Everyone also knows that the real master of Jingzhou is still Liu Biao, and their current every move will inevitably make Liu Biao's ears and eyes realize that they are gathered together to plot, once Liu Biao knows in advance, the consequences are really unimaginable.

Therefore, the people who knew how powerful it was quickly dispersed.

In this way, there are only a few people left.

Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang looked at the several people present, and felt that they would not reveal what they were talking about here, so they dared to test Liu Bei and confirm that this sudden rumor of praising Liu Bei was done by Liu Biao secretly or by Liu Bei himself.

The elder Kuai Liang, he asked tentatively: "Uncle Liuhuang, don't you think this sudden rumor is a bit strange?" ”

"Oh? Eccentric? What's weird? Liu Bei looked at Liu Ba and Dong He, and pretended to be confused.

Liu Bei didn't take too long to get the help of Liu Ba and Dong He, it was only a few days. In front of these two people, Liu Bei's image is very positive, and all the intrigues and tricks seem to have nothing to do with him Liu Bei.

If Liu Ba and Dong He were not there, Liu Bei would directly ask him a question that he was also a little puzzled about, and wanted to ask if the sudden rumors in his favor this time were secretly done by these Jingzhou officials who voted for him, so that he could build momentum for Liu Bei's plot to seize Jingzhou.

"What? Uncle Liu, you don't know? Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue's younger brother glanced at each other, and there was unspeakable worry in their brothers' eyes.

"Know? Know what? Liu Bei continued to pretend to be confused.

"Well, that's right. These days, it's supposed to be good, why haven't there been such rumors for a long time. But at this time, it was spread? Kuai Liang said.

"What? You didn't do this? ”

"We? No, no, no......"

"Huh? That...... That's weird then......"

……

"Lord, what are you playing dumb riddles?" Liu Ba and Dong He were confused.

Liu Bei now saw a hint of something wrong from the expressions of the brothers of the Kuai family, and suddenly struck a spirit, which cast a shadow on his joy.

On this day, Liu Bei heard people everywhere outside talking about his Liu Bei's goodness, and Liu Bei's first reaction was to misunderstand those who had served him. deliberately preached his benevolence and righteousness, let himself gain the support of the people of Xiangyang, and build momentum for himself to replace Liu Biao. He even thought. Which guy staged this show in order to please himself?

However, looking at Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, their brothers obviously didn't know about it. Well, in Xiangyang. Who can praise him Liu Bei's benefits like this?

Meantime. Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue also paid attention to Liu Bei's expression, and when they saw Liu Bei's equally puzzled look, they were almost sure that Liu Biao must have secretly made it happen. This is a prelude to dealing with Liu Bei, and for a while, both of them couldn't help but panic.

"This matter seems to be for me Liu Bei. It's all a rumor that is beneficial and harmless, not me or you. In Xiangyang, who else can build momentum for me Liu Bei? Liu Bei asked with confusion.

"I don't know." Kuai Liang hurriedly said.

He didn't really serve Liu Bei, even if he was almost sure that Liu Biao had done it in his heart now, but he definitely couldn't say it, once he said it, it would be equivalent to him really betraying Liu Biao and voting for Liu Bei. It's a self-defeating thing.

At this moment, Kuai Liang just wanted to go to Liu Biao quickly, so that Liu Biao could explain that he was close to Liu Bei and was on Liu Biao's own orders. Therefore, at this moment, he has to hurry up and be loyal to Liu Biao.

"Uncle Liu, for the time being, such rumors are indeed beneficial and harmless to you, I think, it is better to wait for it to change first, our brother, there is still something to do, so we will retire first, if things change, we will come to see Uncle Huang immediately."

"Uncle Liuhuang, farewell!"

Kuai Yue also said.

The two said goodbye and immediately left Liu Bei's mansion.

"Tell us, Lord, what were you talking about just now?" Liu Ba asked at this time.

"Oh, this thing...... That's the ......" Liu Bei knew that there was no need to hide these two people at this moment, and he told the rumors in Xiangyang City that were now spreading all over Xiangyang City, all singing about him Liu Bei, as well as his own speculation.

"I see!" After Liu Ba heard this, he said in one mouth: "What else do you say, it's a little strange for us to wait, how could there be such a rumor suddenly for no reason?" And all of a sudden, the whole city was in an uproar? It turns out that such rumors are the result of man-made. ”

"Yes, it seems that it should indeed be a man-made incident. Originally, Liu was still a little happy. However, now that it is confirmed that it is not the work of these Jingzhou ministers who voted for my Liu Bei, it is even more impossible for me Liu Bei to send people to spread his virtues everywhere, so who did this? Is there a conspiracy against me Liu Bei? ”

"Wouldn't it? Now it seems that you are beneficial and harmless. Liu Ba touched the beard on his lower forehead and thought for a while.

"What the brothers of the Kuai family said just now is right, this rumor has just spread, for a while, I don't know what the effect will be, I believe that as long as we wait and see, we will be able to know what the purpose of the person who made such a thing behind his back." Dong He also thought about it, but he didn't have a clue.

At this time, except for those close ministers of Liu Biao who could not really take refuge in Liu Bei, everyone thought that Liu Biao was really seriously ill, and they ignored Liu Biao unnaturally, and did not guess Liu Biao's body.

If Liu Bei can guess Liu Biao's body now, he may still wake up from his dream of ambition and hegemony, and there is still a little possibility that he will withdraw from it and escape this catastrophe.

Just when Liu Bei saw Xiangyang Mancheng singing praises to him, he was happy and a little confused and worried.

Cai Mao was very busy.

Cai Mao first reported the situation to Liu Biao, and then immediately secretly sent someone to the front line to tell Guan Yu about it.

Of course, whistleblowing is also a technical job. What to say and what not to say. You have to take care of it.

Now, if he wants to sue sù Guan Yu, he just sues sù Guan Yu. said that his eldest brother Liu Bei was in Xiangyang and had been committed to harassing the ministers of Jingzhou, and now he has won over many people. Then, he said a little bit of his own opinions and worries, saying that Liu Biao was deeply rooted in Jingzhou, and it was not easy to overthrow Liu Biao, and he was worried about all Liu Bei's behavior. are all under Liu Biao's surveillance, Liu Bei, may be in danger. If you can. Let Guan Yu persuade Liu Bei, and let Liu Bei not act rashly, so as not to suffer from it.

Anyway, Cai Mao looked like she was thinking about Guan Yu and Liu Bei. Enough gestures.

So. When Liu Bei really hangs up, he will control Jingzhou, then he will have something to say. Look, I have already told Guan Yu you at the beginning, and I have told you, Liu Bei's chance of trying to seize Jingzhou is not great, you can't avoid this disaster in time, but it has nothing to do with me Cai Mao. Especially. Cai Mao will tell Guan Yu about Liu Bei's danger now, so that's it. When the time comes, he can put on a posture that Liu Bei's death has nothing to do with me.

At the same time, Huang Zu also took over the military power of the defenders of Xiangyang, but it was also a very common thing for such a general to move, and it did not attract the attention of all parties.

This matter, in Xiangyang City, spread loudly, and it seems to be very moving.

However, in fact, if Liu Bei and Liu Biao's people can go deep into the people to investigate and understand, then they will know, and even be surprised, surprised by the people under their rule, for these rumors, as well as the threat of the New Han Army, the people seem quite calm, and even, a little noncommittal.

spread the news of Liu Bei, at the beginning, the people of Xiangyang City just talked about it as a piece of eight news, or just as a joke. It is not really as they imagined, that the people will go with the wind and waves, and they will be like them, worried about the future of Jingzhou. will care about Liu Biao or Liu Bei, who is the lord of Jingzhou.

In fact, it is also the case, whether it is Liu Biao or Liu Bei, which of them is the lord of Jingzhou, in fact, it is not their turn to speak. In fact, the people are just worried about their own problems.

Relatively speaking, in the minds of the people, they may prefer the New Han army to come to Xiangyang and bring Jingzhou under the rule of the New Han Dynasty. If it weren't for the fact that many of the children of the people of Jingzhou were now in the Jingzhou army, they were worried that if they lost the battle, they would lose their relatives and children, and they really didn't care much about who would govern Jingzhou.

You must know that now the New Han Dynasty has become famous, especially the Dongting Lake Xinzhou Base, where the people are good, and the people of Jingzhou can see it. There, for ordinary people, it is actually open, and anyone who wants to see it can go and see it, and it is not too far away.

The people of the Xinzhou base, people live a full and happy life, and they never worry about life. Under the governance and drive of the government, as long as the people are diligent, they will definitely be able to obtain enough wealth with their own hands and live a good life.

Comparing the lives of the people of Xinzhou with the lives of the people of Jingzhou, it is clear who is better and who is worse.

The people of Xinzhou live and work in a very orderly manner, farming, doing handicrafts, doing business, and so on. They eat as many meals as they want throughout the day, eat dry and thin, drink wine and eat meat, and do as they please. Generally, when you get up in the morning, you have delicious snacks or gruel, and you go to work when you are full of food and drink, and you generally eat dry food at noon, with enough rice, fish and meat. The same is true at night, and even the people who have extra money can go to the wine shop and hotel to have a small drink at night, and then go home to sleep when it is hot.

Well, looking at the entire Han Dynasty, where can the standard of living be as good as the people of Dongting Lake Xinzhou? To say that the people of Jingzhou do not envy the people of Dongting Lake and Xinzhou is false.

At the beginning, those people were all displaced people who moved from Luoyang, and they were hungry and unclothed. But after a few years, they have undergone earth-shaking changes, how can people not be envious?

Just imagine, if they are the people of Jingzhou, if they are also in the New Han Dynasty, under the governance of Liu Yi, they can still live a good life?

Now, why do they have a full meal a day to eat and enjoy half a day?

Well, these are some of the more intuitive comparisons.

And some, the people who see it more thoroughly, they will see that under the governance of the New Han Dynasty, the proportion of land rent tax collected is very low, and there are even some that are exempt from tax, such as a lot of poll tax and annual tariff. What kind of messy taxes are monthly taxes, the New Han Dynasty did not have them, and the government was very strict. No one dares to commit a crime against the wind. Can you still live in such an environment?

If they lived under the rule of the New Han Dynasty, they would not have to pay so many taxes that they could not pay, and they would even have their own fields to cultivate, and they would have more work and more rewards. With such a comparison, can the people of Jingzhou not yearn for the New Han Dynasty?

That's why. When the New Han Army raised troops to attack Jingzhou, Jingzhou was nervous, only the people in power and the local nobles. At most, there are some people who have relatives and children who serve as soldiers in the Jingzhou army. Ordinary people, they have a dispensable attitude towards the attack of the New Han army. in their hearts. There is even a faint expectation that the New Han Army can come to recover Jingzhou.

This qiē, the most fundamental, is actually the result of Liu Yi building this base in Dongting Lake Xinzhou, and the result of the strong naval army of the New Han Dynasty. With a strong naval army, the merchants of Dongting Lake could do business along both sides of the Yangtze River and became the microphone of the New Han Dynasty. The benefits of the New Han Dynasty were spread far and wide to all places, so that the people of the Han Dynasty all over the country. They all have a certain understanding of the New Han Dynasty, so that the Han Dynasty is no longer the result of closed information due to inconvenient transportation.

Publicity, the New Han Dynasty has done a lot, and all of them have seized the opportunity to publicize the policies of the New Han Dynasty that benefit the people.

This, in contrast, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the short-lived new dynasty established by Wang Mang, and the policies pursued by Wang Mang are actually very similar to some postmodern policies. And Liu Yi is now a policy that is tantamount to moving to future generations. But why is it that now the New Han Dynasty is working, but Wang Mang is not? This is mainly a matter of publicity.

Wang Mang's policy did not make the general public realize the benefits, and the new policy he forcibly implemented greatly damaged the interests of the famous and wealthy families, so it suffered a strong counterattack. The new policy implemented by Liu Yi was implemented under specific circumstances, and it was successful in one fell swoop, laying a strong foundation from then on. With a strong foundation, Liu Yi only implemented it in the territory of his own power that he could completely control, and did not implement it to the entire Han Dynasty at once, so there was no matter for the entire Han clan to fight back against Liu Yi.

In fact, why has it been ten years since the establishment of the New Han Dynasty, but it has only won more than three complete states and counties, namely Sili Prefecture, Bingzhou, and Yongzhou (the desert and the newly won Youzhou are not counted)?

That is, Liu Yi knows that in all dynasties, when the New Deal is pushed forward and the law is introduced, it will suffer extremely strong resistance, and every new coup law is bloody and bloody. The conflict between the old and new forces, the old and the new concepts, is incomparably fierce.

In this way, under certain conditions, Liu Yi worked steadily and steadily, first set up a new dynasty and a new society in the territory of power under his control, and made an example and a good example for the people of the world to see. This person of the world refers to the people of the world, and let the people of the world know what kind of court can bring them hope. As long as the people of the world have hope, then if the New Han Army wants to unify the Han Dynasty, it will be tantamount to taking advantage of the trend. Even if you attack a city or a place and fight hard against those power princes, when you take it, it will be easier to implement new policies for future governance.

In this way, it will also be faster for the place that has been burned by the war for a long time to quickly recover, and then, to achieve the ultimate goal of Liu Yi's revitalization of the Han Dynasty.

Seriously, sometimes, even Liu Yi himself didn't dare to resemble him, he had the foresight of later generations, and the encyclopedia that collected the essence of later civilizations in the solar mobile phone, it took almost ten years for Liu Yi to officially send troops to unify the Han Dynasty.

It took ten years to develop, if it were a general time-traveling novel, ten years, I am afraid that it would have already unified the Han Dynasty and swept the world. But Liu Yi knows that he is not a novel now, and many things can not be done by thinking about it, and he has to complete and achieve it step by step and down-to-earth.

Now, in Xiangyang City, people like Liu Biao, Liu Bei and others don't know, in fact, many people are disdainful of this sudden rumor and the rumor of Liu Bei's praise of virtue.

Some people who have broadened their horizons, they are no longer the people who follow the crowd, but the people who have their own opinions, they think, whether it is Liu Biao or Liu Bei, what virtue can they have to bring them a truly beautiful life? Especially Liu Bei, who only arrived in Xiangyang not long ago, what practical things did he really do for the people of Xiangyang? What did you do that was good for the people?

Speaking of which, not long ago, the Xiangyang government also levied a war tax on the people in the city, which tightened the belts of the people in Xiangyang. Now is the spring sowing season, and soon it will be the time of green and yellow, and the grain stocks that have been requisitioned again and again will not know how to live by then.

However, what is the real reaction of the people, whether it is Liu Biao or Liu Bei, they will not really care. They don't care, they are all self-deceptive, they can represent the people, and if they have a voice, that is, the will of the people, they think that they have the support of the people.

So, they are still pursuing their own plans.

The rumors of Liu Bei spread in Xiangyang for two or three days. However, after the third day, this tone changed, although it seemed to be praising Liu Bei, but the meaning was a little different.

Among the rumors, it was directly pointed out that Liu Bei was more suitable to be the lord of Jingzhou, and it was also said out of nothing that Liu Bei had proposed to Liu Biao to conform to the will of the people and take over Jingzhou to become the lord of Jingzhou.

This time, let me look forward to it with a little joy and expectation, and with a little doubt

Liu Bei, who was quietly watching the changes, suddenly turned blue. (To be continued......)