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Sun Shangxiang left with the sword, but Sun Quan did not come back to his senses for a long time. During this period, his mother was concerned about her sister's lifelong affairs, and he also worried about it, but in his heart, he always considered which general was suitable or which minister.

It was not until his sister closed her eyes and picked the Qingyue Sword given by Liu Jing that he suddenly had an idea of ​​how to marry Jiang Xia.

Zhou Yu once mentioned this, and they also joked at the cocktail party, but Sun Quan did not take it seriously. After all, Liu Jing had already married, so it was obviously unrealistic to let his sister be the second wife, and his mother would not agree.

But if it is for political reasons, then the marriage with Liu Jing will undoubtedly be conducive to the expansion of Jiangdong in the south and can eliminate each other's suspicion.

Sun Quan was walking in the room with his hands behind his back. He was weighing the matter left and right. In fact, Sun Quan didn't care whether his sister was the eldest or the second wife. With Jiangdong as his backer, his status was not important.

The key is that this idea came suddenly, and Sun Quan couldn't accept it for a while. Will Liu Jing agree? Is Shang Xiang himself willing? And how can she explain it with her mother?

Sun Quan also felt that it was difficult. This matter was not so easy to decide and unlikely.

At this time, a guard reported at the door: "Report to the Marquis of Wu, the Captain Lu has an urgent matter to ask for a meeting."

The Lu school captain was Lu Su. After the Battle of Chibi, Lu Su was promoted to the Zan Army Captain for his contribution to the Sun and Liu alliance. He was also responsible for Sun Quan's external contacts. Sun Quan received news from the sky that the court sent envoys to Jiangdong, so Sun Quan ordered Lu Su to cross the river to greet him.

Now that Lu Su is asking for a visit, it must be that the envoy of the court has arrived. Sun Quan was so excited that he hurriedly said, "Let him come in."

Soon, Lu Su hurriedly walked in, bowed and bowed, "See Wu Hou."

Sun Quan waved his hand, "No need to be polite, talk about the court envoy, why did he come for his purpose?"

"The court was Yang You, the head of the Honglu, who came to Jiangdong by the will of heaven. There were two things he had come to Jiangdong. One was to thank the Marquis of Wu for his gift, and the second was to come to enthrone Gongjin and De."

"Encang Chengpu" Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, and he asked for a while: "What is encang Chengpu?"

Lu Su sighed and said, "I named Gongjin as the Marquis of Xia Shuiting, and at the same time, I named Cheng Demou as the governor of Nanjun."

Sun Quan felt even more confused and asked again: "But Nanjun is now in Cao Cao's hands, what is the point of signing Gongjin as the governor of Nanjun?"

Although Lu Su disagreed with it, as a subordinate, he could not hide his lord. "Yang You also brought a letter from Cao Cao"

Lu Su took out a letter and presented it to Sun Quan, "Yang You said that if Cheng Pu accepted the position of Nan County Magistrate, then Cao's army would give Jiangling and even the entire Nan County to Jiangdong."

Sun Quan took the letter and looked at it. It was indeed Cao Cao's handwritten letter and the Prime Minister's Seal. The letter made it very clear that Cao's army was willing to give Jiangling to Jiangdong. Cao Cao promised in the letter that as long as Jiangdong troops arrived, Cao's army would withdraw their troops immediately.

Sun Quan couldn't help but be moved. Although he knew very well that this was Cao Cao's plan to disagree, this opportunity was once a lifetime, and the benefits were really tempting.

Sun Quan immediately ordered his left and right, "Go and invite the army and the elder General Cheng as soon as possible."

Lu Su sighed in his heart, he knew that Sun Quan was moved by Cao Cao's temptation, but unfortunately Gongjin was not in Jingkou, and hoped that Gongjin could come back as soon as possible.

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At the side door of the harem, Sun Shangxiang walked out quickly angrily. During this period, her mother was thinking about lifelong events every day, which made her ears almost feel callused. She sneaked out to relax. When she saw her brother, she went to the harem to visit her sister-in-law. Unexpectedly, the second sister-in-law told her that she would be betrothed to Gu Yongzhi and Gu Ji, and would soon ask a matchmaker to propose marriage.

This made Sun Shangxiang shocked and angry. How could her marriage be so sloppy? Moreover, she knew Gu Ji and worked as a guard in the palace. Although she looked good and could speak well, she didn't like it at all.

She turned against her face on the spot, quarreled with her second sister-in-law, and left angrily. Sun Shangxiang turned on her horse, whipped the war horse, and urged the horse to run away.

Sun Shangxiang rushed out of the city gate and ran away. Soon after, she came to the Yangtze River. She turned over and got off the horse and knelt down by the river. Her second sister-in-law's words kept echoing in her ears.

"Don't blame me for this matter. This is what my mother means. The person was decided by your second brother, and my mother agreed. I just went to discuss with the Gu family, and Mrs. Gu also agreed. Little sister, you are ready to be a bride."

At this time, Sun Shangxiang wanted to cry. Why can't she decide her own marriage? She must force her to marry someone she doesn't like and ruin her life's happiness.

Sun Shangxiang's lips gradually clenched. If she didn't do it, she would never accept her fate. She must fight for her own marriage.

Sun Shangxiang suddenly stood up, then turned over to the horse, kicked the horse's belly with both feet, and the war horse ran towards the city.

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Iron City is divided into inner city and outer city. The inner city is the Eastern Wu Palace and various government offices, while the outer city is ordinary residential houses. However, the capital has just moved to it, and there are large open spaces in the outer city, only sparse houses, most of which are official residences of officials, as well as some foresighted merchants.

There is an official residence covering an area of ​​about ten acres in the northwest corner of the outer city. This is the residence of Zuo Sima Gu Yong. Sun Shangxiang urged the horse to run away, and soon rushed to the front of the Gu family's house. She held a bow and arrow in her hand and shouted loudly: "Gu Ji, come out for me."

A butler saw Sun Shangxiang through the crack of the door and couldn't help but smile bitterly. Why did he get into this aunt? He had to open the door and whisper: "Princess Shangxiang, my husband said he doesn't want to see you, go back."

Sun Shangxiang was furious and pulled the bow and arrows. The sharp arrow pointed at him. The housekeeper was so scared that he instinctively shrank his neck, turned around and ran away, and closed the door with a loud bang.

Whoosh

An arrow was shot out and nailed to the gate. Sun Shangxiang pulled out another arrow and shot it again, nailed it to the gate, and shot arrows one after another. This is a custom in Wu. When a matchmaker comes to discuss marriage, the recipient usually seals a box. If he agrees to the marriage, he will put a pair of chopsticks in the box.

If you refuse or do not accept the proposal, you will return a chopstick to the suitor, indicating that it is difficult to pair.

This is a very tactful way of expression, which does not make the matchmaker embarrassed, and the other party knows it well, so the matter of discussing marriage will be left unresolved.

But when she arrived at Sun Shangxiang, she sent an arrow, which was called Yiwu's refusal to marry. The people around her suddenly burst into laughter. At this time, Gu Ji, who was hiding behind the door, finally couldn't bear it anymore and opened the door and rushed out.

"Princess Shangxiang, what do you want?" Gu Ji shouted angrily.

Sun Shangxiang pulled the bow like a full moon, pointed it at him, and said coldly: "Go and tell your parents that it is best not to do some things, otherwise it will be a humiliation."

As soon as she loosened her strings, the wolf-toothed arrow shot out like lightning. Gu Ji was so scared that he screamed, his legs were trembling and weak, and with a crisp sound, the arrow shot through the crown and hat on his head. He was so shocked that he sat down on the ground. After a while, he got up and rolled and ran to the mansion.

Sun Shangxiang sneered repeatedly. It was a dream that even such a cowardly person dared to marry her. She turned her head and ran towards Beigushan.

Soon, Gu Yong hurried out when he heard the news. Sun Shangxiang was gone. He looked at the arrows inserted on his head, then at the crowd watching in the distance and the arrows nailed to the door. He was so angry that his face turned blue and turned around and shouted at his wife angrily.

"You are crazy. You actually want to marry the sister of Wu Hou. Who among Jiangdong dares to marry her? Take a look at it yourself. She has already expressed her determination. Do you still want to humiliate yourself?"

Mrs. Gu lowered her head in fear. She wanted to marry Wu Hou and agreed to Wu Hou. Unexpectedly, Princess Shangxiang was so strong that she came to the door to refuse marriage with force. She secretly regretted it and hurriedly said, "Master, I agreed to nothing."

"Hmph, you can do it yourself." Gu Yong snorted heavily and walked into the mansion.

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In the study, Sun Quan paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. On the other side, Zhang Zhao and Cheng Jin both looked serious. They all understood that this was Cao Cao who was provoking the relationship between Jiangdong and Jiangxia, but the real interests were in front of them, forcing them to be moved.

Zhang Zhao has always been dissatisfied with the Chibi alliance this time. Although Jiangxia's army sent a lot of profits afterwards, including ships, tents and money, Jiangdong really needed no food and population. It is said that this is because Zhou Yu and Liu Jing signed a secret agreement, which made Zhang Zhao extremely angry. He wrote letters to Sun Quan several times to impeach Zhou Yu's crime of being abusive.

Although the impeachment of Zhou Yu was left unresolved because of Sun Quan's unwillingness to pursue it, Sun Quan also knew that he must appease Zhang Zhao appropriately, otherwise the imbalance of power within Jiangdong would cause serious consequences.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Zhao was not a pro-Cao faction. He should be a southern unification faction. He strongly advocated Jiangdong to unify the south and form a confrontation between the north and the south. However, due to the strong advance of Cao's army, Zhang Zhao's southern unification proposal was not adopted by Sun Quan. Sun Quan finally adopted Zhou Yu's Nanhe's pro-demotion, that is, to unite Jiangxia and fight against Cao's army.

Now that Chibi is victorious, Cao Cao's forces are severely damaged and have to retreat to the north. In this way, the proposal of unifying the south represented by Zhang Zhao has emerged again and has been supported by Cheng Pu, the second-ranked military figure.

"If we can take over Nanjun and connect with the four Jingnan counties, we will form a siege of Jingzhou and lay the foundation for us to go west to Bashu."

Zhang Zhao strongly persuaded Sun Quan to seize this opportunity and said: "Wu Hou, Jiangling's city is high and dangerous, and it is backed by the Yangtze River. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. I promised that this is our only chance to seize Jiangling and even the Nanjun, and it is Cao's army who gave in. If we don't seize this opportunity, if we want to seize Jiangling in the future, we will have to pay a heavy price."

As the lord of Jiangdong, Sun Quan needed to balance Zhou Yu's Nanhe faction and Zhang Zhao's Nantong faction, destroy Jingzhou and unify the south. This is of course the dream of several generations of the Jiangdong regime. As the lord of Jiangdong, Sun Quan had to consider the interests of Jiangdong first, instead of caring about his personal relationship with Liu Jing.

Sun Quan's only concern about the alliance signed with Jiangxia before was clearly written on it: Jiangxia, Nanjun, Xiangyang, Changsha and Anlu are all Liu Jing's sphere of influence. The Jiangdong army cannot be interfered with, nor can it cross the Yangtze River.

If he broke the contract to win Jiangling, it would undoubtedly be a rebellion with Liu Jing and completely destroy Jiangdong's credit. Although Cao Cao is weak now and cannot fight south, then in the future, if Cao Cao attacks Jiangdong in large numbers in the future, how can he ask Liu Jing for rescue if he seeks rescue from Liu Jing if Cao Cao attacks Jiangdong in a large scale in the future

On the one hand, on the other hand, the strong combat effectiveness shown by the Jiangxia army in the Battle of Chibi made him a little angry.

If a war really breaks out, the Jiangdong Army will have some confidence in winning. Sun Quan has to carefully consider this.

On the one hand, there is an undeniable temptation of interests, and on the other hand, there is the risk of obtaining benefits, which makes Sun Quan feel like he is taking a thunder from the fire, making it difficult for him to make a decision for a while.

Zhang Zhao saw Sun Quan's hesitation, and he winked at Cheng Pu. Cheng Pu understood and smiled and said, "Lord, why not do this. We can use the excuse of attacking the Cao army in Jiangling to send a small fleet of thousands of people to Jiangling. If Liu Jing had already occupied Jiangling first, we would stop.

If Jiangling was still in the hands of Cao's army, we could use the excuse of defeating Cao's army and seizing Jiangling to garrison in Jiangling, and then the lord negotiated with Liu Jing to fight for the greatest benefit."
Chapter completed!