Is Shi Xie really loyal to Soochow and Sun Quan?

For most Koto people, yes, there is no doubt about it.

In the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan sent Bu Qi to serve as the assassin of Jiaozhou, and led the army into Jiaozhou, and Shixie immediately led his brothers to attach.

He also took the initiative to send his son Shidian to Dongwu as a hostage, and with the heart of Ansun Quan, Sun Quan also reciprocated the favor and still ordered this Shidian to be the Taishou of Wuchang.

Wuchang Taishou is not a vain position.

Even within Jiangdong, it's not a cat or a dog that can be casually done.

Moreover, after Shixie was attached, he often sent envoys to meet Sun Quan and reported all the important matters in Jiaozhou.

It also offers a large number of spices and fine-grained arrowroot cloth, as well as other treasures such as pearls, large shells, glaze, jadeite, tortoiseshell, rhino horn, ivory, as well as exotic fruits, bananas, coconuts, longans, etc., all of which are not tributed.

This is not considered loyal, is there still a loyal minister in the entire Eastern Wu?

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Shi Xie looked at his hands, which were as dry as chicken feet, and the vitality of life could hardly be seen from these hands.

He looked at the skull-like face wrapped in wrinkled skin in the bronze mirror, and grinned silently...... Even if it's me, I feel a little scary.

He is eighty-five this year, and he has lived to an incredible age, and there is nothing to be dissatisfied with in this life.

It has been 200 years since the Shi family avoided chaos in Jiaozhou during the Wang Mang period.

He and his brothers were in charge of the affairs of the prefecture in charge of the counties.

In and out, the bell rings the chime, the preparation is majestic, the flute is blowing, the car is full of riding, and there are often dozens of sand gates sandwiched in the group of chariots and horses to burn incense.

Wives and concubines rode in chariots equipped with draperies, and their sons were followed by soldiers on horseback.

The prestige of the Shi family in Jiaozhou can be described as in full swing.

The most rare thing is that the reputation of the scholar family among the common people and scholars is also very good.

Shi Xie himself was open-minded and actively accepted the Central Plains people who took refuge in the south, brought advanced technology and culture to Jiaozhou, and promoted the development of Jiaozhou.

He was subtle in his studies, attached great importance to the spread of Confucianism, and was humble and generous when dealing with scholars, and was courteous and virtuous, and hundreds of famous scholars in the Central Plains took refuge in him, even including Liu Ba, who once avoided Lao Liu.

With the conditions of Jiaozhou, there is no way to participate in the struggle for world domination, and he himself does not have much ambition, but just wants to continue to build a pure land belonging to his family in Jiaozhou.

But all this changed when the initial army came.

Shi Xie has always been cautious, and ever since Sun Quan tried to get his hands on Jiaozhou, he had been trying his best to show his submission and attachment to the lord of Jiangdong, whom he had never met.

But Shi Xie, who has been rolling in the power field all his life, can easily see that what Sun Quan wants is not surrender and dependence.

Rather, it was a complete control of Jiaozhou—just like Cao Wei's intentions for Eastern Wu.

If Dongwu sent troops to attack, the Shi family would be powerless to resist with the strength of Jiaozhou, but sometimes it was not enough to attack.

It is also a very important thing for a teacher to be famous.

The Shi family had an excellent reputation in Jiaozhou, and Shi Xie took the initiative to surrender, and Sun Quan had no reason to attack at all.

So the Sun family's tentacles of power to Jiaozhou stayed on the surface in embarrassment and grievance, unable to go deeper.

On the surface, Jiaozhou is the territory of the Sun family, but the Jiaozhou assassin history that represents Sun Quan, whether it is Buqi or the current Lu Dai, cannot directly interfere in the internal affairs of Jiaozhou.

It has the meaning of an emperor and a vassal state.

In order for Shixie to continue this relationship, it is necessary to keep Soochow in an environment where there is external pressure.

After the Battle of Jingzhou, Sun Quan's plan to expand westward was frustrated again, and he could not take Hefei in the north and Jingzhou in the west, and he also injured his vitality......

But Shi Xie did not relax his mind to look at Jiang Dong's jokes, and the older he became, the more careful he became, but he sensed some dangerous tastes.

At that time, Sun Quan surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty and signed an armistice agreement with Liu Bei, focusing on recruiting troops.

At this time, the news that his son Shihui scolded Sun Quan after drinking was still spreading, and it even reached Buqi's ears at that time.

This is not a big deal in normal times, but when several things are added together, he is indeed afraid that Sun Quan will take the opportunity to send troops to attack Jiaozhou.

So he decisively activated the back hand arranged in Nanzhong.

Yes, strictly speaking, the Nanzhong Rebellion was actually planned by Tashixie.

It was not Sun Quan's people who pointed out Yonghong behind his back, but his people.

It's just that Nanzhong's arrangement, he didn't hide it from Sun Quan, and activating Nanzhong's back hand at this time was also an opportunity to weaken Liu Bei in the eyes of Sun Quan and others, who had just suffered a loss from Jingzhou.

But none of them expected that Shi Xie's enthusiasm for this was not out of any loyalty to Sun Quan and Jiangdong.

If Yonghong and the others succeed, Nanzhong will nominally be included in Jiangdong's sphere of influence, but in order to exert influence on Nanzhong, it is not through Jiaozhou, which borders Nanzhong?

At that time, the other family will have the resources and means to control Nanzhong in their own hands.

If it doesn't work out, Liu Bei's think tank will definitely be able to see that Jiangdong is the mastermind behind the scenes, and the two sides are fighting each other, and Jiaozhou of the other family's family is safer.

But he didn't expect that the relationship between Cao Wei and Jiangdong would take a sharp turn for the worse, and even Sun Quan, who was persecuted, had to bow his head again and take the initiative to join Liu to fight against Cao.

He even took advantage of this opportunity to play a chess game against the other scholars.

Jiangdong now seems to be in danger, but Lu Dai's soldiers and horses have not been mobilized, and they are still firmly rooted in his Jiaozhou territory.

While gathering troops, Lü Dai carried out Sun Quan's order without discount, sent people to Jiaozhi to reprimand Shihui for his improper behavior, and also detained the matter of inciting rebellion in Nanzhong on Shihui's head.

The meaning of temptation is obvious.

If he led the Jiaozhou uprising for the sake of his son's life, Lu Dai could justifiably launch an attack on them.

Jiaozhou has few soldiers and few soldiers, and he is not sure of victory.

So Shi Xie made a move that surprised everyone - he personally ordered Shi Hui to be beheaded and sent the head to Lu Dai.

Lu Dai didn't expect that Shi Xie, who was old and frail, and had always been generous, would have such courage.

The previous plan to quickly settle Jiaozhou in one fell swoop, and the preparations to clear his backyard before Cao Pi sent troops were all in vain.

He could only pinch his nose and praise Shixie's righteous act of killing his relatives, and according to the alternative plan, he sent someone to send the letter prepared by Sun Quan in advance and the head of Shihui to Chengdu.

No matter how Shi Xie chooses, Sun Quan has an explanation for Liu Bei's side.

And there is no loss for Sun Quan, the Shi family is the object that he will have to clean up sooner or later.

It's just that in the original history, Sun Quan started to clean up the Shi family after Shi Xie's death......

Now that Shi Xie has not yet entered the ground, he forced his son to death, but it has made a major change in the mind of the uncrowned king of Jiaozhou.

Sun Quan...... I swear to kill you. Shi Xie's silent murmur had dissipated before it could be spoken.

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Liu Bei's father and son looked at the head of the Shihui on the tray in front of them, and listened to the letter written by Sun Quan read by the messenger in their ears, and they were a little surprised in their hearts.

They thought that Sun Quan would compromise, but they didn't expect him to be able to do it to this extent.

Even Zhang Wen on the side was a little stunned, he was not lamenting the eloquence and decisive decision-making of King Sun Quan of Wu.

But there was a chill in my heart......

"I didn't expect King Wu to arrange it like this."

He knew a little about the situation of the Shi family, but now once there was a need, Wu Wang Sun Quan also did it when he should start, without hesitation.

Think about the Shu Han monarchs and ministers in their eyes recently...... Zhang Wen felt very uncomfortable.

(End of chapter)