In Xuchang's Prime Minister's Mansion, which was originally Cao Mengde's mansion, Sima Yi seemed to have entered as a guest and became the real power in the north.
Zhou Yu was next to Sima Yi. He played with a glazed brave statue and said, "This Cao Mengde has collected so many good brothers."
"Gong Jin, I asked you to come this time. You should know why." Sima Yi said.
Zhou Yu smiled and said, "Does Mr. Xiangguo need me to do anything?"
Sima Yi smiled and said: "It's a good time for Jiangdong to employ people now. If you go back now, I'm afraid you can be reused..."
"Lord Sima, don't make trouble... If I go back now, won't I be sending myself to death? After all, the Sun family hates me deeply for what I did before. They wish they could eat my flesh and sleep on my skin," Zhou Yu said.
Sima Yi shook his head: "That's because you are worthless. If you bring a gift this time, I'm afraid the Sun family will look at you differently."
"oh?"
"Think about it, although Jiangdong is now under the jurisdiction of the Sun family, Sun Ce is Li Bolong's brother-in-law. Now Li Bolong is serving as his mountain king in Xichuan. Xichuan is more than 800 miles away from Jiangdong, with Jingzhou in the middle. , Jingzhou is now captured by Liu Bei, so as a result, Jiangdong and Xichuan cannot contact each other, and they cannot contact each other at all. As a result, it will be a matter of time before the relationship becomes estranged, and among the Sun family, there are many ambitious people. After all, the only person loyal to Li Bolong is Sun Ce. Didn't Sun Quan confess his ambitions to you before?" Sima Yi said.
After being reminded by Sima Yi, Zhou Yu somewhat understood: "Then... what you mean is..."
"I give Jiangdong a Xuzhou city. Do you think Sun Quan will be tempted? Since Cao Mengde means it, what Jiangdong fears is no longer our north. It should be Liu Bei's Jingzhou and Lu Bu. These two sandwich Jiangdong. If this key point of Xuzhou City is removed, Jiangdong can have a wider land!" Sima Yi said.
Zhou Yu slapped his thigh: "As expected of the Prime Minister, this plan is very clever!"
After the two discussed, Zhou Yu immediately set off. It took him half a month to cross the border of Xuzhou quietly. Zhou Yu returned to Jiangdong. At this time, the first thing he did was to visit Sun Quan.
Sun Quan knew he was coming and immediately called him over alone. Sun Quan said: "Gong Jin, you have the nerve to come back? You murdered my sister and killed my father. I can kill you now!"
Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Didn't the Second Young Master kill me yet? Besides, I am not to blame for the death of my two relatives!"
"How do you say this?" Sun Quan's eyes flashed with ambition.
Zhou Yu immediately said: "First of all, the death of the old lord, in fact, the old lord had already taken Jiangdong's heart. If the eldest son hadn't communicated with Li Bolong, do you think the old lord would have been paralyzed? He was angry, so the old lord died. Li Bolong, why did Li Bolong want to win over Sun Ce? It was just to make the old lord angry! Secondly, my original plan was to let the third lady marry Li Bolong. What a perfect plan was this? However, Li Bolong's first wife Diao Chan suddenly appeared to snatch the marriage, and the third lady was so angry. Run away, will the third lady die if you don’t run away?”
"But you killed her!" Sun Quan said every word, his eyes turned red.
Zhou Yu shook his head: "If the second young master hated me, second young master, you should have killed me the moment you saw me, but you didn't, and the third young lady wanted to die at that time, I just let her become the second young master. One of the reasons for the young master’s firm determination, but I didn’t expect it to be taken advantage of by Li Bolong. Aren’t everything I did for you, my lord? Let me ask you, is this Jiangdong’s surname Sun or Li?!”
This sentence is vicious, because to outsiders, Jiangdong does belong to the Sun family, but Sun Quan knows that his brother Sun Ce is now loyal to Li Bolong, so nominally Jiangdong belongs to the Sun family, but in fact his surname is Li.
Seeing Sun Quan's silence, Zhou Yu was overjoyed: "My lord, now is a great opportunity. My old lord dreamed of taking Jiangdong, but the eldest son's heart is for Xichuan and he is willing to become Li Bolong's subordinate. Now you also know that Jingzhou was taken by Liu Bei." , and Jiangdong and Xichuan are no longer able to communicate with each other. In other words, now is the best time to break away from Li Bolong's control. This time the north has encountered another big event. My lord, you should know that Cao Mengde has been defeated. Now Sima Yikuang is supporting the Han Dynasty. He is a loyal minister, so there is no threat from the north. Sima Yi told me this time that he can send troops and horses to help us take Xuzhou together!"
"Isn't Xuzhou Lu Bu's territory?" Sun Quan said.
"Yes, it is Lu Bu's territory. He is absolutely defenseless against us. His mortal enemy is Liu Bei of Jingzhou, and Liu Bei also has a bad relationship with Lu Bu. This time we can take advantage of the situation and join forces with Liu Bei. When the time comes, the three armies will pass. , carve up Xuzhou! This battle must be won!" Zhou Yu said.
"No, my brother will definitely refuse." Sun Quan immediately rejected the idea.
Zhou Yu shook his head and said: "How can a person who achieves big things stick to small details? Mr. Sun Ce is no longer convinced, and the real master of Jiangdong should be the second young master, you! I think the second young master went to Luoyang with the old master. At that time, everyone in the world praised him for having a son like Sun Zhongmou. The talent of the second young master was the object of admiration and admiration from everyone in the world. On the other hand, the eldest young master was already fascinated by the enchantress named Feng Lian'er. How could he still obey him? How can our plan still work with us to seek hegemony?!"
Sun Quan's breathing also became rapid. In this conversation with Zhou Yu, there were some things that Zhou Yu pointed out. Sun Quan had actually thought about it for a long time, especially the matter of plotting the world. He had been thinking about it day and night. Now, now Zhou Yu gave him confidence.
Indeed, if we take Xuzhou as a springboard, we can reject Sima Yi from the north and conquer Jingzhou from the east. In this way, Jiangdong will be like having an arrow platform, and we can choose the target of our next attack.
The most Sun Ce can do is to let Jiangdong become rich and powerful along with Li Bolong. If Li Bolong is unhappy that day, he can send someone else to replace him. Jiangdong's current real power is in Sun Ce's hands, which means that it is in Sun Ce's hands. It is in the hands of Li Bolong.
Sun Quan said: "What does Gong Jin mean... to usurp the throne?"
"Not only usurping the throne, but also... brother-killing." Zhou Yu said word by word.
"How is this possible?!" Sun Quan was shocked. Just as he was about to draw his sword, Zhou Yu said again: "I would like to ask, sir, who is the eldest son now?"
This sentence stopped Sun Quan again.