Like Tingwei Hao Pu, he was originally a minister of Liu Bei, and guarded Jingzhou with Guan Yu as a ruler.

However, Pan Jun had always been at odds with Guan Yu. After Sun Quan took Jingzhou, he surrendered to Soochow.

But unlike Hao Pu, Pan Jun was from a wealthy family in Jingzhou. Because of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's subsequent actions to suppress wealthy families, he was more inclined to Soochow.

After all, Soochow does not restrict the privileges of aristocratic families.

Suppressing the Jiangdong family is only the need of the upper-level political struggle, and does not conflict with the privileges of the Soochow family.

More importantly, the status of officials from Jingzhou is delicate. They only need to remain neutral to survive on their own. There is no need to participate in the struggle between the Sihuai Group and the Jiangdong Group.

Whether Hao Pu is too ambitious or ignorant, that is his business.

What Pan Jun has to do is not to let His Majesty feel that he, who was also born in Jingzhou, has the intention to get involved in this kind of thing.

As for the possibility of offending Yinfan, Pan Jun didn't care at all.

"Then Yin Fan, no matter how much he is appreciated by His Majesty, is just a lucky person. He seems to be suddenly rich, but in fact he has no foundation. Even if I offend him, what do I have to fear?"

Lu Xun knew that Pan Jun had always been upright, so when he heard his words, he didn't try to persuade him. He just sighed:

"If you are lucky enough to come in, even the ministers will come to visit you. This is the country's misfortune."

"Nowadays, there are more and more people who are lucky enough to join us. Unfortunately, we are all far away from His Majesty and cannot persuade him face to face."

When Pan Jun heard this, he was moved: "The general seems to have some ulterior motives?"

Lu Xun looked around.

Pan Jun understood and asked all the servants to retreat.

Lu Xun then said:

"When His Majesty first came to the throne, he newly established the Zhongshu Dian School Secretary to supervise the central and local state and county clerical affairs. Lu Yi was the Zhongshu Dian School Master, and now he is gradually becoming more and more powerful."

"Some people say that he makes subtle decisions, complains about flaws, accuses people of crimes, and corrects rapes. I don't believe it at all."

"Unexpectedly, a few days ago, one of Lu Yi's retainers broke the law and was killed by Zheng Zhou, the prefect of Jian'an. Lu Yi then framed Zheng Zhou. Now, your majesty has asked someone to imprison Zheng Zhou."

Speaking of this, Lu Xun showed a worried look on his face:

"From this point of view, Lu Yi is a cruel person with a cruel nature and profound methods. He is actually a villain."

"I thought that Lu Yi had not left, but now there is another Yin Fan who talks cleverly. What is this, if not more people are lucky enough to come in?"

When Pan Jun heard this, his color changed immediately:

"How can a governor, an important official of the country, be thrown into jail so easily because of the words of a mere villain? If things go on like this, how will the law of the country survive? The more powerful the villain becomes, the greater the misfortune of the country!"

Lu Xun smiled bitterly: "The prince once wrote to your majesty to remonstrate on this matter, but your majesty did not accept it. What should I do?"

When Pan Jun heard this, his face became even more ugly.

In the past, Cao Cao first set up the post of school official in order to increase his visibility and promote his generals and officers.

Now His Majesty is imitating Cao Cao and setting up the post of school administrator, and his intention is self-evident.

Later, Cao Cao's school officials, Lu Hong and Zhao Da, played tricks on others and often got into trouble. Therefore, there was a saying at that time: Don't be afraid of Duke Cao, but be afraid of Lu Hong; Lu Hong is okay, Zhao Da will kill me.

Lu Xun and Pan Jun are both smart people who can see the big from the humble. From Zheng Zhou's incident, we can deduce that if this continues, Lu Yi will become the Lu Hong and Zhao Da of Wu State as soon as possible.

Remembering that His Majesty seems to dislike listening to his ministers less and less since he ascended the throne, the two of them couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"Although the general and I are far away from your majesty, how can we turn a deaf ear to the villains in the country? I would like to submit a letter together with the general to advise your majesty."

Pan Jun said decisively.

Lu Xun was overjoyed: "Chengming has a reputation for being upright. His Majesty will surely wake up after hearing your words!"

While the two were discussing how to persuade Sun Quan, a group of barbarian officials in Wuling County, Jingzhou, were hiding in the mountains and looking down the mountains.

Wuling has many mountains and hills, as well as many streams.

The unique terrain prevents Wuling from forming large tracts of cultivated land like in the Central Plains.

But at the foot of the mountain, there are small flat areas separated by mountains and hills. These discontinuous small flat areas are the main farmland of Wuling County.

Han officials and wealthy families built manors on these flat lands, and at the same time forced the barbarians who had lived here for generations to help them farm.

In the past two years, in addition to grain, these manors have also grown a considerable amount of sugar cane.

Growing sugar cane will occupy cultivated land. If there is less cultivated land for growing grain, the grain output will naturally be reduced.

Since Soochow invaded Jingzhou and experienced the Battle of Yiling, successive wars have seriously damaged Jingzhou's economy. Over the years, Jingzhou's grain production has been insufficient.

Otherwise, Lu Xun would not have asked Sun Quan to open farmland to his many generals because of the lack of food in Jingzhou a few years ago.

It's just that counties like Nanjun and Jiangxia were originally the main grain-producing areas in Jingzhou, so most of the newly opened farmland was planted with grain.

But places like Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang and other places in the south of Jingzhou are not important places.

Those Shu Han people are willing to pay high prices for raw sugar. Growing sugar cane is much more cost-effective than growing grain!

Coupled with the Quyuan plow, it is most suitable to be used in this kind of place.

So these days, whose manor doesn’t grow only enough food to eat and the rest is planted with sugar cane?

It's just that the grain output is already small, and sugarcane takes up at least half of the cultivated land.

In recent years, the owner of the manor has become increasingly wealthy.

But there are more and more people starving down there.

The first to starve to death were, of course, the barbarian officials who had been bullied all along.

Barbarians are also human beings, and they have a desire to survive.

The strong desire to survive made the barbarians start to become restless.

In the eyes of simple barbarians, the first thing that should be destroyed is the lush sugar cane forests at the foot of the mountain.

In the past few years, the Han people have destroyed their homes and planted sugar cane wherever they could.

At the same time, they continued to capture young people from the village and help them grow sugar cane.

So this sugar cane is the root of all evil.

After the sun went down, the sky gradually became dark.

The barbarians on the mountain took advantage of the thin night cover, like cunning wild beasts in the mountain, to pounce down on the manor down the mountain.

The guards at the manor quickly noticed something unusual and sounded the alarm.

"Barbarians, barbarians!"

The leader of the guard hurriedly climbed up the wall of the village. When he saw the situation outside, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Even as night began to fall, as far as the eye could see, there were dense crowds of people all around.

A fire soon lit up not far away. It was the barbarians who pushed down the straw piles and started to set fire to the ground.

There were even more barbarians holding wooden sticks, tree trunks, bone sticks, etc. in their hands and rushing towards the wall of the village.

"Fire the arrow!"

The arrow feathers flew downward, and the barbarians fell down one after another, but they did not make those behind them flinch.

Their eyes flashed with anger, they shouted slogans that were incomprehensible, and they continued to charge forward without fear of death.

"Hold on!"

All guards are not allowed to rush to the wall and defend it to the death.

They knew that if barbarians broke into the manor, no one would survive.

What they didn't expect was that there was a fire in the manor at some point, and people were shouting and shouting at the same time.

"what happened!?"

"The barbarian slaves working there rebelled!"

"What did you say?"

…

In early August of the eighth year of Jianxing's reign, the Wuxi barbarians in Wuyang County, Wuling County, rebelled, burning manors and destroying farmland. The barbarian officials in other counties heard about this and responded one after another.

For a time, the barbarian rebellion in Wuling County expanded rapidly, and counties fell one after another, with a tendency to spread to Lingling, Hengyang and other counties.

When Sun Quan heard about it, he recalled Lu Dai who had put down the Jiaozhou rebellion overnight and asked him to garrison Changsha to prevent the rebellion from spreading further.
Chapter completed!