Lu Zhi chatted with Li Su until the evening, and with the idea of "pulling his most promising students and forming more good relationships", he finally decided to follow Li Su's suggestion first.

In any case, let the emperor take the initiative to summon Liu Bei to Beijing, and then Liu Bei immediately came very simply. Compared to the emperor before he even said it, Liu Bei came by himself, which can show Liu Bei's respect for the emperor's order.

The emperor was also more willing to offer Liu Bei benefits because of this.

With Li Su's plot to lay the foundation, he will definitely not lose money when he enters Beijing. Let's take a step at a time for the follow-up road, anyway, there are still a few months, so you can figure it out slowly.

Lu Zhi is almost sixty years old, and everyone is selfish, so why doesn't he want Liu Bei to be a very good minister to the Lu family and promote his descendants in the future.

Of course, with Lu Zhi's imagination and his perception of Liu Bei's current loyalty, the limit of what he can think of at the moment is "an extremely human minister", and he will not have other ideas.

Today's Liu Bei is 28 years old, and he will be 29 in two months. Isn't it normal for a 29-year-old official to be a deputy of Jiuqing, and to be a supreme minister in his lifetime? A little bit of seniority can be calculated.

When Li Su left, he also left Lu Zhi a sum of gold as a fund.

When Li Su mentioned money, Lu Zhi's first reaction was, of course, to change color, and he almost reprimanded Li Su.

But Li Su is very good at talking: "Duke Lu can't mistake big things for the sake of small sections." Has Lu Gong forgotten the disaster of Zuo Feng four years ago? If it weren't for the fact that Huangfu Gong took over Duke Lu as the commander and continued to fight for Zhang Jiao, Zuo Feng's harm would almost overthrow the Han family! ”

Zuo Feng mentioned by Li Su was the eunuch of Xiaohuangmen sent by the imperial court to supervise the army when Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao were in Guangzong in the first year of Zhongping. Zuo Feng asked Lu Zhi for a bribe after Lu Zhi had no money to give, and Lu Zhi was later framed and temporarily removed from prison and imprisoned, but fortunately Huangfu Song still won the battle after taking over the troops, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Su said this, but also to emphasize that when the emperor was about to die, his brain was confused and could not be measured by common sense, and saving money at this time would definitely save accidents, so he could only "seek big things without being informal".

Lu Zhi was silent, struggling inwardly.

Li Su pressed the last straw: "Lu Gong is noble, who in the world doesn't know?" This gold does not have to be given in the name of Lu Gong, it is nothing more than a hint of pulling the strings. This is not to give Lu Gong money, but to take Brother Xuande's money and do Brother Xuande's business. ”

This famous sentence really worked, and Lu Zhi's heart suddenly felt a lot better.

Yes, he didn't take Liu Bei's money!

It's Liu Bei's money to do Liu Bei's business!

"No matter what, Zuo Feng's words of disaster are still in my ears, and the big things are not informal, so I have to do things in a hurry, alas." Lu Zhi sadly accepted the gold.

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After saying goodbye to Lu Zhi, Li Su took the escort back to the post house where he was staying, and along the way, he was also wondering if there were any loopholes in this countermeasure that he hastily came up with today.

After all, the time is too urgent, and I didn't understand the situation before. He can only think about it on the spot, and there must be a lot of follow-up work that needs to be filled.

Walking slowly on horseback, the first point that Li Su thought of was what to do with the territory of Liaodong?

Those territories in Qingzhou are not worth regretting, because there is no expectation, and people who are a little politically sensitive have long known that Qingzhou has no name to occupy.

However, after all, Liaodong is the place where Liu Bei was a genuine taishou, and this nature is completely different.

Fortunately, Li Su had asked Liu Bei before if he had thought about being transferred, and Liu Bei was also very loyal and mentally prepared and dealt with it.

Now, as long as the plan of "pushing Mi Zhu to Liaodong Taishou" is implemented in detail, it is still guaranteed that the peaches will not be picked by outsiders.

It's just that Li Su originally thought that even if Liu Bei was replaced, he would be able to change not too far from Liaodong, so that after the future completely enters the logic of fighting for hegemony in troubled times, the new territory and the old territory can still form an organic linkage and cooperation.

But today I learned that I might eventually be transferred to Hanzhong, and there would be no possibility of linkage with Liaodong at all, and the requirements and personalities for Mi Zhu should be slightly adjusted than before: Mi Zhu only needs to "divide the land and defend himself, and farm in a closed manner".

In other words, in the future, Liu Bei will fight in Kanto again, and the territory of Liaodong can be directly attached to the court of the side to which Liu Bei belongs or controls, and Liu Bei does not need to bother to fight once, which can be regarded as "finishing the Liaodong campaign in advance" and getting it done at one time.

On the other hand, since Mi Zhu is going to be stocked for a long time, Li Su feels that it is still necessary to help Mi Zhu improve his combat effectiveness a little before leaving, so as not to be isolated from the world for a long time in the future and be seized by Yuan Shao or something.

The key to this is to help Mi Zhu improve the technical strength of the navy to a level that Yuan Shao cannot match - as long as Yuan Shao is unable to transport troops and grain by sea, the 400-mile no-man's land in the western Liaoning corridor is enough to cut off Yuan Shao's attack.

You don't see that Gongsun Du has also been closed off for more than half a century in history, and the Central Plains Dynasty still has nothing to do with him. The population of Liaodong is only 300,000 now, and it is already too difficult to interact with the outside world.

From this point of view, "unable to form a cooperation with Liaodong" is not a loss. Because of the rotten land-level transportation facilities, it was impossible to count on land support to the Central Plains battlefield. There is no expectation and no disappointment.

After thinking about how to "not spit out Liaodong in your mouth", the next key question is whether you will face difficulties in developing outward in the future if you go to Hanzhong?

This is also something that must be cautious.

Even if you haven't read any books, but just played mobile games like "Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition", you all know a simple truth: Shu is difficult, and it is easy to enter Shu and difficult to get out of Shu.

Zhuge Liang's failure to go out of Qishan and the difficulties in logistics and supply are all real historical lessons, even if he is as resourceful as Li Su, he must be taken seriously as if he was facing the enemy.

Of course, he wouldn't be interested in the quick victory theory of "if you use the Meridian Valley Trick like Wei Yan, you can win".

However, after considering it all, Li Su felt that the situation he was facing was still very different from Zhuge Liang's six out of Qishan.

As later generations of Qian Zhou wrote in the review of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition "Qiu Guolun" - don't look at Qian Zhou's character as a more capitulation faction, but there are one or two truths in the article that are still very incisive.

That is, Qian Zhou believed that it was possible to succeed in the world pattern of "the end of Qin" from Shu to Guanzhong, so Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, succeeded. But when Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei went on the Northern Expedition, the pattern of the world was no longer "the world of the end of Qin" but "the world of the Warring States".

The difference between Qian Zhou's identification of these two world structures lies in the fact that at the end of the Qin Dynasty, "all the regimes in the world have not been created for a long time, and no one has established authority, so it is easy to change the hearts of the people in the world".

And the world of the Warring States period is "all countries in the world have been established for a long time, and the people of the world are also accustomed to their own monarchs", just like Zhuge Liang's later Northern Expeditions, he faced the stable Wei State that integrated the entire north, so it didn't work.

In fact, Zhuge Liang himself knew that his most idealistic Northern Expedition strategy at the beginning was to have the prerequisite of "waiting for the world to change", and then go out. For example, you have to wait until the Northern Dynasty has just died, the emperor is unstable, or there is Sima rebelling against Wei, the Wei clan fighting back against the civil war, and so on.

Even with Liu Chan's IQ, the Northern Expedition edict to Jiang Wei later wrote "Don't waste troops in vain, you need to wait for Wu to act first", it can be seen that Liu Chan knows that he can't single-handedly fight Wei who is in a stable state, and he must wait until "there is a change".

It's just that at the level of actual implementation, Zhuge didn't succeed in the first great opportunity of the Northern Expedition, and the next few times there was no suddenness and the conditions of "the world has changed", but Zhuge Liang himself knew that his life was short and he couldn't wait, so he forcibly knew that he couldn't do it.

But if Li Su can let Liu Bei enter Sichuan today, the fundamental setting of the Northern Expedition in the future will be completely different - because Li Su is sure that Liu Bei will get a world pattern of "the end of Qin", rather than "the world of the Warring States".

He advanced the Northern Expedition thirty years in advance, and what he had to face was not a monolithic and stable north, but Dong Zhuo, and even a little more could only face Li Dao and Guo Yan. There is still the possibility of infighting between the two people in history.

In this kind of situation where the people of the world are still accustomed to the rule of the Han Dynasty, and no warlord has established a stable heart for more than two generations, isn't it the "world of the end of Qin"!

After thinking about these two points, Li Su secretly concluded in his heart: "Therefore, it is not a problem to keep Liaodong in isolation, and it is not a problem to protect the Northern Expedition in the future." At present, there is only one last problem left to go to Hanzhong-

After seizing Yizhou, will it be like when Liu Bei seized Liu Zhang in history, and fall into the infamy of 'seizing the foundation of the same sect'? Will it be a blow to Liu Bei's benevolent image and cohesive appeal that he has accumulated for half his life? ”

This is also something that must be cautious.

Don't look at the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is not harmful to write about Liu Bei's reputation after seizing Liu Zhang, but in fact, according to the official history, the hearts of the people in Yizhou and even Jingzhou at that time were a little fluctuating, and the shaking of the scholar class was especially great.

If the benevolent character collapses, it is a great loss of intangible assets.

But after thinking about it for a while, Li Su realized that this problem can also be avoided, and the key to avoiding it is to see how to operate the imperial court when it is time.

As long as the final complaint against Liu Yan is good, then Liu Bei is "Liu Yan, the minister who rebelled against the great rebellion and transgression by the edict of the Son of Heaven", which is a world of difference between the nameless "seizing the foundation of the same sect" and the nameless "seizing the foundation of the same sect"!

But there is also a key to operation here, that is, you, the Son of Heaven, had better get it as soon as possible.

It is estimated that it is impossible for Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to be alive, and it is best to make a little time difference, and in the months after the death of Emperor Ling, the succession of the Young Emperor and He Jin has not been killed, he asked for this edict of "transferring Liu Yan back to Beijing to report on his work and inquire".

At the latest, it cannot be later than Emperor Xian's succession to the throne and before the princes begin to fight for Dong. In that case, the gold content of the edict of the Son of Heaven is still very high (although it is slightly lower than that of the few months of the Young Emperor He Jinfu)

Because once the group of heroes start to fight against Dong, then if you take the edict of the Son of Heaven, Liu Yan may also resist under the pretext of "This edict of the Son of Heaven is not the original intention of the Son of Heaven, but the chaotic life of the thief Dong Zhuo who coerced the Son of Heaven". At that time, even if Liu Yan didn't want to fight Dong, he would definitely fight to the death in the face of Liu Bei's crusade against Dong, and even said that Liu Bei was "an eagle dog willing to obey Dong Zhuo's chaotic life".

No matter how strong this resistance is, it is better to have more than less.

Of course, it must be said here that the crime of "an eagle dog willing to obey Dong Zhuo's disorderly life" is not a big deal. Those who are accused like this can also defend themselves, "I am not obeying Dong Zhuo, I am obeying the Son of Heaven and the court."

Isn't that what Liu Biao did in history, Liu Biao was only ordered by Dong Zhuoyao to be the assassin of Jingzhou after the princes had already begun to ask Dong and Wang Rui to assassinate Jingzhou after they were killed by Sun Jian.

After Liu Biao took office, he beat Sun Jian, who attacked Dong, and impeached Liu Yan for arrogating the honor guard of the Son of Heaven, but he was sprayed by people at the time as "obeying Dong Zhuo". But Liu Biao always insisted that it was not Dong Zhuo who obeyed him but the imperial court, and in the end his reputation was still good, and there were not too many celebrities who came to Jingzhou to escape the war in troubled times.

It's just that Li Su wants to keep improving, so he doesn't want to bear even this slightly bad reputation DEBUFF, he wants to do better than Liu Biao in the same period of history in the layout of seeking fame!

These three problems have all been solved in Li Su's mind, and all the loopholes have been basically plugged up, and they can be actually operated.