After dealing with the dirty things of "pre-purchasing the official who will be awarded after this meritorious service", early the next morning, Li Su and Guan Yu took 20 horsemen to escort their own soldiers and a few carriages of luggage, and asked Du Lieutenant Wuqiu Yi to report and set off together.

Wu Qiu Yi is a military attache who is nearly 40 years old, and his physique and appearance are not outstanding, and he relies on a rough beard to add a bit of prestige.

Judging from his behavior, he is also a strict person, and before he left Luoyang City, he wore a helmet and armor all over his body neatly, and he was not too tired to panic.

Wu Qiu Yi brought about 300 personal soldiers, which was more than ten times the size of Li Su and Guan Yu's guards. These people should be responsible for leading the recruits and serving as junior officers.

The newly recruited Danyang soldiers are at most strong in individual combat, but they are not familiar with military discipline and lack organization. At least a few hundred veterans are needed to serve as team leaders and commanders in order to organize the troops.

However, because the price of Luoyang horses is expensive now, and there are too many people brought by Qiu Yi, it is impossible for the imperial court to allocate him 300 war horses. Therefore, they only have some oxen, donkeys and pack animals, which are used to pull carts to transport the baggage of the accompanying troops, camp tents, clothing and quilts, etc., and only the senior military attachés have war horses, and the grassroots officers can only ride those pack horses that cannot go to the battlefield at most.

Most of the infantry could only travel on two legs, or occasionally take turns rubbing ox carts and donkey carts.

After finding out the situation of his teammates, Li Su, who wanted to make a difference on this trip, pondered giving the temporary official some extra benefits in exchange for some loose "free movement rights".

After all, Li Su's main purpose is not to really work for Liu Yu and do such unskilled things. He also wants to recruit talents along the way, and if he is slow to move with the army, he will not be able to do anything.

The group slowly walked out of the city, and not long after leaving, before Li Su could say anything, Wu Qiu Yi took off his armor first, put it on the cart pulled by the donkey, and loosened his muscles and bones with a few laps of his arms.

Li Su couldn't help but laugh when he saw it: I thought this guy was so diligent, it turned out to be pretended to be shown to those big leaders in the capital, and it was restored to its original state when he left the city.

In that case, it should be quite easy to speak. Li Su discussed as a "temporary member of the army": "Du Lieutenant, it is better to allow me and Guan Sima to explore the way first, so as to open the way for the army."

If there is anything unusual along the way, please keep in touch with the horses. Guan Sima is skilled in martial arts, and leading twenty horsemen to open the way is enough to sweep away the small bandits on the road. ”

Wu Qiu Yi touched his beard, looked up and down at Guan Yu's figure, which was two feet taller than him, and then looked at Guan Yu's heavy big knife, and felt that it seemed feasible.

And Wu Qiu Yi also knows that although Li Su's official position is not high now, he seems to be a big celebrity in front of Liu Youzhou, and he has made a lot of contributions to helping Liu Youzhou pacify the Southern Xiongnu. When he returns to Jixian County in the future, he may be able to become Liu Youzhou's henchman, so Wu Qiu Yi doesn't dare to call Li Su.

Li Su stuffed a few pieces of gold cake just right, and it was convenient to buy a "little management along the way".

As soon as Qiu Yi grabbed his hand, like other colleagues who had been attacked by the golden cake before, he decided to turn a blind eye:

"Don't miss the date, it's April 12th. The envoy allowed us a period of two to three months, and if we didn't meet a thief on the road, we would have to rush back to Youzhou in two months. But I think most of them will encounter a little thief, and at the latest on the tenth day of July, they must go to Youzhou.

According to the previous 20 days, the return of one month, the rest of the time to recruit troops, along the road to fight thieves delayed. Before the fifth day of the fifth month of May, you must go to Guangling County to get all the money, if you miss the deadline, you can be punished according to military law! ”

"The subordinates received the order, and they must rush to Guangling before the fifth day of the fifth month of May." Li Su promised, and then took Guan Yu and his own soldiers, and left quickly.

The Danyang soldiers of this era were not recruited in Danyang, because they had to cross the Yangtze River to go to Danyang, which was very troublesome.

The ethnic composition of the Danyang soldiers is actually mainly the Shanyue people in the mountainous areas of Huangshan and Tianmu Mountains in Danyang County, who are typical mountain light infantry, with relatively high agility and courage in temperament.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Danyang soldiers had been a source of high-quality soldiers in the world for some years and were famous, so the Shanyue tribe chiefs who wanted their subordinates to serve as soldiers would take the initiative to cross the river to Guangling County, Xuzhou on the north bank to find a job.

Over time, a mercenary distribution center was formed in Guangling.

Historically, when Liu Bei was the first time in Xuzhou to beg Yuan Shu, he was stolen by Lu Bu and had nowhere to return, so he chose to "pack up the remnants and flee to Guangling".

The reason why Liu Bei did this is not written in the official history, but in fact, you can understand it by analyzing it - after being stolen, Mi Zhu gave Liu Bei in a desperate situation "2,000 servants and 20 million money", and asked Liu Bei to "reorganize the horses". So Liu Bei chose to go to the "Guangling Mercenary Labor Market", and only there could he exchange the money given by Mi Zhu for combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

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After a journey with Guan Yu, he gradually distanced himself from Wu Qiu Yi's army.

Li Su couldn't help but start thinking about the list of talents to be recruited this time.

Most people can't force it, they can only watch fate settle with it, but it is still necessary to set a few main goals.

Liu Bei and Li Su themselves have a little reputation now, but their official positions are too low after all. Those sages with a high starting point will not even look at those who are not county guards.

Therefore, if you want to recruit people, the first convenient ones are the wealthy businessmen who have no official status, or the big landlords who have no fame, and the second is the poor students and the heroes and heroes who are exiled in the rivers and lakes.

As for the famous family, it is not Liu Bei and Li Su who can persuade them at present.

Before the breakup just now, in the small talk with Wu Qiuyi, Li Su recalled Mi Zhu, who was quite helpful to Liu Bei in later generations and also had a good temperament, so this option was directly listed by Li Su as the number one object to be enveloped on this road.

Mi Zhu is a businessman, and his career in history was smooth or after the world was in turmoil and Tao Qian guarded Xuzhou, and now he should have no officialdom status.

This kind of wealthy businessman who wants to make friends with well-known officialdom and righteous people in the world has always been Li Su's favorite to woo, not to mention this trip to recruit Danyang soldiers, they only have 10 million money to recruit private soldiers, and they can't recruit a few private soldiers, how can they not find a way to fool a few sponsors and benefit each other?

In the eyes of other traversers, Mi Zhu may not be important, but he is just a stinky and rich man. But that's because the other traversers don't have Li Su's flexibility, and they don't take the rapid promotion route of "meritorious service and buying officials are each other's inside and outside, and cover each other".

The importance of money to Li Su is far greater than others.

Who can pull the rest is based on the route of Zhao Mizhu, and then adapt to changes along the way. Li Su can't remember where many famous people are from and whether they are famous now.

After all, who would have read history in their previous life so carefully and meticulously that they would have specially remembered the origins of celebrities? Li Su reads history in order to learn from history, not to be a pedant.

I can only find local merchants along the way to develop into dealers who sell books, and then exchange for information and take a step by step.

While thinking about the plan, Li Su took out a map of sheepskin on horseback and compared it in his heart:

"The first target of this wooing is Mi Zhu, so the route is basically set. Mi Zhu seems to be a native of Donghai County, I don't remember which county, that is, Yancheng and Lianyungang, which are equivalent to northern Jiangsu in later generations, and the south is close to Guangling County, the final destination of this trip.

Therefore, we should first take the route slightly south due east, all the way to Donghai County, and then turn due southeast into Guangling. This way we must first go out of the Tiger Prison Pass, pass through the sour dates and Guandu, and enter the Sui River to the east.

Pass through Chenliu and Xiangyi in Yanzhou, Suiyang in Yuzhou, turn into Surabaya after turning over Mangdang Mountain, and pass through Xiaopei; Finally, it enters Xuzhou, passing through Pengcheng, Xiapi, Donghai and Guangling. ”

Along the way, you can take a boat from Guandu down to Suiyang, because you can travel day and night by boat, and it is downstream, not much slower than riding a horse, and people are more relaxed, just slow.

In the same way, after getting off the boat in Suiyang, you can cross the Mangdang Mountains and turn into the Surabaya water system, and you can start from Xiaopei and continue to take the boat down the river until Xiapi - in fact, you can continue to flow along the Surabaya from Xiapi, and you can also go directly to the final destination of Guangling County to govern Huaiyin. The city of Huaiyin is the node where Surabaya flows into Huaishui.

But in order to go to the East China Sea to recruit Mi Zhu, he had to abandon the boat and ride a horse from Xiapi and go around a little.

Li Su told Guan Yu about this route, although Guan Yu didn't understand it very well, but he felt that the speed of this road was about the fastest, so he agreed.

Li Su ordered: "Then let's hurry up and run more in the next few days, let's go to Sour Jujube and Guandu for a few days, and then we will have time to rest and recover our strength, and now we will work hard." ”

Before leaving the tiger prison to sour jujube, they were all in the territory of Sili, and the celebrities around Luoyang were either high-ranking officials or wealthy families, the starting point was too high, Li Su must not be able to recruit one, and the people here had also bought Li Su's filial piety, so there was no need to waste time here.

Guan Yu was as good as a stream, it only took a day and a half to drive out more than 300 miles, out of the Tiger Prison Pass, and before the evening of the next day, he found a merchant near Guandu to rent a boat, slept on the boat and went downstream, and woke up on the morning of the third day to Chenliu.

Two days and two nights, from Luoyang to Chenliu, I have to say that it is very efficient.

"There is too much luggage, and on the day of Chen Liupanhuan, I will first sell the "Filial Piety Record" that promotes the deeds of my eldest brother to a local businessman and inquire about the news. In the next few days, we will do the same, do things during the day, and sleep on a boat at night and go downstream. ”

Guan Yu was not interested in money, but when he heard that he could help Liu Bei become famous, he was still happy.

Li Su went into Chenliu County and wandered around, first inquired about the famous businessmen in the county, and then found one of them to sell some books.

It's a big deal to leave some more profits for local dealers, and Li Su doesn't expect to make much money from wholesale books. If you used to make a profit of 100 yuan for a roll of Li Su when you were looking for the Zhen family's firm, it would be a big deal to make 50 yuan less now, and there would always be someone willing to underwrite.

After Chen Liu's turn, he didn't meet any businessmen who went down in history, so Li Su casually found a businessman who had never heard of it, and shipped 100 sets of "Analects" and 100 sets of "Erya" wholesale, as well as 200 volumes of "Filial Piety Records" and 50 volumes of "Filial Piety Records" in each volume and the first volume to each other.

The Analects and Erya both have 13,4000 characters, and it takes a total of four scrolls to print, so one set is four volumes. "Filial Piety Record" has a total of 10,000 and hundreds of words, and three volumes can be engraved.

Unfortunately, these books were sold like mud cows into the sea, and all that was earned back was money. It may also be that Li Su's stay was too short, and the local students did not have time to come to inquire.

Li Su felt that this was not the solution, so he adjusted the rhythm again: "It's still not enough time, it's okay, let's go to the next stop first." Or like this, Yun Chang, you take people to stay here for one more day, I will take a cart of books and leave a day earlier, and do the same when I go to Xiangyi downstream. If someone on Chenliu's side wants to make friends with us, then lead them to Xiangyi to find me. I'll stay in Xiangyi one more day, and you'll catch up tomorrow." ”

In this way, each place is equivalent to staying for two days, and it can also give local readers some time to react.

It's a pity that Chen Liu's place really has no future, and it took two days to get no results.

Two days later, on April 16, Guan Yu and Li Su met again at the pier in Xiangyi.

This time, Guan Yu felt very keen: "Boya! Don't go separately in the future, you are too unalert, if there is a mistake, how can I explain it to my eldest brother? You see I've only been separated from you for a day, and you're being targeted! ”

Li Su was shocked when he heard this: "What? Am I being stalked? Why didn't I find out? ”