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Chapter 203 Liu Bang and Shi Yingbu

Now that Liu Xu had made a decision, Cai Wenji didn't say anything more, but began to fully cooperate with Liu Xu's work.

It was 10 o'clock in the morning, and there were still 2 hours before 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Liu Xu decided to work hard and write three more chapters in one go, making up to nine chapters, so that the plot could be richer.

The core plot of Romance of the Three Kingdoms Chapter 3 is Dong Zhuo's entry to Beijing and Lu Bu's killing of Ding Yuan.

One line describes the major events in the court, and the other line describes the actions of the princes. After thinking about it for a while, Liu Xu decided to also write two things.

One is that the first emperor was intercepted by bandits, and the other is that Liu Bang got married.

The latter of these two incidents is widely known, and it is said that Lu Gong moved to Pei County to avoid his enemies. Because Lu Gong and the county magistrate of Pei County have a good relationship, the county magistrate ordered the entire rich family in Pei County to go to Lu Gong. congratulate.

Naturally, gifts are required for congratulations. Only those who have given 1000 coins can sit in the hall, and those who do not buy 1000 coins can only sit in the hall.

At this time, Liu Bang was still a pauper pavilion chief. He obviously had no money, but he said directly in front of all the guests that he would give away ten thousand dollars.

This is top-level social terror—social terrorists, no doubt.

As a result, not only was Liu Bang not despised by Lu Gong, but Lu Gong took the initiative to marry his eldest daughter Lu Zhi to Liu Bang. This is the story of Lu Gong marrying a daughter that almost everyone in China knows.

Compared with this incident, the matter of the first emperor being robbed and killed by bandits is somewhat unknown, and it was only mentioned in the historical records.

It is said that the first emperor went out in a micro-clothes one day, and he only brought 4 guards with him. He happened to encounter a group of bandits blocking the road and robbed them. The area searched for 4 days, but did not catch this gang of daring gangsters.

Later, in response to this story, the domestic TV series "Mythology" designed the plot of Yi Xiaochuan saving Qin Shihuang, saying that the reason why the first emperor was able to escape was not because of the high martial arts skills of the four guards, but because Yi Xiaochuan suddenly appeared and rescued Qin Shihuang. Then I got the trust of the first emperor or something.

So Liu Xu followed suit and began to slightly modify this story.

Of course, it is impossible for Liu Xu to parachute Yi Xiaochuan down, but he can connect some characters who are fighting for hegemony between Chu and Han, thus increasing the drama of the novel itself.

Because there is no record of the identities of this group of robbers in the history books, it is convenient for Liu Xu to modify them.

Liu Xu set this picture of a bold gangster as a prisoner in Lishan led by Yingbo.

Yingbu, who broke the law in his early years, was sentenced to tattooing, so he was also called tattooing cloth.In his early years, he was fined to Lishan Mountain for hard labor, but because of his heroism, he became friends with the officials who guarded him. Taking the opportunity to escape from Lishan Mountain, he ran directly to the Yangtze River.

This is an early record about Yingbo in the Historical Records. As for when and how Yingbo fled, there is no detailed statement at all.

So in these chapters, Liu Xu first wrote about Yingbo's life in Lishan, how to make friends with officials, and most importantly, described the painful life of the hard labor working in Lishan, and how the people there were precarious and their lives were like grass. .

After that, Yingbo led a group of prisoners to successfully escape from Lishan Mountain. He wanted to rob a little money and fled to the south, but he didn't want to meet Qin Shihuang, who was visiting privately in Weifu.

Yingbo never knew Qin Shihuang, thought he was a local rich man, and immediately led people to surround and kill him.However, these prisoners did the hardest work on weekdays, but ate the worst food, and their physical strength declined extremely. As a result, they were naturally no match for the powerful warriors around Qin Shihuang. They were surrounded by dozens of people, but they were killed ten times instead. Several people.

Only Yingbo was very strong and killed one of the guards, but there were three other such strong people. Yingbo knew that there was nothing to be done, so he led people to continue to escape decisively.

The guards were concerned about Qin Shihuang's safety and did not dare to pursue him, so Yingbo escaped smoothly.

Qin Shihuang didn't know that Yingbo was a Lishan prisoner who planned to flee to the south, and thought he was a local bandit in Guanzhong, so he searched in Guanzhong for 20 days, but he didn't expect that Yingbo had fled to the south.

However, after receiving the information that a group of prisoners had escaped from Lishan, the first emperor immediately reacted and ordered the counties in the south to arrest Yingbu. This order spread to Peixian County. Liu Bang, who had just married, had to lead his brothers Search the Lishan prisoners everywhere.

As a result, Liu Bang really met Ying Bu, who was as embarrassed as a bereaved dog with only a few people left.But Liu Bang didn't seem to want to capture Yingbu to receive the reward at all.
Not only did Yingbo let go, but he was also invited to the house... well, in fact, Liu Bang's elder brother had a meal at home, and then gave him some dry food, so that Yingbo could continue to flee to the south of the Yangtze River.

"Master is amazing!" After reading the plot of these three chapters, Cai Wenji excitedly said, "Master, these three chapters are not only very exciting and exciting, but also explain the unsolved mysteries in history by the way, even It can also perfectly correspond to the historical details. Part of the plot inside is fictional, and the other part is real historical facts, and there is no conflict or contradiction in the middle."

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is [-]% true and [-]% false. It has been used by the master with great proficiency. Even I can't help but believe that maybe the truth of history is like this, let alone people in this world who don't understand the real history!"

"Actually, I didn't write this to deliberately solve some historical mysteries, but to let the heroes of the Chu and Han dynasties gradually appear on the stage!" Liu Xu said with a smile, "The appearance of heroes in history is relatively sudden, although this It conforms to the laws of history, but it does not have the drama of novels."

"So I want to create opportunities for them to be parallel and staggered as much as possible in line with history, so that when Yingbu and others appear on the stage in the future, not only will it not make readers feel awkward, but there will be a kind of story that has been buried long ago. It felt like a foreshadowing."

"Take this relationship between Yingbo and Liu Bang as an example. It seems to be for the purpose of creating a plot, but it is not!"

"First of all, this plot can reflect Liu Bang's character traits, that is, he is heroic and at the same time very rascal."

"He released Yingbo, who is a wanted criminal, because of his heroism and heroism. And he took Yingbo to his brother's house for dinner, that is his own pettyness and rascal. After all, Liu Bang will seal him in the future. My brother's son is the man of Gengjiehou," Liu Xu laughed.

The so-called gengjie refers to scraping the bottom of the pot with a rice spoon, which means that the family has no food to eat.

Before Liu Bang rebelled, he was a rascal and proud man, and he often brought his friends to eat at home.

But Liu Bang himself doesn't farm the land, and he doesn't look down on those farmers. On the contrary, in order to support his two children, his poor wife, Lu Zhi, who usually stays in the Lu family's ten fingers without touching the spring water, has to go to the fields to farm. Washing and cooking for the whole family, just a few years of housewife life has changed her from a delicate and beautiful lady to a rough village woman.

There was no food in Liu Bang's house, so he could only take his friends to his elder brother Liu Bo's house for dinner.Uncle Liu was honest and never said much to his younger brother, but Uncle Liu's wife, Liu Bang's sister-in-law, was very resentful.

So every time Liu Bang brought people to eat at his elder brother's house, the sister-in-law would scrape the bottom of the pot vigorously with a spoon, and at the same time make a loud noise, telling Liu Bang that he had no food at home, so don't even think about coming to his house for food eat.

Liu Bang was very ashamed and annoyed by this, so after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he named his sister-in-law's son Liu Xin as Gengjiehou as revenge.

It can be seen from this that Liu Bang, if he lived in modern times, would definitely be beaten alive by a female Q.

"However, these are not the most important. The most important thing is to add a reasonable explanation for a major change in the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony." Liu Xu said here, his expression became a little serious.

"The master is talking about Yingbo's betrayal of Xiang Yu?" Historically, Yingbo has always been Xiang Yu's most trusted general. Later, Xiang Yu divided the world and named Yingbo King of Jiujiang.Yingbo was also very loyal to Xiang Yu, and it was Yingbo who led his troops to kill Emperor Yi.

But in the end, when Chu and Han were fighting each other, and when Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were confronting each other, Yingbo actually betrayed Xiang Yu.

So here comes the question, why did Ying Bu, who has always been loyal to Xiang Yu, and who can rise to the top as long as he follows Xiang Yu, betray Xiang Yu in the end?
This point made Xiang Yu himself unable to understand. From Xiang Yu's point of view, it was as unbelievable as Mi Fang's betrayal of Liu Bei.

Of course, there are also very detailed records of this in the history books. The main reason is that after Yingbo became the king of Jiujiang, he disobeyed Xiang Yuyang, and his execution of Xiang Yu's orders was also very lax, so Xiang Yu sent someone to scold Yingbo like his son. several times.

And Liu Bang sent a ruthless man as a lobbyist to persuade Yingbo, but Yingbo was hesitant. This ruthless man directly killed Xiang Yu's envoy in front of Yingbo, making Yingbo completely offend Xiang Yu and forcing Yingbo Bu had to rebel.

This logic seems very perfect, but one thing is still not clear, that is, why did Yingbu become disobedient after he became the king of Jiujiang?After all, Xiang Yu has always been the leader of Yingbo, and he is also very good to Yingbo. Yingbo has no reason to obey and violate.

And after Liu Bangyi explained Yingbo with this paragraph, there was a more reasonable explanation, that is, Yingbo was grateful for Liu Bang's release of his kindness back then, and faced Xiang Yu's order to send troops to attack Liu Bang. , Yang obeys and Yin violates, all of this is very reasonable.

Of course, the real reason in history should be that Yingbo was afraid that Xiang Yu would wipe out the kings in the future, making him unable to continue to be his Jiujiang king with peace of mind, so he wanted Liu Bang and Xiang Yu to continue fighting.

In short, this is Liu Xu's personal idea. When writing "General History of the Western Han Dynasty" in the future, Liu Xu will write the real history and will not add these imagined plots.

(End of this chapter)