Early the next morning, Zhao Yun rushed to Jixian County, found Li Su's mansion, and accepted the task.

Li Su handed over a handwritten letter with a seal and ten horseshoe gold to Zhao Yun, and carefully instructed the requirements:

“…… After you arrived at Chenliu, you said so, I sent Dian Wei to go with you. If Cai Gong gets up too slowly, you can escort their whole family to the north slowly, don't be in a hurry.

You can hand over the manuscript written by Cai Gong in the past few months to Dian Wei, and let Dian Wei send it back to me for viewing first, no problem, I will arrange for Fu Zi to engrave it. ”

Zhao Yun knew that the task was urgent, and hurriedly said that he was wrapped up in it.

This is the first time Zhao Yun has listened to Li Su's instructions since joining Liu Bei's camp, he has only cooperated with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei before, and even Guan Yu has not had the opportunity to cooperate so far, so he also cherishes this opportunity to perform in front of the think tank.

"Sir, rest assured, Yun will definitely ensure that people and books are safe."

"Go and get back."

……

After sending Zhao Yun away, he had to travel back and forth for at least ten days before he could retrieve the manuscript written by Cai Yongxin from Chen Liu.

As for Cai Yong's family, even if Cai Yong is very face-saving, he immediately went on the road without shirking the letter, with his physical fitness in his fifties, he couldn't bear the fatigue of traveling and driving, and it would take more than half a month to reach Zhongshan Wuji.

In addition, after the manuscript is obtained, the engraving also takes time, and the paper and ink for printing are now very mature, and the Zhen family's nest in Wuji has a large amount of inventory hoarding. It is estimated that it will take more than ten days to carve the version, and when Cai Yongren arrives, the book will basically be printed.

Li Su calculated the days, and he could get it in early August.

Liu Yu is planning to counteract the rebellion every day, of course, he will not allow Li Su to be idle, so in the past half a month, he has thrown him two additional tasks.

As mentioned earlier, for the future Zhao'an plan, it is necessary to take a three-pronged approach and be tough on all three hands: military deterrence, interest temptation, and destiny.

Military deterrence is none of Li Su's business, but in terms of interest temptation, Li Su can still do some miscellaneous preparations.

"Go, you have a good money and grain account, while Cai Bojiao hasn't come yet, you first help to plan and find out the grain and grass information of the rebels, and think about how to make the rebels believe that Gongsun Zhan's military rations can last longer than the rebels, and hit the rebels' confidence and determination to persist in besieging the city and sending reinforcements from the root.

Whether you use estimation or espionage, I don't ask about the means, I just want the result. If you want to send a detailed work, you can find a way to do it yourself, or you can do it carefully from Liu Bei. After inquiring, I pondered whether there was any strategy to eliminate the advantages of one or the other, which could fight the rebels and levy grain and grass in the future, or renew grain for Gongsun Zhan. ”

Liu Yu's instructions roughly mean this, which can be regarded as a daily small task of an episode.

But Li Su was not surprised, nor did he refuse. As a student of diplomacy in his previous life, he knew that intelligence preparation and threat building before negotiations were also things that diplomats should worry about.

If you look at the Yankees, the people of the National Council and the CIA, who often exchange revolving doors, and people from both departments can cross-serve, you can see that the boundaries between many diplomats and agents are not clear.

Since he has become a driver in this life, and because of his good ability in mathematics and money, he is trusted by Liu Yu in all aspects, so let's show it.

Li Su also knew the history, and knew that according to the original development, Liu Yu finally sent an envoy to reprimand Qiu Liju, but he brought back the head of the pseudo-Mitian general Zhang Chun.

In his own life, no matter what he does, he must let Qiu Liju dedicate the head of the puppet emperor Zhang Ju to overcomplete the task.

Such a great credit, of course, must be well planned from beginning to end, and it will be good to brag for a lifetime in the future, so that all colleagues can talk about this for the rest of their lives, and they will be cited as flawless beautiful talk.

Instead of being complained about in the future, "Li Su, although he built a great feat of the world, but he also relied on his luck."

Luck? Inexistent! Everything is due to your Brother Li's proper planning, exhaustive planning, and careful preparation and homework!

……

Not to mention, Li Su is the first person to make intelligence preparations for the overall diplomacy.

But as long as he gets serious, excited, and willing to show the useless dragon slaying skills he learned in his previous life, he will still be able to gain it soon.

He knew that an important bargaining chip for deterrence in the future would be the comparison of the military food reserves of the enemy and our armies.

Therefore, Li Su's first thought after taking over was to confirm Gongsun Zhan's real grain storage situation - he knew that it was impossible to send military rations to Guanzi City, which was besieged by more than 100,000 people.

But Li Su read the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" in his previous life, and vaguely remembered that Gongsun Zhan was besieged in Guanzi City, and it seemed that the page was turned over for two years, and finally the food was exhausted.

Judging from the money and grain documents found by the official now, the food in Guanzi City should not only be enough for Gongsun Chan to eat for two or three months.

Li Su knew that there was a contradiction between Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu later, so he wondered if Gongsun Chan had done something to report worries and not good news when he asked his subordinates to break through and be in an emergency.

Fortunately, Gongsun Zhan photographed the messenger for help in Jixian County, that is, the warrior named Wen Ze who had fought out of the siege before, because he couldn't return to Guanzi City, after delivering the emergency secret letter, he had been waiting for calls in the Jixian army for a month.

Li Su made an excuse for understatement, saying that he liked to make friends with inappropriate warriors in his life, so he invited Wen Ze out and had a good drink.

Na Wen also heard that Li Su had a good relationship with middle-level officers such as Dian Wei and Guan Zhang, who were known for their bravery, and he did not doubt him. Such a martial artist who has no city government was quickly drunk by Li Su and found out the truth.

Li Su knew from Wen Ze that when Gongsun Zhan asked him to break through, he had driven the 20,000 people in the city out of the city, and Wen had followed the tide of the people out of the city.

So Li Su immediately judged that Gongsun Chan did have the mentality of "crying children have milk to drink", and was creating panic and blackmailing Liu Yu.

Li Su immediately reported this information.

"Gongsun Chan exaggerated the difficulties. I calculated that it would be no problem for him to eat his grain until the beginning of spring next year - originally he could only eat until September, but that was when more than 20,000 people ate it together. Now, there are only 5,000 people left in the city, and the food of 20,000 people is given to 5,000 people. The 20,000 who were driven out were also recruited by the besieging forces and most of them were thieves. ”

"What? Gongsun Chan actually drove the people out and forced them to be thieves? Just to save the grain and grass in the city? When Liu Yu heard the news, he was also stunned.

He is quite benevolent by nature, so he couldn't imagine that the kind of cold-blooded general with red eyes would make such a resolute and decisive decision.

Li Su hurriedly reminded: "Envoy, now is not the time to investigate. Gongsun Chan didn't know that those people would be taken in by the rebels, he just hoped that one would reduce the consumption of food - the key to this piece of information was to let the rebels know that there was no shortage of food in Guanzi City before the time came to negotiate, and we knew that Gongsun Chan would not starve to death for a while. ”

Liu Yu also quickly calmed down and sighed: "Yes, yes, now is not the time to pursue it." Boya, you also have a hand in doing these meticulous preparations, and I don't think anyone in the world is as skilled as you. You are really lucky to come to Youzhou.

Gongsun Chan's side, so be it. How long the rebels' food and grass can be spent, whether they have calculated clearly, and whether they can find ways to weaken them, are these questions clear? ”

Li Su was confident: "I haven't had time to think about it in the past few days, but yesterday after Zhang Nan, the governor of Yuyang, heard that this matter was now handed over to me to be responsible, he suggested a plan: It was said that in previous years, when he encountered this situation of holding on to the rebellious Hu chieftain and consuming grain, he could send soldiers and horses to take advantage of the emptiness of the enemy army and cross the border into the territory of Youbeiping County to grab military rations, cut wheat and burn fields.

In this way, at least the grain on the border between the enemy and our territory will be less harvested by the rebels. He also said that if the defense of the border areas is weak, even the wheat on the edge of the areas controlled by our army will be cut or burned in advance, and the walls will be cleared so as not to finance the enemy. However, I am always worried that the envoy will feel cruel and cruel to the people, so I dare not take it personally, and it is useless to keep a file. ”

Liu Yu was really angry when he heard this: "What do you mean that the rebellion of Chief Hu in previous years was the same?" I'm afraid that Guo Xun and Tao Qian were so indulgent when they were assassinated in history! When I was a assassin, could I still make Hu people rebel?

The people should be the most important thing in the world, even if they want to clear the wilderness, they can't harm the people to lose their food harvest and starve to death in vain. Without this season's wheat, the people said that they would not be able to survive the spring famine of the coming year, and they might not even be able to survive the winter. ”

After all, Liu Yu is a person who loves the people and is benevolent, and no matter how he thinks about it, he can't make the ruthless heart of "letting the people in the occupied areas die with the rebels and starve to death together".

Before the wheat is ripe, burn all the wheat fields in the border counties? That's too vicious!

Li Su thought for a while: "Then let's go down and inspect the situation in person, and see if there is any workaround for the best of both worlds, it is best not to starve the people to death, but also to starve the rebels." ”

Liu Yu shook his head helplessly and hopelessly: "Hungry the rebels and not the people?" I'm afraid this is a fool's dream. That's it, I also know that this matter is too difficult, and I am also pedantic, and I can't blame you if I can't do it, so I will do my best to obey the destiny of heaven. ”

Li Su hurriedly comforted: "How can it be said that it is pedantic to make the monarch benevolent and love the people, and not bear the people to starve to death." Inspired by the benevolence and righteousness of the envoy, his subordinates only feel full of enthusiasm and quick thinking, maybe they can really find a solution if they go down and see. ”

Listening to Li Su's rainbow fart attributed to the leader, Rao is Liu Yu has read countless people and has long been immune to flattery, and he was also photographed flutteringly.

Who made the label of "love the people and benevolence" always be the proudest of Liu Yu in his heart.

"That'...... It's hard work, and strategies such as the profit and loss of the enemy's military rations really need to go down and take a good look, and you can't come up with a fantasy. ”

……

If you want to go down to the grassroots level to investigate, you must have soldiers around you to protect you.

When Li Su came back from Liu Yu, he had to go to Liu Bei to borrow someone again, saying that he wanted hundreds of personal soldiers to escort him and inspect the border of the enemy's war zone in Yuyang County and Youbeiping County to see if there was a possibility that this year's autumn grain would be harvested or burned in advance.

Liu Bei thought for a while: "That's the defense area of Zhang Nan, the commander of Yuyang, right?" Zhang Nan and I have never been on good terms, and there have been many frictions. There are too many people going, and I am afraid that it will cause disgust on the contrary.

That's it, anyway, there is no war for a while now, I will try to pick 1,000 elite cavalry, and let Yun Chang and Youping protect you. If you encounter a rebel, the whole army will retreat as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Yun has been asked to leave by Li Su, Zhang Fei is still lying on the bed to recuperate from his fractures, and Liu Bei has sent Guan Yu and Zhou Tai to Li Su, which is already all he has.

Two days later, Li Su came to the eastern border of Yuyang with 1,000 elite cavalry to inspect, and the local officials heard that he was sent by Junte to inspect, and they were also very polite and cooperative.

It is now the middle of July, and the fields in the counties of Youzhou are full of yellow and green ears of wheat, and it will be officially harvested in a month at most.

Li Su personally went down to the field to check the ripeness of the wheat.

The grains are plump and smell the sweet aroma of unripe wheat grains on the nose.

Li Su subconsciously pinched like on some food shows he had watched in his previous life, and before the wheat grains were ripe enough starch, he was pinched out of the tender maltose syrup, which was very juicy.

Li Su pretended to taste it, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he was inspired by "A Bite of China" and "Flavor of the World" to come up with a plan.