Is “Persuading Fu Shiren to surrender and debating a group of scholars” true?
The Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biography of Yu Fan records the historical facts of his persuading Fu Shiren to surrender and his being exiled to Jiaozhou due to his wild and straightforward nature; The Romance of the Three Kingdoms fictionalizes the plot where Zhuge Liang debates and refutes Yu Fan at Chaisang. The original text in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biographies of Yu, Lu, Zhang, Luo, Lu, Wu, and Zhu reads: 「虞翻古之狂直，因难免乎末世，然权不能容，非旷宇也。」
The official history records his persuading Fu Shiren to surrender and his straightforward speech leading to exile in Jiaozhou, while the novel fictionalizes Zhuge Liang debating a group of scholars at Chaisang.
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