At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Gu Yong also frowned: "Succession to the throne is a major event. In this chaotic situation, without a wise lord, it is impossible to stabilize the Han Dynasty. What's more, there are disobedient people in the south of the Yangtze River. They will recognize the emperor supported by Duke Wei." ?"

"Hard to say, hard to say."

Zaozhi shook his head: "It can even be said that they will definitely not admit it, otherwise they will become other people's subjects for no reason. Liu Jiyu, Liu Jingsheng and Sun Bofu are all princes of one side, will they admit it?"

Gu Yong thought that what Zaozhi said was right. These people probably would not recognize the emperor supported by Guo Peng, and they might even elect their own emperor to fight against, resulting in a split between the North and the South.

"I heard that Liu Jingsheng joined forces with Sun Bofu and Liu Jiyu to form an alliance to try to fight Wei Gong. If this happens, the division of the Han Dynasty into the north and the south may be a foregone conclusion, and the world will be even more chaotic."

Gu Yong said with some worry: "I don't know what will happen in the end."

"Actually, if you want to talk about the wise master, who in the world is more wise than Wei Gong? At least I think so."

Zaoyi suddenly came out of nowhere and said such a sentence, which made Gu Yong's heart skip a beat.

Gu Yong quickly looked at Zaozhi, only to see that Zaozhi had a strange smile all over his face.

Shao Qing, Gu Yong also laughed.

"Zaojun doesn't talk much on weekdays, he just concentrates on doing things, and he seems to have no thoughts of his own at all, but once he speaks, it really impresses Gu."

"Isn't Yuan Tan the same? He works hard and doesn't make a sound, but he agrees with me so much."

The two veterans of the Guo Peng Group with the title of Wei Guan exchanged their ideas in a tacit understanding.

The two smiled at each other.

Zaozhi soon packed his bags and headed north to Luoyang. In Luoyang, he had to perform the duties assigned to him by Guo Peng, while in Lujiang, Gu Yong also had his own duties to perform.

Gu Yong first met with Xu Huang and Xu Gongming, generals of Lujiang garrison and Hengjiang Zhonglang, and discussed military defense matters and some guarantees needed by the army. After understanding the daily needs of the army, Gu Yong first ensured the needs of the army. Then deal with administrative issues.

At the same time, Gu Yong did not forget to write a letter to his family, telling them that he had taken up the post of Lujiang County Sheriff.

Then, he asked his wife, Lu Kang's daughter, Lu Shi, to write a letter, and took them to Gu Shi's house together, and then asked the family to forward it to Lu Shi.

Gu Yong was able to carry out the tasks assigned to him by Guo Peng with plenty of leeway, while at the same time, Sun Ce was resting.

After signing the peace agreement with Liu Biao, the threat from the west was gone. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and began to manage the interior carefully.

From time to time, there are still some small internal turmoil, which requires Sun Ce to deal with it with all his strength, leading the army to conquer the Quartet and so on. This is a challenge for Sun Ce, and this challenge is very tiring.

After years of fighting, Sun Ce did not have a good rest, so after signing the offensive and defensive alliance treaty with Liu Biao, Sun Ce chose to relax for a while under Zhou Yu's suggestion, read books, hunt, and practice swordsmanship and spear thrusting.

During this period of relaxation, it was not that Zhou Yu did not arrange tasks for Sun Ce.

"You are 23, and you haven't married a wife and have children. Isn't it disrespectful to your parents and ancestors? You always say that the Huns are not destroyed, why do you have a family? Now, Wei Gong has destroyed the Southern Huns, and the Huns are gone. , you can start a family."

In private, Zhou Yu advised Sun Ce as a good friend, asking Sun Ce to marry a wife and have children as soon as possible, so as to stabilize people's hearts.

Entrepreneurship is very important, but in this precarious era, the problem of heirs is also very prominent.

For a 23-year-old man without a son like Sun Ce, it is a very dangerous existence, enough to make his subordinates worry and shake.

Sun Ce hesitated and felt that marrying a wife and having children was too troublesome, but he still liked to fight, so Zhou Yu used Guo Peng's example to attack Sun Ce.

"You admire Duke Wei as a hero, and you look up to Duke Wei in everything. Then you know that Duke Wei got married at the age of 15, and had his eldest son at the age of 16. Duke Wei has fought in the battlefield for more than ten years, and he has never relaxed about having children to stabilize people's hearts. Duke Wei now has so many heirs, can you compare them?"

Sun Ce was speechless by Zhou Yu, and had no choice but to let Zhou Yu discuss with his mother and elders to see how to choose a suitable wife for Sun Ce.

Zhou Yu actually wanted to find Sun Ce a woman from a local gentry family in Jiangdong to be his wife, so as to ease the relationship between Sun Ce and the Jiangdong gentry and create a new era, so that everyone could feel at ease and the Jiangdong gentry began to accept Sun Ce.

In fact, it should be said or not, during this period of time, because of Sun Ce's martial arts, many local tycoons in Jiangdong have already had the idea of ​​​​taking refuge in Sun Ce.

But the scholars still didn't let go. They were very dissatisfied with Sun Ce and extremely disgusted with Sun Ce's behavior of suppressing them, not to mention the resentment that Sun Ce killed Lu Kang and the members of the Lu family.

It can be said that if Sun Ce cannot ease the relationship with the Lu family, then the other people with the three surnames Gu Zhuzhang and Kuaiji Danyang will not compromise with Sun Ce and will not serve Sun Ce, but will become Sun Ce's internal potential danger.

Zhou Yu thought a lot, so he really wanted to promote the reconciliation between Sun Ce and the Lu family, put all the responsibility on the dead Yuan Shu, and win more leeway for Sun Ce.

So when Sun Ce was resting, Zhou Yu contacted Mrs. Lu in private.

The Lu family of Wu Jun is one of the four surnames of Wu, and it has developed well in Jiangdong since the Western Han Dynasty.

At the turn of the Han Dynasty, the Lu family was already a large family in Jiangdong. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, members of the Lu family continued to serve as high-ranking officials in the Central Committee of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they were the most famous among the four surnames of Wu.

However, a few years ago, Yuan Shu resolutely ordered Sun Ce to attack Lujiang because of his enmity with Lu Kang. Sun Ce killed Lu Kang during the attack on Lujiang.

Not only that, in the flames of war, half of the members of the Lu family were killed, most of them were young men in the clan, and the population of more than a hundred people was cut in half in an instant.

Chapter 546 Lu Yi

It's not just Lu Kang who can make the Lu family and the Jiangdong gentry so disgusted with Sun Ce.

Too many people died, which made everyone feel sad when the rabbit died.

Although the Lu family's weakness is beneficial to other big families.

But it was also the Lu family who was killed by half of the population by Sun Ce, which made them feel that Sun Ce might treat them in the same way, and they would also be killed by their clansmen.

It is not easy for the family to develop to this point, and the bloodline population is only more than a hundred people. If you kill half of them in one go, who knows if you will destroy our clan in the next breath?

The Jiangdong gentry were extremely disgusted with Sun Ce, and were also quite afraid.

And the cause lies in the Lu family, so naturally, in Zhou Yu's view, the breaking point is also in the Lu family.

After the Lu family lost the general population of the clan, the head of the Lu family is now an out-and-out young man named Lu Yi, whose cousin is Boyan. He is only 15 years old and has taken over all the voice of the Lu family. .

Zhou Yu learned that Lu Yi was not Lu Kang's child, but Lu Kang's grandson. He lost his father since he was a child, and lived with Lu Kang. Lu Kang was responsible for raising and teaching him, and raised him with his children.

In the year when Lu Kang was killed by Sun Ce, Lu Kang's son Lu Ji was too young to take on the important family responsibilities, so he was ordered to take on the important family responsibilities when he was in danger. He was a generation younger than Lu Ji but five or six older Year-old Lu Yi.

The battle of Lujiang almost wiped out the essence of the Lu clan, leaving behind a lot of old and weak women and children.

Among the Lu clan members who can hold up the appearance, there is only one boy Lu Yi left.

It can be seen how much that battle hurt the Lu family.

At this moment, the declining Lu family can no longer be called one of the four Wu surnames. The reputation of the past is still there, but in fact, no one values ​​the Lu family anymore.

The Lu family's ancestral property was also taken away by many people, and the young Lu Yi tried his best to ensure the food and clothing of the remaining clansmen, but it was difficult to preserve the ancestral property.

At this point, it is impossible for the Lu family not to hate the Sun family, but at this moment, Zhou Yu found a chance to break the situation.

You are one of the four surnames of Wu, but after the family's decline, they were bullied by powerful nobles and conspired to seize the family business. For the Lu family, it is impossible not to hate him.

And perhaps compared to the straightforward Sun Ce, the Lu family hated those guys who did black hands more. After all, Sun Ce was fighting wars, and those guys took advantage of the fire to rob, bully the old, the weak, women and children.

Then, at this time, the one who can really help the Lu family is the Sun family, Sun Ce, who has the political power and military power.

Take refuge with the Sun family and reconcile with the Sun family. The Sun family will use the coercive force of the army to help the Lu family regain their family business and revive the prestige of the four Wu surnames. the expectations of the ancestors.

At the same time, the reconciliation between the Sun family and the Lu family will also lay a solid foundation for the localization of the Sun Wu regime and send a strong signal to the outside world.

I can reconcile with the bloody Lu family, let alone you?

Perhaps the situation opened up in this way, and the Sun Wu regime can be truly recognized by the locals in Jiangdong and start to establish a solid foundation for rule.

It's a best-of-both-worlds strategy, isn't it?

Zhou Yu thought in this way, so when Zhou Yu went to meet Lu Yi in person, he went with sincerity.

Lu Yi did not refuse Zhou Yu's proposal to meet, and he greeted Zhou Yu at home.

When Zhou Yu saw the dilapidated and dilapidated appearance of the Lu family's house, he knew that the Lu family's situation was not good. When he saw that the women and children of the Lu family had patches on their clothes, and most of them were common clothes, he knew his success rate very high.

In Zhou Yu's eyes, the young Lu Yi is a gentle young man with good etiquette and well-bred manners.

It seems that the turmoil and inconstancy of the world in the past few years have not destroyed his mind. He still maintains his cleanliness and etiquette in adversity. He is tenacious and tenacious. Teenagers are extraordinary.

How easy is it for this young man to support a family of women and children in a situation where all the men of the Lu family are almost wiped out?

"It hasn't been easy for Boyan these years."

Zhou Yu sat in front of Lu Yi, and the two looked at each other across a desk.

"Thanks to Mr. Wu, these years, the Lu family has indeed not been easy."

As soon as Lu Yi opened his mouth, he looked very unfriendly.

Zhou Yu smiled bitterly.

"In those years, Mr. Wu also followed orders. Yuan Gonggong asked Wu Gong to do that. As a subordinate, could he disobey Yuan Gonggong's orders? It can only be said that at that time, each was his master, not out of his original intention. Bo Yan must have I can understand."

"Understood, in troubled times, who doesn't understand?"

Lu Yi took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said, "Then why did the general come here? Is it to confirm the current situation of the Lu family for Duke Wu?"

"I also have this idea, so I brought some rice grains, wine and meat, and silk cloth."

Seeing Lu Yi's expression, Zhou Yu smiled and said, "Bo Yan, don't refuse, and think more about the women and children at home."

Lu Yi was silent for a while, then nodded.

"Thank you General for your kindness."

"besides."

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Mr. Wu has been reflecting on what he did in the past years, and found that there were many things that he did not think about. He felt deeply wrong, so he hopes to make some compensation to restore the reputation of the Lu family. .”

Lu Yi frowned.

"The Lu family's reputation in the past?"

"Yes, Lu's reputation in the past."

Zhou Yu's face became serious: "Mr. Wu is 23 years old this year, but he hasn't married a wife yet. I heard that the Lu family still has several daughters who have not been betrothed to others. Today, I am here to discuss with Boyan whether we can help Sun Lu The in-laws of the two families are very good."

Lu Yi was quite surprised and looked at Zhou Yu in disbelief.

"General, are you serious? Are you kidding Lu?"

"Of course, I can't make fun of Lu's and Sun's in-laws. I'm serious."

Zhou Yu gave Lu Yi an accurate reply, and this reply made Lu Yi feel very absurd.

Let the enemy who almost destroyed the Lu family be the son-in-law of the Lu family.

Has the Lu family reached this point?

"Bo Yan, I know this is difficult, but this is also the most correct decision."

Zhou Yu said in a low voice: "The Lu family has reached a very dangerous time. At this time, the only one who can and is willing to help the Lu family is the Sun family. everything."

Zhou Yu's voice kept echoing in Lu Yi's mind.

Take back everything from the Lu family?

Mrs. Sun is willing to help Mrs. Lu?

Just looking for in-laws?

Soon, Lu Yi understood that what Sun wanted was not as simple as a woman. What Sun wanted was a business of buying horse bones with thousands of dollars.

If the horse bone is bought, the Sun family's situation in Jiangdong will be completely opened up, and the Lu family will also get a lot of benefits. With the support of the Sun family, they can regain everything that belongs to the Lu family and keep this precarious family business. And a big family, women and children.

The Lu family has reached the moment when they need 15-year-old Lu Yi to take the helm. It is conceivable how dangerous this is.

Logically speaking, Lu Yi didn't want to object. From the perspective of the family, this was undoubtedly the right choice.

With the help of Mrs. Sun, I can get back everything that should have belonged to Mr. Lu but was robbed later, and I can also return to the center of Jiangdong's stage, and return to the chief of Wu Si's surname, instead of continuing to stay here, Carefully lick the wound.

But wasn't it Sun Ce himself who caused all this?

Chapter 547. 550 Liu Gongjin came to me to talk about marriage

In order to keep Lu Yi and Lu Ji alive, what happened when Lu Kang tried his best to send them back to Wu County from Lujiang, Lu Yi will never forget in his life.

Is this how the lives of more than 50 members of the clan are forgotten?

In Lu Yi's heart, two voices were fighting fiercely.

He knew that the decisions he made would not be opposed by the women and children of the Lu family, and that he was the de facto head of the Lu family, but it was precisely because of this that he felt extremely entangled.

"Can I just think about it for a while?"

Lu Yi made a difficult request to Zhou Yu.