In fact, Deng Chen has long been optimistic about Liu Xiu.

After years of careful observation, in Deng Chen's eyes, Liu Xiu is not only knowledgeable and hardworking, but also courageous, ambitious, adaptable, not humble or arrogant, rigid and soft, and is a person who can be trusted and can do great things.

Every time he thought of this, Deng Chen couldn't help but think of a past incident from a few years ago in his mind.

Once, Deng Chen went out in a car with Liu Xiu and met an envoy from the imperial court on the way.

According to the current traffic rules, they should get out of the car and avoid giving way. However, they did not do so.

As it happened, the messenger was very concerned about this, and was very annoyed when he saw this, and roared and insulted and scolded them.

Liu Xiu had an idea, arguing that he was a cadre near Jiangxia County, and Deng Chen was a Hou Guocheng who was busy with urgent official business.

Unexpectedly, the envoy took it seriously, thinking that the two were pretending to be state cadres, and someone wanted to take them away and punish them.

At this juncture, the then Xinye County Commander came. He originally knew Deng Chen, so he interceded for the two, so that they could avoid a disaster.

This incident left a deep impression on Deng Chen.

He thinks that Liu Xiu is not a thing in the pool after all, as long as he is with him, even if there is a big trouble, he can always turn evil into good fortune.

Later, Deng Chen followed this brother-in-law to raise troops against recklessness, fought in the south and the north, ruled the country in peace, and had no regrets in his life.

In front of him, Liu Xiu hid in Deng Chen's place for a while, and the incident of Longyou being caught in the shallows by shrimp happened.

At this time, although the world was in chaos, some local cadres still paid attention to the responsibility of defending the territory. These responsible cadres believe that what Jiangshan has is the affairs of the imperial court, and no matter what Jiangshan's surname is, his primary duty as an official is to protect the territory and the people.

That's what the current Shinno County Jae thinks.

Of course, he also did it: Liu Xiujiao, the younger brother of the related person Liu Xuan, was handcuffed and imprisoned!

Xinye and Cai Yang belong to the same county, and if Liu Xiu really wants to avoid the wind, he can run farther.

Maybe he didn't have a ghost in his heart, he didn't stay idle when he went to Xinye, not only did business publicly, but also swaggered on various occasions.

He seems to be a bit of a bully to the government.

Because public order is so poor at present, the so-called "bandits are swarming," and the local authorities are forced to step up their efforts to maintain public order and strictly handle cases.

The purpose of arresting Liu Xiu was to investigate Liu Xiu.

Liu Jiu has long had the ambition to restore the Han Dynasty, and is now a leader of Nanyang Haoqiang, and also a thorn in the side of some new cadres.

He is righteous and squandering money, and he is a chivalrous man, and some people among his guests and friends will inevitably do some "thief" deeds.

Seeing that the third brother was in distress, Liu Xuan tried every means to rescue him, and quickly accelerated the pace of preparations for raising troops in his hometown.

Deng Chen was also very anxious and used all his strength to rescue his brother-in-law.

Liu Xiu was in prison and suffered a lot.

Xinye County Zai wants to shoot the first bird with a gun, take Liu Xiu's brothers under the knife, see if he can dig up a few big cases, and arrange it: he must torture Liu Xiu well.

At that time, most of the yamen were based on this virtue: those who fought lawsuits were justified and did not have money, and those who went to prison should first let you take off a layer of skin.

However, if there is really money and fists smashed over, the yamen is also very well-behaved and obedient.

Liu Xiu was tortured in prison in all kinds of ways, and she was often dizzy from hunger.

At this time, a cadre (city official) named Fan Ye of the Xinye County Government helped him at a critical time.

Fan Ye is a native of Xinye, working in the county government and handling cases under the county lieutenant. He is well-known in the county for his fairness and rigor in handling cases.

He didn't know Liu Xiusu, but he had heard a lot about the reputation of Liu Xiu's brother and admired him very much.

Now, Cadre Fan sees that the county can't get along with Liu Xiu, an unrelated person, for a public security case, and he is quite disapproving.

One day, Fan Ye was on duty in prison.

In the cramped, damp, and dimly lit cell, Liu Xiu was dying of hunger.

He collapsed on the ground, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

I used to be carefree, I used to read hard with candles, I used to dig in the soil, and I used to run around.

I used to have the world in my heart, once pointed out the country, once Taoguang and obscurity, and once full of pride!

Today, my life has just begun, my great cause has not yet begun, and I must not fall!

Now, I'm hungry and I want to eat.

At this time, Fan Ye walked over, saw that there was no one nearby, and secretly gave a box of cakes to Liu Xiu.

As the saying goes, give a bite when you're hungry, and give a bucket when you're full.

Some historians say that this cake saved Liu Xiu's life. This may be an exaggeration, but it makes some sense.

Because, Liu Xiu is indeed about to starve to death.

Since this matter is so far away from today (almost 2000 years), I am neither a colleague of Fan Ye nor a cellmate of Liu Xiu, so I have no way of knowing whether Liu Xiu would have starved to death without this cake. But it can be concluded that this piece of cake at least saved Liu Xiu!

With such a great grace, Liu Xiu is unforgettable.

Many years later, Liu Xiu laid down the throne and became the emperor, and he still remembered Fan Ye's kindness.

In order to repay Fan Ye, Liu Xiu successively appointed him as the governor of Hedong (now the northwest of Xia County, Shanxi) County, and later promoted and reused him as the pastor of Yangzhou (now Hexian County, Anhui) and the Taishou of Tianshui (now Gangudong, Gansu), and became a feudal official.

600 stones, 2,000 stones, 2,000 stones, 2,000 stones, 2,000 stones, and Fan cadres are rising step by step.

One day, Liu Xiu hosted a banquet for Fan Ye in Nangong Yuntai.

Liu Xiu has experienced so many vicissitudes of wind and rain, and he is still very excited to see his life-saving benefactor, asking for warmth and warmth, and rewarding him with some treasures in the palace.

During the banquet, Liu Xiu joked with Fan cadres and asked:

"How do you feel about a box of cakes for a lieutenant?"

Of course, Fan Ye understood that Liu Xiu had ruled the world, and his subordinates were like clouds and fierce generals like forests, and he was originally a cadre of a grassroots organ, if he could not reach this high position in terms of merit alone, he quickly knelt down and thanked the emperor.

Facts have proved that Liu Xiu did not use the wrong Fan Ye.

Fan Ye was originally sincere and kind, fair and rigorous, and after knowing Liu Xiu, he won the true inheritance of Liu Xiu as an official.

When he governed the locality, he closely integrated the decision-making and deployment of the imperial court with the actual local situation, rectified the rule of officials, and let the officials do things for the people; develop the economy, teach the people to cultivate the fields and trees, and manage the family and finances; Maintain law and order, severely crack down on the powerful and evildoers, and accept lawsuits to make decisions about good and evil.

He works in Yangzhou, and the life of the people of Yangzhou is getting better and better, and his gratitude to him is overflowing, and the praise is endless; He worked in Tianshui, and the history of Tianshui Road was not forgotten, and some people specially created "Liangzhou Ci" to praise his outstanding political achievements.

Fan Ye died in Tianshui, and Liu Xiu naturally praised him.

Even many years later, Liu Xiu's son Emperor Ming often remembered his good achievements in governing the party.

Liu Xiu repaid Fan Ye with kindness and entrusted him with important tasks, and Fan Ye reciprocated with peach, conscientiously did his own work, and became a famous official in the early Han Dynasty, which is really a good story of a monarch and a minister.

Of course, that's all for later.

Those who are turbid are self-turbid, and those who are clear are self-purifying.

Because the case that led to Liu Xiu's arrest was never solved, Liu Xiu was originally an outsider, and his relatives and friends were everywhere, so he suffered for a while in prison and was released.

This case should be very clear, there is a wrongdoer, and the debtor has the owner. However, it was confusing to the Liu Xiu brothers, and in the end, it was over.

Liu Jiu resolutely quit!

He was originally a man with clear grievances and a strong temperament, and he was very annoyed by the arrest of his third brother, and quickly accelerated the pace of raising troops to fight against him.

At this time, the fire of armed recklessness in the world has spread everywhere.

Liu Xiu, on the other hand, still seems to be indifferent.

After he was released from prison, as if nothing had happened, he went about his grain trafficking business every day without hurrying.

Once, Deng Chen couldn't help it, so he simply asked Liu Xiu directly:

"Now Wang Mang is perverse and brutal, and he actually violates the ancestral rule that you can only kill people in autumn and winter, and kills in the middle of summer, which shows that the time has come for God to destroy him! When we met at Cai Shaogong's place in Wancheng in the past, shouldn't the proverb that Liu Xiu should be the Son of Heaven should be fulfilled only in you? ”

("Wang Mang rebelled violently, beheaded people in the middle of summer, and died at this time.") In the past, it will be like a lonely response? ”）

How can Deng Chen not be in a hurry! Everyone is busy reckless, and they are all shouting the slogan of recovering the Han Dynasty, do you still have the heart to do business?! There are tens of thousands of Liu clans in the world, if the fame is snatched away, you .......

He wanted to use these words to provoke Liu Xiu's strong reaction, and asked him to immediately gather people with his eldest brother Liu Xiu, but if he did, he would immediately follow.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xiu just smiled at him and did not answer positively.

Liu Xiu has never forgotten the experience of his martyrdom in Xinye, including his arrest and imprisonment, and he also treated it with a calm and normal attitude.

We can see from his repayment to Fan Ye after he ascended the throne, and we can also see from his encouragement to face Deng Chen with a smile just now.

It is very easy for a young man who has read books, seen the world, and has strong blood and strength, who has been handcuffed to prison for no reason, and who almost starved to death, and who will be half angry to death when spread out on ordinary people.

However, Liu Xiu is Liu Xiu.

On the surface, he didn't seem to have any ideas in politics, and even when Deng Chen used words to provoke him to express his position, he laughed and didn't answer, but in fact, he understood everything in his heart and didn't show it.

The reason why he is hidden on the surface is because the fire has not yet arrived.

Obscure against time, soaring into the sky.

This is not only a level of ability beyond ordinary people, but also a kind of psychological quality beyond ordinary people.

Liu Xiu's psychological quality has helped him go far.

So, what is the heat? And where?

Just when Liu Xiu was going back and forth between Xinye and Wancheng to do the business of pouring grain, Li Tong, a native of Wancheng, came to the door.

We have to get to know Li Tong.

Not only was he, like Deng Chen, optimistic about Liu Xiu when he was a poor man, but he also played a special role in Liu Xiujun's way to the world.

Li Tongzi is a native of Wancheng.

Li Tong's family has been in business for generations and is a wealthy man in Wancheng. His father, Li Shou, was a burly, extraordinary-looking, serious and dignified person, and he was as meticulous at home as he was in the government.

Li Shou was Liu Xin's attendant in his early years, and he liked to play with the astrological calendar and the Wei Fu Talisman.

After Wang Mang became emperor, Liu Xin was worshiped as a national teacher, and he became a sect teacher, a small cadre who handled the affairs of the clan and the county.

Li Tong was influenced by his father, and instead of inheriting the traditions of his ancestors to do business, he embarked on a career in office.

At first, he was engaged in Wuwei general, and soon he was released to Wuxian (now north of Wuxian County, Chongqing).

In the position of county leader, he is very capable and has a political voice (famous).

However, in troubled times, outstanding young cadres have no future in Wang Mang's regime.

Soon, Wang Mang annoyed the people of the world, and there was chaos everywhere.

Li Tong often heard the proverb "Liu's revival, supplemented by Li's revival" from his father, so he firmly remembered it in his heart and pondered it repeatedly from time to time.

Because of his wealthy family, he dominates a place, the world is not peaceful, he is far away from his hometown to be a county minister, and he doesn't know when it will be the best day, Li Tong is very unbalanced, so he automatically resigned and went home.

(And the family is rich and comfortable, for Lu Lixiong, since then he is not happy to be a official, but he is exempt from returning.) ）

At that time, peasant uprisings were raging in various places, and the Nanyang area was also affected, which was not peaceful.

Li Tong has a younger brother named Li Yi, who is a person who is unwilling to keep to himself ("good things").

One day, Li Yi said to Li Tong:

"Now that there is chaos everywhere, Xinmang will surely perish, and the Han family will be revived. In the Liu clan in Nanyang, only Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu are brothers who are kind and charitable, and can unite people, so they might as well plan with them to plan big things. ”

(Nanyang clan, the only brother Liu Bosheng loves the public, and can seek great things)

Li Tong listened and said with a smile:

"That's exactly what I thought!"

(I mean also)