The Three Kingdoms

"How?" Looking at the two, Sun Jian raised his head, smiled slightly, and asked, "You two have made a lot of noise, I can hear it from here, have you caught anyone?"

"They were all caught, not only Xu Gong was taken down, but also someone you couldn't think of, but this time I was tricked, and the three people caught were almost killed."

Sun Quan smiled wryly, and then analyzed the whole story.

"You mean, they still used the bed crossbow?" Sun Jian was furious, with a trace of murderous aura exuding from his body.

"Indeed, if the second brother hadn't made proper arrangements for Zhou Tai and Xu Sheng to accompany him, I'm afraid I would have to break up this time!" Sun Ce recalled, more or less scared.

"It's ruthless enough. Look at them because they think a certain family is easy to bully, so let them see this certain family this time. The anger of my Sun family, then the assassin who will be killed later, shouldn't be Xu Gong's?" Sun Jian frowned. , his eyes were a little cold: "Xu Gong doesn't have such a lot of energy."

"Definitely not, they are here for Gu Zhou."

Sun Quan's eyes brightened slightly, and he said in a low voice.

"The Gu family?" Sun Jian stood up, walked to the window of the study, staring at the drizzle outside with his tiger eyes, a little uncertain.

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At this time, in the Gu family's mansion, Gu Yong looked a little anxious, and hurried into the study of the head of the family, Gu Hong. Gu Hong sat on the bamboo mat in the room with a gloomy expression.

"Uncle, was our Gu family involved in the assassination just now?" Gu Yong asked directly.

"Ok!"

Gu Hong raised his head, looked at Gu Yong, nodded calmly, and sighed: "After Gu Zhou was dismissed from office, he has always been dissatisfied with our closeness to Sun Jian, so he secretly funded Xu Gong's actions. It was too late, so in a hurry, I made a bad move."

He regretted it a little now, Gu Zhou got involved, as long as the Gu family didn't admit it, he could still get it back, at most it would be a serious loss, but the next move he made was a stinky move that offended the Sun family.

"You mean, kill Gu Zhou?" Gu Yong stared.

As long as Gu Zhou dies, even if the Sun family has grievances, without evidence or evidence, they can't do anything to the Gu family, at most the Gu family will take a step back.

"Ok!"

Gu Hong nodded.

"The action failed?" If it succeeded, Gu Yong didn't feel that this move was stinky, but if it failed, it would be superfluous and offend the Sun family even more.

"En!" Gu Hong still nodded.

[Chapter 73 Zhang Zhao who is automatically delivered to your door]

In the Gu family's mansion, in an elegant wing room, the lights were bright. Gu Hong stood by the window, staring at the drizzle outside the window with his cloudy eyes, feeling an involuntary chill in his heart.

"Uncle, it's up to now, make your next decision!" Gu Yong knelt down behind him respectfully, and a deep voice sounded in the wing room.

"What decision?" Ever since the attack on Gu Zhou failed, Gu Hong, the head of the family, felt the end of the Gu family and lost the arrogance of the Gu family.

The Gu family did have a lot of influence in Jiangdong. If you stomp your feet, the land in Jiangdong will shake, but it can't stop the tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the hands of Sun Jian, a tiger.

"Resist, or completely surrender!" A trace of determination flashed across Gu Yong's eyes.

"So what about resistance? How about surrender?" Gu Hong's heart moved slightly, and he regained a trace of his former vigor, staring vividly at the most outstanding young man in the Gu family for decades.

"To resist means to give up everything in Wu County, and to do it immediately, gather all the strength of our Gu family, and kill Wu County. As long as we can kill it, we can survive."

Gu Yong's expression was very calm. Since the incident happened, he couldn't sit still. Although it was not what he thought, the Gu family only had these two paths. , or take refuge in Danyang, or take refuge in Lujiang, and jointly resist the Sun family."

With the Gu family's influence, none of the princes along the way in Jiangdong would refuse their refuge.

"We can't kill them!" Gu Hong calmed down at this moment, smiled slightly, and said: "The Sun family has elite cavalry, even if we kill the county, we can't get out of Wu County. This plan doesn't make sense."

"The only thing left is complete surrender!" Gu Yong also knew it, sighed suddenly, and said: "Hand over everything from the Gu family without any reservations, but if this is the case, we may be completely tied to the Sun family. They even went to the opposite side of these aristocratic families in Jiangdong."

"If this is the case, are you sure you can protect the Gu family?" Gu Hong asked suddenly.

Now, he only wanted to let thousands of people in and out of the Gu family survive. What he was worried about was that even if the Gu family completely surrendered, the Sun family would settle the score later, and the Gu family would really have no resistance at all.

"Sun Jian is a man of great talent and general plan, and he is a man who has achieved great things. Moreover, his two sons, one civil and one military, are not ordinary people, not ordinary people. They still know which one is more important. Ninety percent of them are nephews. Be sure, you can keep the Gu family." Gu Yong first entered the county guard's mansion in the past few months, and then traveled with the army, he knew a lot about the Sun family, so he was sure of it.

"Then I will leave this matter to you to decide." Gu Hong squinted his eyes and sighed, "This old man is really old, and his eyesight is dim. Although the family has a big business, but now there are no young people, and the only outstanding generation is you, if you can let the Gu family survive this calamity, I will open the ancestral hall and pass on the position of the head of the family to you!"

"Uncle!" Gu Yong was slightly startled, and looked at Gu Hong in surprise.

"Go, this is my token. You can mobilize all the power of the Gu family as you like, and I will hand over the Gu family to you." Gu Hong overplayed his head and took out a square token from his long sleeves. , There is an unquestionable coercion in the words.

"Promise!" Gu Yong's expression was shocked, and he took the heavy token respectfully.

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In the early morning, the rain stopped, but there was a tense atmosphere in the fresh and clear air of Wu County.

In the bloody battle on Ximen Changjie last night and the attack near the county government office, Xu Gong, Zhang Chu, and Gu Zhou from the Gu family all joined forces to assassinate Sun Jian's eldest son, Sun Ce, but Sun Ce set up an ambush and captured him.

This matter has spread to everyone in the county overnight.

Now everyone's eyes can feel a kind of calm after depression, one by one began to keep a close eye on the sheriff's mansion, waiting for the tiger Sun Jian's decision, or waiting for Sun Jian's butcher's knife.

"Xu Gong really overestimated himself, I'm afraid he's going to die this time!" In the streets and alleys, some wine servants, teahouses, and some scholars gathered in small groups, talking about it.

In fact, Xu Gong and the others didn't care much about it. The value of Xu Gong's use that has been lost today has at most become an object of Sun Jian's prestige.

"I heard that the head of the Zhang family is also involved, and Mr. Ziyang is also involved!"

But Zhang Chu is different. He is a well-known scholar in Wu County. The Zhang family is a representative of the local gentry in Wu County. This makes them afraid that Sun Jian will make a big fuss because of this. kill ring.

"I heard that even Gu Zhou of the Gu family was involved. General Polu must be furious this time, and the Gu family cannot escape responsibility!" one of the wine servants whispered.

The most important thing is that this matter is related to the Gu family, the giant of the Jiangdong gentry. Gu Zhou can be regarded as a representative figure of the Gu family, and his official rank is Wu County Magistrate, so many people regard this matter as ordered by the Gu family.

"The Gu family is not the Zhang family, I'm afraid General Polu should weigh it carefully!" Someone sighed.

Now everyone is looking forward to the collision between Sun Jian and the Gu family.

The two big families of the Gu family and the Lu family are different from the Wujun family in one piece. They are the real giant families in Jiangdong.

A middle-aged Confucian student in his early thirties, wearing a lun scarf and a simple commoner gown, a little downcast, walked through the streets and alleys of Wu County, listening to a lot of speeches while walking, and began to think silently in his heart .

In less than half an hour, the middle-aged Confucian scholar had already walked in front of the Sheriff's Mansion of Wu County. He raised his head and stared at the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion, feeling a little bit of struggle in his heart.

His name was Zhang Zhao, and he wanted to join Sun Jian, so he wanted to recommend himself. Although he was young and eager to learn, he had a lot of talent, but he had been in prison before, so he was a little unconfident.

Zhang Zhao is from Xuzhou. He was young and eager to learn. He was well-known in the village. A few years ago, there was a war in Pengcheng, Xuzhou. Qian is not the hero, he is not willing to seek refuge, so he postpones, and offends Tao Qian, who did not expect Tao Qian to put him in prison.

Last year, his friend Zhao Yu became the prefect of Guangling, so he pleaded with Tao Qian and rescued him from prison. However, he was afraid that Tao Qian would hold grudges. After he was released from prison, he took his family all the way south to Jiangdong to avoid disaster.

Zhang Zhao also stayed in Wu County for a few months. Since Sun Jian entered Wu County, he began to pay attention. He has been observing Sun Jian for a while. As early as more than a month ago, he made up his mind to join Sun Jian, but he only had Zhang Zhao. Arrogant, so we must find a suitable opportunity.