Now that he had found a way, in the next 20 days, Li Su of course went to the front line in person, supervised the work of harvesting the enemy's wheat, and publicized and induced the people in the enemy-occupied areas to also store grain in advance. Fight wits and courage with the rebel food collection team, and try to let as little food as possible from the people in the enemy-occupied areas be collected by the rebels.

Hardships and setbacks are inevitable. The biggest trouble comes from two aspects.

The first is that the propaganda is too slow, the vast majority of ancient farmers are illiterate, you want to publicize how to make a mill, how to make the people believe that the mill baked in a casserole can be stored for two months, you have to pass it on by word of mouth, hand in hand.

This greatly restricts the speed of the viral spread of information, and at the most exaggerated time, it is even necessary to let the displaced people who have been put back into the enemy-occupied areas to be meticulously worked, carry back a sack of the finished product, and let the people in the enemy-occupied areas taste it with their own mouths.

This restricts the selection of fine work, and only those who have relatives who are concerned about Yuyang can be fine work, because the homeless people who are not concerned may go home with food on their backs and do nothing at all.

So much so that in order to cut off the other party's hundreds of thousands of stone wheat, Li Su himself even put in hundreds of stone free tastings. Later, it was found that the efficiency was too low, so Li Su adjusted the target of wooing, and asked the meticulous workers to focus on persuading the prestige village elders and elders in the enemy-occupied villages, let these people try the food, and then let the elders help publicize the good intentions of the imperial court, which can be regarded as the implementation at the lowest cost.

After the propaganda problem was resolved, all that remained was military harassment - the rebels didn't notice it at first, but after a dozen days, as the time entered early August, the normal Youzhou wheat harvest season was getting closer and closer, and the enemy reacted.

Then, the cavalry on Li Su's side had to cross the border and secretly cut the wheat in the opposite right Beiping, which was much more difficult.

At this time, Li Su had to invite Liu Bei to increase his military pressure.

In the small-scale clash of grabbing grain, there were casualties on both sides, but Liu Bei and Guan Yu obviously had the absolute upper hand - this kind of patrol level clash of 100 people, whoever bumped into Guan Yu was looking for death.

As for Zhang Nan, the local governor of Yuyang County, it doesn't matter whether he will be unhappy because Liu Bei has crossed the line in an all-round way.

After Li Su reported his strategy and needs to Liu Yu, Liu Yu was also extremely optimistic about the prospects of this plan, and greatly praised Li Su, asking him to adjust whatever he wanted.

Zhang Nan's waste dim sum, always defeating the battle and resisting pressure, has long been disgusted by Liu Yu, and there is nowhere to sue no matter how he bullies. Liu Yu is now Wen trusts Li Su, and Wu trusts Liu Bei.

After persisting like this for more than 20 days, by the end of August, that is, the normal wheat harvest season, Li Su and Liu Bei, the golden duo of civil and military affairs, finally successfully completed the task - they at least harmed and transformed hundreds of thousands of stones of wheat in Youbeiping and even in western Liaoning.

Among them, there are about tens of thousands of stones that were snatched and made into rolling to subsidize their own military supplies. There are also two or three hundred thousand stones, which were picked back from the fingers of the rebels' tax collectors and robbers in spontaneous small actions by the people on the other side.

Even if the rebel grain collectors went down to the countryside and found that the local people had already milled the wheat in advance, they would not be able to collect taxes, because according to the tax collection process, the mills must have rotted in and out of the warehouse.

At most, they will eat a few full meals from the people, and then take a few days of dry food to eat for themselves, and they will not hand it in.

On the contrary, some of the more tyrannical rebel soldiers, who failed to complete the task of requisitioning food and were oppressed by the generals, were angry and indiscriminately killed the people who made the milling, and even regarded the people who did the milling as pro-Han and anti-Zhang rebellions.

Li Su and Liu Yu couldn't have thought of these consequences in advance, and they couldn't help it. But Zhang Jujun's killing of the people in the areas he occupied for this obviously made their people's hearts even more unstable.

Many people who were originally thieves because they had been oppressed by the Han family for many years, and now they see that Zhang Jujun killed the people more brutally and wreaking havoc than the Han family, and they regretted it: they thought that there would be a good life for the change of dynasty, but it turned out to be even more brutal! If I knew it, I wouldn't have welcomed Zhang Ju!

As a result, at least 300,000 stone wheat noodles could not be collected, and the rebels' grain and grass immediately fell into crisis expectations - the reason why we had to add an "expectation" was because there was no shortage of food yet.

No matter how much you toss, you won't be short of food just after the autumn harvest.

But what to do when the moon is cold in winter? I was expecting this year's wheat harvest to survive the winter!

This shadow is what every high-ranking tribal with a little bit of insight wants.

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When Li Su and Liu Bei returned to Jixian County with 2,000 soldiers and horses and tens of thousands of stones, they were greeted by Liu Yu personally when they went out of the city to greet them because of the outstanding effect of the strategy.

Other officials below the Youzhou Mu level were even more supportive of Li Su and his party.

"Li Beijia has worked hard, such a world-class talent, and also inspected Yuyang counties, went deep into Youbeiping, and personally went to the thieves to collect the thief's grain and cut off the thief's supply.

Han Fei said: The king of Yu is also the king of the world, and he thinks that the people are the first, and there is no hair on the shins, although the labor of the ministers is not bitter. Look at the hairless shins, it must be tired these days, it is really hard work, and loyalty can be seen every day. ”

There are even many officials who say these rainbow farts, and in terms of rank, they are much higher than Li Su.

Li Su was a little speechless: Lao Tzu was born fair and smooth, okay! Lao Tzu has no leg hair! It's not like Dayu because of his own water control and labor intensity!

After being polite to these guys for a long time, the group finally followed Liu Yu into the state pastor's mansion, and Liu Yu also personally set up a banquet for Li Su and Liu Bei's meritorious service this time.

The dishes are quite plain, after all, in the year of the catastrophe, it can't be excessive. But the courtesy is enough.

It can be seen that Liu Yu's plan for Li Su to succeed is simply an unexpected joy - originally, "destroying the enemy's military ration collection and improving the comparison of the endurance of the enemy and us", Liu Yu did not expect Li Su to make much achievements, even if it was just fanning the flames and bluffing, there was no actual benefit and only reduced the enemy's confidence in the endurance of military rations, it was already considered a success.

Who knew that Li Su could easily weaken the enemy's army by hundreds of thousands of stones.

This is no less than the battle of Guandu, and the credit of a black nest is small! It's nothing more than Li Su killing people without seeing blood, robbing grain invisibly, and looking inconspicuous.

After the banquet, Liu Yu ordered everyone else to retreat and disperse, leaving only Li Su and Liu Bei as his henchmen to talk about things:

"Boya, you have done a lot of credit for this, and I will definitely reward you heavily. However, although this thing works well, it is not good to perform, and it is not good to directly promote you to an official position. I see that a few days ago, Cai Bozhi also arrived in Zhongshan, and the copy of "Refuting Disasters and Different Theories" that you co-signed with him has also been engraved into a book.

It is better to wait for these books to reach the capital division, and I will also secretly express your majesty and clarify that the Hu people's previous agitation and reckless progress due to Zhang Ju's rebellion and instigation have been quelled. When the time comes, Your Majesty may be relieved to see that we have suppressed the bad influence of Zhang Ju as emperor.

I will give you a number of merits and rewards, and use your talents and learning as this year's Maocai in this state, and ask Your Majesty to promote you as a thousand stones. In addition to the same position, he was awarded the 'Long History of Protecting the Wuhuan Captain', and from then on he was fully responsible for the pacification and contact between the imperial court and the Wuhuan ministries. ”

Liu Yu's plan is obviously very serious.

Because you have harmed the enemy's hundreds of thousands of stone military rations, this matter cannot be directly converted into superficial merit.

In other words, the credit for promotion is based on the curative effect, not only some indicators that can be seen by "testing".

Therefore, it is necessary to wait for the crusade against the rebels to progress in stages before being promoted.

When Zhang Ju had just been proclaimed emperor, there were still a lot of military frictions and people shaking on the border in the areas controlled by the two sides.

Therefore, stabilizing these vacillations and allowing the enemy to retreat further and not dare to cause trouble can be regarded as a phased achievement.

And the defeat of the enemy's grain and grass can only be said to be the catalyst that finally contributed to the transformation of this situation.

In addition, Liu Yu can also describe the previous skirmishes caused by the crossing of the border to harvest grain as "Zhang Ju said that the morale of the enemy army after the emperor rose and attacked wildly". Now that the enemy army is repulsed and no longer attacking, it is said that "the bad influence of Zhang Ju as emperor has been pressed back".

The official word has two mouths, and the interpretation of the favorable progress is not how the state pastor wants to interpret it.

At the same time, Li Su and Cai Yong's "Refutation of Disaster and Dissenting Theory" can also be used as an interpretation of "Zhang Ju's claim that the bad inciting influence of the Emperor on the Hu people was purged", and it is reflected in the performance.

As for the money for repairing the palace...... As it is the case, if you want to pretend not to give this 10 million to the outside world, you actually have to give far more than 10 million secretly, so as to get the long history of supporting the festival. If Li Su didn't want to pay this money, he asked Liu Bei for public funds, anyway, it was for everyone's common cause, so he was chilling.

Who made Liu Bei much richer than Li Su now?

After a little pondering, Li Su figured out Liu Yu's foresight.

"Thank you for your cultivation! It is difficult to repay the great grace of the monarch in this life. After Li Su thanked him, he was also thinking in his heart that Liu Yu was so kind to him and Liu Bei, it seems that it will be a little difficult to start with Youzhou as a base in the future. After all, Liu Yu will definitely bear the infamy of the world, and maybe it will be more infamous than Lu Bu's reputation.

Forget it, don't think about it yet.

After becoming the captain of Wuhuan for a long time, he will definitely have an advantage in negotiating with Wuhuan in the future.

The current Youzhou Mu is only in contact with the Wuhuan people on behalf of the Youzhou Mu. After having a long history of supporting the festival, you are in contact with Wuhuan on behalf of the Han court.

It is equivalent to the original leader of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Department, and now there is an ambassador to you from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Isn't it a high-ranking official who is a thousand stones!

And the rarest thing is that Liu Yu promised to give him Maocai's recommendation quota! From then on, Li Su could be regarded as a righteous official who took the promotion route of the inspection system before the collapse of the authority of the Han Dynasty.

The officials of the Han Dynasty have always regarded inspection as the most correct way, although it is not as serious as the "imperial examination officials discriminate against officials from other backgrounds" after the Song Dynasty in later generations, but in general there is still a chain of contempt.

Li Su used to be an official, although he also had the reputation of "exempting the money for repairing the palace", but after all, he lacked the aura of inspection.

He is alone and his origin is unknown, and it is impossible for him to be filial and honest in this life.

Now, he skipped filial piety and made up for the more valuable Maocai, and finally the merit was completed - to put it mildly, Maocai and filial piety are not in conflict, and many real celebrities can first raise filial piety and then Maocai.

Because Maocai is aimed at people who are already serving officials, because the talent shown when he was an official is awesome, and then Maocai is promoted. Therefore, many of them were officials who were already 400 or 600 stones, and they were directly promoted to 1,000 stones after raising Mao Cai.

In addition, because Maocai's promotion of official positions is higher, it is also more difficult for Maocai. Filial piety is qualified to be raised by the Taishou of each county, and Maocai can only be raised by the state pastor and the assassin history, and no matter how large the population of each state, there is only one Maocai in each state every year.

The thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, plus the three dukes and the generals, can raise Maocai, and the whole country can not be touched by a maximum of 17 Maocai every year.

And because the three princes can also be sold during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, "have you ever lifted Maocai this year" will become an important gold content standard for the price of the three princes.

For example, if you are the first to buy a Taiwei this year, and you have not raised Maocai this year, and you want to raise a Maocai after you buy a Taiwei, then your Taiwei may cost 100 million. And if the Taiwei has already raised Maocai this year, and you don't have a quota to raise it again after you buy the Taiwei, then the value of this Taiwei will be depreciated to at least 50 million.

In history, the reason why Cui Lie's third duke was cheap was because he bought it in the second half of 187, and the inspection indicators of that year were all completed by his predecessor Huo Huo. And the reason why Cao Song's Taiwei is super expensive is because he bought it in the spring of 188 after turning the page, and all the probationary quota packages have not been used.

Historically, Liu Bei became the pastor of Xuzhou in 194, because more than half of that year had passed, and Tao Qian had used up the Maocai quota before his death in the first half of the year, resulting in Liu Bei not being able to directly raise Maocai after taking office.

Stubbornly survived until the second year 195, after Liu Bei had a quota, he immediately promoted Yuan Tan as Maocai, which led to the immediate easing of the relationship between Xuzhou's forces and Yuan Shao - Yuan Shao originally regarded Liu Bei as Gongsun Zhan's help, and was hostile to Xuzhou. Liu Bei gave Yuan Shao's son a Maocai, and Yuan Shao immediately made peace with Liu Bei.

It can be seen that Maocai is valuable.

However, after Li Su thought of this, he immediately realized the problem: "Make the king ...... As far as I know, Tao Qian Tao Thorn Shi seems to have raised Youzhou's Maocai this year before he stepped down in May, or I should wait for next year, don't make it difficult for you. ”

Liu Yu said proudly: "What's so difficult to do?" Tao Qian has made Youzhou so erosive, and he is embarrassed to raise Maocai? None of the people under his command are worthy of being Maocai! I will give your Majesty a sincere advice, and ask Your Majesty to grant me permission to make an exception!" ”

can cooperate with Cai Yong to write "Refuting Disaster Differences" and curb the poison of Zhang Ju's rebellion, such talents are not considered Maocai, who is still worthy of Maocai?

Is it really good to let the anti-thieves spray the Han Dynasty to "raise Mao and not know the book"?

Of course, these are official words on the table.

As for the actual ......

A Maocai is 10 million, and an exception who claims to have never spent money on Maocai will give the emperor 20 million.

Liu Bei is rich.