Xu Jing repeatedly advised him, but Xu Gong just refused to follow him.

Xu Jing was very desperate. Sun Ce's troops were at the city and were eyeing him and trying to seize Wu County. Xu Gong only cared about fighting spirit. Not only did he want to kill Wei Teng to intimidate the Wu Hui family, but he also thought about Gao Dai's old grievances. This was not a good thing.

Xu Gong was very calm. "Don't worry, Sun Ce has only a few people, it would be strange if he can capture Gusu. He suffered a loss in the mountains. Thinking of coming here to cheat me, am I not as good as those bandits? I ignore him and see how he can do me. As long as I do not move, no one in the city dares to act rashly. Whoever wants to support Sun Ce will kill anyone." Xu Gong thought about it, suddenly laughed and turned around twice. "I want to send someone to challenge Xu Chun."

"Talking to Xu Chun?"

"Yes, Sun Ce is greedy for the Xu family's property and arrests Xu Chun. I stand up for Xu Chun. The Wujun family cannot sit idly by? If Sun Ce releases people, then he admits the fault. If he does not release people, then Sun Ce will not give them face, which will be detrimental to the Wujun family. This will make the public angry. Can the Wujun family still support him? Alas, Wen Xiu, can you say that Sun Ce's personality, let him go?"

Xu Jing stroked his beard and repeatedly weighed the pros and cons, thinking that Xu Gong's method was really good. For Sun Ce, it was not good to let go, and it was not good not to let go, and he was in a dilemma. With Sun Ce's current military strength, it was indeed not easy to attack Gusu City, let alone Taishi Ci restrained him in Tongguan Mountain.

"What should I do with Liu Yao? Sun Ce is in Gusu, so you can't leave."

Xu Gong snorted and said unhappily: "Liu Yao wants to imprison me, so I will help him? I can just restrain Sun Ce for him and let him take Danyang by himself. Wenxiu, do you think Liu Yao is okay? Leave such an important task to Taishi Ci? But don't say that this person uses any means to do things, but he is similar to those bandits. Maybe he can cause some trouble for Sun Ce. Wenxiu, now it is a chaotic world, and your morality and righteousness are not useful, and you have to rely on power and force. Fortunately, you didn't come back at the beginning, otherwise you would have to be driven out by Sun Ce like Zijiang."

Xu Jing looked sinister and didn't say anything. He thought that this was the trap Xu Shao dug for him, but now it seems that it is true. He didn't want to talk about this issue, so he asked instead: "Who will ask Xu Chun?"

"Lu Kang." Xu Gong blurted out without thinking.

"That's all Lu Kang, it's still..."

"No, it's Lu Kang." Xu Gong was very determined. "He is the leader of the famous scholars in Wu County and has a good relationship with Sun Ce. If Sun Ce doesn't give him face, hehe, the face of the famous scholars in Wu County will be lost."

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Shen You walked into the cabin, handed a roll of paper to Sun Ce, and said with a smile: "I just wrote an article, please give me advice."

Sun Ce raised his eyelids and glanced at him. Although Shen You was a little young and frivolous, he didn't use his knowledge to entertain him. "What article, why don't you go to Yang Dezu? I heard that he made a "Taihu Fu", but why didn't you hear about you? Has he been compared to him?"

Shen Ce smiled but didn't say anything, just urged Sun Ce to read the article. Sun Ce opened the paper and took a look. The article was written very carefully, probably because Shen You stayed up late, no wonder his eyes were a little dark. Sun Ce could not appreciate the subtlety of those words, but he could understand the general idea. Before he finished reading it, he understood what Shen You meant. This was similar to what he said to Wei Teng before, and it was all about Shun avoiding Dan Zhu. To put it bluntly, it was to use the past to describe the present and create momentum for him. It also mentioned Qin Shihuang's eastern tour and digging the southeast dragon vein. Wei Teng opposed Sun Ce's use of the past to describe the present, but Shen You tried his best to allusion, hoping to say he was Shun and the emperor of Chang'an to describe Dan Zhu.

After reading it, Sun Ce gently put down the article, crossed his fingers, held it in front of him, and looked at Shen You quietly. Shen You became uncomfortable with him and looked a little embarrassed.

"Zizheng, I'll ask you a question: What do you think of prophecies and divinations?"

Shen You pondered for a moment. "General, although the sayings of prophecies and divination are false, they are equivalent to rumors. As the saying goes, rumors stop at the wise, but there are many fools in the world, and few wise people. Prophecies and divination are still useful."

"Is Wang Mang's failure because there are not enough prophecies and divinations?"

"General, things cannot be generalized. Wang Mang's success has a great relationship with prophecies and divination. Everyone in the world knows that the Han Dynasty was the queen of Yao, and he also said that a king would rise for five hundred years, and the new king should be the queen of Shun. Therefore, Yuan was the leader of the world. If Shun avoided Danzhu's story, he could let the world know that the destiny of heaven was in the general, why not do it?"

Sun Ce smacked his lips. Of course, he knew the importance of public opinion, and Shun Yu Dan Zhu Yu Wuhui was indeed in line with the situation in front of him, which was an excellent opportunity to hype. But he was determined to transform people's hearts. If he wanted to make a temporary convenience now and took advantage of this matter, opposing this matter in the future would be equivalent to digging his own foundation. Just like Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu used prophecies and divination to ascend the throne, Daxing the so-called internal learning, and finally found that prophecies and divination were a double-edged sword, and he had to stop drawing prophecies, which was equivalent to slapping himself.

He didn't want to start this, but he couldn't convince Shen You for a moment. Shen You had three wonderful things, one of which was the wonderful tongue, and this eloquence was indeed good.

Sun Ce picked up the article again and looked at it, thought for a moment, and asked another question. "Zizheng, from the heart, what do you think is your writing style is comparable to Yang Dezu?"

Shen You's eyes rolled. "It should be between the two, but he used more elegant words and his thinking more quickly, and I was slightly inferior."

"What about the subtle meanings in Confucian classics?"

Shen You blinked his eyes, shook his head, and didn't say anything more. He was indeed very smart, but he had learned from the rules and family rules, which depended on inheritance. Wu County is a southeastern city, but his knowledge is still far from the Central Plains. The top scholars basically came from the Central Plains. There were very few Wu Society. Even if there were, it was not something that everyone could learn. In Confucian classics, he could not compare with Yang Xiu.

"So these false articles are done by the great scholars. Let's do something real."

Shen You was a little unhappy. He worked hard for a night to write this article, but unexpectedly, Sun Ce said it was a false article, which was inevitably disappointed.

"What is the real thing?"

"You can write a memorial for me. Liu Yao colluded with the bandits, Xu Gong protected the powerful and committed crimes, and asked the court to issue an edict to blame me and give me the right to attack. How about it, is it okay?"

Shen You smiled with his palms. "No problem, I will write it now. After I finish writing, please ask the general to read it, and make sure that Liu Yao and Xu Gong are speechless."

"That's right."

"What's right?" A voice sounded outside the door. Lu Kang walked in, looked at Shen You, and then at Sun Ce, with a puzzled look. "Who are you calculating?"

When Shen You saw Lu Kang, he quickly reached out to get the document on the case. He reacted quickly, but he was still faster than Lu Kang's eyes. Lu Kang stared at Shen You's eyes, stretched out his hand, and hooked his fingers.

"Give it."

"This..." Shen You felt a little guilty and kept winking at Sun Ce, indicating that he should not let go. However, Sun Ce was very calm and took the document and stood up and handed it to Lu Kang. "A new article about Zi Zheng's writing about history is just right for Lu Gong to read it."
Chapter completed!