The more than 40 days after drinking the stolen wine with Wang Yun, Shi Sunrui and others were the more than 40 days that Li Su felt the most bored and couldn't let go.

Go back to Shu County to deal with your own affairs, the road is too far, and it is not enough to make a round trip. My wife has also been living in the Hou Mansion in Pi County, a fiefdom, for a year. Li Su was not at home for a whole year, and after returning from the Nanzhong expedition, he wanted to go home immediately and have a good time and accept the results of farming by the way, but it was forced to drag on for two more months.

Back in Hanzhong, there is no other urgent business to deal with at the moment. Li Su couldn't even tell Liu Bei the speculation that "Wang Yun won't live long", so he and Liu Bei met as little as possible.

Because Li Su knows very well that the current Liu Bei still has no intention of seeking the throne by himself, if Liu Bei knows that "the Son of Heaven has just escaped, and he may fall into the hands of thieves and ministers", then Liu Bei will definitely frantically mobilize troops to support Wang Yun and rescue Emperor Han Xian.

Then the butterfly effect will be completely blown away, and I don't know how to end it.

And even if you don't consider the selfish interests of your camp, just for the sake of the whole world and the country, it's not a good thing to let Wang Yun live too long.

Because the problems of the Han Dynasty have accumulated and it is difficult to return, now is the time to not break or stand.

If these people survive, the Han Dynasty will not want to engage in a new atmosphere of "meritocracy, and the Han family will govern the country according to law" in the next 20 years.

Among these ministers, of course, there are good people like Huangfu Song who should live a long life, but there are also more mediocre people who are not worthy of leaving a few strokes in the history books, but now they occupy a high position.

In history, even Dong Zhuo did not solve the problems left over from the era of selling officials and lords at the top of the Han Dynasty, because the absolute proportion of Dong Zhuo's killing of court ministers was actually not high. What really wiped out the top family bureaucracy that followed the thinking of the imperial court and palace fighting, and the whole country completely turned into the logic of fighting for hegemony, was the "Li Dao robbed the Son of Heaven and Guo Yan robbed a hundred officials" during the later internal strife between Li and Guo Yan.

Flipping through the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", a large number of high-ranking officials of the old era who died in 195, such as Huang Wan, Zheng Tai, Ma Riyanshi, Sun Ruihuang, Fu Song, Zhu Jun, were all collectively slaughtered by Guo Yan's wave, and they were all petty fights before. Otherwise, where did it come from in the second year of Jian'an, the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao's bold and meritocracy.

Although another twenty years later, when Cao Cao also died, Cao Pi and Chen Qun engaged in the nine-product Zhongzheng system, and gradually restored the selection criteria. But it has to be said that the period from 196 to 216 was the 20 years with the least resistance to personnel reform, because the resistance at the top was gone. Guo Yan actually became Cao Cao's executioner.

Therefore, Li Su can not take the initiative to deceive Liu Bei now, he can't even say "white lies", and he can't help Liu Bei save Wang Yun, and he can't even miss the slightest clue that Liu Bei "disregarded the recovery of the Yue Net, and transferred Zhang Fei's troops from Qianwei to Hanzhong in advance".

He had to pretend that he couldn't see or hear, and indulged in lust to delay time.

Drag, just drag hard.

……

In the blink of an eye, it has been half a month after negotiating with Wang Yun.

Li Su Beppu in Nanzheng City, the lights are bright and the wine is drunk, and the song and dance are continuous.

Li Su returned to Nanzheng six days ago with Wang Yun's conditions, and then discussed the countermeasures with Liu Bei a little, and asked Liu Bei to send someone to write a performance and prepare a jade seal, as well as other Nanzhong specialties as a tribute to the imperial court.

The first two preparations were actually quite fast, because the jade seal was by Liu Bei's side, and there were literary scholars who wrote the chapter to help polish it. This time the person in charge of the pen is Qin Mi, this person is more able to blow, and his writing is also good.

The only thing that is relatively slow is the specialty of Nanzhong, because there are some unstocked goods here in Hanzhong, and they have to be transferred from Jiangzhou or Chengdu. The Clippers also had to be at least half a month before they were dragged abruptly.

Liu Bei didn't understand why the tribute was so time-consuming, and insisted on finding Li Su to cut down a few difficult things. Li Su had no choice, so he had to control the rhythm and agree, and didn't let Liu Bei see the flaws.

The tribute couldn't be delayed, and Li Su began to find fault with the chapter written by Qin Mi:

"Ziyi! There's still an edict in your hand, and you can write an edict in this writing? Let you exaggerate a little, 'Yue Wan is about to be overcome by Wang Shi', why write it, I told Wang Yun that Yue Wan had already been captured, and now that I changed my words and didn't capture it, wouldn't it slap me in the face.

Also, what are you going to raise troops to mourn the country, it's not easy for us to report it, the credit has been accumulated for several years, and now we have a chance to cash it out, you have to calculate the amount in advance, you will write that the country has been destroyed by us! ”

Qin Mi called a nest fire, but on the surface, he was very respectful to Li Su, saying that he would definitely rectify it according to the requirements of the leadership.

On this afternoon, Liu Bei himself heard that Qin Mi's recital had been beaten back twice by Li Su, and he had to go to Li Su's mansion to see it in person, wondering why Li Su made it difficult for Qin Mi.

He didn't let anyone inform him, who let him get acquainted with Li Su, just push the door and enter. The maidservants in the Li Mansion didn't have time to warn Li Su to restrain themselves, but as soon as Liu Bei walked in, he saw a scene of drunkenness.

Li Su hugged three or four beauties there and drank heavily, and his face was red from drinking, and he didn't seem to have any brains to deal with government affairs. The maidservants who played music and danced next to them were also very beautiful.

Liu Bei was angry and funny: "It's my fault that I let you go out for a year and be separated from your wife, so you need to rest when you're tired of traveling?" ”

Li Su hurriedly tidied up his clothes, and his dancing girl also knelt down to ask for resignation.

Liu Bei was very generous, and with a wave of his hand, he pardoned the dancing girls: "Don't do your business, continue to play music, continue to dance." ”

Then, Liu Bei looked at it carefully and nodded appreciatively: "These are the ones you sent back from the Wuwu and you picked them to stay by your side as a servant?" ”

Li Su: "Yes, if my brother thinks that what I left is too beautiful, you can leave." ”

Liu Bei: "What are you kidding, if you say that you will be rewarded, will I be as lustful as Dong Thief and disregard righteousness?" ”

It turned out that although Li Su had ordered all the "eight-hundred-year-old beauties" in Hewu to be sent home to restore their freedom, in fact, more than half of them were released, four or five hundred people, and dozens of them were taken away by Lu Bu.

There are two or three hundred left, and they can't let go if they want to—because these girls are homeless.

Dong thief has been in Chang'an for more than two years, and he has killed many officials and wealthy people. For those whose family members have been killed, Li Su is of course obliged to send them back to Nanzheng to ask Liu Bei to deal with them and feed them.

Liu Bei selected some older ones, who had not yet married a wife to the marquis of Qu Junhou or above in the army, or the civil officials who had come to defect to the army who had not yet married a wife, and sent some to be wives or concubines, consuming more than 100 people, and the rest were divided into a few great heroes.

Li Su also assigned twenty beautiful girls in Hewu as maids and dancers. He had to pretend to be a show now and take a break from pleasure, and of course there would be no pressure - but Li Su didn't sleep with these women, because they were too young, and Li Su was not that kind of beast.

On the other hand, he also has to maintain his physical strength, and the follow-up envoy will have to walk at least two or three times on the plank road. The two-hundred-mile mountain road is not easy to walk, what if the woman who plays with the physical strength is weak, and she can't walk where she should walk, and she has to ride a horse, or even cause the horse to be unstable and fall down the valley and die?

And when he first picked people, he chose those who could sing, dance and play music, not only for beauty, but also for more than a dozen places. Who let this era have no sound and no movies, and if you want to watch entertainment programs, you can only waste some manpower.

At this moment, Liu Bei glanced at the side a few times, and he had to sigh that Li Su knew how to live and had taste. Of these twenty maidservants, only seven or eight of them are among the best girls in Yiwu, while the others are relatively only known for their talents.

"Boya, why are you so distracted? Is it necessary to work so slowly for tributes and concerts? Liu Bei drank wine and asked casually, but he couldn't hear the reproach.

Li Su pretended to knead the girl in his hand, and said sincerely: "Don't I think that the big thing has been decided, except for the national thieves, everyone is in the Yingying Dynasty, we don't have to worry." Big brother, you don't want to think about it, I have been separated from my wife since June last year, and I have been busy outside for a whole year. I went back to Nanzheng from Nanzhong, did you let me rest for three days?

Besides, I talked to Wang Yun a few times before, and I felt that he hadn't understood the current situation yet, so I wanted the envoys of the other princes to have time to make Wang Yun sober up - Wang Yun made it clear at the beginning that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu would support him and obey the court unconditionally again, so he ignored us who respected the court and withheld the reward.

In this case, I might as well wait until Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's first batch of pilgrimage envoys have seen Wang Yun, and let Wang Yun see how the current local princes are asking for officials from the imperial court, and the arrogance in Wang Yun's heart will naturally be knocked out a little. ”

I see, and it makes sense. Wang Yun only sees other people's disrespect for the court, and when there is a comparison, he will cherish us loyal ministers. Liu Bei nodded his head, feeling that Li Su had handled it properly,

"That's it, then it's up to you, at the latest, when Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao all get the news, know that Dong Thief is dead, and react, our performance medals and jade seals should be sent back."

Li Su also breathed a sigh of relief: it was obviously for the benefit of Liu Bei and himself, but he couldn't tell Liu Beiming yet, it was not easy to do something after going around in such a big circle.

However, Li Su has almost waited enough, because under the condition that the roads are endless, the news of Dong Zhuo's killing can reach Cao Cao's territory in ten days, and Yuan Shao in half a month.

Therefore, at the latest, ten days after Li Su negotiated with Wang Yun, Cao Cao's congratulatory message to the new dynasty should arrive in Chang'an, and twenty days is the day when Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's expression will arrive - or at least there will be a posture of "Yuan Shu does not bird the court controlled by Wang Yun at all", so that Wang Yun can clearly understand the current situation.

On June 23, Wang Yun received the first congratulatory letter from the princes of the outer towns in Chang'an City, which was sent by Cao Cao, who led the Yanzhou pastor, and Xun Yu was the messenger of the pilgrimage.

Wang Yun's initial reaction after receiving the table was overjoyed, but then after reading the faint words of "I hope the imperial court will recognize the established reality" in Cao Cao's expression, he thought about it again and again, pinched his nose and posthumously recognized Cao Cao's actual award to Yanzhou Mu and Zhendong General.

In addition, because Xun Yu, as a messenger, did not have a formal official position granted by the imperial court before (as of this time, Xun Yu's positions were privately given by Cao Cao, and there was no official title from the imperial court), Wang Yun named Xun Yu as the Zhonglang of the Zhendong General, which was regarded as a senior subordinate official of the Four Towns General's Mansion.

On June 27, four days after Cao Cao's inscription arrived, another congratulatory note from the feudal officials arrived, and the messenger was Wang Lang, who was engaged in the administration of Xuzhou, and sent the watch on behalf of Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian.

After Cao Cao's precedent, Wang Yun's lower limit of discipline value was also lowered, and it didn't take long to determine the reality, and officially changed Tao Qian, who was originally just a thorn in history, to Xuzhou Mu, in exchange for Tao Qian's sincere support for Wang Yun to control the court.

And this time, the messenger Wang Lang, because he had already entered the bureau of filial piety and honesty a few years ago, and had an official position in the imperial court, he also had to be promoted. Wang Yun wanted to disgust Tao Qian a little and divide Tao Qian's forces, so he transferred Wang Lang away and named him the Taishou of Huiji County.

"I didn't expect Liu Bei and Li Su to be the most conscientious, how can these people who came late be darker than the other, and they dare to talk about conditions when they respect the imperial court!"

Wang Yun was always so emotional in his heart, but he still held on to the last glimmer of hope, and wanted to wait for Er Yuan's pilgrimage messenger to come.

It's a pity that he waited until the first day of the seventh month, and Wang Yun didn't wait for the second Yuan to come to the table, but Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou who was farther away than Yuan Shu's road, came. Wang Yun was already familiar with the way, and directly admitted that Jingzhou had changed the history of Jingzhou to Jingzhou Mu, and sent Liu Biao's other Yi nationality back.

"Liu Biao is here, Yuan Shu hasn't come yet, it seems that Yuan Shu really won't send someone here, and Yuan Shao won't come! Brother Ben Chu Xian, you have disappointed me so much! ”

Just when Wang Yun shook his head and sighed, and the psychological price level was collapsed to the lower limit, he heard two more news, one good and one bad.

The bad news is that Li Su, the general of Lu Bu's department who he sent to Anyi to crusade against Niu Fu a few days ago, was actually defeated and failed to defeat Niu Fu.

Wang Yun was furious and asked Lü Bu to behead Li Su, and then ordered Lü Bu to personally lead the army to attack Niu Fu.

Just after sending Lu Bu out, someone from the government came to report that the official tribute of General Zhengxi and the envoy of the jade seal had arrived in Chang'an, waiting to request an audience according to the process.

killed a Li Su and another Li Su, Wang Yun felt that he must be unlucky today, and he was on the bar with the surname Li.

"Immediately arrange to rest at the pavilion, and then arrange a formal meeting in three days. I'll go and see if the tribute is real or fake in a moment. Wang Yun instructed his subordinates.

After finishing the chores at hand, Wang Yun took a colleague who had been Fu Baolang and went to Li Su's post house first, and asked Li Su to take out the heirloom jade seal for him to appraise it.

Of course, Li Su is not afraid that Wang Yun will directly take away the jade seal of the country, which is not justified, Wang Yun will not do this.

After verifying the authenticity, they can formally draft the previously negotiated edict of reward, and hand it over publicly three days later.

"Situ, it's a real jade seal, it's exactly the same as when I was Fu Baolang more than ten years ago, but the golden horn is melted down, it should be a normal damage caused by the war."

Wang Yun nodded and turned to Li Su: "Okay, then the dedication ceremony will be held in three days, and you will be rewarded with an edict at that time." ”

After that, Wang Yun even sighed and patted Li Su's shoulder: "Li Boya, Li Boya, I thought you were the most greedy, but I didn't expect that none of those people in Kanto are as provincial as you, this is the old man's heart, don't lie to you, alas." General Zhengxi's task of begging for thieves in the future is still heavy, and he can't relax. ”

Li Su solemnly promised: "That's nature, for the country hoe thief, never tired." ”

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Midnight. Resume two shifts over the weekend, and see how it goes next week.