Lu Su explained,"If we advisers surrender to Ts'ao Ts'ao,we will probably be allowed to keep our positions as prefecture or county officials.If Your Majesty surrenders to Ts'ao Ts'ao,you will have a title but no power.Ts'ao Ts'ao could never let you have the same status you have now.What your people advised was in their own interests only.Your Majesty should never accept their proposal,but instead make your own decision at once."