Liu Bei first scolded Zhang Fei, and then appeased Mi Zhu.

For Liu Bei at this stage, the importance of Mi Zhu is self-evident. As one of the three major families in Xuzhou, the Mi family represents the attitude and position of a large number of families in Xuzhou. Liu Bei took over the position of state pastor from Tao Qian's hands, and it was not without controversy in Xuzhou. After all, strictly speaking, Xuzhou is not saved by Liu Bei, Liu Bei's strength in it can only be regarded as a small part, his contribution has not been recognized by too many people, and only a small number of Xuzhou people think that Liu Bei saved Xuzhou.

Moreover, Liu Bei is not a native of Xuzhou, he belongs to an outsider, and the more feudal the era, the stronger the rejection of outsiders. Even Tao Qian himself is an outsider, and he is far from reaching the level of Yiyantang in Xuzhou. If it weren't for the strong support of Chen Deng and Mi Zhu, and Cao Bao of the Cao family did not object, even if Tao Qian admitted it himself, he might not be able to succeed to the throne so smoothly.

At this time, turning his face with Mi Zhu did not have any benefit to Liu Bei

Seeing that Zhang Fei had offended Mi Zhu, even if he knew that he was trying to vent his anger, Liu Bei could only sacrifice his brother and reprimand Zhang Fei so as not to be centrifuged.

Liu Bei's true thoughts, at this time, I am afraid that only Guan Yu, who has followed him for the longest time, knows best. Mi Zhu and the others saw that Zhang Fei was reprimanded, and the anger in their hearts gradually subsided. When the atmosphere in the room finally eased somewhat, the topic shifted to the most important thing at the moment.

How should the relationship with Qingzhou be handled?

In fact, Liu Bei did not intend to break with Yan Shao openly, even if this incident really made Liu Bei furious, but the pursuit of hegemony still made him resist the urge to go north to fight Yan Shao to the death, and instead adopted a more calm way.

Among them, Chen Deng also played a great role, when the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang were furious about this matter, Chen Deng personally stood up and made an analysis and advice to Liu Bei.

In Chen Deng's view, this is not the best time to turn his face with Qingzhou. Not to mention that Cao Cao is eyeing Yanzhou, Qingzhou is strong, and Xuzhou? In the previous battle of Xiapi, at least one-third of the territory was slaughtered by Cao Cao, and then Yan Shao took away a county, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

If you really meet Yan Shao's soldiers, not to mention the pitiful odds of victory, you have to guard against Cao Cao taking advantage of the fire to rob 111111 Although Yan Shao's threat is obviously greater, Liu Bei is an out-and-out soft persimmon. Compared with the Qingzhou Army, which has the ability to fight on two fronts, it is better to pinch the soft persimmon of Xuzhou.

As long as Liu Bei suddenly dispatched troops while he was confronting Yan Shao in the north, maybe before Liu Bei came to his senses, half of Xuzhou had already been taken away, and Liu Bei would end up homeless.

On the other hand, Yan Shao believes that he will not be willing to turn his face with Liu Bei at this time. If you can make a gesture and solve this crisis, why not?

"Can this matter really be as simple as Yuanlong said" Liu Bei was a little hesitant, feeling that what Chen Deng said seemed to be a little too ideal.

"The lord is too worried." Chen Deng hurriedly persuaded. "At present, in terms of the situation, Yan Shao is much worse than us. We only need to consider one, and what about Yan Shao? However, it is necessary to consider Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at the same time, if we are added, Qingzhou will be surrounded on three sides, and then in addition to the sea in the east, it will be almost surrounded by enemies on all sides. How could Yan Shao not be in a hurry? It only takes a small gesture to reconcile the two families, and Yan Shao will be happy."

Saying this, Chen Deng talked about a problem that Liu Bei could not ignore

The land of the county that Xuzhou was occupied

Why is the relationship between Qingzhou and Xuzhou so awkward? The reason was that Tao Qian relied on the account, and Yan Shao turned to lead the troops to capture Langxi. Since you won't give it to me, I'll take it myself, and I'll take more than you promised.

The loss of Lang evil made the territory of Xuzhou no longer complete. After becoming a pastor in Xuzhou, every time he looked at the missing piece of the territory under his jurisdiction, Liu Bei's mood was very depressed. However, Liu Bei did not have the strength to recapture Lang Evil in the hands of Yan Shao, and the reason why Yan Shao did it was also because Tao Qian broke his promise first, so that Liu Bei could not occupy a favorable position on the commanding heights of morality.

The relationship between the two states has become very awkward under such circumstances

But this time

Maybe there will be a chance to take back this county land from Yan Shao's hands

When the two of them were discussing, they didn't talk about Mi Zhen, and they obviously knew very well that Yan Shao would not send Mi Zhen back to Xuzhou no matter what.

And to be honest, if Mi Zhen was really sent back, things would not be easy to handle.

Unlike later generations, the Han Dynasty's attitude towards women was relatively tolerant, and widows could remarry more easily. Even divorce is a very common thing, in history Cao Cao once because of the death of his eldest son Cao Ang, broke with his wife, after his wife ran back to her parents' house, Cao Cao also personally came to the door to invite her back, after being refused, he also promised her family that she could remarry.

Naturally, considering Cao Cao's power and status at that time, even if he gave his mother's family a few more dares, he would never dare to do so

But from this point, it can also be seen what the status of women in the Han Dynasty was

The problem is that this is limited to normal circumstances, and it is not that the woman runs away from the marriage to her sweetheart during the wedding process, which is difficult to forgive in any era. What's more, Liu Bei is not the kind of tyrannical person, if Liu Bei's reputation is worse, there may be people who sympathize with Mi Zhen, but Liu Bei's reputation is quite good in Xuzhou, which means that even Mi Zhen's relatives are difficult to publicly support her.

However, she is a member of the Mi family, if she is really dealt with strictly, it is easy to let the Mi family centrifuge, if she does not dispose of it, it will damage Liu Bei's prestige, no matter which one it is, it will be very troublesome. It's better not to come back at all, and the problem is much easier to solve.

I believe that in order to keep Mi Zhen, Yan Shao will also be willing to pay some price.

Listening to Chen Deng's advice, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang glanced at each other, and nodded secretly, feeling that this was the best way at the moment.

As for Mi Zhen

"Let her stay in Qingzhou, maybe it's the best choice" Mi Zhu said secretly in his heart, he never thought that his decision at that time would cause such a big problem. I already regretted it in my heart, but at this time, the regret was over, and all I could do was to remedy it.

But as an elder brother who loves his sister, he knows very well how things will develop if he really takes Mi Zhen back.

There is no doubt that Mi Zhen will be severely punished, and Mi Zhu, as an elder brother, seems to have no other way than to watch. After all, the impact of this incident is too great, if Mi Zhu continues to protect Mi Zhen, it will affect the reputation of the Mi family.

But let him just look at it, which is completely unacceptable to him.

And also

Mi Fang behind him

He could have imagined what his impulsive brother would do when the time came. Even if he led the family soldiers of the clan to save the people, it was not impossible to run in other directions again

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At Chen Deng's suggestion, Liu Bei decided to send Jian Yong to Qingzhou.

Jian Yong met Liu Bei when he was young, and later followed Liu Bei. Often as a talker, correspondence mission, good at debate, deliberations. The temperament is simple and direct, and informal. Historically, Liu Bei was invited to Yizhou, and Jian Yong's entourage also went along, Liu Zhang met with him, he liked Jian Yong very much, and he was a witty person by nature.

Once, when there was a great drought, he had to order a ban on alcohol, and if he made wine, he would be guilty. However, some officials found wine-making utensils from people's houses, and they were debating whether they should be punished with those who made wine. One day, Jian Yong and Liu Bei went on a tour together, and when they saw a man and a woman walking by, Jian Yong said to Liu Bei: "They are going to commit adultery, why don't you tie them up?" Liu Bei felt strange and asked, "How do you know?" Jian Yong humorously replied, "They all have the same utensils for adultery, just as they have found in the people's houses." Liu Bei laughed when he heard this, and let go of the private house that had brewed wine. Jian Yong's antics are similar to this.

As the staff member who has followed Liu Bei for the longest time, Jian Yong has won Liu Bei's trust, and this trust is almost no less than that of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Jian Yong was also very aware of the importance of this matter, and did not dare to slack off, so he immediately set off for Qingzhou by car to have a good discussion with Qingzhou.

I have to say that Jian Yong went to Qingzhou with considerable sincerity this time, because he knew very well that in this matter, Xuzhou and Qingzhou were divided into two evils, and cooperation was beneficial to both sides. If they fight each other because of this matter, they will only benefit Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

So after arriving in Qingzhou, Jian Yong did not look aggressive, but politely indicated his identity, hoping to get the opportunity to meet Yan Shao.

In fact, the matter of Mi Zhen has spread not only in Xuzhou, but also in Qingzhou.

There's no way, there's no secret in this world, let alone such a happy plot? Mi Zhen had just moved into Yan Shao's mansion not long ago, and the news had already spread.

At the beginning, the news was quite reliable, saying that Yan Shao and Mi Zhen fell in love at first sight in Xuzhou, and later Mi Zhen's brother forced her to marry Liu Bei, so Mi Zhen ran out of Xuzhou to Yan Shao.

Later, it became more and more outrageous, and it was even said that Yan Shao had broken someone's body when he was in Xuzhou, and now he had to run over because he was pregnant.

God is pitiful, when he was in Xuzhou, Yan Shao didn't even touch one of Mi Zhen's fingers, of course, just talking, how could he really not even touch a finger? But those things that go further are really not done.

For this incident, those moral gentlemen in Xuzhou were naturally criticized, and even Zheng Xuan reprimanded Yan Shao because of this incident, thinking that this is not what a gentleman should do. No way, who made Zheng Xuan old enough? The most important thing is that Yan Shao also needs him to constantly train talents for himself, so there is no way, even if Zheng Xuan really says something, Yan Shao can only endure it.

However, this incident did not shake the morale of the people in Qingzhou.

People of this era are still more tolerant of the monarch's subsection on women's sex. Yan Shao has done quite well in Qingzhou for so many years, and occasionally some small problems are completely tolerable, except for those real moral gentlemen, most of them have not reacted much except for saying it, and even feel that this is a very proud thing.

You see, our state pastor is so powerful that he even let women from other states run over on their own, and it is said that she is still at the level of the first beauty

All in all, the atmosphere in Qingzhou is still relatively relaxed now, and I don't care about Xuzhou, which has just been beaten by Cao Cao and doesn't seem to be a threat.

But don't worry about it, don't worry about it, now that people are coming to the door, the people below are still panicking. Except for a small number of people in this world, the vast majority of people are still reasonable.

No matter from which point of view, this time the matter is that the father-in-law is wrong, seduced the wife who has not passed the door, and now people are coming to the door, even if Qingzhou's strength is much stronger than Xuzhou, he didn't say anything when facing others, and his body has been cut in half.

Facing Jian Yong and others, who had just arrived from Xuzhou and were dusty, the height of the city gate official was almost half an inch shorter, and he welcomed the people into the city, and the follow-up county guards also arranged the best accommodation in the city, and secretly sent someone to send the news of the people from Xuzhou.

When I received it, I also laughed with him throughout the whole process.

There's no way, who will let themselves lose

Such a situation, in addition to giving the visitors from Xuzhou a sense of breath, also put their hearts at ease.

Before they came, they were actually very worried in their hearts, for fear that they would encounter difficulties, but now it seems that the people here in Qingzhou are still more reasonable, at least there is no additional difficulty for them.

It's just that

This situation, after they arrived in Linzi, was reversed in an instant.

They didn't receive any cold treatment in Linzi, and after arriving in Linzi City and identifying themselves, the city officials who had been waiting for a long time sent them to the state pastor's mansion, and easily saw Yan Shao, who is now the Qingzhou pastor.

It's just that when Jian Yong expressed his hope to Yan Shao that he could apologize and compensate, all he got was Yan Shao's sneer.

"Apologize? Indemnify? ”

Yan Shao's attitude can almost be described as unreasonable, which made the people from Xuzhou extremely indignant, and even Jian Yong, who had a witty temperament, blushed.

Xuzhou is willing to make compromises for the sake of the overall situation and the relationship between the two states, but it is obvious that Yan Shao is not willing to

Jian Yong stayed in Xuzhou for some more time, hoping to make Yan Shao change his attitude, but unfortunately it was in vain, and in the end, Jian Yong could only leave Qingzhou with indignation.

In the Governor's Mansion, looking at Jian Yong, who had already left, almost everyone knew very well what they were going to face next

"I hope this time, Liu Bei won't restrain himself too much" patting the dust off his body, Yan Shao said lightly.

Behind him, many people had complicated expressions on their faces.