Xuande

Chapter 46 He needs followers on a political level

With such a harvest, Yuan Shao was naturally happy, and became closer to Liu Bei, frequently praised Liu Bei in public, and took the initiative to make Liu Bei famous.

And this is naturally one of the purposes of Liu Bei's counseling for Yuan Shao.

For Liu Bei, knowing that troubled times are coming, the long-accumulated scholar-type route will not work in the future. He only has nine years, so he needs a more direct way to break the situation.

Yuan Shao, this is the breaking point.

He planned and personally participated in the debate meeting held in Yuan Shao's mansion, which is a clear signal in itself-he has a very good relationship with Liu Bei and Yuan Shao.

Naturally, it is not a clear affiliation, not being a retainer or something, but it also means the friendship between the two parties, the friendship between the two parties, and the mutual needs of both parties.

Liu Bei, a clan member of the Han family who was born in a local tyrant and a scholar who became a monk on the way, was able to be the guest of Yuan Shao, a son of the Yuan family, the fourth generation and third father, and participate in the planning of the activities hosted by Yuan Shao. It is also a very honorable thing in itself.

Regardless of whether Yuan Shao is one of the representative figures of the family of Fuyue of the Modern Literature School, his political power is indeed not small. Your Liu Bei can become Yuan Shao's friend, and drinking with him also proves your ability from the side .

This matter itself can bring about an increase in Liu Bei's reputation and his social status.

This is not considered Liu Bei's biggest benefit as such.

His biggest benefit is that a good relationship with Yuan Shao will allow him to pull up his own small power gang.

At the moment when the troubled times are approaching, Liu Bei is very clear that if he wants to survive in the troubled times, he needs to form cliques. The so-called three gangs of a hero, if Liu Xuande wants to gain a foothold in the troubled times, only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are the two ten thousand enemies. not enough.

He needs followers on the political level, and he needs educated, knowledgeable and self-cultivated people to govern the place for him, collect taxes, and mobilize the people to form an army.

What he could do with Lu Zhi's disciples and classic debate masters before, can only be regarded as having a relatively large voice and a high status in a social circle. Everyone is equal to each other and is a friend. There is no relationship where you order me and I order you.

It's different now.

Now through Yuan Shao's platform and appreciation, what Liu Bei can pull up is a small power group headed by him and living under Yuan Shao's big power group.

This is a quasi-political alliance, just like Yuan Shao's faction.

Yuan Shao's faction group is a quasi-political alliance headed by Yuan Shao. The core value orientation of uniting people's hearts is to unite scholars and oppose eunuchs.

The reason why it is "quasi" is because Yuan Shao currently does not have any apparent official position. Once Yuan Shao has an official position and grasps political power, this quasi-political alliance will immediately be upgraded to a formal political alliance.

To serve Yuan Shao's own political interests and the big goal of anti-eunuchs.

Although Liu Bei has an official position, he has little power, so the small power group he pulled together is a quasi-political alliance.

A small quasi-political alliance under the umbrella of Yuan Shao's faction.

It is really not easy for Liu Bei to be able to pull this small quasi-political alliance. If Liu Bei does not associate with Yuan Shao, does not rely on Yuan Shao's reputation and energy, but only relies on Liu Bei himself, then it will have to be pushed back.

But it's different now.

Liu Bei and Yuan Shao had a good relationship, and he was appreciated by Yuan Shao, and even his friends were favored and praised by Yuan Shao, which showed that Liu Bei had a high status in Yuan Shao's heart.

So much so that Yuan Shao was even willing to show respect to friends around Liu Bei.

what does this mean?
It means that although it is not easy to get along with the big brother Yuan Shao, but if you get along with the big brother Liu Bei, you may be able to get his appreciation, be introduced to Yuan Shao by him, and thus get Yuan Shao's praise, and then get some political support Benefit.

Hasn't this been fulfilled in Liu Bei's friend Zhen Yan?

After the end of Zhen Yanlang's term of office, he has been seeking the possibility of staying in the central government, but has not been successful, so Liu Bei took the opportunity to introduce him to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao was also very polite about this.

He once praised Zhen Yan, who was of ordinary background, in public, saying that he was quite "the style of being an ancestor", which made Zhen Yan a certain reputation at his banquet and gave Liu Bei enough face.

Everyone knew that this was Yuan Shao's praise for Liu Bei's face, but for Zhen Yan, who was born in the same place, it was enough.

Soon after that, Zhen Yan, who was praised by Yuan Shao, managed to stay in Luoyang under Liu Bei's efforts.

So Zhen Yan was grateful to Liu Bei and felt that her future was bright, so Zhen Yan became the first member of Liu Bei's new small power gang.

After hearing the specific news, many people in Liu Bei's circle of friends came back to their senses. Seeing that Liu Bei has become a person with the ability to save face, they also began to move around. They visited Liu Bei one after another, hoping to get Liu Bei's approval and recommendation, so that they could participate in Yuan Shao's event. banquet.

This was Liu Bei's second idea to Yuan Shao, to limit the number of participants to his family's banquet and classic debate meeting, and only those recognized by Yuan Shao could bring friends who had not attended before, and outsiders were not accepted in principle.

In fact, it is a membership system in disguise, setting up a threshold of access, which is hidden from the outsiders, but from the inside, it has an extra layer of superiority over outsiders, and there is a kind of relationship between each other. A special connection and a sense of belonging to Yuan Shao.

The big cake that can get the official position is used to lure the scholars who are full of fame and fame, but only a very small number of people can really get the official position, because everyone's political energy is indeed not great.

But what does it matter?

For big pie, it doesn't matter how many pieces there are, the most important thing is having them.

This method is called the membership system in Liu Bei's words, but in the eyes of Yuan Shao and others, this is actually a kind of crony in disguise, so Xu You still expressed concern.

"It's okay if it's just in private, but if it's publicized and people know that we are all friends, it may lead to disaster."

But Yuan Shao was not worried, nor was he afraid. It might be better to say that this was his dream, but he had no one to help him plan and organize it.

As an unpopular existence in the Yuan family, Yuan Shao is not so easy to get what the family's son can get. He needs to personally experience and do things to build his own power.

The addition of Liu Bei and his ability to plan and organize made it possible for Yuan Shao to achieve his goal, which made Yuan Shao very happy.

"Eunuchs can plan for their cronies and their own self-interest, can't I do it?"

Out of desire for his own power, Yuan Shao decided to accept Liu Bei's suggestion and adopt such a system.

He only allowed Liu Bei and a dozen of his trusted people to bring their trusted and friendly people to the banquet, and selected excellent and reliable people from them to gradually develop into "members".

They controlled the number of people at the banquet to a certain extent, but they bought a large number of foreign troops to create momentum, and made Yuan Shao's banquet look like a press conference, which was very eye-catching.

Liu Bei acted as the spokesperson, and every time he attended Yuan Shao's banquet, he would announce the important topics of the banquet.

For example, what classics were debated on what topics, what kind of golden sentences were spoken by who, or what wonderful words did Liu Xuande have, how many consecutive victories he won, including what new poems Liu Xuande had.

So it didn't take long for Yuan Shao's banquet to have considerable influence in the circle of scholars in Luoyang City.

After each banquet, many people inquired about the specific news of the banquet, and found out what happened at the banquet through the news spread by Liu Bei, who was shining in the banquet, etc., etc., and expressed that they also wanted to participate in this kind of event. banquet.

At this point, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others began to pull people in, leading more interested friends to the banquet, and to participate in the debate meeting after the banquet.

(End of this chapter)