Speaking of this, Xu Shu paused deliberately, lowered his voice and continued: "I asked the secret agent that kid planted in Xuzhou to get the news." ”

After hearing this, Liu Bei was not too surprised, but waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "Yuan Zhi, two virtuous people, you don't have to care too much about this matter. In fact, even if Yuan Zhi didn't say it, Lone would have known about it for a long time. That kid once mentioned in his heart that he sent people in Xuzhou, mainly to collect information about the Xuzhou family, and his people would not easily contact Lone until they had to. ”

In this matter, Jin Jue has done a good job.

The longer Liu Bei persists in Xuzhou, the more beneficial it will naturally be for Jin Jue, and even if Liu Bei has the ability to defeat Cao Cao, or cross the Yangtze River south and seize Sun Ce's foundation, Jin Jue will be happier.

Jin Jue was worried that some of the measures that Liu Bei implemented in Xuzhou according to his suggestions would in fact hurt the interests of the local families in Xuzhou, especially the Chen family, Chen Deng, as one of Liu Bei's most important subordinates, did not want to hurt the relationship between the monarch and the ministers for this benefit. Therefore, Liu Bei took the initiative to place Chen Deng in Guangling County according to Jin Jue's suggestion, and he turned a blind eye to the Chen family's infiltration of the entire Guangling County.

It's just that what Liu Bei didn't expect was that due to the short-sightedness of the Chen family, Guangling County would also have a shortage of food during the drought in Huainan last year.

Therefore, last year, Liu Bei sent Lu Su to Jiujiang to serve as the assassin of Yangzhou and the Taishou of Jiujiang County, and transferred the grain storage of Xiapi to Jiujiang, and on the other hand, he ordered Chen Deng to arrange for the displaced people in Guangling County to eat Jiujiang. This time, Liu Bei finally showed his ruthless side, he would rather some frail people starve to death on the way, but did not transport a grain of grain to Guangling County, which was closer to Xiapi Kingdom.

In fact, Liu Bei now also knows that the greater the number of people under his rule, the more beneficial it will be for his rule, but Guangling County has now become the territory of the Chen family, and if Liu Bei transports grain to Guangling County, the rescued victims will not be grateful to him.

Chen Deng knew the hidden secret, but he could only blame himself for being incompetent.

And after his father Chen Qi knew the inside story, his resentment and alienation towards Liu Bei became deeper and deeper. It's just that today's Liu Bei is no longer the puppet of the family who just took over the Xuzhou Thorn Shi Dayin from Tao Qian, his foundation in Xuzhou has become more and more stable, even without the support of local families and scholars, relying on the people of Xuzhou alone, Liu Bei is enough to sit in this position.

Of course, Jin Jue knows one thing better than everyone in this world, if there is no virtuous person to assist, Liu Bei's achievements will be limited to this, very limited.

Lu Su and Xu Shu's touching abilities are naturally enough, but at this time, the forces of Cao Cao and Sun Ce are also at their strongest moment.

Cao Cao has four of the five major strategists, and there are many more capable generals than Liu Bei, and Sun Ce not only occupies the Yangtze River, but his ability to lead troops to fight is not to mention Liu Bei's, and even stronger than Cao Cao, not to mention, another master of military and strategy under his command - Zhou Yu has not yet made a move.

And what about Liu Bei?

He himself has a somewhat fatal problem - nepotism.

There is nothing wrong with employing nepotism itself, but the word pro-parent still needs to be considered.

Before the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao appointed military generals, mainly with the surnames Cao and Xiahou, and the five tiger generals like Yu Ban and Le Jin were mostly as deputy generals to assist the generals with the two surnames.

Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Cao Hong, etc., these relatives of Cao Cao, their ability to command troops may not be stronger than Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but it is a fact that their personal character is stronger than the two of them.

In addition to Cao Hong's greed for money, there are no obvious shortcomings among the above two generals. It is in stark contrast to Guan Yu's slow treatment of scholars and Zhang Fei's whipping of soldiers.

It's not that Liu Bei's subordinates don't have better generals, it's just that Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi don't have a close relationship with Liu Bei as close to the two of them.

His malfunction in employing people has become a major shackle to the development of his own power. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's ability to lead troops to fight is actually not as strong as described in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At least, Guan Yu's life achievements, the only thing worth boasting about is that before he died, he flooded the Seventh Army, captured Yu Ban alive, and killed Pang De.

However, the true image of the word 'flooding' is not that Guan Yu sent people upstream to deliberately block the water to drown Cao Jun, but, however, the Han water upstream suddenly overflowed, and Guan Yu's luck burst so that he picked up a big leak.

If Liu Bei is willing to give priority to reusing Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, or even, if he puts Guan Yu aside first and is willing to reuse Zhang Fei, Liu Beijun's power may be stronger than now.

"That's the best!" Xu Shu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and continued the topic just now: "Jin Hou relied on the money he obtained, and the subordinates he trained made them all become Tun Sima around Xiapi County by buying officials. In this way, a hundred Tuntian soldiers became a hundred Tuntian soldiers, and in this way, he could directly control the Tuntian soldiers with a small Tuntian Sima and suddenly rose to 11,000.

That's not all, Jin Hou also played tricks in the area controlled by his Tun Sima, every other month, his Tuntian soldiers would change a group of people, and the people who were replaced would go to the fields he got to work for himself. That is to say, in this year's time, in addition to the original 100 Tuntian soldiers who had become Tun Sima, he trained 1,100 more Tuntian soldiers.

That's why his subordinates will say that in terms of his ability to recruit and train soldiers alone, he is much stronger than General Yide and General Yun Chang. Fortunately, when he did these things, he didn't think about hiding them from anyone, and even compiled them into a book and took the initiative to send someone to me, so that his subordinates knew about these things he sat down and the manpower he was able to mobilize at one time. ”

"Then why did the kid give up such a talent? By the way, is this Jin Hou still literate? Also, why didn't Jin Hou submit it to me directly? After Liu Bei listened, he was puzzled in his heart and asked one after another.

"Hehe, lord, if your subordinates explain the reason, you will see Jin Hou in a while, please don't blame him." When Xu Shu heard this, he smiled and pleaded for Jin Hou in advance.

"Good! A little thing, Lone will not take it to heart. Liu Bei replied with a smile and pretended to be generous.