Xu Jing repeatedly persuaded him, but Xu Gong just didn't follow.

Xu Jing was desperate. Sun Cebing came to the city and wanted to seize Wu County, but Xu Gong only cared about his fighting spirit, not only wanted to kill Wei Teng to deter the Wu Hui family, but also remembered Gao Dai's old grudges, which was not a good thing.

Xu Gong was very calm. "Don't worry, Sun Ce has only a few people, and it's strange that he can capture Gusu. He suffered a loss in the mountains, and when he thought of coming here to slander me, am I not as good as those bandits? I will ignore him and see what he can do to me. As long as I don't move, no one in the city will dare to act rashly, and whoever wants to respond to Sun Ce, I will kill him. Xu Gong thought about it, suddenly smiled, and turned back and forth twice. I'm going to send someone to ask for Xu Chun. ”

"Ask for Xu Chun?"

"Yes, Sun Ce coveted the Xu family's property and arrested Xu Chun, I stood up for Xu Chun, the Wujun family can't sit idly by, right? If Sun Ce releases people, then he will admit that he is at a loss. If they don't let them go, it means that Sun Ce won't give them face, and he will be detrimental to the Wu Jun family, which will cause public anger, can the Wu Jun family still support him? Alas, Wen Xiu, you said Sun Ce's character, can he let him go? ”

Xu Jing stroked his beard, weighed it repeatedly, and felt that Xu Gong's method was really good. For Sun Ce, it is not good to release people, and it is not good not to release people, so he is in a dilemma. With Sun Ce's current strength, it is indeed not easy to attack Gusu City, not to mention that there is Tai Shici in Tongguan Mountain to contain him.

"What about Liu Xuan's side? Sun Ce is in Gusu, you can't leave. ”

Xu Gong snorted and said angrily: "Liu Miao wants to yin me, and I still help him?" I'll just contain Sun Ce for him, and let him go and get Danyang by himself." Wen Xiu, do you think Liu Xuan can do it, and hand over such an important task to Tai Shici? But don't say it, this person does things unscrupulously, but he is similar to those bandits, and he may be able to find some trouble for Sun Ce. Wen Xiu, now is a troubled time, your morality and righteousness are not useful, you have to rely on power and strategy, you have to rely on force, you fortunately didn't come back, otherwise you would definitely be driven out by Sun Ce like Zijiang. ”

Xu Jing grimaced and didn't speak. At the time, he felt that this was a trap dug by Xu Shao, and now it seems that it is indeed the case. He didn't want to talk about it, and instead asked, "Who is going to ask for Xu Chun?" ”

"Lu Kang." Xu Gong blurted out without thinking.

"Forget about Lu Kang, it's still ......"

"No, it's Lu Kang." Xu Gong was resolute. "He is the head of the famous men of Wu County, and he has a good relationship with Sun Ce, if Sun Ce doesn't give him face, hehe, the face of this famous man of Wu County will be lost."

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Shen You walked into the cabin, handed a roll of paper to Sun Ce, and said with a smile: "I just wrote an article, please advise the general." ”

Sun Ce raised his eyelids and glanced at him. Although Shen You was a little young and frivolous, he was not enough to entertain him with his knowledge. "What article, why don't you go to Yang Dezu? I heard that he made a "Taihu Fu", why haven't I heard of yours, is he being compared? ”

Shen You smiled and didn't say anything, just urging Sun Ce to read the article. Sun Ce opened the scroll and glanced at it. The article is very elegantly written, probably written by Shen You who stayed up all night, no wonder the eye circles are a little dark. Sun Ce couldn't taste the subtlety of those words, but he could understand the gist, and before he could finish reading it, he understood what Shen You meant. This is similar to what he said to Wei Teng before, it is all about Shun avoiding Danzhu, to put it bluntly, it is to use the past as a metaphor for the present to build momentum for him, and it also mentions the fact that Qin Shi Huang toured the east and dug up the southeast dragon vein. Wei Teng objected to Sun Ce's use of the past as a metaphor for the present, but Shen You tried his best to insinuate it, eager to say that he was Shun and the Son of Heaven of Chang'an was Danzhu.

After reading it, Sun Ce gently put down the article, crossed his fingers, held it in front of him, and looked at Shen You quietly. Shen You was uncomfortable with him, and his expression was a little embarrassed.

"Zizheng, let me ask you a question: What do you think of Yu Wei?"

Shen You pondered for a moment. "General, although the prophecy is false, it is equivalent to rumors. As the saying goes, rumors stop at the wise, but there are many fools and few wise people in the world, and rumors are still useful. ”

"Wang Mang failed because he didn't have enough weft?"

"General, you can't generalize. Wang Mang's success has a lot to do with Wei Wei. Everyone in the world knows that Han is the queen of Yao, and it is said that there should be a king in five hundred years, and the new king should be the queen of Shun It is also a well-known thing, so Yuan is the leader of the alliance in the world, if the story of Shun to avoid Danzhu can let the people of the world know that the mandate of heaven is in the general, why not? ”

Sun Ce smacked his lips. Of course, he knew the importance of public opinion, and Shun Shun Dan Zhu Yu Wu Hui was indeed suitable for the situation in front of him, which was an excellent opportunity for hype. But he is bent on reforming people's hearts, and if he takes advantage of this matter for a while now, opposing this matter in the future will be tantamount to digging up his own foundation. Just like Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu used the Wei Wei to build momentum to ascend the throne, and the so-called internal learning was greatly promoted, and finally found that the Wei Wei was a double-edged sword, and he had to ban the diagram, which was equivalent to a slap in the face.

He didn't want to start this, but he couldn't convince Shen You for a while. Shen You has three wonders, one of which is the tongue, and this eloquence is indeed good.

Sun Ce picked up the article again, looked at it, thought for a moment, and asked another question. "Zizheng, from the bottom of your heart, what do you think of your writing compared to Yang Dezu?"

Shen You's eyes rolled. "It should be between the best, but he uses more elegant words and thinks more quickly, and I am slightly inferior."

"What about the subtle words in the Confucian classics?"

Shen You blinked, shook his head, and didn't speak again. He is indeed very smart, but there is a teacher's law, a family law, to rely on inheritance, Wu County is the southeast metropolis, but there is still a distance compared to the Central Plains, the top Confucianism is basically from the Central Plains, Wu will be very few, even if there is, it is not everyone can learn. In the Confucian classics, he can't compare with Yang Xiu.

"So these fictitious articles are done by those great Confucians. Let's do something tangible. ”

Shen You was a little stunned. He worked hard all night to write this article, but he didn't expect it to be said by Sun Ce to be a fictitious article, which was inevitably disappointing.

"What is the real thing?"

"You help me write a recital, Liu Miao colluded with the bandits, Xu Gong sheltered Haoqiang to do evil, please ask the court to issue an edict and give me the right to crusade. How's that, no problem, right? ”

Shen You stroked his palm and smiled. "No problem, I'll write it now, and after I finish writing, I will ask the general to look at it, and promise to make Liu Miao and Xu Gong speechless."

"That's right."

"What's right?" A voice sounded outside the door, and Lu Kang walked in, looked at Shen You, and then at Sun Ce, his eyes puzzled. "Who are you scheming?"

As soon as Shen You saw Lu Kang, he hurriedly reached out to take the document on the case. He reacted quickly, but it was still not as fast as Lu Kang's eyes. Lu Kang stared at Shen You's eyes, stretched out his hand, and hooked his fingers.

"Bring it."

"This ......" Shen You was a little weak-hearted, and glanced at Sun Ce again and again, signaling him not to leak his mouth. Sun Ce was very calm, took the scroll, got up and handed it to Lu Kang. "Zizheng's new history text, just ask Lu Gong to look at it."

Shen You smiled bitterly and lowered his head.