Sun Quan ushered in a good mood for the first time since the defeat of Jingzhou.

He also crowned Shi Xie, who had made meritorious contributions to Yonghong, as the general of Wei and the marquis of Fenglong.

However, since June, a war report from Jiaozhou has made him feel the ups and downs of life.

Liu Chan, Zhuge Liang, and even Ma Tan, the three-way army has been like a bamboo since it entered Nanzhong, and the soldiers of the Southern Barbarians can't even resist or contain it.

Whenever he planned to instruct Shi Xie to make some new moves and try to pull Yonghong again, a new battle report would be delivered, and the situation had already changed.

Sometimes, because of the long distance and uncertain conditions, the two war reports were delivered one after another.

The day before, the battle report also wrote that Liu Chanjun occupied Wei County and confronted Yonghong and Meng Huo, and he was just thinking about discussing with his ministers how to support Nanzhong.

As a result, the battle report of the next day wrote that Liu Chan was ready to attack Dianchi......

"Rubbish! It's useless! Sun Quan was so angry that he slapped the case in front of him, "It's rare for Liu Bei to make such a stupid move, under the successive battles, Jingyi Erzhou has not enough food and grass, and he will definitely not be able to use too many troops, and he will not be able to come at most 30,000."

"And its troops are sent in such a hurry, the preparation must be insufficient, and in this case, it dares to divide the troops into three ways to go south, how can it not be annihilated? What about the ability of the Southern Barbarians to resist the imperial court and hold back the 300,000 army?! ”

At this time, Wu Lao Er obviously chose to forget how his original tens of thousands of troops were wiped out in Jingzhou......

The ministers below were silent, Sun Quan's temperament has become more and more eccentric since he was lame, and he has become a little moody, and everyone doesn't want to anger him at this time and become the object of anger.

"Why? Why wouldn't he rebel in the place where Liu Chan fell?! Sun Quan was puzzled.

As soon as he thought of that high-spirited kid by the river, he hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched......

He has always fought a wave of burning, killing, and looting in the mountains, forcibly conscripting his young and strong soldiers into the army, so that he has no ability to rebel again.

However, after a while, those mountain savages will inevitably rebel again, and now there is still a group of men and horses at the junction of Danyang and Lujiang, taking advantage of the lack of his troops, which makes him very headache.

Nanban will only be more difficult than Shanyue, and Liu Chan does not have many troops, so it is impossible to maintain such a large territory of continuous high pressure.

So why was he able to push forward so quickly?!

But no matter what, at the moment, Nanban can't be counted on, and if he fights like this, I'm afraid that Nanban won't be able to play a role in Liu Bei at all.

attacked Jingzhou by himself, and almost ordered Guan Yu and Liu Bei's own sons to be buried there, if Liu Bei was ready, wouldn't he be in danger?

Sun Quan, who gradually calmed down, sighed and asked, "Do you have any good plans so that Guan Yu will not wave his army to the east?" ”

Now Guan Yu is training troops in Jingzhou, and it is said that he has also recruited craftsmen to imitate them according to the captured Jiangdong warships.

He couldn't sleep well at night.

Zhang Zhao saw that Sun Quan had calmed down, and Fang Yu said at this time: "General, if you want to make the Shu army dare not come east, you can only rely on the King of Wei for today's plan." ”

Although the report of Nanzhong's complete pacification has not yet been delivered, the ministers all have the same opinion as Sun Quan at this time.

It was only a matter of time before Nanzhong was pacified, and there was basically no way to contain Liu Bei.

Sun Quan was expressionless, and only said lightly: "Oh? I would like to hear about it. ”

In fact, since Chibi, he has also been very reluctant to respond to these surrender factions in his heart, but he has been entrusted with a heavy burden by his eldest brother since he was a child, and compared with the interests of the Sun family, nothing else matters.

Zhang Zhaodao: "Although Wang Pi of Wei is the new successor to the throne, he still looks at his civil and military skills, his eloquence and strategy, and his internal cultivation is ......."

"Getting to the point."

"Ahem, in recent months, it has been reported that there are auspicious births in various parts of the north. Why didn't the general use this as an excuse to send an envoy to the King of Wei to present treasures, and at the same time write a letter to persuade him? ”

Sun Quan narrowed his eyes and twisted his beard in contemplation.

Gu Yong's eyes lit up, and at this time, he also said: "General, Zhang Zibu's words are reasonable, looking at what Cao Zihuan has done recently, it clearly has the intention of taking the throne to replace the Han."

"If he really represents the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei should naturally be righteous first and wave his troops to the Northern Expedition, even if Guan Yu wants to take revenge, he will not disobey his brother. Cao Liu fought together, and Jiangdong was at peace. ”

Sun Quan nodded and said, "The two of you are reasonable, I will repair a book and send an envoy to the north with the treasure." ”

The hussar commander Shi Sun Shao also said: "Liu Bei should also send an envoy to appease, this person has always had a strong temperament, and he should know the interests and stakes to ease the relationship, so as not to do unwise things." ”

Sun Shao was originally Kong Rong Gongcao, Kong Rong praised him as "Langmiao Caiye", saying that he was a talent who could serve as a big official, and later learned from Liu Miao in Jiangdong.

“…… Good. "If you can't beat it, admit it, it's never difficult for Sun Quan, just to see if there is any benefit.

"It's just that in today's world, there is Guan Yu in the west who is strictly guarding against us, and Zhang Liao is guarding Hefei in the north...... If I want to forge ahead, where shall I go? ”

Ministers: "......"

In the face of Sun Quan's proposition, the ministers tacitly bowed their heads silently, and the scene was like a collective silence.

If you want to say that at this critical moment, it has to be Zhang Zhao, I saw him say with a straight face: "The general should cultivate politics internally, rest with the people's livelihood, accumulate strength, and wait for the time." When Cao and Liu are fighting together, the world will change, and it will not be too late for the general to find an opportunity to forge ahead. ”

Sun Quan: "......"

This is very true, I can't find the slightest fault, but it's basically the same as not saying anything.

……

Cao Pi had also heard about Liu Bei's pacification of Nanzhong, but he couldn't take care of these at this time.

Bashu is now in Hanzhong and the three eastern counties, and Wei Yan is in Hanzhong while further strengthening the defense system of Hanzhong.

Shangyong Liu Feng, with the assistance of Yu Tuo, also gradually strengthened his control over the three counties, and it was difficult to attack him.

As for Jingzhou...... Not to mention fighting, Cao Pi even considered whether to simply give up Xiangfan, who had few soldiers and little food, and simply ordered Cao Ren to retreat to Wancheng.

It was only under the strong opposition of Sima Yi and Liu Ye that he gave up.

In short, as long as Liu Bei doesn't send troops to the Northern Expedition, he can do whatever he likes.

Cao Pi was busy preparing for the title of Emperor of Han.

After he came to power, his main focus was on two things, one was to crack down on dissidents, strengthen centralization, and prepare to become emperor.

The second is to turn offense into defense, enrich the treasury, and live with the people.

Before the old father died, he sent troops to the three counties, but the veteran Xu Huang was sent, and the five good generals had gone to the third, leaving Zhang Liao and Zhang He still supported.

Xu Huang sent it, although Cao Pi felt sorry, after all, there were good generals under his command, and it would be okay to the overall situation.

What really made him feel devastated was that Xiahou Shang was also sent away......

That's the little man he is going to entrust with the important task, Xiahou is still with him Cao Pi, just like Xiahou is with Cao Cao.

This blow further exacerbated Cao Pi's worries about the instability of his power, and pushed him to start excluding dissidents.

Originally, Cao Zhi's henchmen were all over the place, and when they saw that it was difficult for their master to achieve great things, they catered to the will of the emperor and said: Cao Zhi, the Marquis of Linzi, was alcoholic, and his words were disobedient and disrespectful after drinking.

On this ground, Cao Pi demoted Cao Zhi to the Marquis of Anxiang, and executed the two brothers who were the right stabbing traitor, Ding Yi, a native of Peiguo, and Ding Hui, a waiter of the Yellow Gate, as well as two men.

And these people are all Cao Zhi's henchmen.

After cutting off his brother's wings and releasing him from the center of power, he appointed Jia Xu as the chief lieutenant, Hua Xin as the prime minister, Wang Lang as the imperial historian, and Xiahou as the general.

At the same time, he reused Sima Yi, Chen Qun, Huan Jie, and others who supported him at the beginning.

If these appointments are quite reliable, then one of the original "Four Friends of the Prince", Wu Zhen, who was only the magistrate of a small county, was promoted to the captain of the shooting sound without merit, which is somewhat ugly.

Later, Cao Pi adopted Chen Qun's suggestion and began to implement the nine-product Zhongzheng system.

While bringing the power of selecting and promoting officials back to the central government and further strengthening the centralization of power, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system, which takes family background, talent, and moral character as the evaluation criteria for selecting officials, has greatly attracted the big families.

After these few steps, the conditions for Cao Pi to be the emperor have become more and more mature.

It's just that the Jiupin Zhongzheng system is good for stabilizing the rule of the Cao Wei group, but it also makes the gate valves of the northern family begin to evolve rapidly towards a deformed power...... Class barriers were further strengthened.

Cao Pi, who basically cleared the obstacle to becoming the emperor, began to prepare to completely replace the emperor, and one of the signals was that various places began to report auspicious rui one after another.

You found the Yellow Dragon this month, I found the White Pheasant the next month, and the local officials were very busy......

……

The newly appointed local officials in Nanzhong were also very busy, and in order to cooperate with Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang's new policy, they also racked their brains.

Some people who are willing to open up the wasteland are suffering from being alone, and they are sparse and unable to do their best, and they are inefficient in fighting for themselves.

Li Hui took the government to organize these people, unified deployment, joint efforts to reclaim the famine, and then divided the land evenly according to the amount of labor after the matter was completed.

The use of these stragglers has greatly improved the efficiency of land reclamation.

At the same time, the felled trees were also purchased with rations, so that these people would not have to worry about food and drink at this stage.

The high-quality timber was transported to Jingzhou by water, bringing a large amount of raw materials to Guan Yu, who was building a ship.

It was transported to Bashu by land and water to provide raw materials for the manufacture of a large number of water drains (hydraulic blast devices) in Linqiong, which was preparing for the Northern Expedition.

In exchange for Jingyi resources to subsidize Nanzhong, a virtuous cycle began.

As a business directly under the crown prince, Steward Zhao naturally would not let go of such a great business opportunity, invested a lot of resources, and played an important role in it.

The development of Nanzhong is gradually on the right track, and the contradictions between Han and Yi have been initially alleviated.

In August, it was time for Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang to return to Chengdu.

(End of chapter)