In the eyes of many people, Liu Bei is a very organized and purposeful person.
He never does anything meaningless, and everything he does is very purposeful, so making such a big noise now must have some purpose.
The potential enemies were very nervous, and their own people were not at ease either, because they found that they did not know what Liu Bei's purpose was.
So Cao Cao, who had the closest relationship with Liu Bei, was the first to find Liu Bei and wanted to ask Liu Bei about the purpose of doing things like this.
Who are you trying to deal with?
Or is there going to be some kind of political struggle?
When Cao Cao found Liu Bei, Liu Bei was watching the masons working hard to carve characters in the large courtyard.
"Ah? No, I just want to make a backup copy of these books and engrave them on stone tablets for preservation. In this way, even if the original copies are lost, the words engraved on the stone tablets will not be easily damaged and will be passed down to future generations.
The difficulty is reduced.
Look, these stones are all fine stones. I have people polish them carefully. I also plan to choose a good place to store them and bury them deep in the ground for future generations to discover and let future generations know about our time.
What are people thinking."
"ah?"
Now Cao Cao couldn't understand it.
"Why are you doing this?"
"In order to make these things that we can see, future generations can also see."
Liu Bei said with a smile: "When Yuan Gongli passed away, I was thinking that no matter how prominent a family is, it is inevitable that they will not encounter descendants like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and they will inevitably fall. The inheritance that is carefully planned, in the end,
If one descendant is stupid, the whole family will be nothing more than a handful of loess.
It used to be so glorious, but it was so miserable when it was destroyed. It was quite boring, so I gave up inheriting the family. I thought, instead of inheriting the family, it is better to pass on all the civilization and wisdom of the entire country, so I plan to pass on these
All the books were carved on stone tablets and hidden away.
In this way, even if the bamboo slips in our hands rot, are burned by fire, or are destroyed by others, there will still be hidden stone inscriptions that can prove their existence. The books are passed down, and the civilization will be passed down for thousands of years.
Future generations can also know the imprint left by our predecessors.
Meng De, think about it, these things I have carved now can be seen by future generations one or two thousand years later. No matter what kind of disaster occurs during this period, even if the entire collection of books is burned, future generations one or two thousand years later will not be able to see it.
People can also see this, and our civilization will be passed on.
Whether a family is prosperous or not is irrelevant. If civilization is passed down, no matter how the world changes, China will still be China. Isn’t this much better than carefully planning to inherit a family? "
Liu Bei smiled and patted the stone tablet, Cao Cao couldn't do it anymore.
",this……"
"Can't understand?"
"It's not that I can't understand it, it's just...the Liu family of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, don't you want to inherit it?"
"No matter how much effort I put into it, as long as there is a generation of unworthy descendants, the family will be ruined."
Liu Bei laughed and said: "What's the point of passing on a group of insects that are inferior to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu? What's the point of passing on a family? Just do whatever you want. If you want to pass it on, you must pass on civilization and pass it on to everyone.
Wouldn't it be more interesting to pass it on to everyone?"
"Passing on civilization..."
Cao Cao scratched his head and thought about it, feeling that he didn't quite understand Liu Bei's thoughts.
He only felt that what Liu Bei thought was quite powerful and reasonable, but if he were asked to do it, he would obviously not do it that way.
The inheritance of civilization is too long and is not an issue that he can consider now, and given his position, there is no need to consider such things.
As long as Liu Bei considers it.
But in this way, Liu Bei did not have any political significance in doing this, he just did it for the sake of doing this?
"It's really rare to do such a thing. I thought everything I did was very meaningful."
Cao Cao smiled and said: "The outside world is bustling with rumors. Everyone is guessing what important purpose you have in doing this, who you want to deal with, or what situation you want to change. Especially those in the Jinwen School, they are very scared.
It’s light, but I didn’t expect that it’s not like this at all…”
"The outside world's perception of me seems a bit strange."
Liu Bei stroked the stone tablet on the ground and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter. Everything I do has a purpose, but occasionally, I also want to do something that seems to have no meaning now, but for these people
I mean, they might not understand me."
Cao Cao nodded with deep understanding.
After all, this incident did not cause any disturbance. No matter Liu Bei's allies or potential enemies, no matter how they speculated, Liu Bei did not initiate any political actions that they expected.
And when the time comes to the end of October, Liu Bei is preparing to organize his army to deal with Yuan Shao. He hopes to deal with Yuan Shao before the end of the sixth year of Zhongping, so that this farce will come to an end and a new situation will usher in next year.
However, Liu Bei did not expect that he did not start this battle first.
After Liu Bei made Yuan Shao fall into a three-sided siege situation in Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou, he did not stop his diplomatic offensive.
He sent Cao Cao as a lobbyist to convey the imperial order, and persuaded Qiao Mao, who was the governor of Yanzhou at the time, to station troops in Wuyang in the east to intimidate Yuan Shao.
Qiao Mao, the governor of Yanzhou, was a clansman of the late Taiwei Qiao Xuan. Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao was still young. Among the senior officials in Luoyang, only Qiao Xuan was friendly to Cao Cao and gave Cao Cao a lot of care. Therefore, Cao Cao has never forgotten Qiao Xuan.
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Qiao Mao was a member of Qiao Xuan's tribe, so Liu Bei asked Cao Cao to serve as a messenger and go to Yanzhou with the imperial edict to persuade Qiao Mao to send troops to threaten Yuan Shao and follow the imperial court.
Qiao Mao didn't hesitate much.
Before Yuan Shu's fall, he had some ideas, but after Yuan Shu attacked and killed the clan, he had no such ideas at all. Later, when Chenliu County and Liang State sent troops to encircle Yuan Shu under the orders of the imperial court, Qiao Mao did not do anything to hinder him.
This time, in order to deal with Yuan Shao, the imperial court needed to use the power of Yanzhou. This made Qiao Mao, who wanted to establish relations with the new imperial court but had no way, very happy, so he entertained Cao Cao warmly, chatted and laughed with him, and finalized the plan to use troops against Yuan Shao.
matter.
At the same time, Cao Cao also followed Liu Bei's order to go to Taishan County to visit Bao Xin, who had retired to seclusion, and persuaded Bao Xin to resume his official career.
Bao Xin felt a little scared about He Jin's murder, and showed worry when he met Cao Cao.
Cao Cao just laughed at this.
"You left He Jin before He Jin's rebellion and did not continue to hold your position. You retired to the mountains and rivers. Even if He Jin rebelled, what does it have to do with you? Your clansman Bao Hong pacified He Jin and Yuan Wei
He made great contributions to the rebellion.
He recommended you to the general and recommended you, hoping that the general would not hold you responsible. The general has already approved it, so he sent me as an envoy to invite you to serve. Can't you feel the sincerity of the general?"
Bao Xin was very pleased with Cao Cao's advice and accepted the appointment directly without any pretense.
"The general is so magnanimous and generous that he can tolerate a sinner like me. What can I say about refusing his appointment? I am willing to serve the general!"
Cao Cao was overjoyed, so he announced on the spot that Bao Xin would be appointed as the governor of Dongjun, and asked Bao Xin to organize his troops in Dongjun to prepare for war. Together with Qiao Mao, the governor of Yanzhou, he was always ready to deal with Yuan Shao.
In mid-to-late October, Qiao Mao, the governor of Yanzhou, and Bao Xin, the prefect of Dongjun, stationed troops in Dongwuyang County of Dongjun to prepare for war, making a posture of going north to intimidate Yuan Shao.
At this point, the Jizhou encirclement was formed. Because of the Yuan family's rebellion and perverse actions, as well as Liu Bei's success in annihilating Yuan Shu, no one in the world believed that Yuan Shao still had a future.
As the saying goes, the fall of the wall and everyone's push, the destruction of the Yuan family is already a certainty. Those who followed the Yuan family before will be purged. Those who did not follow the Yuan family before are secretly glad that they have not been carried away by Yuan's words.
mind.
Now, obeying the Luoyang court is no longer a bet, but a normal behavior. After the crusade against Yuan Shu, the authority of the Luoyang court has been basically established. Now it is to strengthen the situation against Yuan Shao.
Under such premise of being besieged from all sides, Yuan Shao's anxiety can be imagined. Those who have gained huge benefits from following him to clean up the eunuch's industry are also quite anxious.
They can now understand the feeling of making money and liquidating the crematorium, but it is no longer possible to change the situation.
It was impossible for the Luoyang court to forgive them. Although the anti-eunuchs were politically correct, political correctness was no greater than the 100,000 elite Central Han Army.
What's more terrible is that Yuan Shu was defeated and the news of Runan's liquidation also spread to Jizhou. Now the situation where the Yuan brothers responded to each other from the south to the north is gone forever.
The old nest of the Yuan family was destroyed and its roots were dug out. Yuan Shu was quartered by five horses in Luoyang. The entire family was beheaded by the order of the Emperor Luoyang to comfort the late emperor. With the spirit of the two sect kings in the sky, Yuan Shao was completely fighting alone.
Surrounded by enemies on all sides, with no help, he fights alone.
Under such circumstances, Yuan Shao seems to have fallen into a deadlock, but when people are at stake, they can always use their final strength to survive. Of course, Yuan Shao will not wait for Liu Bei to put a noose on him.
, so he has to struggle.
Not only his fellows who followed him to earn eunuch money were also struggling hard, making various plans and efforts, just to gain allies and stir up the situation in the world.
Tian Feng, an important strategist, designed for him to give up looking for allies internally and instead look for allies externally.
Internally, you need to care a little bit about the reputation of the people in the world, and they are more narrow-minded, while externally, they are more inclined to actual interests. As long as you give enough money, they will be your allies.
For example, the Xianbei people, such as the Huns, they can all be Yuan Shao's helpers in his comeback, and only they can be Yuan Shao's helpers in his comeback.