Chapter 049: The Objective Conditions for Zhuge Liang's Success
In history, Zhuge Liang was able to successfully fool Sun Quan and complete the mission of uniting Sun to resist Cao, in addition to Zhuge Liang himself being very awesome, there are some objective conditions that cannot be ignored.
[Helpless Lu Su]
Zhuge Liang was able to successfully complete the task of the alliance to resist Cao, and it has to be said that Lu Su's early foreshadowing played a great role.
Earlier, when Lu Su set off, he had already emphasized Liu Bei, which left a very key impression on Sun Quan. Originally, Lu Su sent an envoy to Jingzhou to prepare for the alliance of Eastern Wu and Jingzhou to deal with Cao Cao, but Lu Su didn't expect Cao Cao to move so fast, or Liu Cong was so inferior, Jingzhou was easily occupied by Cao Cao, which completely disrupted Lu Su's plan, Lu Su went to Jingzhou to fight for an alliance, and the Jingzhou group actually surrendered.
In this case, can Lu Su return in vain? No, Lu Su's mission to Jingzhou is with a very important mission, in addition to seeking Jingzhou, it is to ensure that Jingzhou at least cannot be obtained by Cao Cao, because Jiangdong can't bear the fate of Jingzhou being controlled by Cao Cao, but the good thing is that although Liu Cong surrendered, Liu Bei was still there, so Lu Su hurriedly went to find Liu Bei.
As a result, I didn't expect Liu Bei to plan to go south to Jiaozhou for refuge, and then Lu Su hurriedly told Liu Bei the plan that was originally going to win over the Jingzhou group, and regarded Liu Bei as the lord of Jingzhou, and talked about the alliance with Liu Bei, Lu Su said this is probably because he was too urgent and didn't have time to think about it, after all, Lu Su was originally a messenger to unite Jingzhou, but after Jingzhou was occupied by Cao Cao, Lu Su was not able to completely change his position, and as a result, Liu Bei took advantage.
Of course, it was inevitable for Lu Su that he would win over Liu Bei at that time, because Liu Cong had surrendered, and Liu Qi was incapable, and Liu Bei was the only one in Jingzhou who had the ability and courage to resist Cao Cao, so Lu Su had no choice, and Lu Su may also be in the urgency of the matter, so he would rashly replace Sun Quan and unite with Liu Bei to appease Liu Bei, after all, after Liu Bei ran away again, it would really be Jiangdong's turn below.
However, since the matter of the alliance was proposed by Lu Su first, this undoubtedly made it much less difficult for Zhuge Liang to make Jiangdong unite with Sun Quan.
Later generations Pei Songzhi had this comment on the Sun-Liu alliance: "Liu Bei and the power are combined, and they reject China together, and they are all the original plots." Zhuge Liang also said, "My son Yu is also a friend", and Zeliang has already heard the words. So now there is also a statement put forward by Lu Su in the three parts of the world, but we must understand that the three points of the world is not the original goal of Sun Quan, Lu Su and others, their original goal was to occupy Jingzhou and occupy the south of the Yangtze River, in fact, the goal of the Sun Quan group is to divide the world into two parts, but then Sun Quan failed to defeat Jingzhou Cao Cao came, so they retreated to the second, Sun Quan did not want to divide the world with Jingzhou, but he could not tolerate Jingzhou falling into the hands of Cao Cao.
For Lu Su, the alliance Liu Bei is not a great achievement, which is completely different from Zhuge Liang's alliance with Sun Quan, because Liu Bei was weak at that time and could not help Sun Quan much, and for Liu Bei, Sun Quan was a lifesaver, and the two sides were not equal at all at this time.
Lu Su knew this very well at the time, but he couldn't help it, Jiangdong was occupied by Cao Cao in the north and east at that time, the sea in the west, and the weak Jiaozhou in the south, they could only win over Liu Bei, and in order to fight against the powerful Cao Cao, no matter how weak Liu Bei was, as long as he had a little more strength, it was good.
So Lu Su is also very helpless.
[Talk of an alliance that was ignored by Koto]
In history, Zhuge Liang was able to confuse the alliance with the resistance to Cao, in addition to his very high level of negotiation, a very important point is that for Sun Quan and even the entire Jiangdong Group, the matter of resisting Cao or not at that time was far more important than the topic of the alliance with Liu Bei.
This is also a prerequisite for a generation of Ming lord Sun Quan to be fooled by Zhuge Liang.
For Sun Quan, confronting Cao Cao or returning to the imperial court was the top priority at that time, and whether to ally with Liu Bei or not, Sun Quan did not have the extra heart to consider this aspect.
At that time, the whole Jiangdong was arguing fiercely about submission or resistance, they said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and the quarrel was a mess, and Sun Quan's main mind was also in this regard, after all, this matter was related to the foundation of the Jiangdong Group, and it was not so important whether Liu Bei had the qualifications to form an alliance with him.
In addition to Sun Quan, including Zhou Yu, Zhang Hong, Zhang Zhao and other important advisers and generals, the first consideration is to resist Cao or surrender, Zhuge Liang's arrival was considered by Zhou Yu and others to be for themselves, for the support of the anti-Cao faction, so Zhou Yu Even if they saw through Zhuge Liang's intentions, they probably would not break it, after all, the first task of the anti-Cao faction at that time was to suppress the surrender faction led by Zhang Zhao, and they had no extra energy to focus on the alliance Liu Bei.
Although Zhang Zhao and others supported the surrender, in fact, their starting point for doing so was also for the sake of Eastern Wu, which will be discussed later, and it is recorded in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that Zhang Zhao and others made things difficult for Zhuge Liang, resulting in the staging of "Confucianism", which is not in the official history. On the contrary, Zhang Zhao was very optimistic about Zhuge Kongming at that time, and wanted to recommend it to Sun Quan, but Zhuge Liang himself did not agree.
In the final analysis, was Zhuge Liang able to successfully persuade Sun Quan to form an alliance, or was Cao Cao putting too much pressure on Sun Quan and even the entire Jiangdong group, so that they ignored Zhuge Liang's small calculations.
But then again, Cao Cao put a lot of pressure on Sun Quan, but it was the same for Liu Bei and Liu Bei Group, to be precise, it was too much.
At that time, Liu Bei's situation was much worse than Sun Quan's, Sun Quan at least his own Jiangdong was still there, and Liu Bei didn't even have his own territory, so he could only live with Liu Qi with some remnants of the defeated generals, and in the face of Cao Cao's offensive, Sun Quan was anxious, but Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were actually more anxious.
At that time, Zhuge Liang was well aware of Liu Bei's urgent situation, Liu Bei needed the help of the other party more than Sun Quan, but in this case, Zhuge Liang was not impatient, showed a very good psychological quality, calmly analyzed the situation of Sun Quan's group at that time, and then in the direct dialogue with Sun Quan, step by step, and finally succeeded in letting him enter his own language trap, and successfully united with Sun Quan against Cao Cao without paying any price.
Liu Bei sent Zhuge Liang to Jiangdong when he was far weaker than Sun Quan and Cao Cao, but Zhuge Liang succeeded in completing the task perfectly at almost no cost, successfully winning over Sun Quan, and was able to form an alliance with his peers against Cao Cao, which can be said to be a diplomatic miracle in the entire history of China.
ps: There is still a chapter if you have nothing to do in the evening, making up for Thursday