Xuande

Chapter 42 Liu Bei's window period is very short
Liu Bei didn't think so much.

What he is thinking about now is what will he bring to himself and what will he bring to Yuan Shao after making friends with Yuan Shao and joining Yuan Shao's camp.

To be precise, if the operation is good, this wave is a win-win situation.

Yuan Shao needs the energy and huge popularity of the ancient literature school behind him, and what he needs is the escort of the political energy possessed by the Yuan family.

Although what I may get is only a little bit of leftovers from the Yuan family, but this is the leftovers of the first family under the imperial family of the Eastern Han Dynasty. For Liu Bei now, the leftovers of the Yuan family are enough for him to rise in the daytime.

What's more, it's just leftovers now, but after the chaos in the world in the future, with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's series of operations, the Yuan family will be killed by them. At that time, the political energy of the Yuan family will be divided into two, and they will belong to Yuan Shao. and Yuan Shu.

That is not leftovers, it is a huge energy that can affect the trend of the world.

Since he decided to hang out in the upper class of the Eastern Han Empire, he had to take a long-term view.

Modern businessmen have a kind of coquettish operation called backdoor listing, which is quite like a white wolf with empty gloves.

Liu Bei realized that his background was too poor and he didn't have enough political background. He could only rely on his accumulation in the school of ancient Chinese classics and continue to follow the normal path to become a big boss at least until Lu Zhi's age.

How old are those?
And once the troubled times start, once the melee between warlords starts, the battle between modern and ancient prose will come to an end in form, and it will be impossible to continue.

Everyone is killing each other with knives, who will argue with you?

A glib tongue is no match for a ring-headed knife, and a weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of a weapon. Everyone is playing with each other's brains. Politics and military affairs are the most important, and academics and arts must rely on it. used.

That is to say, we are still in a relatively stable period of time, literature and art can still bring us great fame, and Confucian classics can still play a role, but this window period is already very short.

If nothing happened to Liu Hong, then it would be the first year of Chuping at the latest, that is, nine years later, after Liu Hong's death and Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, troubled times would begin, and everything would have to be reshuffled.

Therefore, the time left for myself is only nine years at most.

If there is no result within nine years, the greatest meaning of my pursuit of fame in the ancient literature school will be lost.

Therefore, Liu Bei must speed up and get everything done before the troubled times come.

Lu Zhi's energy is insufficient, and the only place he can get now is Yuan Shao's energy, which can give Liu Bei a chance to super-accelerate his backhand.

To say that in the original history, Cao Cao and Sun Ce, who emerged after the fall of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, were both good at operating backdoor listings, especially Sun Ce, the little bully really deserves to be a bully, and his political sense is quite sensitive.

Although they may not have taken the initiative to go public through the back door, but at that point, with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's successive deaths, it is difficult for them not to go public.

The torrent of history has pushed them to the forefront, and in a normal time period, Cao Cao, Sun Ce and others are also the type who will never be able to stand out in their lifetime.

But by that time, Liu Bei was no longer young.

The current situation is that there are two roads in front of him, and they can both be walked, and they are not parallel to each other.

One is to go with the flow, wait for the troubled times to start, and then fight for hegemony, taking the familiar path, the difficulty will be slightly lower.

The other is to take an unimagined path, do something before the troubled times, maybe there will be unexpected gains.

If the unimaginable path before the opening of the troubled times fails, the path of the troubled times can continue to go on. This is the historical advantage brought to Liu Bei by the status of a prophet.

That being the case, why not try to take an unimagined path?
What if something unexpected happens?

After figuring out this joint, Liu Bei no longer has any confusion about the future, and he began to sink his heart to plan the road that he had never imagined in the future.

Now that I join Yuan Shao Group, it can be regarded as an investment and a share, and it can even be regarded as an original stock.

Just like Cao Cao, he relied on the influence of the Cao family in the court to cover Yuan Shao's various actions. Although Cao Cao's identity was not on the table, but the family held the real power, Yuan Shao also had to rely on Cao Cao to give him support at certain times. Take cover.

This is regarded as an investment behavior. Yuan Shao Group has actually accepted Cao Cao's investment and shares, and Cao Cao has become a shareholder of Yuan Shao Group, a start-up company.

And Liu Bei's joining now is also considered an investment.

Liu Bei has his own reputation, and the scholars of the School of Classical Classics who admired him behind him, with Lu Zhi as the backing, and the huge reputation formed by all these agglomerations is his investment.

Once Yuan Shao accepted it, he also recognized Liu Bei's investment, and Liu Bei has since become one of the shareholders of Yuan Shao Group.

After having a relatively clear plan for the future, Liu Bei relaxed his mind.

He intends to use this as a basis to further plan to gradually increase his own influence in the Yuan Shao Group.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei remembered the situation where the power of the Yuan family fell apart later.

After Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu launched an attack on Dong Zhuo and caused the collapse of the Yuan family, the huge political power of the Yuan family split into two factions, who took refuge in Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao respectively.

Yuan Shao raised troops in Hebei at that time, while Yuan Shu went to Runan to raise troops.

This distribution is quite interesting.

Runan is the headquarters of the Yuan family. Yuan Shu, as the direct heir of the Yuan family after the deaths of Yuan Kui and Yuan Ji, naturally inherited the family business of the Yuan family in Runan, so he chose to launch a military operation in Runan and pull up a branch of the Yuan family. The army rebelled against Dong Zhuo.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao ran to Hebei, raised troops in Bohai County, Jizhou, where Yuan's former official Han Fu was in charge, and raised an army to resist Dong Zhuo.

At first glance, this is not surprising, but Liu Bei, who is well versed in the huge power of the Yuan family's disciples and old officials all over the world, is very aware of the hidden rules.

To put it simply, those who follow Yuan Shao are part of the "old officials" in Yuan's political power, and those who follow Yuan Shu are part of the "disciples" in Yuan's political power.

The Yuan family started to make a fortune from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty. The ancestors of the family began to be officials from the county guards. Because the county guards already had the power of [Pi], the Yuan family began to have old officials from the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

As the Yuan family passed on from generation to generation, the status of the family became higher and higher, and finally there was a political grand occasion of four generations and three princes, and even a county guard could accumulate his own political power, let alone a senior official of the three princes.

Four consecutive generations have become senior officials at the Sangong level, and each generation can choose to promote countless young talents to enter the officialdom and become their own subordinate officials.

As they grew up, they were either sent out to serve as county magistrates, county guards, or governors, or served as officials in the central government, and became Yuan's [old officials].

The four three-level officials of the Yuan family have been passed down from generation to generation, and there are more and more Yuan's [old officials] from generation to generation.

By the time of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the former officials of the Yuan family had really spread throughout the Han Dynasty, serving as different officials in different states and counties in the central government.

Lord Yuan waved his arms, as long as they did not rebel, these officials must respond together and respond to Lord Yuan's political call—not to mention whether they really want to take action, at least they must respond verbally.

But this is not the core strength.

Therefore, compared with the disciples group, the official group is actually slightly alienated from the power of Yuan's family.

Because the old official group may not necessarily have been taught by Yuan Shi, but may also have learned from others, or simply came up by wild roads, and is not absolutely loyal to Yuan Shi, such as Dong Zhuo, the famous second-five boy.

However, the disciples have been inherited from the family biography "Meng Shiyi" of the Yuan family in Runan, at least on the surface, whether it is academic or official career, they are all single-handedly selected by the Yuan family and require absolute loyalty .

The so-called loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. The disciple group is naturally the core force of a family, and it will also receive more care from the Yuan family.

In the dispute between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the protégé group basically chose Yuan Shu, and the old officials basically chose Yuan Shao, which represented the core strength of the Yuan family still chose Yuan Shu.

Even so, the power of the Yuan family's old officials in Yuan Shao's hands is enough for him to benefit from.

As the prefect of Bohai, he was able to defeat Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, and thus obtained Jizhou as his foundation. Han Fu's relationship as an old official of the Yuan family cannot be ignored.

At the beginning of the troubled times, the two brothers joined hands to master the most essence of the Han world, the Central Plains and Hebei.

But who would have thought that after just over ten years, this giant family would collapse and disappear.

While Liu Bei was emotional, he still knew that this family still possessed strong political power even before its downfall, and the benefits of being friendly with it definitely outweighed the disadvantages.

And Yuan Shao himself still has a lot of charm.

With such a mentality, Liu Bei happily went when Yuan Shao invited him for the second time, and had a joke with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

This time, it wasn't just Yuan Shao and Cao Cao who joined the banquet, there was an extra person named Xu You.

(End of this chapter)