The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 388 Chapter 387
In Nancheng County, in the hall of the county government, Sun Quan was wearing an official robe, sitting there quietly looking at the official documents, raising a pen from time to time to circle the official documents.

Sun Quan, courtesy name Zhongmou, was the second son of Sun Jian and the second younger brother of Sun Ce.

Sun Quan was born with a purple beard and blue eyes, with shining eyes, a big mouth, and a majestic appearance that is different from ordinary people.Since childhood, he has both civil and military skills. In his early years, he fought with his father and brother in the world. He was very good at riding and shooting. He often hunted and shot tigers on horseback. He was very courageous.

After Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce, as the eldest brother, has been doing his best to take care of the whole family. Sun Ce has four younger brothers and one younger sister. The younger brother Sun Yi and the fourth younger brother Sun Kuang are brothers of his first-milk compatriots.

However, among the many siblings, Sun Ce's second brother, Sun Quan, was the one whom Sun Ce valued the most, and he had the best relationship with Sun Quan.

After Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, in order to practice Sun Quan, he appointed Sun Quan as the county magistrate of Nancheng County early.

At that time, Nancheng County was full of bandits, and the mountains were rampant. Sun Quan took only a hundred relatives to take office.At that time, the bandits and Shanyue in Nancheng County felt that Sun Quan was too young and incompetent, so they were very active and took this opportunity to intimidate Sun Quan.

Sun Quan broke the usual style of new officials taking office three times. Within three months, he did not issue a decree. The bandits in Nancheng County thought that Sun Quan was afraid of them, and committed crimes even more recklessly. Under the county seat, they demonstrated to Sun Quan, wanting Sun Quan to feel fear and leave by himself.

Just one hundred days after Sun Quan arrived in office, Sun Quan suddenly put on his horse and led a group of troops who did not know where they came from, and suddenly attacked the hinterland of the bandits. The bandits were negligent and caught off guard. During the battle, Sun Quan was captured and beheaded for public display.

This kind of thunder strike deterred bandits big and small in Nancheng County, and even Shanyue, who had always been a tough folk, was afraid of Sun Quan.

It turned out that after Sun Quan took office, he seemed to have done nothing on the surface, but in fact he secretly recruited [-] warriors and trained them secretly. Only then did he have an army capable of fighting.

However, Sun Quan's troops were small, and he could not start a large-scale battle with the bandits, so he could only rely on surprise attacks.Sun Quan sent people to infiltrate the bandit team and found out the location of the bandit leader, so he cooperated with the outside and wiped out the most powerful group of bandits in Nancheng County overnight.

Then, Sun Quan used the same method to kill 5000 bandits within three days, and the power shocked Nancheng. The bandits all left Nancheng County because they were afraid of Sun Quan. strength.

On the issue of dealing with Shanyue, Sun Quan’s approach is different from his elder brother Sun’s strategy. He advocates giving priority to appeasement and opposes the conquest of Shanyue. Maintaining friendly relations is the only way to benefit the stability of the region.

After that, Sun Ce accepted Sun Quan's opinion, formally ceased war with Shanyue, and agreed to non-aggression and equal treatment.

Because of this, the Jiangdong Sun family was able to get out of the quagmire of fighting Shanyue.

Later, Zhang Yan imposed economic sanctions on Jiangdong, which caused great panic to Jiangdong. After Sun Quan learned about it, he went to Sun Ce and suggested forming a caravan to go to Jingzhou and Jiaozhou for trade, so as to reverse the losses caused by economic sanctions to Jiangdong. , And advocated crossing the sea to the east of Liaodong, conducting secret trade with the Gongsun family, and buying horses from Liaodong.

Sun Ce passed Sun Quan's suggestion to Zhou Yu and asked Zhou Yu for his opinion. Zhou Yu felt that Sun Quan's opinion was in line with what he thought, and praised Sun Quan's resourcefulness. Sun Ce then ordered the formation of a caravan to conduct foreign trade, gradually turning around Zhang Yan. The loss caused by the implementation of economic sanctions to Jiangdong.

Although Sun Quan was extremely active, Sun Ce never rewarded Sun Quan, nor promoted Sun Quan. He was the magistrate of Nancheng for three years.

In the past three years, Sun Quan has also grown from an ignorant and immature boy to a promising young man who is civil and military, and manages Nancheng County in an orderly manner, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.In the past three years, Sun Quan presided over the construction of countless canals in Nancheng County, criss-crossing the entire county, irrigating the entire county's farmland, and increasing the county's grain production.

This is such a person, who is only 19 years old now, sitting in the hall and earnestly approving the official documents of the county.

At this time, a burly and well-built man strode into the hall from the outside. As soon as he entered the hall, he immediately presented a letter with his hands clasped together, saying, "My lord, urgent report from Nanchang!"

After hearing this, Sun Quan immediately put down his work, and hurriedly said to Zhu Huan who was standing in front of him, "Let me see it!"

This man's name was Zhu Huan, from Wu County, Wu County.

Zhu Huan was brave and good at fighting. He often took the lead and killed the enemy. He was the number one warrior around Sun Quan and also Sun Quan's confidant.

Zhu Huan handed the letter to Sun Quan's side. Sun Quan took the letter, opened it and read it quickly, his expressionless face suddenly looked extremely sad, and his hands were sweating profusely.

"My lord, did something important happen?" Seeing this, Zhu Huan asked hastily.

Sun Quan hurriedly said, "Get ready for the horse, I'm going to Nanchang!"

It was the first time Zhu Huan saw Sun Quan so nervous, knowing the seriousness of the matter, he turned around and left immediately after saying "Here".

Sun Quan clenched his fists tightly, held the letter tightly in his hands, and hurried out of the hall, looking particularly flustered.

When they arrived at the stable, Zhu Huan had already prepared the horses. Sun Quan walked up to the horses in three steps at a time. Immediately rode out.

Zhu Huan saw that Sun Quan was in such a hurry, and based on his understanding of Sun Quan, he knew that something must have happened.The letter came from Nanchang, and Sun Ce was training in Nanchang at this time, could it be that something happened to Sun Ce?
Zhu Huan didn't dare to think any more, he spat a few times, and smacked his mouth with his hand, cursing himself for talking nonsense with his stinking mouth.

Zhu Huan was worried about Sun Quan, so he also brought a horse from the stable, jumped on the horse, rode out, and when he left the gate of the county government, he told his subordinates to let Zhu Ran, the county magistrate, take charge of all affairs in the county.

After finishing the arrangement, Zhu Huan chased Sun Quan non-stop. After chasing for an hour, he finally caught up with Sun Quan.

When Sun Quan saw Zhu Huan coming, he didn't say anything. He was full of grief and indignation, and his eyes were already filled with tears. He and Zhu Huan went to Nanchang without sleep.

Nancheng County and Nanchang are only separated by one county, about [-] miles away. Sun Quan and Zhu Huan hurried on the road full of sadness. Nancheng County, which left Nancheng County at dusk, did not arrive at Nanchang City until the next morning.

As soon as he arrived in Nanchang City, Sun Quan couldn't wait to see Sun Ce. When he reached the gate of the government office, he was stopped by someone arranged by Zhou Yu.Sun Quan fought violently, wounded several gatekeepers, and broke into the government office clamoring.

Zhou Yu was in Sun Ce's room, and when he heard a loud noise coming from outside, he immediately went out to check what happened. When he saw Sun Quan coming, he turned around and let Sun Quan enter the room with him, while the rest stayed in the other courtyard. Outside, no one is allowed in without an order.

As soon as Sun Quan entered Sun Ce's room, he smelled a strong smell of herbs, which hit his face, making people extremely uncomfortable.

He resisted the pungent smell of medicine and walked quickly to the bedside. Seeing that Sun Ce was still unconscious, his face was black and blue, and the quilt covering his thighs was also stained with blood. He lifted a corner of the quilt I peeked around, but saw that the flesh on Sun Ce's thigh had rotted and exuded a strong stench.

When Sun Quan saw this, he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore, hot tears came out of his eyes, continuously flowing down his cheeks, dripping to the ground.

Seeing that Sun Quan was crying so hard, Zhou Yu hurried over and said to Sun Quan, "Zhongmou..."

"Has my brother been in a coma all this time?" Sun Quan asked, interrupting Zhou Yu's words.

Zhou Yu nodded.

"Did the assassin catch it? Who sent it?" Sun Quan asked again.

Zhou Yu was silent and just shook his head.

Sun Quan gritted his teeth with hatred and said: "Let me know who harmed my elder brother like this. I will make him die. I will skin him, constrict his tendons, drink his blood, and eat his flesh." ..."

Seeing this, Zhou Yu was also injured for a while.Since he and Sun Ce met, they have always been brothers and sisters. Sun Ce was assassinated and poisoned like this, and he felt uncomfortable.Moreover, he had to preside over the overall situation in grief, block the news, and not let outsiders know about Sun Ce's situation, otherwise, Jiangdong might cause panic.

The assassin was not caught, and Zhou Yu didn't know who was going to harm Sun Ce in this way. After all, when Sun Ce took down Jiangdong, he killed many people, and some of them died innocently because they refused to obey Sun Ce's orders...

Sun Ce's hands were covered with blood. Under Jiangdong ruled by an iron fist, there are many seeds of revenge hidden. There are too many uneasy factors.

Of course, it is also possible that the assassin came from outside. If it is a foreign assassin, then it must have something to do with Zhang Yan. Sun Ce is a thorn in Zhang Yan's side, a thorn in his flesh. Since he can't get rid of Sun Ce head-on, he sent someone to assassinate him. It was too insidious.

At this time, Zhou Yu was in no mood to think about who the murderer was. No matter who the murderer was behind the scenes, Sun Ce would die because of it.Poor Sun Ce is in his prime, but he doesn't want to encounter such an accident...

Zhou Yu stopped being hypocritical, and said to Sun Quan straight to the point: "Zhongmou, my lord doesn't have much time left. Jiangdong can't be left alone for a day. You are my lord's younger brother, and you are also the most important one before my lord's life. I hope you Can turn grief into strength, succeed the lord, and prop up the sky in Jiangdong!"

(End of this chapter)