There is an undercurrent surging under the peaceful surface of Lujiang County, and everything is going on in an orderly manner. Whether it is a county official or a small person in Qian, they all know that Lujiang is too shou to do something. Xu Chu spent five days of 'two points and one line' from the county government to the military camp, and finally waited for Zhou Yi's reply: Chen Wen invited Xu Chu and Zhou Xin to meet in Liyang Prefecture three days later.

Liyang is a county near the river, Xu Chu went to Xiang'an to take a boat, and Zhou Xin took a boat directly in Wanling, the county seat of Danyang County, and they could all arrive within three days.

This time I went to Liyang, and Dian Wei, Li Tong, Chen Gong, and Guo Jia accompanied me.

On the boat, Xu Chu stood on the bow of the boat against the river breeze, looking at the vast and boundless river, and suddenly felt that 'the rivers and mountains are picturesque, and there are many heroes for a while'. Guo Jia wrapped in a thick cloak and came to Xu Chu's side.

"Although the scenery is good, it's a pity that it's a remote place."

Xu Chu smiled and glanced at Guo Jia, whose cheeks were frozen from the cold, and replied: "If it weren't for the help of Yuan Benchu, Cao Mengde and others, even this remote place would not be my turn." ”

The political and cultural center of the Han Dynasty was still in the Central Plains, and the most fierce land competition among the princes of the world was also in the Central Plains. It can be said that this place in Lujiang County is very unfavorable to the display of ambitions. But for Xu Chu, who is relatively weak at the moment, Lujiang County will not become a place pointed by the princes' soldiers at least in the early stage, as long as he does not make any big mistakes, it is enough to be at peace for a while.

Fortunately, among the generals under Xu Chu's command, there happen to be so many talents who are good at water warfare, and the most anticipated ones are Gan Ning and Zhou Yu, who have not yet grown up.

Guo Jia rubbed his hands and teased: "The lord is unlucky, but compared to Kong Jun of Lu State, it can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune." ”

"Feng Xiao is talking about Kong Jun Wenju?"

Guo Jia nodded, "Who else." ”

Guo Jia is talking about Kong Rong being worshiped by Dong Zhuo as the prime minister of Beihai. In order to get as much support as possible from the scholars, Dong Zhuo accepted the suggestions of Wu Qiong, Zhou Yu and others, and worshiped a large number of celebrities to serve as governors in the county, including Kong Rong. But among these people, Kong Rong is really an outlier. said that he was different because other people were worshiped as county magistrates because the Yuan Party secretly operated, and Dong Zhuo had no choice but to do it, but he Kong Wenju was demoted out of Luoyang.

When Dong Zhuo first arrived in the capital, Kong Rong successively served as the lieutenant marquis of the Northern Army and the general of the tiger ben, and was obviously entrusted with important tasks by Yuan Kui. But Kong Rong is a madman, and he is very dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's perverse behavior in Luoyang, and he argues fiercely with Dong Zhuo in person several times, and the spit flies, which makes Dong Zhuo very angry.

Dong Zhuo, who had a grudge, first demoted Kong Rong to be a speaker, and then took the opportunity of a large number of celebrities to take up prominent positions in the local area, and secretly ordered the three governments to recommend Kong Rong as the minister of Beihai.

The details were only known to Xu Chu later.

It turned out that Dong Zhuo wanted to directly send someone to arrest and put him in prison, but after the strategist Li Ru found out, he advised Dong Zhuo: "Duke Ming, this is giving Kong Rong a chance to become famous!" ”

Dong Zhuo thought about it, but after killing Kong Rong, he was afraid that the matter would be too big, so he asked Li Ru what to do, and the latter suggested that Kong Rong be sent to Beihai State in Qingzhou to serve as the state minister.

Qingzhou is the most rampant place where the yellow turban disaster is today, and Li Ru's suggestion is actually 'borrowing a knife to kill people'. Imagine that Kong Rong is a great Confucian, who has never led troops to fight, isn't going to Beihai to send him to death?

But Xu Chu knew that although Kong Rong in history was repeatedly frustrated in the battle with the Yellow Turban after he arrived in Beihai, he finally survived because of the help of Tai Shici, Liu Bei and others.

While the two were talking, the boat had already arrived at Niuzhu.

Xu Chu knew this place, and even in his eyes, Niuzhu was the Tiger Prison Pass on the Yangtze River, and it had always been a battleground for soldiers in the north-south dispute. Because this place is the throat of Moling (later Nanjing City) on the Yangtze River, Sun Quan moved the governance office from Jingkou to Moling during the Three Kingdoms and renamed it Jianye, which is why the topography here is too important. The sentence of the poet immortal Li Bai, 'The gate of heaven is interrupted and Chu Tiankai is opened', which is also talking about Niu Zhu.

After Niuzhu, the boat traveled a few miles to the northwest, and Xu Chu and the others went ashore, and when the sun came, the sky had just darkened.

I met Chen Wen in the state capital that night, and Zhou Xin, who arrived earlier than Xu Chu.

The reason why everyone was so eager to meet was that Xu Chu was anxious to ask Dong for imminent trouble, and Chen Wen and Zhou Xin were anxious to rebel.

Xu Chu left the guards outside the state capital to wait, and he entered the palace with Guo Jia, Dian Wei, Li Tong, and Chen Gong. Arrived at the front of the hall under the guidance of the state officials, only to see a group of people coming to the front, the head of the person is above forty years, with two thousand stone Taishou seal ribbons hanging around his waist, Xu Chu stopped and saluted: "Junior Xu Chu, I have seen Zhou Jun." ”

The person who came was the Danyang Taishou Zhou Xin who heard that Xu Chu had arrived at the state capital and immediately asked to see Chen Wen.

Zhou Xin is good-looking, quite majestic, Xu Chu recognized him immediately, he glanced at Xu Chu's waist, and it was easy to know who the seemingly respectful young man in front of him was.

Zhou Xin smiled: "Xu Lujiang is heroic, and he is really a young hero." He looked past Xu Chu and saw Dian Wei, Chen Gong, and Li Tong, and exclaimed: What a majestic warrior! He has heard of Xu Chu Xiaoyong, Xu Chu's generals are also very brave, but hearing is false, seeing is believing, seeing the main man today, Xu Chu is okay, he must be brave to be able to fight with Dong Zhuo in Pishan, but it is Dian Wei, who looks more powerful than Xu Chu, and Li Tong and Chen Gong, who look quite fruitful, which surprised Zhou Xin.

is also the Taishou who governs a county, and Zhou Xin understands that these martial artists who he doesn't think much of are also important talents. Sun Wentai of Wujun and Tao Gongzu of Danyang, both of whom started with military merits, and the warriors under their command are like clouds, which makes Zhou Xin very envious.

"You have a warrior on your side, why don't you introduce you?"

"Vulgar people, it is difficult to enter the eyes of Zhou Jun." Xu Chu said a few words modestly and introduced everyone to Zhou Xin.

Saying that, entering the hall, Chen Wen walked out of the back hall, followed by three scholars, not surprisingly, it should be Zhu Hao, Liu Miao, and Lu Jun, the three humerus that Chen Wen relied on the most.

After greeting and introducing, everyone sat down as guests.

The first time Xu Chu met Chen Wenqi, he had sent Fei Liang to the state capital to find out about the killing of the state official, and Fei Liang told him: "Uncle Fang's health is probably not very good. When I saw it today, as Fei Liang said, Chen Wen and Zhou Xin were of the same age in appearance, but Zhou Xin was vigorous, like a prime of life, Chen Wen's face was pale, and his expression was abrupt, which was really different.

Chen Wenqiang cheered himself up, straightened his waist and toasted Xu Chu and Zhou Xin with a glass of wine, and said to Xu Chu: "Xu Qing brought the warriors over, is the county not peaceful?" ”

But he also noticed Dian Wei and the other three.

Xu Chu said with a smile: "Thank you Uncle Fang for your concern, there was indeed a thief rebellion in the county some time ago, and the court was blessed, and now it has all been calmed down." ”

Chen Wen nodded, "I also heard that there was an invasion of Lujiang, but is there such a thing?" ”

Xu Chu bowed his head and said: "Uncle Fang is wise, Chu Zheng wants to ask Lu Duwei for help because of this matter." Before Chu arrived, Lai Lu Duwei's father's work, the thieves in Lujiang were resting, and the law and order were stable, but during this time, there were repeated ** and robbers making trouble, Chu was incompetent, and he thought that he could not govern Lujiang County in an orderly manner like Lu Gong, and he was ashamed, but also remembered that Lu Duwei helped to help the county integrate the navy. ”

After a few answers, Zhou Xin and Lu Jun's faces suddenly darkened.