"The lord doesn't want to delay the preparation time for this winter, so let me go to Zhuti to have a look at the field, supervise them to build water conservancy in Tuntian, and come back in the first month, so I won't miss the wedding." This month, you should be careful yourself, and go back to my fiefdom to clean up the housekeeping at home. ”

When he came back from Liu Bei, of course Li Su had to say hello to his fiancée who was approaching the wedding date and explain the situation.

Cai Yan was really slightly disappointed: "It's cold winter and you're still going out?" General Zhengxi is really capable of summoning people. I'll prepare winter clothes for you to go out of the house. ”

Li Su smiled and caressed: "Don't worry, it's the first time you've come to Chengdu for the winter, right?" I don't know if it's warm in the south, but when I get to Juti, it will be warmer than here, and you will treat me as a cat winter in the south. After a few years, when the road is clear, take you to Muma County and Dianchi County of Kunming people to spend the winter, where the warm flowers bloom in all seasons, just come back before the spring heat. ”

He also tried his best to eliminate the uneasiness in his fiancée's heart, so he told him that the south was not cold.

In fact, Yandao County in Qianwei County is warmer than Chengdu, but Zhuti County in Zhuti County is still slightly colder than Chengdu. The temperature does not depend solely on latitude, but also on the topography.

Yandao (Yibin) is located on the southern edge of the Sichuan Basin, and it still has a warm and humid basin climate, and Zhuti (Zhaotong) is a mountainous climate. Get Tanglang (Qujing) and Dianchi (Kunming) will be much warmer than Yandao.

Li Su himself is also a person who cherishes his life, he is more in awe of the tropical diseases and miasma in Nanzhong than other traversers, so even if Liu Bei does not know how to force him to serve there, he will selectively accept it. If you catch up with the hot season, you force him not to go.

In the next few years, as long as there is no need to go out of the customs before "the world changes", Li Su has already arranged his annual work schedule clearly: in the spring, summer and autumn, he will live in Shu County in the country of abundance for nine months, and go to Yunnan in winter.

After explaining to his family, Li Su had to prepare his staff. Because he lacks skills and has to run at both ends, he has to find a deputy to continue the work when he is not there.

He thought about it, and first sent a fast horse letter to the Dianjiang River in Ba County, and asked Tuntian Duwei Guoyuan to take the Yangtze River route to meet him in Yandao, and in the future, the infrastructure renovation of Zhuti County will count on Guoyuan, a veteran who has experience in building water conservancy in Tuntian in the Jialing River Valley, to preside over it for a long time.

The shipping transit market towns along the Jialing River have been connected to the north during the Diaoyu City Battle in the first half of this year. Therefore, Guoyuan's main workplace now is after the recovery of Diaoyu City, and he will be stationed in Dianjiang in the section between Diaoyu City and Jiangzhou. After Guo Yuan left, the follow-up work on the Dianjiang side was handed over to his junior brother Cheng Bing, anyway, going from zero to one is the most difficult, and the talents required for follow-up Xiao Gui Cao and expanding reproduction are not so demanding.

Those disciples under the great Confucian Zheng Xuan have learned too much about etiquette, and Liu Bei doesn't need so many etiquette talents, so he can transform economic construction as much as possible.

In order to cheer up Guoyuan, Li Su did not draw a big cake in his letter, saying that after Zhu Ti presided over the work, he could be promoted to "Tuntian Captain", and in the future, Nanzhong will be governed by Dacheng, and the world will change, and he can also be promoted to "Diannong Zhonglang General".

Anyway, these official positions are the rank promotion channels set up by Cao Cao for the Tuntian officials in the original history, just like P7P8P9 all the way up. In history, Zaoyi, Guoyuan, and Han Hao have all been pawn farmers.

However, now that the official position of Liu Bei's camp has not been inflated, Li Su himself is still hanging the "envoy Zhonglang general", of course, it is impossible to give a few Zhonglang generals to the Tuntian officials.

So this big pie has to wait for a wave of Wang Yun to kill Dong and the official position to depreciate before it can be cashed out.

After dealing with Zhu Ti's staff, Li Su still needs to find someone who will be the "Governor of Shu County" during his absence.

For a while, he didn't have anything idle, reliable, and ready to use, so he thought about it, so he had to find Zhuge Jin, who had been following him as a teacher, to have a meal at home.

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"Ziyu, how long have you been with me?" Li Su was not polite to Ma Zai, and went straight to the point at the dinner table.

Zhuge Jin thought cautiously: "It's been almost two and a half years. ”

Li Su rubbed his temples: "Did I originally say that I would let you teach Brother Ling and Mi Wei to study, teach them for three years, and then let you become a leader?" ”

Zhuge Jin thought that Li Su was worried about how to fulfill the contract, and hurriedly said that if there is no official to do it, there is no need to worry: "The prince of the government attaches great importance to faith and righteousness, and Jin is grateful, but it doesn't matter whether he is an official or not." I heard that after the pacification of Shu County and the destruction of the Du family, many students who lost their teachers returned to Cai Gong and Gu Yuanxian to study.

This is also an important matter, and it is related to whether the general of Zhengxi can completely win the hearts of the scholars of Shudi. If there is nothing wrong with him, I want to take the second brother, the third brother and Mi Wei to Cai Gong, so that I can help Brother Yuan Sian do something, and the second brother and third brother can continue their studies there. ”

Li Su couldn't help laughing: "You still can't find an official for you to do?" I'm afraid you won't be able to do it if you have too many things to do-I told the lord, let's appoint you as the county governor of Shu County first, after all, you have just officially joined the office, and your qualifications are too shallow, and it is too much to be the county magistrate directly. Do it for a few years, do a good job, and then promote your long history. When Ling Zun was alive, he was just a juncheng, and now you are a juncheng, do a good job. ”

The reason why I told Zhuge Jin that I wanted to teach my younger brothers and sisters to study for three years was because after Zhuge died, the Zhuge brothers must observe filial piety for three years according to the Confucian filial piety etiquette. So in the past few years, Zhuge Jin has followed Li Su to work as a day job, and Li Su gave him living expenses, but did not give him a formal official status.

But everyone knows that the so-called three years is actually twenty-seven months. Zhuge Jue died in the fall of 188, and now it is the end of 190, which is an extra month or two.

After the New Year, Zhuge Jin will be 19 years old, and Zhuge Liang will also be 12 years old. After two and a half years of hard education, Zhuge Liang has also matured a lot, although he can't officially be a child laborer, he can occasionally come up with ideas.

When Zhuge Jin heard this, he was really grateful: "My father only did the county in his life, and now Jin has just entered the office, and the prince of the government has awarded me the county ...... How can this be done? It's already too high. ”

Li Su patted him on the shoulder: "You know in your own heart that in fact, you are not just out of office, after all, you should have helped me do chores for two years." ”

Zhuge Jin: "The humble position must be diligent and live up to the trust of the government." ”

Li Su also took out a few drafts, all of which were the contents of farming that he envisioned in the next few years, and instructed: "Shu County has just been recovered, so the first year is to rest with the people, and don't build a lot of construction to disturb the people." I have some wonderful methods here, and I am afraid that the people will not appreciate it if I forcibly promote it.

You will first find those townships that are my fiefdom Pixian and try them out as my food. Those are all closed households under my rule, and everything should have listened to me unconditionally, and there will be no resistance to the pilot promotion. When the pilot project in Pixian County is good, the tuntian, money and grain are more abundant than elsewhere, and the trade is also prosperous, and the surrounding counties will take the initiative to imitate it when they see the sweetness, and there will be so little resistance to promotion at that time.

Anyway, we want stability in everything, and we don't need to rush for a while. Those novel good governance, the first year in Pixian, the second year to promote to Shu County, the third year to promote to Qianwei, Guanghan, there is no hurry. ”

Li has time to play steadily.

Zhuge Jin also felt that this rhythm was good, respectfully accepted Li Su's farming plan, and prepared to go back to study it slowly with his younger brother.

Li Su spent another day or two in Chengdu to prepare, and then took the escort commander Dian Wei and some entourage, and took a boat to Yandao.

Dian Wei has been mixed with Li Su for so many years, and it is a bit cheap to be the governor of Yamen all the time, so Li Su took advantage of the wave of promotions in Yizhou to pacify him and promoted him to the captain of the army.

Under the Han system, all miscellaneous generals and below can set up their own protector captains, which belong to the shogunate of each general, not the official position of the imperial court. Li Su himself is only a lieutenant general, and it is said that he cannot be configured like the general of the opening mansion, but Liu Bei gave him special preferential treatment, and he has already given Li Su himself the de facto treatment of "opening the mansion and setting up the shogunate staff".

On the way to go, because it was downstream, the boat drove very fast, and it crossed most of the Minjiang River in three days, and arrived at Yandao from Pixian County.

At the beginning, the five counties in the south of Qianwei County were divided into Zhuti County, and after the split, the dividing line between Qianwei and Zhuti was in Yandao.

After leaving the county seat of Yandao, and then go south along the Yangtze River to trace the river, there is the Qianwei boundary, the southeast bank of the Yangtze River is Zhuti County, and the northwest bank of the Yangtze River is Yuewang County.

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When Li Su arrived in Yandao, not only did the Yandao county order come to pay a visit, but even Zhu Ti Taishou Pang Xi, who had just been in office for two months, took the initiative to come.

Zhuti County, where Pang Xi is stationed, is 350 miles away from Yandao in a straight line, and it is more than enough to go around by water or mountain road - measure how far Yibin is from Zhaotong on the Baidu map.

Therefore, Pang Xi's arrival can be described as trembling, maybe he thought that Li Su was here to unload the mill and kill the donkey to liquidate him, and Liu Bei sealed him Zhu Ti's promise to keep it.

Li Su was very satisfied with this: "Pang Taishou is really diligent in government affairs, I didn't expect to be able to cross the mountain for 350 miles to meet him, compared to the water conservancy and road improvement affairs explained by General Zhengxi, Pang Taishou will try his best to cooperate." ”

Pang Xi replied in shock: "It's not hard, it's not hard, I didn't come over the mountain, I took a boat along the Yangguan River and went down the river, and it joined the Lushui thirty miles upstream of the Yandao Road, and it was quite convenient all the way." The governor is here, and the local government should cooperate. ”

Yangguanshui was called Guan River in later generations, which is a small tributary that flows from Zhaotong city to the upper reaches of Yibin and joins the Yangtze River. This waterway is relatively gentle, and there are no reefs and shoals, so if you just want to communicate between Zhaotong and Yibin, it is best to take this river.

But there is one of the biggest problems with this river, that is, the most upstream source only reaches the Zhaotong urban area in later generations, and then it is broken.

In order to realize Li Su's requirement to open up a waterway directly between Kunming and Qujing, it is still necessary to open up a route in the middle section of the Jinsha River, and then turn to Tushui, which is a one-step process.

Taking advantage of Pang Xi's initiative to mention this topic, Li Su was not polite, and said directly: "It is inconvenient to go to Yangguan Shui, the lord asked me to come this time to see if I can dredge the Lushui waterway in winter, and after the autumn harvest next year, our army will clear the business road that arrives in Dianchi County, Jianning County." ”

Pang Xi accompanied him to confirm carefully: "General Zhengxi wants to go on an expedition to Dianchi, those Kunming barbarians?" That...... Will the army and the quartermaster pass through our Juti? ”

Pang Xi secretly complained in his heart, he was finally assigned to Zhu Ti, and he thought that he could become a rich man of the emperor of the soil, why was he still a strategically important soldier.

I had no choice but to serve Li Su, the governor of the city, carefully.