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Chapter 36
— Shan Fu's Strategy: Fankou Is Captured; Xu Shu's Affection: Zhuge Liang Is Recommended.
Lu Wang, the sage whose aid made the Zhou: Xu Shu's measure of what Zhuge Liang's consent would mean to Liu Bei.
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Chapter 37
— Sima Hui Recommends A Scholar To Liu Bei; Liu Bei Pays Three Visits To The Sleeping Dragon Ridge.
Water Mirror's true measure of the Sleeping Dragon - Lu Wang, whose foundations held the Zhou eight hundred years - echoed again in the inn ballad and in Liu Bei's letter left at the cottage.
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Chapter 38
— Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges.
The old man of the River Wei whom King Wen deigned to visit - the deference Liu Bei cites before setting out a third time.
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Chapter 43
— Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
Lu Wang, the fisherman of the River Wei, cited against the pedants: transcendent ability owes nothing to classical canons.
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Chapter 61
— In The River, Zhao Zilong Recovers Liu Shan; With One Letter, Sun Quan Repulses Cao Cao.