At the wine table, you can chat about the general trend, but it is not suitable for talking about specific implementation.

So after Liu Bei talked a lot of nonsense with the strategists, he didn't go deeper, and soon got drunk and was helped back to rest by the concubines.

Since it is a small talk, the speaker is not guilty, and there must be people who disagree with Li Su.

In particular, the wine is strong and instigating, and in the last few searches before Liu Bei was helped down, Guan Ning, Xi Xi and other civil officials who were of the etiquette school and did not know much about strategy also mentioned a few words of "You should go north to ask Dong as soon as possible, and serve the Son of Heaven to order not to be subordinate".

But Liu Bei didn't care, just treat these people as Kong Rong. Other strategists who drank too little would not directly refute this politically correct high-pitched statement. However, everyone knew in their hearts that Liu Bei must have trusted Li Su's vision more.

Only Lu Su was still on a case-by-case basis, and directly supported Li Su's opinion that "you can't be in a hurry, you must wait for changes in the pass" just now.

Who let Lu Su always tell the truth and don't care about false etiquette, in history, he was able to directly throw out the big rebellious remarks of "the Han family cannot be revived" when Sun Quan was still hiding it, which shows that he is also a person who dares to risk the world's disapproval.

The banquet dispersed, and a group of people went back to rest without mentioning it.

……

Li Su's Hou Mansion in the fiefdom has not yet been renovated, but he also has his own property in Chengdu City.

He is now the Taishou of Shu County, so the Taishou Mansion is his territory. Outside the back door of the Taishou Mansion, there is also a big mansion, which is the property of the original Du brothers, the Du brothers should be martyred in the country, and Li Su happens to divide the house, so that in case of future job transfers, he will no longer serve as the Taishou of Shu County, and it is good to have a backyard to rest the horse, and it is convenient to move and move things.

Therefore, including Cai Yan, the family members and maidservants have also temporarily settled in this mansion.

In a few days, Cai Yan will go around the fiefdom as the hostess, supervise the decoration progress of the Hou Mansion, and strive to simply decorate the façade within a month or two, and then tidy up one or two into the residence, and then be able to do marriage in the Hou Mansion in the first month. Li Su has other things to do, so he doesn't have to worry about the internal affairs of the family.

Early this morning, under the service of Cai Yan and the maidservant, I drank some salted egg yolk and minced mutton porridge that nourished the stomach? Deal with breakfast.

Did you drink too much yesterday? In the morning, you want to eat something light and nourishing your stomach, and there is no need to be greasy and meaty? Anyway, the development is over, and it won't grow any longer. Li Su originally wanted to use preserved eggs? But now there are no preserved eggs, and he can't remember the pickling recipe for preserved eggs for a while? Let's start with salted duck eggs.

Salted duck eggs have no technical content, and there is a record in the genuine "Qi Min Yaoshu"? It can be seen that there were salt duck eggs in the early period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties at the latest. Although Li Su wrote "Agricultural Politics" at the beginning? But for such a simple thing, he casually pointed it out and asked Cai Yan to add it to the manuscript.

The porridge has just been drunk, and there is a servant outside the door to report? Say you have an old friend visiting? It is Shi Lusu, the chief of Hanzhong.

Lu Su spent most of this year guarding Hanzhong, because other fierce generals were transferred out to fight, and even Liu Bei himself was on the front line, and someone had to guard the rear.

Although Lu Su is not a famous general, he is already cautious enough to garrison the place? The talent of "Fulu Gatekeeper Rao Zijing" has been shown, with the danger of Hanzhong Heavenly Hell? With Lu Su here, a few thousand soldiers and horses can ensure that they are safe.

But? In late November, Liu Bei saw that the war in the three counties of the Chengdu Plain was about to end completely, so he carefully invited Lu Su to come here to celebrate together? Should I make a false debriefing? Enjoying a tour? Temporarily hand over government affairs to others, and go back after the Shangyuan Festival.

The reason why this time was chosen is also because the Qinling Mountains in the north are covered by heavy snow in winter, so from November to the end of January every year, it is impossible for the warlords of the Guanzhong Plain to cross the Qinling Mountains to attack Hanzhong.

It can also be seen that Liu Bei is still very considerate of his subordinates, and he is quite good at winning people's hearts, not only to achieve the value of life for promotion, but also to help you think about the annual vacation tour group building in the months of the year.

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Li Su still has a very strong relationship with Lu Su, after all, the latter was personally recruited by him back then.

So I didn't be polite to him when we met, and stayed with Lu Su for breakfast together.

Lu Su: "I've eaten it." ”

Li Su: "Then eat some more, I have porridge here to nourish my stomach, and I can't go wrong with a bowl on the day after drinking." If you have a heavy taste, you can also add fish fillets and shredded duck meat to roll raw. ”

Salted egg and shredded pork porridge with a little spice, it is still very easy to make boat porridge. Li Su usually doesn't like to drink porridge, but this doesn't mean that he is not familiar with the ingredients of Cantonese porridge.

Lu Su smelled it and felt fragrant, so he didn't be polite, it's a big deal that he won't eat at noon now. He didn't let him add the duck soup, but just asked for some fish fillets to be added and slightly boiled.

"Brother Boya, every time I come, there are good things, and I will enjoy life. After such a bowl, the wine is much more comfortable. ”

Li Su smiled: "You drank too much last night, Guan Ning and Xi Xian often talk about high-pitched songs, and you actually refute them." 'Fengtianzi' is a great righteousness, even if it is unrealistic, it is difficult to refute it head-on. ”

However, Li Su mentioned this, which means that he has not forgotten Lu Su's statement of supporting him last night, which shows that "I know that you and I are on the same front".

Lu Su also smiled: "I'm just aggrieved and panicked, in fact, the world is about to be completely chaotic, if there is no chaos to remove the filth, how can there be great governance?" Everyone knows the benefits of Fengtianzi.

But because it is not easy to debate in front of people, I think many people have not thought clearly about the key to it, and they don't know how to reflect the interests of Fengtianzi. I didn't think too much about it, so I didn't vomit or feel unhappy, and I wanted to talk to Brother Boya about opinions in private. ”

Hearing Lu Su ask such a constructive question, Li Su couldn't help but glance at the other party again.

Lu Su's political power is very good! Be able to dig deep into this problem with a keen eye.

In fact, "coercing the Son of Heaven to make the princes" is beneficial, which is known to anyone who has seen a little bit of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in later generations, and even some people feel that they rely on this one, and after crossing over, they can get as many benefits as possible by advising the lord to welcome the Son of Heaven, and they will also take a ride on their careers.

But because everyone thinks that there are benefits to coercing the Son of Heaven, how many benefits there are, and under what conditions these benefits can be realized, no one has ever analyzed them. became an "elephant in the room", everyone knew about its existence, but did not discuss its details, and finally blindly followed blind faith.

If you don't believe it, you can also ask yourself: Can you tell what specific benefits Cao Cao got by coercing the Son of Heaven in history? Ninety percent of people can't answer.

In his previous life, Li Su studied diplomacy, and he spent his whole life dealing with "righteousness" and legitimacy.

It is really because he understands orthodoxy that he will not blindly persuade the lord to rush to "serve the Son of Heaven".

Historically, Cao Cao's benefits through coercion of the Son of Heaven can be divided into three categories.

The first category is called "those counties that are not occupied by ambitious heroes, as long as the imperial army arrives, they can automatically surrender." And if these counties are destroyed by other ambitious warlords, those bureaucratic owners who have no ambitions will also come thousands of miles to join the warlords who represent the imperial court."

For example, it is people like Hua Xin and Wang Lang. Although this kind of person occasionally divided the city and divided the land to defend himself in the late Han Dynasty, he really did not have his own ambition to fight for hegemony, but purely defended himself. Cao Cao, who represented the imperial court, did not directly border him, he lived by himself, and if Cao Cao could border him, he would vote directly. Hua Xin and Wang Lang's territory was destroyed by Yuan Shu and Sun Ce, and they would also return to Xudu alone to serve as officials for Cao Cao.

The second category is called "After the original enemies are destroyed, their land will automatically belong to the prince who represents the court and holds the Son of Heaven hostage, and there is no need to waste too many troops to seize it by force."

The typical examples of these are Yuan Shu and Li Dao. In history, before Yuan Shu died, Huainan actually still had some troops and county strength, but as long as Yuan Shu himself vomited blood and died of "thirst for honey", his pseudo-emperor's name collapsed, and the rest of the territory was basically cast. Yuan Shu did not die after being beaten to the point where the soldiers, food, and territory were completely gone, as said in the romance, but the forces that disappeared after he died, and the cause and effect relationship cannot be reversed.

Similarly, after Li Dao was destroyed, Cao Cao only sent Zhong Xuan back to Guanzhong to "pacify", and the almost barren Guanzhong returned to Cao Cao again nominally. The process of Cao Cao getting Chang'an and Luoyang can be said to have been without the use of force.

The third and final type of "coercion of the Son of Heaven" is to take advantage of the advantage that "the Son of Heaven can be hereditary, but the officials cannot be hereditary" to quickly annex the territory of the rival warlord after his death from illness.

The representatives are Yuan Shao and Liu Biao. In fact, Yuan Shao can't be regarded as destroyed by the Battle of Guandu, or even by the Battle of Cangting-

If it is only a few defeats, as long as Yuan Shao does not die, and there is still life and tenacity to come back, what is there to be afraid of? Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, how many times did Cao Cao himself lose and almost shake the fundamental defeat? How many times has Liu Bang lost in history?

The battle of Guandu was only the loss of a force that took the initiative to attack, and the territory of Qingjiyu and Sizhou was still there, and it was pedantic to say that Guandu would beat Yuan Shao to the point of not having a chance.

But the key problem is that a warlord has not been fully justified in his succession before he becomes emperor. Even if Yuan Shao chooses the right son to inherit the throne, he will still face a lot of divisions, and face many subordinates who will be separated because "I am only loyal to Yuan Shao, not to the Yuan dynasty".

Since Qin Shi Huang, the emperor has been hereditary and his courtiers have not been hereditary, which has been the biggest flaw. Cao Cao has been holding the Son of Heaven hostage for so many years, so that he prepared for the moment when the enemy's first generation passed on the throne after his death.

It can also be seen from this that it is quite a historical fluke that Liu Bei was able to leave a piece of land in the end - fortunately, Liu Bei was younger than Cao Cao and died later than Cao Cao. Otherwise, because Cao Cao did not call the emperor, Liu Bei did not dare to call the emperor, if Liu Bei died first, Liu Bei, who had not yet become the emperor, would pass on the "Yizhou Mu" to Liu Chan...... Hehe, I'm afraid it's hard to hold back Zhuge Liang.

From this point of view, Liu Bei's deathbed Tuo Gu said, "If you are not talented, you can take it yourself" is actually nothing to doubt. Liu Bei had seen the tragic situation of Yuan Shao and Liu Biao because they "died earlier than Cao Cao, so their life was instantly cleared". In his heart, even if it is really given to Zhuge Liang, it is better than to give it to Cao Cao.

Liu Bei's dying mentality, maybe he hadn't adapted to the identity of the emperor, but he just regarded himself as a "Yuan Shao and Liu Biao who can pass on the throne". Because of the aura of history, later generations feel that Liu Bei is much stronger than Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, but after careful analysis, they found that the most critical point is "life".

As long as you can survive the immortal death as a prince, and survive until the national thief who does not dare to claim the title of emperor on behalf of the Han dies first, and his son can't hold back the removal of the banner of the Han in order to prevent the loss in the process of succession, you will also survive. Whether Liu Bei and Sun Quan are definitely stronger than other warlords who have dissipated in the long river of history, this is hard to say, but their longevity is the biggest advantage.

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Of course, the illustrative part of these profound cognitive insights in Li Su's previous life can't be told to Lu Su, because they haven't happened yet.

However, the principle can be deduced from Lu Su.

Therefore, he also cooked porridge with Lu Su to discuss the Son of Heaven, sorted out the above three points one by one, and let Lu Su discover and improve the arguments by himself.

Lu Su really drew inferences from one case and quickly summed up the conclusion.

"Brother Boya is really a genius in the world, and he even dares to think so clearly about the big rebellious question of 'how much benefit does Fengtianzi have'.

In this way, because we will have to ask Dong ourselves in the future, whether it is the Son of Heaven or not, Dong Zhuo's territory of the traitors, General Zhengxi can get it, it is nothing more than multiple sons of heaven, so that those thieves who escaped will be willing to come back and join them. If the interests of this area are not big enough, there is no need to rush to Fengtianzi for this point.

Second, if you automatically get those warlords who are not ambitious for the sake of worshipping the Son of Heaven, it depends on how many such warlords are around. If we are in Yangzhou, bordering those cowardly self-defending thieves, then Fengtianzi is anxious, and if there is no such county to absorb, it doesn't matter if Fengtian is not bothered.

In the end, if it is to 'let the strong enemy survive the longevity', and is taken back by the side of the Son of Heaven because of the succession, it depends on the longevity and health of the leaders of the surrounding strong enemies. If the head of the surrounding strong enemy is already fifty or sixty years old, and the age of life is about to end, or if the body is weak, the son of heaven will be beneficial. If they are conquered by force, they will not be able to die of old age, and the Son of Heaven will be of little use. ”

When Yuan Shao didn't die, did Cao Cao's title as the Son of Heaven get any practical benefits from Yuan Shao? Yuan Shao is not a bird at all.

This is not a cliché generalization, but an actuarial quantitative analysis. The value of the Son of Heaven is accurate to the extent that a pair of underwear and a piece of toilet paper are accurate.

After Li Su and Lu Su's deduction, their hearts were also hearty. He dared to say that in this life, whether it was Xun Yu or Fu Zhu, on the issue of "the benefits of Fengtianzi", they did not think about it as carefully and thoroughly as they do now.

The main reason is that these words are too perverse, and they can't say it to a person like Liu Bei who upholds benevolence and righteousness, so Li Sulu and Su dare to say that "at present, this Han family cannot be revived", they have to understand that people complain in private behind closed doors, and form a united front in private.

Of course, Lu Su in this life is definitely not saying that "the Han family cannot be revived", but "the current Han family cannot be revived", after all, the lord is still surnamed Liu, and a Han room can be rebuilt, and it is better to rebuild it than to overhaul it.

Li Su: "Zijing can have such insight, I am also relieved." The affairs of the north will be left to you. ”

Lu Su: "Brother Boya, don't worry, I sigh with you from the bottom of my heart today, and my younger brother is more confident, and he will not let the lord be inspired by benevolence and righteousness." Brother although the internal cultivation of political affairs, the south of the barbarian Yue. When do you think the world will change, let's prepare for that moment. ”