Chapter 3526: Fighting with the tiger
Of course, what Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang were waiting for was not the Jiangdong army, but someone else.
Nowadays, Jiangdong can be said to be raining when the roof is leaking.
The young Emperor Sun ushered in the biggest crisis.
Zhou Yu died of illness.
Not only did a huge radish pit appear in an instant, but it even meant that the entire Jiangdong pattern had undergone a major change.
Jiangdong in early spring ushered in green hope, but for Sun Quan, the current situation is not very good.
As soon as Zhou Yu died, although there was less threat to Sun Quan, the threat from other aspects became larger.
Sun Quan stood on a high platform of a water village on the edge of the river, holding a sword in his arms, standing proudly.
In the history of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan was in power for a young man, full of energy and arrogant heart, but he repeatedly rubbed and rubbed Jiangdong, and eventually ended up showing some depression, feeling that "there are always troublemakers who want to harm me"...
This may be a common problem for most people in power.
After all, the taste of authority is too lingering and obsessed, and too easy to make people crazy.
The wind on the river blew up the cloak behind Sun Quan.
In the water camp, soldiers from Jiangdong were patrolling silently.
There was a linen tied on the arms of these soldiers, which was considered to be a mourning for Zhou Yu.
Of course, Zhou Yu was just the governor. Even if ten or eight governors died, it would be impossible for the entire army to die without Sun Quan's order.
Even after Zhuge Liang's death in history, it was impossible for the entire army to die. However, after he arrived in Sichuan and Shu, he was officially mourned to Zhuge Liang's three armies under the order of Liu Chan. The reason why Mr. Luo described the plot of the entire army to die in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was that Mr. Luo brought himself into the perspective of Brother Zhu.
After Zhou Yu's death, Sun Quan did not go to Zhou Yu's mourning hall to worship him, but went to the riverside to inspect the water village.
Looking from the distance from the water village, you can see these semi-permanent water villages, which have built a complete defense system on the edge of the river, defending the key to Jiangbei's marching towards Jiangdong.
The entire system of defense against Jiangbei was urged to be built when Zhou Yu was still alive.
Before Zhou Yu died, even Sun Quan was a little dissatisfied. After all, building defensive facilities such as water villages not only requires a lot of manpower and material resources, but also requires a lot of money!
Jiangdong has money, but Jiangdong has no money, which is very similar to the place where Shandong was in the Han Dynasty.
So before, Sun Quan was somewhat jealous about Zhou Yu's construction of these water villages, but after he arrived here, Sun Quan truly felt the importance of these water villages.
If there is no defense system on these rivers, it is equivalent to being completely open to Jiangbei without any defense.
Back then, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu took advantage of the loopholes in defense on the river to smuggle and attack, and took down Jiangdong in one fell swoop. Now Jiangdong's defense system has begun to take shape, but the leader has left forever.
When Sun Quan went to the water village, he naturally wanted to inherit the inheritance left by Zhou Yu, but what disappointed him was that he was far more than the only one who coveted Zhou Yu's inheritance.
Although Jiangdong soldiers would salute Sun Quan when they passed by the high platform, it did not mean that they would all obey Sun Quan's orders.
The ministers of the monarch's ministers may not be loyal to the monarch.
The binary centralized system is undoubtedly a rather backward and inefficient system.
Many people also realized this disadvantage. After the Tang Dynasty of China, they gradually began to reform this dual system.
Centralization means that there must be a large central government, while in small local governments, once the power of some local governments can compete with the central government, or even the local regulations are greater than the central constitution, it will naturally be funny and extremely chaotic.
For the lower-level soldiers, of course, they didn't care much about who was in charge. Especially those old soldiers, the lords had changed two or three times since Sun Jian's time, let alone the governor. However, for those who later joined Jiangdong, especially the military academy non-commissioned officers who were close to Zhou Yu, they were naturally uneasy.
If Sun Quan wanted to centralize power in Jiangdong, it would naturally be impossible for the military soldiers left by Zhou Yu to easily give up.
For the veteran Jiangdong, Zhou Yu's inheritance is regarded as the property of the military, and Sun Quan, a little white-faced person... Oh, Xiaobiao, had a seven-eyed orifice in the military, and wanted to obtain these Zhou Yu's inheritance. This is not only a huge waste, but more importantly, is it worth it?
The main reason is Zhou Yu.
If Zhou Yu was not in front of him, then Sun Shiwan would not be too embarrassed. Anyway, a considerable number of Jiangdong generals were extremely fierce against internal and external experts, facing weaker South Vietnamese barbarians, but once they crossed the Jiangbei line, they would be weak. Jiangdong’s real contributions to the outside world were some poor families and foreign generals.
Generals are the courage in the army and the morale of the army.
Now that Zhou Yu has died, the entire Jiangdong Army is in a state of being headless. Even if Sun Quan comes, he can't stand it.
If the governor cannot decide, how can the atmosphere of the entire army be high?
Sun Quan's inner torment was also uncomfortable.
Logically speaking, at this time, the people of the Sun family should stand up and support Sun Quan and divide the responsibilities and be responsible for internal and external matters. Unfortunately, at this moment, the people of the Sun family did not come forward, and the people of the Zhou family did not show up. It seemed that everyone was waiting to see Sun Quan's joke.
Part of the reason is that Sun Quan’s actions in recent years have not been very popular, and part of the reason is that Sun Quan has obtained the position of the Lord of the Eastern Wu, which does not comply with the organizational regulations and the customs of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, the most important point is still "the world is bustling"!
If you become the lord of Jiangdong, you will become all the people in Jiangdong, including the servants of the barbarians of the South Vietnamese, and you will work hard to serve these people without personal enjoyment or selfish desires, then...
If it is such a position, who will rush to get it?
Now, who would do this?
Is this for the loyalty and filial piety that has been clamoring for three or four hundred years for the sake of the emperor's loyalty and filial piety or personal loyalty and filial piety?
If Kong Zhongni knew that his disciples would go more and more wrongly later, I wonder if he would angrily lift the coffin board and get up?
Oh, it's already opened?
Then it's all right.
Anyway, Sun Quan is very troublesome now.
What's wrong with Jiangdong?
What should I do?
If you make others happy, Xiao Sun will be unhappy, but if Xiao Sun is happy, the others will be unhappy.
But the situation is like this, what other choice can he make?
Several warships appeared in the river.
Immediately, a lookout soldier came to report that the Governor Huang Gai had arrived.
Sun Quan took a deep breath and contributed to global warming. Then he gritted his teeth, walked down the platform, and went to the Water Village Wharf to meet Huang Gai.
No matter what, when Sun Quan feels that he should bow his head, Sun Quan will still put his posture very low, even if this low posture may settle the score in the future...
But at present, Sun Quan still has to win the support of veterans in the army, which is the most important thing.
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In Wu County, the flame of desire caused by Zhou Yu's death was burning everywhere at this moment.
Although everything grows under the sunshine and is full of spring, it is still dark like a ghost domain in the area where the sun cannot shine.
On the streets and in the alleys, messengers and servants who communicate with each other intersect each other.
If there is any express delivery business in the same city at the moment, it will definitely make a big profit at this point in time.
The soldiers with a broken face patrolled all over Wu County, but they were similar to the later generations of Emperor Mi. The focus was only to protect the safety of the rich areas. As for the poor Jiangdong people, in addition to that cheap life, how many other money is worth remembering?
Gu Yong sat in the hall, looking at the list he had prepared, and looked at it carefully. After a while, he closed his eyes slightly tiredly, nodded, and signaled to take it away. "That's it! According to the list, he invited him to the banquet... If he didn't want to come, he didn't have to force it."
The manager lowered his command and turned around and left.
Gu Shao sat in the lower position, looked at Gu Yong exhausted, and said, "My father, are you contacting Zhu again? Zhu's heart is not stable. If he... turns to others, it will be quite unbeautiful."
Gu Yong waved his hand and said, "No need! People like Zhu were originally just changing their minds when they were in harmony at this moment. I am afraid that they would cause trouble again the next moment and have no loyalty and righteousness... It would be better to do the Jiangdong local area and have a good relationship with the villagers!"
Gu Shao responded, but after all, he felt a little regretful, "If this Zhu family really can help us, big things will be accomplished..."
Gu Yong smiled, "Now let's see... how the Lord of Jiangdong and those arrogant generals were discussing..."
Gu Shao whispered, "If this... Huang Gong refuted... what should I do if it is promised?"
Gu Yong raised his head slightly, "If Huang Gongfu is so stupid... then he deserves to be placed in front of the stage, like a puppet! Huang Gongfu has always been cautious and naturally knows how to grasp the right position, so he doesn't have to find boring himself..."
And Gu Yong didn't say anything about this. Even these old military generals of Sun Jian were not just Huang Gai. Moreover, Huang Gai met Sun Quan this time just as the representative of these old military generals of Sun Jian. Even if the negotiations with Sun Quan were completed, he still had to communicate with other military generals.
Of course, most of the time, other generals will also value Huang Gai's opinions more.
As these military generals, they are actually on the side of the Sun family most of the time, and Sun Quan did not make the wrong choice in this regard.
The reason is very simple. Only when the Sun family's foundation is there, these veterans of the Sun family will be treated better. If anyone else comes to power, these veterans will face an embarrassing situation. However, this does not mean that these veterans must support Sun Quan. After all, it is not possible. It is also possible to support other Sun families, and may even get more than they get from Sun Quan.
Therefore, if Sun Quan could not give better conditions, Huang Gai and others would not give in.
only……
What can Sun Quan give?
The corners of Gu Yong's mouth rose slightly.
Gu Shao didn't have any intention of talking in depth when he saw Gu Yong, and he also saw Gu Yong's busyness these days. He didn't want to ask anything else, but after thinking about it, he still asked, "My father...so Jiangbei..."
The corners of Gu Yong's raised mouth slowly calmed down, "Jiangbei... If Prime Minister Cao wins, it will definitely be a miserable victory! I will definitely have no time to look south for a long time, and I may have to rebuild the old with us... If Fei Piqiu wins... In this Shandong land, Fei Piqiu wants to cover the sky with one hand and completely stand firm, but it is not so easy! There must be a storm in between Hebei and Henan, and within Yingchuan! However... I have no choice but to wait for these things, I am just waiting... But if I buy the bet, I would rather buy the Fei Piqiu win...
Gu Yong said this, but there was actually a little helpless smell.
The Jiangdong gentry is actually in line with the Shandong gentry.
After all, in the past two hundred years since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the cultural influence of Jizhou and Yuzhou has been deeply rooted. The research on modern literature and classics is still the focus of Hebei and Henan, and other regions are used as embellishments. Especially after the death of the previous generation of great scholars from Guanzhong, there were almost no leader-level figures at the Wenhua level.
These gentry members in Jiangdong all learned the classics from Shandong, so in many cases, they also tended toward Shandong people. However, in the current situation in the world, even the Jiangdong naval army could not defeat the partial army under the command of the cavalry. So who else can they bet on if they don’t bet on the cavalry?
Gu Shao was silent, and after a moment, he greeted Gu Yong and stepped down.
After Gu Shao left, Gu Yong sat there for a while, then slowly got up, walked into the courtyard, looked up at the dark and gray sky, with a solemn expression.
Unlike the relaxed state that Gu Shaoting had just said, Gu Yong had actually felt the trend of changing the world. Before this storm came, he didn't know where he would be...
"After this storm, will this big man... still be the original big man?"
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The negotiations between Sun Quan and Huang Gai were not going well.
It can even be said that the two people’s target needs are very different.
Although Huang Gai is a military general, at his level, he is no longer just considering desperately fighting in military affairs, but also having more things to consider. Huang Gai is not only himself, but also his troops, which need to be considered.
The basis for Huang Gai's willingness to cooperate with Sun Quan is that Sun Quan must ensure their military power, divisions, and various resources. At least it cannot be less than before!
However, Sun Quan was already in Zhou Yu's time, and had been afraid for so long, and would even wake up from nightmares in the middle of the night. Who would have brought troops to advise? Or when Zhou Yu arrived, he did not assist Sun Quan, but assisted a strange passerby with unclear faces to be the leader of Jiangdong!
Under such circumstances, Sun Quan of course hoped to retake military power back to the central government and control it, rather than continue to allow the troops of various military generals to expand in disorder.
Therefore, the position between Sun Quan and Huang Gai is actually completely opposite!
In a completely opposite situation, it is really not an ordinary difficulty to find the point of fit between the two parties.
If it were before, Sun Quan would not be willing to endure such a cowardly, at most he would shout, "I love to play, I won't play!"
But now, the economy is in a downturn...
Whether it is the small potatoes in the south or the cabbage in the north, we have to coax them well. After all, it is obviously difficult to expand external demand in Jiangdong. Can we only think about our own people’s small money?
So, at the end of the conversation, Sun Quan gritted his teeth and endured it, "Public retribution, if there was no Sun family, how could Jiangdong have today?!"
Huang Gai also held back his anger and did not slap the table. Instead, he smiled and said, "Isn't it because of us fighting bloody battles, Zibu raising food and money, and soldiers quelling the chaos of Shanyue... How can Jiangdong be safe today?"
Both of them are talking about Jiangdong, but neither is Jiangdong.
Sun Quan was silent for a moment, "Public overthrow, the general who commanded the army was already the ultimate, and there was no way to be promoted... If you follow the civil service and govern the local area, it would be not difficult to enter Sanhuai Hall with the ability to overthrow it..."
This is actually Sun Quan painted a cake for Huang Gai.
If Huang Gai was younger, he might have been drooling at this big cake. However, Huang Gai was older and had seen more cakes. Naturally, he knew that as a force that Jiangdong should not be underestimated, he must have a certain influence in the army, otherwise Sun Quan would not be able to negotiate with Huang Gai and the others!
It can be said that if Huang Gai hits on that side, he can affect the success or failure of the situation in Jiangdong!
Only with the support of the military can Sun Quan's status be consolidated!
To put it more seriously, if Huang Gai supports other Sun families, he will definitely get greater benefits!
However, if Huang Gai and others really do this, there will definitely be troubles. After all, Jiangdong is not just a faction like Huang Gai and Su Generals, so their relationship with Sun Quan is still more cooperative than splitting, and they will not turn against each other until they have no choice.
When the two talked in the end, they had nothing to talk about, but they couldn't just leave with their sleeves and they could only sit and waste time. No one was willing to let go easily.
As the night gradually drooped from day to evening, the two of them drank all their tea, and they were hungry and screamed, staring at each other, like a hawk. Whoever couldn't hold on in the end had to bow his head.
At the end of the day, Sun Quan grinded out a sound from his teeth, "Public reversal... Now that Jiangdong is in danger, Zhou Gong is not safe... It is better to continue everything, and to seek stability and harmony between Jiangdong, how about?"
Neither side is willing to make concessions, and in the end they can only put aside the dispute in order to seek republic.
Huang Gai pulled the corner of his mouth, laughed and nodded.
That's all.
Although Huang Gai had some premonition in his heart since the beginning of the negotiations, he finally spent a whole day and was maintained. Moreover, seeing that Sun Quan was temporarily maintaining this, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.
But for Sun Quan, his butt determines his head, and centralization was his lifelong pursuit. Now that he can't take back the military power of Huang Gai and others, he can only rely on his youth and endure it with time. Doing so would be very painful for Sun Quan.
The two reached a preliminary opinion and seemed to be happy, but neither of them could laugh because there was another question in front of the two.
"I dare to ask my lord, where does this money and food come from now?"
When Huang Gai said this, his tone was a little heavier than the military affairs just now, and Sun Quan's expression became more serious.
If you don’t talk about money, you’re still friends, are you talking about money?
Chapter completed!