Chapter 27 7. Alliance changes

Obtaining Xishu is a huge victory for Liu Bei. He finally has his own territory, and he no longer has to borrow land from others wrongly.With Zhang Lu blocking Cao Cao in the north and Jingzhou in the east for defense, Liu Bei stayed in the comfort zone of Xishu.Liu Bei could finally feel elated. He changed his usual moody and indifferent look, and joyfully celebrated the victory. After capturing Fuling, Liu Bei had a big banquet for his officials, drinking and having fun, and his joy was beyond words. He couldn't help but say to Pang Tong: Look, how happy today is!Pang Tong saw that Liu Bei was a little carried away, and wanted to cool him down, so he said: I invite you to be a guest, and you have taken away his territory, what is there to be happy about?Liu Bei couldn't hang on his face: What are you talking about!When King Wu defeated Zhou, he also sang and danced. Isn't he also benevolent?go out!Pang Tong had no choice but to stand up and walk out in embarrassment.After a while, Liu Bei thought it was wrong, and asked Pang Tong to come in again. After Pang Tong came in, he sat down and continued to eat and drink, and ignored Liu Bei, as if nothing happened.Liu Bei asked: Who was wrong in our argument just now?Pang Tong replied: Neither is true.Liu Bei laughed, and the matter was over.

Liu Bei was so carnival, but someone couldn't sit still, and this person was Sun Quan.Liu Bei was not the only one who fell in love with Yizhou at the beginning, Sun Quan also had the idea of ​​Yizhou, but was dissuaded by Liu Bei.Liu Bei said for a while that the road to Shu was difficult and Yizhou was not easy to conquer; for a while he said that if you want to beat Liu Zhang, I would go as a hermit with my hair disheveled, and Sun Quan had no choice but to give up.Unexpectedly, Liu Bei stopped others, but ran in and took Yizhou himself.After Sun Quan learned of this, he yelled, "Liu Bei, you cunning bastard, how dare you trick me!" Not long after Liu Bei entered Sichuan, Sun Quan took his sister back from Jingzhou.

Why is Sun Quan's younger sister in Jingzhou?This is a fruit of Sun Liu's alliance.After Liu Bei took the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, he recommended Liu Qi to be the governor of Jingzhou. Later, Liu Qi died of illness, and the people below recommended Liu Bei to be the shepherd of Jingzhou.Seeing Liu Bei's power, Sun Quan became jealous of him. In order to win Liu Bei over, he married his younger sister to him. So, 19-year-old Sun Xiaomei married 49-year-old Liu Bei.Sun Xiaomei's personality and Sun Quan came out of the same mold. History books say that she is "talented and vigorous, and has the style of all brothers."When she married Liu Bei, she brought many female soldiers with her. These iron ladies guarded the door of the house with knives. Every time Liu Bei went to his wife's room, he had to pass by these female soldiers. "Chang Linlin", I often feel chills in my heart, afraid that Sun Xiaomei will do something similar to killing her husband.

Regarding this political marriage, Zhuge Liang later recalled that the Former Lord "feared Mrs. Sun's life would be under the armpit".In Liu Bei's view, Mrs. Sun is a time bomb that Sun Quan buried beside him.In order to insure the bomb, Liu Bei invited Zhao Yun to be his Minister of the Interior to help him look after Sun Xiaomei.Because Zhao Yun is rigorous and prudent, not only is it reassuring, but he can also overwhelm Sun Xiaomei in terms of momentum. Liu Bei's worry was indeed not unreasonable. After Liu Bei entered Sichuan, Sun Quan sent a fleet to pick up his sister.When Sun Xiaomei was about to leave, she brought Liu Chan to the boat. Fortunately, Zhao Yun hurried to catch up with him by boat, and came to intercept the river to snatch Adou, and snatched the only seedling of the Liu family back.

Seeing that Liu Bei's power was growing and he was no longer a tramp who had nowhere to stay before, Sun Quan became more and more wary of him.He not only took back his sister, but also sent Zhuge Jin to see Liu Bei, wanting to return to Jingzhou.Of course, Liu Bei refused to give up the meat he got, so he just said perfunctorily, I am plotting Liangzhou, and I will return Jingzhou after I get Liangzhou.This is of course an excuse that neither side believed. Since then, the rift between Sun and Liu has grown. So, what happened to Jingzhou?After Liu Qi's death, Liu Bei was elected to be the shepherd of Jingzhou. If he became a shepherd of Jingzhou, he had to take office in the capital of Jingzhou. At that time, the capital of Jingzhou was Xiangyang, which was in the hands of Cao Cao. It was impossible for Liu Bei to take office there, so he took the next best thing, saying It is impossible for me to take office in Xiangyang, so I can take office in Nanjun.Jiangling, the seat of the Nanjun government, was conquered by Zhou Yu for a year, so Liu Bei asked Sun Quan to "ask for the governor of Jingzhou". In fact, he did not borrow the entire Jingzhou, but borrowed Nanjun and Jiangling.After Zhou Yu's death, Lu Su succeeded him. Lu Su advocated the alliance between Sun and Liu, so he persuaded Sun Quan to lend Nanjun to Liu Bei, and Sun Quan agreed.This is the whole story of Liu Bei's borrowing of Jingzhou.

In fact, it was good for Sun Quan to lend Nanjun to Liu Bei. If Cao Cao went south again, Liu Bei would stand in Jiangling for him, and Sun Quan could be more calm by hiding behind. Sun Quan has no time to take care of Cao Cao now, he must first eliminate the threat that is at hand.Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei planned to capture Liangzhou before returning it to Jingzhou. Naturally, he disagreed. Who knew that you could take Liangzhou in the year of the monkey?So he insisted that Jingzhou belonged to me, and ordered him to send his prefect to the three counties of Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling.

On Liu Bei's side, it was Guan Yu who guarded Jingzhou. What kind of person Guan Yu was, of course he would not accept Sun Quan's set, and unceremoniously drove away all the officials sent by Sun Quan.Sun Quan was furious, and immediately ordered Lu Meng to march 20,000 troops to Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling, and Lu Su to march 10,000 troops to Baqiu. Sun Quan's side opened up their battles, and Liu Bei's side did not show weakness.Hearing the news, Liu Bei hurriedly led 50,000 elite soldiers from Yizhou back to Public Security, and ordered Guan Yu to bring 30,000 troops to Yiyang.The two sides opened up their stances with murderous intent, and a big battle was about to break out.

Just when the two sides were at war, Lu Su stepped forward.Lu Su was the person who single-handedly promoted the alliance between Sun and Liu. At the last moment, he hoped to work harder to maintain this alliance, so Lu Su proposed to meet with Guan Yu.At this time, the two sides were in a state of hostility. Lu Su's trip was dangerous and dangerous. His subordinates advised Lu Su not to venture into the dangerous place lightly, but Lu Su said that things should be clear now. What can Guan Yu do? This meeting was the famous "going to the meeting with one sword" in history. The two sides arranged their troops and horses a hundred paces away, and each sent generals to the meeting, and the people attending the meeting each wore a single sword.Not only Guan Yu went to the meeting alone, but all the negotiators brought only one knife.

After the personnel from both sides arrived in the middle area, Lu Su changed his style of modesty and gentleman in the past, and said, We saw you defeated and came here without even a place to stand, so we lent Jingzhou to you.Unexpectedly, you won Yizhou, but you don't plan to return Jingzhou.We don't want all the land in Jingzhou, but only the three counties, you still don't agree! Hearing what Lu Su said, someone on Guan Yu's side couldn't sit still, and stood up with a "chuckle" to retort: ​​The land under heaven belongs to the people of the world, and only the virtuous live in it. Why do you say it belongs to you?

There is no record in the history books who said this, it is probably Mi Fang.When Lu Su heard this, he couldn't help being furious, and immediately scolded him.But Guan Yu couldn't see it anymore, he also stood up with his hand on the scabbard, and sternly said to his subordinates: We are here to discuss national affairs, what do you know!What are you talking about!This is Guan Yu's style of dealing with people, not knowing how to respect bureaucrats, which is also one of the reasons for Guan Yu's final failure. Looking back, Guan Yu said to Lu Su again, when we fought Wulin, our lord took the lead every day and charged into the battle without even taking off his armor to rest. Shouldn't we be rewarded with a piece of land?

The two fought each other, but they didn't get any results, so they broke up unhappy.In the story of going to the meeting alone, the shining character is Lu Su, who took the risk to reason with the enemy. However, in the story, Guan Yu shines and Lu Su becomes a clown. In this way, the negotiations between the two parties did not reach any results, and the war between Sun and Liu was imminent.At this juncture, someone came to fight. The person who pulled up the fight was Cao Cao.In fact, for a long time, Cao Cao was not so much Liu Bei's enemy as his benefactor.Cao Cao failed to attack Xuzhou, so Liu Bei took Xuzhou for nothing; Cao Cao failed to defeat Jingzhou, so Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou; Cao Cao attacked Guanzhong again, and gave Liu Bei a chance to win Shu. This time, just as the battle between Sun and Liu was about to start, Cao Cao's army suddenly attacked Hanzhong on a large scale.Hanzhong is the gateway to Yizhou. Once the gate was opened, the people in central Shu were in chaos, "dozens of surprises a day".Liu Bei saw that Yizhou might miss at any time, so why are you still fighting here? He immediately sent a signal of peace to Sun Quan, and Sun Quan didn't want to turn against Liu Bei at this time.So the two sides sat down to negotiate and agreed to use the Xiangshui River as the boundary to carve up Jingzhou. Changsha, Jiangxia and Guiyang counties to the east of the Xiangshui River belonged to Sun Quan, and Nanjun, Lingling and Wuling counties to the west of the Xiangshui River belonged to Liu Bei.Liu Bei took out Changsha and Guiyang from the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River to Sun Quan, in exchange for the temporary peace of Jingzhou. However, the matter between Sun and Liu has not been completely resolved. Sun Quan is not satisfied with only getting back the three counties. His ultimate goal is to take back the whole of Jingzhou, but this is all later.At present, the most important thing for Liu Bei is to deal with the threat of Cao Cao from the north. Destroying the Wu-Shu alliance can be said to be a big mistake in Sun Quan's life.Although Liu Bei's power is stronger than before, it is far smaller than Cao Wei.For the Jingzhou dispute, Sun Quan blatantly destroyed the Wu-Shu alliance, which caused Liu Bei's power to be greatly reduced, so that Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei later spent their entire lives leaving Qishan to attack Cao Wei, but they were unable to effectively shake Cao Wei's power.Cao Wei took the exclusive seat, and finally wiped out Shu Wu with ease.Of course, it is the general trend for Cao Wei to unify the world, but as far as Sun Quan is concerned, ignoring the long-term and calculating small gains made him and his descendants forever lose the opportunity to compete with the strong Wei.