Chapter 65: Assassination of the Little Overlord
() Sun Ce was a hero of his life, but unfortunately he was brave enough to take risks. In the eyes of soldiers, Sun Ce was the first and was a good general; in the eyes of his ministers, Sun Ce was in danger, and was not a good lord; in the eyes of the gentry at that time, Sun Ce was cruel and easy to kill, and was a cruel lord; in the eyes of Liu Qi, he looked at the future and liked Sun Ce very much; in the eyes of the lord of Jingzhou, Liu Qi sighed, sooner or later, there would be a big battle. Unfortunately, in order to reduce casualties, Liu Qi could only wait for Sun Ce to be assassinated.
After Sun Ce was shot in the arrow, he had a great pain. He knew that he would be in the world soon, so he invited Zhang Zhao and others to ask for the future. He said: "China is in chaos, and the people of Wu and Yue are strong and solid in the three rivers, which is enough to see success or failure. The Duke and others are good at me!"
Then, he called Sun Quan, put a seal on him, and said, "He raised the people of Jiangdong, and decided to make a decision between the two formations to compete with the world. You are not as good as me. He is the wise and capable, and each one should do his best to protect Jiangdong, and I am not as good as you." Zhang Zhao and other ministers and ministers hoped that Sun Ce would hand over the military power to his third brother Sun Yi, but unexpectedly, Sun Ce asked his second brother Sun Quan to inherit it.
Sun Ce's assassination was quite dramatic. The Romance of the Romance records that Sun Ce led his army to hunt the west mountain of Dantu, and raised a large deer. Ce drove up the horse to chase it. Just as he was rushing, three people in the woods stood with guns and bows. Ce asked, "Who are you?" He replied, "It's Han's soldiers. Here she deer." Ce was holding up the bridle, and one man held a gun and looked at Ce's left leg and stabbed him. Ce was shocked and quickly took the sword and cut it off from the horse. The blade suddenly fell, and the sword target was stopped in his hand. One man had already picked up the bow and hit Sun Ce's cheek. Ce pulled out his face and raised the arrow, and took the bow back to the person who shot the arrow, and he fell on the string.
The two raised their guns and rushed towards Sun Ce, shouting, "We are Xu Gong's family, and we are here to avenge our master!" Ce had no other equipment, so he only refused to resist with a bow, and refused to leave. The two fought to the death without retreating. Ce was shot several times, and his horse was also injured. In the critical moment, Cheng Pu brought several people to him. Sun Ce shouted, "Kill the thief!" Cheng Pu led the crowd to come and chopped Xu Gong's family into meat paste. When he saw Sun Ce, he was bleeding and was seriously injured. He cut the wounded with a knife and wrapped it up to save Wu Hui to recover.
When Sun Ce died, he instructed Sun Quan and said, "If the internal affairs are not decided, you can ask Zhang Zhao; if the external affairs are not decided, you can ask Zhou Yu." This sentence is clearly passed down through the ages. In fact, Zhou Yu is also Sun Quan's minister of orphanage. However, Sun Quan is much stronger than Liu Chan. As for military affairs, he is much worse and will not attack Zhang Liao and be defeated.
There are actually many reasons for Sun Ce's death, but Sun Ce was helpless. First, the Sun family was not a large family in Jiangdong, but a cold family. In fact, the Jiangdong geniuses looked down on their Sun family. Second, Sun Jian did not make his fortune in Jiangdong. Sun Jian was a subordinate of Yuan Shu, and Sun Jian was in Jiangxi. What we are talking about now, including northern Jiangsu and some places in Anhui, which was called Jiangxi. He did not make his fortune in Jiangdong. The soldiers he recruited were called Huai Si jing soldiers, which were some Jing soldiers recruited in the Huai River and Si Shui areas. This was Sun Jian's team.
Then Sun Ce inherited Sun Jian, took this team, took it from Yuan Shu, and fought back to Jiangdong, and established the Sun regime. At that time, Sun Ce was nominally Yuan Shu was a general of Yuan Shu, and perhaps part of the reason why Yuan Shu became emperor was that his general Sun Ce occupied Jiangdong, and his territory increased greatly. Yuan Shu became emperor, which implicated Sun Ce, so in the eyes of the gentry and gentry in Jiangdong, this was a traitor; Sun Jian was a subordinate of the traitor. Then Sun Ce was called the remnant of the traitor.
For three reasons, when Sun Ce brought Sun Jian's old subordinates back to Jiangdong, the elders and the great families of Jiangdong unanimously agreed that Sun Ce was not going home, but an invasion. He did not regard him as his own people, and there was nothing like Jiangdong's elders welcomed him, but instead a resistance attitude. What was the result of resistance? The result of resistance was that Sun Ce launched a massacre and killed all heroes. In fact, Sun Ce had a bloodthirsty killing because he could not talk about this at that time, but he just said that he loved to kill people. In fact, he had a last resort, that was that the Jiangdong gentry did not welcome them. Therefore, he built a regime that was not very popular with people by force, violence, and killing. This was called "the foundation of accumulation of virtue."
Sun Ce himself knew this. Sun Ce did two things when he was dying. The first was to have a successor among his younger brothers. Everyone thought he wanted to choose someone like him, but he chose someone who was not like him. And he told Sun Quan very clearly that he was the younger brother who fought in the south and north and galloped on the battlefield. You are not as good as my brother. If you want to win the hearts of the people and protect Jiangdong, this brother is not as good as you. Even Sun Ce knew that he could not continue to kill like this.
The second is that Sun Ce entrusted his son to Zhang Zhao and said to Zhang Zhao: "If Zhongmou does not take responsibility, you will take it yourself." If my younger brother Sun Quan cannot resist, please ask the teacher to replace him. There is another very important sentence afterwards. Even if he cannot succeed, "If you don't win, go back slowly", and go back slowly, it doesn't matter. The very important four words: go back slowly. That is to say, if Sun Quan cannot gain a foothold in Jiangdong, please ask Mr. Zhang Zhao to lead my troops back to Jiangxi, and we will not stay in Jiangdong. The word "return" of "return slowly" is very important. If you go back to Jiangxi, you don't think it is from Jiangdong. Jiangxi is the base. So you are lonely and helpless.
The foundation obtained in this way is certainly unstable, so it is natural for Sun Ce to be assassinated. After Sun Ce's death, Zhou Yu, one of the orphan ministers, was defending against Wan County, Lujiang County, to fight against the bandits Shanyue, and to defend against Wei Yanwenpin. When he learned that Sun Ce was assassinated, he hurried back to greet him. When he was about to arrive in Wu County, he had already learned that Sun Ce had died and rushed to Wu County to attend the funeral at night.
After Sun Ce died, Jiangdong was in danger. Before the news spread, Sun Ce's old subordinates ran for Sun Quan, so that Sun Quan could firmly hold the position of lord. Yuan Shao in the north, and Cao Cao was fine. Liu Qi was different from Liu Qi in the west. Jingzhou Liu family and Jiangdong Sun family were originally a feud. They killed his father Sun Jian first, and defeated his brother Sun Ce. Liu Qi was the master who killed people without blinking and ate people without spitting bones. If Jiangdong was unstable, Liu Qi would not need to attack him. As long as he led the army around, Jiangdong would probably give it to Liu Qi.
Chapter completed!