The bright moonlight, the slowly flowing river, two naked men leaning side by side on the stone wall of a small inlet, admiring the clear and quiet Danyang landscape.

The two seem to have been talking in the inlet for a long time, and their speech is very natural and casual.

"Such splendid rivers and mountains are the place where good men like us gallop and show their abilities!" Zhang Xiu was no longer gloomy before, and suddenly raised his arm and waved towards the mountains and mountains in the distance, making a splash.

Compared with Zhang Xiu's talk and laughter, Zhou Yu looked like his whole body was difficult to move for some reason, leaned on the stone wall with a little difficulty, and said with a breath: "It's just that I didn't expect to be with you in a river, talking about the world." ”

Zhang Xiu smiled indifferently: "Not everything in this world can be predicted by us, just like you think that this river is wide and deep, and jumping in will make a big difference." But after entering the water, I realized that the depth of the river can only save your life, and you can't let this hidden dragon swim across the river. ”

Zhang Xiu said that it seemed simple and unintentional, but Zhou Yu was thinking about it with his heart at the moment.

If you go to Jiangdong to be the commander, according to your own Wen Taowu strategy and Sun Bofu's martial arts and courage and great ambition, it is not difficult to turn the clouds and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, but then what?

It is easy to cut off the Jiangnan and become a king, but will it be so easy to enter the Central Plains in the north to achieve the eternal emperor's industry?

Since ancient times, the southerners have more self-preservation and complacency, and less enterprising and innovative. In the past, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was only complacent in the position of a Western Chu overlord after the destruction of the tyrannical Qin, and divided the princes to engage in the establishment of the Shang and Zhou feudal states, and did not want to follow the example of the first emperor to achieve a generation of Chu emperors and establish the Xiang dynasty.

Although Sun Ce is currently known as the little overlord and has the ambition to sweep the world, Zhang Xiu's words made Zhou Yu look farther. The real overlord Xiang Yu swept the world but couldn't get the world, even if Sun Ce, the little overlord, could he keep the world?

Looking back at Sun Ce's governance measures in Jiangdong, all of them are policies that produce quick results in the short term, but are no different in the long term. It's like the tradition of hereditary military leaders in Eastern Wu that Zhang Xiu took the initiative to mention to him, which seems to be beneficial from top to bottom, but under Zhang Xiu's analysis, it does more harm than good. In the short term, these soldiers were the basis of Sun's rule in Jiangdong, but in the long run, the system would become the biggest hidden danger for Sun's regime.

The tradition of the Sun family's hereditary leader comes from Sun Ce himself. When Sun Jian was a general, most of his subordinates were recruited privately or voluntarily, and the nature of his private subordinates was quite serious. Therefore, when Sun Jian was killed, Sun Jian's relatives could continue to lead this army. But at that time, Sun Ce was still young and did not have the prestige status of commanding the army. As a result, this army was annexed by Yuan Shu, and Sun Ce has also been honing under Yuan Shu.

When Sun Ce finally sharpened himself into a fierce tiger, and his father's old subordinates such as Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang were willing to listen to him, Sun Ce was able to take back this army. Thus, the tradition of hereditary leader began.

If Sun Ce wants to cross the river and work hard in Jiangdong, he must first get the support of the powerful landlords in Jiangdong!

It must be mentioned here that Jiangdong is different from other places, Jiangdong is not like the Central Plains that has suffered from frequent wars since the Yellow Turban Rebellion for a long time, and the original landlord Grange economy has remained very intact, so the powerful landlord clan in Jiangdong is stronger than that of the Central Plains.

The economy of the landlord grange must also be explained here. Compared with the economic foundation dominated by the small peasant economy dominated by men and women weaving at the beginning of each dynasty, the fundamental contradiction of the irreversible reform of feudal society led to the continuous annexation of land and the continuous differentiation of the rich and the poor in the later period of each dynasty's rule.

Fields are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. Most of the toiling masses have no land or little land, but it is impossible for the landlords to cultivate hundreds of acres of land by themselves, and the broad masses of the people cannot afford not to eat. The toiling masses rent the land of the landlords to survive, and the landlords suck the sweat and blood of the toiling masses.

Compared with forced dependence, in reality, quite a number of peasants actually spontaneously defected to the powerful landlords, and even handed over their fields to the powerful powerful clans almost free of charge. Because after belonging to the powerful of the world, they can rely on the intertwined relationship between the powerful bureaucratic forces of the world to escape the heavy taxes and conscriptions to a certain extent!

At this time, the landlords got more land, and I have to say that our ancestors were full of wisdom and could always find the law of survival between oppression and exploitation!

More and more households, after expanding their interests, they gradually swelled and transformed. Some of the landlord clans have accumulated into qualitative changes after a long period of quantitative changes, and have transformed into powerful clans!

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Of course, there are also some other "tough guys" who are unwilling to endure harsh government and are unwilling to compromise under the power of the world, so these small number of people have chosen another path - gathering in the mountains and forests and riding the wind and waves!

At this point, these two diametrically opposed paths inevitably clashed, and the powerful clans began to privately organize their dependents into armed armies to defend their vested interests. People's desires are forever satisfied, and when they taste the sweetness of the emperor of the soil, some of the powerful clan armed forces even block the danger in the mountains, openly and secretly oppose the government's taxation and conscription of them, and expand vested interests. This kind of fierce and powerful clan is also called "bandits" and "mountain bandits" by the government.

The big and powerful, sitting on a dock fort comparable to a small city, has the private troops of thousands of people, and covers a hundred miles of fields. The small Haoqiang, building a small earthen fort and more than ten servants, is in the absolute dominance of a village.

In the Central Plains, because the princes who fought against each other were very much in need of the large-scale grain storage in the dock fort and the strong men under the strong men, and the large-scale thieves had no good impression of the dock fort because they wanted to fill their stomachs and the existing hatred of the rich, as long as they were not very famous families, they often found an excuse to attack at will.

However, in Jiangdong, because there has been little war, the power of the powerful landlords is extremely strong. And because of the continuous influx of displaced people, the power has swelled to the point where it can divide the power of one side and the left and right side. In this case, Sun Ce officially recognized the sanctity of the private rights of the powerful landlords over the tribes, and allowed the powerful landlords to openly and formally arm themselves, or merge with other powerful tribes, and most importantly, it can be passed on from generation to generation!

What greater favor in this world could there be than to formally admit oneself as an absolute lord?

Being officially recognized as a lord by the government is a completely different nature from being armed privately. The former can freely distribute and exchange the annexed land, can set the tax rate for the dependent households, and no longer has to sneak around the smugglers and armies. The latter, on the other hand, can only live under the butcher's knife that the government may raise at any time and under the threat of thieves.

This is the real reason why Jiangdong Haoqiang is vying to join Sun Ce!

Sun Ce was able to gather many civil and military generals in a short period of time, recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the more he fought, the more soldiers he fought, and now it has swept all over Jiangdong like a storm and clouds!

Sun Ce can easily dominate Jiangdong, and even according to the current situation, it is not difficult to completely dominate Jiangnan. However, if you want to conquer the north, it is extremely difficult!

One thing must be said here, Sun Cecheng is also a strong family, and a defeated family is also a strong family!

Behind Sun Ce's rise to prominence was the economic and military support of the local landlords in Jiangdong, and the reason why the local powerful clan forces supported Sun Ce was that Sun Ce was able to consolidate and expand their economic interests in Jiangnan.

For example, I am a powerful man in Wu County, and I support Sun Ce to become the ruler of Wu County because he admits that I can openly own my own personal tribes, and from then on I can officially arm myself to protect my family. I am a landlord of Huiji County, and the reason why I support Sun Ce is that he occupies Huiji County, so I can be protected from the attacks of Yan Baihu and other thieves in the future.

For such reasons for their own interests, the powerful landlords in Jiangdong chose between the old and new forces to cross the river, Sun Ce, a fierce tiger who could better represent their interests!

Zhuge Liang commented in the "Later Teacher Table": "Liu Miao and Wang Lang each based on the state and county, talked about the words and plans, moved the saints, the crowd was full of doubts, and the crowd was difficult to stuff their chests. ”

This may explain why Sun Ce was able to defeat Liu Xuan and Wang Lang, who each had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, in just a few years. The main reason is that Liu Miao and Wang Lang do not have a correct policy program and effective measures! It is not possible to effectively deal with the interests of the most influential strata in Jiangdong -- the powerful landlord stratum. Neither dare to weaken its potential threat, nor can it be used for its own purposes. In the end, the powerful landlords chose the representative of the Shaozhuang faction - the little overlord Sun Ce.

This is the reason for Sun Ce's success, but everything has pros and cons, and there are contradictions in everything. The support of the powerful landlords of the world for Sun Ce can make Sun Ce dominate one side, but it is also the biggest obstacle for him to conquer the world!

That's right, what Sun Ce relies on the most at the moment is the one that can hinder him the most.

As mentioned earlier, the reason why Sun Ce was able to appease Wu County and Huiji County was because of his support from the most powerful strata within these two counties. And we also have enough reason to believe that Sun Ce will receive the same support when he conquers other counties south of the Yangtze River in the future, such as Danyang, Yuzhang, Jiangxia, and so on. Because these counties are the same as Wu County and Huiji County, the landlord grange economy is very intact, and the traditional landlords are deeply rooted.

But after that, the counties in the north were greatly damaged by the economy of the landlord grange, and the power of the powerful landlords was far inferior to that of the south of the Yangtze River. Even if he can support Sun Ce, the role he plays is very small, and he can't be as powerful as Jiangdong's heroes and soldiers and food.

And more importantly, at this time, the Jiangnan landlords under Sun Ce's rule would not actively help Sun Ce's Northern Expedition at this time. Because the Northern Expedition did them no good at all. They only needed Sun Ce to protect their fields from the invasion of the northern forces, from the invasion of Shanyue, and from the harassment of thieves.

Limited by the level of technology and transportation in this era, as well as the familiality of the internal structure of the powerful landlords, the family business of the powerful landlords is basically within a county, and I have not heard of the strong and powerful owning fields in the entire county. If you Sun Ce want to conquer the north and conquer the Central Plains, you can't add one acre of land to me and one household, so why should I support you and give you food to fight a war that doesn't matter to me?

Without the strong support of the powerful landlord class, Sun Ce's own strength was actually extremely limited. Although the Sun family was very famous for suppressing bandits in the Sun Jian era, and had a very good political and military reputation, its economic strength was very average. Although the family itself can be among the upper echelons of Jiangdong, it is not the kind of giant. This is actually the big reason why Sun Ce made concessions to other clans, and even the world military system acquiesced, all in order to get full support and consolidate his dominance!

Of course, the current Sun family has also obtained such as Yu Hang Lingcao, who although he was born in a powerful landlord, but has lofty ambitions and wants to achieve prestige, but his power base is still dominated by ordinary powerful landlords. And with only a small group of Junjie who are enthusiastic about the Northern Expedition, but there is not enough military rations to back them up, what are the chances of a successful Northern Expedition?

As Zhang Xiu said to him, all you can see is that the river is very wide, but you don't know how deep the river is. You think you can swim in the river, but you jump down and find that you can only save your life, not let you enter the sea and swim freely!

Zhou Yu couldn't help but fall into deep thought, Sun Ce's momentum in Jiangdong has been irreversible, and if it goes on like this, it will certainly be able to encircle the heroes in Jiangnan and achieve the goal of becoming the king south of the Yangtze River. But will he be just a vassal of a prince?

Should his ambitions be limited to the south of the Yangtze River from now on?

Is it to be the prince of the princes, or to be the prince of the ages?

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