The four hundred and fifty-first round
However, it was said that after the Battle of Chibi, at the beginning of the spring of the fourteenth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan hurriedly called Sun Shangxiang back to Jiangdong. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info then Sun Quan adopted Lü Meng's suggestion and sent Gu Yong as an envoy to Yizhou. On the surface, it was a friendly relationship with Lu Renlala, but in fact, it made Lu Meng pretend to be an ordinary entourage and inquired about the information of Yizhou.
Due to their different views, Sun Shangxiang and Gu Yong certainly suggested that Sun Quan continue to maintain friendly relations with Lu Ren and be at peace with each other, while Lü Meng held the view that Yizhou must be conquered as soon as possible. Perhaps it can be said that on the issue of Yizhou, Sun Shangxiang and Gu Yong belong to the moderate **** people, so Lu Meng belongs to the radical hawks.
And what kind of guy is Sun Quan? In the words of later scholars, Sun Quan is doing **** things, but he has hawkish thoughts in his bones. As long as there is an opportunity, Sun Quan will not hesitate to show his sharp teeth, tear off a piece of meat from someone else's body and swallow it in his stomach. And in the original historical process, adopting Gan Ning's suggestion to attack Jiangxia and adopting Lu Meng's suggestion to attack Guan Yu are not all such examples?
Now for Lu Ren's Yizhou, Sun Quan said that he was not interested and did not drool Nima was. And in some ways, Lu Ren's existence does pose a lot of threats to Sun Quan, so Sun Quan is also looking for an opportunity to get rid of Lu Ren. After Lü Meng returned from Yizhou, he suggested to Sun Quan that Lü Meng should lead his troops south in the name of clearing Shanyue, ostensibly fighting the Shanyue tribe in the mountains of Shanyue, but in fact, under the cover of the mountains, he secretly advanced in the direction of Quanzhou. As soon as he encountered the right opportunity, Lu Meng was ready to rush to Quanzhou.
Sun Quan naturally supported Lu Meng's suggestion. In fact, Lu Xun had done this before, but the situation at that time was a little different from the current situation, and there were also differences in his attitude towards Lu Ren.
When Lu Xun mobilized his troops, Quanzhou was not nominally Lu Ren's subordinate domain, and Lu Ren had not yet become an official Han prince at that time, at best, he could only be regarded as a local wealthy family, so at least nominally, there was no so-called territorial dispute between Lu Ren and Sun Quan. To put it mildly, Quanzhou at that time belonged to whoever occupied it first, but Lu Ren at that time did not have the official name of the Han Dynasty, so Lu Xun later openly dispatched troops and ships from Huiji.
From a personal emotional point of view, Lu Xun really didn't want Lu Ren and Sun Quan to fight each other, and Quanzhou was a very critical place, so Lu Xun wanted to snatch Quanzhou by himself, and then use Quanzhou as a buffer zone between Lu Ren and Sun Quan, so as not to let Lu Ren and Sun Quan have conflicts as much as possible. Even if there is really any conflict, as long as Lu Xun is still in Quanzhou, at least he can find a way to ease the relationship between the two sides. Of course, Lu Xun was later given a little yin by Lu Ren, and Quanzhou finally fell into the hands of Lu Ren, and it was officially incorporated into Lu Ren's territory in the official name of the Han Dynasty.
And at this time, if Sun Quan has any movement against Quanzhou, it will be in the nature of a formal war between the two princes, and Lu Meng does not want to act as a peacemaker between Lu Ren and Sun Quan like Lu Xun, his purpose is to use Quanzhou as a bridgehead to attack Lu Ren's subordinates.
I won't talk about it if it's superfluous, anyway, Lu Meng is heading for Quanzhou. And in order to hide the true purpose, Lu Meng was indeed attacking some Shanyue tribes on the way, and it took more than two months to gradually approach Quanzhou. At the same time, in the battle with the Shanyue tribe, Lü Meng was also able to collect a certain number of troops, and even captured a lot of weapons and equipment that these Shanyue tribes traded from Lu Ren.
To say that Sun Quan and the Shanyue tribe are old rivals, Lu Meng sneaked into the mountains and approached Quanzhou in the name of clearing the Shanyue tribe is indeed a good trick, but to say that Quanzhou will really have no defense, it is unlikely under normal circumstances, because there are some things Lu Ren's heart is very clear. If it weren't for this, Lu Xun wouldn't have suffered a secret loss at Lu Ren's hands so easily.
But some things are often just speechless. Originally, there was no problem in Quanzhou's precautions against Sun Quan, but now the problem lies in the sudden outbreak of spring flu in the spring of the fourteenth year of Jian'an.
Although it was just a small spring flu, it was not a trivial matter in that era, so Lu Ren even sent Shirley to Quanzhou, for fear that if this small spring flu was not well controlled, it would become SARS or avian flu if one did not pay attention, and the problem would really be a big problem...... It may seem like a joke, but it's not a joke.
In short, due to the outbreak of the disease, there is a bit of confusion everywhere in Quanzhou. Many things that should have been paid attention to have been overlooked because of the epidemic of the disease. Lu Meng just caught up with this incident, so he was able to sneak to a place not far from Quanzhou. So much so that Lu Meng was a little strange at first, because according to some information that Lu Meng had, it was unlikely that he would arrive at the position he was in so easily.
With such doubts, Lu Meng even went to Quanzhou City to inquire about intelligence in person, so he immediately got first-hand accurate information. In addition, Lu Meng also got a piece of information that surprised him, and should even say that he was pleasantly surprised, that is, there were two very important people around Lu Ren, and now he happened to be in Quanzhou. One is Shirley, while the other is ...... Xu Shu? I'm sorry, I'm not talking about Xu Shu here, but Lu Lan happened to come to Quanzhou at this time.
Some people may be surprised. It makes sense to say that Shirley was sent to Quanzhou by Lu Ren to control the flu, but Lu Lan, this girl, is not staying in Yizhou properly, what is she doing in Quanzhou when she is full and has nothing to do?
To be honest, Lu Ren is also a little helpless. The ancients were already superstitious, and the southern region at that time was far from being civilized enough, and its superstition was even worse. Under normal circumstances, it is easy to say, but once there is an epidemic, those messy gods and witches will all come out to deceive people's minds. And where would Lu Ren allow such a thing to happen? Naturally, Xu Shu was the first to hit these gods and witches fiercely.
But Lu Ren knows very well that if he wants to deal with these gods and witches, he can't rely entirely on suppression and blows, he has to start from the psychology of the people, otherwise these souls will be suppressed more and more powerfully. If some kind of god-like group develops by these god-stick witches and the like, it will really provoke a civil uprising at that time. Don't forget that the current level of development in Quanzhou is not enough, and as an important transit station, there are many homeless people in Quanzhou who have little knowledge at all and are easy to be deceived by the tricks of those magic stick witches.
In desperation, Lu Ren sent Lu Lan to Quanzhou. Speaking of which, Lu Lan is a popular star in Yizhou, but from another point of view, isn't Lu Lan also the head of the Propaganda Department next to Lu Ren? Isn't guiding the will of the people and the will of the people what the head of the Propaganda Department should do? And Lu Ren still has such self-confidence, that is, you gods and witches can compare with our little Lan? Even if you want to demagogue, you have to see if your own charm value can compare to our Xiaolan? The persuasiveness of the words spoken by young and beautiful beauties is often much higher than that of others, okay?
Okay, a few words of nonsense, anyway, after Lu Lan arrived in Quanzhou, according to Lu Ren's intention, he used a concert and live commentary on how to deal with the flu to resolve the superstition and bewitchment of the gods and witches, and the effect was very good...... To be honest, Lu Lan is very experienced in this kind of thing, because when Lu Ren was still an official under Lao Cao's hand, Lu Lan had dealt with a lot of such things with Lu Ren's side, but at that time, Lu Lan was by Lu Ren's side to help run errands and play a dozen deputies, but experience has been accumulated.
If you really want to deal with those god stick witches, Lu Lan, who is smart in ice and snow, has a way. To put it mildly, don't forget that Lu Ren also has the title of "Immortal Master", and these gods and witches can be compared to Lu Ren, a super god?
So something like this happened later, that is, some magic stick witches' tricks were broken, and in a fit of anger, they called Lu Lan a "demon girl" in public, but the result was almost killed on the spot by the angry people. Are you kidding? Your deceptive methods have been exposed, and you dare to insult the goddesses and idols in everyone's hearts like this? What is this not looking for death?
So So, Shirley and Lu Lan stayed in Quanzhou for the time being, helping Xu Shu stabilize the situation in Quanzhou. At this time, Lü Meng's troops had already reached the vicinity of Quanzhou. Seeing that Quanzhou was lax in defense due to the epidemic, and there were important people like Shirley and Lu Lan who happened to be in Quanzhou, Lu Meng didn't want to miss such an opportunity. Not to mention the significance of capturing Quanzhou in one fell swoop, if you can catch Shirley and Lu Lan by the way, it is difficult to calculate what kind of impact Lu Ren can have.
In addition, there is another factor in favor of Lü Meng, that is, Lü Meng found out that Lu Ren led his army to Guangzhou some time ago, and then fought with Shixie in Jiaozhou in Guangzhou, and then stayed in Guangzhou and did not return to Yizhou. In other words, Lu Ren's main attention is currently on the Guangzhou side, and he is a little negligent on the Quanzhou side. If we don't grasp such an opportunity, I am afraid that it will be difficult to encounter it again in the future.
However, Lu Meng knew in his heart that with only the existing troops in his hands, although the problem of taking Quanzhou by surprise attack was not big, it was difficult to say whether he could withstand Lu Ren's counterattack. The location of Quanzhou is in the middle of Yizhou and Guangzhou, and once the reinforcements from both sides go over, it is no joke. Therefore, Lu Meng's decision was to first try to capture Shirley and Lu Lan as hostages, so that Lu Ren would not dare to act rashly; The second was to immediately send an urgent messenger to ask Sun Quan to send reinforcements to Quanzhou...... (To be continued.) )