In 210 AD, Lu Su, who had just replaced Zhou Yu as the governor of Eastern Wu, was passing through Xunyang and had a conversation with a young man named Lü Meng.

Lu Meng's character is bright, and he is a native of Fupo, Runan. When he was a teenager, he followed Sun Ce as a general, and his grandson was in charge of affairs and was gradually reused.

Because Lü Meng was born in the military, Lu Su, who was a Confucian general, thought Lü Meng was vulgar and unliterate at first, and despised him a little. However, after talking with Lu Meng, he found that Lu Meng had a wide range of knowledge and a strategic mind, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and exclaimed: "With your current talent and knowledge, you are no longer the Ameng of Wu Land at the beginning!" ”

Lu Meng replied with a smile: "For aspiring people, you have to look at them with new eyes after a few days, big brother, you are out." ”

It turned out that Lu Meng, who was born in the army, didn't like to study, but Sun Quan persuaded him: "You are now fighting in the army and in charge of military affairs, so you can't stop studying." ”

Although Lü Meng excused himself with busy military affairs, Sun Quan repeatedly asked: "Do I want you to study and be a beast?" No matter how busy you are, can you be as busy as your brother? My brother often reads books, and I feel that there are great benefits. ”

Lu Meng began to study at this time, so after meeting Lu Su, Lu Su was impressed.

From then on, Lü Meng gradually gained the trust and dependence of Sun Quan and Lu Su, and after Lu Su's death, Lü Meng took his place as the governor of Eastern Wu.

Unlike Lu Su, who was a staunch Lianliu faction, Lu Meng's was a staunch anti-Liu faction.

He once publicly said: "If we don't rise up according to the important place of Jingzhou and just watch the changes in the world, in the future, our veterans will be old and dead, how will the achievements of Soochow be kept, how can we talk about unifying the world and achieving great causes?" ”

In 215 AD, Lü Meng was assigned by Sun Quan to lead an army of 20,000 to conquer Changsha and Guiyang counties, and then lured Lingling Taishou Hao Pu with a strategy. forced Liu Bei to rush to the public security from Shuzhong in person, and ordered Guan Yu to lead the army to fight for the three counties. 、

The war between Sun and Wu was about to break out, and if it weren't for the fact that Lu Su, who was from the Lianliu faction at that time, tried his best to maintain it and had a one-on-one meeting with Guan Yu, the war crisis would have been calmed.

Later, Lu Su died of illness, and Lü Meng succeeded him as the governor of Eastern Wu. The Lianliu faction completely withdrew from the political arena of the Jiangdong clique. The hawks, led by Lü Meng and Lu Xun, pushed Soochow into the frenzy of war.

Crossing the river in white clothes, outwitting Jingzhou, and forcing a generation of martial saint Guan Yu to defeat Maicheng and be captured and died.

With the seven counties of Jingxiang in his hands, the territory of Eastern Wu was nearly doubled, and Lü Meng's exploits once reached the pinnacle of his life.

But at the same time, he also embarked on the same path as his predecessor, Zhou Yu, - the master of merit.

Regarding the death of Lu Meng, there is a very suggestive description in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms":

…… So he gave Lu Meng a drink, Lu Meng took the cup and wanted to drink, suddenly threw the cup on the ground, grabbed Sun Quan with one hand, and scolded sharply: "Blue-eyed child, purple-haired rat, do you still know me?" The generals were shocked, and when they gave first aid, Meng pushed Sun Quan, strode forward, sat on Sun Quan's seat, and shouted: "I am Hanshou Pavilion Hou Guan Yun Changye." Quan was shocked, and hurriedly led the soldiers to bow down, only to see Lu Meng fall to the ground, bleeding to death.

Although this paragraph is ostensibly describing that Lu Meng was Guan Yu's soul who died by asking for his life, but putting aside this superstitious statement, there is one action in this paragraph that is very suspicious, that is, Lu Meng pushed Sun Quan and sat in Sun Quan's position.

This may be to highlight the identity of Emperor Guan Shengjun above everyone, but could it also imply that the reason why Lü Meng died was because he wanted to rebel or Sun Quan suspected that he wanted to rebel.

This point is very likely, although Lu Meng was brought up by Sun Quan after he took power, and he is not like Zhou Yu who is a lonely minister, and it is deep-rooted, but there are still places that Sun Quan is deeply taboo about.

That is, Lu Meng is a person who has filial piety, righteousness, diligence, loyalty, courage, wisdom, and perfect moral cultivation.

Jiangxia Taishou Cai Yi once denounced him, but he still recommended Cai Yi to Sun Quan regardless of his previous suspicions.

Gan Ning liked to kill, and the little boy in the kitchen made a mistake and fled to Lu Meng. Lü Meng was afraid that he would be killed by Gan Ning, so he hid him and did not send him back immediately. Later, Gan Ning came to visit Lu Meng's mother with gifts, and when he wanted to go to the church to see his mother, Lu Meng called out the little boy to return it to Gan Ning, and Gan Ning promised not to kill him. However, after a while, when he returned to the boat, Gan Ning tied the boy to a mulberry tree and personally shot him to death with a bow. Then, the people on board were ordered to strengthen the ship's cables, undress themselves and lie down in the boat. When Lü Meng heard this, he was furious, beat drums and gathered troops, and prepared to board the ship to attack Ganning. Gan Ning heard the movement and deliberately lay down and couldn't get up. Lu Meng's mother ran barefoot to dissuade Lu Meng: "The Supreme treats you like flesh and blood, and it is a major matter for you, why do you want to attack Gan Ning with personal anger?" On the day of death, even if the Supreme does not ask, you are illegal for your subordinates. Lu Meng is very filial on weekdays, and after listening to his mother's words, he understood in his heart. He personally came to Gan Ning's boat and greeted with a smile: "Xingba, my mother is waiting for Qing to eat, hurry up!" Gan Ning was full of shame, choked up with tears and said to Lu Meng: "Negative Qing" So, he went to see Lu Meng's mother and had a banquet with Lu Meng.

Such a perfect person, if he is an ordinary person, there is no problem. If you are a general who has made great achievements and has a growing reputation, it is very problematic.

Gan Ning, who is also highly meritorious and has a violent personality, often does not listen to Sun Quan's words, but Sun Quan is not worried that Gan Ning will rebel at all.

That's because Gan Ning has a lot of shortcomings and stains on his body. The background is not good, the culture is not high, and the reputation is also stinky. If he wants to rebel, few people will support it. This kind of talented, but imvirtuous person, Sun Quan can rest assured.

And Lu Meng made Sun Quan feel deeply uneasy.

For getting rid of meritorious officials, Sun Quan is not like his later generation Zhu Yuanzhang who brutally killed them all on the charge of rebellion, nor is he like Zhao Kuangyin who shamelessly invited him to eat a meal or two and seize military power. is not like Song Gaozong who instructed a traitor to be charged with a "trumped-up" crime.

Sun Quan is more subtle and more protective of his image as a Mingjun.

With the experience of killing Zhou Yu in the first place, Sun Quan was already very confident in getting rid of Lu Meng. Moreover, at this time, he was no longer as fledgling as when he first took power, and Lu Meng did not have the prestige of Zhou Yu. So Sun Quan was not as cautious and hesitant as he was at the beginning.

In 220 A.D., Lü Meng suddenly fell seriously ill.

After Lü Meng fell ill, Sun Quan immediately took Lü Meng into his inner hall. In the name of treating Lu Meng's illness, it is actually strictly monitored for his life and death.

On the surface, in order to treat Lu Meng, Sun Quan has done enough to look like a Ming Jun, and not only spent a lot of money to invite a famous doctor to treat Lu Meng. When the doctor gave Lu Meng acupuncture, he also made a sad appearance. Because he was worried about Lu Meng's condition and afraid that visiting from time to time would affect Lu Meng's recuperation, he ordered someone to cut through the wall and secretly observe Lu Meng in the next room. When he saw Lu Meng eating, he was happy, talking and laughing at his subordinates. When he found that Lu Meng couldn't eat, he frowned and couldn't sleep at night. Later, Lü Meng's illness worsened, Sun Quan personally came to the window to visit, and invited people to pray for him, and after Lü Meng died, he also publicly said that he would eat less and sleep less to mourn Lü Meng.

In fact, there is already a murderous motive hidden in this. Sun Quan chiseled open the walls of Lü Meng's ward, ostensibly concerned about Lü Meng's condition, but in fact he had put chronic poison in Lü Meng's eating, and he was observing Lü Meng's poisoning. Therefore, as soon as Lü Meng ate, Sun Quan was happy, and as soon as Lü Meng did not eat, the poison was interrupted, and Sun Quan was depressed.

After some tossing, a generation of famous generals Lu Meng finally "died of illness".

After Lü Meng's death, Lu Xun took his place as the fourth governor of Eastern Wu.

Lu Xunzi Boyan, a native of Wu County, Wu County, was a famous politician and military strategist during the Three Kingdoms period, and successively served as the governor of Wu State, a general, and a prime minister. Sun Ce's son-in-law has been a Jiangdong clan for generations.

Lu Xun is an all-round talent in humanities and martial arts, capable of governing the country in literature, and capable of anbang in martial arts, and is another general with high prestige and outstanding merits after Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lu Meng.

And what made him famous in the first battle and shocked the world was the battle of Yiling that defeated Liu Bei.

After Lü Meng seized Jingzhou, what Lu Su had feared before his death finally happened. Sun Liu's alliance was completely shattered, and Eastern Wu faced frantic retaliation from Shu.

Liu Bei personally raised an army of 40,000 to the east and went deep into the territory of Wu.

For Liu Bei's crazy revenge, Sun Quan decisively sent Lu Xun to lead the army to fight against the Shu army after several unsuccessful peace sues.

In the face of the strong Shu army, Lu Xun decisively chose to avoid its edge, avoid a head-on confrontation with the Shu army, and wait for an opportunity to defeat the Shu army.

Finally found a faint move of Liu Bei, a fire burned the company camp, and defeated a generation of heroes Liu Bei, which made Liu Bei ashamed and angry, and finally died of illness in the White Emperor City.

After the Battle of Yiling, the originally unknown Lu Xun was famous all over the world. However, what is strange is that in the treatment of Lu Xun, Lu Xun, who is also a master of high merit, did not follow the path of Zhou Yu and Lu Meng.

There are two reasons for this, one is that Sun Quan's position is quite stable at this time, and few people can shake his position. The second and most important reason is that Lu Xun, like Lu Su, is Sun Quan's own person.

At the age of twenty-one, Lu Xun was called into the shogunate of Sun Quan and became a member of Sun Quan's ruling group. At that time, Sun Quan had just taken power, and he was surrounded by his brother Sun Ce, an old minister of the former dynasty like Zhang Zhao, and Lu Xun, who was about the same age as him, naturally became a partner who could be negotiated.

Later, Lu Xun successively served as Cao Lingshi in the east and west, and the lieutenant of Tuntian, and gradually became the governor in charge of the soldiers and horses of Eastern Wu. And Sun Quan has also gone from being fledgling to deep-rooted. It can be said that Lu Xun's growth reflects Sun Quan's maturity.

Sun Quan has always trusted him, and married Sun Ce's daughter to him, and the Sun and Lu families formed a marriage relationship.

It is precisely because of Sun Quan's trust in Lu Xun and his confidence in his own status that Lu Xun was not immediately hidden by the bird after he made the contribution of saving the country.

If from then on, Lu Xun can honestly be a man with his tail between his legs, maybe he will achieve a good story of getting along with the monarch and the minister, but I didn't expect that twenty years later, Lu Xun made a fatal mistake and was involved in the dispute between the crown prince and the prince and the king of Lu.

At that time, Sun Quan in his later years had become more and more mediocre because of his age, and his character shortcomings began to be exposed. Suspicious and tyrannical, he set up a secret service to monitor the minister, and he no longer disguised the minister's random killing.

At this time, Lu Xun strongly advocated protecting the crown prince Sun He, wrote a letter to dismiss Sun Ba, the king of Lu, and pointed fingers at Sun Quan's family affairs, which made Sun Quan feel quite dissatisfied.

And Lu Xun has been stationed in Wuchang, his prestige is long, up to the crown prince Sun He, down to Buqi, Zhuge Jin, Pan Jun and other Wu dignitaries are friendly with him, he himself is also a Jiangdong family, not only with Prime Minister Gu Yong is in-law, the family children and nephews are also in high positions in Eastern Wu, all this makes Sun Quan worried, he may be able to suppress Lu Xun when he is alive, but if he dies, can his son control this minister?

Therefore, Sun Quan had to start attacking Lu Xun for the sake of his posthumous plan.

However, the current Sun Quan did not choose the assassination methods in the past, and he was relatively mediocre in his later years, and he rarely cared about the image of Mingjun, and indiscriminately killed ministers from time to time. Second, more than 20 years have passed since the Battle of Yiling, and Lu Xun's former contribution to saving the country has become very weak over time, so Sun Quan no longer has any scruples about dealing with Lu Xun.

Sun Quan first exiled Lu Xun's nephews Gu Tan, Gu Cheng, and Yao Xin one after another, and then killed Wu Cang, who was close to Lu Xun, and sent messengers to scold him every time he found some of Lu Xun's small mistakes.

In the end, Lu Xun was scared.

has known Sun Quan for so many years, and Lu Xun knows best what kind of person Sun Quan is. As Sun Quan's confidant, he is not ignorant of the deaths of Zhou Yu and Lu Meng, and it is very likely that he participated in them. Now that Sun Quan revealed this attitude to him is obvious, Lu Xun understands that he has gone over, and he may even die worse than Zhou Yu and Lu Meng, not only will he be ruined, but he will also be connected to the nine clans.

The history books say that Lu Xun finally "died of indignation", even if he died of anger and resentment in his heart. In fact, I think it is more appropriate to say that it is a death of fear. Even I don't think it's too much to guess Lu Xun's death as a suicide.

Because he died just right, before Sun Quan was about to do something to him, not only did he keep his reputation, but his own people were not too implicated. His son Lu Kang was still trusted by the Eastern Wu royal family even later, and served as the Great Sima and Yizhou Mu, and his status was not below him.

After Lu Xun's death, Sun Quan finally let go of his status, and Soochow also ended the era of famous generals.

In 252 AD, seven years after Lu Xun's alleged death in anger, Sun Quan died and was nicknamed the Emperor of Eastern Wu.