annoyed the little overlord, but the consequences are very serious.

At that time, Yuan Shu only occupied a part of Huainan, and Lujiang County had not yet been included in the rule of Yuan Highway.

Yuan Shu, who was desperate but the grain and grass were unsustainable, quickly started the idea of Lujiang County, where the people were rich and full of food, and finally Yuan Shu started a war with Lu Kang on the grounds that Lu Kang did not lend him 30,000 pieces of grain and grass, and sent troops to attack Lujiang County.

Lu Kang had fewer soldiers and horses than Yuan Shu, so he could only defend the city. Fortunately, Lu Kang is a very capable person, and he has won the hearts of the people for Ren Lujiang Taishou, and the people are willing to help Lu Kang defend the city. In this case, although Yuan Shu's army surrounded the county town of Lujiang, it did not attack it for a long time.

How strong is Lu Kang's wrist and ability? Just look at the extent to which Lujiang Shimin supports him.

When Lujiang County was surrounded, a considerable number of Lu Kang's soldiers were on vacation or went out. But when they learned the news that Taishou was besieged and attacked, those soldiers who were not in the city risked their lives and climbed the city at night to help defend the city!

After a long battle, Yuan Shu had no choice but to consider changing generals on the spot.

At this time, Sun Ce jumped out.

To tell the truth, Lu Kang did not personally entertain Sun Ce, who took the initiative to visit, this matter seems to be wrong with Lu Kang, but it is actually completely understandable. After all, Lu Kang is a county guard, and he has a lot of military and political affairs to deal with in peacetime. In addition, Lu Kang was also named a loyal general by the imperial court, with a rank of 2,000 stones, which was already at the same level as Jiuqing. The identity and status are placed there, how can I be interested in meeting a young man whose family background has declined.

In other words, Sun Ce himself wanted Lu Kang to meet him in person, which was equivalent to asking a provincial and ministerial-level high-ranking official to entertain us in person.

Even Sun Ce's own father, Sun Jian, could be regarded as a provincial and ministerial-level high-ranking official during his lifetime, but it was during Sun Jian's "lifetime", and Sun Ce at that time was just a second-generation official with a dead father.

Even if this second generation of officials is a very capable second generation of officials, if we want to delve into the rights and wrongs of Lu Kang and Sun Ce, we can only say that Lu Kang did not do right at that time, but he did not do anything wrong. But Sun Ce's reaction was indeed a little too selfish and excessive.

And if you analyze it in depth, Lu Kang may have Lu Kang's own reasons for not entertaining Sun Ce in person.

Lu Kang was known as "Righteous Martyr" when he was young, and was recommended as "Maocai" by Yangzhou Assassin History. During the period of Emperor Ling, he served at the county and county levels and had entered the court as an official, and was famous in the court because of his daring to admonish, and finally because of the rebellion of the giant thieves and thieves in Lujiang County, he was ordered to be the Taishou of Lujiang in danger.

After Lu Kang arrived, the rewards and punishments were clear, and he quickly broke the main force of the thieves. And by establishing a letter of grace, he collected the remnants of the thieves. When Emperor Ling collapsed and Emperor Xian succeeded to the throne, the world was in chaos, and Lu Kang took the risk of sending filial piety to the imperial court, and was crowned a loyal general by the imperial court.

You must know that after Emperor Xian succeeded to the throne, a considerable number of princes led by Yuan Shao in the Kwantung Coalition Army that crusaded against Dong Zhuo did not recognize the orthodox status of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty established by Dong Zhuo. Lu Kang sent an envoy to Beijing to meet him, but he took the great risk of exposing his political stance and setting up a strong enemy.

Lu Kang's political stance is very simple, that is, he is simply loyal to the Han family.

Then this can explain why Lu Kang didn't meet Sun Ce from subjective factors.

Because of Sun Ce's father, Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian is suspected of having a private collection of the Han Dynasty's national weapons and the national jade seal!

If from this point of view, Lu Kang did not drive Sun Ce out at that time, but sent his own master Bo to entertain Sun Ce, I feel that it is already a great tolerance.

Although Sun Ce enthusiastically attacked Lu Kang, he also defeated Lujiang in the end. But Lu Kang has been holding on to it for more than two years!

At the beginning, when Yuan Shu and Lu Kang started the war, Lu Kang sent his youngest son Lu Ji and grandson Lu Xun back to his hometown in Wu County. He and his eldest son stayed. Because the Lu family is prominent because of Lu Kang, most of the Lu clan's own clan are in Lujiang. When Sun Ce broke the city, although Lu Kang was only captured, more than half of the entire Lu clan's sect was killed!

And just over a month after the city was broken, Lu Kang died of illness.

The reason why Lu Kang can't be killed is because Lu Kang has the name of "loyalty". As for why he was healthy after defending the city for more than two years, and "died" only a month after breaking the city, he had to ask Yuan Shu and Sun Ce himself.

Lu Kang's youngest son, Lu Ji, is actually very famous, with the allusion of "Huai Tang Lu Lang", and he is also famous for his loyalty and filial piety.

There are also Lu Xun and his son Lu Kang, and the father and son are also fighting hard to serve Sun Wu.

Until the end of Sun Wu, Lu Junjie was also one of the Jiangdong clans most loyal to Sun Wu.

Of course, after Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, when Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, if the Lu family still wanted to gain a foothold in Jiangdong, he could only choose to be loyal to the Sun family.

But if there is Zhang Xiu, a-stirring stick, there is undoubtedly one more choice for the Lu family.

Lu Xun was only twelve years old when he was sent back to Wu County, and his uncle's Lu Ji was younger than him, and the entire Jiangdong Lu clan relied on a twelve-year-old boy to support the portal from the moment Lu Kang was surrounded.

Lu Xun is only sixteen years old this year, and he has not even reached the age of a weak crown. But Lu Xun, who lost his father at a young age and took charge of the family at a young age and has many unusual experiences, is much more mature than his peers. After Zhang Xiu and Lu Xun talked, Zhang Xiu suddenly felt that he and Lu Xun seemed to be about the same age.

This can't be blamed on Zhang Xiu. Although Zhang Xiu's current body is a thirty-year-old body, Zhang Xiu was just a newly graduated college student who had not even experienced society before the crossing, although after the ups and downs of the past two years since the crossing, his psychological age is just in line with the physical age.

Although Lu Xun didn't know why Zhang Xiu wanted to keep the Lu family of Wu County by name, but seeing Zhang Xiu's look of liking him very much and not hiding it in the slightest, Lu Xun understood something in his heart, although there were still more doubts than understanding!

After all, the entire Wu County has except for the Gu family, and only the Lu family, a big family, has been preserved. The rest, as long as it is a wealthy family, no matter whether they escaped from the West Gate when the city was broken, Zhang Xiujun still did not let anyone go!

Yes, when Zhang Xiu broke through the city, although he let go of the west gate, let the people of Wu County have a way to escape. But this does not mean that Zhang Xiu let go of those wealthy families who finally laid down their arms and fled for their lives.

In fact, when Zhang Xiu attacked the city, he ambushed his cavalry near the west gate of Wu County. After a large number of Wu County soldiers who fled for their lives to avoid the battle poured out from the West Gate, Zhang Xiujun's cavalry immediately showed up, but instead of slaughtering them immediately, they drove these people all the way to the west.

The number of refugees as many as 50,000 or 60,000 has been driven to the shore of Taihu Lake, and Zhang Xiujun's cavalry has set up a blockade line while searching for the powerful clans of the family clans.

The method of the search is also very simple, that is, it combines the system of reporting and denunciating with the system of joint sitting. Tens of thousands of refugees are disrupted, then randomly divided into groups of 1,000 and let them push themselves out of the wealthy families. If it can't be pushed out or only a few people are pushed, these 1,000 people will have to be packed in sacks and thrown to Taihu Lake to feed the fish.

The final result was that there was no group of refugees who enjoyed Zhang Xiujun's benefits!

This method was actually figured out by the old poisoner. To tell the truth, the old poisoner was a little merciful this time, and used the method of "scattering fish in a big net and leaking small fish" to forgive those families and clans who are usually quite kind to the villagers and have a good reputation.

Having said that, the reason why Zhang Xiu was willing to leave the Gu family in Wu County after weighing it again and again was precisely because of the reason why the Gu family had a good reputation among the lower-class people in Wu County.

Gu's reputation is good, but it is not the kind of reputation that is obtained by prestige or demagogy. The Gu family is indeed known for its "kindness" in Jiangdong.

Take Gu Yong himself as an example, although he is the county magistrate of Qu'a, he has privileges that other families cannot achieve in scheduling the selection of grain and grass. However, Gu Yong has never treated the grain and grass armaments produced by his own family in special regard, and everything is a fair, just and open choice of the source of grain and grass armaments. As an official, he almost never seeks the benefit of his own clan, nor does he take special care of his own children. It is indeed done on the basis of merit, right things and not people!

There is a saying in China that the family style of the Gu family is very special compared to other big clans. In Gu Yong's hands, it has developed to the point of being demanding. This also makes the children of the Gu family more competitive than the children of other wealthy families, and they have a greater sense of self-reliance.

The children of the Gu family, who only want to rise to the throne on their own, have never had the habit of bullying ordinary people, on the contrary, they have never left the bottom, and they have always been the most low-key and unremarkable among the four major families of Wu County and even the wealthy families of Jiangdong. The name of "Gu Hou" comes from here. This is also the reason why the Gu family has continued to prosper longer than other family names.

This kind of clan is not enough to become the opposite of Zhang Xiu's regime. So Zhang Xiu finally decided to tolerate Gu Yong and Gu's.

Of course, Zhang Xiu didn't know that Gu Yong's low-key level in history was breathtaking! When Gu Yong began to be reused by Sun Quan, Gu Yong himself never mentioned his promotion like his clansmen. It wasn't until he bumped into the children of his clan again that the Gu clan knew that Gu Yong's official position was already extremely prominent!

Anyway, Zhang Xiu has done the right thing now.

With Shu Shao's toughness and Gu Yong's gentleness, Wu Jun naturally didn't have to worry about the possibility of a fire in the backyard anymore.

In addition, with a precocious and handsome man like Lu Xun, and more importantly, the poisonous Jia Xu and the ghost Guo Jia to help, how does Zhang Xiu feel that in terms of wisdom and strategic planning, he has completely destroyed Sun Ce's side.

This is just the first reason why Zhang Xiu is very relieved in the face of Sun Ce's main force returning to the division.

There are two other reasons why Zhang Xiu feels that the victory is in hand. Let's talk about Zhang Xiu's most important and decisive one.

Zhang Xiu knew that Sun Ce himself was not far from death.

Although the assassins he sent seemed to repeat history, and in the end they only seriously injured Sun Ce but did not cause fatal injuries, but after confirming that Sun Ce was injured, Zhang Xiu directly concluded that Sun Ce was certain to die!

Because, Zhang Xiu quenched the inextricable poison on the blade of the assassin!