Chapter 394 388. Persuasion
Suddenly, a woman's tender shout interrupted the awkward atmosphere between the three Meng brothers. Meng Jie, Meng Huo and Meng You turned their heads at the same time and saw that the person who spoke was Meng Huo's wife, Madam Zhurong.

"Madam, you don't understand this matter..."

When Meng Huo saw his wife speaking, he hurriedly wanted to explain, but Madam Zhu Rong did not give him a chance to explain and interrupted him immediately.

"Yes, I don't know how to govern Nanzhong, or even manage a cave. But my elder brother is your elder brother after all. He has never harmed you, right? Now you have become a prisoner of the Han people. Those cave masters and marshals are obviously imprisoned with you. Who dares to come to see you now?

They all think you are a disaster and try to avoid you. Now my elder brother has come to see you, and for your sake, he probably has to be humble to the Han commander. Meng Huo, you are still speaking ill of my elder brother. What are you thinking? ! "

Mrs. Zhu Rong scolded Meng Huo with a barrage of anger. In the past, although his wife was quite strong, she was only like that at home. She always let him maintain the appearance of the king of the South outside. Now Mrs. Zhu Rong scolded him in front of his brothers, leaving Meng Huo speechless.

"Meng Huo, I asked you many times before you started the rebellion, and you swore to me that it would be absolutely safe. Now you are in the cage, and we and Ayou have also become prisoners of the Han army.

I beg you, can you listen to me for once? Let's stop making trouble and go to Jingzhou honestly. I will accompany you. Whether we become slaves or servants for the Han people, or do hard labor as the Han people said, let's finish the work peacefully and then go home, okay?"

Madam Zhu Rong, a well-known strong woman, couldn't help but shed tears when she said this. She really didn't want to see Meng Huo go all the way to the end and be killed by the Han people in the end. It was estimated that even his body would not be intact.

It was with great difficulty that his elder brother Meng Jie was able to humble himself and be ordered around by the Han people just to protect Meng Huo. If Meng Huo still doesn't appreciate it, he would really be letting Meng Jie down and Madam Zhu Rong down.

"I...but...ah...I won't give in! I won't accept it!"

Meng Huo saw that his elder brother looked much older, his wife was wiping tears, and his younger brother was lowering his head and not daring to speak. How could such a scene not be heartbreaking?
Meng Huo finally expressed his thoughts. He was unwilling to accept the defeat. He felt that although he lost this time, the Han people's victory did not make him convinced. He felt that he could still win back.

"Ahuo, do you really think you have a chance? Although I have never been to the battlefield myself, I have seen Liu Biao and Sun Jian fighting when I was studying in Jingzhou. Do you think we in Nanzhong have a chance of winning against a state?"

Meng Jie shook his head sadly. His brother had been brainwashed by his father, and now the idea of ​​the survival of the fittest had been deeply rooted in his mind. If it were just that, it would be fine. The most terrifying thing was that he could not understand that the Han people now had no intention of killing him or Nanzhong.

"...Of course not, but it is impossible for the Han people to send an entire state's army to Nanzhong..."

Meng Huo was still arguing, but Meng Jie shook his head heavily and interrupted him.

"It's just that the Han people don't want to. If the Han people wanted to, this Grand Commander would be able to kill all of our millions of brothers and sisters in Nanzhong, leaving only one in ten alive."

Meng Jie's eyes were filled with fear and sadness when he said this. He had carefully observed along the way, and at least in his opinion, this Han army was much more powerful than the armies of Liu Biao, Sun Jian, and Sun Ce. Even Nanzhong was vulnerable to them, let alone this Han army? "Impossible, the Han people are not the most particular..."

Meng Huo couldn't believe it. In his opinion, his greatest confidence was that the Han people didn't dare to risk the world's condemnation and massacre them. His only way out was to surrender if he really couldn't win. How could the Han people kill them all?
"My dear brother, do you know Baiyue? Do you know Loulan? Do you know the Western Regions? The so-called kindness of the Han people is just your wishful thinking, or they are not serious about you yet.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Western Regions thought the same as you do, thinking that the Han people were weak and could be bullied. Moreover, the Western Regions were too far away from the Han Dynasty, so robbing and killing Han envoys happened frequently. Do you know what happened to them?"

Meng Jie looked at his younger brother with pity. He knew that his younger brother had hardly read any history of the Han Dynasty and his understanding of the Han people was extremely superficial.

"...I don't know."

Meng Huo was silent for a moment and shook his head. Like Meng Jie, he only knew that Emperor Wu of Han seemed to be an emperor of the Han people in the past. How could he know what that emperor did?
"General Zhao Po Nu led 700 cavalrymen to attack Loulan and captured the king of Loulan alive. Later, Li Guangli was appointed as the commander and 60,000 troops were sent to attack Dayuan. When passing through Luntai, the ruler refused to provide food and grass. The Han army besieged Luntai for several days, conquered the city, and massacred the people.

They reached Guishan, the capital of Dayuan, and destroyed it. King Yucheng had once killed a Han envoy and fled to Kangju, but was pursued and killed by the Han cavalry.

Meng Jie's eyes were filled with fear when he said this. He once thought the same as Meng Huo, that the Han people were very kind, but he later learned about Han history and realized that there was a limit to how much the Han people would reason with you. If you were shameless, they would tear their faces off with you.

If the Han people don't take action, it's fine. Once they take action, they will destroy the country and the city. This is one of the reasons why Meng Jie didn't dare to disobey Feng Xi. Although the general looked easy to talk to, Meng Jie knew that when these people really killed people, their expressions would probably be much different from now.

"..."

Meng Huo was also frightened by what Meng Jie said. He really didn't expect the Han people to be so ruthless. If he looked at it this way, he would have jumped around too much, and perhaps Nanzhong would have been simply mentioned in the Han history books as "destroy Nanzhong and massacre them."

"So Ah Huo, I hope you will just go to Jingzhou and stop thinking about those things. No matter who is in the Central Plains, they can't treat us any better. Now the Emperor and the Grand Commander of the Han Dynasty have shown you mercy. Even if you don't do it for me, you should consider the brothers and sisters in Nanzhong, Ah You, and your younger sister-in-law."

Meng Jie said this and pointed at Meng You who was silent and Madam Zhu Rong who was still wiping tears. Meng Huo was no longer alone, and he could start a rebellion at the first sign of anger. What would happen to Nanzhong? What would happen to his family? They didn't have the ability to rebel with Meng Huo over and over again.

"...Brother, I understand."

The expression on Meng Huo's face changed, but he finally sighed, nodded, and then slumped in the cage as if he had lost all his strength.

(End of this chapter)