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Sun Xiu was a Strategist to Sima Lun. It is not yet established whether this person is the same as similarly named people in other chapters.
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Book of Jin, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 23: Crown Prince Minhuai · 4 passages
右衛督司馬雅，宗室之疏屬也，與常從督許超並有寵于太子，二人深傷之，說趙王倫謀臣孫秀曰：「國無適嗣，社稷將危，大臣之禍必起。
Right Guard Commandant Sima Ya, a distant kinsman of the imperial house, and Attendant Commandant Xu Chao, both favorites of the crown prince, grieved deeply; they told Sun Xiu, stratagemist to Lun, Prince of Zhao: "The state has no true heir—altar and grain will be imperiled; great ministers' disaster is sure to rise.
秀言于趙王倫，倫深納焉。
Sun Xiu relayed the plan to Lun, the Prince of Zhao, and Lun wholeheartedly accepted it.
計既定，而秀說倫曰：「太子為人剛猛，若得志之日，必肆其情性矣。
With the plan set, Xiu said to Lun, "The crown prince is by nature rigid and fierce; if he gains his will he will certainly give free rein to his temper.
秀因使反間，言殿中人欲廢賈后，迎太子。
Sun Xiu then had disinformation circulated, claiming that men in the palace wished to depose Empress Jia and bring the crown prince back.