- The scales of the various factions in Soochow have been deflected.

Lu Xun's words are by no means arbitrary, let alone alarmist.

He talked to Guan Lin about this, and also talked about the development of Soochow in recent years, and Sun Quan's checks and balances in recent years.

Speaking of...

Sun Quan is indeed a hell-level start.

When he first inherited the foundation of his father and brother, the contradictions between Soochow became increasingly intense, and there were internal and external troubles...

However, the "Huaisi Expedition" faction under his command was huge, and even after he succeeded to the throne by Sun Quan, he still dared to abolish the throne, intending to support Sun Quan's younger brother Sun Yi to succeed to the throne, and even proposed to support Sun Ce's son Sun Shao to succeed him.

All of this made Sun Quan extremely jealous... Let him hate it so much that his teeth itch.

Therefore, Sun Quan used superficially benevolent, but in fact gloomy and ruthless means, for a full ten years, with the secret help of the Eastern Wu family, finally... killed or imprisoned ten meritorious generals, which weakened the Huaisi expeditionary faction, leaving only one voice of Sun Zhongmou in Eastern Wu.

In addition, support Huaisi Liuyu faction, three factions, one to co-opt, one to support, one to suppress... So that the situation of the whole Soochow has maintained an unusual balance.

But this is no longer the case.

With the complete decline of the conquest faction, the Huaisi Liuyu faction maintained an excellent relationship with the major families of Wu County, and the respective forces of the major families of Wu County and the Huaisi faction grew stronger and stronger, which made Sun Quan feel the crisis.

Therefore, he was forced to use his relatives, reuse the clansmen of the most beloved concubine step trainer, reuse the Buqi, and want to support the relatives of the Bu clan, and cultivate a powerful foreign relatives force and the Huai Si Liuyu faction, and compete with the major families in Wu County.

Where...

No matter what the situation is, the three-legged situation is often the most stable and balanced, and Sun Quan's position is the most steady.

But the accident happened when Buqi died in Yulin, Jiaozhou...

The strength of the relatives that was finally supported collapsed overnight...

The three-legged stand within Soochow... Suddenly it can't stand up!

The growth of the Huaisi Liuyu faction and the major families of Eastern Wu has challenged Sun Quan's checks and balances on Jiangdong.

As a result, new opportunities have emerged.

Now...

Lu Xun is telling the views of the changing situation in Soochow that he and Guan Lin have discussed.

Meticulously provoked Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang.

"After so many years, Sun Quan's checks and balances have always been the same as before, whoever is strong will weaken whom, who is weak will support whom, always maintain three forces, three-legged, let them fight, but Sun Quan used their struggle to mediate among them, sit on the profits of the fisherman, and make his position more and more stable... So..."

Lu Xun's eyes were gloomy, and he stared deeply at Tai Shixiang and Sun Shao, "Now Sun Quan has lost the help of his relatives, and he needs a force of the Huaisi Expedition Department to balance the family of Eastern Wu!" Based on this, at this point in time, if we can win Zhou Xun and the Zhou family, it is the best time to strengthen the Zhou family and bury a force in Soochow! ”

"What's more, Zhou Xun, this kid is quite loved by Sun Quan, and he has repeatedly praised him for having the style of his father... It was mentioned before that he wanted to marry him and Sun Luban, the eldest daughter of the foot trainer... It can be seen that from the very beginning, Sun Quan has deliberately left this force, which is a precaution... It is also possible to support the descendants of the conquest faction again at any time, check and balance other forces, and maintain the three-legged situation of Eastern Wu! ”

With Lu Xun's words, Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang completely understood why Yunqi Gongzi's deployment of "Hongyan" was to give priority to winning over Zhou Xun and strengthening the Zhou family.

Thinking about this section, the two bowed to Lu Xun: "If it weren't for what General Lu said, I almost missed a big deal!" I almost misunderstood the son of Yunqi..."

"Do as he tells him..."Lu Xun turned his head and stared deeply in the direction of the waterway leading to Dongwu, and said with emotion: "At least until now, he has never made any mistakes in his decision-making to deal with Dongwu..."

Talking about this, it seems that the topic has also reached the point of ending and finalizing.

Sun Ru walked in front of his younger brother Sun Shao in a timely manner, tidied up his clothes and hair bun for him, and then slowly took out a letter from his arms, handed it to his younger brother Sun Shao, and said solemnly: "This is my mother's handwritten letter, maybe... It can be of great use in the process of your 'Hongyan' to win the support of Zhou Xun..."

Sun Shao and Sun Ru's mother is Da Qiao...

Zhou Xun's mother is Xiao Qiao, and although these two sisters have not seen each other for many years, they miss each other.

For Xiao Qiao, her sister Da Qiao's family letter is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Sun Shao carefully put away his mother's letterhead, bowed deeply to his sister Sun Ru and brother-in-law Lu Xun, and bowed his hand.

"Thank you third sister, thank you brother-in-law... Thank you too... Cloud Banner Childe! ”

Lu Xun reminded again and again: "The Shixie family in Jiaozhou and the son of Yunqi are inextricably intertwined, and Han Xuan and Han Lao of Changsha County are also his own people, if Hongyan encounters any thorny problems, the incident is sudden, Jingzhou is too far away, you can first turn to the Jiaozhou Shixie family and Han Lao of Changsha County... The prince of Yunqi has specially explained to them, and they will all help each other! ”

With this faint word came out.

Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang's last worries and dazedness disappeared in an instant... Vanish!

They didn't know what to say, how to express it, but they bowed down again to express the throbbing in their hearts.

"Alright..."

Lu Xun patted Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang on the shoulder, "I should also go, we all have our own missions, I just hope that the next time we meet, Hongyan will no longer be a wild goose without a trace, but Hongyan will fly south and Hongyan will be the head!" ”

Subsequently...

The four of them said goodbye solemnly in this port, and Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang's canopy boat left first and sailed home.

Not long after, Guan Lin's fleet also set sail, carrying the mood of avenging "Lao Tzu", and went on the river-

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Langya is on the official road leading to Shouchun City.

"Hahaha..."

Cao Cao's smug laughter came from the carriage, and he was laughing heartily.

Cheng Yu looked full of admiration for Cao Cao, and he sighed: "Sure enough, the one who knows Guan Yu best is still the prime minister... As the prime minister said, Guan Yu really went to attack Fancheng. ”

"It's a pity..."Cao Zhi added: "It's a pity that Uncle Zixiao, General Xu Huang, and General Pang De failed to kill this Guan Yu, or a thief... Not only is Fancheng defended, I'm afraid that with the combined efforts of the three generals, Nanjun will be recovered! ”

"It's not surprising." Cao Cao waved his hand as if expected, he sat in the carriage, and explained in a good mood: "After all, that is Guan Yunchang, after Lu Bu, Yunchang's martial arts are the best in the world, and Zixiao has just woken up, how can he use all his strength?" Komeito was frustrated in advance, and I'm afraid that seventy percent of the strength is good! Pang Lingming alone is not enough to capture him... It's not easy for Ling Ming to be able to injure him with a poisoned arrow! ”

Just now, on the official road...

A messenger told Cao Cao in detail about what had happened on the battlefield in Xiangfan recently.

Including Guan Yu's attack on Fancheng, including Cao Ren, Xu Huang, and Pang De's three-way pincer attack, Guan Yu's arrow retreated to Jiangling...

The Xiangfan dilemma was solved.

In addition to this, there are three "little things".

One of them was that Sima Yi, who was sent to Jiaozhou and was captured by Lu Xun and sent to Lucheng, Jiangxia, came back.

There was no torture, no torture, and they were just put back.

The second is that Zhu Ling and Zhu Shu, a pair of father and son, were first credited by Guan Yubiao in the previous Jiangxia War, and their merits were sent to Chengdu. Reward with a bang.

The third is Jiang Gan, who failed to persuade Zhou Yu in the past, and was assigned by Cao Cao as the county magistrate, unexpectedly... Create that great fire.

In Jiangxia, 80,000 Cao troops' ... It's him!

In Xiangfan and Huainan, he was the one who made the damn 'incendiary can' to burn Cao's camp!

This made Cao Cao full of surprise and shouted... Look away!

Of course, these are all "subsections"

At this moment, the topic of several people in the carriage was still about Guan Yu's defeat and retreat.

Cao Cao didn't seem to mind Guan Yu escaping back to Jiangling at all, he just narrowed his eyes and said with emotion: "At least Xiangfan is stable, which also allows both Gu and Da Wei to take a breath." ”

In other words, the significance of this great victory is to buy enough time for Cao Cao to deal with internal matters!

For example, one of the most important is the procedure for changing the name and transfer of the "house book" of Dahan to Dawei.

Now it seems that this procedure is still two steps away and needs to be completed quickly.

Cheng Yu followed Cao Cao's words and sighed: "Over the years, the prime minister has fought in the south and the north, and Dawei really needs a time to recuperate... Guan Yu was hit by an arrow, and Guan Jiajun suffered a heavy blow, which indeed bought a lot of time for Dawei to recuperate! ”

In fact, Cheng Yu is the most sensible one besides Cao Cao...

The impact of the failure of this 100,000-strong army to the south is not insignificant!

Cheng Yu can already feel it, realize...

Cao Cao had completely given up the idea of dominating the world, and he already felt that at his age...

In today's situation of Great Wei, dominating the world has become a luxury.

Rather... Zhu Ling and Sima Yi...

Cheng Yu's words changed, "Day and night defense, it is difficult to prevent thieves, but I never thought that this Jiangxia defeat began internally, and finally internally, the prime minister treated Zhu Ling's father and son well, but they were..."

Don't wait for Cheng Yu to finish speaking...

Cao Cao stretched out his hand to signal Cheng Yu not to say any more, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he muttered:

"That Guan Jia Shilang is scheming, and when it comes to the means of attacking the heart, it is comparable to that Zhuge Kongming and Zhou Gongjin!"

"With the existing information, Lone can't tell whether Zhu Ling's father and son are really the ones who are two sides and three swords, but this Guan Lin praised Zhu Ling and his son, and asked Yun Chang to perform a miracle to Liu Bei, just this move... Let Zhu Ling and his son suffer the endless hatred of Cao Wei's soldiers! ”

"In this way, no matter who Zhu Ling's father and son were loyal to before? Now, their father and son have no choice, even if it was a fraud in the past, today it will become a real surrender, a happy and sincere surrender, this Guan Lin is provoking Lone! ”

This...

Cheng Yu paused for a moment and did not continue.

It was Cao Cao, and the topic was led to Zhu Ling's father and son, which seemed to open Cao Cao's chatterbox, and he asked Cao Zhi, "Zijian, Gu asks you, what do you think of Guan Lin putting Sima Zhongda back?" ”

This one...

Cao Zhi paused slightly, after thinking for a while, he directly met the gaze of his father Cao Cao, "As my father said, that Guan Lin is scheming, this time, he will not fight Sima Yi or ask questions, he will not be punished, and he will let him back without humiliation, the child thinks... This is probably also a plan of Guan Lin..."

"Sima Yi is a big family in Hanoi, the relationship is intertwined, and many ministers in the DPRK and China are good friends, Sima Yi's father Sima Fang, and when his father was young, he had the grace of recommending and promoting his father... Therefore, this Guan Lin did not kill Sima Yi, but put him back, which obviously made his father suspicious of Sima Yi and the Sima family..."

"Then he added the crime to the Sima clan in Hanoi, and wanted to kill Sima Yi with his father's knife, so that the Sima clan hated his father, and let those big clans who were friends with the Sima clan hate their father... This so-called borrowing a knife to kill! ”

Cao Zhi told his opinions.

It's just that the more he talks about the back, the more timid he becomes, his afterglow glances at his father Cao Cao, as if he is observing his expression, more like he is suspicious, and he can't take it accurately,

"Hahaha..."

On the contrary, it was Cao Cao, who laughed heartily because of Cao Zhi's words.

Laughter for a long time...

Cheng Yu asked curiously: "Why is the prime minister laughing?" ”

When the laughter stopped, Cao Cao said: "Am I Xiao Zijian or am I as kind and kind as ever..."

Cao Cao's eyes looked at this son with pity, "Yang Xiu is good at exposing, Sima Yi is good at hiding, Gu has long seen that Yang Xiu may be talented, but he is not suitable to assist you, but it is Sima Yi, his assistance can make Zihuan like a tiger!" ”

"In the past, Lone once asked Sima Yi, and Lone asked him, if he asked him to assist Zijian? How is it? Who would have thought that he knelt down directly in horror, saying something 'the ministers are mediocre and can't assist the Pingyuan Hou', and said, 'The Pingyuan Marquis will not let him Sima Yi assist', and let Gu Mingcha... Huh..."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao paused for a moment, "At that time, Lone noticed that Yang Dezu was no match for this Sima Zhongda, with Sima Zhongda's help, in the competition for the position of the son, Zihuan was tantamount to taking the lead, and Zijian did not suffer less, right?" ”

"But Fangcai, Lone asked Zijian, what do you think of this Sima Yi's return, this is an excellent time, if you want to get rid of that Sima Yi, you only need to say something to Lone Jin, it's as easy as a hand, but you... Still as merciful as ever! ”

Cao Zhi looked at Cao Cao, hesitated and said energetically: "Father, no matter who is the son of the world between me and my second brother, we are all flesh and blood, and the child really can't bear to have too many people die in... Die under the scramble of this world... If... If you want to let Da Wei fall apart because of the competition between the sons of the world, and let the father's flesh and blood be killed, that child... The child would rather be..."

"Shut up!" Cao Cao suddenly said sharply, "When will you understand why your father asked you to marry Cui Yan's daughter, but he wanted to give that Zhen Mi to your second brother?" When will you understand why your father is forcing you to fight for the throne in this world! ”

"Child... Child..."

Without waiting for Cao Zhi to say anything... Cao Cao shook his head, "You have what your father lacks the most, Da Wei's sailing needs Lonely's domineering and cruelty, but Da Wei also needs your kindness if it wants to be eternal..."

"Lone killed millions of people, there was no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and the white bones were exposed in the wild, this is the tragedy that Lone has to experience, but it is not the future that Lone is looking forward to... Lone doesn't want to be a hundred years later, a thousand years later, when everyone talks about Da Wei, they will associate Da Wei with cruelty, Lone makes the world afraid of Da Wei, but only you can make the world respect Da Wei, the burden on your body, the burden of Da Wei's follow-up, is ten times heavier than Lone! ”

Since ancient times, martial arts are followed by literature, and after war, there is recuperation!

In fact, Cao Cao has realized that dominating the world is not only unattainable in his generation, but even in the next two or three generations...

Three-legged, this situation is still too stable!

After that, it depends on the changes in the current situation, who is more popular, and who can make as few mistakes as possible!

Cao Cao was already sixty years old, and there was not much he could do, he could only hold the existing territory of Great Wei as impregnable.

Leave the rest to future generations!

Person... It's all so...

When I was young, I didn't care what others thought and was not afraid of what people said.

But the older he gets, the more he cares about these, the more he cares about the records in the history books, the opinions of future generations about him, and the evaluation of Dawei!

"Zijian, let the world understand the true achievements of our Cao family, this burden is very heavy, very heavy! It's heavier than dominating the world! ”

With Cao Cao's second emphasis.

This proud hero looked at his beloved son, full of worry and helplessness, and his face was full of an old father's licking calf.

Cheng Yu watched this scene and listened to the conversation between this father and son...

He finally understood why Cao Cao did not hesitate to go hundreds of miles to personally come to the door to invite Zang Ba out of the mountain!

This old man in his last years, he wants to use his last face, reputation, and prestige to invite the strongest line of defense for his son to defend this great country!

How could Cheng Yu know...

When Cao Cao and Zang Ba were chatting in the house, he said this.

- "Lone is old, Lone also knows that you are righteous and Bo Yuntian, Lone killed your eldest brother Lu Fengxian, you will not sincerely serve Lonely, so... Lonely doesn't force it..."

- "Ke Xuangao, look at these brothers behind you, they used to follow you and follow Lu Fengxian to fight in the south and the north, but now, they are also old, and when they are alone, they can protect you, but what about after they die alone? Can the lonely son and the lonely grandson protect you like the lonely? What will happen to the sons of these brethren behind you, and their grandchildren? Do you want to hide in this Mount Tai for the rest of your life? ”

- "Help the orphans, just help your brothers and help their descendants!" Help Gu to defend Nanyang, Nanyang is the southern capital, there are fertile land, there are mountains and rivers, there are more fertile and prosperous than Langya country, take your soldiers and horses, your people all move over there, Lone doesn't want you to expand the territory, Lone as long as you can hold Nanyang, Lone is willing to give you Nanyang and make it your subject country, how? How is it? ”

Cao Cao's words were full of sobriety...

His world has always been black and white, and since he can't unify it, there are only two things left for him to do in the next few years.

One is to make Dawei go further.

Let all the formalities required for the "last step" be completed in advance, he Cao Cao can not take this step, but his descendants, as long as they want, can take this step at any time!

Replace the Great Han and establish a new order!

The second is to make the border defense of the Great Wei as stable as Mount Tai and as solid as a rock, so that the three-legged situation can be maintained.

- Cao Cao, this sixty-year-old man!

Even if the head wind intensifies, even he can feel the light and shadow that he has not had for a few years.

But he still gave everything he had to his son;

consecrated to his people;

His Great Wei!

To the world, he is cruel, but to Da Wei, to his son, to his clan, he is the most forgiving, the most dedicated!

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(End of chapter)