Relying on the convenience of smooth sailing, on the morning of the 25th day of the first lunar month, the news that Deputy Director Tao personally led the Xuzhou army to attack Chaisang City was finally delivered to Chungu, to the three Duke of Xiao Yuan, and to the ulterior motives of Sun Quan. After hearing this news, Sun Quan, who was already in his heart, was completely desperate. If it weren't for the failure of surrender, he was being closely guarded by Yuan Shu's soldiers, Sun Quan would have almost wanted to imitate Yang Changshi of Xuzhou.

Fortunately, in addition to being furious and scolding Tao thieves, Xiao Yuan Sangong no longer cared about to torture Sun Quan if he had actually met Deputy Director Tao. Once Chaisang, who was in the upper reaches, it would be equivalent to inserting a knife behind Xiao Yuan Sangong. Xiao Yuan Sangong could only quickly organize the navy team to attack and rush to Chaisang for rescue.

While the food and grass needed for the navy to go up the current was still loading the ship, two bad news about Xiao Yuan Sangong, who was like a bolt from the blue. The first one was of course the bad news that the Jingzhou Navy suddenly wore a pair of pants with the Xuzhou army. The second one was the bad news that the Chaisang general Song Qian was killed by Jingzhou general Gan Ning in the water battle. The remnants of the Chaisang defender opened the city gate and surrendered to the Xuzhou army. Then Xiao Yuan Sangong was as stunned as Sun Quan, and was as completely desperate.

"Tao Ying's traitor! Liu Qi's little thief! How dare you do this?!"

After being completely desperate, he was completely furious. In his rage, the third Duke of Little Yuan even gathered all the troops in his hands to go west to regain Chaisang City and fight to the death with Deputy Director Tao. Fortunately, the winner Bo Yanxiang, Chief Shi Shu Shao, General Chen Fen and others held it tightly. Yan Xiang also quickly reminded: "Lord, it may be easy to dispatch a large army to regain Chaisang. But after our main force advanced westward, what should Liu Yao take the opportunity to attack? The Tao thief's Chaohu Navy also took the opportunity to attack the city and land of our army in Danyang?"

Xiao Yuan Sangong was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he had not repaired his past life and had countless good neighbors. One of them would take advantage of the situation and one of them would take advantage of the situation. If he dared to mobilize the main force to advance westward, let alone the Xuzhou Navy led by Lu Su would definitely surround Wei to save Zhao. The mortal enemy Liu Yao would definitely take advantage of the situation and rob. Maybe good neighbors such as Xu Gong, Wang Lang, Yan Baihu and Zulang would also intervene and throw a few absolutely considerable bluestones on his head that had fallen into the well.

After being stunned for a moment, the third duke of Little Yuan roared again and roared: "What can I do if I don't send troops? Should I let the pottery thieves occupy Chaisang and Poyang Lake? Is it possible to threaten the rear of the orphan team and Yuzhang County, a place with heavy money and grain? "

"My lord, don't get angry." Shu Shao also advised: "It is not impossible to send troops to retake Chaisang, but our army must do two things at present. One is to understand the situation of Chaisang's enemy. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. The other is to sign a formal alliance with Liu Yao as soon as possible, agree to join forces to resist the invasion of the pottery thieves, and relieve their worries. Only then can the lord move west with confidence and take back the important town of Chaisang with all his might."

"Mr. Zhongying's words are reasonable." Yan Xiang quickly echoed: "According to the opinions of his subordinates, the lord should best follow the two traitors Tao Ying and Cao Cao and agree to Liu Yao's previous proposal. The lord and Liu Yao exchange their legitimate sons as charity. Only in this way can our army be truly worry-free when advancing westward. You can also feel at ease to join forces with Liu Yao to fight against the Tao thieves' invasion!"

The third duke of Xiao Yuan was a little hesitant, while Sun Quan, who was named the military officer on the other side, couldn't wait to stand up. He knelt down in front of the third duke of Xiao Yuan, kowtowed and said loudly: "Lord, the uncle, the humble minister Sun Quan is willing to atone for his merits and atone for Liu Yao. He went to Niuzhu to visit Liu Yao and urged Liu Yao and his lord to exchange protons to form a Qin and Jin alliance to join forces to resist the invasion of the Taoist thieves!"

The answer to Sun Quan was a kick from Xiao Yuan Sangong suddenly flew over. The hard cowhide shoes hit Sun Quan's face, kicking Sun Quan's face so much that he even lost one of his teeth. Then Xiao Yuan Sangong roared again, "Drag this cunt that is crawling inside and outside, and chop it!"

"Lord, please spare me, please spare me! Lord, please spare me, please spare me, I am loyal to you! I am loyal to you!"

Sun Quan shouted in vain, but Xiao Yuan Sangong, who was angry, waved his hand and immediately several guards rushed over, dragging Sun Quan up and walked. Fortunately, Yan Xiang considered that Xiao Yuan Sangong had a shortage of experienced generals under his command, and then cut Sun Quan at this time, he would inevitably force Wu Jing and Sun Ben to leave after he pleaded with the third son of Xiao Yuan. He tried his best to argue that the situation was unclear and there was no evidence to prove that the fall of Chaisang was caused by Sun Quan and Deputy Director Tao, who misled Xiao Yuan Sangong to cause Chaisang to fall. He tried his best to persuade Xiao Yuan Sangong to take back Cheng's orders and advised Sun Quan to be imprisoned at his discretion. It would not be too late to ask for punishment at his discretion when the situation was found out. Xiao Yuan Sangong then reluctantly took back the order and ordered Sun Quan to be sentenced to death and convicted him.

Sun Quan, who had been slim into a pool of soft mud, was dragged away, but the matter of persuading Xiao Yuan Sangong and Liu Yao to abandon their past grudges and work together was not over, because he did not dare to determine whether the Xuzhou army would launch a war to capture the entire Jiangdong area. To be cautious, Yan Xiang, Shu Shao, Chen Fen and others all urged Xiao Yuan Sangong to take the initiative and sign an unbreakable alliance contract with Liu Yao first to prevent Liu Yao from falling to the Xuzhou army completely and causing his own army to fall into a dilemma that was difficult to deal with from the beginning and end again. However, Xiao Yuan Sangong was always hesitant and could not make up his mind.

Of course, there is a reason why Xiao Yuan’s third duke is hesitant. Only in his forties can he have a precious son like Yuan Ji, who is less than fifteen years old. How could Xiao Yuan’s third duke be willing to send him to his mortal enemy as a hostage? Moreover, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how poor the little Duke is now, the arrogance of the third duke of the fourth generation is still in Xiao Yuan’s third duke. He took the initiative to send envoys to bend down to ask for the alliance to his many years Liu Yao, and he also had to hand over his only son as a hostage. He did such a shameful thing - Xiao Yuan’s third duke is not as thick as Deputy Director Tao, Boss Cao and Uncle Liu!

It was not wasted time. In the middle of the night that day, another new change occurred. Because of the changes in the upstream, in order to prevent the Xuzhou army from falling downstream with the Jingzhou navy, the three dukes of Xiao Yuan naturally dispatched the navy to set up tight defenses on the river. As a result, the patrol ship accidentally intercepted a suspicious ship from the upstream, captured a suspicious man carrying a prohibited weapon and resisting the search with force, and found a secret letter from him with a seal of Xuzhou governor - that is, the letter Jia Lao poison reminded Deputy Director Tao to beware of being intercepted by Yuan Shujun on the waterway.

After reading this letter from Deputy Director Tao to Liu Yao, the complexity in Xiao Yuan’s mind was simply beyond description by writing. Angry, sudden realization, anger, fear, fear, and even joy, had all kinds of thoughts. After gritting teeth and thinking for a long time, Xiao Yuan’s three suddenly slapped the table and shouted: “Cut down the messenger of the Tao thief! Send someone to contact Liu Yao’s ordinary man, and then he said that he would meet him in person and discuss the alliance in person!”

The person who served as the messenger for Deputy Director Tao this time was the guard of the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion transferred by Xu Chu. He was quite successful. Although he was injured, he heard Xiao Yuan's three-president order to behead him, but he didn't even say a word of begging for mercy. He struggled to stand up and walked with his head raised his chest. The Lord Bo Yanxiang jumped out and shouted, "Let's go! Push it out first, but don't rush to do it."

He stopped the guard from beheading the messenger in Xuzhou. Yan Xiang turned to the three dukes of Little Yuan and bowed and said, "Lord, have you not found this strange? The Taoist thief invited Liu Yao to form an alliance with him and join forces to attack our army. For such a big event, the Taoist thief should send Xuzhou officials with sufficient status to go to Niuzhu to meet Liu Yao and formally negotiate with Liu Yao to form an alliance with Liu Yao. But now the Taoist thief sent an ordinary messenger with no official or position to carry this letter to the east and invite Liu Yao to form an alliance with him with a letter. It was almost a joke. This seems to have a deep meaning."

"What is the other profound meaning?" Xiao Yuan Sangong was stunned and asked hurriedly: "What is the profound meaning?"

"Maybe the Taoist thief wanted to deliberately let the lord intercept this letter." Yan Xiang pointed out incisively. "Liu Yao is located downstream of our army, and our army has strong water surface power. The letters of the Taoist thief were transmitted through water and were intercepted by our army. With the treacherous thief, it is unlikely that such a low-level mistake would be made. Therefore, the truth of this matter is that the Taoist thief deliberately did it, deliberately wanted the lord to see the letters he contacted with Liu Yao."

"Why are the pottery thieves like this?" Xiao Yuan Sangong was even more surprised.

"The Taoist thief should want the lord to see the conditions he offered to Liu Yao's common man." Yan Xiang replied concisely, "Divid the land in Jiangdong equally, and draw the Yangtze River with Liu Yao's common man, Taoshuling as the boundary. Our army would never agree to this condition, but the Taoist thief could agree to it at once! The Taoist thief might just want to tell the lord that if he wanted to compete with him to win over Liu Yao, our army would definitely not be able to pay the price he could offer."

Xiao Yuan Sangong stopped talking with a stern face. Here I would like to explain it in detail that the Jiangdong boundary plan proposed by Deputy Director Tao actually gave up all the most important land in Jiangnan in this era to Liu Yao, and also gave the weak Jiangnan rookies such as Wang Lang, Yan Baihu and Xu Gong to Liu Yao to oppress and exploit. Deputy Director Tao himself left only the poor and remote Yuzhang County in this era, and also blocked Liu Biao and Liu guarding the gate for Liu Yao, who was stronger than Xiao Yuan Sangong. With such conditions, Liu Yao would not be moved as long as he believed in Deputy Director Tao's sincerity a little.

With such conditions, Xiao Yuan Sangong didn't even dare to issue a blank check to Liu Yao, because Deputy Director Tao had the wealthy and prosperous rear of Xuzhou, and there was no need to worry about supporting the Jiangnan army without the essence of Jiangdong east of Taoshuling. If the poor Xiao Yuan Sangong asked him to hand over the grain production area east of Taoshuling, it would be equivalent to taking Xiao Yuan Sangong's life.

"My lord, don't be anxious." Yan Xiang analyzed again: "According to the opinions of his subordinates, since the Tao thief deliberately let our army know the conditions he offered to Liu Yao, there must be other things. The lord might as well prepare for both ways. First, don't kill the Tao thief messenger first, stay on the front line, and meet again in the future. First, see what the Tao thief will do next, and then adapt to the situation and formulate countermeasures. Second, send envoys to contact Liu Yao, and use the principle of losing his lips and cold teeth to persuade Liu Yao to form an alliance with our army and jointly resist the invasion of the Tao thief. If it succeeds, our army can safely go back to the west and regain the upstream important town of Chaisang."

Speaking of this, Yan Xiang had a little calculation and quickly added, "If Liu Yao's ordinary man refused, or took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and rob, the lord could also try to reconcile with the pottery thieves through negotiations. For example, to mobilize the navy to help the pottery thieves cross the Yangtze River downstream in exchange for the pottery thieves to return the important town of our army's army to the Chaisang. Since the pottery thieves want a foothold in Jiangdong, instead of letting him gain a foothold in the rear of our army, it is better to let him gain a foothold in the rear of Liu Yao's ordinary man, which is also much more beneficial to our army."

The third duke of Xiao Yuan continued to feel stern and felt humiliated for a long time. Finally, he nodded and said powerlessly: "Just do it this way, temporarily put the pottery messenger in prison, and then let Shu Shao go to Niuzhu to see what Liu Yao's ordinary man is."

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Both Xiao Yuan Sangong and Yan Xiang obviously underestimated Liu Yao's hatred for them, and overestimated Liu Yao's long-term vision. When Shu Shao, an important official of Yuan Shu army, rushed to Niuzhu to pay homage to Liu Yao, Liu Yao's envoy who had already received the news of Chaisang not only could not even hide his gloating expression. He also proposed the harsh conditions for reconciliation and alliance formation that made Xiao Yuan Sangong furious - requiring Xiao Yuan Sangong to withdraw from the entire Danyang County and hand over his only son Yuan Ji as a hostage, and then return the food and supplies that Xiao Yuan Sangong had previously extorted from Liu Yao's envoy, or double the return!

Of course, Shu Shao had a great courage and did not dare to agree to such conditions. He kept persuading Liu Yao to not be short-sighted and shoot himself in the foot with the reason of losing his lips and cold teeth. Liu Yao's conspiracy, Shi Yi, also stood up and advised Liu Yao to stop when he saw it was good, and never be greedy for small profits in front of him. He forced his potential friends to the most dangerous enemy. Unfortunately, Liu Yao, who even had his old nest snatched by Xiao Yuan's third duke, was worried about his old grudges and could not listen to Shu Shao and Shi Yi's unpleasant words, and he also made a proud statement...

"Forcing Yuan Shu to the side of Tao Ying's traitor? The Tao thief robbed all the important towns of Yuan Shu's chaisang and directly threatened the hinterland of Yuan Shu's traitor. If he had enough courage, he would go to form an alliance with the Tao thief! See how Yuan Shu's traitor was swallowed by the treacherous pottery thief with the bones!"

"The priest is not enough to make a plan." This is what Mr. Yi said in his heart after Liu Yao refused to accept the unpleasant words. "Maybe Yuan Shu's common man might have been swallowed by the pottery thief and the bones, but before that, our army might have been swallowed by the pottery thief and the bones, or after that, our army would have been swallowed by the pottery thief and the bones!"

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After finally letting go of his figure and whispering once, he was in return for such a shameful consequence. The anger in the proud and arrogant young Yuan Sangong can naturally be imagined. However, at this time, Mr. Jiang Gan, one of the ace diplomats in Xuzhou, came. Not only did he respectfully pay homage to Xiao Yuan Sangong, but he also politely presented Deputy Director Tao's request for peace and explained the letter.

In this letter, Deputy Director Tao first respected Wen An as his niece son-in-law, and then told Xiao Yuan Sangong humbly that the reason he sent troops to seize Chaisang was not to steal the land and city of his wife and his uncle. Instead, he wanted to clear the contact with the team of Liu Biao, a friendly army. It was just that the matter was urgent and there was no time to report it to his uncle, so there was a little conflict with his uncle's team. He begged for forgiveness to satisfy his uncle's arrogant self-esteem, who was born in the family of the three kings of the fourth generation.

Of course, the letters from Deputy Director Tao also stimulated the Three Dukes of Xiao Yuan. For example, Deputy Director Tao was not greedy and wanted to rent the neighboring Liling and Haihun from his uncle to establish a forward base and send troops to help Liu Biao's friendly army to quell the rebellion of the rebel Zhang Xian. However, after seeing that his niece-in-law said that he would only borrow for three years and pay 30,000 hu of military rations a year, Xiao Yuan's mentality finally balanced a little - this attitude was much better than Liu Yao.

On the one hand, Liu Yao, the greedy enemy, who is insatiable and has a good attitude, gives enough face and is greedy, and Deputy Director Tao, the niece son-in-law, who is in a gentle manner, gives enough face and is greedy. Of course, Xiao Yuan Sangong, who is in a critical situation, made a wise choice. Considering that his army was seriously injured and it was difficult to start a full war with the increasingly powerful Xuzhou army, it also considered that it urgently needed to take down the land of Jiangdong, and hoard grass and accumulate grain to make a comeback. Considering that his mortal enemy, Liu Yao, was short-sighted and greedy for small profits, he joined forces with him to rely on mountains and rivers, Yan Xiang, Shu Shao and others also urged Xiao Yuan Sangong to make a wise choice, so Xiao Yuan Sangong quickly made a decision:

"I only borrowed the two cities of Chaisang and Liling for two years. I must pay 40,000 hu of food and grass to the Gu every year to repay the Gu's grace for borrowing land! This is the Gu's final limit and cannot be negotiated!"

Xiao Yuan Sangong doubled the offer, but Jiang Gan nodded without hesitation - because Deputy Director Tao's reserve price was actually only borrowed by Chaisang City for two years, and he also paid Xiao Yuan Sangong 50,000 hu of military rations every year. After finalizing this major event, Jiang Gan bowed to Xiao Yuan Sangong and said, "My Duke Ming, my lord has a small request, Wan Wangming promises."

"Say!" Xiao Yuan Sangong answered very simply.

"Please hand over the traitor Sun Quan to my lord for disposal." Jiang Gan replied respectfully.

"Take Sun Quan?" The young three-gong Yuan, who was almost forgetting Sun Quan, was stunned and asked in confusion: "Why should I hand over Sun Quan alone?"

"Ming Gong, please forgive me for sending the words of the lord." Jiang Gan replied honestly: "My lord said that although my army is always deceiving to cheat, in order to use Ming Gong's hand to avenge his brother's death, Sun Quan's thief was clever in front of our naval commander Lu Zijing, and he even wrote a swear word to deceive the lord Lu to send troops to attack Chungu, which almost caused the two armies to go into full war. It was really hateful. If this thief was not killed, it would be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my lord's heart!"

"There is still this?" Xiao Yuan Sangong was a little surprised.

"It's true." Jiang Gan nodded and explained: "I dare not deceive Ming Gong. The governor of Lu was greedy for merit and mistakenly led to war disaster. He was demoted to the position of governor of the Navy, deprived of his position of governor of the Navy, demoted to the lieutenant of the Navy, and seized hundreds of households. However, Sun Quan's son deceived our army into smuggling through Chungu without the Ming Gong's surrender, attempting to provoke a full-scale war between our two armies, and use Ming Gong's hands to avenge his brother's murder, and ignore thousands of creatures in Jiangdong. He deserves to die! He also asked Ming Gong to hand over the thief to our army to kill him, so as to thank Jiangdong for his innocent people, and to eliminate this great trouble for Ming Gong."

The third duke of Xiao Yuan and Yan Xiang looked at each other, and for a moment they didn't quite understand the intention of Deputy Director Tao. Mr. Jiang Gan observed his expression and hurriedly replied: "Ming Gong, my lord's move is also to make the best of our army friendly getting along. Sun Quan's child is extremely cunning, very good at disguising, and he is obsessed with the hatred of killing his brother. If it is not eliminated as soon as possible, it will become a huge hidden danger of our army friendly getting along. I hope Ming Gong will investigate it in depth."

The third young master Yuan blinked his small eyes and said for a while: "Go back and tell your lord that Sun Quan's son wants to use Gu's hand to avenge his brother Sun Ce. Gu already knew about it and would punish Yu Chong, so he would not bother with his nephew and son-in-law."

"Ming Gong, but my lord has an explanation that the foreign minister must bring Sun Quan's son back to Hefei." Jiang Gan defended.

"Sun Quan is an orphan's subordinate. How to deal with it is an orphan thing, don't talk about it anymore." Xiao Yuan Sangong refused rudely.

"No." Mr. Jiang Gan agreed helplessly, and then muttered in his heart: "It's so exhausting to say so many lies! Do you! What does the lord want to do? He really demoted the Governor Lu to a level for no reason, and ordered me to say these words in the letter. I want to kill Sun Quan, it's like saving Sun Quan! Could it be that Sun Quan is really a traitor who is trapped in Yuan Shu's army by the lord police?!"
Chapter completed!