Gongsun Yuan did not blatantly fight with the central government of the Han Empire for independence as soon as he came up, but on the surface, he was still respectful and respectful as his Liaodong County Taishou.

In recent years, Soochow has vigorously developed maritime trade, and has made a lot of money by disguised as merchant ships from various small countries in Southeast Asia.

Kaohsiung has also become an important stronghold of the smuggling trade and an entrepot port, and since it has been trapped on the isolated island of Yizhou, Wu Guo has focused on the development of the navy, and the construction of the army has basically stagnated.

Many of Wu's warships were designed and built according to the standards of military and civilian use, and they were galleons across the seas in peacetime, but in wartime, they could be turned into sail warships as long as they were refitted.

The state of Wu absorbed many shipbuilding techniques and design ideas from the Han Empire, and was also able to build galleons of up to one thousand tons.

The research and development of firearms science and technology in Wu has never stopped, and has always been highly valued by the Wu government and royal family.

In particular, Yizhou Island and the Philippine colonies are rich in minerals, and the types of minerals in the two places are similar, and both have rich reserves of gold, silver, and copper, which of course are often associated together.

In addition, Yizhou Island also has iron mines and coal mines, so it is of great help to the development of Wu's military industry.

After Wu occupied Yizhou, he surveyed the whole island as soon as possible and knew the distribution of all resources.

Moreover, Wu took advantage of its maritime superiority and the Han Empire's neglect of its eastern neighbors to monopolize the overseas trade of the Japanese archipelago and dumped a large number of high-quality daily necessities in the Central Plains to Japan.

And obtained a large number of precious resources produced in the Japanese archipelago, after all, the ancient Japanese were not rich, they wanted good things from the Central Plains, they could only exchange minerals, in addition, there is nothing to make the Wu people look at it.

In addition to the people from the Wu State, there are also a considerable number of people from the south of the old Wei State, and their proportion is not low.

It is precisely because of this that many of the former Wei officials led by Cao Pi also occupied a place in the Wu government and army and became their own people.

Cao Pi was very sociable, especially after Sun Quan was seriously ill and unable to govern, Cao Pi was able to get along with many civil and military officials in the Wu government and army, and even had close contacts.

Especially after Wu arrived in Yizhou, many positions in the newly established local government and newly recruited soldiers were held by former Wei officials and generals.

In October, Sun Quan finally became seriously ill and died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

He left a testament, and the crown prince Sun Deng succeeded him as the king of Wu, and appointed the four auxiliary ministers to assist the government together, Zhang Zhao as the prime minister of Wu, and the general leader of the government, as the first assistant.

Lu Xun was the governor of the three armies, and he was in charge of the military power of Wu, especially the Wu naval army, which was under the control of Lu Xun.

Cao Pi was the secretary and assisted Zhang Zhao in handling the government. Pan Jun was Situ, and he also rushed back from the Philippines to deal with the government together.

Many former Wei ministers such as Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Chen Gong, Cao Zhen, and Cao Xiu also had their own promotions.

Lu Xun has always been strongly vigilant about Cao Pi, especially after Sun Quan became seriously ill, and he was even more dissatisfied with Cao Pi's various performances, and even Lu Xun was very suspicious of the cause of Sun Quan's death.

He always felt that how could Sun Quan, who was in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, suddenly fall ill and die?

Don't forget, fleeing from Jianye to Jiaozhou, from Jiaozhou to Yizhou, the most difficult years did not defeat Sun Quan, how could it be that when the overall situation has been decided and a corner of peace is in a corner, he is angry?

Lu Xun privately collected evidence of Cao Pi's dissent, which was not very difficult, after all, Wu's intelligence system was controlled by the military, that is, in the hands of Lu Xun.

Cao Pi was also aware of Lu Xun's movements, and on the one hand, he responded carefully, and on the other hand, he also made arrangements for Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and others.

Cao Pi now held the financial power of the state of Wu, and when he purchased the equipment produced by the military factories, especially the equipment of the infantry army, he gave priority to equipping the new army controlled by Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and others.

As for the equipment procurement and ammunition supply of the navy, it is all kinds of excuses, and they shirk the blame.

And even in the naval camp controlled by Lu Xun, Cao Pi is trying his best to infiltrate it and install his own people.

As for the veterans of Wu such as Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, Xiao Zhi and others, they have long been in collusion with Cao Pi, and after Sun Quan's death, they are not optimistic that Sun's descendants can lead Wu to go better.

On the contrary, they were usually influenced by Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Chen Gong and others, and they looked up to Cao Pi and felt that Cao Pi was more qualified to be the lord of Wu than the descendants of the Sun family.

Even Gu Yong, Xiao Zhi and others participated in Cao Pi's poisoning plan against Sun Quan, yes, Sun Quan was poisoned by Cao Pi with chronic poison, poisoned in his daily diet, and died of slow poisoning.

And the imperial doctors in the palace of King Wu were all bought and controlled by Cao Pi, and the eunuchs in the palace were mostly bought by Gu Yong and Cao Pi and others, so they just hid from Sun Quan.

Lu Xun soon grasped the evidence of how Cao Pi poisoned Sun Quan, but as the investigation deepened, he also discovered the secrets of Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and others.

Lu Xun was very shocked to find that in addition to a few military generals such as himself, most of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were involved in this matter.

Cao Pi also knew that Lu Xun had discovered and mastered some of his own evidence, and after discussing it with Xun Yu and others, he felt that he should still have a showdown with Lu Xun and have a good talk.

Cao Pi personally visited the headquarters of the Wu State Navy in Kaohsiung, and Lu Xun was very surprised by Cao Pi's arrival, although he knew Cao Pi's purpose, he was still intimidated by Cao Pi's courage.

Lu Xun met with Cao Pi in the camp of the Dadu Governor, and many elite soldiers of the Wu Army and the Navy were lined up along the way, all of them were murderous, and they wanted to give Cao Pi a dismount.

After all, Cao Pi was a person who had been the king of a country, and his courage was far beyond ordinary people, so he left Cao Xiu and others outside the camp and entered the naval camp alone.

These murderous Wu ** people standing on both sides could not cause any pressure on Cao Pi, he expected that Lu Xun would not really do anything to him, otherwise he would not have to see him.

Entering Lu Xun's big tent, in addition to the two rows of elite guards, there were more than a dozen generals of the Wu State army on land and water, such as Ling Tong, Ding Feng, Zhu Huan and others.

Lu Xun sat on the handsome chair in the middle, and when he saw Cao Pi's arrival, he didn't get up, but just stretched out his hand to invite Cao Pi to sit down, and set a chair opposite his bookcase.

As soon as Cao Pi sat on the chair, Ling Tong, who was standing on the side, snorted coldly from his nose, "Cao Pi, you are so bold, you dare to poison my lord, what are you left to do?" ”

As he spoke, Ling Tong put his right hand on the hilt of the saber, and just waited for Lu Xun to give an order, and then slashed Cao Pi.

Cao Pi ignored Ling Tong's threat at all, and just looked at Lu Xun, who was also looking at him.

"Governor, do you also want to kill me to avenge Lord Sun Quan? If you think so too, my Cao Pi's head is here, please take it! With that, Cao Pi lowered his head and sent him forward.

Ling Tong had already drawn half of his saber, his eyes turned to Lu Xun, and he just waited for him to give an order, and he beheaded this traitor.