Faced with Zhang Rang's radical attitude, Liu Bei didn't care.
If Zhang Rang really wanted to attack him, Zhang Rang had countless opportunities to attack him during this period, but he didn't.
Apparently, someone didn't want him to do it.
"Even if His Majesty doesn't let me die?"
"you……"
Zhang Rang was so angry that he almost wanted to eat Liu Bei alive. He suddenly let go of Liu Bei's collar and pushed him away.
"You think I don't dare?"
"Of course you dare."
Liu Bei took a few steps back, stabilized his body easily, rearranged his collar, and straightened the crown on his head.
"But I have to say that your appearance is too ugly and what you do is too ugly. There is no standard at all. You are completely reckless. You are just taking advantage of His Majesty's power to do evil. As long as you restrain yourself and don't stretch your hands so far , with such a big mouth, it wouldn’t be to the point where everyone is screaming for beatings today.”
"What did you say?"
Zhang Rang narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath and looked at Liu Bei, and said angrily: "Are you teaching me how to do things?"
"Yeah, I'm just teaching you how to do things."
Liu Bei sneered and said: "Twenty-six county guards, how did you think of it? One-fifth of the county guards in the world, one-fifth! You will remove one of every five county guards. How big is your appetite?" ?
Do you think all scholars are idiots? Are they all cowards? This time I will remove one-fifth of you. Next time, are you going to remove all the scholars and governors? Is it okay to have a little overall perspective? Pay attention to the reviews, okay?
Do you think you can do whatever you want with His Majesty's support? Do you think the scholars are afraid of you? There is anger in fear, and this anger will accumulate and become deeper and deeper. The scholars will not only hate you, but also hate Your Majesty, and even do many terrible things. "
Zhang Rang's eyes moved.
"Huh, you're just a chicken or a dog. As long as we take action, the scholars can be wiped out with a snap of our fingers!"
"Hey, so fierce? Then why did you lose this time?"
Seeing Liu Bei's sneer, Zhang Rang almost couldn't hold back his emotions and beat him up.
But after looking at Liu Bei's eight-foot height and thinking about the brute strength Liu Bei had shown before, he realized that he might not be Liu Bei's opponent, and forcing himself to hit him would only be humiliating himself.
"It's not because of your despicable behavior!!"
So Zhang Rang skillfully bit back the blow and rake it backwards.
"Despicable? Come on, we all hang out in the court, who says who is despicable? In ancient times, there was a fifty-step smile at a hundred steps, but you are laughing at a hundred steps at a hundred steps, is that the case? You don't know what kind of virtue you are? Zhang Hou, you are not that unclear, are you?"
Liu Bei's bitter sarcasm made Zhang Rang's face flush. He took a deep breath and forcibly stabilized his emotions.
"what do you want to say in the end?"
Liu Bei's face was expressionless.
"During this period, I came into contact with many scholars and participated in many banquets that only elite scholars could attend. During these banquets, I noticed that among the scholars, there has been a situation where your Majesty dominates the eunuchs rather than the eunuchs dominate your Majesty. Speech.”
Zhang Rang was stunned.
"Are you clear? Your Majesty came to the throne as a young man. Ten years ago, the scholars would naturally feel that the eunuchs had misled Your Majesty. The eunuchs were responsible. They would not resent Your Majesty. However, as His Majesty grows older and has taken charge of the throne, His Majesty's What has been done has significantly shaken that narrative.
Perhaps there were once some scholars who felt that Your Majesty was misled by your eunuchs, so they initiated party imprisonment, but now, more and more scholars have given up this illusion and began to think that it was Your Majesty who led your eunuchs and borrowed your power. Hand against the scholars. "
Liu Bei looked at Zhang Rang, shook his head and said: "On the one hand, it is His Majesty's deliberate connivance, and on the other hand, it is your greed. As long as you restrain yourself a little, it will not be enough for the scholars to shatter their illusions and point the finger at Your Majesty! "
Zhang Rang's heart was shaken. After a moment of panic, he stared at Liu Bei.
"Why do you tell me these things? Why should I believe you? Your teacher is Lu Zhi, and you are also an important staff member of Yuan Shao! After all, aren't you also a scholar?"
"I am still a member of the Han family, my surname is Liu, and my ancestor is Prince Jing of Zhongshan! Otherwise? Should I tell you this?"
Liu Bei looked at Zhang Rang with disdain: "I can't figure out who is the enemy and who is the friend. No wonder he can do such a stupid thing!"
Zhang Rang couldn't hold himself any longer.
"Which scholars said these things? Which scholars were involved in this matter? How dare you slander the monarch! Tell me! I will arrest them all and kill them all!"
"Kill, kill, kill, you know how to kill. What else can you do besides killing?"
Liu Bei turned his head disdainfully and walked straight forward.
"Take me to see His Majesty, quickly!"
The first of the powerful ten ministers, Rang Ran, was scolded by a small 400-stone minister like Liu Bei in a quiet corner of the palace.
Zhang Rang wanted to get angry and hit someone, but looking at Liu Bei's back, he couldn't muster the energy for some reason.
this person……
very strange.
Zhang Rang didn't speak anymore, and quickly ran to Liu Bei, silently guiding him to Liu Hong's study.
When Liu Bei arrived at Liu Hong's study, Liu Hong was reading.
During this time, Liu Hong did not choose to have fun in the West Garden, but read a book, which surprised Liu Bei.
Because Liu Hong should give people the same impression as when they first met that day, a lustful maniac who likes to enjoy himself among scantily clad women.
But in front of Liu Bei, Liu Hong is currently studying.
Seeing Liu Bei and Zhang Rang coming together, Liu Hong smiled and asked Liu Bei to sit down without putting down the bamboo slips in his hand. Zhang Rang consciously stood beside Liu Hong to serve him.
"Does Xuande usually read? What books do you read?"
Liu Hong did not get straight to the point, but started talking rather tactfully.
Liu Bei said respectfully: "I used to read Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals and Classical Classics. I also received guidance from my teacher and read some military books."
"Have you ever read a history book?"
"I have read the Book of Han."
"Oh? Have you ever read the "Book of Han" and the Biography of Zhu Maichen?"
"Read it."
"What a coincidence."
Liu Hong said with a smile: "I am reading the biography of Zhu Maichen, and it is quite interesting to read about Zhu Maichen's ex-wife hanging herself in the prefecture."
After saying that, Liu Hong stood up and slowly said: "Zhu Maichen arranged for his ex-wife and her ex-wife's husband to live in the prefect's mansion, and fed them well and fed them. Why did his ex-wife die after a month? Did he hang himself? Is it because he abandoned Zhu Maichen and was so ashamed?"
Liu Bei smiled.
"How could her ex-wife be a simple, kind-hearted and upright person who could withstand the insults of a villain like Zhu Maichen for a month? Her death by suicide was just her helpless resistance to Zhu Maichen."
"oh?"
Liu Hong seemed to be quite surprised and asked: "How do you know that Zhu Maichen is a villain? His wife is simple, kind and upright?"
"When Zhu Maichen was appointed as the prefect of Kuaiji County by Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu once asked him, "If you don't return your wealth to your hometown, if you walk at night like clothes and embroidery, what will happen to you now?" This statement is enough to prove everything."
"How to say?"
"Wealth and wealth do not return to their hometown, and they travel at night like embroidered clothes. This sentence comes from Xiang Yu. When Xiang Yu and Emperor Gao competed for the world, they once had the upper hand. Some people advised him to build the capital in Guanzhong and control Guanzhong to intimidate the world. Xiang Yu said this. .
The person who gave him advice was very helpless and said that everyone said that the people of Chu got their ambitions from monkeys, but today it turned out to be true. After hearing this, Xiang Yu became angry and killed him. Emperor Wu used this sentence to tease Zhu Maichen, which was obviously He saw through Zhu Maichen's villainous nature. "
Liu Bei smiled and said: "When you are rich, it is not impossible to return to your hometown. Doing good things for your hometown, or just going back for a walk, is enough. Where is the foundation of your career, and what can you do to make your wealth more lasting and even more lasting?" Getting to the next level is what matters.
But Xiang Yu doesn't think so. He believes that when he is rich, he must return to his hometown to show off his wealth and power in front of his hometown elders. Judging from Zhu Maichen's behavior, Xiang Yu may have been in his hometown when he was young. My hometown is looked down upon by people who have passed through it.
The similarity between the two lies in this. They both were once despised by others, and they both have certain outstanding talents and can achieve great things. However, in the end, they both cannot last long because of their villainous nature. They achieve this and die here. . "
Liu Hong paced back and forth around the desk a few times and nodded slowly.
"It makes sense, so how come Zhu Maichen's wife is a kind and simple person?"
"The biography records that Zhu Maichen was a woodcutter, but he was unwilling to take up the woodcutter's profession seriously. He had to study while woodcutter, and he put study above woodcutter, so that he often didn't have enough to eat. His wife He followed him to endure hunger for more than twenty years.
As a woodcutter, it is okay not to accept his own predicament, but as a husband, he should not let his wife starve under any circumstances. When his wife asked him to work hard at woodcutting, he said that he would be rich by the time he was fifty. Let your wife be patient.
To be honest, who can guarantee that they will live to be fifty? Especially when they were living in a precarious life, they would die of cold and hunger one day if they could not save everything. Who could have known at that time that Zhu Maichen would really succeed as a villain in the end?
Later, his wife really couldn't bear it anymore, and she was extremely disappointed when she thought about it. If his wife was a vain person, why would she have divorced him after more than 20 years of hard work? Obviously his wife has affection for him and is kind and simple enough, otherwise she would have run away long ago. "
Liu Hong burst out laughing, laughed for a while, and nodded again.
"It makes sense, it makes sense, keep talking."
Liu Bei nodded.
"After the divorce, Zhu Maichen went his own way, but became increasingly poor. His ex-wife and her husband met him on the way to the grave. The ex-wife saw that he was cold and hungry, so she gave him something to eat. This shows that his ex-wife had good intentions and even Maybe he still feels guilty for leaving Zhu Maichen and making him so depressed."
After hearing this, Liu Hong suppressed his smile and sighed.
"That's true... Then why did his ex-wife commit suicide in the end?"
Liu Bei smiled.
"This is due to Zhu Maichen's villainous behavior. After he became the governor of Kuaiji, he deliberately dressed in rags when he returned to his hometown. He ate with the guards he knew well in the past. While eating, he deliberately showed his official seal and ribbon. A corner of the house was deliberately discovered by the people guarding the residence.
When the man who kept the residence found out, he was surprised and quickly told others that when they saw the official seal, old acquaintances who had always looked down on Zhu Maichen lined up in the atrium to pay him a visit. What Zhu Maichen wanted was to observe these things. When a person's attitude changes, he wants to feel the uncontrollable joy in this change.
He may have felt boundless pleasure in the pleasure of having to meet him after having despised him before, and the strongest pleasure was when he saw his ex-wife and her husband.
He brought his ex-wife and his wife to the yamen, entertained them with wine and meat, and then observed their reactions. He was an official, and his ex-wife and his wife were both common people, so they would naturally grovel when they saw him. And he especially liked to see his ex-wife's husband treat her badly. He acted servile, and he even deliberately showed this look to his ex-wife.
Zhu Maichen's ex-wife is very simple, and such people are often very moral. How can she tolerate her husband being cautious and groveling in front of Zhu Maichen? How can you endure Zhu Maichen's triumph as a villain?
Chen privately speculated that Zhu Maichen himself knew that he was familiar with his ex-wife, so he deliberately used this method under the banner of repayment, but in fact it was to continuously humiliate his ex-wife and finally force her to death. result. "
Zhang Rang obviously hadn't read any books. When he saw Liu Bei's words, he sighed and wondered whether Liu Bei was referring to Sang and Huai. On the surface, he was scolding Zhu Maichen, but in fact, he was scolding him as a villain.
Although he is indeed a villain.
Liu Hong has read the book and has his own views on this article. Hearing Liu Bei's views on this matter feels quite rewarding.
"So, Zhu Maichen is really a villain?"
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Emperor Xiaowu personally certified it. There is no doubt that I am a villain."
Liu Hong nodded, and after a while, he asked with a smile: "Then if I also appoint Xuande as the governor of Zhuo County, will Xuande be very happy, and will he be eager to go back to his hometown to show off his power?"
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