Chapter 493: Cao Pi usurped Wu
Lu Xun was not excited, he asked calmly: "Since you dare to come to see me, you must have prepared some words, please say it, see if you can impress me." ”
Cao Pi smiled slightly, "Metropolitan Governor, have you ever thought about one day counterattacking the Central Plains?" Or is it the same as Sun Quan's lordship, who plans to settle down in Yizhou, a corner of peace, and live his whole life? ”
"As a confidant of Lord Sun Quan, you must know his mind very well, right?"
"Yes, the first lord really wants to favor Yizhou and no longer fight back to the Central Plains!" Lu Xun did not deny that as soon as these words came out, the generals in the hall were very shocked, they didn't know Sun Quan's true thoughts.
As pure soldiers, what they think about every day is to be able to return to the Central Plains and return to their homeland one day!
"But I, Cao Pi, as a seven-foot man, dare not forget the hatred of the country for a day!"
"No matter how difficult the road of revenge is, we Wei people must fight back to the Central Plains, and it is rare that Lord Gu Yong and Lord Xuzhi are like-minded with me, so we form an alliance."
"Hmph, so you poisoned the first lord?" Lu Xun said coldly.
"Actually, it's not a real poison, it's just a kind of wine with a higher degree produced in Weidi, if the lord wants to cheer up the Northern Expedition, instead of drowning in beauty every day and borrowing wine to kill his sorrows, how can he drink too much and die of poisoning!"
"So how do you want to go about it? How to take everyone back to the Central Plains? ”
"I naturally have a plan, in fact, I went south from the Central Plains to Yizhou, and I have always arranged manpower in the Central Plains, as long as the time is ripe, we can launch it together!"
"The top priority, in addition to day and night drills, is to expand maritime trade, accumulate wealth, and maintain the progress of research, especially to pay attention to naval development and the construction of colonies."
"There is also the vigorous development of intelligence agencies and diplomatic forces, attracting all the potential enemies of the Han Empire, constantly setting up new enemies for them, and leaving them to take care of themselves."
"While they are now focusing all their energy on the Roman Empire in the west, we must vigorously develop ourselves, and we can win over the Gongsun clan in Liaodong, Liu Bei in Rinan, as well as the barbarians in the south and southwest of the Yangtze River, and even the nomads in the northern steppes can also use it!"
Lu Xun just listened attentively, stroked his beard, and was silent.
After Cao Pi finished speaking, Lu Xun raised his head and stared into Cao Pi's eyes, "It's not impossible for me to support you, but I have conditions, you must promise me!" ”
Cao Pi's face was overjoyed, and sure enough, Lu Xun was still moved by what he said, "Although the Metropolitan Governor said it, Pi will definitely agree to all of them!" ”
"My conditions are very simple, first, when the regime changes, don't kill innocents indiscriminately, if the old ministers of Wu are willing to support you, please keep them, and those who oppose you don't have to be embarrassed, just rush home."
"No problem, this is natural, I, Cao Pi, am not a person who likes to kill, and I will definitely take over peacefully."
"Second, don't hurt the Sun clan, I will persuade the little lord to give you up, you have to swear not to hurt all the Sun clansmen, and in the end, your Cao clan will never harm the Sun clansmen."
"Okay, if you can give me Zen, I can't ask for it, I Cao Pi can swear that as long as the Sun family does not rebel against me, I will not hurt anyone in the Sun family."
"The last point, but for my own sake, I want to continue to be the commander of the navy, and I want to watch how you develop and grow and counterattack the Central Plains."
"That's right, the commander of the Metropolitan Governor can be replaced, I can't ask for it, the naval army will continue to be handed over to you to develop, but it should still be renamed the navy, after all, we will fight more on the sea in the future!"
With Lu Xun's statement, although there are still people like Ling Tong who are more loyal to Sun Quan in the Wu army, it is difficult to support it alone, and all the Wu troops still follow the agreement, and the whole army is based on Cao Pi, which is what Cao Pi thinks.
Ling Tong couldn't accept Lu Xun's decision, and finally left Kaohsiung Port with a few Wu generals who were also unwilling to serve Cao Pi, a small number of henchmen, and a few warships.
Ling Tong's group later became famous pirates in the South Seas, robbing merchant ships, but fortunately, they still remembered their origins and did not rob the merchant ships of Wu.
In February 217, there was a major political change in the state of Wu in Yizhou.
Under the auspices of Zhang Zhao, Lu Xun and others, the young Wu King Sun Deng and Yizhou's capital Anping outside the city, set up a Zen platform, and ceded the throne of the king of Wu to Cao Pi, Cao Pi did not change the name of the country, still called Wu Guo, and called himself the king of Wu.
The vast majority of the former ministers of the state of Wu were willing to accept Cao Pi's rule, and they were all in their original positions. In addition, a large number of former ministers of Wei have been promoted and reused.
With such a huge personnel change in Wu, Chang'an was naturally notified as soon as possible and got a detailed report.
The content of the report is very detailed, and even how Cao Pi went to Kaohsiung to persuade Lu Xun, and how he conspired with Gu Yong and others to poison Sun Quan has been recorded, and it seems that the undercover agents of the Ministry of Intelligence have successfully infiltrated the high-level of Wu State.
However, as analyzed by Cao Pi and others, although Lu Bu knew about this major change in Wu State, in Lu Bu's eyes, Wu State still belonged to the kind of small force that could be done in minutes.
When the war with Rome is over, the Han can cross the sea at any time and hit Yizhou Island, and let them stumble!
In June, Gongsun Yuan of Liaodong, under the repeated instigation of Cao Pi, received a large amount of treasures, gold and silver from Wu, and as soon as his mind became hot, he declared the autonomy of Liaodong and Xuansu counties and established himself as the king of Liaodong.
After Gongsun Yuan became autonomous, all officials appointed by the central government within the two counties were driven out of Liaodong, and the generals of the army were replaced by people from the Gongsun clan.
He put on the imperial clothes that he had prepared for a long time, and began to use the emperor's honor guard when traveling.
He also issued an edict appointing foreign chiefs from all over the northeast as officials of Liaodong, and instigating and instigating them to rise up against the central government.
Cao Pi not only gave verbal support, he secretly used merchant ships to transport a large amount of ammunition to Liaodong, muskets, grenades, mortars and various ammunition, in large quantities.
Of course, there are also a lot of gold and silver, obsolete armor, and cold weapons, which are also in short supply for the rebels.
The Goguryeo people, the Xianbei people, and even some Wuhuan people responded to Gongsun Yuan's rebellion, and they bowed to Gongsun Yuan one after another in exchange for weapons and equipment from Gongsun Yuan.
They began a frenzied attack on the counties under the central government of the Han Empire, and Gongsun Yuan led the main force of the Liaodong Army to capture the isolated Lelang County.
Some of the officials of Lelang County died in the battle, and some withdrew from the coast of Lelang to the coast of Qingzhou with the help of naval ships.
The subordinate counties of Lelang County suffered a catastrophe, and Gongsun Yuan led foreign troops to wantonly kill, burn, kill, plunder, and rape ** women on the land of Lelang County, and did all kinds of evil.