Outside Yecheng, the Qingzhou army has been besieging the city for more than several months.

There are some grain and grass reserves in the city, and there is no need to worry about it for a short time. But to support a city, in the long run, it will be a drop in the bucket after all.

And once there is a shortage of food and grass in the city, it is natural for people to change their minds.

There are tough people in the city who want to live and die with the city, and there will be people who are greedy for life and afraid of death when things come to an end.

However, these two kinds of people are extremely difficult to distinguish between them.

In the march and battle, grain and grass are the top priority, and in recent years, there have been jujube people hoarding grain and grass in the rear, and there is no shortage of grain in the Qingzhou army.

So now Liu Bei is not in a hurry, sitting quietly in the tent, just waiting for changes in the city.

In the Qingzhou Army tent outside the city, he was laughing and talking with Jia Xu at this time.

"It seems that our majesty in Luoyang City can't hold it anymore."

Liu Bei placed an edict sent from Luoyang and stamped with the seal of the Son of Heaven on the wooden eucalyptus in front of him.

Counting the day, it should be the day when his troops left Jizhou, and the edict went out of Luoyang.

The person in charge of the announcement is also an acquaintance, and he must have been carefully selected, it is Liu Yu's eldest son, Liu He.

This person came, even if Liu Bei was dissatisfied, he could take into account his relationship with Liu Yu, and he always had to endure one or two.

Hearing this, Jia Xu just smiled, and picked up the hot soup on the eucalyptus in front of him, "It may not all be from the Son of Heaven's own idea. Although the Son of Heaven is a young man, he is a young man, and his mind is actually far above many so-called old people. Most of this will comes from the mind of the Son of Heaven, but I think that more of it should be fueled by others."

Liu Bei nodded and said with a smile, "It seems that there are many people in Luoyang City who regard me as an enemy now."

Jia Xu took a sip of the hot soup and said with a smile, "Shouldn't it be like this?"

Liu Bei laughed, "It should be so."

He poured a bowl of hot soup for himself, "The country is in decline, and someone should stand up without fear of swords and axes. As long as they are really out of public interest, no matter whether they succeed or fail, they are always right above the general righteousness. I smiled at the sky with a horizontal knife, and went to keep the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun. Even if they treat me like an enemy, I will respect me a little."

Jia Xu smiled and said: "I'm afraid, some people mix their selfishness, and their mouths are full of national social affairs, but what they think in their hearts is all their own selfishness. Some people want to leave a name for the rest of their history. Those who completely ignore the rest of the righteousness and insist on the truth, and when you study it carefully, it may not be really beneficial to the country, after all, after the death of Lao Tzu, he will be flooded."

Liu Bei smiled, "Actually, these are okay, I'm afraid that some scholars are not as good as the country woman. When the Qing Dynasty was peaceful, he sat down and talked about it, full of righteousness, and no one could beat him. Everyone in the world thinks that if one day, the world will be in trouble, and such people will be killed to become benevolent. It's just that when the matter comes, I go to the pool and worry about the cold, and I want to hang on the house, but there is no beam."

Jia Xu smiled silently, he had to admit that Liu Bei's metaphor was indeed extremely vivid.

After all, most of the people who read in the world are hard-mouthed and soft-handed.

It's just that after careful investigation, these people are actually not scholars.

He smiled and asked, "I wanted to open my heart for the lord, but I didn't want the lord to think clearly. It seems that the lord is not going to give the edict?"

On the edict, Liu Bei was ordered not to attack Jizhou again, and asked him to lead his troops west to suppress the rebellion in Liangzhou.

On the surface, he naturally wanted to test whether he, a member of the Han clan who now holds several states, would still be under the control of the imperial court.

It's just that both sides actually know that Liu Bei will never obey the edict.

And that's what it means.

Liu Bei is a relative of the Han family, and he has always occupied the name of righteousness, and now he is not obeying the edict, and those who have a heart can undoubtedly make a big fuss about it.

Liu Bei smiled: "I am a member of the Han family, how can I not obey the edict? Just not now. When the matter of Jizhou is resolved, I will lead my troops to the west. I would like to see if there are still people who dare to speak in front of me when I get to Luoyang."

Even Jia Xu was stunned, he had always known Liu Bei's temperament, benevolence is a good thing, but it is kind to everyone, but it may not be a good thing.

His original intention here was to persuade Liu Bei what he really wanted to persuade Liu Bei, and what he said above was nothing more than to pave the way for this matter.

I don't want Liu Bei, but I figured it out by myself.

Liu Bei smiled to himself: "There are always some people who have been officials in the court for a long time, and they will be good at forgetting many things. Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing is still in front of him, and they still dare to act like this, it seems that they are really all loyal ministers."

Jia Xu was silent for a moment, but still spoke: "Back then, Dong Zhuo wantonly killed in Luoyang City, although it was true that some people who were on the corpses above the court were retired, but there were also many wrongful killings among them, killing innocent people recklessly."

In fact, with Jia Xu's temperament, he shouldn't have spoken.

Live your life carefully and cautiously, and at such a juncture, you should keep your mouth shut.

It's just that he followed Liu Bei all the way, and after all, he didn't want Liu Bei in Youzhou to gradually become another Liangzhou Dong Zhuo.

Liu Bei glanced at him, as if he had guessed his thoughts, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Wenhe. I'm not Dong Zhuo after all."

He paused for a moment and spoke slowly, "It's just that there is some truth, I have long wanted to talk about this world."

"Back then, I was humble and weak, so there were some things that I couldn't get used to, so I could only hold it in my heart. If you can't say something, you can only drink it."

"Now that I'm here, I'm going to do something."

"The so-called change can only be easier in these troubled times. If it is a peaceful world in the future, the rules are strict, people's hearts are scattered like water, and it will be difficult to support a change. There is no reason why the predecessors should leave the difficult things for the sake of fame."

"I hope that one day, those who sit high in the court will write articles that do not need to be full of flowers, but only have something to say."

"I hope that one day, the farmers and the merchants, and all the sons and hundreds of families, will be able to speak their minds freely, not be bound by power, be silent, and follow the road."

Jia Xu smiled, lowered his head and took a sip of the hot soup in his hand.

Those who read, when they first read books, who did not have the ambition of cultivating Qi and ruling peace.

It's just that the world is like this, and people will always come to a fork in the road that they didn't want to take.

There are many scholars who could have been honest and officials, why did they end up greedy for luxury?

Readers are naturally at fault.

But this world is not wrong.

It's just that Liu Bei's next few words made Jia Xu a little regretful, and what he had in his hand today was not wine.

In the end, Liu Bei just drank the hot soup in the bowl and said with a smile: "It is precisely the way of the world that people like me are needed."

"People's hearts are not ancient, and the world is declining. Therefore, I came from Youzhou to correct the world."

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The matter of Yecheng was as expected by Liu Bei and others, as the food in the city ran out, the hearts of the people in the city began to fluctuate, but they were forcibly suppressed by the trial with soldiers and horses.

It's just a matter of people's hearts, once the heart is moved, it will be difficult to restrain it, let alone life and death.

So on this day, Liu Beijun outside the city received a letter secretly shot down from the city.

The person who collaborated with the enemy was none other than the nephew of the judge, the judge.

At nightfall, the Cambodian gate was wide open, and the Qingzhou army, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately entered the city and occupied the city without much effort.

There was a night of turmoil in the city.

At dawn, Liu Bei saw the trial who was bound in Yuan Shao's former residence.

He chuckled softly, "Zhengnan, now that the general trend has been decided, can you descend?"

The trial cursed endlessly.

Liu Bei was not angry, but just asked, "What does Zhengnan want? Want to go underground with the beginning? You read a lot, do you want to seek small righteousness and sacrifice great righteousness?"

The judge glanced at Guo Tu beside Liu Bei, and said sharply, "All follow the big righteousness, who follows the small righteousness? The people who treated Jizhou very well at the beginning, and now, how can no one die for the beginning!"

Even if his mind is as deep as Guo Tu, he can't help but turn his head slightly.

People who seek profit are the most unfortunate things in the world.

Liu Bei nodded, "Since Zhengnan has this heart, I should bury you next to the primordial place." If a man has a spirit, you will also meet under the spring."

Immediately, he ordered the trial to be taken out.

Guo Tu was a little surprised when he saw this, and he also had some fear in his heart for no reason.

The trial family is also considered a high-ranking family in Jizhou, although this person is upright, even Guo Tu, who has always been against him, has to admit that this person's ability is really not bad.

He thought that Liu Bei would definitely try his best to subdue this person, but he didn't want to hesitate at all.

His fear also started from this, and the current Qingzhou Mu is different from the young man in Youzhou when he first met.

Liu Bei lightly slammed the wooden eucalyptus in front of him, what Guo Tu thought, now he doesn't care at all.

To kill Guo Tu, two or three knives and axes are enough.

As for the judgment, he was glad to fulfill the heroic deed of "my lord is in the north, and he shall not cause me to die on the south."

Seek benevolence and get benevolence, and each has no regrets.

Liu Bei's eyes were gloomy, he looked at Guo Tu, and laughed softly: "In the land of Youyan, there are so many heroes."

Guo Tunuono didn't dare to speak.

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After that, Liu Bei personally went to Yuan Shao's tomb to pay respects, and at the last time, he withdrew from everyone, left a few pots of wine, and sat alone in front of Yuan Shao's tomb until dusk.

In the midst of the whispering, no one heard.

For the next few days, Liu Bei stayed in Yecheng.

It wasn't until he received a few replies that he led more than 1,000 people to the north and gathered with a few old friends in the north of Jizhou.

At this time, the rest of the people had already arrived, and he was the only one who was late.

In a house in Gaoyang County, Liu Bei stepped in.

"Now that Xuande has become a big man, it is different from back then, and the pomp is very big."

As soon as he stepped in, he saw one of the three people sitting in the courtyard standing up and walking towards him.

The man didn't see it, stepped forward and smashed a fist on Liu Bei's shoulder, and a majestic man behind Liu Bei frowned, reached out and pressed the knife on his waist.

Zhao Yun on the side shook his head, and the man didn't make a move.

It's just because this person who stepped forward is the current Youzhou Mu, Gongsun Zhan.

Liu Bei also immediately returned a punch, and the two laughed, feeling relieved.

There were two people left in the courtyard, one of whom was plucking the strings, and the other was nervous.

After greeting Gongsun Zhan, the two walked into the courtyard and sat down.

The remaining two, one of them is the current leader of the Montenegrin Army, Zhang Yan and Zhang Feiyan.

The other person is naturally Bingzhou Mu Lu Bu, who is now obsessed with piano art.

The princes of the Northlands, gathered together.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Yan, who was pretending to be nervous, and said with a smile: "There is no need to be like this, you and I have also met when we were in Changshan, when you were still a young man, I don't want to be such a hero now. Zilong also often mentions you to me, there is a heroic person in your hometown, and it is always worth talking about."

Zhang Yan no longer concealed it, and said with a smile: "Zhou Mu Haojie, my little caution is really a bit of an axe."

Liu Bei chatted and laughed with him, then looked at Lu Bu, who had never spoken, and said with a smile: "Fengxian is now a beauty in his arms, enjoying wealth and wealth, but it is really enviable."

On that day, the wedding banquet between Lu Bu and Diao Chan was very large.

He, a down-and-out man who was in the past and the state, is now beautiful, so he naturally has to do something to show others.

Jinyi night walk, who knows it?

Liu Bei, the old man, naturally had to give some "thin gifts".

Hearing this, Lu Bu smiled and said, "Why hasn't you sent me that guqin you owed me back then? Diao Chan has urged me a few times, but fortunately I found a reason to prevaricate. Otherwise, I'm afraid that I won't be able to return to my home now."

Liu Bei smiled and took a sip of the wine on the table, "It's better for you to have a home than for me to have a home."

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Then the few people sitting around the courtyard were just talking and laughing.

When the wine was half-drunk, Liu Bei said, "Now that Jizhou has fallen,

A letter happened to come from the central court, summoning me west to Pingliang. The order of the imperial court cannot be violated, but I don't know what the three of them have planned."

None of the three spoke.

Gongsun Zhan didn't need to speak, Lu Bu didn't want to speak, and Zhang Yan couldn't speak.

Liu Bei smiled: "Since you don't speak, Bei has some thoughts in your heart, and I hope the three of you will hear it. Now there is nothing to do in the north for the time being, and in the north of Jizhou, Wuhuan has a tendency to become bigger. The Yuan brothers went north, and just used this as an excuse to take the opportunity to exterminate them. I wonder if Bongxian and Bogui are interested?"

Gongsun Zhan was originally happy when he heard the war, and he knew Liu Bei's personality, and knew that he would never harm his own family, so he answered the door.

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Xuan Demo should forget that he should have played my guqin in the first place, and after this incident, you owe me a favor again."

Liu Bei smiled and nodded.

He turned his head to look at Zhang Yan again, and said with a smile: "The Black Mountain Army is known as a million people, although it is exaggerated, you can choose one or two, presumably there are still seventy or eighty thousand people. Occupying the mountain as the king, after all, is not the right way, I went to Luoyang this time, and I should ask for an official body for you."

Zhang Yan got up and thanked him.

Back then, he also thought that Zhao Yun was not human, and he had some careful thoughts in his heart to compete with Liu Bei.

It's just that now that time has changed, he really admires Liu Bei from the bottom of his heart.

Soon after, the banquet dispersed, Zhang Lu and the two left, and only Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei were left in the courtyard.

Gongsun Zhan took a sip of wine and sighed: "On the trip to Luoyang, you must be careful and careful, those scholars will be ruthless and do everything."

Liu Bei smiled and raised his head slightly, the dark clouds in the sky were slow, and the bright moon was long.

He took a sip of his wine and said something terrible, "I wish they had done it sooner, and I beg them to do it."