(I went out yesterday and didn't have time to come back for an update.) It's just started school, and there are a lot of things, and everyone understands it. Forgive me! ）

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Don't say anything if you want to be the emperor yourself, it will only make you die without a place to bury in that era.

In the original history, Lao Cao had enough conditions, but he never took that step in his life; Xiao Cao took over, and he only dared to adopt the Jiupin Zhongzheng system to reach a political deal with the scholars; As for Liu Bei...... Emperor Liu Xie is not dead, but he said that Emperor Liu Xie has been harmed by Cao Wei, and then he has to play the identity of "Han clan relatives" to come to this hand.

In short, this kind of thing is not so simple, so Cao Pi and Liu Bei are desperately trying their best to grab credit and political capital for themselves at this time, and the politicians and pens in both camps are busy talking nonsense, and public opinion is also messed up by them.

By the way, although Lao Cao was the king in the original history, the current situation was managed by Lu Ren and Xun Yu to stop it; Liu Bei was supposed to establish himself as the king of Hanzhong after the battle for Hanzhong, but now it was because the battle of Hanzhong was not completely fought and he encountered the invasion of the Western Regions Alliance, and then Liu Bei was also involved in the battle against the Western Regions Alliance, and Liu Bei was no longer shameless, and he didn't dare to do anything at this time, because in that case, he was looking for scolding, so this matter could not be done according to the original process.

There was a lot of nonsense, Liu Bei and Cao Pi were arguing and fighting there, but Lu Ren, who was in Central Asia, didn't bother to pay attention to them. In addition, there is also a Sun Quan, but Sun Quan is happy to squat in Jiangdong to watch Liu Bei and Cao Pi quarrel non-stop, after all, there is basically nothing to do with Sun Quan about the battle of the Western Regions Alliance. Although I didn't catch anything, I didn't lose anything. Now seeing Liu Bei and Cao Pi arguing for merit, Sun Quan is happy to be a melon-eating crowd on the side. Anyway, the more fierce the quarrel between the two and the worse the relationship, the easier it is for Sun Quan to pick up cheaper.

In fact, whether it is Liu Bei, Cao Pi, or even Sun Quan, they are not good birds in the final analysis, and deep in the hearts of these people, they are all eager to ascend to the throne of the emperor. However, these people know that the emperor's throne is not something that can be sat on, and there are too many prerequisites needed, and political capital is one of the very critical and important preconditions, so with this victory in Liangzhou, Liu Bei and Cao Pi will be full of energy to compete for political capital, and the pen and stick politicians in their camp will also desperately show their talents at this time, boasting that they are already desperately attacking the other side.

However, the interesting thing is that whether it is Liu Bei or Cao Pi, in their messy articles, they all praise Lu Ren, because Lu Ren is not their enemy, at least not their primary enemy, their direct enemy. So as far as the current situation is concerned, of course, it is necessary to show favor to Lu Ren and win him over.

On the other hand, while Liu Bei and Cao Pi boasted about Lu Ren on the surface, they also had their own hidden insidious purpose in secret, that is, to push Lu Ren out as a bird.

What kind of bird is it?

Let's put it this way, the current Cao Pi and Liu Bei are not princes, and with the background of the times at that time, the title of prince can be said to be the most important step before ascending to the throne of the emperor. If you want to become the emperor justifiably, then you can't jump directly over the steps of the prince. Well, Cao Pi and Liu Bei are both people who want to become emperors in the name of righteousness, so it is very necessary for them to become princes first.

Some people may ask Cao Pi and Liu Bei what is the relationship between Wang Jue and Lu Ren? The reason for this is that when Cao Pi and Liu Bei were competing for political capital on the occasion of the victory in Liangzhou, Lu Ren had no reaction here. And Lu Ren is in this battle against the Western Regions Alliance...... Not to mention the most critical, but at least no one dares to ignore or mention Lu Ren's credit. Now Cao Pi and Liu Bei are fighting for me, but Lu Ren is silent next to him, do you think Cao Pi and Liu Bei's faces can be hung up? If they don't piggyback on Lu Ren, how can they have the cheekiness to show their merits?

And this is just a matter of favor and face, hidden under this is Cao Pi and Liu Bei's "want to be a watch, but also want to set up a memorial arch", to put it bluntly, they want to put the prince on their own body, but they are worried that their name will be wrong, and they are afraid that their political reputation will be damaged. So at this time, they need an up-and-coming bird, and the up-and-coming bird will take care of some of the mess, and then they can follow the up-and-coming bird to pick up the cheap. To put it in a colloquial way, it is "someone else did it first, and I am just the one who did it with the followers", and any pot has to be carried by a bird.

Therefore, Cao Pi and Liu Bei coincidentally hit Lu Ren with this idea, and spared no effort to boast of Lu Ren's merits in those messy articles, and then tried their best to say to Emperor Liu Xie that Lu Ren should be awarded the title of King of Luren, of course, they did not forget to guide public opinion.

Some people may say here that it is not difficult to understand the mentality of Cao Pi and Liu Bei who want Lu Ren to be the first bird, but is this a bit nonsense? Because didn't the two Han Dynasty have a system of "different surnames are not kings"? Although this system was broken by Lao Cao in the original historical process, the current situation is not that Lao Cao died before he could become a prince, so this system has not been broken? And Cao Pi and Liu Bei want to put Lu Ren on the title of king, so they are not afraid of provoking the criticism of public opinion?

I'm sorry, but because that system hasn't been broken yet, two bad guys need a bird to break it...... Don't say that Liu Bei is a relative of the Han family, if you don't need to be subject to this restriction. This guy is very good and knows how to guard "humility", so he will never do anything about being a bird.

As for public opinion, since Lu Ren's root base is the first line of Yiguangquan, although it has been more than ten years since it was officially incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty, it still belonged to the "extraterritorial domain" outside the Huaxia region in the eyes of many people at that time.

However, after the prince threw it on Lu Ren's body, the politicians could use Lu Ren's territory to say that Lu Ren's territory had been incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty when they needed to. And this kind of thing, in fact, is a typical "need you to be a human being, say you are a human, need to be a ghost, say you are a ghost", but any politician with a little bit of brains and means, I believe that this kind of trick is very handy.

And then from another point of view, not to mention whether Cao Pi and Liu Bei knew in their hearts whether Lu Ren also wanted to be the emperor, only that in their opinion, even if Lu Ren had that mind, he would not be able to compete with them for Chinese orthodoxy because of Lu Ren's nature of "extraterritorial domain". As for the importance of this "Chinese orthodoxy", I believe there is no need to say more. In other words, Lu Ren's ascension to the throne, or even the establishment of himself as emperor, would not pose much of a threat to their legitimacy. But correspondingly, these two goods can't let each other succeed, so they will suppress each other as much as possible in the midst of verbal swords, but they don't have to do this to Lu Ren.

All in all, Lu Ren was pushed to the fore by Cao Pi and Liu Bei in this situation, and in Cao Pi and Liu Bei's opinion, or here they used their own ideas to calculate Lu Ren's mentality, anyway, they thought that Lu Ren would be happy to ascend to the throne, after all, how many people in this world can resist this huge temptation?

But will things really go the way they envisioned?

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Central Asia, Yangon.

It was already early afternoon, and Lu Ren was lazily lying on the beach chair placed on the deck of the landing craft at the moment, enjoying the pleasant sunshine and sea breeze, and looking at the posture was a bit like being on the sunny beach in Hawaii.

Just don't see that Lu Ren is now so virtuous, and think that Lu Ren is a hands-off shopkeeper who doesn't care about anything. On the contrary, although Lu Ren has not had any war here in Central Asia recently, he has a lot of things to be busy with, and it was not until the first two days that it came to an end, and then he was busy taking a break to relax himself.

Speaking of which, Lu Ren has a lot of things to do. Although there is no war for the time being, the tricks that Lu Ren is playing in secret, the politics and diplomacy of Guishan, and even the adaptation of the heart-attacking song and dance drama are all directly commanded by Lu Ren, or he has to participate more or less in person. And Lu Ren is not an iron man or a robot, so he always has to take a break when it's time to take a break.

was lazily taking a nap, Minchan, who was dressed in a swimsuit, came to Lu Ren's side, the fire-breathing figure first shook in front of Lu Ren, put a glass of cold beer on the small table, and then reached out and pushed Lu Ren and said, "Yihao, Yihao?" ”

Lu Ren hooked his sunglasses a little, first swept Minchan's body a few times with a rather evil gaze, and then asked with a smile: "What's the matter, wife?" ”

Minchan glared at Lu Ren angrily, and then handed a short telegram to Lu Ren: "I just received it." ”

Lu Ren took it and looked at it, and found that the content on it was very simple, it was Xun Yu who asked to have a ** conversation with Lu Ren tonight. By the way, under normal circumstances, Lu Ren's communication here is by telegraph, but if there is any special situation, Xun Yu, who stayed in Yizhou, will ask for an instant ** call with Lu Ren, and use the communicator that Lu Ren stayed at home and was guarded by Cai Yan...... After all, this thing is too far ahead of its time, and it has to be tucked away.

Lu Ren understands Xun Yu's temper and knows that if there is no very important event, Xun Yu will not easily ask for a "thousand-mile transmission" with him. And after thinking about it for a while, Lu Ren reached out and patted Minchan's incense/buttocks lightly: "Call back to Xun Gong to inform Wen Ji again, at eleven o'clock in the evening." ”

Mink Chan was dissatisfied with Lu Ren's buttocks attack and glared at Lu Ren again: "Can't you be serious about serious things?" ”

Lu Ren smiled but remained silent. In fact, after so many years, Lu Ren didn't say it, and Minchan also understood that the more important the event, the more nervous she couldn't show any nervousness on the bright side, otherwise the emotions of Lu Ren, the leading figure, would easily affect the personnel under her command, so Minchan also twisted Lu Ren's backhand, and then went back to the cabin to shoot the telegram.

The message was crumpled up by Lu Ren and thrown into the sea, and then Lu Ren also fell into deep thought. Although he is now in Central Asia, telegrams from the inland of China will also be photographed from time to time to report some of the situation in Huaxia to Lu Ren, so Lu Ren is still very clear about some things. And now that Xun Yu suddenly asked for instant communication, Lu Ren could more or less guess Xun Yu's intentions.

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At eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, Lu Ren came to the communication module of the landing craft. When the communication was connected and the holograms of Xun Yu and Cai Yan appeared, Lu Ren waved his hand to Cai Yan, and Cai Yan retreated unintentionally, leaving only Xun Yu in the communication secret room over there, and Lu Ren's Ermine Chan also exited the communication cabin with interest.

The two looked at each other and were silent for a while, and then Lu Ren opened his mouth first: "Xun Gong, why do you call me like this?" ”

Xun Yu was silent for a while, and then said in a very deep voice: "Liu Bei and Cao Pi jointly signed a letter to the Son of Heaven, praising your merits, and hoping that the Son of Heaven will make you the prince to reward your merits." ”

Lu Renle was happy: "Add me as a prince?" I'm not even a father-in-law. ”

It must be made clear here that Lu Ren's title is still only waiting, but due to its nature of "extraterritorial domain", it is possible to directly skip the duke and become a prince.

Xun Yu at this end was silent for a while, and asked, "Yihao, do you have the intention of being public?" ”

Lu Ren's face was put away with a smile, and he said to Xun Yu word by word: "Xun Gong, why do you have to be like this? Not to mention our previous friendship and cognition, just that it has been more than ten years since you ran away from Lao Cao and came to my side to help me. In the past ten years, don't you know what kind of person I, Lu Ren, are? ”

Xun Yu's lips first moved, then "despised" Lu Ren for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh: "Yihao, don't blame me, and we don't say dark words in front of our Mingren...... People will change, and after a change, I really don't know the bottom of my heart. It's true that I've been confiding with you for ten years, but there have been people who have known me for more than 20 years, but in the end, they ......"

At this point, Xun Yu didn't speak except for a long sigh, and Lu Ren also knew who the person Xun Yu was referring to in his mouth "Twenty years of confidant". Xun Yu had experienced such a thing, so the nerve in his heart was extremely sensitive, and now that Lu Ren had encountered a situation similar to that of Lao Cao at the beginning, it was normal for Xun Yu to become a little nervous.

As for Xun Yu's long sigh under nervousness, Lu Ren just smiled faintly and said, "Xun Gong, you will write the book for me." ”

When Xun Yu heard this, his eyes flashed: "What to write?" How to write? ”

Lu Ren smiled again: "You can write whatever you want me to write, and you don't have to worry about anything." In short, Xun Gong, I don't know what you think of me in your heart, and I don't bother to play any elegant and noble person, so I might as well be a villain in front of you. Cao Pi and Liu Bei, who are so indifferent to me, must have their own plans, so how can I make them happy? They want to trap me, and I will not fall into their pit...... Xun Gong, let me tell you this, can you rest assured? At least for now, can you rest assured? ”

Xun Yu once again "looked down" on Lu Ren, and finally nodded to Lu Ren, and the person seemed to be relieved: "Since Yihao has opened such a mouth, then the old man can feel a lot more at ease." But Yihao, you really don't care about such a good chance to be crowned by the king? Even if you really don't want to, many of your staff ......"

Lu Ren shrugged: "There are many things that I am not interested in in the first place, and I also have my own bottom line for many things." Xun Gong, I don't know if you can understand some things, but I might as well be a hypocrite in front of you again...... Over the years, I have worked so hard to incorporate Yizhou and Southeast Asia into the territory of our Han Dynasty, but once I become the king and cause some changes, then these places will be excluded from the territory of the Han Dynasty by the people of the Central Plains, so everything I have done over the years has not been in vain? I admit that I also have a lot of selfishness, but in the same way, I Lu Ren also have the ideals in my heart! ”

These are by no means Lu Ren's jokes. In fact, Lu Ren knew better than anyone else that these territories of his own still had the nature of "extraterritorial vassals" in the eyes of many people at that time, and once he claimed to be the king, these territories were equivalent to becoming the territories of Lu Ren's "principality" or "kingdom", in other words, they changed from the direct jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty in the original sense to the vassal states of the Han Dynasty, and then combined with the nature of Lu Ren's "extraterritorial domain", it would really be excluded by the orthodoxy of the time. To put it bluntly, it was Lu Ren who finally classified these territories into the Han Dynasty...... No, it should be said that it is included in the territory of Chinese inheritance, but if it is succeeded by Liu Bei and Cao Pi's things, Lu Ren's territory will be separated by the traditional thinking of the time.

Lu Ren does have a lot of selfishness, but after all, he also has his own ethics, bottom line and ideas. Perhaps, at this point, just like many Chinese and overseas Chinese, they will think about doing something for their motherland after they have the ability, and the ability and strength that Lu Ren holds now are enough for Lu Ren to do something bigger for Huaxia. Then the things that Cao Pi and Liu Bei are doing now just touched the bottom line in Lu Ren's heart, or they are destroying the ideals in Lu Ren's heart, so Lu Ren absolutely cannot accept it.

To put it mildly, if Lu Ren wanted to be the king and hegemon, he would have been able to do so a long time ago, so why should he have maintained that relationship with the Han all the time? The reason why we have been working hard to maintain it is to completely classify these territories into China. And it is not only a simple geographical incorporation, but also an ideological incorporation. And it will take some time to get there......