In the winter of the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao wrote to the imperial court, willing to naturalize and unify, and after being accepted by Emperor Han Xian, Cao Cao had a head stroke and died of illness in Xuzhou, and then set up seventy-two graves of doubt, so that people in the world were not allowed to dig graves and dig graves, and the most important thing was that they were afraid of Emperor Han Xian digging graves and whipping corpses. Everyone in the world knows that Cao Cao will never go to Luoyang to be humiliated, and he will ensure that the family will break off on its own.

His son Cao Pi was canonized as King of Wei by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and inherited the mantle of Cao Cao. Cao Pi immediately appointed his teacher Sima Yi as the king of Wei and took charge of Cao Wei's military.

Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to Lü Peng and Sun Quan, allowing the two of them to enter the court as officials and assist the Han Dynasty.

Lü Peng did not hear back at all, and Sun Quan refused to enter the dynasty on the grounds that Jiangdong Baiyue was unstable.

At that time, Emperor Xian of Han was furious, so he ordered Liu Bei, the king of Han, to bring 50,000 water troops, and Cao Pi, the king of Wei, to bring 200,000 land troops to defeat Sun Quan.

After receiving such information, Sun Quan yelled hysterically: "Bullying the soft and fearing the hard, really bullying the soft and fearing the hard, you are a dignified emperor, but you have repeatedly tolerated Lu Peng, who is really disobedient, but for me, a person who is bent on obedience, you are so persecuted, I will fight with you." ”

This time, Jiangdong's civil and military forces are rare to share the same hatred, because even people like Zhang Zhao, who have always advocated surrender, have figured out this time that Cao Cao's death was in exchange for him going south to occupy Jiangdong, even if he surrendered, Cao Wei would definitely not reuse his own, so for his official position and for his family, they tried their best to start resisting.

And this time Cao Wei was cornered, so the whole clan and the whole army fought to the death, and Liu Bei also tried his best to get Xuzhou, and did not work as before, so the battle was very fierce. The three parties are in full swing along the Yangtze River.

At this time, Sun Quan remembered his covenant and brother Lü Peng, and immediately sent an envoy to Lü Peng's Youzhou, asking for his brother's sake, to pull his brother along.

After receiving Sun Quan's envoys, he immediately held urgent consultations with the cabinet on how to deal with this sudden change in the situation.

Xu Shu has completely integrated into Youzhou, has already put down Liu Bei's kindness, stood in front of Lu Peng and began to talk: "Liu Bei's purpose is to take Xuzhou and open our encirclement of it, which we should never see, so we must make the following adjustments, that is, not waiting for the heavy snow to melt, immediately overcome all difficulties, from east to west, the entire army to Liu Bei's oppression, so that Liu Bei has to turn his attention to the north, and then Xi Zhen's main force stops resting, Immediately to Mount Tai Zang Ba began to attack, and then went straight to Xuzhou, Xuzhou in our hands, for Sun Quan's request for help, we are sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, let them help us destroy a force first, or give rescue, this is still up to the lord to decide. ”

Tian Chou stood up and immediately said: "Cao Wei and Liu Bei combined to attack Eastern Wu, their purpose has been clearly revealed, that is, to find a foothold for Cao Cao's remnants, they have reached a certain ulterior agreement, so, no matter what, Cao Cao cannot be allowed to annihilate Sun Quan, and saving Sun Quan is already an urgent issue." ”

Fu Zhu put forward the opposite opinion: "Let Cao Wei and Liu Han destroy the Eastern Wu, remove a force for us in the future, and not give us the criticism of betraying the alliance and breaching the contract when we attack Sun Quan in the future, which is very good, and Sun Quan is also desperately resisting this time, just let them consume Cao Liu's strength, in fact, it is what we can't ask for." ”

Lu Peng looked at Xu Jie, because until now, Luoyang's Jinyi Wei had not conveyed the exact content of their alliance, and it was indeed difficult for him to make a correct judgment.

Xu Jie looked up at the sky anxiously, hoping that a carrier pigeon would fly, but unfortunately, the purpose of Cao Liu's joint effort was really well kept secret, and there was still no news coming.

"Since there is no accurate information, then we have to make military preparations." Lu Peng set the tone.

Pang Tong immediately discussed with Tian Feng and others day and night, and finally came up with two sets of plans for emergency: "The first plan, if Cao Wei and Liu Bei want to carve up Jiangdong, then we don't need to rescue them, but go all out to get Xuzhou into our hands." And the second plan, if Cao Liu joins forces, Cao Wei may withdraw from the Central Plains and occupy Jiangdong, then, we must rescue Jiangdong and never give Cao Wei a chance to resurrect. ”

Then there is a detailed implementation plan for the two sets of plans, and once the situation is clear, Lu Peng can immediately send troops.

And at this time, the information of Jinyiwei, which was looking forward to day and night, came over in Luoyang, and this information was bloody, and it was obtained after paying dozens of Jinyiwei's most elite spies.

With this information, Lu Peng really had to admire Cao Cao's heroic nature.

exchanging Xuzhou for Jiangnan, and using Jiangnan's wealth to support Liu Bei's unification of the Central Plains, of course, can only be against Lu Peng in order to get a possible turnaround.

For such a situation, Lu Peng expressed his ease.

Jiangnan people are xenophobic, Cao Wei wants to gain a foothold in Jiangnan and replace Sun Quan to rule Jiangdong, it is almost an impossible thing, not to mention that those Jiangnan family businessmen who are friendly with him will oppose Cao Wei's rule, even if the original family in Jiangnan and his hostility are absolutely unwilling to be ruled by the northerners, they will let Cao Wei fall into the ocean of the people's war, he wants to obtain the huge wealth of Jiangnan, to support Liu Bei against himself, it is simply wishful thinking.

And at this time, the secret reports of Xuzhou's Jinyiwei also arrived.

According to their reports, the families of Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, who had previously supported the Cao family's retreat to Xuzhou, began to move south in a big way.

As a result, after receiving this report, Lu Peng's thinking immediately changed.

Because he remembered the story of the southward migration of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was the southward migration of these families of the Central Plains, they not only brought a large number of elite talents, but also advanced Central Plains technology, and most importantly, they quickly married with the southern families, formed an alliance of forces, and finally stabilized the stormy Eastern Jin Dynasty regime.

Now those big families in several states and counties in the Central Plains began to cross south in advance, which is to pave the way for Cao Wei to rule the south of the Yangtze River, and the talent and elite of the entire Central Plains are all withdrawn to the south, and at the same time follow their family members, what a huge population it will be, once these people and the southern scholars are integrated, the situation will be opened immediately, and the huge trap that Cao Cao dug for himself before his death can be realized.

"Support Sun Quan and fulfill our covenant." In the end, Lu Peng made a decision.

(End of chapter)