Wu Kingdom, Jianye.
"Hahaha, Master Jiang, your coming here in person is truly an immense honor!"
Sun Jun warmly welcomed the envoy from the Shu Kingdom.
The envoy Shu had sent was no ordinary man. He was Jiang Xian, son of the eminent Shu minister Jiang Wan.
Charged with this mission to Wu, he was probably the highest-ranking minister Shu had sent there since relations between Shu and Wu had broken down.
Clearly, Chen Zhi had taken these negotiations with Wu very seriously.
Chen Zhi was on excellent terms with Huang Hao and the others, which had also won him Liu Shan's favor. Liu Shan felt that he would not spend all day telling him to distance himself from petty men, and those around him spoke very highly of Chen Zhi, so he trusted him all the more.
Chen Zhi had used that trust to arrange this mission.
Yet Jiang Xian was not in particularly high spirits.
Having grown up under his father's influence, he harbored a certain hostility toward Wu, no less than toward Wei.
Jiang Wan had been furious at Wu's actions and often spoke of the matter to his sons through gritted teeth.
Growing up in such an environment, it would have been strange if Jiang Xian had felt any goodwill toward Wu.
The problem was that Shu's current situation was terribly unfavorable. They desperately needed help.
Rather than take Jiang Xian to see the emperor, Sun Jun brought him straight to his own residence.
This, too, showed how seriously Sun Jun took the matter.
He truly did not want to waste any time. Shu was not alone in needing help; this ambitious young Grand General in his thirties needed help as well.
Sun Jun had keenly perceived the current disparity in strength between the states.
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