Liu Bei is really just dealing with these people. If he really has some ideas, he can use Yuan Shao and others as shields to work together on the Way of Peace to blast the eunuchs.
But that is meaningless. The most important thing now is to control the scale of the Taiping Dao uprising so that the subsequent chain reactions can be smaller.
In November of the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, the temperature dropped sharply and the wind blew. It was very painful to go to court or engage in political struggle.
But Liu Bei, who enjoys a long-term sick leave under special circumstances, is not the same. He has a good margin and can huddle at home with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie to enter the winter mode.
The family of three slept in the conservatory every day, sleeping until dawn, reading and practicing calligraphy, or receiving visitors. When there were no guests, they huddled in the backyard with the two women and barbecued.
Now he has fully enjoyed the freedom of barbecue and spices that he once thought about day and night. The roasted meat is fragrant and tender.
This is not enough, he also needs rice. Rice is used as staple food and barbecue is used for cooking, which is very delicious.
Before the Tang Dynasty, the planting area of millet was the largest in northern China, and it was the staple food of the people. Wheat and rice were second-tier products and did not occupy the mainstream. It was not until the late Song Dynasty that wheat and rice cultivation gradually replaced millet. planting status.
But Liu Bei grew up eating rice in his previous life, and he had a deep attachment to rice. He didn't like millet very much, nor did he like other staple food types that he could eat.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, rice was actually grown in Zhuo County, but the output was scarce and expensive. From the age of seven to fifteen, Liu Bei did not eat even a morsel of rice for eight years.
It wasn't until he was fifteen years old, when his street fighting career gradually stabilized, that he ate the first bowl of rice that he had thought about day and night, and he was so moved that he burst into tears.
Although rice was still a non-staple food product with high prices and scarce production at this time, and the cost of eating a bowl was still relatively high, Liu Bei still insisted on eating rice as his staple food from then on.
At this time, my mother was very confused and blamed Liu Bei for having a nouveau riche mentality. He would become arrogant when he became powerful. She scolded Liu Bei many times and told him not to spend so much money on rice.
We need to be frugal, save money, and be prepared for emergencies, instead of spending money lavishly.
Later, the mother also asked her uncle and nobleman Liu Bo to choose "Xuande" as Liu Bei's cousin, which meant to advise Liu Bei to be careful in his conduct and work, not to be overly public in everything, and to know how to be moderate and low-key.
This word is also a warning from his mother to Liu Bei's high-profile behavior.
But this is really not Liu Bei's fault.
He knew that it was not easy for him to get started. He just missed and longed for rice too much. In his opinion, eating rice was not a noble status symbol, but just a nostalgia that transcended time and space.
Despite this, he gladly accepted the fateful [Xuande], although he didn't know whether Uncle Liu Huang was given this nickname by his family because he was too charming when he was young.
But the rice is really delicious, and it’s even better when paired with barbecue.
But it seems that only Liu Bei thinks this way. Others, including Han Ning and Han Xiaodie, don't seem to be used to eating rice, so Liu Bei is the only one in the entire Liu family who eats rice.
It doesn't matter anymore, I just miss it.
He ate food and meat, and when he was full and drunk, he played pleasant and shy games with his wife and concubines, in order to entertain the world and pretend to enjoy himself.
Later, in December of the sixth year of Guanghe, Han Ning and Han Xiaodie became pregnant one after another, which further confirmed the value of Liu Bei's "sick leave".
Friends in the social circle came to express their congratulations to Liu Bei one after another. Even Lu Zhi took time out of his busy schedule to congratulate Liu Bei on becoming a father. This shows that the mainstream of society is obsessed with continuing the family line.
Of course, they have reasons for their persistence, because they really have a family legacy that they can and need to pass on.
Of course Liu Bei was also happy, but he did not devote all his energy to it.
Because Liu Hui had a big breakthrough in the news about Zhang Jiao's three brothers.
In mid-December, Liu Hui sent a secret message, saying that he had determined that the Zhang Jiao brothers' activities were currently within Julu County, especially Julu County.
Even the people he sent out had seen Zhang Jiao twice.
Just as Liu Bei expected, in order to maintain his reputation, it is necessary for Zhang Jiao to do personal activities. He personally donates rice grains and strange talismans to believers. This is something Zhang Jiao often does, so Julu Almost all locals in the county know Zhang Jiao.
Zhang Jiao is a local face fruit user.
There is no news about the rebellion. The only thing worth noting is that someone mentioned that around the middle of the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, Zhang Jiao's activities suddenly became very few.
During that time, he rarely showed up. Most of the activities that required heavyweights to come forward to organize were handled by his two younger brothers. The locals didn't know what was going on.
However, after October of the sixth year of Guanghe County, Zhang Jiao began to appear more frequently in various counties in Julu County, taking the initiative to contact believers and non-believers. He also actively participated in many social activities and interacted with many powerful people in the county. The landowning families all have active dealings.
He has not heard about the rebellion yet, but Zhang Jiao is indeed an extremely famous person in Julu County. Even those who are not Taiping Tao believers are full of affection or admiration for Zhang Jiao.
This is certainly very bad, but from another perspective, Zhang Jiao's defensive mentality in the county must be extremely low.
While Zhang Jiao was running Taiping Road, he was also a local tycoon. He had a lot of wealth and a lot of income. His family had a large manor and a lot of land. Many people cultivated the land for him, providing him with a huge amount of money.
These family savings were the earliest support he could start his own business.
Zhang Jiao usually lives in his own manor, and travels to various places when there are activities. If he travels far away, he will be followed by many guards. If he only travels locally, he will dress lightly and without a lot of pomp. It seems that he is deliberately doing so. Create a people-friendly image.
Isn't this good news?
Liu Hui himself also suggested that Zhang Jue's lack of attention to his own safety gave him an opportunity to carry out the assassination plan. He planned to find a good opportunity for Zhang Jue to go out and send Liu's dead men to assassinate Zhang Jue and his brothers at close range. .
Liu Bei was full of expectations for this, but apart from expectations, he could not provide any more direct help to Liu Hui. The team of more than 30 dead soldiers was the biggest capital he could offer.
Being able to rely on this capital to leverage this heavy history mainly depends on whether the fulcrum is chosen correctly.
Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
In fact, for Zhang Jiao, everything is ready and only the words Dongfeng are applicable, because all the preparatory work for his rebellion has entered the final stage - to agree on a time and notify all parties across the country.
(End of chapter)
