In the early morning of the next day, Li Su took Dian Wei, who had 3,000 cavalry and bodyguards with him,

As well as dozens of cars ready to pay tribute to the imperial court, in order to show the resumption of the passage into Shu, at the wharf outside the south gate of Nanzheng, board the ship and go east.

Nanzheng County is close to the Han River, so you can take a boat down the Han River to reach Xicheng directly, and then enter Shangyong and other places - the later Shangyong was divided in the Jian'an period and assigned to Jingzhou, which is still only a part of Hanzhong County. In the Three Kingdoms period, it was further divided into "three eastern counties" and cut into Xicheng, Shangyong, and Xincheng (Fangling).

Li Su went here, firstly, to delay time and make the timing of his entry into Beijing better, and secondly, to sort out the counties in the east that went down the river.

Liu Guanzhang inevitably went to the dock to see Li Su on board the ship in person, and gave him earnest instructions.

Liu Bei pulled Li Su aside and whispered: "Brother Xian, you only have Dian Wei by your side this time, I think Dian Wei is really brave, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to cultivate as a general." If you encounter stubborn resistance from Zhang Lu's followers when you reach Shangyong, you can wait for Zilong's reinforcements to make peace with you, and you don't have to rush forward. ”

"Brother, don't worry, it's just a small county, with me, someone really dares to resist, and I will personally command Dian Wei to face the battle."

Li Su is still very sure in his heart, Ge Ke is not only a master of strategy, but it is also okay to manipulate tactics a little, especially if there is no talent at all.

After Liu Bei finished speaking, Guan Yu came over and whispered: "Boya, I originally wanted to go back to Nanzheng this time, so I would get married with wine, but now I suddenly heard that His Majesty has died, but it is inconvenient to do it immediately, wait a few more months." I'm all ready here, and when you come back, everyone will have a happy drink.

My ex-wife has been dead for many years, and my children are over 10 years old, so it is really inappropriate for no one to discipline me at home. I'm going to marry Du Shi, who was rescued in Hedong before. ”

"Oh, congratulations in advance." Li Su congratulated regretfully.

It's not easy for Du Shi, it's been four months since he was arrested.

It's just that Liu Beijun's generals traveled all over the country, from Chencang to Nanzheng and the Jialing River basin, and the whole Brazil went around a big circle, Guan Yu was stunned that he didn't live in one place without home for four months, and the woman he had already gotten in his hands didn't have time to marry.

However, Li Su thinks this is also very good, after all, Liu Bei was also tossing and turning when he was in the north, and he did not marry a wife or concubine, only a bunch of maidservants. Now that everyone has settled down, Guan Yu still waits for Liu Bei to take at least one concubine first, which can be regarded as the elder and the youngest in an orderly manner.

There are no famous families in Nanzheng who can marry Liu Bei, and that is because this place in Hanzhong has been plagued by anti-thieves who have bewitched the public. But Li Su estimated that when he returned to Beijing this time, there would definitely be many famous families who would cling to Liu Bei's high-performing stocks, even if the family was not enough to get married, he would send his daughter over to be a concubine first.

Mi Zhu's sister Mi Zhen, Liu Bei didn't move along the way before, because it was inconvenient on the road. But after arriving in Nanzheng, according to Li Su's observation, Mi Zhen was finally accepted by Liu Bei, but considering the source of the official position to protect Mi Zhu, Mi Zhen had to be a servant girl for another year or two to cover.

Otherwise, maybe the news will leak, and He Jin and even Dong Zhuo will use this as an excuse to question Mi Zhu, the source of the Liaodong Taishou and the Liaodong Taishou faction, to replace him. Therefore, the secrecy of Mi Zhen's identity must be maintained at least until the heroes officially ask Dong and the imperial court appointment letter is invalidated.

After talking to the brothers about these private matters, Li Su finally led the troops to set off.

He himself has to think about how to help Cai Yong and Cai Yan leave Luoyang this time, and rescue some things by the way, so as not to be burned by Dong Zhuo in the future.

……

The upper reaches of the Hanshui River are relatively gentle, and it only begins to be turbulent after leaving the Hanzhong Basin, so the speed of the boat is also slow before and fast at the end.

On the first day, the fleet sailed more than 100 miles, from Nanzheng to Xingshi, Jinhe County. To the east of Golden County, there is a narrow mouth between the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain, and the river water drop and flow speed also increased suddenly, and the next day it traveled a full 400 miles, and it approached Xicheng in the evening.

Dian Wei was diligent on the ship, protected and served Li Su for two days, and chatted with Li Su about military affairs and gossip when he was idle.

Li Su's boat, is also different from other troop carriers, Li Su personally spent money slightly modified, the cabin roof is not flat like other ships of the same era, but the same slope roof as the roof, conducive to drainage, the most important thing is that the cabin roof is also made of two layers, the outer layer is an ordinary wooden cabin roof, the whole ship is painted with white paint that reflects the sun, and the inner layer is a layer of brass skin, which looks very magnificent, and will not be directly irradiated by the sun.

At first, Dian Wei thought that this was Li Su's extravagant showmanship, just to look good and be unconventional. After asking, Li Sucai told him that it was for the comfort of the boat - when the boat was driving, he occasionally asked the soldiers to put the bucket into the river to draw water, and then twisted it up and splashed it on the top of this copper cabin to dissipate heat, and then flow back into the river, and also took care that when the soldiers were fetching water, the bucket must be as deep as possible, and hit the water that was not heated by the sun.

Now it is the end of May, and this trip to Nanyang is at least June, which is the hottest time of the year.

Dian Wei sighed that Li Su would live, he was cool alone, at least three or four soldiers who took cold water were so hot that they sweated, and there were two servants who played fans who were also too hot.

But who made him a military advisor, and gave the military advisor's CPU a good temperature. The computing power of the whole camp is strong.

Li Su's request to Liu Bei is actually very simple: I am a modern person who has lost so many superior living conditions to come here, you at least ensure that I have cold drinks, air conditioning, and fancy baths and massages every day, so as to help you fight the world.

Other entertainment activities, there is no way in this life, even if it is, there is no game to play, so I have to find a beautiful woman to sing poetry, or watching and directing others to fight can also be used as entertainment to experience life.

Anything, as long as it's fun, and you can do it if you want to do it, and you don't do it if you don't want to do it, it can be entertainment. One person's entertainment may also become another person's hard work, the key depends on whether you can do it at any time, and whether you can do it with the attitude of experiencing life.

If you are forced to fight 996 every day, of course, it is drudgery, not entertainment. Don't talk about 996 fighting, even if 996 is forced to play games, it can't be considered entertainment.

……

Lying on the boat and drinking herbal tea, the fleet arrived at the foot of Xicheng City.

A few days ago, Shen Kai, a local tyrant who was persuaded by Li Su's letter to surrender, greeted him respectfully outside the city gate, and allowed Dian Wei to enter the city with an iron horse.

Because Li Su had to get off the boat first and then ride a horse, there was nothing too rude, and there was no problem of "you don't get off the horse when others come to greet you".

But even so, that Shen Kai was still in a very correct position, and he had to ask Li Su to get on the horse first, and then help Li Su lead the horse for dozens of steps, and lead it to Shen Kai's own horse, beyond a position, and then Shen Kai himself dared to get on the horse.

Li Su was very satisfied with this humility: "Shen County Order, I heard that your Shen family is a local wealthy family, and there have been several generations of people in the town for several generations, and no outsiders have come in to be officials, right?" ”

Shen Kai explained with a smile: "This place is dangerous, there are no other counties more than 300 miles upstream, and 200 miles downstream to Dangxian, the people are only seven or eight out of ten, and there are two or three percent of them who have to rely on fishing and hunting to make a living, and outsiders really can't bear the hardships here."

He also asked General Zhonglang to go to General Zhenxi to say a lot of good words and explain the truth. These two are the dogs Shen Tan and Shen Yi, young and stubborn - you don't want to meet the Zhonglang General! It's a blessing for you to see Li Zhonglang! A remote mountain savage, I'm afraid I've never seen an official as big as General Zhonglang when I was born. ”

Shen Tan and Shen Yi hurriedly saluted Li Su, and Li Su observed that the brothers were only in their teens.

Of course, Li Su also knows that Shen Tan and Shen Yi in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are not good things, and basically whoever is strong will take refuge in whomever he wants. But if you really want to be exquisite, maybe your younger brother Shen Yi is more capricious.

The difference between these two brothers is a bit similar to Xu Huang and Lu Bu.

Xu Huang belongs to the new master and does not ask for meritorious service to give a meeting gift, and Cao Cao is with Cao Cao, there is no need to kill Yang Feng. And Lu Bu is defecting to the new main to kill the old master as a meeting gift. The gap between the Shen brothers is also here, and the younger brother Shen Yi likes to kill a colleague from the old master when he defects to the new master.

However, in this life, Li Su is sure that Liu Bei will always be the strongest force between Yi and Jing, and it is impossible for these two goods to make waves. It's a big deal to appease them first, but compress their territory, so that they won't be able to divide the town of Xicheng and Shangyong in the future. After more than ten years of Shen Kai's death, he forced the two brothers to roll up in a place in Xicheng, and whoever lost was transferred to the field to be an idle official at the same level.

Moreover, Li Su is sure that farming will improve the traffic environment in the mediocre land in the future, so that it will not be so closed, and I believe that with time, foreign officials can gradually infiltrate it.

After appeasing the Shen family at the wine table, Li Su basically set a strategy to deal with it, and also let the other party feel at ease to work for him.

"Li Zhonglang is so righteous and sympathetic, in a few days, we will be willing to lead the way for Zhonglang to transport grain, attack Shangyong, and ensure that all the local wealthy families are attached to General Zhenxi." After Shen Kai figured out Li Su's willingness to retain them, he became more and more willing to work hard.

"So, it's hard work." Li Su was also polite.

Shen Kai asked again: "Then I don't know what Zhonglang said, but I want to collect all the counties?" The easternmost Fangling, to take the Hanshui waterway to reach but not easy, have to pass through the boundary of Xiangyang County, Jingzhou, the general of Zhenxi led the Hanzhong Taishou, through the Jingzhou border without the remnants of Zhang Lu to transport troops, I don't know if it is taboo? ”

Li Su generously signaled to the other party to rest assured: "General Zhenxi has an order, there is no remnant of Zhang Lu in the land of Fangling, everything is as usual." ”

It turns out that among all the places in Shangyong, only Xicheng can be directly reached along the main stream of the Han River;

And Shangyong is located in the south side of the Han River tributary to block the water, the waterway to Shangyong, you have to go around a large circle from the area equivalent to the later Shiyan Danjiang Estuary to block the water. Because the entire land of the mediocre is between the north and south of the Qinling Mountains, the terrain is rugged, and you can only walk along the river, and it is a fool's dream to go over the mountain.

Fangling is located on the north bank of Zhushui, a tributary of the downstream stream, and you have to go around the waterway to get there.

However, the estuary where Zhushui flows into the Han River is located in Zhuyang County, which is a subordinate county of Xiangyang County in Jingzhou, only a hundred miles away from Xiangyang, and only two counties of Shandu and Deng County are separated in the middle.

Li Su doesn't want the Han Water Road to be too smooth, it is best to keep "I say that he is unblocked, and when others come in from here, I want to say that he is not unblocked, and he can not be unblocked", so that the imperial court's edict will enter Sichuan, and the rhythm will be more controllable, so obediently take the Chencang Road.

And the reason is also very sufficient: I didn't know that there were Zhang Lu's followers on the side of Fangling who went over the mountain to control it, and I didn't know that they would climb the mountain and return to the Hanshui to block the road to the Danjiang Estuary.

If the imperial court felt that this delicate disease needed to be completely eliminated, it would be easy: Liu Bei was officially authorized to lead troops through Xiangyang County in Jingzhou, and Liu Bei guaranteed to kill Zhang Luyu in Fangling County in an instant.

The imperial court is really going to take this stinky move, and it is estimated that in the future, Kuai Yue Cai Mao and those people will not be able to sleep.

Anyway, no matter whether the court is in charge of this matter or not, Li Su is earning, so why not do it.