well-meaning advice. I've let you down. I've burnt all the documents containing the allegations against your father so that nobody can ever see them." Appraisal When Ji Yan proposed introducing drastic reforms in the Wu administration (which included the dismissal of many officials he deemed incompetent), Lu Xun cautioned Sun Quan against that and accurately predicted that it would lead to problems. Lu Xun once told Zhuge Ke, "I respect those who are superior to me in status; I assist those who are subordinate to me. I see you behave arrogantly in front of those superior to you, and you belittle those subordinate to you. This isn't the way to build a stable career." In another incident, Yang Zhu () became famous in his youth, but Lu Xun predicted that he was doomed to failure, so he advised Yang Zhu's elder brother, Yang Mu (), to break ties with Yang Zhu. Lu Xun's prediction came true as Yang Zhu later got into trouble during the Sun He-Sun Ba succession struggle. The historian Chen Shou, who wrote Lu Xun's biography in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, commented on Lu Xun as such: "Liu Bei was a hero of his time and many people feared him. Lu Xun, then in his prime years and relatively unknown, managed to defeat Liu Bei. Lu Xun's brilliant strategies, when combined with Sun Quan's recognition of his talent, resulted in the accomplishment of a great task. Lu Xun was loyal, honest and sincere. He died worrying about his state's future, and was perhaps an important pillar of his state." Family and relatives Sometime after 216, when Lu Xun was commissioned as Colonel Who Establishes Might (). Under Sun Quan's arrangement, Lu Xun married the eldest daughter of Sun Quan's elder brother and predecessor Sun Ce. Lu Xun's eldest son, Lu Yan (), died at a young age. Lu Xun's marquis title was inherited by his second son, Lu Kang (), who became a prominent general in Eastern Wu during the reign of the last Wu emperor Sun Hao. Lu Kang had six sons: Lu Yan (), Lu Jing (), Lu Xuan (), Lu Ji (), Lu Yun () and Lu Dan (). Lu Xun's younger brother, Lu Mao, also served as an official in Eastern Wu. Lu Ji, a son of Lu Xun's granduncle Lu Kang (), was one of the 24 Filial Exemplars and