The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 514 Chapter 513 Liu Bei's fate (1)

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It was another sleepless night. Liu Bei lay on the bed, tossing and turning, without closing his eyes all night. He was still thinking about what he should do and how he should face this sudden change.

Is it resignation and muddling along?
Or resign from office and go away?
But the world is so big that Liu Bei can't find a place where he can settle down, a small piece of sky that really belongs to him, even if there is only a small piece of it.

But the reality is cruel. Liu Bei's beautiful dreams in the past were completely shattered tonight.During the past few years as the governor of Jingnan, he was full of vigor, and made him feel like a fish in water. It seemed that he had achieved success, but in fact it was not as good as someone else's word.

Just a paper transfer order made all his painstaking efforts in the past few years go to waste. People leave the tea to cool down, trees fall and monkeys scatter. Once he leaves Jingnan, it is tantamount to leaving the fertile soil that made him grow.

He even thought about leaving Liu Biao. Jingzhou is located in the north-south hub and the east-west hub. It is a place where the Four World Wars were fought, but after leaving, where can he go?
After thinking about it, Liu Bei set his sights on Liu Zhang in Yizhou. Liu Zhang was a shepherd in Yizhou. He and his father Liu Yan had lived in Yizhou for a long time since Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, Liu Zhang was also a descendant of the Han Dynasty. Liu Zhang's bloodline is more pure than that of Liu Biao, and he is a descendant of King Lu Gong of the Han Dynasty. More importantly, Liu Zhang's ancestral home is Jiangxia in Jingzhou, and he is from Jingling County.

Liu Biao and Liu Yan are also descendants of King Lu Gong of the Western Han Dynasty. When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the royal family surnamed Liu all over the world suffered a heavy blow, and the descendants of King Lu Gong were also within the scope of Wang Mang’s attack, and then broke out. In the wave of rebellion that overthrew the new dynasty established by Wang Mang, the ancestors of Liu Yan and Liu Biao actively joined the wave of rebellion, and became Liu Xiu's founding heroes and were named princes.In the period of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to some other reasons, the ancestors of Liu Yan and Liu Biao lost their marquises, and were moved to Jiangxia Jingling and Shanyang Gaoping respectively. Since then, there have been two branches.

Liu Yan's ancestors happened to be moved to Jiangxia Jingling, and Liu Biao's ancestors were moved to Shanyang Gaoping, and Liu Yan's ancestors were Liu Biao's ancestor's elder brother, the eldest son and grandson, and Liu Biao's ancestors were concubines, two branches are passed down locally.

However, when it came to Liu Biao's grandfather, Liu Biao's grandfather was unable to have children, so he adopted his wife's nephew, who was Liu Biao's father.Therefore, the branch of Liu Biao was already extinct by the time of Liu Biao's grandfather.And Liu Yan's lineage has continued.

It is also true that in the two important historical books "Three Kingdoms" and "Hou Hanshu" that record this period, the records about Liu Yan are consistent, and they all write about the descendants of King Lugong of Han, but in Liu Biao's records In "Three Kingdoms", there is no mention of Liu Biao's lineage, but in "Hou Han Shu", it is recorded that Liu Biao is a descendant of King Lu Gong of Han.

The author of "Three Kingdoms" is Chen Shou, who lived from the Three Kingdoms period to the Western Jin Dynasty, and is closer to that era, so the records should be more detailed.The author of "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" is Fan Ye, who was born in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, so the book of "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" was written later, after "Three Kingdoms".Among them, the part about Liu Biao's lineage may have lost strict inspection due to the age, so it is impossible to detect whether Liu Biao is of real Han lineage.

But at that time, it was no secret that Liu Biao's blood was not pure. After all, his father was not a descendant of the Liu surname.Fortunately, Liu Biao worked hard enough, and his reputation was even greater than that of Liu Yan, and he said openly, I am the descendant of King Lugong of Han. Believe it or not, I believe it anyway.

After Liu Biao became the shepherd of Jingzhou, his eyes kept looking west, because there was Liu Yan, the shepherd of Yizhou, who was also a descendant of King Lu Gong in the west. The two families should have been very harmonious, but Liu Biao wanted everyone to admit that he was The true descendants of King Lu Gong are of pure Han blood, so they have been trying to figure out how to get rid of Liu Yan.

Therefore, every move of Liu Yan in Yizhou has been paid attention to by Liu Biao, and when Liu Biao learned that Liu Yan had the intention of proclaiming himself emperor in Yizhou, he immediately reported it to the court, and Liu Yan was able to stop it. The act of proclaiming the emperor.Moreover, Liu Yan has always looked down on Liu Biao pretending to be his ancestor and descendant, so he is even more shameless towards Liu Biao.

Once upon a time, Liu Yan was Chen Bing on the border of Yizhou and Jingzhou, making preparations to attack Jingzhou at any time.But it was stopped because of Liu Yan's sudden illness.Otherwise, Liu Biao at that time was likely to be defeated by Liu Yan.

After Liu Yan's death, he ordered his son Liu Zhang to start to close the country. Anyway, there is no road to the imperial court, and the world is in turmoil. He will guard the three-acre land in Yizhou for the time being, gradually grow himself, and then look for opportunities to compete in the world. And his first One target was Liu Biao of Jingzhou.

It's a pity that Liu Zhang is weak, he has no great talent and general plan, and it is a bit difficult to defend himself, let alone fight out?Over the years, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong has continued to grow, threatening the safety of Yizhou even more. Wars often broke out between the two, but it is clear that Liu Zhang has a lot of troops, but for some reason, he always loses more and wins less. Over time, Yizhou even reached the point of turning pale when talking about Lu. As soon as they heard that Zhang Lu was attacking again, the officials and people in Yizhou panicked and prepared to flee.

But it turned out that Zhang Lu was just making trouble, and he didn't have the strength to kill Liu Zhang.This shows the degree of weakness within Yizhou.

Liu Bei set his sights on Yizhou, but he suffered from the fact that no one introduced him to Liu Zhang. According to his seniority, he should be called Liu Zhang's elder brother, and Liu Zhang's weakness is what he values ​​more, and it is precisely because of Liu Zhang's weakness This is why none of the available talents in Yizhou can be reused, and the reused talents are all mediocre, which directly caused the current situation.

When he was in Jingnan, Liu Bei had inquired about the situation in Yizhou and knew some things, but at that time he wanted to use the four counties in Jingnan as a base to gradually develop and grow.

But now it seems that Yizhou is his destiny.If he can reach Yizhou, he will work for Liu Zhang for a few years first, and then overthrow Liu Zhang and replace him after he is familiar with everything. In this way, Yizhou will become his pocket.

Liu Bei's ideas are good, but he lacks the spirit of hard work.Because he didn't know what his future would be like, if he left Jingzhou on one side and went to Yizhou on the other side without anyone's introduction, but he didn't know until he arrived in Yizhou that Liu Zhang would not take him in at all. So where will he go?

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, Liu Bei yawned, although he was very sleepy, he couldn't fall asleep anyway.So, Liu Bei lifted the quilt, put on his clothes, jumped out of bed, and prepared to wash his face, wash away the bad luck of yesterday, and prepare for the sunny day.

After Liu Bei finished washing his face, he just opened the door when he saw Zhang Fei standing there in a well-dressed suit, raising one hand as if to knock on the door.

When Zhang Fei saw Liu Bei, there was a hint of surprise on his face. He didn't see him for one night. How could Liu Bei's hair be half white?
"Brother, you...your hair..." Zhang Fei pointed at Liu Bei's hair in surprise.

"What's wrong with my hair?" Liu Bei touched his head.

"Why is it all white?" Zhang Fei said.

Liu Bei frowned. He didn't believe Zhang Fei's words, so he turned around and walked into the room. He picked up a bronze mirror and looked at it from left to right. bloodshot, and the most important thing is that the previously black hair has become all gray.

"Ah! How did I become like this?" Liu Bei saw himself in the bronze mirror, as if he had aged more than ten years all of a sudden. Surprised, once he missed his hand, the bronze mirror in his hand fell to the ground, sending out a series of Crisp.

When Wu Zixu turned white all night, Liu Bei thought it was a joke every time he read this, but when this matter really happened to him, he could realize how sad the night before Wu Zixu passed Zhaoguan. Heart.Unexpectedly, Liu Bei himself followed in Wu Zixu's footsteps, and was so worried that his hair turned white all night.

(End of this chapter)