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Kan Ze (courtesy name De Run) was born in Shanyin, Kuaiji Commandery – modern-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang – into a family of modest means. Unlike many elite officials of his time, he had no inherited privilege. To pursue learning, he copied borrowed books by hand, demonstrating extraordinary diligence. This early discipline laid the foundation for…
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Chapter 43 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms – titled “Zhuge Liang Debates the Scholars of Wu; Lu Su Urges Sun Quan to Resist Cao Cao” – marks a pivotal moment in the epic: not on the battlefield, but in the halls of diplomacy.