Why did Yuan Shu attack Lujiang and involve the battle in Xuzhou? It turned out that Yuan Shu was furious when he heard that the scholars in Xuzhou did not look for him, the lord of the fourth world and the third duke, but instead promoted Liu Bei.
He decided to use a large army and requisition grain and grass from the neighboring county of Lujiang. And Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, is Lu Kang, who was later famous in Jiangdong and the Lu family of Wu County. Lu Kang was known as a martyr when he was young, and was recommended as a Maocai by Zang Min, the assassin of Yangzhou, and served as the county commander of Gaocheng.
Gaocheng County is located in Jizhou.
The people of Hebei are fierce, and every household is equipped with a bow and crossbow. At the beginning of his tenure, the former prefectural commander ordered the people to be requisitioned to build the city wall in case of emergency. However, after Lu Kang took office, he did the opposite, abolished these measures to work the people, and won the hearts of the people.
Lu Kang's governance was based on grace and trust, so the local bandits gradually disappeared. In Hebei, many Jiangdong scholars have been tempered in the fierce folk customs, such as Tao Qian of Danyang County, who once served as the assassin of Youzhou.
These Jiangdong people all have a strong martial spirit, and Lu Kang's achievements in Gaocheng County have made him have a smooth journey in his career, and he has been promoted to Wuling and Guiyang Taishou, and he has been praised everywhere he goes.
However, Lu Kang's career as a good official was not smooth. In order to cast the bronze figures, Emperor Ling imposed a large increase in taxes, which led to the hardship of the people. Faced with this situation, Lu Kang advised that the emperor should pay attention to the people's livelihood and correct the shortcomings in order to calm the people's grievances.
However, his admonition was falsely accused by the eunuchs of being disrespectful to the emperor and was escorted to the court for interrogation. Fortunately, Liu Dai interceded for him and was exempted from heavy punishment. After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, smoke erupted everywhere.
Huang Sui, a thief in Lujiang County, gathered more than 100,000 people and captured four counties. The imperial court urgently activated Lu Kang and appointed him as the Taishou of Lujiang to go to Yangzhou to quell the turmoil. After Lu Kang took office, he established a letter of grace, rewarded and punished clearly, and successfully defeated the exile army led by Huang Sui.
Although historical records do not record in detail how Lu Kang did this, judging from the results, he is fully qualified to become a famous general. What is even more rare is that Lu Kang was still loyal to the imperial court after Dong Zhuo's rebellion and insisted on paying tribute to the imperial court.
There are too few Hanchen who are both civil and military, and loyal to the imperial court. Lu Kang's position also determined his final battle with Yuan Shu. Lu Kang was already dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's rebellious behavior, and he declared Yuan Shu to be rebellious, refused to associate with him, and strengthened his war preparations.
Lu Kang resolutely refused Yuan Shu's request to borrow grain, although Yuan Shu promised him that if he could get Lu Kang, he would be able to control Lujiang County. Sun Ce and Lu Kang originally had a personal grudge and held a grudge against Lu Kang.
However, when Sun Ce really confronted Lu Kang, he found that he was an opponent with rich military experience, strong defense of Lujiang City, and popular support. Sun Ce fought very hard, besieged the city several times, suffered the enemy for two years, and the city fell.
Lu Kang died of illness more than a month after the fall of the city at the age of 70. However, Lu Kang sent Lu Xun and his relatives to Wu Jun's hometown before the siege, preserving the fire of the Lu family's rise.
Lu Xun is a relative of Lu Kang, a native of Wu County, who studied with Lu Kang in Shu County, where he was in office, when he was young.
When he fled to Wu County, Lu Kang's son Lu Ji was six years younger than Lu Xun, and the responsibility of the family's rise could only fall on Lu Xun. For the benefit of the family, Lu Xun endured humiliation, let go of the grievances with the Sun family, and became Sun Quan's staff at the age of twenty-one.
Sun Ce took Lujiang and his prestige increased greatly, but Yuan Shu was worried that he would not be able to control Sun Ce. So, he once again broke his promise and appointed his old subordinate Liu Xun as the Taishou of Lujiang.
This is the reason why Yuan Shu can't control the overall situation, backtracking, unfair rewards and punishments, how to convince the public? Sun Ce was disappointed by this, he knew that there was no future under Yuan Shu.
It's time to implement Zhang Hong's plan B, lay down Jiangdong, and stand on his own. It's all on your own! Sun Ce had a showdown with Yuan Shu: I have an old favor with you in the east, and I am willing to help you crusade against Hengjiang.
After the capture of Hengjiang, I will return to the mainland to recruit 30,000 soldiers and horses to assist the Ming envoy Jun Kuang to support the Han Dynasty. Sun Ce's words expressed three meanings: first, he didn't want to use the Huainan army, second, he really wanted to support the Han family, and third, he wanted to impress Yuan Shu by crusading against Hengjiang, because Liu Miao had become Yuan Shu's new rival.
Soon, the imperial court sent a new assassin, Liu Xuan, who successfully won the support of the three Taishou of Jiangdong in the name of the imperial court, and allied with Tao Qian's old Danyang soldiers to drive Wu Jing out of Danyang County.
The imperial court also appointed Liu Miao as the pastor of Yangzhou, which made Yuan Shu and the imperial court officially turn their faces. Yuan Shu sent Wu Jing ** Jiangdong, but he was never able to take Liu Xuan's Jiangbei stronghold. Yuan Shu knew that Sun Ce hated him, but he couldn't ignore Liu Xuan's threat in Jiangdong.
In the end, Yuan Shu let Sun Ce go south and gave him more than 1,000 horses. Yuan Shu's abacus is very shrewd, he hopes that Sun Ce and Liu Xuan will be merged, and when the two of them are both defeated, he will come to clean up the mess.
Yuan Shu obviously underestimated Sun Ce's strength, the previous Jiangdong overlord had defeated hundreds of thousands of elite Qin troops (Xiang Yu led Jiangdong's disciples, the number was only 8,000), and Sun Ce was full of talent and talent, dividing the world into three parts, which shows the strength of the strength.