Taishan County, Fenggao County, among the government offices.

Ying Shao said to Liu Bei: "The Taishan thief has nothing to do with the general, Liu Zhengdong came to fight for righteousness, and he is a real hero." I don't know Liu Zhengdong, what is the trick to break the Taishan thief. ”

Ying Shao called Liu Bei Liu Zhengdong instead of Liu Yuanjun, in fact, he was taking care of Liu Bei's face. Strictly speaking, Liu Bei's title of Qingzhou Thorn History is actually a head lower than the title of Ying Shao Taishan Taishou. The two of them have a history of 600 stone thorns, and the other is a 2,000 stone guard.

And General Zhengdong is different, although the General Zhengdong at this time is not the general of the four expeditions who Cao Wei added the word "big" later, but a miscellaneous general. The miscellaneous general does not mean that it is not in the stream, but that it is not permanent. No matter how you say it, after all, it's a general, not it.

Therefore, Ying Shao used Liu Zhengdong to call Liu Bei to show his respect.

Ying Shao was polite, Liu Bei didn't dare to hold it up, and said: "Liu has just arrived, I don't know the details, and I ask the Ming Mansion for advice, and Liu is willing to drive." ”

I secretly said in my heart, how can it have nothing to do with me, Taishan soldiers, the elite of the world, I need to recruit more. Doesn't this have something to do with Tarzan?

Ying Shao said: "Mount Tai is barren, the people have nothing to eat, the county is connected to the mountains and seas, the people have always been fierce, and there are many thieves. In the second year of Yongxing, the rebellion of Dongguo Dou Gongsun Ju, the number reached 30,000, and it took more than two years to be defeated by Duan Cheng. Yan Xi for three years, and the same is true of the Lao Bing Rebellion. ”

Liu Bei was slightly stunned, and then listened to Ying Shao continue: "If the law is governed, the thief can be the people, and if the law is not governed, the people can be the thief." I heard that Liu Zhengdong was in Tuntian, Qingzhou, and I wanted to do everything I could to surrender the Taishan thieves and Liu Zhengdong as the pawn of Tuntian. ”

"Giving the people something to eat is the key to the way of governance. The Ming Mansion is really capable of ministers. Liu Bei was overjoyed, he didn't think about going to Mount Tai to suppress bandits, but he was in the middle of it. At that moment, Liu Bei slapped Ying Shao's sycophant.

Seeing that Liu Bei also agreed to the method of surrender, Ying Shao smiled, and said to Liu Bei: "There is also an old man of the general here, please see the general." ”

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and saw a person coming out of the back, Liu Bei looked carefully, hurriedly stepped forward, and saluted: "It turned out to be Brother Yuncheng, why is my brother here." ”

The person who came was Bao Xin, Bao Xin's word Yuncheng, when he was in Luoyang in the past, he also had some friendship with Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was older, so Liu Bei called him a brother.

Bao Xin smiled bitterly and said: "The prince left Luoyang in just ten days, the imperial court is a big change, the general was killed by the eunuchs, and Dong Zhuo entered Beijing. I was recruiting troops outside, so I rode into Beijing lightly and persuaded Yuan Benchu to say: 'Dong Zhuo now has a heavy army in his hands, he must have bad intentions, if we don't take the opportunity to do it, we will inevitably suffer in the future, while he has just arrived in Kyoto, the soldiers are tired, we launch an attack on him, we will definitely be able to capture Dong Zhuo." It's a pity that my first brother didn't listen to me, otherwise, how could I have come to today's affairs. I just went back to Mount Tai to recruit soldiers. ”

Liu Bei is now in a high position, and he is personally involved in the struggle between the middle and high-level in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, plus he also has an understanding of history, and gradually feels that whether it is fighting for power or profit, or fighting for the world, the fight is not manpower, but the current situation. The so-called "general trend of history, mighty and mighty, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it perish." ”

If there are people who can seize the situation, they can take advantage of the situation, and heroes and heroes can not only use the current situation, but also create a new situation that is beneficial to themselves on the basis of the current situation, which is "the situation creates heroes, and heroes also create the situation." "Bao Xin is obviously that kind of person.

As soon as Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he hadn't done anything yet, and Bao Xin went home to recruit troops, this kind of foresight of the future is a bit of a traverser. It is not unreasonable to become a prince later.

Bao Xin is a wealthy family in Taishan County, his father Bao Dan, was one of the nine Qing of the Shaofu Order, in history, this person recruited 20,000 soldiers, 700 cavalry, and more than 5,000 vehicles carrying grain and grass materials in Taishan. Therefore, Liu Bei was overjoyed to see him, and with Bao Xin's help, it would not be a problem to recruit Taishan soldiers.

After talking to Bao Xin for a while, Liu Bei really couldn't help it, and asked: "Now above the court, the second princess of Yuan Dong is in power, chasing Chen Fan, Dou Wu and the party members, so as to be expected by the people. So he restored the titles and promoted his descendants. Local affairs, also make full use of celebrities. is my brother, and he is also the minister of Jibei, why is my brother still recruiting troops and trying to ask for Dong Gong. ”

When Bao Xin heard this, he said angrily: "Dong Zhuo abolished the Son of Heaven and bullied the king, what is Dong Gong?" ”

Liu Bei said: "Otherwise, the matter of abolishing the Son of Heaven, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, no one will say much, it is not for you and me to say." In the past, Dong Zhuo did not follow the edict of the first emperor and refused to hand over the soldiers and horses to the emperor Songshi. At that time, Huangfu Song's nephew, Huangfu Li, was in the army and said to Huangfu: 'This dynasty has lost power, the world is upside down, and the only people who can be safe and stable are adults and Dong Zhuoer. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that Huangfu Song seize this opportunity for Dong Zhuo to disobey his fate and kill Dong Zhuo, but Huangfu Song is guilty of dictatorship and responsibility, that is, Dong Zhuo is guilty of not obeying the edict, but if I kill him without permission, I am also at fault and refuse to obey Huangfu Li's advice. It can be seen that those who can calm the world are only two of Dong Gong and General Huangfu, and now it seems that it is not in response to what Huangfu Li said, and what Dong Gong has done is not exactly in peace. ”

Bao Xin said angrily: "Liu Xuande, you are a relative of the Han family in vain, and Dong Zhuo is attached, and I will break off my righteousness with cutting robes today." ”

When he reached out and took the sword in his hand, he went to cut off his sleeve. Liu Bei hurriedly stopped and said: "I don't dare to hide it from Brother Yuncheng, I want to ask Dong Thief for a long time, I only hate people who have no like-minded people, today's words with Brother Yuncheng are not his intentions, I really want to try Brother Yuncheng's intentions." ”

When Bao Xin heard this, he turned his anger into joy, abandoned his sword and put it on the ground, but he still had some doubts and asked, "Xuande, this is true." ”

Liu Bei swore to the sky and said: "If there is a lie, let the sky thunder and thunder, and five thunders will hit the top." ”

Bao Xin was overjoyed when he heard this, so he didn't doubt that Liu Bei had him, and Liu Bei said secretly: God generally doesn't take out "the sky thunders, and the five thunders hit the top." "Who is this kind of big move to deal with.

There are many mountain people in Mount Tai, these mountain people, some are Han people who fled into the mountains because of life, and some are wild people who have lived in the mountains and forests for generations. These people, because of the difficult living conditions, are hard-working and do not ask much. Mount Tai has more elite soldiers, and this elite soldier refers to these mountain people. In later generations, Zeng Guofan loved to use mountain people as soldiers, which is also the reason.

Liu Bei went to visit the Taishan Goat clan again. Taishan Goat, like Liu Bei, took Cai Yong's daughter as his wife, so he is related to Liu Bei. The Taishan Goat clan has seven or eight generations in a row to achieve the high officials of the 2,000 Shiqing School, although compared to the Runan Yuan family, Hongnong Yang family, it is also a famous family in the world.

At this time, the "Hanging Fish Taishou" Yang Xu had just passed away for half a year, and Liu Bei also paid homage to the sheep, and called him "sister-in-law", sister-in-law, which is the meaning of sister's husband and brother-in-law. Talking very happily, Yang Wei said: "Originally, Xuande crusaded against the Yellow Turban, I should go to help Xuande, but I can't go, my family is in Mount Tai, a little famous, and I am willing to help Xuande recruit Taishan soldiers." ”

Bao Xin is Taishan Haoqiang, known for his prestige, and has the help of Taishan Goat. Taishan Taishou should Shao a text down, and the county temples in each county of Taishan sent people into the mountain, luring them with food and salary, and recruited strong men for Liu Bei and Bao Xin. Liu Bei also used the fields in the anointed land of Jinan as bait, so it went smoothly.

Before and after recruiting 40,000 Taishan soldiers, Liu Bei and Bao Xin each took half, 20,000 each, Liu Bei said to Bao Xin: "When the brother lifts a big event, send someone to send a letter, and the younger brother is willing to be driven." Now I have to go to break the yellow scarf in Qingzhou, and I hope that my brother will cherish it a lot. ”

The two parted in tears. Liu Bei led the army straight to Linzi.