Is “River pirate origin and pacification of Jiangdong” true?
The Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biography of Jiang Qin records that in his early years he led his followers to join Sun Ce as a Gentleman Attendant, and was known for his integrity and frugality; The Romance of the Three Kingdoms fictionalizes him and Zhou Tai as river bandits who robbed on the Yangtze. The original text in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biographies of Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan, Ding: 「钦随从给事。及策东渡，拜别部司马」
In official history, he is a Wu general known for integrity and frugality, while the novel fictionalizes his origin as a river pirate along with Zhou Tai.
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