The first lord is less lonely, and he works with the mother seller to weave mats. There is a mulberry tree on the fence in the southeast corner of the house, which is more than five feet tall, and the children are seen from afar like a small car cover, and the passers-by blame this tree for being extraordinary, or being a nobleman. When the first lord was young, he played with the children of the sect under the tree, saying, "I will ride on this feathered car." - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Although Liu Bei was a descendant of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, by this time his family was already in decline, liu bei was very young, his father died, and together with her mother, he relied on selling shoes and weaving straw mats to make a living, Liu Bei's family was very poor, he was also an orphan, it can be said that he had no power and no power, and he had no money, but he still had little ambition. When he and the other children of the clan were playing under the large mulberry tree in front of his house, he actually said a bold statement that was very inappropriate for his age at the time: "I must ride in this feather car." Everyone should pay attention to the fact that the Yubao cover car was the special car of the Great Han Tianzi at that time! Frightened, his uncle hurriedly said, "Don't talk nonsense, if you let the court know, we will be destroyed!" "When he grew up, Liu Bei was proud and righteous, and many people admired him.
Crusade against the Yellow Turban, Kuang Fu Han Room
At the end of the Ling Emperor, the Yellow Turban began, and the prefectures and counties raised volunteer soldiers, and the first lord led his subordinate lieutenant Zou Jing to beg the Yellow Turban Thief for meritorious service, except for Lieutenant An Xi. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
At the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei recruited soldiers and horses to participate in quelling the rebellion, during which he became acquainted with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others. Although the three of them did not have the Taoyuan Knot of Righteousness, the relationship was also very close, they had common ideals, and together they set up the ambition of Kuang Fu Han Room and fought for it. Of course, it is not enough to have ideals, and if you want to support the Han Room, you must also have the ability.
Liu Bei made great contributions in quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Later, the imperial court discussed the merits and rewards, although the merits were not small, but unfortunately he did not bribe the ten permanent attendants who controlled the government, and there was no relationship in the imperial court, so the imperial court only appointed him as a small Anxi County Order. Although Liu Bei's position was low, he "did not dare to forget the worries of the country" and still adhered to the original heart of Kuang Fu Han.
Not afraid of power, flogging the post
The overseer went to the county on official business, first asked for advice from the lord, but did not pass, went straight into the postmaster, the staff was two hundred, the silk was tied to his neck and the horse willow, abandoning the official and dying. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The story of the angry whip inspector must be well known to everyone, saying that the postmaster asked Liu Bei for a bribe, and Liu Bei, who loved the people like a son, did not loot the people's cream, and there was no money to bribe him, so he forced the people of Anxi County to frame Liu Bei, and the people of Anxi County were grateful to Liu Bei and were unwilling to listen to the postmaster, and the governor beat the county people with a staff. When Zhang Fei learned of this, he arrested the governor and flogged him, and Liu Bei abandoned the official in order not to implicate the county people. This is actually the saying of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the real history of flogging the post inspector is not Zhang Fei, but Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's behavior of flogging the post inspector reflects his valuable quality of not fearing power.
Convincing the assassins, he won the hearts of the people
The county citizen Liu Pingsu took the lead in the lord, and was ashamed to be subordinate, so that the guest stabbed it. The guest could not bear to stab, and the words went away. It wins the hearts of the people. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
During Liu Bei's tenure as Pingyuan Xiang, a man named Liu Ping had always looked down on Liu Bei and felt that it was a shame to be subordinate to him, so he asked the assassins to assassinate him, and after the assassins saw Liu Bei, after a conversation with Liu Bei, they were impressed by Liu Bei's personality charm, and actually could not bear to assassinate Liu Bei, and he told Liu Bei that Liu Ping had sent him to assassinate him and then left.
We can see from these records how popular Liu Bei is! The so-called people who win the hearts of the people win the world, and it is no wonder that Liu Bei was able to eventually become a generation of emperors as a commoner who sold mats! Don't want what Liu Bei has the identity of the han family's relatives, that Youzhou Liu Yu, Jingzhou Liu Biao, Yizhou Liu Zhang, and others, which one is not more pure than Liu Bei's bloodline? Their influence and origin are far superior to Liu Bei,but their ultimate achievements are far inferior to Liu Bei's. Among the three people of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, in fact, Liu Bei's innate conditions were the worst, and he was able to achieve the imperial cause entirely by his own ability. It is no wonder that Chen Shou praised Liu Bei and said:
The Hongyi of the Ancestor Lord is generous, knows people and treats soldiers, covers the wind of the high ancestors, and the instrument of heroes. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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