Chapter 38 4. The mysterious first pot of gold

Liu Bei is such a person, when sitting opposite him, he will always keep silent, but his eyes will always look at you.As you spoke, his eyes became more and more erratic, with obvious boredom.At this time, your confidence is getting weaker and weaker, and your voice is getting smaller and smaller. Gradually, you fall into silence just like him, and feel ashamed because of your childishness and stupidity. If Liu Bei was given a chance to face the camera and outline his own characteristics, then what he would say would probably be something like this: "Others have a background, but I, Liu Xuande, only have a back..."

And it is true. Going back 350 years, Liu Bei's ancestors were also famous. In the past, Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty gave birth to his son Liu Sheng, who was granted the title of King Jing of Zhongshan, which is the root directory of Liu Bei's family tree.But more than three hundred years have passed, and the descendants of the Liu royal family can be called a carload, and at least it will not be less than 70,000.The glory of the ancestors is no longer meaningful at this time. In addition, Liu Bei's appearance is also extremely weird.According to the history books, when his hands hang down, they are above his knees, and his eyes can see his ears. If he is given a fur cloak for the old man, he will be a very ancestral ape.Let Liu Xuande play the role of King Kong, even the cost of makeup is saved.Such a strange appearance is very eye-catching, but how much affinity it has is definitely a big question.

Although his appearance is obviously back to his ancestors, Liu Bei did not fall into the blue sky when he was a boy. When he was playing with his children under the big tree, he declared: "In the future, I must ride this kind of Yubao covered car." This sentence contains obvious elements of plagiarism. It is a reprint of Liu Bang's "A man should be like this" in his early years, a continuation of Xiang Yu's "That can be replaced", and an earlier "Would you be rich, don't forget each other" by Chen Shengwang vision reappears.Despite the strong atmosphere of plagiarism, we still believe that Liu Bei did say such things.Simply because: Many young people have thought and said this.This is the adult declaration of every young man in his youth, and Liu Bei has no reason to be exempt.

The distance between ideal and reality depends on the young man's mental maturity.Undoubtedly, Liu Bei has the talent to achieve great things. His personality is obviously different from that of ordinary young people. He is usually taciturn, shows his emotions and anger, and likes to make friends with heroes.This kind of personality would undoubtedly cause great trouble in peacetime, but in troubled times, it was born at the right time. But then, a strange event happened. Liu Bei won the first bucket of gold in his life and career by means that are difficult to describe in the history books, and completed his initial primitive accumulation:

Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, the great businessmen of Zhongshan State, accumulated wealth worth thousands of gold. They went to Zhuozhou to sell horses, and met Liu Bei on the way.They thought Liu Bei was a genius, so they gave Liu Bei a lot of money, so Liu Bei used the money to form an early private armed corps including Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. In Luo Guanzhong's novels, the narrative of Liu Bei's first pot of gold is also involved: ...The next day, in the Taoyuan, prepared the black cattle and white horse sacrifices and other items, the three of them burned incense and worshiped again and said an oath: "Nian Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, although they have different surnames, they are brothers, and they will work together to save the world." Help the poor; report to the country, and go down to the common people. I don’t want to be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but I only want to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day. The emperor and the empress, learn from this heart, betray righteousness and forget gratitude, and heaven and man will kill each other!" After swearing, worship Xuande He is the older brother, followed by Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei is the younger brother.After sacrificing the heaven and the earth, they slaughtered the cattle and served wine, gathered together the mighty men of the village, and got more than three hundred people, and got drunk in the peach orchard.I will pack up my weapons in the future, but I hate that I have no horses to ride.While I was thinking about it, I reported that I had two guests, leading a group of companions and driving a group of horses to the village.Xuande said, "God bless me too!" The three went out of the village to meet them.It turned out that the two customers were big merchants in Zhongshan: Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, who went north every year to sell horses, and recently returned because of Kou Fa.Xuande invited the two of them to the village, put wine in charge of them, and told them that they wanted to kill the thieves and make the people safe.The two guests were overjoyed, and they were willing to give fifty good horses to each other; they also donated five hundred taels of gold and silver, and one thousand catties of iron and iron for capital and utensils.

Judging from this narration alone, Luo Guanzhong clearly sensed that something was wrong. All business people are extremely shrewd, and they always pay attention to not seeing the rabbits and not throwing the eagles.How could Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, who are not related to you Liu Bei, give you the hard-earned money?There must be something wrong with Liu Bei's first pot of gold! But what's the problem?In the book, Luo Guanzhong hinted at the possibility that what businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang encountered was not Liu Bei himself, but Liu Guanzhang, a very vicious and violent organization in history.Moreover, Luo Guanzhong hinted that the so-called gifts are purely nonsense. This is actually the protection fee charged by Liu Bei's violent gang from two businessmen: "... Tell me that you want to get the thief to make the people safe..." People don't recognize you, you and Are people talking about it?This is clear, outright extortion.

Moreover, when Liu Bei talked to these two rich men, the meaning was very clear, that is, he wanted the other party to pay for the money.The two rich guys are not stupid, if you don't hurry up and take out the money, is there a second choice? But maybe, our analysis is to measure the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.It is entirely possible that Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang were moved by Liu Bei's personality charm and fell into confusion and fascination, so they donated generously. But if this is the case, Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang should still appear in front of Liu Bei, or recommend their nephews to come to Liu Bei to seek a future.But there is no such record in the history books. These two rich businessmen are like gods who descended from the sky. They gave Liu Bei a large sum of money to start a business, and flew back to the heaven, completely disappearing from the human world.

In a word, they never want to see Liu Bei again, or they will never see Liu Bei again. In any case, Liu Bei got the first pot of gold in his life anyway, not only could he recruit soldiers, but he also got his left and right arms: Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.His era has officially begun.