Compared with the messy forehead of the entire southwest of Shanxi Province, which is chaotic and chaotic, Li Su's new appointment can be described as calm and calm, and the spring breeze is proud.

He arrived in Luoyang on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Liu Bei, who had already taken care of Zongzheng Shaoqing's own work, personally set up a banquet for Li Su to receive the wind in a very polite and virtuous manner, which was regarded as making up for him as a crown gift and celebrating that he was about to officially take up the post of envoy to the Xiongnu Zhonglang General.

Of course, Li Su casually forged his birthday, and in the past two years with Liu Bei, in order to improve his resume, he casually reported the Gregorian birthday of his previous life. Counting the days, Li Su lied that the "Twentieth Birthday" crown ceremony should have been missed on his way from Liaodong. (Actually, he should be only 17 years old)

Compared with modern people, the ancients did not pay so much attention to birthdays, but they still have to live a whole life or crown ceremony. It is rare that Liu Bei can remember the days, and Li Su accepts it calmly.

"The virtuous brother is twenty and crowned, and he is the middle general, which is really a grand occasion of this dynasty, and only the great talents of the virtuous brother can live up to this." At the wine table, Liu Bei and Li Su drank three of them, and stroked their shoulders to encourage.

Li Su also boasted to each other: "Your Majesty is almost going to let my brother go abroad." In the past few months, the border generals of other counties, seeing that His Majesty is getting seriously ill, have become more and more independent, and his brother is willing to enter Beijing as Zongzheng, and he is still a model of loyalty to the border generals. Now that the Zhang Lu case has been clarified, sooner or later it will be a crusade. ”

Liu Bei nodded: "There are still some affairs handed over, and you will be able to leave Beijing after the Shangyuan Festival." His Majesty intends to take over my position as Zongzheng with Liu Jingsheng of the Northern Army, and reassign me to the post of General of Zhenxi and Taishou of Hanzhong.

After the virtuous brother arrives in Hedong, he must take care of Yunchang's quick decision, but don't delay the business for the battle situation in Hedong. No matter how well Hedong fights, it's not ours. As for Yuvro's side, if he can be appeased, he will try to appease it as much as possible. ”

(Note: During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the status of the generals was still higher than that of the four expeditions and four towns, and it was the other way around during the Jian'an period.) Liu Bei rose half a block from General Duliao, it is impossible to reach General Zuo, it is too high, General Zuo is taller than Jiuqing, and General Zhenxi is only slightly higher than General Duliao)

Li Su has been in Liaodong for a long time in the past few months, and he really doesn't know about the situation in Luoyang and the west, listening to Liu Bei's explanation, he is also happy in his heart, it turns out that Liu Bei is not idle in Luoyang, and he really spends money to dredge up and down the relationship, and makes a lot of arrangements.

Li Su arched his hand and congratulated: "Congratulations to my brother on the holiday festival, this time I will enter the Han Dynasty, and I will definitely get all the credit." I will rush to Hedong tomorrow to clear up this mess as soon as possible. ”

Among the clan members of the Han family, there are not many people who are now officials at the level of county guards and county ministers, Liu Dai and Liu Miao are all in the same vein as Liu Bang's concubine Liu Fei, and they are too far away from the royal bloodline, so it is unlikely to be Zongzheng.

Generally, if you want to hold the position of chief and deputy in Zongzhengli, you must at least be a descendant of Emperor Xiaojing. Before that, Liu Yu's bloodline was the most positive, and he was the king of Changsha - Emperor Guangwu.

And Liu Biao and Liu Yan are both the fourth son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, after Liu Yu, King Lu Gong, Liu Yan both served as Zongzheng before Liu Yu, and now because of the butterfly effect of "the predecessor's term is accelerated", it is not surprising that it is the turn of Liu Biao, who should not have been Zongzheng, to take the throne.

And the honor of "Fake Jieyue", although it does not belong to the official title, is also very valuable, and it is generally not awarded to the Taishou and miscellaneous generals, at least it must be the state pastor, or the heavy number general when encountering major expeditions.

The reason why Liu Bei was given a "fake festival Yue" this time, Li Su estimated that on the one hand, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty wanted to show that "I recalled Liu Bei from the position of Liaodong Taishou, and Liu Bei obediently obeyed his orders, so when I let him go back to the foreign office, I will definitely give him more", so as to play an exemplary role in making other generals obedient.

If you don't add "fake festivals", Hanzhong Taishou and Liaodong Taishou are at the same level, so what kind of promotion is it?

On the other hand, although Zhang Lu claims to be entrenched in Hanzhong, in fact, his sphere of influence should be beyond Hanzhong, and the thieves will not grab territory with the imperial court in strict accordance with the administrative divisions.

For example, the Qinling Mountains on the road from Chencang to Hanzhong belong to Wudu County, but Wudu County is too poor and ravine, and the entire county has heard of less than 20,000 households, which is generally ignored. But after Zhang Lu entrenched himself in Hanzhong, he must have occupied some dangerous places in Wudu County.

If Liu Bei only had one Hanzhong Taishou and no fake Jieyue, he would not be able to justifiably attack the remnants of Zhang Lu in these neighboring counties.

In the same way, if after defeating Hanzhong, Zhang Lu fled to Shangyong or the northern part of Ba County and entered the barbarian area of Ban Yu, Liu Bei also needed a fake Jieyue to pursue.

Therefore, he, the Hanzhong Taishou, is not just a literal authority. It can also control the bordering Wudu, Yinping, Shangyong, and Bajun at any time according to the needs of the thief, although these are poor places.

Of course, no matter what reason the emperor gave the fake festival in his heart, Liu Bei must have made a lot of money.

Liu Bei didn't hide this from Li Su, and told him bluntly that Hanzhong Taishou and General Zhenxi added fake festivals, and spent a total of 50 million yuan - Liu Yan spent so much money when he was the pastor of Yizhou.

In this way, Liu Bei spent the same amount of money, only took one-third of the authorization of Yizhou, and he had to fight from the rebels himself, which was already very filial to the emperor.

If the lease is renewed every year, Liu Bei's capital chain will definitely be broken in less than three years.

But fortunately, Li Su knew that Emperor Ling would not live to renew the lease next time, and this was the last money Liu Bei gave to the emperor.

After two years of "renting and renting to become a landlord", it was finally time to pay the rent for the last time. And every time he paid the rent, he changed the room, and the more he changed, the bigger it became, and finally when the landlord died, he changed to the most profitable suite he could.

At the end of the drink, Liu Bei also took care of Li Su: "After entering Sichuan, there is no place to give money to the imperial court, no need to save it, after going to Hedong, see if you can persuade Yu Fuluo to move his defense, even if the imperial court does not give him military salary, let him raise his own funds, we can trade with him privately."

I told him that if he wanted to counterattack the false Shan Yu Bugu Duhou, he would definitely have no hope in three or five years, and he would be stranded in Hedong and Hanoi, where there was no horse farm, and the cost of raising horses was huge, and it also provoked a popular uprising. As long as he is willing to change places, let's find him a horse farm near Xiqiang.

In the past few months, my brother has been in Luoyang, and I have nothing to do to ponder the geographical situation of Xizhou, I see that the Xia Zhi and the middle place west of Wudu, the power of Han Sui and the Qiang people is not strong, and the grassland is good, so let Yu Fuluo go there to raise people and horses for a few years, and untie the dead knot in Hedong. Anyway, the virtuous brother is now the general of the Huns. Even if I make money, I only say that the virtuous brother has convinced Yu Fuluo by virtue of eloquence and benevolence, isn't it the same?

I think that when I was in Youzhou, I secretly rewarded Qiu Liju with one hand, but claimed to the outside world that it was a clever trick for the virtuous brother to surrender with his three-inch tongue, but it was an eye-opener for his brother. Now that we are also a prince, we are also a prince, and we have seen the wise and wise people, and the tricks used by Bo'an Gong are also used. It's a big deal, let's promise Yu Fuluo, sooner or later, to help him restore the throne and kill the Marquis of Xubu Gudu. ”

Li Su listened, nodded secretly, and kept Liu Bei's explanation in his heart.

Liu Bei is willing to spend more money and learn from Liu Yu, so this time things will be easier to do.

For Yu Fuluo, Li Su still wants to appease him. Although he robbed Hedong for about a year, after all, it was much better than the Marquis of Xubu Gudu.

In the case of the coexistence of two Danyu in the Southern Xiongnu, it is definitely necessary to win over one who recognizes the Han and fight the other who is anti-Han.

Garbage is just a misplaced resource, and if he moves Huvro to a place with pasture, maybe he can grab a lot less and be as self-sufficient as possible, even if he has to subsidize a small amount of money, the quantity is limited.

……

After drinking wine with Liu Bei in the middle of the night, he found out the situation in the center of the past three months and thoroughly clarified the follow-up action plan.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Su went to the incumbent Situ Ding Palace, went through various procedures for taking office, and handed over the seal. returned the seal of the captain of Wuhuan and took the Zhonglang general, and officially became the envoy of the Han Dynasty.

After doing all this, Li Su took Dian Wei, only drove a small leaf boat, went to the meeting in a single boat, arrived in Hanoi from Mengjin, and the group rode north, and arrived at the wild king of Ding Yuanzhi that night to rest.

Bingzhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan did not personally lead the troops, stayed in Yewang, I heard that Li Su came and received him, and said some officialdom and the current situation on the front line.

Ding Yuan saw Li Su for the first time, even if he knew Li Su's age before, when he really saw him, he still couldn't help but sigh at Li Su's youth.

Just won the crown and became a general, what an honor this is, Li Su's eloquence to persuade the barbarians is also the title of the Han Dynasty.

Ding Yuan also arranged another boat for Li Su, so that he could drive the horse to the boat and take a section of waterway, so as not to toil all the way - Yewang County is at the mouth of the confluence of Qinshui and Danshui in the [countryside], and water transportation is developed, and after the confluence of the two rivers, it flows three or four counties east from Yewang to the distance, and then joins the Yellow River.

Li Su didn't shirk either, and spent another day, using both boats and horses, and rushed to Guan Yujun along the Danshui -

Guan Yu's army of 15,000 people is now moving along Danshui and Kongcang Ridge, completely blocking most of the retreat directions of the main force of the White Wave Thieves.

And Lu Bu's thousands of people blocked the Baili Stone in the northwest of Danshui and other dangerous places. The area where Yang Feng, Hu Cai, Li Le and others were surrounded was compressed to the end, which was almost exactly the same as the area surrounded by Zhao Kuo when he was surrounded by Bai Qi.

No way, who made the geography around here so long. As the battle is fought, the defending side will definitely shrink to the most suitable position for defense, and it is not surprising that Yang Feng chose the same as Zhao Kuo.

When Li Su arrived, Yang Feng also ran out of food for more than a month and a half, but Yang Feng's per capita surplus food was more than Zhao Kuo, so he didn't starve to death, but it is said that the situation of Baibo soldiers eating people has begun to appear recently (during the Battle of Changping, the Zhao army was out of food for 46 days, and some people ate people, otherwise they wouldn't last so long).

After Li Su arrived at the front line, he directly found Guan Yu and conveyed Liu Bei's meaning: "Yun Chang, when the battle is at this point, can't you give a step down and recruit a group of white wave thieves, for example, as long as they put down their weapons and surrender, they can be screened and pardoned as appropriate, these thieves can't have such a strong will to fight." ”

Guan Yu explained: "I'm also waiting for them to surrender or break through the siege. However, it may be that the feng shui of this place is not good, Yang Feng is a little superstitious about the destiny of ghosts and gods, I heard that there are a lot of rumors among the white wave thieves recently, saying that Bai Qi killed 400,000 Zhao troops in this pit back then, and if they surrendered, they were afraid that they would be killed by all the officials and soldiers.

I also said that this year, because the surrounding counties were raised in Fuluo, the people were already poor and had no surplus grain, and they had to kill and save grain for the winter, and I couldn't explain it, for fear of falling into the prestige of the imperial court, it seemed that we were going to persuade them to surrender! ”

Li Su thought for a while: "I'll find a way to do this, I'll also give them a step down, the eldest brother said, for the sake of the people, let me try to persuade Yu Fuluo to change the grassland and land to camp in the name of the imperial court, and not to infringe on other states and counties that are actually controlled by the imperial court." I summed it up with my eldest brother, gave him some money, and asked him to go down and get in the middle.

It was already isolated by the Qiang people, Han Sui and Zhang Lu, and the imperial court could not control it in fact, and it was not a pity to use it to raise horses. As long as Yu Froken left and made a statement, most of the excuses for the White Wave thieves to start the incident were extinguished, which was enough for them to see the sincerity of the imperial court. ”

Guan Yu's eyes lit up: "In this case, without further ado, I will ask Zilong to take you around the mountain road to Hyunshi County, where Yu Fuluo and Lu Bu are now stationed." ”