After Liu Bei freshened up, he remembered that there was a teacher in the capital, so he asked Liu Deran to prepare gifts, and early the next morning, he led Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others to meet Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi's mansion erected two pillars outside the gate, and in the early thirties of the 20th century, in the environment of the whole people's resistance against Japan, he wrote countless articles to criticize the inferior nature of the Chinese, but did not say a word about the Japanese and ran to the Japanese concession as soon as there was any trouble, and his brother later became a traitor A certain great literary scholar said that there were two pillars in front of my house, one side was a wooden pillar, and the other side was also a wooden pillar. These two pillars are amazing, the left is called "valve", the right is called "reading", on which the family's past dynasties are posted, together it is "the door valve reading", the so-called door valve family is how it came.

Lu Zhi is just 50 years old this year, and he is eight feet two inches long, and his voice is like a bell. He is a native of Zhuo County, and he is a fellow villager with Liu Bei, otherwise Liu Bei's family is so poor that it is impossible to study under Lu Zhimen. Lu Zhi has a resolute personality and studied under the great Confucian Ma Rong.

As the brother of the great Confucian Zheng Xuan, he doesn't like to make speeches, he can drink a stone, and he can drink 30 kilograms of wine, no wonder history will be recorded. He successively served as the Taishou of Jiujiang and Lujiang, quelled the barbarian rebellion, and together with Ma Rizhang and Cai Yong, he surveyed Confucian classics in Dongguan and participated in the continuation of the "Han Ji".

During the Yellow Turban Uprising, he was the general of Beizhong Lang, led the army to suppress it, and was framed and imprisoned, and Huangfu Song rescued Lu Zhi after pacifying the Yellow Turban, so he was reverted to Shangshu, and then he angered Dong Zhuo and was dismissed. Originally, Dong Zhuo wanted to assassinate Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi knew that Dong Zhuo would not let him go and did not return to his hometown Zhuo County, so he escaped.

Liu Bei went to Lu Zhi's house and handed over the post, the door went in to report, and after a while, a person in his thirties who seemed to be a housekeeper came out of it, and invited Liu Bei in from the side door, Liu Bei entered the inner courtyard, saw Lu Zhi, and hurriedly knelt down with Liu Deran at the same time to salute, and said at the same time: "Student Liu Bei pays a visit to his teacher." As soon as Liu Bei knelt, the others also knelt down, Lu Zhi waved his hand, asked Liu Bei and the others to get up, and said, "It turned out to be Xuande, get up quickly." ”

Liu Bei got up, Lu Zhi asked Liu Bei about breaking the yellow scarf again, Liu Bei told the situation of that day in detail, Lu Zhi listened to it and said happily: "In the past, when you were studying under my door, you never knew how to work hard, and you liked dogs and horses the most, and you were good at clothes. Now it is much beyond my expectations, thirty horsemen to break tens of thousands of yellow scarves is also a miracle, and the teacher is very relieved to know about it, and finally did not teach you in vain. ”

"The students used to be young and ignorant, and they liked dogs, horses, and fancy clothes. Later, the world was in turmoil, every time I thought about the teacher's teaching in the past, and took the teacher as an example everywhere, I fought hard, and the teacher taught well in the past, but I only hated that I couldn't learn more skills from the teacher, and I couldn't govern the country and protect the country and the people. "It's a thousand wears, and the sycophants don't wear them. Liu Bei slapped it with a sycophant, and even Lu Zhi couldn't help but smile.

After a few modest words at the moment, he changed the topic and asked Liu Bei: "You have traveled all the way, more than a thousand miles, depending on the people's feelings." ”

Liu Bei replied: "There are already thieves in the eastern part of the country, and there are dozens of famous Boling Zhang Niujiao, Changshan Chu Feiyan and Huanglong, and there are countless small thieves. ”

Lu Zhi sighed when he heard this, but he was helpless, and asked Liu Bei what he was doing in Luoyang, and Liu Bei told him that the emperor asked him to go to Luoyang to pay money and take office. When Lu Zhi heard this, he was a little puzzled, he was different from Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, he knew the inside story, and Liu Bei had no reputation, how could he be promoted by the emperor. In the end, I had to think that Liu Bei was a relative of the Han family, and he had the merit of breaking the yellow scarf, so this was the case, and there was no other way for the emperor to die and ask for money, except to say a few ridiculous words.

However, he was a little suspicious in his heart after all, and said: "In the second year of Zhongping, Shi Julu was too guarded by Sima Zhixin in Hanoi, and in order to have a clear name, the imperial court gave him a preferential price, a reduction of three million. Sima Zhi sighed in amazement: For the people's parents, they are exploiting the people in order to seek officials, I can't bear it! So he resigned due to illness. The emperor did not allow it, and forced him to pay money to take office. Traveling to Mengjin, the book is extremely Chen Chen's loss of the world, the ring of ancient and modern disasters, that is, suicide by swallowing medicine. The book played, and the emperor temporarily stopped repairing the palace money. ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei's heart felt like a million grass and mud horses galloping by, so he had to pretend to be pitiful, and said coquettishly: "Teacher, don't you want me to commit suicide too." "Although it is said that the relationship between heaven and earth is a little worse than that between father and son, there is no reason for the teacher to force the student to commit suicide.

"Naturally not, I just hope that you will not exploit the people in order to seek office, let alone ruin your reputation for the sake of buying officials, which will not benefit you in the future." Lu Zhi said sincerely, and it was also for Liu Bei's consideration.

"Teacher Rongyu, the disciple is not to be an official, just to benefit the people, but also to implement the identity of the disciple of the Han family, I am the great-grandson of Emperor Xiaojing after King Jing of Zhongshan, as long as I recognize the identity of the disciple's clan and enter the sect, the disciple is worthy of the ancestor." Liu Bei tried his best to speak in a sincere tone.

After Guangwu Zhongxing, the clans of the Western Han Dynasty were not recognized individually, only those who had meritorious service and were very close to them were recognized, so Liu Bei claimed to be the king of Zhongshan Jing, the great-grandson of Emperor Xiaojing, there is no problem with this, but he claimed that the clan relatives of the Han family were more or less a little problematic, which needed to be included in the clan directory jade disc to be regarded as procedural justice, and the result was legitimate.

When Lu Zhi heard this, he had nothing to say, so he had to say: "This is also your filial piety." Then he cheered up again, "Xuande, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Son of Heaven cares about martial arts, you have the merit of breaking the Yellow Turban, and you are a clan, and it is common for the Son of Heaven to reuse it for you." A few days ago, the people who looked at the qi thought that there should be a big soldier in the Beijing Division, and the two palaces were bleeding. The Son of Heaven has just sent a lot of soldiers to hate it. It's a coincidence that you're here now. ”

Liu Bei's brows furrowed slightly, and the proverb was actually a prophecy, and this kind of thing was born for complex reasons. Except that it has a prophetic effect, or someone deliberately spreads it. In addition, there is a very complex social group psychology. It is said that since ancient times, there are not too many proverbs that are right and wrong, but the meaning of this proverb is often vague, and there can be many explanations, but there is no conclusive conclusion, such as the sentence when Tu Gao of the Han Dynasty began to be passed on from the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the Cao Wei Dynasty Han three hundred years later, and there is no convincing explanation.

However, the proverbs of the Han Dynasty are too closely related to politics, up to the emperors and nobles, princes and ministers, down to the ordinary people, and no one does not believe in this proverb, the reason is really after the prosperity of Guangwu, because the unscientific sentence "Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven" has made the politics of proverbs reach the top.

However, in Liu Bei's view, Liu Xiudang is really unscientific and cannot be explained, and the statement that "there should be soldiers in the capital and the two palaces bleed" is likely to be fabricated to prepare public opinion for the removal of eunuchs. In fact, as long as you know the rules of the game for the two eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, you will find that the eunuchs' market is no longer good when the emperor is ill.