Cao Cao asked this question, and Liu Bei didn't think it was strange.

The other four apparently wanted to know the answer as well.

Because this is related to their vital interests and net worth, as a community of interests, they have a personal will, but under the principle that the ass determines the head, Liu Bei's goal is their goal, and it must be their goal.

Liu Bei paced slowly under the gaze of the five people.

One step, two steps, three steps.

"The first emperor was kind to me and trusted me very much, and I didn't want to live up to the expectations of the first emperor, so originally, I really didn't have this plan, I thought it would continue in the name of the general."

Don't plan to do that?

There was a slight weird emotion in the hearts of the five people.

Gai Xun and Yan Wen glanced at each other.

Zhen Yan was even a little anxious and wanted to say something.

But soon, Zhen Yan noticed that something was wrong with Liu Bei's words.

Originally?

Didn't have an idea?

And now?

Liu Bei originally didn't have this plan, that is to say......

Cao Cao felt that something was not right, and his heart began to beat faster.

Han Rong also seemed to realize something, swallowed his saliva, and looked at his good son-in-law, who was the supreme in the world.

"Xuande, you ...... You didn't have that idea in the first place? That...... And now? ”

"Zhangren, I won't lie on this kind of issue, I really didn't think about it like this, after all, in general, my power is not much different from that of the emperor, and even many emperors don't have the power like me.

From the current point of view, it is obviously not necessary, the Son of Heaven is still young, and when it is not the time for the pro-government, the Empress Dowager is also at ease with me, I can grasp the actual imperial power as a courtier, which is enough for me to do a lot of things, but the question is, what about the Son of Heaven when he grows up? ”

Liu Bei looked at the faces of the five people, and said slowly: "The Son of Heaven will be thirteen years old this year, and at the latest, I will return to power when the Son of Heaven is twenty years old, that is, when the Son of Heaven is twelve years old, I will return the power to the Son of Heaven."

To be honest, if I don't want to do anything, I don't want to change, it doesn't matter if I return to the Son of Heaven now, anyway, I have done a lot now, but I just feel that I haven't done what I should have done. ”

"Is it Dutian?"

Cao Cao asked: "The real big thing, Xuande, is Dutian, right?" ”

"Mengde knows my heart very well."

Liu Bei smiled and said: "Dutian is a big thing, it takes a long time, offends many people, fights a lot of battles, destroys a lot of reputations, kills a lot of people, one by one, as a general to do this thing, although it can be successful, but it is difficult to say in the future."

I don't think about anyone else, I think about my sons and daughters and my wives and concubines, they were safe when I lived, but what about when I die? Even if I don't consider them, I can't guarantee that all the reforms I've completed now will continue after I'm dead.

If I were just a great general, it would be easy for my policies to be changed after I died, but if I were the emperor and wanted to change all this, it wouldn't be so easy to sustain for a longer time, I thought so.

However, even if I don't talk about these things, I also have considerations for you, or that sentence, my power is too great, and when the power is handed over, it is difficult to say that it can be smooth all the way, and the object of your work is me, not today, whether the Son of Heaven will do anything to you after he grows up, it's hard to say.

I think that even if I personally want to extricate myself, you may not agree to let me extricate myself, if I am gone, who can guarantee that you and your family will continue to live safely? ”

In the first few sentences, the five people just sighed, and the last sentence really hooked out the biggest worry in their hearts.

Yes, judging from the current situation, they are not essentially courtiers of the Han Empire, but Liu Bei's courtiers, and Liu Bei is the courtiers of the Han Empire.

Without Liu Bei's power, if Liu Bei gives up his power and chooses to return to politics, then in the post-Liu Bei era, how long can they exist, how long can they maintain their power and status, and even whether they can guarantee their own lives, that is a question.

The so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, it is not uncommon for the old emperor's ministers to become a thorn in the eyes of the new emperor, and there are also a lot of old ministers who have been killed.

It's very difficult, and the possibilities are slim.

They don't dare to bet.

They must admit that if such a question was only an ethereal and vague worry in their hearts before, now this concern has really existed.

They fear that they will be purged, optimized, and disappeared in the post-Liu Bei era.

Does the Liu Association trust them?

Will they be willing to continue to appoint them as officials and wield power?

If not, will they be eradicated?

What a dangerous thing it was to put their fate in the hands of an emperor who was completely unfamiliar with and could not believe in his character, and they all felt it very deeply now.

So, they were anxious.

Seeing their silence, Liu Bei also sighed slowly.

In fact, he has been paying attention to the actions of Zheng Tai and others.

Before they acted, Liu Hui and Zhang Rang both issued an early warning to Liu Bei, hoping that Liu Bei would take action, but Liu Bei asked them to stay still.

He wanted to see what stupid things Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others could do for their own selfishness.

And it turns out that he underestimated the stupidity of Zheng Tai and Jia Xi and others.

He thought that these people still had some basic sanity and would not do irreparable stupid things, but he guessed wrongly that the IQ of Zheng Tai and the others had been completely crushed by anxiety.

If they don't do such a thing, then the anxiety of his subordinates will be slowed down for three to five years by hedging against the rapid development of the Han Empire's return to the upward channel.

He can still be a pure minister and a general for three to five years, and there may be other opportunities in the future.

Although the odds are very small.

But Jung Tae has now dropped this tactical nuclear bomb against himself.

Does he think that after the explosion of this tactical nuclear bomb, he was the one who suffered the most damage?

Three years ago, it may have been, so at that time, Liu Bei took decisive measures and launched a full-scale confrontation against the modern literary school, and eliminated the influence of the negative public opinion at that time by eliminating the modern literary school.

Now, his miraculous achievements have been accomplished, King Kong is not bad, and the one who suffered the most damage after the explosion of the tactical nuclear bomb can only be Liu Xie, the little genius.

Now, the group of people who hold the most power inside and outside the court are all his own people, and they are all people who are inextricably linked to him by him, and everything he is doing now completely links the life and death of these people with himself.

After the establishment of the six-part system of the Great General's Palace, all this could not be reversed, and he alone shouldered the direct fate of more than one-third of the officials of the entire Han Empire, and the fate of more than two-thirds of the people in the core power circle of the entire Han Empire.

Among the people who hold the highest power, most of them were directly promoted by Liu Bei.

They are all Liu Bei's courtiers, not Liu Xie's courtiers, once a son of heaven and a courtier, after Liu Xie is in power, how will he treat them?

The court officials were not the most serious, the most serious, it was the army.

The army that was pulled up and trained by Liu Bei!

This is the lifeblood of the real Han Empire.

They were all trained by Liu Bei, brought out by Liu Bei, and it was Liu Bei who injected them with the soul of the army, and they were all Liu Bei's appearance in the depths of their souls, and they were inseparable from Liu Bei, once Liu Bei lost power, they would also lose their allegiance and restraint.

This close connection doomed this army to be unacceptable to people who were not direct descendants of Liu Bei.

Can Liu Xie trust them, can he use them to keep himself and the Han Empire safe?

Once Liu Bei relinquishes power and Liu Xie becomes pro-government, the biggest challenge he has to face is definitely not the problem of governing the country, but the entire administrative, judicial and military system built by Liu Bei, and the entire ruling group of the Han Empire, which is a huge challenge for him.

In fact, since Liu Bei established the army and entered the central government, all this has been irreversible, and it is even more irreversible when the modern literary school was destroyed and the ancient literary school was fully ascended.

Liu Bei had always known about it, but he hadn't paid attention to this matter all along, or that such a thing was not in his consideration at all.

Does it matter who will be the emperor?

It doesn't matter, the important thing is that the results of this business can last a little longer.

As Liu Bei expected, without Zheng Tai's action, the peaceful and stable situation could be maintained for a while, but Zheng Tai did this stupid thing, so what would happen next was beyond Liu Bei's control.

People's hearts are the most unpredictable, for the sake of their own safety, people will do their best, and as a top-level existence, Liu Bei can't become the one who simply and completely shakes his hands.

Even if he was willing, the people who relied on his power to gain status would not agree, and those who had the greatest power were invisibly trapped by the heaviest shackles.

Liu Xuande, there is no choice.

(End of chapter)