Li Su persuaded Yu Fuluo to move to the town, and on the surface, it seemed that there was still a lot of money, and it seemed that it would put greater pressure on the capital chain of Liu Bei's camp-

When Liu Bei left Liaodong before, the money on hand was less than 300 million, and he injected another 300 million at one time by selling Liaodong to find Mi Zhu, barely getting close to 600 million.

In the three months of being an official in Luoyang, Liu Bei went up and down to seek to release General Zhenxi, and then gave Li Su the operation of the Xiongnu Zhonglang General to help Li Su get out, and the cost of buying officials in the entire camp was 100 million less, but there was only 500 million left.

According to Liu Bei's calculation of raising 30,000 soldiers and horses, 500 million will be raised for 20 months, which means that by the autumn harvest season of 190, if Liu Bei has not established a solid base finance, the capital chain will be broken.

At present, Yu Fuluo is directly given 100 million settling-in expenses, so Liu Bei's cash flow can only last for 16 months. If Yu Fuluo is allowed to continue to participate in the war to help fight Zhang Lu and even the follow-up thieves, he will have to make up the difference of 100 million in military spending, and the cash flow will be further reduced to 12 months.

It is based on this worry that Li Su was originally quite cautious about the offer, but before coming yesterday, Guan Yu gave him a reassuring pill, saying that he didn't have to worry too much about money - Guan Yu has been a lieutenant in Hedong for a few months, and he has actually relied on impartial law enforcement to crack down on private salt, and he has scraped out tens of millions, plus when the time comes, Yang Feng will spit out the spoils, and Guan Yujun will definitely take more than 100 million.

In this way, the trip to Hedong is actually a flat entry and exit, and it was not in vain. spent the money of the Hedong people, and picked up a Yuvro for nothing. As far as the local people are concerned, it should be regarded as asking the wealthy and powerful to spend money to send the plague god at the end.

The only difference is that when Yu Fuluo personally scraped, it was the poor people who scraped, so he forced out the white wave thief. And Guan Yu helped scrape on behalf of him, and it was the salt lord Haoqiang who scraped.

Such a scraping method is not without a price, at least Guan Yu has become a thorn in the side of those famous families in Hedong, just because Guan Yu has no way to take him with a business-like signboard for the time being. But since he didn't plan to use Hedong as a base, offending people would also offend people, anyway, he would slap his ass and leave after offending.

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The next day after the negotiation was reached, in the early morning, Li Su asked Guan Yu to tie up hundreds of prisoners of war who had been captured before.

Then he declared his identity in front of them, and also took out the festival and seal ribbon of the Xiongnu Zhonglang General in public, and read out the imperial court's all-enons authorizing him to ask Yu Fuluo to move to the town and stay away from Sili.

In the end, he also held an oath ceremony with Yu Fu Luo in public, indicating that Yu Fu Luo was willing to leave Hedong.

I don't pay attention to these etiquette details, anyway, the troubled times are like this, and I can't pay attention to them. After doing all this, Li Su put all the captives back and let them spread the information.

Before leaving, he repeatedly emphasized to the captives that the imperial court had the sincerity to peacefully solve the white wave thieves, and their military rations were far more abundant than back then.

Therefore, as long as the white wave thieves lay down their arms, return the plundered property, and punish some of the evildoers who were very angry in the process of plundering, so as to appease the good people of Hedong. Then you can definitely give other people a bite to eat, organize production as soon as possible to participate in this year's spring ploughing, and there will be no pit killing.

Of course, Li Su would never be so stupid as to directly hand over the trick of "officially borrowing seeds, rations and farm tools to organize the people to farm the fields" to Ding Yuan or Fan Ling.

Tuntian's trick is still too fresh now, and it is easy to have an impact on the historical trend, so for the time being, it is only piloted in remote and isolated areas such as Liaodong or Shudi.

And even if Li Suken revealed the operation method of Tuntian, Ding Yuan and Fan Ling did not have so much capital to organize official loans.

What kind of implementation can be achieved at that time depends on Ding Yuan's own civil affairs ability. What's more, according to normal development, even if Ding Yuan really gave out loan sharks, he would not live to recover the money this autumn.

The loan is released, the account is confiscated, the creditor is gone, what is worse in the world?

After these captives were put back, the 60,000 white wave thieves besieged in Changping were completely chaotic, and they began to fight among themselves, who had run out of food.

Of course, those leaders will not surrender, because when they surrender, they have nothing. Guan Yu said that it is possible to liquidate some looters who are extremely angry with the people, and vent their evil anger to the robbed famous families, who knows if they are not in the liquidation list?

And there is another key point, that is, although the white wave thief has been besieged for so long, there are still two or three thousand horses that have not been killed.

Some people may wonder: the military rations have been cut off for several days, why don't they kill the horses and eat the horses? Isn't it expensive to raise a horse?

This is going to talk about the besieged state of Changping, because after all, it is to build an earthen wall between several mountain beams to defend itself, not to be surrounded in the city, so there are still dozens of square kilometers of grassland slopes and grasslands, and it is no problem to let the horses eat grass on the spot for two months. Therefore, these horses do not need to crowd out people's food and grass, but the commander is not allowed to kill horses and eat meat.

At the same time, the size of the army is so large and the encirclement is so sparse, the cavalry can still try to break through if they really want to run, but they can't take too much property with them, and the main force will be abandoned without horses. Those Qu Shuai were also reluctant to accumulate 10,000 or 20,000 horses each, so they always wanted to insist on it and see if there were any variables.

But after the news spread that Yu Fuluo was about to leave Hedong, the morale of the military morale at the grassroots level of the White Wave thieves was directly unwilling to insist anymore.

Hu Cai, one of the three commanders of Baibo, knew that if he delayed for another day or two, his morale would collapse, so he chose to take the initiative to lead the army to break through in the direction of the party.

He took his troops and horses, as well as those who were willing to go with him, a total of 20,000 or 30,000 people, regardless of casualties and the terrain disadvantage of the active attacking side under such terrain, and frantically broke through to the northeast.

As a result, they collided with the interception of Lu Bu and Yu Fuluo, and the soldiers were killed and wounded and captured extremely heavily, and they were almost chased and cut by the cavalry from behind in the process of scattering birds and beasts. The white wave thief can only pray that Lu Bu will chase his slow comrades, as long as he is targeted, almost he will not be spared, and the only way to survive is "Lu Bu can't care about chasing you because he is chasing others".

Qu Shuai Hu Cai was finally chased by Lu Bu himself and beheaded in the chaos.

Hu Cai was reluctant to let his troops go, and a large-scale breakthrough failed. But Yang Feng and Li Le were not idle, although they chose a different breakthrough method than Hu Cai, but the timing was the same. Taking advantage of Hu Cai's lure away Lu Bu and Yu Fuluo, Yang Feng and Li Le took only 2,000 people, all the cavalry, put all the gold and fine brocade and other valuable things on horseback, and abandoned the main force to break through quickly.

But the size of the cavalry of the Han army was much larger than that of the Baibo army, and there would always be idle cavalry reserves that could be put into pursuit. Since Li Su is here, he has also seen the precedent of Zhang Ju's "abandoning the army and running softly", how could he not be guarded?

Therefore, he asked Zhao Yun to go back to his old job, and go all out to encircle and suppress the small group of white wave cavalry that pursued and broke through.

A year and a half ago at the southern foot of Yanshan, Zhao Yun's troops were much smaller than Zhang Ju's descendants, so he could only harass him that time, and finally let Zhang Ju escape.

But now that Zhao Yun has changed his guns, he can dispatch five thousand Wuhuan cavalry to chase two thousand Bai Bo's amateur cavalry full of property, how can he let Bai Bo run away.

In the end, only Li Le escaped with 300 horsemen, and Yang Feng was stabbed to death after being shot by Zhao Yun himself.

But Li Su is still very righteous, and he still has to do superficial work, and symbolically divides some gold and silver to Lu Bu and Yu Fuluo.

In the evening of the same day, the last 30,000 or 40,000 white wave thieves who were abandoned in the encirclement without a leader completely surrendered to Guan Yu and Lu Bu.

Li Su also kept his promise, and most of the illicit salt seized after the thieves went to Lu Bu's state army.

Lu Bu and Ding Yuan were also satisfied with this income, and Ding Yuan privately rewarded Lu Bu with several million dollars and rewarded him with several women.

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When night fell, when he returned to the camp to count the results, Zhao Yun finally tied up a prisoner and came back, reporting to Li Suyu:

"Zhonglang, when I stabbed Yang Feng to death, I met this thief who was quite brave, if it wasn't for the rain of arrows and arrows on the Wuhuan Tu cavalry beside me before the battle, he would probably be able to pick me up thirty times. I saw that he was a talent, so I specially tied it up to ask Zhonglang to send it down. ”

Li Suduan sat on the maza, covered his hands with a cup of hot wine, and raised his head slightly: "What's your name?" Why thieves? The imperial court is obviously willing to move away from Yufuluo, and if you are given a chance, you will not surrender. ”

The captive was disheartened, Zhao Yun originally pressed him to kneel, and he was not afraid of death, so he fell backwards instead, sitting on the ground and sighing:

"Yang Feng has always been greedy for money, step by step to today, because of small losses, what else is there to say. Human nature is addicted to gambling, and that's it! The bet is getting heavier and heavier, and I am more and more reluctant to give up, if I had listened to me two months ago, I didn't want the hundreds of thousands of stone salt, and now Hugh said that if I went to the party, I would be able to return to Taiyuan! ”

Hearing this sigh, Li Su was slightly moved by the idea of sparing that person's life.

Although the speech is very popular, this captive should have some insight, at least be able to understand the simple truth of "sunk costs".

Many people can't get their hands after placing a bet, but they are reluctant to pay the sunk cost.

"Seeing that you still have some knowledge, I will give you another chance, and now I am willing to surrender and spare you from death."

The captive gasped for a few breaths, seemed to have figured it out, and knelt down again: "In Xia Xu Huang, people from this county." Yang Feng was greedy and brought about his own destruction, and I was also considered to be benevolent to him, and the general was willing to remove Yu Fuluo, pardon the thieves and the people, and surrender. ”

Li Su nodded, and did not immediately promise him a position just because he was Xu Huang.

Since he was defeated and captured, he must have the appearance of being defeated and captured, let him climb slowly, and he must not break the military discipline with clear rewards and punishments just because Xu Huang is a famous general in history.

However, Guan Yu suggested to Li Su on the side: "Boya, the eldest brother's 30,000 horses, so far I have only sent 25,000 people to Hedong, and there are 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers who were newly attached when they were in Mount Tai.

I also fought in Hedong for several months, and found that the soldiers here are brave and brave, and they are still above the Qingzhou soldiers. The white wave is flat, and tens of thousands of people descend, and it is still possible to select thousands of young and strong people with plastic character from them. I saw that this Xu Huang was also quite powerful when he was under Yang Feng, so let him recruit 5,000 people from the captives and use them for our army. ”

Only then did Li Su know that it turned out that Liu Bei and Guan Yu had finally adjusted the composition of the 30,000 troops brought into Sichuan.

However, there is nothing wrong with thinking about it this way, and the quality of the Bingzhou soldiers has always been good, and they are not as far away from their hometown as the Qingzhou soldiers entered Sichuan.

Anyway, Tai Shi Ci on the Donglai side has also been promoted to Sima of other departments, and the 5,000 people who stayed in Donglai were used by Tai Shi Ci for defense, which can be regarded as local materials. In the future, Liaodong and Donglai each left 5,000 troops as horns for each other, which is also safer, and no one dares to covet it for at least ten years in the troubled times.

Li Su explained to Guan Yu in a consultative tone: "Then let's do what Yun Chang said, but there are two points, first, there are only five or six days to screen and reorganize the prisoners, and we will start one after another around the Shangyuan Festival, from Puhanjin to Weishui."

Second, even if 5,000 usable soldiers can be selected from among the captives, it will be hard to lead by themselves, and they cannot be led by the original Baibo Military Academy. As for Xu Huang, if he is willing to help reorganize the new army, it will be regarded as a crime, but this merit can only be temporarily awarded to the tun commander at most. ”

This kind of detail requires Guan Yu, of course, to say that there is no problem. Xu Huang didn't dare to be dissatisfied, and it seemed logical to return to the official and military camp and start over from the tun chief.

After seven or eight days of troop reorganization and the handover of duties, Guan Yu finally put on a new identity, because he was secretly reported by the Hedong family and forced him to be transferred, and the imperial court officially changed Guan Yu to the lieutenant of Hanzhong.

Guan Yu is equivalent to offending people because of the confiscation of public and private salt, so the benefits of money and food are reaped, but the merits of the war were reversed, and he is still a lieutenant after a long time. From Liaodong to Hedong to Hanzhong, the official rank and rank have not been promoted for more than half a year - roughly equivalent to Li Yunlong's "A regiment commander has been in N years and has a lot of military merits, but every time he makes a meritorious service, he makes mistakes, which offsets his promotion".

On the second day of the Shangyuan Festival, Guan Yu took 30,000 horses to cross the Yellow River from Puhanjin and enter Weishui in several days. He didn't dare to get off the boat near Chang'an, so as not to be jealous of the imperial court, but after passing Chang'an along the Weishui, he disembarked in Zhihuaili County, Youfufeng County.

It took several days, around the 20th day of the first lunar month, to finally move 30,000 horses and horses to Huaili in batches and assemble. The fleet was responsible for transporting grain, procuring and filling up the food and continuing to follow the army.

And Liu Bei and the civilian staff around him also left Luoyang on the 18th day of the first month, took the overland Hankun Road, passed through Hongnong through Chang'an, and the fast horse only took three days to meet the army in Huaili on the 21st.

At this point, all the core backbones of Liu Bei's camp have finally moved over. The losses transferred by the imperial court were minimized, and only a few people such as Mi Jia, Tian Jiatai, and Shi Ci were dispersed.

"Second brother, third brother, Boya, Zilong! Don't come unharmed! Liu Bei appeased them one by one, and his heart was full of emotion.

"Big brother, you have been aggrieved in the past few months, and today we are finally not drunk and do not return!" The reunion of brothers is obviously Zhang Fei's most excited.

"I'm going to continue the march tomorrow, so let's skip the alcohol." Li Su couldn't help but persuade.

Liu Bei thought for a while, and a bowl of water was flat: "Today's special case, I will drink a good drink, but from tomorrow, until Chen Cang is cleared, you are not allowed to drink again, Yide may do it?" ”

Zhang Fei pouted: "Just listen to the eldest brother!" ”

Li Su flipped through the map and pondered for a while: "From Huaili along Weishui to Chencang, you have to pass through Meiyang, Wugong, Yixian, and the land of the three counties, a total of 240 miles, or not." Thinking about Han Sui's siege of Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo for five months, he was already exhausted, and he didn't have much spare time to pay attention to us. After Chen Cang, you can enter Shu. ”

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PS: Change the map, a little bit of a running account, but after changing the rhythm it gets better, everyone be more patient, thank you.