Chapter 197: Those Who Gover Eat Others
Long Xiang and Lu Su made a plan and decided to rely on Jiangdong on the surface and secretly seek benefits for Liu Bei, he thought that Zhang Fei was not suitable to make a name for himself in Huainan.
This plan has not yet been discussed with Liu Bei, and Zhang Fei is still kept secret, so Long Xiang used the reason to confuse his opponent and simply prevaricated Zhang Fei.
Due to the similarity between Zhang Fei and Xu Chu, Long Xiang suggested that he could use Xu Chu's name to the outside world during his time in Huainan.
Zhang Fei didn't want to be famous, he just wanted to fight happily, and he had a good impression of Xu Chu, so he readily agreed.
"Yunqi has a flexible brain, your idea must not be bad, and in the future, when you fight in Huainan, I will call myself Xu Chu to the outside world."
After hearing this, Long Xiang said happily: "I know that Yide will agree, this matter is settled, and you will accompany Ziyang to Jun Xuan when you turn back."
"No problem, don't just stare at Jun Xuan, let me fight Lujiang and Jiangdong, then Li Shu's backbone has appeared, Sun Quan doesn't even have the courage to send people to account, it seems that he is a soft egg who has not been planted, and he, the lord of Jiangdong, should not be long..."
"Hehe... Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, let's take our time..."
Long Xiang smiled perfunctory Zhang Fei, but he didn't dare to agree with Zhang Fei's statement in his heart.
Although Sun Quan's military was crotch-pulling, he had a long life among the princes, and the Eastern Wu under his rule also died in Wei and Shu, objectively speaking, his political skills were very high.
At this time, Sun Quan was eighteen years old, two years younger than Long Xiang's age, but he had become a prince.
Long Xiang joined the army at the age of fifteen, and Sun Quan became the county magistrate at the age of fifteen.
If Long Xiang is not a traverser, there is a high probability that he has died in a war, and a powerful son like Sun Quan is destined to have a chance to leave a name in history.
Sun Quan often migrated when he was young, and stayed in Shouchun County and Lujiang Shu County in Jiujiang in his early years; He lost his father at the age of nine and moved to Guangling Jiangdu County, Wu County, Qu'a County, Jiujiang Liyang County, and Jiujiang Fuling County.
Sun Jian went out to fight, and Sun Quan was worried about it when he was young; Sun Ce went around to ask for Yuan Shu, and the young Sun Quan was often worried; lived in Qu'a Wujing, and was worried that Liu Miao would come to cause harm.
The unstable experience in his early years created Sun Quan's insecure and suspicious personality in the future.
If he doesn't show it outward, he will seek it inward, Sun Quan is not good at martial arts, and focuses on practicing political methods.
In the past few years, Sun Quan has gone out to fight with Sun Ce, but Sun Quan is unwilling to take the lead like his brother, so he lacks the personal charm of his father and brother to fight alone.
Until Sun Ce's assassination, Sun Quan had not been able to establish prestige in the army.
In view of this, when Sun Ce was dying of orphans, Zhang Zhao and Cheng Pu and other generals in the army unanimously supported the succession of the third child Sun Yi, and finally Sun Ce chose Sun Quan by public opinion.
Sun Ce relied on killing to pacify Jiangdong, and before he died, he finally realized that killing would backfire, and it was easy to follow in his footsteps when choosing Sun Yi to succeed him, but Sun Quan, who knew how to restrain himself, might be able to keep the Sun family's foundation.
"Raise the people of Jiangdong, decide between the two formations, and compete with the world, you are not as good as me. Be virtuous and capable, and do your best to protect Jiangdong, I am not as good as Qing."
Sun Quan got Sun Ce's deathbed evaluation, and was succeeded by Zhang Zhao, a lonely minister, but the transfer of power was not smooth.
Zhang Zhao was able to temporarily suppress the military generals of Wenchen, but he could not suppress the opposition of the Sun clan.
Sun Ce comprehended Ji Taishou before his death, and Sun Quan should take over this position when he succeeded to the throne, when Sun Quan and his mother, brother and sister-in-law were mourning in Wu County, and the soldiers were in Wucheng from his brother Sun Wei (Sun Jian's brother Sun Jing's eldest son), because he was dissatisfied with Sun Quan's command of Jiangdong, so he reorganized his army and armor to take Huiji to stand on his own.
When Cao Yu turned his troops to defend himself and shouted sternly, Sun Wei saw that no one responded before he hastily withdrew, exempting the Sun clan from an internal fight.
In addition, Lujiang Taishou Li Shu behaved strangely, not only did he not send people to Wu County to mourn, but also took in the past refugees in Jiangdong, although he did not openly rebel against the Sun family, but also showed his backlash;
In the two counties of Huiji and Danyang, Shanyue rebellion broke out in many places, and it was obvious that they were also going to Sun Quan, and they showed their dissatisfaction with practical actions.
Sun Quan was in mourning at the beginning of his succession, and he chose to ignore those overt and covert oppositions for the time being.
Sun Quan's "weak" governing style is very different from Sun Ce's vigorous and resolute behavior.
There have always been doubts in the military and political circles, and in the end, Zhou Yu left the garrison without permission to go to the funeral, and used the army in the hands of Zhang Zhao to divide half of the auxiliary power that did not belong to him, which stabilized the situation in Jiangdong.
In late May, Sun Quanku sat in Sun Ce's mourning hall.
He looked glazed on the surface, but he didn't stop thinking for a moment.
Although Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu stabilized the situation in Jiangdong, if they didn't deal with those rebels, Sun Quan's prestige would never stand, and the two of them would not be able to guard themselves forever.
Sun Quan sent his cronies to investigate and secretly visit these days, and found that whether it was the Lujiang Taishou Li Shu, or the Shanyue thieves who were in trouble in Huiji and Danyang counties, they were all related to the local warriors in Jiangdong.
These people hid in the shadows and stirred up trouble, because they were dissatisfied with Sun's rule in Jiangdong.
Continuing to kill like Sun Ce can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, Sun Quan doesn't want to bring the Sun family into the abyss, he recently read "Mencius" and gained something.
As the saying goes, "those who govern eat others, and those who govern eat others", since you are now a ruler, why don't you let the governed oppose each other? Let them fight with each other, so as not to threaten the rulers, and the two words of checks and balances are particularly valued by Sun Quan.
Sun Quan thought of the rebels to the court, to Zhang Zhao, who was originally entrusted with the auxiliary government, and to Zhou Yu, who was forcibly involved, to divide the power, and the two had their own supporters, and reached an incredible balance.
While pondering, there was a sudden commotion in my ears, and someone outside the hall was singing loudly.
"Hefei Lusu, come to condole."
"This guy is so daring."
As soon as the sound of the chanting trumpet fell, Huang Gai, Han Dang and other generals in the mourning hall stood up one after another, as if there was a flame burning in their eyes, thinking that Lu Su had come to humiliate Jiangdong.
After all, Sun Ce suffered a loss in Hefei last year, and Han Dang actually ate two flying stones.
"Thou shalt not be reckless."
Zhang Zhaoben stretched out his hand to stop it, but these veterans didn't listen at all, so he looked at Sun Quan, as if to say that they were so rude, why didn't the lord hurry up and stop it? Liwei.
Sun Quan frowned and didn't speak, surprised by Lu Su's condolences.
Jiangdong and Hefei had an unpleasant quarrel, he didn't know if this was Lu Su's own meaning, or whether Long Xiang sent him to talk about things, or Zhou Yu deliberately invited Liwei?
Originally, Huang Gai, Han Dang and the others were aggressive, but when they saw Lu Su and Zhou Yu entering the mourning hall together, the momentum of these people instantly weakened.
Zhou Yu brought Lu Su to Sun Quan and clenched his fists to introduce:
"Lord, this is Lu Su, Lu Zijing, he was ordered by Hefei Longxiang to come to mourn Bo Fu."
"General Sun's Day mourns..." Lu Su bowed.
"Mr. Jiuwen's name, I understand your heart with Long Hefei..."
Sun Quan bowed his head slightly in response, and then turned to Zhang Zhao and instructed: "Zi Jingyuan came to condolence and hard work, Zibu and he should have met in Hefei, so you have full authority to receive it, don't be rude..."
"Only..."
"Lord, the last general and Zijing are old friends, it's better to let ..."
"Gongjin is busy with military affairs, so let Zibu share your worries."
"Ahh