After years of living at the bottom of a place like Youzhou, Liu Bei had already abandoned the modern civilized lifestyle and became more aboriginal and more vicious than the natives.
After this battle, he gained a reputation, took responsibility, and successfully rose to the top, becoming the new gang leader. Not only did he not let the gang collapse, he also directly annexed the rival gangs and took over their entire sphere of influence.
After that, Liu Bei's gang directly controlled the street order in the entire eastern part of the county and became serious street fighters.
At that time, the county government did not directly intervene in this matter.
The death of a person is not something that the county government should pay attention to. If one day there is no death of a person, it will be news.
The county magistrate at that time was an alcoholic. He liked drinking but did not like doing things. He left all matters to his local officials. The relationship between the major street gangs in the county and the county government has always been unclear.
After Liu Bei integrated the two major gangs, he eliminated the remaining victims who might complain, sent some things to the county government, and asked Liu Bo to contact acquaintances in the county government.
Acquaintances also enjoy their leisure time.
He saw that Liu Bei had done things beautifully, even the person who had suffered the crime was killed, and he had no worries, so he made a smooth favor with a stroke of his pen.
A total of eight members of the opponent's leadership who were cut off, together with their relatives and other victims, all became refugees who starved to death, and the incident was over.
So skilled.
Seeing how skillfully they did things, they were as careless as eating and drinking. Liu Bei believed that if one day he was killed, they would also have no scruples in letting themselves become the ridiculous "starved to death" in their writings.
of refugees”.
It can only be said that human life is worthless these days, whether it is the enemy's or Liu Bei's own.
In the eyes of the government and the gentlemen, that is a low life.
So Liu Bei finally achieved his goal of becoming a street fighter, and relied on his own strength to become the first tyrant in Zhuoxian County. He had enough food, drinking and eating meat was no longer a problem, and he no longer had to starve or freeze.
This was the starting point for his fortune after his rebirth in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
It all depends on your own bravery and a little bit of cleverness.
But if you just want to change your destiny against the will of heaven, achieve the freedom of barbecue and spices, and become a rich man, there is still a long way to go. Changing your destiny against the will of heaven cannot be done by just relying on bravery. What happened next is really not just about bravery.
It can be done.
Liu Bei was just reminiscing over there, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had already brought Ji Jian.
"Brother, are you looking for me?"
Liu Bei nodded.
"In this way, you can go back to the stronghold later to rectify the situation. Those who can fight should be armed. General mobilization. Come with me to Cheng Dazhi's stronghold tomorrow to do things."
"Cheng Dazhi?"
Ji Jian asked curiously: "How dare that guy provoke you? And we don't need to mobilize to deal with that guy, right?"
Liu Bei shook his head.
"He robbed a horse dealer of a hundred horses and killed people. The horse dealer came to me and placed a deposit of twenty taels of gold. He begged me to get his horses back, take people's money, and fight with people.
Eliminating disasters is something I have to take care of.
Moreover, I heard from behind-the-scenes that this guy is inexplicably related to Taiping Dao. Last year, Taiping Dao caused trouble in Jizhou again. Now, they have started robbing horses again. If you think about it by linking the two things, is there anything wrong?
The place?"
Ji Jian took a breath of air.
"Is that guy going to rebel?"
"It's hard to say, but it's okay to be fully prepared in advance."
Liu Bei said slowly: "Cheng Dazhi seems to be arrogant and unreasonable, but he is quite shrewd in his heart. Not many people have been able to gain a firm foothold in Zhuoxian County over the years. I don't want to capsize in the gutter."
Ji Jian listened and nodded solemnly.
"Okay, I understand, I will arrange the manpower."
"Well, please."
Liu Bei patted Ji Jian's shoulder and said: "No matter what this guy thinks, he will spit these horses out to me. Taiping Road is powerful in Jizhou, but this is Youzhou, Zhuojun, and even Zhuojun."
County, if I don’t nod, they won’t be able to mess around.”
Ji Jian nodded.
"only."
"Okay, go back and get ready."
Liu Bei smiled and asked again: "You haven't had a drink recently?"
When Ji Jian heard this, he trembled and looked embarrassed.
"Never drank again."
"Well, that's right. Wine is a poison that penetrates the intestines. Don't drink it when you shouldn't."
"Never drink again, never drink again."
Ji Jian obviously had some psychological shadow about drinking, and he felt uncomfortable when the topic was brought up.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on others, but mainly on himself.
At that time, Ji Jian lost his moral integrity after drinking and did some bad things. He almost molested an older girl in the village. The person who tried to stop him beat him until he vomited blood.
Liu Bei was so furious that he rushed to the village in person, hung Ji Jian up at the entrance of the village, and beat Ji Jian with a whip until he couldn't get out of bed for more than half a month.
From then on, the village was in order, and nothing like this happened again. Ji Jian seemed to have suffered from drinking PTSD because of this. He twitched all over when he saw wine, and never drank again. He was laughed at by Zhang Fei for this.
For a while.
This guy is good at everything, he is loyal, obeys orders, brave, and is not afraid of death. When Liu Bei gives an order, he will hit wherever he points without even frowning.
It’s just that the wine is not good.
It is said that a country is easy to change but its nature is hard to change. Liu Bei knew that it was very difficult for him to correct himself, so he directly used physical means to force correction.
Ji Jian is much better now. He doesn't drink at all, and he doesn't get confused. He strictly abides by the rules and regulations set by Liu Bei and doesn't dare to violate them. The entire village is in order under his leadership, and it looks like a military management.
Ji Jian took Liu Bei's order and returned to the village to mobilize the young men to prepare for war.
Looking at his leaving figure, Liu Bei was also quite emotional.
Ji Jian followed Liu Bei a long time ago, earlier than Guan Yu and Zhang Fei followed Liu Bei.
When Liu Bei joined a street gang at the age of twelve, he was one of the first younger brothers to follow Liu Bei because he admired Liu Bei's life-threatening momentum in engaging in multi-person sports. He is two years older than Liu Bei, but he admired Liu Bei's courage and life-threatening mad dog.
Spirit, recognize him as a big boss.
Later, more and more younger brothers followed Liu Bei, but the first group of younger brothers were always the most important to Liu Bei.
Unfortunately, some of them were killed in fights, some died of illnesses that could not be cured, and some were targeted by the government because of their crimes. Liu Bei could not offer a price that the government was satisfied with, so he had to make them leave their homes.
She took shelter from the limelight and left the main force.
Up to now, Ji Jian was the only one of the first batch of younger brothers who still followed Liu Bei, so Liu Bei valued him very much and personally taught him reading and writing skills. Later, he also taught Ji Jian some of the military skills learned by Gen Luzhi.
And because he was obedient and would carry out what Liu Bei said, Liu Bei also handed over the management of the village to Ji Jian.
Shanzhai was funded and built by Liu Bei. It was first built as a shelter specifically to accommodate refugees from all over the country who were unable to survive due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.
Some locals had to flee because of the harsh government, and some outsiders had to flee because of natural disasters. Those who were lucky enough to make it to Zhuoxian alive were all taken in by Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was kind-hearted at first and wanted to give them a bowl of rice.
As the saying goes, "You can't bear to see someone alive but you can't bear to see someone die." Liu Bei, who had been exposed to rain and saw someone dying under the heavy rain, really couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart. The traces of civilized society could not be completely erased from his heart.
Later, Liu Bei discovered that there were many young and middle-aged people among these refugees, so he thought of recruiting some young and middle-aged people to join the gang to increase his power.
But later, the number of people increased, and Liu Bei was nicknamed Xiao Mengchang of Zhuo County, which aroused uneasiness among the officials - you were originally a street fighter, but now you are taking in so many refugees, why are you taking in so many refugees?
rebel?
At that time, Liu Bei was not the son-in-law of the governor of Zhuo County, and the magistrate of Zhuo County was not Gongsun Zan, so in order to deal with the suspicion of the Zhuo County officials, he had to dismiss these refugees on the surface.
Of course, this was not a real demobilization, it was just a pretense, and they were actually hidden in the mountains and forests farther away from the county seat.
Because at that time Liu Bei heard about Zhang Jiao, a Taiping Taoist in Jizhou, who was causing trouble in Jizhou.