This uninvited guest was Chen Qun.

Listening to Chen Qun's rhetoric of "remaining neutral", Tai Shici was silent.

He was originally a small prince, and he also had more than 10,000 horses under his hands, but because he couldn't defeat Sun Ce, he had to rely on Sun Ce, and it was only a few months now.

After taking refuge in Sun Ce, he was appointed as the governor of Jianchang, governed the sea, divided the six counties of Yuzhang County into jurisdiction, and commanded Liu Xuan's old department to resist Liu Biao.

In the past few months since they took refuge in Sun Ce, Tai Shici and Sun Ce have seen each other less than five times in total, and it is definitely unrealistic to say that there is any deep friendship between the master and the slave.

If he said that he wanted to fight for Sun Ce, Tai Shici was naturally willing.

After all, Sun Ce is brave and brave, crowning Jiang Zuo, and following such a heroic master, the future is bright.

Now, Sun Ce is dead, Sun Quan has taken over, and Tai Shi Ci has made a mistake in his heart.

Frankly speaking, he only saw Sun Quan once when he took refuge with Sun Ce a few months ago, when Sun Quan was less than sixteen years old, just a little hairy child, very immature, he couldn't see any potential for wisdom and martial arts, and his martial arts strategy was also very mediocre.

It's just a child, where does the martial arts come from?

Therefore, to play for such a young master, normal people will have some ideas.

In fact, not only he, the captain of Jianchang, has ideas, but even the people of the Sun family are not optimistic about Sun Quan.

Luling Taishou Sun Fu secretly collaborated with Cao Cao and Sun Wei in an attempt to seize power;

Danyang Taishou Sun Yi was assassinated by the rebel Bian Hong, and Sun He, an important minister of the clan, was killed by the generals Fei Lan and Dai Yuan;

Tens of thousands of mountains in Yuzhang, Huiji and other places are also waiting for the opportunity to make trouble.

The entire five counties of Jiangdong (Lujiang County and Jiujiang County are located west of the Yangtze River) are almost in a mess.

Is sixteen-year-old Sun Quan capable of turning the tide?

Nobody knows.

In troubled times, good ministers choose their masters...

Thinking of this, Tai Shici sighed heavily, and did not reply to Chen Qun clearly, promising not to remain "neutral".

But his attitude says it all.

Chen Qun also wisely didn't ask too much, took his leave, and went to the next stop.

……

Under the vigorous lobbying of Er Chen,

Lu Xun, who was 16 years old at the time, and Lu Meng, a 21-year-old murder fugitive; 25-year-old Qu A idler Zhuge Jin, 35-year-old Yan Jin; Bu Qi and Wei Jing, who had taken refuge in the meeting, as well as Xu Sheng, Gu Yong, Gu Shao and other talents who had not yet defected to the Sun family, all felt Lu Bu's warm solicitation.

Defect to the youngest grandson Quan, or to the world's No. 1 general Lu Bu, who just defeated Cao Cao in Xuzhou?

Everyone has a scale in their hearts for this question.

At present, Lu Bu is eyeing Jiang Zuo, and Sun Quan probably can't hold it.

Today's Lu Bu is so similar to Sun Ce, who was preparing to cross the river three years ago!

Looking at Jiangzuo, no one can beat this person.

In this way, instead of voting for Sun Quan first, and then voting for Lu Bu after Sun Quan was defeated, and becoming the second minister, why didn't he defect to Lu Bu in the first place?

With this in mind, in addition to Gu Yong and Gu Shao,

Lu Su, Zhuge Jin, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Yan Ji, Bu Qi, Wei Jing, Xu Sheng and other great talents all wisely chose to defect to Lu Bu.

For a time, talents from all walks of life gathered in Lujiang Mansion.

Even, even Gan Ning, who was in Zhangling (south of Nanyang County) in Jingzhou, heard the news that Xuzhou Mu Lu Bu was recruiting talents in Lujiang.

Gan Ning was a good ranger when he was young, and he was famous for killing people in Ba County and hiding his life.

Later, Gan Ning no longer attacked society. He read some books, studied the theory of the hundred schools of thought, and wanted to make a difference, so he entered the official career, starting from Ji Peng, and gradually promoted to become the Shudi County Cheng with a rank of 600 stones.

In the first year of Xingping (194), Liu Yan died of illness, and his son Liu Zhang was in charge of the state. Under the rebellion of Liu Wei, Gan Ning, Shen Mi, Lou Fa and others rebelled against Liu Zhang, but were defeated by Zhao Wei. Gan Ning led more than 800 people down the river to Jingzhou to attach Liu Biao and stay in Zhangling County.

Although Liu Biao is the history of Jingzhou's assassins, he is one of the "Eight Jun", quite famous, but Gan Ning also found that Liu Biao is not accustomed to military affairs, and in the current situation of strife in the world and the competition between the heroes, the future is bleak, so he has the intention of leaving.

At this time, he heard that Lu Bu was "recruiting talents, intending to plot against Jiangzuo, and Lu Su, Zhuge Jin and others were guests" in Lujiang, so he decided to go to work.

But things often don't depend on human will.

Gan Ning led the army through Xiakou, but was intercepted by the Jiangxia navy and could not pass, so he had to temporarily rely on Jiangxia to guard Huang Zu, and Bozhong sent a letter to Lu Bu, expressing his intention to take refuge.

Lu Bu was overjoyed after receiving the letter and immediately took action.

In January of the fourth year of Jian'an (199), when Zhou Yu and Chen Bing were on the east coast of the Jiangdong River, strictly preventing Lu Bu from crossing the river to attack, Sun Quan sighed for a long time, lamenting that he could not recruit talents...

Lu Bu personally led an army of 30,000 people, under the cover of the "fog", and with Ganning as the internal response, he suddenly led his troops to attack Jiangxia in the west.

Caught off guard, Huang Zu was defeated and led his cronies to flee in embarrassment, but in the fog, he couldn't distinguish between east and west, north and south, and actually fled to Zhao Yun, who was in charge of interception, and was killed by Zhao Yun with a shot.

After the death of Huang Zu, Jiangxia changed hands, and the rest of the counties also surrendered, and Su Fei and others, the former generals of Huang Zu's department, also led the crowd to vote.

In just three days, the entire territory of Jiangxia fell into the hands of Lu Bu, and Gan Ning also got his wish and became a tiger general under Lu Bu.

Subsequently, Lü Bu took a lightning bolt and joined forces with Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha, who rebelled against Liu Biao, and fully controlled the five counties of Wuling, Changsha, Lingling, Guiyang, and Jiangxia Jingnan on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

and drove Liu Biao's forces to the north of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, while Chen soldiers Jiangxia, Changsha, and Lujiang counties, Lu Bu made a gesture of preparing to attack Jiangdong, and at the same time sent Chen Qun again to Wancheng to lobby Zhang Xiu and attack Liu Biao together.

……

When the news of Lü Bu's killing of Huang Zu and the capture of Jiangxia and the five counties of Jingnan reached Jiangdong, Sun Quan was directly shocked.

Hurry, too fast!

It's like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves.

He originally thought that Lu Bu was recruiting talents in Jiangbei, training soldiers and horses, and the formation was so big in order to attack Jiangdong.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a false shot, striking east and west, and attacking Jingzhou Jiangxia!

At this moment, the five counties of Jiangdong and the six counties occupied by Lu Bu were fully bordered, and the situation was even more dangerous.

When Sun Quan took over Jiangdong last month, the situation was very volatile.

Now, knowing that Lu Bu's power has increased greatly, Chen Bing, Changsha, Jiangxia, and the three counties of Lujiang are eyeing Jiangdong, and the hearts of the counties are fluctuating. The three counties of Yuzhang, Luling, and Huiji have lost absolute control.

At present, the only areas that the Sun clan can fully control are Danyang and Wu County.

The situation in Jiangdong as a whole can be described as a mess.

Wu Hou Mansion, lobby.

Sixteen-year-old Sun Quan raised his head, looked at the faces of Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Yu Chuan and others one by one, and said worriedly: "Princes, there is a rebellion in Jiangdong, and there is Lu Bu outside, how should I deal with it?" ”

Huang Gai took the lead and said: "Lord, the last general is willing to defend Jiangdong to the death!" ”

"The last general swears to defend Jiangdong to the death!" Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Zhu Zhi also expressed their willingness to fight to the death with Lu Bu to defend Jiangdong.

After hearing this, Zhang Zhao said: "Before his death, the rebellious general (Sun Ce) said: If you can't do anything, you will slowly return west to assist Han'er. Today, Lu Bu is powerful, and he can't be deserved, so it is better to invest Cao Gong in the north, and borrow the power of Cao Gong to take the whole Jiangdong. ”

Yu Fu also echoed: "Zibu's words are very true, now Cao Gong is serving the Son of Heaven in Xu, occupying the righteousness, and facing the danger of being attacked by the Yuan brothers, if I go to vote, I will be reused." ”

As soon as he heard this, Huang Gai became angry and reprimanded angrily: "You and other civil officials, you only know how to surrender!" The two generations of the lord and the three people fought for the foundation of Jiangdong with their lives, how could they give it to others? ”

Yu Chuan argued: "Hitting a stone with an egg is not the work of a wise man." ”

Zhang Zhao also retorted in a hurry: "This is the order of the rebel general (Sun Ce), not our intention. ”

"You... You guys?! ”

Seeing Zhang Zhao carrying out Sun Ce, Huang Gai was speechless, turned his head angrily, and bowed his hand to Sun Quan: "Lord, you can't descend!" ”

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu with an embarrassed expression, "Is it war or peace, and ask Gong Jin to fight for me." ”

The corners of Zhou Yu's mouth, who had watched the whole debate quietly, hooked slightly, first glanced at Zhang Zhao, Yu Fan and other civil officials on the left, and then glanced at Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and other generals on the right, and bowed his hand to Sun Quan with confidence:

"Don't worry, my lord, just Lu Bu, you also want to annex my Jiangdong? Now I am here, so that there will be no return! ”

Sun Quan's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Oh, what is Gong Jin's plan, come on!" ”

Zhou Yu smiled slightly, turned his head to look at Zhang Zhao, "Today, Cao Cao is in the north, and I am separated from Yuan Shu, far water can't quench my thirst, and Cao Cao is close to Yuan Shao's pressure in the north, Zhang Xiu's trouble in the west, and Yuan Shu's attack in the south. This is very inappropriate! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhao's face was ashamed for a while, and he couldn't answer.

Zhou Yu turned his head to look at the generals again, and said with a smile: "Lu Bu is powerful, he is unwise, and my Jiangdong's internal worries have not been eliminated, and it is difficult to fight with all my strength. Now you can only hold on, not attack. ”

"Besides, Lu Bu has newly obtained the five counties of Jingzhou, Liu Biao will not give up, and Yuan Shu will not allow him to sit big, with these two enemies coveting on the side, how dare Lu Bu come to attack my Jiangdong? In my opinion. Lu Bu Chen soldiers Lujiang, Jiangxia, Changsha three counties, obviously to attack Jiangdong, in fact, plotting Jingzhou, this is the sound of the east to attack the west, I expect that Lu Bu will not come to attack our Jiangdong in March and May. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu looked at Sun Quan, "The top priority today is to calm the civil strife first; Then he fought hard and united with Yuan Shu to attack Lu Bu, so that the general could protect the ancestral industry and Jiangdong could be safe and sound. ”

Sun Quan frowned and hesitated: "Gong Jin, my brother has broken with Yuan Shu a few days ago, and now I am afraid that he is unwilling to join forces with me." ”

"Otherwise, at this time, at that time, Yuan Shu was vainly called the emperor, the common enemy of the world, and Bo Fu attacked him on the orders of His Majesty, which is in line with the righteousness. Now Emperor Yuan Shu has been abolished, although the power is great, no one in the world recognizes it. And we were all from Yuan Shu's sect in the past, and we were facing a common opponent, Lu Bu, and it was in the interests of both parties to join forces to destroy Lu. Now I only need to send a person who can speak well, cross the river and promise to rule the river with Yuan Shu, after breaking Lu, Jiangbei will belong to him, Jiangdong will belong to me, Yuan Shu will definitely agree to the request for reunion! ”

Hearing this, Sun Quan frowned and relaxed, and said happily: "Listening to Gongjin's words, it makes me pause, okay!" It's up to Gongjin! But I don't know, who should be sent across the river to lobby Yuan Shu? ”

Zhou Yu smiled slightly, and looked at Zhang Zhao, "Zibu is not competent." ”

Sun Quan hurriedly bowed to Zhang Zhao and bowed, "Please also take a hard trip." ”

"Lord, please get up quickly, show your wishes, wish to go!" Zhang Zhao hurriedly helped Sun Quan up, and took the thankless errand head-on.

Obviously, after "taking" Xuzhou, Yuan Shu, who originally looked defeated, suddenly looked "powerful" again, although he was only fat, but in any case, he was also a big prince with a state and a half land.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Bu was blocking the Lujiang River, Zhang Zhao estimated that Yuan Shu would take advantage of Sun Ce's new death and try to annex the entire Jiangdong.

Because Yuan Shu's Jiangdong complex is quite serious, this is also the main reason why Yuan Shu did not hesitate to take the risk of "Sun Ce's self-reliance" before, and also let Sun Ce attack Jiangdong.

Negotiating with such a person is by no means an easy task, just promising to "divide the river and rule" is not enough, if you want Yuan Shu to agree to attack Lu Bu, you will definitely have to pay some more price.

Considering that Sun was originally a former minister of Yuan Shu, this lobbying needs at least a nominal "surrender", otherwise, it may be difficult to move his heart by lobbying.

However, the fact that the Sun clan nominally surrendered to Yuan Shu could not be announced in the lobby. can only communicate with Sun Quan in private.

Moreover, I don't know if this lord will do this.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao looked at Sun Quan and stopped talking.

Sun Quan comprehended, shook his sleeves, announced the end of the meeting, and then went straight to the back hall and sent someone to invite Zhang Zhao to meet.

……

Wancheng, Zhang Xiu was persuaded by Chen Qun almost without hesitation, and agreed to take refuge in Lu Bu and attack Liu Biao together.

The reason why he so readily agreed to take refuge in Lu Bu was because Yuan Shao was powerful, and he was afraid that he would not be reused after taking refuge; The second is that he has a mortal enmity with Cao Cao of "assassinating his aunt and killing his son", and he will definitely not be able to please if he takes refuge, and Cao Cao is so weak now, I am afraid that he will not be able to beat Yuan Shao, and it will be useless to vote.

The third reason is that he and Lu Bu are both from the border counties (Zhang Xiu is from Wuwei County, and Lu Bu is from Wuyuan County), because the inherent concept of "Kansai is a general, and Kanto is a general" has always been despised by people in the Central Plains. In view of this, after he took refuge in Lu Bu, the two not only had a common word. He can also be reused by Lu Bu.

So, why not?

Jia Xu on the side tried to block Zhang Xiu's decision to surrender to Lu, saying that Lu Bu would not succeed and would regret it.

But Chen Qun was speechless with a word.

Chen Qun only said one sentence, "If you vote for Cao Cao, once Cao Cao is defeated by the Yuan family, what will you do?" Even if Cao Cao can win against Eryuan, what should he do if he settles accounts after the autumn? A person who can slaughter Xuzhou twice to avenge his father, how can he let go of the hatred of killing his son? ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Xiu's determination to defect to Lu Bu was immediately strengthened.

Then he patted his chest and told Chen Qun that he would immediately reorganize his troops and horses and go south to attack Zhangling and Nanjun.

……

LU Jiang,

On this day, Lu Bu came to Jiaozhuang on the outskirts of the city and met Jiao Zhongqing, a small official.

In the small courtyard of Jiao's family, Lu Bu and Jiao Zhongqing looked at each other from a distance of five or six steps, and neither of them took the lead to speak.

Lu Bu originally came to visit Xiao Qiao, but on the way, he suddenly had a whim, so he stopped by to take a look at Liu Lanzhi... Ahem, Jiao Zhongqing.

Jiao Zhongqing didn't expect Lu Bu to come.

So after seeing Lu Bu, he was very shocked.

Although the two had never met, it still recognized Lu Bu at a glance.

After the assassination, his wish was fulfilled, so he resigned from his position as a small official, and was willing to live as a commoner and guard his wife Liu Lanzhi.

Although the conflict between the mother and the wife is still there, but fortunately, with his mediation, the situation is still under control, and it has not developed to the extent that the old mother drives away the wife in the "dream".

That's right, Jiao Zhongqing already knows everything.

He had done that dream four times.

The first time was a dream within a dream, in which he had a dream when he was eight years old, dreaming that he was "hanging himself from the southeast branch", and then he worked hard, and finally succeeded in completing the "assassination strategy", and then he was poisoned.

The last three times are also dreams within dreams. In the dream of the dream, he was Wenhou Lu Bu, who had the courage of ten thousand people, and could predict the future, and then he relied on the advantage of foresight and foresight to dominate the world.

After waking up, Jiao Zhongqing couldn't tell for a while whether he was the reincarnation of Wenhou Lu Bu or the reincarnation of Wenhou Lu Bu as himself.

Until now, he often reminisces about Lu Bu's strong physique, his physical strength like a perpetual motion machine, his exaggerated big hands, and all kinds of new and strange ......

Fortunately, it was just a dream after all, and no matter how real it was, it was not reality.

The wife is still his!

He is still the Jiaozhuang official with ordinary force.

However, when he saw Lu Bu, he finally realized that that dream was probably not just a dream.

Especially the moment his wife Liu Lanzhi saw Lu Bu, she was stunned for a long time, and then lowered her head and blushed and hurriedly hid in the house.

It made him realize...

Problematic!

Definitely there is a problem!

But he didn't dare to be angry with Lu Bu because of unwarranted speculation, so he could only lower his head and whisper timidly: "General, that's my wife." ”

"I know." Lu Bu withdrew his gaze to look at Liu Lanzhi, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile.

"Don't worry, I won't rob you."

Hearing this, Jiao Zhongqing was obviously relieved.

Lu Bu said again: "I just stopped by to see if she was doing well." ”

Jiao Zhongqing hurriedly raised his head, his face full of nervousness.

General, what do you mean by that?

Lu Bu waved his hand, "Now that I'm done, I should also go, goodbye." ”

Jiao Zhongqing breathed a sigh of relief again, silently followed behind Lu Bu, and sent the latter out of the courtyard.

After walking a short distance, Lu Bu stopped, turned his back and said, "If one day, your mother drives her away, then I will..."

"Impossible! When pigs fly! I would never allow my mother to do that! Jiao Zhongqing hurriedly interrupted Lu Bu's words, and looked at Lu Bu with a nervous face.

No, why did you say that, General?

He thought for a while, and solemnly reaffirmed: "General, now I no longer rely on my mother for everything. I will listen to what is right and I will not listen to what is wrong. ”

Lu Bu laughed, "That's good." ”

"What I'm actually trying to say is, if your mother drove her away..."

"I'll help you chase her back!"

"Hahaha......"

Lu Bu looked up to the sky and laughed and left.

Jiao Zhongqing: ???

This Wen Hou actually takes pleasure in teasing the small people, which is too unreliable!

However, this last sentence is very touching.

Thinking like this, Jiao Zhongqing turned around, hurriedly returned home, picked up his wife Liu Lanzhi from the loom, and strode towards the wing...