The sentence "Loneliness makes Kong Ming embarrassed" instantly touched the softest part of Zhuge Liang's heart. If it is said that he chose to assist Liu Bei earlier, he took a fancy to Liu Bei's status as a relative of the Han clan and Liu Bei's indomitable spirit of taking the restoration of the Han dynasty as his own responsibility. After a year of acquaintance and acquaintance, Zhuge Liang has deeply felt the charm of Liu Bei that is different from other princes, not in the clan bloodline, not in ambition, but in Liu Bei's generous mind of "people-oriented".

It is important to know that if a person wants to achieve great things, it is absolutely impossible to do it alone. As a monarch, you must be courteous and virtuous, know how to make good use of people, so that you can be assisted by the world's capable people and wise men. Liu Bei adheres to the belief of "people-oriented", treats people with generosity, and attaches great importance to love and righteousness, which makes him quite a legacy of his ancestors in the eyes of Zhuge Liang. On the other hand, other princes from the clan, Liu Xuan has a false name, Liu Biaozhi is talented, Liu Yan is nepotistic, and Liu Zhang is cowardly and incompetent. Even Liu Xie in the palace of Xudu is just the "first emperor" supported by Dong thief and Cao thief, and I think that the jade seal of the country will be handed over by him sooner or later.

In this case, why bother with dividing the princes. It was Liu Xie who wantonly divided the feudal and finally lost the country like the first emperor, and Xuande Gong could also follow the example of Emperor Guangwu to dominate the world and restore the Han Dynasty!

Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang immediately swept away the depression in his heart, and turned to bow deeply to Liu Bei, "Definitely!" It's the light that makes the lord embarrassed. ”

"Kong Ming..."Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang in surprise, and for a while he couldn't figure out what this young military advisor really thought. In Liu Bei's opinion, Zhuge Liang has a lot of feelings for the Han family, and at a young age, he single-handedly planned the siege of Dangyang, which moved the world. I am afraid that it will be difficult to accept the reality that Liu, Cao, Cai, and Sun will escort the Son of Heaven to move the capital and be given a feudal kingdom for a while. Therefore, Liu Bei did not accept the suggestions of Zhang Cun and others on the spot during the day, but came to Zhuge Liang alone after dark. I hope that after some heart-to-heart exchanges, Zhuge Liang can understand his hardships.

And just when Liu Bei didn't know how to answer, he saw Zhuge Liang straighten up and ask Liu Bei with his usual confident smile, "The lord is here to divide the princes?" ”

Looking at those starry eyes, Liu Bei seemed to be back in a trance on the Ye Bian boat that he had countered with Zhuge Liang a year ago, and he blurted out and asked, "What is Kong Ming's opinion?" ”

Zhuge Liang did not directly answer Liu Bei's question, but told Liu Bei the allusion like Zhang Cun and Xi Zhen during the day. "Lord Mingjian, in the past, the green forest extinguished the new room, and the king was punished. Embrace the beginning of the mainstay. However, the death of the angry man in the world and the hope of Liu's revival are people's sympathy, not the love of the green forest. He didn't think about it, and he was pushed by it and the corpse was in place. Rely on the generals. Guangfeng Wang, a pro-villain, trapped in loyalty, and finally ended up betraying his relatives and leaving, and the country was ruined and died. If it weren't for Guangwu going out to patrol Hebei, recruit heroes, defeat Chimei in one fell swoop, and sweep away Kanto. Then the Han family died. ”

The more important thing Zhuge Liang mentioned was Liu Xuan, the brother of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, because he was made emperor by the Green Forest Army. The name of the year was changed, so it was called the first emperor. Not long after Liu Xuan ascended the throne, Lvlin and other rebels broke through Chang'an and killed Wang Mang, and the Han family seemed to be recovered. In the midst of singing praises of merit and virtue, the ministers headed by Li Song and Zhao Meng said to Liu Xuan that they would make the warlords of King Qin's meritorious service the king. Only the general Zhu Kun took the initiative to resign on the grounds that Han Gaozu had an agreement that "a different surname cannot be crowned king". However, under the pressure of the warlords, Liu Xuan finally violated the ancestral teachings and named the warlord with a different surname as the king.

If it is only like this, Liu Xuan's situation and actions are really a little similar to Liu Xie who is currently in Xu Du. However, Liu Xuan is not as incompetent as Zhuge Liang described, on the contrary, he is still a scheming figure. Soon after the large-scale crowning of the king, Liu Xuan, with the support of the generals of the green forest, began to cut off the powerful ministers who posed a threat to his throne.

The first to bear the brunt was Liu Xuan, the Marquis of Hanxin. Liu Xiu is Liu Xiu's brother, who is resolute by nature and a chivalrous man. Earlier, when the Green Forest Army had just grown to 100,000 people, there were disagreements within the Righteous Army over whether to make Liu Xuan emperor or Liu Xuan emperor. In the end, because the commander of the green forest was afraid of Liu Xuan's prestige, he was afraid that once he was established as the emperor, it would not be easy to sway, and Liu Xuan was cowardly, so it was easier to control him as the emperor. So the commander of the green forest deliberately supported Liu Xuan and supported Liu Xuan as the emperor. Although Liu Xiu failed to become the emperor, he and his brother Liu Xiu later broke Wang Mang's elite soldiers of 400,000 under Kunyang City, which can be described as famous all over the world. Liu Xuan, who felt deeply threatened, took the opportunity of the generals of the conference to raise the jade pendant as a trumpet, so that the warriors took advantage of Liu Xuan's unpreparedness and killed him in one fell swoop.

After Liu Xiu's death, Liu Xiu was able to endure grief and bear the burden. In order not to be suspicious of the first emperor, he hurriedly returned to Wancheng to apologize to Liu Xuan, and did not contact the eldest brother Liu Xuan privately. Seeing that Liu Xiu was so humble, considering that the murder of Liu Xiu had already caused public outrage among the people, instead of punishing Liu Xiu, he was named Marquis of Wuxin. After Liu Xiu was sealed, he recruited talents in the fiefdom of Hebei to please the people and secretly accumulate strength.

On the other hand, Liu Xuan prides himself on sitting back and relaxing, drinking and having fun in the backyard with women all day long, ignoring the suffering of the people. Three years later, the Red Mei army from Qingzhou broke through Chang'an, and Liu Xuanrou surrendered to the Han Emperor Liu Penzi, who was supported by the Red Mei army, to offer the jade seal, but was still hanged by the Red Mei army on the way to herd horses soon after. At this time, Liu Xiuzao broke with Liu Xuan and established himself as the emperor, and after the two sides of the green forest and the red eyebrows fought for almost the same, he completely eradicated the two major disasters that had harmed the Central Plains for more than ten years in one fell swoop, thus becoming the final winner of the warlord melee.

The allusions to the beginning and Guangwu are obviously more familiar to Liu Bei than the eastward migration of King Ping. The two allusions are somewhat inconsistent with the current situation, but the ending of the former is the unification of the world in Guangwu, and the ending of the latter is the decline of the Zhou Dynasty and the strife of the countries. This also implies the two different expectations of Zhuge Liang, Zhang, Xi and others for the future. At this moment, it depends on how Liu Bei chooses.

"Kong Ming wants to emulate the ancestor of the world...... Liu Bei lowered his head and recalled the allusion mentioned by Zhuge Liang, and then shook his head and said, "When today's son is naturally loving, it is by no means a change of beginning, how can Lone break with it." ”

Regarding Liu Bei's evaluation of Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, Zhuge Liang had a noncommittal attitude. In his opinion, Liu Xie's conduct may be better than that of Emperor Gengshi, but his pure nature alone is not capable of turning the tide and recovering the Han Dynasty. What's more, Liu Xie can't even keep the nominal unification. can only barely maintain the identity of the emperor in the name of "co-master". So seeing that Liu Bei was still a little hesitant in the face of Liu Xie at this time, Zhuge Liang immediately took a step forward and solemnly admonished. "Although the son of today is not the beginning, but his feudal kingdoms will eventually bring disaster to the world. Liang hereby implores the lord to take Guangwu as an example, and in addition to sealing the borders of the countries, do not abandon the ambition of Xinghan! ”

Zhuge Liang said bluntly that Liu Bei's blood was very strong, and he couldn't help but be secretly angry in his heart - he was also a descendant of Gaozu, and Xu Liu Xie's children were listed as a feudal territory. Don't let the lonely revive the big Han! Thinking of this, Liu Bei grabbed Zhuge Liang's arms and swore in a deep voice. "The heavens are above! Lonely and live up to Kong Ming's trust! ”

At this moment, Liu Xie, who was in Xudu, did not know that he had been regarded by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang as the first emperor of the world. In fact, instead of being ashamed of the upcoming feudal kingdoms, the freed Han Emperor discussed the location of the new capital with his confidant minister Wu Shuo in the Yuntai Palace.

"Cai Anzhen moved the capital to Xiangyang?" Liu Xie sat on the dragon couch and leaned over to look at the brocade silk map on the case. His face involuntarily showed a look of embarrassment. Obviously, Xiangyang, located in Jingzhou, was very remote for Liu Xie, who had never been south of the Huai River.

Cai Anzhen said. Xiangyang is the hometown of the ancestors, Jincheng soup pool. Therefore, it was proposed to move the capital to Xiangyang and divide the three counties of Jingbei as Wangji. Wu Shuo frowned when he saw the Son of Heaven when he said this, so he hurriedly turned the conversation around and threw out another candidate place, "Wu Hou Sun Bo Fu mentioned that the capital was moved to Peicheng, and the two counties of Pei County and Pengcheng were divided into Wangji. Peijun is the land of Gaozu Longxing, and it is more royal than Xiangyang. ”

After listening to Wu Shuo's introduction, Liu Xie looked at the location of Xiangyang on the map. He glanced at the location of Pei County again, but instead of making a choice. On the contrary, the two sword eyebrows became tighter and tighter. As Wu Shuo said, Peijun, as the hometown of Gaozu's Longxing, is located in the Central Plains, so it should be the best choice to move the capital. However, from the map, Peijun is almost located in the hinterland of the Cao family's snobbery, and only the northeastern corner borders Xuzhou, which is controlled by the Cai family. Intimidated by the obscenity of the Cao family's father and son, Liu Xie really didn't dare to move the new capital into such a tiger's den. On the other hand, although Xiangyang also borders on the snobbery of the Cao family, it is superior to the remote location and the snobbery of Liu Bei and Sun Ce to assist from the side, and the Cao army is not good at water warfare, and the fierce cavalry in the north cannot spread their hands and feet in Jingzhou, which is crisscrossed by the water network. In terms of comfort, Xiangyang is naturally superior.

So after weighing the pros and cons, Liu Xie finally pointed his fair-skinned finger at Xiangyang's position, "Xiangyang is really as Cai Anzhen said, it can be called Jincheng soup pool?" ”

Seeing that Liu Xie tended to move the capital to Xiangyang, which was more southerly and more peaceful, Wu Shuo was somewhat disappointed in his heart. But considering Liu Xie's experience of being under the fence since he was a child and wandering around, this old minister of the Han family finally recognized the choice of the Son of Heaven, and then introduced, "Back to His Majesty, Xiangyang City is surrounded by water on three sides, and one side is backed by a mountain. In the first year of the first peace, Liu Biao expanded the city and dug ditches to divert Han water to protect the city. It is not an exaggeration to call it a golden city soup pool. ”

Hearing that Xiangyang was so unbreakable, Liu Xie's face finally showed a smile. I saw him rubbing the Xiangyang City on the map, and at the same time spoke with great interest, "If you get this city, I can rest easy!" Wu Qing, when did the envoys of Qi and Wu enter the palace? ”

Wu Shuo leaned over and replied, "Back to Your Majesty, Xun Lingjun has arranged for Qi and Wu envoys to stay in the post house, and they can enter the palace tomorrow." ”

As soon as Liu Xie heard that it was Xun Yu who arranged to receive the envoys of the Qi and Wu families, he immediately restrained his smile, frowned and said dissatisfiedly, "I heard that Xun Yu tried his best to oppose the division of the capital of the city, how could he receive the envoys of Qi and Wu?" ”

Seeing this, Wu Shuo hurriedly explained to Liu Xie on behalf of Xun Yu, "Your Majesty, Xun Lingjun has always been upright and serious, and his objections are out of prudence, and he definitely does not mean to offend His Majesty. ”

However, how did Wu Shuo know that Liu Xie's dislike of Xun Yu at this time was no less than his resentment of Cao Cao's father and son. In Liu Xie's opinion, although Xun Yu kept claiming to be loyal to the Han family, he never took him, a genuine Han emperor, in his eyes. Not only that, Xun Yu also helped Cao Cao to make suggestions for abuse, and obstructed Liu Xie's pro-government many times. Even if the father and son of the Cao family fell to the point where they are now exhausted, Xun Yu still stubbornly wanted to stop Liu Xie from moving the capital on behalf of Cao Cao.

As the so-called suspicious neighbor steals the axe, when a person has a subjective prejudice against another person, he will not be pleasing to the eye when he sees the other party doing anything. Liu Xie is now trapped in the vicious circle of stealing the axe from his neighbor. In addition to Wu Shuo, Kong Rong and other imperial party figures, Liu Xie was suspicious and even hostile to Xu Du's civil and military forces who were single-handedly promoted by the Cao family's father and son, believing that these people were all rebellious to the Cao family's father and son, and could act as the Cao family's father and son's work at any time, or even harm him.

Liu Xie's attitude is precisely the common sorrow of Xun Yu and many other loyal Han people in the Central Plains. Although they were emotionally loyal to the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie on the dragon couch had limited ability and could not take on the great cause of Zhongxing. As a result, talented and aspiring scholars like Xun Yu and Fu Zhu took the initiative to assist Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and other heroes of the time, wanting to use their power to restore the Han Dynasty. However, the reason why heroes can be called heroes is because they have the incomparable courage and ambition of ordinary people. Therefore, once the heroes are full-fledged, they will inevitably compete with the Son of Heaven for the control of the world, and thus transform into heroes who threaten the survival of the Han family. So Cao Cao became a traitor who imprisoned the Son of Heaven and killed the concubine. And Yuan Shao simply set himself up as king. From Liu Xie's point of view, it is meaningless to be disloyal to his personal "loyalty". So Xun Yu, Fu Zhu and others who were sandwiched between the Son of Heaven and the heroes did not fall well, on the one hand, they were regarded as rebels by Liu Xie, and on the other hand, they were deeply suspicious of the heroes because they were inclined to the Han family. In this regard, Zhuge Liang is undoubtedly lucky, at least Liu Bei's identity in the Han clan allows him to assist the "Guangwu Emperor" Zhongxing Han family without distraction.

However, Liu Xie himself does not think that his abilities are limited. In the eyes of this Han Tianzi, he just lacks a stage where he can display his talents. As long as he is given a loyal army and horses, a piece of Wang Ji who is completely obedient to the royal family, he Liu Xie can prove to the world that he is worthy of the name of the Son of Heaven after Gaozu. Therefore, Liu Xie did not hesitate to accept Cai Ji's proposal of "Bu Du Dingding, returning the government to the Son of Heaven, dividing the princes, and vassalizing the Han". As for the accusations from the outside world that he demoted the emperor of the Han Dynasty from the emperor of "virtue and three emperors, and five emperors of merit" to the co-lord of the world, Liu Xie completely scoffed. If you don't leave the inner garden, what kind of emperor is the emperor who can't leave the palace!

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Long Lost Small Theater:

Hello everyone, this is the main venue of the Xiangyang Alliance, may I ask the princes, the slogan of Nai is-

CC: Zhou Gong spit and feed, and the world returns to the heart.

Xiaobawang: According to Wu Hui in the east, take revenge on the shame and go out of the court.

Xiao Cai: Live up to the world and live up to the Qing.

Uncle Liu Huang: People-oriented.

Crowd: (⊙o⊙)~~~ Uncle Huang, are you selling walnut artifacts?! (To be continued......)