For a moment, Liu Bei's heart beat faster.

But he soon realized that this was just Liu Hong's words.

He is only twenty-two years old now, and he is only an official in Shangshu Tailangzhong, and he has only been an official for two years, and in terms of age and qualifications, he has not yet reached the time when he can be appointed as a county governor.

Unless the Han Dynasty election system is changed to look at reputation, then he may be able to serve as a high-ranking official of the Three Princes.

So he just smiled and shook his head.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has no desire to return to his hometown to show off his might."

"Oh?"

Liu Hong said with a smile: "You have been poor since you were a child, and you even have to rely on weaving mats to make a living, haven't you been despised or bullied?" Or is it that your hometown of Zhuo County is so simple? ”

Liu Bei still shook his head.

"Zhuojun is not such a good place, of course, it is not too bad, there are good people and bad people everywhere, so at the beginning, it was not that no one looked down on the ministers and insulted the ministers, but the ministers were strong, they didn't like to forbear, and they weren't afraid of things, they also liked to talk with their fists.

Generally, if anyone looks down on the minister and despises the minister, the minister will immediately fight back, and he will make him admit his mistake directly, and the grudge will never be left until the next day, so the minister was known as the street fighter in his hometown when he was young, and he was invincible all over his hometown, and soon no one dared to despise the minister. ”

"Poof-haha! Ahh Street Fighter! Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! ”

Liu Hong seemed to have been poked in the laughing hole, laughing on the spot, laughing wildly, laughing for a long time and couldn't stop, almost laughing and cramping.

So Zhang Rang hurriedly stepped forward to rub Liu Hong's stomach.

After tossing for a while, Liu Hong wiped the tears from his laughter and looked at Liu Bei with a smile.

"Didn't you think that Xuande had such an experience when he was young? Tell me, what kind of bully method is your street fighter? So how can the majestic king add the word street...... Is it that funny? If you know, you don't know how to complain about you! Hahahahaha! ”

Liu Hong almost couldn't hold back his wild laughter, and with interest, he quickly asked Liu Bei to continue to talk about his childhood experience.

Liu Bei told him how he knitted mats and sold shoes with his mother when he was a child, how he joined the street gang to participate in brawls and group fights, and how he stood out and became a street gang boss, and finally made a fortune and became a powerful man.

Of course, some bloody links and conspiracy calculations are omitted in the middle, focusing on the process of fighting and fighting the world with brothers who trust each other, and telling his own family history as passionate and deceptive as that of the old boy.

It's as if young people don't come so and feel sorry for their youth.

Liu Hong, who had never experienced all this since he was a child and did not like the established rules, was very interested in the "hot-blooded rivers and lakes" described by Liu Bei, his eyes were shining, and he was yearning, and he couldn't help but sigh after listening to it.

"Young people are hot-blooded, even if they are scarred, and when they are older, they will not make people regret it...... I really envy Xuande for having such a hot-blooded young man! ”

For Liu Bei's hot-blooded young man, Liu Hong, who has never had a real bottom-level experience, only sees the surface, not the inside.

But Zhang Rang, who has low-level experience, knows what kind of conspiracy and difficulties are hidden under the surface of this blood, and he is not confused.

So, he secretly admired Liu Bei's powerful expression ability, and felt that Liu Bei also had some demagogic abilities.

I'm really not afraid that the literati will be good, but I'm afraid that the literature will be good, and he will still be a hooligan and will deceive people, then it's over.

Zhang Rang looked at Liu Hong's yearning look, and then looked at Liu Bei's calm and joyless appearance, and suddenly felt that Liu Bei's future was still a little hopeful.

It's not necessarily a good decision to be an enemy, and judging by his behavior, he ......

Not necessarily on the side of the scholars.

After Liu Hong sighed for a while, perhaps his favorability towards Liu Bei had greatly improved, so he didn't want to beat around the bush, so he said something very direct.

"Xuande, you are a member of the Han family, and I don't want to be too tactful about some things, what are your considerations about the fact that you told me before that I should change the title of twenty-six county guards to Yilang? Are you really thinking about your father-in-law? ”

Liu Bei made up his mind, feeling that he had not only won, but also won very thoroughly.

Once this question is asked by Liu Hong, everything will be fine.

"Your Majesty's Mingjian, what the ministers do is not only for the sake of the father-in-law, but also for the consideration of Your Majesty."

"Oh? Thinking about me? ”

Liu Hong hooked the corners of his mouth: "What kind of consideration?" ”

"The Zhangren has the grace of the minister, and the minister has always known that the Zhangren wants to enter Luoyang as an official, and he will repay the peach, which is a personal righteousness, but the minister, as a member of the Han family, should consider the entire Han Dynasty, which is the great righteousness of the minister."

Liu Bei opened his mouth and said: "The minister knows that His Majesty has far-reaching considerations, so he did not forcibly promote the replacement of the twenty-six county guards, but the minister also knows that what His Majesty did was to curb the power of the scholars, so that the power of the soldiers would not be too strong and out of control.

The promotion of the twenty-six county guards can not only satisfy the requirements of the scholars on this matter, so that they will not continue to fight with Your Majesty, but also meet Your Majesty's needs at the same time, so the minister felt that this was the best of both worlds, so he dedicated it to His Majesty. ”

Liu Hong looked at Zhang Rang beside him, and then at Liu Bei.

"But how did I hear that the reason why this matter was able to make a big fuss was mainly due to you? It is you who give advice to the scholars, and the scholars can save the day. ”

Liu Bei shook his head.

"It is not the scholars who have saved the day, but Your Majesty."

"What do you mean by that?"

Liu Hong's eyes suddenly sharpened.

"Because this time the movement was so great that it was unacceptable to the scholars, so that the scholars overreacted! Your Majesty, the minister has the audacity to ask, who proposed the number of 26 county guards to be deposed? ”

"This ......"

Liu Hong turned his head to look at Zhang Rang, with some dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Zhang Rang lowered his head, looking a little frightened.

Liu Bei understood.

"Your Majesty, no matter who proposed this, this number is too big, what is the situation of removing one-fifth of the county guards in the world in one go, and putting aside the status of scholars, even if it is just an ordinary official, and one-fifth of them are removed in one breath?"

Liu Hong frowned and thought about it.

"It makes sense."

Liu Bei nodded.

"But if the number is smaller, seven or eight, eight or nine, at most ten, it will not make the scholars react to this point, Your Majesty, the minister is barely a scholar now, as far as the minister observed, when the news came out, there were really many scholars whose eyes were red, and there was a tendency to ask Your Majesty to take back his life even if he didn't want to die.

And because of the promotion of this matter, the scholars have been quite wary of the eunuchs and His Majesty, Your Majesty, although the scholars have something that dissatisfies Your Majesty, but after all, the scholars are an important force to maintain the stability of the world, and Your Majesty cannot be too eager to suppress the scholars, then something will happen. ”

Liu Hong was silent for a while.

"Xuande, who are the scholars, do you know?"

Liu Bei nodded.

"Except for a very small number of scholars who really have the idea of family and country in their hearts, most of them are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they are corrupt and disregard for people's lives behind their backs, with dirty methods and hypocrisy, and they only have themselves in their hearts, no son of heaven, and no country."