Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast.

This is episode 55.

Before we continue, I want to insert a note here that I have not been able to find a convenient

place in the narrative to slip in. So far I have not been able to find a convenient place in the narrative

to slip in.

So far, I have been referring to the region occupied by Sun Quan as the Southlands.

However, it's about time that I introduce another name for this region.

Dong Wu.

Dong means east, and Wu is the name of this general region, so the name literally means

eastern Wu. Going forward, you will hear me use both the Southlands and Dongwu. In some cases,

they are used interchangeably, but you should know that the Southlands refers to the geographical region,

while Dongwu refers to the political entity that occupies the region of the Southlands.

It's kind of like the difference between the South and the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

So just try to keep those two terms and that distinction in mind as we go forward.

All right, so, last time, a few well-placed words from Zhuge Liang

ticked off Zhou Yu something fierce and said them squarely against Cao Cao. So the next day,

Zhou Yu went before Sun Quan, broke down all the reasons why

Cao Cao's campaign was doomed and asked Sun Quan to fight rather than surrender.

Upon hearing Zhou Yu's words, Sun Quan sprang to his feet and declared,

That old traitor has long harbored thoughts of usurpation.

The only people he feared were the Yuan's, Lv Bu, Liu Biao, and me,

and now all the others are dead.

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