Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 172 Unifying Jiangdong (2)

Sun Ce didn't care about the honeymoon, so he immediately sent his army south to capture Yuzhang.Hua Xin, the prefect of Yuzhang, was very famous in Shilin, but Sun Ce thought that Hua Xin had a good name, was good at dancing and writing, and knew nothing about marching and fighting, which was worse than Wang Lang. Tai Shici also thought that Hua Xin was as timid as a mouse.Sure enough, when Sun Ce's army approached, Hua Xin began to panic and was at a loss.

Yu Fan took the initiative to ask for orders to enter the city to persuade him to surrender, and then persuaded Hua Xin to open the city and surrender with a few words.After He Qi, Yu Fan presented another nomination certificate, and the Yu family's position in Jiangdong was stable.

In order to strengthen his rule, Sun Ce divided Yuzhang into two counties, Yuzhang and Luling. So far, Sun Ce has Wujun, Kuaiji, Danyang, Yuzhang, Luling and a part of Lujiang, a total of 64 counties.

Sun Ce took advantage of the melee among the princes in the Central Plains, and Yuan Shu was busy proclaiming himself emperor. He led 3000 people across the river and took four years to pacify the main states and counties in the east of the river. Auxiliary as the prefect of Luling, his uncle Wu Jing is still the prefect of Danyang.

In the past, there were only Sun Jian's old generals and relatives, but now Zhang Hong, Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, Yu Fan and other civil servants, Tai Shici, Chen Wu, Dong Xi, Ling Cao, Ling Tong, He Qi and other military generals have been added. to thirty thousand.With Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao as the masterminds, Zhang Hong was appointed as the lieutenant of Zhengyi, and Zhang Zhao was the chief historian.Sun Ce left Zhou Yu to guard Baqiu and practice the navy.

The story of Sun Ce soon spread to Xuchang. Although Cao Cao was impressed by Sun Ce's bravery, he still didn't pay attention to Jiangdong's land. In his impression, Jiangdong was a vast country but the country was sparsely populated, and the Nanman and Nanyue mountain people did not respect Enlightenment, to put it bluntly, is a land of Nanyi far away from civilization.Cao Cao sent Yilang Wang Pu to bring the edict of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to Sun Ce, and appointed him as the captain of the cavalry, succeeded his father Wu Chenghou, and concurrently served as the prefect of Kuaiji. General.

Yuan Shu also sent someone to come. Although the visitor was much more polite, he still couldn't hide Yuan Shu's arrogance.

To show his sincerity, Sun Ce sent Hua Xin to pay tribute to the emperor.Cao Cao and Hua Xin chatted very happily, and wanted Hua Xin to stay by his side, but Hua Xin didn't want to go back to Jiangdong, so he stayed in Xudu, and Cao Cao used him as a long history.Sun Ce formed a temporary and fragile alliance with Cao Cao.

Sun Ce treated Zhang Zhao with the courtesy of a teacher and friend. Zhang Zhao often communicated with the northern scholar-bureaucrats, and exchanged poems and essays. Zhao, great praise.Zhang Zhao felt that his head was a bit big, and he was in a dilemma.

When Sun Ce found out, not only did he not mind, but he was very happy: "Zhang Zhao is talented, and everyone praises him, but I can reuse him. Isn't this all my credit?" Zhang Zhao lamented Sun Ce's kindness and worked harder. .

Sun Ce finally stopped the pace of foreign conquests, not because he didn't want to, but because there are already several counties under his command that need to be governed, and his soldiers are exhausted physically and mentally from continuous fighting, and the hoarded food and grass are not enough to support his expansion, so he can only slow down and do his best. Jiangdong construction, resume production.Sun Lang, who became the lord of Jiangdong and married Da Qiao, became more and more motivated, but he was immediately hit in the head again.

Sun Quan and Zhou Tai were stationed in Xuancheng. The local nobles were unwilling to be suppressed, so they colluded with the bandits and led them into the city at night. Sun Quan had only more than 1000 people under his command. The Zhongshan bandit slashed Sun Quan's horse's butt with a knife. Sun Quan was almost hacked to death and was thrown off the horse. Zhou Tai gave up his mount to Sun Quan. He swung his knife on foot and slashed desperately to protect Sun Quan. Seeing that he was dying, Yu Fan invited the genius doctor Hua Tuo to save his life. From then on, Zhou Tai became Sun Quan's confidant.

Sun Quan secretly sent people to investigate why he was assassinated, and the results made him very suspicious: this rebellion was not aimed at Sun Quan personally, but at the Sun family. Some people did not want the Sun family to rule Jiangdong, or did not want their own rights. Violated.In this regard, Sun Quan did not delve into it further, but recruited his confidants in the name of strengthening the guards.

After this incident, Sun Ce was furious that there were still people who broke ground on Taisui's head, wiping the tiger beard of the little overlord. On the one hand, he stepped up the encirclement and suppression of bandits and rebellions, and suppressed them by force; The suppression of Jiangdong gentry.On the contrary, Sun Quan began to pay attention to making friends with the Jiangdong gentry, especially with Gu Yong, Yu Fan and others.The Jiangdong gentry were intimidated by Sun Ce's prestige and preferred Sun Quan.The gentry who migrated from the north to the south, such as Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, paid great attention to their contacts with the local gentry, and maintained a vague relationship with the Hao family.

Yu Fan also made use of this matter to advise Sun Ce: "The general likes to dress lightly and go out hunting, which makes the servants never have time to rectify and prepare. The soldiers often suffer from this. As the commander of an army, if you are not dignified, you will not have Majesty, when the white dragon turns into a fish, Yu can shoot him in the eye; when the white emperor turns into a white snake, he is killed by Liu Bang."

These words were exactly what Cheng Pu wanted, and he followed up with admonishment: "Young General, Mr. Yu Fan's words are very true. Now that you are a man of gold, you have directly affected millions of people and tens of thousands of soldiers in Jiangdong. Ma, you can no longer act rashly."

Sun Ce saw that both of them were persuading him, so he had no choice but to agree, and restrained himself a little, but he often went his own way when the two of them were not paying attention.

The third younger brother, Sun Yi, was as brave as Sun Ce, and Sun Ce loved him very much.Sun Yi and Tai Shici swept all counties and counties with the momentum of autumn wind sweeping. Bandits and water bandits were killed without mercy.

Sun Ce is a restless person. After pacifying Jiangdong, he will hand over the government affairs to Zhang Zhao and other civil servants, and hand over the matter of preparing the army to Lu Fan. He concentrates on planning with his subordinates to fight for Jingzhou and Huainan. Luzhou.Huang Zu's revenge for killing his father has not been avenged, and Huang Zu is still living at ease.

At this time, news of Yuan Shu proclaiming himself emperor spread to Jiangdong.Sun Ce laughed loudly: "It's ridiculous that Yuan Shu is so reckless." Then he sighed, "Unfortunately, the Chuan Guo Yuxi is still in his hands." The family is too weak, and his influence is still not enough to compete with Yuan Shu.

Not long after, Yang Hong came to Jiangdong with Yuan Shu's will, proposed marriage to Sun Ce, and betrothed his daughter to his fourth brother Sun Kuang.

"Yuan Shu never believed what he said, turned his back on what he said, and betrayed his righteousness." Sun Ce said: "Now that you are so arrogant that you call yourself an emperor and dare to come to ask for marriage, you should go back and let him return my jade seal and depose the emperor, otherwise I will launch an army to crusade Him." They sent someone to drive Yang Hong out of the mansion.

Sun Ce broke with Yuan Shu completely.

(End of this chapter)