Chapter 992: Liu Bei's Bitter Water
Liu Bei sneaked back to Xiangyang, but he didn't rebel, is he guilty?
Not guilty!!
Besides, Liu Bei is not Liu Biao's subordinate, he is the King of Han on an equal footing with Liu Biao, but he has just become a lost dog. Liu Biao scolded Liu Bei loudly just now, wanting to force Liu Bei to comply, but Liu Bei's humble and arrogant answer made Liu Biao have no chance to make trouble at all, just like encountering a hedgehog and having no way to start.
Liu Biao stood up from the throne, pointed his sword at Liu Bei, and said menacingly: "You returned to Xiangyang without authorization, aren't you plotting to rebel?" This matter has spread all over the city, do you still have to quibble? ”
Liu Bei said lightly: "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse!" ”
"You, you ......"
Liu Biao was so angry that he gritted his teeth and wanted to kill Liu Bei.
But if a sword stabs down, his reputation will definitely be affected, and Liu Bei's crime has not been determined, and Liu Biao does not occupy morality. In addition, Liu Bei's soldiers were still needed on the front line to resist, and there could be no chaos, so Liu Biao did not dare to kill Liu Bei. Liu Biao's eyes were like knives, staring at Liu Bei, and asked, "Let me ask you, why did you secretly return to Xiangyang with your troops?" ”
Liu Bei said: "Brother Jingsheng, do you know how many soldiers I brought back to Xiangyang? ”
Liu Biao didn't think about it, and asked, "How much?" ”
Liu Bei stretched out two fingers and chuckled: "When I returned to Xiangyang this time, I only brought two hundred soldiers to protect my safety, and I didn't bring anything with me." With just two hundred guards, can they rebel? Xiangyang City has been strengthened and repaired by Brother Jingsheng, not to mention 200 people, even 20,000 or 200,000 people are difficult to conquer, and it is purely slanderous to say that I rebelled. ”
After Liu Biao heard this, he felt that there was some truth.
His heart began to waver a little. As Liu Bei said, two hundred soldiers are just protecting safety, and it is impossible to do anything, even if Liu Bei kills into the city, but two hundred people can't even enter the palace, how can they rebel?
Liu Biao thought so in his heart, but he didn't relax.
He asked in a cold voice: "I still say the same thing, why did I sneak back to Xiangyang secretly?" You are defending against the Shu army in front, you should know that the situation is dangerous, and if you are not careful, the state of Chu will definitely be in danger. In this case, you still have to come back secretly, what is your intention? ”
Although he was still questioning, his tone had changed, and he was not as murderous as he was just now.
When questioned before, Liu Bei almost had a feeling that Liu Biao wanted to chop him into eight pieces.
Now, Liu Biao is more gentle.
Liu Bei still didn't answer Liu Biao's question, but asked strangely: "Brother Jingsheng, there are wars all over the world, do you know how many princes of the Liu family there are?" ”
Liu Biao cared about his own one-third of an acre of land, and never cared about how many Liu princes there were in the world. Even if the princes would join the alliance to crusade against Dong Zhuo, Liu Biao did not participate, and did not take the other Liu clans in his eyes at all. Liu Biao's face was full of doubts, and he asked puzzledly: "How many princes surnamed Liu have, does it have anything to do with your sneaking back to Xiangyang?" ”
Liu Bei said in a deep voice: "When Dong Zhuo was alive, there were Youzhou Mu Liu Yu in the north, Liu Yan in the southwest beneficial state, Liu Dai in Yanzhou, Brother Jingsheng in Jingzhou in the south, and Liu Xuan in Yangzhou, and almost all the rights in the world were in the hands of the princes surnamed Liu. However, now that Liu Yan is dead, Liu Yu is dead, Liu Yu is dead, and Liu Dai is dead, only me and Brother Jingsheng are left, and Yangzhou and Yuzhou under my rule have been seized by Cao Cao and have become lost dogs, how sad! ”
Speaking of the sore spot in his heart, Liu Bei's eyes turned red, and he immediately burst into tears.
After Liu Biao heard this, he felt a relative.
In the blink of an eye, only he and Liu Bei were left in the world, and even the Son of Heaven died. Liu Biao sighed in his heart, but immediately remembered the purpose of asking Liu Bei, and continued to ask: "Xuande, do you have any connection between what you said and sneaking back to Xiangyang?" ”
He had already asked several times in a row, waiting for Liu Bei's answer.
It's a pity that Liu Bei just didn't answer positively.
Liu Bei calmed down and said slowly: "Brother Jingsheng, don't worry, Bei will give you an answer." Let me ask Brother Jingsheng another question, I left Sun Qian to mediate in Xiangyang, does Brother Jingsheng know? ”
Liu Biao nodded in acknowledgement.
Sun Gan is such a big person, of course, in Liu Biao's sight.
Liu Bei sighed, sat down cross-legged directly in the main hall, and said, "I left Sun Qian to be active in Xiangyang in order to find the talents of Xiangyang. But Sun Qian searched everywhere, and once visited Huang Chengyan, Cui Zhouping and others, but found nothing. Just when Sun Gan was disheartened, he found Zhuge Liang, but Sun Gan still didn't succeed, so he sent me a letter and asked me to go back to Xiangyang in person, and specially went to Longzhong to visit Zhuge Kongming. ”
"Brother Jingsheng, you have wise and resourceful people such as Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, and Yi, as well as Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Wen Ping and other elite generals, which can be called full of talents, and Brother Jingsheng also has Jingzhou, what a happy thing."
"What do I have?"
"Yangzhou is gone, Yuzhou is gone, and it is already a lost dog."
"I don't want to do nothing."
"Now that the princes are rising and the Han family is declining, how can my descendants of the Liu family stand by and fight against each other. However, I have repeatedly fought with Wang Can, but I have been defeated repeatedly, my second brother Guan Yu was killed by Wang Can's generals, the strategist Chen Gong was captured by Wang Can, and even my woman was included in Wang Can's harem, can I be willing? ”
Liu Bei completely entered the state, and gritted his teeth even more when he mentioned Wang Can, like a hungry wolf.
The bitterness in his heart has never been said, but now he is saying it in one go.
When Liu Biao heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, feeling that Liu Bei was really unlucky, and Wang Can was like Liu Bei's nemesis, suppressing Liu Bei to the death, so that Liu Bei could not rise.
At this time, Liu Biao was a little sympathetic to Liu Bei.
Especially when Liu Bei said that he was unwilling to do nothing, Liu Biao breathed a sigh of relief. If Liu Bei said that he was willing to attach himself to Liu Biao and seek perfection, Liu Biao would definitely think that Liu Bei had a plan. However, Liu Bei directly said his heart, which made Liu Biao feel that Liu Bei was a frank gentleman, honest and credible.
I only heard Liu Bei babble and said: "When Sun Qian learned about Zhuge Liang, I knew that he had found a talented person, and I was very happy in my heart, thinking that I would immediately visit Zhuge Liang and take him for my own use." Alas, there is no strategist under his command, and everything has to be handled by himself, which Brother Jingsheng doesn't know, so he works hard. ”
"Sun Qian failed to convince Zhuge Liang, so I have to come back."
"However, if I return to Xiangyang with a swagger, it will definitely cause turmoil in the hearts of the army, so that the soldiers in front have no heart to resist the Shu army, so I sneaked back to Xiangyang with more than two hundred soldiers to visit Zhuge Liang."
"Just when I persuaded Zhuge Liang to come out and prepare to return to the front line, I didn't expect someone to find my traces, and it spread all over the city in a very short period of time, which I didn't expect."
"The people behind the scenes slandered me for rebelling so that Brother Jingsheng would arrest me, but he intercepted and killed me halfway. Fortunately, Zhuge Liang expected this incident, and I was able to escape the catastrophe, otherwise I would have been dry bones in the grave. Not to mention rebellion, it is impossible to see Brother Jingsheng. ”
Liu Bei raised his head and looked at Liu Biao, and said: "Brother Jingsheng, I won't hide it from you, I am indeed unwilling to be subordinate, thinking of using Brother Jingsheng's power to rise again, and prepare to recapture Yuzhou and Yangzhou." But you and I are both relatives of the Han family, and we are both princes surnamed Liu, so we should support each other and work together to revive the Han family, I definitely have no idea of seizing Brother Jingsheng's inheritance! ”
After Liu Biao heard this, he was quite moved.
He fell into deep thought, considering Liu Bei's words.
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