Chapter 341

"Lord, Cao Cao's envoy is here to visit."

After Sun Quan met the envoy and learned that Cao Cao had appointed him as the successor to Sun Ce's position as Governor of Yangzhou and General of the East, he felt settled.

"Cao Cao also wants his second son, Cao Pi, to marry my little sister?"

Sun Quan was one hundred percent willing to form a marriage alliance with Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao was cunning and had ill intentions toward Jiangdong,

However,

Liu Bei's threat was right in front of him. With Cao Cao as a backer and an alliance between the two, the safety factor was much higher.

After Sun Quan finished receiving Cao Cao's envoy, he asked others,

"Zhou Gongjin, what do you think about the marriage between Cao Pi and Sun Shangxiang?"

Zhou Yu cupped his hands,

"Lord, our army's greatest enemy right now is Liu Bei. Forming an alliance with Cao Cao to stabilize the situation in Jiangbei is indeed a good move."

Sun Quan frowned slightly,

"My little sister is strong and brave, and she has vowed to marry a great hero. I'm afraid this Cao Pi will have a hard time catching her eye."

This matter was a bit difficult to handle.

Zhou Yu bowed,

"Lord, this matter can only be helped by the Grand Empress Dowager."

Sun Quan could only go to find Lady Wu himself.

He didn't expect that Lady Wu would not be happy,

"I only have this one daughter, and you want her to marry into the family of Cao Cao, who kills people like hemp?"

"Could it be that all the men in my Sun family are dead, and a woman needs to be sacrificed?!"

Sun Quan hurriedly shifted the blame,

"Mother, Zhou Gongjin said that a marriage alliance between the two sides is very important for stabilizing Jiangdong."

Lady Wu was furious,

"Good job, Zhou Zhou Gongjin! Call him here; I want to scold him to death!"

After Zhou Yu arrived in the backyard, not only was he not scolded to death by Lady Wu, but he also persuaded her that for the sake of Jiangdong, Miss Sun Shangxiang had to be sacrificed.

"Bang!"

Sun Sun Shangxiang, with a vigorous posture, beautiful face, and heroic spirit, received the news and rushed over, kicking the door open.

She drew her sword,

"Zhou Yu, I won't marry that Cao Pi! This young lady only marries a great hero!"

"My father was such a hero, and now we have to rely on marrying off a daughter to maintain Jiangdong? Sun Quan is really my father's good son!"

Lady Wu slammed the table in anger,

"Sun Shangxiang, stop talking nonsense!"

Sun Sun Shangxiang pouted,

"Mother, I would rather be a concubine to Lord Liu Xuande than marry Cao Pi as a wife!"

Lady Wu was furious,

"Liu Bei, Lord Liu Xuande, all day long! He is how much older than you! Liu Bei is the great enemy of my Jiangdong! If you talk nonsense again, I'll tear your mouth apart!"

Zhou Yu also advised,

"Miss, Liu Bei is nearly forty, more than twice your age."

(Sun Quan lost his father at nine, and Sun Sun Shangxiang is eleven years younger than him? So it should be that Luo got the age wrong.)

Sun Sun Shangxiang looked indifferent,

"So what? He is a great hero of the Han Dynasty, the number one valiant general of the Han Dynasty. I heard he is extremely handsome and looks only in his twenties, much younger than you, and his body is much better than yours!"

Zhou Yu? That was too heartbreaking!

Sun Sun Shangxiang added,

"Xiao Qiao hasn't reached twenty either, and I think she's quite happy."

Zhou Yu... was truly hurt.

Ye Huang rolled her eyes secretly. This young lady was indeed sharp. Zhou Yu wouldn't let her have a good time,

So she wouldn't let Zhou Yu have a good time...

The Goose's live broadcast room exploded, with netizens from all countries,

"Little Sister Sun is truly fiery, every word is heartbreaking!"

"Too heartbreaking, my Zhou Lang is not even thirty, handsome, and actually disliked for being old!"

"I didn't expect there to be a fan girl of that big-eared thief here!"

"It's normal. This Sun Sun Shangxiang likes to dance with swords and lead troops to fight, so it's normal for her to be obsessed with the Han Dynasty's God of War, Liu Bei."

"That big-eared thief is truly lucky to have such a fresh and lovely girl."

"It's useless. Sun Sun Shangxiang will still have to listen to Sun Quan in the end and marry into the Cao family. Cao Pi is in for a treat!"

"A treat? I'm afraid Cao Pi won't even dare to enter the room!"

Ye Huang cupped her hands,

"Grand Empress Dowager, we seem to be discussing the matter of the young lady marrying into the Cao family, not marrying some Liu Bei."

Lady Wu realized and was led astray by Sun Sun Shangxiang.

Sun Sun Shangxiang's eyes turned,

"General Ye, you must be nearly thirty too, right? Although you look like you're twenty, why don't you hurry up and find someone to marry? Marrying Cao Pi wouldn't be bad either."

Ye Huang cupped her hands,

"I won't trouble the young lady to worry about me."

Lady Wu...

She looked at Sun Sun Shangxiang, already in tears, and began to speak from her own experience,

"After I married into the Sun family, I lost my husband before I was thirty and lost my son before I was forty. I survived just for the foundation of the Sun family. I am an outsider, and yet I am like this, and you have the blood of the Sun family..."

A series of words made Sun Sun Shangxiang cry her heart out.

"Facing Liu Bei's tiger-like gaze, Jiangdong can only form an external alliance with Cao Cao..."

Sun Sun Shangxiang could only compromise, throwing down her long sword and running away in tears. Marrying a great hero was always just a dream.

As the daughter of a feudal lord, sacrifice for politics was inevitable.

Sun Quan agreed to Cao Cao's marriage proposal, preparing the dowry while sending troops to crusade against Sun Gao, who was stationed in Kuaiji.

The first ones he dealt with, however, were Sun Ben and Sun Fu.

Sun Quan used the excuse that the two were colluding with Liu Bei to detain them and killed all their close ministers!

Their troops were also handed over to Zhou Tai and others by Sun Quan.

Zhuge Jin played a significant role in this,

He cupped his hands and said,

"Lord, the friends I recommended to you last time, Bu Zhi and Wei Jing, have left Kuaiji and lost contact with me. I heard they went to Yuzhang."

"Liu Bei is recruiting talent in Yuzhang, and some scholar-gentry who came to Jiangdong to avoid disaster are heading to Yuzhang one after another."

Sun Quan was very depressed. Was he really not that highly regarded?

Actually, it wasn't the fault of these scholar-gentry. Liu Bei already occupied Jingzhao, Yi, Bing, and Zhang Liang provinces, connected to the Western Regions, and recently acquired Jingzhou and Yuzhang Commandery, so his prestige was extremely high.

How could he be compared to Sun Quan, a feudal lord who had just inherited Sun Ce's position and only had four commanderies?

In these four commanderies, Danyang and Lujiang were still experiencing undercurrents...

Zhuge Jin, seeing Sun Quan frown,

"The Lord shows respect to the virtuous and employs the talented; these scholar-gentry clans just don't understand. I have a plan to win Bu Zhi's heart."

"Oh? Ziyu, let's hear it."

"Lord, Bu Zhi has a cousin named Bu Bu Lianshi. She is virtuous, beautiful, and lives in seclusion with her mother near Wancheng in Lujiang. If you take her as a concubine, you can draw closer to the Bu family..."

After finishing, Zhuge Jin even took out a portrait of Bu Bu Lianshi, obviously prepared.

Sun Quan took one look, and if the painter hadn't exaggerated, this woman was indeed as beautiful as a flower and grew exactly according to his aesthetic!

"Good, let's do it. Send people secretly to Wancheng to complete this matter and bring Bu Bu Lianshi to Wu County!"

Sun Quan thought to himself, he worked so hard to recruit talent, so taking Bu Bu Lianshi as a concubine wasn't too much, right? It was also for the sake of recruiting talent!