Chapter Fifty-Seven: Open Struggle and Secret Fighting
"It turns out that Duke Xuande is also a ...... of my Han clan" Liu Zhang pretended not to know, in fact, he had always been suspicious of the identity of Emperor Liu Bei, but it was not easy to show it at this time, so he had to use the excuse that he had never heard of it, and made a small counterattack. Immediately, the two recounted their genealogy, and the two were still brothers of the same clan (the eight poles were beaten back, and they should be out of five suits), both commensurate with brothers, Liu Bei is more than ten years older, so he is naturally a brother!
After talking about the current situation, Liu Zhang said: "Brother and Yun Chang and Yide are all immortal generals, and their hands are weapons and peerless magic weapons, and there will be three indispensable in the future of the Han Dynasty." However, the triumph and armor did not match the mount. Although the cone is in the bag, its edge appears spontaneously, but the world is more short-sighted, although the brothers don't care, but they are not immune to being despised by others. The younger brother has a ride, which is a thousand miles of good horses produced in the Qiang land, as the saying goes, the cloud BMW gives the hero, and then gives it to the brother, with the voice of the strong brother! ”
Liu Bei hurriedly excused himself: "No merit is not accepted, Bei'an dares to take his brother's love?" ”
Liu Barrier said: "My brother doesn't have the ability to match him, and he doesn't have the courage to lead the army to charge into battle. Brother has it, but it is like a tiger with wings, brother has Yun Chang, Yide and other talents to help, and there are divine soldiers, good horses, will be able to gallop vertically and horizontally, sweep the heroes, and also a big man Lang Lang Qiankun. Don't excuse yourself. ”
Only then did Liu Bei even say thank you and answered.
Liu Zhang also selected two good horses from the army to give them to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and at the same time gave each of them a set of silver armor and Chinese clothes. After learning that Liu Bei was attached to Gongsun Zhan, and the money and grain were all told to him, and Gongsun Zhan himself came from thousands of miles away, but the materials were not enough for his own use, and the support for his junior brother would naturally not be much, Liu Zhang immediately ordered someone to send a hundred yuan of money and three hundred stones of grain and grass.
Liu Bei was grateful to Dade and thanked him again and again, and the relationship between the two was like brothers (on the surface).
At noon on the same day, the princes of Dong Xulu gathered in the camp to discuss combat matters.
Yuan Shao once again said as the master: "Now that the traitors are rampant, the Son of Heaven is covered with dust, and the capital is ruined, all the princes have come from thousands of miles to fight for the rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty, and Shao is here to thank the princes!" He bowed deeply.
However, Yuan Shao's remarks are a stab, everyone is here to ask Dong to save the country (at least all of them are verbally shouting the slogan of Dong to save the country), the identity is the same, where is the use of you Yuan Shao to thank you? Could it be that this Han world belongs to you Yuan Shao?
At that moment, the people of Yuan Shao's faction hurriedly returned the salute, saying that they did not dare. The enemy (or more appropriately, the alien forces, who are not enemies yet) are either disdainful, angry, or ignorant......
Yuan Shu's strength ranked second, and he had always looked down on his eldest brother, and said, "What does this mean by big brother?" We are all here by edict, and we are all Han edicts, and we are all Hanchens, and my eldest brother is suspected of trespassing! It's better to say less about this in the future, if it is spread out, I am afraid that the saint will be unforgivable and the Yuan family will be ashamed! ”
Yuan Shao's face turned cold, and he glared at his younger brother coldly, but he couldn't refute it, because Yuan Shu's words occupied the name of righteousness, and if he refuted it, he would undoubtedly confirm the crime of trespassing. After forcibly suppressing the fire in his heart, Yuan Shao arched his hand and said: "What the virtuous brother taught is that the brother is guilty, and he will ask the saint for punishment in the future!" Shao Shi was insulted by Dong Wei because of his gratitude to the saint, and he hated it, and he was anxious to save the saint from fire and water. ”
As soon as Yuan Shao said this, it was difficult for everyone to say anything.
After sitting down, Yuan Shao said: "Princess, Dong rebelled against himself and abolished the emperor, defiled the harem, and allowed the Xiliang army to rape and plunder in Luoyang, which is really a great crime. ”
Sun Jian said hatefully: "When he was crusading against Bian Zhang and Han Sui that day, a certain person served under Zhang Sikong's account with Dong Wei, and at that time, he thought that Dong Zhuo was a person with bad intentions, and once advised Lord Sikong to take him down and behead him with military law!" If Lord Sikong had listened to so-and-so's words that day, how could my Han have such a catastrophe! ”
Liu Zhang thought to himself, can you avoid it by killing Dong Zhuo? Now that the Han Dynasty is declining, the princes have self-respect, and they all have the heart of separation! Even if Dong Zhuo is gone, Xiang Zhuo, Zhu Zhuo, and Liang Zhuo will stand up!
Everyone nodded.
Yuan Shao said again: "Now we are here in the name of righteousness, gathering to discuss Dong, and we should work together to help the Han!" However, we are different in parts, there is no subordination, as the saying goes, 'the snake can't do without a head', we are here to do righteous things, if no one gives orders, wouldn't it be a mess of scattered sand, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the enemy Xiliang will be appeased! Therefore, in Shao's humble opinion, the most important thing for us at the moment is to elect an alliance leader! ”
Cao Cao said: "The intention of the original prince is agreed, if there is no alliance master to give orders, we will fight separately, and we will teach Dong Yi to break them one by one!" ”
Wang Kuang also said: "I agree with the words of Ben Chu Gong and Meng De, if we fail to work together, the defeat and death of the army will be a small matter, and the matter of misleading the country will be a big matter, so the matter of electing the leader of the alliance cannot be delayed!" ”
Everyone understands this truth, and naturally no one will object, and there is an objection to who should be the leader of this alliance!
Wang Kuang saw that there was no opposition from everyone, so he said: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the reputation is more important than that of the universe, the first prince is the eldest son of the Yuan family, wise and wise, benevolent and righteous, let me ask, if the position of the leader of the alliance is not held by the original prince, who else is powerful enough to serve the public?" ”
Yuan Shao pretended to be modest and said: "Gongjie Miao praised, there are many people here who are talented and virtuous, Shao'an dares to occupy this high position, or please recommend another virtuous lord!" ”
Yuan Shu snorted and said, "Since the eldest brother has this self-knowledge, then according to the view of the technique, let's recommend another virtuous person!" "There are many people in the big tent, but there are not many people who really dare to act against Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu is the only one! Others, such as Han Fu and Tao Qian, although they have the ambition to compete for the alliance, they are also doing it secretly, and they are not willing to openly turn their faces with Yuan Shao!
Anyone can hear that Yuan Shao is pretending to be a gesture, but he, a "good brother", pretends not to hear it, and once again openly excludes him, which makes him not angry, but he understands that if he wants to convince everyone and respect himself as the leader of the alliance, he can't challenge Yuan Shu like a shrew, otherwise he will not be able to accommodate people, and it will be enough for him to lose his seat with the leader of the alliance. Of course, he didn't need to go into battle in person, but he saw him nod slightly to Yuan Yi.