Chapter 43
— Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
Sneers that Liu Bei is 'a weaver of mats, a seller of straw shoes' against Cao Shen's descendant - and is reminded he is the Lu Ji who pocketed an orange at Yuan Shu's table, that Cao Cao's heredity makes him a hereditary Han servant turned renegade, and that the dynasty's own founder rose from lowly origins.