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Chapter 29
— The Little Chief Of The South Slays Yu Ji; The Green Eyed Boy Lays Hold On The South Land.
Pleads for the imprisoned saint her son mocks, quotes Confucius to force the monastery pilgrimage, and presides over the deathbed - confirming to Sun Quan that his gifts surpass his brother's, and pointing him to Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao.
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Chapter 38
— Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges.
On her deathbed the Dowager tells her life plain - orphaned, exiled to Yue with her brother Wu Jing, married into the Sun house, the moon dreamed for Sun Ce and the sun for Sun Quan - and binds her son to Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao as teachers, to her sister as a second mother, and to finding his sister a husband.
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Chapter 44
— Zhuge Liang Stirs Zhou Yu To Actions; Sun Quan Decides To Attack Cao Cao.
Her dying charge opens the chapter in full: 'for internal matters consult Zhang Zhao; for external policy Zhou Yu' - the sentence that summons the man who decides the war.
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Chapter 80
— Cao Pi Deposes The Emperor, Taking Away The Fortunes of Han; Liu Bei Assumes The Throne, Continuing The Heritage.
Lady Wu; Liu Bei's consort (sister of Wu Yi); elevated to empress at the accession.