Chapter 275: Bad News Keeps Coming

Father and son are connected! Liu Bei was careless, thinking that if Jia Jiaoshi could deceive Wen Hou, he would definitely be able to deceive Wen Dai, but he forgot that the reason why Wen Hou was deceived was that Jia Jiao's acting skills were only secondary, mainly because Wen Hou cared about it, and the situation at that time also made Wen Hou not care about thinking about the truth or falsehood, and he had no chance to see the "Wen Ping" side again in the future.

In order to avoid being blocked in the city by the Han army, Liu Bei did not stay in Jiangling for long, and at this point, Liu Bei didn't care too much about the benevolent image that needed to be deliberately created in front of people in the past. Back then, Liu Bei was "benevolent", because he had no other "merits" to deliberately compete with others except for this.

He is not as good as Yuan Shao in terms of family background, and he is not as good as Cao Cao in terms of ability, except for making some articles in personal temperament, Liu Bei has no other choice. And his choice also brought him great benefits, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two members of the command, were hostile to Liu Bei, the reason was that Liu Bei's "benevolence" made these two believe that Liu Bei was the savior who could save the Han. Otherwise, with the ability of Guan Yu or Zhang Fei, whether it is Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, or other princes, they can be reused, but Guan Zhang and the others are bent on hanging Liu Bei's crooked neck tree.

If it is placed in the future generations, Liu Bei will be a very successful leading brother, able to gather people's hearts, even if his strength is not good at the beginning, he will be supported by many people. But Liu Bei, who was supposed to succeed, met Liu Xie this time, compared to Liu Bei, Liu Xie's innate advantage is too good, what Liu Bei needs to spend a lot of energy and time to do, Liu Xie often only needs one sentence to do.

The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. Liu Xie is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, and when the hearts of the Han family are not dispersed, every word Liu Xie says can be supported by a large number of people. And Liu Bei is different, he is just a family member of the imperial Han family. After King Jing of Zhongshan, the great-grandson of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, this sounds like a very bluffing person, but in fact, King Jing of Zhongshan gave birth to a total of more than 100 children, and then these children lived all over the world for their own livelihoods.

Zhang Wang Li Zhao is all over Liu, because the emperor of the Han Dynasty is surnamed Liu, in the Han Dynasty ruled for nearly 400 years today, there are countless imperial relatives and relatives who are related to the Han Dynasty, and Liu Bei's identity as a clan member of the Han family has long been worthless, otherwise Liu Bei when he was young would not need to sell straw shoes for a living.

Heroes emerge in troubled times, if there is no Yellow Turban Rebellion, even if Liu Bei is not a small businessman and peddler all his life, he will not have any great success, at most he will be a small official of the government, and it is almost impossible to occupy a high position. He was born in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the gate valve system began to flourish, and he was destined to have no chance to enter the center of officialdom controlled by the powerful.

Liu Xie saved the Han Dynasty, but also ruined the dreams of countless careerists, and Liu Bei was one of them. People like Cao Cao and Sun Ce were lucky, and the Liu Xie they met was not a king who liked to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots to solve troubles. But as the general trend of the world gradually became clear, the days of Liu Bei and Sun Quan, who were still resisting, became more and more difficult.

Sun Quan and Liu Bei's dreams of dominating the world are becoming more and more slim, and now is no longer the time to fantasize about dominating the world. Whether it is Jiangdong or Jingnan, it will be a must-take place for the imperial court, and there is no room for negotiation. But without Jiangdong or Jingnan, where else can Sun Quan and Liu Bei go? Is it overseas? Even if the two of them wanted to leave, how many people would be willing to go with them to the wilderness to suffer? Could it be that the two of them should be the kings of the uncivilized savages?

Sun Quan and Liu Bei, who had no choice, could only choose to attack instead of defend, looking forward to a miracle. Just like Zhuge Liang's frequent attacks on Wei in the Romance, it was not that Zhuge Liang was warlike, but that Shu Han at that time had no choice. Liu Bei's willfulness can be said to have ruined the last hope of Shu Han, and a fire in Yiling led to the shortage of Bashu's population. There are more than a dozen states in the Han Dynasty, Dongwu occupies Yang, Jing, and Jiao three states, and Shu Han gets Yizhou, and the rest are obtained by Cao Wei, and when it is more fatal, the states and counties with concentrated populations are basically concentrated in Cao Wei, which can be well reflected from the successor talents of the Three Kingdoms in the later period.

In today's Han Dynasty, Sun Quan has only one Jiangdong, and although Liu Bei has Jingnan and Jiaozhou, these three places are not densely populated areas.

If you can't fight for your family, you can only find another way. In the romance, Zhuge Liang frequently sent troops to Cao Wei to fight for Guanzhong in order to create a miracle and reverse the unfavorable situation of Shu Han. And Cao Wei also obviously saw through Zhuge Liang's intentions, and he did not let go of Guanzhong, guarding the OEM, and using Guanzhong to continuously consume the vitality of Shu Han, until Zhuge Liang's successor Jiang Wei came to power, Shu Han's vitality was about to be exhausted, and Cao Wei launched an offensive against Shu Han. Deng Ai stole the Yinping Trail and took Chengdu directly, ending the Shu Han's occupation of Yizhou, followed by the demise of the Sun clan of Eastern Wu, the unification of the Three Kingdoms, and finally the cheapening of the Sima family.

The appearance of Liu Xie changed history, and it is estimated that the Sima clan wants to seize power. Sima Yi's greatest ability is two words, to be able to live. He boiled Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Rui, and Zhuge Liang...... But anyone who would pose a threat to him was basically boiled to death by him. When there is no opponent in the world, Sima Yi will become the best of the world's wisers. But now it's different, there are too many people who can compete with Sima Yi, and it is almost impossible for Sima to become dominant in the court, not to mention that when today's son Liu Xie is still a traveler from later generations, it can be said that Liu Xie's vigilance against Sima Yi is heavier than everyone else. It can be said that the day Liu Xie died was the day Sima Yi was going to die. Of course, this was only Liu Xie's initial idea, as the things he hoped to do were realized one by one, Sima Yi's threat to the Han Dynasty became weaker and weaker, the main reason why Sima Yi was able to take power alone was that Sima Yi had recruited a large number of talents, but with the reopening of the Tai Academy and the implementation of the imperial examination system, the system of filial piety and honesty implemented in the Han Dynasty in the past is now in name only, and those who obtain official positions through filial piety will only be despised, and will not be respected. Because being able to win the imperial examination is the result of one's own efforts, and it is a manifestation of real talent and learning, and the promotion of filial piety and honesty can only be a villain's move to go through the back door by pulling relationships, which is itself a manifestation of incompetence. Who doesn't want to be a capable person in the eyes of others?

The right of the imperial court to select talents has been returned to the imperial court, but anyone who wants to get ahead can realize their ambitions by participating in the imperial examination of the imperial court, and there is no need to rely on the family in order to get ahead as in the past, in exchange for the quota recommended by the family.

The family is very dissatisfied with this, but the arms can't twist the thighs, especially now that the imperial court has just ended the battle of Hebei and killed the last resistance of the Yuan family, which family dares to touch Liu Xie's moldy head at this time. What the family can do is to constantly urge the children of the clan to devote themselves to their studies and strive to stand out in the imperial examinations. And in this way, the children of the concubines who were not very valued in the past were considered lucky, and in order to select the available people, these concubines were also qualified to go to school. But the consequences of this are also very serious, and the hidden dangers are very great, a big family, who originally controlled the right to speak, are the descendants of the clan, but now someone wants to divide the power, and it is also those concubines who usually don't look down on themselves. This dispute between the concubines and concubines cannot be cleared up in one or two sentences. The descendants of the descendants look down on the children of the same clan who are born in the concubine, and the children of the concubines who are despised do not accept those who are only from a better background than themselves. This generation still has the elders of the older generation staring, but when this generation comes to power, the family will not be far from splitting.

In order to limit the power of the princes and kings, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the implementation of the Tui'en Decree and allowed the ...... It is said that it is allowed, in fact, it is compulsory, after the death of each prince, his fief must be divided into the descendants of this prince, although due to the different concubines, the fief obtained is also different, but the Tui En Decree is indeed a good way to weaken the powerful power.

Nowadays, in addition to the imperial court itself, the major families in the Han Dynasty are equivalent to the princes and kings of the past, and the implementation of the imperial examination has led to the confrontation between the descendants of the major families.

It's all one head and two shoulders, so why should I be inferior. The emergence of the imperial examination has given those concubines who are usually not very valued in the family a chance to get ahead, although the family has begun to carry out remedial measures, but the contradiction is not caused in a day, and if you want to save the hearts of those who are born of the children, it is not a little favor can be done.

It is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, and it seems simple to be a short family, but it is very troublesome to deal with it properly, and often a small inadvertent action may offend people.

The family is very busy, not only to solve the almost irreconcilable class contradictions among the children of the clan, but also to find a way to fight for power and profit in the court, and to beware of Liu Xie's conspiracy today. In fact, as early as when Liu Xie implemented the imperial examination system, some families had already realized Liu Xie's malice towards the family, and they also thought of uniting other families to oppose it. It's just that Liu Xie is more clever, he did not abolish the past filial piety and honesty system at the beginning, and even now he has not ordered it to be abolished. And more importantly, those powerful families under Liu Xie's rule have asked Liu Xie to fight for the past.

A successful family must know how to avoid harm. An excessively large force will not only bring great benefits to the family, but it will also bring ruin. Unless the Yuan family, who learned from the fourth and third princes, planned to change the dynasty and become the masters of the house, the unrestrained expansion of power was also preparing for the future domination of the world. And old families like the Xun family, the Zhong family, and the Yang family, they are more concerned about the continuation of the family than about grabbing power. Since Liu Xie openly and honestly drew a red line for them, they naturally will not easily cross the border.

If you divide the family, you will divide the family, and it is not bad to spread the branches and leaves, at least you will not end up with a dead family. What's more, the world is bigger than these families imagine, since the world is so wide, it is also a good thing to let the children of the clan go to the outside world more.

The family, dissatisfied with Liu Xie's imperial examination system, did not complete the idea of forming a family alliance, and could only pin their hopes on Liu Xie's enemies. Originally, Liu Xie's enemies were three, Yuan Xi, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei. It's just that Yuan Xi really can't support the wall with mud, and he still can't make Liu Xie deflated by occupying a good place like Hebei.

Sun Quan and Liu Bei have thus become the last hope of the family, because the family knows that as long as Sun Quan and Liu Bei do not die one day, Liu Xie will not do anything to the family one day.

In order to support Sun Quan and Liu Bei, the family can be said to have exhausted all means, and it was precisely because of these Erwuzai's ventilated messages that the defeat of the Han army. There was a conspiracy inside, revealing the whereabouts of the Han army, so that Sun Quan and Liu Bei had preparations in advance to wait for work, so where could the Han army not fail.

Liu Xie's Han army reported successive victories in the grassland and in Hebei, in stark contrast to the war reports from the south. In addition to the county guard Xu Shu who escaped by luck, the Jiangling guard Hu Che'er, the Jiangling Navy Army Wenpin and Wei Yan were killed one after another, and what made Liu Xie feel even more angry was that Gan Ning, who served as the guard general of Xiakou Water Village, was shot by the attacking Shamoke with an arrow as in the romance.

Gan Ning is a military general that Liu Xie likes very much, this is a heroic character, bold and magnificent, both loyal and brave, and excellent in water and land combat. But such a general was so inexplicably shot to death with an arrow.

"What the is this called?" Liu Xie scolded angrily, so angry that he kicked over the table.

"The Holy One is angry." Seeing this, the generals hurriedly persuaded.

"Rest a fart! Gan Ping, how the hell did your brother die? Liu Xie glared at Gan Ping, who came to report the funeral, and asked.

"Back to the saint, my brother didn't do anything wrong, just stood on the bow of the ship as usual, and didn't want the other side of the Shamoko to be so shameless and hurt people with secret arrows......"

"Okay, okay, on the battlefield, it's only about winning or losing, regardless of the means. Your brother...... I warned him a long time ago not to dress up too much when he went out to fight, and he definitely didn't listen. ”

Gan Ping didn't speak, because Liu Xie was right, Gan Ning was good at everything, but he was a little too ostentatious, and to put it bluntly, he liked to talk about pomp and circumstance. This was the case when he was a water thief, and he was still like this after he voted for the imperial court, but this time he was retributed, so that Shamoke was eyed at a glance.

"Shiyuan, Fengxiao, listen to orders." Just when Gan Ping was considering whether to ask the Holy Lord to avenge his brother, he heard Liu Xie's deep voice instruct: "You two quickly go and pack your bags and prepare to leave for Wancheng and Runan respectively to prepare for the army to go south." ”