The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Bei and Guan Yu "looked forward" to the future in the forest under the moon.

Liu Bei told Guan Yu that he wanted to "receive Xun Jun's promise to let him lead an army alone".

His wish to "lead an army alone" has his own considerations.

The so-called "leading an army alone" means that he hoped that he would not have to obey the orders of Xu Zhong, Xun Cheng, and Xin A, but could, like Xu Zhong, Xun Cheng, and Xin A, bring his own troops and directly obey Xun. Zhen.

Then, why did he have such an idea? Why would they be unwilling to obey Xu Zhong and others?

This is because he knew that the relationship between Xu Zhong, Xun Cheng, Xin Ai and Xun Zhen was too close. If he lives below people, then he will be ordered by others on the battlefield in the future. The most important issue is that if he has made meritorious deeds, then the merits he has made are most likely not all his own. , the subordinates made meritorious deeds, and the credits obtained must be distributed to a part or even more than half of the generals, which Liu Bei did not want to accept.

This is one of them.

Second, it is because of the composition of Xun Zhen's subordinate songs.

Liu Bei had followed Xun Zhen for a long time and knew this very well.

Most of the minions under Xun Zhen’s command were from Xun Zhen’s Yingchuan township, and the rest were not, they were all “old soldiers” who had been with Xun Zhen for a long time. Wen Ping, Gao Su, Chen Dao, Chen Wu, etc., too. Liu Bei has no prestige among these soldiers, and most of his friendships with Jiang Qin and others are very ordinary. If he insists on working with them, he will be excluded. Certainly outside of this circle.

Well, since this is the case, the main generals of the righteous followers of Buqu are all old people and relatives of Xun Zhen. In a circle, it is better to lead an army alone.

Therefore, he wanted to lead an army alone.

No matter how big the army is, three to five hundred people will do. In fact, Liu Bei does not have the ability to form such a large army. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jian Yong and his villages With the youth as the backbone, he could at most form an army of a few hundred people, but in Liu Bei's opinion, a few hundred people would be enough.

With his ability and Guan Zhang's bravery, if he can have several hundred more people in his hands, he is confident that he can start his career with this and do it step by step. In the end, he even thinks that he can't rule out the possibility of taking this army. Expanding to several thousand people, it is not ruled out that he can keep pace with Xu Zhong and the three and eventually become the second "important" armed force under Xun Zhen's command.

If he can achieve this step, will his glorious future be far away from him?

He knew that Xun Zhen's future must be bright. He didn't expect a future like Xun Zhen's. He only hoped that Xun Zhen's future would be like Xun Zhen's today.

The moon was as hazy as a gauze, and through the forest leaves, spots scattered on Liu Bei and Guan Yu's hair and armor.

When Liu Bei thought of this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Long Yun!"

"Liu Jun."

Liu Bei held Guan Yu's hand, and repeated his promise: "Make merit and career, you and I will share it! Wealth and fame, you and I will share it!"

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Early the next morning, before dawn, Liu Bei and the others continued their journey north, and went straight until late at night before finding a place to rest. With such a gallop, two days later, in the afternoon, he saw Xiapi County in the distance.

Guan Yu followed Liu Bei's side, half a horse behind Liu Bei. At this time, he urged the horse to go ahead and run alongside Liu Bei.

He looked at Xiapi County in front of him from a distance, caressed his beard carefully through the beard bag, and said, "Liu Jun, I will send the head to Zhe Rong on the order of the lord, although the truth is on the side of the lord, But it's hard to guess how Zherong will react."

"Are you worried that he will get angry?"

Guan Yu caressed his beard, his other hand touched the iron spear hanging on the horse, and said, "I don't worry that he will be angry, but what if he is angry? Can you still leave me to wait? ... I just I would like to ask you, if he gets angry, how should I deal with it? Is it to kill the general directly, or?"

"So what?"

"Or tie him up and kill him?"

Xun Zhen killed Zhe Rong's man, and asked Liu Bei and others to send the head of the killed person to Zhe Rong. ,——The people under his hands dare to kill innocent people, let alone him? So after seeing Liu Bei and others, what should he do if he gets angry when he sees the heads of his subordinates?

Liu Bei and Guan Yu are just a few of them. Although Guan Yu is brave and brave, he is not irrational. He also knows that if Zhe Rong wants to take revenge, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to break out of the siege with just a few of them, so he asked this question. Liu Bei's meaning is actually to say: If Zherong goes mad and dispatches troops to surround him, then in order to kill him, should he be held hostage first?

When the few knights who followed Liu Bei to deliver their heads heard the words, they all understood what Guan Yu meant. ——Actually, unless Xun Zhen is as close to Liu Bei as a brother, there might be people who suspect Xun Zhen and suspect that he asked Liu Bei to give Zhe Rong a head to kill him with a knife, and he wanted Zan Rong to kill Liu Bei. .

However, Liu Bei didn't care about this at all.

What if Zhe Rong runs rampant again?

His subordinates dared to kill the villagers, but it did not mean that he dared to kill Liu Bei.

When Liu Bei came on behalf of Xun Zhen, he was Xun Zhen's envoy. If he killed Liu Bei, he would be insulting Xun Zhen.

Xun Zhen was not only the Marquis of Yingyin and the prefect of a county, but also had several thousand soldiers under his command.

Not to mention Zhe Rong, even Tao Qian wouldn't dare to insult Xun Zhen like that.

Therefore, Zhe Rong would never dare to kill Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was not worried at all about it.

He smiled and said to Guan Yu and Zhu Qi: "Zhu Qing, relax your heart, and take advantage of Zhe Rong's ten courage, he will definitely not dare to confront me and other swordsmen." But after speaking, if Zhe Rong is really rude, Liu Bei thought to himself, "But I can't lose face as a prince."

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Although the Xiapi country is now called a country, there is no king of Xiapi anymore.

In the fifth year of Zhongping, after the last king of Xiapi died, he had no children. It stands to reason that in this case, either the country would be exterminated, or the king of Xiapi would be named again. However, the court was busy suppressing rebellions in various places, and the Later, Emperor Ling died, scholars and eunuchs fought each other, and then Dong Zhuo entered the capital, so until now, he has not been able to take care of the affairs of Xiapi, neither has the country been eliminated nor established another king of Xiapi. , and even now there is only a prime minister in the Xiapi country, and there is no king.

The prime minister of the Xiapi country actually doesn't exist now.

Xiapi Xiang is old and his health is not very good. Last October, during the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Xuzhou, the country of Xiapi also suffered a lot of military disasters. Has been lingering in the sickbed, unable to see things.

According to the Han family system, those senior officials who are still unable to attend after 100 days of sick leave are usually "exempted by illness", that is, they will be dismissed from their posts, and another person will be appointed to take over. This is so as not to affect the local county. County politics. According to the time, it was time for this minister of Xiapi to be dismissed, but Tao Qian, who was the prefect of the state, never wrote to the Central Committee to request his dismissal.

This is not because of Tao Qian's "benevolence", Tao Qian did this not for this Xiapi Prime Minister, but for himself. The Xiapi Prime Minister could not afford to be ill and could not take care of things, which just gave him the opportunity to intervene in the affairs of the state of Xiapi. .

It is precisely because of this that Tao Qian ordered Zherong to be responsible for the collection and transportation of grain in the three counties in the south of the prefecture. The number of thousands of people asked him to be stationed in Xiapi County, which is actually the desire to directly control the country of Xiapi through Zherong.

Today, after the war in Xuzhou, the most important thing is food and soldiers. Zhe Rong has the right to collect food, has thousands of soldiers under his command, and Tao Qian's support from above. If the state of Pi and the others are "headless," then needless to say, the state affairs of the state of Pi will naturally fall into the hands of Zhe Rong. Although Zhe Rongxian does not have the name of Xiapi Prime Minister, he actually has the reality of Xia Pi Prime Minister.

There are five counties and states in Xuzhou, there are two in the west, one is Pengcheng in the far west, and the other is Xiapi next to Pengcheng.

Tao Qian took advantage of the chance that the prime minister of Xiapi was seriously ill and inserted Zhe Rongan into Xiapi. This was not only a control of Xiapi, but also a threat to Pengcheng.

As mentioned above, Prime Minister Peng Cheng and Tao Qian did not deal with each other, and they fought against Tao Qian in everything, especially when it came to collecting grain. Tao Qian wanted to drive him away, but he kept Since then, firstly, the fault of Prime Minister Pengcheng could not be caught, and secondly, Prime Minister Pengcheng had a large number of soldiers and horses under his hands. When the two combined, Tao Qian was really not good at dealing with him. So now, Zhe Rong has a thousand soldiers. Zhongtun was stationed in Xiapi, which was equivalent to Tao Qian putting a sharp sword under Pengcheng's chin.

Undoubtedly, this is indeed a big threat to Pengcheng.

Pengcheng was very dissatisfied with this, but there was nothing he could do.

However, he said that Liu Bei and others entered the county seat of Xiapi, and after a short wait outside the county house, the county officials who notified them came out and invited them in.

Although Zhe Rong is the prime minister of the state of Xiapi, he does not have the name of prime minister of the state of Xiapi, but he is open and upright, and he is not afraid to openly live in the prefecture of the state of Xiapi. From this point, it can be seen that Show a little bit of Zhe Rong's personality and character.

However, he was such a ruthless person. When he saw Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others entering the hall, his attitude was very polite.

Even after seeing the head of the slain state official, Zhe Rong still had no reaction.

Not only did he not get angry, he didn't even look angry at all, he just glanced at it indifferently, and immediately said to Liu Bei and Guan Yu who were sitting in the hall: "Xun Ying's name moves the world, and he is a hero in the world, but this son is Even if Xun Ying Yin didn't kill him, I would definitely kill him after I knew it, and I would make a special trip to plead guilty to Xun Ying Yin."

Not only Zhe Rong had this indifferent attitude, but most of Zhe Rong's subordinates who sat with him in the hall also had this attitude.

Zhe Rong saw the expressions of these two people, and immediately closed his eyes and remained silent.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu looked at each other, wondering what he was doing. He wanted to speak, but was motioned to stop him by those who sat with him.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu couldn't, so they could only stare at Zhe Rong, who was sitting in the hall with his eyes closed, and then look at the people who were sitting opposite him.

At this time, the few people who were sitting with him didn't care about Liu Bei, Guan Yu and the others, they all looked nervously at Zhe Rong.

The strange atmosphere in the hall continued for a while.

Zhe Rong opened his eyes, looked at the people who were sitting with him, and said, "I see him, he has risen to bliss."

The few people who sat with him in the hall suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and even the one or two people who showed strange expressions because of the death of this state official became more relaxed.

When looking at the head of the state official in this hall, there seemed to be a hint of envy in the eyes and expressions of these people.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu were inexplicable and had no idea what was going on in front of them.

But the two of them didn't know that Zherong was a Buddhist disciple, a Buddhist disciple.

Buddhism was introduced to China since Emperor Ming of Han Dynasty. Although it is far from the prosperity of later generations, there are quite a lot of people who believe in this way. Zhe Rong is one of them, and he is a very devout believer. .

Zhe Rong is responsible for collecting and transporting the food from the three counties in the south of the prefecture. This is a big fat difference. He gets a lot of oil and water from it, and most of the money he gets is used for the Buddha except for his own use and support for soldiers. , which shows his piety.

Zhe Rong turned his eyes, looked at Liu Bei and Guan Yu, stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips, and said, "It's not a pity for this son to kill himself, but now he has risen to bliss, but it is gratifying. ... I don't know. Xun Yingyin sent a few people here, what else do you want to tell me?"

For some reason, Liu Bei and Guan Yu only felt that Zhe Rong's action of "sticking out his scarlet tongue and licking his lips" was very dazzling, which made them both extremely uncomfortable. Liu Bei calmed down and replied, "Marquis Xun has no other orders."

"If that's the case, then please stay in Xiapi for a day or two. I'll take care of you tonight."

"There's no need for that. I have to rush back to my life."

Zhe Rong didn't hold back, nodded, and said, "Okay." He instructed the people who sat with him, "Go and fetch the few treasures I got a few days ago, and ask Liu Jun to bring them to Yingyin. , let it be my apology."

Liu Bei could not refuse, so he had to accept it.

Zhe Rong is a generous person. He brought out a lot of treasures and treasures. He packed a half-cart. Liu Bei and others escorted the car and said goodbye.

Before leaving, Liu Bei proposed to pay homage to the Prime Minister of the State of Xiapi. After all, he arrived in the State of Xiapi and entered the Xiapi County Mansion. It would be unreasonable not to see the Prime Minister, the real master of the county house. Seriously, Liu Bei was not allowed to pay homage on the grounds that he could not see the guests, and when Zhe Rong rejected Liu Bei, there were county officials from Xiapi who were with him, and none of these county officials had a different opinion because of this~www .wuxiaspot.com~ Those who oppose Cheng Rong, it can be seen that Cheng Rong has indeed firmly controlled the real power of Xiapi.

This time, the process went so smoothly, beyond Guan Yu's expectations, and beyond Liu Bei's expectations.

Although Liu Bei expected that Zhe Rong would not dare to do anything to him, he did not expect it to be so smooth and easy.

After leaving Xiapi County and looking back at the county seat, Guan Yu recalled what he saw in the Xiapi County Mansion. He only felt that Zherong made him very uncomfortable, but he could not tell where this uncomfortable feeling came from. Then he asked Liu Bei, "Who do you think Zherong is?"

"This man without benevolence, righteousness and faith."

"Where did you see it?"

"Being indifferent when you hear that a minister kills the villagers, this is not the kindness of loving the people; seeing the head of a minister and being indifferent, this has no right to care; deceiving the minister with evil words, this is not trustworthy." After Liu Bei finished speaking, he paused. paused, shook his head and sighed again.

Guan Yu asked, "Why do you sigh?"

"Such a ruthless, unrighteous and unbeliever, I really don't know why Uncle Fang would trust him!"

When he arrived at the Guangling County Mansion, Liu Bei reported these things, especially his impression of Zhe Rong.

Xun Zhen is very strange, Liu Bei is a great person, who is Zhe Rong? He had never heard of him in his previous life, and he had never heard of his name in this life before he came to Xuzhou, but such a person who is not well-known in his later life would make Liu Bei so disgusted, it is really strange, it seems Be wary of this person. However, Xun Zhen didn't know that in the original history, it was this Zang Rong who had killed three prefects of two thousand stone who warmly greeted him and lavishly entertained him in a short period of time.