At the end of the dinner party at Cao's Mansion, everyone was arranged to have a rest in the mansion. After all, Cao's Mansion was quite a big place, and Cao Zhaobo was indispensable. Because of the current situation in which the three kingdoms are at odds with each other, and there are constant disputes between light and dark, and the relations between the countries are not harmonious,
Even if they are face-to-face, they will never reconcile in their hearts. Even if Sun and Liu are as iron as Wu and Shu in the eyes of Cao Wei, there will be rifts because of some interests. There are many such things.
Ever since the Sun-Liu Alliance defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, there has been a gap in their hearts. After all, most people can only share hardships but not wealth. This is especially true between countries.
Even a little benefit must be fought for. In the battle of Chibi with Cao Wei, Cao Wei could endure it for the time being when the soldiers were pressing down on the border, and turned a blind eye and allowed his brother-in-law Liu Bei to "borrow" Jingzhou.
"Go", it's still the kind of borrowing but never paying it back,
After all, the enemy is currently facing us. Even if we are unwilling to endure it, we must allow our allies to gain some temporary benefits. Even if we are suffering some losses now, we must win over Liu Bei, the big ally. Even if he hooks up with Lord Wu's sister, he will not hesitate to do so.
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However, this is also a temporary expedient. When the time comes, I still have to ask my brother-in-law, Liu Bei, to return double the things that should belong to Soochow.
Even if we have fought together before and shed blood and sacrificed together for the same goal! In the face of such a large territory and population in Jingzhou, no one will be unmoved.
Even if Bi Yaner, who sent people to dig up many tombs of nobles from the past dynasties in Soochow territory and accumulated a lot of wealth in the treasury of Wu State, could not help but salivate,
After all, he doesn't want to just be a rich man. Having a lot of money is enough. He still needs enough money, food, people, and land to secure his hegemony.
He even goes one step further to unify the world and become the master of the world. When the situation is favorable to him and there is no greater threat from foreign enemies,
And now even Cao Cao is trying to support him and begging to cooperate with him to deal with the powerful Shu Han. How can he take care of Liu Bei, the big-eared brother-in-law?
After all, this brother-in-law's strength has threatened him and affected his great cause of unifying the world. This is something he will never tolerate.
This is about which family can dominate the world, while other families may become prisoners and even die. Even if Big Ear Brother-in-law may dominate the world,
Let him rule the world and he will live a better life than Cao Wei. After all, everyone is "one of our own".
I won't make it too difficult for him. Although I won't let him live a good life, he can make friends with old ministers at will, but I won't let him live a bad life. It won't be a problem for him to live drunk and dreaming all day long.
Just like what he did when his brother-in-law Liu Bei came to welcome his bride before the Battle of Chibi, it was good to treat him with delicious food and drink, and let him lose his tyranny in drunkenness and dreams.
But after a hundred years have passed since my brother-in-law, I don’t know what the successor’s attitude will be. It is possible that he should let him continue to live or deal with him.
Bi Yan'er still doesn't want to be dependent on others like this, and put her life and death in the hands of others, even if this person is her brother-in-law.
Even if this person is his own brother, he cannot do it! It is better to control his own destiny in his own hands, so there will be a gap after that.
There will be no shortage of things to suppress the good neighbor who has grown stronger. After all, the neighbor has become extremely wealthy after seizing the land of Yizhou. He owns two of the nine states in the world.
Unlike him who could only continue to settle in a corner of the Yangtze River, Jingzhou should originally belong to Soochow, so his brothers-in-law Liu Bei and Kong Ming only borrowed it from themselves for a temporary period.
And now that the Shu Han has Yizhou, the most difficult time has passed. It is no longer the bereaved dog that had no place to stay and could only live under someone else's roof.
And the time has come when Jingzhou must be returned, and the Shu Han cannot be allowed to occupy it without any basis. Even if the Shu Han is unwilling, they must take it back by force.
Even if it was his brother-in-law who forcibly borrowed money from Jingzhou, and the sister he married was Sun Xiaomei, who was quite favored in the Sun family, it would not work! After all, the brothers still had to settle accounts.
In this way, the hidden dangers that had long been buried in the Sun and Liu families broke out. When Liu Bei, his brother-in-law, was fighting with Cao Cao in the Dingjun Mountain area of Hanzhong,
Moreover, his brother-in-law Liu Bei has the upper hand. With the possibility of dominating the world increasing, this is something he does not want to see. In this world of three pillars,
Regardless of whether it is Shu Han or Cao Wei, if either party is too strong and can overwhelm the other two forces, it is not a good thing for Soochow to be happy about.
We must find a way to unite with another slightly weaker party to dismantle the advantage that the stronger party has finally established.
This was the case when Wei was strong, Cao Wei was defeated by Sun, and the Liu family was weakened after the Battle of Chibi. Brother-in-law Liu Bei took the opportunity to take Yizhou again.
Among the three families, the Shu Han was the strongest, and Biyaner had the idea of alliing with the Wei Dynasty to fight against the Shu Han. This was vividly demonstrated in several major battles such as taking Jingzhou and burning the Shu Han camp.
At this point, the strength of the Shu Han Dynasty also declined due to major changes such as the loss of Jingzhou, the Burning Camp, etc., allowing the strength of the Three Kingdoms to regain balance again, and Cao Wei also recovered from the following decades of farming and recuperation.
Prime Minister Zhuge of the Shu Han Dynasty also carried out a Northern Expedition every few years in the hope of recovering the Central Plains.
But every time it's still just a little bit behind, and from time to time there are pig teammates like Li Yan and Ma Su who hold us back, wasting national power in vain without much gain.
However, Cao Wei continued to farm in Yangzhou and other places far away from Hanzhong to accumulate strength. Such a war of attrition was just training for them. For Cao Wei, who had a large area of farmland,
The grain and grass consumed by the soldiers can still be tolerated. After all, Jianghuai, a large granary, can continuously provide grain and grass every year.
As for the Shu Han, only the Chengdu Plain can provide food and grass. However, due to years of war, the population has withered, resulting in large areas of fertile farmland in the Chengdu Plain being abandoned, and the supply of food and grass is insufficient.
Fortunately, Shu brocade has opened up a market and was sold to the Kingdom of Wu. Even Cao Wei, who was constantly at war with Cao Wei, started a Shu brocade business, barely able to maintain the military-minded Shu Han.
On Biyan'er's side, seeing that her brother-in-law Liu Bei was dead and that the Shu Han's strength had weakened and was on par with Soochow, he began to think of joining forces with Shu again.
But the relationship has not returned to the honeymoon period at the time of the Battle of Chibi. But now, Cao Wei is so powerful that he has to send Zhuge Ke to Bashu to reach a new alliance with Shu.
And Cao Wei has to be careful, at least on the surface, but secretly he keeps making small moves.
The masters of Wu State's Jiefan Camp in Luoyang even wanted to do something big after the banquet at Cao Mansion tonight, and when the ministers went back to their homes, they would blame Cao Shuang.
But Cao Shuang still thought of this and arranged for everyone to rest in the mansion. Anyway, there were many houses in the mansion...