After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang followed Liu Bei's will and appointed the ten-year-old Liu Chan as the new king of Chu and ruled Zhuyazhou Island.

The sea breeze was bleak, and Zhuge Liang looked at the vast sea, and his heart was also confused.

I think of him, Zhuge Liang, known as Mr. Wolong, who claims to be a stunning talent who can reconcile the world. No one in the world can surpass him. He thought he could assist the wise ruler like Zhang Liang in the early Han Dynasty, clear the world, and reshape the universe.

It’s ridiculous that today it has fallen on a mere island and has become the so-called ‘Prime Minister’ of the island country.

In the past, he did not even look down on the Chu State, which was the two states of Jing, and the Chu State, which now has less than 300,000 citizens and more than 20,000 soldiers.

In the first defeat, the place where Jing was lost was not only the elite soldiers and generals of the "Qin Army", but they were indeed powerful. Some Liu Bei did not listen to his words and led his army north to join forces with Cao Pi, trying to do something to do in the Red Cliff Battle again, but was defeated, causing Liu Yu to truly attack Jing. At the time of Jia, there was no sufficient force to deploy defense against Jing, Jia. There were also unpredictable changes in the fall of Xiangyang. At the same time, Guo Jia and Jia Xu had no flaws in their plans, which made people unable to plan.

Why!

The past is gone, what's the use of thinking about these now?

Now that the counterattack has failed, he is still trapped in the isolated island. With the existing strength on the island, is there any room for imagination in the future? Did Zhuge Liang buried him on this Zhuyazhou island, waiting for the Qin army to cross the sea and become the captive of the Qin army?

Since Emperor Xian of Han Liu Xie abdicated the throne, Liu Yu officially became emperor and became the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the "Qin Army" that year became the Han army, but Zhuge Liang still only called the "Qin Army" rather than the Han army, both verbally and in his heart.

In fact, this is Zhuge Liang's unwillingness.

Zhuge Liang is still far more proud than ordinary people. Even today, Zhuge Liang does not think that there are geniuses in the world who can truly surpass him.

What about Zhou Yu back then? What about Lu Xun? Guo Jia and Jia Xu also had to make two people plan together, and the strength of the army was far stronger than Zhuge Liang, so that Zhuge Liang could be defeated one after another. If the strength of the two armies was the same, even if Guo Jia and Jia Xu were involved in plan, Zhuge Liang would have confidence to resist, while Guo Jia and Jia Xu were alone, Zhuge Liang was not afraid at all.

With such talent and strategy, he is only in his forties at the moment, so why is he willing to bury it?

In any case, Zhuge Liang had to leave at least a heavy hand in history books, so he was unwilling to give up and could not give up!

When he returned to the mansion, Zhuge Liang did not go out for another five days. He was really anxious that Wei Yan, Li Yan, Deng Zhi, Ma Su, Liao Hua and other generals, as well as many officials of the "Chu State".

They gathered together and came to Zhuge Liang's mansion to visit Zhuge Liang.

However, he was stopped by the guards in front of Zhuge Liang's mansion, and Zhuge Liang had made a special explanation to not disturb him.

Wei Yan said anxiously: "The last counterattack on the mainland failed, and the king died of illness. Prime Minister Zhuge was depressed and unwilling to be in charge of the director? How could this make it happen!"

Since repenting to Zhuge Liang that day, Wei Yan completely let go of his resentment with Zhuge Liang, supported Zhuge Liang wholeheartedly and completely obeyed Zhuge Liang's orders. He could never accept Zhuge Liang's depressed and ignored things, and sincerely hoped to enlighten Zhuge Liang.

Ma Su, Liao Hua, Li Yan, Deng Zhi and others also showed an anxious look on their faces, wanting to break into the mansion together to enlighten Zhuge Liang. They hoped that Zhuge Liang would regain his fighting spirit and lead them to counterattack the mainland again in the future and strengthen themselves.

Everyone didn't know that Zhuge Liang in the mansion had already regained his fighting spirit and had no sign of depressedness.

I saw Zhuge Liang observing a map and pondering it there.

On the map, there are large areas south of Yizhou and Jiaozhou. There are only Linyi, Funan, Piao, Shan, and Panyue. The five countries are all small countries, occupying less than one-third of the area, and the remaining two-thirds of the land are only blank. There are no other countries. I guess they are just tribal villages with a small number of dozens of people and a thousand people.

After experiencing the lessons of the failure of the first counterattack on the mainland, Zhuge Liang knew very well that whether it was a counterattack on the mainland again in the future or other actions, it was absolutely impossible to rely on the trap of Zhuyazhou Island alone with the power of one island.

Moreover, the first counterattack failed and nearly 40,000 troops were lost. It took about fifteen years to recover. Zhuge Liang could not wait for such a long time. Instead of waiting on the island for fifteen years, it would be better to expand to other places outside the Han Dynasty in fifteen years, and this large area was the best goal.

If the entire area is really counted, it is not as big as Jing, Jiao and Yangzhou. Even if the population is rich, it is impossible to compare with Jing, Jiao and Yangzhou. It should have at least the potential of about three Jiaozhou, or one Jingzhou or one Yangzhou.

At this time, Wei Yan, Liao Hua, Ma Su, Deng Zhi, Li Yan and others who were blocked outside the door could not bear it anymore and wanted to break into the mansion together to find Zhuge Liang to help.

Zhuyazhou Island is just an island with limited regional resources and not much construction of the mansion. Zhuge Liang could naturally hear the noise outside the door.

Without waiting for Wei Yan and others to break in, Zhuge Liang ordered his servants to take the initiative to lead Wei Yan and others into the room.

Wei Yan and others were brought to Zhuge Liang. When they saw that Zhuge Liang had no intention of being depressed, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Now that Liu Bei passed away, the new master was young, the only one who could be in charge of the island was Zhuge Liang. If Zhuge Liang was depressed and unwilling to be in charge of the director, the island would be really over.

However, Wei Yan and others were still preparing to give some advice.

Zhuge Liang was so wise that when he saw the expressions of Wei Yan and others, he knew what they were going to say. He didn't need them to enlighten him, so he stopped and signaled Wei Yan and others not to say much.

Zhuge Liang said: "I have been thinking deeply recently and have difficulty in defending Zhuyazhou Island. It is better to explore the future. Not only can I quickly recover my vitality, but I can even gain the strength far beyond the one I had before the first counterattack."

Wei Yan, Deng Zhi, Ma Su, Liao Hua, Li Yan and others were all overjoyed when they heard this.

Wei Yan said: "Where is the Prime Minister trying to explore? We will listen to the Prime Minister's orders and will never refuse to die!"

Deng Zhi, Ma Su, Liao Hua, Li Yan and others also expressed their opinions.

Zhuge Liang nodded with relief, led Wei Yan, Deng Zhi, Ma Su, Liao Hua, Li Yan and others to the map and told them about their strategic ideas.

"If you can take this place, you can reach Jingzhou. At that time, when you counterattack the Central Plains, there will be a continuous rear, rather than the previous time. You can only rely on a Zhuyazhou Island without any successors, so it is difficult to accomplish anything. What do you think?" Zhuge Liang asked everyone with a smile.

"The Prime Minister is very good, so I will listen to the Prime Minister's orders!" Wei Yan and others heard that they were inferior to Jingzhou. There was no such thing as any disagreement. They wished they would send troops today.

Of course, it is impossible to send troops today. After a full month of preparation, Zhuge Liang left Li Yan and 8,000 soldiers alone to guard Zhuyazhou Island, while he led Wei Yan, Deng Zhi and Liao Hua and 15,000 soldiers to cross the sea from Zhuyazhou Island to conquer Linyi Kingdom, the first to attack the Linyi Kingdom south of Jiaozhi County, and started the expansion for more than ten years in the future.

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Chapter completed!