Chapter 92 The self-righteous Cao Hong (Second update, first order please! 26)
Liu Feng naturally had a very uneasy sleep that night. Not to mention anything else, the smell of bare feet and sweat was just... It was enough to make Liu Feng feel better.
However, he finally survived. You must know that Liu Feng also trained with him during the day, and his hard work was no less than that of other soldiers.
At night, he was really tired. In the second half of the night, he felt sleepy and tired. Even though the stench still kept getting into his nose, he fell asleep without caring.
After dawn, he quickly got up again.
This time, Liu Feng did not do anything like patrolling the camp in the middle of the night and covering the soldiers with clothes and quilts.
Because the image does not match.
Liu Feng himself is still a teenager, and running to do this kind of thing will only get twice the result with half the effort, and the effect is far less good than what Big Ear Brother can do at his age.
Moreover, what he wants is for the soldiers to obey orders and prohibitions, and to be united as one. What he values is organization. It is best to let the lower-level officers take the initiative to take care of the lower-level soldiers, which is also conducive to the integration of officers and soldiers.
Originally, Liu Feng planned to spend this period of time in the military camp first, interacting with the soldiers day and night, to deepen his impression, favor, and increase his authority.
But who would have expected that after just one day, something would come to him.
At noon on the second day, Liu Feng, who was training with him, was just about to have lunch when he found that Liu Fa actually came over.
What he reported was very important and was a follow-up to what Han Xun had done before.
Han Xun proposed to Liu Bei more than ten days ago to send an envoy to Chang'an to meet him.
After Liu Feng learned about it, he felt that this person's proposal was ulterior motives, and urged Liu Bei to implement a delaying strategy, and then sent people to secretly monitor Han Xun, hoping to find out who was behind him.
Han Xun's previous performance was extremely mediocre and he had no special talents. It is really strange that he suddenly thought of such a plan.
Therefore, Liu Bei also obediently agreed to Liu Feng's request and sent special personnel to monitor him.
In the past half month, Han Xun has only gone home, and has not even visited relatives and friends, which makes him a little weird.
Naturally, Liu Bei has never been able to catch the opponent's tail, so he put a bait over.
Finally, last night, after waiting for a long time and finally receiving the news of Liu Bei's rejection, Han Xun could no longer sit still. After dark, he quietly went out and went to the mastermind behind the scenes.
After getting the news, Liu Bei asked Liu Feng to return to his house to discuss.
After Liu Feng got the news, he naturally did not dare to neglect and hurried to the state capital.
When he arrived at the state capital, he saw a rather majestic strong man with a Chinese character and a short beard guarding the door.
After seeing Liu Feng, he immediately greeted him.
"I am here to wait for the young master as ordered by the envoy."
"Oh?"
Liu Feng was surprised when he heard that the other party was Chen Dao. Although his face remained expressionless, he couldn't help but look at the other party a few more times.
In some ways, Chen Dao is really similar to Zhao Yun. The two of them are equally low-key and equally loyal, but Chen Dao is more low-key and more obedient to Liu Bei's orders and will not make arbitrary decisions. .
When encountering problems, Zhao Yun would make mistakes and remonstrate directly, and would even worry about Liu Bei making mistakes and remonstrate in advance. This is actually quite nonsense.
Historically, Zhao Yun once advised Liu Bei not to kill prisoners. This is not to say that Zhao Yun’s advice was wrong, but that the timing was very wrong.
Because Liu Bei had no intention of killing prisoners at all at that time, and Liu Bei had never killed prisoners several times in his life.
In this case, Zhao Yun's persuasion in public was like putting Liu Bei on the stove to barbecue, leaving Liu Bei confused.
When did I say I was going to kill prisoners? What do you mean by persuading me?
Even because of this sentence, the prisoners almost rioted.
We are going to kill prisoners, why don’t we riot and wait to die?
But in the end, Liu Bei just explained nicely. I didn't want to kill the prisoners. Zilong, you are right, but don't say it next time.
From the beginning to the end, Liu Bei did not blame Zhao Yun. His magnanimity was truly that of a master.
Just looking at Zhao Yun's personality from this incident determines that Zhao Yun should thank Liu Bei.
Many people feel that Liu Bei restricted the growth of Zhao Yun's talents and only allowed him to be a security captain.
But with Zhao Yun's character, it is fortunate that he followed Liu Bei, otherwise both Cao Cao and Sun Quan would have died a long time ago.
With Cao Cao and Sun Quan being so suspicious, are you making excuses for me?
What do you want to do?
Do you want to use my reputation to make a name for yourself, or do you have a deeper conspiracy?
No contrast, no harm.
No contrast, no happiness.
In comparison, Chen Dao is much more low-key. He is more like the kind of loyal and obedient person who obeys Liu Bei's orders in everything. As long as Liu Bei does not issue any orders that are outrageous and resentful, he will not have any objection.
Chen personally does not have many personal thoughts. He is simply loyal to Liu Bei.
Liu Feng followed Chen Dao to the mansion.
Along the way, Chen Dao quietly introduced the situation to Liu Feng. It turned out that the long history officer Cao Hong had come to the state capital and was meeting with Liu Bei inside.
Liu Bei was afraid that Liu Feng would not know the specific situation, so he asked him to wait at the door. In addition, Liu Bei also left some words for him, which were recorded on a silk book.
As Liu Feng walked, he read and kept the contents of the silk book in mind.
My father is not incapable of any strategy, but now he is very good at knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger.
Liu Feng walked all the way inward and finally saw Cao Hong in the main hall.
Cao Hong actually looks very ordinary. He does not have the grace and elegance of a celebrity, nor the sharp mouth and monkey cheeks of a traitorous official. He is just an ordinary person.
If there are any strengths, then Cao Hong gives people a somewhat honest and trustworthy feeling when he smiles, and he is good at pleasing his master, which can be regarded as his talent.
After taking off his shoes and going to the hall, Liu Feng walked up to Liu Bei and paid homage: "My son, Liu Feng, pay homage to my father."
"Oh, it's Feng'er."
On Liu Bei's face Showing doubts: "Why are you here? Why don't you serve your grandmother and mother in the backyard?"
Liu Feng replied respectfully: "My child has something to report to his father."
“Let’s meet Chang Shi first.”
Liu Beiyao pointed at Cao Hong and said: "This is Cao Hong, the governor of Xu, who was the confidant of the first envoy Tao Gong. In the past, he was always around at any time and could not leave for a moment."
When Liu Feng heard this, he said, Hurry to see the gift.
Cao Hong pretended to straighten up, as if he didn't dare to be polite, and he didn't even bother to hide the contempt in his eyes.
After a hasty meeting with Liu Feng, Cao Hong did not continue chatting with him, but turned to Liu Bei and said: "Your Majesty, Han Xun is the former envoy of your old friend, who has followed Tao Gong for more than ten years and came to Xuzhou. It has been several years since he took office. "
"Han Xun worked hard and worked hard without complaint. Although he did not say how brilliant he was, he did his duty very well. "
"It's just that these days, he often feels that he is not able to do what he wants. He has tried to give you advice and suggestions, but they have been useless, and he has thought about giving up."
"He and I are from the same hometown, Han Jun's talent, I also knew it, so after some persuasion, I temporarily put his mind at ease."
When Cao Hong said this, he coughed twice: "It is really rude to come to see the envoy despite being sick today. . Just for the sake of the prefecture and the envoy, Hong can only do this."
"Hong dared to ask the envoy, Han Xun's suggestion was a good one, and I don't know what's wrong with it. ? Why can't you decide? Hongshen is afraid of hurting the respect of the people of Xuzhou."
"I just ask you to forgive Hong's presumptuous behavior."
After saying that, Cao Hong coughed dryly, apparently pretending to be sick.
Both Liu Bei and Liu Feng could see it, but they couldn't expose him. It can be said that he is a shameless man and invincible in the world.
Liu Bei and his son were not angry at all. In their eyes, Cao Hong was no different from a dead person.
If Liu Bei was still worried about the Danyang faction before and just wanted to depose Cao Hong and drive him away, now he has changed his mind and wants to use Cao Hong's head to prove his authority in Xuzhou.
"How can Bei blame you for Guangyi's whole-hearted move? However, Guangyi may not be clear yet. Bei has declined Han Xun's plan."
Cao Hong's courtesy name was Guangyi. To show his closeness, Liu Bei did not address Cao Hong by his official title, but by his given name. At the same time, Liu Bei also motioned to Liu Feng to appease Cao Hong.
Liu Feng obeyed the order, walked behind Cao Hong, gently stroked his back, and once again urged the maid to serve tea.
Cao Hong actually sat there like this, enjoying the service of Master Zhou Mu, without any fear or anxiety. He was really domineering in the extreme.
Logically speaking, Cao Hong should keep a low profile at this time.
At this time, Tao Qian was dead, Cao Bao had already faintly fallen towards Liu Bei, and Xu Dan also kept a certain distance from him. No matter how you look at it, this is a situation where the building is about to collapse.
But Cao Hong couldn't see clearly. He always felt that Cao Bao was just a delaying tactic, and there was no way he really wanted to fall to Liu Bei.
Because in Cao Hong's view, Liu Bei simply could not come up with conditions to win over Cao Bao, let alone achieve political mutual trust between Cao Bao and him.
The distance between Xu Dan and him was completely invisible. In Cao Hong's opinion, it was because he was pretending to be sick that it was inconvenient for Xu Dan to come to the house.
Cao Hong’s biggest trump card is the Danyang faction of civil servants. Almost all Danyang faction civil servants are headed by Cao Hong.
After all, the Danyang soldiers still had a lot of power over Cao Bao, but there was no second Cao Hong among the Danyang civil servants, and everyone looked to him as the leader.
Although Cao Hong was only a long history officer, he felt that as long as he gave an order, he could paralyze the Xuzhou capital. Then Liu Bei had no time to win over him, so how could he dare to deal with him?
Aren’t you afraid that the entire state capital will be in turmoil and state affairs will be paralyzed?
Sometimes, smart people can't see clearly in the game. What's even more terrifying is that fools like Cao Hong, coupled with self-deception, will really die without knowing it.
"Guangyi, you don't know something. It's not that I don't want to see the emperor, but it's because the road is not smooth and the communication is blocked."
Liu Bei sighed bitterly and said: "Since Dong Zhuo brought chaos to the imperial court and caused great chaos in the world, attacks in various places have become increasingly intensified. At present, Cao and Lu are fighting in Yanzhou, and Yuan Shu and Guo Gong are fighting fiercely in Yuzhou. There is no way to go west."
"Besides, the journey is so dangerous, I am going to ask Chen Gongcao and Mi Biejia privately. Even though Chen Yuanlong is so heroic and Mi Zizhong is so rich, they have no confidence that they can enter Chang'an westward."
"In a broad sense. Are there any talents to recommend?"
Liu Bei looked at Cao Hong eagerly: "If Guangyi is willing to recommend himself, or Han Xun is willing to go to Chang'an, I should agree immediately."
< br>“No!”
The maid had just brought the tea, and Cao Hong was about to take a sip, but Liu Bei almost choked.
"Your Majesty, it is a major event to have an audience with the imperial court. You should take the lead as the leader and govern the country as the assistant. Only in this way can you show the loyalty of the state. If you only attend the audience by yourself, it will not only be unreasonable, but also contempt for the imperial court. The suspicion may arouse the anger of the imperial court. "
Cao Hong's reason is indeed right, but Liu Bei also has a way to deal with it.
Liu Bei had a good-natured look on his face: "This matter is easy to handle, but there is still a vacancy in the position of ruler. I sent people to conquer Zhang Zhao and Zhang Zibu twice, but they never got the response. In this case, Bei can move Han Xun led the delegation to visit Chang'an in order to govern Zhong. "
Cao Hong was dumbfounded and muttered for a long time before he finally said: "Han Xun has no merit, how can he just move to Zhong'an?"< br>
Liu Bei immediately changed his words: "In that case, is it okay to move to Guangyi as Zhizhong, Han Xun as Changshi, use Guangyi as envoy, and Han Xun as deputy envoy to go to Chang'an?"
Cao Hong asked Liu Bei to block it. He was furious, his face was red from holding back, and he suppressed his anger and said: "If you don't listen to your advice, Na Hong has nothing to do. In this case, you might as well release Han Xun, or leave it to a large county. To calm his mind."
Cao Hong thought he was giving in, but he didn't expect Liu Bei to press forward step by step: "What is the truth of what Chang Shi said? Bei has clearly followed the plan of Chang Shi and Han Xun. Shi and Han Xun were envoys of good and bad, and when they went to Chang'an, how did they become disobedient?"
Cao Hong became so angry that he stood up and said loudly: "Are you humiliating me? ?”
“In that case, Hong please resign!”
After Cao Hong finished speaking loudly, he flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.
Liu Feng was stunned. Is this Cao Hong so arrogant?
No wonder Liu Bei couldn't stay in Tancheng in history, so he had to move his headquarters from Tancheng to Xiapi.
If you think about it carefully, Liu Bei is really in trouble.
After taking over Xuzhou, the state treasury, county treasury and county treasury in Tancheng County were almost all empty. Not to mention there was no money or food, and there were still 20,000 Danyang soldiers to feed. Danyang people They also united around Cao Hong, Cao Bao and Xu Dan to be hostile to Liu Bei.
To the west is a white land, and beyond that is Cao Cao's territory.
To the east is the Mi family's territory, and beyond that is the sea.
To the south is the territory of the Chen family, and beyond that is Yuan Shu.
Less than thirty miles to the north is Zang Ba’s territory.
If an elite attack starts from Jiqiu County, even infantry can appear outside Tancheng County in just one day and one night.
If it is cavalry, it only takes half a day.
Liu Bei really had to open half of his eyes even to sleep in Tancheng. If it were Liu Feng, if there was no way to break the situation, he would rather let Chen Yuanlong control state affairs than continue to stay in Tancheng. .
Historically, after Liu Bei moved to Xiapi, Tancheng was abandoned to Zang Ba's ally Chang Xi.
In the future, Chang Xi was personally appointed as the governor of Donghai County, which was equivalent to handing over Donghai County to Chang Xi legally and legally.
For this reason, Chang Xi became close to Liu Bei in the future. Liu Bei went back to Xuzhou several times to cause trouble to harass Cao Cao, and Chang Xi also contributed a lot, which was very righteous.
Now that Liu Feng thought about it, he felt that his father had offended Zang Ba to death because of this incident.
Zang Ba is now only a 2,000-stone cavalry captain. He has not even become a prefect of Langya County. You changed hands and raised his younger brother to become a 2,000-stone prefect. You let Zang Ba How do I miss you?
Even if you really don’t have the intention to divide the Taishan bandits, Zang Ba has to assume that you do.
Liu Feng saw Cao Hong walking away, walked to Liu Bei, and whispered: "Father, this guy is in a hurry."
Liu Bei smiled and nodded, seeming to wave his sleeves to Cao Hong. And I'm not angry at all.
On the contrary, he had the pleasure of letting out a fit of anger today. Cao Hong used to hold a high position in Xuzhou thanks to Tao Qian's favor and was used to being domineering, so he never respected Liu Bei very much.
Liu Bei stayed in Xuzhou at that time, and was appointed as the governor of Yuzhou by Tao Qian. When he was placed in Xiaopei County, Pei State, Yuzhou, Cao Hong slandered him in various ways, which made Liu Bei itchy with anger.
Since Liu Bei took over as the governor of the state, Cao Hong has refused to go to court claiming to be ill.
In order to stabilize the situation, Liu Bei would not rashly remove the other party from his official position, and both sides were at peace.
Unexpectedly, Cao Hong is still evil-minded and wants to cause trouble.
Then Liu Bei can eradicate it completely, once and for all.
Liu Bei slowly took a sip of tea: "What do Feng'er think?"
Liu Feng also sat back and replied: "I guess there is someone behind Cao Hong."
"Then who do you think it is?"
Liu Bei also had his own guess, but he still wanted to hear Liu Feng's opinion.
Liu Feng's attitude was very firm and he said categorically: "It must be Cao Yanzhou!"
"Oh? Why?"
Liu Bei was guessing that it was Cao Cao, so he wanted to hear from Liu Feng even more idea.
Liu Feng snorted coldly and said: "Cao Guangyi first asked Han Xunjin to offer this plan, but his father declined it. Today he came here to mention it again. After all, it is probably his intention. After all, if my father listened to it, Their suggestion is to send others to the west. "
"The west is Cao Yanzhou's territory. If you say that this matter has nothing to do with him, I won't believe it."
Liu Feng sneered: "Even if Cao Yanzhou didn't plan it himself, he has nothing to do with it. In my opinion, Cao Yanzhou must be having a hard time. The food supply is probably going to be low, and he wants to make up for it from us. "
Liu Bei nodded in agreement: "My father thinks so too. If Zizhong falls into Meng De's hands, my father will definitely be beaten to death. Without money and property, the Mi family has a great business. Can my father still prevent others from redeeming the head of the family? Not to mention that this matter was arranged by his father, and Zi Zhong fell into the hands of his father because of his fault. "< br>
“It’s just shameful that even when Cao Mengde’s backyard was on fire, he didn’t forget to stir up trouble in our state. He really is not a son of man.”
Liu Bei cursed bitterly. He and Cao Mengde also knew each other. Over the years, we have become good friends in Luoyang Jingzhong, and we used to race horses, chase horses, and fly eagles with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others. At that time, everyone was still young, and now it has been more than ten years.
Liu Bei actually had a deeper relationship with Cao Cao. When Cao Cao first raised troops to attack Dong Zhuo, Liu Bei even followed Cao Cao to his hometown to recruit troops together.
If it weren't for these connections, how could Liu Bei be worthy enough to write to Cao Cao, whose father was dead, to persuade him to make peace?
Even if Liu Bei wrote a letter shamelessly, would Cao Cao read a letter written by a bumpkin who doesn’t know where it came from?
Readers, here I am again, the next update will be at 5pm!
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