I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 4 Classmates Available
According to the normal historical process, Liu Bei had to wait at least after the Yellow Turban Uprising if he wanted to come out.

But even if the Yellow Turban Uprising made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion, Liu Bei didn't necessarily achieve much after several years of tossing because of his low background.

If this procrastination continues, Liu Jian will almost be an old man by the time they are successful.

Some things just don't go their way.

After thinking about it, Liu Jian felt that it was the third year that Xia Yu and others failed to fight against Xianbei. Jiangxia and Lujiang counties rebelled this year, and the border of Youzhou was invaded by Xianbei for many years. Maybe you can let yourself and Liu Bei enter the official career first, and start accumulating political resources earlier.

If it is possible to win a base area before the chaos, that would definitely be the best.

But it's not enough just to serve in the army.

As Zhang Fei said, there are more good sons joining the army, and more people who can make meritorious deeds. If you start from a young soldier, can you survive?

To make meritorious deeds, at the same time, there must be backers and connections to complement each other.

……

"Gongsun Zan?"

Liu Bei was somewhat disapproving: "Although he is a member of a large clan in western Liaoning, he is only from the background of a concubine. The Gongsun clan will not take him seriously. What can he do for us?"

Liu Jian smiled when he heard the words, and it was exactly what he thought.

When he was a classmate with Gongsun Zan in Gou's Mountain, he was a little strange. Since Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan had a good relationship, and both of them were restrained because of status issues, they were regarded as sympathetic, so why didn't Liu Bei go to Gongsun Zan when Gongsun Zan made his fortune in the early years? Begging, but when Gongsun Zan's career was successful, he reluctantly gave Liu Bei a hand?
After living in the Han Dynasty, Liu Jian realized that it was not that Liu Bei didn't want to use the big tree of Gongsun Zan, but that he didn't know what Gongsun Zan was doing now!
It sounds funny, but I really don't know.

Compared with later generations, communication in the Han Dynasty was really too backward. TV, mobile phones, newspapers, and books are all you need, and the literacy rate of the population is also very average. Clear, let alone a foreign country?

Classmates like Gongsun Zan, after leaving the school, seemed to disappear to Liu Bei. Unless they paid special attention to inquire, the timeliness of the information would be delayed in units of years.

But now, Liu Jian has been inquiring about Gongsun Zan.

And since they parted at Gou's Mountain, he would write to Gongsun Zan from time to time to keep in proper contact.

Even if Gongsun Zan seldom wrote back to him, he still wrote.

The two great princes at the end of the Han Dynasty, one in the early stage and the other in the late period, were his classmates. Unless he was really stupid, he would let Gongsun Zan go.

As for Gongsun Zan's specific situation, all he could do was spend money to buy off post officials to get some sporadic information from Liaodong on a regular basis, but that alone was enough for him.

He doesn't need to know too much, he only needs to know the key nodes.

"My brother doesn't know that Gongsun Bogui is not what he used to be today, and cannot be compared with what he was back then."

"what for?"

Liu Jian patiently told Liu Bei: "Because of his mighty appearance and high voice, Gongsun Bogui was favored by the magistrate of this county and recruited his son-in-law. Otherwise, you thought that because he was a concubine from the Gongsun family, how could he be able to enter Lu Shi's family?" ?”

Liu Bei was surprised and said: "When I was under Master Lu, I never heard him talk about this!?"

"The son-in-law who came to the door, relying on his father-in-law, is not very honorable. Naturally, he is embarrassed to say more... But he is well-off now. At this time last year, he was the six-hundred-year-old official of the Liaodong vassal state. After the calculation at the end of the year, he is already The county magistrate of Biqianshi will come here soon to take up his post."

Liu Bei was very surprised when he heard this.

It has only been a few years, and Gongsun Zan has already been a long history of six hundred stones, and now he has jumped to the county magistrate of more than one thousand stones, and a high-ranking official of eighty hu in the Moon Valley.

In Dahan, Qianshi is a watershed, since it is above Qianshi, it should be treated differently.

Although Gongsun Zan's current salary is only 180 shi less than that of Qianshi's high-ranking officials, he has already stepped into the ranks of the noble class of the Han Dynasty.

After being stunned for a while, Fang heard Liu Bei say:
"Come here to take office? What does my brother mean, that he will come to Zhuo County to be the county magistrate? Our Zhuo County has a household of more than [-] and a population of more than [-], but it is a big county."

"Yeah, that's why he's amazing... As far as I know, Bogui served as the imperial chariot under Liu Qi, the prefect. During that time, Liu Qi broke the law and was dispatched. He disguised himself as an escort, and Liu Qi was pardoned during the escort. Naihuan, Bogui was also promoted to Xiaolian because of his deeds. I guess there must be some inside story about this matter... But he has been going all the way since then, until he won the county magistrate of Biqianshi at the beginning of this year. According to the time, he returned to Liaoxi Province Excuse me, I will be here almost this month."

Liu Bei envied Gongsun Zan's true fate.

These days, even though Xiaolian is promoted, there are few actual posts. Eight out of ten Xiaolian are waiting for the position of Langguan.

Gongsun Zan was young, and after being a filial piety, he became the head of Liaodong with six hundred shi. There is no doubt that this has nothing to do with his personal talent... It should be with the help of his father-in-law of two thousand shi.

Envious, Liu Bei asked: "Then what about you and me?"

"I have reported to my father in the future, so let's go out of the county to meet my classmate...Let's go farther and meet him a hundred miles to the west to show our sincerity!"

Liu Bei lowered his head and pursed his lips with a strange expression.

"Why do you have this expression? You don't want to welcome him?"

"No."

"What's the matter?"

After a long time, I saw Liu Bei sighing, "I'm just feeling that my good brother is farsighted and savvy. Back then, we were under Master Lu's school together. We were short-sighted brothers. Although we have contacts with Gongsun, we prefer to cling to Niyang Wangyi, Lingzhou Fu. Xie, Hejian Wei Jie, Qinghe Cui Cheng, and others, only my virtuous younger brother didn’t admire others at that time, but just wanted to make friends with Gongsun Zan..."

Liu Jian rolled his eyes: "Don't praise me, it sounds disgusting."

Seeing that he didn't appreciate it, Liu Bei was a little anxious: "I mean it sincerely!"

When they were studying scriptures under Lu Zhi's school, their brothers' identities were very embarrassing.

In Gou's Mountain, as far as one could see, they were all descendants of Shimen whose status and family status were much higher than their two brothers.

Wang Yi of Niyang, Fu Xie of Lingzhou, and Wei Jie of Hejian all came from famous scholars, and their futures are boundless.

Liu Bei didn't know the heights of the sky at the time, and wanted to use his identity as the "Queen of King Jing of Zhongshan" to make friends with a group of students, and the result was naturally predictable.

After King Jing of Zhongshan, looking at the entire Zhongshan country, there are not ten thousand, but eight thousand. What do you count?
As a result, not only did he not make friends with a famous family, but even Gongsun Zan was a little contemptuous.

Although Gongsun Zan is the son of a concubine, he has a personality that is above the top. He doesn't say anything about Liu Bei's behavior of deliberately using his clan status to make friends with high-ranking children, but in fact he looks down on him.

On the contrary, Liu Jian, although he was of the same clan as Liu Bei, kept silent about his identity as a Han family clan, let alone currying favor with others.

Although there was suspicion of pretending to be noble, Gongsun Zan gave him a high look and felt that this person was ambitious.

In fact, it's not that Liu Jian has backbone, but that he has a strong purpose.

In Liu Jian's eyes, these unattainable children from high-ranking families are no better than Gongsun Zan when they are tied together, because he has long planned for his future.

These people are afraid that it will be difficult for me to interact with myself in the future, and it is useless to make friends with them.

Seeing Liu Bei remorse, Liu Jian stopped joking, and comforted:

"Brother, why should you blame yourself? At that time, my younger brother was just young and ignorant, and he was arrogant and arrogant, so he is not worthy of praise."

Liu Bei shook his head with a wry smile: "Mo Qianqian, you are better than me."

If this younger brother is really arrogant, why is he still secretly inquiring about Gongsun Zan after all these years?It is clear that there is a vision.

It seems that my future in the future may depend on this younger brother.

……

The next day, the two went to see Liu Zhou and the Hu family, and told them that they would leave the county for a few days to go east to meet Gongsun Zan who was about to take office.

The two brothers only said to welcome their classmates, but they didn't say that they wanted to become an official through Gongsun Zan.

Liu Zhou and Hu were overjoyed when they heard that a classmate from Goushi Mountain had come to be the magistrate of Zhuo County.

Liu Zhou stroked his beard, looked at Mrs. Hu proudly, and boasted, "Look, what is this old man talking about? Let these two children go to Lu Zigan to study scriptures, they will have a great future! See, I feel sorry for the child who endured hardships on a long journey. Back then, he cried and yelled to resist, and even scratched the old man's face. How is it now? All the classmates from back then have come to serve as county honors for us! This generation has all prospered one by one!"

Mrs. Hu gave Liu Zhou a disdainful look: "My son is promising. He knows how to make friends and find out where his classmates are going. What does it have to do with you old bastard?"

Liu Zhouyi raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry at Mrs. Hu: "Why do you talk like that, woman!"

"What do you want?" Mrs. Hu glared at him, and Liu Zhou's aura was instantly suppressed.

He coughed softly: "I don't care about you, woman! I don't know much..."

Then he looked at the two of them: "You two should dress more formally, choose thicker clothes for the cold weather, and buy more gifts. Although they are classmates, they will be our local county officials after they take office. speak!"

"Father, don't worry, I'll do it later."

Liu Jian and Liu Bei were going to pay their respects, but Hu suddenly said: "Since it is to welcome the county lord, Jian'er can go alone. Liu... Xuande is still at home to prepare for the coming-of-age ceremony, so don't go with him."

Liu Bei was startled when he heard this.

Why don't you let me go?

He looked at Liu Zhou eagerly and said, "Uncle, this?"

Liu Zhou frowned, and put on his father's airs: "The county magistrate Gongsun, Xuande and Jian'er are all classmates, and I only let Jian'er go to greet him. Isn't it impolite on Xuande's side?"

Mrs. Hu stared, "I just heard what the two of them said. Since Xuande returned to Zhuo County, he has not exchanged letters with the Gongsun County Venerable for many years. How can he care about Gongsun like Jian'er and let Xuande go to other people's house?" I will think too much! I think we are clinging!"

"But……"

"Okay, you don't think it's embarrassing, I do! That's it!"

Liu Zhou made Hu choke back his words, so he could only bow his head and not speak.

Liu Jian persuaded: "Mother, actually, I think it's better to let brother Xuande together..."

"You! Don't talk! Pack up your things quickly!"

Hu pointed at Liu Jian, interrupted him, and then secretly winked at him, the meaning he wanted to express was obvious.

Son, mother, this is all for you!

But the problem is that Hu's little gesture is not hidden at all, and everyone in the room saw her winking.

The atmosphere was awkward for a while.

Liu Zhou cursed in his heart - this unworthy woman!
……

After leaving the door, Liu Bei sighed and said to Liu Jian: "Deran, since the matter has been like this, then my brother will not accompany you. You go to meet Gongsun Bogui. Be careful along the way."

Liu Jian looked at Liu Bei's expression a little lonely, and planned in his heart: Mother doesn't like Liu Bei, everyone knows this, and it's not surprising, but what she did today just happened to let herself sell Liu Bei again.

"Brother Xuande doesn't have to be like this. Mother doesn't mean anything malicious, she just thinks a little too much."

Liu Bei smiled bitterly and said, "My aunt treats me very well on weekdays, and I have no complaints."

"Okay, as long as you don't blame your mother, let's go, let's pack up and start together!"

"what?"

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment: "But my aunt just said, let me stay at home."

"When did you become so obedient? If you are not allowed to go, will you really not go?"

"But if I let my aunt know..."

"Just say that I dragged you there, just push it on me alone."

Liu Bei is a resolute person, he thought for a moment, without any further hesitation, and immediately said, "My dear brother, I owe you another favor."

Liu Jian smiled - the more favors you owe me, the more you will repay me in the future.

(End of this chapter)