Three Kingdoms: The Guan Family's Rebellious Son, Long Blessing Jing Xiang

Chapter 316 Three pillars, only this situation is balanced

——The balance of the Soochow factions has shifted.

Lu Xun's words are by no means a random fabrication, let alone alarmist talk.

He had talked with Guan Lin about this matter, 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 his father and brother's business, the contradictions in Soochow became increasingly fierce, internal and external troubles...

However, the "Huaisi Expedition" faction under him was so powerful that even after his Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, he still dared to abolish the establishment, 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 to the throne.

All these made Sun Quan extremely jealous...and made his teeth itch with hatred.

Therefore, Sun Quan used the superficially benevolent, but dark and ruthless means. After ten years, with the secret help of the Soochow family, he finally...killed or imprisoned ten meritorious generals, which weakened the Huaisi conquest faction. , leaving Soochow with only the voice of Sun Zhongmou.

Coupled with the support of the Huaisi Liuyu faction and the three factions, one draws in, one supports, and one suppresses...the situation in Soochow maintains an unusual balance.

But things are different now.

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

Therefore, he was forced to use his relatives, and reuse his most beloved concubine, Bu Lianshi, and Bu Zhi. He wanted to support the Bu clan of his relatives, and cultivated a powerful force of foreign relatives who lived with Huaisi and lived with Wu Jun. The big families are divided into courts.

no matter where...

No matter what the situation is, the three-legged situation is often the most stable and balanced, and it is the most secure position for Sun Quan.

But an accident happened when Bu Zhi died in Yulin, Jiaozhou...

The strength of the relatives that had been supported with great difficulty disintegrated overnight...

The three-legged confrontation within Soochow... suddenly couldn't stand up!
The growth of the Huaisi Liuyu School and the major families of Soochow is already challenging Sun Quan's check and balance on Jiangdong.

Therefore, new opportunities arise at the historic moment.

now…

Lu Xun is eloquently narrating his views on the changes in the current situation in Soochow that he discussed with Guan Lin.

Carefully point out to Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang.

"For so many years, Sun Quan's checks and balances have always been the same as before. Weaken whoever is strong, support whoever is weak, always maintain three forces, and let them fight. On the contrary, Sun Quan uses their struggle to mediate among them. , reaping the benefits of being a fisherman, making his position more and more stable...so..."

Lu Xun's gaze was 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 from the Huaisi Conquest Department to check and balance the aristocratic families of Soochow! Based on this, At this point in time, if we can win Zhou Xun and the Zhou family, it will be the best opportunity to strengthen the Zhou family and plant a force for us in Soochow!"

"What's more, this boy Zhou Xun is very popular with Sun Quan, and he has repeatedly praised him for his father's style... It was mentioned earlier that he wanted to marry him and Sun Luban, the eldest daughter of Bu Lianshi... It can be seen that from the beginning of the morning, Sun Quan I intend to keep this force behind, this is to prevent it from happening... and to support the descendants of the conquest faction at any time, to check and balance other forces, and to maintain the three-legged situation of Soochow!"

Following Lu Xun's words, Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang finally realized why Master Yunqi's deployment of "Hongyan" was to give priority to attracting Zhou Xun and strengthening the Zhou family.

Wanting to understand this verse, the two bowed their hands to Lu Xun: "If it wasn't for General Lu's words, I would have almost missed a big deal! I almost misunderstood Mr. Yunqi..."

"Do as he ordered..." Lu Xun turned his head and stared deeply at the waterway leading to Soochow, and said with emotion: "At least until now, he has never made a decision on how to deal with Soochow. Never had a single omission…”

Talking here, it seems that the topic has come to an end, the final chapter.

Sun Ru walked up to his younger brother Sun Shao at the right time, arranged his clothes and hair bun, and then slowly took out a letter from his bosom, handed it to his younger brother Sun Shao, and said solemnly: "This is Mother's handwritten letter, maybe... it will be of great use to you "Hongyan" in the process of winning Zhou Xun's support..."

The mother of Sun Shao and Sun Ru is Da Qiao...

Zhou Xun's mother is Xiao Qiao. Although the pair of sisters haven't seen each other for many years, they still miss each other.

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

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 hands.

"Thank you third sister, thank you brother-in-law... and thank you too... Mr. Yunqi!"

Lu Xun reminded again and again: "The Shixie family in Jiaozhou and Mr. Yunqi are inseparable, and Han Xuanhan in Changsha County is also his own. If Hongyan encounters any difficult problems, it happens suddenly, and Jingzhou is too far away, you can go first. Ask for help from the Shixie family in Jiaozhou and Elder Han in Changsha County... Mr. Yunqi has specifically explained to them that they will all help!"

With this faint words came out.

Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang's last worries and confusion disappeared in an instant...disappeared!
They didn't know what to say or how to express it, so they could only bow and salute again to express the throbbing in their hearts.

"All right…"

Lu Xun patted Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang on the shoulders, "I should go too, we all have our own missions, I just hope that when we meet next time, the swan geese will no longer go to Wuhen, but the swan geese will fly south, and the swan geese will take the lead." !"

Then...

The four of them bid farewell solemnly at this port, and Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang's awning boat left first, heading home.

Not long after, Guan Lin's fleet also set sail, carrying the mood of avenging "Lao Tzu", and leaving across the river——

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On the official road leading to Shouchun City from Langya Kingdom.

"Hahaha…"

Cao Cao's self-satisfied laughter came from the carriage, and he was laughing heartily.

Cheng Yu had an air of admiration for Cao Cao, and he said with emotion, "Sure enough, the Prime Minister knows Guan Yu best... As the Prime Minister said, then Guan Yu really went to attack Fancheng."

"It's just a pity..." Cao Zhi added: "It's a pity that Uncle Zixiao, General Xu Huang, and General Pang De were unable to kill Guan Yu. No thief... It's not just Fancheng that was defended. It's coming back!"

"It's not surprising." Cao Cao waved his hand in relief as expected, and he sat in the carriage, explaining in a good mood: "After all, it's Guan Yunchang. After Lu Bu, Yunchang's martial arts are the best in the world. , Zixiao just woke up, how can he use his full strength? Gongming was frustrated beforehand, and he is afraid that [-]% of his strength is good! Only Pang Lingming alone is not enough to capture him... but Lingming can shoot a poisoned arrow It is not easy to hurt him!"

Just now, on the official road...

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

Xiangfan's predicament was easily solved.

In addition, there are three "little things".

One is the return of Sima Yi, who was sent to Jiaozhou as an envoy by Lu Xun and sent to Anlu City in Jiangxia.

There was no torture or torture, and he was released directly.

The second is that the father and son Zhu Ling and Zhu Shu were awarded the first meritorious service by Guan Yubiao in the previous Jiangxia battle, and sent their meritorious deeds to Chengdu.

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

In Jiangxia, it was he who set fire to [-] Cao Jun!

In Xiangfan and Huainan, he was also the one who created the damned 'burning pot' to burn Cao Jun's camp!
This made Cao Cao completely surprised, and he said... I missed it!
Of course, these are "subsections"

At this moment, the topic of conversation among the few people in the carriage was still about Guan Yu's defeat by the arrow.

Cao Cao didn't seem to mind Guan Yu fleeing back to Jiangling at all, he just narrowed his eyes and said with emotion: "At least Xiangfan is stable, which also allows Gu and Da Wei to breathe a sigh of relief."

The implication is that the significance of this great victory is to buy enough time for Cao Cao to deal with internal affairs!
For example, one of the most important items is the procedure for changing the name of Dahan's "fangben" to Dawei.

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

Following Cao Cao's words, Cheng Yu said with emotion: "In these years, the prime minister has fought in the south and the north, and Wei really needs some time to recuperate... Guan Yu was hit by an arrow, and the Guan family army suffered heavy losses. This has indeed bought a lot of time for Wei to rest!"

In fact, besides Cao Cao, Cheng Yu is the most wise...

The impact of the failure of the [-] army's southern expedition is not insignificant!

Cheng Yu can already feel and realize...

Cao Cao has completely given up the idea of ​​ruling the world, he has already felt that at his age...

Under the current situation of Great Wei, unifying the world has become an extravagant hope.

But...Zhu Ling and his son and Sima Yi...

Cheng Yu changed the subject, "It's hard to guard against family thieves by day and night, but I never thought that Jiang Xia's defeat this time started from inside and ended inside. The prime minister treated Zhu Ling and his son well, but they..."

Before Cheng Yu could finish speaking...

Cao Cao stretched out his hand to signal Cheng Yu to stop talking, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he muttered:
"That Guan Jiashiro is full of tricks, and when it comes to the means of attacking the mind, he is comparable to Zhuge Kongming and Zhou Gongjin!"

"With the existing information, it is impossible to judge whether Zhu Ling and his son are really two-faced and three-faced people, but this Guan Lin rewarded Zhu Ling and his son, and asked Yun Chang to perform miraculous achievements to Liu Beibiao. The Ling father and son will suffer endless hatred from Cao Wei's soldiers!"

"So and so, no matter who Zhu Ling and his son were loyal to before? Now, their father and son have no choice. Even if it was a false surrender in the past, today it will become a real surrender, a sincere surrender. Is this Guan Lin provoking Gu? !"

This…

Cheng Yu paused, but did not continue.

On the contrary, Cao Cao brought the topic to Zhu Ling and his son, which seemed to open Cao Cao's chatterbox. He asked Cao Zhi, "Zijian, I'm just asking you, what do you think of Guan Lin releasing Sima Zhongda?"

this…

Cao Zhi paused for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he met his father Cao Cao's eyes directly, "As my father said, Guan Lin is full of tricks. Put him back after being humiliated, I think... this is probably Guan Lin's plan..."

"Sima Yi is a wealthy family in Hanoi, and his relationship is intertwined. He has good friends with many ministers in the court. Sima Yi's father, Sima Fang, also recommended and supported his father when he was young... Therefore, this Guan Lin did not kill Sima Yi, on the contrary. Putting him back clearly made my father jealous of Sima Yi and the Sima family..."

"Then he added the crime to the Sima clan in Hanoi, and wanted to use his father's knife to kill Sima Yi, in order to make the Sima clan hate his father, and make those big families who had good relations with the Sima clan hate his father... This is called killing with a knife!"

Cao Zhi narrated his insights.

However, the more he talked about the back, the more timid he was. He glanced at his father Cao Cao from the corner of his eye, as if he was observing his expression, more like he was suspicious and could not be sure.

"Hahahahaha..."

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

Laughing for a long time...

Cheng Yu asked curiously, "Why is the Prime Minister laughing?"

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

Cao Cao looked at this son with affection and compassion, "Yang Xiu is good at revealing, and Sima Yi is good at hiding. I have already seen that Yang Xiu may be talented, but he is not suitable to assist you, but it is Sima Yi, whose assistance can make you happy." Zihuan is like a tiger with wings added!"

"In the past, Gu once asked Sima Yi, and asked him, what if he was allowed to assist Zijian? How? Who would have thought that he fell to his knees in horror, saying, 'The minister is mediocre, and cannot assist the Marquis of Pingyuan', and said, 'Pingyuan Hou, he will not let Sima Yi assist', let Gu Mingcha...hehe..."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao paused, "At that time Gu realized that Yang Dezu was no match for Sima Zhongda, and with Sima Zhongda's help, Zihuan had the upper hand in the fight for the throne , Zijian didn't suffer less, did he?"

"But just now, Gu asked Zijian, what do you think of Sima Yi's return? This is an excellent opportunity. If you want to get rid of that Sima Yi, you only need to speak to Gu. It's easy, but you... are as kind as ever! "

Cao Zhi looked at Cao Cao, and said hesitantly and energetically: "Father, no matter who is the son of the second brother or me, we are all brothers and sisters. My son really can't bear to have too many people die... under the struggle for the son... If... If because of the struggle between the sons and daughters, the great Wei is torn apart and the father's flesh and blood are slaughtered, then the child... the child would rather..."

"Shut up!" Cao Cao sternly said suddenly, "When will you understand why your father asked you to marry Cui Yan's daughter but gave Zhen Mi to your second brother? When will you understand why? Why did the father force you to fight for the position of son in this world!"

"Baby...baby..."

Before Cao Zhi could speak...Cao Cao shook his head, "You have what you lack the most as a father. Great Wei needed domineering and cruelty alone to set sail, but if Great Wei wants to last forever, he also needs your kindness..."

"I have killed millions of people, there is no chicken crowing for thousands of miles, and my bones are exposed in the wild. This is the pain I have to go through, but it is not the future I am looking forward to... I don't want to be in a hundred years or a thousand years, when everyone talks about the Great Wei. , all associate Great Wei with cruelty, and alone make people in the world afraid of Great Wei, but you are the only one who can make the world respect Great Wei, the burden on you, the burden of Great Wei's follow-up, is ten times heavier than the loneliness!"

Since ancient times, literature has followed martial arts, and recuperation has followed wars!

In fact, Cao Cao has realized that the unification of the world is not only impossible for his generation, but also difficult for the next two or three generations...

With three pillars standing together, this situation is still too stable!
In the future, it depends on the changes in the current situation, who is more popular, and who can make as few mistakes as possible!
Cao Cao is already 60 years old, there is not much he can do, he can only defend the existing territory of the Great Wei as solid as gold.

Leave the rest to posterity!

people... all of them...

When I was young, I didn't care about other people's opinions, and I was not afraid of others' words.

But the older he gets, the more he cares about these things, the records in the history books, what future generations think of him, and the evaluation of Wei!
"Where is Zijian, let the people in the world understand the real achievements of our Cao family. This burden is very heavy, very heavy! It is heavier than unifying the world!"

With Cao Cao's emphasis again.

This hero who looked down on the world, looking at his beloved son, was full of worry and helplessness, and his face was full of the feeling of an old father.

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

He finally understood why Cao Cao went all the way to invite Zang Ba out of the mountain in person!

This old man in his dying years, he wants to use the last of his face, reputation, and prestige to hire 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.

——"Gu is old, and Gu also knows that you are so righteous. Gu killed your elder brother Lu Fengxian. You will not sincerely work for Gu, so...Gu does not force..."

——"Xuan Gao, look at the brothers behind you. They used to follow you and follow Lu Fengxian to fight in the north and south, but now they are old. When they are alone, they can protect you, but after they die alone What about? Orphaned sons and grandchildren, can they protect you like an orphan? How will the sons and grandchildren of the brothers behind you deal with themselves? Are you going to hide in Mount Tai for the rest of your life?"

——"Help Gu, just think of it as helping your brothers and their descendants! Help Gu defend Nanyang, Nanyang is the southern capital, where there are thousands of miles of fertile land, mountains, rivers and great rivers, it is much more fertile and prosperous than Langya Kingdom Now, take your soldiers and horses, and all your people will move there. I don’t want you to expand the territory. As long as you can hold Nanyang, I’m willing to give you all of Nanyang and make it your vassal state. How about it? ?how?"

Cao Cao's words are completely sober...

His world has always been black and white. Since it cannot be unified, there are only two things left for him to do in the next few years.

One is to let Dawei go one step further.

Let all the procedures required for the "last step" be completed in advance, he Cao Cao does not need to take this step, but his descendants can take this step at any time if they want to!
Replace the big man and build a whole new order!

The second is to make Wei's frontier defense as stable as Mount Tai, as firm as a rock, so that the three-legged situation can be maintained.

——Cao Cao, this 60-year-old man!
Even if the head wind intensifies, even if he can feel the light and shadow that he has not had for a few years.

Yet he gave his all to his son;
dedicated to his people;

His big Wei!

To the world, he is cruel, but to Wei, his son, and his clan, he is the most lenient and the most conscientious one!
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(End of this chapter)