Chapter 451 (2/2)
“This Pang Tong cannot be underesti Tong Pang Tong was Pang Degong’s nephew and had the support of the Lu Liu Bei as Yangzhou’s ainst Yangzhou
As a native to Jingzhou who had the support of the Lu had superiority That hy he could easily kill Liu Mang’s envoy
“How does Your Highness wantTong and Liu Bei
Everyone had a life while others like Cao Cao, Sun Ce and Liu Bei wanted to conquer the world However, Liu Bei was like a parasite He would suck others try and then discard the Xiu, Tao Qian and Cao Cao Tao Qian and Zhang Xiu were dead but Cao Cao was lucky Even then, Cao Cao had wasted a lot of resources and one general had even died Kuai Liang did not feel coht now, Pang Tong cazhou’s provisions for free Fortunately, Liu Mang did not attack Jingzhou or this would really have happened6
“I want Kuai Liang7 to say a feords to Liu Biao so that he would allow us to bring provisions back to Yangzhou!”
“That is going to be difficult” Kuai Liang i’s words
“Please do it for the sake of the zhou!”
“Your Majesty It is not that I a to help you I would help even if you did not co replied truthfully He would have gone and advised Liu Biao even if Liu Mang did not coer listened to Kuai Liang in regards to zhou
The reason for this is because Kuai Liang belonged to the pro-Yangzhou faction So had received bribes and questioned if Kuai Liang’s advice was actually beneficial As a result, Liu Biao subconsciously believed that Kuai Liang spoke for Yangzhou
“That is great I ca your brother and have hizhou can live!”
“My brother?” Kuai Liang frowned even more Kuai Yue’s words would certainly be effective as Kuai Yue was still seen as neutral On top of that, Kuai Yue was Liu Biao’s main advisor His words always hadThe problem was that Kuai Yue was neutral
“Your Majesty, this would be difficult as ainst you!”
Liu Mang nodded understandingly During the banquet, he had already heard from Jia Xu that Kuai Yue was an opportunist Kuai Yue would take the side of thefelt disdain towards this attitude of his brother’s but he had to ad points The Kuai Faest and inal ti Family members were killed or married off The Cai Family initially survived but they have offended toodissension, Cao Cao also got suspicious Eventually, all of the Cai Families ended up dead for one reason or another Even if there wasn’t one, Cao Cao would find one and get rid of the, Kuai Yue was praised to be of h Cao Cao erated, it showed how much Cao Cao wanted the Kuai Family
This was all because of Kuai Yue’s attitude It was the reason the Kuai Family could outlast the others
It was ridiculous for Liu Mang to ask Kuai Liang to persuade his brother The two brothers had been quarreling for a long time It was to the extent they occasionally shouted curses at each other Why else would Kuai Liang move out all the way here? Rather than persuade his brother, it wasat his brother
“This is not possible” Kuai Liang shook his head “I cannot help you”
Liu Mang was not discouraged when he heard Kuai Liang’s refusal as the two brothers not getting along with each other still fell within their calculations
“That is e should force your brother to take a side!” Liu Mang replied He did not say this earlier because it would ainst his brother Even if the two hated each other, Kuai Liang would still just chase him out
“Forcenodded He explained his and Jia Xu’s thoughts to Kuai Liang Their intention was toFa this way because he was afraid of offending the Cai Fa Family However, if they ’s side the entire tio and offend Kuai Yue
With the two faht back in order to protect his prestige
“What should we do?” Kuai Liang’s eyes glinted It was a terrible plan but Kuai Liang was on board with it Once Kuai Yue was seen as pro-Yangzhou, it would be too late for Kuai Yue to refute it Kuai Yue would also have no choice but to help Liu Mang
“Kuai Liang, can you invite your brother to a banquet?” Liu Mang asked His plan was for Kuai Yue and himself to be seated at the same table and enjoy a pleasant conversation To the other nobles around it would be as though Kuai Yue has sided with Yangzhou This neould quickly spread
Kuai Liang i’s words
“Why?” Liu Mang asked He thought it was a good plan Brothers would usually attend each other’s banquets and Kuai Yue would not take precaution In fact, Kuai Yue should be happy to be invited
“Your Highness You do not know about the conflict between us brothers!” Kuai Liang replied bitterly They had already started to becozhou Kuai Liang was cozhou to advance quickly On the other hand, Kuai Yue was the type that went according to the flow and listened to the words of others It was not strange for theue The previous ti moved out and lived separately It would be ridiculous to expect Kuai Liang to invite Kuai Yue to a banquet nobody would believe it and even Kuai Yue himself would feel suspicious about the sudden invitation To Kuai Yue, it was not possible for such a stubborn and unyielding little brother invite hi hi to do this To invite Kuai Yue to a banquet is like to ad would lose face
“Then what do Kuai Liang suggest?” Liu Mang asked He could not force Kuai Liang or hean additional eneht to hihness Didn’t you go to the brothel earlier?”
“That’s right” Liu Mang replied as he nodded There was nothing to hide
“You even bought six wo continued to ask
“That’s right I bought six wo wants, I still have twowas asking for wo alone for ht six woiven to Kuai Ran Both of theive up their wo ins As for the barbarian princess, Liu Mang coot about her
“You still have twoasked in confusion After a while, his eyes opened in realization and reflexively hit Liu Mang on the head “Brat! What are you thinking of?” Kuai Liang had already subconsciously treated Liu Mang like his own nephew as Liu Mang was around the sae as Kuai Ran which is why he acted that way However, he quickly realized his ive , I do not ’s thoughts and was honestlyonly had a few people that they were truly close with For Kuai Liang, one of those people had already passed away As for Liu Mang, he had not seen those closest to hizhou
Liu Mang could not help but look into the distance as he thought about Chen Gong and Lu Bu While he did see Lu Bu recently, he had not seen Chen Gong fordid not dare call Liu Mang his nephew but he was still touched
When Kuai Liang left, Kuai Ran could not follow as he was Kuai Yue’s son Although they stoppedstill cared a lot for Kuai Ran In fact, Kuai Liang cared for Kuai Ran er, his father was busy dealing withthe Kuai Family That hy the one that actually raised hi was the one that understood Kuai Ran more It was also why Kuai Ran was more afraid of his uncle instead of his father
“Uncle Liang, go ahead and speak” Liu Mang did not have anyhi was already over fifty years old and was old enough to be Liu Mang’s uncle If one included the fact that Liu Mang was fro’s own ancestors So it was no loss for hi uncle
Kuai Liang also did not object to being called uncle HisDid you buy that boy a wo like his nephew He even knew Liu Mang’s name
“Uncle This is their ht that Kuai Liang had a problem with this After all, Yan Ran was a prostitute She was not a good fit for the heir to the Kuai Fa hed
“Uncle Liang What do you mean?”
“We make them marry!”
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There is an additional line here “Kuai Ran was not sure whether heslapped in the head” This line would really only make sense in Chinese because the way they voice their surprise and the way they voice out the feeling of pain is “Ah” 啊
This is unlike English(the ones here at least) where we go “Ouch” “Argh” and “Huh?” “What?” or japanese where they go “Itai” and “Eh” (based on literature Not sure what they do in RL)
I aile is this “heavy” box Or is the token the heavy object and the box is light I a but this is the box carrying a royal token
Again, Shu wangof Shu
Idiom that describes the antonym of missed opportunity Basically its about how people treat themselves as commodity and wait for their own value to increase
庞黑子 literally ‘black child Pang’ so I named him Blacky Also the black part also means shady
An additional sentence about Liu Bei’s troops potentially co about the新鲜 “freshness” of the provisions Whichthe way he address Kuai Liang/Zirou/Mister so I gave up and used ctrl+F to change everything to just Kuai Liang