Liu Bei didn't think that much.
What he is thinking about now is what will he bring to himself and what will he bring to Yuan Shao after making good friends with Yuan Shao and joining Yuan Shao's camp.
To be precise, if done well, this wave will be a win-win situation.
Yuan Shao needed the energy and huge popularity of the Ancient Literature School behind him, and what he needed was the protection of the political energy possessed by the Yuan family.
Although he may only get a little bit of scraps from the Yuan family, these are the scraps from the first family under the royal family of the Eastern Han Dynasty. For Liu Bei now, the scraps from the Yuan family are enough for him to rise in the daytime.
What's more, it's just scraps now, but after the world is in chaos in the future, with a series of tricks by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the Yuan family will be tricked to death by them. By then, the political energy of the Yuan family will be divided into two, each belonging to Yuan Shao. and Yuan Shu.
That's not just scraps, that's huge energy that can affect the world's trends.
Since you have decided to mix in the upper class society of the Eastern Han Empire, you must take a longer-term view.
Modern businessmen have a cunning operation called backdoor listing, which is quite like a white wolf with empty gloves.
Liu Bei realized that his background was too poor and he did not have enough political background. If he relied solely on his accumulation in the ancient classics school and continued to follow the normal path, he would not be able to become a big boss until he was at least Lu Zhi's age.
How old are you?
Moreover, once the troubled times begin and warlords fight, the battle between modern and ancient literature will come to an end in form, and it will no longer be able to continue.
Everyone is stabbing each other with knives, who will argue with you?
A glib tongue is no match for a sharp sword, and the weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of a weapon. Everyone is trying to fool each other. Politics and military affairs are the most important. Academics and art have to lean back, no matter what. used.
That is to say, we are still in a relatively stable period of time. Literature and art can still bring great fame to ourselves, and Confucian classics can still play a certain role, but this window period is already very short.
If nothing happens to Liu Hong, then no later than the first year of Chuping, that is, nine years later, after Liu Hong is finished and Dong Zhuo enters the capital, troubled times begin and everything will be reshuffled.
Therefore, the time left for yourself is only nine years at most.
If there is no result within nine years, the greatest significance of running up and down in the ancient literature school in pursuit of fame will be lost.
Therefore, Liu Bei must speed up and get all this done before trouble comes.
Lu Zhi's energy is insufficient, and what he can currently obtain, only Yuan Shao has this energy, which can give Liu Bei a chance to super-accelerate his backhand.
In the original history, Cao Cao and Sun Ce, who emerged after the fall of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, were both good at backdoor listings, especially Sun Ce. The little overlord was indeed a little overlord, and his political sense was quite sensitive.
Although they may not have taken the initiative to go public through backdoor listing, when they got to that point, with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu committing suicide, it would be difficult for them not to go public.
The torrent of history has pushed them to the forefront, and in a normal time period, Cao Cao, Sun Ce and others would have been the type who would never be able to get ahead in their lives.
But by that time, Liu Bei was not too young.
The current situation is that there are two roads in front of him, and both of them can be walked. They are not parallel to each other.
One is to go with the flow, wait for the beginning of troubled times, and then compete for hegemony among the heroes. Taking a familiar path will be slightly less difficult.
The other option is to take an unimagined path and do something before the troubled times begin. Maybe there will be unexpected gains.
If a path that was never imagined before the beginning of troubled times fails, the path of troubled times can still be continued. This is the historical advantage brought to Liu Bei by his prophetic status.
In this case, why not try to take a path you have never imagined?
What if there is an unexpected gain?
After figuring out this joint, Liu Bei no longer had any confusion about the future. He began to calm down and plan for this unimagined path for the future.
Now that I join the Yuan Shao Group, it can be regarded as an investment, or even an original stock.
Just like Cao Cao, he relied on the power of the Cao family in the court to cover Yuan Shao's various actions. Although Cao Cao's identity was not visible, the family held real power, and Yuan Shao had to rely on Cao Cao to provide him with protection at certain times. Cover.
This is considered an investment behavior. Yuan Shao Group has actually accepted Cao Cao's investment, and Cao Cao has become a shareholder of the startup company Yuan Shao Group.
And Liu Bei joining now can be regarded as an investment.
Liu Bei had his own reputation, as well as the scholars of the Classical School of Classics who admired him behind his back, and Lu Zhi as his backing. The great reputation that came from all these was his investment.
Once Yuan Shao accepted it, he also recognized Liu Bei's investment, and Liu Bei became one of the shareholders of Yuan Shao Group from then on.
After having a relatively clear plan for the future, Liu Bei relaxed.
He plans to use this as a basis to further plan to gradually increase his influence in the Yuan Shao Group.
Thinking of this, Liu Bei remembered the subsequent disintegration of the Yuan family's power.
After Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu launched an army to attack Dong Zhuo and the Yuan family fell, the huge political power possessed by the Yuan family split into two factions, and they took refuge in Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao respectively.
Yuan Shao was raising troops in Hebei at that time, while Yuan Shu went to Runan to raise troops.
This allocation is quite interesting.
Runan is the base camp of the Yuan family. As the direct heir of the Yuan family after Yuan Wei and Yuan Ji died one after another, Yuan Shu naturally inherited the family business of the Yuan family in Runan, so he chose to launch military operations in Runan and pull up a force. The army rebelled against Dong Zhuo.
Yuan Shao ran to Hebei and raised an army in Bohai County of Jizhou, where Yuan's former official Han Fu was in charge, to resist Dong Zhuo.
At first glance, there is nothing strange about this, but Liu Bei, who is well aware of the huge power of the Yuan family's disciples and former officials all over the world, is very clear about the hidden rules.
To put it simply, those who follow Yuan Shao are part of the Yuan family's political power [old officials], while those who follow Yuan Shu are part of the Yuan family's political power [disciples].
The Yuan family started to make a fortune from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty. The ancestors of the family began to serve as officials from the county guard. Because the county guard already had the power of "relocation", the Yuan family began to have old officials from the early Eastern Han Dynasty.
As the Yuan family was passed down from generation to generation, the status of the family became higher and higher, and finally there was a political grand situation of four generations and three princes. Even a county governor could accumulate his own political power, let alone a high-ranking official at the level of three princes.
Four consecutive generations have become senior officials at the three-gong level. Each generation can choose to promote countless young talents into the officialdom and become their own officials.
As they grew up, they were either sent out to serve as county magistrates, governors, governors, or officials in the central government, and became the "old officials" of the Yuan family.
The Yuan family's four ministers at the three-gong level are passed down from generation to generation, and the Yuan family has more "legends" from one generation to the next.
By the time of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the Yuan family's former officials had really spread throughout the Han Dynasty, serving as different officials in the central government and in different states, counties and counties.
The leader of the Yuan family waved his arms. As long as they did not rebel, these officials must respond in groups and respond to the political call of the leader of the Yuan family - not to mention whether they would actually put it into action, but at least respond verbally.
But this is not the core strength.
Compared with the disciple group, the Guli Group is actually a little alienated from the power of the Yuan family.
Because the official group may not necessarily have been taught by the Yuan family, they may have learned from others, or simply came up through the wild road, and are not absolutely loyal to the Yuan family, such as Dong Zhuo, a famous young man.
However, the disciple has been inherited by the Runan Yuan family's family tradition "Meng Shi Yi". At least on the surface, it is like this. Whether it is academic or official career, they are all promoted by the Yuan family, which requires absolute loyalty. .
The so-called loyalty is not absolute, which is absolutely disloyal. The disciple group is naturally the core force of a family and will receive more care from the Yuan family.
In the dispute between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the disciple group basically chose Yuan Shu, while the old officials basically chose Yuan Shao, which represented that the core strength of the Yuan family still chose Yuan Shu.
Despite this, the power of the Yuan family's former officials in Yuan Shao's hands is enough for him to use endlessly.
As the governor of Bohai, he was able to defeat Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, and obtain Jizhou as the foundation for his fortune. Han Fu's relationship as an old official of the Yuan family cannot be ignored.
The two brothers joined forces at the beginning of the troubled times to control the most elite areas of the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains and Hebei. They were well-deserved behemoths. Everyone had expectations in their hearts, thinking that the world would eventually have to be named Yuan.
But who could have imagined that just over ten years later, this behemoth family would collapse and disappear.
While Liu Bei was feeling emotional, he still knew that this family still had strong political energy even before its fall. The benefits of being on good terms with them definitely outweighed the disadvantages.
And Yuan Shao himself is quite charming.
With this mentality, Liu Bei happily went when Yuan Shao invited him for the second time and had a laugh with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
This time, it was not just Yuan Shao and Cao Cao who joined the banquet, there was also an additional person named Xu You.
