Xuande

Chapter 121 There is no right or wrong, only victory or defeat

After making up his mind, Liu Bei gave up persuading Liu Hong and the upper echelons of the Eastern Han court, and instead decided to use his own power to complete the assassination of Zhang Jiao's three brothers in private, without attracting anyone's advance attention.

This is actually a great advantage for Liu Bei.

Because no one would have thought that someone like Liu, who was at odds with Zhang Jiao, could lead the assassination of Zhang Jiao.

No one knew that Liu Bei opened up the perspective of God, and was able to think about these events from a historical perspective, and draw some conclusions that can only be drawn if he knows everything.

Moreover, as the second person in charge of the East Garden, Liu Bei's job in the East Garden is actually intelligence reconnaissance in areas other than Luoyang.

Both Liu Hong and the eunuchs believed that the intelligence investigation within Luoyang was the most important, because Luoyang was the center of the world, and if he controlled Luoyang's intelligence, he also had control of the world's intelligence.

Even at the very beginning, Dongyuan didn't plan to set up an intelligence and reconnaissance team for the outside world. It was Liu Bei's request to keep such an establishment. But in terms of staffing, Liu Hong and the eunuch didn't care, and Liu Bei operated it himself.

You can arrange the manpower, and you can decide how to do it yourself. You can report regularly and go through the motions. The rest is not important.

At that time, Liu Bei felt that there was such a good thing in the world?
Is this really the authority to spy on areas other than Luoyang?

This is the fact that no one will realize its value too deeply for a department that is established for the first time without knowing its effects.

And Liu Hong and Zhang Rang are not powerful political masters, so they don't care about it.

But Liu Bei really understands the power of this organization after it is well managed. This is a powerful department that every country with a little ability and ambition will not give up setting up, ancient and modern.

The indifference of Liu Hong and Zhang Rang means that even if Liu Bei completely uses his own staff to turn the department investigating intelligence work in areas other than Luoyang into his own Liu family army, there will be no problem.

That's what he did.

Since you all trust me so much, wouldn't I have failed your trust if I didn't do this?
Liu Bei himself had a lot of things to do, and it was difficult for him to devote himself wholeheartedly, so he asked Liu Hui, Liu Bo's son who had been following him to do things, to lead the team and slowly manage the team.

Liu Hui is not good at martial arts. Because of being bullied when he was young, he has a somewhat withdrawn personality. He only has a close relationship with Liu Bei who saved him. He doesn't like to socialize with others very much, and his popularity is not very good.

This is simply the best prerequisite for engaging in intelligence.

Therefore, when he was in Zhuo County, Liu Hui's status within the Liu Clan was similar to that of an intelligence officer. He participated in intelligence work and laid the foundation for the expansion of the Liu Clan's power.

It was Liu Hui's operation to place the chess pieces under Cheng Dazhi's command.

As a member of his own family, relatives and friends of the same clan, Liu Bei has absolute trust in Liu Hui, and Liu Hui is also very interested in knowing that Liu Bei has found a new job for himself.

There is no better job than professional counterparts and personalities. As soon as Liu Hui came into contact with this job, a wonderful chemical reaction immediately occurred.

The task Liu Bei entrusted to him was quite arduous.

It is now September of the sixth year of Guanghe, and Zhang Jiao launched a full-scale operation in February of the seventh year of Guanghe. Liu Bei still has five months left.

During these five months, Liu Bei needs to know clearly the whereabouts of the three Zhang Jiao brothers, and needs to assassinate these three without attracting anyone's attention, and succeed.

It's not easy.

Accurate intelligence is needed, and a skilled assassin with the will to die is needed to carry it out.

Who can take up such a responsibility?
Not to mention, Liu Bei really has such a suitable candidate under his command.

The old group of carefully trained veterans who followed Liu Bei in the cottage on the outskirts of Zhuo County were all taken in by Liu Bei and saved their lives. Liu Bei has kindness to them.

According to the simple values ​​of this era, if someone saves his life, he must return his life with his life.

Liu Bei wrote a letter to be secretly sent back to Zhuo County, asking Jian Yong and Ji Jian to preside over it, select a group of loyal and willing to die for Liu Bei from the stockade, and promise them to take good care of their families and offspring. Then deliver the task.

Then, Liu Bei entrusted Liu Hui with the task of investigating the whereabouts of Zhang Jiao's three brothers, and asked him to act secretly without attracting anyone's attention. time.

In Liu Bei's view, the three Zhang Jiao brothers would directly contact believers in order to preach, and would not live apart from believers. In order to demonstrate their existence and prestige, socializing in public is also a practical need.

And this practical need gave Liu Bei an opportunity to assassinate them.

There is only one chance. Once it fails, the Taipingdao Uprising will break out, but as long as it succeeds, the scale and destructiveness of the Taipingdao Uprising will be reduced by several levels in an instant.

The assassination failed, and Zhang Jiao's rebellion was nothing more than the beginning of everything.

The worst result is the original result, so what is there not to bet on?
Liu Bei wants to do his best for this, but if his best efforts fail, he has nothing to say.

Zhang Jiao should have completed the arrangements for the Taipingdao uprising long ago, and the armed forces for the Taipingdao uprising have probably formed the largest scale they can achieve.

It is impossible to prevent it from erupting completely.

However, as long as the three Zhang Jiao brothers die early and the scale and destructiveness of the Taipingdao uprising are reduced, then this war will not be so destructive to the economy and daily production and life, and the trend of local separatism will not be large-scale Looking up, the local military disasters caused by the dispatch of the imperial army will be less.

The overall situation will not get out of control.

Liu Bei doesn't know how much one person's power can change history.

He wants to try.

In the second half of the sixth year of Guanghe, Liu Bei was secretly manipulating his own power to make the last effort to adjust the direction of history.

On the bright side, he is recuperating, keeping a low profile.

This is Lu Zhi's request to Liu Bei, and it is also Zheng Xuan's suggestion.

They hope that Liu Bei will not stand out in this turmoil, but should restrain his edge, hide himself, protect himself, and stop showing his edge again.

Before helping the Ancient Literature School to defeat Yang Ci's attack head-on, it has already provided a lot of help to the Ancient Literature School, but now, Liu Bei has shown his sharpness to the limit, and if he continues to show his sharpness, there will be problems.

Zheng Xuan was keenly aware that some forces were planning to plot against Liu Bei, so he suggested that Lu Zhi give Liu Bei a vacation so that he could get out of the current extremely dangerous fighting environment and recuperate.

To be honest, when Lu Zhi came to Liu Bei for this matter, Liu Bei was quite sorry.

Because he found that Lu Zhi was really thinking about him, and Zheng Xuan was obviously willing to think about him because he admired him.

But the reason why the situation has deteriorated to this extent is that Liu Bei is the real mastermind behind the scenes.

This feeling of embarrassment quickly disappeared. Liu Bei was used to shielding his true emotions to make judgments, and not letting his emotions affect his actions.

That's why he was able to walk step by step from the identity of a mat weaver to what he is today.

It's quite ruthless.

But does it matter?
Lu Zhi was obviously very worried about the current prospects facing the school. While letting Liu Bei rest at home and preparing to ask for sick leave for him, he also expressed worry.

"If years ago, Captain Sili, Captain Ting and Zhongcheng Yushi might have joined forces to fight against Dongyuan, especially Captain Sili, with [-] Zhongdu officials in his hands, enough to confront those Dongyuan spies head-on. But now... oh..."

Lu Zhi sighed again and again.

Liu Bei pretended not to bear it.

He personally offered a glass of rice wine to his beloved teacher.

"Teacher, it's really not easy for the school to get to where it is today. We have paid a huge price every step of the way. So far, we can't turn back."

Lu Zhi took the glass of rice wine and took a sip.

"I know, of course I know, but I still don't want to see scholars completely split into two factions. It used to be nothing more than an academic dispute, but now, it has become a conflict of spirits and interests. There is no one between them." Is this really right? Xuande, what do you think?"

Liu Bei was silent for a while, then shook his head.

"In this matter, there is no room for arguing about right or wrong. Teacher, there are many things in the world where right and wrong cannot be distinguished. From the current point of view, there is no right or wrong, only victory or defeat."

(End of this chapter)