The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 487 486 Expedition to Jiaozhou (4)

The Shijia almost monopolized the entire Jiaozhou. The most important thing is that the Shijia has a very good reputation in Jiaozhou, with a high reputation and a wide network of contacts. Even if Sun Quan wants to conquer Jiaozhou by force, he may not be able to completely own Jiaozhou.

In Sun Quan's view, it is obviously not feasible to seize Jiaozhou by force. The scholar family is deeply entrenched in Jiaozhou, and it is wishful thinking to uproot Jiaozhou.

For a while, Sun Quan was in trouble and didn't know how to act. It seemed that he had become a stalemate here.

Sun Quan worked so hard to bring the army to Jiaozhou. Who would have thought that he would encounter such a situation. Now he is neither retreating nor attacking. He is completely caught in a dilemma.

"Gongjin, Gongjin, if I knew what Jiaozhou was like, I would definitely not lead the army here easily. Now that I am in a dilemma, you have made me suffer." Sun Quan sighed heavily and frowned. Frowning, he said to himself.

When Sun Quan was at a loss, Zhu Huan quietly came to Sun Quan's side, holding a kit in his hand, and directly dedicated it to Sun Quan.

Sun Quan glanced at it and asked, "What is this?"

Zhu Huan said: "Before Chaisang left, the governor personally handed it over to the general. He said that he would wait until Jiaozhou and then hand it over to the lord. It will help the lord take over the entire Jiaozhou."

"Why didn't you take it out earlier?" Sun Quan complained to Zhu Huan while opening the kit, only to find a letter stuffed inside.

Sun Quan read the letter hastily, and after reading it, he laughed loudly and said, "Gongjin's ingenious plan is really powerful!"

It was Zhou Yu who suggested Sun Quan to attack Jiaozhou. Zhou Yu had coveted Jiaozhou for a long time. When Sun Ce was alive, he had suggested to Sun Ce the plan to attack Jiaozhou.But at that time, Jiangdong was caught in the double crisis of fierce battle with Shanyue and economic blockade, which made Sun Ce careless about other things, so the plan was temporarily shelved.

After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan fought a beautiful self-defense counterattack with the help of Zhou Yu, and won the battle. He also killed Chen Deng, which to a certain extent laid the foundation for Sun Quan's prestige in the hearts of the soldiers. .Afterwards, although Zhang Yan has not taken any action against Jiangdong, Jiangdong has a small area and is caught in the threat of Liu Biao and Zhang Yan. Moreover, during the economic crisis, the people in Jiangdong were lost seriously. If we do not expand the territory and expand the jurisdiction, Jiangdong It is very likely that it will gradually die out.

Under such a premise, Zhou Yu proposed to Sun Quan a plan to attack Jiaozhou, planning to use Jiaozhou as the rear base of Jiangdong.

Of course, it didn't happen overnight that Zhou Yu wanted to attack Jiaozhou. He also had a comprehensive understanding of Jiaozhou. He knew that the Shixie family's prestige and popularity in Jiaozhou could not be conquered by force.But Zhou Yu didn't explain all this to Sun Quan, but simply said that Jiaozhou had a lot of people and a small army, so he was no match for Jiangdong's army at all, and Jiaozhou could be easily taken down.

The reason why Zhou Yu said this on purpose and didn't tell Sun Quan the real truth was that he was worried that Sun Quan would not have the guts to break the boat. He could only trick Sun Quan to Jiaozhou now and explain the specific situation to him in detail. Moreover, Zhou Yu had already done so. With a series of plans, Sun Quan can easily control Jiaozhou.

Sun Quan cooperated with Zhou Yu's clever plan, and immediately acted according to Zhou Yu's plan.

Zhou Yu said in the letter that although the Shixie family was very prosperous in Jiaozhou, and the brothers and nephews of the clan all served as prefects and held important positions in various counties, not all members of the family were as generous and powerful as Shixie. It was only under the constraints of Shi Xie that the Shi family clan became law-abiding. There was no phenomenon of bullying men and women, let alone oppressing the common people.

However, no one is perfect, and gold has no bare feet. As long as you secretly collect the characters and preferences of the scholars' family members, you can match them up. The nature of the scholar family was exposed and they did those illegal things.In this way, we can seize the handle of the scholar family, threaten the members of the scholar family, and force them to submit.If the members of the Shi family are unwilling to submit, then these things will be magnified infinitely, and the reputation of the Shi family in Jiaozhou will inevitably be affected.

And Zhou Yu clearly told Sun Quan in the letter, don't think about the time issue, stay in Jiaozhou as long as you can, and must win Jiaozhou at all costs.However, you must know how to use kindness and power together, and when necessary, you can go to meet with Shi Xie in person, because to win Jiaozhou, you still have to rely on the people of the Shi family. After all, the Shi family has been in Jiaozhou for many years, and it cannot be removed overnight.

Sun Quan followed Zhou Yu's plan completely, summoning Han Dang, Huang Gai, Zhu Huan, Pan Zhang, Tan Xiong, Ling Cao, Zhu Ran and other generals. Infiltrated into the seven counties of Jiaozhou, and began to secretly collect the hobbies of everyone in the Shi family except Shi Xie.

For Sun Quan, this is a long-term plan, and it will waste at least a month, and it may take longer.Sun Quan was sitting in Longchuan County, and the magistrate of Longchuan County had clearly expressed his surrender to Sun Quan, and told Sun Quan everything he knew about the Shi family.

There are four Shi Xie brothers. Shi Xie is the eldest son and grandson of the family. The other three younger brothers are Shi Yi, the prefect of Hepu, Shi Jiu, the prefect of Jiuzhen, and Shi Wu, the prefect of Nanhai. Because of Shi Xie's influence, Shi Yi's character and temperament are similar to Shi Xie's.The third younger brother, Shi Jiu, has a relatively weak personality. Although he is quite a bachelor, he is timid and afraid of getting into trouble.

In terms of personality, Shi Wu is the most different from Shi Xie. As the name suggests, Shi Wu has an unusually violent personality. He is a half-brother with Shi Xie. He is also about ten years younger than Shi Xie, and he is naturally fond of dancing. He is famous for being good with guns, competitive and aggressive.

Shi Wu is not afraid of anything, but he doesn't know the reason. Shi Wu is only afraid of his elder brother Shi Xie, and he is very afraid of him. He can only do what Shi Xie said.So even though Shi Wu had a violent personality, under Shi Xie's restraint and discipline, he behaved quite well, at least he didn't make any major mistakes.

Among Shi Xie's three sons, the eldest son, Shi Zhi, was lustful, and the second son, Shi Hui, was fond of gambling. Only the third son, Shi Gan, had a higher moral character, reminiscent of his father's legacy.

Sun Quan had a certain understanding of the people of the Shi family, so he began to think about how to arrange the layout, find out the handles of the Shi family, and then force them to submit.

Half a month later, the rest of the generals sent people back and reported to Sun Quan the situation of the family members of the scholars under surveillance. , very high moral character.

Shiwu is brave and ruthless, Shiqi is lustful, and Shihui likes to gamble, which is basically consistent with what the Longchuan county magistrate said.Therefore, Sun Quan decided to remove the people who monitored Shiyi, Shiqi, and Shigan, and strengthen them to Shiwu, Shiying, and Shihui, and focus on finding breakthroughs from these three people.

After that, Sun Quan's subordinates closely monitored Shi Wu, Shi Ji, and Shi Hui, and at the same time Sun Quan also thought about how to deal with these three people.

Sun Quan's first attack was Shiwu, who was the prefect of the South China Sea, and his government was located in Panyu City, which was relatively close to Longchuan City, so Sun Quan could come to command in person.

After Sun Quan arrived in Panyu City, he bought a servant in the prefect's mansion with a lot of money, and asked the servant to inform him about the itinerary of Shiwu.

In the afternoon of the same day, the servant came to inform Sun Quan that Shiwu was going to go hunting tomorrow, and the location was chosen in Panshan outside Panyu.

After Sun Quan got the news, he arranged for Han Dang and Huang Gai to pretend to be woodcutters according to the characteristics of soldiers and warriors, and to sneak into Fanshan first.

Early the next morning, Shiwu rode a war horse alone and left Panyu City with a bow and arrow.

Panshan is in the south of Panyu City, and the law and order in Panyu is good. The people in the territory live and work in peace and contentment, and there are no robbers, so soldiers and soldiers don't need to consider safety issues at all.In addition, Shiwu is brave and ruthless, and he believes that his force is high, so he is not afraid of someone assassinating him at all.

Because of this, Shiwu would choose to hunt alone, and his subordinates did not dare to disobey, otherwise, they would be severely punished.

Shi Wu rode his war horse, and soon came to the foot of Fanshan Mountain, and then rode on the horse, and walked on the road up the mountain.

The Daoist Wu has walked this mountain for more than a thousand times, and he is also very familiar with Fanshan, and even knows every plant and tree in the mountain like the back of his hand.

And for the sake of beauty, Shiwu asked people to plant a lot of kapok on the mountain for viewing. From March to April every year, when the kapok blooms, the top of Fanshan is colorful and beautiful, it is like a sea of ​​flowers.

It's a pity that it's October now, and the kapoks on Fanshan Mountain don't bloom, which also lacks a sense of beauty.

This season, it is almost cold in the north, but because Panyu City is located in the south, the temperature is higher, and the weather at this time is still like early summer.

Shiwu walked aimlessly on the road up the mountain, looking around for the prey in the mountain. Over the years, he almost killed all the birds and beasts in Fanshan, so every year Shiwu would capture some wild animals from other places and raise them in Fanshan. In the mountains, for hunting in autumn.

Shiwu has a base on the mountain that specializes in raising wild animals. At this time, he is going to that base, and then let people release the wild animals for him to play.

When he was halfway up the mountain, Shi Wu suddenly heard a sound of fighting. He hastily reined in his horse, stopped to listen, and then walked in the direction of the sound. After walking less than a hundred meters into the woods, he saw a In an open place, two people dressed as woodcutters were fighting with sharp knives in their hands, and the fight was inseparable. Every move and style was extremely rare. In his opinion, these two people were the masters of the world.

(End of this chapter)