Regarding Dong Zhuo's mentality of appointing a group of celebrities to Yizhou and Liaodong in the name of the imperial court to stir up the waters, Li Su can roughly understand it.

Of course, he knew that Dong Zhuo was not so stupid as to think that he could "take away a few county territories from Liu Bei with a piece of edict". If the edict was so useful, there would be no discussion against Dong Lianjun.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo is more likely to have dates and no dates, similar to the mentality of Cao Cao's Youheng faction in history: It is best to cause losses to Liu Biao, otherwise it is not bad to let Liu Biao kill Youheng.

The specific plan should have been thought of by Li Ru for him. This is also doomed, most of the chess pieces that were thrown out were waste people who were not treated by Dong Zhuo and were not a pity, and the characters were set up with reference to You Heng.

Liu Bei naturally wouldn't sell off with Li Su, and directly threw out the question: "Dong Zhuo has sealed a total of four officials in the name of the imperial court this time, and what I am most worried about is Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du, this person once served as the assassin of Jizhou, and his qualifications are enough, and it is said that he also knew Xu Rong when he was a fellow villager and a Beijing official.

I'm afraid that if Elk Zizhong can't contain Xu Rong, there will be danger, and we can't help him even if we travel thousands of miles. And after the Hanzhong was pacified the year before last, I openly accepted Zhen'er as a concubine, and now I think about it is still a little abrupt. If someone uses this to say something, saying that Lu Zizhong's Liaodong Taishou was forcibly pushed up by me, and his virtue is not worthy, how can it be good? ”

Liu Bei is most worried, obviously Mi Zhu is the first thing, because Mi Zhu's own military foundation is not good, and he is a typical "taking advantage of Emperor Ling's death to spend a lot of money to buy officials" to ascend to the throne, and this kind of person is not a Qingliu celebrity who will sympathize with him.

Li Su couldn't do anything about this, so he could only comfort: "Brother don't worry, the reason why brother is so worried is entirely because you haven't seen how Lu Zizhong enveloped Xu Rong and Tai Shici back then." I saw it with my own eyes in Liaodong, and he was extremely willing to squander money and courtesy his generals. This time it will be safe. ”

In the months when Liaodong Taishou was handed over, Li Su was in Xiangping, and Liu Bei was in Luoyang as Zongzheng Shaoqing during that time. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I would inevitably have more worries, and now I am completely relieved.

"When the virtuous brother said this, I was relieved. Then I don't want to be Zizhong, let's talk about our own troubles. Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief and continued,

"Dong Thief sent to Yizhou this time, there are three main people, Yizhou Assassin History, he gave Yingchuan celebrity Hu Mao. In addition, in the imperial history, Cheng Xu Jing was the Taishou of Ba County, Shizhong Chongji was the Taishou of Guanghan, and Huangmen Shilang Xun You was the Taishou of Shu County - I heard that they were all suspected of being Dong thieves for some reason. ”

Liu Bei said this, paused slightly, and then used the tone of introducing the grapevine? Whispered gossip.

Xu Jing was disgusted by Dong Zhuo? It was not long after Yuan Shao raised his army last year. Because Xu Jing once served as Shang Shuling Zhou Bi's deputy, and presided over Dong Zhuo's personnel selection work in the early days of his power? Dafeng Party and celebrities are too guarded by all over the country. But then these people became the princes of Dong? So Zhou Yu was the first to be liquidated and killed by Dong Zhuo.

Xu Jing assists Zhou Bi, with a little less responsibility? was not directly killed, but Dong Zhuo was also looking for an opportunity to belittle him. This time, I think of Xu Jing before he was promoted to the middle of the imperial history? Is it on the grounds that "Fengba County is too guarded" to stay in Beijing? kicked him over, demoted him to his old position, and borrowed Liu Bei's hand to kill Xu Jing and let Liu Bei harm Xian.

And Xun You and Chong Ji were implicated in the "Wu Qiong Assassination of Dong Case" because they had certain suspicions, but they didn't catch the evidence? Dong Zhuo is not sure whether he should kill him directly? was degraded and let Liu Bei kill.

There are a total of five people involved in this case, and Wu Qiong was the one who did it directly, and he was directly killed by Dong Zhuo because of the leak. The other four people involved in the case are Shangshu Zheng Tai, Yue Qi Lieutenant Chongji, and Xun You and He Hao.

Xun You He Hao belongs to a little circumstantial evidence and was arrested and interrogated in prison, He Hao is timid? committed suicide without confirmation, Xun You ate and drank well in prison and was very calm? As a result, Dong Zhuo doubted whether he had wronged him, so he let him out? Outside the borrowed knife to kill.

Zheng Tai and Chong Ji were not imprisoned at all, and they are less suspicious? It's just that they were told that "they used to walk around with Wu Qiong and Xun You".

Then Zheng Tai didn't wait for Dong Zhuo to make a move? Just flee and leave Chang'an? He fled to Nanyang and defected to Yuan Shu by Wuguan Road, so he was not on the list this time.

The series has been lurking, and the result has also appeared in the list of preferring to be in vain rather than indulgence.

Li Su didn't know that Xun You was released as the Taishou of Shu County, which was originally disposed of in history, without any butterfly effect. It's just that at this point in history, Zhang Lu is intercepting and killing Han envoys, and the road is impassable, so Xun You knew that Dong Zhuo wanted Zhang Lu to kill him, so he also learned Zheng Tai's escape route and went to Jingzhou to avoid trouble first-

In fact, in the great escape caused by this wave of Chang'an officialdom purges in history, many virtuous people went to Jingzhou to avoid trouble, which is also the main reason why Zhuge Liang said that Liu Biao "can settle the exiled Magi but cannot use them". Because this wave of celebrities lived in Jingzhou for at least five years, it was not until the first year of Jian'an (196) that Cao Cao welcomed the Son of Heaven to Xuchang, and then returned to the imperial court and was used by Cao Cao. And Liu Biao was stunned to eat and drink and raise these people for five years, but almost none of them were reused.

As for the "Yizhou Thorn Shi Hu Mao", who has the highest position in the end, this person is almost a little transparent, and he only knows that he is a famous person in Yingchuan, but he has no achievements and has not offended Dong Zhuo.

But in history, he was sent by the imperial court to take over the assassination of Yizhou after Liu Yan's violent death, and then he was supported by Zhang Lu, wanting to use it as a bargaining chip against Liu Zhang's succession. It's just that Pang Xi blocked Zhang Lu at Jiameng Pass, so Hu Mao died of old age in Hanzhong and failed to take office in Chengdu.

Of course, Liu Bei couldn't know all of this information, he just picked out what he knew, introduced it to Li Su, and then asked Li Su how to deal with it:

"Almost all of these people are celebrities, and there are a few righteous people who are suspected of assassinating Dong, if I kill them, I will bear the name of harming the virtuous. But if we let them take power, it will disrupt our layout, and it may also leak our internal information about the current situation.

It will also lead to instability among the internal heroes, believing that 'the generals are fighting desperately to recapture the anti-thief city, and the Dong thieves can still deprive them of their official positions and give them another title to others with a dead letter'.

Moreover, Cai Gong's Bajun Taishou and Xiandi's Shu County Taishou were also sealed by the first emperor. Dong Thief, this is trying to make our internal competition for official positions not work together. ”

As soon as Liu Bei finished speaking, he was worried, but before Li Su could answer, Zhang Fei interjected directly: "Big brother, if you are afraid of harming Xian, you will hand it over to me to kill!" If they take office with great fanfare and take the Chencang Road to enter the customs, I will let them be killed if they can't get to Hechi County! If you travel lightly and secretly take the plank road of the ramp, let the second brother kill! What's the big deal. ”

Guan Yu didn't speak, just touched his beard and snorted coldly: "Celebrity, hum." ”

"Nonsense!" Liu Bei directly reprimanded Zhang Fei, "It's not all rotten Confucianism, some celebrities still have real talent and learning, and they are also loyal to Dong." I just don't want us to snatch the right to appoint officials internally and deviate from morality, you are too rude in this way! ”

Li Su waited for Liu Bei to finish scolding before he said calmly: "It has been less than a month since Yun Chang returned to the army, and the appointment of Dong Thief came at this time, obviously to take revenge on Yun Chang for saving Luo Yang and defeating Lu Bu before.

Moreover, this time, Li Ru did not move Yunchang, Yide's Hanzhong, and Wudu Taishou, making it clear that he didn't want to give you an excuse to resist directly, and he didn't give you the legitimacy of 'Dong Zhuo wants to appoint officials to replace the princes of Dong' and kill them.

Therefore, he specially selected Ba County, Shu County, and Guanghan County, which were not involved in the discussion of Dong on the surface, to replace them. If you kill it directly, this is the notoriety of the big brother's secession, and it can't be deserved. ”

Although the world has just gradually shifted to the logic of fighting for hegemony, Liu Bei's character is still "anti-Dong and not anti-court".

Listening to Li Su's analysis, Guan Zhang immediately calmed down: "Boya, then don't sell Guanzi, just say how to do it!" ”

Li Su thought about it and divided the situation into two categories: "The disposal of these three Taishou cannot be one-size-fits-all. Because the Bajun involved was too shou Cai Gong, nominally he pulled the flag with Yun Chang to fight against Dong.

Cai Gong can clearly refuse Xu Jing's entry to take over, or according to the established fact that Brazil County was separated from Ba County, Xu Jing will take care of those dangerous and remote places in Brazil, but in fact, he will set up a subordinate official who specializes in managing Ban Yu Barbarian, and set up Xu Jing.

As for the pseudo-Yizhou assassin Shi Humao, this person directly threatened to expel him, so that he did not dare to enter the country and took the initiative to escape. If he can really reach the vicinity of Nanzheng, get some remnants of rice thieves who gather in the mountains and forests to chase and kill, give him a boat in the Han River, and take his entourage to Jingzhou along the Shangyong Road, and be accompanied by Zheng Tai and them, Liu Biao will take him in, we just don't really kill him. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he thought about it a little: "However, if Hu Mao falls into the hands of Brother Jingsheng or Yuan Shu, will it lead to Yuan Shu in the future They can get a puppet excuse, and after fighting with us in the future, they will go to Ren Yizhou to assassinate the history and send troops to attack us?" ”

Liu Bei's concern is still very correct, because as long as there is a "state pastor/assassin who failed to take office" falls into the hands of other warlords, then "protecting him from office" will become a famous excuse for the division to crusade. Historically, Zhang Lu crusaded against Liu Zhang under the banner of "supporting Hu Mao to take office".

However, Liu Bei asked casually, and was soon interrupted by Guan Yu with a smile: "In this situation, no one will definitely betray the alliance in a year or two." In the future, there will be a certain and Zilong, if Yuan Shu and Liu Biao really dare to betray the alliance, then even Jingzhou will be taken together! Let's just say that they betrayed the oath and secretly colluded with Dong thieves! ”

Liu Bei also realized that there was no need to dwell on this for the time being, so he continued to ask: "Brother Xian, what should you do with the Shu County Taishou?" As for the Guanghan Taishou, I may give Zhang Su and Zhang Song their family, originally after Zhang Su initially settled down in Wuling and Dong He took over, Zhang Su was going to come back to serve as the Guanghan Taishou, we can't treat the heroes badly and chill the hearts of the people. ”

Li Su said lightly: "Actually, it doesn't matter if I do this Shu County Taishou or not, the key is that we want to take back the right to speak in appointing the Taishou."

That's it, didn't my brother say it, Xun You and Chongji were both slightly suspected of stabbing Dong, so they were used by Dong Zhuo to borrow a knife to kill people. We will plan as planned, first let the people in and detain them, and then interrogate them to see if they have participated in the assassination of Dong, and let them confess in person, and we will promise to temporarily falsely seal their official positions as stated in the will of the imperial court.

But in this way, they were not sealed by Dong Zhuo, but because we reviewed their deeds and rewarded them for participating in the righteous act of assassinating Dong, we rewarded them with this official position. In this way, En and Feng are both from brothers, and they have nothing to do with Dong Zhuo, and people's hearts are naturally convinced.

If they refuse to admit that they have participated in the assassination of Dong in Yizhou, then there is nothing to say, just designate them as 'Dong Zhuo's party' and deprive them of their official positions. ”

Liu Bei's eyes lit up: "Wonderful! The official can still be sealed, but it is not that we accept it, but that we recognize or reject it according to the facts! The morale of the generals will not be slackened. ”

Li Su's small change in this name changed "enforcing Dong Zhuo's judgment" to "conducting a second trial of Dong Zhuo's first-instance result", and Liu Bei is the second-instance trial, so the judgment can be rejected or directly reiterated.

The second-instance judge has more cards than the first-instance executor.

In fact, there is no need for Li Su to say it later, isn't it just to maintain internal unity and win people's hearts, that is Liu Bei's old business.

He can do it himself.