Zhang Wen continued: "Last year, His Majesty defeated Wei in Guanzhong, captured Guanzhong, and set the capital of Chang'an, which greatly damaged the vitality of Wei.

Seeing this, my lord wanted to attack Wei and destroy Wei's forces in Huainan, in order to respond to His Majesty, attack from two sides, and sweep away the puppet Wei as soon as possible.

Therefore, my lord set up a plan to surrender, defeated Cao Xiu in Shiting, and captured 70,000 soldiers and horses, but unfortunately my Jiangdong strength was still too weak, and Cao Xiu could not be left, so that Cao Xiu fled back to Hefei and could not continue to expand the results. ”

Zhang Fei said angrily: "You have been talking for a long time, but what does this have to do with Sun Quan's claim to be emperor?" ”

Zhang Wen paused and said: "The matter has to start after my lord led the troops back to Jianye, the battle of Shiting, my Jiangdong hit the Wei State hard, although I did not take much land, but also captured 70,000 Wei troops, with the strength of the Wei State in Huainan, I no longer have the ability to invade my Jiangdong."

Half of the people in this hall are generals, and the generals must also know that the reason why people who practice martial arts join the military is that many of them are for meritorious service and their wives and sons.

Therefore, after returning to Jianye, many generals suggested that my lord be the emperor. ”

Liu Chan said coldly: "So Sun Quan is called the emperor?" ”

"Hey, this is also a helpless move!" Zhang Wen sighed and said, "Those generals want to make meritorious contributions and gain fame. Now that they see that the generals of the Han and Wei States are already waiting for the generals, and there are thousands of households in the city, how can they not be hot?

Therefore, at the daily morning meeting, they all persuaded our lord to ascend the throne and become emperor. My lord even hid for half a year last year and ignored government affairs. ”

Zhang Wen is not lying, the ancient founding of the country and the emperor, in order to show virtue, must go through three invitations and three resignations.

And Sun Quan is even more awesome, he went through five invitations and five resignations before becoming the emperor.

It's not that Sun Quanqian gave in or didn't want to be the emperor, but because Liu Chan ordered Jingzhou to expand his army when he learned that the Battle of Shiting was about to break out.

Sun Quan returned to Jianye victoriously, Jingzhou was carrying out the work of expanding the army, Sun Quan saw this, and felt that Liu Chan was intending to attack Jiangdong, so Sun Quan has endured not being called the emperor, so he made a fuss.

For most of the year from the end of the Battle of Shiting in May last year to the beginning of spring this year, Sun Quan has been watching the situation.

Liu Chan must know about his preparation to be the emperor, and if Liu Chan is very angry about this, there will definitely be big moves, such as sending envoys to Jiangdong to test, such as letting Guan Yu return to Jingzhou as a deterrent, such as Chen Bing's Jiangxia border and the like.

But none of these things happened, so Sun Quan felt that Liu Chan should not make a big deal about it, so he delayed for more than half a year before becoming emperor.

But Sun Quan didn't know that Liu Chan deliberately did not react, just to make him emperor, and then completely turn against him.

Zhang Wen continued: "Seeing that the lord did not want to be the emperor, those civil and military officers were disheartened one by one, and they intended to leave our lord and vote for someone else. In the first battle of Jingzhou that year, my Jiangdong lost many generals and soldiers in Jingzhou, and there was no shortage of people who were close to them in Jiangdong's civil and military affairs.

Therefore, most of them do not want to defect to the Han Dynasty, but want to defect to the Wei State, if these people defect to the Wei State, then Jiangdong will definitely fall apart, and the land of Jiangdong must also be owned by the Wei State.

At that time, if the Wei State gets Jiangdong, it will definitely increase its strength, and it will be even more difficult for His Majesty to sweep the Wei State.

Seeing that the hearts of our Jiangdong people are scattered and about to fall apart, my lord has to obey their wishes and become emperor in order to gather people's hearts.

Weichen heard that when Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and established himself, the civil and military generals in the hall asked Emperor Zhaolie to comply with the mandate of heaven and inherit the unification, he also did not want to be called the emperor, His Majesty had persuaded Emperor Zhaolie that if he was not called the emperor, the people's hearts would be scattered, and he was willing to call the emperor.

Your Majesty knows that the military generals have the heart to make meritorious contributions, and if they can't wait for the generals, they will be scattered, and they must be able to understand the hardships of our lord. ”

After listening to Zhang Wen's words, Liu Chan secretly said in his heart: "After talking for a long time, it turned out that I was waiting for me here!" ”

At that time, Liu Bei was reluctant to be the emperor, and Liu Chan did persuade Liu Bei by dispersing people's hearts.

Now Zhang Wen has also used the rhetoric of dispersing people's hearts, and if Liu Chan is still angry with Sun Quan, he will slap himself in the face.

Originally, Sun Quan himself was ambitious and wanted to ascend the throne as emperor, but Zhang Wen's words described him as Sun Quan was forced to become emperor in order to keep the Jiangdong foundation from being taken away by Wei and not to increase the difficulty of the unification of the Han Dynasty.

I have to say that Zhang Wen, the messenger, is very good.

Zhang Wen said, and took out a letter from his arms: "Your Majesty, this is a letter from my lord to Your Majesty, please read it." ”

"Bring it on!"

An attendant went down the steps, took the letter and handed it to Liu Chan, who opened the letter and read it.

The content of the letter is similar to what Zhang Wen just said, Sun Quan recounted his hardships of becoming emperor, asked Liu Chan for forgiveness, and said that he would help the Han to deal with the Wei state, and after the Han swept away Cao Wei in the future, he was willing to sacrifice the land and surrender.

However, the words of dedication and surrender are not straightforward, but very vague, but as long as you are a smart person, you can see this meaning between the lines.

Liu Chan put down the letter and looked at Zhang Wen, who was still kneeling on the ground.

He sat back and watched Sun Quan become emperor, in order to completely turn against Sun Quan, and naturally he would not continue to maintain a friendly relationship with Sun Quan because of Zhang Wen's words.

Liu Chan looked at Zhang Wen and said, "You just said that because of the persecution of Jiangdong's civil and military forces, Sun Quan was helpless to ascend the throne and become emperor. ”

Zhang Wen nodded and said: "Yes, they are eager to be crowned and worshipped, if my lord does not claim to be the emperor, they will definitely take refuge in the Wei State." At that time, the Wei State will have Jiangdong, so His Majesty wants to destroy the Wei State, and I don't know what year and month it will take. ”

Liu Chan asked: "Then Sun Quan is now the emperor, no matter what the reason, it can be regarded as a betrayal of the imperial court, what does he want now?" ”

Zhang Wen arched his hand and said: "My lord's mind is all in the letter. ”

Liu Chan said in a deep voice: "The content of this letter is similar to what you said before, and I can't see Sun Quan's intentions. As Sun Quan's messenger, Sun Quan must have told you everything, so it's up to you! ”

"This ......" Liu Chan suddenly came to this hand, but Zhang Wen was stumped.

The words he just said were all explanations of why Sun Quan was called emperor, and to put it bluntly, he was complaining for Sun Quan.

But Sun Quan's own thoughts and thoughts are all in the letters, Zhang Wen doesn't know, and Sun Quan hasn't told Zhang Wen, Liu Chan now wants Zhang Wen to say Sun Quan's thoughts, how can Zhang Wen say it?

It's okay to say it right, but if it's wrong, it will definitely fall into a situation from which you will never recover.

Seeing that Zhang Wen couldn't answer, Liu Chan's voice suddenly became cold: "What? Sun Quan asked you to come to Chang'an, is it to justify his claim to be emperor? What will he do in the future? How will it end after becoming the emperor, there is no explanation? ”