Since Liu Jing and Sun Quan reached an agreement on the withdrawal of troops at the beginning of the year, Sun Quan acquiesced in the Han army's occupation of the north bank of the Yangtze River, while the Han army withdrew from Xishan Island in Taihu Lake, but the Han army did not completely abandon Taihu Lake, but withdrew to the mouth of the Lishui River on the west bank of Taihu Lake, and firmly controlled Lishui, the golden waterway from the Yangtze River to Taihu Lake.

At the same time, the Han army completely abandoned Wu County and withdrew to the south of Zheshui to control Huiji County, which in fact still formed a three-sided encirclement of Jiangdong.

Sun Quan also knew that the Han army was only temporarily letting Jiangdong go, and at the latest a year later, the Han army would attack Jiangdong on a large scale, and the huge pressure on time made Sun Quan extremely urgent, and if he didn't take countermeasures, he would have no time.

To this end, Sun Quan took a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, he recruited 30,000 troops, so that the Jiangdong army reached 60,000, and on the other hand, he tried every means to restore the Jiangdong naval army.

But even if they built a warship, they could not sail the warship to the Yangtze River, and there were Han warships from Huiji County blocking the open sea, and Lishui, the only way to the Yangtze River, was firmly controlled by the Han army.

In order to open up the Yangtze River waterway, Sun Quan accepted the construction of Xue Zong, the general of Changshi Zhonglang, and forcibly recruited 100,000 people to dig the Jiangnan Canal and open up the Baili Broken Head River between Biling County and Wu County.

Once the canal was dredged, the newly built warships from Taihu Lake could sail directly from Taihu Lake to Jianye and the Yangtze River, restoring the Jiangdong naval army, and together with the thousands of barrels of oil left behind in Jiangdong during the ban, they could fight the Han army.

In the afternoon, a carriage was escorted by more than a dozen horseback attendants, speeding through the city of Moling County, and in the carriage, Zhang Zhao looked at the street outside the car window with a heavy heart.

This is the most lively street in Jianye and even Jiangdong, called Danyang Street, which is eight miles long, at its peak, the shops on both sides of the street are lined up and down, shouting and shouting one after another, the tavern hostel business is booming, many high-ranking officials in Jiangdong have secretly invested in the shop on this street.

But now, Danyang Street is unusually depressed, the streets are deserted, nearly seventy percent of the shops are closed, and none of the dozens of taverns are open, and this depression makes every Jiangdong official feel sad.

But they all know that this is not because of the impact of the war, just when the Hefei War was in the most difficult stage of confrontation, Danyang Street was not so depressed, which was completely caused by Jiangdong himself.

The first is a complete ban on alcohol, no one is allowed to use grain to make wine, violators will be beheaded, the second is the implementation of food control, each person can only buy a maximum of one bucket of rice per month, in addition, a large number of men under the age of 50 were forcibly conscripted to dig canals is also an important reason, Moling County alone was forcibly conscripted 20,000 people, and there are no people in the shop pù and taverns, and it is difficult to do business.

Zhang Zhao was very sad in his heart, Sun Ce handed over a strong Jiangdong to Sun Quan, after nearly twenty years, Jiangdong was not further stronger, but worsened, decaying Ruosi, although the fundamental reason was the emergence of a strong Liu Jing in Jingzhou, but also related to Wu Hou could not see the shape clearly, and repeatedly launched wars.

War is a double-edged sword, not to mention that it consumes a lot of materials and money, not to mention, if it wins, it will get rich war benefits, but once it fails, it will suffer heavy losses, and it is the wars that have failed again and again that have made Jiangdong decay year by year.

Zhang Zhao also longed in his heart, even if they only had one victory over Jingzhou, they would be able to seize a large number of people, materials and food from Jingzhou, not only to compensate for the cost of the war, but also to greatly promote the prosperity of Jiangdong.

It is a pity that from the eight years of Jian'an to the present, they have not defeated Jingzhou once, and they have been defeated repeatedly and suffered heavy losses, but the Han army has received a large number of war compensation and weapons and materials, and it is with these material bases that the Han army can continue to advance westward and capture the more fertile Yizhou.

Since the end of the Hefei War, the Han army occupied the entire Jianghuai, Zhang Zhao knew that the time in Jiangdong was short, even if Sun Quan was now desperately expanding his armaments despite the boiling of popular grievances, it would be too late in time.

Just last night, he received a letter from home, learning that his nephew Zhang Zhi actually won the third place in the Chang'an imperial examination, which made Zhang Zhao feel quite touched in his heart, it was not that his nephew did not learn enough, his nephew was knowledgeable, splendid, and had the talent of a prime minister, and he was also in the process of cleaning up in the Chang'an imperial examination.

But Zhang Zhao believes that Liu Jing must know the identity of his nephew, many people in Jiangdong know it, and Jiang Wan knows him if others don't say it.

Liu Jing knew that Zhang Zhi was his nephew, but he still allowed him to finish third in high school, which made Zhang Zhao have to admire Liu Jing's mind, he was so difficult for him and difficult for him back then, but he didn't care, he still had the heart to recruit himself, if such a person is not in the world, God will not tolerate it!

Zhang Zhao was full of emotion in his heart, at this time, the carriage drove into the Jianye Palace and slowly stopped in front of the steps, and at this time, the carriage of Zhuge Jin, the left capital, also stopped in front of the steps.

Zhang Zhao got out of the carriage and saw Zhuge Jin standing next to the carriage, his face gloomy and looking at him with an unhappy face, so he stepped forward and asked strangely, "Ziyu, what happened?" ”

Zhuge Jin snorted coldly, "I, Zhuge Jin, have to be peeped at when I sleep, and the military advisor is very dutiful!" ”

Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment, suddenly understood, and hurriedly said: "Ziyu misunderstood!" There are only 10 people left in the Supervisory Yuan, and none of them are currently in Jianye, so it will not be their doing. ”

Zhang Zhao supervised the Supervision Yuan, responsible for supervising hundreds of officials, offended many people, if in the past, Zhang Zhao would not pay attention to the complaints of the ministers, but now he wants to leave a way back for himself, and he doesn't want to offend people again.

He hurriedly pulled Zhuge Jin aside and said in a low voice: "Even if it is the Supervision Yuan, it will never sneak into the official's house to peep, this should be the work of the eagle's beak." ”

Zhuge Jin frowned, "Isn't the eagle beak disbanded?" ”

After Sun Ben's first failure to seize power, Sun Quan set up a secret investigation agency - Eagle Beak, led by Wang Ning, a lieutenant of the internal military academy and Sun Quan's confidant.

But after the incident of Wang Ning's attempt to seize Da Qiao broke out two years ago, in order to cover up the truth, Sun Quan shifted the responsibility to Wang Ning, accusing him of coveting Da Qiao's beauty, ordering Wang Ning to be beheaded, and in order to appease the hundred officials, he publicly announced the dissolution of Eagle Beak.

Zhang Zhao sneered, "With such a sharp knife, how could Wu Hou be willing to give up lightly?" ”

Zhuge Jin suddenly said angrily: "Jiangdong has reached such a point today, how can it rely on surveillance to save people's hearts? ”

At this time, Zhang Zhao saw a guard walking quickly, he hurriedly gave Zhuge Jin a look, and said with a smile: "Don't let Wu Hou wait for a long time, Brother Ziyu, let's go in!" ”

Zhuge Jin replied sullenly, and walked into Jianye Palace with Zhang Zhao.

In the study room of Jianye Palace, Sun Quan stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, looking gloomily at a forest outside the window, whether it was the minister or the guards around him, few people saw his smile, especially in the past six months, he had an amazing temper, and he ordered to kill people at every turn, and even his wives and concubines in the inner palace were trembling, carefully serving him and meeting Sun Quan's request, lest they anger him.

Sun Quan's mood is really not good, in the past six months, he did not hesitate to use the means of exhausting the water to exploit the people's wealth, seize the money and grain of the merchants, just to expand the army in the shortest possible time, restore the water army, he also knows that the people of Jiangdong are boiling, everyone hates himself to the bone, but in order to keep Jiangdong and keep his position, he can't take care of these.

According to the analysis at the beginning of the year, Liu Jing is likely to make a move on Jiangdong next spring, so they still have a year to prepare, although a year is also very short, but at least they still have a glimmer of hope.

But one after another, the unfavorable information came one after another, the Han army quickly put down the Hexi rebellion, and Liu Jing successfully married Cao Cao to stabilize the north, which showed that Liu Jing was actively preparing to launch a campaign against Jiangdong.

What made Sun Quan even more frightened was that in June, Chaisang suddenly began to prepare for war, a large number of troops gathered in Chaisang, Jingzhou's countless grain ships and fleets carrying weapons and materials sailed to Chaisang, according to the law of the Han army they mastered, if it was to prepare for war in autumn, then it would launch a campaign in the spring of the following year, but if it was to prepare for war in summer, it would definitely not wait until next spring, autumn or winter, war would inevitably break out.

Sun Quan realized that the Han army was likely to make a move against Jiangdong in advance, which made his feelings extremely low.

At this time, the guards reported at the door: "Zhang Changshi and Zhuge are here!" ”

"Let them in!"

Sun Quan returned to his seat and sat down, this is also the biggest difference between Sun Quan and his brother Sun Ben, when the danger is about to come, the situation is very critical, Sun Ben will bury his head in the sand like an ostrich, spend all day drinking, live in luxury, and enjoy one day at a time.

Sun Quan will do everything possible to deal with the crisis, and even expand the armament by any means, until the last moment, he will never give up resistance, but Sun Quan is not broad-minded enough, when the crisis comes, he asks the hundred officials to face the test with him, but he suspects that the hundred officials surrender to the Han army privately, so he uses a secret agency to supervise the hundred officials.

After a while, Zhang Zhao and Zhuge Jin walked in together, and the two stepped forward to salute, "See Wu Hou!" ”

Sun Quan glanced at Zhuge Jin, and said lightly to Zhang Zhao: "I got a piece of news that Liu Jing has left Chang'an and started to inspect Jingzhou, does the military advisor know?" ”

Zhang Zhao frowned, "The imperial examination was held just now, is he in a hurry to leave Chang'an?" ”

"Here's the problem, he set off the day after the imperial examination was released, so in such a hurry, where did the military advisor think he meant?"

"Maybe he was going to Jingnan, at the beginning of the year he inspected Xiangyang and Jiangxia, in April he inspected Hanzhong and Yizhou, and later inspected Longxi and Hehuang, but did not inspect Jingnan, Weichen thought that he did not necessarily go to Chaisang, but also to Jingnan."

Zhang Zhao tried his best to avoid irritating Sun Quan, he would not move closer to the direction of the war until Liu Jing's itinerary was determined, Sun Quan stared at him for a moment, his eyes turned, and fell on Zhuge Jin again.

"I want to ask Zhuge Duhu, is there any news from Jiaozhou?"

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