After Zhen Mi left first, Lu Ren himself walked slowly in the street market of the small town.

This time the festival Lu Ren issued an order, except for some necessary people's livelihood and defense can not be on holiday, the rest are all on holiday during the festival, of course, those service and entertainment industries are not included, and those bosses will not let go of this kind of good day with a large number of customers and a lot of money. Therefore, the small city of Yizhou is very lively, and there is a flow of people everywhere.

Every time he sees such a scene, Lu Ren's heart will feel a little weird, because he can find a little bit of his original era in this kind of scene where people come and go...... Ahem, part of the reason for this is because the girls in the market are all dressed very "cool", and all the flesh that should be exposed and can be exposed is exposed, which is unlikely in this era, but now it has appeared in Lu Ren's territory, and people who don't know about it will think that this is a large-scale costume cosPlay scene.

Of course, these are not the main things, what really matters is that the people in this street market are full of freedom and vitality, which makes Lu Ren feel a little proud that such a person from a sling background can now achieve such an achievement.

Feeling the freedom and vitality that permeates the market, Lu Ren's mood is naturally very good. Seeing that it was not too late at this time, Lu Ren was not in a hurry to go back. After thinking about it again, Lu Ren decided to go to Lu Xun to sit there. Lu Xun's visit was a business affair before, but there had never been a private exchange. It's been a fuss today, and it's almost time to have a good talk with Lu Xun.

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Lu Xun's residence was an annex of Lu Ren, but Sun Shangxiang did not live in this annex that temporarily served as a pavilion. Sun Shangxiang is familiar with the small town of Yizhou, and there are many sisters in a mess, how can she not find the place she wants to live? So Lu Xun, the deputy envoy, was thrown here alone.

At this moment, Lu Xun was full of worries, staring at the sky blankly.

Compared with Sun Shangxiang's "heartlessness", Lu Xun's mood is very complicated. Lu Xun has always wanted to persuade Lu Ren to surrender to Sun Quan...... Some people may say that Lu Xun is so loyal to Sun Quan? Isn't this Nima a little stupid? Actually, that's not really the case. Lu Xun would have such an idea, and the reasons for this are also many, and it is not entirely out of loyalty to Sun Quan.

For a long time, Lu Ren can be said to have never shown his military strength at all, but Lu Ren did not have any military strength at the beginning. Even until now, Lu Ren's army strength has not exceeded 8,000, and the left-behind army in Yizhou is only about 5,000, and Lu Ren has Xu Shu to take it to Quanzhou and Guangzhou. However, these are all regular armies of a standing nature, and if the militia is recruited when necessary, Lu Ren still has a lot of troops on hand.

In addition, the women's corps and navy in Yizhou are not counted, because the women's corps is mainly responsible for security and rescue, and cannot be counted as combat troops; On the navy side, there are several fleets, responsible for several areas and a lot of messy things, unless it is a formal large-scale assembly, otherwise it is difficult to count the combat effectiveness.

Even Lu Ren himself only knew that the total strength of the navy at present was about 13,000 or 4,000, and the total number of ships of various types was about 400, but this was a figure that included land crews and non-combat ships. Really to talk about pure combat crews and pure combat ships...... Lu Ren himself is not very clear.

However, conservative calculations should have 8,000 combatants, and there should be no less than 200 combat-type ships. The only thing that Lu Ren knew very well was that there were currently thirty-six steam-powered gunboats, and the three main fleets of Gan Ning, Huang Zhong, and Lu Cheng had ten each, and Lu Ren had six of the largest and fiercest ones on hand, and there were eight medium-sized ones in the shipyard that would be launched in a while.

All in all, Lu Ren used to think about many aspects, not only to show people the posture of a businessman, to put it mildly, Lu Ren was pretending to be a grandson and fooling people, so that the people in the world, as if Sun Quan thought that Lu Ren had no strength at all, and then he didn't care about Lu Ren.

I have to say that Lu Ren's grandson pretended to be very successful, so successful that Sun Quan's side, including Lu Xun, thought that Lu Ren did not have much military strength here. If it weren't for Lu Xun's dumb loss in the northern region of Quanzhou before, Sun Quan might have thought that Lu Ren would be able to deal with it as long as he sent some soldiers over casually. But even so, Sun Quan still thinks that Lu Ren's military strength is not enough to worry about, if it is not for Cao Cao's southward movement, he has to temporarily stabilize Lu Ren, then it may not be Lu Xun and Sun Shangxiang who come to Yizhou at this time, but the brigade sent by Sun Quan.

Lu Xun has always held the view that Lu Ren cannot confront Sun Quan, and he took the initiative to attack Quanzhou before, to a large extent, the purpose of wanting to buffer between Sun Quan and Lu Ren, and then come forward to persuade Lu Ren to surrender. In other words, Lu Xun actually wanted to protect Lu Ren and prevent Lu Ren from following Lu Kang's old path.

Didn't Lu Kang die in the hands of Sun Ce in the first place? In the current situation, how similar are Lu Ren and Lu Kang? And Lu Kang's death caused a huge psychological shadow to Lu Xun, who was only a teenager at the time, which was unimaginable to others. So when he realized that Lu Ren was very likely to become the second Lu Kang, Lu Xun's heart was more anxious than anyone else. In Lu Xun's view, Lu Ren's best preservation strategy is to know the current affairs and surrender to Sun Quan, so as to avoid the disaster of killing, and the current most outstanding talent of the Lu clan can also be preserved by this.

So now to put it back again, the main reason why Lu Xun has such an idea is that he has never been to Yizhou and doesn't know the strength that Lu Ren has now, so his idea is by no means "selling the sect for glory", but a kind of protection for the clan members, which is actually not wrong. But after Lu Xun arrived in Yizhou, although it was only less than three days, Lu Xun sensitively realized that his "clan brother" was definitely not as simple as he imagined.

Sun Shangxiang, a "heartless and lungless" chick, took care of playing as soon as she arrived in Yizhou, but Lu Xun didn't just care about playing. Through the so-called "hanging out", Lu Xun actually went to several city defense points in the small city of Yizhou, and Lu Ren did not stop Lu Xun in any way. Because Lu Ren knew that since he got the official position of "Yizhou Mu" from Lao Cao, his situation here has changed fundamentally, and some things no longer need to be hidden, and they can no longer be hidden, and the things that should be put out have to be put out for others to see...... This may be a bit like in modern society, where countries with nuclear weapons not only do not hide it, but will make a big splash, and even if they have not yet done it, they will put on a posture that they have already done it.

In short, after seeing a few places, Lu Xun knew that he underestimated Lu Ren, the "clan brother", at least Lu Ren would not be as easy to deal with as Sun Quan imagined. Once the two sides really fight, the biggest possibility will be that both sides will lose, and this is the last thing Lu Xun wants to see.

But the question now is how to tell Sun Quan about these things? If you don't say it, the two sides will lose in the future, and Sun Quan and Lu Ren may blame Lu Xun at that time; But if he says it, will this Nima Sun Quan believe it? Oh, you Lu Xun is Lu Ren's brother, and he is also a son of the Lu family, of course he hopes that Lu Ren will have a good life, so are you Lu Xun deliberately praising the strength of Lu Ren?

Anyway, Lu Xun just had one sentence in his heart at this time:

"It's a dilemma!"

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"Bo Yan!"

Lu Ren called softly, Lu Xun turned around, and hurriedly said deeply: "Brother is here." ”

Lu Ren slowly walked closer, looked at Lu Xun for a while and then said, "Didn't you live in seclusion after you were dismissed?" Why was it enabled by Wu Hou again so quickly? ”

Lu Xun smiled bitterly: "It was Zhou Gongjin and the county lord who repeatedly pleaded in front of Wu Hou, and Wu Hou reinstated me, and then was sent by Wu Hou to Yizhou to show friendship with my brother." Brother, you are a smart person, and some words should not be said too clearly by a foolish brother. ”

Lu Ren nodded, Sun Quan did this just to do a favor, and if he wanted to engage in diplomacy with himself at this time, who could be more suitable than Lu Xun? Of course, Sun Shangxiang's friendship with himself is fine, but Sun Shangxiang seems to be unable to do business.

Lu Xun hesitated for a while, and suddenly asked in a low voice: "Brother, the foolish brother was defeated on the north bank of Quanzhou before, and the foolish brother has always been a little puzzled, can you ......?"

Lu Ren smiled and waved his hand: "You don't have to ask, I sent someone to do it." We don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, as long as Wu Hou and I don't tear our faces in the open, then everyone can discuss other things. On the other hand, I also ask you, do you think I dare to let the Quanzhou line fall into the hands of Wu Hou? ”

Lu Xun shook his head, put aside his current position, and analyzed it from Lu Ren's point of view, how could he not understand the importance of Quanzhou to Yizhou?

Lu Ren continued: "Bo Yan, I don't blame you for what kind of thoughts you have when you come from Wu Hou, but remember to tell Wu Hou after you go back, that is, if Wu Hou insists on using force against Yizhou, my Yizhou is not without the strength to fight." ”

Lu Xun sighed lightly: "Why would my brother say such a thing at this time? I don't believe that my brother will not know who the enemy Wu Hou will face now. If it weren't for that, where would you send the foolish brother to Yizhou at this time? ”

Lu Ren said: "That's the best!" Bo Yan, you can also go and tell Wu Hou that I, Lu Ren, have no other thoughts, I just want to keep my own piece of paradise in the troubled times, and I have no interest in other things, but this does not mean that I will not have the heart to guard against some things that should be guarded against...... I'm not a talker like Liu Biao. I'm not aggressive, but I'm definitely not a character to mess with. ”

Lu Xun glanced at Lu Ren a few times in a complicated way, and finally sighed: "But my brother ......" (to be continued.) )