Chapter 151: Borrowing a knife to kill people and seize treasures
"No, I can't live such a decadent life anymore, I'm hurt by beauty!"
Early in the morning, waking up in Cai's villa and Cai Yan's boudoir outside Jiangzhou City, looking in the silver mirror, and comparing it on the wooden pillar with a scale, Li Su woke up and said: I have spent another day in the gentle township.
It's almost the end of the month!
When he said that he was injured by women, of course, he didn't mean that his body became weak like Lu Bu.
Nineteen-year-old man with a false yarn! That's the age when you have unlimited firepower, and it's impossible to be virtual.
Therefore, what he meant was that he had lingered in the gentle township of Jiangzhou for more than half a month, and he hadn't grown taller at all!
"It seems that my development period really ended on my junior sister, alas, in this life, seven feet six inches is the end, which is equivalent to about one meter and seventy-five in the next life. A dream of 1.8 meters! There is also a history book evaluation of 'eight feet long and very great', all of which are gone! Zhao Ji misunderstood me! ”
Fortunately, this was just an inner activity, and he didn't shout out, but he didn't wake up his wife or make his sister sad. Cai Yan was young and sleepy, and it took a long time to wake up, and when she saw her husband looking in the mirror by the window, she got up and waited.
"Why does the husband get up early? Taking advantage of the fact that he is not busy with official business, General Guan has no return, so why not relax and recuperate. The concubine went to prepare for the morning meal. ”
"Just let the handmaid do these little things." Li Su cared.
"The concubine likes to do it, and the husband can always come up with new fun and delicious things, can't the concubine even imitate and do it? Maybe it could be improved. Cai Yanyan withdrew his hand with a smile and turned around.
The morning food is still fried shrimp and shredded beef, but instead of poached eggs, fried boneless eel is changed.
In the south, there were more people eating eels, and the production of eels was also high. Cai Yan knew that eel was also a nourishing thing to strengthen muscles and bones, and after arriving in Jiangzhou, he would always give her husband a meal.
Moreover, after arriving in Bashu, Cai Yan also discovered a eating habit of the locals, that is, people here do not eat shrimp - in fact, Shu did not even eat shrimp until the early 20th century, thinking that small river shrimp is a kind of bug.
Therefore, the rivers and ditches here are full of river shrimp, and you can catch several buckets with a little netting. Therefore, every time Cai Fu starts the oil pot, there are many more fried fried shrimps. Fry the shell and eat it together, just to replenish calcium and strengthen bones.
After eating the noodles made by his wife, Li Su read a book and rested for a while, and suddenly heard a steward from Cai's mansion come in and report: "Yu Zhonglang, the messenger of the relevant general has arrived, and he has also brought an idle official of the imperial court, named Liu Zhang, who has been sent to the city, and the prince of the mansion is receiving him." ”
As he spoke, the man handed over Guan Yu's letter first.
It seems that Guan Yu should have prepared at least two secret letters, one was directly for Li Sukai to read, and the other should be sent directly to Chengdu to Liu Bei.
Li Su suddenly got up: It's finally time to work! It seems that Yun Chang has completely succeeded!
"Into town! You go and prepare the car first! ”
"Whoa."
After the steward left, Li Sucai paced back and forth with the letter for two steps, turned back to Cai Yan and said, "You are also ...... Pack up the things you want to take away, go to the river to load the boat, maybe you will go to Chengdu today. ”
Cai Yan smiled brightly: "I've been ready for a long time!" I even packed the dowry. ”
Saying that, Cai Yan actually asked the maid to carry out dozens of big mahogany boxes in an orderly manner, and ordered to go to the river to load the boat, which made Li Su dumbfounded.
This is hatred to marry to a certain extent.
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Li Su didn't have time to think about his wife's hatred of marriage.
While waiting for the steward to prepare the car, he had already unfolded Guan Yu's letter and read it.
The letter briefly recounted the events of the battle, and also explained the results of the battle and casualties. In the entire Battle of Yiling, there were three or four battles, and the battle losses of the Danyang soldiers and the Jiujiang soldiers were still quite shocking, and the 5,000 soldiers they brought with them lost 2,000 people. However, the total strength of Guan Yu's hands has not decreased, because there are still so many prisoners who have been captured and reorganized, but the quality of the troops is definitely not as good as those elite soldiers in the early days.
In the second part of the letter, Guan Yu also emphasized that he had overfulfilled the task of occupying Yidu County and Wuling County, and in addition to the pre-occupied areas originally demarcated by the "map to open up the territory", he had cut off the two counties of Xiaoling in the Youjiang Estuary Valley, and completely connected the jurisdiction of Yidu County south of the Yangtze River with Wuling County. At the same time, Liu Bei and Li Su were also asked to agree as soon as possible on the candidates for Liu Biaobiao's Yidu Taishou and Wuling Taishou.
In the end, Guan Yu said that when this letter was sent, he had officially reached a final distribution with Liu Biao and Yuan Shu.
He had already divided his army of 2,000 men, led by Gan Ning, and at the invitation of Liu Biao, he crossed Jiangling and Xiangyang, which were under the jurisdiction of Liu Biao's army, and advanced to Fancheng on the north bank of the Han River to station. In the first month of the next year, Zhou Tai may also be asked to lead troops to Xinye. These troops are all to win Yuan Shu's trust and make Yuan Shu believe that Liu Bei's camp will really send so many troops to assist Sun Jian in his quest for Dong.
And the reason why Liu Biao agreed was also to beware of Yuan Shu stationed in Nanyang - just like Cao Cao, who asked Liu Beitun Xinye and Fancheng to defend the north in history.
Anyway, as long as he doesn't go to Xiangyang and Jiangling, other border areas of Jingzhou, Liu Biao is not afraid to let Guan Yu be stationed temporarily, and is even willing to provide Guan Yu with two months' military rations.
Yuan Shu also put Liu Zhang's chess piece back after seeing the sincerity of Guan Yu's dispatch of troops stationed in Fancheng.
"The big thing has come to pass, and now that the matter is over, Liu Yan should be completely desperate, and if Liu Zhang is brought to the front again, Liu Yan will definitely surrender according to our demands."
After reading the letter, Li Su went into the city to contact Cai Yong, and said something "Congratulations to the teacher and General Guan for discussing Dong Xiaocheng", and said that he would take Cai Yan away first, and then invite Cai Yong to Chengdu to serve wine in the first month.
Cai Yong also knew what was going on, and agreed to his son-in-law's arrangement.
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Su took Cai Yan, as well as his entourage, guards, and messengers, and took a boat to Chengdu.
Liu Zhang was naturally escorted by other people about Yu, and Li Su was still unlucky to be on the same boat with those people.
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Seven days later, Li Su and his entourage had a tiring journey and a change of boat in Nan'an County (Leshan) in the middle, and finally arrived near Chengdu.
"Boya, you are willing to come to Chengdu, presumably Yun Chang has good news on the Eastern Front? This place is not far from the fiefdom of the virtuous brother, do you want to take a look first? ”
When Liu Bei heard that Li Su was coming, he personally took Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others out of the west gate of Chengdu and to the dock by the Min River to meet him.
It is about thirty miles west of Chengdu and thirty miles south of Pixian, and it is not far from the imperial fief that Liu Bei gave to Li Suquan.
Li Su, the fief of the Piting Marquis, was about the vicinity of the new campus in the west of the city of the Southwest University of Finance and Economics in the later generations. Seventy or eighty miles upstream along the Min River is Dujiangyan, and there are many tributary diversion canals below Dujiangyan, so this area is the best and most fertile plot of irrigation conditions in the Chengdu Plain.
The late Emperor Shao of the Han Dynasty added Li Su to 800 households for the last time, and Liu Bei of course had to give him 800 hectares of land according to the tax algorithm of "Zhengding occupies 100 acres of land" in accordance with the Han law.
(Note: In fact, since Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the peasants of the Han Dynasty could not share more than 100 acres of land, because the population increased and the land was not enough.) However, the law has always levied land taxes according to one-thirtieth of the rated yield per mu of "100 Han mu".
Therefore, the people had to pay more than three Han acres of harvest as a tax to the state. During the Huan Ling period, there was also a tax increase, for example, Emperor Ling asked the world's fields to add nine five baht coins per mu to sponsor the repair of the palace)
In this way, Zhuge Liang's Wuxiang Marquis in later generations only had "fifteen hectares of thin fields" until his death, which was simply too incorruptible, and Li Suren had already occupied 800 hectares of sealed land before he came.
Although this is a reward from the imperial court, he deserves it.
In the face of Liu Bei's courtesy, Li Su also had a compel in his heart, knowing that it was important to hurry up and get down to business first.
He gave a general report on the situation, and also said that he hoped to help secretly draft the negotiation conditions for Liu Yan.
There is some dirty work, Liu Bei doesn't need to know too much detail, he needs a benevolent attitude.
Liu Bei said a few words to him, and he knew that Li Su was going to take advantage of the opportunity to punish dissidents with private goods, but he also needed such a person, so trust Li Su completely.
Not to mention, in the original history, Fa Zheng, as the mastermind of Liu Bei's entry into Shu, also did a lot of work after gaining power, and killed people under the pretext of seeking personal revenge, but Liu Bei also acquiesced.
On the one hand, it is true that Fa Zheng in that period of history has made great contributions, and on the other hand, Fa Zheng is also helping Liu Bei pull hatred. After all, if the original nobles of Shu were not liquidated, where would the land money and grain be distributed to the heroes as rewards.
When you get down a state, you always have to shuffle the cards of wealth and land.
Not to mention anything else, the 800 hectares of fiefdom that Li Su has now obtained could not have been a borderless land. took someone else's land, if the land was originally a tenant, then it would be better to say, it was nothing more than a change of employer, and from then on pay taxes to Li Su.
If Tianshang was originally a noble family or family, and the nobles would not become fiefdoms on other people's fiefdoms, then they would definitely have to compensate and replace them for relocation. Where did this relocated Xintian come from? It is not yet possible to get rid of even the slightest dissent that is indignant among the people.
And who to liquidate, Li Su also thought about it, and he roughly vaguely revealed the bottom:
"After the Mianzhu City is broken, the Dong Fu clan who stay in Shu can be wiped out according to the law of the imperial court, and there is no need for Liu Yan to sell us favors. The rest of the three sects of Ren, Yang, and Chen Shuru, led by Chen Shi, have already taken refuge in us, and their performance is okay, so don't deal with them this time.
The Ren clan and the Yang clan can focus on cleaning up, especially the disciples of the Ren An School, as far as I know, there are many people who believe in secrets and talk about the way of heaven. ”
The Yang family of the third sect of Shu Confucianism is mainly the descendants of the Yang Xiong clan at the turn of the Han Dynasty, that is, the descendants of Mr. "Ziyun" in the "Nanyang Zhuge Lu and Xishu Ziyun Pavilion" in "The Burrow", and was also scolded by Zhuge Liang as a representative of "looking for chapters and extracting sentences, the rotten Confucianism of the world" in the "Tongue Battle Group Confucianism" scene in Romance.
Yang Xiong's hometown is a native of Pi County, so after more than 150 years of development in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yang family occupies almost half of the county's land and slaves in Pi County.
Liu Bei didn't plan to liquidate the Ren family of the second sect of Shu Confucianism, mainly because Ren An had already died of old age, and the former Qianwei Taishou Ren Qi in the younger generation had already been purged and killed by Liu Yan, Liu Bei felt that there was no problem with the surname Ren, so he ignored it.
But Li Su knew that the danger of the Ren family was not in the people of his own clan surnamed Ren, but also in some dangerous elements among Ren An's disciples.
For example, Du Wei, Du Qiong and Chen Zhen, all three of whom are Ren An's students.
Although Du Qiong's knowledge is good, later generations have made all kinds of reactionary remarks when Zhuge Liang was in power.
For example, interpreting "when Tu Gao is 'Wei Que', referred to as 'Wei', and all officials in the world are 'Cao', so the world is Cao Wei", which is the academic achievement of Du Qiong's research.
Du Qiong's younger brother Qian Qian died early, and Du Qiong also taught his younger brother's son Zhou Chengcai very conscientiously, inherited his reactionary research on Wei Wei, and delved into the academic topic of "who should represent Han" every day.
This kind of person fell into the hands of Li Su, and he could justifiably use a knife to kill people and seize treasures, wouldn't it be beautiful!
Liu Yan should force Ren, the Yang family and their students to donate money to the labor army and help defend Mianzhu! If they don't pay for it and don't go to the battlefield, then they will be called "collaborators" by Liu Yan.
If Liu Yan doesn't say that the Ren and Yang families are collaborating with each other, then his son Liu Zhang will have to communicate with Dong, if Liu Yan wants to cut off his son and grandson, he can try it!