, the field troops other than the county soldiers have been reduced from 400,000 to more than 200,000.
However, because Cao Qian still has all the five prefectures of Si, Ji, Bing, You and Qing, as well as most of Yan and Yu, the total number of Dingkou under his command still far exceeds the total number of the population of Er Liu, and the potential of war is still the most in the world.
Therefore, in less than a year, Cao Wei added more than 50,000 new troops for himself.
Although the 50,000 new troops are not as well as the systematic training and their combat effectiveness is inferior to that of the regular army, the huge potential of their soldiers can be seen.
Cao Yan's rapid expansion of the army sounded the alarm for Liu Feng.
Liu Feng realized that if he continued to allow Cao Jian to recover his vitality, it would not be long before Cao Jun's strength would surpass himself again with his strong demographic advantage.
By that time, the situation in the world will be a new situation, and the initiative will return to Cao Jian's hands, which Liu Feng can't tolerate.
At the end of the summer, Liu Feng had to bring up the battle of the Northern Expedition in advance.
In addition to some of Jiangdong officials represented by Yu Fan and Gu Yong, there were not many voices of opposition, especially the general system, which was unprecedentedly consistent. They wrote to fight one after another to make contributions to the Northern Expedition.
After some discussions with Pang Tong, Xu Shu and other counselors, Liu Feng decided to launch the Northern Expedition in autumn.
At the time, the Yizhou Army has 80,000 in Liu Feng's hands.
Jingzhou direct line group, the original troops, plus Guan Yu, Cao Ren, Wenpin, Cao Hong and other surrendered generals, as well as Shamoke's Wuxi barbarian soldiers, and the expansion of the army over the years, the total strength reached 130,000.
On the side of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan originally had more than 100,000 soldiers, but due to the losses in the battles of Chaohu and Lukou, Liu Feng dared to surrender only more than 60,000 Wu soldiers. In addition to the troops recruited in the Lianghuai area recently, the strength of the Yangzhou Army could reach about 80,000.
That is to say, Liu Feng has a total of more than 300,000 troops that can be mobilized.
In addition to the troops left behind, Liu Feng's troops that can be used in the Northern Expedition reached 250,000.
After careful discussion on the night, Pang Tong finally formulated a four-way parallel Northern Expedition strategy for Liu Feng.
On a route, Gan Ning and Jiang Qin led 40,000 water troops, from Pengcheng to the north through Sishui, broke through the enemy's Rencheng County, Dongping and Jibei, and entered the Yellow River through Juye.
One route, Ling Tong and Pan Zhang led 40,000 water troops, also from Pengcheng, through the northwest of Bianshui, broke through the enemy Pei, Liang and Chen Liuguo, and entered the Yellow River from Shimen north of Xingyang.
Because these two soldiers and horses are going to take the waterway, they are all generals and soldiers of Wu.
At the same time, Liu Feng took Xu Shu as the guard and led 20,000 troops to supervise the march of these two armies.
In the middle of the road, Liu Feng ordered Zhang Ren, Zhang Ni, Ma Zhong and other Shu generals to lead 50,000 troops, starting from Shouchun, along Yingshui to the northwest, passing through Runan County, to take Xuchang, the governor of Yingchuan County.
Wei Yan's troops on the South Road led 50,000 troops from the north of Wancheng, through Luyang and Yangcheng, and went straight to the Luyuan Pass in the south of Luoyang.
Liu Fengzi, with 40,000 soldiers, entered Pengcheng from Shouchun North, sat here, dispatched all the troops, and acted cheaply with cameras.
The four-way army marched side by side with the vanguard waterway, with the goal of attacking Luoyang together.
At the same time, while attacking Luoyang, the North Road Water Army will cut off the contact between Luoyang and Hebei.
On the one hand, Liu Feng wanted to prevent Cao Jian from mobilging grain and fodder from Hebei, and on the other hand, it was also to block Cao Jian and the Han Emperor he controlled to the south of the Yellow River.
In this battle, Liu Feng wanted to annihilate Cao Jian and his main force on the front line of Luoyang, and complete his achievements in one battle.
A few days later, the news of Liu Feng's army's Northern Expedition spread to Luoyang, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.
(to be continued)