Chapter 53: The so-called cowardice
While Liu He and Li Yan were pondering together how to exchange a country for someone to come back, Xun Chen, Guo Tu and Xin Ping were making the last effort to persuade Han Fu.
Although Liu He's arrival caused a lot of trouble for the three of them, they still had expectations for Han Fu, which was why they didn't leave Gaoyi City with Gao Gan.
At the beginning, when Han Fu was promoted by Dong Zhuo as the pastor of Jizhou, it was the time of fierce turmoil in Jizhou, and Han Fu's subordinates were almost unavailable, so they asked their fellow villagers and friends Xun Chen, Guo Tu and Xin Ping for help.
However, the world is like chess and unpredictable. In the past, the subordinates and staff who worked hard were different in their ideas and positions, but now they are persuading their own masters to be virtuous for others.
Guo Tu and Han Fu are both from Yingchuan County, Yingchuan County, and their two families are very close to each other in the county, and their relationship was very close in the past, so they spoke more directly, and they didn't plan to save any face for Han Fu.
Guo Tu said: "Wenjie, I really don't understand, obviously I have discussed to give Jizhou to Yuan Gong, why did there be a lot of changes in the end, now Jizhou is three, are you satisfied?" Could it be that just because of the bullshit that the Liu family kid said, your ambition was shaken? ”
Han Fu was not angry at Guo Tu's almost interrogating words, but said with a wry smile: "The public has misunderstood me, although Han is ambitious and talented, he is not a powerful person, if there is really someone who can govern Jizhou well, I will willingly give up my seat to him!" ”
Xin Ping looked at Han Fu with some doubts, and then asked, "Listening to Wenjie's words, don't you recognize Princess Yuan's politics in Jizhou?" ”
Han Fu replied: "Zhongzhi, even if I really agree to give up Jizhou, do you think Yuan Benchu can take over smoothly?" ”
"You didn't let it, how do you know that he can't take over smoothly?" Xin Ping asked tightly.
"I know that you will think so, and you will ask like this." Han Fu said a little melancholy, "If Liu Gongzi hadn't interfered in Jizhou this time, maybe the four of us have now switched to Yuan Benchu's account, but do you think Gongsun Chan will give up?" Will he sit back and watch Yuan Benchu swallow Jizhou alone? ”
Xun Chen retorted: "If Wenjie had taken the opportunity to give Jizhou to Yuan Gong at the beginning, Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses had not yet arrived, as long as Yuan Gong won Jizhou, the power would be greatly strengthened at that time, even if it was against Gongsun Zhan who went south, it would be enough to drive him back to Youzhou!" ”
"If you say this, I believe it. But if the situation really develops like this, a protracted war will inevitably be inevitable, and when the time comes, the dead and injured are all the soldiers and people of Jizhou, but it is Yuan Benchu and Gongsun Zan who will get the benefits! Han Fu said with some excitement.
"The question is, Jizhou is now so three-legged, won't there be deaths?" Xin Ping asked Han Fu very sharply.
Han Fu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Hehe, everyone is fighting for each other, how can it be that no one dies!" But you can't deny that after this incident in Jizhou, although someone in my Han did not let Xian, the number of people who died was the least! In the entire six countries and three counties of Jizhou, except for Yuan Benchu, who fought two tough battles with Zhang He in Boluoting, and thousands of soldiers died on both sides, the rest of the time was spent in confrontation and stalemate. ”
"Humph! You're making excuses for your cowardice and weakness! Are you afraid that you will lose your power and status after you really cede Jizhou to Yuan Gong! Guo Tu said sharply.
"I admit that at first I had illusions about Yuan Benchu, as you said, as long as I took the initiative to give up Jizhou, he would be grateful to me for such a move, and then treat me as a guest. However, when I learned one thing, I felt that I was wrong, and it was very wrong! ”
"You all think that I misheard Liu Gongzi's slander and suddenly changed my mind, but in fact, this is not the case at all! Liu Gongzi only told me one thing and one truth. ”
"What Liu Gongzi told me about this incident is that Gongsun Zan led his troops south, but he was actually instigated and invited by Yuan Benchu! Regarding this matter, it has been confirmed since Guan Jing came to Gaoyi, so don't find any reason to deny it. What I want to ask now is, if Yuan Benchu is really a virtuous and selfless person, why did he do the trick of luring wolves into the house in order to get Jizhou from me? ”
"What Liu Gongzi told me is that if a person tries to pin his safety on the gratitude of others, then he will never get real security; A person who can't even guarantee his own safety is not qualified to talk about protecting himself and his people! ”
"Because I saw Yuan Benchu's face clearly, I didn't want to put the safety of myself and the people of Jizhou in the hands of such a person, so I accepted Liu Gongzi's suggestion, that is, to stay in Jizhou! Even if I only control 30% of Jizhou's territory now, I can keep the people in this 30% land from suffering from war! ”
"You can laugh at me for being greedy for power, you can laugh at me for being a cowardly person, or you can laugh at me for not having big ambitions, but I feel that I am not wrong to do this in public or private. After today, if a few people are still willing to stay in Gaoyi to assist Han, I will still treat them as before; If you think that Yuan Benchu is the one who is bound by the destiny of heaven, you can also go and defect, and I will still recognize you as a friend in the future. ”
Han Fu said that it was over, and there was no need for everyone to talk about each other anymore.
Early in the morning of the second day, Guo Tu, Xin Ping and Xun Chen left Gaoyi one after another with their families. Among them, Guo Tu and Xin Ping made an appointment to go to Yecheng, Wei County to join Yuan Shao, while Xun Chen seemed to be inspired by Han Fu's words and went directly south to return to his hometown Yingyin County, Yingchuan County.
At the head of Gaoyi City, Liu He looked at the convoy of Xun Chen's family heading south, but what came to his mind was some of the words that Han Fu said last night.
Liu He did tell Han Fu about Yuan Shao's appointment with Gongsun Zan to attack Jizhou, and also said that "people want to be peaceful and rely on themselves", but it is definitely not as profound and concise as what Han Fu said last night.
Before today, Liu He looked down on Han Fu's cowardly character from the bottom of his heart, and he had at most some sympathy and pity for this elder who was similar to Liu Yu, and felt that a good old man like Han Fu should not be cornered by the most reckless people, hiding in the toilet and committing suicide with a knife. But after listening to Han Fu's words that Ding Guo was hiding on the roof and eavesdropping, he vaguely respected Han Fu.
Compared with Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu, who intend to compete for hegemony, Han Fu's character is undoubtedly cowardly, and even when the nephew of the person who knows that Lu Dao intends to grab his own territory is trying to win over his own people on his own territory, Han Fu can still let the senior cadres leave with all their beards and tails. If he was Liu He, he felt that he would definitely chop up Gao Gan and the fine works he brought into the city as soon as possible and feed them to the dogs!
However, if you look at it from the perspective of the people living at the bottom of Jizhou, whether Jizhou is ruled by Han Fu or Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zan has a woolen relationship with them! What they care about is when the continuous war disasters will end, what they care about is who will clean up the bandits and bandits that are rampant in the township, and what they care about is that even if they survive as cattle and horses, they don't want to be pushed to the front line of the war as a meat shield!
From the perspective of grassroots people, isn't Han Fu's cowardice a good thing? He felt that his skills were not enough to resist Gongsun Zhan's attack, so he kindly handed over the rich grain, grass, soldiers and horses accumulated in Jizhou to Yuan Shao, and took all his civil and military generals to take refuge in the past.
Compared with those heroes who were talked about in history in later generations and lay down millions of corpses in anger, who would have thought that if they or their relatives were one of those millions of corpses, would they be so relaxed and happy or even happy?
In the dream, there are vague motherly tears, and the city head changes the king's flag. In this chaotic era, there are too many people who want to be heroes, and too many people who have their own political ideas and persistence, so the Han Dynasty has tossed from 60 million people to only 9 million after the most Han Dynasty!
Of the more than 50 million people who died, some of them died of epidemics such as plagues, some died of natural disasters, but the most of them died from endless wars of all sizes!
After the Han people killed themselves and almost died, what was the result? It is the "Five Nonsense Chaos China", and it is the darkest and darkest history of hundreds of years of grief in Chinese history!
Liu He, who was standing at the head of Gaoyi City, remembered the evaluation of Han Fu as "cowardly and scheming" in later generations, and suddenly felt a pain in the egg.
However, although Liu He's opinion of Han Fu has changed somewhat, it does not mean that he will appreciate Han Fu's passive and evasive attitude. As a human being in two lives, Liu He only believes in one sentence: there has never been a savior in this world! What you want, you have to rely on yourself to fight for it, and relying on others is unreliable after all.
"Childe, this Xun Chen is the most talented among the three people who left Gaoyi, why don't you want to take it for yourself?" Li Yan asked Liu He softly on the side.
"If you don't have enough prestige, don't even think about it!" Liu He is very self-aware.
"Master Taifu's prestige is enough, why don't you ask him to come forward?"
"Dad won't help me, this time I went back to Youzhou, and I didn't know how he would clean it up, alas, ......"
"Gongzi turned his hands into clouds in Gaoyi, and covered his hands for rain, such a method reached the ears of Master Taifu, when you are happy and proud, how can you be punished?" Li Yan was a little puzzled.
"Some things are hard to say now, anyway, what I did this time, in the eyes of my father, it was complete nonsense, didn't I see that he only sent one Xian Yufu after arriving in Jizhou, and then ignored me again." Liu He said a little depressedly.
"Childe doesn't have to worry too much, even if Master Taifu is angry, what can he really do to you? I was humble and talented, and after thinking about it last night, I came up with a plan that could let Gongzi successfully recruit that Zhao Zilong! ”
"Hey, say it, say it!"
Li Yan muttered to Liu He, only to hear Liu He's eyes widen, and he couldn't believe his ears.
"Zhengfang, you are not afraid to do this, if Zhao Yunzhi is told in the future, he will stab you to death with a gentian gun?"
"There's something wrong with what Childe said. I just came up with an idea, the person who nodded and agreed was you, and even if Zhao Yun found someone to take revenge, he would find you first! ”
"I'll rub it, you're so insidious! Is this the rhythm that wants to murder me? ”
"If the son shouts louder, I'm afraid that Wang Daxia will come up to take the head of the lowly position."
As Li Yan and Liu He spent more time together, the relationship between the two became cordial, and when no one was around, the tone of conversation was more relaxed, and occasionally Li Yan would make a joke with Liu He.
"Okay, just do it according to your method, if you can recruit Zhao Yun smoothly, I will give you a big credit!"
"Childe is not afraid of being murdered?"
"Get out of here, get down to business!"
PS: I want to accept Zhao Handsome Guy, Nandao is rolling all over the ground for recommendations and collections!