Chapter 83 Liu Ye’s decision
Lu Su’s situation was even worse than Liu Ye’s. In the eyes of the warlord, the wealthy Lu family was more like a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered.
Under this situation, how could Lu Su and Liu Ye not be angry at each other, hoping that this shackles would prevent them from getting ahead and the Han Dynasty that would display their talents would collapse?
This is also an important reason why later Lu Su went south to defect to Jiangdong, and Liu Ye went north to defect to Cao Cao, but no one chose Liu Bei.
But the long river of history has inadvertently affected a subtle tributary at this moment.
Liu Bei actually sent people to conquer Lu Su, and Lu Su also responded to the other party's conquest.
After Lu Su went to Tancheng, he wrote three or four letters to Liu Ye in succession.
In the letter, Lu Su highly praised Liu Bei's many valuable qualities, such as his courtesy and virtuous corporal, his emphasis on scholars, his knowledge of people and their ability to make good use of them, his meritocracy, his trust in employing people and many other valuable qualities. He simply wanted to brag Liu Bei to a prince. Zu Gao and Guang Wu show off.
At the same time, he also strongly suggested that Liu Ye accept Liu Bei's conquest. If he was worried, he could move his family.
Lu Su himself had already made such a plan, at least preparing to bring his grandmother and mother to Tancheng.
In addition, Lu Su also mentioned a person in his letter, that is Liu Bei's eldest son Liu Feng.
This young master was sealed in Lu Su's mouth, as if he was born to know.
If Liu Ye didn't know Lu Su too well and the two had known each other for five or six years, we would have really doubted whether the other party had been bribed by Liu Bei, and he was so touted that there was no bottom line.
"Brother Zijing really gave me a big problem."
After reading the third letter, Liu Ye couldn't help but have a headache.
Lu Su had already pledged his life to Liu Bei in his heart, believing that the world was in chaos and a time of great strife. After Liu Xuande secured Xuzhou, he would have the appearance of a true dragon.
He also analyzed it to Liu Ye, explaining that he was not optimistic about Liu Bei's entry into Xuzhou before. After Yingpi, he also tried to persuade Liu Bei to transfer to Guangling first.
Although Guangling is on the front line of Yuan Shu, it has not experienced much war, and the people are prosperous. Moreover, Lu Su feels that Liu Bei's most important enemy right now is Yuan Shu, not Yuan or Cao.
In this case, if Zhou Mu is stationed in Guangling, he can not only suppress Guangling County and block Yuan Shu's tentacles outside Xuzhou Prefecture, but he can also get support from the East China Sea and the Xiapi Kingdom. Isn't it much better than being trapped in the East China Sea?
But when he arrived in Tancheng, he was surprised to find that Liu Bei was not the puppet of Chen Deng and Mi Zhu.
On the contrary, Chen Deng supported Liu Bei very much, and Mi Zhu even contributed money and efforts. The attitude of the two of them was not like that of important ministers who had merit in supporting Liu Bei, but rather they were competing for work and flattering.
Even Cao Bao was completely different from what Lu Su thought. He actually sided with Liu Bei and recently ceded four thousand troops to Liu Bei as state soldiers.
In a moment, Liu Bei's originally precarious situation in Xuzhou was greatly reversed, and he ran all the way in a direction as stable as Mount Tai.
And here, Lu Su repeatedly praised Gongzi Feng's contribution.
This made Liu Ye couldn't help but become curious about Liu Feng and wanted to find out.
Lu Su wrote these letters very cleverly. He first introduced the situation and told Liu Ye the objective facts, and then induced curiosity and focused on describing the incredible anomalies around Liu Bei.
Smart people are very confident, this is human nature.
The more confident people are, the more curious they are because they are confident that they can see through the truth.
In this way, Liu Ye was tempted step by step by Lu Su and became curious about Liu Bei and his son.
In the end, Lu Su was moved by his feelings again, and even invited Liu Ye Yingpi as a good friend to jointly assist the Ming Lord, display their talents, and calm down the troubled times.
After reading the letter, Liu Ye knew that his heart was moved. Without him, Lu Zijing's depiction is really too tempting.
Liu Ye didn’t really want to destroy the Han family. He was a member of the Han family. If he really wanted to destroy the Han family, wouldn’t he strangle himself first?
What he hated was the Han Dynasty court that locked up his talents and prevented him from getting ahead and displaying his talents.
Historically, he thought Cao Cao would be his wise master.
It turned out that Cao Cao was not. Although he praised him as a genius in the world, he rarely really accepted his strategies.
Liu Feng felt that this was actually Cao Cao's plan to be afraid of Liu Ye, and his words must be fulfilled.
Because it can be seen from Liu Ye's resume that when he entered Cao Cao's camp and performed brilliantly for the first time, Cao Cao directly accepted it and followed his arrangements, and he really won a great victory.
Although Liu Ye was promoted many times, Cao Cao began to refuse to accept his suggestions.
The second time Liu Ye shined was in the Battle of Hanzhong, when Cao Cao was about to retreat, but Liu Ye stopped Xiahou Dun and then turned defeat into victory.
From this point on, Cao Cao never listened to any of Liu Ye's plans.
Because Liu Ye violated a taboo, he dared to interfere with Xiahou Dun's actions.
But from this point, it can also be seen that Liu Ye is actually cold on the outside and hot on the inside. He looks cold and ruthless, but in fact once he recognizes his master, he will do his best and ignore himself.
During the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Ye served as Cao Cao's chief secretary.
Cao Cao personally wants to withdraw his troops, Liu Ye will not be responsible at all, and he might be promoted to a noble rank if he goes back.
But for the sake of Cao Cao's foundation and the hope of unifying the world, Liu Ye actually took the risk and did such an outrageous thing, directly commanding Xiahou Dun. In other words, Xiahou Dun had a good temper and political acumen. If you change Yu Jin, maybe he would directly take Liu Ye Cut it off to please Cao Cao.
It was this impression of Liu Feng that made him take the initiative to ask Liu Ye in front of Lu Su and praise him greatly.
It was only then that Lu Su worked so hard to invite his younger brother to help the Ming Lord calm down the troubled times.
Liu Ye was a little moved. His problem was actually very similar to Lu Su's. The reason why he and Lu Su became close friends was because they sympathized with each other.
Since the two are in the same situation and can be close to each other, if Liu Ye defected to Liu Bei, would he be as comfortable as Lu Su is now?
The more Liu Ye thought about it, the more tempted he became. He felt like there was a worm in his heart... no, it was countless worms swarming around, making it difficult for him to sleep.
Thinking again of Yuan Shu's lack of action, it seemed that he really didn't know about Liu Bei sending people to conquer him.
At dawn, Liu Ye, who had not slept all night, made a decision to follow Huang Li to visit Liu Bei.
If what Lu Su said is true, then write back and ask his father and brother to move away for refuge. If Lu Su exaggerated, then resign and come back to continue to protect himself.
After making up his mind, Liu Ye got up early in the morning to find Liu Pu and Liu Huan and expressed his thoughts.
Liu Pu and Liu Huan were not as decisive as Liu Ye, and they still had feelings for the Han clan. It was just that Liu Ye usually had the right ideas and great principles, so they couldn't argue with each other.
Now that I saw Liu Ye's "prodigal son turning back", I was naturally overjoyed and agreed together.
(End of this chapter)