Zhou Yu could not be regarded as a retainer of the Sun family, he was just a small man with Sun Ce, and he joined Sun Ce's army out of the desire to help his friends, and entered the road of hegemony with Sun Ce.

Strictly speaking, Zhou Yu can be regarded as Sun Ce's ally and partner, but he cannot be said to be Sun Ce's subordinate, which is why Sun Quan was jealous of Zhou Yu later.

After all, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce fought the Eastern Wu together, and now that Sun Ce is dead, if Zhou Yu has the heart, he can inherit Sun Ce's power without handing over Sun Ce's position to the immature Sun Quan.

But now that Zhou Yu has also included himself in the ranks of the Sun family's retainers, he can't say anything.

But Zhu Wei can only wait for Zhou Yu to express his position, no matter what, it still depends on what Zhou Yu thinks in his heart, if Zhou Yu must regard himself as a retainer of the Sun family, then what can Zhu Wei say.

It's just that Zhou Yu is not a martial artist like Huang Gai after all, as a smart person, he still thinks of more other factors in his heart, so he can't help but look at Zhu Wei and frown slightly.

If Zhou Yu also made a simple statement like Huang Gai, Zhou Yu felt that he was likely to make Zhu Wei more jealous of the Sun family, then if the Sun family joined Zhu Wei's side in the future, he was afraid that he would be tightly controlled.

Zhou Yu couldn't help but think of when he met Sun Shangxiang, Sun Shangxiang asked him to be Sun's external force, hoping that Zhou Yu could be on Zhu Wei's side, and after Zhou Yu obtained a certain position, he could give Sun's external help.

But now, if he must insist that he is a retainer of the Sun family, I am afraid that he will not be able to meet Sun Shangxiang's request.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu was really a little confused in his heart, but if Zhu Wei really had the ability to spy on people's hearts, then he could really let go of his relationship with Sun Ce and assist Zhu Wei wholeheartedly, Zhou Yu couldn't help but ask himself secretly in his heart.

At this time, looking at Zhu Wei's eyes looking at him, Zhou Yu couldn't help but sigh, "Okay, Yu really can't say that he is a subordinate of the Sun family, it's just Qian Tanghou, can you give Yu some more time, now Yu really can't make a decision!" ”

"Okay, Zhou Lang has this to say, Wei will be relieved!"

Zhu Wei listened to Zhou Yu's statement, and it was really a little easier, so it seems that at least Zhou Yu still has a chance to be included in the account, no matter how Zhou Yu convinces himself, as long as Zhu Wei can see Zhou Yu's loyalty increase through the Three Kingdoms game system.

On the side, Huang Gai listened to Zhou Yu's words, his eyes couldn't help but be a little surprised, he didn't expect Zhou Yu to have such a statement at this time, he couldn't help but snort coldly at Zhou Yu, obviously he had a little dislike for Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu could also feel the change in Huang Gai's attitude, but at this time he really didn't know how to explain to Huang Gai, so he could only raise the wine jue and drink a turbid wine that he didn't know what it tasted like.

"Even so, today Wei is not imaginary, knowing the intentions of Zhou Lang and General Huang, then Wei will also be able to settle the two of them! Now it's just a matter of how the Guangling Sun clan decides! ”

Compared with Huang Gai, Zhu Wei naturally values Zhou Yu's posture more, after all, Huang Gai's age is old, but Zhou Yu is still young, since Zhou Yu's attitude has changed, then Zhu Wei can still afford to wait for Zhou Yu's change.

Having said that, there is actually no intention to continue, and the current atmosphere is not suitable for forced perfunctory.

Therefore, Zhu Wei got up to say goodbye and left, just leaving Zhou Yu and Huang Gai with wine, meat, fruits and vegetables, but after Huang Gai left, Huang Gai also got up directly and looked at Zhou Yu indifferently, and then turned around and left, which meant to cut off the seat with Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu didn't care about Huang Gai's attitude, he naturally had his own thoughts in his heart, and he was still drinking and sitting here alone at the moment, but his expression changed from time to time, but it seemed to be a little reminiscent of the past.

In the days that followed, although Zhou Yu also stroked the piano, Huang Gai never practiced boxing with the song again, that is, he didn't talk to Zhou Yu on weekdays.

Let's not talk about Zhou Yu and Huang Gai for the time being, just say that Zhu Wei finished the meeting with his generals, and then toured around Danyang, Wujun, and Huiji, and after inspecting the timing and situation in various places, he also had the intention of turning back to Xiangyang.

As for the negotiations on the side of Guangling County, it was still going on for a while, but as Jia Xu expected, Tai Shici took the Divine Arrow Battalion to suddenly cross the river into Guangling County, which made the Sun family on the side of Guangling County very frightened, so the negotiations with the backing of the Divine Arrow Battalion were also relatively smooth.

Now the Divine Arrow Battalion has basically taken over the territory originally controlled by the Sun family, and at the same time scattered some troops to deploy defenses in Huaiyin, Xuyi, and Gaoshan counties, so as to prevent Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu from sending troops to invade.

However, Tai Shici's troops had obviously stepped out of the scope of Guangling County, and entered some areas of Xiapi County to the north, and also had some meaning of being close to the territory of Yuan Shu in Huainan to the west.

Such a move naturally also aroused the attention of Lu Bu, who occupied Pengcheng and Xiapi in Xuzhou, and Lu Bu inevitably mobilized his troops and took some precautions in the direction of Guangling County, as for Yuan Shu's side, he also transferred troops between Yinling and Zhongli counties to make precautions, in case Zhu Wei sent troops to Huainan through Guangling County.

In today's situation, Zhu Wei killed Liu Biao in a battle in Jingbei, and defeated Cao Cao's soldiers and horses who came to make a bargain, which has made the princes of the world jealous of Zhu Wei.

Later, Wang Yuyan led troops to pacify Jiangdong, killed Sun Ce, subdued Zhou Yu, and let Zhu Wei completely control the land of Jiangdong.

People in the world know that Zhu Wei's rise in the south is unstoppable, and no one dares to underestimate Zhu Wei, a young southern hero.

And Zhu Wei suddenly crossed the river to the north, and occupied Guangling County in Xuzhou without bloodshed, and the forces had already set foot in the Central Plains, which made Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao in the north of the Central Plains inevitably find their subordinates to discuss how to face Zhu Wei in the south.

But no matter what others do, Cao Cao, who held the Son of Heaven hostage, obviously gave Zhu Wei a show of goodwill at the first time, and he sent envoys to issue an edict to Zhu Wei on behalf of the Son of Heaven, officially giving Zhu Wei the title of General Zhennan that Zhu Wei requested, and at the same time giving Zhu Wei the title of Jingyang Governor who could actually control Jing and Yangzhou, so that Zhu Wei got the official recognition of local real power and became a real warlord in the south.

All this also happened to meet the conditions that Zhu Wei sent to Cao Cao after defeating the Cao soldiers under Xiahou Yuan and capturing the two Cao generals of Che Zhou and Lejin.

It can be said that Cao Cao's overtures to Zhu Wei this time were even better than the name he wanted in Zhu Wei's original conditions, and the only thing was to put forward a request for Zhu Wei to crusade against Huainan Yuanshu in the name of the Son of Heaven.

After all, Huainan also belongs to the scope of Yangzhou, since Zhu Wei is the general of Zhennan and the governor of Jingyang, then there is a rebellion like Yuan Shu in the area controlled by Zhu Wei, so naturally Zhu Wei is responsible for the rebellion.

At the same time, Cao Cao also privately hoped that Zhu Wei would respect the conditions agreed at the beginning, and send back the corpses of Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Ba, the captured generals Che Zhou and Le Jin, and even hoped that Zhu Wei could return the more than 10,000 Cao soldiers who were captured this time.

Of course, the envoy of the Son of Heaven from Xudu came to Xiangyang with the edict of the Son of Heaven, so Zhang Zhao, who has now been transferred to Xiangyang to preside over affairs, also sent a letter to Zhu Wei, asking Zhu Wei to return to Xiangyang as soon as possible to welcome the edict of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, after Zhu Wei received this news, he prepared to return to Xiangyang in early October 197 AD......