Zhongping 5th year, February.

Zhang Ju was still stubbornly resisting in the corner of Mount Tai, his father ordered the third uncle and Qiu Liju to hold Zhang Chun's head and roared under Mount Tai City, early the next morning, a guy named Wang Zheng secretly cut off Zhang Ju's head, escaped from the city and surrendered to the Han army, and the rebellion of Mount Tai went down without a fight.

For Qiu Liju, I am very conflicted, according to my original meaning, I should have cut him with a knife, he is Lord Wuhuan of Liaoxi, not Enyi can be subdued. However, after his father arrived, he let him go very generously, and pointed to his not very neat arm and said with a smile: "If the adult's arrow is a few inches off, Liu Bei's life will be confessed!" "Later, I learned from the second uncle that Qiu Liju's arrow shot at his father was actually out of his arm, and then he led the Wuhuan people to almost kill his father's own soldiers, if the second uncle hadn't arrived in time, my father would have really confessed there.

The next day, my father hosted a banquet for Qiu Liju, and it was glad that they would send them back to the prairie after the snow melted in the spring, and that Qiu Liju himself could also let him go. In response to my objection, my father only said that a man who was willing to lay down his arms for the sake of his subordinates should not die like this.

I really want to tell my father that this is pedantic, Qiu Liju is not Liu Xuande's enemy alone, he can't be our friend...... But in an instant, I understood that none of my words could change my father's mind, I didn't understand my father at all, or rather, I didn't understand the people of this era, I didn't understand, what a hero was.

Ask yourself, if I were Cao Cao, when I had the life of a potential competitor like my father in my hands, would I "go out in the same car and sit in the same seat" with him, or give him a bowl of poisoned wine, or even find an opportunity to give him a knife? If I were Cao Cao, would I know that I would most likely become my most troublesome enemy in the future, and let my second uncle seal the gold seal and become famous?

I believe that Cao Cao never lowered his vigilance against his father, but Cao Cao believed more that a hero should not die like this. Cao Cao also has reason to be confident, even if Liu Bei can soar to the sky, he will dominate the world in the future, and it will be he Cao Cao who has laid the foundation. Cao Cao has more reason to be confident, even if Liu Bei is not worse than himself, he will not be better than himself, because Liu Bei's start is too late and too low.

This is the self-confidence of the hero, the confidence that he can dominate the future.

History repeats itself again and again, many people want to be Cao Cao, and many people are called "Cao Cao", but unfortunately they are only Cao Cao of a compiler, and they are no longer the hero Cao Cao. learned Cao Cao's methods of bullying women and children, but he did not learn Cao Cao's self-confidence and thirsty temperament.

Confident heroes don't necessarily succeed, and those who succeed are often not heroes. Sun Quan recruited a person of the same generation as his father as his sister-in-law, except for ruining his sister's lifelong happiness, he didn't see any benefit, cooperation, it was originally driven by strength and interests, not a thin contract, nor a weak woman's chest. However, Sun Quan was not confident that he could be compared to a hero who had been famous for decades, even though he was the main force in the fight against Cao Cao. So, Sun Quan turned this hero into his sister-in-law.

There is a price to be a hero, so there are not many people who can be called heroes throughout the ages. When people get used to intrigues, they often forget that there is another kind of person in this world who can be called "heroes".

Qiu Liju swore to his father in the name of his ancestors that one day with General Liu, Wuhuan in Liaoxi would never enter the fortress again. Qiu Liju is also a real person, and he can't guarantee that his children and grandchildren will be born.

In March of the fifth year of Zhongping, Qiu Liju's nephew Ban Dun drove 5,000 horses to Lunu and picked up Qiu Liju and his Wuhuan Erlang who lived for the rest of his life after 4,000 catastrophes. Youji is not a pastoral area, although there are horse farms, the quality of horses is declining with each generation, and the horses raised by the Saiwaihu people are also a great wealth for the Han people. My father took out 3,000 of the horses and handed them over to Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to sell, which made the Zhongshan Mansion Treasury a lot more at once.

Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping finally recovered the cost of their original funding of Liu Xuande in Zhuo County many years later, and made a lot of money. He also made friends with the Wuhuan people in Liaoxi, and paved a golden avenue for them to go to the outside to sell horses in the future.

In this respect, my father's methods were indeed much more clever than mine, not only did he get a windfall, but he also befriended the Wuhuan people of Liaoxi, instead of making enemies with the entire Saiwaihu people.

With my own territory and money, I began to show my "knowledge", in this regard, my ideas were strongly supported by my father Liu Bei, probably he also felt that I was different from ordinary people.

Changing the world is not an easy task. However, I know that the most important thing to change the world is not the emergence of one or two geniuses, but the system that ensures that geniuses can grow healthily.

My first step was to develop the paper industry. In fact, I don't know anything about papermaking, this era is not far from Cai Lun, papermaking has been very mature, but it is far from being popularized, especially in the folk, bamboo slips and wooden slips are still very popular, in the Western Jin Dynasty more than a hundred years later, an idiom called Luoyang paper expensive, very vividly illustrates this fact.

I don't know how to make paper, I searched the whole Zhongshan, and there is only one papermaking workshop, which is fortunately government-run. The three groups of workers I trained in a short period of time, divided into three workshops, were given the task of which workshop could make whiter, lighter, shinier and easier to write paper, and I was rewarded with a lot of rewards. Leave the rest to them. As for where these workers will go, in addition to their efforts, it depends on luck.

Time back to the fifth year of Zhongping, January.

After a new year, I was also fourteen years old, my father held a crown ceremony for me at the beginning of the new year, and asked Tian Feng to give me a word: Chengze.

(In ancient times, men were usually crowned at twenty, but there were also crowns held in advance due to special circumstances, such as the case of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty)

At the same time, the emperor's commendation came, my father was named the Marquis of Qiu Township, led the Zhongshan Minister, and at the same time an edict summoned me to Beijing, and I was appointed as the prince's housekeeper, that is, the role of accompanying the prince to study.

The crown prince Liu Wei, the young emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty a year later, was born in the fifth year of Xiping, and is thirteen years old this year, one year younger than me.

"That's probably the General's idea." In the side hall, my father gathered everyone around the stove to cook wine, Tian Feng sat on the top, frowned slightly, and said, I was very dissatisfied with being called to Beijing, it was a place of right and wrong. And everyone knows that the emperor doesn't like this prince, and he wants to make Liu Xie, a young son who is only eight years old, as his heir, but he has no power to change, and because of He Jin's power, he has been holding back.

"Sir, do you think I should go or should I refuse?" I was also very hesitant, it stands to reason that my situation in Zhongshan had just unfolded, and it was not wise to leave, but I also did not want to give up this opportunity to travel to Beijing.

Cheng Ze already has a fixed opinion in his heart, why ask me? Tian Feng's face was slightly displeased, and he said angrily. Tian Feng's rigidity and rigor made it very difficult for me to communicate with him, and it is no wonder that he has always been disliked, especially since he is now my teacher, and it is even more reasonable to teach me a lesson, although he has rarely had this opportunity.

I'm embarrassed, in my heart, I still have more thoughts of going, if nothing else, a large number of famous ministers and wise men in the capital are worthy of me to make friends. Tian Feng's mind I also understand that the emperor in the capital is not a good thing, but he is the supreme son of heaven, and the intention of disobeying him is not asking for hardship? The general He Jin is not a stubborn son of a butcher, and it is not a good thing, but he is a powerful arm of the courtiers to fight against the ten permanent servants. If he could still make a difference in Beijing, Tian Feng would not have abandoned his official position and returned to Jizhou alone. But I know that the emperor doesn't have long to live, only about a year, his death, at first it will be He Jin's short-term victory, and then the eunuchs and relatives compete for food, He Jin was killed, and then Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, and the Eastern Han Empire suddenly fell apart. But I can't say that to him.