Lu Zhi once used "Liutao" to teach Liu Bei, and the original intention was to train Liu Bei's ability to control soldiers as a general.

As Lu Zhi's disciple, Yunwen Yunwu is a must-have ability, Lu Zhi hopes that Liu Bei can become an excellent firefighting captain like him, and in the future, when he is too old to go to the battlefield, let Liu Bei take over his career.

But after Luoyang began to socialize, Liu Bei found a way to control others other than soldiers.

To put it simply, it is to find out what a person lacks and needs, and what kind of expectations should be given to him, so as to manipulate him, use him, control him, and then achieve his goals.

The primitive means are very crude, similar to blindfolding a donkey, or fishing an old cow for a carrot that it will never gnaw on and letting them move forward.

Liu Bei promoted Yuan Shao's fame in order to gain Yuan Shao's appreciation and get an important position in Yuan Shao's group, but his ultimate goal was not to be Yuan Shao's loyal dog, but to go public through backdoor.

Cao Cao is an important arm of Yuan Shao, and it is an important auxiliary force for Yuan Shao to survive many targeted attacks by eunuchs before he has made a fortune, and without the contribution of Cao Cao's family, Yuan Shao could not have escaped the blows of eunuchs so easily.

But Yuan Shao didn't have much respect for Cao Cao.

Even those scholars and friends around Yuan Shao did not give Cao Cao respect.

Cao Cao has been mixed up until now, isn't what he desires most is the respect of the scholars?

But this respect is impossible for a scholar to give him, and the pride of a scholar does not allow a eunuch to trample on it later.

But Liu Bei doesn't care.

Liu Bei didn't care about the pride of a scholar, and in his heart, Liu Bei didn't treat himself as a scholar.

Cao Cao is not desperate now, especially after Liu Bei gave him respect, he even kindled a trace of longing.

What Liu Bei wants to do is to use Cao Cao's trust and favor towards him to disintegrate his unrealistic extravagant expectations for scholars, provoke his resentment, make him become an old and angry youth, make him seriously dissatisfied with Yuan Shao, and finally achieve the goal of digging up the wall.

He wants to change Cao Cao from Yuan Shao's subordinates to his actual subordinates, and let the Cao clan use them for himself!

So every time he was alone with Cao Cao, Liu Bei would mention this matter, and his words went deeper and deeper his thoughts step by step, gradually reaching the point of shaking Cao Cao's heart.

After that, at the wine table where the two were alone again, Liu Bei pretended to be slightly drunk, put his arms around Cao Cao's neck, and once again clarified his attitude.

"Mengde, you say that you envy my innocence, but aren't I in the same situation as you? After they ridiculed you as a eunuch, why didn't they ridicule me for being a mat weaver and shoe seller? ”

"In their eyes, origin is everything, background is everything, and it cannot be changed no matter how hard we try!"

"No matter how much we do to get their recognition, it's useless, they can erase all our efforts after a eunuch or a mat weaver!"

"It's meaningless, I see through it, it's all meaningless, I'm famous, sought after, just on the surface, secretly, I don't know how many people are mocking me."

"We are all the same, you Cao Mengde, I Liu Xuande, we are all the same! That's why we can understand each other! ”

"So I understand, I don't need their approval anymore, I only do myself, I do my best work, I don't care what others say!"

"Mengde! Be strong! You have been an official for three generations of the Cao family, how humble is your family background? It's just insulted by a bunch of bastards who have mastered the pen! ”

"No matter how much you try to please them, they won't give you respect! Only self-improvement and self-respect are the only way out! Be yourself! Be yourself! Don't care about them! One day, we will be able to stand above them! ”

At that meal, Liu Bei's face was flushed, and he looked really drunk, so what he said was more direct.

Cao Cao didn't know if he was drunk, but he didn't seem to be drunk, because his eyes were wide.

After the meal was over, Liu Bei staggered and was sent to the car by Cao Cao, and then personally escorted him home and handed Liu Bei over to Han Ning.

At that time, Liu Bei didn't know how effective his performance was.

But soon he knew.

Because since then, Cao Cao has obviously become closer to Liu Bei.

Whether it was handling the official affairs that Yuan Shao needed to handle or the private affairs they handled in private, Cao Cao was very willing to discuss with Liu Bei, discuss and solicit opinions between words, and was obviously willing to refer more to Liu Bei's opinions rather than insisting on his own opinions.

If Liu Bei opposes more, Cao Cao will change his opinion, and if Liu Bei supports it, Cao Cao will be more determined to do it.

This subtle change in attitude made Liu Bei feel very happy, and he felt that his ability to swing a shovel was still quite good.

And the most intuitive thing is that Cao Cao helped Liu Bei find his uncle Cao Chi to handle the matter of sending Zhang Fei and others to the Changshui Captain Unit for training with the team.

Zhang Fei, Liu Yong, and Liu Sheng are candidates that Liu Bei wants to further cultivate, he wants to enhance the reserve of cavalry talents under his command, Lu Zhi is better at using infantry than cavalry, and professional cavalry tactics will not be passed on, so it is difficult to learn.

But after Liu Bei and Cao Cao got acquainted, Cao Cao's uncle Cao Chi served as the captain of Changshui and commanded the Changshui cavalry for the imperial court, so Liu Bei discussed with Cao Cao to see if he could send Zhang Fei and the other three to the Changshui captain army for training.

Cao Cao felt that this was a gesture, and readily agreed, and he specially recruited Zhang Fei and others into the Changshui Captain Unit to receive very orthodox cavalry tactical training.

The success of this incident allowed Liu Bei to further confirm that he had gained a considerable degree of trust and favor from Cao Cao.

This is a huge step forward for him.

Didn't Yuan Shao know the value of Cao Cao?

Apparently he knew.

But Yuan Shao could not give Cao Cao the respect he needed and the realization of the value of life, which provided Liu Bei, the shovel brother, with space to wield the shovel.

As the so-called famous flowers, although the master and I come to loosen the soil, and loosen it, Cao Cao is not Yuan Shao's, and Cao's huge resources may not be able to provide Yuan Shao.

Having said that, the road is long, with Liu Bei's current status, it is still very difficult to let Cao Cao use it for himself, and he must improve his actual status as soon as possible.

But the road is also quite difficult to follow.

He can only do things for Yuan Shao while continuing to be a debater to promote his reputation, while observing the situation and striving for opportunities.

When Liu Bei was carefully planning this matter, Lu Zhi was also carefully observing Liu Bei's actions on the side.

He wanted to see how far Liu Bei could go on his own.

He thought that Liu Bei would not be able to go to that extent, but it turned out that Liu Bei's planning and organizational skills were far beyond his imagination.

Liu Bei really played with the public opinion circle of the Luoyang scholars, not only raising Yuan Shao's prestige, but also greatly raising his own value with the help of Yuan Shao's platform.

He is not only helping Yuan Shao, but also making himself an indispensable core member of Yuan Shao's gang in the process, and he is very successful in raising his own worth.

With a background in Youzhou, he really became a core member under the children of the Yuan family of the third prince of the fourth world, and he was deeply valued and successfully built his own circle of friends.

Several old friends and friends around Lu Zhi told him that Liu Bei was in the limelight during this time, and they often heard people talking about Liu Bei and talking about Liu Bei's various behaviors, and there were many beautiful words.

[Zigan, this disciple of yours is really unusual, in the future, he may not just take over your mantle]

Lu Zhi's friend Ma Riyan told him.