Cao Cao was shocked by Liu Bei's words.

He looked at Liu Bei in shock, never thought that such words would come from Liu Bei, from such a rising star in the group of scholars.

"Without farmers, what do we eat? Where do we live without artisans? Without a dancer, whose dance do we watch and whose music do we listen to? These professions must exist, they are constant, they run like this, so why devalue them? ”

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "Some scholars' hearts are broken, and they don't know where they read, they don't read benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, they read all about fame and fortune, and they tend to be inflammatory. ”

Cao Cao was shocked for a while before he could barely react.

He asked himself that he had also received a classical education in Confucianism, although no one admitted it, but he was also a scholar, and he read well.

But no matter which family law it is, he has never read that Old Master Kong said such a thing.

Yes, Master Confucius didn't have such an idea in his heart, what people want is self-denial and revenge, what they want is to restore the traditions of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which truth is Liu Bei talking about?

"Is Xuande the truth of reading books? Whose doctrine is this? ”

Liu Bei shook his head.

"It's not a family's statement, you can read a book, and you can feel it, when Bei first followed the teacher to study, he was also looked down upon by the children of scholars, they felt that Bei was just a villain in the borderland, full of rustic, and did not want to associate with Bei."

"I never thought that Xuande had also experienced these things......"

"Bei was very angry and helpless at the time, but more than that, he was unwilling, and when he came over the mountains, they laughed at Bei's feet covered with mud."

“…………”

"So Bei swears that he will get ahead no matter what, and he will not dare to despise Yu Bei no matter what."

"So, Xuande did it."

"No, whether it is the ancient Wenjing school or the modern Wenjing school, although there are people who respect Bei, but there will also be people who look down on Bei, and they will still think that Bei is just a border pass and settled down, nothing is great, even if he is full of fame, it is still the same, no matter how high his achievements are in his life, he is a border villain."

Liu Bei raised his head and drank a glass of wine dry, and sighed.

Cao Cao listened with a wry smile on his face.

"Xuande is full of fame, but it's not so uncomfortable."

"Mengde, you ......"

"Hahaha, it's just a joke."

Cao Cao patted Liu Bei on the shoulder and laughed for a while.

After a while, Cao Cao revealed a sadness that could not be concealed, and said: "Xuande's words are so good, after all the hardships, over the mountains and mountains, they mocked your feet with mud, hahahaha, it's really funny!" How funny!! ”

Cao Cao gritted his teeth and slammed his fist on the table, crying out with hatred.

Looking at Cao Cao, who was full of unwillingness, Liu Bei felt something.

A generation of heroes has also had such an experience, so it is not difficult to imagine that he will issue three meritocracy orders in a row later.

It was obviously impossible to cause any substantial impact on reality, but he did it anyway.

Perhaps Cao Mengde's heart has always had romanticism and idealism that belonged to the poet and never forgot in his youth.

Meritocracy is a trivial rebellion against this era in which there is no foundation for the imperial examination, and Cao Cao's personal rebellion against this era is a rebellion against the society of etiquette and law.

Then your guess is right.

Everything in the past is not a conspiracy and calculation, but a counterattack made by the young Cao Cao relying on the power of his family and not being willing to be discriminated against by himself.

Cao Cao may be a very strong person, he has been discriminated against, and he has never stopped fighting back, and he has done a lot of stupid things in the eyes of others.

That being said, he never surrendered.

Of course, this is also because he knows that his family power is very powerful.

But in any case, this may also be one of the reasons why Cao Cao was able to turn over Yuan Shao against the wind.

Thinking like this, Liu Bei suddenly felt that the dissatisfaction with Cao Cao across time and space in his heart had gradually dissipated.

He can already look at Cao Cao quite objectively.

A living, flesh-and-blood person who hates in front of him and releases his emotions without reservation.

"Mengde's journey must have been very difficult."

"With the help of your family, why not talk about it? It's just that there is often no one to talk about the depression in my heart, and I look around, but there are few confidants who can talk to the operator and pour out the depression. ”

"I know what Meng De means, if Meng De has any distress in the future, I am willing to listen to Meng De."

"That's good."

Cao Cao smiled, raised a glass to Liu Bei, Liu Bei returned a glass, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Cao Cao felt that he was unexpectedly very compatible with Liu Bei, as if he had been reunited with an old friend for many years.

But the friendship between the two has just begun.

This is a wonderful feeling, and it is the same for Liu Bei.

Obviously, I have known Cao Cao for less than ten days, but I feel as if I have been an old friend for many years, and I am very compatible.

So both of them were happy and talked about more topics.

Literature, military, politics, life, etc., etc., etc., everything is discussed.

The more you talk, the more you say, and the less evasive you get.

"Looking at what Xuande said before, I thought that Xuande was going to say something to me, and the prince will have a kind of thing like that."

Cao Cao raised his glass to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei laughed, raised his glass in return, and then drank a glass of wine.

"The prince will have a kind of Xiangning, does Meng De believe this sentence?"

Cao Cao thought for a while before giving his own answer.

"If it is written in the history books, I want to believe it, but when I look around, I don't feel very convinced, if the princes will have no seeds, why are there four and three princes of Runan Yuan? Why is there a third prince Hongnong Yang? ”

Liu Bei smiled, and another glass of wine went down.

"So, it's just the fourth and third dukes, the history of China is long, I don't know its thousands of years, in the long history, we are just a very small existence, there are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years, just four generations and three dukes, where did the species come from?"

Cao Cao took a deep breath.

"Xuande is so bold."

"Hahahaha!"

Liu Bei drank three cups in a row and said with a smile: "Only allow them to look down on me?" Shall I not look down on them? Who prescribes? I don't! I want to point out the country, excite the words, and the dung was ten thousand households back then! If you can't even do this, you will be a loss of your youth! ”

Cao Cao sighed very much, and immediately raised a glass of wine to salute Liu Bei.

"To be able to talk to Xuande is worthy of this life!"

Liu Bei returned a glass of wine, and only felt that his stomach was slightly hot, so he tapped the wine jug next to him with the chopsticks in his hand.

"The sacred things of the Five Emperors and the Three Emperors have deceived endless passers-by, how many romantic characters are there? After stealing the reputation of Zhuang Zhuang Liu, King Chen rose up and waved Huang Yue! Mengde, our days are still long! ”

"This ......"

Cao Cao heard Liu Bei's words and was stunned for a while before reacting.

"Xuande is talented, and the five emperors and three emperors are sacred...... Deceived the endless passers-by? It means a lot. ”

"Of course, they are lying to me, and they want to lie to me all the time."

Liu Bei smiled and said, "The rule of three generations? Abdicate? A good position of power is handed over to others? Mengde, if this is true, then guess why it has been three generations for the father to die and the son to succeed, and the brother to the brother? Is the morality of today's people really far inferior to that of the ancients? ”

Cao Cao opened his mouth slightly, obviously never thinking about this.

"In order to deceive people and flaunt themselves, they dare to say any nonsense, and they are not afraid to flash their tongues."

Liu Bei sneered, looked at Cao Cao, whose face was obviously wrong, and stretched out his hand to shake it in front of him.

"Mengde?"

"Huh?"

"Silly?"

“………………”

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei, and his face became extremely complicated for a while.

"No, I just think that when Xuande says this, it seems that all of a sudden, it becomes different......"

"As soon as I said that, Meng De heard it, and I didn't dare to say it."

Seeing Liu Bei's smiling face, Cao Cao was silent for a while before he sighed deeply and shook his head with a wry smile.

"After I am a eunuch, the scholars will not listen to my nonsense."

After speaking, Cao Cao paused, and his face was entangled again.

"What Xuande said, was it taught by Lu Gong, or is it ......?"

"My teacher is a great Confucian in the sea, a humble gentleman, and an example in the world, how can he have such a rebellious idea?"

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Only if I have this kind of border villain, weaving mats and selling shoes, humble and unbearable, sinking into the quagmire, unable to extricate myself, I will have such a random speculation about the dirty intentions of the three generations of sages!" ”

Listening to Liu Bei's self-defilement without hesitation, Cao Cao suddenly admired Liu Bei very much.

"What Xuande said, I remembered it in my heart, and what Xuande wanted, I also remembered it in my heart."

"What is the one who asks for it?"

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

Cao Cao smiled but did not speak.

"Don't know, do you?"

Liu Bei laughed, pointed to the barbecue on the table, and said: "Some people dream of being full and clothed, while some people are born to be full and clothed, some people dream of being able to eat barbecue anytime and anywhere, and some people are born to be able to eat barbecue anytime and anywhere." ”

After speaking, Liu Bei stared at Cao Cao with a funny expression.

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, suddenly snorted, covered his stomach and laughed, and tears of laughter flowed out.

"It's okay, it's okay, hahahaha! Xuande is really a wonderful person! Wonderful! Hahahaha! Wait for me to go back, and when I go back, I will ask someone to send the spices of the previous year to Xuande Mansion, how about it? ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this.

A year's spices were really an astronomical fortune for him, a third-rate scholar who had just started, but in Cao Cao's mouth, it seemed to be as insignificant as a rag.

This damn big dog, is there any reason for not slaughtering it?

"Is Meng De serious? No! Even if you don't take it seriously, I do! If you say it, you can't take it back! ”

The local tyrant and pats his chest.

"Naturally, the Cao family is not short of money for anything, just a year of spices, if Xuande needs it, I will send it to you every year! It doesn't matter if it's sent to the ground, it's simple. ”

"Hahaha, that's not necessary, that's not necessary, one year is enough, enough."

Liu Bei was caught off guard excitedly, and said with a smile: "People are poor and short-sighted, this is true, luxury things such as spices, although my family is also rich, but I can't get much, so that barbecue can't be eaten as much as you want, oops, Meng De's actions are considered poverty alleviation!" ”

"Fu ...... Poor? Hahaha! If so, the best, the best! ”

Cao Cao couldn't be happy.

The heavy atmosphere was swept away, as if it had never appeared at all.

Liu Bei in front of Cao Cao no longer had the sharp gaze when he came out of [King Chen rose up and waved Huang Yue], he was completely just a greedy person for cups and good meat, drinking wine and eating meat, and he was very happy, and his appetite was really good.

Everything just now seems to be just a dream.

But the clear and clear memory told Cao Cao that everything just now was real.

The ambition and knowledge in the heart of this young man in front of him, who was six years younger than him, was far beyond his comprehension.

But......

It's really fun to be friends with him.

Heartfelt, relaxed, and happy!