Liu Bei sneaked back to Xiangyang but did not rebel. Is he guilty?
Not guilty!!
Moreover, Liu Bei was not Liu Biao's subordinate, but the King of Han who was on an equal footing with Liu Biao. He just turned into a lost dog. Liu Biao just scolded Liu Bei loudly in order to force Liu Bei to submit, but Liu Bei's neither humble nor overbearing reply gave Liu Biao no chance to attack.
It's like encountering a hedgehog and not knowing where to start.
Liu Biao stood up from the throne, pointed his sword at Liu Bei, and said angrily: "You returned to Xiangyang without permission. Isn't this a conspiracy to rebel? This matter has spread all over the city, and you still want to quibble?"
Liu Bei said calmly: "If you want to impose a crime, there is no need to hesitate!"
"you you……"
Liu Biao was so angry that he gritted his teeth and wanted to kill Liu Bei.
But if he stabs him with a sword, his reputation will definitely be affected, and Liu Bei has not been convicted of the crime, and Liu Biao does not hold moral rights. In addition, Liu Bei's soldiers are still needed to resist the front line, and there can be no chaos, so Liu Biao does not dare to kill Liu Bei.
Liu Biao stared at Liu Bei with his eyes like a knife, and asked: "Let me ask you, why did you lead the troops back to Xiangyang secretly?"
Liu Bei said: "Brother Jingsheng, do you know how many soldiers I brought back to Xiangyang?"
Liu Biao asked without thinking, "How much?"
Liu Bei stretched out two fingers and chuckled: "When I returned to Xiangyang this time, I only brought two hundred soldiers to protect my safety. The rest didn't bring anything else. How could there be a rebellion with only two hundred guards? Xiangyang City passed by Brother Jing Sheng
The reinforcement and repairs required, not to mention 200 people, but 20,000 or 200,000 people would be difficult to conquer. To say that I am a rebel is pure slander."
After hearing this, Liu Biao felt that it made sense.
He began to feel a little shaken in his heart. As Liu Bei said, the two hundred soldiers were only for protection and there was no way they could accomplish anything. Even if Liu Bei entered the city, two hundred soldiers couldn't even enter the palace, so how could they rebel?
Liu Biao thought so in his heart, but did not relax.
He asked coldly: "I still said the same thing, why did you secretly sneak back to Xiangyang? You are resisting the Shu army in the front, and you should know that the situation is dangerous. If you are not careful, the Chu country will definitely be in danger. In this case, you
Why do you want to come back secretly?"
Although he was still questioning, his tone had changed and it was no longer as murderous as before.
When Liu Bei was asked before, he almost felt like Liu Biao wanted to chop him into eight pieces.
Now, Liu Biao is relatively gentle.
Liu Bei still did not answer Liu Biao's question. Instead, he asked strangely: "Brother Jing Sheng, war is rife in the world. Do you know how many Liu clan princes there are?"
Liu Biao cared about his own one-third of an acre of land, and never cared about how many Liu clan princes there were in the world. Even when the princes gathered to attack Dong Zhuo, Liu Biao did not participate, and did not pay attention to other Liu clans at all. Liu Biao was full of
He looked puzzled and asked in confusion: "Does the number of princes named Liu have something to do with your sneaking back to Xiangyang?"
Liu Bei said in a deep voice: "When Dong Zhuo was alive, Liu Yu was the pastor of Youzhou in the north, Liu Yan was the pastor of Yizhou in the southwest, Liu Dai was the governor of Yanzhou, Brother Jingsheng was in charge of Jingzhou in the south, and Liu Yao was the governor of Yangzhou. The power of the world
Almost all of them are under the control of the princes surnamed Liu. However, now Liu Yan is dead, Liu Yu is dead, Liu Yao is dead, and Liu Dai is dead. Only brother Jing Sheng and I are left. Moreover, Yangzhou and Yuzhou under my rule were captured by Cao Cao.
How sad it is to become a bereaved dog!"
Speaking of the pain in his heart, Liu Bei's eyes turned red and immediately filled with tears.
Liu Biao felt very sad after hearing this.
In a blink of an eye, he and Liu Bei were the only ones left in the world, and even the emperor was dead. Liu Biao sighed in his heart, but immediately remembered the purpose of asking Liu Bei, and continued to ask: "Xuande, what are you saying these words and sneaking back to Xiangyang?" Contact me?"
He had asked several times in a row, waiting for Liu Bei's answer.
It's a pity that Liu Bei just didn't answer directly.
Liu Bei calmed down and said slowly: "Brother Jing Sheng, don't worry, Bei will give you an answer. I'll ask brother Jing Sheng another question. I left Sun Qian to mediate in Xiangyang. Does brother Jing Sheng know?"
Liu Biao nodded in recognition.
For a person as big as Sun Qian, of course he was in Liu Biao's sight.
Liu Bei sighed, sat down cross-legged in the hall, and said: "I left Sun Qian in Xiangyang to look for talented people in Xiangyang. But Sun Qian searched everywhere, and once visited Huang Chengyan, Cui Zhouping and others. They all found nothing. Just when Sun Qian was disheartened, he found Zhuge Liang, but Sun Qian still failed, so he sent a message to me and asked me to go back to Xiangyang in person and go to Longzhong specifically to visit Zhuge Kongming."
"Brother Jingsheng, you have Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, Yi Ji and other wise men under your command, as well as Cai Hao, Zhang Yun, Wenpin and other capable generals. It can be said that you have a lot of talents, and brother Jing Sheng also has Jingzhou. This What a happy thing it is.”
"What do I have?"
"Yangzhou is gone, Yuzhou is gone, it's already a lost dog."
"I am unwilling to do anything, and I don't want to do nothing."
"Now that the princes are everywhere and the Han Dynasty is in decline, how can I, the descendants of the Liu family, stand aside and rise up to fight. However, I have repeatedly fought with Wang Can, but I have been defeated repeatedly. My second brother Guan Yu was killed by Wang Can's generals. Counselor Chen Gong was captured by Wang Can, and even my woman was included in Wang Can's harem. Can I be willing to do so?"
Liu Bei was completely in the mood, and when he mentioned Wang Can, he gritted his teeth like a hungry wolf.
He had never spoken of the pain in his heart, but now he spoke it out loud.
When Liu Biao heard this, his mouth twitched slightly, feeling that Liu Bei was really unlucky, and Wang Can was like Liu Bei's nemesis, suppressing Liu Bei tightly and preventing Liu Bei from rising.
At this time, Liu Biao actually sympathized with Liu Bei.
Especially when Liu Bei said that he was unwilling to do nothing, Liu Biao breathed a sigh of relief. If Liu Bei said that he was willing to submit to Liu Biao and endure humiliation, Liu Biao would definitely think that Liu Bei had an agenda. However, Liu Bei directly expressed his true feelings, which made Liu Biao feel that Liu Bei is a magnanimous gentleman, honest and trustworthy.
I just heard Liu Bei ramble and said: "When Sun Qian learned about Zhuge Liang, I knew that he had found a talented person. He was very happy and wanted to visit Zhuge Liang immediately and take him as his own. Alas, there is no one under his command. Counselor, you have to handle everything yourself. Brother Jing Sheng doesn’t know about this situation, so you have to work hard.”
"Sun Qian failed to convince Zhuge Liang, so I must come back."
"However, if I return to Xiangyang in a big way, it will definitely cause turmoil in the morale of the army and make the soldiers in front have no intention of resisting the Shu army, so I sneaked back to Xiangyang with more than 200 soldiers to visit Zhuge Liang."
"Just when I persuaded Zhuge Liang to become an official and prepared to return to the front line, someone discovered my trace, and the news spread throughout the city in a very short period of time. This was something I did not expect."
"The people behind the scenes slandered me for rebelling, so that Brother Jing Sheng could arrest me, but he intercepted and killed me on the way. Fortunately, Zhuge Liang had foreseen this incident, and I was able to escape. Otherwise, I would have been buried in the grave."
Withered bones. Let alone rebellion, it is impossible to even meet Brother Jing Sheng."
Liu Bei raised his head and looked at Liu Biao and said: "Brother Jing Sheng, let me tell you the truth, I am indeed unwilling to be inferior to others. I want to use the power of brother Jing Sheng to rise again and prepare to take back Yuzhou and Yangzhou. But you and I are both members of the Han Dynasty.
As princes with the same surname Liu, we should support each other and work together to revive the Han Dynasty. I have absolutely no intention of trying to seize Brother Jing Sheng’s inheritance!"
Liu Biao was very moved after hearing this.
He fell into deep thought and considered Liu Bei's words.
