Before Zhuge Liang planned to plot against Zhang Wen, Cao Pi began to retaliate against Sun Quan and cause trouble for Jiangdong because Sun Quan was right and wrong.

It was still when Guo Jia was alive that Cao Cao ordered the princes to be loyal to him because of his narrow emperor. He was of great righteousness and once recruited the power of aristocratic families in Jiangdong.

This is undoubtedly an attractive opportunity for the small and medium-sized families in Jiangdong that are waiting to be sold. It is easy to be recaptured by Guo Jia and act as a visitor in Jiangdong.

Xu Gong, the prefect of Wu County, secretly surrendered to Cao Cao, trying to stop Sun Ce from unifying Jiangdong.

Because of his lack of military capabilities, Xu Gong fled after being defeated by Sun Ce.

After Xu Gong lost power, he still actively looked for opportunities to retake Wujun, which happened to fall into Guo Jia's plan.

According to Guo Jia's plan, it was to make Xu Gong and Sun Ce confront each other. Xu Gong secretly reported to the court without knowing it:

"Sun Ce Xiaoxiong is similar to Xiang Ji, so he should be favored and summoned to the capital. If he is ordered to return it, if he is left outside, he will be a trouble for the world!"

Xu Gong proposed that the emperor ordered Sun Ce to be an official in Beijing, which was to create a reason for Cao Cao to summon Sun Ce to be an official in Beijing.

Sun Ce has actually controlled Jiangdong and will definitely not be summoned to Xuchang. For Sun Ce, it is equivalent to an open break with the Han court.

Other warlords and generals in Jiangdong could resist Sun Ce at the emperor's order. Jiangdong, which had been unified by Sun Ce, would fall back into a state of division by then, and gain time for Cao Cao to unify the north.

However, Xu Gong's stamp was intercepted by Sun Ce by coincidence, and Xu Gong was strangled by Sun Ce for this reason.

Guo Jia continued to use tricks to assassinate Sun Ce, which led to the assassination of Sun Ce by the three disciples of Xu Gong.

After Guo Jia died of illness, Cao Cao's intelligence system in Jiangdong was received by Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu's talent is not bad, and Cao Cao is very much looking forward to it, and even hopes that he can make Sun Quan surrender without fighting.

But things went against my wishes. Cheng Yu's intelligence talent was not as good as Jia Xu and had no achievements.

Especially in the Battle of Chibi, Cheng Yu's plan in Jiangdong failed, and Cao Cao won without a fight, which led to the great defeat of Chibi.

The families of all sizes in Jiangdong changed their minds when they saw the wind. Seeing that Cao Cao could not go to Jiangnan, many people were out of Cheng Yu's control, and Cao Cao gradually alienated Cheng Yu.

After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he simply left Cheng Yu idle, and the work of Jiangdong intelligence was handed over to the confidant adviser Sima Yi.

Sun Quan was perfunctory and refused to send troops. Seeing Cao Pi’s joke, Cao Pi was not good at turning against each other openly, but it was not difficult to instruct Sima Yi to do something and cause civil strife in Jiangdong.

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Ma Su was eager to go to the Southern Barbarians, not only because he was eager to make contributions, but also because something happened to Sun Lang, the Ma family's business was severely hit and he was struggling.

Ma Shuchang's commercial empire seems huge, with its main business covering the whole country. In fact, its pillars are Wulingman Market and Jiangdong's shipping business.

After Wulingman's market was affiliated with Sun Lang, he needed to give Sun Lang a large part of the profit, which had a small impact on the Ma family, but it was still within the scope of tolerance.

After Sun Lang's accident, it means that Wulingman and the entire Jiangdong market will no longer have the share of the Ma family.

The Ma family is not a top wealthy family in the remaining Xichuan market, but is just an outsider. It is not easy to barely intervene in, but it accounts for a very small proportion.

Horse trafficking in the northwest is a profitable industry, but because horse thieves are rampant and Cao Cao's territory is even more risky.

Ma Jianhe has been in charge of the northwest for many years. Although both black and white have some face, they are all bought with money.

Over the years, Ma Jianhe's operation in the Northwest Market has been quite smooth, but because the cost of handling the site is too high, there is only a slight surplus.

The Ma family invested so much manpower and capital in the northwest, and hadn't made much profit. If Ma Su hadn't insisted, Ma Shuchang would have long given up the Northwest market.

The only way for the Ma family to make money is actually Jiangdong, and most of them are tied to Sun Lang.

Even if Uncle Ma often keeps his hands, some small projects are operated independently, but the scale is very small and the profit is limited.

After Sun and Liu got into evil, the Ma family did not dare to blatantly deal with Jiangdong, and the only few businesses were greatly affected.

Originally, the Ma family was a typical collusion between officials and businessmen in Jiangdong, and had a lot of money, but it was inseparable from the position of their partner Sun Lang.

Sun Quan fought with Liu Bei in Jingzhou and almost used all the military power in Jiangdong.

Even many elite troops who defended Cao Pi were transferred, and they could only use other troops to make up the numbers.

Because of the lack of commanding generals, even Sun Lang was sent to the front line by Sun Quan. He led a thousand troops and horses from the headquarters to the south bank of the Yangtze River, following Lu Fan to participate in the defense of Cao Pi's army.

In the first year of Huangwu in Wu (222 AD), Cao Xiu led his troops to the cave entrance, and Lu Fan led his army to resist.

At that time, Sun Lang was the General of the Dingwu Central Army and led an army alone to the expedition.

When Cao Xiu was pursuing his victory, the Wu army was defeated on the front line.

Sun Lang, a young man who is devoted to doing business and making money, is not a material for war. In order to be able to be safe, he actually set fire to Mao Mang in order to make his own safety.

Although Xu Sheng and others gathered the remaining troops to fight and finally repelled Cao Xiu's army.

However, it also caused insufficient military use, which caused great trouble to Lu Fan's army.

According to military law, Sun Lang should have been executed, but was handed over by Lu Fan to Sun Quan for his clan status.

In order to stabilize his position, Sun Quan has already made many moves openly and secretly, and indirectly killed several brothers, and felt a little apologized.

Sun Lang is Sun Quan's youngest younger brother. He has no ambitions or talent. He looks like a spoiled naughty child and is very ineffective.

But Sun Lang has a good talent in doing business. After Ma Su led him into the door, he was very devoted and soon became prosperous.

All Sun Quan cared about was his power and he just turned a blind eye to Sun Lang who had no threat to make money.

Sun Quan was also very conflicted. He wanted the children of the royal family to take over the military power for him so as not to be taken away by outsiders, but he was also afraid that someone in the royal family would be too outstanding and replace him.

This time, the Wu Kingdom faced Liu Bei's strong attack, and it was already an emergency. In order to express his determination to resist, Sun Quan ordered that most of the clans be brought to the battlefield.

He killed two birds with one stone, mainly to play an exemplary role, allowing the children of other aristocratic families to follow and go to the battlefield.

The second is to examine the talents of the clan’s children and select some useful talents from them. Of course, if the talents are too outstanding, then you need to prevent problems before they happen.

Sun Lang went to the battlefield this time and violated military law, causing not much damage, but Sun Quan could not ignore it.

Sun Lang did not threaten Sun Quan's status. He was happy to seize this opportunity and showed his kindness and respect, so he would not take Sun Lang's life.

But how to deal with Sun Lang made Sun Quan a little embarrassed.
Chapter completed!