With such a harvest, Yuan Shao was naturally happy, and became closer to Liu Bei, frequently praised Liu Bei in public, and took the initiative to make Liu Bei famous.

And this is naturally one of Liu Bei's purposes for Yuan Shao's advice.

For Liu Bei, because he knew that the troubled times were coming, the scholar-type route that had accumulated a lot of experience would not work in the future, and he only had nine years, so he needed a more direct way to break the game.

Yuan Shao is this breaking point.

The fact that he planned and personally participated in the debate conference held in Yuan Shao's mansion was itself a clear signal that he Liu Bei and Yuan Shao had a very good relationship.

Naturally, it's not a clear belonging, it's not a retainer or something, but it also means the friendship between the two sides, the friendship between the two sides, and the need for both sides.

Liu Bei, a Han clan member and a halfway monk, was able to become a guest of Yuan Shao, the son of the Yuan family, the third prince of the fourth world, and participate in the planning of the activities hosted by Yuan Shao, which is also a very honorable thing in itself.

Regardless of whether Yuan Shao is one of the representative figures of the current literary school, just talking about the political energy of other people, it is indeed not small, you Liu Bei can become Yuan Shao's friend, and drinking with him also proves your ability from the side.

This incident itself can bring about the rise of Liu Bei's fame and raise his social status.

This is not the biggest benefit of Liu Bei's actions.

His biggest benefit is that he has a good relationship with Yuan Shao, which allows him to pull up his own small gang.

At the moment when the troubled times are approaching, Liu Bei is very clearly aware that if he wants to survive in the troubled times, he needs to form a gang, the so-called three gangs of a hero, if he Liu Xuande wants to gain a foothold in the troubled times, it is not enough to only have two enemies of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

He needed followers on the political level, and he needed educated, knowledgeable, and well-educated people to govern the place for him, collect taxes, and mobilize the people to form an army.

What he could do with the character of Lu Zhi's disciple and debater before could only be regarded as having a relatively large voice and a high status in a social circle, everyone is still equal to each other, they are friends, and there is no relationship between you and me commanding you.

Now it's different.

Now through Yuan Shao's platform and appreciation, what Liu Bei can pull up is a small force gang headed by him and under Yuan Shao's big gang.

This is a quasi-political alliance, like Yuan Shao's gang of forces.

Yuan Shao's gang is a quasi-political alliance headed by Yuan Shao, and the core value orientation of cohesion is to unite scholars and oppose eunuchs.

The reason why it is "quasi" is because Yuan Shao does not have any official position on the surface at present, and once Yuan Shao has an official position and grasps political power, this quasi-political alliance will immediately be upgraded to a formal political alliance.

It serves Yuan Shao's own political interests and the great goal of opposing eunuchs.

Although Liu Bei has an official position, he has little power, so the small force gang he pulled up is also a quasi-political alliance.

A small quasi-political alliance under the patronage of Yuan Shao's gang.

It is really not an easy thing for Liu Bei to be able to pull up this small quasi-political alliance, if Liu Bei does not associate with Yuan Shao, does not rely on Yuan Shao's prestige and energy, and only relies on Liu Bei himself, then he will have to push back.

But now it's different.

Liu Bei and Yuan Shao have a good relationship, and they are appreciated by Yuan Shao, and even his friends can be favored and praised by Yuan Shao, which shows that Liu Bei has a high status in Yuan Shao's heart.

So much so that Yuan Shao was even willing to show face to the friends around Liu Bei.

What does this mean?

It means that although it is not easy to mess with Yuan Shao, the big brother, but with Liu Bei, the eldest brother, you may be able to get his appreciation, be introduced to Yuan Shao by him, and then get Yuan Shao's praise, and then get some political benefits.

Hasn't this been fulfilled in Liu Bei's friend Zhen Yan?

After the end of Zhen Yanlang's official term, he has been seeking the possibility of staying in the central government, but has not succeeded, so Liu Bei took the opportunity to introduce him to Yuan Shao.

In this regard, Yuan Shao was also very polite.

He once praised Zhen Yan in public, saying that he had the [style of the ancestors], which gave Zhen Yan a certain reputation at his banquet and gave Liu Bei enough face.

Everyone knows that this is a compliment given by Yuan Shao on Liu Bei's face, but for Zhen Yan, who was born in a place, it is enough.

Soon after, Zhen Yan, who was praised by Yuan Shao, successfully stayed in Luoyang under Liu Bei's efforts.

So Zhen Yan was grateful to Liu Bei and felt that his future was bright, so Zhen Yan became the first member of the small force gang that Liu Bei pulled up.

Many people in Liu Bei's circle of friends came back after learning the specific news, and saw that Liu Bei had become a face-saving person, and they also began to move, and visited Liu Bei one after another, hoping to get Liu Bei's recognition and recommendation, so that they could participate in Yuan Shao's banquet.

This is Liu Bei's second idea to Yuan Shao, to limit the number of participants in his own banquet and debate conference, and only those who are recognized by Yuan Shao can bring friends who have not participated in it to participate, and in principle, outsiders are not accepted.

In fact, it is also a membership system in disguise and setting an entry threshold, which is hidden in the eyes of outsiders, but in the internal view, it has an extra layer of superiority over outsiders, and there is a special connection and a sense of belonging to Yuan Shao.

Use the big cake that can get official positions to lure people with strong fame and fame, but there are only a very few people who can really get official positions, because everyone's political energy is really not large.

But what does it matter?

For flatbread, it doesn't matter how many pieces there are, it's the most important thing to have them.

This method is called the membership system in Liu Bei's words, but in the eyes of Yuan Shao and others, this is actually a kind of friend party in disguise, so Xu You still expressed his concern.

"If it's just in private, it's fine, but if it goes out and lets people know that we're friends, I'm afraid it will bring disaster."

But Yuan Shao was not worried, nor was he afraid, it was better to say that this was something he had always dreamed of, but he was suffering from no one to help him plan and organize it before.

Yuan Shao, as an unfavored existence in the Yuan family, what the family's son-in-law can get, he can't get it so easily, he needs to do it himself in order to build his own power.

Liu Bei's joining and his planning and organizational skills made it possible for Yuan Shao to achieve his goals, which made Yuan Shao very happy.

"Eunuchs can plan for their friends and for their own selfish interests, can't I just do it?"

Out of his thirst for his own power, Yuan Shao decided to accept Liu Bei's suggestion and adopt such a system.

He only allowed Liu Bei and a dozen other people he trusted to bring the people they trusted and befriended to the banquet, and selected excellent and reliable people from among them to gradually develop into "members".

They controlled the number of banquets in a considerable sense, but they also bought a large number of sailors to create a large number of publicity, and made Yuan Shao's banquet look like a press conference, which was very eye-catching.

Liu Bei assumed the role of this press spokesman, and every time he participated in Yuan Shao's banquet, he would announce the important topics of this banquet.

For example, what classics were debated on what topics, what kind of golden sentences were uttered by anyone, or what wonderful words Liu Xuande had, how many consecutive victories he had won, including what new poems Liu Xuande had.

So it didn't take long for Yuan Shao's banquet to have considerable influence in the circle of scholars in Luoyang City.

After each banquet, many people inquired about the specific news of the banquet, and through the news spread by Liu Bei, they found out what happened to the banquet, and who were shining in the banquet, etc., and said that they also wanted to participate in such a banquet.

At this point, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others began to pull people in, leading more interested friends to participate in the banquet together, and participate in the debate conference after the banquet.