Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 25 Liu Xuande invites Lan Ziyu
Ganji came up from the shelter to greet Liu Bei, and after a few pleasantries, he took him down to watch.

Food, water, warm clothes and quilts were stored in the shelter. Liu Bei sighed: "I didn't expect there to be a cave here. I think it's okay to hide in this place for ten days and half a month."

"Brother, the most amazing thing is that the concealment on the top is very ingenious. As long as you don't check carefully, you can hardly find the clue." Zhang Fei said.

"It would have been nice if we had built this sanctuary earlier, so we wouldn't have been massacred by Cao Cao." Ganji sighed recalling the past.

"Ma'am, I think this sanctuary is cleverly conceived, who came up with it?" Liu Bei asked.

Gan Qian: "It was built by Shedi after Lu Bu lifted the siege of Ji Ling. Now almost every household in the village is copying it, so he has been very busy recently."

"It turned out to be the farming boy, brother, he is really witty." Zhang Fei said with a smile.

Liu Bei also nodded, thinking that this Lan Ziyu is not useless.

After everyone came out of the shelter, Zhang Fei found out that the shelter was extremely concealed, so he said again: "Brother, you said that this method is also very good if it is used for ambush warfare?"

"If the camouflage is good enough, it should be enough to deceive the real one, but it takes a lot of time to build such a shelter?" Liu Bei asked.

"It took about [-] days. If there were more people, I would estimate ten days." Ganji replied.

Liu Bei came to the village to pick up Gan Qian, and Gan Ji asked them to stay at home for dinner, so he asked someone to call Lan Tian back.

Gan Qian cooked a few side dishes by herself, and the four men started drinking in the small courtyard of Gan's house.

"Brother, sister-in-law's craftsmanship is really good. You are lucky. Come on, let's make three big bowls first." Zhang Fei held up the wine bowl and said boldly.

"Third brother, don't talk nonsense in front of my uncle," Liu Bei scolded, frowning.

"It's okay, General Yide is heroic by nature, I'll have a drink with you, little old man." Ganji said with a smile.

"Actually, I learned from Ziyu, and his cooking skills are several times that of mine." Gan Qian said embarrassedly.

At this time, Zhang Fei sent the wine bowl to Lan Tian, ​​and said rudely: "I can't tell, you can farm, cook, and build shelters, but drinking is not as good as my old Zhang, and you won't it?"

"Third brother, why did you get drunk before drinking?" Liu Bei reminded.

Lan Tian smiled and said, "I have a limited capacity for drinking, so I can't compete with the three generals. Besides, there is no end to learning. How can there be a perfect person in this world? I don't understand too much. For example, I am not as good as you when I get on a horse and fight."

Zhang Fei patted Lan Tian on the shoulder and said, "That's the truth. Your words are very to the point."

Although Lan Tian kept smiling during the meeting, he didn't speak too much.

Seeing that Lan Tian has a calm personality, Liu Bei decided to recruit him for Gan Qian's affection.

After the meal, Liu Bei and Lan Tian walked out of the courtyard at the same time. Liu Bei took the lead in provoking the topic and asked, "Have you finished reading "Spring and Autumn" that Yun Chang sent you?"

"Well, I've read it for a long time, but General Guan didn't dare to keep the precious scroll for long, so I asked my sister to return it," Lan Tian replied.

"Second brother thinks highly of you. I don't know if you have any insights from reading "Spring and Autumn"?" Liu Bei asked again.

Lan Tian glanced at Liu Bei and said to himself, Uncle Emperor, are you planning to test me?After pondering for a moment, he said loudly: "With copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; with people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses; with history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs."

Liu Bei was startled when he heard it, and thought that his second brother might not have the same understanding, so he tried some allusions in "Spring and Autumn" again, and Lan Tian had a good memory, so he could answer them fluently.

"Lan Ziyu, would you like to be a scribe with me?" Liu Bei personally invited Lan Tian.

Liu Bei can be regarded as someone who has seen the world. After the conversation between the two just now, he found that this person is quite eloquent, at least comparable to Jian Yong and Sun Qian.

Lan Tian looked at Liu Bei, and finally shook his head and said: "General kindness, forgive Lan Tian for not obeying orders, foster father is now staying in the countryside farming, I need to stay by my side to serve."

Liu Bei nodded and said, "You have to be filial, I don't force it, but now the world is in chaos, how can your simple shelter block all the swords in the world? In short, you should do it yourself."

After Liu Bei finished speaking, he called Zhang Fei and Gan Qian, and they bid farewell to Lan Tian and his son and walked outside the village.

Looking at the backs of the three going away, Ganji asked beside Lantian, "Did you reject Xuande just now?"

"Um"

"Why? I think Xuande is very sincere."

"Maybe I haven't figured it out yet."

"Life is short, Tian'er, don't think too long."

"I can save it."

Lan Tian is also very conflicted now. Although it is not easy to travel once, most people choose to have a vigorous one, but he really has no idea how much he has.

On leading troops in battle?In addition to watching "Wei Liaozi" and later war-themed film and television dramas, if Lan Tian copied it to a real battlefield, it would most likely be just talk on paper, right?
On governance?Lan Tian felt that he didn't have that kind of skill, especially in the Three Kingdoms period when the gentry were powerful and intertwined. A brother in Hebei like Liu Bei would have a bruised nose and a swollen face. How much trouble could he cause without any background?

At present, Lantian is most sure about farming to serve Ganji and protecting Ganqian with some small tricks. Being admitted to a graduate school proves that he has a good IQ, enough resilience, and the most important thing is a clear goal.

On the way back to Xiaopei, Liu Bei felt it was unbelievable, and thought, I, Liu Xuande, am so shameless?Can't you invite a young man even if you come out in person?At this time, he felt a little frustrated.

"Ma'am, I personally recruited Lan Ziyu to be a scribe just now, but unfortunately he refused."

"What? This guy is so rude? Brother, do you want me to tie him back?"

Zhang Fei looked at Liu Bei looking at him with a dark face, and had no choice but to swallow the words behind him.

"Second Uncle said the same before, maybe Ziyu really wants to stay and be a filial piety." Gan Qian said with her head lowered.

"Well, now I have a small territory and I don't have any good positions for him. It's a bit wronged to be a scribe with his knowledge." Liu Bei sighed.

"Husband, Ziyu once said that Xuzhou is flat, and Xiaopei is located at the junction of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Henan and Yanzhou. It is not a good place to start a business." Gan Qian continued.

Liu Bei smiled wryly and said, "Why don't I know this? It's just that there are so many heroes competing for the throne, and it's enough to have Xiaopei's shelter. How can I make my own choice?"

"It's fine if Lan Tian refuses, but it's easy to miss the big deal by talking about it on paper." Zhang Fei echoed.

"The third brother should not be underestimated. Lan Ziyu is a man of great knowledge and has a good sense of the general trend. I think he will become a great weapon sooner or later."

After returning to the city, Liu Bei told Guan Yu what Lan Tian had learned from reading "Spring and Autumn". Sincerity leads to spirit.”

Although Liu Bei nodded in agreement, he, who was in charge of Xiaopei again, was very busy with the next military training, food raising and other matters, and the requisition of Lantian was gradually forgotten.

197 AD, the second year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was destined to be an extraordinary year.

Because it was not long after the Chinese New Year, Yuan Shu in Huainan defied the public opinion and proclaimed himself emperor.

(End of this chapter)