I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 17 I dare to bet, no one dares to bet

"Is it possible to have a day and night? It is also possible to have a day and night!"

Gongsun Zan's expression twitched: "Is it up to you, Junior Brother Liu, to say that the imperial court of the great man is up to you? It's also a matter of your words to confer the title of marquis and general?"

Facing Gongsun Zan's doubts, Liu Jian only responded indifferently.

I am not in charge of the court of the Great Han Dynasty, but I know the direction of this world much better than you.

"Senior brother, don't be so surprised. It is impossible for me to make you a general and a marquis, but I have already seen a merit at this time."

"If there is no accident, this achievement will make the participants famous and prestige throughout the Northland. It is not empty talk for a person like you to lead an army alone in the future and make great achievements. , Clear away the ambition of border troubles, and you can push the boat along the way."

Gongsun Zan's expression became a little distorted - not anger, but a combination of surprise and excitement.

He stared at Liu Jian in front of him, trying to find some clues from his face.

Liu Jian has lived for decades, other things are average, but his ability to conceal his inner thoughts is still excellent.

He looked at Gongsun calmly, trying his best to control his facial expression, so as not to let the other party catch any clues.

Gongsun Zan stared at Liu Jian for a while, but he still couldn't see anything.

Not to mention anything else, just talk about strength of character, I definitely have this little junior brother, and it was like this when I was in Gou's Mountain.

From the beginning of the conversation between the two of them, this kid showed no sign of cowardice towards him, and his strength and ambition alone are worthy of praise.

In fact, Gongsun Zan didn't know that Liu Jian had grasped his own personality traits as early as in Goushi Mountain.

Liu Jian has known for a long time that Gongsun Zan, as a concubine of a rich family, had a special situation since he was a child. His low self-esteem in his childhood made him arrogant and extreme today. Because it will make him subconsciously think of himself.

On the contrary, those who flatter and subdue him because of his current status will actually make him look down on him even more.

This is a typical psychologically unsound personality, and getting along with such a person requires a lot of method.

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"Okay, let me listen to the great achievements you said. If it is true, Zan will have nothing to say, and you will come to the door to apologize, but if you are light-hearted and reticent, what should you do?"

"Don't worry, I will give my brother an explanation!"

"Okay, one word is urgent, four horses can't reach it, you and I high-five!"

After finishing speaking, Gongsun Zan stretched out his broad palm.

Without hesitation, Liu Jian stretched out his hand to "slap" Gongsun Zan, hitting three palms in succession to make an oath.

Gongsun Zan praised secretly in his heart, let alone whether he was bragging, but this courage is really admirable.

After putting down his palm, Gongsun Zan looked at Liu Jian squarely and said, "You said that I have made great achievements, but what kind of achievements are you?"

"The three tribes of Xianbei, if there is no accident, there will be great changes within a few months! At this time, it is the time when the man will overcome the border troubles and make great achievements. If he can seize this opportunity, he will be named a marquis and worship the general. "

Gongsun Zan was taken aback when he heard this, and then couldn't help laughing.

That laughter was heard in Liu Jian's ears, so it was naturally not funny, and he could still hear the disdain in that laughter.

Gongsun Zan's character is really annoying, he's a little reserved and doesn't understand anything.

Liu Jian naturally stood on the spot, with a relaxed and fearless face, without any shyness, and never backed down.

To put it bluntly, in fact, this guess about himself in his heart is somewhat uncertain, it is only based on his analysis based on what he knew in his previous life and what he observed in this life, but he can't say whether it is accurate or not.

Because he didn't know what to do, Liu Jian never said anything about it, until today he bet against Gongsun Zan.

It's not that Liu Jian was impulsive, it's just that he has also been infected by the behavior of the Han people in the past ten years of life.

He is a thoughtful person. He thinks that he can't be upright and selfless, but he also wants to live a frank and open life, keep his heart and nature, do things that are upright, and be a gentleman.

But being blocked at the toilet door to preach, what is the so-called gentleman's prestige?

What's more, it might be time to give it a go, after all, this matter is also a golden opportunity that is rarely seen in ten years for him.

It's not his style to sneak up and shrink your head to be a bully... If you want to play, let's play big.

Right now is the time to engage in psychological warfare with the other party. The more evasive and cowardly I appear, the more imposing the other party will be, and the more I can't believe what I say.

When you want to convince someone, if you can't even pass your own test, how can you win the trust of others?

Sure enough, after Gongsun Zan laughed a few times, he found that Liu Jian was not only not ashamed, but also raised the corners of his mouth slightly, which seemed to have a hint of sarcasm.

In this way, Gongsun Zan was also a little uncertain.

Could it be that this kid really has something to rely on?
Thinking about it carefully, when he was in Gou's Mountain, that kid Liu Bei would jump up and down on weekdays, pretending to be the Empress of King Jing of Zhongshan when he met everyone, and he was skinny and shameless.

But this Liu Jian, who came from the same line as Liu Bei, acted calmly and steadily, never flaunted himself, and never deliberately flattered others. He was indeed a man of the city.

Moreover, he wrote letters to himself from time to time over the years, most of which were from his classmates, and he never intended to flatter him, nor did he inquire about Gongsun Zan's current situation...

In short, Liu Jian gave Gongsun Zan the feeling that he knows how to advance and retreat, has a city, and acts with great sense of proportion.

Would such a person really brag in front of his face?

Facts have proved that the character design is very important on weekdays. If the character design is done, even if you occasionally brag about it, people may take it seriously.

Gongsun Zan stopped laughing, looked Liu Jian up and down, and pondered carefully.

"Are you really so confident?"

"Could it be that I have nothing to do and deliberately asked my brother to humiliate me afterwards?"

"Okay, let's talk about it."

Liu Jian breathed a sigh of relief, after all, it was Gongsun Zan who broke the confrontation between them just now.

Don't look at it as a simple question, but it is very important for Liu Jian to establish a psychological advantage in front of Gongsun Zan.

"Brother, just think about it, what has been the situation between my big man and Xianbei in the past three years?"

Gongsun Zan's tone was very calm: "He is powerful."

"That's right, he's strong! The big Han has not been able to stop Xianbei's footsteps in recent years due to insufficient frontier defenses. I don't know about Bingzhou, but in Shanggu, Yuyang, and Liaodong's vassal states over the years, people who died in Xianbei's plunder alone How many? My brother used to be the governor of Liaodong, so he should know more about it than I do."

Gongsun Zan sighed, "I don't know about the other places. In the six counties of Liaodong alone, there were 18 households and a population of 13 three years ago. However, according to the statistics at the beginning of this year, the population is less than [-]."

Liu Jian was shocked when he heard the words. The border county was harassed by Xianbei, and the population was plundered and the population dropped sharply. This was what he expected, but he didn't expect that so many people would be robbed. Just a frontier country lost 5 people in three years?
He pondered for a moment, and then said: "Brother, isn't it right? It's just that Xianbei robbed people. If only 5 people were robbed in the Liaodong vassal state, wouldn't Liaoxi, Xuantu, Yuyang, and Shanggu lose dozens of people in the past three years?" Ten thousand? No matter how much the Xianbei people can rob, they can still move the entire Han Dynasty to Danhan Mountain? Among the [-] people who were robbed, there were at least [-], so they must have been lost by foreigners, right?"

Gongsun Zan had a strange expression. He was silent for a long time, then pointed to Liu Jian's chest, and then pointed to his own chest.

"You know, I know, it is! You don't need to say it, it's not something you and I can control, let's just talk about the thief!"

Liu Jian sighed in his heart - yes, this is really not something I can manage, at least for now.

In his mind, he suddenly remembered that day, the Taihang rogue who would rather die under Zhang Fei's sword than return to Bingzhou.

For the Lishu in the head of Guizhou, perhaps the most frightening thing is not Xianbei...

"Okay, let's talk about Hu thief, brother, Xianbei has been living better and better by hijacking border areas these years, and his power is growing day by day. At this time, brother, if you are Tanshihuai, what do you need to do?" ?”

Gongsun Zan obviously thought about this kind of question from time to time, he opened his mouth almost without thinking.

"Although the Hu people have been rampant these years, it is only because of the temporary defeat of the Han Dynasty in the past. Our Han sergeants are far superior to the Hu cavalry in terms of weapons, armor and food supply. If we can keep the country safe and peaceful, and the rear is stable, send A good general guards the frontier fortress pass, and then concentrates his forces to attack the Hu in the north, Xianbei still can't resist!"

"If I were Tan Shihuai, I would face up to the gap between the two sides. Taking advantage of the frequent civil wars between the Han Dynasty, I would concentrate on developing and growing, win the hearts of the various ministries, accumulate food and grass, and unify the organizational system, so as to prevent the Han Dynasty from retaliating in the future..."

When it came to this, Gongsun Zan seemed to have figured it out a little bit. He knew what Liu Jian wanted to say.

What he can think of, Tan Shihuai will definitely think of it. For Xianbei, taking advantage of the big man's lack of time to look north, looting more borders and enriching himself is the right way.

But at most it is just hijacking the border county. If you really send people to join forces with the Taihang bandits and covet the interior of Youzhou, it will anger the Han court. If the other party is desperate and concentrates their elite forces to fight north, no matter who wins in the end Whoever loses, Xianbei's pressure will suddenly increase, this is by no means what a hero like Tan Shihuai should do!

This is against common sense!

"It seems that my brother also wants to understand. The current Xianbei is acting unusually. What does this mean? It means that they have internal changes!"

"What internal change?"

Liu Jian didn't speak.

If his estimate is not bad, Tan Shihuai should be dying soon.

He is not so powerful that he can clearly remember the year of life and death of every historical figure, especially Tan Shihuai was not a figure in the Han Dynasty, so Liu Jian couldn't remember the year Tan Shihuai died.

But he probably remembered that after Tan Shihuai's death, the three parts of Xianbei split up, governed each other, and attacked each other.

Even at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty when the warlords were fighting, they were not attacked too much by the northern Xianbei. It was not until Cao Cao came to power that Ke Bineng once again unified the eastern and central Xianbei.

In the middle, too many years, the Han Dynasty had too much respite.

Therefore, the death of Tan Shihuai is a blessing in misfortune for the Han Dynasty that is about to fall into pieces.

If Tan Shihuai is still alive and the three tribes of Xianbei are still in a unified state, the subsequent Yellow Turban Uprising and Dong Zhuo's chaos will never be without the shadow of this Hu clan hero.

But in fact, no!

During the Yellow Turban Uprising, there was no fighting in the north of the Han territory.

This shows that Tan Shihuai died before the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Based on these inferences, combined with the strange things that are happening now, Liu Jian dares to bet that Tan Shihuai is probably dying, and the three Xianbei tribes are about to fall into internal strife.

But if you asked Gongsun Zan to gamble on this matter, he would never dare.

If it is not foresight, how can a person's life bet?
"I have an idea at the moment, but I don't want to say it outright because I don't have any evidence... Can senior brother let me go to the county office to interrogate the leader of Hu Qi who was captured alive by me earlier?"

Gongsun Zan frowned and said, "Just tell me what you think! Why do you want to interrogate him?"

Liu Jianxin said, if I don't go for an interrogation, just such a red-mouthed and white-toothed chattering with you is about to die... Can you believe it?

"If my brother finds it inconvenient, forget it. In the worst case, I will go to the county office to confess my mistake to my brother."

These words were clearly intended to provoke him, as if Gongsun Zan did not allow Liu Jian to interrogate the prisoner, but deliberately forced Liu Jian to admit defeat.

But Gongsun Zan was quite fond of it.

"What do you mean? Can I deliberately suppress you? Isn't it just to interrogate a thief? Interrogate! Go to interrogate now!"

"No, it's too late now, I'll just go in the daytime tomorrow."

"What are you waiting for during the day? The interrogation is now, you hurry up and follow me! The interrogation will be held overnight!"

"I want to sleep, I won't go!"

(End of this chapter)