A political leader, especially in troubled times, is destined to be divided and contradictory in his life.

Because political ideals are in conflict with personal ambitions, and the bottom line of politics and morality is bound to be opposed to power and force, in such a situation, a political leader is likely to wage war for the sake of peace in the world, and will severely punish the law for the sake of political ideals.

What's more, they themselves are also moving forward in exploration, and whether it is personal ambition or reviving the Han Dynasty, this kind of thing at that time was a first-class thing that could be put on the table 'life ideal'!

Historically, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian were all like this in the late Han Dynasty.

First of all, there is no doubt that all three of them had political ideals and put them into practice—Cao Cao, as the son of a powerful person close to the center of the Han Dynasty, received a systematic elite aristocratic education, and he himself also had systematic political ideals, at least for Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism, which were traditional mainstream thoughts. Liu Bei doesn't need to say that he may not have any specific theoretical knowledge, but the simple moral concept of helping the weak and suppressing the strong has always accompanied him, and he governs in the plains, so that Cao Wei's official scholars are still praising him after decades, and the wives and children who crossed the river with the people are gone, and the same is the case. Even if Sun Jian's life was short, his heroic posture in the early stage of fighting for the country was undoubted, especially in the period of discussing Dong, when others cowered and did not move, he still moved forward, tried his best to maintain the Han family, and was the only one who achieved some results, these actions, it is difficult for anyone to deny his heroic attributes.

But at the same time, these three people also have their own selfish ambitions, and they will all be affected by the chaotic environment, not to mention limited by their background and knowledge, and it is a bit wishful thinking and bias to evaluate a person without these.

Cao Cao's family can be called a close minister of the Han family, so he has a strong sense of belonging to the Han family, so he will partner with Xun Yu, one leading the Yanyu wealthy family, and the other with the Yanyu scholars, like fish and water, and trying to revive the Han family together, so that the world will return to the ideal 'people are old, all can die' of the classical 'holy world'.

However, when he was alone in Luoyang, the Kwantung princes abandoned him; His father died at a young age, and when he went out to fight, he was sold by Zhang Miao and Chen Gong; fought a decisive battle with his old friends, but the centers of the Han family maintained by him all communicated with Yuan Shao; went south to pacify the troubled times, but Liu Bei and Sun Quan ended the ultimate ideal of pacifying the world in their lifetimes...... So he began to gradually indulge, began to call the public system, and began to go his own way, but it was always difficult to get rid of Xun Yu's shadow and the ideals he once had in his heart, so even if he held nine of the thirteen states in the world, he never took the last step.

Sun Jian didn't say much, he died too early, but even so, he tried to hide the jade seal while burying the imperial tomb of the Han family, and was loyal to the Han family while being used by Yuan Shu to cause trouble in the Central Plains.

Only Liu Bei ......

Liu Bei is a ranger, talking about a chivalrous spirit, but at the same time he has ambitions, I don't know if this ambition was when he was a child when he looked at the big mulberry tree above his head, or when he was messing around with Gongsun Zan and others at the foot of the Son of Heaven on Qishi Mountain, but it is always undoubted.

However, ambition and chivalry seem to be the most difficult pair of things to balance, Liu Bei has always talked about chivalry in history, so he is almost fifty years old and can only live in Xinye; Once the taboo was broken and Yizhou was taken, there was immediately a feeling of flying dragons in the sky; Then once he returned to that chivalrous spirit because of Guan Yu's death, he completely withdrew from the historical stage.

People praised his chivalrous spirit and ridiculed him for breaking taboos for his ambitions, but he forgot that it was precisely a recognized perfect man who offered the strategy of benefiting the state, and his actions after returning to Ren Xia completely buried the political ideals of a political group.

It can only be said that his path is probably destined to be the narrowest one, just as he himself is probably the most paranoid person among the heroes in the late Han Dynasty?

But back to the present, whether it is Cao Mengde, Sun Wentai, Liu Xuande, or even Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Liu Yan, Shixie, Tao Qian, these so-called heroes of the late Han Dynasty, it is impossible to bypass a Liaoxi puppet who should not stand in the world...... He is an opponent of some, a friend of some, a brother of some, a boss of some, a subordinate of some, a colleague of some!

He is the general trend now, everyone must maintain his rule within his political framework, and at the same time, he is like an iron curtain, from Xiliang to the East China Sea, thousands of miles away, neatly falling, pressing everyone below breathless.

And among them, if you have to pick a person who is most influenced by this person, it can only be Zhuojun Ranger Liu Xuande.

"Back to the lord, the water mouth in front of you has been broken, and Captain Zhou Tai asked what to do?" Among the nearly 10,000 troops who went down the river, some people rode horses from the shore to the side of a large boat, and then did not get on the boat, but directly inquired on the shore.

"Let him not have to stop more, and don't care about me, in one go, and then go down the Han River to break through the mouth of the Han River!" Liu Bei sat in a big boat, wearing armor and holding a knife, and his head did not turn, so he replied to himself. "Just be careful of Sun Ce in front, don't rush too fast, and hit it directly!"

"Whoa!" The soldier replied with a bang, but abandoned his horse, and instead boarded a small boat on the riverbank, and easily went down the river.

The army was in good order, the civil and military forces were complete, and the morale of the soldiers was high.

"Why is General Li so posturing?" Liu Bei caught a glimpse of the other party's posture and asked casually. "Haven't you seen this kind of military might under my brother's general?"

"Returning to the general." Li Tong hurriedly leaned over. "That's not what I mean, but the two generals have their own merits, and it's inevitably novel......" At this point, Li Wenda paused slightly, and then continued to speak under the other party's encouraging eyes. Sun Poyu's soldiers are high-spirited, and the strategy is like a tiger and a wolf, and then it makes people forget life and death, and he always feels that any kind of enemy can be defeated; And the general's command is in an orderly manner, both civil and military, the logistics are neat and tidy, and the forward is brave, and then people are conscious of everything, and when they receive the general's orders to do things, they always feel that everything is in order, and no enemy dares to be our enemy. ”

Liu Bei was neither happy nor angry, but his tone was a little more relaxed: "Aren't you contradicting yourself?" If my brother Wentai's army were to attack me, would I win or lose? But I know what you mean...... If there is any difference between me and my righteous brother, it is that he himself is brave and invincible, good at fighting, and the soldiers and horses are all villagers and old troops, so as long as he himself rushes up, the rest of the troops must sacrifice their lives and forget their lives and move forward. As for me, our army is slightly inferior to him, and the martial arts are also inferior to him, and the only thing that can be feared is Corporal Lixian, who tries to recruit talents for my use, and uses their strength to prepare everything, so there will be the word 'perfect'. ”

Li Tong remembered that the other party had appeased him before, and thought that now Liu Bei is just a person in the army, and there are people who are recognized as famous men and generals in the world such as Zhang Hong, Wu and Zhang Fei, in addition, there are also bandits such as Zhou Tai, Liu Pi, Gong Du, famous families such as Chen Ji, Chen Qun, Yuan Lian, and local tyrants in the countryside such as himself, such as Chen Guang (Chen Wu's father), and of course, that Lu Su...... Regardless of martial arts and background, he can use it for himself, and he is also convinced from the bottom of his heart.

So, he leaned over again and said sincerely: "Ming Gong uses people like this, and he will be able to achieve great things!" ”

Unexpectedly, when Liu Bei heard this, he shook his head with rare emotion: "But I just learned the phrase 'people-oriented', and it is enough to live up to others in troubled times in this life...... And when it comes to winning people, I know that there are two brothers in the north who are not inferior to me, so if you say that you have a big cause or not, it still depends on luck! ”

The people around him heard all the different colors, but Li Tong was still sincere: "There are so many heroes in the world, only one person can do the great cause, who doesn't look at luck?" Only we can meet a master in troubled times, how rare, always do our best for Ming Gong! ”

Liu Bei heard this, and knew that the other party was a new person, and he was afraid and flattering, but he still got up on the boat and stepped forward to help the other party: "Wenda said well, in fact, you can stand side by side with heroes and heroes like Wenda, and then fight together, isn't it in vain?" ”

The surrounding civil and military, led by Zhang Hong and Zhang Fei, all bent over and claimed their lives.

At the end of autumn, the big river is crossed, the rolling waves are in full bloom, Liu Bei, who sat down and won the second largest county in the world, led an army of more than 10,000 people from Langling to cross Tongbai Mountain, turned into the southeast of Bishui to meet Li Tong, and then went south to advance Anlu, and continued to go south along the route of Yuan Shu to capture Xiling all the way down the south.

At the same time, Zhang Zhao, who was summoned, did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent Lujiang and Jiujiang soldiers to guard along the way, and in addition to responding and defending Sun Ce, he also led 3,000 troops from the downstream to attack Yuan Shu with Liu Bei's Lujiang Taishou Lu Dai.

Poor Yuan Shuxin Jiangxia has only been two months, barely forcibly recruited 10,000 people, and gave 5,000 to his son-in-law, and the remaining 5,000 and 3,000 to Zhang Gang to go upstream to Shaxian to guard against Liu Biao, how can he stop Liu Bei?

In fact, when Sun Ce, who was previously regarded as the captain of Zhichong by Yuan Shubiao, passed through this place, if he was not worried that he would be caught between Liu Bei, Liu Biao, and Cao Cao, he would have taken Jiangxia by the way, and Sun Ce's army of nearly 10,000 people supported the spirit, which actually covered Liu Bei's march.

So, when Sun Ce left the Xiling Ferry with his front foot, but in two days, there was no need for Liu Bei's army to come here, and Zhou Tai, who was following behind, drove straight in, and captured Xiling City with 3,000 Jiujiang soldiers in one go, and captured Yuan Shu, who had no reaction!

Sun Ce also felt shocked, Sun Ce left Xiling and walked forward for five days, before he arrived in Qichun, he was shocked to see Liu Bei's banner coming from downstream, and received a reprimand announcement from Zhang Zhao in the name of Liu Bei...... And it was from this time that Sun Ce's military spirit began to waver, and many low-level officers left the team to defect to Liu Bei.

In desperation, Sun Ce had to change to the south and north, that is, to march on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and only when there was a lack of supplies, he went to the north bank to find Zhang Zhao to obtain supplies. And even so, when he resupplied in Liu Bei's sphere of influence for the last time, it was also in Jiujiang Liyang, and there were only about 5,000 people left in the whole army. And what he didn't know was that his wandering march from north to south made him completely miss the former Lujiang Zhou Yu, who had a relationship in Luoyang and was the same age as him.

Of course, that's for later.

Turning to Jiangxia's side, fifteen days before and after, Liu Bei took Jiangxia, captured Yuan Shu and Lu Bu's newlywed wife, and seized the rich land on both sides of the Yangtze River, even Zhang Xiao, who had 3,000 soldiers in his hands and was stationed in Shaxian, was captured in a battle under the joint efforts of Sima Lusu and Li Tong.

When the news came out, it was shocking on all sides!

Liu Biao was really scared and trembled, you must know that Jiangxia is the same thing as his life for Liu Jingzhou, who owns the six counties of Jingzhou, there is a big river as the road, and the threat to Jingzhou here is greater than that of Nanyang, and Yuan Shu and Liu Bei are the same thing?

Jiangxia is in the hands of Yuan Shu, Liu Biao only temporarily lost Jiangxia, anyway, it is impossible for Jiangxia's hearts to be transferred from him Liu Jingsheng to Yuan Highway, but Liu Bei took Jiangxia, then the entire Jingzhou will be really dangerous!

And Lu Bu was even more panicked, and his people gathered in the small city in the south where the troops were temporarily stationed...... Liu Bei said it soundly, if you don't beat him, the real Nanyang Taishou, what if you change hands and beat your father-in-law? Without Jiangxia as a backup, several counties on the east bank of Bishui have actually been lost, how can he play with a Nanyang Taishou who leads 5,000 Jiangxia soldiers? !

In fact, not only Liu Biao and Lu Bu, but also the Zhu father and son in Jiangnan are also a little flustered, Liu Bei is recognized as the dragon of Wohuai, if this guy doesn't look north, what if he looks back at Jiangdong?

There are three of them, father and son, the father Zhu Jun has gradually become seriously ill, and the eldest son Zhu Fu is recognized as a violent person, Zhu Hao has the reputation of virtue but is only a second son, and he has been stationed in Yuzhang.

In such a situation, who can stop the imposing Liu Bei?

In an instant, Zhu Hao, who was on the opposite side of Jiangxia, simply hoped that Liu Bei could go to Jingzhou.

And when the news reached Wancheng, Cao Cao also gasped...... He always felt that this chaos in the Central Plains would inevitably fall into disadvantage compared with his righteous brother.

Don't look at him robbing most of Nanyang, theoretically he is the most enterprising one this time. However, Liu Bei is not much worse, Nanyang is the largest county in the world, but Runan is the second largest county in the world, and Jiangxia is also a big county! What's more important is that Liu Bei did not have any reputational loss and controversy throughout the whole process, he took over Runan as the assassin of Yuzhou, Sun Jian's last words, and Sun Ce's promise, and then fought Yuan Shu in the name of crusading against the traitor...... And what about him Cao Cao, although he said that he had a firm belief, but in the end he had a bad reputation for driving away his nephew, right?

Of course, the main reason is that Cao Cao really didn't expect that Lu Bu, who only had a few hundred cavalry, would be so good at fighting! On this kind of plain battlefield where thousands of men against tens of thousands of men are strong, a few hundred elite cavalry is enough to change the tide of battle.

In an instant, Cao Cao almost had the idea of dispatching Lejin from Yanzhou and Li Jin from Yingchuan, and getting an army of 350,000 to kill Lu Bu first.

Otherwise, he always felt that Liu Bei would have to do a big thing. And this sense of insecurity is really uncomfortable.

However, with Liu Xuande's letter, Cao Mengde simply gave up the struggle - he was completely convinced!

It turned out that Liu Bei publicly sent a letter to the Xuzhou Assassin Shi Taoqian, the Jingzhou Assassin Liu Biao, the Fenwu General Cao Cao, and the Nanyang Taishou Lu Bu......

Then, he officially sent out an invitation, wanting to ask Tao Qian to send an envoy, and the other three and himself went directly to Nanyang, which was nearby, to discuss how to return Jiangxia to Jingzhou; how to deal with management differences in Nanyang; how to unify and sweep away the so-called bandits and warlords of the five states between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and return the people of the Central Plains to stability; how to reorganize the roads and checkpoints in the five states to make the Central Plains merchants and people unimpeded; how to buy and sell grain at a parity in famine and disaster years, and deliver medicines, so that the people of the Central Plains can avoid epidemics and famines; More importantly, how to eliminate the war and save the people of the Central Plains from the suffering of the previous nine years of exile and killing......

Of course, in the end, we have to discuss how to deal with Yuan Shu, a traitor! Whether it was a public trial, house arrest, or directly cut off his head and sent to Chang'an.

Liu Xuande's letter concludes with this:

I still remember what my brother General Wei said in "Seeking Dong Zhuoyu", "The public is either in the Han position, or in the Zhou family, or in the words, or in the Xuan room." The words are still in your ears, how can you forget your loyalty? 'Now that I am ordered by the Han to take care of one side, I don't think about serving the country and the people, how can I be in the same room?

If you are interested, in order to show your sincerity, reply to the day of Xiling, and immediately ride to Xinye with ten horses, and go to the meeting with a single knife to show that you will not be disappointed!

And if there are thieves who ignore the overall situation, for their own selfishness, not only in the Central Plains, although they are powerless, they are willing to follow my brother's example of fighting Dong, and bring the people of Yuzhou and the children of Huainan to move forward!

At the end of the letter, Zhuojun Pifu Liu Bei.

As for the Quartet, the Central Plains shook, Mo said that Liu Biao, who was pinched by someone, immediately set off, and Lu Bu, who was lost in front and back, was at a loss, that is, Tao Qian was persuaded by Chen Qi, Mi Zhu, Cao Bao and others in the state, regardless of old age and frailty, and personally boarded the car, and Yang Biao, the Guanglu doctor who stayed in Xuzhou, also obeyed.

Immediately, it was Yangzhou Zhu Jun who also asked his son Yuzhang to guard Zhu Hao and cross the river to Nanyang in person.

Sun Jian died, but the Central Plains Alliance, which was originally in danger, was reinvigorated or even better because of Liu Bei's three years of inactivity.

"Abi has grown!"

In December, in the middle of winter, Yecheng in the north of the Yellow River has gradually become cold, Zhao Zhong's old house, now General Wei's mansion, has lit the hall of the dragon, Gongsun Xun, who is only wearing a single coat, looks at the letter in his hand from the south bank of the Yellow River, but he can't help but slightly upturn the corners of his mouth, without the slightest sense of evildoer. "The end is a good means!"

———— I don't have a conscious dividing line————

"In the winter of the second year of Jian'an, the princes of the Central Plains will be allied with Nanyang, and Chen Deng, the captain of the Diannong School, will go to it from Xuzhou to assassinate Shi Tao Qian, saying: 'I am young and two thousand stones, there are many commentators in the Central Plains, Nanyang gathers heroes, and tries to hear it.' and returned to Xuzhou, but said: 'Nanyang discussions, all with the arrogance and self-esteem. Deng said: "The husband is Yongmu, virtuous and virtuous, I respect Chen Yuanfang and his son (Chen Ji, Chen Qun); Clear and evil, knowledgeable and righteous, I respect Zhao Yuanda; Erudite and strong, Qiyi Zhuo, I respect Kong Wenju; Be strong with the weak, loyal to the Han family, I respect Cao Mengde; Outstanding majestic posture, with the strategy of a king, I respect Liu Xuande; Whip the world, reorganize the rivers and mountains, I respect Gongsun Wenqi...... Respect so, what a pride! The rest of the son is trivial, but it is enough to record? —The Book of Old Swallows. Saga No. *****S: There is another earthquake in the southwest, everyone must be careful.