Lu Xun lowered his head, pondered for a while, then raised his head to look at Sun Quan and Lu Meng: "Envoy, Governor, have you ever thought about it, if the envoy got Jiaozhou, can he be Cao Zhennan's opponent? With the strength of Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, can he compete with Jingzhou and Yizhou?"

Sun Quan remained silent, and Lu Xun asked this question very directly. Yes, even if he got Jiaozhou, he was still Cao Chong's opponent. Jiaozhou was in the south, Yangzhou was in the east, and Jingzhou's waist in the middle of the top of Jingzhou. If he had enough troops in his hand, he might be able to threaten Changsha, Guiyang and Wuling from Yulin and Yuzhang, but if his strength was not good, he would be stretched and had loopholes everywhere if he wanted to defend such a long front. In other words, even if he took Jiaozhou, he was just a piece of meat placed next to Cao Chong's mouth, and he would always want to bite it. From the perspective of military deployment, his occupation of Jiaozhou was definitely more harmful than good for him. Instead, it would be better to concentrate on managing Yangzhou.

The problem is that he has occupied Jiaozhou for so many years. How could he give up when he said he would give up, and he gave up under the circumstances of Liu Bei's forceful seizure? If he gave up, he could only be a patriarch of Yangzhou with peace of mind. The great clans of Yangzhou will never take him seriously again and will turn to Cao Chong from then on. And the Lu Xun in front of him may have such an idea. So for him, he had to fight for Jiaozhou, and he had to fight for no reason, and he had to fight for victory, so that he could stabilize Yangzhou and dispel Cao Chong's idea of ​​swallowing him at any time.

Sun Quan slowly retracted his leaning forward body, landed his center of gravity on his heels, raised his hand and gently stroked the beard on his chest. His slightly closed eyes looked at Lu Xun who was talking, but his heart was full of doubts and disappointment.

The big families in Jiangdong have really not regarded his Sun family as a wealthy family that can be on par with them? How many people are ready to abandon their Sun family at any time and instead show their charm to Cao Chong? The Lu family's real head Lu Ji has gone to Xiangyang. He heard that he has been attracted by the inexplicable celestial phenomena of Cao Chong. He looked at the stars with Yu Fan, Zhou Qun and others every day, and perhaps he saw some abnormal celestial phenomena. celestial phenomena? Sun Quan was suddenly shocked. He remembered the celestial phenomena that were about to be unified in Kuaiji, and he couldn't help but doubt Lu Xun in front of him. Has the Lu family still not given up on the hatred of the past?

It seems that it is inappropriate to let Lu Xun stay in Poyang to lead troops. Not only will he not be able to use him, but it may also become an unstable factor.

"Boyan's words are wrong." Lu Meng stood up with a stern face and said loudly, with an angry voice: "The Grand Historian said, Maodun, a Xiongnu Shanyu, and he still knew that he could not be divided into earth and others. The envoy managed Jiangdong Third Generation, and Jiaozhou had long been under the rule of the envoy. How could he give up easily? Is the envoy not as good as an ignorant barbarian?"

Sun Quan was awakened by Lu Meng's voice. He looked at Lu Meng, who had a flushed face and sneered, and then looked at Lu Xun with his eyelids lowered, and suddenly felt a little regretful. It was still Lu Meng and the Huaisi Gangs who were loyal to him. Only by following him can they have wealth and prosperity. If they don't follow him, they will have only one life. Unlike these locals in Yangzhou, they only have their own family in their eyes, and they will always consider their family. Whoever can get promoted and become rich will they follow. What loyalty and righteousness are all bullshit.

"Zi Ming, why are you excited? Listen to Bo Yan's words and assertions. He must have his own ideas." Sun Quan blamed Lu Meng on the surface, but urged Lu Xun to say it quickly. He wanted to hear what Lu Xun thought about him, the lord of Jiangdong, and whether he was even worse than that Hun. Zi Ming has made rapid progress recently and actually knows how to quote the Records of the Grand Historian to tell things. It seems that it is still beneficial to let him read more. Sun Quan was quite proud, and a hint of praise was raised in his eyes when he looked at Lu Meng.

"Governor, you are a bit inappropriate." Lu Xun smiled slightly: "Mao Dun is a cruel man who kills his father. How can you compare it with the envoy?"

Lu Meng choked and couldn't speak.

As if he had not seen each other, Lu Xun continued, "The Donghu and the Xiongnu are enemies of the world, and the envoys and Liu envoys are in-laws and have alliances, and they have no great hatred. They only do the several counties in Jiaozhou, and they are all the territory of our great Han. All under the world are the king's land, and the envoys are just entrusted by the emperor to guard one side, not to have taken possession. If you hear your words, it will make people think that the envoys are going to usurp the throne, which is very inappropriate."

"You..." Lu Meng's face suddenly swelled into a pig's liver, and even Sun Quan changed his face. He wanted to occupy Yangzhou, but if you ask him to admit that he wanted to do this, he wanted to separatist. Even if he beat him to death, he couldn't say something. Some things were not enough to be done, that's it.

"Bo Yan, Ziming is not the case." Sun Quan knew that Lu Meng would not be Lu Xun's opponent in terms of eloquence, no matter what, it would be better to withdraw troops as soon as possible, so as not to lose bigger people. He stopped Lu Meng and turned to Lu Xun and smiled, "Bo Yan, do you say that regaining Jiaozhou is easy, but it is difficult to fight outside of war. What does it mean?"

Seeing that Sun Quan had pulled the topic apart, Lu Xun had to turn around and owed Sun Quan, bowed and said, "Eunuch, Liu Bei's subordinates have only more than 20,000 troops. After these two months of war, thousands of people have been lost. Now all are only five or six thousand Guan Yu in Yulin, three thousand left by Cangwu, two thousand Guiyang, and other troops are in his hands. In other words, all the people who can be transferred out to attack Nanhai County have been dispatched and there is no follow-up power. Panyu City is strong and has enough food, Buzishan and Sun Zhenglu are all people who have been through the battlefield for a long time. There should be no problem in defending Panyu."

Sun Quan was slightly shining. The situation in Jiaozhou was indeed like this. It seemed that Liu Bei was aggressive, but in fact he had no momentum. He should have reached the extreme when he was playing this way. If there were no other reinforcements, it would be basically a delusion to win Panyu in the short term.

"But... we can't help but save it." Sun Quan sighed, "Buzishan and others stick to it, just because they have confidence in me. If I don't save them and let them die, how can I command Yangzhou in the future?"

Lu Xun shook his head and continued, "Save it naturally needs to be saved, but this method and time for rescue are very important."

"Oh?" Sun Quan was very interested. Finally, he reached the show. He moved forward and looked at Lu Xun with interest. Even Lu Meng, who was angry beside him, had no time to get angry, so he pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"If Cao Zhennan had not been there, the envoy would not have to spend so much effort to save Panyu. As long as the Grand Governor led 10,000 elite troops to go south, he could successfully defeat Liu Bei and then sweep Jiaozhou." Lu Xun calmly slapped Lu Meng's flattery, and Lu Meng's face immediately calmed down, and he was humble: "How could it be so easy."

"This method is good." Sun Quan praised: "It is indeed a good plan to use talk as a manifestation and soldiers as the inside, one yin and one yang, one vitally and one literally and one literally and one literally and one literally and one is really a good plan."

He praised twice and said, "Boyan, I think you have a good military service. I think you have to save this Jiaozhou. The matter in Poyang Lake is almost done. Go to the South China Sea and bring your troops. I will allocate 5,000 people from Kuaiji to you, a total of 10,000 elite soldiers. With your ability, you will definitely be able to achieve this amazing achievement. In the future, Ziming's future poster, I will be optimistic about you."

Lu Xun seemed to be prepared, so he just smiled and bowed to take the order. Sun Quan was very satisfied. While he asked someone to inform Gu Yong, who was the prefect of Kuaiji, to assign 5,000 people to Lu Xun, and on the other hand, he sent Yi to Changsha again to ask Cao Chong for justice, which was covered up.

Although Shi Yi felt that this job was a bit boring, he did not object to going to Changsha to brag with Jiang Gan, so he happily embarked on the way. In mid-November, he arrived in Linxiang City, but did not see Cao Chong, but only saw Fazheng, the chief of Liufu.

As soon as Fa Zheng saw Shi Yi, he said in surprise: "Didn't you just returned shortly? Why are you here again? Why, your lord is willing to give him the courtship? Where is the person?" Fa Zheng said while looking behind Shi Yi, looking confused.

Shi Yi smiled bitterly: "What kind of quality should I give? I'm here to ask General Zhennan to give justice. Liu envoy attacked my Nanhai County and said everywhere that it was supported by his son-in-law Cao Zhennan. Our lord didn't understand. Who said that Nanhai County must belong to his Jiaozhou Governor? My envoy is still the governor of Yangzhou. Didn't he still want Jiujiang and Lujiang?"

Fa Zheng smiled proudly. It seemed that Sun Quan was much more honest and no longer planned to ask for Jiujiang and Lujiang. He looked at Shi Yi with a smile, knowing that he was here to delay time. It was probably Sun Quan who wanted to recruit Liu Bei. But this was exactly what Cao Chong was thinking, so he didn't point it out, just pretending to be a little regretful: "Oh, you want to find General Zhennan, it's a bit late. A few days ago, the general had already brought his two wives back to Xiangyang. Didn't Mrs. Sun give birth to a daughter? The general was very happy. It was still unhappy to have a drink in Linxiang City for more than ten days. Now, I went back to Xiangyang to serve his precious daughter with a full moon wine."

When Shi Yi heard that Cao Chong had returned to Xiangyang, he was overjoyed and a little uncertain. He hurriedly asked, "When will the general come back?"

Fa Zheng touched his chin and smacked his lips and said, "Oh, this is hard to say. The full moon wine has been completed, but the New Year is coming again in a few days. He probably won't come back before the New Year. After the New Year is over, it will be another hundred days in a few days. He should still be in Xiangyang. After such trouble, it will probably be the end of next spring."

It was so happy that it was blooming. It was so good that he would not have to spend time making up lies. Without saying a word, he immediately sent someone back to notify Sun Quan and rushed to Xiangyang with his gift.

Cao Chong was staying in Xiangyang City and teasing his precious daughter every day. His love made Sun Shangxiang, who was originally a little disappointed, happy. He watched Cao Chong happily carry his daughter around the mansion with his daughter in his arms every day. As the Spring Festival approached, the people in the mansion were busy preparing for the holiday. This year, not only had a child, a concubine, but also Cao Xian. In addition, Dianman's wife Kuai Ying gave birth to a second child, and was a boy, which made Dianman so happy that he couldn't find him. Cao Chong was excited and asked him to move his home to the mansion. Now the mansion was very lively, and even Xun Yu felt happy when he saw it.

On that day, Cao Chong hugged his daughter and went to patrol the mansion under the escort of ten tiger soldiers and ten female guards. The five ladies sat in the room chatting, Big Shuang blushed, holding a can of sour plum candied fruit and tasting it with a delicious taste. Cai Ji's mouth was sour and his eyes were even more sour. From time to time, he glanced at Big Shuang's belly, which had not yet seen the situation.

"Sister, did you want to eat something when you were pregnant?" Cai Ji leaned over Xiaoshuang and looked at Xiaoshuang writing under Xun Wenqian's guidance, while asking Sun Shangxiang who was lying on the brocade bed.

"Me?" Sun Shangxiang looked at Cai Ji and burst into laughter: "I didn't know I was pregnant at that time. I followed my husband to ride horses every day, eat meat and drink wine, and say it's sour, I think the horse** wine is delicious, but it's not accurate, it's still a girl."

"Don't call me like a girl. My husband will get angry when he hears it. He spoils this daughter." Xun Wenqian raised his eyelids and looked at Sun Shangxiang, and said with a giggle: "Didn't you listen to him thinking about it every day? My daughter is his little cotton jacket. But you have to prepare a few more so that you can have a good life when you get old. Now, you have to take someone to show off again. General Zhennan held his daughter and patrolled the streets and became a scene in Xiangyang City."

Sun Shangxiang smiled proudly, but she didn't forget to joke with Dashuang: "That's all, it's really a treasure, it's a son. I think Dashuang likes to eat sour things so much, and he holds a candied fruit every day. He is a boy. I said sister, Xiao Yu'er, Xiao Shuang, you guys, don't hold a book every day, you have to hurry up."

"You're just talking too much." The four of them said in unison.

Sun Shangxiang chuckled, looked at Cai Ji again and said, "I said Xiao Yu'er, the new concubine you married in your father should have. I heard that Da Yu'er is pregnant again, so you have to hold on to it, so that our Cao family can be compared by them."

Cai Ji sighed depressedly and did not respond to her. Sun Shangxiang was about to say something again, and heard a loud baby crying outside the door, and then Cao Chong laughed loudly.

"I haven't gone to pick up the lady yet." Xun Wenqian said to Xun Xiaoqing who was serving by her side. Xun Xiaoqing responded and ran out quickly. He took the baby who was kicking his calves hard from Cao Chong, teasing him while walking. Cao Chong laughed and said, "Stop teasing, my little cotton jacket is hungry, go find her mother to have breastfeed."

He entered the room and looked at it, and smiled and said, "Oh, the ladies are all here. What are they saying so happily? Let me listen."

"What else can you say? You're lucky." Cai Ji gave up his position and took off Cao Chong's cloak: "You are comfortable. You hold your daughter every day in Xiangyang and don't even fight. This general in Zhennan can do it comfortably."

Cao Chong looked at the words written by Xiaoshuang, and sniffed on her neck, took a deep breath, then smiled and said, "That's right, this person's life is destined by seven parts, and only three parts is determined by hard work. Look at me, my father-in-law and brother-in-law are capable, so I can naturally rest. Xun Lingjun takes care of the court affairs for me, Governor Cai helps me fight, Liu envoy helps me take Jiaozhou, only my brother-in-law, knows that he wants me to ask for Lujiang and Jiujiang every day, and he still holds Jiaozhou with one hand."

Sun Shangxiang smiled giggled, as if it had nothing to do with her. She stretched out her fingers and pinched the baby's pink face, gave Cao Chong a blank look, turned around and went into the inner room, and several old ladies followed her. The room suddenly became much quieter, and only the rustling sound of Xiaoshuang flipping books was heard.

"Why don't you stop talking?" Cao Chong touched his head in confusion.

"What else can I say?" Xun Wenqian glared at him coquettishly and signaled to Xiaoshuang and Dashuang. Dashuang was just a little sad, pinching the candied fruit in his hand but not delivering it to his mouth. Xiaoshuang was holding the book in a daze, but his eyes were looking elsewhere. Cao Chong felt a little bored, and laughed awkwardly and got up and slipped out.

"Xiaoshuang, don't be sad, this..." Cai Ji felt a little embarrassed. She took these words. Sun Shangxiang was used to being careless. Dashuang was not too serious about Cao Chong, but Xiaoshuang was very scheming and didn't put anything on her face. Although she was very angry about Liu Bei abandoning them at the time, she was more concerned about Liu Bei's situation than Dashuang. Seeing her dazed, she couldn't help but feel that she was talking too much. In fact, among the few people, she was the most worry-free. She didn't have to worry about Cao Chong being loyal or traitor like the Xun family, nor was she worried about relatives like the Sun family. As long as she followed Cao Chong and made a lot of money.

"I understand." Xiaoshuang smiled silently, stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes: "We don't care about these men's affairs, as long as your husband is safe."

Xun Wenqian sighed and stroked Xiaoshuang's back: "I know you are in pain, otherwise you wouldn't have copied this Sanskrit scripture every day. My husband has no choice but to do anything. You two families will not give in. Just one Nanhai County is fighting for blood. They all think it should be their own territory, so my husband can only help each other."

Xiaoshuang put down the pen in his hand, smiled miserably, but said proudly: "Sister, you lied to me again. Husband is not a helping hand. He is clearly a trick to drive the tiger and swallow the wolf. Let them fight to the death so that he can make profits from it."

Xun Wenqian was stunned. Just as she was about to say something again, Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "But this is good, so they can fight to the point of nothing. Maybe they can be a rich man with peace of mind, so as to avoid delusions and uneasiness."
Chapter completed!