Suddenly hearing the news of the trouble on Taiping Road in Jizhou, Liu Bei was very surprised at the time, thinking that the Yellow Turban Uprising had been advanced.
After asking around, I didn't hear any news about the Yellow Turban Uprising. Then I remembered that Zhang Jiao had done something several times before the seventh year of Guanghe. It was just small scale, little impact, and little loss, so I just played house with him. Just like home, it was quickly pacified by the local government.
Then he paid money to secure the place for the powerful believers in the local area, and then started activities.
From this point of view, the reason why the Yellow Turban Uprising in Guanghe's seventh year was able to cause thirty-six parties in the world to rise together was also due to the experience accumulated from several previous failed rebellions.
Otherwise, there is a saying that the leftover is king?
Since ancient times, there are very few people who can survive being caught for rebellion, and Zhang Jiao is one of them, so he has accumulated enough experience in rebellion.
At this time, Liu Bei's mind was filled with excitement.
He remembered that Youzhou was also one of the hardest-hit areas during the Yellow Turbans' uprising. With his current family fortune, he was definitely one of the targets of the Yellow Turbans' attack on local tyrants. If he didn't join them, he would have no choice but to wait to be attacked by them.
But in the final analysis, if he does not have a certain military foundation, whether he is on the side of the Han government or the Yellow Turban Army, he can easily become cannon fodder.
From that time on, he planned to develop his power in the direction of becoming a rich man.
To purchase land, build a farm, recruit tenants, and establish a foundation, you must first have the ability to protect yourself even in troubled times in the future.
From then on, he was no longer content to just be a street fighter, but began to actively transform into a local power. These refugees who were very grateful to him were regarded by him as a source of private armed forces and could not be easily dismissed.
He sent people to open a stockade for them in the deep mountains and old forests, allowing them to live on the mountain and continue to live. At the same time, he began to try to purchase land to establish a farm, and then slowly recruited tenants from this group of refugees to cultivate the land for him.
This was originally a good model. While relying on the mountains to eat, while waiting for Liu Bei to recruit him to cultivate the land, it was a good sustainable development.
Later, Liu Bei's power became more and more powerful, and he bought more and more land. The place gradually started to look like a powerful upstart. The lives of the refugees in the village were just making do with each other until today.
At the beginning, there were only two to three hundred people in the village, which was small. Liu Bei at that time could not feed that many people.
But now, there are about 2,500 Youzhou refugees living in Liu Bei's private farms and deep mountain villages, and there are as many as 700 young and middle-aged men. While cultivating the land and hunting in the mountains, they are also practicing martial arts secretly and exercising their strength. .
Liu Bei also discovered his earliest core team from among these people to expand his power and force and safeguard his own interests.
For example, Guan Yu from Hedong, who had to live in exile in Youzhou because of a life-threatening lawsuit, was discovered by Liu Bei and became a confidant because of his tall stature and extraordinary strength.
Zhang Fei, a young man from a small local family in Zhuo County, took the initiative to join Liu Bei because he admired Liu Bei's heroic reputation. He was regarded as a confidant by Liu Bei because he fought fiercely and risked his life.
Qianzhao, who was born in Hebei and grew up in Youzhou, also followed Liu Bei because he admired Liu Bei's martial ethics. The two had a good relationship, and they had a back-to-back relationship.
However, Qianzhao's family members called him back to his hometown a few years ago and studied with Leyin, a fellow country scholar. From then on, they only exchanged letters.
Ji Jian was one of the earliest confidants and was highly trusted by Liu Bei.
Jian Yong, a concubine of a powerful family who was from the same county and had fought with him when he was young, also came to Liu Bei because his mother died and was not tolerated by his family. Liu Bei regarded him as a confidant and made him the external spokesperson and diplomat of the Liu Group, which was just starting out. ambassador.
During this period, the help from the Liu clan in Zhuo County was still very important.
Once Liu Bei rose to power, although he was not as good as his father and grandfather in the eyes of his tribe, having such a tribe of people with strong martial arts was also a powerful deterrent to the outside world and could invisibly enhance the local competition of the Liu clan. force.
Everything is still profit.
So in the process of Liu Bei developing his power, the Liu clan provided Liu Bei with a lot of convenience and help, gave him some investments, helped him purchase land to expand his manor, and also allocated him some businesses run by the clan.
What he wanted was nothing more than Liu Bei's abundant martial virtue to intimidate outsiders and even the government.
But in the final analysis, Liu Bei and them only had a relationship of mutual use. The only real good friends were Liu Bo's family.
And Liu Bo also became Liu Bei's first nobleman in the true sense.
Because he provided Liu Bei with the opportunity to study under Lu Zhi, which opened up Liu Bei's path to heaven. When Liu Bei returned from his studies and returned to Zhuoxian, he successfully gained actual control of the Liu family. Liu Bo also took the greatest credit. .
Liu Bo met Lu Zhi through some unknown channel and had a certain friendship with Lu Zhi.
When he learned that Lu Zhi was planning to open a school to teach disciples in Fengshi Mountain, Luoyang, he fought for two places for his sons Liu Hui and Liu Bei.
To be honest, when his mother told Liu Bei about this, Liu Bei was stunned.
Years of experience in fighting and killing have made him almost forget the earliest experience of his desire to become famous.
When recalling the past, Liu Bei remembered that at that time he had the idea of using Lu Zhi to make him famous, but unfortunately there was no way.
But now, this opportunity has actually come to him on his own initiative, so the heart that has been dormant for many years and change his fate against the will of heaven is beating passionately again.
Liu Bei, who was fifteen years old at the time, was still not satisfied with his situation.
Because he realized that even if he became the top tyrant in Zhuoxian County, relied on each other for mutual use with his family, and even the government would take him seriously, in the final analysis, he would be just a minor player in the entire Eastern Han Empire.
Not to mention the Yellow Turban Uprising's indiscriminate attack on all social classes in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Xuande, a county-level tycoon, escaped the Yellow Turban Uprising. What is his survival rate in the troubled times in the future?
After the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo brought chaos to the country, the central authority of the Eastern Han Dynasty collapsed, and troubled times followed. How many people turned into a handful of loess?
Throughout the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty until the brief unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, although the population loss was not as exaggerated as the legendary 90%, it was still 50% to 50% from the peak population of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The good news sent by Liu Bo made Liu Bei break away from his sense of glory as a street fighter and re-examine the world. He was helpless to find that even though he had achieved the freedom of barbecue, he was still a trash fish in the entire Eastern Han social class.
A fish that won't stir up any splash even if it dies.
After experiencing the two life cycles of "Always Do Your Best While Living" and "Street Fighter", Liu Bei has long lost the arrogance and ignorance that he used to wield the three-axe of the time traveler.
His body is full of extreme survival skills, and his moves are aimed at people's vital points. They are not flashy at all, but they can kill people. An ordinary person who can't survive three moves in front of him will definitely lie on the ground.
He has now clearly realized the truth that "you have to pay a corresponding price for what you want to get", and he also knows that the knowledge he brought from his previous life can only be used in the real upper class society.
As for how to enter the upper class society in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the knowledge of modern civilized society was of little use.
The late Eastern Han Dynasty had its own rules of the game, and 95% of the people were unable to participate in the game, and 95% of the 5% who could participate were cannon fodder.
What the winner after the waves has experienced cannot be described as a bloody battle.
Therefore, this road is destined to be extremely dangerous and difficult. If you are not careful, you will lose everything and no bones will be left.
By coincidence, the ticket to participate in this game was sent to Liu Bei by the nobleman Liu Bo in the fourth year of Xiping.
To participate or not to participate?
Should he continue to be a county-level tycoon who can enjoy barbecue freely, or should he pursue that elusive possibility to achieve a breakthrough in social class?
Liu Bei pondered for a moment, took this entry-level standing ticket, which was not cheap, and used his own life as a bargaining chip to join this death game.
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