The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

During dinner in the evening, he said to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Jian Yong: "In life, the most important thing is to raise your eyebrows. I think last year I waited for a military background, and gathered hundreds of young people from the countryside, who traveled thousands of miles to join Duke Lu. But I didn't realize that Duke Lu was immediately convicted and sent to the capital. You and I were disheartened. I thought that the future was ruined. I didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet the lieutenant. General, you and I have the opportunity to take on important responsibilities and show off on the battlefield, but because of the eunuchs and traitors in the court, although we have made military exploits, we have not been able to get the promotion. The position.... Yunchang, Yide, Xianhe, the lieutenant is your noble person, without the lieutenant, there would be no you and me today."

Liu Bei has no family name and no backer, and it is very rare and rare to be a lieutenant in a country at the age of his early twenties.

The children of the poor have been in charge of the family long ago, and he knew that it would be too difficult to have today, so even though he was a little younger than Xun Zhen, his tone was full of vicissitudes, and he looked like he couldn't bear to look back on the past.

Zhang Fei and Jian Yong agreed.

When they were in Zhuo County in the past, a few of them formed cliques and gangs, and they lived in a ranger township. Although they were heroic, they couldn't make it to the top. It was far from being compared with today's life of officials and servants and servants and servants. .

Although Guan Yu didn't speak, it could be seen from his expression that he agreed with Liu Bei's sigh. Zhang Fei said regretfully, "Everything is good now, but there is only one shortcoming."

Liu Bei stopped his chopsticks and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Fei said: "Xiang Wang Yun: 'Rich and noble do not return to their hometown, like embroidered clothes at night, who knows!' Although we are rich and noble now, the clansmen and villagers do not know about it, which is a pity!"

Jian Yong laughed, and pointed at Zhang Fei with a chopstick, and said, "In the past, the overlord of Western Chu conquered Xianyang, succeeded in conquering Xianyang, and conquered the whole world, so he has this sigh of relief. I am equal to the fact that I can't be a lieutenant or a lieutenant's official today. , those with high rank are only a hundred stones, and those with low rank have not yet entered the stream, how can they be considered 'rich and noble'? Yide, you must not tell outsiders what you say, it will not make people laugh out loud!"

Among Liu Bei's four, Zhang Fei is the youngest, and he has not yet opened his eyes and has no lofty aspirations. He is already satisfied to have the status he is today. Hearing Jian Yong's mocking words, he was not angry, but smiled. Liu

Bei laughed and said: "Xianhe's words are very true. Yide, when I was chatting with Gongda, I heard Gongda say that Lieutenant Pinzao, a scholar of Yingchuan, thinks he is a 'the leader of Yingchuan'. General Runan Xu Zi thought that the lieutenant was a 'valley of barren years'. The lieutenant was both civil and military, knowledgeable and righteous, and had an unlimited future. Although I have not asked about the lieutenant's ambition, I can roughly guess one or two. It must be in the clearing house, lieutenant, my brother, if my brother has such ambitions, how can he be prepared to stay behind?

Zhang Fei was stunned, and said, "That's why the rooster just woke up before the rooster croaked, the night was deep and he didn't sleep, in the daytime he would patrol the county and townships, and in the evening he would enter the camp of the refugees and personally distribute the soup and medicine to the refugees. Is this all for this reason? ?"

"Hey, I was born into a poor family and was born with insufficiency. If I don't work hard, let alone follow the lieutenant, I'm afraid I won't even be able to keep my position today."

Those who know others are wise and know themselves.

Liu Bei can know people as well as himself, and he has a clear understanding of his own strengths and weaknesses.

He knows that he comes from a poor family and has few opportunities. If he wants to stand out in the officialdom dominated by the gentry and the powerful, he must seize the opportunities that he can seize to make a name for his family, and pay ten more than those "boys" and "scholars". It’s impossible to work twice or a hundred times, so when Jiang Qin and others were unwilling to patrol the county, he stepped forward and took over the important task of patrolling the county and township. , did he not know that he was running the risk of contracting typhoid fever? But had to do it. Life is alive, unsatisfactory people are often seven or eight out of ten.

Xun Zhen had his unsatisfactory things, and Liu Bei also had Liu Bei's unsatisfactory things.

That night, as usual, Liu Bei slept with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

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Before dawn the next day, the three of them got up.

Not long after washing, the companions brought from Zhuo County came in and reported that the meal was ready. Seeing that Jian Yong had not yet woken up and was still sleeping soundly, Liu Bei went to his room and called him up. A few people sat on the ground in the courtyard, and ate at the same time in the mid-spring morning light.

After dinner, it was dawn.

This time around the county and township, it is clearly stated that Liu Bei is the main and Xin Ai is the auxiliary. However, Xin A is not only an "old man" who has followed Xunzhen for a long time, but also an in-law of the Xun family. Since he would not really treat him as a subordinate, Xin Ai would not really obey Liu Bei's command, so the two of them made an appointment: Xin Ai was in charge of the south of the county, Liu Bei was in charge of the north of the county, and one person was in charge of half the county and township. Xun Zhen allocated a total of 300 obedient servants to the two of them, and the two of them also divided into 5, each with 150 people.

After leaving the pavilion where he stayed last night, Liu Bei divided the 150 men into four groups, with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each leading 40 people, and the remaining 30 people were led by Jian Yong, and the four set off separately.

Handan is a large county. Although Liu Bei is in charge of only the northern half of the area, there are also three townships. He cannot tour all three townships in one day. Therefore, he divides his troops into three routes every day these days, and joins forces with Guan Yu and Zhang. Fly to each township. As for Jian Yong, his task was to take the 30 people assigned to him into the city to the countryside to transport and bury the bodies of the typhoid victims.

On the road outside the Tingshe Gate, the four of them divided into four directions, and each led the team to leave.

The sky is high and cloudy, and the morning breeze in February is gentle, blowing on the face, and it is still cool at first. Liu Bei rode on the "Red Dodder" horse that Xun Zhen gave him, looked up at the sky, and said to the boy who was leading the horse, "The weather is good today."

The endless wilderness on both sides of the road was abandoned for half a year due to lack of people to take care of it. During the first month, Liu Heng once ordered the county to organize farmers to weed and turn the soil to prepare for spring planting, but he was hit by a sudden attack of typhoid fever within a few days. The process has been interrupted, and today the fields are lonely and silent, and there is no one. But even so, in the end, spring has come, and the grass and trees all over the wild are sprouting, withering yellow and turning green, dotted with wild flowers, a yellow and green, colorful and full of vitality, and on the banks of the distant streams and ditches, soft willows and weeping branches are gradually connected. Shady. All sorts of vivid mid-spring scenery contrasts sharply with the lifeless far and near cottages.

If there is no epidemic, such weather is the most suitable for outing.

It's just that the typhoid fever has not yet subsided, and Liu Bei has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and there is no such leisurely care.

He is going to go on a parade today in Xiqu Township.

Xiqu Township is in the northwest of Handan County. Many of the township names in the counties and counties of the Han Dynasty were named after their location. This Xiqu Township was originally called Xixiang. In the former Han Dynasty, an order from Handan built a ditch in this place to divert water for irrigation and benefit the place. The local villagers changed the name of the township to Xiqu.

This township was visited by Guan Yu yesterday, but Liu Bei went there today.

On the way to Xiqu Township, Liu Bei recalled the reason why Xiqu Township got its name, and sighed, thinking, "This ditch-building Handan Ling was from the former Han Dynasty, and he passed away two or three hundred years ago. But the ditch he built is still in use to this day, and even the name of the town is named 'canal'. I am a descendant of Emperor Gao, the clan of the Han family, although I can't open up the foundation for future generations like Emperor Gao and Emperor Guangwu, only But I don't know if I can leave some fame on the bamboo and silk after my death, so that future generations will remember it?"

Last night, I chatted with Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Jian Yong. He said that as Xun Zhen's "virtuous brother", he should chase after Xun Zhen.

Xun Zhen is his noble person. He really wants to follow Xun Zhen closely and not be left behind by Xun Zhen, but he can ask himself carefully, does he want to follow Xun Zhen's back all his life? Yes, Xun Zhen came from a noble family, which is beyond the reach of Liu Bei at this stage, but he has to go back, how can Xun Zhen's "family background" compare with his Liu Bei? The most famous of Xun Zhen's ancestors is only Xun Zi, a Confucian scholar. His ancestor Liu Bei was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty who built the great Han Dynasty and established the foundation for the Liu family for hundreds of years!

With the improvement of fame and status, as the age grows, and the esteem for the illustrious achievements of the ancestors becomes more and more, there is a thing called ambition, just like the grass and trees sprouting in the spring breeze, in Liu Bei's blood from the emperor of the Han Dynasty. breed out.

The air is filled with the fresh smell of soil and the light fragrance of plants and wildflowers, which is refreshing. Far and near the village is quiet and silent, this is a quiet spring morning.

The bred wild hope was eager to move in the depths of his heart, and a poem written by his neighbors, urging people to cherish time and work hard, unexpectedly surfaced in his heart: "Kwaii in the green garden, the morning dew waits for the sun. Brilliant. I am often afraid that the autumn festival will come, and the yellow flowers will fade. When the rivers reach the sea from the east, when will they return to the west?

Poverty and embarrassment, do not fall into the ambition of Lingyun, and the sea is flowing, only to show the true character of a hero.

Before the rise of Emperor Gao, he was just a patriarch who fought for food. Although Liu Bei was not talented, he was now in his twenties, but he was already a lieutenant of a county. What if he came from a poor family? You can't belittle yourself, and Lingyun's ambition can't fall.

When Xun Zhen met Liu Bei for the first time in Huangfu Song's army last year, he praised him very much. Didn't Xun Zhen also say it at that time? He said: "As long as you are always ready, you will be able to fly high sooner or later!"

Heroes make times, times make heroes. The more the ocean is flowing, the more opportunity it is for a man to stand out. Now that the Yellow Turbans are fixed and the epidemic is booming, it is a time of difficulties for the court and embarrassment for the counties and counties, but for a heroic husband, isn't it also the time when it came into being?

Bei had an illusion that the disease was specially prepared for him by God~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He volunteered to take over the task of patrolling the county. Decoction, dirty work, tiring work, or risky work, he rushes to do what others don't want to do, God rewards hard work, as long as you do it, you will gain something. Although Xun Zhen didn't say it face to face, he could feel Xun Zhen The importance of him has risen to a new level, otherwise, how could Xun Zhen send Dian Wei, a close guard, to come to him in person and persuade him not to take risks lightly? Liu Heng even went to Xun Zhen specifically, and praised Xun Zhen as a "virtuous officer". These things he did were not only praised and valued by the two highest officials in the county, but also respected by the county officials and people. Jian Yong told him that when the corpse was transported in the county town, the officials and soldiers sent by the county temple to assist him, after learning that Jian Yong was Liu Bei’s township party, gave a big ceremony on the spot, saying that this ceremony was for Liu Bei, please Jian Yong brought it to Liu Bei.

The three things he did when he was in Xingxian County, and the three things he did after the outbreak of the epidemic, Liu Bei felt that his reputation in Zhao County had already started. , will be known to the world sooner or later. Until that day, he, Liu Bei, will live in the world in vain, and he will not be the descendant of Emperor Gao in vain.

The red dodder is a good horse. Walking on the ups and downs of the country road, Liu Bei did not feel the slightest bump. In the pleasant spring, he was immersed in his own wild vision, and his thoughts were so fascinated that he didn't notice the distant one. On the field, a few people were crouching among the grass and trees, looking at them quietly with their heads.