Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 818 Who wants to surrender?

There are many advisers in Jiangdong, but most of them are Jiangdong nobles, and they don't really deal with Zhang Zhao. So someone came out and said: "As soon as Zhang Changshi arrived, Fierce Tiger launched an attack. Did Chang Shi attack Fierce Tiger?" What was promised?”

Everyone looked a little ugly, wondering, are you implying that Zhang Zhao was instigated by Sun Quan, or are you saying that Zhang Zhao betrayed Sun Quan?

When they looked closely and saw that the person who spoke was Yu Fan, they immediately showed a clear look. According to this person's personality, it is indeed possible that he would say such a thing.

Yu Fan, courtesy name Zhongxiang, was the son of Yu Xin, the prefect of Rinan. He was initially a meritorious service to Wang Lang, the prefect of Kuaiji. At that time, Sun Ce attacked Wang Lang. Yu Fan followed Wang Lang despite his father's death and never left him. Later, Wang Lang was defeated several times and Yu Fan returned. The family supported his mother, and Yu Fan had just returned home.

Later, Sun Ce defeated Wang Lang and captured him alive. He admired a tough-tempered man like Yu Fan, so he personally visited him to ask him to be his meritorious officer.

Among the Jiangdong scholars, some people disliked Yu Fan, but others admired him. After all, many of Sun Quan's officials had served under Wang Lang, and they were considered a considerable force. Now some people stood up and agreed.

As a result, the Jiangbei scholars from Zhang Zhao's faction were unhappy, and the two sides started quarreling.

But Zhou Yu sneered in his heart. The counselors only knew the first level, but did not know the second level. In Zhou Yu's eyes, Yu Fan was actually from the same faction as Zhang Zhao. Now that he said this, it may not be the opposite. And do it to exonerate Zhang Zhao.

Because Zhou Yu believed that Yu Fan was also a capitulator.

When Sun Ce attacked Wang Lang, Yu Fan also persuaded Wang Lang to surrender. This was a typical style of the local Jiangdong gentry who did not want to do anything if they could not be defeated. It was different from semi-outsiders like Zhou Yu.

Although Zhou Yu was also a representative of the Jiangdong gentry, and he and Zhang Zhao were both from Lujiang, and were technically from Jianghuai, he turned to the Jiangdong gentry because of his attachment to Sun Ce.

There are many factions among the Jiangdong nobles. Sun Ce re-employed Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu to suppress and divide the local Jiangdong nobles like Lu family and Yu Fan.

Moreover, Yu Fan was very loyal to his successor, Wang Lang. Wang Lang was from Donghai County, Xuzhou and was born in the Central Plains. His successor was Taiwei Yang Ci, the father of Taiwei Yang Biao. Therefore, Wang Lang was more loyal to the Han Dynasty than Jiangdong. Even after being captured, Sun Ce refused to surrender and was exiled.

In Zhou Yu's view, the composition of Jiangdong officials today is extremely complex. Each person has one mind and one mind, and people's hearts are not aligned at all. In addition, in order to complete Sun Ce's entrustment, Zhou Yu has to pinch his nose and cooperate with capitulation factions like Zhang Zhao. This makes Zhou Yu think about it. I just feel tired.

After hearing the news about Yuan Xi's dispatch of troops, Zhou Yu once thought that Zhang Zhao had made his own decision and colluded with Fierce Tiger in private. But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was impossible because Zhang Zhao would be too crazy to do so unless he I don’t want to go back to Jiangdong again!

In the end, Zhou Yu vaguely guessed the truth of the matter. Zhang Zhao should have been detained by Yuan Xi. Taking advantage of the time difference in the transmission of the news, he tied Jiang Dong to his chariot to create momentum for Yuan Xi to attack Cao Cao's formation!

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu secretly scolded Yuan Xi for being cunning and lacking the grace of a scholar to negotiate!

However, even if Zhou Yu understood the inside story, he did not intend to say anything.

Because he got along with Sun Quan these days, he found that Sun Quan's personality was very different from that of Sun Ce. Although Sun Ce did things violently, he always killed people openly and honestly, but Sun Quan was different. He was very thoughtful, kept many words in his heart, and was suspicious of others. Especially.

In particular, Zhou Yu was in charge of foreign affairs, which focused on military affairs. His public remarks about his ministers were likely to displease Sun Quan, so Zhou Yu was very cautious about speaking out on such matters.

But Zhou Yu didn't say anything, so someone naturally tried to smooth things over. Lu Su stood up and said, "Zhong Xiang, Zibu is on an envoy to Jiangdong. Maybe he is in jail. It's not what he thought."

Lu Su has always been kind. Although he is from the same hometown as Zhou Yu, he is low-key and has a good reputation among Jiangdong scholars. Therefore, as soon as he persuaded Yu Fan, he stopped talking.

Lu Su turned to Sun Quan and remonstrated: "My lord Mingjian, Zhang Changshi had just arrived in Shouchun, and within a day or two, the fierce tiger immediately sent out troops. How could the peace talks between the two sides be so fast?"

"According to the lower official's guess, Fierce Tiger probably took advantage of the lord's good intentions in the peace talks, and sent troops north without paying any attention to the outcome of the negotiations."

"In this way, the whole world feels that Jiang Dong has joined forces with him. This not only strengthens his momentum for sending troops, but also leaves no room for mediation between Jiang Dong and Cao Ying. It is beneficial and harmless to Fierce Tiger, so this situation, It must have been intentional."

When the officials of Zhang Zhao's faction heard this, they also had bitter looks on their faces, because no one expected that Fierce Tiger would be so cruel and dare to detain Zhang Zhao!

The key point is that Zhang Zhao is still their leader. Among the Jiangdong factions, he is the one who can best talk to Cao Ying. Now that he is detained, the Jiangbei scholars are leaderless. How can they explain it to Cao Cao?

Sun Quan also had an angry look on his face. He punched the table in front of him and said angrily: "This ferocious tiger is so cunning. I, Jiangdong, have suffered losses at his hands several times. Isn't there any other way to deal with him?" Everyone They looked at each other in confusion for a moment, wondering if Sun Quan still didn't give up now that the situation was like this?

Jiangdong had just suffered a major defeat and many generals were injured. No matter how they looked at it, everyone felt that it was time to make peace with Fierce Tiger and recuperate for a while. However, listening to Sun Quan's tone, they were still unwilling to accept it and seemed to be quite resentful?

This is not what a qualified lord would do. As a lord, he should be able to bend and stretch, and the most important thing is to preserve the foundation. But this second son of the Sun family is a little blinded by hatred.

But when it comes to hatred, Cao Ying, who is most suspected of Sun Ce's death, should be called an enemy, right?

Some people's minds started to change. Could it be that Sun Quan and Sun Ce didn't have a good relationship?

Mrs. Wu was sitting at the back. She lowered her head slightly and covered most of her face with a round fan. Although she knew that the officials below did not have the courage and would not look at her regardless of etiquette, she still did not want others to see her unconscious face. A smile.

Thinking of what Yuan Xi had done, she unconsciously raised the corners of her mouth, thinking that this man remained the same as before, he was really wilted and bad.

Mrs. Wu actually regretted coming back. Although she saw Sun Ce for the last time, what happened after that was something she could not expect.

Sun Quan is much more powerful than he thought, and he has grown much faster. In a short period of time, he was able to integrate all the forces in Jiangdong and launch such a war. It can be seen that Sun Quan is a man with great ambitions. As a mother, he is Misreading.

But the bad thing is that he chose the wrong opponent. Although Yuan Xi is a few years older than Sun Quan and a younger generation of the same age as Sun Ce, he is experienced and careful in his actions. Even the princes of the previous generation cannot get favors from him. Go, why is Sun Quan so anxious to stroke his beard?

In fact, in Mrs. Wu's view, Jiangdong was far from having no worries and could go all out to attack foreign countries. Whether it was Yuzhou, Shanyue, the coast or Jiaozhou, there were too many places for progress. However, Sun Quan believed that If Lujiang and Jingzhou are allowed to be acquired, this will offend many people and create many enemies, which is extremely detrimental to Jiangdong, which is in urgent need of development.

At that time, the only prosperous land in Jiangdong was the riverside area hundreds of miles south of the Yangtze River. In addition, there were large areas of mountainous forest land, and agricultural technology was not developed. However, it has gradually improved over the years, also because of many Jiangbei craftsmen. They fled to Jiangdong and taught them more advanced farming techniques.

According to what Mrs. Wu saw and heard in Youzhou, Jiangdong's farming and water conservancy technology was not as good as Yuan Xi's Youzhou. If they continued the overall offensive, they would be abandoning the good and completely giving up Jiangdong's advantage of being far away from the war.

Therefore, in Mrs. Wu's view, Jiangdong should seize this rare opportunity to hide its capabilities and bide its time, learn from Youzhou to develop maritime shipbuilding, and carry out trade, so that Jiangdong can become rich and have more choices in the future.

But when Mrs. Wu returned to Jiangdong with this idea and wanted to put it into practice, she found that Sun Quan had completely different ideas from her, and his tactics were beyond her expectations, and he was intentionally or unintentionally trying to seduce her.

Mrs. Wu was also very helpless about this. Sun Quan was also her son after all. Even if she had the means, she couldn't use it on him. What's more, she might not be able to fight this son now.

So Mrs. Wu was already discouraged and wanted to forget about it. Sun Quan's defeat gave her a chance to get back to the front, but she also had to deal with the aftermath. Thinking of this, Mrs. Wu felt a little tired.

She thought about it and said, "The current situation is not bad for Jiangdong, right?"

"The ferocious tiger is not using troops against Jiangdong. Let's just wait and see what happens. It doesn't seem to be bad."

Mrs. Wu's words actually represent the thoughts of many people. If you can't win, you have to smash your eggs against the stone. The previous battle of Chaohu, where the soldiers and generals were lost, has seriously damaged the vitality of each family.

When it comes to where to launch a campaign, it is most closely related to the local nobles. Jiangdong may be the best in the world, because the military expenses for the Jiangdong campaign, from the army to the food and grass, are almost all paid by the Jiangdong family.

Unlike Yuan Xi who used Youzhou public land as a backing and Cao Cao's farming, almost all the land in Jiangdong is in the hands of aristocratic families, and most of the soldiers are private soldiers and domestic slaves of the powerful clans. Opinions are very closely related.

In the Battle of Chaohu, which devastated Jiangdong, more than half of the warships were private ships owned by Jiangdong's wealthy family, and many of the soldiers were slaves of the family, so their combat capabilities were uneven. They only had the numbers, but they could not become the backbone of the force.

The hundreds to thousands of private soldiers led by various Jiangdong generals are the key to determining victory or defeat. Excluding the factors of weapons and armor, they are not much worse than the Youzhou soldiers individually, but the Youzhou soldiers are all elite soldiers, and Jiangdong elite soldiers They do not have an advantage in numbers, and on the other hand they have to be held back by a large number of their own slave soldiers. After the defeat is established, even these elite soldiers will have no way to save the day in a deadly fight.

Moreover, after the First World War, these elite private soldiers also suffered heavy losses and were in urgent need of training new soldiers to make up for it. Therefore, Jiang Dong's voice for peace became the mainstream, and Sun Quan was forced to send Zhang Zhao to negotiate for peace.

But Zhou Yu was a little distracted at this time. When he saw Mrs. Wu mentioning the word "ferocious tiger", her eyes obviously curved in an arc, and suddenly his heart hurt for no reason.

There must be something inside of this!

There may be something inside that you can’t even imagine!

(End of this chapter)