I have to say that Liu Bei was smart. Even if he wanted to kill the governor, he had no intention of doing it himself.

First of all, although the postal governor is a junior magistrate, he is still more senior than the county magistrate. After all, he was sent by the prefect to inspect the surrounding areas. You, Liu Bei, were just a small county magistrate at the time. How dare you commit such crimes?

Even if the postal supervisor had asked Liu Bei for a bribe before, this kind of thing had long been common in the Han Dynasty. Liu Bei also knew that if he used this incident as an excuse to react to the prefect, nothing would happen.

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Besides, what he is doing now is more serious than the postal supervisor accepting bribes.

It is estimated that as soon as he brought this matter up, the prefect would immediately send troops to surround Wenxi County and ask him to produce proof of his clan status.

Therefore, Liu Bei refused to do anything and directly encouraged the impulsive Zhang Fei to find the postal supervisor.

Don't say that Liu Bei later stopped Zhang Fei. Think about it, how could Liu Bei not know the character of his third brother? He went to tell Zhang Fei that the postal supervisor was accepting bribes, how could Zhang Fei not go to the postal supervisor?

Besides, how old is the entire Wenxi County? Zhang Fei found out the news at home and ran to find the postal supervisor. Didn't Liu Bei know?

After Zhang Fei ran to the county government office, pulled the governor out, tied him to a pillar on the street, and beat him violently, almost beating him to death, then Liu Bei came.

What did Liu Bei do during such a long period of time? According to Mi Heng, Liu Xie knew that what he said was true.

According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, for people like Liu Bei who were transferred from other places to serve as county captains, the county government usually prepared houses for them.

As the chief military officer of a county and the most important right-hand man of the county magistrate, the county captain's home is not too far away from the county government office.

Zhang Fei rushed out of Liu Bei's house, ran to the county government office, and then pulled the governor out of the county government office, tied him to a pillar, and beat him. But you, Liu Bei, at this time, have not yet come to the county government office from home. Tell me this.

, who would believe it?

There is only one possibility that he came so late, and that was Liu Bei's intention.

So why did Liu Bei come here on purpose? Didn't he just hope that Zhang Fei would beat the governor to death or maim him, so that he would have an excuse to leave Wenxi County?

Liu Bei's subsequent operations were exactly like this. He came to the scene and looked at the half-dead postal supervisor. Without hesitation, he said some scene-making words and ran away with his second and third brothers.

I have to say that Liu Bei's move was very beautiful.

First, he asked Zhang Fei to beat the governor, causing him to be seriously injured. This gave Liu Bei enough time to leave Wenxi County without worrying that the governor would report to the prefect and the prefect would send troops to surround him.

The second point is that it has created another wave of reputation in the hearts of the people in Wenxi County.

As I said before, Liu Bei was ambitious, and Te also knew very well what was the difference between him and other ambitious princes.

To put it simply, Liu Bei's starting point was too low. He had no soldiers, no generals, no money, no territory, and no connections. So Liu Bei could only disguise himself as a benevolent king and gain popularity in front of the people.

Beating the postal supervisor who oppressed the people, and gaining a lot of reputation among the people. He won't lose anything.

Moreover, in the final analysis, the reason why the governor caused trouble for Liu Bei in Wenxi County was because Liu Bei said that he was a clan relative, but could not produce any evidence, so Liu Bei wanted to escape.

Gaining reputation is just a casual thing.

More importantly, it was to win over Zhang Fei.

Look, third brother, you were impulsive and beat up the postal supervisor. As a result, my brother, I, had no choice but to resign and run away with you. Do you dare to move?

From now on, you must listen to your brother, hang out with him, and eat three meals a day.

So, just like that, Liu Bei fled Wenxi County. He won the hearts of the people in Wenxi County and Zhang Fei's heart.

This is also the reason why Zhang Fei and Guan Yu still insisted on Liu Bei in the following years after Liu Bei went dormant.

Everyone knows what happened next. Liu Bei joined Boss Cao and his army of princes to defeat Fatty Dong. And he showed great success in this battle.

Later, he was awarded the title of Pingyuan County Magistrate for his military merits.

After arriving in Pingyuan, Liu Bei deeply felt that when the eighteen princes were attacking Dong, he had too few troops and was despised by the princes. Therefore, when he was in Pingyuan County, he recruited a large number of troops.

They even borrowed the name of the Yellow Turban Army and let them roam Qingzhou, making the people of Pingyuan County feel deeply in danger.

Don't think that Pingyuan County is in Jizhou and is far away from Qingzhou. Just look at the map and you will know that Pingyuan County is near Dezhou in present-day Shandong.

It can be said that it is adjacent to Qingzhou, the area where Guan Hai and others were active.

Why are the Yellow Turbans raging in Qingzhou, but Pingyuan has not been attacked by the Yellow Turbans once? This is unreasonable no matter how you say it.

In addition, Liu Xie had a chat with Guan Hai before. He wanted to ask Guan Hai why he chose Qingzhou for activities. You must know that Qingzhou is not suitable for the activities of the Yellow Turban Army.

You know, to the west of Qingzhou is Boss Cao, to the north are Liu Bei's three brothers who made a splash at Hulao Pass, and to the south are Tao Qian's Danyang soldiers. No matter how you look at it, Qingzhou is a place of four battles.

At first, Liu Xie thought that Guan Hai didn't have enough overall view of the situation, which prevented him from seeing these potential threats.

However, during their chat with Guan Hai, they discovered that Guan Hai was not as reckless as he appeared. He was the kind of person who was rough but delicate.

Therefore, Liu Xie was very curious as to why Guan Hai chose to develop in Qingzhou.

According to Guan Hai's answer, it was because an adult sent a messenger to tell him that he was allowed to develop in Qingzhou and would also provide them with a certain amount of food and grass support. Therefore, Guan Hai would stay in Qingzhou.

At first, Liu Xie was still guessing who the man who supported the bandits was. He guessed it was Yuan Shao at first, but now, Liu Xie thought it might be Liu Bei.

This is also easy to understand. Seeing the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army becoming more and more powerful, the people and families in Pingyuan County will naturally worry about when these Yellow Turban thieves will cross the border and come to Pingyuan.

Therefore, when Liu Bei recruits troops on a large scale in Pingyuan County, no one will doubt him, and he will even get the support of local powerful people.

Liu Bei himself had an excuse. After all, hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves were in Qingzhou nearby. Shouldn't he have more troops?

Think about it, in just one county of Pingyuan County, Liu Bei gathered thousands, nearly 10,000 soldiers. Doesn't this mean that Liu Bei is ambitious?

You must know that at the same time, Boss Cao occupied the entire Yanzhou, and he only had an army of tens of thousands to less than 100,000.

And Liu Bei could get an army of almost ten thousand people from just one plain county. If there was no trick, he wouldn't believe it if he killed Liu Xie.

After Liu Xie listened to Mi Heng's words, he didn't know what expression to put on his face.

He could only sigh in his heart, these days, it seems that even a prince is not that simple. Liu Bei, who originally seemed so honest, has done so many dirty things behind his back.

Sure enough, every prince in the world is a good bird.
Chapter completed!