Liu Bei hadn't met and talked with Zhang Rang for a while before, and the two were busy with their own things, just taking this opportunity, Liu Bei also wanted to have a good chat with Zhang Rang.

So the two met in the back garden of Zhang Rang's mansion, drinking and chatting.

Zhang Rang's chef doesn't know how to stir-fry, but his barbecue skills are superb, and the grilled meat is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, very delicious, and Liu Bei likes to eat the mutton roasted by their chef very much.

The same is true today, while eating roast mutton, Liu Bei talked to Zhang Rang about this matter.

"Lao Zhang, there is something I don't know if you know."

"Huh? Tell me about it. ”

Zhang Rang was eating roast mutton and drinking wine.

During this time, he was dealing with the appointment and dismissal of officials for Liu Bei in Shangshutai, and many positions needed to be arranged in the state and Youzhou, and Liu Bei gave a lot of lists, so Zhang Rang personally stared at it, and during this time, he was still very hard.

So Liu Bei suddenly asked him to eat barbecue, and he didn't have a head to come to such a sentence, he was a little confused.

"Let's take a look."

Liu Bei reached out and took out a few pieces of paper in his arms, handed them to Zhang Rang, and continued to nibble on mutton by himself.

Zhang Rang put down the chopsticks in his hand, wiped his hands, took the paper suspiciously, looked at it for a while, and his face changed.

"This ...... How so? It's true? ”

"You don't know? Your spies in Dongyuan are not a few in Jizhou, and my people don't have so many in Jizhou, and my people know about it, don't you know? ”

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Rang and sneered: "Lao Zhang, haven't the people under your command opened meat for a long time, how can you do it at all?" Or do you have your eyes and ears covered and you can't see the real situation? ”

The more Zhang Rang looked at the content on the paper, the more he felt that the situation was not good, and the more he felt as if he had made some mistakes.

"Xuande, I'...... I really don't know these things, Julu County is indeed the person I arranged, Anping Kingdom and Bohai County...... Also an acquaintance of mine, but ......"

"Don't worry, I can know about this kind of thing and you don't, it means that someone under your hand has been bribed!"

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "I thought you were a very cautious person, how could you make such a low-level mistake?" I don't even know if someone is plotting, how do you manage your subordinates? That is, no one wants to deal with you, if someone really wants to deal with you, bribe the people around you to attack you, and you don't know how you died! ”

Zhang Rang put down the paper in his hand, and the expression on his face was cloudy.

"The people I sent are all relatively reliable, they are all old subordinates who have been with me for a long time, how could they make such a mistake? If anyone cheats on me, then ......"

"Check the people around you, as well as the rest of the ten permanent servants, Zhao Zhong, you should also check them, don't always think that everything is good when the world is stable."

Liu Bei took back his information and said in a low voice: "This time, they went too far, and they took eighty or ninety percent of the benefits, so they gave me one or two percent, and now it's still like this, won't they want to snatch things from me in the future?" Some people can't get used to it. ”

"Give me a little time, and I'll look into the details."

"I'll give you time, and you'll have to give me an explanation."

Liu Bei patted Zhang Rang's shoulder: "Lao Zhang, I promised you a rich life, but you can't harm my business, understand?" ”

Zhang Rang shook his body, pursed his lips, and nodded.

"I understand."

Zhang Rang understands very well that although he has a special relationship with Liu Bei, and Liu Bei trusts and tolerates him enough, this does not mean that Liu Bei will not be angry if he is deceived, and it is his own people who lie to him.

If this situation can occur for the first time, there will be a second and third time, and there will be many times, and the ghost knows if Liu Bei will be angry and serve all the forces of the ten permanent servants, and then there will be no place to cry at that time!

He had to investigate this matter clearly, and if someone really plotted against him, he would not show mercy to his subordinates - just as Liu Bei would not show mercy to his subordinates.

After Zhang Rang's arrangement, Liu Bei convened an internal meeting of the ancient literature school, found several Luoyang bigwigs from the ancient literature school, and put what he found out in front of Lu Zhi, and did not hide anything.

His attitude is also very clear.

"They take 30%, give me 70%, I can't speak, they take 40%, give me 60%, I also admit it, they take 50%, give me 50%, and half open with me, then I have to talk to them about this matter, and I have to give me some compensation.

I won't accept that anyone is half open with me, four or six points is my bottom line, the current situation is my down, how much role I have played, you all know in your hearts, fool me with one percent? When am I?

I'm not angry with you, it doesn't mean that I won't be angry, how much I have paid, you all know in your hearts, without me, would there be the current situation? I don't have any hard requirements for you, that's because I trust you, but I'm sad about the current situation. ”

This is the first time that Liu Bei has spoken so unceremoniously to the bigwigs of the ancient literature school, which surprised and dissatisfied some bigwigs.

They think that what Liu Bei said hurt everyone's feelings a little too much, everyone is a family together, why should they divide each other?

It's just a symbolic point, isn't everyone's support also in place?

Do you really have to be so clear about the boundaries between you?

In this regard, Liu Bei's attitude is still very clear.

"Without me, the school of ancient literature may be able to defeat the school of modern literature, but not now, the merits that I have worked so hard to achieve are not relied on by some people to make a fortune, and if they think that I will have no opinion on this, it is very mistaken.

It's okay to be powerful, but I need at least sixty percent, they don't give it, but don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people, Liu Xuande never broke his word, and did what he said, everyone, do you want to try how powerful Liu Xuande's promise is? ”

This is a naked threat, and the bigwigs of the ancient literature school are shocked, angry and afraid of this, and they all hope that Lu Zhi can uphold justice and let Liu Bei not be so arrogant.

Zheng Tai almost stood up and pointed his nose and scolded Liu Bei for being ungrateful.

But Lu Zhi's attitude towards this is almost the same as Liu Bei's, and Lu Zhi does not think that Liu Bei's achievements are the reliance of some people to do whatever they want.

"I think what Xuande said makes sense, Zheng Jun, it was Xuande who conquered the south and the north, and it was also Xuande who risked his life to cross the grassland, without Xuande, could the ancient literature school really win now? No sane person would think so, would they?

And Xuande wants these things, is it for his own enjoyment? Xuande lives a simple life, everyone knows that almost all the property he gets is used for national governance, which is also what we have seen with our own eyes, do you still have any dissatisfaction? ”

Lu Zhi made it clear that he was on Liu Bei's side, which made Zheng Tai feel very dissatisfied, but he didn't know how to fight back against Liu Bei - if Liu Bei really did it.

The judicial system of the Han Dynasty and Shangshutai, which had a great deterrent effect on the local area, were within Liu Bei's sphere of influence, and if Liu Bei and the eunuch group launched an attack on the ancient literature school, the interests of Jizhou would not be protected at all and would soon be lost.

So on this night, Liu Bei and the bigwigs of the ancient literature school made an agreement, they can be powerful, but the benefits, Liu Bei will share sixty percent, if they want to fool Liu Bei, Liu Bei will let them not get one percent, and they will have to post it upside down.

Upside down, or forty percent of the benefits, which is more suitable?

No one makes the wrong choice.

If anyone thinks, then look at the example of the tragic liquidation of the modern literary school to understand what their fate will be.

(End of chapter)