Three Kingdoms: Prosper Han from the beginning of brushing favorability

Chapter 248
For the first time since the defeat of Jingzhou, Sun Quan ushered in a period of good mood.

He also named Shi Xie, who had made great contributions in luring Yong Kai to surrender, as General Wei and Marquis Longbian.

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

Liu Chan, Zhuge Liang, and even Ma Di, the three-way army has been invincible since they entered Nanzhong.

Whenever he planned to instruct Shi Xie to make some new moves to try to win over Yong Kai, a new battle report would arrive, and the situation would have changed.

Sometimes due to the long distance and uncertain situation, two battle reports were delivered one after another.

The battle report the day before also stated that Liu Chan's army occupied Wei County and confronted Yong Kai and Meng Huo. He was just thinking about discussing with the officials how to provide support to Nanzhong.

As a result, the battle report the next day stated that Liu Chan was preparing to attack Dianchi...

"Trash! It's useless!" Sun Quan was so angry that he patted the case in front of him, "It's rare that Liu Bei made such a foolish move. Under the successive battles in Jingyi and Yizhou, the food and grass are not enough, so we must not be able to use too many troops. I think it is no more than [-].

"Furthermore, it dispatched troops in such a hasty manner that it must have been insufficiently prepared. Under such circumstances, they dared to divide their troops into three directions to go south. How could they not be wiped out? What was the ability of the Nanman people to fight against the imperial court and hold back an army of 30?!"

At this time, Wu Laoer had obviously selectively forgotten how his tens of thousands of troops were wiped out in Jingzhou...

The officials below were silent. Sun Quan's temperament became more and more eccentric since he limped a leg, and he became a little moody. Everyone didn't want to offend him at this time and become the target of venting their anger.

"Why? Why won't he rebel in the place Liu Chan conquered?!" Sun Quan was puzzled.

When he thought of that arrogant kid by the Gong'an River, his teeth itch with hatred...

He has always fought against Shanyue by burning, killing and looting, forcing him to join the army, making him unable to rebel.

However, after a period of time, those mountain savages will definitely rebel again when they recover. Now there is still a group of people at the junction of Danyang and Lujiang, who are active when his troops are empty, which makes him very headache.

Nanman will only be more difficult to deal with than Shanyue, and Liu Chan's troops are not many, it is impossible to maintain a continuous high pressure state on such a large territory.

So why can he advance so quickly? !
But no matter what, Nanman is hopeless at the moment, and if he fights like this, I am afraid that Nanman will not be able to restrain Liu Bei at all.

I attacked Jingzhou and almost buried Guan Yu and Liu Bei's own sons there. If Liu Bei was ready, wouldn't I be in danger?
Sun Quan, who gradually calmed down, sighed and asked, "Do you have any good ideas to prevent Guan Yu from sending his army eastward?"

Now that Guan Yu is training his troops in Jingzhou, it is said that he is recruiting craftsmen to imitate the captured Jiangdong warships. The imitation of many ships has already achieved initial results, only the building boats have not yet been produced.

He couldn't sleep well at night.

Seeing that Sun Quan had calmed down, Zhang Zhao said at this moment: "General, if you want to prevent the Shu army from coming eastward, you can only rely on the King of Wei for the current plan."

Although the report on the complete pacification of Nanzhong has not yet been delivered, all the ministers 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 had no expression on his face, and only said indifferently: "Oh? I would like to hear more about it."

In fact, since Red Cliff, he has been quite dissatisfied with these surrender factions. However, he has been entrusted with heavy responsibilities by his elder brother since he was a child. Compared with the interests of the Sun family, other things are unimportant.

Zhang Zhaodao: "Although King Pi of Wei has just succeeded to the throne, we can see that he has both civil and military skills, a great talent, and internal cultivation..."

"Speak the key."

"Hey, in recent months, it has been heard that there are auspicious signs in various parts of the north. Why don't the general send envoys to present treasures to the king of Wei for this reason, and at the same time write a letter of his own to persuade them?"

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

Gu Yong's eyes lit up, and he cupped his hands and said: "General, Zhang Zibu's words are reasonable, and what Cao Zihuan has done recently clearly intends to replace the Han Dynasty.

"If he really succeeds the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei should naturally first uphold justice and send troops to the north. Even if Guan Yu wants to take revenge, he will not disobey his brother. If Cao and Liu fight together, Jiangdong will be at peace."

Sun Quan nodded and said: "You two are right, I will write a letter and send an envoy to take the treasure north."

Hussar Chief Shi Sun Shao also said: "Liu Bei's place, you should also send envoys to appease him. This man has always been a strong-tempered person. You should understand his interests and ease the relationship, so as not to act unwisely."

Sun Shao was originally Kong Rong Gongcao. Kong Rong praised him as a "talent from Langmiao", saying that he was a talent capable of serving as a high official, and he came from Liu Yao in Jiangdong.

"...Okay." It's never difficult for Sun Quan to admit defeat if he can't beat him, it just depends on whether it is beneficial.

"It's just that in today's world, there is Guan Yu in the west who guards us strictly, and Zhang Liao guarding Hefei in the north... If I want to make progress, where should I go?"

The ministers: "..."

Faced with Sun Quan's proposition, the ministers bowed their heads in tacit agreement, and the scene was like a collective silent mourning.

If we want to talk about this critical moment, it must be Zhang Zhao. He said seriously: "The general should cultivate political principles internally, live with the people, and accumulate strength to wait for the right time. When Cao and Liu fight together, the world will change, and the general will look for opportunities." It’s never too late to make progress.”

Sun Quan: "..."

This is very correct, there is nothing wrong with it, but it is basically the same as if it was not said at all.

……

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

Bashu is now in the hands of Hanzhong and the three counties of Dongdong. Wei Yan is stationed in Hanzhong while further strengthening Hanzhong's defense system.

With the assistance of Yu Fan, Shangyong Liu Feng also gradually strengthened his control over the three counties, making it as difficult as possible to attack by force.

As for Jingzhou... let alone fighting, Cao Pi even considered whether to simply abandon Xiangfan, which had few soldiers and 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 else he likes.

Cao Pi is busy preparing to become emperor and replace Han.

After he came to power, he focused his energy on two things. One was to crack down on dissidents, strengthen the centralization of power, and prepare to proclaim himself emperor.

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

Before his death, the old father sent troops to three counties, but the veteran general Xu Huang was sent away. Three of the five good generals were gone, leaving only Zhang Liao and Zhang He.

Xu Huang gave it away, so let's give it away. Although Cao Pi felt sorry, after all, he still has good generals under his command, so it doesn't matter to the overall situation.

What really broke him down was that Xia Houshang was also sent away...

That's the boy he was going to entrust with a heavy responsibility. Xiahou was still to Cao Pi, just like Xiahou was to Cao Cao.

Being hit by this aggravated Cao Pi's worries about his instability in power, and pushed him to start eliminating dissidents.

Originally Cao Zhi's party member Guan Jun saw that his master and son could not achieve great things, so he catered to Shang's wishes and wrote: Linzi Hou Cao Zhi drank heavily, and his words were disrespectful and disrespectful after drinking.

Cao Pi took this as an excuse to demote Cao Zhi to the title of Marquis of Anxiang, and put to death the two brothers and two men of the right assassin, Ding Yi from Peiguo, Ding Yi, the servant of the Huangmen, and the two men.

And these people are all Cao Zhi's henchmen.

After cutting off the brothers' wings and releasing them from the power center, Jia Xu was appointed Taiwei, Hua Xin was Xiangguo, Wang Lang was Yushi doctor, and Xiahou Dun was appointed general.

At the same time, he reused Sima Yi, Chen Qun, Huan Jie and others who had supported him in the past.

If these appointments are considered reliable, then Wu Zhi, one of the original "four friends of the prince", who was only the magistrate of a small county, was promoted to the captain of Shesheng for no merit, which seemed somewhat ugly.

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

The power to select officials was brought back to the central government to further strengthen the centralization of power. At the same time, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which used family background, talent, learning, and moral character as the evaluation criteria for selecting officials, greatly attracted aristocratic families.

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

It's just that the nine-rank Zhongzheng system is good for stabilizing the rule of the Cao Wei Group, but it also makes the northern aristocratic families begin to evolve towards abnormally powerful and rapid... The class barriers are further strengthened.

Cao Pi, who had basically cleared the obstacles to proclaiming himself emperor, began to prepare to completely replace him with Xiandi. One of the signals was that various places began to report auspiciousness one after another.

This month you found the yellow dragon, next month I found the white pheasant, the local officials are very busy...

……

The newly appointed local officials in Nanzhong are also very busy. In order to cooperate with Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang's New Deal, they have racked their brains.

Some people who are willing to open up wasteland suffer from being alone and alone, with few people and powerless, and the efficiency of fighting independently is low.

Li Hui used the government to organize these people, deploy them in a unified way, and work together to cultivate wasteland. After the work is completed, they will divide the land equally according to the amount of labor.

Using these stragglers and rogues greatly improved the efficiency of reclamation.

At the same time, the felled trees are also purchased uniformly with food rations, so that these people who open up wasteland do not have to worry about food and drink at this stage.

These high-quality timber were transported to Jingzhou by water, and sent a large amount of raw materials to Guan Yu who was building a ship.

Water and land were transported to Bashu to provide raw materials for Linqiong, which was preparing for the Northern Expedition, to manufacture a large number of water discharges (hydraulic blowing devices).

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

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

The development of Nanzhong gradually got on the right track, and the conflicts between Han and Yi were initially alleviated.

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

(End of this chapter)