Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 443 Wu Guotai

"Thank you, Lord Long En!" Bu Zhi Xie En got up and stood in front of Li Song, and Li Song asked Bu Zhi to remove all the handcuffs and ankles on his body.

"The lonely king still wants you to be the governor of Jiaozhou. As long as you do well, the lonely king will reward you!" Li Song said. Bu Zhi has been in Jiaozhou for several years, and no one is more familiar with the situation in Jiaozhou than him.

Not bothering the two masters with one thing, giving way to Bu Zhi and continuing to be the governor of Jiaozhou, can also let people see their trust in him, as the saying goes, there is no need to suspect people.

"The minister must be the King Yongzhen Jiaozhou." Bu Zhi hurriedly expressed his opinion.

"Tomorrow, you will go back to Jiaozhou and give Shi Xie a word." Li Song said, although Bu Zhi stayed in the prison for a while, he was not harmed, just take a rest, Li Song let him go tomorrow Depart back to Jiaozhou.

"I don't know what the king's minister would say to Shi Xie?" Bu Zhi saluted respectfully.

"Tell Shi Xie that the lonely king is waiting for a high position in Chang'an, and when he comes, the lonely king still has millions of soldiers waiting by the side of Jiaozhou." Li Song said.

First bring Shi Xie to Chang'an, and then disperse all Shi Xie's clansmen, and distribute them to places where the children of poor families are prevalent. All the clans here have disappeared.

Even now, one-third of the officials in the court are from poor families, which cuts off the situation where the aristocratic family controls the court.

"Promise! I will bring the king's oral order to Shi Xie." Bu Zhi said, he understood Li Song's meaning, if Shi Xie dared to refuse, the iron cavalry of Li Song's army would be waiting for Shi Xie's clan.

Li Song got up and left, Bu Zhi was also released after Li Song left, and hurried back to Jiaozhou the next day.

In Jiangdong Wu County, in Wuhou's mansion, Sun Quan was strolling in the mansion. After walking, he arrived at the backyard where Wu Guotai was, so he walked in.

"Zhongmou, why do you have time to visit my old lady today?" Although Wu Guotai lives in the backyard, she is not deaf to what is going on outside the window. She still has some understanding of the current situation. Seeing that Sun Quan does not deal with military and state affairs, she comes to see her instead. Own.

Sun Quan sighed and shook his head endlessly!Seeing that Quan was like this, Wu Guotai asked, "Zhongmou, I don't know what you have in mind. I see that you are restless and restless?"

Quan said: "Now, Li Song has sent millions of troops across the river again. He wants to seize my Sun family's foundation. I am afraid that Li Song will not allow it, so I am hesitant."

"Now that Gong Jin is not here, who can we discuss foreign affairs with?" Sun Quan helped Wu Guotai to sit down, and he sat opposite Wu Guotai, who asked Sun Quan.

Sun Quan shook his head. Originally, even if Zhou Yu was not alive, there were still Lu Meng and Lu Xun in the army who could take up this important role. Unfortunately, they have already fallen into the hands of Li Songjun, and now there is no news of them.

The current generation of generals is basically a group of second-generation generals. Needless to say, they are brave in battle, but none of them can replace Zhou Yu and support the six counties of Jiangdong with him.

"Originally there were Lu Meng and Lu Xun, but these two were captured in the early years, and they still don't know whether they are dead or alive. No one can be like Gong Jin." Sun Quan said.

"It's so, in my old age's opinion, why don't you surrender! Maybe you can save the Sun family and the people, Zhang Zhao is also urging you to surrender!" Wu Guotai said.

Zhang Zhao has always advocated surrender and is a representative of the Surrender Sect. He was the one who advocated surrender the first two times, but he was stopped by Lu Su and Zhou Yu. This is a well-known fact, how could Wu Guotai not know.

This time was different from the previous ones. The reason why they were able to stop the enemy's advance twice before was because Lu Su and Zhou Yu both played a big role. Of course, the most important thing was that Li Song was surrounded by powerful enemies at that time. Had to scatter limited energy.

That's why Jiangdong was not wiped out all at once. Now, after several years, Wu Jun has not been strengthened, but Li Song has wiped out all the enemies around him who were staring at him.

Finally, he could concentrate all his energy on dealing with Jiangdong. Compared with this situation, no matter how hard Sun Quan tried, he had to accept the fact that Jiangdong would be defeated, and he, Sun Quan, would be defeated.

"Zhang Zhao insisted on surrendering and submitting to the imperial court. He must have a perfect plan! Why don't you call him and ask?" Wu Guotai said.

"I'm going to order someone to call Zhang Zhao to come." Sun Quan said, then turned around and shouted, "Come here!"

An attendant not far away heard Sun Quan's call, ran over in a hurry, bowed his hands and said, "My lord, what are your orders?"

"Go to Zhang Zhao's mansion quickly and summon Zhang Zhao here!" Sun Quan ordered.

"No!" The attendant bowed his hands and took the order to leave.

Soon, Zhang Zhao came to Wu Guotai and Sun Quan, bowed and said: "Master Zhang Zhao pays homage to the lord and the old lady."

"Exemption!" Sun Quan said.

"Zhang Changshi, please sit down and talk." Wu Guotai pointed to the position on Sun Quan's left.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, old lady!" After thanking Sun Quan and Mrs. Wu Guotai, Zhang Zhao sat on Sun Quan's left hand side and said, "I don't know what my lord, Mrs. He has summoned my ministers to come over this time, and what order I have."

"Listen to what Zhongmou said, you insist that Zhongmou submit to the court?" Wu Guotai reached out to stop Sun Quan who was about to speak, and said first.

"Yes! I think that when Jiangdong was at its peak, we were still defeated. In the battle of Chibi, our army suffered heavy losses! How many veterans buried their bones in other places."

"At that time, there was Cao Ang in Shu, Ma Chao in Xiliang, and Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. Li Song didn't care about Jiangdong, so the lord was able to take over the state to stop Li Song's army."

"But both times resulted in disastrous defeats for our army! In the battle of Chibi, our army was severely injured, and the navy was destroyed. Although we conquered Jiaozhou, we also lost Luling County, Lujiang County, and Yuzhang County. Soochow has lost half of its country."

"At that time, Li Song didn't have much strength to conquer Soochow, and that's it! Now Li Song has no worries! With the capital of victory, the world will prevail! How can our army be an opponent? Therefore, the old minister once again, and for the last time, requests Lord, for the sake of the peace of Soochow, surrender!" Zhang Zhao said!He got up and bowed to Sun Quan and Wu Guotai.

"That being the case! Changshi has a good strategy, to protect my foundation in Soochow, to protect Zhongmou's eternal town in Soochow, and to be safe for generations?" Wu Guotai said, since surrender is the best way to solve the problem, as long as Sun Quan can stay in Soochow forever, It's not a problem even if you bow your head and surrender.

If he left Jiangdong, he might become a prisoner. It would be better to die than to become a puppet like Liu Xun, Liu Chan brothers, and the emperor Liu Xie.

This was something Sun Quan was unwilling to accept no matter what, and this was also the reason why he had been having trouble sleeping and eating. Otherwise, without Zhang Zhao asking, Sun Quan himself would have surrendered early in the morning.

(End of this chapter)