When Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were in a stalemate in Hebei, Wu Hou Sun Ce easily obtained Yuzhang and forced Hua Xin to surrender, roughly completing the unification of Jiangdong, and his reputation reached its peak in time.

The proud and satisfied Sun Ce submitted a letter to Xu County to entrust himself to the Grand Sima and establish prestige.

However, at that time, Cao Cao was not in Xu County and Dong Cheng was not executed. In order to arouse Sun Ce's resentment towards Cao Cao and go north to attack Yuan Shao, Dong Cheng specially advised Liu Xie not to agree on the grounds that Sun Ce had ambitions and had to guard against him. As a result, Liu Xie adopted Dong Cheng's suggestion and rejected Sun Ce's request for a ban. On the occasion of sending the edict, Dong Cheng also specially bribed the person who went to pass the imperial edict and let him seriously injured Cao Cao in front of Sun Ce, saying that Cao Cao was afraid of Sun Ce and planned to remove Sun Ce's military power.

Dong Cheng's plan of separation was effective. Sun Ce was very angry after receiving the edict. He immediately planned to lead his troops north to attack Xu Du while Cao Cao was on the white horse and Yanjin. This behavior was opposed by many ministers, including Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu.

In the end, Sun Ce had to temporarily put aside his plan to blitz Xu Du under pressure. However, after his thoughts were learned by the surrendered minister Xu Gong, he believed that his chance to regain Wujun had already come. Just as he was thinking hard at home about how to plot against Sun Ce, the servant outside the door walked to the door and reported to him:

"Master, Mr. Bo Yan is here to visit."

"Lu Xun?"

Xu Gong felt strange at the first time when he heard this. Although Lu Xun was from Wujun, he had little contact with him. He only knew his grandfather Lu Kang. He had heard of Lu Xun's reputation and had only seen him several times at Lu Meng's home.

After entering the life gate without any trouble, Xu Gong thought that he could not come to him for no reason. In order to test out what Lu Xun's true intention was to not come in person, he called the servant to let him in.

Lu Xun was dressed in green clothes and looked like a gentle scholar. After being introduced into the inner room by the servant, he took off his shoes in front of the door, stepped onto the wooden steps and walked lightly to Xu Gong, respectfully bowing as a junior:

"Boyan has met Lord Xu."

After taking a look at the young man with a very handsome appearance, Xu Gong did not get up until he straightened his waist slightly and stretched out his hand to signal:

"Boyan doesn't need to be polite, please sit down."

After taking a knee, Lu Xun saw Xu Gong's worries, and after Xu Gong ordered someone to serve tea, he asked:

"Mr. Xu seems to have something to worry about?"

Although Lu Xun did not become an official in Sun Ce on the surface, Xu Gong was very concerned about his closeness to Lu Meng, so he naturally would not say his true thoughts. So Xu Gong put the teacup on the tray in front of Lu Xun and smiled:

"Boyan is too worried. I don't have anything to worry about. I wonder why you said this?"

Lu Xun, who saw Xu Gong being wary of himself, lowered his head and smiled slightly, and was not in a hurry to expose it.

After a few greetings, he picked up the teacup and turned to look outside the door and said to himself:

"The weather in Dongwu has always been very good recently. I think the weather will change soon..."

A discerning person knew that Lu Xun's words were not just as simple as commenting on the weather, especially Xu Gong, who was looking forward to Sun Ce's downfall, even more of Lu Xun's words were put into his thoughts. Only then did he realize that Lu Xun came to visit his fellow countrymen was not only as simple as it was, but his words just now were clearly testing himself, but Xu Gong didn't know Lu Xun's position.

Before Xu Gong could think about how he should take this sentence, Lu Xun turned his face and gently put down the teacup and asked:

"Yesterday, I heard General Lu Meng say that Wu Hou failed to request a title. It is said that Cao Cao strongly opposed it. I wonder if it?"

Xu Gong nodded: "Mr. Wu was very angry about this, and he even had the intention to raid Xu Du. I think if Zhou Yu and others had not stopped me, I would have been on the way to attack Xu Du at this moment."

After hearing Xu Gong's words, Lu Xun smiled: "If Cao Cao knew this news, I would definitely design the reason why he pretended to enthrone Sun Ce to Xudu, and then he would be detained to achieve the goal of controlling the situation in Jiangdong..."

It is true that a word woke up the dreamer. Xu Gong was worried about how to report to the court to deal with Sun Ce. Lu Xun's words undoubtedly reminded him. At this time, Xu Gong seemed to have had a long drought and had a sweet dew, but he knew that he could not express this joy on his face, but forced it to hold it in his heart, and used all his strength to control the shaking right hand and lifted the teacup on his lips and took a sip, then smiled stiffly:

"Just say something like Bo Yan is good for me. Don't spread it outside. This is not something we should consider."

Lu Xun smiled knowingly: "What the sir is saying."

After seeing off Lu Xun, Xu Gong quickly returned to the house and closed the door, thinking about how to exaggerate Sun Ce's ambitions with Lu Xun's words as the center, so as to achieve the goal of eliminating Sun Ce's regaining Wu County.

Lu Xun, who left Xu Gong's family, came to a Taoist temple. The people were crowded with people. The people knelt on the ground and bowed to the old Taoist sitting directly in front of him. Lu Xun leaned against the door and looked at the people in front of him. Then he looked at the old Taoist sitting upright on the mat with his whisk in his hand, closed his eyes and seemed to be silently reciting something. Then, under the guidance of a little Taoist priest, he entered the back hall.

After waiting in the room for a while, the door was pushed open. Lu Xun turned around and saluted to the old Taoist at the door:

"Can Mr. Yu Ji come in?"

Yu Ji walked into the house and turned around and went straight to Putian. He lifted up his Taoist robe and sat cross-legged. He looked at Lu Xun in front of him and opened his dry lips slightly and asked, "Look at your expression, you already have a way to get rid of Sun Ce..."

"That's right, Xu Gong has a wide connection in Wujun and a stable foundation. Sun Ce's killing problem has already made him panic and resentful among his officials. Once he learns that Xu Gong betrays him, he will definitely kill him regardless of opposition. The disciples supported by Xu Gong will naturally not let Sun Ce go. By then, Sun Ce's solitary personality will become his fatal injury..."

While speaking, Lu Xun seemed to notice that the atmosphere in the room was not right. He then reached out and picked up the incense burner filled with ashes on the table and threw it at the curtain beside Yu Ji.

The ashes of the incense burner sprinkled all over the ground, and the man who had already been hiding behind the curtain flashed sideways and stood at a position that was only more than ten steps away from Lu Xun.

"I actually noticed that I am here. It seems that 'Luan Ying' Lu Boyan is really not a false reputation..."

Seeing that the person standing in front of him was almost as tall as himself, wearing black clothes and a hat on his head, the edge of the hat was pressed very low, covering the part above his nose, and he could not see his appearance clearly.

Listening to his voice clearly a man of similar age as himself, Lu Xun looked him up and down and smiled:

"You are also amazing..."

At this time, Yu Jin explained: "This person is not our enemy, you don't have to worry about him."

But Lu Xun disagreed. He looked at the man in the hat with a strange expression that seemed to be smiling and looked at Yu Ji again:

"I don't think so. This person is not a good person. Mr. Yu Ji still needs to be more careful..."

After Lu Xun left, Yu Ji looked at the man in the hat in front of him and asked:

"As soon as Sun Ce dies, I think Jiangdong will not be peaceful. At that time, Eastern Wu will not send troops to attack Xudu. The pressure on Cao Cao's south will be much less, which will be more conducive to a long-term confrontation with Yuan Shao. I didn't expect that after being with Zhang Jiao for a long time, you will also learn this."

The man in the hat smiled and said, "It will be of no benefit to me when fighting quickly and decisively. Only when both sides suffer losses can we proceed to the next step."

"Zuo Yuanfang is a man who has no ambitions. I applied good medicine in Jiangdong to build the hearts of the people. Once Cao Cao and Yuan Shao both suffer losses, we can take the opportunity to make an appointment in Jiangdong. No mistakes can be made before this."

Yu Ji raised his lips: "Ha, after this matter is completed, Lu Xun will be dealt with. The existence of this person will pose a great threat to us, and may even expose the matters that we have to do with the Yellow Turban Army."

The man in the hat looked at the direction where Lu Xun left outside the door and said silently:

“This is natural…”

The situation was indeed as Lu Xun expected. Sun Ce discovered Xu Gong's behavior under anonymous report. He immediately ordered him to be killed, and once again expanded his reputation for killing Jiangdong Shizi...

Not only that, Sun Ce also received news that Yu Ji was Zhang Jiao's mentor and that he was planning to capture people's hearts and misconduct in Jiangdong.

Sun Ce, who had already regarded Taoism as a wrong path, was even more intolerant of this. He personally led his troops to surround the Taoist temple where Yu Ji was, dispersed the people inside and captured Yu Ji, tied it to a wooden stake to prepare to kill him.

At this time, Zhou Yu was training troops in Baqiu and was not in Wujun. Zhang Zhao had no choice but to ask Sun Ce's mother, Mrs. Wu, to stop him. As a result, Sun Ce still did not let Yu Ji go, and he drew out his sword and pierced Yu Ji's chest.

Before Yu Ji died, he finally thought of who betrayed him. He fell in a pool of blood and saw the figure that was extremely familiar to him in his blurry vision...

Due to the kindness that Yu Ji made, Sun Ce's move caused public resentment. Sun Ce had no choice but to take a few followers to hunt near Dantu Mountain. As a result, he was injured by Xu Gong and the assassin who was shot by Ji Eunhui and died soon after.

Before Sun Ce died, he passed the title to his younger brother Sun Quan. For a moment, the land of Eastern Wu was shrouded in haze...

The man in the hat led the horse to the Yangtze River, but he didn't expect that Lu Xun had been waiting there long ago.

"As soon as Yu Ji dies, my true identity and your real purpose will disappear. What are you going to do next?"

It turned out that Yu Ji was betrayed by a man in a hat. He had already had private contact with Lu Xun from the beginning and reached a consensus. The one who was really exploited was Yu Ji himself, not Lu Xun.

"Actually, this time we nominally took each of us, but in fact you also used me a little, right?"

Lu Xun smiled: "If I say what I want to do most now, I'm probably curious about your identity. But I'm afraid that once I know your true identity, maybe I will be like Yu Ji, so it's better not to know."

"If you are willing to serve me, you will naturally relieve your doubts, but it's a pity..."

While the man in the hat said this, Lu Xun noticed that there was a man holding a long sword standing behind him. He had already put the sword on his neck. Although Lu Xun was in danger, he did not have any sign of fear.

After a brief stalemate, the man in the hat turned around and walked onto the deck of the ship and turned his back to Lu Xun:
Chapter completed!