The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 327 Volume Predictable
When Sun Ce woke up again, he felt extreme pain on his face.

He wanted to take the bronze mirror to have a look, but Sun Quan, who was guarding the bed, refused to let him look, saying that this was something Zhou Yu had specially arranged, and asked Sun Ce to listen to his advice.

Sun Ce's mind was finally clearer at this moment.

When he thought about the fact that he had basically lost the support of the aristocratic families, endless panic rose in his heart.

Out of worry and fear, Sun Ce lost a lot of weight in just a few days.

At this time, Sun Ce's wife Da Qiao also came to take care of Sun Ce.

Unable to bear seeing Sun Ce looking so haggard and miserable, Da Qiao fetched a basin of clean water and helped Sun Ce wipe his body.

As luck would have it, Sun Ce happened to see his current appearance with the help of the reflection from the basin.

The hideous wounds on his face were exposed. Where was the trace of his former heroic image?
Plus, he had lost some weight recently, so when I first glanced at him, I thought it was an evil ghost sitting there.

"what!"

Sun Ce screamed, the wound burst open, and blood gushed out of his face again!
The sound alarmed everyone in the military camp, and Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao and others rushed to Sun Ce's tent.

Seeing that Sun Ce suddenly seemed to be going crazy, Zhou Yu stepped forward and held Sun Ce down: "Go and call a doctor!"

"Bofu! Just focus on healing your wounds! Don't worry about anything else!"

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce can be said to have a mutual understanding.

He knew that what crushed Sun Ce was not his ruined appearance, but the current situation of internal and external troubles in Jiangdong.

After all, Sun Ce had never experienced such a fierce struggle. After being suddenly attacked, he was extremely panicked and didn't know how to deal with it.

Sun Ce, who was invincible on the battlefield, eventually fell into a quagmire that he could not understand.

Zhou Yu, Sun Quan and other close people surrounded Sun Ce with tears in their eyes and tried to persuade him, but Sun Ce still looked confused and afraid.

"Sun Bofu, if I had known this, I really shouldn't have sent the message to Gongjin to see you."

At this moment, a very discordant and sarcastic voice suddenly appeared in the tent.

Li Ru.

He looked at Sun Ce, who seemed to have lost his mind, and shook his head in disappointment.

"If it was the Grand Master or the Emperor, the first thing he would do when he woke up would be to order his soldiers to break into those people's homes, kill all their clansmen, and take back all their lands, so that he could make those villains pay the price. Only in this way could he not be shot in vain."

"Even if it's Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, they might take advantage of this opportunity to attack and seek benefits for themselves."

"You are sitting here, crying like a woman. It's really ridiculous!"

"..."

The tent fell into silence.

Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao, Sun Quan and others all knew that although what Li Ru said was unpleasant, it was true.

No matter whether it is the emperor, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, when faced with such things, it will instead arouse their ferocity and they will take crazy revenge after surviving a disaster.

How could he be like Sun Ce, who was so frightened by that arrow that he cried like a madman?

Seeing that everyone around him was silent, Sun Ce slowly stopped sobbing.

Trying hard to find a trace of clarity in the midst of fear, Sun Ce looked around and finally realized one thing -

He can't fall down now.

If even he was gone, wouldn't people around him like Zhou Yu and Sun Quan be eaten alive by those Jiangdong noble families?

……

Enduring the pain on his face, Sun Ce moved his numb tongue and asked, "What does Li Wenyou think I should do now?"

"Either you go and give them a soft hand, ordering each family to keep their own private army, exempting the tenants on their farms from paying taxes, and appointing the sons of their family members as powerful officials in various places... learn from Liu Biao in the past and listen to them obediently."

"Either..."

Li Ru was a little excited when he said this.

"Order the army now to go to each house, drag them out like wild dogs, and cut them into pieces!"

……

There is no doubt that both approaches will come at a cost.

However, these two prices were unacceptable to Sun Ce.

While Sun Ce was still hesitating, Li Ru said lightly: "What are you afraid of?"

"Behind you, there is His Majesty and the imperial court."

"As long as you are willing to obey the orders of the court, are you afraid that the size of the court will be afraid of a few rats in the remote and poor land of Jiangdong?"

At this moment Zhou Yu showed a delighted expression: "The emperor is willing to help us?"

"Why do you think the emperor sent troops to attack Hebei? Is what he did different from what you did?"

Li Ru smiled and said, "But in the end, you still have to pay a price!"

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu looked at each other, and the confusion in their eyes gradually dissipated, leaving only the determination that could support each other.

……

Letters from Jiangdong traveled upstream along the Yangtze River to Jingzhou, and were then delivered to Puban at an extremely fast speed.

The Son of Heaven has already arrived here!
Liu Xie was wearing black and gold Jiaozi armor, with a scarlet black bird cloak on his back, sitting in the tent. After reading the letter, Liu Xie raised his eyebrows several times.

There was more than just Liu Xie in the tent.

Sima Yi, Yang Xiu, and Guo Jia.

In addition, Gao Shun, the commander of the Xianzhen Camp, also served as the emperor's personal guard, protecting him.

When they saw the emperor raise his eyebrows, they couldn't help but feel nervous.

Sima Yi was even more blunt: "Your Majesty, has Sun Ce already sent troops to attack Jingzhou?"

"In this case, we should immediately send an order to General Wu Yi stationed in Yong'an, and have him lead the Yizhou army to rush to Jingzhou!"

The 20,000 Shu soldiers that Wu Yi had were prepared for Sun Ce.

The soldiers of Shu are good at fighting on foot. If they defend the city, and with a defending general like Wen Pin, it will be impossible for Jiangling to fall quickly.

As long as Jiangling is not lost, they can slowly settle the score with Sun Ce later. There is no need to make a big fuss about this matter.

"it's not true."

Liu Xie put the letter aside and turned to look at Guo Jia on the other side: "Fengxiao, you should have met Sun Ce in Huainan. Do you know what kind of person Sun Ce is?"

Because Liu Xie ordered Guo Jia to quit taking Wu Shi San, Guo Jia's mental state is actually much better now, and he is completely different from before.

But ever since he joined the army to go to war, Guo Jia's brow has never relaxed.

Although he did not know the court's specific arrangements for this war, just based on the arrangements that Guo Jia already knew, he felt that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao had little chance of winning this time.

Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh when he thought that he might meet Cao Cao on the battlefield.

Fortunately, the emperor was asking Sun Ce at this moment, so Guo Jia would not keep silent and expressed his own judgment.

"Sun Ce just annexed Jiangdong, and those he killed were all heroes and heroes. These people are worthy of people's life. But Sun Ce is reckless and unprepared. Although he has millions of people, it is no different from him coming to the Central Plains alone. If the assassin who is lying in ambush suddenly takes action, one person will be no match for him. In my opinion, he will definitely be killed by an ordinary man..."

?

No, you really guessed it?

Although Liu Xie knew that Guo Jia had already made this judgment about Sun Ce.

If Guo Jia was not in his army, even if Guo Jia made this judgment, Liu Xie would still suspect whether Guo Jia had secretly sent assassins to Jiangdong to assassinate Sun Ce.

But Guo Jia has been staying in Chang'an in the past few years, and obviously he does not have the ability to assassinate Sun Ce, so this makes him seem very powerful!

Liu Xie nodded slightly after hearing this: "Not bad."

"The information in this letter came from Jiangdong."

"When Sun Ce was out hunting, he was assassinated by the son of Xu Gong, the former governor of Wujun, and his retainers. An arrow pierced his face, leaving Sun Ce seriously injured!"

When everyone in the tent heard this, they all gasped and looked at Guo Jia in disbelief.

"Feng Xiao, can you guess this?"

Yang Xiu put his arm around Guo Jia's shoulders and rubbed his head with his hands.

"What's wrong with your head? Can you predict the future?"

Guo Jia was used to being bullied by Yang Xiu, so he had no choice but to accept the explanation.

"How can it be that exaggerated?"

"The Jiangdong area is somewhat isolated after all because of the natural barrier of the Yangtze River."

"This isolation is different from the difficult roads in Shu. Although Jiangdong has the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, the waterway is well developed, and the exchanges with the Central Plains are very close, and there is no shortage of exchanges between scholars."

"In this case, the power of the aristocratic families in Jiangdong must be extremely large, even comparable to that in Central Plains and Hebei."

"But after Sun Ce conquered Jiangdong, he didn't know how to win over those powerful families to rule Jiangdong together with him. Instead, he used the northern scholars who came south to govern. How could those Jiangdong scholars tolerate him?"

"Secondly, Sun Ce didn't even bother to win him over, but he didn't even know how to directly seize his military power, take back his land, abandon his tenants, and disrupt his foundation. He just wanted to do it slowly. Isn't this extremely stupid?"

"That's why I said, although Sun Ce seems to be powerful, he has actually been trapped for a long time, surrounded by enemies everywhere. How can he last long?"

……

Sun Ce, your original intention is good.

Born in troubled times, he naturally realized that "aristocratic families cannot be trusted" and wanted to use the northern scholars who moved south to curb the powerful families in Jiangdong.

This is similar to Liu Xie's large-scale training of scholars from poor families among the government soldiers.

However, Sun Ce did not meet any of the basic conditions that Liu Xie met to support these scholars from poor families.

First of all, Dong Zhuo had already plowed over all the powerful families in Guanzhong, and there was basically no force that dared to resist.

Secondly, the imperial court had the Xiliang Army as its base, and could implement its policies without constraints.

Finally, there was the emperor Liu Xie, who not only used papermaking and printing to greatly reduce the cost of learning literacy, but also relied on the prestige accumulated by the Han Dynasty over 400 years to force the matter forward.

And Sun Ce?
He has a hammer?
It is really too fantastic to think that you can suppress the Jiangdong nobles by relying on just a few scholars who came south!
"Feng Xiao is right."

Liu Xie agreed with Guo Jia's speculation, but suddenly asked with great interest: "Since Feng Xiao is so good at predicting things, why don't you help me predict what the outcome of my expedition will be?"

Gulu!

Guo Jia swallowed bitterly, knowing that what was supposed to come had finally come...

(End of this chapter)