Chapter 155
This time, there was still a lot of information coming back from Luoyang. The first thing to do was that among the markets in Luoyang, Liu Bin was the source of the world's top ***.
Rumors say: When today's biggest thieves are all supported by Liu Bin. Otherwise, why would Zhang Yan and Guan Hai have such a large force to surrender to Liu Bin when Liu Bin was the weakest? Moreover, these thieves are all strong and well-equipped. If it were not for Liu Bin's support, how could they have fought against the regular army of the court for so long without a distinction? You must know that even these princes with territory and tax revenue will not be easy to support so many soldiers, and it is even more difficult to equip so many soldiers. How did those rude bandits do it? Therefore, only these thieves are supported by others can explain it. At the same time, today, only a powerful force like Liu Bin can support so many thieves.
Although this rumor has no actual basis, it is more just guesses and inferences. However, in this way, the blow to Liu Bin's reputation was also very serious. In this era where there is no entertainment or idols, such topics are the best entertainment for ordinary people after dinner. Perhaps when they first started to spread, those communicators themselves would not believe it, but just talked about it as a joke or show off as a well-informed expression. However, what will happen if the same topic has been spread a thousand times? Especially every communicator will naturally exaggerate and modify it. What will happen when the rumor is exaggerated and modified by countless people? The lies come true. What is the point of being pointed out by thousands of people.
This is very clear to Liu Bin and Guo Jia. This kind of rumor is not only a despicable and vicious strategy against Liu Bin, but also a very practical strategy. However, compared with the information behind it, this information seems so insignificant.
This second love can come on the same day as the first information, which is also a coincidence.
But this was a helpless coincidence. It was just because the intelligence leader Liu Bin set up in Luoyang was Liu San, a former guard of Liu Bin. Liu San has been doing well in the Luoyang officialdom in recent years and has made extraordinary progress. When Liu San learned about this rumor, he immediately realized how terrible this rumor would be to a big man in the officialdom. Although Liu San had no solution, Liu San knew that in order to deal with such rumor, he had to know who the person who created the rumor was. What was his purpose. Therefore, in order not to delay the time back and forth, Liu San spent a lot of effort to investigate the matter. After Liu San investigated it clearly, it was after Cao *** and others did it. The second thing happened.
The saint returned to the court safely. Moreover, after Cao Cao led all civil and military officials to welcome the saint, in order to commend Cao Cao's delegation, Xiahou Dun's contribution to the saint's successor, in addition to fulfilling Cao Cao's original position as the Left General, he also gave Cao Cao the Jieyue, allowing Cao Cao to take charge of the Secretariat at the same time. The Left General's position was nothing. However, the leadership of the Secretariat was the time when Yuan Shao wanted Liu Yu to get the official position. That was a real shortage of being able to enthrone officials according to the system.
Of course, if it is just like this, then this news cannot be compared with the first news. However, with the return of the emperor, Cao Cao issued an edict to the world, allowing all the powerful princes in the world to come to Luoyang to see the emperor and congratulate the emperor on their own affairs. In theory, any prince who received this manifesto would have to go. Especially Liu Bin, who had the last edict of the emperor, who had the last edict of the emperor. However, if this really went to Luoyang, it would not have fallen into Cao Cao's hands. Is life and death all under Cao Cao's control? But this is not the end, and just after the emperor came back, rumors spread.
The rumor says: On the way back to Luoyang, the emperor was not only pursued by the old subordinates of Dong Zhuo, but also encountered attacks from the Huns soldiers. In addition to their original strength, the crossbows they used were much better than those in the Central Plains. But in today's world, there is no other force that can produce such good bows in large quantities except Liu Bin from Youzhou. Even if those Xiongnu cavalry were not instructed by Liu Bin, it was caused by Liu Bin's affair with foreign tribes and selling the good bows to the Huns. This Liu Bin made the evil Huns attack the emperor even more rampantly, which was the greatest evil. Things are tolerant and unbearable. This time, Liu San knew without having to investigate, that it must have been reported by Cao Cao again.
When Liu San sent back this information at one time, the first person who received the information was Guo Jia, who had not been sleeping all night and had been searching for information and was preparing to build momentum for Liu Bin. After Guo Jia received the news, he immediately *** the news and then reported it to Liu Bin. This caused Liu Bin and Guo Jia to be in this state now.
At this time, Guo Jia looked at Liu Bin thinking. For the first time, Guo Jia felt that he was so powerless. Rumors and lies were made. There have been strategies in ancient and modern times. But they have always been easy to use, and it is not so easy to guard against. Just like when he spread rumors to Yuan Shao, no one believed him at the beginning. But in the end, Yuan Shao couldn't even explain it clearly. He could only leave a way of destruction.
If this rumor is only targeting ordinary generals or officials, it would be easy to solve the problem. There is a saying: the rumor stops at the wise. As long as the master is not trapped by the rumor, the rumor will be self-defeating over time. But now this rumor is targeting his lord. Although those rumors do not have any substantial lethality, the people are blind and cannot distinguish between true and false. Those heroes and patriots who do not know the truth and capable will confuse the public and greatly affect the future development of the lord. Moreover, even if they are still making Cao Cao's rumors now, there will be no other benefits except to make Cao Cao and his lord's reputation become worse and worse. It will be of no help to the restoration of the lord's reputation.
Apart from these, Guo Jia also has a more confusing question, that is, although these news are classified as rumors, they are true and false, and they are just a little bit close to the facts, which makes Guo Jia even more difficult to justify himself. Moreover, just like this problem now, this should have been a brainstorming, but now in order to keep it a secret, he can only face it alone with his lord.
Guo Jia smiled bitterly, sorted out the solution he had thought of. He said to Liu Bin: "Lord, the situation is difficult now. Jia thought that we should quickly launch all newspapers and magazines in our Youzhou to resolutely clarify these rumors. With the identity of the editor-in-chief of all the scholars in Youzhou, all the scholars will support us. At the same time, let the people in the Propaganda Department make a few jokes and let those gangs and people talk to them. It will definitely make the people no longer think that those rumors have anything to do with us. As for Cao Cao's proclamation to the world, asking the princes to worship the saints. You must not go. The worship is no longer the same as the general He Jin in the past.
If you ask people to go to Beijing to quell the rebellion, you can't lead more troops. Just attack Cao and others to spread such rumors. You can see that Cao Cao absolutely did not have any good intentions. If you go, you will really become a sheep and a tiger's mouth. There will be little danger. However, if we hadn't needed to restore our strength recently and avoid suspicion when rumors spread. We just took the army, how could he be able to do it? Now we can only use the people sent by Cao Cao to deliver the order and directly pretend to be bandits and kill them. In this way, you can't see the imperial edict and get the news, so you naturally don't have to go. What's your intention? "Lord?"
Unexpectedly, after listening to Guo Jia's suggestions, Liu Bin suddenly laughed. This made Guo Jia startled. Why did the lord laugh when he was so anxious? Even if his plan was good, he could not even be satisfied with it. It was just some emergency measures. The lord should not be so happy. Could it be that the lord is in a hurry to get into trouble? It is impossible. How could the lord, a hero of the lord, not even tolerate this little bit? If that were the case, would the lord still deserve his own assistance? Guo Jia asked with concern: "Why did the lord laugh? Has the lord already thought of a better solution? Jiaxue listened to him."
Liu Bin replied with a ill-hearted smile and said, "Fengxiao, over the years, it seems that none of the assassinations you planned have succeeded. Why are you thinking about assassination again this time?" After a moment, Guo Jia turned red with his face. Guo Jia said in shame: "Jia is incompetent. He has a strong hope. This time Jiaru cannot intercept Cao Cao's envoy, and Jia is willing to die to thank his lord." Liu Bin waved his hand and said, "You misunderstood Fengxiao. I don't mean that, and I have never been disappointed with you. If you are incompetent, then everyone in the world will become mentally retarded."
Guo Jia was moved by Liu Bin's words and said excitedly: "The lord is very loving, and Jia is ashamed and dare not take it. Jia is indeed incompetent. Those few plans were not comprehensive enough. That was indeed Jia's fault." Liu Bin said with a smile: "Fengxiao, your strength lies in military strategy, predicting the enemy's initiative, hiding ambush, and siege the city and stole the land. These are all your strengths. But that assassination is something you have never done or experienced. How can you succeed in your imagination out of thin air? Such insignificant little things should be left to professionals. If you work hard on this, it is not only a great talent, but also a long-term use. You only need to tell your professionals to freely play the results you want. For example, the dead soldiers and special forces trained by Master Wang Yue for me."
Chapter completed!