Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2550 Jiaozhou Guangzhou, Sun Ce enters Qin

Chapter 2546: Jiaozhou Guangzhou, Sun Ce enters Qin

Zhuyazhou, also known as Hainan Island in later generations.

Zhuya Prefecture in this era actually did not have a large population. Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, there were only 2000 people in total.

After the Chu State captured Jiaozhou, a large number of Baiyue people who refused to accept the rule fled to Zhuya Prefecture and survived here, so that Zhuya Prefecture gradually came to life.

After the state of Chu completely pacified Baiyue in Jiaozhou, it did not spare Zhuya Prefecture. It only took a mere thousand troops to occupy this place and established Zhuya County, also known as Zhuya Prefecture.

Then Zhuyazhou became the base of Chu State's naval forces and a prison for exiles of important prisoners. Sun Ce, the former prince of Wu State, was imprisoned here.

After Sun Ce was captured alive by Guo Ziyi in Jiangxia, he was initially imprisoned in a prison in Xiling City.

When Sun Wu's troops approached Xiling, Sun Ce was in the city. However, behind the high wall of Xiling city, Sun Wu did not carry large-scale siege equipment and was unable to break through Xiling City, so he also missed Sun Ce.

After Liu Xiu rescued Xiling City, he was worried that Wu Jun would follow Sun Wu and repeat the siege of Xiling City again, so he simply transferred Sun Ce to the capital Changsha.

Just on the way to escort Sun Ce to Changsha, the State of Wu carried out three rescues, and all the spies lurking in the State of Chu became active.

However, Liu Xiu was obviously well prepared for this, and did not let Sun Jian's rescue plan succeed, and even killed many masters of Soochow.

After Sun Ce was transported to Changsha, Sun Jian's eyes were also focused on Changsha, and a large number of secret agents were sent to inquire about him, waiting for an opportunity to rescue Sun Ce, but he didn't know that Sun Ce had been transferred by Liu Xiu again, and he was also transferred to Zhuya Prefecture, which is isolated overseas.

In order to rescue Sun Ce, Sun Jian sacrificed a lot of spies and broke through the Changsha Heavenly Prison twice, but he still could not find any trace of Sun Ce.

At this point, Sun Jian was sluggish and realized that Sun Ce had been transferred away again, so he gave up sending people to rescue him secretly, and instead negotiated with the state of Chu to redeem Sun Ce.

Sun Jian has never given up on saving Sun Ce, and Sun Ce has been trying to save himself, but the Chu State is too strict with him.

Not only did Liu Xiu have someone seal Sun Ce's skills, but he also put medicine in the food to make him weak. He also took turns monitoring him 24 hours a day. Sun Ce never had any chance of escaping from prison.

After trying several times and failing, and after suffering a lot, Sun Ce realized that it was impossible to escape by himself, so he could only give up the escape and honestly wait for the rescue from the outside world.

The reason why Sun Ce felt that it was a rescue, not a redemption, was that after knowing the conditions of the Chu State, even he felt that Liu Xiu's appetite was too great, and there was no sincerity in any peace talks at all.

If Wu State really ceded the three Yuzhang counties, as well as Lujiang County, it would be completely surrounded by Chu State, what difference would that be with the subjugation of the country?
Even if his father, Sun Jian, agreed, it was impossible for Wu's civil and military officials to agree.

Therefore, Sun Ce felt that the possibility of negotiating to redeem himself was unlikely, and Wu should choose to send someone to rescue him.

Sun Ce waited and waited. He didn't wait in Changsha, nor did he wait in Jingnan, until he was transferred to Zhuyazhou, and he was completely desperate.

Where is Zhuyazhou?

It was an isolated island south of Jiaoguang Erzhou, a barren land hanging overseas.

How could the father guess that he was locked in this place where birds don't shit?
Why is it Jiaoguang Erzhou?
It was only after Sun Ce was detained in Zhuya Prefecture that he learned that not long ago, Chu State had divided Jiaozhou into two prefectures.

After the Chu State occupied Jiaozhou, it first conquered Baiyue, and then implemented the New Deal. After years of governance and the absence of war for a long time, even the impoverished Jiaozhou gradually prospered, and its economic population grew rapidly.

Today, the total population of the Han Chinese + Baiyue people + other barbarians in the seven counties of Jiaozhou, as well as the captured and captured Ruanyue slaves has reached more than 270 million;

No longer the poor state with a total population of less than a million.

In order to manage Jiaozhou more conveniently, Liu Xiu decided to follow Ying Hao and set up Hezhou, and Yang Guang established Haizhou, dividing Jiaozhou into two Jiaoguang states.

Among the original seven counties of Jiaozhou, Nanhai County, Cangwu County, Hepu County, and Yulin County were assigned to Guangzhou.

In addition, Nanhai County was divided into Nanhai County and Longyan County.

Cangwu County was divided into Shaoguan and Cangwu counties.

Hepu County was divided into three counties, Guangzhou, Hepu and Zhuya.

Yulin County was divided into two counties, Yulin and Nanning;
Guangzhou, which has undergone administrative planning again, has: Guangzhou, Hepu, Zhuya, Nanhai, Longyan, Shaoguan, Cangwu, Yulin, Nanning, a total of 96 counties in nine counties, with a total population of 220 million;

As for the three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan, which are too remote in location, and the Honghe County snatched from Ruanyue and Vietnam, a total of 36 counties in four counties still belong to the new Jiaozhou, with a total population of 50.

Jiaozhou was divided by Liu Xiu, and the sixteen states in China became seventeen states, namely: Sili, Ji, You, Bing, Liang, Qing, Yan, Xu, Yu, Yang, Jing, Yi, Jiao , wide, sea, river, Ying;

The territorial scope of Chu State has also become: Jingbei two counties, Jingnan four counties, Yangzhou half counties, Guangzhou nine counties, Jiaozhou four counties;
Because Liu Xiu was divided on the basis of the original Jiaozhou, there was only one Honghe County to expand, and not much territory was opened up.

In contrast, Yang Guang's Haizhou was taken from the Qiang people, and Ying Hao's Hezhou was taken from the Xiongnu.

Therefore, when Liu Xiu set up Guangzhou this time, he did not receive system rewards like Yang Guang and Ying Hao did.

If Liu Xiu can expand Xinjiaozhou to the size of seven or eight counties in the future, it will be equivalent to a new state, and the system will also give rewards.

However, since Liu Xiu has laid down so many chassis in Siam, only one Red River County has been retained. As a strategic buffer, he has no interest in the barren Nanyang so far.

Back to the topic, after Sun Ce was imprisoned in Zhuyazhou, he knew that no one would come to rescue him, because no one could guess that he was imprisoned here.

But what Sun Ce never expected was that Sima Yi had guessed where he was being held, but the people Sun Quan sent were not here to save him, but to kill him.

In order to get rid of Sun Ce smoothly, Sun Quan sent two master-level killers, two half-step master-level killers, and eight super-class killers to Zhuya Prefecture to find Sun Ce.

Before Sun Quan came to power, the strongest under him were only half-step masters.

But when he became the King of Wu and took over the power of Wu State, he could easily dispatch two master-level killers, as well as ten half-step masters and super-class masters, which shows that the Wu State's heritage is still very deep.

Twelve killers successfully landed in Zhuyazhou. After a search, they soon locked a prison, and Sun Ce was imprisoned in the prison.

When Sun Ce learned that someone was robbing the prison, he shouted excitedly and revealed his location.

But when the visitor was imprisoned, he waved his sword at him without saying a word, and Sun Ce was frightened into a cold sweat.

At this time, his skills were sealed, and his cartilage was scattered and weak, and he was not a match for any of the killers.

At the critical moment, Meng Sheng, the supreme elder of the Mo family who was hiding in prison, was a swordsman at the half-step grandmaster level. He rescued Sun Ce in time and cut all the assassins under the sword neatly.

After Meng Sheng returned his sword and sheathed it, he sneered, "Sun Quan has an expert by his side, and he was able to find this place."

Looking at the corpse in the prison, Sun Ce gritted his teeth and said, "Don't think about alienating our brothers, this assassin must have been sent by Liu Xiu."

Meng Sheng rolled his eyes at Sun Ce, and said indifferently, "You just deceive yourself."

After saying that, Meng Sheng ignored Sun Ce, returned to his cell, and began to exercise and adjust his breath.

As the supreme elder of the Mo family, Meng Sheng was imprisoned with Sun Ce because of Liu Xiu's intention.

The purpose is to keep an eye on Sun Ce to prevent him from escaping, and to protect Sun Ce's safety at the same time.

Meng Sheng originally thought that this trip would be useless. He only needed to stay in prison with Sun Ce for a few months before returning to the Mo family to continue his retirement.

After all, Zhuyazhou is too remote. No one would have imagined that Sun Ce would be imprisoned here, but they did not expect that the masters of the Wu state had actually come here, but they were just here to kill Sun Ce.

After Meng Sheng left, Sun Ce's face suddenly turned pale, how could he not see that the assassins used Jiang Dong's swordsmanship.

Although Sun Ce has been kept in prison, it does not mean that he does not know what is happening in the outside world. Liu Xiu will regularly send people to tell him what is happening in the outside world.

Therefore, Sun Ce knew that his crown prince was abolished, and he also knew that his father, Sun Jian, had died, and his second brother, Sun Quan, had succeeded to the throne and became the new King of Wu.

For this reason, Sun Ce also blamed himself in pain for a long time, and it was the first time in his heart that he felt regret.

Why didn't he listen to Wang Shusun Wu's words, just because Wuzhiqi was alone, he went into such a reckless loneliness, and as a result, the most powerful Soldier Army in Eastern Wu was wiped out, and even he was captured and imprisoned by the State of Chu.

Just because Jiang Xia's defeat this time, this time he was captured alive, Sun Ce lost too much.

After all, the throne of King Wu should have belonged to him, but none of these belonged to him.

The crown prince is gone, his father is dead, and what should belong to him is gone, and all this is because of his recklessness.

Therefore, whenever he thinks of this, Sun Ce feels very guilty and even a little disheartened.

He wanted to atone for his sins and make up for his mistakes, but his second younger brother, Sun Quan, had already succeeded to the throne and became the new King of Wu.

Sun Ce knew that the second younger brother, Sun Quan, had just ascended the throne, and it was a critical period for establishing his prestige. If he went back now, it would undoubtedly be the biggest obstacle to Sun Quan's power, so the other party had the possibility to get rid of him.

It's just that Sun Ce didn't want to believe this in his heart, and he was more willing to believe that it might have been deliberately done by Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu found a few masters who knew Jiangdong swordsmanship to assassinate him, and then deliberately asked Meng Sheng to save him, in order to alienate the relationship between himself and Erdi.

Yep, that's for sure.Sun Ce comforted himself in his heart.

A few days later, the Wu-Chu negotiations officially ended, and Wu agreed to withdraw from Wanxian and other six cities in exchange for the release of Sun Ce and prisoners of war by Chu.

The State of Chu secretly escorted Sun Ce, who was imprisoned in Zhuya Prefecture, to Lujiang County. After successfully taking over Liucheng, he released Sun Ce to Sun Wu as agreed.

The moment Sun Ce saw Sun Wu, he almost cried with excitement, but when he looked at the other prisoners of war released, he couldn't help but change his color and said, "Wait, where's Li Lu?"

Seeing that there was no Li Lu among the released prisoners, Sun Wu said coldly, "Please keep your promise and release General Li Lu."

Hearing this, Pang Tong couldn't help laughing and said, "My country of Chu has not violated the agreement. All the prisoners of war are already here, and General Li Lu has already surrendered to my great Chu, so naturally he is not included in this list."

"You fart, how could the second brother surrender." Li Yang said angrily.

"That's the truth, believe it or not." Pang Tong chuckled.

"You..."

Li Yang wanted to attack, but was stopped by Sun Wu.

"Okay, I'll think of a way later, go back and talk about it."

After returning to Shucheng, Sun Wu met with Sun Ce alone and said solemnly, "Bo Fu, you can't go back to Jianye."

Sun Ce's expression changed suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "Uncle, why is this?"

"The current Soochow is no longer the Soochow of the past. You should understand that going back now will not be a good thing for you, Zhongmou, or Soochow." Sun Wu said with a complicated expression.

Sun Ce understood the meaning of Sun Wu's words, and after a long silence, he said, "If I don't go back to Soochow, where will I go?"

"Go to Daqin, Xiang'er is in Luoyang now, you go to Luoyang for a year, and come back after Xiang'er gets married."

Sun Wu said with a serious face, he is also good for Sun Ce. After all, if Sun Ce goes back now, he will only become a thorn in Sun Quan's eyes. Whether he can survive is a question.

Hearing this, Sun Ce could not help clenching his fists, but in the end he could not let go, and said in pain, "What about the funeral of the father and king?"

Sun Wu didn't answer, and Sun Ce's eyes were filled with tears, and he said bitterly, "Okay, my nephew is willing to join Qin."

Hearing this, Sun Wu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He was really afraid that Sun Ce would be as reckless as before, and desperately wanted to return to Soochow, but now it seems that Sun Ce's temperament is indeed much calmer after being captured this time.

(End of this chapter)