Now that Liu Xu had made a decision, Cai Wenji said nothing more and began to fully cooperate with Liu Xu's work.
It was 10 o'clock in the morning, and there were still 4 hours before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Liu Xu decided to work hard and write three more chapters in one go, making up 9 chapters, so that the plot could be richer.
The core plot of Chapter 3 of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Dong Zhuo's entry into the capital and Lu Bu's murder of Ding Yuan.
One line writes about major events in the court, and the other line writes about the actions of the princes. Liu Xu thought about it briefly and decided to write about two things.
One was that the First Emperor was intercepted and killed by bandits, and the other was that Liu Bang got married.
The latter of these two incidents is well known. It is said that Lu Gong deliberately moved to Pei County to avoid his enemies. Because Lu Gong had a good relationship with the county magistrate of Pei County, the county magistrate ordered all the wealthy families in Pei County to go to Pei County. congratulate.
Congratulations naturally involve giving gifts. Only those who have given away 1,000 yuan can sit in the hall. Those who do not buy 1,000 yuan can only sit in the hall.
At this time, Liu Bang was still a pauper. He obviously didn't have a penny, but he directly said in front of all the guests that he would give away 10,000 yuan.
This is the top level of social terrorism - social terrorist without a doubt.
As a result, not only was Liu Bang not despised by Lu Gong, Lu Gong took the initiative to marry his eldest daughter Lu Pheasant to Liu Bang. This is the story of Lu Gong marrying his daughter that almost everyone in China knows.
Compared with this incident, the incident of the First Emperor being robbed and killed by bandits is somewhat unknown, and is only mentioned in historical records.
It is said that one day the First Emperor traveled incognito, with only 4 guards with him. As a result, he happened to encounter a group of gangsters who blocked the road and robbed them. As a result, these 4 guards beat all the gangsters away. However, the First Emperor was very angry and sent people to guard Guanzhong. The area was searched for 20 days, but the audacious gangsters were not caught.
Later, in response to this story, the domestic TV series "Myth" designed the plot of Yi Xiaochuan rescuing Qin Shihuang. It was said that the reason why the first emperor was able to escape was not because of the martial arts of the four guards, but because Yi Xiaochuan suddenly appeared and saved Qin Shihuang. Then he gained the trust of the First Emperor and so on.
So Liu Xu followed suit and began to slightly modify this story.
Of course, it is impossible for Liu Xu to parachute Yi Xiaochuan, but he can connect some characters who are fighting for hegemony between Chu and Han to increase the drama of it.
Because there is no record of the identity of this group of bandits in the history books, this will make it easier for Liu Xu to make revisions.
Liu Xu made this bold gangster a prisoner of Lishan led by Yingbu.
Ying Bu broke the law in his early years and was punished with tattoos, so he was also called Qing Bu. He was sentenced to hard labor in Lishan Mountain in his early years, but because of his heroic nature, he became friends with the officials who guarded him. He took the opportunity to escape from Lishan Mountain and ran directly to the Yangtze River in one breath.
This is an early record about Yingbu in the Historical Records. As for when and how Yingbu fled, there is no detailed explanation at all.
So in these chapters, Liu Xu first wrote about Yingbu's life in Lishan and how he made friends with officials. Most importantly, he described the painful life of the hard laborers working in Lishan and how the people there were precarious and their lives were like straw. .
After that, Yingbu led a group of prisoners and successfully escaped from Lishan. In the process, he wanted to rob some money and escape to the south, but he didn't want to happen to meet Qin Shihuang who was visiting privately incognito.
Yingbu had never known Qin Shihuang, so he thought he was a wealthy local man, so he immediately led his men to surround and kill him. But these prisoners were doing the hardest work on weekdays, but eating the worst food, and their physical strength was extremely reduced. Naturally, they were no match for the powerful warriors around Qin Shihuang. They were surrounded by dozens of people, but instead ten were killed. Several people.
Only Yingbu was very strong and killed one of the guards, but there were three other such strong people. Yingbu knew that nothing could be done, so he decisively led others to escape.
The guards were worried about Qin Shihuang's safety and did not dare to pursue him, so Yingbu escaped smoothly.
Qin Shihuang didn't know that Yingbu was a prisoner of Lishan who planned to escape to the south. He thought he was a local bandit in Guanzhong, so he searched for him in Guanzhong for twenty days, but he did not expect that Yingbu had already fled to the south.
However, after the First Emperor received the information that a group of prisoners had escaped from Lishan Mountain, he immediately reacted and ordered the southern counties to capture Yingbu. This order was passed to Peixian County, and Liu Bang, who had just married, had to lead his brothers Search everywhere for the Lishan prisoners.
In the end, Liu Bang really met Yingbu, who had only a few people left, looking as embarrassed as a bereaved dog. But Liu Bang didn't even look like he wanted to capture Yingbu to receive the reward.
Not only did he let Yingbu go, but he also invited him to his home... Well, it was actually Liu Bang's eldest brother who had a meal at his home, gave him some dry food, and allowed Yingbu to continue his escape to the south of the Yangtze River.
"Master is so awesome!" After reading the plot of these three chapters, Cai Wenji said with excitement, "Master, these three chapters are not only very exciting and exciting, but also explain the unsolved mysteries in history, and even It also perfectly corresponds to the historical details. Part of the plot is fictional, and the other part is real historical facts, and there is no conflict or contradiction in the middle."
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has 70% truth and 30% falsehood, and it has been used so skillfully by the master. Even I can't help but believe that maybe the truth of history is like this, let alone the people in this world who don't understand the real history!"
"Actually, I didn't write this to deliberately solve some historical mysteries, but to gradually let the heroes of Chu-Han's struggle for hegemony gradually appear!" Liu Xu said with a smile, "In history, the appearance of heroes is relatively sudden. Although this It’s in line with historical rules, but it’s not dramatic.”
"So I want to create opportunities for them to intersect in parallel while being as consistent with history as possible. In this way, when Yingbu and others appear on the stage in the future, not only will the readers not feel abrupt, but there will also be a feeling that has been buried for a long time. It feels like foreshadowing.”
"Take the relationship between Yingbu and Liu Bang as an example. It seems to be to create a plot, but it is not!"
"First of all, this plot can reflect Liu Bang's character traits, that is, he is heroic but also very rogue."
"He released Yingbu, who was a wanted criminal, out of the heroic spirit of a hero who cherishes heroes. And when he took Yingbu to his brother's house for dinner, he was stingy and scoundrel. After all, Liu Bang would be a feudal lord in the future. His brother’s son is a man named Genjiehou,” Liu Xu laughed.
The so-called "genjie" refers to using a rice spoon to scrape the bottom of the pot, which means that there is no food at home.
Before Liu Bang rebelled, he was both rogue and heroic. He often brought his friends to his house for dinner.
But Liu Bang himself did not farm, and he looked down on the farmers who farmed the land. On the contrary, in order to support their two children, his poor wife Lu Fei, a woman who usually did not touch the sunshine in the Lu family, had to go to the fields to plow the fields. Washing and cooking for a family, just a few years of housewife life turned her from a delicate and beautiful lady into a rough country woman.
Liu Bang's family had no food, so he had to take his friends to his eldest brother Uncle Liu's house for dinner. Uncle Liu was an honest man and never said anything to his younger brother, but Uncle Liu's wife, Liu Bang's sister-in-law, was very resentful.
So every time Liu Bang brought people to his eldest brother's house for dinner, his sister-in-law would use a spoon to scrape the bottom of the pot vigorously, and at the same time make a loud noise, telling Liu Bang that he had no food at home, so don't even think about coming to his house to eat. eat.
Liu Bang felt very embarrassed about this, so after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he made his sister-in-law's son Liu Xin the Marquis of Genjie as revenge.
It can be seen from this that if Liu Bang lived in modern times, he would definitely be beaten to death by a female Q.
"But these are not the most important. The most important thing is to add a reasonable explanation to a major change in the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony." Liu Xu said here, his expression became a little serious.
"The master is talking about Yingbu's betrayal of Xiang Yu?" Historically, Yingbu has always been Xiang Yu's most trusted general. Later, Xiang Yu divided the world and named Yingbu the King of Jiujiang. Yingbu was also very loyal to Xiang Yu. It was Yingbu who led his troops to kill Emperor Yi.
But as a result, during the most critical moment of the Chu-Han conflict and the confrontation between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, Yingbu actually betrayed Xiang Yu, causing Xiang Yu's rear to be cut off and his front and back to be attacked. This was also one of the important reasons for Xiang Yu's final failure.
So here comes the question, why did Yingbu, who had always been loyal to Xiang Yu and could rise to prominence as long as he followed Xiang Yu, betray Xiang Yu in the end?
Xiang Yu himself couldn't figure this out. In Xiang Yu's view, this was as unbelievable as Mi Fang betraying Liu Bei.
Of course, there are very detailed records of this in the history books. The main reason is that after Yingbu became the king of Jiujiang, he disobeyed Xiang Yuyang and was very lax in executing Xiang Yu's orders. So Xiang Yu sent people to scold Yingbu like a son. Several times.
And Liu Bang sent a ruthless man as a lobbyist to persuade Yingbo. Yingbo was hesitant. This ruthless man directly killed Xiang Yu's envoy in front of Yingbo, making Yingbo completely offend Xiang Yu and forcing Yingbo to surrender. Boo had to rebel.
This logic seems very complete, but one thing is still unclear, and that is why Yingbu became disobedient after becoming the king of Jiujiang? After all, Xiang Yu has always been Yingbo's leader, and he treats Yingbo very well.
With this passage of Liu Bangyi's interpretation of Yingbu, there is a more reasonable explanation, that is, Yingbu was grateful for Liu Bang's kindness in releasing him, and was somewhat resistant to Xiang Yu's order to send troops to attack Liu Bang, so he executed it very laxly. , everything is perfect and reasonable.
Of course, the real reason in history should be that Yingbu was afraid that Xiang Yu would wipe out all the kings in the future, making him unable to continue to be his King of Jiujiang with peace of mind, so he wanted to keep Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fighting.
In short, this is Liu Xu's personal idea. When writing "General History of the Western Han Dynasty" in the future, Liu Xu will write down the real history and will not add these imaginary plots.
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