For Cao Cao, Liu Bei only heard his name but never saw him, and he had deep envy, jealousy and hatred for him.
At that time, he was studying scriptures and studying knowledge with Lu Zhi on Goushi Mountain outside Luoyang City. It was during that time that Cao Cao beat Jian Shuo's uncle to death, which caused an uproar inside and outside Luoyang City.
This has nothing to do with Liu Bei. Whether it was then or now, he could not participate in the political struggles at the top of the Eastern Han Empire, nor could he have the deep political connections of the Cao family.
But he really didn't expect that Cao Cao would take the initiative to visit him.
Originally, his and Cao Cao's life trajectories should have been two parallel lines that did not intersect with each other. It was only because of the distortion of the troubled times that there was an unexpected intersection.
But it’s normal to think about it, because the current Liu Bei is not the original Liu Bei, and Cao Cao is still the original Cao Cao.
Cao Cao is now Yilang. Normally, he must have a very bright future. The collapse of the Song family's relatives will not affect his progress.
Since there is such a bright future, why does Cao Cao come to see him?
With such doubts, Liu Bei went to greet Cao Cao in person.
Walking to the door of his house, Liu Bei saw Cao Cao.
To be honest, because of the stereotype, Liu Bei thought he could sense Cao Cao's domineering power the moment he saw him. But no, what he saw was an ordinary-looking young man. He was not tall, but had a good body. Pretty solid.
I don't feel that Cao Cao has any special momentum at all.
After reacting, Liu Bei felt a little funny again, feeling that he was a little too harsh on the future overlord of the Central Plains who would be the sixth of the nine states in the world.
After all, he is just a Yilang now. Walking on the prosperous Luoyang Street, he is really the kind of person who will be drowned in the vast sea of people at any time.
As Liu Bei had judged before, Cao Cao at this moment, apart from his extraordinary family background, has nothing particularly outstanding. Everyone is still a rookie who has not yet leveled up, and is not yet a powerful warlord in the future.
So Liu Bei straightened his posture, put away all the emotions in his heart, showed a decent business smile, and saluted Cao Cao.
"I didn't know that Mr. Cao's visit was not welcomed at a distance. Please don't take it personally, Mr. Cao."
"Where are these words? It's because Cao didn't choose the right time to visit, which affected Liu Jun's rest. Please don't be offended, Liu Jun."
Cao Cao's voice was loud and full of energy, but it revealed a completely different feeling from his own body.
He returned Liu Bei's courtesy, which was thorough and showed his good tutoring.
interesting.
Liu Bei smiled.
"No, Liu just didn't expect that Jun Cao would come. A famous figure like Mr. Cao would also come to visit Liu. It really flattered Liu."
Cao Cao was a little curious.
"What's so famous about Cao? Liu Jun is the most famous person in Luoyang right now!"
"In the third year of Xiping, Cao Jun took office as the Northern Lieutenant of Luoyang. After taking office, he established a five-color stick and severe punishments to punish those who violated the ban. This incident caused an uproar at the time, and countless people applauded!"
Cao Cao was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Six years have passed, does Liu Jun still remember?"
Liu Bei nodded.
"At that time, Liu was studying scriptures with his teacher Lu Gong on Fengshi Mountain outside Luoyang City. When he heard about this incident, he was deeply impressed by Cao Jun's arrogance and ambition of not being afraid of power."
"I see, there is still this connection..."
Cao Cao lowered his head and smiled, with a hint of imperceptible disappointment flashing in his eyes. He quickly raised his head again and put on a cheerful smile.
"That's all in the past, it's not important."
"How can you say it's not important? Mr. Cao dared to severely punish the powerful uncle Jian Shuo with his mere position as the Northern Lieutenant of Luoyang. This is something that many people dare not do? Today, everyone is scolding Eunuchs, how many people dare to fight eunuchs?"
Liu Bei saluted Cao Cao: "This behavior alone is enough to make Liu admire him."
Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei who was saluting with a complicated expression, and then stepped forward to help Liu Bei up.
"Liu Jun deserves the award. Cao just did what he thought was the right thing, but... it was of no use."
Liu Bei raised his head and saw the helpless smile on Cao Cao's face.
It doesn't look like a fake.
Yes, that's right, this matter was indeed a hot-headed decision made by a stupid man, rather than some powerful plan.
Liu Bei can be sure that when Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, learned about this, he would be eager to rip off his stupid son's head and use it as a chamber pot.
In this case, Cao Cao must not be able to see the deep malice towards Liu Bei under his business smile.
Or jealousy.
Of course, he couldn't let Cao Cao know. If he was lucky, Cao Cao would never know in his lifetime.
He began to praise Cao Cao.
"No matter what, Mr. Cao is brave. Compared with those who only talk but do not do anything, Mr. Cao is much nobler than them."
Cao Cao took a deep look at Liu Bei, and then showed a calm smile.
"The thoughts of Mr. Liu are different from those of ordinary people. If the day is free, Mr. Cao hopes to have a drink and chat with Mr. Liu. However, it is getting late today. If you don't leave, you will violate the curfew order."
Only then did Liu Bei realize that he had blown a whistle with someone at the door of his home and hadn't invited them in for a drink of water.
"Liu is rude! Mr. Cao, please come in."
Liu Bei stepped aside and invited Cao Cao into his home, but Cao Cao did not enter.
"Liu Jun, Cao is here just to ask if Liu Jun is free tomorrow and if it is convenient."
"This...tomorrow is a holiday, so it's naturally free, and it's quite convenient..."
"That's good."
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Tomorrow, someone wants to invite Liu Jun to the mansion for a talk."
"Oh? Who?"
"Yuan Benchu, this person should be familiar to Mr. Liu, right?"
"…………"
Liu Bei was stunned.
Yuan Benchu?
Yuan Shao?
Liu Bei suddenly remembered that before Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, he was a real bastard of the Yuan family. He followed Yuan Shao in a wretched way and was actually equivalent to Yuan Shao's subordinates, but relatively more independent.
He wants to see me?
Liu Bei couldn't figure out why Yuan Shao invited him for a while, but he still agreed.
Everyone was so sincere in asking Cao Cao to invite him. It would be a bit disrespectful to not go and pay homage to him.
The high status of the Yuan family of the fourth and third generations in the Eastern Han Empire can be seen from the fact that they are called "Tian Xia Zhong".
Zhong means ranking second.
The Yuan family means that our old Yuan family is the second largest surname under Emperor Liu's family.
There is absolutely no basis for saying this. Four generations and three princes, disciples and former officials are all over the world. This is the best understanding of the Yuan family.
And Yuan Shao is one of the more famous among the new generation of this family.
However, he is not currently an official. It seems that he lived in seclusion in Luoyang because of the death of his father and mother.
So Cao Cao and Liu Bei agreed to send a chariot to meet Liu Bei tomorrow morning and personally take Liu Bei to Yuan Shao's mansion to meet with Yuan Shao.
After the agreement, Cao Cao said goodbye to Liu Bei. Liu Bei watched Cao Cao's car drive away, then turned around and entered the mansion.
"Mr. Lang, who came to see you?"
Seeing Liu Bei return to the room with a worried expression, Han Ning came up to him and helped Liu Bei take off his coat.
"Cao Mengde came to see me."
Liu Bei put the greeting card in his hand on the table, and then sat down: "Cao Mengde said that Yuan Shao wants to see me."
"Yuan Shao? Yuan Benchu? That Yuan Shao from the Yuan family in Runan?"
"Yes."
Liu Bei looked at Han Ning and nodded: "He wants to see me and invites me to his home tomorrow."
"He...how could he invite Mr. Lang? The fourth and third prince of the Yuan family in Runan, the family of Yue Yue, is extremely prominent."
Han Ning was obviously not a pure girl who knew nothing. She seemed to know a lot of things during this time in Luoyang.
"I can't figure this out either."
Liu Bei smiled: "But since the teacher can form a friendship with Yang Gong, it is not impossible for Yuan Benchu and I to live in harmony. Although Yuan Benchu lives in seclusion in Luoyang, he has a great reputation and a very good reputation. I will go there tomorrow Pay him a visit.”
That's what he said, but Liu Bei felt that this matter was a bit interesting.
This matter cannot be explained from an academic perspective.
The opposition between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school is far from the point where people from both sides have no contact with each other forever. The level of opposition is not even as high as the party struggle between the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. There was no winner or loser for more than two hundred years.
Yuan Shao, who came from a prominent family of the Modern Literature School, would not speak ill of someone just because he was a supporter of the Ancient Literature School.
They are opposites, but not completely opposite.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that you value your own reputation and try to be on good terms with yourself.
Liu Bei, who had been traveling among the scholars in Luoyang City before, had heard people say that although Yuan Shao lived in seclusion in Luoyang because of the mourning of his parents, he continued to make friends with heroes from all over the world in private, and even secretly made friends with party members, and his plans were not small. .
interesting.
Yuan Shao thinks that I am also one of the heroes of the world?
Liu Bei suddenly felt happy when he thought about it.
But then again, Yuan Shao is not a stable guy, or the entire Runan Yuan family is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
Just making a secret befriending a party member can be a matter of prosecution or even death in the current period of party imprisonment. However, the fourth and third sons of the Yuan family are relatively powerful, and the eunuch group cannot catch them all.
But this does not mean that the eunuch did not want to kill Yuan, just as Yuan also wanted to kill the eunuch.
Lu Zhi once told Liu Bei that although the Yuan family was once criticized for compromising with the eunuchs, seeing the eunuchs becoming more powerful and mature, and the imperial power becoming more and more convenient under their control, the Yuan family also felt worried.
Therefore, Lu Zhi speculated that although the Yuan family had no explicit actions, judging from their private actions, they must have big intentions.
They may want to achieve the great things that Dou Wu and Chen Fan failed to accomplish due to a combination of circumstances.
When Liu Hong came to the throne, the eunuchs were so powerful that Dou's relatives and some scholars headed by Chen Fan tried to unite to abolish the eunuchs and massacre them all.
However, due to someone leaking the secret and a series of mistakes, they failed. Instead, the power of the relatives and scholars was purged by the eunuchs who held the imperial power, and they were brutally killed, which directly triggered the second disaster of party imprisonment.
Thinking along this line of thinking, Liu Bei suddenly felt that everything suddenly became clear.
Yuan Shao, or the Yuan family, what is the political stance of these guys?
Liu Bei thought about everything he knew that might happen in the future, trying to get some useful information from it.
Then, he actually got some useful information and came to his own conclusion.
It's very simple. The political stance of these guys is to oppose eunuchs, or in other words, they want to achieve the dictatorship of scholars.
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