The 244th Chapter: Entering Jiangdong
As soon as Sun Quan died, Zhou Yu and others seemed to have been prepared, and the whole army was vegetarian; And Wang Lang seemed to know that Sun Quan was dead, so he immediately led his troops out of the city to attack the Wu army, but he never thought that he was ambushed by Zhou Yu, and he was captured. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Only then did Wang Lang know that Sun Quan was not the backbone of these people at all, but rather that he was a puppet with a certain amount of freedom; The real power has always been in the hands of Huang Gai, Han Dang and other old ministers, that is to say, it doesn't matter who Sun Quan is in this position at all.
After all, a fifteen-year-old man, how can he be the opponent of these old people?
cut off Sun Quan's arm, resulting in his death, Wang Lang naturally had no way to escape from the involvement, and was taken out of the gate by Zhou Yu and beheaded for public display.
After Wang Lang's death, Zhou Yu quickly led his troops to capture Jian'an, and since then, the Wu army has all the Jiangdong land except for Yuzhang, Luling, and Chaisang. After that, it is to take Huainan, enter Jingzhou, and annex the world!
Of course, the premise of all this is that Jiangdong has the master.
After some deliberation by the old ministers, it was decided that the plan would remain unchanged, and Sun Ce would be invited to enter Jiangdong, so he immediately asked Zhou Yu to write a letter, and asked Sun Ce, who was stationed in Yuzhang, to come to Wu immediately and receive the Great Seal of Wu County.
This seal was issued by the imperial court, or it can be said that it was issued by Cao Cao; In order to consolidate the rear, Cao Cao listened to Xun Gang's advice and named Sun Quan as the Taishou of Wu County and led the Marquis of Wu. Now it's a good thing, all these names have been handed over to Sun Ce.
Sun Ce received Zhou Yu's letter, and he didn't know whether to be happy or worried, after all, his own brother died, and he was still quite unhappy in his heart; Although Sun Quan caused trouble for himself everywhere, after all, his own brother, now that he is dead, how can he not sigh?
"Bo Fu, let's go......"
Cheng Pu looked at the letter, his heart was mixed, Sun Quan was young and wise, he was quite liked by Sun Jian, and now he died of illness at the age of fifteen, isn't it a pity?
Sun Ce responded lightly, looked back at Xun Gang behind the curtain, and said with a wry smile: "Captain Xun, after this is over, it's time for the driver to go back to Xuchang, right?" ”
"When you're done with me, you want to get rid of me?"
Xun Gang slowly walked out of the curtain, his face was not good-looking, he thought that he would stay here for a while longer, until Sun Quan was brought down; But he never expected that Sun Quan would return to the west before Sun Ce's soldiers and horses attacked. This is a good thing, and his affection for Sun Ce has decreased a lot in an instant.
Sun Ce smiled again and again: "Naturally I don't dare, Taiwei Xun is kind to the subordinates, and naturally I don't dare to slack off, if I need it in the future, I will help each other, and I dare not refuse!" ”
"I don't need your verbal promise, you only need to help me with one thing first, and I don't owe you anything."
Sun Ce was overjoyed, after all, the debt of favor was the most difficult to repay, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what the Taiwei wants?" ”
"You just need to send troops to contain Yuan Shu for me."
Sun Ce was stunned, that's all? You must know that after the unification of Jiangdong, Yuan Shu naturally became a thorn in his side when he marched into the Central Plains, not to mention Xun Gang's request, even Sun Ce himself may attack him after a period of development.
is just contained, but it can't move Sun Ce's muscles and bones, Xun Gang uses this to negotiate, doesn't Sun Ce make a profit?
"Gone?"
"It's gone."
Sun Ce was a little at a loss, he looked at Cheng Pu and then at Tai Shici, both of them looked confused, after all, anyone with a little military and political acumen could see that Xun Gang was completely doing a loss-making business.
“…… I understand, three days later, I will immediately send troops to contain Yuan Shu! ”
Xun Gang nodded slightly, although he was unwilling, but the matter had come to this point, and he could only complete the task assigned to him by Cao Cao. immediately said goodbye to everyone, and left with Chen Zhi and dozens of guards.
"After this, we will be the enemy."
Sun Ce still remembered these words, but he didn't know, where did Xun Gang get this self-confidence and become his enemy?
"Let's go, go to Wu County."
After some simple care, Sun Ce left Jiang Qin to guard Yuzhang, and ordered Cheng Pu to still lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, set up Chaisang, and watch Liu Biao's movements, while he took Tai Shici and a thousand soldiers and horses and went straight to Wu County.
Zhou Yu took 20 generals including Huang Gai, Han Dang, Ling Cao, and Zhou Tai, led an army of 2,000 and went out of the city for 20 miles to meet Sun Ce. Everyone saw Sun Ce's heroic posture and fatherly integrity, and they were all emotional.
The two brothers asked for warmth, and then entered Wu County to deal with the rest of the business, all the courtiers and soldiers who had contributed to the pacification of Jiangdong were rewarded for their merits, and suddenly like manna fell in all directions, and everyone praised them.
Subsequently, Sun Ce sent people to pacify the scholars of Danyang, Wujun, and Huiji, and reused the talented and virtuous people among them, and immediately filled the vacancy in Jiangdong. Among them, Gu, Lu, Zhang, and Zhu are four outstanding people, and they are quite reused, so they are called "the four surnames of Wu".
Although Huiji Taishou Wang Lang killed Sun Quan, Sun Ce still reused his original subordinates Yu Chuan and others, and for a while the fame was all over the place, and everyone said that Jiangdong had produced an outstanding lord, so they gradually forgot about Sun Quan's death.
At this moment, Cao Cao was preparing for the second attack on Zhang Xiu, and Sun Ce also acted according to his previous promise, sending troops to harass the Lujiang occupied by Yuan Shu, and the defender Zhang Xun defended many times, but Sun Ce always looked like he was raising tens of thousands of troops and was bound to take Lujiang.
Zhang Xun was afraid, so he asked Shouchun Yuan Shu for support, and Yuan Shu immediately allocated 50,000 troops to save Zhang Xun; Unexpectedly, as soon as Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses arrived, Sun Ce immediately started a guerrilla war, and did not collide with Yuan Shu head-on, but attacked from the side, repeatedly harassing his soldiers and horses, which was annoying.
Just when Yuan Shu's troops were about to launch a full-scale general attack, Sun Ce, who had harassed Lujiang for nearly half a month, suddenly retreated.
Because their task has been completed, Cao Cao successfully took Nanyang, and now he has returned to Xu Capital to rectify the soldiers and horses, and as soon as the soldiers turn, they want to attack Lu Bu.
After Xun Gang returned to Xudu, he was praised by the imperial court, but it was better to say that it was Cao Cao's praise. I thought that there would be a big drama staged, but I didn't expect Cao Cao to suddenly abolish the three dukes, set up the prime minister to lead the three dukes, and set himself up as the prime minister, Xun Gang's lieutenant was naturally useless.
However, since he wanted to praise Xun Gang, Cao Cao naturally would not snub him, and even appointed Xun Gang as the Taifu despite the opposition of his subordinates. You must know that Taifu is ranked as the upper prince, higher than the position of the third duke, and now Cao Cao has abolished the three public prime ministers, although the title is very large, but on the bright side, it is below Xun Gang.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao have been the princes, but in the Han Dynasty, there was only one Taifu; Dong Zhuo once received the Taishi himself, but it was just a fleeting firework. Taifu is generally set up at the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne to manage the government and has great power; However, Cao Cao Licheng restrained Xun Gang on the contrary, so that Xun Gang finally didn't even have the power to be a lieutenant.
His concubine has completely become the emperor's companion scholar.
It seems that although Cao Cao trusts Xun Gang, he still does not regard him as his own retainer, but only raises him as a high-ranking official, and has no intention of giving him power at all.
Although Xun Gang was not convinced, he knew that he had to be patient at the moment, deal with some painless official duties with the emperor every day, and then come down to communicate with Cao Pi and his brothers, as if he was acting as a teacher. And Cao Pi and others have grown up very fast, although Cao Cao once had a saying that "giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou", but Xun Gang felt that Cao Cao's son was the most rebellious.
But Cao Cao's military discussions, Xun Gang still often goes, after all, the official positions of the two have changed, but the mansion is still the same place, just a different plaque.
On this day, it was the second year of Jian'an, and Cao Cao had already begun to discuss the crusade against Lu Bu.