Although the winter of the second year of Jian'an (because Emperor Liu Xie ran away from Chang'an in advance, this year is actually 195 AD, it is hereby indicated) is destined to be a busy season for most officials in the state, but for some relatively special people, there is no need to be in such a hurry, and they can enjoy this rare holiday leisurely.

Like what......

"Lord, look at the subordinates and see if they can afford the tasks you mentioned."

With the complete break between Yuwen Tuo and Qian Man or those "mysterious people" hidden behind Qian Man, the various forces on the grassland are about to usher in a new reshuffle, and it is also another big team, but this time the situation seems to be extremely complicated, whether it is Qian Man or Yuwen Tuo, or the newly rising "mysterious man" forces, each side has a resounding reputation on the grassland, and the record in hand is also very good.

Needless to say, the "mysterious people" have a large number of strong people who have appeared on the grassland in their hands, and after the clearing of those surrounding tribes, not only has their strength been greatly enriched, but also their terrifying power has been further displayed in front of the grassland tribes, especially in this case, the leader who has an abnormal attitude, it is a kind of deterrent.

What about Yuwen Tuo? Once assisted Qianman in his crusade to the west, it is unceremonious to say that most of the young people who have risen on the grassland today have been discovered and promoted by Yuwen Tuo, and have been inspired by his outstanding personal charm, and have become the backbone of supporting Qianman back then.

In addition, in the battle against the Bingzhou army, Yuwen Tuo's table xiàn can also be called remarkable, for example, in the war just ended, Yuwen Tuo relied on the troops under his command and the young people who followed him and several famous generals in the Bingzhou army. And skillfully used strategy, so that the somewhat careless Guan Yu suffered a big loss, and even forced Zhang Liao to take the lead in that battle, and severely damaged the enemy general Su Gushuo, which opened the gap and made Yuwen Tuo not do his best.

But even so, Zhang Liao's personal guards lost most of them in this battle. And our second master Guan is almost wiped out of his family.

As for the rest of the battle, Yuwen Tuo and the Bingzhou Army also have mutual victories and defeats, in general, Yuwen Tuo has a slight advantage in tactics, but the Bingzhou Army in the defensive position basically has no losses in strategy, so this battle can basically be regarded as five or five open.

And even if he did this kind of Cheng dù, Li Shushi didn't think that Yuwen Tuo did his best. Although such an assertion is really a big blow to Guan Yu, who has to reflect at home because of the big defeat and loss, as long as he sees that Yuwen Tuo is commanding as the commander of the Chinese army in this series of battles, and has never put his Chinese army into battle, he knows that Yuwen Tuo, who has vaguely felt a little uneasy at that time, is indeed staying.

What would happen if Yuwen Tuo threw all his strength into this war?

Li Shushi couldn't guess. But what is certain is that Second Master Guan should have absolutely no chance to stay in Jinyang City and sulk.

After all, a character like Yuwen Tuo is stronger than Xiaoqiang, and he looks at Cheng Yu's cunning in resourcefulness, and even Li Shushi is conservative in his estimate, if it weren't for the fact that this guy has to conform to the trend of the entire era because of his bloodline, he is more in accordance with some of his own missions, maybe Li Shushi really has to consider whether to let his own Lori or Miss Luo He find a chance to kill this guy, otherwise it will probably be a nightmare for the state army.

Of course, for the same reason. Only then did Yuwen Tuo and Qian Man drift apart, and finally came to this point.

But it's the blessing of this thing. The originally nervous border soldiers can also breathe a sigh of relief, and high-ranking people such as Gao Shun and Zhang Liao can also return to Jinyang for a good year - of course, another reason for their return is that Li Shushi is basically satisfied with the battle, so he is ready to give them some rewards, even if they themselves may not be willing.

"Zi'an, how can I not be satisfied with the warriors you have trained, but it is a joint letter signed by you and Wenyuan. Do you really don't think about it anymore? Although you didn't win a big victory in this battle, you didn't let the Xianbei people take advantage of it, even if Yun Chang lost a few sergeants to the enemy, but then Yun Chang also made a mistake. After this battle, it seems that we have suffered a small loss, but we have also succeeded in making that Yuwen Tuojin can neither retreat nor retreat. In the end, I can only choose this desperate path, all because of your presence. ”

"Even so, Shun still thinks that it would be good for the lord to reward those soldiers who are fighting on the front line, and Shun will be considered a merit to offset it."

"Why, do you still want me to take you all the way to the end, and let you be a little marquis or a tooth keeper to rush to the front line?"

"If the lord really does that, Shun has no opinion. Now I somewhat understand the feeling of Feng Xian at the beginning, every day is something that cannot be dealt with, even worse than when Feng Xian was the master book, and I dare not let go of any small things, for fear that something will go wrong without noticing. It's like this time, I didn't notice the overnight transfer of Yuwen Tuo, and because of the delay of half a day, there was a problem with Yun Chang and Wen Yuan. Although on the surface, Yun Chang was careless and despised his opponent to the point of risking the pursuit, if it weren't for my negligence and not immediately pursuing him, the enemy would not have had time to calmly arrange. The longer I sat in that position, the more I felt that I had a lot of shortcomings and was not up to that role. ”

"Well, I do want to talk about you in that regard. It's not that I haven't said it before, you should also let go a little bit and put more burden on those young people, and don't have to worry about business trips. They are on a business trip and you are there, but if you are on a business trip and they can't stand up to that, that's the big problem. Besides, you now understand that a person's energy is limited after all, and properly dividing some power can better concentrate on what you are good at, and there are a lot less worries, and you won't let yourself be so tired.

But, that's the way it is, but that position really has to be Zi'an. Whether it is ability, prestige and qualifications, in our state army. There are a few people who can compare to you Gao Zi'an. So what you have to do now is to familiarize yourself with the new system, and if there is a possibility of a northern expedition in the future, I hope that Zi'an can lead the army alone. You must not be like Li Guang, the 'flying general' of the former Han Dynasty, in that good era, but ended up with a difficult to find a marquis. ”

"Lord...... Don't bully Gao Shun for not reading much. You compare me to General Lee. It's just too inappropriate. ”

"Why, does the dignified Gao Zi'an still think that he is not as good as General Fei, you, you must be confident, you can do it!"

"No, no, no, you didn't understand what I meant. I read the thread-bound books you gave me very carefully a while ago, especially the "Historical Records" and "Book of Han", so I also know that Li Guang could not be made a marquis not because of his lack of ability, but because he privately accepted the general seal given to him by the King of Liang. is a person who eats inside and out, so even if he is very capable, he can't be trusted by the emperor. ”

"Huh?! Are you really Gao Zi'an, can't it be someone who makes up and changes his appearance! ”

"I've been here for so long, even I, Gao Shun, should have become smarter. And Gao Shun may not be as good as those young people, but thanks to the lord's refusal to give up, I can't do the kind of things that can't distinguish between right and wrong, and I can't accept things that shouldn't be collected. ”

"Zi'an, I don't know what kind of person you are. In that case, it is all the more important to give those young people some opportunities. Anyway, I also cultivated it. If they lack experience or make mistakes, they should naturally be reprimanded and practiced harshly. But it is also not possible to give up the trust in them. The world belongs to us and to them, but the future belongs to them after all. ”

"Hehe, don't bully Gao Shun if you don't understand this, I remember that the lord always likes to add a sentence when he says this before."

"Huh? And this kind of thing, how can my memory tell me that this is completely Zi'an, you are imagining. ”

"'So even if I become an old man, you still have to look forward to the future.'" Is it difficult for the lord to forget? ”

Well, this is definitely a wild statement made by drinking too much at a party, after all, Gao Shun is not the kind of guy who is good at deceiving people.

But it was precisely because he knew his temper very well that Li Shushi had to take advantage of this rare opportunity to educate him with "bitter words".

Some time ago, in order to implement the staff system. Li Shushi sent a group of ten civilian staff officers to Gao Shun, all of whom had achieved good results in the official school of Bingzhou, studied in Huangfu Song's military academy, and participated in various "hunting" activities in the north.

And the reason why they were sent to Gao Shun is also because although Shuozhou has basically recovered, there are still a lot of problems, even Gao Shun, who is a military commander, also needs to deal with many complex problems, and also needs to monitor the movements of the surrounding foreign races, and the result of the long border is just like Gao Shun said, so that he often feels powerless to take care of one or the other.

It's a pity that Gao Shun is loyal enough, capable, and has an excellent style of life, but he is a bit rigid - simply put, he doesn't like to contact with civil officials, and belongs to the kind of civil officials who naturally like to stay with a group of martial artists and don't like to mix with those civil officials who are full of literary crepe words, so for those young people who are sent to their side, they will naturally not be so cold.

Of course, for those young people, although they were not disrespectful to Gao Shun, after all, the other party had no reason to disrespect them in any way, even if they were not enthusiastic about their arrival, it was not a new thing for them who had been in the army, in fact, they had expected this before, and believed that they were capable of conquering their superiors, just like the scene that happened when they went out on patrol with the hunting troops.

It's a pity that Gao Shun's vision and experience are destined to be incomparable to those grassroots officers in the low-level troops, and those young people are more like scholars and civil officials than soldiers after all, but they are a little young and frivolous, and after a few rounds, they have not been able to show what makes Gao Shun have to admire this group of young people, but because of the lack of enough rich practical experience, they were finally put on the shelf by Gao Shun, although they still have that salary, and they will also put forward some suggestions from time to time, but they are basically ignored by Gao Shun directly.

This made the situation of those young people very awkward - it was difficult for Li Shushi to transfer them elsewhere, after all, Gao Shun's status and prestige in the Bingzhou army were even higher than Zhao Yun, who had been with Li Shushi most of the time, and Huang Zhong, who had served as a state minister. If he takes a negative attitude towards these young people, it is as if a teacher has given a very bad comment to his students, and it is obvious that these people's future career paths will be greatly affected by this comment.

Maybe Li Shushi can also put them in other people, such as Xu Rong, who is good at dealing with people and is willing to promote newcomers, but Li Shushi is also worried about whether these ten young people will hurt Gao Shun's face if they shine in others.

So Li Shushi found that he couldn't forcibly meddle in this matter at all, otherwise it would seem that he didn't trust Gao Shun. It makes what was already relatively simple even more complicated. Even if Gao Shun is a person, he will not have any thoughts about Li Shushi's behavior, just like the other me, even if Lu Bu seized the military power of the camp, and only returned it during the war, Gao Shun will still fight diligently and bravely, and after the war, he will be very obedient and re-hand over the military power, completely fulfilling his duty as a subordinate and a courtier.

Of course, you can also understand that this can be regarded as a kind of silent protest in disguise by such an honest person.

However, Li Shushi has to take into account the thoughts of other people -- on the one hand, he has followed him for a long time and has never made any major mistakes, and he can be called a meritorious veteran who has no faults. On the other hand, there are new talents cultivated under the system under their own leadership.

It can be said that he favors young people, and he may be said to be unloading the mill and killing the donkey. If you favor the veteran, but it is a blow to the enthusiasm of young people, it is more likely that the tentative pace of selling will have to face the possibility of dying halfway.

Of course, if it really gets out of control, Li Shushi can't be said to have no way out, as long as he is willing to sacrifice those ten young people, anyway, there are more than ten young people cultivated by the system of merging states, and it is not impossible to take out another ten. Even if you are worried that others will not pay attention to these young people, you can draw one or two from the staff team around you to join them.

But this is only a matter of last resort. How to say that those ten people were personally selected by Li Shushi, and the decision to arrange for Gao Shun's side was also made by him personally, and the ten young people were all very good people, Li Shushi naturally couldn't bear to let them waste it for such a reason, and he didn't want to use that last resort.

Therefore, this time Gao Shun was able to make certain concessions. Although Li Shushi also knows very well that the nature of the country is easy to change, Gao Shun still doesn't trust those young civil officials very much in his heart, but Li Shushi believes that any old fox comes from a rookie, even if it is a dead ant who is cunning like a ghost in the future, isn't it a fat rookie who is played around by Su Xiaololi now.

The two of them were talking. In the distance, the two teams that were originally training on the school field had stopped and stood in line, obviously the subjects to be trained today had ended, and in view of the fact that there were leaders here, they still needed to ask the leaders to see if the leaders had anything else to say, or to make some "important speeches" or something -- fortunately, Li Shushi was not an old master of Confucius, and there were no students or disciples around him, and after his death, probably no one would compile what he had said before his death into some "discourse" or something.

Although leaving a name in history is not small for anyone, Li Shushi feels that it will definitely not be a wonderful experience for himself to write that kind of thing - as long as he thinks of the future researchers who rely on the study of how they are comic and what kind of spirit their comic embodies, Li Shushi feels that his chrysanthemum is tight and full of sorrow.

With a wave of his hand, the team, which was originally full of a strict atmosphere, ended the day's training and disbanded and went home with a laugh.

These people are all Gao Shun's descendants, and they may not be as close as the guards, but they are also teams that can serve Gao Shun to the death.

Cheng Yu once asked Li Shushi before, if he attracted the energy of many powerful people in the country to the plateau in the west, would he let those families become bigger and stronger and eat them back, and become a hidden danger that the tail will not fall.

Regarding such questions, Li Shushi actually never worried about them from the beginning.

Because no matter how those powerful people unite and support each other, they are destined to be unable to completely knead into a whole.

But there is a force that is completely different, not only does they have amazing power, but they can work together, even if they do not swallow that share completely, but they can occupy a position in this feast that no one can shake.

And the state army, or the young and frivolous "bad regiment" that once crisscrossed the northeast of the Han Dynasty.

It was a group of people from all over the world. The guy who came together without a common goal - although he said so, there is an invisible and intangible bond that connects them, crying together, laughing together, working together, and fighting to this day.

So. It was not that those powerful families did not know the importance of these people, nor did they not contact these people through various channels, but most of them were not moved at all, and only selected some veterans from the troops under their command who were relatively old enough to consider the way back, and some young and energetic newcomers to enrich their so-called "caravan", and then handed over the final control of the entire caravan to the hands of the governor of the state as before.

Or to be more precise, it was handed over to Su Xiaololi, the chief steward of the state pastor's mansion, for unified deployment.

Such unity and the combat effectiveness of the caravan under his command are enough for the core backbone of the Bingzhou Army led by Li Shushi to occupy a very important position in this cake-sharing activity. Even if other forces want to unite and squeeze them out, it will be difficult to shake them, let alone with these people, even if the future is really successful, the newly opened land will also be engraved with the brand of the state army, even if some people think carefully, Li Shushi has the confidence to suppress it.

Not to mention that as the discoverer of this possible trade route, Li Shushi originally had a lot of first-mover advantages, as long as people with normal IQ would know it. Li Shushi definitely didn't come up with all the information at the beginning, and there are many things that the wealthy and businessmen still need to explore on their own, or try to find an ideal partner. Or maybe you feel lucky enough to dive headlong into that mysterious unknown place with little information about the future, and then return with a full load.

In fact, this large-scale pioneering activity was another new attempt by Li Shushi, and in fact, many of his policies this time were somewhat imitating the practice of a very unique class that emerged under the feudal system of Western lords -- the pioneer knights.

This class is not a knight, let alone an aristocracy, so it is very different from the traditional knight class. They don't get a reward for the land from their superiors, they just have a name, in fact, every qiē requires them to use their own hands and wisdom to expand externally. And the land that was gained by the expansion, or the land that was recognized by their government, became the land that they could leave to future generations and continue the entire family.

Of course. At that time, the government usually gave these people titles and rewards according to the situation, which were included in the national system.

Okay, do you feel a little familiar here?

Yes, the privateering permit system on which the British Empire rose to prominence was similar to the pioneer knighthood, except that one went to sea and the other went deep into the land.

That is to say, as long as a pioneer knight is powerful enough, his fief can theoretically even exceed the fief area of an earl or even a duke - although if that is the case, the whole country from the king to the common people will envy and hate him, and then all kinds of intrigues and intrigues will emerge one after another, and this lucky man will either be lucky enough to leave a small knight's fief, or simply die in an unknown ditch.

Want to be independent?

In fact, it is not easy to pioneer knights, and even in the early days, if there was no government behind the background to help these explorers who went deep into the unknown world, they were afraid that they would have already fallen into the hands of the natives who had an absolute advantage.

Moreover, the pioneer knights were not knights, and were not bound by the knightly class as a national ruling order, but they also did not enjoy the privileges enjoyed by the knightly class.

Since the state can support a group of pioneer knights, it can support a second group.

Anyway, the natives have been wiped out by the forerunners, and they have too many ways and means to deal with their own people.

As long as those people are given the name of righteousness, smart Chinese have a way! (To be continued......)