Xuande

Chapter 48 The First Shovel

Cao Cao could not come up with an answer to this question.

Liu Bei did not say the answer.

This answer seems meaningless, because neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei can solve this problem.

At most it can only solve the person who asked the question.

But this does not prevent the friendly relationship between the two.

Cao Cao faintly felt that in Yuan Shao's circle of friends, there were not many people who could really accept his origin and didn't care, and regarded himself as a friend.

Zhang Miao who is always smiling is one of them.

Liu Bei is another one.

Nothing else.

Yuan Shao seemed to regard himself as a friend, but Cao Cao knew very well that it was Yuan Shao's faking. He never really regarded himself as a friend who came from a eunuch family, he just regarded himself as a useful subordinate.

Yuan Shao only cares about interests, political interests.

Therefore, Cao Cao valued and cared about Liu Bei as a friend very much, and would ask Liu Bei to drink and chat with Liu Bei every now and then when he was free, and talk about his thoughts.

At this point, Liu Bei noticed.

He noticed Cao Cao's closeness to him, and realized that Cao Cao really wanted to make friends with him and get along with him.

But Liu Bei felt very embarrassed.

Because in a sense, Liu Xuande cares more about interests and political interests than Yuan Benchu, and he is more likely to become a purely political creature than Yuan Shao.

At least he is now very clear that he didn't come to Luoyang to make friends. Making friends is just a means, and the goal is to gain political power and status, and to embark on an unimagined path.

He does not have the foundation accumulation of three generations of Cao Cao's family.

He didn't become Jiuqing's father, he didn't become the uncle of Changshui Captain, he didn't have a bunch of relatives of Erqianshi Taishou, and he didn't have a smooth career, he didn't have a family background that offended the powerful and could retreat unscathed, and he didn't have a comeback after failure. capital.

He has only one teacher whose human nature is greater than tool attributes, and himself.

Everything he owns comes from his own hard work, hard work with his life and time.

Therefore, Liu Bei will definitely not be the friend that Cao Cao is looking forward to. He can only use Cao Cao as his help to climb up. If the two of them become enemies as fate in the future, he will never be merciful.

For him, getting to where he is today is already extremely difficult, and it can be called a miracle in the new era.

If the historical time and space in which he lives goes beyond 2000, there will definitely be posterity who will marvel at his background and experience, and praise him as a role model for realizing the "Diaosi Counterattack" in an era of birth and bloodlines.

His burden is extremely heavy.

For him, if he can't climb up, he will die without a place to die.

No one will cover for him.

He can only use a calculating heart to calculate his own path, set up a set of formulas, bring everything into it, and perform purely rational calculations to arrive at the optimal solution.

Including Lu Zhi, including Guan Yu, including Zhang Fei, including Jian Yong, including Qianzhao, including Gongsun Zan...

They are all part of a number in that formula.

This was taught to him at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

He is not the kind and righteous Uncle Liu Huang, he is himself, he has no way or the courage to be that Uncle Liu Huang who is full of humanity.

He tried it, but it didn't work very well, so he gave up and turned to reason and acting to deal with the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Sadly, it works just fine.

At first, he was full of interest in the world and full of confidence in himself.

Who is he?
He is Liu Bei, the Liu Bei who fought all his life and finally became the emperor.

He is the hero who, like Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, was on the stage of the late Han Dynasty together with other heroes.

The romantic and colorful world at the end of Han Dynasty will not leave him because of a momentary setback.

Even if he can't become famous for a while, he still believes that he is the protagonist of this world, there is no need to rush for a while, he will be proud of the world in the end.

So even if he had to follow his mother from the Liu clan settlement to Zhuoxian County every day to weave mats and sell shoes, he still felt good.

He even arrogantly tried to launch a social revolution with his mouth.

After all, the Liu clan is a clan with a large population. It is a small power of its own, and it lives in peace with other powers.

In addition, both Liu Bei's grandfather and father were official figures who brought benefits to the family. With this relationship, at least there was no exploitative oppression within the clan.

Therefore, Liu Bei's mother and son are more like freelancers who don't have to pay taxes. They have the possibility of slowly accumulating wealth.

But if you want to change to a self-cultivated farmer, or an unrelated tenant in a powerful clan, it will be miserable.

The exploitation of the self-cultivating farmers by the government, and the exploitation of the tenants by the powerful clans are really to the point of sucking the bones.

Since Liu Bei was seven years old, helping his mother weave mats and sell shoes, for several years in a row every winter, corpses that had died of freezing and starvation could be found on both sides of the official road.

Depending on the year, sometimes you can see corpses in spring, but the probability of seeing corpses in summer and autumn is relatively small, but once you see corpses in summer and autumn, there is a high probability that you offended the government or the host family and were beaten to death.

What Liu Bei saw most impressively was the corpse of a scrawny man and his youngest son who was also scrawny.

The two hugged each other tightly, it should be father and son.

The father protected his son's small body between his own bony body, his face was covered with blood, and his expression could not be seen clearly.

Liu Bei didn't know who made the mistake, which led to the two being beaten to death together.

But he knew that after getting used to seeing corpses on the side of the road, the romantic filter in his eyes that belonged to the heroes of the Three Kingdoms gradually faded away, and the romantic filter brought to him by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms disappeared.

After removing this layer of filter, he was stunned to find that the world in front of him had no color, and what was left was gray and white symbolizing cold and chill. He seemed to be unable to see color, and felt that everything in front of him was extremely desolate.

What's even more sad is that he finally realized that gray and white are the main colors of this world, and the romantic and colorful world definitely did not belong to him at that time.

As a marginalized person in a colorful world, his own life is quite difficult. The so-called improvement of life is nothing more than eating a few more rice bran and eating a few more salted vegetables, that's all.

It is a gift for festivals when you are full.

Not starving to death is his daily routine.

The heavy burden of life changed him from a modern person who does not work hard to a person who eats bran and eats vegetables, cooks rice, and is a small expert in weaving mats. It also changed him from a silent person who is ashamed to speak A loud voice for business.

It also made him change from an iron waste who ran for five and a half minutes in 1000 meters to an owner of iron feet, carrying a load of straw sandals and straw mats from home to Zhuoxian commercial CBD, and walking back and forth for several miles It's not difficult.

That was an important foundation for him to be able to achieve the career of Street Fighter later.

It is precisely because he has experienced this, experienced everything that Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others have never experienced, so it is impossible for him to become their true friend.

He has taken a fancy to their value, and hopes to use their value to increase his own value, to make himself better, and to walk out of an unimagined path as soon as possible.

That's his goal.

Around this goal, it is not the most important to be someone's friend, someone's supporter, or someone's political servant.

He wants to climb up, he has to use all possibilities to climb up, if the political energy of the ancient literature school is not enough to push him to climb up, he has to find a way to climb up by himself.

He is not that Uncle Liu Huang, he will not wait until he is 50 to make his fortune.

He is not as good as Uncle Liu Huang, he does not have the talent of Uncle Liu Huang, if he can't walk his own path, he may not live to be 50 years old.

Bearing the name of Liu Bei is more like a great mockery to him.

Because he didn't know what kind of forbearance and persistence that Uncle Liu used to endure such a desperate situation until he became famous. Until the last moment, he still maintained a touch of humanity.

If you were a normal person, you would have collapsed long ago, right?It's been lying down for a long time, right?

Or even dead?
But Uncle Liu didn't.

Liu Bei couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out at all, and couldn't replicate this impossible route.

He has no choice.

Yuan Shao's platform is very important.

Relying on Yuan Shao's platform, he has obtained many things.

But Liu Bei was not satisfied, not at all.

He was going to poach Yuan Shao's corner.

The first shovel was Cao Cao.

(End of this chapter)