In order to compensate Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, Lu Bu specially selected two beautiful nieces from the Lu family, and asked his wife Yan Lin to adopt them as adopted daughters to marry Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. He also asked Zuo Ci and Yu Ji to test the fortunes of the two girls. They were all destined to be husbands, so they were brought to Luoyang and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were married in Luoyang. Because Sun Ce and Zhou Yu originally had legitimate wives, Lu Bu, the two adopted daughters, were Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's equal wives.
After Zhou Yu went through these things, he secretly said to Sun Ce: "Fengxian Gong is a real dragon, Bo Fu, you are a tiger. Tigers are driven by dragons, but they cannot compete with dragons for the world!" Sun Ce understood.
Lu Bu once again solemnly promised his plan to make Sun Ce king and Zhou Yu a duke, and both of them returned home.
Sun Ce said to Lu Bu: "My brother Sun Quan has always been ambitious. He is afraid that he will not be inferior to others. I am afraid that he will cause trouble in the future!"
Lu Bu had people show the letters Sun Quan secretly wrote to Sun Jian's old men over the years, saying that Sun Ce had surrendered to Lu Bu and had forgotten his father's ambition. He hoped that all uncles could support me as the leader and unite with Yuan Shao to fight against Lu Bu.
After seeing this, Sun Ce became furious and beheaded Sun Quan with his own hands.
Lu Bu handed over Cheng Pu and others to Sun Ce. Sun Ce beheaded them all to show his loyalty to Lu Bu. Even if there were people in Jiangdong who were ready to move, they would not dare to try to win over Sun Ce again.
A few months later, Lu Bu confirmed the loyalty of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu and quickly promoted them to positions suitable for them.
Lu Bu appointed Sun Ce as the general of Jiaozhou and asked him to command 40,000 troops. Lu Chang and Li Yan were deputy generals. Lu Su was the military counselor. He went to the counties in the South China Sea of ??Jiaozhou and attacked Yuan Shao's back from there.
Lu Bu appointed Zhou Yu as the Commander-in-Chief of the Yangtze River Navy, Gan Ning as his deputy general, and Liu Ye as a member of the army. They commanded 40,000 naval troops to resist Yuan Shao's attack from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and take advantage of the opportunity to attack.
Lu Fan and Lu Dai were in the Yangzhou area. Continue to stabilize the situation and eliminate those aristocratic families who were against Lu Bu and violated the law. More than ten families including the Zhang family in Wu County who were at odds with Lu Bu were all eliminated by Lu Bu with thunderous means. Their property was divided into three parts by Lu Bu, and one part was taken. Distribute it to other friendly and neutral families in Xuzhou to gain their support. One portion was used to reward the meritorious officials in this battle, and another portion was used to distribute to the middle and lower class people in Yangzhou. Of course, this portion was mainly fields and small-scale shops. For a while, everyone was happy, and the order of Yangzhou was improved, just like Xuzhou a year ago.
Xu Shu¡¯s CIA played a huge role in this great purge of the aristocratic family. The servants they had placed inside the aristocratic family for many years gained the trust of the family¡¯s figures and passed on many of the most confidential information. Including the news that several figures from aristocratic families had planned to join Yuan Shao in raising troops to deal with Lu Bu. Before the soldiers of these figures from aristocratic families were fully mobilized, the Central Army had already surrounded their manors.
These people from aristocratic families will naturally say that Lu Bu's behavior is unpopular with the people. The people they refer to are naturally people from aristocratic families like them. Just as the word "people" does not refer to ordinary people. When even "people" cannot represent the real people, the so-called To win the hearts of the people and win the world is just a joke. It's purely written by the winner and embellished to fool novices.
What is the support of the people? Those who benefit from it are the support of the people. Some people benefited. They will support you. They will help you defeat the group of rebels who have no benefits. This is the will of the people. If you don't benefit people, then no one will support you. This is the so-called popular support. Why Qin's reform was successful was because he supported a group of people who benefited from the reform, and in the end Shang Yang was killed. The reform was not abolished because a group of people who benefited from the reform were supported to fight against those who lost because of the reform. Let's look at Zhang Juzheng's reform. When he died, the reform was immediately abolished because he failed to support a group of people who benefited from the reform.
Therefore, Lu Bu is less and less worried about the resistance of those aristocratic families. When all the soldiers, all the farmers, all the herdsmen, all the craftsmen, all the common people, and all the small businessmen benefit from the reforms he gradually implements, then fewer and fewer aristocratic families will be able to turn over. What big wave is going on? Lu Bu is now making more efforts to prevent the emergence of the kind of aristocratic families under his command that cannot be eliminated. He strictly implements the family separation system and divides large aristocratic families into small aristocratic families, and small aristocratic families into poor landlords. In this way, the differentiation will continue layer by layer. Lu Bu hopes Below are all the peasants and small landowners, and no family can pose a threat to his rule.
Lu Bu then attacked those powerful families who controlled important strategic resources such as salt and iron such as the Hedong Salt Pond. He could submit obediently, get an official position for the family's children, and leave some family property to support him in his old age. If he refused to cooperate, Lu Bu sent a large army to encircle and suppress him. Anyway, public opinion was now in Lu Bu's hands. The family's heads were rolling, but they could not do anything to get Lu Bu. After all, they could not be defeated by beating, nor could they be defeated by scolding. If they did not surrender, they would only die. Lu Bu sent troops to control important strategic asset areas such as salt ponds, iron mines, copper mines, silver mines, and gold mines, preventing any wealthy family from getting involved.
LuBu learned from the experience of a certain dynasty that state-owned enterprises are most likely to cause corruption. Lu Bu basically left non-strategic materials to the private sector. In the production areas of such strategic materials, Lu Bu also assigned many CIA and imperial officials. Shitai's people infiltrated into it and eliminated a group of borers every three to five years.
Lu Bu also used tricks to ambush Yuan Shao's several advances. Yuan Shao lost another 50,000 to 60,000 horses, so he had to temporarily stop fighting and did not dare to send out more troops. Lu Bu's soldiers were also tired from fighting for a long time and did not continue to march against Jingzhou. The two sides entered again It is a stalemate stage, but everyone knows that this calm period will not last long, and sooner or later a major battle will break out on both sides.
There has always been an old monster in Xu Shu's CIA department. He is Zhang Rang, the leader of the Ten Changshis, because he gave away the treasures of the Ten Changshis, and in the following days, he successively gave away the treasures hidden by the Ten Changshis in their respective hometowns. , making Lu Bu tens of billions of money, Zhang Rang also secretly improved the waterwheel, and more importantly, Zhang Rang gradually handed over the detailed projects he had placed in various places to Lu Bu, who in turn handed them over to the Chinese Intelligence Agency When Lu Bu saw that Zhang Rang had such merit, he temporarily spared his life, so that Zhang Rang could enjoy a long life.
Zhang Rang also did a good deed, which was to persuade Feng Fang to marry his daughter Feng Yuan to Lu Bu as a concubine. Feng Fang was the son-in-law of Zhang Rang's old friend Cao Jie, and was considered a nobleman in Feng Fang's career. Feng Fang still maintained his feelings towards this eunuch. Out of respect, and because he also had the heart to climb the dragon and follow the phoenix, he agreed wholeheartedly.
When Lu Bu knew that the matchmaker was a eunuch, he didn't mind much. After all, Zhang Rang can be regarded as a small helper on his way to success. Completely ignoring the fact that he is gone, this old guy is still quite valuable.
Bu Fan¡¯s Dark Fragrance Division infiltrated into Jiangling¡¯s brothel and contacted the agents stationed there by the Military Intelligence Division. Bu Fan arranged to assassinate Yuan Shao, but found that Yuan Shao¡¯s defense was quite tight. You can't succeed if you are eager. Bu Fan has been harboring such hatred for ten or twenty years, and she is not in a hurry, so she does not take risks. In fact, even if she wants to take risks, her agents will not cooperate with her. After all, she is now If the great Sima Lu Bu's woman had any shortcomings, the people below would not be able to bear the consequences.
Lu Bu did not object to assassinating Yuan Shao. After all, Yuan Shao is dead, and Yuan Shao's three sons are fighting for power, which will definitely be beneficial to Lu Bu, but the prerequisite is that Bu Fan cannot be involved in danger.
??? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT out of the family like Yuan Shao, like his younger brother Yuan Shu, are accustomed to using assassination and other methods to deal with opponents, so he is also wary of Lu Bu doing that to him, so he protects him very tightly. Wang Yue, Shi A and others sneaked into Jiangling with elite agents from the Military Intelligence Department and planned for a long time. They didn't find a chance to make a move. One time, Shi A took action rashly. In addition to losing more than a dozen agents who had been trained with great difficulty, the intelligence network deployed by the Military Intelligence Department and the Anxiang Department in Jiangling was almost wiped out. At this point, Lu Bu decided. The Military Intelligence Department and the Anxiang Department no longer assassinate Yuan Shao, but are only responsible for intelligence reconnaissance.
Bu Fan is indeed a veteran in intelligence. She found out that Yuan Shao was frustrated these days and often felt like a hamster trapped by Lu Bu. Sooner or later, he will be captured alive by Lu Bu. The more he is getting worse and worse, the more Yuan Shao thinks about becoming emperor. He often picks up the imperial seal and looks at it, muttering to himself. It seems that he will proclaim himself emperor soon.
Lu Bu is not prepared to prevent Yuan Shao from proclaiming the emperor. Instead, Lu Bu hopes that Yuan Shao can successfully proclaim the emperor. Only in this way can Lu Bu gather all the royalists to the front line to fight against Yuan Shao. Both sides will suffer. Yuan Shao's proclaiming the emperor completely tore up the fig leaf on the face of Liu Han's royal family. , let the people all over the world see clearly that the Liu Han royal family is actually an empty shell. Even the Yuan family of Runan, which the Liu Han royal family had raised for hundreds of years, betrayed it. Does it still have the value of existing? If Lu Bu then If you proclaim yourself emperor, there won't be so much opposition.
However, Yuan Shao has not made up his mind to proclaim himself emperor. Lu Bu summoned all the counselors from the Conglong faction to discuss, and everyone finally agreed that the reason why Yuan Shao was like this was because he still imagined that he could defeat the Central Army and legally obtain the Liu Han royal family. Instead of proclaiming himself emperor privately and becoming the public enemy of the world, if he was completely desperate and thought that he no longer had the strength to compete with Lu Bu, he might take the throne and proclaim himself emperor to boost his morale.
Lu Bu thought that everyone's analysis was reasonable, so he decided to attack Yuan Shao after the soldiers had rested, and tried to force Yuan Shao to that point. After Yuan Shao ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Lu Bu had the opportunity to take advantage of it.
Lu Bu also asked the imperial court to send envoys to Western Shu and asked Liu Zhang to send troops to attack Yuan Shao. Liu Zhang thought that Lu Bu was not easy to mess with and wanted to send troops, but was blocked by Liu Bei, who had just arrived in Chengdu: "Brother, this is Lu Bu's plan to make distant friends and attack closely. Once Lu Bu joins us in destroying Yuan Shao, and the next one will attack us."
Liu Bei¡¯s guess was correct. Lu Bu had this plan, but the strategy of distant friendship and close attack was only suitable for the strong, not the weak. The Qin Dynasty used it most skillfully in history.
And the wrong use of distant relations and close attacks leads to the destruction of the country.The greatest lesson can be learned from the Song Dynasty. The emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty adopted the strategy of making distant friends and attacking closely, "alliance with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty", and wanted to regain the sixteen states of Yanyun. As a result, after the destruction of the Liao Dynasty, the Jin army marched southward and suffered the shame of Jingkang. Fortunately, the Yangtze River natural moat allowed the Song Dynasty to finally save half of the country. . Ordinarily, this great lesson from our ancestors should be remembered from generation to generation! Unexpectedly, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, they engaged in "distant diplomacy and close attack" and sent envoys to form an alliance with the emerging Mongolia to attack the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Kingdom was destroyed, the Mongolian army also marched in, and the Song Dynasty was completely destroyed. If the rulers of the Song Dynasty had adopted a united front strategy similar to Zhuge Liang's "alliance with Sun Quan in the east and rejection of Cao Cao in the north", "alliance with Liao to resist Jin" or "alliance with Jin to resist Mongolia", history might have been different.
Lu Bu knew that Liu Bei and Sima Yi had gone to Liu Zhang, so he didn't have much hope for this mission. He just sent someone to remind Liu Zhang, be careful that you are Tao Qian's second. Unexpectedly, Liu Zhang's counselor Zhang Song has already He was bribed by Liu Bei and used the example of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao to persuade Liu Zhang not to kill Liu Bei.
ps: I was deeply touched when I read "Yue Fei" recently. The Song Dynasty was really ignorant and mediocre, and the occasional presence of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others did not help.
??Continue to recommend the new book "Super Ambiguous Master", this book is definitely new.