Lu Ren personally came to Wu County and sent Sun Shangxiang back to Sun Quan's house, and the two sides could only say hello simply that day, and just said some polite words to each other. Then it was reasonable, coupled with Lu Ren's own status, Sun Quan had to buy a banquet to entertain Lu Ren.

Of course, there is no need for a big banquet, after all, Lu Ren is not an envoy, at best he can only be regarded as a squire, so the banquet purchased by Sun Quan is only a family banquet, not an official banquet, to put it simply, Sun Quan invited Lu Ren to have a meal and a glass of wine as the host, and there is no need to call the staff of Shangdong Wu to accompany him. Besides, the cause of this incident is a female dependent like Sun Shangxiang, and a female dependent like Sun Shangxiang also has to be seated, and it is not convenient to call the staff of Dongwu to the banquet.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Wu Guomu, the old man, was a little tired, and then Sun Shangxiang, Lu Lan, and Minchan accompanied Wu Guomu to leave the table, go for a walk and say something among women, and only Sun Quan and Lu Ren were left in the banquet. However, Lu Ren also understands that even if Sun Quan can't recruit himself, he still wants to hear a lot of things from his mouth, who has let himself run through more places, and what he has seen and heard is also very wide? Lu Ren didn't dare to say anything else, but Sun Quan definitely wanted to hear some information about Cao Ying or Jingzhou from his mouth. As for the last time, because the two sides had only met for the first time, it was inconvenient for Sun Quan to speak immediately.

As Lu Ren expected, Sun Quan hesitated for a long time with the wine glass, and after saying something innocuous and said something, he pulled the topic to Jingzhou's head. And because Lu Ren had been prepared, he just pretended to be embarrassed and smiled before responding: "Today's Lu Ren is just a cloth merchant, and the traders are just along the Yangtze River. It's just that Lu Ren also knows that Wu Hou and Liu Jingzhou have a big enmity with each other, and it is inevitable that people will be suspicious of doing business between the two places, so he hopes that Wu Hou can find out right and wrong, and he will blame Zai Xia for his mistakes. ”

As soon as the conversation began, Sun Quan could be regarded as having found an explanation. Immediately smiled: "My Sun clan and Liu Biao have been at enmity for many years, and there are many wars. However, the exchange of commercial goods between the two sides of the strait has a bearing on the people's livelihood, so how can it be taken lightly? Lu Servant's caravan has always been law-abiding and strictly disciplined, and has never done anything wrong, which is really reassuring. I think Liu Biao can ignore the fact that Mr. has dealings with my Jiangdong, how can I Jiangdong lose this amount of equipment? It's just that having said that, if there is another dispute between Jiangdong and Jingzhou, it would be better for Lu Fu's caravan to hide farther away, so as not to be separated from the jade in the chaotic army. Even if Jie Shiyu wants to take care of it, I'm afraid that it won't be able to take care of it. ”

Lu Ren nodded again and again: "This is natural." This is natural! I may not be able to do anything else, but I still have the ability to hide when I see chaos. ”

Sun Quan looked at Lu Ren with a smile, waved his hand to let the attendants exit the hall, and then said to Lu Ren, "Lu Servant can sell goods between Jiangdong and Jingzhou today without fear of the feud between the two families, others may not be able to see the mystery here, but I can see that Mr. must be extraordinary." Now that I can talk to Lu Servant Shooting about wine, I naturally want to ask for advice, and I hope that Lu Servant Shooting can give me advice! ”

Lu Renxin said that he knew that your kid would come to this hand!

The wine had been scooped into the bottle, but Sun Quan had not asked Lu Ren any questions. Instead, he looked at Lu Ren with an interested gaze. On the other hand, Lu Ren was somewhat dissatisfied with Sun Quan's eyes, but because he didn't know what Sun Quan would ask, he wouldn't open his mouth in a daze.

But seeing that Sun Quan looked at Lu Ren for a long time, he suddenly raised the bottle to Lu Ren and smiled: "Please rest assured." I won't ask you about Jing Xiang's reality, so as not to make it difficult for Lu Jingsheng to be a man. What do I really want to ask...... In fact, he lived in Xuzhou first, then voted for Cao Gong, and then went to Jingxiang more often......"

Sun Quan paused as he spoke. After sorting out his words: "Oh, I don't mean to be sarcastic when I say this, but I want to say that Lu Servant has been to so many places. There will certainly be no fewer people I have seen. Thinking that among the heroes in the world today, Lu Bu has been defeated for many years, Yuan Benchu also died of illness at the beginning of the year, and the rest is nothing more than Cao Mengde, Liu Xuande, and Liu Jingsheng. And these characters, Lu Servant Shot has actually seen all of them, so I just want to ask now, in the eyes of Lu Servant, how are these candidates? This is just a light miscellaneous discussion between the wine and banquet, and I don't think it is a matter of avoiding Lu Servant's shooting. Sun Quan is not talented, and he hopes that Lu Servant can teach a lesson or two. ”

Qing Tan was a popular form of communication among the literati subclass in the late Han Dynasty. At first, in order to avoid ********, he mostly talked about the way of Lao Huang or Taoism, and later became fond of talking about and commenting on the world's figures, such as Xu Zijiang is a representative of talking about characters. And Lu Ren has been through more than ten years, and he will never see less of this kind of thing.

However, Lu Ren also has a lot of eyes, and at this time he has vaguely guessed that Sun Quan, a seemingly ordinary talking character, actually wants to understand his future opponent from another aspect. And for Lu Ren, this is actually an opportunity to build a good relationship with Sun Quan, but he has to be careful when he says it.

After thinking for a while, Lu Ren opened his mouth in a deep groan, but instead of mentioning Lao Cao immediately, he first mentioned Liu Bei, who has nothing to do with Sun Wu at the moment: "Let's talk about Liu Xuande first." As a relative of the Han family, Liu Xuande has always taken the revival of the Han family as his own responsibility, although he has been defeated repeatedly, he is tenacious; It is also a corporal who can win people's death force, so although he has been defeated repeatedly, he is still accompanied by fierce generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun. Now he temporarily lives in Xinye, although there are only a few thousand, but most of them are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and their combat power is still strong and extraordinary. Just ......"

Sun Quan didn't expect that the first person Lu Ren mentioned would be Liu Bei, so he was a little surprised. And under this bit of surprise, he was very interested in what Lu Ren said, and hurriedly leaned closer and asked urgently, "Just how?" ”

Lu Ren saw that Sun Quan was a little interested in Liu Bei, and he also had his own opinions in his heart. In Lu Ren's opinion, Sun Wu has always coveted Jingzhou, but if it is a serious fight, Sun Wu does not have this strength now, so he wants to make some yin moves, such as sowing discord or something, so that Liu Biao's own strength will decline. And Liu Bei is now living in Jingzhou, and everyone knows that Liu Bei is a very ambitious person, so it is not uncommon for Sun Quan to want to do something from Liu Bei.

However, Lu Ren was not stupid enough to say this idea, and besides, what tricks did you Sun Quan want to play, and it was your own business at this point, so he continued to follow what he just said: "As long as you are human, you will have your own weaknesses and shortcomings. Liu Xuande is brave, if he is facing him openly on the battlefield. Even Cao Mengde will be afraid of three points, but Liu Xuande's biggest flaw is that he is more than brave and not enough to plan, and there is no central dispatch under his account, and people who make good use of brave generals are still difficult for Liu Xuande to succeed today. However, Jingzhou is a land of many virtuous people, if Liu Xuande can find a wise man and a minister in the land of Jingxiang and then entrust him with important tasks, he is afraid that he will be full of wings at that time, and he is also expected to achieve great things. ”

Although Sun Quan was secretly a little dissatisfied with Lu Ren's words, he also deeply agreed, but he still had to guide the words: "The lord of the nine counties of Jingxiang is Liu Jingsheng. And Liu Xuande is recruiting troops and horses in the land of Jingxiang and looking for talents, will Liu Jingsheng still sit idly by and let Liu Xuande gradually succeed? ”

"Well...... this"

Lu Ren shook the wine bottle in a pretentious gesture, and muttered for a while before saying, "This is going to talk about how Liu Jingsheng is doing." Liu Jingsheng, if it was in the prosperous era of Qingping, he would be a virtuous king and a good official, but now it is a troubled era when the heroes are competing for deer, and he is a little out of time.

"All in all, Liu Jingsheng is suspicious. But the most undesirable thing is his good, good and evil, that is, 'covering good and good but not being able to use it, covering evil and evil but not being able to go'. Let's take his treatment of Liu Xuande as an example, he clearly knows that Liu Xuande is a hero in the world. will not live under the people for a long time, but he can't refuse it directly, but he will also give the city, and want Liu Xuande to guard the gateway to the north of Jingzhou for him. However, the money, food, and ordnance required by Liu Xuande's subordinates were always strictly controlled, and they were eventually limited to a few thousand.

"This is Liu Xuande, who can still abide by benevolence and righteousness, and also take into account that he is the same sect. Otherwise, Liu Xuande is afraid that he will become the second Zhang Xiu a long time ago, at least he will have to abandon Liu Jingsheng and go elsewhere. Liu Jingsheng is like this as the master of the people, where can the real virtuous people succumb to him? ”

Saying that, Lu Ren took a sip of wine from the wine bottle, and then said after sorting out his thoughts by the way: "There is another section, Liu Jingsheng is over sixty years old now, and he also has attacks of qi diseases from time to time, and he is already old and faint, and it is difficult to be a director. And what he thinks in his heart is nothing more than the peaceful situation of guarding the land of Jingxiang, and the rest of the things are neither known nor known. Liu Xuande recruited troops and horses and looked for talents in the land of Jingxiang, and he did not take it seriously and neglected to take it into account. Moreover, Liu Jingsheng is old, and his two sons Liu Qi and Liu Cong have already fought for the throne, Liu Jingsheng's own family affairs are still too busy to take care of, where can he take care of other things? ”

Sun Quan's eyebrows frowned slightly: "Last year, I attacked Jiangxia in Jiangdong and settled the city in a battle, but I returned to Jiangdong because I couldn't do it, and then Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao, guarded Jiangxia on behalf of Huangzu. This Liu Qi is not by Liu Jingsheng's side, can it be said that ......"

Lu Renxin said, "You, Sun Quan, are pretending to be confused while pretending to understand. But after thinking about it, the words have already come to this point, and it is better to expose some information by yourself, otherwise when talking about Lao Cao later, the weight of the words suddenly becomes so heavy, it seems that it will be a little unreasonable. So Lu Ren poured another large bottle of wine, and then pretended to be a little drunk...... In fact, this kind of ordinary water wine wants to get drunk with Lu Ren, and it may have to be about twenty catties to have some effect: "I'm not afraid of the governor laughing, Liu Jingsheng's move is actually the most outrageous mistake in my opinion." There was obviously a lesson from Yuan Benchu's past before, but he still had to make this kind of mistake! ”

Sun Quan's heart moved, and he hurriedly toasted Lu Ren with a bottle of wine and then asked with a smile: "What did Lu Servant say this?" ”

This large bottle of wine poured into his stomach, Lu Ren would not be drunk, but his lower abdomen was really uncomfortable, but the drunkenness on his face still had to show a little more drunkenness than just now: "When Yuan Benchu sent his eldest son Yuan Tan, second son Yuan Xi, and eldest nephew Gao Gan to You, He, and Qing Sanzhou, Tian Feng once persuaded him bitterly, saying that this was the way to make trouble, but Yuan Benchu ignored his insistence and did it, but now? Cao Mengde took advantage of the battle between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang to attack Hebei! ”

There is no need for Sun Quan to ask, Lu Renlu / was so frivolous, he scooped himself with a spoon and poured a full bottle into his stomach, and then sighed and shook his head: "The current Jingzhou people are divided into three factions, one faction is headed by Cai Mao, supporting Liu Cong's succession in the future; One faction is Liu Qi himself, but it seems to be lonely, but in fact, Liu Xuande supports Liu Qi behind him. As for the rest of the faction, ......" (to be continued.) )