"Does Yuan Shu know why I am like this?" Sun Quan asked.
"A normal person should be able to guess this kind of thing." Sun Ce said, "Otherwise, Yuan Shu would not just take the initiative to come over to see you."
Sun Quan nodded,
"Too."
If Yuan Shu really thought that Sun Quan was targeting him, given Yuan Shu's caliber, it would probably not be a question of whether to accept it or not, but he would directly send someone to capture Sun Quan. However, even so, Sun Quan's move was also intended to ask Yuan Shu for an explanation. Furthermore, it caused Yuan Shu to lose face. It's not that Sun Quan can't appeal for himself, but this matter is obviously not a foreign enemy, but an internal conflict. Since it is a family matter, it should be discussed privately behind closed doors. With such a commotion, everyone knows that there are conflicts within Yuan Shu's camp. Shouldn't he let the world see Yuan Shu's joke?
Whether Sun Quan did this on purpose or because he was so angry that he didn't think much of it, in any case, Sun Quan made Yuan Shu unhappy.
"What is Yuan Shu going to do? Has he started investigating?" Sun Quan asked.
"Of course!" Sun Ce snorted coldly, "No matter what, I am still marching here and there for him. If Yuan Shu dares not to investigate this matter, then no one of my Sun family members will work for him!" But..." At this point, Sun Ce frowned slightly.
"It's just that it's hard to say whether it can be found out, right?" Sun Quan chuckled and took over.
"Not only that." Sun Ce shook his head, with a rather ugly look on his face, "Yuan Shu is one person on the surface but another behind the scenes. I'm afraid he won't really investigate at all!"
Obviously, Yuan Shu broke his promise twice, which made Sun Ce very unhappy. Now, with just one opportunity, Sun Ce may leave Yuan Shu at any time.
"Brother, you are wrong." Sun Quan said, "Yuan Shu will definitely investigate this matter, and he will investigate it thoroughly. As a superior, it is not that he does not allow his subordinates to fight among themselves, but he does not allow his subordinates to hide it. Do things by yourself. This time, I killed me without telling him. What if I surrender to the enemy without telling him next time? No matter how stupid Yuan Shu is, after all, he comes from a powerful family and he still knows these bottom lines. However, this time Yuan Shu himself may not be sure what will be found in the matter. He wants to investigate, but he is afraid that it will involve too much in the end. So, I guess, he will conduct a large-scale investigation openly and show it to us; secretly, , is the real investigation. After the truth is finally found out, we can then choose whether to make it public or not."
"I see." Sun Ce nodded and suddenly smiled, "Ha, second brother, you are indeed better at this than me."
Sun Quan shook his head gently,
"Brother, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, what they are good at and what they are not good at. It is really tiring to rely on yourself and do everything by yourself, and it may not work. Look at Liu Bei, Wen Bu Literary and military skills are not important, but I am able to gather a group of capable people under my command, so after so many years, I finally achieved great things."
"That's right!" Sun Ce patted Sun Quan on the shoulder, "So together, you and I will be able to achieve great things. Second brother, the eldest brother has been enduring humiliation and burden all these years, but he is just waiting for you to come back!"
Sun Quan's mouth twitched and he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said,
"Brother, don't put so much pressure on me when you first come here, okay?"
"I'm not putting pressure on you, but we must have pressure now!" Sun Ce said in a deep voice, "The Sun family cannot collapse in the hands of just the two of us!"
Sun Quan shook his fist and said,
"That's right, I have deeply felt this when I came back this time! The world seems to have forgotten the existence of my Sun family!"
In the past, in Jiangdong, who dared to cause trouble in front of their Sun family? When it came out this time, Mrs. Wu and others were put under house arrest, and Sun Quan was ambushed later. These were not personal grudges, but the Sun family was in decline and he was bullied. Especially this time, why did the other party do it so flawlessly? It's not that they are afraid of Sun Quan finding out about them, what they are afraid of is actually Yuan Shu's investigation!
If the other party was truly afraid, he would never dare to take action against the Sun family! In the past, Sun Quan had always been thinking about how to protect his family, and even how to protect his eldest brother Sun Ce, but protection was always passive. Only by solving the root cause can it last long.
If you want to solve the root cause, first, rely on being gentle: don't make grudges with others, don't make enemies, including what Sun Quan originally thought, if you don't kill Xu Gong, then there will be no disciples to avenge Xu Gong. But sometimes, just being gentle is not enough. Just like this time, you have no grudges with others, but because of the interests, others still want to kill you. Unless your Sun family doesn't want to stand out, otherwise, similar things will be eliminated forever. No. Therefore, there must be a second item: deterrence! Only with enough deterrence to let people know the serious consequences of doing certain things can future troubles be avoided to the greatest extent.
This incident just gave Sun Quan the opportunity to shock others. Especially when the other party did it so flawlessly, and was eventually found out by Sun Quan, this made people dare not take any chances. That's why Sun Quan deliberately made things worse. What he wanted was to end things once and for all!
"Anyway, brother, please tell me a few suspicious people first. You can send people to keep an eye on Yuan Shu's public investigation. As for Yuan Shu's private investigation, including the movements of those suspicious people, brother, please don't send people there. Keep an eye on him so as not to alert the enemy. Just let me take care of these things." Sun Quan said to Sun Ce.
"Well." Sun Ce glanced at Sun Quan thoughtfully, wanting to ask where Sun Quan's manpower came from, but after thinking about it for a moment, Sun Ce also guessed his elder brother, and finally did not mention the topic, "I have been here all these years. , the other party does know me very well, and I can only keep it on the surface."
"There are also obvious benefits on the surface." Sun Quan smiled softly, "If we don't let people see through our movements, how can the other party be reassured? If the other party doesn't relax, how can it reveal its flaws? If we don't do anything, the other party will On the contrary, it will feel suspicious.”
"I understand what you mean."
Sun Ce showed the same smile as Sun Quan. The Sun family's art of war never tires of deceit.
······
Soon, Sun Quan and his party arrived at the gate of Shouchun City.
When preparing to enter the city gate, Yuan Shu sent a general to take over the last few carts of corpses in the team. After all, pulling so many corpses into the city in broad daylight would easily cause panic. Sun Quan was not unreasonable and took the initiative to hand over the evidence. Sun Ce sent two soldiers to follow him. They said they were helping, but in fact they were going to see how Yuan Shu would dispose of these corpses. It can be said to be a kind of show on the table. supervision.
After entering the city,
Sun Quan and his entourage pulled the remaining carriages filled with betrothal gifts and rushed to the central county government. Due to the huge momentum of the group of people, and Sun Quan deliberately leaving traces of being attacked on the carriage, many arrows were still stuck on it, and people were pointing at him along the way. In less than half a day, this matter would probably spread. All over the city.
It wasn't until he was about to arrive at his destination that Yuan Shu showed up with a group of officials, big and small, in a hurry.
"Zhongmou! My good nephew! Are you not injured?"
His face was concerned and sincere, and it didn't even look like he was faking it.
