Talking to Lu Zhi about this, Li Su also basically understood: Liu Bei's suspicion was only affected by the pond fish.

In the final analysis, when the emperor was seriously ill, because of the recent concurrent generals, there were too many behaviors on their own, and the frightened birds were indiscriminately suspicious.

In order to completely relieve the heart disease, further win the name of loyalty and righteousness that is more "heartless", and reach the level of "clear every day", it is not possible to rely on Liu Bei's own efforts on the one-third of an acre of land in Liaodong.

Even if you don't make any aggressive moves in Liaodong, and you are purely resting with the people, this kind of suspicion of historical legacy will still exist. This is the difficulty of accompanying the king like a tiger.

The only way to completely solve it is to take the initiative to take responsibility, and even take the attitude of "willing to be replaced", change places to share the emperor's worries, and solve the core problem that the emperor is most suspicious of now!

But Li Su knew that Huangfu Song was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and he was also a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty in the eyes of the people of the world. If you deal with Huangfu Song in order to win the emperor's trust, even if you gain "loyalty", you will easily suffer losses in terms of "righteousness" and "popularity at home".

Huangfu Song is the number one hero who put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion! It is not an exaggeration to say that it has contributed to the reinvention of the Han family.

And now Dong Zhuo, who is inseparable from Huangfu Song's appearance and squeezes Huangfu Song through the point of "Huangfu Song is unwilling to accept micro-exercises and I am willing to accept micro-exercises", is regarded as a jackal in the eyes of the world.

Therefore, even if you take 10,000 steps back, you don't consider the harm of Emperor Fu Song. But as long as you scare Huangfu Song, won't you occupy a position on the same front as Dong Zhuo temporarily? This is absolutely unacceptable, Dong Zhuo will become a national thief in the future, and his reputation will be stinky!

You can't deal with Huangfu Song in order to curry favor with the emperor and show loyalty, so the only core option left is to help the emperor deal with Liu Yan.

To be precise, it is not to deal with Liu Yan, but to relieve the emperor's suspicion of Liu Yan, or to beat Liu Yan - Liu Yan is a relative of the Han family after all, let Liu Yan go to Yizhou, and retain more power loyal to the Han family in the troubled times and finally surnamed Liu, which was originally the original intention of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Emperor Ling was not really suspicious and suppressed Liu Yan to the extent that he wanted to destroy himself and completely remove the Great Wall, he just wondered why Zhang Lu would rise and why he would cut off the Han envoys.

Maybe in Emperor Ling's heart, what he hopes more at this moment is that someone will destroy Zhang Lu who has just appeared, and take a posture of "watching the after-effects" for Liu Yan, hoping to kill chickens and monkeys to make him regret being too invisible, punish the former and the future, and cure the disease and save people.

Unless after killing Zhang Lu, Liu Yan still doesn't know how to restrain himself, or if he discovers that Liu Yan is indeed arrogant and arrogant, then Emperor Ling can take it a step further.

……

After thinking all this out, Li Su's heart moved, and he decided to discuss with Lu Zhi in detail the process of Liu Yan and Zhang Lu's rise and the current situation, and wanted to find out if there was a way to break the situation with one stone.

Li Su asked sincerely: "Duke Lu, I have just come to Beijing and don't know much about the military affairs in Xizhou. If you want to share your Majesty's worries, you must first ask about the military situation. Please also ask Lu to know: When and how did Zhang Lu rise in Hanzhong, and why was he able to cut off the Han envoys? Can Yizhou Mu Liu Yan have other untraceable signs? General Huangfu and Dong Zhuo, how can they hold on to Han Sui in Chencang? ”

Lu Zhi sorted out his thoughts a little, and replied openly: "Zhang Lu, this thief, seized Hanzhong, and the reason why His Majesty is angry with Liu Yan is because Zhang Lu was originally only a ghost Taoist master in Yizhou, and his original base is not in Hanzhong, but mostly in Mianzhu and Jiangyou, and has been in three generations, that is, the three counties of Guanghan, Zitong, and Wenshan.

The last piece of news that the imperial court received about Liu Yan's disposition of Zhang Lu was transmitted back in the first half of this year, when Liu Yan appointed Zhang Lu as the superintendent of Yi Sima, and marched with Sima Zhang Xiu of other departments to clear the Hanzhong Dao. However, it is said that Sima Zhang Xiu of the other department suddenly acted on his own initiative and attacked and killed the Hanzhong Taishou Sugu who was appointed by the Ming Dynasty of the imperial court.

Later, Su Gu's staff and doormen avenged Su Gu and repeatedly attacked Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Lu also took advantage of the chaos to kill Zhang Xiu as Su Gu's revenge, and called Zhang Xiu's killing of Su Gu a chaotic life. At this point, although Liu Yan did not bear the notoriety of instructing Zhang Lu to kill the Hanzhong Taishou appointed by the imperial court, he had already formed the fact that the 'thief Zhang Xiu' and the 'Taishou Sugu' had died together.

Later, Zhang Lu's temperament changed greatly, and only a few months after he had established himself in Hanzhong, he began to isolate his envoys and kill officials sent by the imperial court to inquire about the current situation in Yizhou. It's just that the imperial court has no evidence to confirm whether Zhang Lu's follow-up evil deeds after his success were instigated by Liu Yan, so he didn't act rashly. ”

After Lu Zhi finished saying this, Li Su already had a bottom in his heart.

The time nodes and causal logic of each joint are slightly different from the original history, but there is no big problem.

Li Su is a person of foresight, of course he knows that Zhang Lu is released by Liu Yan to prevent the imperial court from removing him, so that he can be the shield of the emperor for a long time.

Lu Zhi didn't say anything about Zhang Lu's mother just now, it should be a key fact that the imperial court doesn't know yet - but Li Su knows.

Zhang Lu's mother also cultivated the ghost road with the Zhang family, so she has the skill to stay in Yan, and at the age of forty or fifty, she is still very attractive to Liu Yan, an old man in his early sixties.

It's just like the fact that QI Cao will reuse He Yan's mother after accepting He Yan's mother.

And in history, it is an indisputable fact that Liu Yan drifted away after entering Sichuan.

In 191, after Liu Biao arrived as the pastor of Jingzhou, he filed a complaint with the imperial court, accusing Liu Yan of "privately building a six-chariot gold root car, using the Son of Heaven Luan to honor the guard" and other arrogance to the point of complicity and rebellion.

You must know that Liu Biao only exposed Liu Yan in 191, but it doesn't mean that Liu Yan really started to float in 191 - that's just because Liu Biao didn't take office until 191 in history! According to reverse estimates, Liu Yan began to float so much for at least 190 years, and it was only in the second year that Liu Biao freed his hands to catch the handle.

Now, because of the butterfly effect caused by Li Su, the "Abolition of History and Pastoral Husbandry" system has been implemented more than half a year ahead of schedule, and Liu Yu has also performed exceptionally well in advance, and even brought Liu Yan into Shu more than half a year earlier.

According to this context, Liu Yan felt that "the position of the emperor of my soil is stable, and he urgently needs to stand up to pave the way for my son", maybe he will appear more than half a year in advance! So even if there is an unscrupulous behavior of using the Son of Heaven Luan Yu honor guard in 189, it is completely possible!

This is not to say that Liu Yan just can't hold back and want to enjoy it, but he must pave the way for his son Liu Mao by arrogating - the courtiers at that time still did not have the hereditary habit of "princes separating and father and son successively". Everyone still thinks that the state pastor cannot pass on the throne to his son, and he has to listen to the reappointment of the imperial court.

Liu Yan wants to be the first in the world, and his own life expectancy is more than sixty years old, he can't wait. If the fact that the princes are hereditary does not build momentum, there will be twists and turns in the process of passing it on to his son, and in the end I don't know if he can be in Chengdu.

Until 194, when Tao Qian died, he didn't dare to pass on the throne to his son, but gave Xuzhou to Liu Bei, which was more or less related to the fact that the princes had not yet produced the tradition of "passing on the throne" at that time.

Or Yuan Shu called the emperor, although the emperor itself did not succeed, but it benefited the warlords of the world, and since then the warlords have torn off the fig leaf, and defaulted to "the warlord's state pastor can be passed on to his son", which has been 197 years.

In the eyes of the officials who read the Three Kingdoms in later generations, the "succession of princes" system, which is justified and reasonable, is really carefully studied, how can it be so taken for granted? On this issue, how long and painful is the process of changing from the "logic of imperial court officialdom" to the "logic of military hegemony"?

When Sun Jian died, Sun Ce didn't get any fart ground, and then he started from scratch. And if Sun Ce died before Yuan Shu became emperor 197 years ago, Sun Quan might not be able to get a fart, and he would have become an ordinary "son of a down-and-out official eunuch who died and became an official father and brother", similar to Tao Ying, a potter.

However, at the moment, it is still inconvenient for Li Su to say too many words attacking Liu Yan, and there is no need to mention these later words. lest you fall into the suspicion of "living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain", and secondly, the evidence is insufficient.

……

After the situation told by Lu Zhi was completely smoothed, Li Su also had a plan.

And it's not the kind of plan that casually has no way out,

It's the kind that can change moves at any time, and if you have the best strategy, you can retreat to the second.

Just like Li Su's consistent "scumbag strategy" nature, you can keep a spare tire when chasing the goddess, and you can also unknowingly let the spare tire not know that you have chased the goddess.

After Li Su figured it out, he immediately made a decision to Lu Zhi and said: "Since I know the root of Your Majesty's suspicion, I have a strategy that can allow Brother Xuande to prove his innocence, and he has the best of both worlds in the court. It's just that if this strategy is implemented, it still needs the cooperation of Lu Gong, and some admonitions, Brother Xuande and Su, it is inconvenient to take the initiative to ask the court for their lives. ”

Lu Zhi is Liu Bei's teacher, and in the case of benefiting the imperial court, of course he is willing to help Liu Bei, so he motioned to Li Su but said that it was okay.

Li Su boldly unfolded: "I thought that when Your Majesty talked about the suspicion of the generals in the border towns next time, he would have the courage to speak out, and ask His Majesty to send an edict to recruit Liu Bei into the court and confer the title of Beijing official, so as to test his heart and see if he is willing to let go of his military power in the border town and the temptation of monopolizing power."

Su knows that Brother Xuande is a human being, and he is loyal to the court and His Majesty, so he doesn't have to be afraid that this temptation will make him resentful, he must be willing to come to the soup. As long as Brother Xuande enters Beijing, he will also set an example for other border generals who support the army and respect themselves, Your Majesty can take advantage of the situation to educate the generals of the world and harmonize the atmosphere of the court, isn't it beautiful? ”

This was Li Su's first step: why did Dong Zhuo suddenly gain extra trust in the last year of Emperor Ling's reign? Isn't it because Dong Zhuo is afraid of losing the battle and is unwilling to be micro-manipulated by laymen, Dong Zhuo seems so willing to be micro-manipulated?

Then Liu Bei changed his perspective, and when the generals in the world were unwilling to be Beijing officials to give up the refreshment of the soil emperor, he put on a loyal posture of giving up the interests of the soil emperor without reservation! You can also be an example to crowd out other people who are not subservient!

If this gesture is placed, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty will not be able to reuse Liu Bei more heavily than Dong Zhuo? And when the time comes, he must completely believe that Liu Bei's loyalty is the best in the world and has no reservations.

Look, when the emperor was seriously ill, everyone else was eager to pretend not to hear and wait for the emperor to die. This kind of general is willing to give up his military power and come back to accompany the real emperor with the emperor, a model of loyalty in the world!

The key is that this is only Li Su's first step, just set up an account and cross the bridge to make a transition, and in the end, he is sure to transfer Liu Bei away! Not only has it gained a good reputation and good attitude, but its actual interests have not been damaged at all!

Being able to come up with such an awesome plan is due to Li Su's IQ on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also because only Li Su is so confident in the time when Emperor Han Ling will burp!

Of course, if you stay in any other place in the world, it is very possible that if Emperor Han Ling dies a few months late, there will be a new accident. For example, even if you are in Liaodong, if the emperor really lives for a few more months after the butterfly effect, and finally dies and wants to remove the Liaodong Taishou, then he can also be removed. The 400-mile uninhabited area of the Western Liaoning Corridor could not stop the footsteps of the angels at all.

But only when you enter Sichuan or become a pastor in Jiaozhou, because the road is blocked, even if the emperor dies a few months late, there is enough fault tolerance.

How else to say that Liu Yan's guy who laid out too early chose a good place, only by entering Shu can you use the difficult super version of Shu Dao to play, and you will use the hegemony version to farm and do things in advance when you are still in the officialdom version.

Of course, in this life, Liu Yan may actually be unstoppable, but that is not because his strategy is not good, but because the combat effectiveness of Zhang Lu he released is not good.

Maybe before Emperor Ling died, this Zhang Lu died at the hands of Liu Bei, and the Shu Dao could be restored, and Liu Yan's crime of trespassing would be known to the world.

is still the same sentence: Those who have literary affairs must use military strategy to help them.

The strategy is fine, the key is that if you can't beat it, you won't be able to execute it.

If Liu Bei can't beat Zhang Lu, then Liu Bei will also stop cooking.

Even if he has beaten Zhang Lu, if Liu Bei can't use a partial division to block the follow-up army that wants to enter Shu under the extreme situation of "in case Emperor Han Ling dies late", then Liu Bei will also stop cooking.

The two points of martial arts are done, and then with the previous strategy, all the three-pronged measures are satisfied, so that they can truly be qualified to enjoy the Yizhou Tianzi Qi.

This is the "sufficient condition", and the absence of any point is only a "necessary condition".

Of course, Lu Zhi didn't know so many twists and turns for the time being, he just saw Li Su's suggestion to let Liu Bei enter Beijing, so Lu Zhi had to ask relatively innocently:

"Xuande is willing to come, of course, it is of great benefit to stabilize the hearts of the generals in the world and set an example. But what about his excuse for entering Beijing? What official position should I suggest to Your Majesty to recruit Xuande into Beijing? If the reason seems too hypocritical, it will inevitably chill the hearts of other counterinsurgency border generals who are watching from the sidelines. ”

Li Suzao was confident about this question: "I think that under the great sect, you can choose some official positions that can convince people and ask Brother Xuande to take them." ”

Lu Zhi was slightly stunned: "Oh? Why? ”

Li Su arched his hand: "Brother Xuande is a relative of the Han family, and the lineage of the ancestral title has been confirmed when the Duke of Bo'an was the great sect in the past. He is not only the leader of the Han clan who has made contributions to the imperial court, but also the official name of Ren Zongzheng, which is also one of them.

The predecessor of Dazong Zheng was the Duke of Bo'an, and after the Duke of Bo'an was transferred to Youzhou Mu, the position of the Imperial Court Dazong Zheng had already been vacant, and even the deputy position was not established. Brother Xuande is not only a subordinate of Bo'an Gong, but also the most useful Han clan under the command of Youzhou Mu now, and he was transferred back to the work that the old boss of the Beijing Division Assistant once held, and everyone in the world is convinced, and this is also the second.

In addition, the matter of Hanzhong's rejection and killing of the Han envoy involves whether Liu Yan deliberately connived at or even instructed Zhang Lu, this is a crime of the clan to be investigated, and it is properly handled by Zongzheng.

In the end, the reason why Zhang Lu was able to cut off the middle road of the Han Dynasty was also because Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo and Han Sui fought in Chencang - Shu has always had three main roads from the north of Hanzhong to the Guanzhong. The easternmost Meridian Valley is the most dangerous, and it is completely controlled by the forces that control Hanzhong, so as long as Zhang Lu is there, the Meridian Road will definitely be cut off.

However, Hanzhong goes directly to the north, or to the northwest, there is Wudu Road to Chencang through Sanguan, into Weishui, and Qishan Road to Tianshui. Tianshui County is now Han Sui's territory, so it was the joint efforts of Han Sui and Zhang Lu that caused the Qishan Road to be unable to pass through the Han envoys. And Chencang, the exit of Wudu Dao, was not in the hands of the rebels, but happened to be in the hands of the imperial army of Huangfu Song.

It's just that Han Sui and Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo are now fiercely competing for Chencang, if Chencang City can be relieved, the Han envoy will go out of Sanguan to take Wudu Road and enter Yangping Pass, but it can not go through Hanzhong County to govern Nanzheng, but from the Dingjun Mountain Mountain to the west of Hanzhong, take a roundabout mountain road, and you can also pass through the Golden Bull Road and Jianmen Pass into Shu County. In this way, wouldn't it barely guarantee a way for the court angels to hold Liu Yan accountable?

And the Xuande brothers Lian Ping Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun, Wusu and other thieves are the rising stars in the clan who are famous for knowing soldiers in recent years. If he had already been willing to serve as Zongzheng's deputy and gave up his military power to enter Beijing to diligently investigate Liu Yan's case, after the investigation was clear, the imperial court would not bother the two masters and directly release him from the position of Zongzheng official again. ordered him to relieve the siege of Chen Cang first, force Han Sui back, and rescue Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo.

Then Huangfu Song continued to garrison Chencang, and Brother Xuande went out of the pass along Chencang, went south to crusade against Zhang Lu, and uprooted this thief who had clearly betrayed the court and intercepted and killed angels. Doesn't it also show that the imperial court will still entrust the military generals who have no disagreement and are willing to enter Beijing as long as there is no problem after the inspection, and they will still be entrusted with important tasks and released to lead the troops after the previous suspicions are released? With this example, other border generals who are suspicious and afraid will dare to be summoned by the imperial court to enter Beijing, and this is the fourth! ”

Lu Zhi listened, his eyes became more and more incredible, and in the end, it was almost like seeing a ghost.

If it weren't for the fact that his position and interests on this issue were the same as Liu Bei's, if someone else listened to Li Su's reaction so quickly and came up with this kind of interlocking personnel scheduling strategy of one, two, three, four, each with a spare tire and regression, I am afraid that he would have directly poked his deaf ears and dared not listen.

This Li Su, how can he be so familiar with the court's power and the way of employing people? It can't be that Liu Bei taught him, Liu Bei himself doesn't understand it at all, and it's far behind!

This Li Su hasn't been a Beijing official for long, is this kind of political sensitivity innate?!

"This ...... If I were Situ, I would be in charge of the appointment and dismissal of hundreds of officials, and I couldn't think of a reason to refute it. After reminiscing about it again and again, Lu Zhi actually sighed and said such a sentence,

"That's it, so be it. However, Xuande's qualifications are too shallow after all, and he has never been a Beijing official, even if General Duliao is already a high-ranking official with a rank of 2,000 stones, he must not be able to be Jiuqing when he is transferred to Beijing.

In this way, I persuade Your Majesty to temporarily set up 'Zongzheng Shaoqing' under Da Zongzheng, which can be compared with Shaofu Shizhong, Taichang Shaoqing, etc., with a rank ratio of 2,000 stones. In terms of rank, I will demote Xuande by half a level first - don't complain, the rank of Beijing officials is not high, and the real power of the Beijing officials with a rank of 2,000 stones is not under the Taishou of the other counties with a rank of 2,000 stones. ”

The establishment of "Shaoqing" under the Zhengqing of Jiuqing was not a common practice in the Han Dynasty, and it was not until the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties that it gradually became comprehensive.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, only Shaofu and Taichang had the Shaoqing level in Jiuqing.

The official Jiuqing is "two thousand stones in the rank", which is higher than the "two thousand stones in the rank", and is actually equivalent to three thousand stones.

If you go up further, only the general and the third prince are nominally "rank ten thousand stones", and the actual amount is equivalent to 4,000 to 5,000 stones.

And Jiuqing's deputy Shaoqing, "rank ratio of two thousand stones", is equivalent to a full drop of one level, and half a level lower than General Duliao.

However, it was good to make up for Liu Bei's resume as a Beijing official, and the business was very matched.

Liu Bei's main task as this Shaoqing is to investigate Liu Yan's reverse case, when it is clear, he can be re-appointed as a general and Hanzhong Taishou at any time, and directly go to crusade against the traitors you find out.

Therefore, it is estimated that the term of office of this Zongzheng Shaoqing will not exceed three months, and it is just gilded.

Li Su's general policy to Liu Bei is twelve words: Ren Zongzheng, investigate the reverse case, save Chen Cang, and ask Zhang Lu!

Of course, there is one scale that must be mastered, that is, before Emperor Ling's death, he could only attack Zhang Lu, and could not reveal the trend of getting rid of Liu Yan.

For Liu Yan, we must show a lenient attitude of "saving" and slowly figure it out.

Liu Yan still has three sons left in the court, and it would be too much to say that he was wrong.