Soon after Ju Yong's secret meeting, Liu He's henchmen quietly returned to their respective stations, and Liu He himself returned to Jicheng with Guo Jia and Murong Ping.

It can be predicted that in the next three to five years, these people who participated in the meeting, as well as those who were unable to attend the meeting but could see the final "meeting minutes", will become the backbone of the reform and development of Youzhou and even Dahan.

At the end of July, an uninvited guest came to Jicheng, but it made Liu He, who was originally a little bored, come to his senses.

The name of the person is Tian Yu, which is the name of Yongnu County, Youzhou. Tian Yu was entrusted by Liu Bei to rescue Liu Deran of Zhuo County, who was imprisoned on death row.

Some time ago, when Liu He went to Zhuo County to participate in the founding ceremony of the Youyan Army, he was intercepted and killed by the Yan family of Guangyang and several wealthy families in Zhuo County, and the mastermind was Liu Deran. Liu Deran and Liu Bei are not only fellow villagers, but also former classmates, so Liu He has reason to wonder if Liu Bei is manipulating behind the whole thing, but he failed to get the answer he wanted from Liu Deran's mouth. After the incident, all the Zhuoxian wealthy families who participated in the interception and murder case were punished and bankrupt, but there were no deaths, and more than a dozen people directly involved in it were detained in Zhuoxian prison and hanged only after the autumn cool.

Liu Deran was put on death row, and Liu He asked Xu Miao, the director of the Department of Culture and Propaganda, to go around to publicize that the matter was secretly related to Liu Bei, and soon the news reached Qingzhou. After Liu Bei, who was messing around under Tian Kai's tent, heard about this, he was afraid that Liu He would use this as an excuse to suddenly send a large army from Bohai to attack him, so he took advantage of Tian Kai's drunkenness at night and abducted 4,000 soldiers and horses and went straight to the direction of Xuzhou.

Liu Bei is a person who commands battles uncommonly, but he is an absolute master in demagoguery, and these four thousand soldiers who originally belonged to Gongsun Zan and are now attributed to Tian Kai are all willing to leave Qingzhou with him. Everyone feels that there is no way out to follow Tian Kai, and Liu Bei is good at buying people's hearts, so he is naturally willing to work for Big Ears in comparison.

Xuzhou Mu Taoqian's health is getting weaker, and he is having a headache about how to resist the ambitious Cao Cao, and he is very happy to hear that Liu Bei led his soldiers and horses to defect. So he sent Chen Deng, the captain of the Diannong school, and Zhang Min, the general of the army, to the southern end of the Zhengrong Valley to meet them.

At this time, Tao Qian had a very powerful general named Zang Ba, who led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to be stationed in Kaiyang County, one hundred and eighty miles away from the southern end of Zhengrong Valley. If Tao Qian hadn't sent Chen Deng and Zhang Min to meet Liu Bei, with Zang Ba's brave character, he was afraid that the three Taozi brothers would be beaten to death directly in the Zhengrong Valley.

Under the guidance of Chen Deng, Liu Bei successfully passed through Zang Ba's defense area, and then according to Tao Qian's acquiescence, he was stationed in Yinping County, two hundred miles west of Tancheng, which was regarded as a temporary place to stay.

After Liu Bei settled down the soldiers and horses, he only brought a few entourages to visit Tao Qian in Tancheng, the seat of Xuzhou, and after seeing Tao Qian, he said a few baskets of good words of flattery, greetings, and thanks. made Tao Qian pay more attention to Liu Bei. Chen Deng, who accompanied Liu Bei, and Sun Qian, one of Tao Qian's subordinates, also said a lot of good things for Liu Bei without a trace, which made Tao Qian's remaining doubts about Liu Bei completely dispelled.

Liu Bei took advantage of the opportunity to come to Tancheng and successively visited Xuzhou Beijia Mizhu, Wang Lang in Zhizhong, Tao Qian's cronies Cao Bao and Cao Hong, etc., and gave full play to his ability to be sociable and social.

In order to let Liu Bei guard the west gate of Xuzhou for himself, the old Tao Qian put down the capital this time, when Liu Bei left Tancheng and returned to Yinping, Tao Qian appointed Liu Bei as the Yinping order, and at the same time the general, not only allocated him 2,000 Danyang elite soldiers, but also sent a large amount of grain and grass military resources. If it weren't for Mi Zhu secretly blocking it, maybe even the sophisticated weapons and war horses that Mi Fang bought from Youzhou some time ago would have been given to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei and Tao Qian's subordinates had long had private dealings with Sun Qian, so he learned about Mi Zhu's obstruction from Sun Gan, so he hated him in his heart. Cao Bao, the first general under Tao Qian, saw that Tao Qian intended to take away part of his military power. He was dissatisfied with Tao Qian, and at the same time hated Liu Bei.

When Liu Bei returned to Yinping with two thousand Danyang elite soldiers and a lot of grain and grass, he naturally swept away the gloomy aura in his chest before, and felt that he had a great grasp of replacing Tao Qian to occupy Xuzhou. The two worshippers Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Jian Yong were very happy to see each other. Only Tian Yu's face was not happy. Liu Bei asked Tian Yu: "Why does Guorang look worried?" ”

Tian Yu told Liu Bei: "Yinping is located at the key point of Yanzhou's eastward march into Xuzhou, and now Cao Cao is stepping up the training of soldiers in Yanzhou, I am afraid that this place is not suitable for a long time!" ”

Zhang Fei felt a little disappointed when he heard Tian Yu's words. So he scolded Tian Yu and said: "What is Cao Mengde afraid of? Our army is now backed by Tancheng, once the war breaks out, Taozhou Mu will naturally send a large army to reinforcements, how can we sit back and watch Yinping fall! ”

Guan Yu didn't say anything, although he felt that Tian Yu didn't care about Liu Bei's face when he spoke, but what he was worried about was true.

Liu Bei wouldn't tell Tian Yu, in fact, he didn't think about guarding the west gate of Xuzhou for Tao Qian at all, but he just wanted to wait in Xuzhou for Tao Qian's body to go wrong, and then come and enjoy it.

Tian Yu saw that everyone didn't like him to say such things, so he stopped so as not to offend the anger of the public.

After a few days, Liu Bei invited Tian Yu to eat wine in his tent alone, and suddenly cried loudly when the wine was hot.

Tian Yu was surprised, so he asked, "Why is the lord crying so much?" ”

Liu Bei wiped his tears and replied: "Bei Wude is incompetent, but now he can enjoy wine and food in Yinping, but my classmate brother Deran was imprisoned by Liu He, and he will be executed when the weather is cool after autumn!" I remember how happy I was when I was under the tutelage of Mr. Lu Zigan with Brother Deran and Brother Bo Jue (Gongsun Zhan Zi Zi Bo Jue) in the past......"

Tian Yu was moved by Liu Bei's behavior of not forgetting his old friend after he became rich, and said: "It is rumored that Liu Deran organized the wealthy families of Zhuo County to intercept and kill Liu He at the behest of the lord in the Shengshui River. Now that the lord has settled in Yinping, he might as well send someone to negotiate with Liu He and find a way to rescue Liu Deran. In this way, it not only relieved the pain of missing the lord in his heart, but also fulfilled the reputation of the lord who did not forget his siblings. ”

Tian Yu's words hit Liu Bei's heart, and the big ear said hypocritically: "I don't want to send someone to negotiate with that Liu Shiren, but you also know that Liu Shiren is now powerful, and he doesn't put me in his eyes at all, if the person sent over annoys him, I'm afraid that there will be a worry about his life." ”

"If the lord can be trusted, let me go to Jicheng! When Zhao Zilong went to Yongnu to urge food, my father took the lead in collecting grain, thinking that Liu Shiren would not harm me! Tian Yu took the initiative to ask Ying and said.

Liu Bei was overjoyed in his heart, and said reluctantly: "The country let go to Jicheng in person, naturally no one can match, but you are leaving, teach me to ask who in the future?" ”

Tian Yu hurriedly said modestly: "The lord's words are serious. Even if Yu is not around, the lord has Jian Xianhe and two brothers to assist, and a small Yinping county will be able to govern in an orderly manner. ”

The next day, Tian Yu said goodbye to the three peach brothers, disguised himself as a scholar on a study tour, and left Yinping County.

After more than a month of tossing and turning, Tian Yu came to Jicheng in the cool autumn of August, and finally met Liu He before Liu Deran was executed. The moment Tian Yu walked into Jicheng, he would never have thought that if he wanted to help Liu Bei rescue Liu Deran this time, he himself would have to stay in Jicheng!

Tian Yu's arrival surprised Liu He a little. Originally, Liu He already thought that after Liu Bei "flowed" from Qingzhou to Xuzhou, he must be reluctant to give up a talent like Tian Yu, even if he had a reputation for being unkind, but he didn't expect Tian Yu to send him to the door after half a year.

For Tian Yu, a famous general of the Wei State in history, Liu He likes and admires it very much in his heart. Tian Yu has experienced nine battles in his life, eight wins and one draw, has not tasted a defeat, has been killed three times, can be called the first general in the northern Xinjiang of Wei State, ranked in front of Zhaozhao, Xian Yufu and Yan Rou and others. Tian Yu is not only both civil and military, with outstanding ability, but also open-minded and honest officials, which is a rare talent.

According to Pei Songzhi's "Notes on the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", when Tian Yu was guarding the northeast of Wei State, the Xianbei tribe Suli and other tribes often came to visit Tian Yu and gave gifts such as cattle and horses, and Tian Yu forwarded these gifts to the government. The envoys of these tribes thought that the gifts given to Tian Yu in the past were too conspicuous, and it was better to give gold to conceal them, so they quietly hid thirty catties of gold and said after seeing Tian Yu: "I hope that the adults will avoid the attendants on the left and right, I have something to say." ”

Tian Yu asked the people around him to avoid it, and the tribal envoy knelt down and said, "We saw that the adults were very poor, so we gave you some cattle and horses, but you handed them over to the government." Secretly send you some gold today that can be used as a property in your home. Tian Yu was taken aback when he heard this. He secretly thought that if he refused in person, he was afraid that he would hurt his anger and make the hearts of these Xianbei people who came to take refuge uneasy, so he deliberately opened his wide sleeves, accepted the gold, and thanked them for their kindness.

After the tribal envoy returned, Tian Yu immediately handed over all the thirty catties of gold to the treasury of the government, and then wrote a note of the situation and sent it to Emperor Cao Pi of Wei. After Cao Pi saw this recital, he issued an edict commending Tian Yu and said: "There was a Wei Jiang in the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to show friendship with the Rong people, he accepted the gifts they sent openly. Now you raise your sleeves to accept the gold sent by Xianbei and hand it over to the public, which I greatly appreciate. Emperor Wei then rewarded Tian Yu with 500 silks.

After Tian Yu received 500 pieces of silk, he hid half of them in the public warehouse for future rewards to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the war, and the other half was given to the tribal envoys to thank them for their affection for sending gold.

This story about Tian Yu was called "not subject to Huaijin" by later generations, which is enough to explain Tian Yu's character and wisdom. For such a person with both ability and political integrity, Liu He naturally wants to greet him backwards and recruit seriously. (To be continued......)