While he asked Yan Wen to lobby Liu Biao, he also made some arrangements for He Jin's general, Bao Xin, and wrote a letter to Bao Xin.
Bao Xin was a sibling of Bao Hong, one of the Xiyuan Military Academy lieutenants. Liu Bei and Bao Hong had fought side by side and had some friendship. This time, Bao Hong was used as an intermediary to ask Bao Hong to lobby Bao Xin.
When Bao Xin received Liu Bei's letter, he was preparing to return home to recruit troops under He Jin's orders.
He read Liu Bei's letter and then looked at Bao Hong, his face uncertain.
"The general has just appointed me as the cavalry captain, and is going to go back to his hometown to recruit troops to Luoyang to strengthen his troops. Now you want me to follow Liu's advice and betray the general. How can I do such a thing?"
"That's what I say, but am I just going to watch you die?"
Bao Hong shook his head and said: "We came to Luoyang to work hard for the glory of the family, but now we are forced to confront each other. This is not what I want to see, and this time, the emperor decided to take action against He Jin!
The name is just and the teacher has a reputation. Why do you continue to follow He Jin? You are helping the tyrants to do evil. Even if you die, you will not have a reputation of being loyal and good. I don't want you to do such a thing."
Bao Xin lowered his head and remained silent for a while before speaking.
"The general has been kind to me, and he is very kind to me. As a subordinate of the general, I should be loyal to the general. How can I betray the general?"
"Between the general's kindness and the emperor's order, do you want to choose the general and betray the emperor? It is true that you are a subordinate of the general, but all of us are subjects of the emperor."
Bao Hong said slowly: "Even the general himself is a minister of the emperor. The emperor ordered the general to disperse the army before, but the general did not obey the order. This is a blatant rebellion against the emperor's order!
At a small scale, this is disrespect for the emperor, and at a larger scale, it is rebellion and disobedience. The general himself has done such a thing and cannot play a good leading role. How can we expect that his subordinates will not betray him?"
Bao Xin looked hesitant.
"You can't say that. The general... must have his own reasons..."
Bao Hong shook his head repeatedly.
"That day, I have my own difficulties. You are a Han minister, not a minister of the He family. Even if the general summons you, how can you stick to trivial details on such a big issue? If the general rebels, do you also want to
Are you following the general and betraying the emperor?"
Bao Xin was speechless.
For a long time, Bao Xin looked at Bao Hong hesitantly.
"The general trusts me and entrusts me with an important mission. If I betray him, how can I live with dignity?"
Bao Hong thought for a while.
"Then resign, use your official position to repay the general's kindness to you, give up your official salary and return to your hometown to live in seclusion. This is not considered betrayal."
Bao Xin looked struggling, thinking about it, and suddenly spoke again.
"Is it certain that the general will lose?"
"You think so, won't the general lose?"
Bao Hong shook his head repeatedly and said: "And you have never seen the arrogant and powerful generals under Liu's command. I was lucky enough to see the power of Liu's army once. After I went back, the two groups fought, and I was still frightened. If I were allowed to command the Xiyuan Army and Liu's army,
The armies are fighting, and I cannot hold out a stick of incense."
Bao Xin knew that Bao Hong had military strategy and a lot of practical experience and was not a mediocre person, so he was shocked.
"Is Liu's army so strong?"
"His army has three meals a day, and they are never short of pay. They follow orders and prohibitions, are in good order, and have strict military regulations. This is the only thing I have ever seen in my life!"
Bao Hong sighed: "Why did Liu Ping only take two years to stabilize Liangzhou? In addition to his political strategy, the main reason was the rampage of his army. Otherwise, how could he continuously defeat the invasions of the Xianbei and Qiang people?
Counterattack?"
Bao Xin was stunned when he heard this.
"How could it be so?"
"That's it!"
Bao Hong nodded and said: "If it comes to the final meeting with Zhenzhang, neither the general nor the Yuan family will be Liu's opponent. I understand this deeply, so I can't just watch you die. You
Be sure not to make the wrong choice, otherwise I won't be able to save you!"
So Bao Xin stopped talking.
Finally, Bao Xin made a decision and decided to resign and go back to his hometown to live in seclusion and not be interested in worldly affairs from then on.
So the blast against Bao Xin was also successful.
In March of the sixth year of Zhongping, the Master-Disciple Alliance and the Chongzhi Alliance faced off tit-for-tat in Luoyang. Liu Bei launched an all-out attack, weakening He Jin and Yuan Wei's wings before the head-on confrontation, and launched internal blasts against them to weaken their strength to the maximum extent.
At the same time, the insects were also trying every means to target Liu Bei.
It's just that their methods against Liu Bei are relatively limited.
Because the team brought by Liu Bei were all trained by Liu Bei himself, they had formed an alliance of interests with Liu Bei a long time ago, and the relationship was relatively stable and iron-clad.
And if we look at it from two general directions, one part is people from Liangzhou, and the other part is people from other states.
Let alone the people from Liangzhou, they are Liu Bei's die-hard loyalists. Most people from other states followed Liu Bei earlier than the people from Liangzhou, and their loyalty is relatively high.
Not to mention the several major family forces that are tied together through marriage relationships.
Liu Bei can find many breakthrough points from the people around them, either he knows them personally, or he has acquaintances who can speak for him. There are many ways to find points of contact.
On the other hand, the core of Liu Bei's subordinates were either trained by him himself and climbed up from the bottom, or they were from Liangzhou.
For these people, Yuan Wei and He Jin could not find a breakthrough point.
Because these people have never been in their eyes, these low-level people have never been in their eyes, they don't care, they never thought that these people can become Liu Bei's powerful helpers.
So how to instigate rebellion?
Come to your door with gold and silver to instigate rebellion?
As for the few members of the high-ranking gentry under Liu Bei who came from Guandong, such as Xun You, they were unable to instigate rebellion, because the Xun family had openly sided with Lu Zhi, joined the master-disciple alliance, and had never been on good terms with the Yuan family.
To deal with it, you can't find a breakthrough.
As for those Yizhou people, He Jin and the Yuan family can find some connections, but these Yizhou people are not even Liu Bei's official subordinates, and have not even arrived in Luoyang.
Unable to hold a high position.
It is impossible to affect the stability of Liu Bei Group.
Even the Cao family and the Zhen family, who were most likely to be exploited, had been further bound by Liu Bei's marriage. When Yuan Wei wanted to lobby the Cao family for the last time, the people he sent were kicked out of the Cao family.
The front door of the house.
Cao Cao, who returned to Luoyang on the grounds of visiting family and vacation, did it himself.
The man who was kicked out was called Xu You, and he had an old relationship with Cao Cao.
Xu You tried to persuade Cao Cao to return to the warm family of the Yuan family. Cao Cao sneered and asked Xu You three questions.
First, can Yuan Wei accept his son Cao Ang as his disciple.
Second, can Yuan Ji take his sister as his concubine?
Third, can some of the economic benefits controlled by the Yuan family be given to the Cao family?
Xu You couldn't answer any of these three questions.
And Xu You truly believed that Cao Cao was really delusional.
What is your identity?
What is Yuan's identity?
What Yuan gave to you is yours. If Yuan doesn't give it to you, how dare you snatch it?
In this regard, Cao Cao's reply was also very clear.
"Whatever Yuan can give me, Liu can give me. What Yuan can't give me, Liu can also give me. Ziyuan, tell me, if you were me, what would you choose?"
Cao Cao looked at Xu You with a sneer.
Xu You was stunned, and then with a trace of jealousy that he couldn't explain, he said some sour words, such as that Liu Bei would definitely be defeated by the Yuan family.
It's not like Liu Bei can shake him.
Cao Cao laughed even more at this.
"The Emperor Liu was four hundred years old. What were the ancestors of the Yuan family doing four hundred years ago? Heritage? What do you mean? Heritage? It can be passed down to this day. Who doesn't have some heritage? Why is his Yuan family so noble while my Cao family is in decline? Bah.
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After finishing speaking, Cao Cao did not give Xu You a chance to continue his harsh words, and directly drove Xu You out of the house, ending the "friendship" he had with Xu You.
The boat of friendship between him and Xu You capsized.