Cao Cao couldn't figure out the answer to this question.
Liu Bei did not give the answer.
This answer seems meaningless, because neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei can solve this problem.
At best it can only address the person asking the question.
But this does not hinder the friendly relationship between the two.
Cao Cao vaguely felt that in Yuan Shao's circle of friends, there were not many people who could truly accept his origin, not care about it, and treat him as a friend.
The one who always smiles is Zhang Miao.
Liu Bei is another one.
There is nothing else.
Yuan Shao seemed to regard him as a friend, but Cao Cao knew very well that it was Yuan Shao's pretense. He had never really regarded himself, who was born in a eunuch family, as a friend. He only regarded himself as a useful subordinate.
Yuan Shao only cares about interests, political interests.
Therefore, Cao Cao valued and cared about Liu Bei as a friend. Every now and then, when he was free, he would ask Liu Bei to have a drink and chat, and talk about his concerns.
At this point, Liu Bei noticed.
He noticed that Cao Cao was close to him, and that Cao Cao really wanted to make friends with him and get along with him.
But Liu Bei felt very embarrassed.
Because in a sense, Liu Xuande cares more about interests and political interests than Yuan Benchu, and he is more likely to become a purely political creature than Yuan Shao.
At least it is now clear to him that he did not come to Luoyang to make friends. Making friends is just a means. Gaining political power and status and finding an unimagined path is the purpose.
He does not have the accumulated wealth of three generations of Cao Cao's family.
He did not have the father of Jiuqing, the uncle who was the captain of Changshui, or the relatives of the two thousand stone governor. He did not have a smooth official career, he did not have the family background to offend the powerful and escape unscathed, and he did not have the ability to make a comeback after failure. capital.
He only has one teacher whose humanity is greater than his instrumental attributes, and himself.
Everything he has is the result of his own hard work and hard work with his life and time.
Therefore, Liu Bei was destined not to be the friend that Cao Cao expected. He could only regard Cao Cao as a helper for him to climb up. If the two of them became enemies in the future as fate would have it, he would never be merciful.
It has been extremely difficult for him to reach this point, which can be called a miracle of the new era.
If the historical time and space he lived in reaches two thousand years later, there will definitely be future generations who will marvel at his origin experience and praise him as an example of achieving "diaosi counterattack" in an era where origin and lineage are discussed.
His baggage is extremely heavy.
For him, if he can't climb up, he will die without a burial place.
No one will defend him.
He can only use a calculating heart to calculate his own path, set up a set of formulas, bring everything he has into it, and perform pure rational calculations to arrive at the optimal solution.
Including Lu Zhi, including Guan Yu, including Zhang Fei, including Jian Yong, including Qianzhao, including Gongsun Zan...
They are all part of a number in that formula.
This was taught to him in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
He is not the benevolent and righteous Uncle Liu, he is himself. He has no choice or courage to be the humane Uncle Liu.
He tried, but the effect was not very good, so he gave up and turned to using reason and acting skills to deal with the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Sadly, it works great.
At the beginning, he was full of interest in the world and full of confidence in himself.
who is he?
He is Liu Bei, the Liu Bei who fought hard all his life and finally became the emperor.
He was the outstanding figure who dominated the stage of the late Han Dynasty together with Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other extraordinary figures.
The romantic and colorful world of the late Han Dynasty would not leave him because of temporary setbacks.
Even if he can't become famous for a while, he still believes that he is the protagonist of this world. There is no need to rush for a while, he will eventually be proud of the world.
So even though he had to follow his mother from the Liu clan's settlement to Zhuoxian County every day to weave mats and sell shoes, he still felt good.
They even arrogantly tried to launch a social revolution with rhetoric.
After all, the Liu clan is a clan with a large population and a small force of its own. It is at peace with other clans and the Zhuoxian magistrate will not harbor any ill will towards them.
In addition, Liu Bei's grandfather and father were both official figures and brought benefits to the family. With this relationship, at least there was no exploitative oppression within the clan.
Therefore, Liu Bei and his son are more like freelancers who do not have to pay taxes. They have the possibility of slowly accumulating wealth. With the protection of the clan that is better than nothing, Liu Bei and his son can at least eat chaffy vegetables and barely have enough food and clothing to avoid starving to death.
But it would be miserable to be a yeoman farmer, or a tenant with no connections in a powerful clan family.
The government's exploitation of the peasants, and the powerful clan's exploitation of their own tenants, are really shocking.
Since Liu Bei was seven years old, he helped his mother weave mats and sell shoes. For several years in a row, corpses of people who died of cold and starvation could be found on both sides of the official road every winter.
Depending on the year, corpses can sometimes be seen in spring, while the probability of seeing corpses in summer and autumn is relatively small. However, once a corpse is seen in summer and autumn, there is a high probability that it will offend the government or the owner and be beaten to death.
What impressed Liu Bei the most was the corpse of a scrawny man and his equally scrawny little son.
The two hugged each other tightly. They should be the father and his son.
The father protected his son's small body in the middle of his own skinny body. His face was covered in blood and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Liu Bei didn't know who made the mistake that caused both of them to be beaten to death.
But he knew that after getting used to seeing corpses on the roadside, the romantic filter of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms in his eyes gradually faded, and the romantic filter that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms brought to him disappeared.
After taking off this filter, he was shocked to find that the world in front of him had no color, and what was left was a gray-white color that symbolized coldness and chill. It was as if he couldn't see color, and everything in front of him felt extremely desolate.
What's even more sad is that he finally realized that gray and white are the main colors of this world, and the romantic and colorful world will definitely not belong to him at that time.
As a marginalized person in a colorful world, his own life is not easy. The so-called improvement of life is just eating a few more mouthfuls of rice bran and a few more salted vegetables, that's all.
Having enough food is a gift during the holidays.
Hungry to death is his daily life.
The heavy burden of life turned him from a modern man who was industrious and indifferent to grains, into a man who eats bran and vegetables, and is an expert at weaving mats and selling shoes. It also turned him from a silent person who was shy to speak. A loud voice to drum up business.
It also transformed him from an iron waste who could run five and a half points in a thousand meters to an owner of iron soles, carrying a load of straw sandals and straw mats from his home to Zhuoxian Commercial CBD, walking back and forth for several miles. It's not that difficult.
That was an important foundation for his later career as a street fighter.
It is precisely because he has experienced this and experienced everything that Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others have never experienced that he cannot become their true friend.
He took a fancy to their value and hoped to use their value to raise his own worth, take himself to a higher level, and embark on an unimagined path as soon as possible.
That's his goal.
Around this goal, it is not the most important thing to be a friend, a supporter, or a political servant.
He wants to climb up, and he wants to use every possibility to climb up. If the political energy of the Ancient Literature School is not enough to push him to climb up, he will have to find a way to climb up on his own.
He is not that Uncle Liu Huang. He can't wait until he is fifty to become rich.
He is not as good as Uncle Liu Huang. He does not have the talent of Uncle Liu Huang. If he cannot find his own way, he may not live to be fifty.
Carrying the name of Liu Bei is more like a great ridicule to him.
Because he had no idea what kind of forbearance and persistence Uncle Liu relied on to survive until he achieved success and fame when faced with such a desperate situation. He still maintained a touch of humanity until the last moment.
If it were a normal person, he would have collapsed a long time ago, right? It's been lying flat for a long time, right?
Even dead a long time ago?
But Uncle Liu Huang didn’t.
Liu Bei couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out at all, and couldn't replicate this impossible route.
He has no choice.
Yuan Shao's platform is very important.
He has gained a lot by relying on Yuan Shao's platform.
But Liu Bei was not satisfied, not at all.
He is poaching Yuan Shao.
The first shovel was Cao Cao.
