Sun Luban's ability to gain Sun Quan's favor was certainly not due to the simple affection between father and daughter.
Sun Quan was a political creature. After the dispute between the two palaces, Sun He was deposed and Sun Ba was killed. Neither of his two sons ended well. This shows that this person will never show mercy because of so-called family affection.
As long as the time is right and the need arises, he can give up anyone.
Sun Luban was favored by her father. In addition to Sun Luban herself being able to help Sun Quan win over the Jiangdong family and control the military power in the hands of the Quan family, the most important thing was that she could indeed help Sun Quan with ideas.
This idea this time is indeed very clever. By using this idea, Sun Quan can not only check and balance the struggle between Prince Sun He and King Sun Ba of Lu again, and control the situation under his control, but also temporarily eliminate it. Get rid of the unstable factors in the court and concentrate on dealing with the Shu Han's attack.
Therefore, there was nothing wrong with Sun Quan's decision.
Where Sun Quan really made a mistake was that he underestimated the wastefulness of his two sons and the pattern of his eldest daughter Sun Luban.
Sun He and Sun Ba, strictly speaking, are just tools used by Sun Quan to check and balance the situation. They are ambitious, but they are not capable.
In the early years, in order to train his late prince Sun Deng with all his strength, Sun Quan not only gave Sun Deng the best education, but also arranged the best team for Sun Deng to assist him.
In order to prevent other princes from having unreasonable ideas about the position of prince, Sun Quan adopted a carefree attitude towards all his sons except Sun Deng.
Sun Quan knew Sun Deng well and knew that his son was soft-hearted.
Although, as a king of a country, being soft-hearted is not a good character. Sun Quan even had conflicts with Sun Deng because of this, but hey, Sun Deng also has a good side to being soft-hearted. When his younger brothers are all useless, right? When he did not pose a threat, Sun Deng would not have the idea of killing all his brothers.
So, in fact, Sun Quan had not trained Sun He and Sun Ba properly since they were young. He only guided them as the future of idle princes.
But who knew that Sun Deng died early and was ahead of Sun Quan. Sun Quan had no choice but to temporarily choose someone among the short ones, and finally chose Sun He and Sun Ba.
Even though Sun Quan made Sun He the crown prince, in fact, Sun Quan himself didn't know which one was the suitable candidate to inherit the throne. They were just two useless losers.
In addition, Sun Quan himself had the need to check and balance the forces in the DPRK, so he caused a lot of things.
Sun Quan originally thought that after so many things, these two good-for-nothing sons had experienced enough and should have made some progress. Therefore, Sun Quan agreed to Sun Luban's suggestion and let the two of them take care of their own affairs.
Sun Quan really didn't think there was anything wrong with Sun Luban's suggestion.
Is it difficult for a prince, Sun He, to inspect Jiangxia to boost military morale, stabilize the situation, and appease Quan Cong in the name of investigating the Battle of Xiakou? !
There is no need for him, Sun He, to go into battle to kill the enemy in person? !
Unfortunately, Sun Quan thought so, but Sun He did not.
As far as the bunch of useless counselors around Sun He are concerned, I really feel that Sun Quan sent Sun He to the Jiangxia front line because he believed Sun Luban's slander and wanted to send Sun He to his death.
Think about it, the majestic crown prince of a country is suddenly sent to the front line by the Supreme, and the front line coach is also the main supporter of the political opponent. This unfortunate idea was made by the wife of a supporter of the political opponent in exchange for you. What do you think?
He Quan Cong may not dare to assassinate the prince, but he deliberately made a command mistake on the front line, suffered a small defeat, and then put all the responsibility for the failure on the prince Sun He, thereby suppressing Sun He's prestige. Is it difficult? !
Not to mention Sun He's advisers, even Sun He himself thought so.
It can be seen from this that a bunch of things can be called a bastard and a tortoise, a perfect match! ! !
Sun He obviously didn't want to be captured without hesitation. He had now begun to think about whether he should strike first after arriving at the front line, accuse Quan Cong of a crime, relieve him of his command, and then ask the Supreme to send Zhu Ran back to Xiakou again. Zhu Ran is considered one of his own, so he can use it with confidence.
As for Sun Ba, he actually had doubts about Sun Quan's decision.
Let's put it bluntly, Sun Ba knows that Sun Luban is on his side now, but it's really hard to tell how much Sun Ba should trust Sun Luban.
In addition, the reliable people around Sun Ba, such as Bu Zhi, Quan Cong, Lu Dai, and Lu Zhi, were all sent out by Sun Quan, leaving only his own group of advisers, and the ability of this group of advisers was still high. It's not as good as Sun He's heartless people over there.
Therefore, after Sun Ba analyzed it with his own advisers, he felt that the current situation looked like a precursor to the prince's faction cutting off his own wings and finally taking action against him.
After all, Sun Ba is not a prince and has no righteous status. Once he loses his wings to protect him, it will be easy to get rid of him. Now Sun Ba is extremely insecure.
Especially this time, Sun Quan ordered Sun Ba to assist Gu Yong in handling grain and grass collection matters. It was impossible for Sun Ba to resist the order and not go.
As for Gu Yong, there is no doubt that he belongs to the prince's faction. Sun Ba went to Gu Yong's staff. At best, he was an assistant, at worst, he was sent to his door.
Sun Ba knew Gu Yong's ability. If Gu Yong wanted to set a trap for himself, he might not be able to see it.
As for the grain collection, if something went wrong and Gu Yong shifted the responsibility to Sun Ba, then Sun Ba would definitely not be able to argue with him.
At that time, even if Sun Quan liked Sun Ba again, Sun Ba would inevitably be punished, and he might even miss the chance to be the crown prince.
Therefore, Sun Ba was actually thinking about how to strike first and find a way to get rid of Gu Yong first without giving Gu Yong a chance to dig a hole for him.
The two backup heirs of Soochow are both having their own crooked ideas.
Of course, these two guys are just dishonest, their ability is not good, and their status is still low. But Sun Luban, she just has a low status.
Sun Luban came up with this idea half-heartedly to relieve Sun Quan's worries and resolve the current unnecessary dispute between the DPRK and China.
Half of the time, Sun Luban was actually thinking about how to excuse his husband.
In any case, Quan Cong's defeat on the front line is indeed true. No matter how you clean up this matter, you can't wash it out from black to white.
Therefore, if we want to ensure that Quan Cong's status and power are not affected, we cannot rely solely on words to reverse the situation. It is also unrealistic to ask Quan Cong to immediately perform meritorious deeds and make up for his mistakes.
Then, there is only one way left - to lower the average and muddy the water.
There was a slight defeat on the Jiangxia side, and Quan Cong was attacked by a group. So, if there was a small defeat on the Huainan side, can you guys impeach the general Lu Xun? !
As for Lu Xun, how could he be easily impeached by these nagging fellows in the court? !
If he dared not impeach Lu Xun, then would he not be qualified to impeach Quan Cong? !
This means that Sun Luban's selfishness is indeed limited.
Sun Luban's specific method was to use Sun Ba's opportunity to assist Gu Yong in handling grain and grass affairs, and give Sun Ba ideas to make some moves in the distribution of grain and grass on the Soochow front.
Of course, Sun Luban was not unaware of the consequences if there was a shortage of food on the front line. Therefore, Sun Luban suggested to Sun Ba that he should slightly adjust the proportion of food and grass transportation between Huainan and Jiangxia, so that Lu Xun in Huainan could take the initiative to shrink due to insufficient military food. The front did not want to cause the defeat of the Runan area.
Sun Luban still knew what the fall of Huainan meant, and she would not be so stupid.
Although the layout is not enough, Sun Luban's ability is good and he can still understand these things.
However, Sun Luban did not expect that the next development of things would get out of control to this extent.
The first person to start messing around was Sun He.
After Sun He arrived at the Xiakou military camp, he directly entered the Chinese army's tent and deprived Quan Cong of his frontline command in front of Quan Cong.
Of course, if Sun He did this and immediately handed over the military power to the veteran general Ding Feng, then with Ding Feng's prestige and ability, the situation would not collapse. However, Sun He could not trust Ding Feng, and the reason was simply that Ding Feng He came to support Jiang Xia with Quan Cong, and he might be from Quan Cong.
Therefore, Sun He insisted on going through the process and wrote to Sun Quan, asking Sun Quan to send Zhu Ran back to take over.
During the period when Zhu Ran did not return to Xiakou, Sun He temporarily took command of the Xiakou army.
Then, there will be nothing more.
Such a big change occurred in the enemy's water stronghold. How could Ji Han's meticulous work in the Soochow army not find a way to convey this news? And how could Yang Di, who got the news, let go of this opportunity to win in a single battle.
Therefore, Yang Xi, Wang Jun, and Zhong Limu discussed briefly and decided to take the initiative to attack the Dongwu Army's water stronghold in Xiakou.
But Sun He, the guy whose head was kicked by a donkey, didn't know which muscle was wrong. He repeatedly ignored the advice of the veteran general Ding Feng and insisted on going out to the water village to challenge. After a show of tricks, he was defeated.
If Ding Feng hadn't fought tooth and nail to protect Sun He and break out of the siege, the mighty Prince of Soochow would have been drowned in the Yangtze River! ! !
As for Sun He's defeat, at least nearly half of the main force of the Soochow Navy was killed or injured, and it was no longer possible to continue to hold on to Xiakou.
In desperation, Ding Feng could only temporarily take over the important task, lead his troops to retreat to Sanjiangkou near Xiling, reestablish a foothold in the water village near Sanjiangkou, and defend the northern end of Moling County.
The loss of Xiakou meant that the Jingzhou Army had obtained a ferry to land on the south bank of the Yangtze River and could go south to attack Nanxu or even Jianye.
(End of chapter)
