When it comes to luck, Liu Bei feels that if he says he is second, no one dares to say he is first.
An obvious example is that when going south to Luoyang with Liu Hui, the group encountered Gongsun Zan who was being besieged by bandits.
In line with the heroic spirit and the principle of roaring when encountering injustice, Liu Bei led his companions Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and ten younger brothers and rushed over, defeated the bandits and helped Gongsun Zan.
Gongsun Zan was very happy to see the martial virtues of Liu Bei and others, and he and Liu Bei formed a good friendship from then on.
Later, Liu Bei learned that Gongsun Zan was the son-in-law of the then governor of Liaoxi County and a son of the wealthy Gongsun family. He had a bright future, so he intended to get close to and make friends with him. The two studied together on Fengshi Mountain and had a good relationship.
But speaking of it, these big guys’ education methods for their social disciples are extremely close to being free-range.
Lu Zhi himself only appeared once a month since he started teaching. Until he was appointed as the prefect of Jiujiang County and left Luoyang, he only appeared on Fengshi Mountain four times in total.
Gongsun Zan doesn't care, he is here to get gold.
Although he was the concubine of the Gongsun family and had no status, he was also lucky enough to become the son-in-law of the county governor. With the county governor's help in running the filial piety and integrity program, he would become an official sooner or later, and his future would be stable.
The reason why he wants to pretend to be Lu Zhi's disciple is that Lu Zhi is from Youzhou and everyone is from the same state.
On the other hand, although the ancient literature school cannot compete with the modern literature school in high-level political games, in society, the popularity of the ancient literature school is far higher than that of the modern literature school.
Gongsun Zan, who came from a powerful family in the border areas, naturally had no hope of entering the Modern Literature School. However, in order to have the possibility of entering the central government in the future, it might not be a bad thing to use Lu Zhi as a medium to enter the hodgepodge group of the Ancient Literature School.
At this time in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, although Sima Yan was not as ashamed as Sima Yan was decades later because Sima Yi had been in charge of the military and led troops in battles, if a military general wanted to be respected, in addition to military merit, it was best to be a Confucian scholar. Origin.
You must have the ability to be a general or a prime minister in order to be respected and praised. Otherwise, you are just a vulgar martial artist.
Although Gongsun Zan is tall, handsome and talented, his cultural level is limited and his personality is more about burning books and enticing Confucian scholars. He is exactly the kind of person who needs the endorsement of Confucian scholars to show that he is not a arrogant warrior.
Therefore, Gongsun Zan didn't care how he learned, he just needed the "Lu family disciple" as a sign.
So while he was studying, he wouldn't come if Lu Zhi didn't come. He spent every day wandering around in the colorful world of Luoyang City, throwing money around, and was very happy.
But not Liu Bei.
At that time, Liu Bei did not have a county eunuch as his father-in-law, and no one could help him plan his future. The only hope for him to break through the ceiling of powerful landowners and join the noble family and advance to the next level was Lu Zhi.
Therefore, his goal is not to be Lu Zhi's disciple, but to be a true disciple.
But it would be impossible to wait for Lu Zhi to appear in front of him, so he took the initiative to go to Luoyang to look for Lu Zhi in the name of studying.
There are indeed many people who come to the Fengshi Mountain for gilding, but there are also many who come to study with the hope of a carp leaping over the dragon's gate. They are in a similar situation to Liu Bei, and they also want to meet Lu Zhi.
At that time, Lu Zhi's main energy was on proofreading Confucian classics and carving Xiping Stone Scriptures with Cai Yong, Li Xun and others. He didn't have much time to pay attention to these gilded monsters, and none of them were seen.
He naturally knows the true purpose of these disciples, and he also knows that the disciples also know the true purpose of his teaching classes. Therefore, everyone is essentially just using each other. It is enough to have a name, and it is not necessary to meet in person.
It is the so-called routine that plays deep, whoever takes it seriously.
But Liu Bei took it seriously.
He waited at the entrance of Lu Zhi's mansion, often waiting all day long.
Sometimes, with luck, Lu Zhi would come back when there was still daylight, and he would be able to step forward and shout to ask for Lu Zhi, but of course, it was of no use, and Lu Zhi ignored him at all.
Sometimes he was unlucky. Lu Zhi still didn't come back until the gates of Luoyang City were closed and there was a curfew. He had no choice but to leave Luoyang City and go back to the school in Fengshi Mountain to study and rest.
Although Lu Zhi does not come to teach, there are still some books in Fengshishan Academy.
Although paper already exists these days, and there is Qingzhou paper with relatively good quality, long-term concepts are not so easy to change.
People at this time still believed that bamboo slips could better preserve writing and knowledge, so all important texts were written on bamboo slips instead of paper.
Therefore, books are written in volumes on bamboo slips. They are very heavy and very precious. Children of ordinary people will never see a bamboo slip in their lifetime, just like most modern people will never see a money printing machine in their lifetime. Same as the machine.
There are indeed many books in Fengshishan Academy. The people who manage the school do not allow students to take these books away, but they can borrow them in the school. There is no threshold. As long as they are willing to read, the classic articles of the Five Classics of Confucianism are at least enough.
As for whether he can understand it, that's not something Lu Zhi needs to consider.
Even if he came, he would just go through the motions, show his face and tell everyone that he was still alive, and nothing else.
Liu Bei did not waste this opportunity.
There were no books in his home, only a few scrolls of bamboo slips, with words written by his father on them. He looked at them and found that the contents were part of the "Book of Han". Apparently his father had received some knowledge of "Han Shu" when he was young. Education in books.
But he didn't have this chance.
He has received modern education for more than ten years. He was also very interested in ancient Chinese in his previous life. He read many ancient books and translations, but he did not remember many of them.
Taking advantage of the opportunity on Fengshi Mountain, he stayed up late to read at night. Over the past few months, he read for two or three hours every day, and he also read a lot of books on the mountain.
It's not that he can read ten lines at a glance, but that these classic articles generally have a small number of words. For example, Zuo Zhuan has more than 17,000 words in total. The wording and sentence selection are extremely simple, and it really doesn't take much time to read them. I can watch it several more times.
As a result, he can recite some familiar content smoothly, and he can read unfamiliar content several times, and with the foundation of modern education, he can understand the meaning to some extent.
Of course, he spent most of his time waiting for Lu Zhi.
At first, there were some people like him waiting together, hoping to try their luck to impress Lu Zhi. When they saw Lu Zhi coming home early, they swarmed over.
But more than a month later, they realized that they were the only ones who were moved by this, and Lu Zhi's heart was not disturbed, so they realized that his behavior was stupid, thinking that life was short, they might as well enjoy themselves in time, so they swarmed into In the colorful world of Luoyang.
More than fifty days later, apart from the friends who occasionally came to hand over greeting cards, Liu Bei was the only student from Fengshishan who remained at the gate of Lu Zhi's Mansion.
He just refused to leave, not caring about the idiot-looking look from the gatekeeper of Lu Zhi Mansion, and took his shameless spirit to the extreme.
Anyway, for him, a street gangster, shame is meaningless if it can't be exchanged for food.
Early in the morning, as soon as the gate of Luoyang City opened, he rushed into Luoyang City and stood at the gate of Lu Zhi's mansion. When he saw Lu Zhi leaving the gate of the mansion during the day, he did not stop him, but just bowed and saluted.
If Lu Zhi went home before the city gate closed in the afternoon, he would step forward and report his place of origin and name.
Of course, Lu Zhi never ignored him at first.
By the second month, Lu Zhi would stand slightly, look at him sideways, looking rather contemptuous, then enter the mansion without saying a word and close the door.
By the third month, Lu Zhi still ignored him, but he could turn his head and look at him, but still did not stop to talk to him.
Is there hope?
Liu Bei didn't know it at the time.
This incident gradually spread among the students of Fengshishan.
Everyone said that Liu Bei was stubborn. He knew that Lu Zhi could not see him alone, but he still wasted time asking to see Lu Zhi. What was the point of this?
When Gongsun Zan learned of this, he went to the gate of Lu Zhi's Mansion and invited Liu Bei to a good tavern in Luoyang to have a drink and have fun. Liu Bei declined, saying that he would continue to wait for him at the gate of Lu Zhi's Mansion.
Gongsun Zan sighed deeply for this.
"Xuande, why are you bothering? Mr. Lu obviously only regards us as his disciples and will not let us become his disciples. Even if he is an ancient scripture master, he must have already appointed his disciples. We border warriors , people don’t like it.”
Liu Bei just shook his head.
"Brother may not believe it, but I take it seriously. Mr. Lu himself is from the border areas, so he should know how difficult it is for students from the border areas to study."
Gongsun Zan still sighed.
"Perhaps a great scholar like Mr. Lu has never taken us seriously. If you stay here, you are stubborn at best, and at worst... Do you know how others evaluate you? They say you are just doing your own thing. It’s just a shame, why bother wasting your good years like this?”
Liu Bei still shook his head.
"Gong Lu would have studied in those days, and he should have known the pain of studying and seeking knowledge. If he didn't talk to me or drive me away, I would never give up or leave."
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