Chen Zhi stood up, straightened the only half of Wu Ben on his head, knelt on the ground, and bowed to the east. Pull out the saber at your waist and place it across your neck.

"Fate belongs to the general, and the heart is left in Runan."

Sun Ce sat on horseback, motionless. "Your heart stays in Runan, is it left to your family, or to Xu Shao?"

Chen Zhi raised his eyelids and protested: "Xu Zi will be the leader of the famous men of Runan, and if the general humiliates Xu Zijiang, he will humiliate my Runan people." I am not good at learning, I can't take revenge, but I can't do anything for the tiger. I fought with the general to the death, and if I lost, it was a big deal. ”

Sun Ce nodded. "In that case, then I won't force you. I'm recruiting talents, the upper is to secure the world, protect the peace, and the lower is to Zhen Runan and protect the people, since you are not interested in these two, and you don't want to be a wife and a son, I don't need to embarrass you. Let's go, go ask Xu Shao for credit, and help me bring him something by the way, and then we'll clear up. ”

Chen Zhi didn't react for a while. Sun Ce didn't explain, reached out and took a bundle of bamboo slips from Wang Jin's hand and threw it in front of Chen Zhi.

"You bring this to him and he'll know how."

Chen Zhihu looked at Sun Ce suspiciously, and found that his eyes were clear, and there was no joke at all. He put down the knife, picked up the bamboo slip, untied the tether on it, looked at it, and suddenly his heart tightened. This bamboo slip is recorded on the person Xu Shao Yuedan has evaluated, one person per bamboo slip, first list the name of the jue, then list Xu Shao's comments, and then list the current situation of this person.

Chen Zhi's heart was beating faster, and he hurriedly looked through it, trying to find his name. But he was disappointed, not only did not his name appear in this list, but there were many things that did not match his imagination, and someone was rated as Christie's by Xu Shao, but his later behavior was completely disproportionate. Some people were judged by Xu Shao to be unbearable, but he was a decent person, although he didn't have any great virtue, he was not a wicked person. As far as he knew, less than a third of the reviews were true.

It turns out that the Yuedan review is like this? Chen was disappointed. He put down the bamboo slip, and was disheartened for a while, feeling that he was really stupid. After so many years, in order to get a comment from Xu Shao, he thought about it at night, and he did not hesitate to fight with Sun Ce, and in the end it was for such a thing? Even if Sun Ce is defeated, almost all of the people Xu Shao commented on are Confucian scholars, but few of them are martial artists. It's not that there is no one, after being castrated, Cao Cao was rated as "the able minister who rules the world, the hero of the troubled times".

Chen Zhi stood up, holding the bamboo slip in both hands, and returned it to Sun Ce. "Chen Zhi didn't dare to obey orders."

"Don't dare, or don't you want to?"

Chen Zhi was silent.

"If you don't want to, I won't force you, but in today's scene, I want you to be a witness." Sun Ce took the bamboo slips and asked Qiao Rui to arrange for someone to send them to Xu Shao's house. He turned over and dismounted, walked up to the tower of the inner city, and ordered all the famous men of the city to gather at the city gate, and he wanted to give them an explanation.

Chen Zhi hesitated for a moment, but still walked up to the city tower, stood aside, and watched the changes. He had seen Sun Ce's martial arts, and he wanted to see how Sun Ce argued with these celebrities.

As soon as the officials of the Taishou Mansion released the news, some celebrities received the news and flocked to gather in front of the gate of the inner city, discussing and looking forward to it. Sun Ce didn't show up immediately, he paced back and forth, chatting with Chen Zhi without a match. Chen Zhi didn't answer, and he didn't answer, so he had to pick what he knew to deal with.

There were more and more people under the city, and soon the city gate was surrounded, and at a glance, there were at least a thousand people.

Du Xi stood in the crowd, listening to the indignant crusade against Sun Ce by the people around him, looking at the quiet city, and feeling faintly uneasy. The situation in front of him was even more serious than he imagined, and the conflict between Sun Ce and Xu Shao caused public anger, and so many people rushed to support Xu Shao. Compared with the powerful families in Nanyang, although these people did not fight by force, their influence was not small at all.

Can Sun Ce handle it? There are only more than 1,000 riders around him, but it is not like when he was in Nanyang with heavy troops.

Du Xun quietly glanced at Guo Jia. Guo Jia looked a little inexplicably excited, and while looking around, he threw the snacks he bought into his mouth. There was something today, he didn't drink, but his mouth still refused to be idle. To be honest, after spending a few days with Guo Jia, Du Xi's impression of Guo Jia became worse and worse. This young man from the Yang Zhai Guo family is not only frivolous, but also debauched, haunts wine shops and advocates every day, and the wine and beauties must not be separated.

Can such a prodigal succeed?

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Xu Shao hid on the sickbed, his eyes closed.

He knew exactly what was going on in Pingyu City. Although he did not go out and did not accept visits from anyone, he was still well heard. Not seeing guests is just to avoid embarrassment. He was carried back, and countless people saw him vomiting blood, but no one knew that he was angry with Sun Ce, and they all said that he was beaten by Sun Ce. How would he explain it if he was a visitor? It's not appropriate to admit it or not, it's better to keep your mouth shut.

Sun Ce never came. I heard that he has been recruiting soldiers, and there are many people who have been recruited, but there are not many who are qualified. Xu Shao doesn't care about those people, it's just a group of despicable people, they can't affect the situation, Runan is the Runan of scholars, not Runan of those people. Of course, Xu Shao did not object to Sun Ce's recruitment, after all, only with soldiers can he protect Runan.

But it is impossible for the Runan family to support him. What Sun Ce did in Nanyang, they also heard about it. They don't want Sun Ce to do the same in Runan, whose land hasn't been accumulated by generations of hard work, why should they give it to you?

Can't let Sun Ce do whatever he wants, let him see the influence of the Runan family, and firmly grasp the influence of public opinion in the hands of scholars, this is the sacred duty of God to scholars, even the imperial court can't ignore the power of scholars, not to mention your little Yuzhou pastor.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, and Xu Qian walked in and handed a roll of bamboo slips to Xu Shao.

"Sun Ce just sent someone to send it."

Xu Shao scoffed. "Want to make peace? It's naïve. I didn't even pay attention to him when he came to apologize in person, let alone send someone. ”

Xu Qian sighed. "General, you have been invincible for twenty years, but those are all scholars fighting by themselves, Sun Ce is not a scholar, don't misestimate the situation, and be dazzled by the name of Pingyu Erlong. Sun Ce is not a dragon, he is a phoenix that is reborn every five hundred years, and the dragon and snake are nothing but his food. People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, it is no longer wise to blindly be strong, and it is not the right way of sages to coerce public opinion with self-respect. ”

Xu Shao's eyes shrank slightly, and he sat up. "Is my brother afraid that I will implicate you? Don't worry, I'll do things by myself. Besides, we're already separated......"

Xu Qian raised his hand and looked at Xu Shao quietly, a trace of regret flashed in his eyes. "Zi Jiang, you and my brother claim to know people, why don't you even know what kind of person I am? Am I the one who is afraid of being implicated by you? ”