Xuande

Chapter 124 Everything is ready, I only owe Dongfeng

Liu Bei was really just coping with these people. If he really had some ideas, he could use Yuan Shao and others as shields to engage in the Way of Peace and blast the eunuchs.

But that is meaningless. The most important thing now is to control the scale of the Taipingdao uprising, so that the subsequent chain reaction can be smaller.

In November of the sixth year of Guanghe, the temperature dropped sharply and the wind was howling. Whether it was going to court or engaging in political struggles, it was very painful.

But Liu Bei, who enjoys long-term sick leave under special circumstances, is not the case. He has a good margin and can stay at home with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie to enter the winter mode.

The family of three sleeps in the conservatory every day, and sleeps until dawn. When there is nothing to do, they read and practice calligraphy, or receive visitors. If there are no guests, they huddle in the backyard with two women and have barbecue.

Now he has fully enjoyed the freedom of barbecue and spices that he once dreamed of day and night, and the roasted meat is fragrant and tender.

This is not enough, he also needs rice, rice is the staple food, and barbecue is used as a dish, which is very delicious.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the planting area of ​​millet in northern China was the largest, and it was the staple food of the people. Wheat and rice were second-tier products and did not occupy the mainstream. It was not until the end of the Song Dynasty that the planting of wheat and rice gradually replaced millet. planting status.

But Liu Bei grew up eating rice in his previous life, and he has a deep attachment to rice. He doesn't like the crop of millet very much, and he doesn't like other staple food types that he can eat.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, rice was actually grown in Zhuo County, but the output was scarce and the price was high. From the age of seven to 15, for eight years, Liu Bei never ate even a bite of rice.

It wasn't until he was 15 years old that his street fighter foundation gradually stabilized that he ate the first bowl of rice that he thought about day and night, and he was so moved that he burst into tears.

Although rice was still a non-staple food product with high price and low output at this time, and the cost of eating a bowl was relatively high, Liu Bei still insisted on eating rice as his staple food since then.

This made my mother very puzzled, and she blamed Liu Bei for being an upstart mentality, who would drift away when he became powerful, and repeatedly reprimanded Liu Bei, telling him not to spend so much money on rice.

To save, to save money, to guard against unforeseen needs, instead of being extravagant when you have money.

Afterwards, the mother also asked Liu Bei, an uncle and a nobleman, to take the word "Xuande" for Liu Bei, which meant to advise Liu Bei to be careful in his life and work, not to make too much publicity in everything, but to know how to be restrained and low-key.

This word is also a warning from his mother to Liu Bei's high-profile behavior.

But this is really not Liu Beipiao.

It’s not easy for him to get started, he knows it well, he just misses rice too much, and eating rice is not a noble status symbol to him, it’s just a nostalgia that transcends time and space.

Even so, he gladly accepted this fateful [Xuande], even though he didn't know if Uncle Liu Huang was given this nickname by his family because he was too careless when he was young.

But the rice is really delicious, and it is even more delicious when served with barbecue.

But it seems that only Liu Bei thinks this way. Others, including Han Ning and Han Xiaodie, don't seem to be used to eating rice, so only Liu Bei eats rice in the entire Liu family.

It doesn't matter anymore, it's just a nostalgia.

He eats and eats meat again, and when he is full, he plays happy and shameful games with one wife and one concubine to entertain the world, pretending to be a pleasure.

Later, in December of the sixth year of Guanghe, Han Ning and Han Xiaodie became pregnant one after another, which further confirmed the gold content of Liu Bei's "sick leave".

Friends in the social circle came to congratulate Liu Bei one after another, and even Lu Zhi took time out of his busy schedule to congratulate Liu Bei for becoming a father, which shows that the mainstream of society is obsessed with inheriting the family.

Of course, they have reasons for being persistent, because they really have a family business that can be passed on, and they need to pass it on.

Of course Liu Bei was also happy, but he didn't devote all his energy to it.

Because Liu Hui made a big breakthrough in the news about Zhang Jiao's three brothers.

In mid-December, Liu Hui sent a secret message, saying that he had confirmed that the activities of the Zhang Jiao brothers were all in Julu County, especially Julu County.

Even the people he sent had seen Zhang Jiao twice with their own eyes.

Just as Liu Bei expected, in order to maintain his prestige, Zhang Jue had to do activities in person. Giving rice grains and strange talisman water to the believers in person was something Zhang Jiao often did, so the Julu Almost everyone in the county knows Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao is a person with the ability to save face in the local area.

There is no news about the rebellion. The only thing worth noting is that someone mentioned that around the middle of the sixth year of Guanghe, Zhang Jiao's activities suddenly became less.

During that time, he seldom showed up, and most of the activities that required heavyweights to come forward were his two younger brothers, and the locals didn't know what was going on.

However, since October of the sixth year of Guanghe, Zhang Jiao began to appear more frequently in various counties of Julu County. Landlord families have active contacts.

He has not heard the news of the rebellion yet, but in Julu County, Zhang Jiao is indeed an extremely famous existence, even if he is not a believer in the Taiping Dao, he is full of affection or admiration for Zhang Jiao.

This is certainly not good, but from another perspective, Zhang Jiao's defensive mentality in the county must be extremely low.

While Zhang Jiao was running Taiping Road, he was also a local tyrant with a lot of money and a lot of income. His family had a large manor and a lot of land. Many people cultivated the land for him and provided him with a huge amount of money.

These family savings were the earliest support for him to start a business.

Zhang Jiao usually lives in his own manor, and when he has activities, he will go to various places. If he travels far away, he will be followed by many guards. If he is only active in the local area, he will dress lightly and do not have a lot of ostentation. It seems that he is doing it deliberately Create a friendly image.

Isn't this great news?

Liu Hui himself also pointed out that Zhang Jiao's lack of attention to his own safety gave him an opportunity to carry out the assassination plan. He planned to find a good opportunity for Zhang Jiao to go out and send Liu's dead men to assassinate Zhang Jiao and his brothers at close range. .

Liu Bei is full of expectations for this, but apart from expectations, he can't provide Liu Hui with any more direct help. The team of more than 30 dead soldiers is the biggest capital he can offer.

Being able to rely on this capital to leverage this heavy history mainly depends on whether the fulcrum is selected correctly.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

In fact, for Zhang Jiao, everything is ready and only owes Dongfeng the eight words, because all the preparatory work for his rebellion has entered the final stage-arranging a time and notifying all teams across the country.

(End of this chapter)