Cao Cao could not come up with an answer to this question.

Liu Bei didn't say the answer either.

This answer seems meaningless, because neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei can solve this problem.

At most, it can only solve the person who raised the question.

But this did not prevent the two from having a friendly relationship.

Cao Cao faintly felt that in Yuan Shao's circle of friends, there were not many people who could really accept his background and didn't care, and regarded him as a friend.

The Zhang Miao who is always smiling is one.

Liu Bei is another one.

The rest is gone.

Yuan Shao seemed to regard himself as a friend, but Cao Cao knew very well that it was Yuan Shao's pretend, he never really regarded himself as a friend from a eunuch family, he just regarded himself as a useful subordinate.

Yuan Shao only cares about interests, political interests.

Therefore, Cao Cao attaches great importance to and cares about Liu Bei's friend, and every once in a while, he will ask Liu Bei to drink and chat and confide in him.

At this point, Liu Bei sensed it.

He sensed Cao Cao's closeness to him, and realized that Cao Cao really wanted to make friends with him and get along.

But Liu Bei felt very embarrassed.

Because in a sense, he Liu Xuande cares more about interests and political interests than Yuan Benchu, and he is more likely to become a pure political creature than Yuan Shao.

At least he now knows very well that he did not come to Luoyang to make friends, making friends is only a means, and the goal is to gain political power and status and take an unconceived path.

He does not have the foundation accumulation of three generations of the Cao Cao family.

He didn't be Jiuqing's father, he didn't have an uncle who was a captain of Changshui, he didn't have a bunch of relatives who were 2,000 Shi Taishou, he didn't have a smooth sailing career, he didn't have the family heritage to offend the powerful and get out of the way, and he didn't have the capital to make a comeback after failure.

He only has a teacher whose humanity is greater than his instrumental attributes, and himself.

Everything he has is earned by himself, with his life and time.

Therefore, Liu Bei is destined not to become the friend that Cao Cao is looking forward to, he can only regard Cao Cao as a help for himself to climb up, if the two become enemies like fate in the future, he will never be merciful.

For him, it is even more difficult to get to this point, which can be called a miracle of the new era.

If the historical time and space in which he lives goes to 2,000 years later, there will definitely be descendants who will be amazed by his birth experience, praising him as an example of achieving [Diaosi counterattack] in the era of origin and bloodline.

His baggage was extraordinarily heavy.

For him, if he can't climb up, he will die without a place to bury.

No one will cover for him.

He can only calculate his own path with a calculating heart, set up a set of formulas, bring everything into it, and perform purely rational calculations to arrive at the optimal solution.

Including Lu Zhi, including Guan Yu, including Zhang Fei, including Jian Yong, including Zhaozhao, including Gongsun Zhan......

They're all part of a number in that formula.

This was taught to him in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

He is not the benevolent and righteous Uncle Liu, he is himself, he has no way or the courage to be the Uncle Liu Huang who is full of humanity.

He tried, but the effect was not very good, so he gave up and turned to using reason and acting skills to deal with the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Sadly, it works well.

At first, he was still full of interest in the world and full of confidence in himself.

Who is he?

He is Liu Bei, the Liu Bei who fought all his life and finally became the emperor.

He is the one who dominates the stage at the end of the Han Dynasty with Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other immortal heroes.

The romantic and colorful world of the late Han Dynasty will not leave him because of a momentary setback.

Even if he can't become famous for a while, he believes that he is the protagonist of this world, and there is no need to rush for a while, he will eventually be proud of the rivers and lakes.

So even if he had to follow his mother from the Liu clan settlement to Zhuoxian County every day to weave mats and sell shoes, he still felt good.

They even arrogantly tried to start a social revolution with their mouths.

The Liu clan is a clan in the end, with a large population, and it is a small force of its own, and it is safe with other forces, and the Zhuo County Order will not harbor any ill will towards them.

In addition, Liu Bei's grandfather and father were both official figures, bringing benefits to the family, relying on this relationship, at least there was no exploitative oppression of his family within the clan.

Therefore, Liu Bei's mother and son are more like freelancers who don't have to pay taxes, and they have the possibility of slowly accumulating wealth, and with the protection of the clan, Liu Bei's mother and son can at least eat bran vegetables, barely eat food and clothing, and not starve to death.

But if you want to change to a yeoman farmer, or a tenant who has no relationship in the family of the Haoqiang clan, it will be miserable.

The government's exploitation of yeoman farmers and the exploitation of their own tenants by the powerful clans are really to the point of knocking out the bones and sucking the marrow.

Since Liu Bei helped Liu's mother weave mats and sell shoes at the age of seven, for several years in a row, corpses dying of freezing and starvation could be found on both sides of the official road every winter.

Looking at the year, sometimes you can see corpses in spring, and the probability of seeing corpses in summer and autumn is relatively small, but once you see corpses in summer and autumn, there is a high probability that you will be killed by angering the government or angering the lord's family.

What Liu Bei had seen and was most impressed by was the corpse of a scrawny man and his equally scrawny youngest son.

The two hugged each other tightly, it should be father and son.

The father protected his son's small body in the middle of his bony body, his face was covered with blood, and he couldn't see his expression clearly.

Liu Bei didn't know who made the mistake, which led to the two being killed together.

But he knew that after getting used to seeing the corpses on the side of the road, the romantic filter that belonged to the Three Kingdoms in his eyes gradually faded, and the romantic filter brought to him by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms disappeared.

After removing this layer of filter, he was stunned to find that the world in front of him was colorless, and the rest was grayish and white, which symbolized coldness and slaughter.

What's even more sad is that he finally realized that gray and white are the main colors of this world, and the romantic and colorful world will definitely not belong to him at that time.

As a marginal person in a colorful world, his own life is not easy, and the so-called improvement of life is nothing more than eating a few more bites of rice bran and a few more salted vegetables, and that's it.

Eating enough is a gift for the New Year's holidays.

Hunger or not death is his daily routine.

The heavy burden of life has changed him from a modern person who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains to a man who eats dried rice and a small expert in weaving mats and shoes, and has also changed him from a silent person who is ashamed to speak up to a loud voice to solicit business.

It also made him change from an iron waste who ran five and a half minutes for a kilometer to an iron foot owner, carrying a load of straw shoes and straw mats from home to Zhuoxian commercial CBD, and it was not difficult to walk a few miles back and forth.

That was an important foundation for his later career as a Street Fighter.

It is precisely because of this, experiencing everything that Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others have never experienced, that it is impossible for him to become their true friend.

He took a fancy to their value and hoped to use their value to raise his own value, take himself to the next level, and get out of an unimagined path as soon as possible.

That's his goal.

Around this goal, it is not important to be a friend of whom, to be a supporter of whom, or to be a political servant of whom.

He wants to climb up, he wants to use all possibilities to climb up, and if the political energy of the ancient literature school is not enough to push him up, he has to find a way to climb up.

He is not the Uncle Liu Huang, he can't wait for the time to make a career at the age of fifty.

He is not as good as that Uncle Liu, he doesn't have the talent of that Uncle Liu, if he can't go his own way, he may not live to be fifty years old.

Carrying Liu Bei's name is more like a great mockery for him.

Because he didn't know what kind of forbearance and persistence Uncle Liu relied on to survive to the point of fame in the face of such a desperate situation, and until the last moment, he still maintained a faint human touch.

If you were a normal person, you would have collapsed a long time ago, right? It's been lying flat for a long time, right?

It's even a long time ago, right?

But Uncle Liu Huang didn't.

Liu Bei couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out at all, and couldn't replicate this impossible route.

He had no choice.

Yuan Shao's platform is important.

Relying on Yuan Shao's platform, he has already gained a lot of things.

But Liu Bei was not satisfied, not at all.

He's going to dig Yuan Shao's corner.

The first shovel is Cao Cao.