In just ten days, Sun Quan's funeral was completed, and his body was buried on Zijin Mountain outside Jianye. The rest was a three-year mourning period.

Today is Sun Ce's first political meeting since he returned to Jianye. The entire Jiangdong ministers, except for the generals who are still on the Yanyu front line, have all come to Jianye.

"My lord! I ask my lord to forgive the sins of the previous generals." Zhou Yu was the first to come out and said to Sun Ce.

"Yes!" Sun Ce nodded. This matter was something he had discussed with Zhou Yu a long time ago.

After all, even Sun Quan was not defined as a traitor. It would be inappropriate to charge these generals who were promoted by Sun Quan and then followed Sun Quan to attack Sun Ce as traitors.

Especially for Zhang Cheng, his father Zhang Zhao has been killed by Sun Quan. Now that Sun Ce is going to deal with Zhang Cheng, isn't this forcing him to cut off the Zhang family?

Therefore, when it comes to dealing with these generals, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu intend to make big things as small as possible.

However, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce agreed on the issue of these generals, but they had differences on the matter of the Han Dynasty.

According to Zhou Yu's opinion, now that Sun Ce is back in charge of Jiangdong, it is best for Jiangdong to return to a neutral position and not participate in the war between the Han Dynasty and Yuan Shao.

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They should go all out to capture Yuzhang County and control the southern area of ​​Yangzhou, then continue westward to control southern Jingzhou, and finally continue south from Jingnan and southern Yangzhou to capture Jiaozhou.

In this way, the Jiangdong Sun family was equivalent to controlling two and a half states, plus one Jiaozhou, occupying almost half of the entire Han Dynasty. It was also the area with the best climate and the easiest cultivation.

In this way, the Sun family in Jiangdong could challenge any prince in the world, even the emperor.

At that time, whether Sun Ce chooses to fight against the Emperor, join with the Emperor, or even establish himself as king, he will be able to advance and retreat in a controlled manner and remain invincible.

Sun Ce objected to this.

The reason for his opposition is also very simple, that is, he promised Sun Quan that he would fulfill his unfulfilled wish for Sun Quan.

Of course, as a qualified monarch, whether he was considering whether he agreed to Sun Quan or not, he also considered the combat power ratio between the two sides.

First of all, the current situation is that Yuan Shao suffered a loss in Guandu and has completely retreated to the Jizhou area. He has no stronghold in Yanzhou. Now he is crossing the river again and will either attack Guandu by force or go around Qingzhou.

In order to gain the upper hand in the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao has ordered Yuan Shang to send troops from Qingzhou to cover his attack on Guandu from the side. Yuan Tan withdrew his troops from Xuzhou, attacked Yanzhou from the north of Xuzhou, attacked directly at py, and cut off the gap between Guandu and py.

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Yuan Shao's intention is also very obvious, that is, he wants to decide the outcome in a battle.

Cao Cao and Lu Bu thought the same way. In their opinion, the biggest enemy now is Yuan Shao. As long as they defeat Yuan Shao, they can free their hands to teach others a lesson.

The same needle point is facing the wheat awn, tit for tat, it depends on who falls first.

As for the other battlefields, Sun Ce seemed to be cooperating with the Battle of Guandu.

The battle situation in Jingzhou was like this, and the battle situation in Jianping was still the same.

But now, in Sun Ce's eyes, Jiangdong's opinion is very valuable now. No matter who Jiangdong helps, it is bad news for the other party.

If Sun Quan hadn't assassinated him before, Sun Ce might still have chosen the Emperor. Even if he didn't choose, he would have remained neutral.

But something like this happened, which completely changed Sun Ce's outlook. Especially, what Sun Quan said to him in the last battle between the two armies deeply touched Sun Ce.

That sentence, the emperor reduces the power of the famous families in the world, how can my Sun family stay out of it? My Sun family is established in Jiangdong, relying entirely on the support of the Jiangdong family, and reducing power for the emperor, have you ever thought about the idea of ​​​​the Jiangdong family? Without the support of the Jiangdong family,

How can my Sun family establish a foothold in Jiangdong?

Just this sentence made Sun Ce see the essence of the matter. Indeed, the Sun family relied on the support of the Jiangdong family to gain a foothold in Jiangdong.

Without the support of the aristocratic family, what is his Sun family?

Don't tell me, Sun Jian and Sun Ce are brave enough to take the rank of general among thousands of armies. But this is nothing to the aristocratic family.

These days, it's hard to find a three-legged toad, but isn't it easy to find a two-legged person who can conquer all directions?

Therefore, from the Jiangdong family's perspective, Sun is just their spokesperson.

If the interests of the Jiangdong family are not taken into consideration, then the worst they can do is find another spokesperson.

Wang Lang and Yan Baihu were like this before, and Sun Ce was like this before.

If it weren't for the fact that he had the Shanyue people, a force that was not under the control of the family, even if Sun Ce was brave and capable of fighting, he would still be faced with a situation of having no troops and no food.

By that time, let alone defeating Sun Quan, I am afraid that I will really be treated as a foreigner and killed.

Therefore, whether it was for himself or for the Sun family's status in Jiangdong, Sun Ce could only choose to cooperate with the aristocratic family, follow the old path of his younger brother Sun Quan, and fight against the emperor.

Since sooner or later we will have to confront the Emperor, then while we have too many allies to take action now, do we really have to wait until the Emperor has wiped out the other princes before we challenge him alone?

Sun Ce was just reckless, not stupid. No matter how stupid he was, he would not take the six counties of Jiangdong and fight against the entire Han Dynasty.

And the last point is that just as Sun Ce thought at the beginning, he wanted to fulfill Sun Quan's long-cherished wish.

Therefore, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce actually had differences on the matter of dealing with the Han Dynasty.

However, in the end Zhou Yu chose to compromise and followed Sun Ce's ideas.

At this time, in the main hall, all the generals, advisors, and families of Sun Quan's faction had been dealt with, and Sun Ce pardoned their sins, including Zhang Zhao.

After the family affairs are settled, it is time to discuss Jiangdong's next plan.

At this time, Zhou Yu stepped forward again and said to Sun Ce: "My lord, I have one more thing to do. Our elite soldiers from Jiangdong have successfully occupied Yuzhang County and Lujiang County. The army is still in Shouchun."

"Our army now has two choices. One is to go south or continue west to capture the Jingnan area. The other is to go north to support Liu Bei who is still in Jianping, help them capture Jianping, and then attack Yanzhou with Liu Bei.

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"Please let me know where our army will go, sir." Zhou Yu said calmly.

Although Zhou Yu and Sun Ce had discussed this matter long ago, they still had to pretend, otherwise, it would appear too disrespectful to others.

The people from the aristocratic families present suddenly became nervous when they heard what Zhou Yu was talking about. They all knew that on the surface they were asking Sun Ce which direction to fight, but in fact they were testing Sun Ce's attitude towards the emperor.

If you go to Jingnan to fight, you are taking refuge with the emperor; if you go to Jianping to fight, you are becoming the emperor's enemy.

Two directions, two different choices, these will unconsciously determine Jiangdong's foreign policy in the future.

When some people from aristocratic families heard Zhou Yu mention this matter, they all hated Zhou Yu. They complained that Zhou Yu couldn't wait two days for such an important issue, so that they, the people from aristocratic families, could have a good impression in front of Sun Ce.

Mention it again?

Now, how can these people choose? Sun Ce has just pardoned them, and now let them jump out and say, is Sun Ce's decision not seeking death?
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