Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Book of Shu. Liu Beichuan (Part 1)

Liu Beizi Xuande (涿郡) was a native of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, and a descendant of Liu Sheng, the Prince of Zhongshan Jing, the son of Emperor Jing of Han. Liu Sheng's son Liu Zhen (劉贞), who in 117 was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Lucheng pavilion in Zhuo County, was stripped of his title for violating the etiquette system and violating the law during the sacrifice of the Zongmiao Temple, so he settled in Zhuo County.

Liu Bei's grandfather, Liu Xiong, and father, Liu Hong, both served as officials in prefectures and counties. Liu Xiong was born from XiaoLian and became an official in Fan County, East County. Liu Bei lost his father as a teenager and made a living with his mother by selling straw shoes and weaving reed mats.

　　On the edge of the fence wall in the southeast corner of his family yard, there is a mulberry tree, the tree is more than five feet high, and from a distance, the branches are lush and resemble the car cover, and the passers-by think that this tree grows extraordinary, and some people predict that this family will be a noble person.

When the ancestor was a child, he played with the children of the clan under the tree, and once jokingly said: I will definitely ride this feather cover car when I grow up. His uncle Liu Zijing reprimanded him: Don't talk nonsense, this will bring the disaster of destroying the door!

When the ancestor was fifteen years old, his mother ordered him to go out on a study tour, so he studied with his fellow tribesmen Liu Deran and Gongsun Zhan of the Liaoxi people. Deran's father, Liu Yuanqi, often funded him and treated him like Liu Deran. Yuan's wife said: We are not a family, how can we always treat him like this. Yuan Qi said: There is such a child in my clan, who is not idle.

Gongsun Zhan had a deep friendship with the ancestors, and because of his old age, the ancestors treated him as a brother. The first lord did not like to read, but liked to run horses, listen to music, and beautiful clothes. He was seven feet five inches tall, with his hands over his knees, and he could turn his head to see his ears. He is usually taciturn, kind to the next person, does not easily show his joy and anger, and likes to make friends with heroes, many young people are vying for their use.

　　The zhongshan giant merchants Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, who had accumulated thousands of gold and family wealth, sold horses to and from Zhuo County, saw the ancestor, and thought that he was an extraordinary person, so he gave him a large amount of money, and the first lord used this money to recruit a team.

In the last year of the Han Ling Emperor, the Yellow Turban Army rose up, and all the prefectures and counties organized volunteer soldiers, and the first lord led his own team to follow the lieutenant Zou Jing to recruit the Yellow Turban Army, and was appointed as a lieutenant of Anxi County. When the governor came to Anxi County on business, the first lord came to the door to ask for a meeting, and when he was blocked outside the door, the first lord directly broke in, tied up the inspector, painfully staffed two hundred, and untied the seal and tied it to his neck and tied it to a horse stake, and then abandoned the official and fled.

Soon, the general He Jin sent the capital Wei Qiuyi to Danyang to recruit soldiers and horses, and the first lord accompanied him, to the place of Xia Pi to meet the rebel army, the first main battle was meritorious, and was appointed as the county magistrate of Xiami County. Soon he gave up this official position, and was subsequently appointed as a county lieutenant of Gaotang County, and was promoted to county commander. After the county seat of Gaotang was breached by the Yellow Turban Army, he defected to The General Gongsun Zhan of Zhonglang, who wrote to the imperial court recommending him as Sima of another department and sending him to assist Shi Tiankai of Qingzhou in defending against Yuan Shao of Jizhou.

Because of his many military achievements, the imperial court transferred him to act as the county commander of Pingyuan County, and then concurrently served as the minister of state of Pingyuan. Liu Ping, a native of the county, always looked down on the ancestor and was ashamed to be under his jurisdiction, so he sent assassins to assassinate the lord, but the assassin could not bear to do it, and informed the lord of his origin, and then left. He's so popular! Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Zhan, and the first lord and Tian Kaidong marched east to garrison Qidi.

Cao Cao conquered Xuzhou, and Xuzhou Mu Taoqian sent emissaries to tian kai, who led troops to the rescue together with the ancestors. At that time, there were more than a thousand soldiers of the first lord himself, plus the cavalry of some ethnic minorities in Karasuma in Youzhou, as well as thousands of people who captured the people from the hungry people. After arriving in Xuzhou, Tao Qian allocated another 4,000 Dan Yang soldiers to him, so he left Tian Kai to join Tao Qian.

Tao Qian recommended the ancestor as the Assassin of Yuzhou and stationed Xiao Pei. Tao Qian was seriously ill and said to The Prefecture Bei: Without Liu Bei, the prefecture would not be stable. After Tao Qian's death, Mi Zhu immediately led the people in the prefecture to greet the First Lord, and the First Lord was humble and not accepted, and Chen Deng, a xia pi man, said to him: Today's Han Dynasty is in decline, the world is in chaos, and meritorious achievements are made today. Xuzhou is a land of solid wealth and a population of millions, but I hope that you will be in charge of state affairs if you are aggrieved. The first lord said: "Yuan Highway is near Shouchun, his family has four generations and five secretaries of state, and the people of the world are looking up to him, you can entrust the state affairs to him." Chen Deng said: Yuan Highway is arrogant and conceited, and he is not a talent who governs the chaotic world. Now we plan to recruit 100,000 infantry and cavalry for you, so that you can enter the imperial court and the people of Anmin, and build up the five hegemonic feats; retire and conquer the land, and make meritorious contributions to history. If you do not agree to our request, then Chen Deng will have difficulty accepting your opinion. Kong Rong, the Minister of the Beihai Kingdom, said to the Ancestor Lord: Yuan Highway is a person who worries about the country and forgets his family! He was nothing more than a dead bone in the grave, not worth mentioning.

　　In today's situation, when the people embrace the wise as the Lord, and do not accept the words of Heaven, it will be too late to regret it in the future. So the first lord took over Xuzhou. Yuan Shu came to attack, and the first lord led an army to fight with him in the xuyi and Huaiyin areas. Cao Cao recommended that the first lord be the general of Zhendong and the marquis of Yicheng Ting.

　　The first lord and Yuan Shu held out for more than a month, and Lü Bu took advantage of his rear air defense to attack Xia Pi. Xia Pi defended the general Cao Bao in rebellion, and the city was surrendered to Lü Bu. Lü Bu captured the wife and children of the former lord, who led his army to Haixi. Yang Feng and Han Xian harassed the area around Xuzhou and Yangzhou, and the first lord led an army to intercept and annihilate all his troops.

The lord asked for reconciliation with Lü Bu, and Lü Bu released his family. The first lord sent Guan Yuzhen to guard Xia pi. The first lord returned to Xiao Pei, and then recruited more than 10,000 soldiers. Lü Bu was very annoyed, and personally led his troops to attack, and the first main soldier was defeated and returned to Cao Cao. Cao Cao treated his ancestors kindly and appointed him as the pastor of Yuzhou. The first lord decided to return to Xiao Pei to collect the lost soldiers, and Cao Cao funded military food, replenished soldiers and horses, and sent him to attack Lü Bu in the east. Lü Bu sent Gao Shun to meet the battle, and Cao Cao sent Xiahou Huan to the rescue. Before the rescuers arrived, the first lord was defeated by Gao Shun, and his wife and children were taken captive by Gao Shun and sent to Lü Bu.

Cao Cao personally led an army on the Eastern Expedition, helped the former lord to besiege Lü Bu in Xia Pi, and captured Lü Bu alive. The first lord welcomed back his wife and children and returned to Junxu County with Cao Cao. Cao Cao recommended the first lord as the general Zuo, and he respected him greatly, and when he went out, he was in the same car and sat at the same table. Yuan Shu planned to take Xuzhou north to return to Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao sent the former governor Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao to intercept Yuan Shu. Before the soldiers arrived, Yuan Shu fell ill and died.

　　Before the First Lord sent troops, The Han Emperor Zhangren and the Cheqi general Dong Chengling received a secret edict hidden in the belt of the Emperor Xian, asking the First Lord to preside over the murder of Cao Cao. The Lord has not yet attacked.

At that time, Cao Cao once said to the ancestors in small talk: When the heroes of today are today, there are only the king and me. Yuan Benchu and his ilk are not worth mentioning at all. The Lord was eating, and he was shocked and lost the spoon and chopsticks in his hand.

So he conspired with Dong Cheng, The Changshui Colonel Zhongji, the general Wu Zilan, Wang Zifu and others. It just so happened that the first lord was sent out to march and failed to act in time. Later, the matter was revealed, and Dong Cheng and others were beheaded. The first Lord occupies the Lower Pi. Zhu Ling and the others returned to the army, and the first lord took the opportunity to kill Xuzhou Assassin Shi Che, leaving Guan Yu to guard Xia Pi and return to Xiao Pei himself.

Changba of the East China Sea rebelled, and most of the counties and counties under his command defected to Cao Cao and submitted to the ancestors, with tens of thousands of people. The lord sent Sun Qian to ally with Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao sent Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to intercept the unsuccessful attack.

　　In 200, Cao Cao's Eastern Expedition was defeated. Cao Cao collected all his soldiers and horses, captured the wife and children of the previous lord, captured Guan Yu, and then returned. The first lord fled to Qingzhou.

Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, was once recommended by the former lord as a Xiucai, so he led soldiers and horses to welcome the arrival of the former lord. The first lord followed Yuan Tan to Pingyuan County, and Yuan Tan sent messengers to report to his father Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao sent his troops to pick him up and drop off along the way, and he himself went out of Yecheng for two hundred miles to meet the ancestors. After the ancestors stayed at Yuan Shao's place for more than a month, the scattered soldiers gradually came to gather.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought each other at Guandu, and Liu Pei, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan, rebelled against Cao Cao and received Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao sent his ancestors to lead an army with Liu Pei and others to attack Xu County. Guan Yu fled to the Ancestor Lord. Cao Cao sent Cao Ren to lead an army to attack the first lord, who returned Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses, and planned to leave Yuan Shao, so he persuaded Yuan Shao to ally with Liu Biao of Jingzhou in the south, and Yuan Shao sent the former lord to lead his troops and horses to Runan, where he would meet gong du and others in the Yellow Turban Army, with thousands of people.

Cao Cao sent Cai Yang to attack, and the first lord beheaded Cai Yang. After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, he led his army south to attack the ancestors. The first lord sent Mi Zhu and Sun Qian to Liu Biao's office to report and contact, and Liu Biao personally went out of the city to greet him, treated the first lord with courtesy, gave him additional soldiers, and sent him to garrison Xinye. The number of people who belonged to the Ancestor Lord in Jingzhou was increasing, and Liu Biao suspected the intention of the Ancestor Lord and secretly guarded against him. Liu Biao sent his first army into Bowang County to fight against Xiahou Huan and Yu Ban. After a period of stalemate, the first lord set up an ambush, and one morning he burned down the camp and pretended to escape, Xiahou Huan and others led the army to pursue, and were defeated by the ambush.