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Lu Yi

Lu Xun	Chinese	Born 183
171 cm.	146 LBs.	Wu
Male	Heterosexual	Civil Serviceman; Military Officer

Appearance

Lu Yi is a man of relatively lithe stature, who is not known necessarily for his muscular prowess, but proves himself a capable and competent warrior on the field of battle all the same. He stands at approximately five feet and seven inches, and is of relatively average weight. Physical training and a healthy lifestyle prove visually fruitful in regards to his physical fitness level and the lean cut of his muscles, where applicable. He boasts a short cut of dark almond hair, which he maintains daily with appropriate hygiene. Brown eyes and soft facial features complete the boyish charm of this relatively young general, along with the clean-shaven face he maintains for personal appearance.

He maintains himself as a benevolent man who requires no more material wealth than the average scholar, wearing simple robes when out in public and customary official attire when serving political office. On the field of combat, his officer uniform boasts little to no change from a traditional attire, complete with the customary multi-layer tunic, an outer set of armor for his lower legs and shoulders, and a blade at his hip. Additionally, he wears a traditional horse-hair helmet when on the field of combat which, though it restricts his hearing, provides him with an unhindered visual perspective of the battlefield, allowing him to maintain strategic control of the battle as it goes on. 

personality

- Adaptive - Lu Yi is a younger strategist and his ability to innovate and execute complex stratagems on the battlefield allows him a great deal of adaptability in the face of adversity. He is not one to give up on a tactic simply because his plan does not go off without a hitch, and is keen on salvaging or turning around battles that other strategists may write off as losses.
- Intelligent - Lu Yi is a scholar and a man of considerable intelligence. His academical pursuits include that of warfare, civil service, accounting, administrative practice, and several other fields of study. No one has ever accused Lu Yi of being a particularly stupid individual.
- Analytic - Lu Yi judges the field of view with a very concrete mind, capable of noticing trends and patterns in troop movements that he can use to his advantage. He specializes in breaking down complexity in situations and utilizing their various simplistic parts to come to an accurate conclusion. This benefits him both on the field of combat, and in his civil service duties.
- Benevolent - Lu Yi is a very benevolent man, subscribing to traditional Confucianism and also enjoying a very natural benevolent personality. He's incredibly likable and sociable with his peers, and works in the best interest of the people.
- Righteous - Lu Yi is a man of justice who is unable to sit idle in the face of corruption or wrong-doing. So interested in the upholding of justice that he will go so far as to speak out against his liege in the face of cruel treatment of the people, of prisoners, and signs of corruption within the government administration.


- Traditional to a Fault - Lu Yi subscribes to a very strict traditionalist attitude when it comes to Confucianism and Chinese tradition. A break from this tradition is often addressed, whether privately or publicly, and can even cause people to fall immediately from his good graces. Tradition brings order to a chaotic land.
- Highly Critical - Lu Yi is very judgmental not only of his peers, but of himself. Loss and failure are taken to heart and can cause soured relationships and altered perceptions of those around him. Personal failure may send Lu Yi into a temporary depressive state, or force him to act irrationally the next time a similar situation rears its head.
- Quick to Anger - Lu Yi has little tolerance for those who do not follow traditional Confucian ideals, and will go so far as to publicly address even his liege for breaking tradition. Additionally, those who criticize him are often met with a defensive attitude and an explicit show of anger when such criticism involves his ideals, or is done in a public setting.
- Vocal - Lu Yi does not keep his thoughts to himself. Often, he will speak his mind when applicable, regardless of whom it may or may not upset. While a rare few individuals may praise this as an honest and blunt review of their accomplishments and of the world around Lu Yi, many still view this as a negative trait.
- Steadfast - Lu Yi is not one to back down from challenges of the mind. When confronted in a debate, or by another warlord's stratagems on the battlefield, he will be more apt to try and outdo them than retreat, regardless of the cost of his men's lives on the battlefield, or his social and political standing off of it.

history

Lu Yi, also known as Lu Xun, was a military general and politician of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. He started his career in the later periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty as a warlord under Sun Quan. In the early 200s, when Lu Xun was 20 years old, he came to serve the warlord Sun Quan, who was nominally a subject of the Han imperial court, but had full autonomy in governing the territories in Jiangdong (covering southeastern China) he inherited from his elder brother Sun Ce. Lu Xun started his career as a minor official in Sun Quan's office, then as a Foreman Clerk in the East and West Bureaus and as Agricultural Commandant of Haichang , before becoming a county-level official. When the county was plagued by consecutive years of drought, Lu Xun opened up the granaries and distributed food supplies to the people and promoted agriculture. The people benefited from his policies. At the time, there were many households in Wu, Kuaiji, and Danyang commanderies who were hiding from the government because they wanted to evade taxes and conscription. Lu Xun had them tracked down, registered and resettled. Some able-bodied young men were recruited for military service while others were sent to do agricultural labour.

Early in his career, Lu Xun assisted in the elimination of bandit forces in the Jiangdong territories who had been terrorising the region for years and posed serious threats to Sun Quan's administration. He rallied a volunteer army to attack the bandits led by Pan Lin in Kuaiji, passing through treacherous territory and pacifying those who stood in his way. The number of troops under his command increased to over 2,000. When another bandit chief, You Tu, was causing trouble in Poyang, Lu Xun led an army to attack the bandits and achieved success. He was commissioned as "Colonel Who Establishes Might" and ordered to garrison at Lipu.

Lu Xun once advised Sun Quan to eliminate local bandit forces in Jiangdong first because they would hinder him in his aims to achieve supremacy over China. Sun Quan heeded Lu Xun's words and appointed the latter as a "Commandant of the Right Section" under him. Fei Zhan, a bandit chief in Danyang, had received an official appointment from Cao Cao – a leading warlord who was also the de facto head of the Han government – and was instructed to instigate the Shanyue tribes in Jiangdong to stir up trouble for Sun Quan. In response, Sun Quan sent Lu Xun to attack Fei Zhan. Lu Xun had a much smaller army as compared to Fei Zhan, but he deceived the enemy into thinking that he had more troops – he prepared more flags and banners, spread out his war drums, ordered his men to sneak into the valleys at night and beat the drums loudly, so as to create an illusion of an overwhelming army. He emerged victorious over Fei Zhan.

Lu Xun sent his troops into the three commanderies in eastern Jiangdong, where he recruited many able-bodied young men for military service while the less physically fit ones were called up for agricultural labour. He drafted tens of thousands of soldiers in total. He also cleared the region of opposing forces before returning to a garrison at Wuhu.

Conflict with Chunyu Shi
Chunyu Shi, the Administrator of Kuaiji, once accused Lu Xun of oppressing and disturbing the common people. When Lu Xun travelled to Wu (the capital of Sun Quan's territories) to explain himself, he praised Chunyu Shi for being an excellent civil official. Sun Quan was puzzled so he asked Lu Xun, "Chunyu Shi made accusations against you, but yet you praise him. Why?" Lu Xun replied, "Chunyu Shi was concerned about the people's welfare when he made accusations against me. If I were to rebuke him, I would violate ethical norms, which is something I will not do." Sun Quan said, "This is something that a person with good morals will do and something which ordinary people are not capable of doing."

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