Twenty days later, in mid-March, Baozhong County.

This is the closest county to Nanzheng, and it is also the rear base camp of Liu Beijun's siege of Nanzheng.

With Li Su's identity, of course, he could temporarily occupy a pseudo-property mansion in the city, and Liu Bei also sent him more than a dozen maidservants who were released from the original pseudo-sacrificial wines' homes to serve him in food and daily life.

Of course, the handmaidens selected were only in their early twelves or thirteen years old, and they were definitely not used to do that, they were purely rough girls doing manual work.

chose this kind of girl from a good family who has not been ruined by the false sacrificial wine to liberate, but I am also afraid that the servant girl who has been in the situation will have the same heart as the old master, secretly waiting for the opportunity to assassinate and take revenge or something. And these handmaidens have families in the local area, and the family members are not rice thief believers, but ordinary people who have no choice but to be ruled are very reliable.

"Whoa~" A maidservant girl struggled to carry a small bucket of water with hot water added to medicinal herbs, and poured it into the big wooden barrel where Li Su was taking a bath, and the water temperature was already slightly cold.

Li Su felt slightly hot for a while, and then the hot and cold water was mixed evenly, the experience was just right, and he was so comfortable that he hummed it out.

Because he has not yet captured Nanzheng County, Li Su has no time to farm Tianpan Technology for the time being, and he can't get hot tap water for the water tower and copper showers. However, as the weather gets warmer, Shuzhong is damp and sticky, and mosquitoes are beginning to grow, Li Su, who is not accustomed to water and soil, can't wait for a moment, and has to take a bath every day to refresh.

Moreover, Li Suna called a trick renovation, and he could actually think of asking the maid to go to the city to buy all kinds of herbs and add them, and the degree of "extravagance" really opened the eyes of Liu Beijun's generals and strategists.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Han people had almost no habit of medicinal baths, and it was basically not until the Tang and Song dynasties of the Six Dynasties that the theory of traditional Chinese medicine gradually developed. After all, Li Su has enjoyed so many club services in his later life, and with his experience, he asked for some honeysuckle, wild tea, lemongrass, two-sided needles, mosquito repellent grass, flower dew essential oil or something to soak it to refresh himself, which has already shocked the people at that time.

Later, I heard the maidservant girl say that the barbarians in the southern mountains had some witch doctor soup recipes for detoxification and dampness, and Li Su quickly remembered that the Yao bath and Miao bath in the clubhouse that he had soaked in later generations were not the earthwork of the indigenous people of the Huguangchuan and Guizhou generations. Therefore, he also asked people to collect Nanban soup recipes extensively, and asked his subordinates to soak them to test the poison first, and confirmed that there were no adverse reactions and the results were curative, and he himself followed suit.

For Li Su's extravagant medicinal materials, some petty officials around Liu Bei who were frugal and responsible for discipline also reported to Liu Bei.

But Liu Bei didn't care at all: Brother Bo Yaxian is not in good health, and he can't stand the dampness and heat in Shuzhong, what's wrong with taking more medicinal herbs to take a bath? You can help General Ben capture Yangping Pass, and General Ben will reimburse you in full for your medical expenses if you take ten baths a day!

is a little good in life, but Liu Bei trusts Li Su even more.

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On this day, Liu Bei had just received a reward from Zhao Yun, saying that the most remote golden county in the east had also been completely pacified by the officers and soldiers, and the last group of organized sacrificial wine and other personnel had also been captured and sent back.

Liu Bei was in a happy mood, he knew that up to this point, except for the last Nanzheng who was surrounded but not beaten in the nine counties of Hanzhong, the others had been pacified.

Twenty days of work is already very fast to settle a county, and it will take almost ten days to stake the land, and it is not easy to settle the people.

But with the complete occupation of the land, another problem that gradually gave Liu Bei a headache was finally placed in the most conspicuous position of the contradiction: Zhang Lu's secession regime, after all, was started by ghosts, gods and witchcraft, and Zhang Lu, the spiritual leader, is immortal, and can still affect many people who are deeply poisoned.

At present, there is nothing in March, and by the fifth and sixth months of the lunar calendar, when the first batch of summer grain crops is harvested and the imperial court is taxed, the contradictions will become more and more open.

Zhang Lu's five-bucket rice system is very deceptive, as if he is doing good deeds, and has a certain nature of mutual assistance among the poor. If Zhang Lu's spiritual aura is not knocked out, Liu Bei's tax collection work this year will either not be implemented smoothly, or even if it is forcibly levied, the people will lose a certain amount of popular support in the comparison with Zhang Lu.

This is also the reason why Liu Bei is not in a hurry to capture Nanzheng County. Anyway, Zhang Lu is not in Nanzheng anymore, it makes no difference if he takes it early or late, and it is not cost-effective to attack it with many dead people.

On the other hand, if Nanzheng is not taken, the entire Hanzhong County can maintain a wartime state, and the wartime state is very beneficial for diverting internal contradictions and maintaining military management. When collecting taxes and grain, they can also be more urgent and powerful, and they will lose less popular support by doing the same thing.

And there were not many peasants besieged in Nanzheng City, and the land around Nanzheng was not barren at all, so there was no economic loss at all in attacking Nanzheng in the evening.

"You have to think about how to expose Zhang Lu's ugliness, only Boya is best at this, go ask him."

Liu Bei thought so in his heart, and then casually brought Zhang Fei and Jian Yong, who were old friends, and went to Li Su's mansion to ask for a meal.

Guan Yu is still living a hard life in the town outside Jiameng County, so he can't come. He has to beware of Liu Yan in the west, and he has to monitor whether Ban Yuman will counterattack up the Jialing River in the south, and the burden is still relatively heavy.

Who let Liu Bei encounter this kind of thing has always trusted Guan Yu the most, when he needs to divide the town into two places, he always let Guan Yu have one town and one county.

As soon as Liu Bei came to Li Su's mansion, the maidservants beside Li Su hurriedly wanted to report, but Liu Bei stopped them: "What kind of false etiquette does our brother say?" Go your own way! ”

"Gong ...... Childe is still taking a bath. The eldest maid seemed to be the leader, and couldn't help but remind him.

"What are big men afraid of!" Liu Bei waved his hand and took Zhang Fei straight to the bathroom.

Go in and take a look, good guy, there are still a few cases on both sides of Li Su's bath barrel.

On the left hand is an iron plate and an iron frame on a charcoal stove, which burns silver frost animal charcoal, absolutely no smoke, and squeaks and roasts mutton and several kinds of game meat, mushrooms, leeks and garlic sprouts, all skewered with bamboo skewers.

On the table on the right hand side were expensive Western Regions wine bought from merchants in Liangzhou, filled in silver pots, and even found a few ice cubes from the cellar ice book and put them in the tray to chill the wine.

Wine at the end of the Han Dynasty is an extremely valuable thing, and the closest place to produce it must be produced in Loulan Kingdom in the Western Regions. Fa Zheng's friend Meng Da's father Meng Tuo, in the early years, bribed Zhang Rang with a cup of wine through Zhang Rang, the first of the Ten Standing Servants, and was appointed as the assassin of Liangzhou.

In later generations, Su Dongpo read history and read this, and felt that Zhang Huan and Duan Cheng had meritorious achievements in the bloody battle of Pingliang but could not be promoted, but Meng Tuo wrote the sad and indignant poem of "The general competes in a hundred battles, and Bolang wins Liangzhou".

Zhang Fei saw it, but he didn't make a sound, so he directly grabbed the wine jug and dried it regardless of the rudeness.

Li Su hurriedly turned his head, almost saying the word "rely on", and finally held back: "You cow drink, find bad wine to pour!" I'm Loulan wine! The urbane man drank it slowly. ”

Liu Bei couldn't help but pat Li Su on the shoulder and snatched the two skewers: "Boya is so interested, the foolish brother has eaten barbecue in the north for all these years, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't pay attention to the field and roasted the whole prey on the branches, or he was cut into pieces and roasted with a chopstick, you would have come to the trouble, such a small piece of skewers is skewered, and you are not afraid to eat while taking a bath, no wonder Zijing said that you are a bathing military master." ”

Li Su proudly teased: "It's hot and humid here, I usually eat a skewer to sweat and get on the fire, just add some cool herbs to the water, and I don't sweat while soaking and eating." ”

When traveling abroad in later generations, the authentic Turkish bath that I saw was that there was barbecue and fruit plate in the rest area after soaking, Li Su is such a person who can enjoy life, it is rare to have a base, of course, you must immediately indulge in petty bourgeoisie, otherwise you will not have any benefits to help Liu Bei fight the world, thanks to it?

Liu Bei stroked two strings, rubbed his hands in Li Su's bath water, wiped his hands with Li Su's bath towel, and then sat down next to him with a golden knife:

"Today, I have some things to ask my brother. The eight counties in Hanzhong have been occupied, but Zhang Lu's residual poison is still there, can the virtuous brother have a way to break Zhang Yi's hypocrisy of pretending to let the people relieve each other and re-educate the people?

His trick of joining the club with five buckets of rice is very popular among the people. Moreover, I have heard that the earlier and higher the qualifications he had, the more new believers he recruited to pay five buckets of rice, and the more preferential treatment he received for sacrificial wine, so that the people were very happy to persuade those around them to believe in him, and the people's hearts were in turmoil. I think it's not too late to attack Nanzheng after this matter is solved. ”

Li Su closed his eyes and thought for a few seconds, making full use of the BUFF bonus of "Intelligence +10 in the bathing state", and quickly replied:

"Actually, I was thinking about this a few days ago, Zhang Lu's method, in fact, is completely relying on the five buckets of rice paid by the later members every year to support the believers, but the war in the north has flowed into Hanzhong every year, and Zhang Lu has more and more believers in the stage of power expansion.

In the future, when the people of Hanzhong will completely believe in him and there will not be enough new people for him to exploit, he will inevitably use ghosts and gods to make all levels of sacrificial wine thrifty. But the point is that he first rolled the believers up, and even if the latecomers found that they were gradually not honoring, they were powerless to resist him.

To deal with this kind of evil cult, we only need to get some sacrificial wine that has not yet been killed, torture them to force them to cooperate with the imperial court, continue to cheat among the people under the guise of Zhang Lu, and then when the five buckets of rice they received are not enough to pay the return of the first comer, they roll up the rice grain and run away. After a few rounds of operations like this, Zhang Lu's reputation will be completely stinky, and there are ......"

Li Suyang sprinkled with enthusiasm, and the propaganda methods of the later generations of officials to crack down on various pyramid marketing organizations and expose those scams that rely on the development of the downline to snowball to raise the online, casually picked a few points, and Liu Bei's eyes lit up when he heard it.

Brother Bo Yaxian is so experienced in dealing with this kind of liar?

It seems that everyone in the world says that Li Boya is good at arithmetic, which is definitely not a lie.

Li Su simply did not stop doing it, and guided Liu Bei step by step: "In the final analysis, a large part of the reason why the people are superstitious about ghosts, gods and witches is that the people don't know arithmetic at all, and how many people don't even know how much tax they should pay every year, and they have to go to the countryside and the village patriarch to tell them. If you can understand a little bit of the simplest arithmetic, how many fewer people will be coerced.

The imperial court and Confucianism didn't want Li Min to think too much, so as long as the popularization of the teachings of the scriptures and articles was reduced, but it was always beneficial and harmless to let Qianshou learn mathematics. They refuse to learn, and the court has no money to organize teaching, so it doesn't matter, I have a way to let the people learn a lesson to increase their wisdom, and they will no longer be instigated by Zhang Jiao and Zhang Lu. ”

Liu Bei Zhengse put down the skewers: "Please try it!" ”

Li Su thought about how to describe it, and then described the method of selling lottery tickets roughly in the context of this era: "We can set up a kind of government-run lottery head, clearly say how much money per ticket, a total of 10,000 tickets set up a few jackpots, a few sub-lotteries, how much money." Let them calculate for themselves and know the truth such as 'the government sells 100,000 yuan, and the actual profit is 85,000, and the commission is 15,000'.

Gradually, they hated this thing, forcing them to improve their ability to calculate 'probability'. In this way, in the future, if they encounter Zhang Jiao and others gambling and running witches, the people will be able to scoff at them. If the brother has no great ambitions, he can also enrich the military expenses, and if he has a long-term plan, he can get money to set up schools in the township, teach the people the simplest arithmetic, and improve the wisdom of the people to prevent being deceived by witchcraft. ”

In later generations, Li Su saw a lot of routines for selling lottery tickets, and this thing must have been in the Song Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty is not clear, but the Han Dynasty must not have it.

Whether there is or not, Li Su's idea is not to make money, nor does he want to make black money on the second prize of the first prize. He just wants to make a public fee purely for the car and the horse.

But even so, he believes that the vast majority of people who don't understand anything about mathematics and probability can't see how much money he makes from his prize pool design. Li Suming wants to make money, and he has to study hard to see through it.

Then use this to force the people to learn some basic mathematics and cut off the soil for the survival of wizards. Who made the late Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Lu Zhenrong and other god sticks and liars too many.

Liu Bei thought for a while: "This is a wonderful method for the people to use enough money without giving them, and most of the people who can gamble their luck will be rich people, and they will collect a lot of money from rich people." The money obtained can also expand military spending in the future, but in this land of Hanzhong, it is better to learn and teach arithmetic first, and the people know a little bit about the most basic arithmetic, so as to break Zhang Lu's evil roots. ”

I can't even calculate the downline collapse rate and burn rate of MLM, no wonder the people here are so confused.

Liu Bei finally finished Li Su's skewers, Zhang Fei drank Li Su's wine, and the brothers wiped their mouths and went back to arrange work.

Jian Yong could only eat some roasted leeks and garlic sprouts on the side, and wiped his mouth and left.

When there was no one at all, Li Su could gently complain: "!" A group of livestock, eat Lao Tzu's bath snacks and wipe them clean and leave! ”

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After Liu Bei went back, he explained Li Su's plan to Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, and the two of them reacted quickly, and immediately understood the beauty of Li Su's strategy.

Selling lottery tickets to raise money to teach math is a troublesome matter, and it will be slowly implemented in the next few months. However, it would be too easy to let the captured sacrificial winemakers continue to deceive pyramid schemes in the name of Zhang Lu and make a few credit thunderstorm accidents.

Within ten days, the most stupid believers who had already blindly believed in Zhang Lu were cut a few waves of leeks by the thunderstorm, and then Liu Bei came out to be a good person, seized the group of liars, and asked them to confess in public how Zhang Lu taught them pyramid scheme fraud.

Soon, those fanatical believers who were deceived the most became bitter and bitter people who were deeply attached to the court. At this time, Liu Bei beheaded a group of people who were the most angry, who cheated the most money, and the sacrificial wine that was angry with the people.

Zhang Lujun's popular foundation in Hanzhong was soon disintegrated by Li Su's crackdown on pyramid schemes and pouring dirty water and poison.