Chapter 27 Section 1 Brothers Concentric

If there are words, it will be long, and if there are no words, it will be short. In the blink of an eye, it is the second year of Wang Mang Dihuang (AD 21). This year, Liu Xiu is very good, Liu Yan is very cool, Wang Mang is very dark, and the people are miserable. Let me talk about Liu Xiu first.Liu Xiu's three years in Taixue was the happiest time in his life. Without the bondage of his family and the pressure of his elder brother, he could do whatever he wanted, indulgent, indulgent, and even dissolute.Looking back on his career in Taixue, he squandered his youth and burned his passion. He is worthy of himself. It was he who went to Taixue instead of being admitted by Taixue.However, since he and Qianghua set fire to the library, the good times have come to an end, he must escape from Chang'an, and make a clean break with the happy and happy days of Taixue.He knew that he would always miss Taixue, just like a fish misses the river.

After Liu Xiu fled back to his hometown Chongling, he put on the mask of a good boy again and became himself. He is Liu Yan's weak third brother, he is Liu Liang's obedient nephew, he is a reliable young man in the eyes of the elders, he is A loyal partner in the eyes of peers.At this time, Liu Xiu behaved like a harmless and useless waste, especially after he was so obsessed with farming. How could the dignified sons of the Liu family like such a lowly thing like farming? Liu Yan couldn't figure it out. Where did the director of Nanyang's Beijing office go when he was in Chang'an for a while?However, Liu Xiu seems to be fond of farming, and spends all day working with the hired workers to dig and manage the canals, open up wasteland and eliminate wasteland, work at sunrise and sunset, leisurely, with the intention of dying in the long acres.Liu Yan couldn't bear to see Liu Xiu throwing himself away like this, and reprimanded Liu Xiu: "What can you do by farming? Farmers, mountain springs, and a little field, you are satisfied?" Liu Xiu just smiled and did not refute. Not to refute his big brother.

Who says farming is useless?Great prospects.Thanks to Liu Xiu's hard work, he had a good harvest that year, but with the spread of refugees all over the world, the famine spread, and the price of rice skyrocketed. In the east of Luoyang, the price of rice was as high as two thousand yuan per stone. The sale has made a huge fortune for the country. On New Year's Eve at the end of the year, Liu Xiu asked Liu Yan to come to the courtyard, took a shovel, threw it to Liu Yan, pointed to the place where Liu Yan buried the gold that day, and said with a smile, "Thank you, brother." Three feet above the ground, I suddenly saw five hundred gold.Liu Yan was shocked, and looked back at Liu Xiu with disbelief on his face.Liu Xiu folded her arms triumphantly, as if she felt that in the secret contest with her brother for many years, he finally gained the upper hand this time.Liu Yan stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to say for a while, but Liu Xiu smiled and said, "If you want this money, it's yours, if you don't want it, it's yours."

Ordinary people often feel that mentioning money is too vulgar, let alone between brothers?However, Liu Yan at this time was clearly deeply moved by the five hundred gold. Selling food, eating and sleeping in the open air, and running back and forth, all that Liu Xiu experienced was not for his own consideration, but just to surprise his old brother today.At that time the sky was full of stars and the night wind was blowing, Liu Yan was speechless and choked, the two brothers looked at each other, everything was kept silent. Let's talk about Liu Yan.Liu Yan has been a chivalrous man for many years to support scholars, spending a lot of money, and is often troubled by money. Since Liu Xiu is a good money maker, Liu Yan is financially well-off, and he has more confidence in raising scholars.But what really made Liu Yan happy was that he had already sensitively realized that his long wait and dormancy would finally come to an end, and that the era that belonged to him, Liu Yan, would soon come!And his optimism comes from his pessimism about the world - the world is in chaos, and darkness is about to fall!

As of the second year of Emperor Dihuang, the drought and locust plagues that have ravaged half of China have lasted for four full years, and they are still spreading. The famine has spread further, and the refugee armed forces have also grown stronger.Liu Yan has always been afraid that the world will not be chaotic. Every time there is chaos in the world, his excitement will also increase. He can no longer care about those innocent people who starved to death. The more refugees, the weaker Wang Mang's regime will be. The more opportunities left for him, the greater his hope of recovering the Han Dynasty, let the storm come more violently!He didn't care about the bones of the dead and the unjust souls who died young. He even happily listened to the weeping and crying of the refugees. In his ears, these were elegy to Wang Mang.

The situation gradually became clear, and a bloody catastrophe was inevitable. After this catastrophe, power would inevitably be reshuffled and wealth would be redistributed.Faced with such a huge temptation, the heroes in Nanyang County were all ready to make a move, wanting to act first, so they encouraged Liu Yan one after another, Brother Yan, let's do it.Liu Yan shook his head, the time was not yet ripe.The heroes asked, when will we have to wait?Liu Yan said with a smile: "We must wait until the wall falls and everyone pushes it. Wang Mang is not unlucky enough."