Lu Zhi once taught Liu Bei the "Six Tao". The original intention was to train Liu Bei's ability as a general to control soldiers.
As a disciple of Lu Zhi, Yunwen and Yunwu are necessary abilities. Lu Zhi hopes that Liu Bei can become an excellent firefighting captain like him. In the future, when he is too old to go to the battlefield, he will let Liu Bei take over his career.
But after he started socializing in Luoyang, Liu Bei discovered a way to control other people besides soldiers.
To put it simply, if you find out what a person lacks or needs, you should give him what kind of expectations, so as to control him, use him, control him, and then achieve your goals.
The primitive method is very crude, similar to blindfolding a donkey, or fishing a carrot on the head of an old cow that it will never be able to chew, so that it can move forward.
Liu Bei promoted Yuan Shao's reputation in order to gain Yuan Shao's appreciation and gain an important position in Yuan Shao's group. However, his ultimate goal was not to be Yuan Shao's loyal dog, but to go public through a back door.
Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's important assistant, and was the important auxiliary force that enabled Yuan Shao to survive many targeted attacks by the eunuchs before he became successful. Without the efforts of Cao Cao's family, Yuan Shao would not have been able to avoid the eunuchs' attacks so easily.
But Yuan Shao didn't have much respect for Cao Cao.
Even the scholars and friends around Yuan Shao did not give Cao Cao respect.
After Cao Cao has been around for so long, isn’t what he desires most the most is the respect that scholars give him?
But this respect was impossible for a scholar to give him. The pride of a scholar would not allow a eunuch to trample on him later.
But Liu Bei didn't care.
Liu Bei didn't care about the pride of scholars. From the bottom of his heart, Liu Bei did not regard himself as a scholar.
Cao Cao is not desperate yet, especially after Liu Bei gave him respect, he even has a little desire.
What Liu Bei has to do is to use Cao Cao's trust and affection for him to dismantle his unrealistic expectations for scholars, stir up his resentment, turn him into an older angry youth, and make him seriously dissatisfied with Yuan Shao, and finally achieve his goal. The goal of poaching.
He wants to change Cao Cao from Yuan Shao's subordinate to actually his own subordinate, so that Cao can be used by him!
So every time he was alone with Cao Cao, Liu Bei would mention this matter. His words would deepen step by step, and his thoughts would deepen step by step, gradually reaching the point where Cao Cao's heart was shaken.
After that, when they were alone at the wine table again, Liu Bei pretended to be tipsy and put his arms around Cao Cao's neck, making his attitude clear again.
"Mengde, you said you envied my innocence, but aren't you and I in the same situation? After they ridiculed you for being a eunuch, why didn't they ridicule me for being a mat weaver and shoe seller?"
"In their eyes, family background is everything, and background is everything. It cannot be changed no matter how hard we try!"
"No matter how much we do to get their recognition, it's useless. They can erase all our efforts with just a word from them like a eunuch or a mat weaver and shoe seller!"
"It's meaningless. I've seen through it. It's all meaningless. I'm famous and popular, but it's just on the surface. Secretly, I don't know how many people are mocking me."
"We are all the same, you Cao Mengde, I Liu Xuande, we are all the same! That's why we can understand each other!"
"So I understand that I don't need their approval anymore. I just do myself and do the best at what I do. I don't care what others think of me!"
"Meng De! Be strong! You, the Cao family, have been officials for three generations. How come your family background is so humble? You were just insulted by a group of bastards who have mastered the pen!"
"No matter how you try to please them, they will never respect you! The only way out for us is self-improvement and self-respect! Be yourself! Be yourself! Don't care about them! One day, we will definitely be able to stand on top of them! "
During that drink, Liu Bei's face was red and he looked drunk, so his words were more direct.
Cao Cao didn't know if he was drunk, but he didn't seem to be drunk because his eyes were wide open.
After the dinner, Liu Bei was staggered into the car by Cao Cao, and then he personally escorted him home and handed Liu Bei to Han Ning.
At that time, Liu Bei didn't know how effective his performance was.
But he soon found out.
Because since then, Cao Cao has obviously become closer to Liu Bei.
Whether it was dealing with official matters that Yuan Shao needed to handle or private matters that they handled in private, Cao Cao was very willing to discuss with Liu Bei. He discussed and solicited opinions more often in words, and was obviously willing to refer more to Liu Bei's opinions instead of insisting on his own. own opinion.
If Liu Bei opposes more, Cao Cao will change his opinion, and if Liu Bei supports it, Cao Cao will do it more firmly.
This subtle change in attitude made Liu Bei very happy. He felt that his ability to swing a shovel was quite good.
The most intuitive thing is that Cao Cao helped Liu Bei find his uncle Cao Chi to handle the matter of sending Zhang Fei and others to the Changshui Xiaowei Army to train with the team.
Zhang Fei, Liu Yong, and Liu Sheng are the candidates Liu Bei wants to further train. He wants to strengthen his reserve of cavalry talents. Lu Zhi is better at using infantry rather than cavalry. Professional cavalry tactics are not taught to outsiders and are difficult to learn. arrive.
But after Liu Bei and Cao Cao got acquainted, Cao Cao's uncle Cao Chi served as the Changshui captain and commanded the Changshui cavalry for the imperial court. So Liu Bei discussed with Cao Cao to see if they could send Zhang Fei and three others to the Changshui captain army. Training with the team inside.
Cao Cao thought it was a piece of cake and readily agreed. He recruited Zhang Fei and others into Changshui's army to receive very orthodox cavalry tactics training.
The success of this incident further confirmed that Liu Bei had gained a considerable degree of trust and favor from Cao Cao.
This is a huge improvement for him.
Doesn't Yuan Shao know the value of Cao Cao?
Obviously he knew.
But Yuan Shao could not give Cao Cao the respect and realization of his life value that he needed, which gave Liu Bei, the shovel brother, room to wield the shovel.
As the saying goes, although the famous flower has an owner, I will loosen the soil and loosen it. Cao Cao no longer belongs to Yuan Shao, and the huge resources of the Cao family may not be provided to Yuan Shao.
Having said that, the road is long and long. With Liu Bei's current status, it is still very difficult to make Cao Cao use it for him. He must improve his actual status as soon as possible.
But this road is also quite difficult to walk.
He could only work for Yuan Shao while continuing to be a debater to improve his reputation, while observing the situation and fighting for opportunities.
While Liu Bei was carefully planning this matter, Lu Zhi was also carefully observing Liu Bei's actions.
He wanted to see how far Liu Bei could go on his own.
He thought Liu Bei couldn't reach that level, but it turned out that Liu Bei's planning and organizational abilities far exceeded his imagination.
Liu Bei really manipulated the public opinion circle of Luoyang scholars, not only raising Yuan Shao's reputation, but also greatly raising his own worth with the help of Yuan Shao's platform.
Not only was he helping Yuan Shao, he also made himself an indispensable core member of Yuan Shao's gang in the process, and he was very successful in raising his own status.
With a humble background in Youzhou, he actually became a core member of the disciples of the fourth and third generation of the Yuan family. He was highly valued and successfully built his own circle of friends.
Several old friends and associates around Lu Zhi told him that Liu Bei was in the limelight during this period. They often heard people talking about Liu Bei and his various behaviors with many complimentary words.
[Ziqian, your disciple is really extraordinary. In the future, he may not just take over your mantle]
Lu Zhi's friend Ma Rixi expressed this to him.
