After explaining the affairs of Liu Bei and Guan Yu clearly, Li Su also had to go on the road quickly, go back to Liaodong with Xu Rong, and completely complete the handover of the work in Liaodong.

It is not only the civil affairs that need to be handed over, but more importantly, the personnel arrangements. Only by familiarizing Mi Zhu with personnel and strengthening his prestige can he stay in charge for a long time.

This truth is not only understood by Liu Bei, but also by the emperor, so although he really wanted to leave Li Su as a Beijing official immediately, but under the persuasion of Lu Zhi and Jian Shuo's double attack of taking money and blowing the wind, Emperor Ling still chose to let Li Su's official position of "Captain of Wuhuan Guard" be removed for a few more months.

In other words, since Liu Bei began in September of the fifth year of Zhongping, the position of Liaodong Taishou has been removed and replaced by Zongzheng Shaoqing. And all of Li Su's administrative positions in Liaodong can be retained until Liu Bei finishes investigating the case.

At that time, if the emperor sent Liu Bei to ask Zhang Lu, then Li Su would be an envoy in his official capacity and enter Yizhou to inquire about Liu Yan's current situation.

Who made Li Su's diplomatic talent in the past two years so terrible that when the emperor thought of the task of "pacifying the distant people", he first felt that Li Su was the most competent

A letter can make Qiangqu Shan Yu send troops to the king, and with a three-inch incorruptible tongue, he said that he would descend to Qiu Liju, and even when he was at war with the thief Wusu in Qingzhou, those thief chieftains who were originally nominally attached to Wusu would inexplicably return to the court anyway.

The diplomatic victories of these three soldiers who surrendered without a fight were so terrible that if the emperor wanted to solve the Liu Yan problem peacefully, punish the former and save the people, and extinguish Liu Yan's ambitions, then he would definitely use Li Su. What's more, Li Su still has a little friendship with Liu Yan, and in Emperor Ling's heart, he must feel that letting Li Su appease Liu Yan can make Liu Yan be honest and not blame the past.

In addition, I have to say that although Liu Bei showed that he had given up his local roots, his title of general of Duliao could remain unchanged.

Because General Miscellaneous has nothing to do with your administrative duties, it's like after Sun Jian destroyed Ou Xing, he got General Broken. Then as long as he does not have a new general position and does not specifically remove him, he will always be a broken general.

In later generations, Liu Bei's title of General Zuo hung for decades, until he proclaimed himself the king of Hanzhong.

The reason why the name "General Du Liao" makes people feel special is because there is a word "Liao" in the name, which seems to be combined with the name of the place, but in fact, you can be a general of Du Liao in other places.

……

On September 21, the revolving gate in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang was closed.

Liu Bei personally took a few relatives to escort Li Su all the way to Chenggao, picked up Xu Rong, who had been waiting in Chenggao for a long time, and then Li Su and Xu Rong went to Liaodong.

At the time of parting, Liu Bei personally opened a jar of wine and poured three bowls of wine with Li Su to say goodbye.

Liu Bei also commanded in a whispered tone: "Brother Xian, this time back to Liaodong, all the ministers and subordinates under the curtain, whoever can be mobilized, who wants to stay in Liaodong, and even the military attaches below the Marquis of Qu Jun will also depend on the virtuous brother to stay." Mi Zhu's prestige is still shallow.

This Xu Duwei was sent by the imperial court, and his ancestral home is Liaodong. It's all up to the virtuous brother to bother with the design, so that Mi Zhu can suppress Xu Rong. It's really unstable, and it doesn't hurt to keep more military attachés who are our henchmen. ”

Liu Bei's words are tantamount to completely handing over the personnel appointment power of the entire camp to Li Su. Except for Guan Zhangzhao, who always led the troops to run with Liu Bei, who can "follow the dragon" and who has to stay in the future, it all depends on Li Su's words.

This authority is more than later when Xun Yu had the final say under Cao Cao, and Xun Yu couldn't say who would follow Cao Cao.

Li Su also comforted in a low voice: "Brother, don't worry, according to my intentions, all the military attachés, for the sake of safety, it is better to stay in Liaodong." Ziyi is now only the Marquis of Qu Jun, and the imperial court will not care about him staying, nor is he afraid that he will empty Xu Rong in military power.

I tried to let him make a little more military merit in these months, and after Xu Rong arrived as the lieutenant of Liaodong, Ziyi was promoted to the Sima of other departments because of his merits, so that the imperial court would definitely think that Ziyi was a model for Xu Rong to be promoted to the army, and he was Xu Rong's person. But in fact, Ziyi is absolutely obedient to Mi Zizhong, so he will be able to ensure that Liaodong is absolutely safe.

And Ziyi is from Donglai, Xu Rong and Zizhong will get along for a long time in the future, and if it can be confirmed that Xu Rong has no ambitions, he will be accepted. It can also let Xu Rong and Ziyi guard Liaodong and Donglai, and help each other across the sea. Ziyi's old mother had been placed in Liaodong before that. When I go back this time, I will take care of Zizhong to build a manor in the Yu family, and treat Ziyi's old mother with courtesy, so that Ziyi will still obey Zizhong's orders when he goes out of the town of Donglai in the future. ”

All were laid out plainly.

Liu Bei was very down-to-earth when he heard this, and he couldn't think of anything else to take care of, so in the end he just took Li Su's hand and patted it: "Brother Xian, I'm relieved." ”

……

After saying goodbye to Liu Bei, Li Su finally had time to get to know his new colleague Xu Rong.

In fact, with the temper of Corporal Liu Bei Lixian before, he also wanted to be close, but in the end, he avoided the suspicion of the imperial court, so he didn't do that Xu Rong went to take over the military power of Liaodong after Liu Bei left office, what happened to Liu Bei and him? Do you want to pull Xu Rong into the water?

Xu Rong is a big man who is nearly eight and a half feet tall, a few inches taller than Zhang Fei, and only shorter than Guan Yu. Considering that he was born in Xuansu (Shenyang) and is a typical Northeast man, this kind of figure is quite normal.

It's just that after nearly two years of focusing on physical exercise and nutrition, Li Su, who is now about to be seventeen years old, is only seven feet tall, and it is still a little depressing to walk with Xu Rong. Xu Rong was at least thirty centimeters taller than Li Su when he was standing, and at least fifteen centimeters taller on horseback.

In terms of appearance, Xu Rong has a wide mouth, a short beard that is neatly trimmed like a steel needle, and at first glance, it looks like a well-developed biting muscle, deep nasolabial folds, and a double chin like a person who practices toad gong.

It's just that this double chin is not caused by fat, but a manifestation of overdeveloped masseter muscles and muscle overflow. (You can refer to the jaw of the fire cloud evil god)

This kind of appearance was not pleasing in the Han Dynasty, even if it was covered by a beard, it was not the appearance of a general.

Li Su was a little unaccustomed to chatting with the other party at first, but after a day of rushing together, he found that Xu Rong didn't seem to be very popular in the Beijing army, and he was just the kind of person who would not be involved in killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions.

After roughly figuring out the situation in this regard, Li Su also knew how to get close to this kind of person.

In the past two years, he has seen a lot of generals with all kinds of personalities, and there is always a suitable technique.

On the first day's trip, they rushed from Chenggao to the vicinity of Zhongmu via Xingyang, which was also the only way to go east from Luoyang, so Cao Cao was caught here when he fled eastward.

However, after arriving in Zhongmu, the road to Liaodong should follow the Yellow River to Fengqiu, Puyang, and Juancheng, but Li Su suggested that a little more detour of dozens of miles, passing through Chenliu:

"Xu Duwei, my mentor Cai Gong, originally lived in Youzhou at the beginning of the year, and moved back to his hometown Chenliu in the summer. Last time, he also wrote to me, saying that he had the intention to serve the imperial court, and that he would return to Chen to facilitate His Majesty's conquest.

When I entered Beijing this time, I originally expected to visit him in Luoyang, but when I arrived in Luoyang, I realized that he had not yet come back to be an official. It's not far to go to Chenliu and take a detour, can you sell me a face for this money, just think it's hard work for the brothers to run dozens of miles more to buy some wine, meat, and horse feed. ”

Li Su was originally worried that Xu Rong was a serious person who didn't love money, mainly because he was misled by some cross-edging in his previous life, and often compared Xu Rong's people with Gao Shun.

However, after a little temptation, Li Su found that he was more worried about Xu Rong and seemed to have no cleanliness in terms of private morality, after all, there was no record of any of his personal people in the official history.

"Brothers, Captain Li rewarded you, and turned around and passed by the village to kill two sheep and find some game to buy." Xu Rong simply took a few golden cakes from Li Su, casually threw a piece to his adjutant, and asked him to go to the place to handle wine and meat in a while.

Generals, what are you afraid of if you are greedy for money. Even Yue Fei said that "officials are not greedy for money, and generals are not afraid of death", and it is terrible that generals do not love money.

A few gold cakes, a few jars of wine, and the relationship soon became familiar.

And Li Su soon noticed that Xu Rong respected the great Confucian scholars, and he was polite to him when he saw that Li Su was talking extraordinary, and he knew the destiny of heaven and heard about it in Beijing. I heard that I was going to meet Cai Yong, and I was even a little embarrassed, afraid that he would be in trouble if he was a vulgar person.

Li Su said that with him, whoever he takes to Cai Yong will be courteous, and Xu Rong is relieved.

Everyone talked and laughed and drove for a day, and after arriving in Chenliu, Li Su was familiar with the road to Cai Yong's hometown.

After the servant's report, as soon as Li Su stepped into the door, he saw Cai Yan coming with elegant and brisk steps, and when he walked to the porch, he saw Li Su with some vulgar martial artists he didn't know, so he was slightly shocked and stopped his subsequent rude actions.

“…… Senior brother, how do you have time to come here? We've all been moving back for months. Cai Yan returned to a very polite appearance, covering his mouth with his sleeves to talk to others, so as not to let outsiders see the lower half of his face.

Li Su: "Is the master okay?" I knew that you hadn't entered Beijing yet, and I should have visited me on the way from Qingzhou, but it was only after I arrived in Beijing that I heard that the master refused to be requisitioned by the imperial court, but there was a hidden secret? ”

Xu Rong next to him heard that there was a secret, so he was a little embarrassed and wanted to avoid it.

But Li Su had already seen through it, and said like a spring breeze: "It's okay, I know that Xu Duwei is strict in governing the army and is frank as an official, and he is not a person who tells right and wrong." ”

Xu Rong unconsciously felt a kind of comfort that was deeply trusted: following Captain Li, no matter what great Confucianism you talk and laugh with, others will not shy away from you or look down on you. He has been a military attache in the court for many years, but he has never felt it.

Especially since he was born in Liaodong, those famous families in the Central Plains look at the countryside in Liaodong with the same degree of contempt as the people from Liangzhou.

chatting here, Cai Yong had already come out, and the group asked them to go to the inner hall to drink and talk.

Cai Yong also had a chance to talk about why he hasn't been an official yet, according to the plan, at the beginning of the Yuan Festival, Li Su made meritorious contributions in front of the emperor, and his tongue and war were greatly promoted once, he thought that Cai Yong was his mentor in name after all, and the previous contribution to "Refutation of Disasters and Differences" was also above Li Su (when it came to "The Theory of Blessings in the Palace", Li Su's signature was ranked in front of Cai Yong)

So when Cai Yong was a little warmer after the beginning of spring, he had already gone south. Li Su also knew that he wanted to be an official, which was different from other "true hermits".

But after Chen Liu's arrival in April, it's September now, and he hasn't become an official yet, so something must have happened.

Cai Yong told Li Su truthfully: "In June, the imperial court requisitioned me once, but its intentions were not sincere, and I couldn't fall into prestige, so I just waited." On that occasion, the imperial court recruited Zheng Xuan, Xun Shuang and me at one time, a total of fifteen people.

The rest of them are not enough, especially Zheng Xuantuo. If I had gone, wouldn't I have been very greedy for riches? In fact, I can roughly guess that they are dissatisfied with His Majesty's reduction of the authority of the general, and set Jian Shuo as the captain of the army to control the army. Jian Shuo is so powerful, doesn't it mean that the eunuchs are becoming more and more intense, how can my generation of scholars be in the same stream? ”

Li Su suddenly realized that Cai Yong in history should have been conquered by Dong Zhuo next year, and then he was forced to give in by force.

But now that it has been advanced by a year, it has accidentally collided with the historical "Zhongping Five-Year Imperial Court Conquest of Fourteen Confucians" incident.

This incident originally occurred in the middle of the fifth year of Zhongping, and it was supposed to recruit fourteen "great Confucians" such as Zheng Xuan, Xun Shuang, Shen Tupan, Xiangkai, Han Rong, and Chen Ji. After Cai Yong was affected by the butterfly effect, he was also added, and the list became fifteen people.

also blamed the court for being rough and refusing to give Cai Yong a separate edict for special affairs. As a result, the others didn't go, and Cai Yong had to stop going first if he wanted to save face, otherwise wouldn't it become "Everyone else is very dignified, but you bow your head to Jian Shuo", which is too embarrassing.

I had to wait for next year's expedition.

Li Su estimated that Cai Yong would at least have a chance to be an official until Emperor Ling was so sick that he couldn't do anything while lying in bed, and Jian Shuo was suppressed by He Jin again.

Thinking about it this way, Li Su felt that it was really tiring to be a celebrity, and he couldn't cooperate with anything that had a slightly bad reputation.

It's like him Li Su, who has no psychological obstacles in sending money to Jian Shuo to do things, so he rises quickly.

"No matter what, if you are idle for a few more months, you will definitely be able to change the atmosphere in the middle of the court after the New Year, and you will not be in a hurry. I'm going back to Liaodong for a few months, and I'll be back before the end of the year, and I'll probably go to Hedong when the time comes. ”

Cai Yong stayed with Li Su, Xu Rong, Dian Wei and others for one night, and also had a polite conversation with Xu Rong for a while, and the group left and set off for Puyang on the second day.

I traveled on the road like this for more than ten days, and when I was in Puyang, I also met Guan Yu, who had just arrived in Puyang by land and was ready to wait for the preparation of the fleet to take the Yellow River waterway to Hedong.

At the beginning of October, Li Su and Xu Rong finally arrived in Liaodong by boat from the Bohai Sea. Mi Zhu was already waiting over there.

"Liaodong Changshi Mi Zhu, I have seen Captain Li and Captain Xu. Oh, Xu Duwei is a famous general in the world, how can his armor be so old, doesn't it make the Hu people look down on the court. Come on, this set of Mingguang armor also asked Xu Duwei to accept it, and in the future, Liaodong will defend Xianbei and Fuyu, but it will depend on Xu Duwei's prestige. ”

Mi Zhu is a super wealthy businessman, so the fastest way for him to win people's hearts is to use money to open the way and give gifts to buy favor.

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