The Strongest Lu Bu's Sweeping Thousands of Armies

Chapter 307 It's time to go back

Sun Ce clenched his fists tightly, as if he wanted to kill Xu Chu immediately.

Lu Bu turned to look at him: "What is Bo Fu doing?"

"Cao Cao is evil, trying to harm our family members." Sun Ce said: "It's a pity that he is in Xudu, and we can't do anything about him for a while. But Xu Chu was under the rule of Chu Hou, and he was used to behead him to vent his anger. We have to let Cao Cao Look, if he dares to send people to intercept and kill our family members, we dare to kill his people."

"But I have ordered Zilong and Ziyi to let Xu Chu go and not fight him." Lu Bu smiled flatly.

Sun Ce asked in astonishment, "The Marquis of Chu let Xu Chu go?"

"Xu Chu is not incompetent, it's not easy to kill him." Lu Bu said, "Zilong and Ziyi can deal with him, but if he wants to leave, even if they join forces to chase him, they will still let him escape. No matter what, it's impossible to keep him, so it's better to let him go as a favor."

"It's true to say that, but I still feel that I shouldn't let it go. At least I have to try it. If it is really captured, it can just give Cao Cao a blow." Sun Ce said with a grim expression: " Marquis Chu should have let me go too."

"I have already sent two strong generals, which are enough to protect the family, so why send you there?" Lu Bu replied, "I also need servants by my side. When they arrive in Jianye, they have to return immediately. There is no need for you to go there too. .”

"But I'm not reconciled to letting Xu Chu go." Sun Ce clenched his fists with an unpleasant expression.

"It's not easy to capture him. Instead of trying our best to find a way to capture him, it's better to let him go." Lu Bu said, "Xu Chu is someone close to Cao Cao. He gave us an excuse to send troops. But we didn’t kill him and let him go back without any hindrance. Cao Cao gave us an excuse, and it’s not good to openly repay his grievances with virtue, so he can only bear it temporarily.”

As we continued walking, Lu Bu continued, "Although we have already received news that Cao Cao will join forces with Yuan Shao to send troops to Xuzhou, we are not ready yet. For us, we have more time to prepare than to capture Xu Chu." more important."

Following behind Lu Bu, Sun Ce didn't say any more,
Although he was unwilling, he also felt that Lu Bu was right.

If Xu Chu is captured, Cao Cao will definitely send out troops in a large scale, and the Xuzhou War will start without sufficient preparations.

When he was almost outside the door of Lu Bu's room, Sun Ce asked, "Mr. Chu is talking about making adequate preparations, why did he come to the coal mine and spend time here?"

"Time-consuming?" Lu Bu, who was about to enter the door, turned his head: "Bo Fu thinks I'm wasting time here?"

Sun Ce nodded: "In my opinion, the most important thing now is to organize the troops and horses and prepare to meet Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. Not only did the Marquis of Chu not do that, but he even came to the coal mine himself to do things that are useless for war. The lives of the craftsmen are important, but they are not as important as the entire Xuzhou and Yangzhou."

"Preparing for the war does not necessarily require me to do it." Lu Bu said: "Before the war, all we have to do is rations, ordnance, and drills for the soldiers. There are people who are doing these things. Do I have to stay there in person? I If we prepare these things every day, how can Cao Cao and Yuan Shao not know that I am preparing for war? Let others do it, and I will come to the coal mine to do something for the artisans, but it can paralyze them and give us enough preparation to buy time."

Turning around and walking into the room, he told Sun Ce: "After I finish talking with the blacksmith, I will find two soldiers to come over and boil hot water for me."

Ever since he followed Lu Bu, Sun Ce became more and more convinced that he must have a reason for doing things, so he agreed and personally led a few guards to guard the door.

Walking into the room, Lu Bu picked up a picture on the table.

The picture shows several cylinders, the longest of which is clearly assembled, and the disassembled into several pieces next to it is the splicing structure of the entire large cylinder.

When craftsmen were still making fans, Lu Bu had already started designing this blueprint.

The so-called hydraulic support means that the support itself is not solid and its weight is relatively light.

When it is necessary to use it to support the roof, pour water into the hollow cylinder, and rely on the pressure of the water to lift up the bracket to achieve the effect of support.

The hydraulic support is really convenient to use, but the problem that Lu Bu has to solve is not just to make it.

After making the bracket, he had to consider how to inject water into it.

After 2000, there is a high-pressure water pipe, and the bracket can be lifted up by water pressure.

It is not so convenient in this day and age.

It is impossible to develop a tap water system for several hydraulic supports.

Using buckets to pour water into the hydraulic support, Lu Bu has to solve the problem of jacking up the support when the water pressure is not strong enough.

So his blueprints had a cutout on the edge of the main bracket.

Water can be poured into the cylinder through this port.

When not in use, just unscrew the drain valve, and the bracket will return to the state without water injection.

Looking carefully at the design drawing of the hydraulic support, Lu Bu felt that there should be no problem.

Sun Ce's voice came from outside the door: "Marquis Chu, the steward of the coal mine has brought the artisans here."

Having checked the pattern over and over again, and thought there was nothing wrong with it, Lu Bu ordered outside the door: "Please come in."

Sun Ce led the steward and two craftsmen in.

The craftsman stood behind the steward with his head bowed, and the steward bowed to Lu Bu with a big gift: "I brought the ones that the Marquis of Chu wants."

Looking at the two craftsmen, Lu Bu asked, "Are they all blacksmiths?"

"Back to the words of the Marquis of Chu, he is the blacksmith with the best mining skills." The steward replied.

"Look at this picture, see if you can build the thing on it." Lu Bu picked up the picture.

The steward stepped forward, took it with both hands, stepped back in front of the two blacksmiths, and handed the picture to them.

After taking the drawings, the two blacksmiths looked at them for a while.

One of them asked in surprise: "May I ask Marquis Chu, is one of the pillars in the picture hollow?"

"Understood?" Lu Bu smiled slightly, and said to the two of them, "Not one, but all of them are hollow."

"Hollow ones are not easy to handle." The blacksmith said: "With our ability, we can create hollow iron pillars..."

"It will not be an iron pillar, but a steel pillar." Lu Bu interrupted him: "I want not only to be strong, but also not easy to rust. It must be filled with water and placed under the mine. , how can it support the ceiling?"

The two blacksmiths have inherited their skills since they were young, and they have been blacksmithing for many years. They have never heard that there is iron that will not rust.

They looked at each other in astonishment, and the other blacksmith asked, "Mr. Chu has heard that there are ironware that won't rust?"

"Of course there is." Lu Bu said: "As long as you add some other things into it, you can always create it."

All he knew was that there was a kind of steel in the world called stainless steel, but Lu Bu didn't know the ingredients in it, so he simply took a laziness and entrusted the blacksmith with the task of figuring out whether the iron would not rust.

Although the iron-smelting technology in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had matured, it was impossible for blacksmiths to know how to prevent steel from rusting.

The two blacksmiths were troubled, and they both thought it was an impossible task, but they dared not directly deny Lu Bu's statement.

"I'll leave it to you to build the hydraulic support. As for the materials used, you can figure it out yourself." Lu Bu waved his hand: "Let's go down first."

With the existing blacksmithing technology, it is not easy to manufacture the bracket required by Lu Bu.

In addition, they have to figure out how to make the ironware not easy to rust. The two blacksmiths are full of bitterness and don't know where to pour it.

But Lu Bu's order had already been issued, and they dared not disobey, so they had to obey.

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The steward left with the blacksmith, and Lu Bu ordered Sun Ce to find two guards for him to boil the water.

Sun Ce called two guards into the house.

The guards were boiling water in the house, while Lu Bu scoured out some animal fat and the like from the box.

In addition to grease and some vanilla-like things, Lu Bu took out a small jar of white powder.

"What is Marquis Chu going to do?" Seeing him take out these things, Sun Ce asked suspiciously.

"The artisans come up from the well, and they use green salt for bathing." Lu Bu said, "Although green salt can remove dirt, it makes people feel very uncomfortable when rubbed on the body. I plan to create a kind of salt for them. It is used to get rid of filth, and it will not make people feel uncomfortable when wiped on the body."

Having long been used to Lu Bu making novelties, Sun Ce has no doubts about his success.

But he didn't want to understand how to use animal fat to get rid of the pollution.

Lu Bu poured some white powder into a larger jar.

While he was doing this, Sun Ce finally couldn't help but asked in doubt: "Is Chuhou planning to use oil to make something that can get rid of filth?"

"Otherwise?" Lu Bu raised his head and grinned at him.

"I only know that the oil will make the body more filthy. I really don't know how to use them to get rid of the filth." Sun Ce shook his head: "Why don't Chuhou use other things to try..."

"I haven't tried the grease yet, how can I easily change it to other things." Lu Bu didn't give him any further explanations, and continued to fiddle with the things in his hand.

Sun Ce didn't ask anything from Lu Bu, so Sun Ce could only look at him in bewilderment.

The two guards lit the charcoal stove, and the charcoal in the stove was burning red.

Since the establishment of coal mines, coal has been used for fires throughout Xuzhou.

Lu Bu also specially designed a stove specially used for burning charcoal.

This kind of stove is not only convenient to carry out, but also can control the size of the fire by blocking the gas outlet under the stove, which is much more convenient than the stoves used to burn wood in the past.

The guard brought the stove into the room, and Lu Bu had prepared the ingredients in the clay pot according to the proportion.

Passing the pot to the guard, Lu Bu ordered: "Add water and melt everything inside."

One of the guards took the pot and placed it on the stove.

Lu Bu turned his head to look at Sun Ce who was standing next to him. Seeing that he was still in a daze, he asked with a smile, "Did Bo Fu not understand why I use oil to make decontamination?"

With this doubt in his heart all the time, Sun Ce nodded quickly.

"The truth is actually very simple." Lu Bu really wanted to explain to Sun Ce that oil has weak acidity, and he used alkali powder as a neutralizer to remove the weak acidity and transform it into another substance. Sun Ce understood that it would make him even more confused, so he put it another way: "If it's just fat, even if it melts and re-solidifies, it's still fat. When I heated the fat, I added alkali to it. After being burned by alkali, the fat It won't be so greasy anymore, and maybe it can be used to wash away dirt."

Lu Bu tried his best to describe it in a language that Sun Ce could understand, but Sun Ce was still confused, unable to understand why oil and alkali were heated together to make something that could be used to clean dirt.

"Still don't understand?" Seeing that Sun Ce was still puzzled, Lu Bu asked him,
"What Chu Hou said is quite clear, but I still listen to it." Sun Ce grinned in embarrassment: "It's okay if I don't understand. If I can understand it, can't I be like Chu Hou? Create some rare gadgets at any time?"

"We'll see when it's made." Although Lu Bu knew the general manufacturing process, he couldn't guarantee that it would be successful.

Two guards stood by the stove, heating clay pots full of ingredients.

In addition to the ingredients, there is also a lot of water in the clay pot.

It takes a lot of time to heat up the entire contents of the jar.

The guard stood by the stove, while Lu Bu went to the window.

The entrance to the mine can be seen from the window at a glance.

These days when he came to the mine, Lu Bu would stand by the window for a while in his free time every day, as if he was waiting for something.

Sun Ce was always by his side, never leaving him.

"Will Xie Fanbing come here with you, have you neglected to practice?" Lu Bu asked, looking into the distance through the window.

"Every day I will lead the soldiers to practice." Sun Ce replied: "All the Jiefan soldiers are the elites I have carefully selected. Take them into battle to kill the enemy."

"Do you think the world is particularly interesting?" Lu Bu said suddenly without warning.

Startled by his question, Sun Ce asked blankly, "I don't know what is the meaning of Chuhou's question?"

"I don't have any deep meaning." Lu Bu said with a smile: "It's just a casual emotion. Not long ago, you and I were still hostile. Now you are the personal general by my side. Does it count as fate?"

"It's not because I'm not good at staying with Marquis Chu." Sun Ce smiled awkwardly: "If I can beat Marquis Chu, this would be here."

"If you can beat me, you will still be your Jiangdong bully." Lu Bu turned around and patted his arm lightly.

A guard by the stove said to him, "Report to Marquis Chu, all the contents in the pot have been boiled into juice and have been stirred well."

After greeting Sun Ce, Lu Bu came to the stove.

He picked up the wooden stick in the jar and stirred it gently a few times.

Sure enough, there was no trace of grease in the jar, only a very viscous liquid remained.

"Pour the contents of the jar into the box next to it." Lu Bu instructed the two guards.

One of the guards lifted the jar and carefully poured the viscous liquid into the box.

Seeing the actions of the guards, Sun Ce really wanted to ask Lu Bu if he could use these liquids to remove the dirt on people.

Although he wanted to ask, he finally held back.

The liquid was poured into the box, and Lu Bu waved his hands at the two guards.

The guard withdrew the stove.

He and Sun Ce stood beside the box, looking at the steaming liquid contained inside.

"It looks sticky." Sun Ce whispered, "I don't quite understand how to use this thing to remove the dirt on people's bodies."

"We'll wait until it's cold." Lu Bu didn't explain, but told Sun Ce to wait for the liquid to cool.

Sure enough, Sun Ce didn't ask any more questions, and waited beside Lu Bu.

After waiting for a while, he found that the originally transparent liquid gradually became cloudy as the temperature dropped, and there seemed to be signs of solidification on the surface.

Looking at Lu Bu in astonishment, Sun Ce felt that he had a lot to ask.

But he still didn't ask the words out in the end.

I have already asked before, and Lu Bu also gave an explanation, but he couldn't even understand half a sentence.

If you don't understand Lu Bu's explanation, it's useless to ask more questions. It's better to stand on the sidelines and just watch.

As time went on, the temperature of the liquid in the box became lower and lower.

When it was first poured into the box, it was a transparent viscous liquid, but after a while it became cloudy. After Lu Bu and Sun Ce waited for half an hour, the liquid had condensed into lumps and turned into a completely opaque solid.

Lu Bu took a short sword and cut a few lines on the solid object in the box.

Finally, he picked up a small piece of it and handed it to Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, try washing your hands with it, and see if it feels greasy."

Hesitating to take the piece, Sun Ce first turned it over and looked at it.

What he held in his hand was a solid cube that felt good to the touch and gave people a lubricating experience.

Simply looking at the shape of the solid block, he couldn't tell that it was made of grease.

The thing pinched in his hand has completely lost the appearance of grease.

"Come here, fetch water." Before Sun Ce could figure out why the grease turned into such strange little cubes, Lu Bu had already yelled at the door.

After a while, a guard came in with a water basin.

"Wait for General Sun to wash his face," Lu Bu ordered the guards.

The guard held the water basin in both hands, lowered his head and handed the basin to Sun Ce.

"Marquis Chu, this..." Sun Ce was still hesitating whether to wash his face with that thing.

"You don't believe me?" Lu Bu smiled at him and said, "If it can really remove dirt, I call this thing soap. In the future, the mine craftsmen will use it to remove dirt when they come up from the mine."

Lu Bu even named the thing in his hand, and Sun Ce felt that it would be unreasonable if he didn't use it, so he took some water from the basin and rubbed the soap in the palm of his hand.

The soap is held in the hand, although it is as warm as jade, it will not slip out.

After getting wet, Sun Ce just rubbed it a few times before it fell from his hands into the basin.

He fished it several times, each time he clearly grabbed the soap, but was squeezed out the moment he grasped it in his palm.

"Don't be impatient, take it lightly." Lu Bu said to Sun Ce.

According to what he said, Sun Ce picked up the soap gently, but didn't dare to hold it hard.

Sure enough, this time he successfully took the soap in his hand.

Instructing the guards to take a piece of cloth and wrap it around the soap in Sun Ce's hand, Lu Bu asked, "How does Bo Fu feel? It's still clean?"

Raising his hands to look, Sun Ce said in astonishment, "It's indeed a lot cleaner..."

"In addition to using it in mines, I have people make it in batches and give it to Zhang Shiping to sell it. Does Bo Fu think it can be sold at a good price?" Lu Bu asked Sun Ce.

"Earlier, women of the Jiangdong gentry liked to buy the toothpaste passed down from Xuzhou from merchants." Sun Ce said: "At first I didn't know that the toothpaste was made by the Marquis of Chu, but it was an excellent thing. If the soap today is sent to the market , I’m afraid it will be snatched up.”

"Grease is not difficult to obtain, and alkali can be found everywhere." Lu Bu said: "To make soap, we just add some spices to make it smell fresher. The cost is not much, and the advantage is that other companies don't have it. Use it to make money Bo Fu thinks it's possible?"

"Of course the things made by Marquis Chu are unique in the world." Sun Ce replied, "I think that as long as the soap is put on the market, it will definitely make a lot of money."

"Since Bo Fu also agrees, I'll invite Zhang Shiping here and talk to him about how to earn more benefits by selling soap." Sun Ce greatly appreciated the soap, and Lu Bu shouted outside the door: "Go to someone, invite Zhang Shiping here, and tell him that I have a way of making money for him."

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Back then, Zhang Shiping cooperated with Lu Bu for the first time, selling toothpaste that many people thought was impossible to have any value.

Through toothpaste, Zhang Shiping opened up the market for daily necessities.

Later, Lu Bu successively launched cosmetics such as toilet water, and the sales momentum was also good.

In particular, the furniture made by Lv Bu has even completely replaced the previous furniture styles in some places and changed people's home habits.

Through cooperating with Lu Bu, Zhang Shiping, who used to have some family business but was not considered wealthy, now owns a family business beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Monopolizing the daily necessities and furniture business in Lu Bu's hands, as a merchant, Zhang Shiping would certainly not be satisfied.

He had already planned to stay in Xuzhou all year round, and he even controlled the coal produced by the coal mine.

Zhang Shiping holds the coal, and all the raw coal has to go through that hand before falling into the hands of other merchants.

When Lu Bu was still crusading against Sun Ce, the steward of the coal mine reported Zhang Shiping's monopoly of coal to Chen Gong.

Knowing for a long time that Lu Bu wanted Zhang Shiping to be his spokesperson for the distribution of goods, Chen Gong only ordered the steward to follow the old rules.

After receiving Chen Gong's order, the steward stopped interfering with Zhang Shiping's monopoly.

He is like a fish in water in the mine, and other merchants who want to obtain coal have to curry favor with him.

Zhang Shiping is also a sensible person.

He got a lot of benefits from Xuzhou, and he didn't keep all of them in his arms. He would often spend some money to buy food and horses and send them to the army.

The cooperation between Lu Bu and Zhang Shiping can be said to be more and more tacit.

Being summoned by Lu Bu, Zhang Shiping didn't dare to delay for a moment, and rushed over in a hurry.

The guard led him into the room.

Bowing to Lv Bu, Zhang Shiping asked: "May I ask Chu Hou to call me over, is there any novelty that I want to sell?"

"Shiping really understands me. The guard probably didn't say anything to you, but he actually knew there was something new." Lu Bu picked up a piece of soap and asked him with a smile, "Look at this, how much can you sell it for?"

Taking the bar of soap with both hands, Zhang Shiping didn't know what it was for, so Zhang Shiping asked Lu Bu in astonishment: "What's the use of the one Chuhou wants to sell?"

Lu Bu winked at Sun Ce.

Sun Ce said: "The Marquis of Chu named it soap, and it is used to wash it instead of green salt."

Of course Zhang Shiping knew what it meant to replace green salt.

There is an indescribable feeling when the soap is in my hand.

Zhang Shiping, who was holding the soap, really didn't know how this kind of thing could be used to replace green salt.

"Bo Fu taught him," Lu Bu told Sun Ce.

Going forward to get soap from Zhang Shiping, Sun Ce ordered the guards to bring a basin of clean water.

Having used it once, Sun Ce has a little understanding of soap, and when he demonstrated it to Zhang Shiping, the movements were done in one go, and it was not as jerky as before.

After washing his hands, Sun Ce put the soap that became greasy with water on Zhang Shiping's hand: "You have a try."

Seeing Sun Ce washing his hands with his own eyes, Zhang Shiping followed his example and washed his hands with soap.

After washing his hands and handing the soap to the guard next to him, Lu Bu asked him, "Shi Ping thinks the soap or the green salt cleans the body."

Raising his hand to take a closer look, Zhang Shiping said with a face full of surprise: "Washing your hands with this kind of thing is much cleaner than green salt. And after washing your hands, you don't feel any pain from being soaked in green salt."

"If you sell it, do you think you can get a good price?" Lu Bu asked again about the price of the soap.

Zhang Shiping replied: "This thing is novel, and I have never seen it in the market. If you take it out, it will definitely sell for a good price."

"I'll also give you the right to sell the soap, do you want it or not?" Lu Bu asked.

Having personally witnessed the benefits of soap, Zhang Shiping would not want it, and quickly thanked: "Thank you Chuhou Chengquan!"

"I will arrange for people to make batches." Lu Bu said to him, "You go back first, and someone will contact you to purchase the goods."

He also got the right to sell the soap from Lu Bu, and Zhang Shiping left with gratitude.

After he left, Sun Ce asked Lu Bu: "The Marquis of Chu can make such a good thing, why didn't he use his own businessman, but Zhang Shiping? I heard that he used to be a horse dealer, and his livelihood has not been very good in recent years. I just came to Xuzhou."

"If I personally arrange to sell these by hand, I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be used." Lu Bu replied: "Since there are mature businessmen like Zhang Shiping in Xuzhou, why should I find a group of laymen to do the already very complicated transaction ? Although being a businessman is cheap, not everyone can do it. Zhang Shiping has been in business for many years, and he is much smarter about this than those under me."

"I have no other intentions. I just feel that if the benefits are blocked by him, there will not be much in Chuhou's hands." Sun Ce said: "If Chuhou arranges special personnel to do these things, perhaps the benefits earned will be better than those given to Zhang Shiping. Much more."

"You can't think so." Lu Bu smiled slightly: "Let him make it. Originally, it can only be sold for one copper coin. He can sell it for ten copper coins. If I give half of it to me, there will be five more. If I arrange someone to do it myself, at least You can only sell one at most. So, what kind of deal is it?"

What Sun Ce considered was that if the goods were not handed over to Zhang Shiping, Lu Bu would be able to obtain all the benefits from it.

But what Lu Bu thought was true, Zhang Shiping would sell the goods to maximize the benefits.

Even if he took half of it, it would be more cost-effective than Lu Bu selling it himself.

After Lu Bu made such a calculation, Sun Ce seemed to understand a little bit.

Although there were still some complicated twists and turns that he didn't think about clearly, he could still vaguely perceive why Lu Bu didn't choose to arrange people around him to do it when he got a novelty, but instead asked Zhang Shiping to be his endorsement for business.

"We've been here for a while, and the mine's air supply has been solved, as well as problems such as roof support and underground lighting, etc., which are still waiting to be dealt with." Lu Bu said: "If you want to deal with everything, it won't take a year or a half. , I think it is unlikely."

"Chu Hou is going to wait here for a year or so?" Sun Ce asked in astonishment.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were still staring at each other. Although Xu Chu was released and Cao Cao was not given an excuse to send troops, the war was inevitable sooner or later.

If Lu Bu really planned to stay in the mine for so long, there would be no need to fight this battle, just hand over Xuzhou to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

"How is that possible?" Lu Bu smiled at him, and said to him, "In two days, we will return to Pengcheng. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's troops should start their journey soon."

"Two armies attacked Xuzhou, and the Marquis of Chu didn't have the ability to separate himself. This battle is not easy." Sun Ce asked, "Dare to ask Marquis Chu, what can I do?"

"It's what you can do to make meritorious deeds on the battlefield." Lu Bu patted his arm lightly.

As if thinking of something, Sun Ce asked again: "All the family members are sent to Jianye, should the Marquis of Chu send two generals to guard?"

"Lu Zijing escorted his family to Jianye, so there is no need to return to Pengcheng." Lu Bu replied, "There is a natural danger in the Yangtze River there, and he is not incompetent. When I return to Pengcheng, I will assign some people to him. .”

Sun Ce replied: "As long as the family members are building a business, the Marquis of Chu and everyone will have no worries. Even if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao join forces to kill us, we are not incapable of fighting."

"When it comes to martial prowess, who in the world is better than me?" Lu Bu said bluntly, "What's more, I still have you by my side. Even if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's subordinates are as fierce as clouds and countless wise men, what can we do? Everyone in the world except me , who is qualified to guide the country and unify the country?"

Lu Bu's words were impassioned. If he was an enemy or just took refuge in him, Sun Ce would definitely sneer at what he said.

He has followed Lu Bu for some time, almost every day, Lu Bu can give him different surprises.

With the passage of time, Sun Ce's hostility to Lu Bu has long since turned to admiration, and then to a devoted follower.

"As long as the Marquis of Chu does not give up, I am willing to advance and retreat together with the Marquis of Chu!" Sun Ce clasped his fists and bowed to Lu Bu.

(End of this chapter)