Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 541
Zhou Yu could not be regarded as a retainer of the Sun family. He only joined Sun Ce's army out of the desire to help his friends because he was a child of Sun Ce.

Strictly speaking, Zhou Yu can be regarded as Sun Ce's ally and partner, but he cannot be said to be Sun Ce's subordinate, which is why Sun Quan was jealous of Zhou Yu later.

After all, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce defeated Soochow together. Now that Sun Ce is dead, if Zhou Yu has the heart, he can inherit Sun Ce's power without handing over the position of Sun Ce to the immature Sun Quan.

But now that Zhou Yu has also included himself in the ranks of Sun's retainers, it is somewhat unreasonable.

But Zhu Wei could only wait for Zhou Yu to make his own statement. In any case, it still depends on what Zhou Yu thinks in his heart. If Zhou Yu must regard himself as a retainer of the Sun family, then what can Zhu Wei say.

It's just that Zhou Yu is not a martial artist like Huang Gai after all. As a smart person, he still thinks of other factors in his heart, so he can't help but look at Zhu Wei and frowned slightly.

If Zhou Yu expressed his stance as simply as Huang Gai did, Zhou Yu felt that he might make Zhu Wei more afraid of the Sun family. Then if the Sun family joined Zhu Wei in the future, they would probably be strictly controlled.

Zhou Yu couldn't help thinking that when he met Sun Shangxiang, Sun Shangxiang asked him to be an external force for the Sun family. He hoped that Zhou Yu could serve as an official on Zhu Wei's side. After Zhou Yu got a certain position, he could give the Sun family external support.

But now if he must insist that he is a retainer of the Sun family, he might not be able to satisfy Sun Shangxiang's request.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu was really confused, but if Zhu Wei really had the ability to spy on people's hearts, could he really let go of his friendship with Sun Ce and help Zhu Wei wholeheartedly? Zhou Yu couldn't help but secretly asked himself in his heart.

Seeing the way Zhu Wei looked at her at this time, Zhou Yu couldn't help sighing, "Forget it, Yu really can't say that he is a subject of the Sun family, but Qian Tanghou, can you give Yu some more time, now that Yu is really It is impossible to make a decision!"

"Okay, if Zhou Lang has said this, Wei will be relieved!"

Zhu Wei felt a little more relaxed after hearing Zhou Yu's statement. It seems that at least Zhou Yu still has a chance to earn money. No matter how Zhou Yu convinces himself, as long as Zhu Wei can see Zhou Yu's loyalty improvement through the Three Kingdoms game system. .

On the other hand, Huang Gai was a little surprised when he heard Zhou Yu's words. He didn't expect Zhou Yu to make such a statement at this time.

Zhou Yu could also feel the change in Huang Gai's attitude, but at this time he really didn't know how to explain to Huang Gai, so he could only raise the wine cup and drank a cup of turbid wine that he didn't know what it tasted like.

"Since that's the case, Wei didn't come here in vain today. Knowing Zhou Lang and General Huang's intentions, Wei can make arrangements for the two of them! Now let's just see how the Guangling Sun family will decide!"

Compared with Huang Gai, Zhu Wei naturally paid more attention to Zhou Yu's posture. After all, Huang Gai was old, but Zhou Yu was still young. Since Zhou Yu's attitude has changed, Zhu Wei can still wait for Zhou Yu's change.

Having said that, there is actually no intention of continuing, and the current atmosphere is not suitable for forced perfunctory.

So Zhu Wei got up and said goodbye, leaving Zhou Yu and Huang Gai a table of wine, meat, fruit and vegetables, but after Zhu Wei left, Huang Gai also got up and looked at Zhou Yu indifferently, then turned and left. Dayou meant to break up with Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu didn't care about Huang Gai's attitude. He naturally had his own thoughts in his heart. He was still drinking and sitting here alone at the moment, but his expression changed from time to time, as if he remembered the past.

In the following days, although Zhou Yu still played the zither, Huang Gai never practiced boxing with the music, even he didn't talk to Zhou Yu on weekdays.

Let’s not talk about Zhou Yu and Huang Gai for the time being, just say that after Zhu Wei finished meeting with his generals, he went on a tour in Danyang, Wujun, and Kuaiji. Turn back to Xiangyang.

As for the negotiations on the side of Guangling County, they are still going on for a while, but just as Jia Xu expected, the fact that Tai Shici led the Shenjian Battalion across the river into Guangling County suddenly made the Sun family in Guangling County very frightened, so The negotiations between the Iraqis, backed by the Shenjian Battalion, also went relatively smoothly.

Now the Shenjian Battalion has basically taken over the territory originally controlled by the Sun family. At the same time, some troops have been deployed in Huaiyin, Xuyi, and Gaoshan counties to prevent Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu from sending troops to invade.

However, Tai Shici's army had obviously crossed the scope of Guangling County, and entered some areas of Xiapi County to the north, and it meant to be close to Yuan Shu's territory in Huainan to the west.

Such a move naturally attracted the attention of Lv Bu, who occupied Pengcheng and Xiapi in Xuzhou. Lv Bu inevitably mobilized his troops and took some precautions against the direction of Guangling County. As for Yuan Shu, he also deployed troops between Yinling and Zhongli counties. Take precautions to prevent Zhu Wei from sending troops to Huainan through Guangling County.

In the current situation, Zhu Wei defeated Liu Biao in the first battle in Jingbei, and defeated Cao Cao's soldiers and horses who came to take advantage of it. This has already made the princes of the world fear Zhu Wei.

Then Wang Yuyan led troops to pacify Jiangdong, killed Sun Ce, surrendered Zhou Yu, and let Zhu Wei completely control the land of Jiangdong.

Everyone in the world knew that Zhu Wei's rise in the south was unstoppable, and no one dared to underestimate Zhu Wei, a young southern hero.

However, Zhu Wei suddenly crossed the river to the north, occupied Guangling County in Xuzhou without bloodshed, and his forces had already set foot in the Central Plains, which made Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shao in the Central Plains inevitably seek his subordinates to discuss how to face the South. Zhu Wei's strategy.

But no matter what others do, Cao Cao, who held the emperor hostage, obviously gave Zhu Wei a good feedback at the first time. He sent an envoy to issue an edict to Zhu Wei on behalf of the emperor, and officially gave Zhu Wei the name of General Zhennan that Zhu Wei had asked for. At the same time, it also gave Zhu Wei the title of governor of Jingyang, who can actually control Jing and Yangzhou, so that Zhu Wei obtained the official local real power and became a real separatist warlord in the south.

All this happened to meet the conditions that Zhu Wei had set after defeating Xia Houyuan's Cao soldiers and capturing two Cao generals, Che Zhou and Yue Jin, before sending them to Cao Cao.

It can be said that Cao Cao's favor to Zhu Wei this time is even better than the name Zhu Wei wanted in the original conditions. The only thing is that in the name of the emperor, he asked Zhu Wei to crusade against Yuan Shu in Huainan.

After all, Huainan is also within the scope of Yangzhou. Since Zhu Wei is the general of Zhennan and the governor of Jingyang, there is a rebellion like Yuan Shu in Zhu Wei's control area, so naturally Zhu Wei is responsible for rebelling against it.

At the same time, Cao Cao privately hoped that Zhu Wei would respect the conditions agreed at the beginning, and send back the corpses of Xiahouyuan and Xiahouba, the captured generals Che Zhou and Le Jin, and even hoped that Zhu Wei would return the more than 1 Cao soldiers captured this time.

Of course, the emperor's envoy from Xudu came to Xiangyang with the emperor's edict, so Zhang Zhao, who has been transferred to Xiangyang to preside over the affairs, also sent a letter to Zhu Wei, asking Zhu Wei Return to Xiangyang as soon as possible to welcome the emperor's edict.

So after Zhu Wei received the news, he prepared to return to Xiangyang in early October of 197 AD...

(End of this chapter)