At the beginning of March of the 14th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei and Sun Quan formed an alliance again and concluded an alliance with each other.

The relationship between the two sides is harmonious on the surface, but in fact, they are intrigued.

There are three main reasons why Liu Bei agreed to form an alliance, one is that he is in a hurry to go to Bashu, he has no time to accompany Sun Quan to work, and he is afraid that he will continue to make trouble, so he will stabilize him first.

The second is that Jiaozhou did promise to Sun Quan before, Liu Bei is well-known and reputable, so naturally he can't break his trust.

The third and most important point is that Liu Bei is determined to be in the north and restore the Han world.

The land of Jingnan in Jiaozhou is too remote, it is a wild land, although it is also the territory of the Han Dynasty, but if you cultivate these places, it is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of human resources.

After all, if you go to occupy Jingnan Jiaozhou, you can't just deal with the miasma and ethnic minority problems in ten years, and there is really no way.

So instead of arguing with Sun Quan, it is better to be generous and change to a strategic place like Lujiang.

Therefore, for Liu Bei, this deal is not a bad thing.

As for Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen's careful thinking, Liu Bei naturally didn't know that they were already planning to deal with Sun Quan, so he simply led him to Jiaozhou to close the door and beat the dog.

So when Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen had very different goals and ideas, they completed this alliance.

And Koto also has ideas.

Lu Su's trick is called exchanging space for time.

Due to several defeats, Jiangdong suffered heavy losses, and Sun 100,000 was about to become Sun 50,000.

In history, Sun Quan held back for more than ten years, and when he fought in Hefei, he brought 100,000 horses, and the number of people left behind at home was 50,000, and the total number of troops was less than 200,000.

And now there are only 50,000 people in the entire Jiangdong bankruptcy, if he still wants to ensure that he stays in the place, then he can use the possibility of sending troops to 10,000 or 20,000 people, who can this force fight?

Therefore, Lu Su believes that it is unrealistic to do anything big with the current state of Jiangdong, and only by seeking development can it be.

So in Jingzhou, which is occupied by Liu Bei, and the north is Cao Cao's territory, where else can he develop?

One was to attack the Shanyue people south of Yangzhou and plunder their population and property to supplement the losses in Jiangdong.

The other is naturally to plot to seize Jingnan and Jiaozhou.

The two places are remote and remote, and no matter how thin the mosquito's legs are, they are also meat, and they can always plunder some wealth.

It's just that the former one is okay to say, and if the latter one doesn't borrow from Jingnan, they don't even have a way to Jiaozhou.

So you still have to pay some sacrifices in exchange.

Fortunately, now that the covenant has been signed, it has finally been borrowed from Guiyang County.

It's just that Sun Quan and Lu Su are uncomfortable.

Although it seems that one state and one county are exchanged for half of Lujiang County, Jiangdong makes blood.

But in fact, a certain Rui ate peppercorns and lost hemp.

First, Jiaozhou is too remote, birds don't, and in history, no matter Liu Biao or Sun Quan, they have little interest in conquering Jiaozhou, just send someone to be a nominal governor of the state and county, and there is no actual rule.

Second, if Lujiang County is put into it, Jiangdong's strategy will change from taking the initiative to attack Jiangxia to passive defense, and it will greatly lose its initiative.

This exchange really didn't take advantage of anything.

However, Lu Su gritted his teeth and finally decided to exchange Lujiang County for Guiyang County.

Because he believes that taking a piece of strategic land for a potential strategic place in the future is betting on tomorrow with today.

Jingnan seems remote, but it is also of strategic significance to Jingzhou.

They lost Lujiang County, but they lost the strategic initiative to attack Jingzhou from land.

However, with Jingnan and the Jiangdong Naval Division going upriver from the Yangtze River, it was still possible to attack Nanjun from the east and south at the same time.

As long as the time comes, they can still fight with Cao Cao again to flank Nanjun and carve up Jingzhou.

Therefore, Lu Su felt that there was definitely nothing wrong with developing first, and in the future, they would find the right time to take Changsha first, and then attack Nanjun, and they would still be able to achieve their strategic goals.

Therefore, this alliance, in such a situation where both sides are barely suitable, eventually formed a superficial alliance relationship.

However, this agreement to form an alliance is only a preliminary intention.

After that, it was the transfer of Guiyang County and Lujiang County, and Sun Quan's marriage of his sister to Liu Bei, and he had to go back and ask Liu Bei's opinion.

Therefore, after Zhuge Liang and Sun Qian completed the mission, they immediately returned to Jingzhou and returned to Liu Bei.

March 6, Xiangyang Chu Palace.

When Liu Bei learned that the two had returned, he greeted them at the palace of the king of Chu.

Zhuge Liang and Sun Qian got down from the carriage and saw that Liu Bei and Shen Chen were already waiting at the gate of the palace, so they hurriedly bowed their hands to Liu Bei and said, "My lord." ”

"Kong Ming, Gongyou, it's been hard all the way, it's hard to go all the way, let's go into the house and rest."

Liu Bei hurriedly beckoned the two of them in.

The group entered the mansion.

At this time, only Liu Bei and Shen Chen were in Xiangyang.

Guan Yu and Pang Tong went to Wuxian, Zhang Fei and Xu Shu were in Jiangling, and the rest of the people were also busy sending troops to Yizhou.

Liu Bei was dragged in Xiangyang by Liu Qi, Huang Zu died of illness last month, Liu Qi was devastated, and vomited blood for this, so Liu Bei is still unable to move forward.

When everyone entered the hall, Liu Bei did not summon the state government and the children of the major families to discuss the matter, but talked to them in a small inner courtyard next to the atrium.

The four people in the small building did not have much cumbersome courtesy, Liu Bei beckoned them to sit under the porch, and the four of them sat cross-legged.

After sitting down, Liu Bei opened his mouth and asked, "Kong Ming, Gongyou, how is this trip to Jiangdong?" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and arched his hand: "Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life, and I exchanged Guiyang County for half of Lujiang County, with this half of Lujiang County, it will be much easier for us to send troops to Jiangdong or capture Huainan in the future." ”

"That's good."

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Although there is only half of Lujiang County, it is like a sharp knife against Cao Cao Sun Quan's throat, and there is also a happy event." ”

"Oh?"

Zhuge Liang was surprised: "Where does the joy come from." ”

Shen Chen said with a smile on the side: "Lujiang and other places have Mei Qian, Lei Xu, Chen Lan and other places strong across the Jianghuai, when General Huang attacked Jiangdong, these heroes came to defect, the battle of Ochre City, they were scattered, and they ran to the border between Lujiang and Jiujiang, for Cao Cao sent Yangzhou Governor Wen Hui was jealous, the two sides fought, Wen Hui was defeated with few soldiers, and retreated to Shouchun. At the beginning of this month, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Yuan to lead a large army south to prepare to eliminate them, but they knew that they could not resist, so they retreated to the area of Shu County, and wrote a letter to inform General Zuo that they were willing to come and defect. Now that the south of the Lujiang River has been obtained by us, it is time to send troops to meet it. ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Then who will handle this matter?" ”

Shen Chen said: "I plan to let Gan Ning do it, it is said that there are more than 100,000 people in their Dingkou, and now Jiangxia is vast and sparsely populated, and it is necessary to promote double cropping rice, which can just be placed, and plant rice seedlings by Yunmengze Lake for the purpose of supplying grain and grass for the future attack on Jiangdong, and their soldiers and horses can also be reorganized and trained to train a strong army." ”

"Well, exactly."

Zhuge Liang nodded, then looked at Liu Bei with a smile and said, "Lord, I also have a happy event." ”

Liu Bei was surprised: "Are there any other happy events?" ”

Zhuge Liang and Sun Gan glanced at each other, and Sun Gan said with a smile: "Lord, Sun Quan plans to make peace with us and marry his sister to the lord." ”

Sun Quan wants to marry his sister to me?

Liu Bei was stupid at that time.

Although this kind of thing is not uncommon.

But Liu Bei has a great career, and he doesn't have Cao Cao's lustful character, but he feels very uncomfortable.

After all, he and Sun Jian are of the same generation, he is six years younger than Sun Jian, and marrying Sun Jian's daughter is really a bit psychologically immoral.

Therefore, he repeatedly excused himself and said: "This matter must not be done, Jiangdong Tiger Sun Wentai, I also admire it very much, although I followed Gongsun Chan to discuss Dong together, but I am already a pioneer general, I am just a nameless, how can I marry his daughter." ”

Wang Can's "Heroes" recorded Liu Bei's affair with Dong, but unfortunately at that time he was a minion who followed Gongsun Zhan, and there was a huge gap between his status and Sun Jian, and Sun Jian's loyalty to the Han family and his efforts to attack Dong Zhuo also made Liu Bei very impressed, and marrying Sun Wentai's daughter did make him a little unacceptable.

However, Zhuge Liang said: "Lord, you should marry." ”

"Why?"

Liu Bei was very puzzled: "Since we plan to attack Jiangdong immediately after taking Yizhou, why do we want to marry Sun's daughter?" ”

Zhuge Liang looked at Shen Chen and said, "Xiaoqing, what do you say?" ”

At this time, Shen Chen was stunned, he was still thinking that Sun Quan was going to marry his sister again?

Could it be Sun Shangxiang again?

Did Sun Quan have some serious illness and had to marry his sister to Liu Bei?

While he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard Zhuge Liang calling him, came back to his senses, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhuge Liang glanced at him and said, "Should the lord marry the daughter of the Sun family?" ”

Shen Chen shrugged: "Uncle Huang will marry if he wants, but I heard that the daughter of the Sun family is delicate and willful, and she is not a good woman, so my suggestion is not to marry." ”

"Xiaoqing's words are reasonable."

Liu Bei nodded again and again: "It's better not to marry." ”

Zhuge Liang glanced at Shen Chen again and said, "I thought Xiaoqing understood. ”

"Understand what?"

Shen Chen was confused, in history, Sun Quan married his sister because he wanted to maintain a long-term interest relationship with Liu Bei.

At that time, Liu Bei himself was embarrassed, and he urgently needed a strong foreign aid to help him fight against Cao Cao, so he agreed to this matter.

But Sun Shangxiang was very arrogant because she was Sun Quan's sister, and the relationship with Liu Bei was extremely bad, so that when she returned to Eastern Wu, Liu Bei had no intention of keeping her, and she wished she would go.

And now Liu Bei is not as embarrassed as in history, he plans to attack Jiangdong and unify the south.

Sun Shangxiang was famous in later generations, and it is said that she is also very beautiful. can be beautiful to be beautiful, there is no need to marry a scourge because of beauty, but it is a fuss, maybe Liu Bei will be tossed again.

Why bother?

However, Zhuge Liang said with a look of hatred: "Xiaoqing, let me ask you, does Sun Quan's request for peace really mean that he plans to live in Jiangdong and no longer peep into Jingzhou?" ”

"Of course not."

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "Sun Quan's ambition to be a wolf, now borrowing Guiyang, nominally speaking, is to borrow the road, but in fact, he is thinking about moving the population and grain of Jiaozhou, and at the same time, he is going to Jingnan to prepare for a joint attack on Jingzhou with Cao Cao in the future." ”

"Exactly."

Zhuge Liang nodded and said: "He is willing to exchange with us even if Lujiang County is so strategically strong, because in the future, he can send troops from Jingnan to attack Jingbei." ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen responded, and he also agreed with this.

Zhuge Liang looked around at everyone and continued: "And he deliberately put the Lujiang River in our hands, just to paralyze us, let us think that Lujiang County is in our hands, he can't attack Jingzhou, make us relax our vigilance, and give us a fatal blow in the future!" ”

"And then?"

Shen Chen asked.

"And then marry my sister, isn't it also to show us weakness?"

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "He is even willing to marry his sister to the lord, just to make us feel that he is afraid of us." If we don't marry Sun's daughter, but instead arrange heavy troops in Jiangxia, what will Sun Quan think? ”

Shen Chen thought for a moment and said, "Sun Quan will think that we have been guarding against him, so he will not dare to act rashly. ”

"Not bad."

Zhuge Liang said: "If he doesn't dare to act rashly, we can't find an excuse to do it to him." So we have to pretend to be fooled by him, just as Wu Wangfu despised Goujian, the king of Yue, and began to despise him, snub him, and make him feel that we didn't take him in our eyes at all, so that he would be like Goujian, and hurt people, at this time it is a good opportunity for us to close the door and beat the dog. ”

"Oh!"

Shen Chen suddenly realized, then looked Zhuge Liang up and down, and said, "Brother."

"Huh?"

"I usually dress well, but I didn't expect a bad stomach."

"Xiaoqing!"

Zhuge Liang gave him another blank look.

Shen Chen laughed evilly.

What does Sun Quan want to do in this alliance?

The first is to develop and profit from Jiaozhou Jingnan.

The second is to make Liu Bei despise him, so as to neglect his defense.

But why didn't Liu Bei want to kill him?

So Zhuge Liang's suggestion is to make a move.

Pretend to be in the middle of the scheme.

In fact, please enter the urn.

So how can you pretend to be a winner?

First of all, after having Lujiang County, Liu Bei took the strategic initiative.

In order to make Jiangdong think that he had been tricked, after having this strategic initiative, he no longer regarded Jiangdong as a threat, so he could not deploy heavy troops in Jiangxia to confuse Sun Quan.

The second is to marry the daughter of the Sun family.

Sun Quan was even willing to marry Liu Bei, an old man who was nearly half a hundred years old, and Liu Bei would naturally despise him even more.

So as long as he marries Sun's daughter, Sun Quan is basically a taste of self-inflicted humiliation.

At that time, Liu Bei will definitely be more contemptuous, and at the same time, he will probably trust Sun Quan's sincerity a little more.

Of course.

If there was no Zhuge Liang, the demon, who was analyzing his psychology.

Therefore, this Sun daughter really wants to marry.

It's just that Liu Bei was still a little reluctant and said, "Do you really want to marry?" ”

"I want to marry."

Zhuge Liang said: "There is another benefit to marrying her. ”

"What's the benefit?"

"We can use Sun's daughter to confuse Sun Quan."

"How to confuse?"

Liu Bei was puzzled.

Shen Chen said, "Counter-plot? ”

"Exactly."

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "When Sun's daughter marries, Sun Quan will inevitably ask her to collect our news as an internal response." We can pass on some false news to Sun Quan to think that we believe that he is sincerely allied with us, and at the same time do not see him as a threat again, so that if Cao Cao attacks, Sun Quan will inevitably break the alliance and attack our rear. ”

"At that time, the false news passed on to him by Sun's daughter became an edict."

Shen Chen took over the conversation and said: "Once he sends troops, he will find that Jiangxia and Nanjun, which were empty in the original news, will have an army waiting for him that has been ambushed for a long time, and it will be easy to destroy Jiangdong when the time comes!" ”

Really.

Zhuge Liang had a bad stomach.

not only thought of using Sun Quan Lusu's psychology to confuse them, but also thought of using Sun Shangxiang to give false information.

After hearing this, Liu Bei said with a wry smile: "It seems that I have to marry." ”

"It should be so."

Zhuge Liang said with a smile.

At this moment, a servant suddenly hurried in from outside the door, shouting, "General Zuo, the eldest son is sick again." ”

Liu Bei was shocked: "Come with me and take a look." ”

After that, he hurriedly went to the backyard.

(End of chapter)