Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 334 Shu Han (V)
Three months later
Winter:

Winter is a hurdle. Many elderly people can't make it through and die in winter.

For example... Xuzhou Mu Taoqian.

Late night
Tancheng
"Cough cough~"

Tao Qian kept coughing in the house. He is now 63 years old and feels like he is going to die.

"Man!" His newly adopted 16-year-old concubine hurriedly got dressed and got off the bed, helped Tao Qian up, and stroked her back.

"Go, go and call Mi Zhu here." Tao Qian was worried that he would not be able to make it through, so he asked the concubine to call Mi Zhu here quickly.

The concubine hurriedly ordered a servant to call Mi Zhu, but she still returned to the house to take care of Tao Qian.

"Your Majesty!"

After a long time, Mi Zhu came to the house, but found that Tao Qian was dead, he was still a step late.

"The male gentleman was worried that you would be too late, so I wrote some words on this piece of paper just now." Tao Qian's concubine said respectfully to Mi Zhu
Mi Zhu picked up the piece of paper, but it was written on it: "Unless Liu Bei cannot secure Xuzhou, let Liu Bei assist my child, Xuzhou can be protected."

Seeing this piece of paper, Mi Zhu first showed it to the concubine and asked, "What is written on it?"

"I can't read..." Although this concubine is beautiful, she is just a commoner woman, and she can't read.

"Yeah." Mi Zhu nodded reassuringly, and then pretended to cry out tears. After leaving the room, Mi Zhu took out another blank paper, imitating Tao Qian's handwriting, and copied the words "Unless Liu Bei can't secure Xuzhou".

The handwriting of this sentence on the two pieces of paper is exactly the same, and no one else can see the clue.

Neither the Mi family nor the Chen family liked Tao Qian very much. The main reason was that Tao Qian always asked the wealthy businessmen and nobles in Xuzhou to donate money for military expenses, which made them very upset.

You Tao Qian cut our leeks, and you still want your two useless sons to continue to cut our leeks?Think beautifully!
At the most critical moment, Tao Qian's most trusted person chose to betray Tao Qian.

In fact, from the moment Liu Bei entered Xuzhou, Tao Qian had already lost.

The gentry in Xuzhou fell in love with Liu Bei, and they waited for Tao Qian to make Liu Bei the new master of Xuzhou. If Tao Qian refused to be decent, then the Xuzhou gentry would always find a way to make Tao Qian decent.

On the second day, when Mi Zhu announced Tao Qian's last words to support Liu Bei as the new governor of Xuzhou, some people were pleasantly surprised and some were angry, but most of them didn't care.

Chen Gui, Chen Deng and his son were very happy. They had been waiting for this day for a long time. Since Liu Bei came to Xuzhou, the relationship between the Chen family and his son and Liu Bei had increased rapidly. It was only a matter of arranging a Hongmen banquet to make Tao Qian look good in advance.

But Cao Bao was very angry. Cao Bao was the commander of [-] Danyang soldiers. The military expenses of the Danyang soldiers were all given by Tao Qian, and Tao Qian's military expenses were all collected from Xuzhou gentry and common people.

Now that Liu Bei is supported by the Chen family and the Mi family as the Xuzhou herdsman, who will guarantee the prosperous life of the Danyang soldiers in the future?

Liu Bei?How can it be!Liu Bei himself was supported by the Xuzhou gentry, how could he help their Danyang soldiers!
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are grievances, resentments, intrigues, intrigues, intrigues, and conflicts of interest. This is an unchanging truth since ancient times.

A small Xuzhou is fighting like this, Cao Cao's forces and Yuan Shao's forces, etc., their internal fighting is even more serious.

It has been more than 100 years that the Wang family has not produced even a famous minister or general, but they are able to stand tall. This is because, although there are internal struggles in the Wang family, the scale is relatively small and everyone is more restrained.

Not being able to produce talents is the disadvantage of the Wang family, and the small scale of infighting is the advantage of the Wang family.

After all, for the development of a family or power, if the scale of infighting is too large, the more talents there are, the worse it will be.

It is better to not produce talents, but also to restrain internal fighting.

Ten ordinary people who are united are better than ten Jiang Ziya who are not united. This is the family philosophy that the Wang family believes in.

Looking at other noble families in the Central Plains, they will produce a celebrity almost every generation, and a famous minister every two or three generations.

However, the Wang family only produces one famous person in decades, and only one famous official in hundreds of years. The probability of producing talents is far lower than other families, but the actual development is far stronger than other families. This is the result of unity.

In terms of talent, no one in the Wang family can compare to Chen Deng, not to mention Chen Deng, even Xu You is considered a top talent in the Wang family.

But no matter the Chen family or the Yuan family, after a hundred years of development, there will be internal struggles and divisions. If a century of hard work is wasted, development will be in vain, and talents will be in vain.

After all, the Chen family in Yingchuan and the Chen family in Xuzhou were still one family a hundred years ago, but now they have split into two families, each of which is independent, and the strength they have worked so hard to develop is in vain.

However, Liu Bei, who was attacking Cao Cao's city on the front line, obviously didn't care about these internal struggles in Xuzhou. He had been under the fence for so long.

Now that he finally has the opportunity to own his own territory, who can resist such a temptation?
"Xuzhou is not a land of kings and hegemony. It cannot be used as a foundation. If it takes over Xuzhou, it will definitely become a lost dog." Chen Qun of the Chen family in Yingchuan has a little friendship with Liu Bei, only a little, but it depends on this little friendship For the sake of Liu Bei, Chen Qun kindly persuaded Liu Bei not to take control of Xuzhou, because Xuzhou had internal and external troubles, serious internal fighting, and strong external enemies, so it was impossible to gain a long-term foothold.

"It's not bad to have Xuzhou, a site of internal and external troubles. Do I, Liu Bei, still have to choose?"

"I also want a rich place like Jizhou, I also want a land of abundance like Yizhou, and I also want a well-connected place like Jingzhou, but the question is, am I worthy?"

"A beggar was lucky enough to get a piece of cake that was stained with mud. At this time, a wise man persuaded the beggar: This cake has mud, why are you so stupid, how can you eat this kind of dirty cake, you will die. That The beggar replied: Do I still have a choice? It’s good to have bread to eat, it doesn’t matter if it’s dirty or not, it’s dead or not!”

"Besides, how do you know if you succeed or fail if you haven't tried it? What if it succeeds?"

"Man, you don't even have the courage to try, that's the most shameful thing!"

Regarding Chen Qun's persuasion, Liu Bei also refuted with reason and evidence.

Although you, Chen Qun, are a celebrity and a wise man, and although your persuasion by Chen Qun is very reasonable, I, Liu Bei, want to take office in Xuzhou!

"I took office in Xuzhou not because Xuzhou was good, but because I had no choice. Besides Xuzhou, where else could I take office?"

Liu Bei also knew Xuzhou's internal and external troubles, and some people advised him not to go to Xuzhou, but he resolutely took Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Jian Yong back to Tancheng to take up the post of Xuzhou Mu.

(Actually, Chen Qun’s persuasion was a little bit contemptuous of Liu Bei, and he felt that Liu Bei’s ability would definitely not be able to solve Xuzhou’s internal and external troubles.)
(Liu Bei has not yet taken office in Xuzhou, so you say that Liu Bei will definitely become a dog of bereavement after he takes office in Xuzhou. Although he did become a dog of bereavement later, this persuasion has indeed predicted success.)
Although the Yingchuan Chen family looked down on Liu Bei, the Xuzhou Chen family who came from the same line as the Yingchuan Chen family welcomed Liu Bei very much. Chen Gui and Chen Deng took the initiative to pave the way for Liu Bei to take office in Xuzhou.

(End of this chapter)