Back then, when dealing with the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, Lu Zhi and Liu Bei proposed the idea of consolidating the fields. At that time, Liu Bei said that consolidating the fields was possible, but it required many prerequisites.
To be fair, Lu Zhi did not take Liu Bei's words seriously at that time. Instead, he believed from the bottom of his heart that this was a battle that required him to sacrifice his life. Even if he failed in the end, his wholehearted efforts would not be in vain.
He plans to use his life to do something spectacular, to make himself famous in history, to become a being that can be admired by future generations, and to make future generations recognize that he is worthy of a talented person like Liu Bei to grow up as his disciple.
But I have never considered whether this matter can be successful.
This is Lu Zhi's greatest selfishness.
It doesn't matter whether you succeed or not, it's enough that your reputation has been praised throughout the ages.
Essentially, he was doing it for himself, not for the country.
But he never expected that Liu Bei really took this matter to heart and did it step by step.
First he controlled Liangzhou, then influenced Yizhou, then Sanfu, then Sanhe Land, and finally became a general. He controlled all the powers west of Luoyang in an upright and fair manner, and then he learned from Liangzhou Prefecture. The disciples he trained and the old officials he brought out in Liangzhou were used as fire seeds and spread out.
He completely controlled Liangzhou, controlled the land of Sanfu and Sanhe, eliminated the Jinwen school, attacked the core enemy most hostile to him, and wiped them all out, making the Han Empire the "Longxing Land" "They're all his people.
Then, Youzhou was solved by military means and established its supreme prestige. Based on this, the slave restriction order and the state merging war were promoted. While solving the matter of merging states, the slave restriction order was promoted to weaken a wave of future potential. of enemies.
Step by step, every step is preparing for a comprehensive future.
To this day, Lu Zhi also generally knows that the main chief executives of nearly half of the places in the world are Liu Bei's people or subordinates of Liu Bei's subordinates. They have direct and indirect relationships with him. His political power alone has included It accounted for more than one-third of all officials in the Han Empire.
And with his prestige and real power, he can really motivate these people to do things for him and run for him. He can really gain the support of these people and further increase his own power.
If this were an individual, he could only be described as having overwhelming power. This power was something that many emperors could not truly possess. With Liu Bei's current status, if he wanted to become emperor, Lu Zhi felt that he would be able to do so in just three months. can succeed.
Not having to pay a lot of money.
But he didn't. He didn't seem to use the tremendous power he gained for personal luxury, but as a basis for future expansion.
He is extending his tentacles of power to local areas bit by bit, to influence and control local areas, and to destroy enemies in an upright and honest way, and then arranges for his own people to go to the local areas to control important power.
Through this method, he successfully seized a lot of local power and reversed the extremely unfavorable situation of the Luoyang court in the power struggle.
Currently, at the military level, Liu Bei has given the Luoyang court an absolute advantage.
At the economic level, the Luoyang court also achieved self-sufficiency through a series of military and political actions, and a new economic system was initially established.
At the political level, Liu Bei personally has controlled most of the central power and almost half of the local power, and has won many local comrades for the Luoyang court.
Next, he will promote the establishment of new departments and the establishment of county and state soldiers, in order to compete for influence on local judicial power and public security power, and further weaken the advantage of local separatist forces over the Luoyang court.
Given enough time, the local government's advantage over the central government will become smaller and smaller, and eventually turn into a complete disadvantage, while the central government's advantage will become larger and larger, eventually reaching the point of crushing it.
At that time, Liu Bei used 300,000 troops and a large number of his own people as the confidence to promote the real expansion of the fields. It would no longer be a delusion, but a serious change.
Even if there are internal differences, even if there are many people who oppose him, the people who support him are enough to help him complete this wave of land, and eliminate those insects that occupy too much land, which will severely alleviate the sharp society within the Han Empire. contradiction.
The Han Empire would successfully survive.
Liu Bei's achievements will be comparable to Emperor Guangwu's ZTE, and can even be considered the second ZTE of the Han Dynasty.
In Lu Zhi's view, this was already as high as heaven above his own. As a teacher, he was not even a hair behind Liu Bei in terms of political structure.
To use an inappropriate analogy, he felt that while Liu Bei was thinking about the stars and everything in the world, he, the teacher, was thinking about how to drown in the small pond at the door of his house and scare his family.
Is the difference between people's patterns so big?
Facing this disciple who was thinking about the future wholeheartedly, Lu Zhi was delighted, extremely pleased, and felt that he really had a sense of accomplishment, having single-handedly brought out such an outstanding disciple.
But he also felt guilty, extremely guilty, and felt that he, a teacher full of selfish thoughts, was not worthy of being his teacher at all!
"Xuande, I...I'm really not worthy of being your teacher on this matter."
Liu Bei simply shook his head at this.
"Teacher, please don't say that. Without you, there would be no me."
Lu Zhi sighed.
"Xuande, when it comes to Dutian, I just think about how to die vigorously, but you really want to make Dutian succeed. Compared with you, who am I? I Almost no preparations were made for Dutian..."
Lu Zhi lowered his head and took off his teacher's airs in front of Liu Bei, making Liu Bei feel that he was not facing the majestic teacher, but a tired old man.
"Emperor Guangwu's campaign to conquer the fields was not completely successful. If I go by my ideas, my decrees will not even be implemented anywhere. But you really want to make a career. Xuande, the great man has you. Very lucky."
"Teacher, without you, this disciple would not have embarked on this path."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Perhaps my disciple will also want to join in the same trend with those insects and enjoy it happily. After I die, I will care about the floods? It is because of your concern for the country and the people that the disciple gradually awakened and gradually realized that you have the supreme control." How should a person in power act with a clear conscience?"
"well……"
Lu Zhi could only smile bitterly and didn't know what else to say.
But he knows that in the next thing, he must unconditionally support his disciple. The disciple has already reached this point. If he, the teacher, does not support him, he is really not worthy of being Liu Xuande's teacher.
(End of chapter)
