When he heard that Lu Su was actually a local tyrant in Quyang County, Li Su was really surprised, and secretly thought in his heart:

"It's because I didn't read carefully, and the lights were dark. I always remember that when Zhou Yu was the head of the nest, he asked Lu Su to borrow grain, and he thought that Lu Su must have lived in the boundary of Hui Province in the later years, but he didn't expect it to be in northern Jiangsu. That Zhou Yu is idle enough, so he went so far to borrow food? However, it is also possible that Lu Su later moved south because of the war. ”

To mention a few words, Qu County, where the Mizhu family is located, is roughly equivalent to Lianyungang in later generations. The Quyang of the Lu Su family is at the junction of Suqian and Lianyungang in the later generations.

Anyway, anyway, the current Lu Su is still in his hometown.

After hearing about this unexpected gain, Li Su was also quite happy, and he was more motivated to hurry. Lu Su's talent is much stronger than Mi Zhu, but the money is less, but Li Su is now the gold master, and Daxian also needs to be more entrenched.

"Let's go, hurry up, let's go out of Mangdang Mountain first, get on the boat at the Surabaya wharf and then rest." Li Su immediately stepped up and ordered everyone to speed up, and be sure to go down the mountain and rush to Surabaya before dark.

In this way, I can take the boat while I sleep at night, and other things are safe on the boat, and then think slowly about the long term.

The Li family caravan was also eager to do this, and the group hurried without saying a word.

In the evening, at a Surabaya ferry between Pei County and Xiao County, they finally found the boatman who was doing the work, and the group rented seven or eight small boats and went down the river.

In the dead of night, Li Su lay in the cabin, stuck his head out of the canopy, pillowed on his arm, and looked at the starry sky while thinking about pulling people, and by the way avoided the smell of horse manure in the cramped space.

Although Lu Su is a great talent, he mainly has a good diplomatic vision, and his greatest achievement in history is nothing more than insisting on persuading Sun Quan not to surrender, as well as insisting on the Sun-Liu alliance. Such a person, placed in friendly forces, seems to be more helpful in diplomatic relations than in one's own place, will there be any disadvantages after pulling it over?

That's it, Liu Bei's territory must have changed in this life, and I don't know who to win over as a diplomatic ally when the time comes, in this case, there is no reason for a talent like Lu Su to let go. And nowadays, this kind of 'big landlord with no background but knowledgeable background' is not easy to find, and I met such a person along the way. ”

After thinking about it, Li Su quickly squeezed out the hesitation of "whether Zhao Lusu will change history too ruthlessly and have a counterproductive effect in future diplomacy". Liu Bei in this life, anyway, there is a very low probability that the alliance will unite with Sun Quan, maybe Sun Quan will not have a chance to take over his brother Sun Ce's class.

Why bother about what will happen more than ten years later, of course, the benefits are all in your pocket. Children make choices, adults want them all.

……

At dawn the next day, the group had arrived in Pengcheng.

Li Su originally said that he wanted to go with the Li family caravan, but the Li family caravan was in a hurry, but Li Su had to go to every major city for a day or two to spread the remaining books such as "Filial Piety Record" to promote Liu Bei's reputation, and invite them to buy prestige, so the two groups had to temporarily part ways.

However, Li Su and his party were fast, and Li Shan also promised to wait at Xiaxiang Wharf in three days, if Li Su could catch up, Li Shan would wait for Li Su to go with him and go to the East China Sea by land.

Xiaxiang County is also Xiang Yu's hometown, and it is the last ferry city on the Donghai Road to Surabaya, and you have to take the land route further east.

At the end of this day, after Li Su deepened his understanding of the Li family's caravan, he also wanted to understand a question: Li Dian was valued by Cao Cao in history, because the Li family was actually equivalent to the overlord who occupied most of Shanyang County, and Cao Cao was a few thousand private soldiers who coveted his family. Therefore, it is useless to just recruit a Li Dian, now the Li family is worth Li Dian's uncle, and in the future it will be his cousin, and it is Li Dian's turn when these are dead. Without the support of the family, it would be of little use to just dig up Li Dian himself. So Li Su didn't think much about it.

After the two sides acted separately, the first thing Li Su did was to order Guan Yu to immediately find a merchant in Pengcheng County, buy a few bags of lime, and then marinate all the heads of the bandits killed along the way with lime.

Yesterday killed so many people, and when the head was still kept in Danyang, it was a tribute to Wuqiu Yi, which can be regarded as "we opened the way for the army to kill the thieves", which can also be exchanged for some meritorious deeds more or less.

However, if the fresh human head is not handled, it is too easy to breed germs to transmit diseases, and Li Su's hygiene knowledge is much stronger than that of the ancients, of course, he can't joke with his own health and safety.

On the other hand, preparing more heads is also beneficial to Li Su's persuasion of talents in the next stage, which can prove that they are not ordinary officers and soldiers who fight in the autumn breeze, but really kill thieves, and maybe they can make those rich businessmen and tyrants take a closer look at their future.

This is all peripheral material for psychological warfare.

Guan Yu was working to pickle people's heads, and Li Su also consigned some books to the same wealthy merchant in Pengcheng to inquire about some news. It was also after selling the book that he learned that the largest merchants in Pengcheng County were also the semicolons of the Mizhu family, and he had to sigh that the Mizhu family's business was so big.

The shopkeeper also proudly told Li Su: In the four counties of Pengcheng, Xiapi, Donghai, and Guangling, the biggest businessmen in business are all Mi families. Only in Langya County and Dongguan County in the north, local merchants can barely squeeze out the Mi family.

In four of the six counties of Xuzhou, it can be the first in the local area, and there is no one in this force.

After learning the news, Li Su became even more determined in his idea of selling books first: since the biggest businesses on this road are all Mi Zhu's, sell more books in Mi Jia's own business, as long as the distribution and sales are good, then these stewards will definitely report this business opportunity information to Mi Zhu.

In this way, before he visited Mi Zhu, he first bombarded Mi Zhu with information, so that he had the illusion that "Liu Bei's deeds have now spread all over the world, and the future is unlimited".

This is a very common technique in later generations of business campaigns.

For example, in the early 80s of the 20th century, the share price of Wang An Computer in the U.S. stock market was inflated, mainly because the popularity of this computer on Wall Street was very high. When financiers are misled by what they see and think, "How can this company not be popular if the entire Wall Street uses Wang An's computer to work", they ignore the mainstream poor market.

Li Su also used the same method to deal with Mi Zhu, to let the rich people around him have a volume of "Filial Piety Record", so that Mi Zhu would forget to think about the question of "whether the poor also know Liu Bei's deeds".

"Give more time for the people around Mi Zhu to brew, I'll go to visit Lu Su first, and bombard Mi Zhu there and saturate information for a few days." Li Su adjusted his strategy along the way, and when he got to the next minister, he had already made this decision.

……

On April 21, the ninth day after separating from Wuqiu Yi, Li Su and his entourage rode 23 horses and rushed to Quyang County in the East China Sea.

The whole county of Quyang is a plain with a flat river, connected with the surrounding counties, and the fertile fields are hundreds of miles - that is, the place near the sea is a little saline-alkali land.

In later generations, most of the Yancheng area is still the sea, and the sediment entrained by the Huanghuai rivers will expand the land area of northern Jiangsu to the east by hundreds of zhang every year. In the next 1,000 years, a land with a longitude width of 1 degree will grow out of thin air in the Yellow Sea.

This kind of terrain is naturally soft and flat, and irrigation is also extremely convenient, which is a rare granary in Xuzhou at the end of the Han Dynasty.

"This place is still rich in terms of farming level alone, no wonder it is generous." Li Su looked at the sturdy wheat seedlings and nodded in approval.

The group asked for the path and went straight to Lujiazhuang.

The villagers on the road, who listened to Li Su's question, were full of praise for their righteousness and helping the poor. Even Guan Yu and Dian Wei, who were originally not very interested in this kind of local tyrant who had never met before, faintly had some respect for Lu Su after hearing too much.

"In such a troubled era, it is really rare that there are still heroes and strongmen who do not take the opportunity to annex the land of poor peasants, but sell land for money and grain to help the poor." Guan Yu thought of the big families in his hometown who were killed by him, and he was quite emotional.

After walking for another half an hour, Lujiazhuang was already in front of him. Li Su looked around, and the farmers next to him were neat and clean, which was obviously better than the tenant farmers seen in other places in this troubled world.

This piece of land is even a few hundred hectares, and to plant so much land, tenant farmers have to have hundreds of households, and it seems that they are the top two big landowners in this county.

Walking to the front of the village, Li Su politely let people report.

……

Lu Suxu was sixteen years old, his father died when he was four years old, and he had no uncle at home, so he lived with his grandmother and aunt since he was a child. Five years ago, his grandmother also passed away, and his mother and aunt were the only ones in the house, and he was too young at that time, so Zhuangzi's affairs were taken care of by his uncle.

In the past two years, Lu Su has barely reached adulthood, and his uncle, as a foreigner, has only handed over the management to him again, and the reputation of the Lu family for helping the poor has only risen in the past two years.

On this day, Lu Su was reading, and what he read happened to be the newly bought printed editions of "Erya" and "Xiaoyilu" - he didn't buy "Analects", because he memorized the hand-copied version at home, and there was no need to waste money.

His clerk came in and reported: "Shaojun, a group of officers and soldiers outside the village have arrived, and the leader claims to be Youzhou Don't Drive Li Su, and also said that he was ordered by the imperial court to go to Guangling County to recruit Danyang soldiers to fight thieves, and he passed by to ask for a meeting. ”

Lu Su was stunned for a moment, and was just about to roll up the scroll, when he suddenly remembered something, and glanced at the end of the scroll: "Don't drive Li Su in Youzhou?" How can you have the same name as this Li Su who wrote "Filial Piety Record"? However, Li is a big surname, which is not surprising, but they are all from Youzhou...... Please! ”

Out of curiosity, Lu Su immediately tidied up his clothes and went out to greet him in person.

As soon as he walked to the door, Lu Su was slightly shocked by the image of the person who came.

It turned out that Li Su and his party rode twenty-three times, and on the neck of each horse, three neatly salted human heads were hung! That adds up to sixty-nine.

There are still yellow scarves wrapped around people's heads, but these yellow scarves are actually faked by Li Su - Originally, not everyone was wrapped in yellow scarves in these bandits, and Li Su disliked the dirty things wrapped around the heads of dead people and were prone to germs, so they were all burned.

He bought a jute cloth when he was in Pengcheng, and after marinating the human head, he ripped dozens of clean new yellow cloths and forged them, and then killed a chicken and dyed chicken blood to make it old.

As for the chicken, of course, it was eaten by Li Su.

Seeing such a group of officers and soldiers appear, Lu Su suddenly felt a fierce aura rushing towards him.

"These officers and soldiers are different from the usual ones you see! They are all real heroes! Lu Su instantly made such an impression in his heart, and hurriedly took a deep breath, "Dare to ask Your Excellency, is it Li Su, who was a subordinate official of Zongzheng Mansion?" Have you ever read this volume of "Filial Piety Record"? ”

"It turns out that Brother Lu Xian has also read the book written by Brother Fool, so it is really fateful." Li Su said modestly on horseback.

"I never thought that it was Brother Boya's light that descended, making the humble house bloom, please hurry, please hurry! Brother Boya's deeds have been heard of a long time ago, and recently I have read this book in person, which makes people's blood boil, and I hate to save the country and save my life like Liu Liangxiang, and I have both filial piety and righteousness. ”

(Note: Liu Bei's official position is the Liangxiang County Order, and this information has now spread all over the world, so Lu Su calls Liu Bei the official title)