Jiao Zhongqing didn't know how brave Sun Ce, whom he called a madman, was.

In the dream, when Engong Lu Kang was killed, he was only twenty years old, and he was just a small official in charge of internal affairs, and he had no chance to fight Sun Ce to the death. Moreover, at that time, he had neither the courage nor the force to directly attack him.

Therefore, Jiao Zhongqing naturally thinks that today's self, who is both civil and military, can already wrestle with Sun Ce, a madman known as the "Jiangdong Little Overlord".

At this time, it was the fifth year of Zhongping, and the noble man Lu Kang who he was destined for had come to Lujiang in the third year of Zhongping and served as the Taishou.

Since the content demonstrated in the dream is mainly based on his relationship with Liu Lanzhi as an adult, when it comes to other information, the dialogue and scenes are all blurred, inaudible and invisible, and even how to "hang himself on the southeast branch" in the end is only a result, without a detailed process.

Therefore, Jiao Zhongqing didn't know when and where he met Lu Kang, but vaguely knew that he met Lu Kang when he was about eighteen years old, and was appreciated and promoted by the latter. At the same time, there is a strong suspicion of the matter of "hanging the southeast branch".

However, at this time, there are still eleven years before the "self-hanging southeast branch", and the truth can be examined later.

The most important thing at the moment is to get acquainted with Lu Kang.

So the fourteen-year-old Jiao Zhongqing practiced martial arts hard in his hometown, made friends, and improved his connections, while silently waiting for the "first" encounter with Lu Kang.

Lu Kang is 62 years old, a son of the Lu family of Wu County, who is upright and loyal to the imperial court; Respected, quite elderly, and good at governing the place; Everywhere he went, he made remarkable achievements.

After he served as the Taishou of Lujiang, he soon won the love of the people.

Previously, there were thieves Huang Sui and others in Lujiang County, linking the forces of Jiangxia and other places, rebelling, killing officials, gathering more than 100,000 people, capturing four counties of Lujiang, and dividing the territory.

After Lu Kang took office, he defeated Huang Sui and others with a thunderous force, and the other remnants of the thieves also surrendered. In recognition of Lu Kang's achievements, Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, was crowned as a loyal general and made him Yongzhen Lujiang.

Time passed in a hurry, and five years passed in a blink of an eye, and it was already the fourth year of Chuping (193).

The emperor changes, and the era name changes.

This year, Jiao Zhongqing was 19 years old and Lu Kang was 68 years old.

Just like the rehearsal in the dream, on a sunny afternoon, Jiao Zhongqing, an unemployed young man, met Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, at the entrance of his village, and won the appreciation of the other party, and was promoted to a close messenger and became his confidant.

But there is one thing that is different from the dream. In the dream, he only became a small official in the house;

In reality, because of his outstanding writing and military strength, he was directly promoted by Lu Kang to the head of a hundred households, and later to the head of a thousand households, ranking under the county governor, commanding a thousand soldiers under his command, responsible for maintaining law and order in Lujiang County.

In the past few years, the world has been in turmoil, and many major events have happened.

First of all, the Ling Emperor Liu Hong died, and the Young Emperor Liu Braided ascended the throne.

Immediately after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, the young emperor was abolished and the new monarch Liu Xie was established, and the princes of Kwantung responded in large groups and raised troops to attack Dong Zhuo.

The vigorous princes fought against Dong for more than a year, and finally ended with the capital moving west, Dong Zhuo was defeated and retreated, and the princes were scattered.

Not long after, Dong Zhuo died, Guanzhong was in chaos, the prestige of the imperial court was lost, and the princes from all over the country supported their own troops and grabbed territory.

However, under the governance of Taishou Lu Kang, Lujiang County was peaceful and prosperous, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, becoming one of the rare peaceful harbors in troubled times.

However, such a good life did not last long.

In the middle of this year, Yuan Shu, who was entrenched in Nanyang, gave up Nanyang and came to Jiujiang County, which is next door to Lujiang County.

As soon as Yuan Shu arrived in Jiujiang, he put on a posture of the eldest in the sky, the second in the earth, and the third in his life, eyeing the counties around Huainan.

At this time, it happened that Mu Taoqian in Xuzhou was critically ill, and the undercurrents of the major forces in Xuzhou were surging, and Yuan Shu also gained a firm foothold in Shouchun and began to focus on Xuzhou.

Before Yuan Shu sent troops to Xuzhou, he asked Lu Kang for 30,000 yuan of rice under the pretext of "lack of food in the army".

The comparison is called asking for food, but it is actually forcing Lu Kang to "stand in line".

Lu Kang thought that Yuan Shu's name was Hanchen, but he was actually a traitor, so he immediately drove away Yuan Shu's envoys, did not associate with them, and rebuilt his war preparations and prepared to meet the enemy.

Yuan Shu was furious when he heard the news, and sent Sun Ce to lead an army of 30,000 to surround the city of Lujiang layer by layer.

At this time, there were only 4,000 soldiers in Lujiang City.

Lu Kang was forced to stick to the city, and those soldiers who were idle at home heard the news that Sun Ce had led troops to surround Lujiang, and they rushed from their hometown to Wancheng (Lujiang County Administration), and climbed up the rope in the middle of the night to defend the city together.

This increased the number of soldiers in the city to more than 5,000 at once.

Jiao Zhongqing, who had been promoted to the county governor, commanded two thousand soldiers and garrisoned the north gate of Anhui City, facing Sun Ce.

During this period, he repeatedly asked to go out of the city to fight Sun Ce to the death, but Lu Kang said that "Sun Ce is brave and invincible; Now we should stick to it and wait for the enemy to retreat."

So the people on both sides are being consumed day by day.

Sun Ce never expected that this war would be fought so hard, the army had besieged the city for a long time, and Lujiang City was still immovable.

What's even more terrifying is that Sun Ce's attack on Wancheng took nearly two years before Wancheng was finally captured due to the casualties of the soldiers.

When Lujiang City was broken, Lu Kang once again stopped Jiao Zhongqing and Sun Ce's desperate actions, allowing him to stay useful and return to his hometown to live a good life, without having to make senseless sacrifices for himself. At the same time, Lu Kang singled out an 11-year-old boy from the Lu clan and secretly sent him out of the city and placed him in his hometown of Wu County.

The boy's name is Lu Xun.

After the city was broken, Lu Kang died of illness, and nearly half of the Lu clan in the city was wiped out, and he was almost wiped out by Sun Ce.

After Jiao Zhongqing buried Lu Kang, he deduced that "the old mother is in the hall, the young sister is below, it is inconvenient to stay away, I just want to be a Lujiang official", and refused Sun Ce's solicitation.

At this time, it was the second year of Xingping (195).

After breaking through the Lujiang River, Sun Ce garrisoned Anhui City, full of longing for Yuan Shu to fulfill his promise, and named him the Taishou of Lujiang.

But Yuan Shu did not fulfill his previous promise, and turned his head and handed over the position of Lujiang Taishou to Liu Xun, the general of his cronies, and put Sun Ce aside.

Sun Ce's bloody attack on the Lujiang River also implicated his uncle Wu Jing and cousin Sun Ben.

In order to prevent himself from suffering the same tragic ending as Lu Kang, Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, took the lead in stepping up his precautions and drove Wu Jing and Sun Ben out of Qu'a overnight.

Ling Fan Neng, Yu Mitun Hengjiang; Zhang Yingtun is a sharp mouth.

Sun Ben was originally the governor of Danyang, and Wu Jing was originally the Taishou of Danyang, and after the two were expelled from Qu A, they had no choice but to stay in Liyang.

As soon as Liu Miao finished deploying the defense, Yuan Shu sent Hui Qu to assassinate the history of Yangzhou, and led Wu Jing and Sun Ben to lead troops to attack Zhang Ying, Fan Neng and others.

Wu Jing and Sun Ben fought for several months without progress.

Sun Ce took the opportunity to propose to Yuan Shu again: borrow troops to cross the river, level Jiangdong, and when we defeat the Jiangdong heroes, we will cross the Yangtze River and develop southward.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed when he heard this, Jiangdong had many strong enemies such as Qu A Liu Xuan, Huiji Wang Lang, and Wujun Yan Baihu at this time, even if the Sun family arrived in Jiangdong, they couldn't make any big waves, and after sending away the Sun family, they could live more at ease in Jiangbei.

Yuan Shu transferred more than 1,000 soldiers and more than a dozen horses to Sun Ce, thinking that with these soldiers and horses, Sun Ce would not be able to easily settle the Jiangdong heroes.

Sun Ce led more than 1,000 people to Liyang, joined forces with his uncle and others, and the number of troops soon reached more than 5,000.

Subsequently, Sun Ce attacked with his whole army, broke through the two ferries of Hengjiang and Dangli, rushed into the hinterland of Jiangdong, and began a new great cause of expanding the territory.

The eastward crossing of the Yangtze River this time allowed the Sun family to take off from then on.

also made the countdown to Sun Ce's death suddenly accelerated.

The forces north of the Yangtze River are intricately intertwined, but the area south of the Yangtze River is different, and most of the military forces here are integrated by local clans.

The combat effectiveness of these armies was average, which provided a firm foundation for Sun Ce to create Jiangdong hegemony.

Just when Sun Ce flattened Jiangdong with brutal means, Jiao Zhongqing continued to serve as a minor official under Liu Xun, while silently waiting for the opportunity to avenge Lu Kang.

Liu Xun is an evil man in Qingzhou Lang and has an old relationship with Cao Cao. For Yuan Shu's cronies.

Of course, it doesn't matter who Liu Xun is, the important thing is that he robbed Sun Ce of the Lujiang Taishou, which made Sun Ce haunted him all the time.

Soon another three years passed.

The time came to the third year of Jian'an (198).

A lot of great things have happened in the past few years.

First of all, Jiao Zhongqing got married. In the middle of this year, Jiao Zhongqing followed his mother's wishes and married 17-year-old Liu Lanzhi in Liujia Village.

This great joy, which he had dreamed of since he was eight years old, finally came true when he was twenty-four years old.

After marriage, the two were very affectionate, ten times more affectionate than in the dream, although Jiao Zhongqing still decided to observe the festival for Lu Kang, but he was no longer so stupid that he even held Ruhua Mei in his arms and didn't even touch it.

The observance of the festival is the observance of the festival, and the people are the people, and the two are not compatible.

Therefore, the revenge of the lord must be avenged, and the delicate and lovely wife must also sleep, which is not a conflict.

Because Jiao Zhongqing's ability is greater than in the dream, his status and income are higher, and there are more servants in the family, and Liu Lanzhi soon became pregnant, so at the beginning, the old mother did not look at Liu Lanzhi horizontally and vertically as in the dream.

The family is barely in harmony.

After marrying, Jiao Zhongqing's heart gradually settled down, and while secretly contacting the remnants of those who were killed by Sun Ce in Jiangdong, he was doing nothing as a Lujiang official.

Fast forward and another year passed.

It was four years after Jian'an.

This is the time that Jiao Zhongqing has been looking forward to for a long time, and many things will break out in this year.

In this year, Yuan Shu was defeated. His younger brother Yuan Yin and son-in-law Huang Yi led their subordinates to join Liu Xun in Anhui City. Liu Xun also captured Zhang Xun, Yang Hong and others who wanted to defect to Sun Ce. At this time, Liu Xun had a strong army between the Jianghuai and Huai, and was jealous of Sun Ce, so Sun Ce sent envoys to ask Liu Xun to attack Shangyu City on his behalf with humble words and treasures, and "make a good alliance with Xun".

Liu Xun believed in Sun Ce, and was very happy because of the treasure, everyone came to congratulate, but Liu Ye was not happy, thinking that Shangyu City was not easy to capture, if he sent troops, Sun Ce would take advantage of the situation to attack him, and when the time came, "he would succumb to the enemy and retreat", and opposed sending troops.

But Liu Xun didn't listen and insisted on sending troops. And Sun Ce really attacked Liu Xun from behind, broke through the Lujiang River for the second time, and won all the remnants of Yuan Shu, and his strength expanded dramatically.

After Liu Xun's defeat, he went north to Cao Cao, and was appointed as a general of Zheng, and worshiped as the Taishou of Hanoi, the general of Pinglu, and the Marquis of Fenghua.

Of course, it doesn't matter what official Liu Xun is named at.

A loser is not worth paying attention to.

The important thing is that after Sun Ce broke through the Lujiang River, he appointed Li Shu as the Tai Guard.

Li Shu is one of the people Jiao Zhongqing is waiting for.

At this time, Jiao Zhongqing was still a small official in Lujiang.

Over the years, no matter how Lujiang Taishou has changed, his position as a small official has always been as stable as Mount Tai.