It is late autumn in October, and the wind makes people feel cold. The sun has just risen and the temperature has not yet warmed up. No one is willing to ride a horse. Who would like to find freezing in this weather?

On the somewhat solidified land that is frozen by frost, there are only a few dry grass stems, shaking their fragile bodies in the cold wind, protecting the desolate land after the autumn harvest. Perhaps, they are also waiting for spring to come, waiting to see the new sprouts that will replace them appear before they will fall down!

The ghostly figures of two white wolf drifted around the team, appearing in front and on both sides at a distance. Their speed had reached an amazing height, but they never took the initiative to approach the team.

The cavalry's running was fast after all, and Sun Ce was in a hurry to rush on the road. He equipped the horseshoe and arrived in less than two days to Shu County, the Lujiang Prefecture, 600 miles away from Shouchun - the hometown of this good brother Zhou Yu.

The rushing horse was not damaged during the journey, which made all Jiangdong knights deeply realize the importance of the lord's new horseshoe, and independently strengthened the confidentiality of this secret equipment.

In the past, long-distance raids of this level would require at least a dozen horses to hurt their feet and withdraw from the army. Therefore, it is generally impossible for knights to run wildly if they are not in an emergency.

He ordered Zhang Liao and Xu Yi to lead the knights to camp outside the city. Sun Ce led Cheng Pu and Huang Gai to enter the city to visit Lu Kang, the current prefect of Lujiang. This prefect of Lu has a more important identity, which is the current patriarch of the Lu clan of the Jiangdong clan. I heard that he is a person with a serious temperament and extremely majestic nature.

None of his identities dares to underestimate him.

Walking on the wide bluestone slab-paved Encheng Avenue, looking at this ancient small city, as far as the big cities in the future, it can only be regarded as a tiny city. It is even smaller than Shouchun, and at most, the city wall is only four miles square, surrounded by a small area, and there is not even a urn city inside the city gate.

This made Sun Ce feel inexplicably: "This city wall that has been built with great labor has not been completely covered by the city bricks. It seems that this prefect Lu did not focus on military equipment. Or it is just that he loves the people as much as his son!"

"When there are heavy artillery in later generations, it may be possible to blast it out with just one shot, which will not have any effect at all. No wonder the seemingly powerful defense system of the city wall eventually withdraws from the stage of war."

"It's a pity that Zhou Yu is not here, otherwise he would have to have a long talk with him all night. This is a real man talking about life, ideals and no other things. Hehe! I don't know how he practiced the Five Animals Play? It's really funny when he thinks of his serious scholar-like appearance, but being forced to act like a monkey."

Sun Ce and his friends came outside the prefect's mansion, and everyone dismounted to show their respect for their master.

Lu Meng naturally stepped forward, bowed to the guards guarding the gate, and handed over a greeting for his visit, saying loudly: "Sun Ce, the general of the Jiangdong Army, was ordered to see Prefect Lu. Please help me inform me!"

First, he presented Yuan Shu's official documents and Ma Riyi's handwritten letter to the guard. The soldiers guarding the gate did not know the depth of Sun Ce and his group of Shouchun visitors, so naturally they did not dare to neglect them.

The leading guard received the official document: "You are from Shouchun! I will inform you, everyone, wait here."

He hurriedly went in and informed him.

When Huang Gai and Cheng Pu were talking on the road while they were resting in the middle, Sun Ce realized that his father had kindness to the Lu family back then.

Huang Gai said: "In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), more than 10,000 people gathered in Changsha Quxing to rebel. Zhou Dynasty, Guo Shi and others also launched an incident in Lingling and Guiyang areas to kill officials and rebel, which echoed Quxing. The court sent generals to be the prefect of Changsha to attack Quxing."

"Lu Kang's nephew Lu Jia was the magistrate of Yichun County at that time and was attacked by enemy soldiers. He sent people to ask for help from all directions, but the court at that time could not send reinforcements at all. In fact, even if there were reinforcements at that time, it was too late to come from the capital. The surrounding counties and counties were not enough to protect themselves, let alone to divide their troops to rescue Lu Jia."

"At that time, he was the county magistrate in Yichun, but was sent by the county magistrate Lu Jia to break through the encirclement and seek help from the general Polu. At that time, the chief clerk of Changsha advised the general not to cross the line to conquer the enemy without being ordered by the emperor, otherwise he would be afraid that he would be ineffective in the end and be blamed by the court."

"At that time, I knew that the situation in Yichun was critical and might be compromised by bandits at any time, so I wanted to scold the pedantic master Bo. However, the general replied, "I am the prefect, I have no moral character, I only regard the conquest as a merit. I cross the border to protect the county and the country. If I were punished for this, I would be worthy of the world! Even if I was punished for this, as long as I could save the people of Yichun, I would never regret it!"

"So the old general rectified his troops and raised an army to help Yichun. Later, the bandits heard that the general was about to arrive. They just broke through the city and fled. The Yichun Rebellion was then put down. It was because of the general's passion for saving the people from the water and fire at that time that he decided to surrender to the general."

Cheng Pu continued: "It was the time when Jingxiang was pacified and the court inspected the military achievements made by the old general before and after that, and he was appointed as the Marquis of Wucheng."

Soon, the guard who came in and passed it back turned back, saying that it was to let the Jiangdong army enter the mansion to sit temporarily.

Everyone entered the prefect's mansion with a light mood. Along the way, they saw pavilions, towers, small bridges, flowing water, rockery trees, and the layout of the entire courtyard were all extremely ingenious.

Even Huang Gai and Cheng Pu, generals who never understood elegance, were also sighed by the exquisite scenery in the prefect's mansion, not to mention these guards who had never seen such a beautiful garden.

Sun Ce felt like he had returned to the Suzhou gardens that he had visited later generations, with small bridges and flowing water, and the layout was really similar. When asked about the guard who led the way, the prefect Lu was indeed from Wu. It seems that the decoration style of Suzhou gardens had become popular as early as this era.

The Lu family’s wealthy family for hundreds of years is naturally not comparable to that of the Sun family, a military family. The details reflect their family culture and superiority over ordinary people.

His luxury is definitely not as ostentatious as Yuan Shu’s new nouveau riche. Although the Yuan family is also a noble family, the entire Zuo General’s Mansion looks like a magnificent shell at first glance, full of gold and silver, full of domineering arrogance.

In the living room of Lu Kang's prefect's mansion, there are several beautiful paintings, a set of furniture with excellent texture, fine work but simple and atmospheric work. There is absolutely no tea sets and decorations like gold and silver.

It naturally makes people feel a steady and quiet family style. The degree of thickness of the cultural accumulation and precipitation of hundreds of years is by no means comparable to that of ordinary families.

At this time, in a small pavilion in the back garden of the prefect's mansion, there was an old man who looked old but still energetic. There was a faint natural majesty on his wrinkled face.

At first glance, you can tell that he was an old man who had been in power for a long time. He was holding the prayer letters that Lu Meng had handed in his hand, and was looking at Ma Riyan's letters. It seemed that he was the current Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang.

Beside him was sitting a middle-aged scholar dressed as a man. He looked at the official document sent by Yuan Shu with anger.

He said angrily: "It's outrageous! It's outrageous! Yuan Gaolu is so arrogant and looks down on our Lu family too much. Do we think we are also his subordinates? Do you want us to obediently submit to his tyranny?"
Chapter completed!