Xuande

Chapter 149 Killer, pay for life!

Liu Bei decided to accept Dong Juan, but he didn't feel that Dong Zhuo was burying nails in him.

There's no need for that, it's purely Dong Zhuo's way to please himself.

In Lu Zhi's view, this is a normal move by the classic inheritance family to build a power network, and it is Liu Bei's plan for a rainy day.

Dong Zhuo is now the prefect of Hedong County. He has political capital of two thousand shi and military talent, which is valued by the Yuan family. He has a promising future.

The cooperation between the two parties must be beneficial to Liu Bei.

"Sooner or later, the Liu family in Zhuo County, Zhuo County will make a fortune. At this time, making more reserves will be beneficial to the future establishment of the family. Forging a good relationship is of great significance to a new family. If something like this happens in the future, Xuande can Use your discretion."

Lu Zhi smiled and patted Liu Bei's shoulder: "You will have to walk the road of the future by yourself after all. You are no longer young to be a teacher. In the future, you will need to walk hand in hand with Lu Shi."

"The kindness and teaching of the teacher will never be forgotten by the disciples in their lifetime."

Liu Bei gave a clear statement.

As a result, in Liu Bei's circle, suddenly there was a Liangzhou native.

When Liu Bei held a pre-war meeting early the next morning, he announced that Dong Juan would bring a hundred Longyou iron cavalry to join his personal guards to protect his own safety. This spirited young man who joined suddenly aroused everyone's curiosity and scrutiny.

However, there is no obvious exclusion or the like, Liu Bei's small circle has just been established, there are not many members, and there is no clear boundary between them.

If you really want to talk about geographical differences or something, it's not always true, because everyone comes from different places from all over the world.

For example, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, as well as Liu Yong and Liu Sheng, members of the Liu clan, are all from Zhuojun, Youzhou.

Guan Yu was from Hedong County.

Qianzhao and Zhen Yan are from Jizhou, one is from Anping State, and the other is from Zhongshan State. Xiahou Dun and Xiahouyuan are also from Peiguo, Yuzhou.

Among the descendants of the six families Zhao, Li, Wang, Zheng, Yin, and Han, Zhao and Li are from Yin in Henan, Wang and Zheng are from Hedong County, and Yin and Han are from Henan. He is from Hanoi County.

Now that there is an extra person from Longxi County, Liangzhou, it doesn't seem so strange.

This small group can be regarded as a hodgepodge of different regions, without a distinct regional color, and Liu Bei never mentioned the differences between regions.

As long as you agree with Liu Bei, him as a person and his supreme leadership position, you can talk about everything else. We don’t engage in regional discrimination, we don’t use map guns, and we pay attention to the fact that everyone in the world is brothers.

So Dong Juan's joining was under the scrutiny of everyone, but there were not too many disturbances, and this matter just passed away.

As the vanguard of the army, Liu Bei led the army to set off about three days before the main force of the army, and walked in the forefront to open the way for the army. The route of the army was generally along the Zhangshui River to the northeast, passing through Lieren County and Chuzhang County, and then heading north to arrive. Julu County, where the Yellow Turban Army was launched.

Lieren County has not been attacked by the Yellow Turban Army for the time being. Chang Zun, the county magistrate of Lieren County, saw the arrival of the vanguard of the Han army and hurried to greet him. After asking about the situation, he looked at Liu Bei with happiness and worry.

"It's a pity that our county is not rich, and we don't have much property to reward the army, and the residents in the city are poor, poorly clothed, and hungry, so..."

Liu Bei was suddenly depressed.

"It is our duty to march and fight against the enemy. We don't need property, and our army only passes by and never enters the city."

Chang Zun was taken aback.

"Is it true that you don't want property and don't enter the city?"

"If you really don't want property, you won't enter the city."

Chang Zun immediately became happy.

"Worthy of being a great Confucian disciple! Liu Jun is really noble! It is really a blessing for the country and a blessing for the world to have Liu Jun in a big man. My admiration for Liu Jun is really..."

I didn't see it, this guy is still a talker.

But if you really want to say it, auspicious words don't cost money, just say it.

Liu Bei didn't have much time to greet him, so he told Chang Zun that there was still an army behind, and that Lieren County would be used as a food transshipment place for the army, and asked him to mobilize the residents in the city to make some preparations.

This is easy to handle, for him, as long as these heavily armed soldiers don't enter the city, don't steal money, and don't cast a shadow over his official career, everything will be easy to handle.

Liu Bei didn't stop much, he gave the army a meal, went to the bathroom to rest, and announced that he would continue to march.

On the way to march, Dong Juan, who was rather carefree in character, came over and boldly asked Liu Bei questions.

"Sima, when marching and fighting, asking soldiers for two coins is the best way to boost morale. Without money in hand, soldiers' morale cannot be boosted. , how can we win this battle?"

Liu Bei glanced at Dong Huang, and knew that what he said was probably the basic method of marching and fighting of Liangzhou soldiers, or in other words, it was also the way of marching and fighting of any "strong army" in this era.

Give money, give a lot of money, give as much money as possible, and give it to the point where the soldiers themselves feel embarrassed.

Even when marching and fighting these years, it is impossible to expect the big soldiers to have any awareness of defending the country for the people and defending the country.

Under the political situation where the county is the country, soldiers who are not from the same county will not regard you as their own, and they can do whatever they want when they leave their county, burning, killing, looting and doing everything without any psychological burden.

What's more, when the Luoyang court was short of finances, when it sent troops to conquer local rebellions, it didn't pay the recruited troops, and directly acquiesced that they could burn, kill and loot as much as they wanted after victory, without sealing their swords for three to five days. , instead of military pay.

Behavior can be said to be very bad.

After years and years, the soldiers with knives are evil ghosts in the eyes of ordinary people. Even the local officials have a headache when they see it. , The kind that needs to be recorded in the history books.

The reasons for this kind of problem are very complicated, and there are many. Small fights can't solve it, and it's useless to patch up and shout slogans. When the conditions are not sufficient, Liu Bei didn't think about how to change it.

He just made an agreement with his subordinates before setting off that he would give enough money and spoils, and never let them suffer, and never let you lose money for his life, with the reputation of my great Confucian disciple Liu Xuande as a guarantee.

If you break your promise, you will be struck by lightning.

Then, I have only one request.

When I forbid you to kill, none of you are allowed to kill.

The murderer shall pay with his life!

Liu Bei also told Dong Huang about this agreement.

(End of this chapter)