Chapter 330

"Since they have shown sincerity, it wouldn't be good for us to kill him again!"

"Of course, the most important thing is that we still need Cao Yin to attract the firepower for killing Wang Rui and let him be a living witness;"

"If we had even killed Cao Yin, then who could prove that we were really misled by Cao Yin?"

As long as Cao Yin is still alive, even if he doesn't admit it, someone will come to explore the truth.

When the time comes, the truth will naturally be clear.

He wasn't worried that Cao Yin wouldn't reveal any flaws.

"Wonderful!"

Zu Mao's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Fortunately, you reminded me in time, Lord; otherwise, if I had really done as I said, I would have really messed things up!"

Indeed, Cao Yin's move betrayed the people of Jingzhou; afterwards, he would inevitably suffer a backlash.

"So, what does this have to do with going through Jiangxia?"

Zu Mao suddenly reacted and looked at Sun Jian with a puzzled expression.

Sun Jian looked at Zu Mao amusingly and said: "Dayong, you also need to learn to use your brain more! If you have a brain and don't use it, it's a waste!"

"No matter what excuses we have, the fact that we killed the Inspector of Jingzhou, Wang Rui, is an undeniable fact;"

"With the eyes and ears and means of the General Who Conquers the South, Su Xuan, in Jingzhou, I'm afraid this news can't be hidden from him;"

"We don't know what his attitude is towards this matter, and whether he will covet Wang Rui's legacy."

Zu Mao was stunned upon hearing this: "But isn't the General Who Conquers the South, Su Xuan, a good friend of yours, Lord?"

"He once sent ships to send us off, and moreover, there have been quite a few commercial dealings with us over the years; it shouldn't be like that, right?"

He felt that the relationship between the two families was quite good.

Sun Jian shook his head and said: "I don't dare to gamble on Su Xuan's thoughts;"

"What if he is prepared to use this as an excuse to take action against us? Wouldn't passing through Nanjun be walking right into a trap?"

"But going through Jiangxia is different!"

"Not only can we avoid Su Xuan, whose attitude is uncertain, but we can also take the opportunity to annex and recruit some troops from Jiangxia, and by the way, forcibly levy a batch of money and grain from Jiangxia;"

"To further strengthen our momentum;"

"Anyway, we can completely use the Yuan clan's name to do these things;"

"Didn't the Yuan clan ask me to gather as many troops as possible and levy money and grain to go to Nanyang to rendezvous with Yuan Shu?"

"I am doing all this according to what they said!"

"Even if those scholar-official clans and powerful families in Jiangxia have opinions, they can go find the Yuan clan; it has nothing to do with me, hehe!"

Treating him as a dog, as a chess piece, it's not that easy to use!

He will take revenge little by little.

In Sun Jian's view, this is actually a kind of humiliation to him.

If it weren't for his low birth and having no other choice, he wouldn't have chosen this path either.

"The Lord is wise!"

Zu Mao's eyes began to shine upon hearing this, and his gaze towards Sun Jian was full of admiration.

Only then did he know that his Lord had such deep foresight.

It was his own shallowness before.

"Alright! Quickly reorganize the army, bring the supplies, and let's set off now!"

"Lest we be late, and Su Xuan finds out, and we have to look at his attitude!"

Sun Jian waved his hand and instructed Zu Mao.

"Understood!"

Zu Mao immediately took the order and left.

However, what Sun Jian didn't know was,

Less than half an hour after he led his troops into Linyuan City, Wuling Commandery, to kill Inspector Wang Rui, Su Xuan, who was far away in Jiangling City, had already received the news sent by the Secret Guards.

At the same time, their conversation just now was also heard by a bird, recorded by the Secret Guards, and sent to Su Xuan immediately.

"Hehe!"

After reading the two successive intelligence reports, Su Xuan sneered: "This Sun Jian is indeed not simple! I said, how could he be so stupid?"

"Sure enough, it was on purpose! Fengxiao, you guessed right again! Look!"

"Our Marquis of Wu Cheng is wary of me, afraid that I will take action against him!"

As he spoke, Su Xuan handed the intelligence in his hand to Guo Jia, who was on the side.

Guo Jia took it, quickly read it through, then handed it to Seeing Xun You You and the others on the side, then shook his head and said: "This Sun Jian still has some small cleverness! But not much!"

"He actually only wants to take the benefits but doesn't want to bear the responsibility; where in this world is there such a good thing?"

"Does he really think that dumping the fault of killing Wang Rui onto the Yuan clan and Cao Yin means it has nothing to do with him?"

"He doesn't understand the scholar-official clan's set at all;"

"In the eyes of the scholar-official clans, they will only remember that you, Sun Jian, killed the Inspector of Jingzhou, Wang Rui, without any scruples or hesitation, annexed his troops, and scraped his money and grain;"

"And they won't care if there is any inside story behind this."

This is the growth he has gained from studying hard and absorbing the information in the many intelligence reports collected by the Secret Guards over the past few years.

Now, he knows the internal set of the scholar-official clans very clearly.

He is no longer the Guo Fengxiao of the past.

"Not bad!"

Seeing Xun You You, who was on the side, nodded: "Sun Jian is still of too low a birth and doesn't understand the rules within the scholar-official clans at all;"

"Wang Rui can also be considered a famous scholar of one side; otherwise, he couldn't have become an Inspector of a province;"

"No matter what kind of utilization he has, by killing Wang Rui with his own hands, he is equivalent to cutting himself off from the scholar-official clans; in the future, don't even think about easily getting scholar-official people to serve him!"

Those scholar-official clans will inevitably squeeze Sun Jian out and be unwilling to accept him.

"So, this Sun Jian's future is just like that! It's impossible to have much of a future!"

Cheng Yu couldn't help but sigh.

But why does it look like there is a smile on his face?

"That may not necessarily be the case!"

Upon hearing this, Su Xuan shook his head and said: "Sun Jian himself may be like this, but he still has sons!"

"If his sons are promising in the future, it's not impossible to make some achievements."

He knows very well that Sun Jian has two good sons, Sun Ce and Sun Quan.

Sun Ce is brave, and Sun Quan is good at scheming.

One literary and one martial, if they can cooperate well, the future is limitless.

But this is obviously also impossible!

In addition, without Su Xuan's existence, Sun Jian and his sons might still be able to dominate Jiangdong, or even annex Jingzhou.

But with his existence, it's not certain whether Sun Jian and the others can gain a foothold in Yangzhou, let alone covet his, Su Xuan's, Jingzhou.

Su Xuan won't kill him directly, but he will squeeze his utilization value dry first.

Use him in the early stages of the warlord chaos to keep the warlords in Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and other places in check and contain them.

When he has no utilization value, that will be the time for Sun Jian to die.

"Haha! This possibility is even smaller, right?"

Cheng Yu didn't know the future situation, so he couldn't help but laugh.

"Who knows?"

Guo Jia and the others also smiled knowingly and looked at Su Xuan.

They felt that the Lord's words had hidden meanings.

Perhaps, the Lord has calculated some future again.

"Sun Jian's sons? We can focus on paying attention to them in the future!"

Guo Jia, Seeing Xun You You, and the others secretly noted this matter down.

"Lord! Since Yuan Shu and Sun Jian have already moved, shouldn't we also move!"

"At the very least, we must occupy a part of Nanyang before Yuan Shu, to facilitate our taking over the entire Nanyang in the future, right?"

At this time, Tian Feng suggested.

"Not bad!"

Xi Zhicai and the others nodded one after another upon hearing this.