After Liu Bei entered Shuzhong, he encouraged the development of the Shu brocade industry, and every household was planted with mulberry trees. It is the solemn Hanzhong Palace, and many mulberry plants can be seen everywhere.

Zhuge Liang entered the courtyard of the dormitory, and saw Liu Bei wearing filial piety clothes, standing with his hands on a towering tree, thinking silently, looking at his motionless appearance, I don't know how long he stood there.

He took a deep breath and bowed: "Chen Zhuge Liang has seen the lord. ”

"Oh, it's Kong Ming here." Liu Bei turned around and smiled lightly at him, "Thank you for your hard work." It's been a lot of excitement in the court these days. ”

Zhuge Liang raised his eyes to look, but saw that although Liu Bei had gray hair and a sparse expression, fortunately, his voice was loud and his bearing was still the same, and he knew in an instant that his body was just a prevarication of the lord, and Cao Pi's usurpation of the Han Dynasty did not actually break the will of the monarch immediately.

Thinking of this, he quietly put down his mind and replied:

"I was about to report to the lord that the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty had been killed by Cao Pi, the country could not be without an owner for a day, and the Han family could not be without a king for a day, although there were some different public opinions in the court, such as Liu Ba, Fei Shi, and Yongmao, who took the lead in writing a book, hoping to postpone the matter of being called the emperor, but all the important ministers hoped that the lord could become a great unification as soon as possible and set the plan!"

When Liu Bei heard this, he suddenly restrained his smile, squinted and said:

"You say that the Son of Heaven has been killed by Cao Pi...... But the Han family has been in the world for more than 400 years, and although the number of qi has decreased, Yu De is still there! borrowed a hundred courage from Cao Pi'er, and forgave me for not daring to do such a degrading thing...... You say, he could choose to persecute Zen Rang, but why did he make the act of killing the monarch and discrediting himself? ”

As he spoke, he had already approached Zhuge Liang, his eyes were burning, he stared at Zhuge Liang's eyes, and his tone suddenly became stern:

"Kong Ming, did you deceive the elderly, deliberately using the murder of the Son of Heaven to deceive the orphan, and wanted to instigate the orphan to be this disloyal and unfilial person?"

This is already a heart-wrenching statement!

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he suddenly sweated like rain, and fell to his knees with a thud.

He knows that Liu Bei's personality, affection, and good face, Liu Xie will never be the emperor as soon as he is alive, and he can only use the excuse that Liu Xie died at the hands of Cao Pi in order to make his ascension to the throne appear justified.

Anyway, Cao Pi has even changed the dynasty, and he is not afraid that he will be charged with killing the monarch one more time!

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei's eyes were like torches, and he could see at a glance the careful thoughts of himself and his colleagues.

But this matter is already like an arrow on the bow, how can it not be released?

Zhuge Liang bowed to the ground, and his tone was still resolute:

"The collapse of the Han family is imminent, if the lord is not the emperor, he will rebel against him, and he will not be loyal and righteous. Today, everyone wants the king to be the king, if the lord does not come forward from the ministers, he will lose the popularity of the people, and within three or five years, I am afraid that the people of the world only know that there is Wei but do not know that there is Han, and when the people's hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to clean up! Think twice! ”

Then he touched his head to the ground, and said no more.

Liu Bei stared at his back and didn't say a word.

A monarch and a minister maintained a posture of standing and kneeling motionless, and the atmosphere was a little stagnant for a while.

After a long time, Liu Bei finally let out a long sigh and slowly turned to the big mulberry tree.

"Lone is a native of Zhuo County, Hebei Province, and there is a mulberry tree on the southeast corner fence of the old house in his hometown, just like the big tree in front of him, more than five zhang high, and he looks at Tong Tong like a car cover from afar."

Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know why the lord didn't mention the right thing, but talked about the old things. But he has assisted Liu Bei for many years, and he knows that he must have something to say, so he cheered up and listened at the moment.

Liu Bei stretched out his hand and stroked the trunk of the tree, and continued:

"Pedestrians blame this tree for being extraordinary, or it should be a nobleman. When he was lonely, he often played under the tree with the children of the clan, and tasted the joke that 'I must take this feather to cover the car'. Later, Lone also spoke wildly because of this, and was reprimanded by his uncle in the clan...... Speaking of this matter, after being an adult, he never said anything to outsiders, Kong Ming, you are the first person to know about this. ”

When Zhuge Liang heard this, his heart was shocked.

The Yubao cover car is the emperor's exclusive car, when Qin Shi Huang toured the world, it was the Yubao cover car.

At that time, Xiang Yu, who was bare-handed, saw it and said: It can be replaced; Liu Bang, the ancestor before his career, also said when he saw it: Huh, the eldest husband should be like this.

"It turns out that the lord made such a bold statement when he was a teenager, could it be that he had great ambitions at that time......"

Curious, he couldn't care less about his temper, and raised his eyes to look at the people under the tree.

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei also happened to turn around and look at him, his face full of self-deprecation.

"Kong Ming, you must be thinking in your heart, you have had great ambitions since you were a child...... Or is it ambition? ”

Zhuge Liang was about to explain, but Liu Bei rushed to say:

"Not really. After King Jing of Zhongshan in the lonely book, after the Tui En Order, the status of the Liu clan became lower and lower, almost no different from the common people...... When he was young, his father died early and lived in poverty, so he worked with his mother to weave mats...... It's a shame to say that the sentence 'I must take this Yubao covered car' is just indignant at the injustice of the imperial court, and this is just a feeling. ”

Speaking of this, he raised his eyes to the sky with a look of remembrance on his face.

Later, when he was fifteen years old, he studied in Lu Zhi of the same county with Liu Deran and Gongsun Zan of Liaoxi. Lu Shi is all-round in civil and military affairs, noble in character, and often has the ambition of helping the community and helping the world. Lone saw many virtues in him, such as courage and integrity, such as practicing benevolence and righteousness, such as single-mindedness for the public, such as not being afraid of power, such as joy and anger are invisible...... Thanks to his years of teaching, Lone was able to turn his anger into strength and set up a great ambition to sweep away the troubled times and help the Han family! ”

Zhuge heard it and slowly bowed his head.

Although the lord was a young man, he revealed integrity, benevolence, and not afraid of power, which is indeed very similar to Lu Zhi, and it seems that Lu Zhi has played an indelible role in his adulthood.

At the same time, he also saw that Liu Bei contained a unique trait that even Lu Zhi had never used—repeated defeats and battles, and never giving up—which was the bloodline passed down by Gaozu Liu Bang.

Under the mulberry tree, Liu Bei shook his head and continued:

"It's a shame to say that in the last half of my life, I have been handsome and handsome, working hard, but I haven't made any merits, until I meet you, Kong Ming, this is one of the three points in the world. Now that I have come to Shuzhong, my life is better, and I have created some situations, but unfortunately Yun Chang and Xiaozhi have left in the middle of the road......"

Liu Bei said as he spoke, and suddenly sighed:

"Counting the age, Gu is almost sixty years old, how many years can he live?"

Zhuge Liang was shocked, and said in his heart, could it be that the lord is in his twilight years, and the hero is short of breath? So he hurriedly persuaded:

"Jiang Taigong met King Wen in his eighties, and assisted King Wu to destroy Shang, which can be described as a late bloomer. The lord is famous in the world and reorganizes the Han family, and this is the time! ”

Liu Bei smiled, stepped forward to help Zhuge Liang up, looked at the elegant and clear face, and said with emotion:

"Lonely Ben has achieved nothing, and has been defeated repeatedly, but fortunately, along the way, there are several of your siblings who swear to follow and never give up. Therefore, this sweeping away the troubled times and helping the Han family is not the ambition of one person, but the ambition of all of us. ”

After a pause, his face gradually became resolute:

"Lone is not a good woman in this life, and she is not greedy for money, but she abides by her duties and cherishes her reputation...... But when I waited for all of us to come together because of a common aspiration and struggled so far, how could I give up because I was alone? But if it is necessary to make Lone defy himself as the emperor despite the disapproval of the world, and it is also a must to fulfill our ambitions, then Lone will let you do it! The matter has come to this point, I am not afraid of the late festival, and I don't care about the opinions of the people in the world! ”

This time, a sour and irresistible emotion suddenly overflowed Zhuge Liang's chest, and he shouted movingly: "Lord......"

Liu Bei patted him on the shoulder, sighed again, and said:

"The face of loneliness is easy to give up, but the dignity of the ancestors of the Han family is difficult to abandon...... Kong Ming, since you have reported that Gu Cao Pi killed the king and usurped the Han Dynasty, Gu only thinks that this is the case, you must serve the filial piety of the emperor for half a year, and then discuss the rest of the things after half a year. ”

"Command!"

After a pause, Liu Bei twisted his beard and said:

However, without distinguishing between the ministers, they sent back the news of Cao Pi's murder, and this matter was concealed for a while, how could it be concealed for a lifetime? and will be ridiculed by posterity...... Anyway, after the lonely temporary throne, there will be no historians, until the Central Plains is swept away, the filial piety emperor is welcomed, and the emperor is returned to the throne. ”