"Now that Cao Wei is destroyed, the Shu people will march eastward to Wu. I sincerely request your majesty to govern the government, establish the country's foundation, open up the road, warn the villains, curb chaos internally, and guard against thieves and bandits externally."
In the fourth year of Chiwu in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, the Zhengdan Dynasty began.
Lu Xun, who rarely returned to Jianye to attend court meetings, gave Sun Quan a memorial at the regular court meeting after Sun Quan offered sacrifices to heaven and earth.
This memorial is more of an exhortation than a letter of advice.
In governing the government, Sun Quan wanted to put an end to the current situation in the Soochow Dynasty where people were taking sides due to the dispute between the Southern and Lu Dynasties.
The purpose of establishing the foundation of the country was to establish Sun Quan's status as the crown prince, Sun He, and to order King Lu to surrender to Tibet to avoid possible party strife.
The purpose of opening up the road and admonishing villains is to target Lu Yi. He hopes that Sun Quan will no longer indulge Lu Yi's unscrupulous behavior and should be restrained.
It's not that Lu Xun really wants Lu Yi to step down. He also knows the role Lu Yi played in Sun Quan. It's just that Lu Xun can accept Lu Yi's role, but he really can't accept Sun Quan's usage.
Zhang Tang and Zhidu are both cruel officials, but you have to compare them with Lu Yi. Zhang Tang and Zhidu are considered defeated by just one look at Lu Yi.
Lu Xun could accept Sun Quan's use of cruel officials like Zhang Tang, Zhidu, and even Man Chong. Although these people were vicious in their methods, they all had a bottom line. And Lu Yi was just a villain. In order to achieve his goal, what would he do? All means are available.
Such cruel officials will not only fail to eliminate Chao Gang, but will also cause trouble for Chao Gang.
Of course, if the emperor had the power and could control the internal and external situation, then Lu Xun would not say anything. But now the general trend of the world has changed.
Cao Wei was overthrown, Shu Han regained Hebei, and the pattern of three parts of the world was completely broken.
Today, the Shu Han dominates ten states in the world, while Soochow only has half of the southeastern half. If the three states do not end their internal disputes as soon as possible and unite their resources, they may have to face a situation even worse than the Battle of Chibi.
After all, during the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao did not share the Yangtze River with Soochow, but the Shu Han had been operating in Yizhou for many years, and the combat power of the Jingzhou navy was getting stronger year by year. Time waits for no man.
Therefore, during the Zhengdan Dynasty, Lu Xun took the risk of interfering in the establishment of the heir apparent and took the initiative to seek changes from Sun Quan.
There is a saying that Sun Quan was very angry at Lu Xun's memorial letter.
The first thing that made him angry was that Lu Xun actually broke the tacit understanding with him and rashly intervened in the dispute between the princes. This was very detrimental to Sun Quan's use of the Nanlu dispute to check and balance the government.
Sun He already has the title of prince. If there is another general who controls half of Soochow's military power, he will be in big trouble.
Lu Xun really crossed the line this time, causing Sun Quan great dissatisfaction.
The second thing that annoyed Sun Quan was that Sun Quan really couldn't solve the first two items that Lu Xun asked for.
Yes, it's not that Sun Quan didn't want to control the Nanlu dispute, but the current development of the situation was a bit beyond Sun Quan's expectations.
If we say that before Sun He was made the crown prince, the struggle between Sun He and Sun Ba could still be seen as a fight between the Huaisi Military Group and the Jiangdong family, then Sun He was made the crown prince and Sun Ba was granted the title After becoming King of Lu, his nature completely changed.
This is a national dispute.
Political interest groups based on geographical connections are relatively simple and easy to control. Sun Quan is confident that he can control them within his expectations.
But once it becomes a national dispute, many things will become complicated.
Now, whether it is the princelings standing behind Sun He or the King of Lu party standing behind Sun Ba, different interest representatives are mixed together, and they can no longer be simply divided by geographical interest groups.
Behind Sun He were Zhang Xiu, Zhuge Ke, and Zhu Ran, who were military descendants of Huaisi, and there were also Jiangdong aristocratic families like Gu Yong and Zhu Ju.
Similarly, behind Sun Ba, there are not only the support of the Jiangdong family members such as Quan Cong and Wu An, but also the support of the Huaisi military group such as Bu Zhi and Teng Yin.
The culprit who caused all this is Sun Quan, the great emperor of Wu, who is currently sitting in the middle of the court meeting.
When faced with the struggle between the Huaisi Group and the Jiangdong Family, Sun Quan wanted to control the situation and introduce third-party forces to maintain balance. However, unfortunately, the clan forces that Sun Quan had high hopes for were still somewhat weak.
There is a saying that Sun He and Sun Ba are far worse than their eldest brother Sun Deng. They have neither Sun Deng's vision nor Sun Deng's mind. The prince's position can only deal with two people. They have no idea where they stand and are fighting with each other.
It's really foolish of you to expect them to think about the country and support their clan's power.
Therefore, Sun Quan had to recruit from the clan and promote Sun Hong, plus Sun Shao, Sun Sheng and others to form the clan power.
But the problem is that the most powerful Sun Shao of this clan power is now on the Huainan front line and has not been in court for a long time. Sun Sheng and the newly promoted Sun Hong are only relying on the talents of a middle-aged man. No matter how Sun Quan favors him, he cannot Have any diversionary effect on both sides in the Nanlu dispute.
Therefore, in order to maintain the balance of government, Sun Quan had to favor Sun Ba, the king of Lu.
After all, Sun He was already the prince, and he had the initiative in the political sense. Sun Ba still had to compete for the crown prince position when the crown prince's position was already determined. He was not very popular with the ministers in the court. .
Therefore, Sun Quan must show a certain degree of preference for Sun Ba so that Sun Ba can have the capital to compete with Sun He. In this way, Sun Quan can contain the interest groups behind the two and buy enough time for the clan's power to grow. .
However, the consequences of Sun Quan's actions are also obvious-the dispute between Nanlu and Nanlu has intensified, and now there are signs of party strife.
The representative event was Quan Cong Shangshu's impeachment of Gu Yong's son Gu Tan.
Quan Cong is more than just Sun Quan's son-in-law. For so many years, Quan Cong has stayed in Jianye and is responsible for defending the capital. In his hands, he has the military power of half of Jiangdong. He is the largest military power besides Lu Xun and Zhu Ran. A powerful general.
As for Gu Tan, he was not only one of the "Four Friends" of the original crown prince Sun Deng, but his father Gu Yong was also the main supporter of Sun He and the political opponent of Bu Zhi, the main supporter of Sun Ba.
Obviously, Quan Cong, a powerful general, impeached the son of the current prime minister. No one would think that Quan Cong was only targeting Gu Tan. His real goal was to get rid of Gu Yong and pave the way for Bu Zhi to ascend to the throne.
This is a standard manifestation of party struggle.
Sun Quan was very troubled by this, and once again felt the risk that the situation might get out of control.
Different from history, the historical dispute between the two palaces of Soochow occurred at a very clever time. The Shu Han Dynasty had already declined in national power and was unable to fight externally, while Cao Wei experienced the Gaoping Ling Incident, internal turmoil, and was unable to fight against the East. Wu used troops.
During this period, Sun Quan had no external threats and no longer had the ambitions of his youth, so he could only focus on internal conflicts.
Without external threats, even a wise king like Cao Rui would have a chance to rise. Cao Rui's ability to govern the country before Zhuge Liang's death and after Zhuge Liang's death were completely different.
In history, Sun Quan's series of tricks in his later years had a lot to do with the lack of external threats, in addition to being able to get away with it.
But this time and space is different.
Although, in this time and space, Sun Quan no longer has any ambitions, but his external threats have never stopped.
Whether it was from Cao Wei or Shu Han, they all posed a considerable threat to Sun Quan.
In this time and space, the Shu Han was astonishingly powerful. It rose from a state and a half, and finally conquered ten states in the world. In the end, it even completely wiped out Cao Wei in just three months.
By the way, when Zhuge Liang was conquering Youzhou in the north, Cao Shuang actually sent an envoy to Soochow to ask for help, hoping that Soochow could send troops to attack Yanzhou, or send naval troops to help by sea to jointly resist the Shu Han attack.
But, on the one hand, it was because the distance between the two sides was too far, and the envoys took almost two months on the road. On the other hand, Cao Wei was defeated so quickly that even Sun Quan did not expect that Cao Wei could not help but fight. In just three Yue was completely destroyed by Zhuge Liang.
So, it wasn't that Sun Quan didn't want to save Cao Wei, but time simply didn't allow it. Neither Cao Wei nor Shu Han gave Sun Quan this chance.
Because of this, now that Cao Wei has been destroyed, Sun Quan is facing greater external pressure than in history.
Sun Quan in history had already begun to suppress Sun He's faction and trigger party strife at this time.
But in this time and space, even if Lu Xun's superiors broke the rules, it did cause Sun Quan's dissatisfaction, but it was limited to dissatisfaction.
Under the real threat from the outside, Sun Quan could not float at all, and it was impossible for him to suspect Lu Xun at this time.
In other words, even if Sun Quan was suspicious of Lu Xun, he would not show it.
After all, no one is sure now when the Shu Han will send troops to march eastward. Therefore, no matter who the generals like Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, and Quan Cong support, Sun Quan cannot easily move.
Of course, we cannot continue to allow them to fight among themselves like this.
In fact, Sun Quan also knew that what Lu Xun said was right. Now that there was a great enemy, if the internal forces could not be quickly unified and the external forces were unified, it would be difficult for the Wu State to fight against the Shu Han with the national strength of Wu.
Therefore, Sun Quan also wanted to end the dispute between the two palaces as soon as possible. Or at the very least, he had to control the dispute between the two palaces to a level that would not affect the external situation.
(End of chapter)
