When he saw Gao Shun's downcast and humiliating state, Liu Bei's inner feelings were really a little trance.

To tell the truth, in the eyes of those princes who were at odds with Lu Bu, Gao Shun's threat and hatred value was actually higher than that of Zhang Liao.

Because Gao Shun was even more unreserved when carrying out Lu Bu's orders, it was difficult to be accommodating. can also maximize Lu Bu's capriciousness and injustice.

The sharper the double-edged sword, the more harm it causes when held in the hands of the wicked.

However, now that Lu Budu is dead, Liu Bei thinks that he can still control this double-edged sword. It's just that all this is too magical, and he still doesn't know how to characterize Lu Bu, so he doesn't dare to jump to conclusions as soon as they meet.

In the end, Liu Bei just patted Gao Shun on the shoulder, and then gave him a hand:

"Recently, Xu Du has changed so violently that it is really difficult to see. But in any case, General Gao is willing to come, and in the future, he will support the Han family together, and he will be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

It is not easy to come all the way, and it must be very difficult to cross Tongbai Mountain at this time. Let's go into the city first to rest and heal, and then think about the rest in the long run. ”

Liu Bei also noticed that many of the people under Gao Shun's command were ragged and wounded.

With Liu Bei's long-term experience and vision on the battlefield, of course, it can be seen that most of these are not like war injuries, but more of falls, frostbite, and the like.

Gao Shun didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to let Liu Bei settle his entourage and escorted family members first, and then reported:

"The last general knew that the general of the chariot cavalry might not be willing to believe it, but this time the change of Xu Du ...... There's a secret! General Wei and General Right did not oppose Cao on their own, but most of them acted on orders! ”

As soon as these words came out, they finally stirred up a thousand waves like a stone, which made Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Gan Ning and others in an uproar.

Liu Bei raised his eyebrows, and subconsciously flashed a trace of shock, and then a trace of happiness, mixed with other complex emotions.

How to put it, it is much more complicated than when Jim Hack heard that the former prime minister was dead.

But Liu Bei's expression management ability is far superior to Jim Hack, so the degree of disbelief in the facial features on his face is much lighter, and it is not so exaggerated.

"General Wei and General Right turned out to be edicted to kill Cao ...... I mean, to beg the thief? Do you have credentials? Could it be that General Gao also conspired in advance? Liu Bei couldn't help but gasp and asked.

Gao Shun has already thought clearly on the road these days, and hurriedly sorted out everything he knew: "Although Shun failed to conspire, General Wei and General Right entrusted each other with their families, which shows that they have been planning for a long time.

Later, after hearing that Xu Du had changed and Cao Jun was pursuing, the last general asked General Wei's young children, and they said that before being entrusted by General Wei to transfer, General Wei had personally told them, 'I am entrusted by His Majesty for my father, and I have important things to do', but he didn't tell them what it was. This was the eve of our departure from Beijing.

Later, Cao Thief sent people to pursue us, and in Tongbai Mountain, our army also annihilated a team of Xu Dulai soldiers with a mission, captured several of them, tortured Xu Du about the current situation, and learned that General Wei's relatives in Xu Du had all been killed, including Dong Guiren in the palace-

If the thief was not guilty of deceiving the king, how could he dare to enter the palace and kill His Majesty's concubines? Even if Dong Cheng is guilty, the concubine has already entered the palace, how can she be connected? ”

After all, Gao Shun's news is much better than Liu Bei's, although he also fled all the way, but in the past ten days, all kinds of clues have made do, and he can roughly piece together seven or eight percent of the truth.

After a while, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others accepted a presupposition: Dong Cheng and Lu Bu both claimed to be edicts to beg thieves, although the edict was no longer visible, Cao Cao definitely did not admit it, but he also killed Dong Guiren.

Based on this alone, it basically makes sense to say that His Majesty wants to kill the thief who deceived the king.

Liu Bei also thought that Cao Cao might be crusaded against, and thought that Cao Cao would fall under the pretext of bullying the king, but he didn't expect that this time it would come so thoroughly, and the emperor intervened.

This kind of drastic change inevitably made Liu Bei have a momentary wavering and a little indifference about his own positioning - mainly because he suddenly found that he didn't know how to face and characterize, and his life experience of obeying Cao Cao's orders a few years ago.

Liu Bei couldn't help but whisper to Zhuge Liang on the side and asked, "Alas, Cao Thief has finally come to this point!" Kong Ming, looking back now, in the past four years, Lone obeyed every edict issued by Cao Cao in the name of the Son of Heaven. ”

Liu Bei actually knew in his heart that he had done nothing wrong and had a clear conscience.

But all the changes came too suddenly, the person who was nominally Han Xiang the day before suddenly became a complete Han thief, and the people below need to re-find their psychological positioning, and it is impossible to avoid the impact of confusion for a while.

Fortunately, Zhuge Liang reacted very quickly, and immediately helped Liu Bei relieve his demons: "Why should the lord worry about it!" Adulterers are not born traitors. Even if a national thief such as Dong Zhuo was in the Xiliang Ping Qiang Rebellion in the early years, he could barely be regarded as a famous general and a minion.

When Cao Cao first welcomed the Son of Heaven, but in the land of Yanzhou Quanzhou and the two counties of Yuzhou, he did not dare to bully the king for a while out of caution, how did Fang Bo from other towns know?

Now counting carefully, Cao Cao expelled Yang Feng, who escorted the east, in the first year of Jian'an;

In the second year of Jian'an, he implicated Yang Biao, the chief lieutenant, because of Yuan Shu;

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Jian'an killed Zhao Yan, who was running for the pro-government of the Son of Heaven for three years;

After Jian'an destroyed Yuan in the fourth year, he continued to expand the attack, destroying Lu Bu externally, and bullying other loyal monarchs and military ministers internally, which finally made His Majesty unbearable.

Therefore, the will issued by Cao Cao in the name of the Son of Heaven in his early years should be the original intention of the Son of Heaven. We worship the Son of Heaven, so what's wrong? The disagreement between Cao Cao and His Majesty can be determined to have gradually become irreconcilable after Zhao Yan asked for permission for His Majesty to govern and was killed by Cao Cao.

So far, the lord has served the edict to raise soldiers, but only twice: to ask Yuan Shu and destroy Huang Zu. Yuan Shu is indeed a traitor, and the world should be punished together, and Huang Zu should also be punished for killing the angels of the court, and there is no doubt about it.

In addition, before the lord took office as the pastor of Yangzhou, the brother and uncle also received His Majesty's will alone, killing the Danyang thief Zhenrong and seeking peace with Zulang, these are not the battles between the court and the uncle, but the battle with the thieves, and the brothers should have a clear conscience.

As for last autumn, the lord took Xiapi County, it was also Yuan Longshi who was forced to vote, and he had to take him in as a last resort, so as not to be retaliated against by Lu Bu and Cao Cao. Cao Cao once issued an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven to prevent the lord from intervening in the battle to destroy Lü, but the lord endured it and did not fight Lü Bu.

Therefore, the edict of our army is either to crusade against the traitors who claim to be emperors, or to attack other rebels who are self-reliant and disrespectful to the Han, or to kill the envoys of the imperial court. From beginning to end, there was no civil war between the Hanchens who were edicted, so why should the lord be worried? ”

Zhuge Liang analyzed and sorted out all the things that Liu Bei had done in the past four years in the edict of Xu Du, and pointed out that each of them was "for the overall interests of the Han Dynasty, and there was no fight between the same Han ministers to share the spoils".

After Liu Bei listened, it finally dawned on him: It turns out that my resume in the past four years is so clean! If it weren't for Kong Ming helping to sort out, I wouldn't have even realized it!

That's really a gentleman who does something and doesn't do something.

And the other generals who accompanied him were not surprised by these words, such as Gan Ning and others.

Some of them don't care about any righteousness at all, and they have long felt that the big fists in such troubled times are reasonable, and the lord is really too careful and cherishes his reputation.

Some people are too lazy to think about it because they have the string of righteousness in their minds, and they usually don't sort it out at all, but they are also in a fog at the moment, so they simply don't think about it.

And Gao Shun, who had just defected, was deeply touched.

He had nothing to do with Liu Bei before, and this time he was also desperate, but he didn't think much about Liu Bei's moral advantages. Listening to Zhuge Liang's analysis, Gao Shun was actually a little ashamed.

Because he subconsciously compared himself with the old master Lu Bu, and then the more he thought about it, the more embarrassed he felt.

In the past four years, how could Lu Bu consider righteousness or injustice? How can you consider the pretext and reputation for war? It's not just that as long as there is a benefit, anyone dares to fight.

Not to mention anything else, just say that Liu Bei took in Lu Bu back then, and Lu Bu stole the benefactor's house when he changed hands, which is against the sky.

Gao Shun didn't think about these questions before, maybe he didn't think about them deliberately, he could always mentally hint at himself:

Although Wen Hou is indeed shameless, in such a world of great contention, all the princes in the world are shameless.

Yuan Shaojiu occupied the magpie's nest and forced Han Fu to death, Yuan Shu forced to kill so many Han ministers who were officially canonized by the imperial court, Gongsun Zan killed his boss Liu Yu, and Cao Cao killed Jiujiang at will, which led to a rebellion throughout Yanzhou to welcome Lu Bu......

Isn't that what everyone in the world does?

What did Liu Bei do, Gao Shun didn't sort it out, so he just got past it.

Until this moment, he was counted by Zhuge Liang in front of him, so that Gao Shun couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb, so he was forced to wash his memory again, and then he was speechless.

Gao Shun finally couldn't help but bow his hand: "The lord doesn't have to be humble, in the past four years, who has not been edicted by the princes in the world?" Those who don't obey the edict at all are anti-thieves.

Among the princes, only the lord only obeys the edict of rebellion and the edict of the thief, and does not participate in the competition for private interests between the Han ministers, and even outsiders can see it clearly! This time, with the news of General Wei and the family of General You, and the news of the edict to beg for the thief, it must be the will of heaven to vote for the lord.

It must be that the sky has eyes, and he knows that among the princes of the outside of the world, only the lord is dedicated to the public, and he thinks of helping the world, and asks the lord to preside over the righteousness of the world! ”

The other generals also reacted at this time, and Gan Ning was also the first to take the lead and surrendered his hand to petition: "Please preside over the righteousness of the world!" Exorcise the Han thieves! ”

Liu Bei was still hesitating on the verge of self-blame, but when he heard his subordinates suddenly make such a statement, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly said: "It is natural to ask for an edict to beg for thieves, but Your Majesty's edict to beg for thieves is not for me."

In my opinion, it is better to inform General Yuan of Hebei about this matter first, entangled the strength of the Qin Wang and Yichen in various states, and then consider it in the long run. After all, our army is not as good as the general, the general is under the jurisdiction of the Qingji secluded annex, and there is no need to worry about the future, the north reaches the Shuo Desert, and the south is bordered by the Yellow River, so you can go all out to fight against it.

I am in the middle of Jingyang, the land of four battles, there is no danger to defend at the border with Cao thief, and the army is weaker than Cao thief, I don't know how many princes in the world are willing to believe in His Majesty's edict to beg thieves. If some fortunate people, for their own interests, deliberately pretend not to believe His Majesty's secret edict and collude with Cao thieves in an attempt to attack our Jingyang, our army must not be unguarded!"

Liu Bei's words can be regarded as setting the tone for the follow-up begging of thieves, mainly to appease Gao Shun.

Gao Shun must have hoped that Liu Bei would attack Xu Du and avenge Dong Cheng and Lu Bu, but Liu Bei must first cut off the other wings that respected Cao Cao and did not serve the edict.

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