When it comes to fundamental matters, Liu Bei has always been very cautious.

He first wrote a letter to Jian Yong, who was far away in his hometown in Youzhou, and asked Jian Yong to take Guan Yu and Ji Jian and others to start increasing the training of Liu's private soldiers and conducting more real military exercises.

And if possible, accept as many homeless young people as possible, enrich the number and combat effectiveness of Liu's private soldiers, seek ways to buy horses as much as possible, and use family savings to buy horses, so as to expand the number of cavalry in Liu's private soldiers.

Then it is necessary to forge armor and shields in private, collect bows and crossbows and other war tools, and from this moment on, collect a large number of war materials such as grain, grass, salt, and other war materials, and store them all properly.

Of course, the imperial court did not allow private individuals to possess these weapons of war, but if the local powerful landlords wanted to say that they really had no inventory in their hands, it was estimated that the eunuchs in Luoyang City would not believe it, but they were all hidden and tucked away, and they were not taken out.

In the Battle of the Yellow Turbans, Youzhou was also affected by the war, and a considerable number of troops of the Yellow Turban Army invaded Youzhou, and it is unknown whether his hometown of Zhuo County is safe.

In order to ensure the safety of the family, Liu Bei asked the family to prepare early, not to break the enemy, but to repel the invading enemy with strong force.

This order was very important, and Liu Bei called back Zhang Fei, who was in the Changshui cavalry team, and asked him to return to Zhuo County to deliver the letter.

Zhang Fei had no doubt, and after receiving Liu Bei's order, he packed up and rode on the road.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei's departing back, and some thoughts came to his heart.

During this time in Luoyang, Zhang Fei first faithfully performed the duties of Liu Bei's personal bodyguard, and later learned orthodox cavalry tactics in the Changshui Cavalry, and the learning effect was good.

Liu Bei also took care of and cultivated him as a brother, and taught Zhang Fei the art of war that Lu Zhi taught him, so that Zhang Fei could study it seriously.

Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are different.

Guan Yu learned some culture from his father in his hometown, he has a cultural background, there is no obstacle to reading, and he is relatively studious, but Zhang Fei does not.

Liu Bei always felt that Guan Yu was able to defend Jingzhou alone and shock Huaxia, but Zhang Fei died in the hands of the villain, which was really not for no reason.

And this gap in the realm of life may be due to the difference in the learning attitude of the two.

Guan Yu loves to learn, Liu Bei taught him the art of war, he kept it in mind, and his back was ripe, and he memorized it like a stream.

And when Liu Bei taught Zhang Fei the art of war, Zhang Fei was in pain, and asked him to learn a few more chapters, just like forcing people who can't eat coriander to eat coriander, which is unhappiness and resistance from the genetic level.

Therefore, Liu Bei adopted a guided education for Guan Yu, and felt that Guan Yu could maintain a certain amount of self-study.

And for Zhang Fei, it is a cramming teaching, so that he can learn the knowledge first, and how to use it in the future depends on his ability, anyway, military strategists are not crammed, military strategists are basically geniuses, and they can only be regarded as officers.

In fact, since Liu Bei came into contact with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he has changed his perception of the world in the face of the two famous generals.

A long time ago, he also felt that generals were born, no matter who they were, as long as they were famous in history, they were born to be bulls, and all the ability values were the same as in the game, as long as the loyalty was full, everything was absolute.

However, after knowing Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for many years, Liu Bei realized that even if he is a real genius, he must go through the tempering and test of time before he can finally become a powerful celebrity.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are definitely not born celebrities.

When they first followed Liu Bei, these two people were also more courageous and powerful senior thugs than ordinary people.

The number of times these two people have blue noses and swollen faces is about the same as anyone under Liu Bei's hands, and they are about the same as Liu Bei, they all grew up eating fists.

Sometimes there are too many enemies, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have one pig head three and one pig head four, lying on the bed and unable to get up.

Liu Bei was shocked at the time, thinking that these two people were not impostors, and only later did they come back to their senses, without experience and growth, most people could not shine.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not born [Bear and Tiger Generals].

So he passed on his experience of street fighting to them, told them how to cooperate, and pulled them to practice cooperation with his former younger brothers.

Gradually, they learned to cooperate with other "comrades-in-arms", and because they were tall, strong, and congenital, they gradually became the No. 1 and No. 2 thugs around Liu Bei.

And another reason why they can stand out is that they are more capable and tenacious.

Many of the thugs who followed Liu Bei in the early days fell behind for various reasons in the process of Liu Bei's achievement of the title of Street Fighter.

For example, they died of illness, such as being injured and dying of incurability, or being arrested by the government and running away, etc., they all fell behind.

And Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have borne all kinds of disasters, they were cured when they were sick, they were recuperated after being injured, and they were not arrested by the government, and they were left to the end.

In addition to genius, the so-called talent is not the strongest from the beginning, but is lucky to survive to the end from the beginning.

So Liu Bei also understands why Liu Bang's Peixian soldiers are all awesome characters, why Cao Cao's Cao family soldiers are so awesome, why Zhu Yuanzhang's old Huaixi department is so awesome, and why these people are all fellow villagers.

It's not that they are very good at the beginning, but a process of accumulating experience on the battlefield and surviving until the end, and producing qualitative changes from quantitative changes.

Surviving on the battlefield in troubled times is a skill in itself, and people who cultivate this ability to the extreme will definitely not be far behind professionally.

Liu Bei didn't know if he could have the same survival skills as Uncle Liu, but he knew that he and Uncle Liu were completely different.

So the current Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are also different from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei under Uncle Liu Huang.

They no longer took the wild road to develop their own model, but began to receive formal education, and grew through a combination of formal education and practice, and achieved satisfactory results for Liu Bei.

So, this time, how far can everyone, including myself, go?

Liu Bei didn't know.

Liu Bei only knew that after July of the fifth year of Guanghe, his life was still as fast-paced and demanding as ever.

In addition to being an official, he continued to maintain his character as a debater and a great Han poet, and continued to push his reputation to a higher place.

The ancient Wenjing school continued to respect Liu Bei, regarded Liu Bei as the leader of young scholars, believed that Liu Bei had the quality to take on this responsibility, and believed that he would definitely achieve a great career.

Today's Wenjing school also stopped criticizing Liu Bei for the time being because of Liu Bei's single-handedness to the two eunuchs, although there are also people who see him unhappy, but in the context of the disaster of the party, Liu Bei's existence is undoubtedly a benchmark for scholars.

Despite this, in the process of in-depth contact with the Gaomen Shi clan, Liu Bei was keenly aware of some changes.

As far as Liu Bei observed, the scholars' private dissatisfaction with the current political ecology has shifted from dissatisfaction with the eunuchs to dissatisfaction with the emperor.

The scholars seem to have realized that the emperor was too lenient and indulgent to the eunuchs, but he was very strict with the scholars.

No matter how stupid a person is, he should be aware of the position of the emperor in the power struggle between the scholars and the eunuchs.

No matter how stupid a person is, he should faintly feel that Jinshang is different from the previous emperor Liu Zhi, and it seems that Jinshang does not stand on a relatively neutral position, but is completely biased towards eunuchs.

This incident diluted the joy of the scholars about the victory, and even further deepened their worries.

And finally some people began to openly express their belief that the emperor might persist in the party's policy for a long time, and even turn it into a national policy.

This is definitely not a good thing in Liu Bei's opinion.

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PPS: On the last day of 2022, there will be one more chapter, as a farewell to 2022, and then we will prepare for the shelves, and we may be ready to put it on the shelves in mid to early January, so there will not be too many updates during this time, control the progress, but I will explode after the shelves, and please support and vote more~~

PPPS: A lot of things happened this year, overall I also feel very bad, definitely not a good year, the first half of the year is fine, in July my grandmother cerebral blood vessel rupture fell at the door of the house, a sick can't afford to be sick, in the hospital and nursing home back and forth for three months, at the end of October or left, so far all four old people in my family are gone.

At the end of the year, the control is relaxed, everyone is yang, I can't prevent it even if I can't prevent it, it dragged on for more than ten days, and it was also yang, and it was not good to toss until now, it was still very uncomfortable, although I don't know what will happen in the coming year, but I still look forward to everyone's life in the coming year a little better, less sin, and a few more comfortable days, after all, we little people have nothing to ask for, nothing more than peace and security, no illness and no disaster.

Therefore, I sincerely wish you all a safe and secure new year, no illness or disaster, good health, and delicious food~