Historically, the great clans of Soochow controlled almost most of the population and economic lifeline of Soochow, and the army of Soochow was actually composed of private soldiers. Because the political basis of the Sun Wu regime was the strong and powerful families of Jiangnan and the people who crossed the Yangtze River to the south. Most of them served as army generals at the same time. In order to gain the support of the large landowners of the clan and safeguard their special interests, Sun Wu implemented the system of leading troops. After the death of a general, his son can succeed his father and brother to form a hereditary leader. In Eastern Wu, there were as many as 100 generals with private soldiers, and important ones such as Cheng Pu, Zhou Yu and others had as many as thousands of private soldiers. And the most important thing is that Sun Quan basically can't mobilize them alone, and can only be mobilized through the generals to whom the private soldiers belong.

And Sun Quan wanted these generals who supported the army to use their own private soldiers, relying on the same interests as them, such as using slogans such as anti-Cao and anti-China to make them hate the same enemy. For example, after the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu captured the northern part of Jiangxia County, which became Zhou Yu's food town, and after Lu Su took over Zhou Yu's army, Jiangxia County was converted into Lu Su's food town, which was unimaginable in Liu Bei's group and Cao Ying's group.

And in this life, although at the beginning of Sun Ce's crossing of the river, he slaughtered the big families of the family, so that the local families in Jiangdong did not dare to be presumptuous, and at the same time wantonly appointed the Huaisi family with a shallow foundation. However, such a method could not be sustained, and at the suggestion of Zhou Yu, Sun Ce changed to support the Han family against the wealthy families, but even so, the family in the Sun Wu regime was still in great power and controlled a large number of troops and cultivated land. The troops under Sun Ce's direct jurisdiction only had 30,000 Chinese troops and various elite troops in fragments, such as Chexia Hushi, Maxian Knights, etc.

The families in the Sun and Wu regimes were divided into two factions, which were distinguished by region. They are the Huaisi family headed by the Zhou family and the Qiao family in Lujiang Erwang, and the head of the Zhou family is Zhou Yu, the protector of the Zhongdu, and his grandfather Jing and Jing Zizhong are all Han Taiwei. The father is different, it is also Luoyang Ling, the Qiao family is Qiao Ren's family, the head of the family is Qiao Guolao, Qiao Ren's great-grandfather and great-grandfather have served as Taishou, grandfather Qiao Xuan has served as Luoyang Zuo Lieutenant, Qi Xiang and Shanggu, Hanyang Taishou, Situ Changshi, will be a master craftsman, Du Liao General and Tai Lieutenant, his father Qiao Yu (Qiao Guolao) has also served as the city minister, which can be regarded as a high-ranking official. And the Jiangdong family, headed by the four surnames of Wuzhong, plus the Fuchun Sun family and the Danyang Zhu family, although not as brilliant as the Qiao Zhou family, has taken advantage of the location and has a solid foundation.

Due to the different origins of the two families, it also led to the different ways of the Sun and Wu regimes to advance northward. The generals of the Huaisi family naturally wanted to go north to Huainan and fight back to where their county was located, such as Qiaoren's current fiefdom with Wancheng and Shucheng, which could raise 10,000 soldiers. And the local families in Jiangdong naturally want to go west to Jingxiang and carve up that feuding land.

Therefore, even if Sun Ce didn't want to take back the Nanjun that he lent to Liu Bei, but under the strong request of the Jiangdong family and Sun Quan's encouragement, he specially sent Zhuge Jin to Shuzhong, claiming to be an ally, in fact, he wanted to remind Liu Bei that Nanjun was lent to you by my Jiangdong.

In Chengdu's General Zuo's Mansion, Liu Bei sat in the hall with a gloomy face, and said to several important ministers under him: "I think you have heard that Sun Ce sent Ziyu to Chengdu. ”

Zhuge Jin is not good, Liu Bei can call him "Ziyu", obviously looking at Zhuge Liang's face.

And Zhang Song, who had never dealt with Dongwu, said: "Song has just heard that it has only been a few months since the lord Xindeyizhou was born, and Wu Hou sent someone to Chengdu. ”

Pang Tong sneered and said, "How can Sun Ce be so kind, which is the way of He, he sent Ziyu to the door to ask for debts." ”

If you want to get it, it will naturally be Nanjun, and for a while, there is no one in the hall who does not understand Zhuge Jin's intentions.

The last time Sun Ce had just lent Nanjun to Liu Bei for less than half a year, he wanted to use the guise of helping Liu Bei attack Yizhou in an attempt to recapture Nanjun by pretending to destroy Yu, and now Liu Bei took Yizhou for less than a few months, this Sun Ce sent someone to claim it back, and also sent Zhuge Liang's brother to come.

Although this is not the case, at least Liu Bei thinks so.

"The lord of Jingzhou is not easy to take, how can he easily return it. Ziyu is my brother, and he is a good friend of Shi Yuan, so it is inconvenient for me to come forward, so we hope that Yongnian will come forward and find a way to deal with this matter. Zhuge Liang said.

It turned out that Liu Bei Junchen fought with an idea, dragging.

But Zhang Songke won't do it, this is not a good errand, and Zhuge Jin is the general of the overseer, and he just doesn't drive, which is not right.

Zhang Song wanted to shirk it, but Zhuge Liang followed and said: "Wu Hou sent Ziyu to come this time because he is my brother, but I understand Ziyu's surname, and he is also the kind of person who does business. ”

Liu Bei looked at the two military advisors, Pang Tong didn't think much about it, and said very simply: "This is not simple, let's just say that the lord has a new Yizhou, the people's hearts are not attached, and there is Zhang Lu in the north, and after the lord takes Hanzhong, he will naturally return the southern county to him." ”

And Zhang Song's friend on the side mentioned such a helpless excuse, so he sneered: "If you want this kind of thing next time, if you come to ask for it again, you will return it if you get Liangzhou, and if you say that you can return it if you take Guanzhong next time, this excuse is very rich, and you can't use it out." ”

Pang Tong heard Fa Zheng's tone was not good, and he also sneered: "It won't take a few times, after pacifying Guanzhong and winning Wanluo, the next step may be to clean up his Sun Ce, and then it will not be him who sent someone to ask for Nanjun, our lord will send someone to ask for his fourteen counties of Jingyangzhou." ”

What a big breath. At this time, Fa Zheng and Zhang Song's only thought in their hearts glanced at each other, knowing that this was a problem for the Jingzhou faction, if they couldn't entertain Zhuge Jin, they Dongzhou scholars and Yizhou locals were afraid that they would not be able to save face, so they couldn't help but fight with the spirit of twelve points to deal with Zhuge Jin, who had the style of a gentleman.

When Zhang Songtou saw Zhuge Jin at a glance, he found that although this person and Zhuge Liang were a little similar in appearance, their bearing was completely different. Zhuge Liang seems to be chic and elegant on the outside, at ease, and looks like a fairy, but he is extremely calm and cautious on the inside. And this Zhuge Jin, but not much has continued the handsome genes of the Zhuge family, not only has a donkey face, but he looks sad at a glance, but he still looks frowning and worried. But the more this is the case, the more Zhang Song feels that this person is not that easy to fool.

"Brother Ziyu came from afar, tired all the way to climb mountains and wade through the water, my father-in-law was waiting to meet in person, but now he is tired of the political affairs at hand, and he can't pull away for a while, so he ordered to come first to greet Brother Yu, and the lord will personally set up a banquet for Brother Ziyu to catch the wind after he is busy with political affairs." Zhang Song was originally obscene, but he still looked a little bit serious when he was serious.

Zhang Song had never met Zhuge Jin, and he didn't have any polite words to say, so after a few words of greeting, he ordered his entourage to give those Shu brocade gifts from Liu Bei, and said: "This is a little bit of the lord's heart, and I hope Brother Ziyu will accept it with a smile." ”

Zhuge Jin put those gifts out of the bunch, and said very simply: "Jin came on business this time, and Liu Yuanjun's kindness Jin received it, but he didn't dare to accept this gift." ”

Zhuge Jin then said: "Earlier, Liu Yuanjun promised that as long as he obtained Yizhou, he would return Nanjun to my lord. Now Liu Yuanjun has sat in Yizhou, and he should keep his promises. Yu came this time to discuss with Liu Yuanjun the plan to return Nanjun as soon as possible. ”

In fact, Zhang Song also felt that Sun Ce's idea of wanting to return Nanjun through diplomatic means was difficult to realize, Liu Bei took Yizhou with the support of Jingzhou scholars, whether it was sitting in the world or fighting the world in the future, Jingzhou scholars are the foundation he relies on, and Liu Bei's group, with Jingzhou scholars as the main body, will give Jingzhou obediently to Sun Quan, so that Jingzhou scholars themselves will become rootless grass?

The answer is, of course, no, unless the Jingzhou scholars lose their dominant position in Liu Bei's group, otherwise, even if the Jingzhou scholars do not hesitate to fight to the death, Sun Ce will not want to take Jingzhou back

It's a pity that Zhang Song and even Liu Bei Junchen didn't expect that while they were preparing to play scoundrels and occupy Nanjun privately, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and even Qiao Ren of Eastern Wu all planned to stab Liu Bei in the back during his northward journey. When Liu Bei succeeded in attracting Cao Ying's firepower, he took the opportunity to capture Nanjun while leaving Huainan with heavy troops.

After three days, Zhuge Jin finally returned south with Liu Bei's promise. But I don't know if Zhuge Jin was tricked, or Liu Bei Junchen was deceived.

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