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Since Liu Jing and Sun Quan reached a withdrawal agreement at the beginning of the year, Sun Quan accused the Han army of the occupation of the north bank of the Yangtze River, while the Han army evacuated the mountain island in Huxi. However, the Han army did not completely give up the lake, but retreated to the mouth of the Lishui River on the west bank of the lake, firmly controlling the golden waterway of the Yangtze River leading to the lake from Lishui.

At the same time, the Han army completely gave up Wujun, retreated to the south of Zhejiang River, and controlled Kuaiji County, which actually formed a siege of Jiangdong.

Sun Quan also knew that the Han army would only temporarily let Jiangdong go. At the latest year, the Han army would attack Jiangdong in large numbers. The huge pressure on time made Sun Quan urgent. If he did not take countermeasures, he would have no time.

To this end, Sun Quan worked together with tens of troops, and on the one hand, he recruited tens of thousands of troops to reach 60,000 troops in Jiangdong. On the other hand, he tried every means to restore the Jiangdong Navy. Jiangdong had sufficient training naval soldiers, but there were no warships. Sun Quan ordered Bu Zhi to be a shipbuilder and chose a site on the east bank of the lake to secretly build a Thousand Stone Warship in the name of a merchant ship.

But even if the warships were built, they could not drive the warships to the Yangtze River. The Han army warships from Kuaiji County were blocked off the coast, and Lishui, the only way to the Yangtze River, was firmly controlled by the Han army.

In order to open up the Yangtze River waterway, Sun Quan accepted the suggestion of the General Xue Zong of the Changshi Zhonglang, forcibly recruited 100,000 civilians to dig the Jiangnan Canal and open up the Likuotou River between Piling County and Wu County. It was a project that had been intermittent and unfinished for more than ten years, but now it has become a life-saving waterway in Jiangdong.

Once the canal is cleared, the newly built warships in the lake can sail directly from the lake into Jianye and the Yangtze River, restore the Jiangdong Navy, and with the thousands of barrels of turbulent oil left to Jiangdong by Yu Jin before leaving, they can fight against the Han army.

In the afternoon, a carriage was escorted by more than a dozen horse-riding entourages and drove by quickly in the city of Moling County. Inside the carriage, Zhang Zhao looked at the street outside the car window with great concern.

This is the busiest street in Jianye and even Jiangdong, called Danyang Street. It is eight miles long. At its peak, there were many shops on both sides of the street, shouting and shouting one after another, and the business of taverns and hotels was booming. Many senior officials in Jiangdong secretly invested in shops on this street.

But now, Danyang Street is extremely depressed, with deserted streets. Nearly 70% of the shops are closed, and dozens of taverns are not open. This depression makes every official in Jiangdong feel sad.

But they all knew that this was not because of the influence of the war. Even during the most difficult confrontation period of the Hefei War, Danyang Street was not so depressed. This was entirely caused by Jiangdong himself.

First, alcohol bans were completely prohibited and no one was allowed to use grain to make wine. Violators would be killed. Secondly, food control was implemented. Each person could only buy a maximum of one bucket of rice per month. In addition, a large number of men under the age of 50 were forced to dig canals. It was also an important reason. Moling County alone was forced to recruit 20,000 people, and there were no staff in shops and taverns, so business was difficult to continue.

Zhang Zhao was very sad. Sun Ce handed over a strong Jiangdong to Sun Quan. After nearly twenty years, Jiangdong not only did not become stronger, but instead declined and declined. Although the fundamental reason was that the emergence of a strong Liu Jing in Jingzhou, it was also related to the fact that Wu Hou could not see the situation clearly and repeatedly launched wars.

War is a double-edged sword. Not only does it consume a lot of materials, money and food, but if you win, you will get rich benefits in the war, but once you fail, you will suffer heavy losses. It is the repeated failures that have caused Jiangdong to decline year by year.

Zhang Zhao also longed for it. Even if they only defeated Jingzhou once, they could seize a large amount of population and materials from Jingzhou, which not only compensates for the cost of war, but also greatly promotes the prosperity of Jiangdong.

Unfortunately, since the eighth year of Jian'an, they have not defeated Jingzhou once, and have suffered repeated defeats and suffered heavy losses. However, the Han army received a large amount of war compensation and weapons and materials. It was with these material bases that the Han army could continue to advance westward and capture the richer Yizhou.

Since the end of the Hefei War, the Han army occupied the entire Jianghuai River. Zhang Zhao knew that Jiangdong was not long. Even if Sun Quan now ignores the public's grievances and tries hard to expand his army and prepare for war, it is too late.

Just last night, he received a letter from his family and learned that his nephew Zhang Zhi had actually passed the imperial examination in Chang'an. This made Zhang Zhao feel quite touched. It was not that his nephew was not enough. His nephew knew someone, had a beautiful mind, and had the talent of the prime minister. He was also cleaning up the imperial examination in Chang'an.

But Zhang Zhao believed that Liu Jing must know his nephew's identity. Many people in Jiangdong knew him. If others didn't say it, Jiang Wan knew him. When Jiang Wan asked in Wujun, he praised Zhang Zhi as a child prodigy.

Liu Jing knew that Zhang Zhi was his nephew, but he still allowed him to be ranked in high school. This made Zhang Zhao admire Liu Jing's heart. He made such a difficult task and made things difficult for him back then, but he didn't care about it and still had the intention to recruit him. If such a person cannot win the world, the laws of heaven will not tolerate it!

Zhang Zhao was filled with emotion. At this time, the carriage drove into Jianye Palace and slowly stopped in front of the steps. At this time, the carriage of Zhuge Jin, the left guardian, also stopped in front of the steps.

Zhang Zhao got off the carriage and saw Zhuge Jin standing beside the carriage, with a gloomy face and looking at him with an unhappy face, then stepped forward and asked strangely: "Yu, what happened?"

Zhuge Jin snorted coldly, "I, Zhuge Jin, have to be peeped at when I sleep. The military advisor is very dedicated!"

Zhang Zhao was stunned, suddenly understood and hurriedly said, "Yu has misunderstood! There are only ten people left in the Supervisory Office, and they are not in Jianye at the moment. It would not be theirs."

Zhang Zhao's Supervisory and Supervision Office is responsible for the supervisor and offended many people. If it were in the past, Zhang Zhao would not pay attention to the complaints of the ministers, but now he wants to leave a note for himself and does not want to offend others again.

He quickly pulled Zhuge Jin aside and whispered: "Even the Supervision Bureau, it will never sneak into the officials' homes to peep. This should be done by Eagle Beak."

Zhuge Jin frowned, "Didn't the eagle beak disbanded?"

After Sun Quan failed to seize power for the first time, he established a secret investigation agency - Yingbei, which was led by Wang Ning, the captain of the Internal Affairs Military Academy and Sun Quan's confidant. Wang Ning was domineering and vicious in his methods. He monitored the officers every move, which made everyone in danger.

However, after the incident of Wang Ning trying to seize Da Qiao two years ago, in order to cover up the truth, Sun Quan turned the blame on Wang Ning, accusing him of greed for Da Qiao's beauty, ordered Wang Ning to be executed, and in order to appease the officials, he publicly announced the disbandment of the Eagle Beak.

Zhang Zhao sneered, "Would Mr. Wu give up such a sharp knife easily?"

Zhuge Jin suddenly said angrily: "Jiangdong has reached this point today. How can we win back people's hearts by surveillance?"

At this time, Zhang Zhao saw a guard walking quickly. He quickly winked at Zhuge Jin and said with a smile: "Don't let Wu Hou wait for a long time, Brother Yu, let's go in!"

Zhuge Jin responded muffled and walked into Jianye Palace with Zhang Zhao.

In the study room of Jianye Palace, Sun Quan stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the woods outside the window with gloomy eyes. Few people saw his smile, especially in the past six months, he had an astonishing temper and ordered people to be killed at any time. Even the wives and concubines in his inner palace were trembling and served him carefully to meet all his requests, for fear of angering him.

Sun Quan's mood really couldn't get better. For half a year, he used the means of fishing for fishing in the lake to exploit people's wealth and seized merchants' money and food, just to expand the army and restore the navy in the shortest time. He also knew that the people in Jiangdong were full of grievances and everyone hated him to the core, but in order to protect Jiangdong and keep his position, he couldn't care about these things.

According to the analysis at the beginning of the year, Liu Jing is likely to attack Jiangdong next spring, so they still have one year to prepare. Although the year is short, at least they still have a glimmer of hope.

But one unfavorable intelligence after another, the Han army quickly quelled the Hexi rebellion, and Liu Jing successfully married Cao Cao and stabilized the north. All this shows that Liu Jing was preparing to launch a battle against Jiangdong.

What made Sun Quan even more frightened was that in June, Chaisang suddenly began preparing for war. A large number of troops gathered in Chaisang, and countless grain ships and fleets carrying weapons and supplies in Jingzhou sailed to Chaisang. According to the rules of the Han army they mastered, if they were preparing for war in autumn, they would start the battle in the spring of the following year. But if they were preparing for war in summer, they would definitely not wait until next spring. In autumn or winter, the war would inevitably break out.

Sun Quan realized that the Han army might have to attack Jiangdong in advance, which made his mood depressed.

At this time, the guards reported at the door: "Zhang Changshi and Zhuge Protector are here!"

"Please come in!"

Sun Quan returned to his seat and sat down. This was the biggest difference between Sun Quan and his clan brother Sun Ben. When danger was about to come and his situation was very critical, Sun Ben would bury his head in the sand like an ostrich, spend all his time living in poverty and luxury, and enjoy it every day.

Sun Quan would do everything possible to deal with the crisis, and even use any means to expand his army and prepare for war. Until the last moment, he would never give up resistance. However, Sun Quan was not broad-minded enough. When the crisis came, he asked the official to face the test with him, but he suspected that the official surrendered to the Han army in private, so he used a secret agency to supervise the official.

After a moment, Zhang Zhao and Zhuge Jin walked in together, and the two stepped forward to salute, "See Marquis Wu!"

Sun Quan glanced at Zhuge Jin and said lightly to Zhang Zhao: "I got a message that Liu Jing has left Chang'an and started patrolling Jingzhou. Do the military advisor know?"

Zhang Zhao frowned, "Is the imperial examination just now, is he in a hurry to leave Chang'an?"

"The problem is here. He set out the next day after the imperial examination was released. In such a hurry, what did the military advisor think he was going to mean?"

"Maybe he was going to Jingnan. At the beginning of the year, he inspected Xiangyang and Jiangxia. In April, he inspected Hanzhong and Yizhou, and later inspected Longxi and Hehuang. However, he did not inspect Jingnan. I thought that he might not have to go to Chaisang, but also to Jingnan."

Zhang Zhao tried his best to avoid irritating Sun Quan. He would not move closer to the direction of war before Liu Jing's itinerary was determined. Sun Quan stared at him for a moment, his eyes turned and fell on Zhuge Jin again.
Chapter completed!