In the south of the Yangtze River in February, the scenery is the most pleasant, the flowers are in full bloom all over the mountains, the purple and red, and the rivers and mountains are picturesque.

Sun Xiu, the emperor of Wu, was on the five-story deck of the "Feiyun" building ship at the moment, standing by the railing, looking into the distance, the scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River was in full view, Sun Xiu couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

As the third emperor of Wu, Sun Xiu has just been on the throne for six years, as Sun Quan's sixth son, it stands to reason that it is not his turn to be the emperor, when he was eighteen years old, the emperor Sun Quan named him the king of Langya, if the political arena of Wu did not blow that gust of wind, maybe Sun Xiu was destined to be a prince of fine clothes and jade food in this life.

It is impossible not to say how much influence the long-lived Sun Quan had on the state of Wu, Sun Quan stayed in the position of emperor for twenty-four years, and earlier, in the Eastern Han Dynasty for five years, Sun Quan became the real ruler of Jiangdong, in the period of up to half a century, Sun Quan has been firmly in control of the overall situation of Jiangdong, and has never wavered, the battle of Chibi, the battle of Hefei, the battle of Jingzhou, the battle of Yiling, no matter how the situation changes, can not shake Sun Quan's position as the overlord of Jiangdong. Cao Cao once sighed before his death, giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou!

In the 53 years of Sun Quan's reign, the national strength was at its peak, the government was harmonious, Jincheng Tangchi, the tiger was far from Longpan, and Wu Guoxiong was half of the south of the Yangtze River.

However, no matter how lush the tree is, there will eventually be a moment of overturning, losing the shadow of the emperor Sun Quan, the land of Jiangdong immediately fell into the wind and rain, and the ministers Zhuge Ke, Sun Jun, and Sun Qi successively dictated power, and the endless court battles were bloody and bloody. not only caused Sun Liang, who succeeded the emperor, to lose his life. It also caused the national strength of Wu to decline sharply.

On the cusp of this storm. Sun Xiu, the king of Langya, was pushed to the forefront of politics by the powerful minister Sun Qi and became the third emperor of Wu. Sun Qi appointed himself prime minister, and his power leaned towards the four wilderness, so he didn't take Sun Xiu in his eyes at all and regarded him as a puppet.

But how can the tiger father have a dog, Sun Xiu is also Sun Quan's son no matter how he says, and the king's spirit in his bones makes him unwilling to be Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, but Sun Xiu is extremely smart. knows how to forbear, face up and down, is extremely respectful to Sun Qi, but secretly cultivates his own strength, reuses Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing, and plots to get rid of Sun Qi.

Sun Qi is a family of five marquis, and the power of the government is in his hands, and Sun Xiu is obedient and obedient, so he becomes more and more arrogant. Authoritarian power to control the country and kill ministers without permission. Sun Xiu couldn't bear it. conspired with Zhang Bu and Ding Feng, and prepared to get rid of Sun Qi on the day of the sacrifice. On the day of the banquet, Sun Qi refused to attend on the grounds of physical discomfort because he had heard some rumors before. Sun Xiu sent more than ten messengers to invite him to the banquet, but Sun Xiu couldn't shirk it, so he had to go. Before leaving, Sun Qi agreed with his family that during the banquet, his family could set fire to the house, and he used this excuse to wait for the opportunity to return. Later, Sun Qi saw that the fire was on fire in the house, so he asked Sun Xiu to return, but Sun Xiu did not allow it. Sun Qi was about to forcibly leave the table, but Ding Feng and Zhang Bu signaled to tie up Sun Qi left and right at this time. Sun Qi woke up, so he knelt down and kowtowed and wagged his tail to beg for mercy: "The minister is willing to be exiled to Jiaozhou to atone for his sins." Sun Xiu showed his iron-blooded side at this moment, and sneered: "Why didn't Qing exile Teng Yin and Lu Ju in the first place, but killed them? ”

Sun Xiu has endured for a long time, and he is gathering momentum, how can he give the enemy any chance to turn over, so Sun Qi was beheaded, and the three clans were wiped out, and his younger brother Sun Ju, Sun En, Sun Min, and Sun Gan were all executed, and none of the more than 300 people in Sun Qi's family were spared, but the 5,000 people who followed Sun Qi were pardoned by Sun Xiu. Sun Xiu used iron-blooded and gentle means to solve the crisis of the Eastern Wu regime resolutely, thus consolidating his own imperial throne.

As an aspiring emperor, after Sun Xiu took power, he reformed and eliminated evils, promulgated good systems, and established education, sweeping away the situation that Zhuge Ke, Sun Jun, and Sun Qi of the powerful ministers of Wu State after the collapse of Emperor Sun Quan, and the political scene of Wu State appeared to be in a miasma.

At the same time, Sun Quan was also eager to make a breakthrough in the military, and the existing territory of Wu had to be traced back to the era when Lü Meng was the governor, when Lü Meng crossed the river in white clothes and attacked Jingzhou, not only captured Guan Yu's head, but also recaptured Jingzhou, which Liu Bei had relied on for more than ten years, and expanded the territory of Eastern Wu from Jiangdong to Jingxiang for the first time.

However, it was only the first and last time, in the Battle of Yiling, Wu and Shu still realized that their real opponent was Cao Wei, and finally sat down at the negotiating table and re-concluded the alliance, and the border between Wu and Shu was stabilized. In the following decades, with Zhuge Liang's unswerving Northern Expedition, Eastern Wu also tried to seek living space north of the Yangtze River, and Zhuge Liang loved the same as Longxi, Sun Quan also persevered in Hefei, five Northern Expeditions, the spearhead was aimed at Hefei, but the results were also strikingly similar, five expeditions, but did not gain an inch of land, and the power of Eastern Wu has been suppressed in the Yangtze River area.

Therefore, Sun Xiu is eager to inherit his father's business, open up the territory, after the Wei State in August last year, Sun Xiu thought that his long-awaited opportunity had finally come, and ordered the general Ding Feng to cross the river to the north, ready to attack Shouchun, the general of the town army, the governor of Xiling Lu Kang sent troops to Jingzhou, peeping at Xiangyang.

However, Sima Zhao was scheming, and how could he allow Eastern Wu to have a plan, so he had already deployed heavy troops in Huainan in Xiangyang, strictly defended to the death, Ding Feng and Lu Kang led the army to come, and saw that the Wei army was impeccable and impeccable, so he had to retreat.

But Sun Xiu refused to give up, and the battle between Wei and Shu fell into a stalemate, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Wu, so Sun Xiu led the naval army from Jianye to Wuchang and personally supervised the battle.

Wuchang is the land of Longxing in Eastern Wu, the first year of Huanglong, Sun Quan ascended the throne here, the king of the world, after moving the capital to Jianye, Wuchang has always been the existence of the accompanying capital, becoming the state governance of Jingzhou.

The strategic location of Jingzhou is extremely important, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and Jiangdong share the danger of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong Sun has always coveted Jingzhou for a long time, and the dream is to get Jingzhou, it is precisely because Sun Quan did not hesitate to tear up the Sun-Liu covenant, sneak attack and seize Jingzhou, Jiangdong won decades of long-term stability.

Those who achieve great things are not informal.

Sun Quan's outstanding strategic vision is what Sun Xiu has always looked up to, and he is eager to become a generation of overlords like his father, truly looking down on the world, and his ambition has never been extinguished in Sun Xiu's heart.

Staring at the vast land on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Sun Xiu fell into deep thought.

"Your Majesty, Wuchang City has arrived." The Yellow Gate Squire carefully reported to Sun Xiu behind him. (To be continued......)