Chapter 1163 Divide up the Inheritance

In the last three days of his life, Yuan Shu showed the highlights of his life.

Under the personal leadership of Yuan Shu, more than 100,000 imperial guards went out of the city to fight. In just two days, they defeated Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xiahou Dun, Xu Zhu, Zhou Tai and many other famous generals. It can be said to be extremely prestige.

Of course, the reason why such a brilliant record can be achieved is related to the intrigue within the coalition forces, and more importantly, they all know that this is Yuan Shu's dying counterattack. As long as Yuan Shu doesn't want to break through, he will retreat immediately when he sees that the momentum is wrong under other circumstances.

Two days later, before the last trace of Zhongguo's luck was exhausted, Yuan Shu disbanded the surviving tens of thousands of Zhongguo Imperial Guards on the spot, and then dismissed the maids and eunuchs (actually, almost all of them had run away), and then treated Yang Hong, Ji Ling, Yan Xiang and other last few courtiers gave the order to surrender.

After arranging for future generations, Yuan Shu personally set fire to Zhongguo's palace, then jumped into the sea of ​​flames, and died by self-immolation.

Without Yuan Shu, Zhongguo was completely at a loss. Yuan Yao, the son of Yuan Shu, took the initiative to open the city under the arrangement of Yan Xiang. The three coalition forces surrendered, and Shouchun City was occupied by the three sub-districts.

With Yuan Shu's death, Zhong Guo, who was once mighty, and nearly half of the princes in the world, also entered the dust of history. Other counties and counties in Jiujiang County also surrendered one after another, and the entire Jiujiang County was also occupied by the three princes of Sun Cao and Liu.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei advocated the killing of Yuan Yao for a very simple reason—conspiracy and rebellion is an unforgivable felony at any time.

But what is surprising is that Sun Ce resisted the pressure of the two and tried his best to protect Yuan Yao, so that Yuan Yao survived.

In fact, Yuan Yao and Sun Ce have a very good personal relationship.

Because of Sun Ce's charismatic personality, Yuan Yao admired Sun Ce very much, and Sun Ce was also under Yuan Shu's command thanks to Yuan Yao's care before.

In addition, after Zhang Xun failed to kill Sun Ce and others, the Shouchun City army followed Yuan Shu's previous order to kill Sun Ce's relatives in the city, but it was Yuan Yao who came forward to save the lives of the Sun family.

It is no problem to kill Sun Ce and then exterminate the Sun family, but since Sun Ce is not dead, there is no need to do more. Under Yuan Yao's persuasion, Yuan Shu also planned to keep a trace of passion, so as not to let things go to waste.

It was this move that moved Sun Ce so much that he saved Yuan Yao's life against the pressure of Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

Of course, in terms of practical interests, keeping Yuan Yao is also good for Sun Ce, otherwise Zhou Yu would not be able to let Sun Ce do whatever he wants.

At this time, Sun Ce can be said to have a strong army and a strong horse. He was the first to gain the moon when he was close to the water, and he annexed tens of millions of Zhongguo troops one after another. However, Sun Ce did not have enough grassroots generals to command such a huge army.

As a last resort, Sun Ce retained almost all of Zhongguo's generals. At present, except for the high-level generals under Sun Ce's command, most of the middle and low-level generals were once Yuan Shu's subordinates.

It doesn't matter if you force Yuan Shu to death, after all, this is a life-and-death battle for hegemony, and no one will say anything. But since Yuan Yao has surrendered, he still wants to kill him, which is too easy to chill people's hearts.

Once Yuan Yao died at this time, Sun Cejun would almost 100% break out in turmoil.

Therefore, not only could Sun Ce not kill Yuan Yao, but he had to take good care of him and ensure his wealth, so as to appease the heart of the former general of the Yuan family.

At the same time, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong, and Ji Ling also surrendered to Sun Ce, on the condition that the safety of the Yuan family must be guaranteed. Leaving aside Yan Xiang and Yang Hong, although Ji Ling's record is rather embarrassing, he was beaten twice by Liu Bei, but Sun Ce, who knows Ji Ling's background, dare not underestimate him. Probably he and Zhou Tai are the only ones who are spirited, and the rest of Han Dang, Zu Mao and others are at most close to Ji Ling.

Even for Ji Ling's loyalty, Sun Ce had to save Yuan Yao.

As for whether he would raise tigers as a threat, Zhou Yu said: "Hehehe!"

The important matter was overturned by Yuan Yao in this situation, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu should wipe their necks as soon as possible, and don't embarrass themselves here.

Regarding Sun Ce's efforts to protect Yuan Yao, Liu Bei and Cao Cao only symbolically opposed it. Seeing that Sun Ce's attitude was firm, they stopped making fuss about Yuan Yao.

Compared with the real benefits, a mere Yuan Yao is not worth mentioning at all!

After Yuan Shu's death, the old land of Zhongguo became a land without an owner. In front of such a big piece of fat, a mere Yuan Yao is nothing!

At the same time when Cao Liusun was advancing on Shouchun, the lands originally occupied by Yuan Shu, such as Runan County and Pei County in Yuzhou, were taken by Cao Cao. So far, Cao Cao has unified Yuzhou.

At the same time, Cao Cao also took advantage of the chaos to extend his tentacles to Nanyang County, Jingzhou. However, the situation in Nanyang was more complicated at this time. Not only the remnants of Zhongguo, but also the forces of Cao Cao, Sun Ce, and Liu Biao. The four parties were on guard against each other, but no one dared to take the lead. The situation is very strange.

Liu Bei not only recovered the previously occupied Xiapi County and Guangling County, but also reunified the whole territory of Xuzhou. At the same time, he also occupied parts of the three counties of Jiujiang, Wu, and Danyang in Yangzhou.

Although Sun Ce did not have a clear base for the time being, his army was nearly tens of millions, and most of them were elites from the original Zhong Kingdom.

These days, as long as you have soldiers in your hands, isn't it easy to occupy a base area?

The three of them began to discuss how to divide Yuan Shu's inheritance in good spirits.

The specific process of negotiation (tearing) and judging (forced) will not be listed in detail. Anyway, the three parties come and go, fighting with each other, and the degree of danger is not inferior to the bloody battlefield.

After several days of intense discussions, a consensus was finally reached that all Yuzhou and Nanyang belonged to Cao Cao, Sun Ce withdrew from Nanyang County, Jiujiang County and Wu County all belonged to Liu Bei, and Cao Cao and Sun Ce's forces withdrew from these two places.

Danyang County is bounded by Liyang, with Liu Bei in the north and Sun Ce in the south.

Liu Xun, the prefect of Lujiang, had greatly increased his strength in a short period of time because he accepted a large number of Zhongguo survivors. Based on the principle of picking up the soft persimmons, he was allowed to remain neutral for the time being.

However, in this division, Sun Ce sacrificed the most. In order to compensate Sun Ce, Liu Bei, Cao Cao and others had to hand over the captured Zhongguo grain and grass to Sun Ce, and at the same time jointly wrote a letter to the imperial court, stating that Sun Ce was Yangzhou Mu.

Of course, the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Mu does not include Jiujiang and Wu Jun. Although Lujiang is nominally within the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, Liu Xun, the prefect of Lujiang, is in fact a separatist regime, and at the same time maintains a semi-alliance with Cao Cao (Liu Xun and Cao Cao have a good personal relationship).

Therefore, in the end, Sun Ce's real jurisdiction of Yangzhou Mu was only Kuaiji County, Yuzhang County and the southern part of Danyang County.

In order to appease Sun Ce, Liu Bei and Cao Cao discussed and decided to transfer Jingzhou Jiangxia County to Yangzhou. As for whether Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou, would have any opinions, that is not what they need to pay attention to.

Having said that, if Liu Biao and Sun Ce broke up because of this matter, then Liu Bei and Cao Cao could have a drink happily.

Of course, the above divisions are purely theoretical. If you want to truly gain the actual dominance of the above-mentioned areas, you have to fight with real knives and guns.