Chen Ji, the Prime Minister of Pingyuan, was naturally very aware of Liu Bei's edict to encourage 30,000 people to cultivate open fields. However, Chen Ji did not have too much involvement in these matters.
For Chen Ji, writing books and explaining things is what Chen Ji is willing to do.
In his early years, decades of party control had allowed Chen Ji to fully understand the true nature of the Han Dynasty.
After Liu Bei took office, Chen Ji also had many contacts with Liu Bei. However, the relationship between Chen Ji and Liu Bei was not because of political affairs, but because he and Liu Bei often discussed the rise and fall of the world and the control of chaos.
For Chen Ji, talking about these things is far more interesting than those political affairs.
Chen Ji also heard a lot about Liu Bei's benevolent and righteous actions in the plains.
After Chen Ji learned that Liu Bei once treated an assassin who came to assassinate him as a guest of honor, ate and chatted with the assassin without any official pretense, and finally converted the assassin, Chen Ji even expressed his love for Liu Bei. Acts of benevolence and righteousness are doubly respected.
After interacting with Liu Bei for a period of time, Chen Ji also gradually understood Liu Bei's personality. Under the surface of benevolence, righteousness, kindness, diligence and love for the people, there was also an ambition that he did not dare to do so.
Sometimes Chen Ji felt that if Liu Bei were to be the leader of the Liu family, he would definitely be stronger than Liu Hong.
After Chen Ji learned about Liu Bei's influence on the assassins, he only felt Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness. When Liu Bei's subordinates Guan Yu, Chen Meng and others learned that Liu Ping sent the assassins to kill Liu Bei, in addition to feeling Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness, they also He also felt that he must let Liu Ping know who was the head of Pingyuan County.
Before Liu Bei came to Pingyuan, most of the young talents in Pingyuan County were attached to Liu Ping, but after Liu Bei arrived, this situation changed.
Because Liu Bei was approachable and had close friendships with the young talents in the plains, and never showed his official airs in front of these people, all the young talents who were originally attached to Liu Ping changed their positions and became attached to Liu Bei.
This incident naturally found it difficult for Liu Ping, who was accustomed to being respected by others, to accept it. His jealousy grew increasingly intense.
However, after Liu Bei came to Pingyuan, he not only successfully surrendered the rebels in Pingyuan County, but also eliminated the Wang family in Pingyuan County that was as famous as Liu Ping's family. This naturally made Liu Ping afraid to act rashly for a while.
However, they are all descendants of the royal family. After careful calculation, Liu Ping's seniority is higher than Liu Bei's. Liu Ping naturally does not want to live under Liu Bei for a long time. Therefore, Liu Ping came up with a conspiracy to assassinate Liu Bei. He chose one of himself. As a retainer, let this retainer assassinate Liu Bei.
But Liu Ping never imagined that the assassin he sent would be infected by Liu Bei. Not only did he not kill Liu Bei, but he also told the truth about the assassination of Liu Bei. This made Liu Ping both unbelievable and very worried.
When Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Chen Meng, Zhao Yun, and Tian Yu led 500 elite soldiers to surround Liu Ping in his manor, Liu Ping did not even raise the slightest intention to resist.
After Liu Ping offered 20 million yuan and 2,000 hu of grain, Chen Meng tried his best to persuade Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others to forgive Liu Ping.
Because Liu Bei is not very short of food at this time, so a strong man like Liu Ping should be raised now, and it will not be too late to kill him after he is fattened up.
However, after this incident, Chen Meng began to realize that he needed to find a bodyguard for his eldest brother as soon as possible. The further he went, the more enemies he had, and the more vulnerable Liu Bei was to various plots by his enemies. Chen Meng didn't think about it at all. What happened to the overlord Sun Ce happened to his eldest brother.
However, now Liu Bei has four tiger generals, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Tian Yu, and Chen Meng is reluctant to let go of any of them. It is too unfair to let these four people serve as bodyguards. Guan Yu, who is powerful in China, shouts at Zhang Fei, who shocks the enemy to death.
, Zhao Yun, who is full of courage, and Tian Yu, who does not care about money, these four are all generals who can stand alone.
When Chen Meng proposed to send a bodyguard to Liu Bei, Liu Bei refused directly with "You want to isolate me from the people."
Liu Bei insisted on not wanting bodyguards, and Chen Meng had no other good solution for a while. In desperation, Chen Meng had no choice but to take out a few warriors from the army and let these people guard Liu Bei's mansion at all times to protect Liu Bei's safety.
With the existence of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Tian Yu, Chen Meng did not need to intervene in the training of the six thousand soldiers, and Chen Meng could not interfere at all even if he wanted to.
Each of these four people looked at the soldiers under their command as if they were their own treasures, fearing that they would be snatched away by others.
Every time he saw how these four people cared about his soldiers, Chen Meng wanted to recruit thousands more soldiers for them. However, after seeing the grain stored in the granary in Pingyuan County, Chen Meng had to put the matter of army expansion on the back burner.
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On April 11, 189 AD, Liu Hong, who was only 33 years old, passed away in the Jiade Hall of Nangong and was given the posthumous title of Emperor Xiaoling.
The shrewdness of virtue is called Ling; the chaos without damage is called Ling. The word "Ling" has both good and evil titles. But Liu Hong's spirit is evil.
General He Jin and Queen He established the prince Liu Bian as emperor, and the dictatorship of his relative He family was formed.
Liu Bian succeeded to the throne and granted amnesty to the world.
After Liu Bian succeeded to the throne, He Jin killed the eunuch Jian Shuo who had previously supported Liu Xie as emperor, moved the Empress Dowager Dong out of the capital, and imprisoned the hussar general Dong Chong, causing Dong Chong to commit suicide.
In July 189 AD, Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the Central Military Academy, suggested that General He Jin kill all the eunuchs. However, He Jin was a newly wealthy relative of a foreign family. He always respected the eunuchs, but he did not dare to make a decision when encountering problems, and it was difficult to take action for a while.
Later, Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the Central Military Academy, suggested that He Jin signal heroes from all over the world to come to the capital and kill the eunuchs. He Jin followed his advice and summoned former general Dong Zhuo to garrison Shanglinyuan in Guanzhong, summoned Dongjun prefect Qiao Mao to garrison Chenggao, and sent Wu Mengdu Wei Ding
Original burning Mengjin.
But before Dong Zhuo reached Luoyang, He Jin had been killed by the eunuchs.
He Jin's subordinates were angry that He Jin was killed by the eunuchs, so they led their troops into the palace and killed all the beardless people in the palace.
The eunuchs Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and others kidnapped Emperor Liu Bian, and the Queen Mother and Chenliu King Liu Xie fled in haste.
At Mang Mountain in the north of Luoyang, he met former general Dong Zhuo. Under the protection of Dong Zhuo, Emperor Liu Bian, the Queen Mother, and Chenliu King Liu Xie returned to the imperial capital Luoyang.
After Dong Zhuo entered the capital, he collected all of He Jin's former subordinates, and bribed Lu Bu to kill Ding Yuan, thus capturing all of Ding Yuan's subordinates. The military strength was very strong.
In September 189 AD, in order to consolidate his power, Dong Zhuo, who was in great power, decided to depose Liu Bian from his position and make Liu Xie, King of Chenliu, the emperor. Subsequently, Dong Zhuo claimed to be the prime minister of the country, and his power was overwhelming.
After Dong Zhuo entered the capital, in order to win over the nobles, he recruited many famous people and offered them official positions. He appointed Yuan Shao as the governor of Bohai County, Yuan Shu as the rear general, Cao Cao as the Xiaoqi captain, Liu Biao as the pastor of Jingzhou, and Han Fu as the general.
Jizhou Mu appointed Liu Dai as the governor of Yanzhou, Kong You as the governor of Yuzhou, Zhang Zi as the governor of Nanyang, Zhang Miao as the governor of Chenliu, etc.
But what Dong Zhuo didn't know was that the nobles he appointed looked down upon Dong Zhuo at all, and these people appointed by Dong Zhuo became the first to resist Dong Zhuo.
These things that happened in Luoyang, the capital, had no impact on Liu Bei and others who were far away in the plains. Chen Meng naturally knew that the weather in Luoyang, the capital, had changed again and again during this year.
However, when Liu Bei received funeral or good news from the capital Luoyang from time to time in the plains, he had already vaguely sensed the signs of imminent chaos in the world. This chapter has been completed!