Xuande

Chapter 40 It's really fun to be friends with him
Cao Cao was shocked by Liu Bei's words.

He looked at Liu Bei in shock, never thought that such words would come from Liu Bei, such a rising star among the scholar group.

"Without farmers, what would we eat? Without artisans, where would we live? Without dancers, whose dances would we watch and whose music would we listen to? These occupations must exist. belittle them?"

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "Some scholars' hearts are broken, and they don't know where they read. They don't read benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and letter. Dirty."

Cao Cao was shocked for a long time before he managed to react.

He asked himself that he was educated in the Confucian classics. Although no one would admit it, he was also a reader, and he was not bad at reading.

But no matter which family law it is, he has never read such words from Confucius.

Yes, Confucius did not have such an idea in his heart. What people want is self-restraint and restoration of rituals, and what they want is to restore the traditions of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Which one is Liu Bei talking about?

"Is Xuande the truth learned from reading? Which school's theory is this?"

Liu Bei shook his head.

"It's not someone's opinion. You can read and understand when you read books. When Bei first studied with his teacher, he was looked down upon by the scholars. come and go."

"I never thought that Xuande had experienced these things..."

"Bei was very angry and helpless at the time, but more unwillingly, Bei came over the mountains, but they laughed at the fact that the soles of Bei's feet were covered with mud."

"........."

"That's why Bei swears that no matter what, he will stand out, and no matter what, he will make them dare not underestimate Yu Bei."

"So, Xuande did it."

"No, no matter whether it is the School of Classical Classics or the School of Modern Classics, although there are people who admire Bei, there will also be people who look down on Bei. They still think that Bei was born in a poor and settled family in the frontier. It’s still the same, no matter how high your achievements are in your life, you will be a border villain.”

Liu Bei raised his head and drank his glass of wine, sighing.

Cao Cao smiled wryly when he heard this.

"Xuande's reputation is so high in Luoyang, but Cao Cao is not so uncomfortable."

"Meng De, you..."

"Hahahahaha, it's just a joke."

Cao Cao patted Liu Bei's shoulder and laughed for a while.

After a while, Cao Cao showed unconcealable sadness, and said: "Xuande's words are really good, you have gone through hardships and come over mountains and mountains, but they mocked your feet covered with mud, hahahaha, what a shame! How funny! How funny!!"

Cao Cao gritted his teeth, punched the table with his fist, and made a sound with resentment.

Looking at Cao Cao with a face full of unwillingness, Liu Bei felt touched.

A generation of heroes has also had such and such experiences, so it is not difficult to imagine that he will issue three meritocracy orders in a row later.

It was obviously impossible to cause any substantial impact on reality, but he did it anyway.

Perhaps Cao Mengde has always had romanticism and idealism that belonged to poets and never forgotten in his youth.

The meritocracy was an insignificant rebellion against this era by Cao Cao himself in an era without the foundation of imperial examinations, and it was a rebellion against the society of etiquette and law.

Then my guess is right.

Everything in the past was not a conspiracy or calculation, but a counterattack against the real society by the young Cao Cao relying on the power of his family and unwilling to be discriminated against.

Cao Cao may be a very strong person. He has been discriminated against all the time, and he has never stopped fighting back. For this reason, he has done many things that are very stupid in the eyes of others.

Having said that, he never surrendered.

Of course, this is also because he knows that his family is very powerful.

But in any case, this may be one of the reasons why Cao Cao was able to overturn Yuan Shao against the wind.

Assuming this way, Liu Bei suddenly felt that he could already look at Cao Cao quite objectively.

A living, flesh-and-blood person who vented his emotions bitterly in front of him without reservation.

"Mengde's journey along the way must have been extremely difficult."

"It's not easy to have family members to help you. It's just that there is often no one to talk about the depression in your heart. When you look around, there are few confidantes who can talk to you about your depression with your operating companion."

"Bei understands what Meng De means. If Meng De has any distress in the future, I will be willing to listen to Meng De's narration."

"So, very good."

Cao Cao chuckled, raised his glass to Liu Bei, Liu Bei returned a toast, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Cao Cao felt that he and Liu Bei got along very well unexpectedly, as if an old friend reunited after a long absence.

But the friendship between the two has only just begun.

This kind of feeling is really strange. Even though they have known each other for less than ten days, they feel as if they have been old friends for many years, and they get along very well. Some things don't need to be explained, the other party already knows it clearly.

So Cao Cao was even happier, and talked about more topics with Liu Bei.

Literature, military affairs, politics, life, etc., talk about everything.

The more I talk, the more things I say, and gradually I don't have so many taboos.

"Looking at what Xuande said before, I thought Xuande was going to tell me something like princes, generals, and relatives."

Cao Cao raised his wine glass to respect Liu Bei.

Liu Bei laughed loudly, raised his wine glass in return, and then drank a glass of wine.

"Princes and generals are kind to each other, does Mengde believe this sentence?"

Cao Cao thought for a while before giving his answer.

"I want to believe what is written in the history books, but when I look around, I don't quite believe it. If the princes and generals have no seed, why are there four generations and three generations of the Runan Yuan family? Why are there three generations and three generations of Hongnong Yang's family?" ?”

Liu Bei chuckled and drank another glass of wine.

"So, it's just four generations and three lords. China has a long history, and I don't know how many thousands of years it is. In the long river of history, we are just extremely small existences. Talented people come out from generation to generation, each leading hundreds of people. Years, four generations and three princes, where did they come from?"

Cao Cao took a deep breath.

"Xuande is so bold."

"Hahahahahaha!"

Liu Bei drank three cups and said with a smile: "They are only allowed to look down on me? I am not allowed to look down on them? Who stipulated it? I don't want to! I want to point out the country and promote the writing. If you can't even do this, It’s just a shame for my youth!”

Cao Cao sighed very much, and immediately raised a glass of wine to respect Liu Bei.

"Being able to share a story with Xuande is worthy of this life!"

Liu Bei toasted with a glass. After drinking the wine, he felt a slight heat in his belly, so he tapped the jug next to him with his chopsticks.

"Five emperors and three emperors are sacred things, how many romantic people are there to deceive Wuya passers-by? After stealing Zhizhuang's fame, King Chen even raised his yellow axe! Mengde, our days are still long!"

"This……"

When Cao Cao heard Liu Bei's words, he was stunned for a while before he realized it.

"Xuande is talented, the sacred matter of the Five Emperors and Three Emperors... deceived Wu Ya's passer-by? It has a lot of meaning."

"Of course, they are just lying to me, and they want to keep lying to me."

Liu Bei smiled and said: "The rule of three generations? Abdication? The great power and position are handed over to others? Meng De, if this is true, then guess why it took three generations for the father to die and the son to succeed, and the brother to die? Today's people Is the morality really far inferior to that of the ancients?"

Cao Cao opened his mouth slightly, obviously never thinking about this aspect.

"In order to deceive people and to flaunt themselves, they really dare to say all kinds of nonsense, and they are not afraid of flashing their tongues."

Liu Bei sneered, looked at Cao Cao whose expression was obviously not right, and shook his hand in front of him.

"Munde?"

"what?"

"Silly?"

"…………"

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei, and his complexion became extremely complicated for a while.

"No, I just feel that there are many things that Xuande said like this, it seems to suddenly become different..."

"I just said that, and Mengde just listened to it. I dare not say this."

Seeing Liu Bei's smiling face, Cao Cao was silent for a while, then sighed deeply, smiled wryly and shook his head again and again.

"After I become an eunuch, scholars will not listen to my nonsense."

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao paused, with a troubled expression on his face.

"What Xuande said was taught by Lu Gong, or..."

"My teacher is a great Confucian in the country, a modest gentleman, a role model in the world, how could he have such a rebellious idea?"

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Only I have such a villain in the border area, weaving mats and selling shoes, humble, sinking into the mire, unable to extricate myself, so I have such a dirty intention to speculate on the three generations of sages!"

Listening to Liu Bei's self-defilement without hesitation, Cao Cao suddenly admired Liu Bei very much.

"What Xuande said, Cao Cao remembered, and what Xuande asked, Cao also remembered."

"Whoever prepares what you want, why?"

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

Cao Cao laughed and said nothing.

"Don't know?"

Liu Bei laughed, pointed to the barbecue on the table, and said: "Some people dream of eating and clothing, and some people are born with food and clothing, and some people dream of eating barbecue anytime, anywhere. Some people are born with the ability to eat barbecue anytime, anywhere."

After finishing speaking, Liu Bei stared at Cao Cao with a funny face.

Cao Cao was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly let out a snort, covered his stomach and burst out laughing, tears streaming down his face.

"It's okay, it's okay, hahahaha! Xuande is really a wonderful person! Wonderful person! Hahahaha! When I go back, after I go back, I will ask someone to deliver a year's worth of spices to Xuande's mansion, how about it?"

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard the words.

A year's worth of spices was an astronomical fortune for a third-rate scholar like him, but to Cao Cao, it seemed as insignificant as a piece of rag.

This damn big dog, is there any reason not to slaughter him?
"Meng De's words are serious? No! Even if you don't take it seriously, I will take it seriously! Once you say it, you can't take it back!"

The local tyrant patted his chest.

"Of course, the Cao family is not short of money for anything. It's just a year of spices. If Xuande needs it, I will give it to you every year! It doesn't matter if it is sent to the end of time, it's very simple."

"Hahaha, that's not necessary, that's not necessary, one year is enough, enough."

Liu Bei was caught off guard excitedly, and said with a smile: "People are poor and short-sighted, it's true. Spices and other luxury goods, although my family is rich, but I can't get much, so I can't even eat barbecue. Eat, oops, what Mengde has done this time is to help the poor!"

"Helping... the poor? Hahahahaha! If so, the best, the best!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed.

The heavy atmosphere just now was swept away, as if it had never appeared before.

The Liu Bei in front of Cao Cao no longer had the sharp eyes when he uttered "Geng Chen Wang Fen up and wield the yellow axe". He was just a glutton for wine and meat.

Everything just now seemed to be just a dream.

But the clear and clear memory told Cao Cao that everything just now was real.

The ambition and knowledge in the heart of this young man who is six years younger than him are far beyond what he can guess.

but……

It's such a joy to be friends with him.

From the heart, relaxed, happy!
(End of this chapter)