Chapter Thirty: The Three-Horse Carriage
Huang Yueying said a few words to the two of them, and they suddenly understood. They hastily took action separately.
Sun Shangxiang returned to the Hou Mansion and saw Wu Guotai, saying: "Mother, I have something important to tell you." Wu Guotai also said: "I was just looking for you, you came back late yesterday and left early today, I didn't have a chance to talk to you."
Sun Shangxiang didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and hastily said: "Mother wants to talk about my marriage, right?" Wu Guotai looked at her in surprise, thinking: "How did this child know?"
According to Huang Yueying's account, Sun Shangxiang told Wu Guotai about her and Zhuge Jun's story in detail with some emotional embellishments. Wu Guotai was also moved and happy for her daughter, feeling that the child had finally found someone she liked. Zhuge Jin was a high-ranking official of Eastern Wu and could be considered a good match. So she said: "Bring him here, I'll take a look."
Sun Shangxiang happily ran out and pulled in Zhuge Jun who had been waiting outside for a long time.
Madam Wu saw Zhuge Jun and carefully sized him up. She saw that this young man was handsome, tall and slender, with a calm and gentle demeanor, matching well with her own daughter, and after asking him some questions, nodded in satisfaction.
"Madam, I and Shang Xiang truly love each other. I will cherish her for all eternity. If you agree, I'll have my second brother come to propose."
Wu Guotai nodded in agreement after glancing at her daughter's eager and expectant gaze.
It turned out that Zhuge Jin and his brothers were thinking for their younger brother, wanting to find someone with a good social status to propose on their behalf. This also misled everyone. In fact, as long as Wu Guotai was satisfied, it didn't matter who proposed, Huang Yueying understood the key point and directed this scene.
Everything has been settled satisfactorily, and now all we have to wait for is the end of the war at the front. When Sun Quan returns, we can discuss the marriage.
Zhuge Jun finally finished writing his own textbook and clarified his thoughts: "After the formation of the Three Kingdoms, they fought each other for decades, causing great disasters to the people of the world and stagnating social productivity. Why can't we rely on our advanced knowledge and Zhuge Liang's wisdom to unite the Zhuge family and end the war early? Return a peaceful world to the world. As a man born in the world, he must make a big career with great fanfare."
Having figured it out, Zhuge Jun began making preparations.
All he can do now is three things:
First, establish a research institute, organize craftsmen to develop various products, put them into production to increase wealth; secretly develop weapons, prepare for the future army.
Secondly, set up a business training class to cultivate business talents and at the same time cultivate their ability to do intelligence work, send them to various places, increase wealth on the one hand and establish an intelligence station on the other.
Thirdly, establish a military instructional team, which has been tried before and needs to be further expanded.
It is impossible for a private individual to own a large army, as it would be seen as a threat and suppressed wherever it goes.
His idea was that if a family had dozens of armed guards, no one would pay attention. If he cultivated a group of backbone and scattered them all over the place, each training dozens of guards, when necessary, gathering them together would be a large army.
He regards his three institutions as three chariots, which are the foundation for driving towards the future.
The goal is clear and the method is clear, he immediately began to implement it.
To avoid drawing attention, he placed all three institutions in the dense forest of Shangfang Mountain. The first batch of students, he recruited 60 for each institution, with a term of three months.
Every day after breakfast, Zhuge Jun would go to Shangfang Mountain to give lectures. He was mainly responsible for teaching business classes and guiding the work of the research institute. The military training class had its own backbone trained by him during his time in Longzhong.
The days are dull but in order.
At this time, Cao Cao's army had already deployed troops on the riverbank, and the two families of Sun and Liu had also reached an agreement. The Battle of Red Cliffs was about to break out.
News came from the front, including Zhuge Liang's beautiful story of borrowing arrows with straw boats.
Sun Shangxiang invited her mother to live in Yueliang Mountain Villa for two days.
The Empress Dowager's visit was no small matter, and the guards responsible for security work alone caused a commotion at the Moon Invitation Villa. Madame Wu was very pleased and said she would come to stay again after a while. Zhuge Jun's head was big with worry. He asked Sun Shangxiang to persuade her to come less often, which made Sun Shangxiang unhappy. She said that your mother can come is because she looks up to you, but you really don't know what's good for you.
That day, Zhuge Jun returned home from Shangfang Mountain and saw Huang Yueying staring blankly in the courtyard.
He walked up and greeted her, saying: "Sister-in-law, what are you thinking about, standing here in a daze?"
Huang Yueying anxiously asked: "Xiao Jun, you said the war on the front line is about to break out, will your brother and the others be in danger?"
Zhuge Jian suddenly remembered that in a few days, it would be the day when Zhuge Liang ascended to the altar and borrowed the east wind. Zhou Yu would not treat him kindly, and according to the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he had arranged for an escape route, but if something unexpected happened, it would be disastrous. Having come to this era, he had already changed the fate of many people. After all, Zhuge Liang was on someone else's turf, and even a slight change could cost him his life.
He broke out in cold sweat at this thought.
