Chapter 497 (1/1)

Chapter 497

“The Second Lord was caught?” The whole of Jiangdong becaood opinion of Sun Quan as the man was an intellectual who can easily make friends If he ruled the world, all of his benefits would be shared with the nobles

On the other hand, Sun Ce was different While Sun Ce was generous towards the nobles, he was not as good as Sun Quan Sun Ce was a military leader that despises court affairs Sun Ce also hated soht but his inner feelings was displayed in the way he asked the nobles for money While Sun Ce did not start a recruitives jobs to his own people instead of the nobles The nobles would have long placed Sun Quan as Lord if it was not because Sun Ce pressured the pressured by Sun Ce, the nobles were still quite lively in private As a matter of fact, they were the ones that raised the money needed to fund Sun Quan’s expedition They did it with malicious intent

These very same people jumped in shock when they heard that Sun Quan was captured They wanted to quickly go to Sun Ce and ask for Sun Quan to be redee Zhao said “We must definitely save the Second Lord but weZhao initially ca However, he was talented and had followed Sun Ce for a long ti Zhao was the person that tried to benefit from both sides He vowed loyalty to both Sun Ce and Sun Quan At the sa Zhao was also helpless in this case He secretly supported Sun Quan but now he had no choice but to step forward This is because Sun Ce gave the order for him to collect money from the nobles This was a job that required him to offend people

“What do you mean carefully consider? Second Lord ht now! WeZhao looked at this person and noted that this person came from Huiji Sun Quan had taken care of hiistrate at Huiji That hy this person would always support Sun Quan

“That’s right!” All those who received Sun Quan’s favor stood up and agreed

Zhang Zhao looked at all of these people who can’t live without Sun Quan and gave a cold harruotiate with the enedong is like Lord Jiang and the King of Zhou1!” They can only benefit under Sun Quan while they can only be suppressed under Sun Ce

There were plenty of talented people in Jiangdong If all the positions were occupied by talented people, the nobles will suffer

“Milord have already dispatched an envoy but Yangzhou is greedy and Lu Bu is a vicious tyrant The ransoold”

“Thirty thousand gold!?” The nobles all gasped These were their life savings

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enwikipediaorg/wiki/Jiang_Ziya Also King Zhou refers to King Wen of Zhou, not King Zhou of Shang Its like saying one can’t survive without the other