Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 216 210. The Heroine Jumps into the River
"Your Majesty, this is easy. When the Shu army attacked Jingzhou in the past, Zhang Fei led a detachment to the south to capture Jiaozhou. In the long run, Jiaozhou has a hot environment and crops can be harvested three times a year. The Han army must want to use it as a granary to support its future northern expedition."

As the chief officer stationed in Jiaozhou before, Bu Zhi was quite familiar with the situation in Jiaozhou. Sun Quan nodded unconsciously after hearing Bu Zhi's reasonable analysis.

"However, the people of Jiaozhou are fierce and tough, with Han and Zhan people living together. The Zhan people have long refused to obey the king. We can follow the example of Cao Cao's farming in Hebei in the past, use our Jiangdong's influence in Jiaozhou, incite the Zhan people to rebel, harass Jiaozhou, and force the Shu army to spend energy to pay attention to Jiaozhou."

Otherwise, how can we say that things in the world are unpredictable? Even though they were thousands of miles apart, Bu Zhi and Sima Yi had the same ideas. However, Bu Zhi did not think about the Southern Barbarians, but the idea of ​​inciting Jiaozhou to rebel was surprisingly the same.

In the past, when Cao Cao had just conquered Hebei, he ordered Xiahou Dun to establish military farms in Hebei. During this period, the military farmers rebelled many times, causing Hebei to become a mess, which took up a lot of Cao Wei's attention and manpower.

Bu Zhi’s intention now was very simple, which was to turn Jiaozhou into Hebei of Ji Han.

"Will the Cham people really listen to us?"

Sun Quan was somewhat skeptical. Since the Cham people and the Han people did not get along, would they listen to the Eastern Wu and go against the Han army?

"The Cham people are short-sighted and hope to secede from Jiaozhou. We just need to encourage the Cham tyrants to believe that the Shu army is weak at this time, and they will naturally compete to rebel, just to be the local emperor of their Cham tribe."

Bu Zhi smiled sinisterly. The Cham tribe was indeed a bomb that did not obey the orders of the Eastern Wu, but was it important? As long as it did not bomb the Eastern Wu, it was none of their business. The Han army would always be the ones who had a headache.

"In that case, I'll leave this matter to you, Zishan."

When Sun Quan heard Bu Zhi's solemn promise, he simply decided not to bother two masters and let Bu Zhi handle it. Bu Zhi had no objection, as he had been in charge of Jiaozhou for a long time and had some connections. It would be very easy for him to incite the local powerful families.

"My king! My king! Something bad has happened!"

Just as the court meeting was about to end, a guard suddenly shouted and tried to rush into the meeting room, but was stopped by the guards as expected.

"How dare you! The masters are discussing state affairs, how can you allow a servant like you to shout here?!"

Seeing the guard being so rude, Zhang Zhao couldn't help but scold him. But the guard acted as if he didn't hear anything and actually started crying.

"Your Majesty! The young lady... the young lady..."

"What happened to Xiang'er? Did she beat someone again?"

Sun Quan felt a headache when he heard the guards calling her "Miss". His sister was known for her toughness before she got married, and after returning to Jiangdong, her unreasonable temper became even worse. She would smash vases and decorations in the house at any time, and even whip the servants for no reason.

Seeing the guard's behavior, Sun Quan thought that Sun Shangxiang had done something out of line again, and the guard wanted him to clean up the mess quickly.

"No, no, my king! The young lady...she jumped into the river!"

"Hey... isn't it just jumping into the river? Why are you yelling and hollering... jumping into the river?! What are you doing for a living?!"

Sun Quan was going to row over directly, but after thinking for a while, he realized what was going on and immediately stood up and was about to walk down. The guard at the door was very tactful and quickly released the guard, allowing him to enter the hall to talk to the King of Wei and Wu. "Your Majesty, the people have been talking about the death of the Han Emperor these past two days. The young lady heard about it and sent us to inquire about it. We told her about the death of the Han Emperor. Today, the young lady said she wanted to go out and relax, so we naturally did not dare to stop her. We followed her carriage to the riverside, but she suddenly told us, 'A loyal minister cannot serve two masters, and a woman cannot marry two husbands.' Then she...she jumped into the river, and we could not stop her..."

The guard knelt on the ground and told the whole story with sobs. Sun Quan finally understood. Since the Han and Wu fell out, it was impossible for Sun Shangxiang to return to Sichuan. Sun Quan always wanted to find another husband for Sun Shangxiang. After all, he couldn't live like this forever.

Although Sun Shangxiang was already married and Liu Bei did not divorce her, in theory the two were still married, but what was Sun Quan's status? If he was willing to put down his pride, there would be many people in Jiangdong who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to rise to the top.

Just kidding, "Auntie, I don't want to work hard anymore" is always useful in any era.

However, Sun Shangxiang had always been disgusted with her brother's matchmaking behavior. She told Sun Quan more than once that even if she could not return to Liu Bei, she did not want to marry anyone else. She even quarreled with Sun Quan several times over this.

But Wu Guotai had passed away long ago, and the eldest brother is like a father. Although Sun Quan always promised not to mention this matter again out of helplessness, it would happen again in a few days.

Now, just a few days ago, Sun Quan wanted to match Sun Shangxiang with a talented man from Jiangdong. Sun Shangxiang was already in a very bad mood, and now hearing the news of Liu Bei's death, Sun Shangxiang was so disheartened that she simply jumped into the river to express her loyalty.

"Idiot! Good-for-nothing! Good-for-nothing! Why don't you jump in with me? Why don't you just go to the river and save people instead of crying here?"

Sun Quan got angry when he saw the look on the guard's face. Why was he pretending here if he wasn't going to save anyone?

"My lord, we rescued her...but the place where the young lady went was very remote. We finally found a boat, and when we salvaged the young lady...she...she was already dead..."

The guards cried and explained that they were definitely not that stupid. After they found out Sun Shangxiang jumped into the river, they immediately went around to look for a boat and call for help. But since Sun Shangxiang was prepared, she naturally found a remote cliff and jumped down. If the guards hadn't stopped her, it would have been almost impossible to save her.

Sure enough, by the time the guards found the boat and salvaged Sun Shangxiang, almost an hour had passed and she was already dead.

"You're useless. Then why did you come back?"

After listening to the guard's explanation, Sun Quan's eyes were filled with endless anger. The guard was so scared that he kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Come here, this man neglected his duty, failed to provide assistance, and openly broke into the meeting hall. Drag him down and beat him to death. All the guards who went out with the young lady today should be killed and buried with him."

Sun Quan seemed to have calmed down. He didn't even look at the guards who were crying and kowtowing on the ground for mercy. He turned around coldly and walked back to his throne.

The ministers nearby naturally watched the show while keeping silent, for fear of accidentally offending the King of Wu.

Sun Quan returned to his throne and sat down, making the atmosphere in the meeting hall extremely depressing. No one in the huge hall dared to speak, and only the screams of the servant who was beaten to death could be heard in the hall.

"I feel lonely today, so let's stop here."

After a while, Sun Quan waved his hand, ignored the ministers below, and walked away. The ministers breathed a sigh of relief, dared not speak, and walked out quickly.

(End of this chapter)