If a person like Zheng Bao were to unify the country in peacetime, he could only become a small leader of the local underworld at most, and finally end his evil life in a severe crackdown. Fortunately, however, the imperial situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty gave such a person a chance to survive, and compared with his other competitors, Zheng Bao was a person who knew how to use his brain. His peer a thousand years later, Causeway Bay's bearer Chen Haonan once knew:
Ancient Puzzle Boy does not use a brain, it will always be Ancient Puzzle Boy
。 If Zheng Bao had heard of this sentence, he would have shook Hao Nange's hand with tears in his eyes and said, Old Iron, you know me too well.
However, this is not of any use, Zheng Bao, who has a primary school diploma, obviously does not have excellent cultural qualities, and what is missing must be made up, Zheng Bao has set his eyes on those cultural people who have come from the north. These people are undoubtedly the objects that Zheng Bao really wants to enlist, and Zheng Bao feels that his Corporal Li Xian will definitely be able to move them to surrender. However, if you think it is not important, I think it is important, and Liu Ye, who is on the Zheng Bao roster, has a completely different idea.
In the eyes of the Zhongyuan scholars, Yangzhou was originally an uncivilized southern barbarian land, and Zheng Bao, a real earth turtle, actually wanted to win people's hearts like a jumping beam clown, was this not a dream? Liu Ye constantly evaded Zheng Bao's search, and the more Zheng Bao found Liu Ye hiding, he became more curious about Liu Ye, so the two launched a tug-of-war in which you chased after me.
Just when the situation was deadlocked, the arrival of Cao Cao's emissaries turned the whole situation around. At this time, Cao Cao had just issued an order to seek meritocracy, breaking the political state of the monopoly class of the original family clan, and widely recruiting talents throughout the country, Liu Ye, as a relative of the Han Dynasty, naturally could not miss this opportunity, and he took the initiative to go to talk with Cao Cao's emissaries who came to Yangzhou. With Liu Ye's talent, naturally the more he talked with the messenger, the more speculative he became, and the messenger patted his chest and assured Liu Ye that brother, brother, you can rest assured, the rest is handed over to me, and I will definitely say a lot of good words for you in front of Lord Cao Cao. Liu Ye smiled, smiled very happily, he felt that his opportunity had arrived, but it seemed that there were still shortcomings, after all, such an empty mouth and white teeth to run to Cao Cao was always a little undignified, thinking about it, Liu Ye decided to hand over a letter of submission to prove his loyalty, and the name of this letter of submission was Zheng Bao.
At this time, Zheng Bao was still waiting for Liu Ye in a fiery fire, although he himself felt that some opportunities were slim. At this time, Liu Ye actually took the initiative to come to the door, Zheng Bao was happy like a contemporary urban youth who finally had a cat to pick up, and Liu Ye offered to have a drink with Zheng Bao as soon as he met, Zheng Bao thought in his heart, important problems are solved at the wine table, drinking wine is a friend, but he should not have thought that some banquets were Hongmen banquets. Liu Ye arranged in advance that someone was ready to do Zheng Bao on the spot during the toast, but Zheng Bao actually did not like to drink, just because of Liu Ye's invitation, this can be said to be true love, Liu Ye had no choice, he could only his old business, taking advantage of Zheng Bao's lack of preparation to send him to another world on the spot, and then personally went out to pacify his men with Zheng Bao's head, a series of actions quickly and quickly, fully demonstrating his personality traits:
Solve problems in the easiest way and most efficiently
。
However, for unknown reasons, Liu Ye did not immediately defect to Cao Cao after this incident, but gave the remnants of Zheng Bao's forces to Liu Xun, the taishou of Lujiang at that time, and himself served as a small staff officer under Liu Xun, until later after Liu Xun was defeated by Sun Ce, Liu Ye followed Liu Xun to Cao Cao, which happened to be in 199 AD, a year before the Battle of Guandu.
The author's consideration may be more related to Liu Ye's identity, in fact, in the later life of Liu Ye, there is a very strange thing, that is, although Liu Ye is a relative of the Han Dynasty, he is surprisingly loyal to Cao Wei and did not devote himself to the cause of Kuang Fu Han Room, perhaps this matter is very related to Liu Ye's experience in these years. Witnessing the decline of the Han Dynasty, coupled with the fact that his distant branch as a relative of the Han Dynasty had not received any special care, and even the experience of almost being in danger of life, liu Ye may have exhausted his loyalty to the Han Dynasty, and the reason why he did not directly turn to Cao Cao after Zheng Bao may be related to the little expectation of the Eastern Han Empire that Liu Ye still had at that time.
It was this expectation that made Liu Ye waver repeatedly for several years, until a few years later, his new boss Liu Xun was also defeated by Sun Ce. It was at that moment that Liu Ye made his own decision, gave up his attachment to identity and bloodline, and turned to find the true Lord in his mind, assist him in unifying the world, rely on this person to complete the beliefs and wishes in his heart, and more importantly, Liu Ye firmly believed that his ability could do it.
So, liu Ye, who defected to Cao Cao, can he get his wish?