Chapter 162: Pull Sponsorship
Last time, I said that because Zhang Fei was only awarded the title of 100 generals, Liu Bei could only get the salary of 100 people from Liu Yan, and nearly half of the people needed him to raise it himself, which made Liu Bei sad.
In the end, Liu Bei decided to go to Su Shuang to try his luck.
Previously, Su Shuang promised Liu Bei that as long as Liu Bei could recruit 300 people, he would help Liu Bei arm this army. Now Liu Bei has recruited almost 200 people, although this army is nominally Zhang Fei's, but Liu Bei is the eldest brother, so the actual command is still with Liu Bei. And with Zhang Fei's personality and his friendship with Liu Bei, Zhang Fei didn't have the slightest idea about it.
With apprehension, Liu Bei took Zhang Fei to find Su Shuang and introduced the situation of his troops to Su Shuang.
This time, Su Shuang didn't continue to make things difficult for Liu Bei, because he didn't want to fund Liu Bei, he just didn't want Liu Bei to die in vain. Since there are nearly 200 people now, plus Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, Su Shuang feels that Liu Bei is definitely enough to take this army into battle, and it is absolutely enough to protect himself, if the Yellow Turban Thief does not have the eyesight to see it, he will definitely bang their teeth if he uses Liu Bei's army as fat.
Su Shuang, as Zhang Fei's friend, didn't quite understand why Zhang's father always felt that Zhang Fei was not good, as a bystander, he saw this problem very thoroughly. Zhang's father just wants his son to follow the literature, but Zhang Fei's achievements in literature are not outstanding, but they are not outstanding. On the contrary, Zhang Fei's physical fitness has already determined that his martial arts will definitely not be weak.
Su Shuang has also seen Guan Yu, a strong man who often follows Liu Bei, and in terms of figure alone, Guan Yu is taller than Zhang Fei. Su Shuang himself doesn't know martial arts, so his judgment of force is simply based on other people's figures.
Liu Bei's troops had these two giants in them, and Su Shuang was full of confidence in them. Fortunately, he hadn't seen Zhao Ergou, otherwise his confidence might have been discounted.
Su Shuang took Liu Bei and Zhang Fei back to his home, so he took the two of them directly to the account room, and personally asked the account room to pay part of the money to Liu Bei first, and asked Liu Bei to recruit some homeless people in the city to continue to expand the army. Then Su Shuang took Liu Bei and them back to the study and asked Liu Bei about their exclusive weapons, because generals should have their own exclusive weapons, which is a symbol of status.
Liu Bei explained to Su Shuang that his fourth brother was already helping them build. Su Shuang asked Liu Bei about his fourth brother's situation again, and heard that Liang Xu was only four years old, Su Shuang's eyes were straight, and he repeatedly said that Liu Bei was ridiculous, and it was not decent to drag a four-year-old boy to the battlefield.
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Liu Bei didn't know how to explain it, because his purpose for building the army was inconsistent with Su Shuang, and Su Shuang meant that all the Yellow Turban Army were thieves and should be killed. But Liu Bei only wanted to kill the Yellow Turban that plagued the people like Ergou, because he didn't know that the ultimate goal of the Yellow Turban was to overthrow the Han Dynasty established by his ancestors, he just thought that the Yellow Turban was the same as the previous mob riots, just forced by life. So he didn't think too much about the future development of the Yellow Turban, after all, he was not a strategic military strategist like Zhuge Liang.
This is not to say that Liu Bei is stupider than Zhuge Liang, in the final analysis, it is because of information asymmetry. Zhuge Liang is in Longzhong, but he knows everything about the world, on the one hand, because Zhuge Liang's father-in-law and teachers are celebrities in Jingzhou's high society, and Zhuge Liang can know a lot of news from them that ordinary people will not know. Liu Bei could have also asked for a little information from Liu Yan, but it was not comprehensive, after all, Liu Bei's identity was not high, and it was already a great favor for Liu Yan to tell Liu Bei a little information. And later, Liu Bei broke up with Liu Yan, so he couldn't get any news. On the other hand, Zhuge Liang's ambition is very clear, he just wants to assist the master, so he will pay special attention to the movements of the warlords. But Liu Bei's current ambition is not clear, he just wants to get ahead and shine on the lintel, but he is not clear about what he wants to do and what he can do. He is like a graduate who has just stepped into the society in later generations, and he feels at a loss about his future.
Liu Bei will be at a loss, but Zhang Fei will not. Zhang Fei didn't even want to tell Su Shuang about the matter as it was, including Liu Bei's plan to kill only Ergou's troops. Liu Bei had no time to stop it, Liu Bei really regretted bringing this guy over.
Su Shuang listened to Zhang Fei's explanation, and was really unhappy, but as a businessman, his mind was still very lively, and he thought: Although his goals are not the same as Liu Bei's, the thief who has harmed the Su family is the Yellow Turban of Changshan County. Now that Liu Yan has been shrinking in Zhuo County, he has never thought of avenging these gentry who came from Changshan, so it is better to let Liu Bei try. And the four-year-old Liang Xu actually knows divination, it seems that Liu Bei's army can not only protect itself, but also maybe take down the second dog. It's okay to give him a bad breath.
Liu Bei obviously saw that Su Shuang's face had changed just now, but now he was stretched out again, although he couldn't figure it out, it seemed that Su Shuang shouldn't turn his face. Liu Bei's heart was let go.
Since Su Shuang figured it out, he called the housekeeper and asked the housekeeper to go to the Su family's blacksmith shop and bring the swords and bamboo spears in stock to Liu Bei and bring them back. There are not many of them, and they can only arm a dozen people together.
After arranging, Su Shuang took Liu Bei and them to find Zhang Shiping, and blackmailed Liu Bei from Zhang Shiping for more than a dozen horses. This is one-tenth of the total number of horses that Zhang Shiping brought from Xianbei this time. Su Shuang's original intention was to let Zhang Shiping donate all these horses, but Zhang Shiping had no opinion on the Yellow Turban Army, if it weren't for the fact that he was living in Su Shuang's mansion now, he wouldn't even be willing to take out these dozen horses.
Liu Bei didn't think that he would get such a generous grant from Su Shuang, and wanted to say something thankful, but he felt that the words were too light, and he didn't know how to express his gratitude for a while.
Su Shuang smiled and said, "Brother is here waiting for the good news that you have made meritorious contributions to the enemy." ”
Liu Bei bowed to Su Shuang, with tears in his eyes, and left with Zhang Fei.
The next day, Liu Bei stayed in the city to recruit troops, and asked Zhang Fei to receive the horse offered by Zhang Shiping, and directly brought Zhang Fei's Zhuangzi to Yun Chang for distribution. Zhang Fei then took Liang Xu back from Zhuangzi.
When Liang Xu stayed in Zhuangzi, he mainly watched Guan Yu train his troops. If he was to be asked to train, he wouldn't, but watching the ancients train their troops, he could refer to the experience of military training in later generations and improve the training methods and methods at that time.
With the experience of later generations to learn from, Zhang Fei's Zhuang Ding has learned what discipline is, but it is okay when standing in line and marching, but when they are allowed to fight with sharp wooden sticks, it is a little miserable.
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