At Lu Ning's mansion, a sumptuous banquet had already been set up. Several senior officials from Lu Ning's subordinates accompanied Zhou Zhouyu to drink and greet him, and the atmosphere was warm and friendly. At the beginning, Zhou Yu was a little restrained, and as he drank a few glasses of wine, he soon got into it. At the banquet, there would definitely be a competition, and no one would easily convince each other. Especially those who were in charge of Zhou Yu, who had a very high evaluation in Lu Ning, which aroused the victory of Guo Jia, Tian Chou, Gu Yong, Sima Lang and Mr. Lu Zhi. On the surface, they were just having friendly conversations with Zhou Yu, but in fact they were testing Zhou Yu's ability to adapt and understand the incident.

After several rounds of debate, Guo Jia, Tian Chou, Lu Zhi, Sima Lang and others have gained an understanding of Zhou Yu's ability and admired his ability to lead troops to fight. Of course, Zhou Yu was even more amazed at the ability of the civil and military officials under Lu Ning. In terms of strategy, Guo Jia's ability will only be higher than himself and will never be lower. Even Tian Chou is very powerful, and his reaction ability is a little slower than that of Zhou Yu. In fact, his combat experience and ability are even more admirable. Gu Yong's internal affairs ability is not inferior to Zhang Zhao, his subordinates of his brother Sun Ce, and he even surpasses his plans. This also gave Zhou Yu a personal understanding of Lu Ning and his civil and military officials. He also knew that there were many generals and his strategists who were still fighting outside. If those people were added, they would be full of talents.

Although Zhou Yu was indeed very awesome in history, Guo Jia, Tian Chou, Gu Yong, Sima Lang and others followed Lu Ning for more than ten years and experienced hundreds of wars. At the same time, they also experienced the subtle influence of Lu Ning's thoughts and long threw some unrealistic Confucian ideas, traditional customs and other outdated ideas. Their abilities have long surpassed the real person in the ancient Three Kingdoms period. After a few debates, Zhou Yu himself knew that there was still a certain gap between the strategists and the strategists under Lu Ning, especially in terms of concepts, concepts, and methods of dealing with problems.

This cannot be said that Zhou Yu has poor abilities. Although Lu Ning has a low IQ and a strong ability, he was a modern person who grew up in the 21st century. It was an era of knowledge explosion, and all kinds of knowledge can be found in the Internet and libraries. Now, he has suddenly traveled to this ancient times, and Lu Ning has accumulated more knowledge for more than 2,000 years than others, which is incomparable to the ancients. The civil and military officials under Lu Ning have long been subtly influenced by Lu Ning's ideas, advanced theories, and advanced methods. Their abilities will of course be greatly affected. Once the concepts and customs that restrict their thoughts and practices are broken, they can easily surpass themselves with their IQ and ability.

Zhou Yu and the senior civil and military officials under Lu Ning talked and argued heartily. Three days passed without realizing it, and they felt a sense of mutual appreciation. Of course, Zhou Yu was the one who benefited a lot. After all, Zhou Yu learned a lot from Guo Jia, Tian Chou and others that he didn't understand and dared not imagine.

Xue Zong and his subordinates in the inn could not even meet Zhou Yu. Every day, people came to tell that Zhou Yu was drinking and chatting and would come to meet him later in a few days. This made Xue Zong even more worried. He hated Zhou Yu deeper and had a greater gap. He thought Zhou Yu might have to surrender to Lu Ning, and was worried about the incident of Jinyang before coming to this time.

Xue Zong had no choice. Even if he wanted to persuade Zhou Yu, he would have to see someone. Now he couldn't even see Zhou Yu. To put it bluntly, he was arrested in the inn. How to complete the task assigned by Sun Ce? How to monitor Zhou Yu? He could only be alone in the inn to worry.

A few days later, Lu Ning officially met Zhou Yu, Xue Zong and his party in the municipal building. After the formal etiquette of both parties, Zhou Yu and Xue Zong gave gifts, including gold, silver, and countless jewelry. The most eye-catching one was of course the ten beauties carefully selected by Sun Ce in the Jiangdong area. Each of them was small and delicate, with a straight facial features, and they were basically considered stunning beauties. One of the most famous beauties is very distinctive, with excellent temperament, outstanding appearance, and no fear at all. Lu Ning asked, saying that he was called Xu Jue, which made Lu Ning stunned. No, right? Isn’t Xu Jue Sun Yi’s wife? Why has it turned into a gift now? Isn’t this a mess?

According to historical records, Xu Jue is very knowledgeable about divination techniques, and can be regarded as a divination expert in the ancient Three Kingdoms period. This woman is very wise and knowledgeable. She is not at all unpleasant to marry Sun Yi, Lufu, and serves Sun Yi wholeheartedly. She is very virtuous. She reminds Sun Yi many times to pay attention to Gui Lan and Dai Yuan, but Lufu Sun Yi does not take it seriously at all. In the end, Sun Yi was really harmed by Gui Lan and Dai Yuan. In order to avenge his husband Sun Yi, Xu Jue plotted against Gui Lan very much. Dai Yuan and killed Gui Lan, who wanted to take advantage of him. Dai Yuan and Dai Yuan were very virtuous at home. This woman was very chaste. Later, she was stolen by Sun Quan to give him a chastity plaque, which was praised by later generations.

After Lu Ning asked Xu Jue's name, he was immersed in his imagination. He was trying hard to recall Xu Jue in his memory. When Xue Zong saw Lu Ning's appearance, he was already confused by Xu Jue's beauty and was deeply happy. If Lu Ning was confused by Xu Jue's beauty, then with Xu Jue's persuasion beside the pillow, there would probably be hope for Lu Ning to stop the army. After all, this wave of beauties was carefully selected by Sun Ce and they had all provided necessary training. To put it bluntly, they were all spies sent by Sun Ce to Lu Ning.

Guo Jia saw his lord in a daze again. Although he didn't know why, he knew that it was definitely not because of Xu Jue's beauty. Guo Jia himself absolutely believed this. After all, there were too many beauties around Lu Ning, all of them were peerless beauties. I have never seen any kind of beauties.

Guo Jia had to cough gently and interrupt Lu Ning, who was in a daze. After Lu Ning woke up, he was very embarrassed and had to smile and said, "Since it was sent by Sun Bofu, let Zitai take it first!"

For Lu Ning, don’t give anything from others for nothing. You can accept as much as you can. The more you have, the better. Anyway, Sun Ce came to ask for him, and he would accept even if he gave him a gift. As for the details of the negotiation, that is another matter. The two cannot be compared, and it cannot be confused.

After hearing this, Tian Chou knew very well that if he wanted to accept this group of beauties, he would definitely conduct a comprehensive investigation of this wave of beauties and verify their identities. Otherwise, receiving the gift would have his own affairs, which should be the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites.

When Zhou Yu and Xue Zong saw Lu Ning accepting the gift and the beauty, they finally let go of their hearts. In this way, the negotiations can continue. This is a signal, a signal sent by Lu Ning. Otherwise, they would be unable to negotiate anymore, and they could only go home.

After Zhou Yu and Xue Zong set off, they received a war report from Sun Ce. They also knew that Zhang Liao led the army to launch a tough attack on Niuzhu and Kailin in Jiangdong, and the army led by Ling Cao was approaching Qu'a, with the purpose of attacking Qu'a's wharf. This was just a passive attack for Sun Ce's army without naval forces. They were not sure what Lu Ning's intention was. They should not be just harassing, otherwise they would not be so tough. The way that the move would not stop without taking Jiangdong was also worried. What Sun Ce needed most now is time, and it was time to rest and develop, and it would be better to have two or three years of buffering time. For Sun Ce, the six counties in Jiangdong would be successfully won, and their strength would be enhanced.

Zhou Yu and Xue Zong knew very well that the army under Zhang Liao had increased to 50,000, and with the extremely powerful naval soldiers, it would be a big problem to conquer Jiangdong. After all, Sun Ce had occupied Jiangdong for too short time and had not really gained a foothold. The economy had not grown backward, and there was a significant gap in the strength of the army. Fighting with the wave of well-trained elite troops under Zhang Liao was undoubtedly a mantis arm to chariot.

Zhou Yu explained the purpose of this visit to Lu Ning and his civil and military officials, hoping that the Sun and Lu families would stop their troops and quit the war. With the Yangtze River as the boundary, they would not invade each other and achieve peaceful coexistence. This is also for the sake of hundreds of thousands of people in the Jiangdong area, and not to drag innocent people into the war.

Zhou Yu was very conscious of Lu Ning. He knew that Lu Ning had always cared for the people and knew that the interests of the people were above everything else. This was Lu Ning's style of acting. Of course, Zhou Yu would seize this characteristic of Lu Ning to persuade him, so at the beginning, Zhou Yu played the people's card, hoping to impress Lu Ning and his civil and military officials with great righteousness.

When Xue Zong saw that Zhou Yu had been talking for a long time, Lu Ning still did not move or speak. He thought that it was Lu Ning who was thinking about gains and losses, so he interjected without missing the opportunity: "General Lu, my lord really wants to reconcile with you. For this reason, I searched for these ten beauties in Jiangdong to give away a lot of gold, jewelry, and silver. This is also the attitude of my lord. I hope General Lu has the virtue of being a virtuous person and can think more about the interests of the people.

Xue Zong continued to say that if the two armies continue to fight each other, it will be of no benefit to any one. Even if our army is relatively weak, as long as we share the joys and sorrows and work together, it will not be so easy for the Zhang Liao army to successfully capture Jiangdong. At least our army can cause great casualties and losses to your army and delay the war for too long. This should not be the result General Lu wants to see. If you want to leave General Lu, you don’t want his soldiers to die in a foreign land. Besides, there are other princes around General Lu who are eyeing him, all wanting to bite the general hard.

After hearing this, Tian Chou was very angry and immediately interrupted Xue Zong and said, "Brother Jingwen, are you threatening our army? Will our army be afraid of Sun Bofu's remnant defeated generals? I'm talking about who started the war first? Who attacked our army first? Our army's consistent policy is that no one will offend me, I will not offend others. If someone attacks me, I will offend others. The war was teased by Sun Bofu. Is it wrong for our army to defend against enemies who dare to attack? Are you here to discuss peace or threaten? Our army is not afraid of any threats! We have the ability to see the truth on the battlefield!"
Chapter completed!