Chapter 601: Factional Conflict
Jiangdong raised 80,000 infantry, with Sun Ce and Zhou Yu as the commanders, and the general Huang Gai as the front, with great momentum.
Jingzhou, which had already received the report, quickly mobilized the main force of Xiangyang in just one month, and gathered the county soldiers drawn from all over the country, a total of 100,000, with Wang Fei and Xu Sheng as the commanders, and Wang Xu's brother Wang Xiong as the front, and rushed to Yuzhang to meet them.
Such a feat was unprecedented, with the army covering the sky and the sun, and there was no joy along the way, but the drums and drums were beating day and night. When many people heard this, in order to see such a feat, they even trekked through mountains and rivers to witness it.
When the news spread to all parties in the world, the whole world was shocked, some people were surprised, some people were disdainful, some people were envious, some people were worried, some people were resentful, and some people were happy! The reaction can be described as strange, but without exception, everyone knows that this marriage, whether it is good or notorious, will be praised through the ages.
The more people, the slower the march, the 80,000 troops traveled, although there was no delay along the way, but it took more than half a month to arrive at the border of Yuzhang.
At this time, Jingzhou's 100,000 troops had already set up camp and waited for a long time.
"General Wang, I can't send it far away, and I hope the general will treat my sister well." Sun Ce was dressed in silver armor and stood on a war horse.
"Bo Fu Anxin, since he is my wife and my family, how can he be lazy?" Wang Xu reined in the horse's head and said with a smile.
Sun Ce smiled and said no more. "Precious!"
"Precious!" Wang Xu returned the salute, and then looked at Zhou Yu, who was also arching his hand next to him: "Gong Jin, he will definitely get drunk with you when he has the opportunity." ”
"The general is invited, and Gong Jin should sacrifice his life to accompany him." Zhou Yu said with an elegant smile.
"Hahahaha...... Good. I'll drink with you again in the future. ”
Wang Xu smiled and looked at the two for a moment. Don't stay any longer. Turning the horse's head and jogging away.
The frame behind him followed, and the entourage and female guards alone were five or six hundred people, which was not small.
Sun Ce watched his sister's carriage go away, and he was very reluctant in his heart, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Little sister, remember the letter from Chang Zhiren, and I have time to go back to Jiangdong to have a look." ”
"Brother, don't worry, my sister will go back to Jiangdong to visit you."
After all, it is a distant marriage. In this troubled world, I don't know how long it will take to see my loved ones again, Sun Shangxiang burst into tears on the spot, stuck her head out of the window, and kept waving at Sun Ce.
In this situation, Rao is Sun Ce, there were tears in his eyes, and he sighed. "I don't know if it's good or bad for my little sister to marry Wang Xu."
"The young master is at ease. It is a blessing for Ling Mei to marry Wang Xu. Zhou Yu smiled and said with relief: "No matter whether Jiangdong and Jingzhou are friends or enemies in the future." With Wang Xu's mind and courage, she will be treated well, and Shang Xiang is a good woman, which is a match made in heaven. Moreover, for the two families of Sun Wang, there is no selfish grudge, only the dispute of the world, if the Sun family loses, it will be doubly good to Shang Xiang, in order to win the heart of the world, if it is defeated, the Sun family can also let the Wang family have enough food and clothing, how can it be bad. ”
"That's right." Sun Ce nodded, of course he knew these things in his heart, otherwise how could he arrange it like that, but he was just a little worried about it after all.
The convoy gradually moved away, and when it was halfway through, the Jingzhou camp suddenly rushed out of three generals, galloped quickly, and kicked up rolling dust.
"Brother!"
"Third brother!"
"Lord!"
Wang Xu measured it carefully for a moment, and then laughed: "Haha, second brother, Wang Xiong, Xu Sheng!" ”
The joy of reunion is always difficult to restrain people, and several people look excited and quickly rush together.
"Hahaha...... Brother, what about my two sisters-in-law? I want to see my sister-in-law! Wang Xiong asked with a laugh.
"You kid!" Wang Xu glanced at him and scolded with a smile: "They are still in the rear car, what is there to see, stay quiet." ”
Wang Xiong was not afraid of heaven and earth in his life, but he only respected him, and after being reprimanded, he smiled happily.
"Lord!" Xu Sheng called out excitedly and bowed heavily.
Wang Xu looked over and found that Xu Sheng, who had not seen him for a long time, was still young, and his forehead was wrinkled, but he could think about what kind of pressure he was under these days, and he was moved at the moment: "Wen Xiang, I have worked hard for you in my absence." ”
Wang Fei next to him smiled and took over in time: "Third brother, since you left, Jingyi Erzhou has been extremely chaotic, but fortunately, Wen Xiang sat in Xiangyang, strongly suppressed the General's Mansion, and deterred all parties from making changes, which can ensure the orderly operation of the General's Mansion, and it is indeed a meritorious achievement." ”
"Eh, Zi Qian's words are too much, and the last general has just done his part, and it is not a merit." Xu Sheng was not arrogant, but very modest.
Wang Xu was very happy at the moment, as if he had endless words, but knowing that now was not the time to talk in detail, his eyes swept around, so he waved his hand and said: "It's inconvenient to talk here, let's go, go back and talk slowly." ”
Jiangdong's army withdrew, and Jingzhou's 100,000-strong army also embarked on the journey back to Xiangyang.
On the way, officials from all over the country rushed to pay their respects, and all kinds of news flew like snowflakes to the counties and counties of Jing and Yizhou.
At this moment, the hearts of the whole people in Jingzhou are finally at peace!
During the march, after Xu Sheng, Wang Fei, and Wang Xiong, Wang Xu learned the real situation in Jingzhou these days.
Unexpectedly, his departure actually made Jingzhou almost in civil strife.
At first, it was Tian Feng, Fu Zhu and other foreign courtiers who took power and actively stabilized the situation in Yizhou, but they could not complete it, but they were strongly opposed, because many of their decrees once again touched the interests and system of the local family in Jingyi, without Wang Xu's authority, most officials in Yizhou refused to implement it, and many officials on the Jingzhou side complained and openly expressed their dissatisfaction.
Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, Huan Jie, Gong Qiu Cheng, Liu Xiang, Liu Ba and other high-level officials of the General's Mansion are not only inextricably linked with the local official group, but also concerned about the unity of the General's Mansion, and are caught in the middle, maneuvering left and right, intending to resolve the contradictions, but unfortunately they are getting worse and worse.
Guo Jia came forward to change the decree in order to ease the situation, but because he belonged to a group of foreign courtiers, it was difficult to deter the local officials, and it was still unable to be effectively enforced, and the general's palace was in constant dispute every day.
I wanted to kill a few people to establish authority, but I found that the mobilization was not effective, and even the generals in the army were divided into several factions, and some people openly disobeyed orders, and all parties confronted each other.
If you light the fuse. It will inevitably lead to a large-scale scuffle.
At last. He realized that it was no longer a matter of individual disobedience. Rather, it is the factional struggle that arises because the entire group of forces loses its dominant person, which is essentially a struggle for power, and one is to seize the supreme power.
In desperation, he met with Xu Shu, pleaded with him for full regent, and secretly advised him to come forward to terminate the current decree. First appeased all parties and stabilized them, and then slowly deprived the two forces of their right to speak, and issued a more moderate decree, all of which were issued by Xu Shu himself.
This move really worked wonders, Wang Xu was not there, Xu Shu represented him, and he wanted to take back all his rights at this moment, and no one could say anything in name.
Although there are still people who disobey the yang and do not act actively, they finally suppressed everyone. Don't dare to continue to fight in the open.
The most important thing is that the originally silent family faction came forward. They didn't participate in the power struggle between the courtiers, but if Xu Shu's orders were not listened to, someone would rebel and be a bully!
Of course, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Xu Sheng, Wang Fei and others will not ignore it and intervene strongly.
At the same time, other Wenchen generals who had followed Wang Xu for a long time gradually separated from the two forces and fell to Xu Shu.
Such as Gao Shun, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, Huan Jie, Liu Xian, Liu Qi, Pang Ji, Wang Mastiff, etc., as a result, the high-level core quickly united together, and Xu Shu then took full regency, and personally issued a new decree with the assistance of everyone, but those who did not obey were immediately killed.
The struggle for power soon subsided, and the contradictions caused by Wang Xu's departure were also suppressed, and a very small number of local officials who were stubborn and did not know the general situation were also quickly suppressed.
When he learned about this qiē from Wang Fei's mouth, Wang Xu felt very heavy, he knew that with the expansion of power, the bigger the forest, the more simple it would be as simple as the beginning, there would definitely be contradictions, there would be fights and incidents, but he didn't expect that he was not there, and he could make such a trouble.
Before leaving, he handed over the rights to Guo Jia, Fu Zhu, and Tian Feng, thinking that by relying on their prestige and means, they should be able to stabilize the overall situation, but they didn't expect it to cause such chaos, if it weren't for Guo Jia's timely advice to Xu Shu and let him come forward, I'm afraid I don't know what the chaos would be.
At this moment, Wang Xu suddenly found that there were countless military generals around him, but there was one less person who could completely coordinate the overall situation.
Frustrated and Tian Feng are good at political strategy, good at planning, and military affairs, but they have a straightforward personality, are not good at wrists, and do not know the advance and retreat of people's hearts.
Although the rest of Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang and others are all momentary talents, they can't be completely controlled in this brilliant and troubled era.
If these people are in ordinary years, they can all be prime ministers and generals, under one person, and above ten thousand!
But in this world where there are many talents, heroes and heroes in troubled times, but they can only divide labor and cooperate, not comprehensively, a person who can really fully coordinate the overall situation, the emperor in the peaceful years absolutely does not want to see, but in the troubled times to expand the territory is urgently needed.
Zhuge Liang!
A name was imprinted in Wang Xu's mind, what kind of person is this? In Liu Bei's weak force, how did he turn the tide? After Liu Bei's death, how did he suppress Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Li Yan, Fa Zheng and other arrogant and powerful people?
There is also Xun Yu, a person who can coordinate the entire north for Cao Cao, make the ministers obey and famous generals bend down, and a person who can make Cao Cao never worry about the rear whenever he goes on an expedition, how did he do it?
Suddenly, Wang Xu felt that his ability bias towards talents should be redivided, and the three major strategists in the Three Kingdoms period should not have Zhuge Liang, because he was not a competent strategist at all, and the strategists should be like Guo Jia and Jia Xu, who gave advice to the monarch and planned the country, rather than the people who ruled the imperial army.
Cao Cao in history, from the beginning, used Xun Yu to coordinate the overall situation, while Guo Jia accompanied him and gave advice.
"Hey! It would be nice if I had Xun Yu Xiangzuo. Wang Xu suddenly sighed, with envy in his words.
"Huh?" Xu Sheng and the others were stunned.
Wang Xu came back to his senses and saw that their faces were strange, so he couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”
Xu Sheng, Wang Fei, and Wang Xiong looked at each other, their surprises overflowing, and after a while, Xu Sheng smiled and said, "Lord, the Xun Yu you longed for just now is also what Guo Junshi has been talking about every day recently. ”
"Bonghyo?" Wang Xu's face was full of curiosity.
"yes!" Wang Fei took over with a smile: "The last time Guo Junshi returned to Xiangyang, he frowned, almost every time he met, he didn't talk about a few serious things, he sighed that it would be good if Jingzhou had Xun Yu's assistant." ”
"Really?" Wang Xu was happy, smiled and shook his head: "Fengxiao has a very good personal relationship with Xun Yu, and he knows Xun Yu's talent very well, so I think he may have found some problems." ”
When the words fell, Wang Xiong next to him seemed to think of something, and suddenly said: "Eh, that's right, brother!" Speaking of Xun Yu, I think of a thing, some time ago in Xiangyang Lin Haige dinner, I happened to hear a young man with an arrogant tone, about 20 years old, at that time was talking loudly about the world's celebrities, including Xun Yu, from the meaning of his words, but also means that Xun Yu is afraid of him! ”
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