Lu Zhi and Li Su chatted until the evening. Based on the idea of ​​"hiring his most promising students and making more good relationships", he finally decided to follow the strategy suggested by Li Su first.

No matter what, the emperor asked the emperor to take the initiative to summon Liu Bei to Beijing, and then Liu Bei immediately came very simply. It was better to show Liu Bei's respect for the emperor's order before the emperor even said it.

The emperor was more willing to offer the offer to Liu Bei for this reason.

With Li Su's plan to make the foundation, you will definitely not lose money when you go to Beijing. Let's take a step at the next step. Anyway, there are still several months left, so you can slowly draw it.

Lu Zhi is almost sixty years old, and people are selfish. He also hopes that Liu Bei will be the most powerful minister in the future and will help his descendants to help him.

Of course, with Lu Zhi's imagination and his understanding of Liu Bei's current loyalty, the limit he can think of is "a great minister" and he will not have any other ideas.

Now Liu Bei is 28 years old, and he will be 29 in a few months. Isn’t it normal for an official who becomes the deputy position of Jiujiu at the age of 29 to have a high position in his lifetime? It can be calculated with a little calculation of his qualifications.

Before Li Su left, he also left Lu Zhi a sum of gold as funding.

When Li Su mentioned money, Lu Zhi's first reaction was of course that he changed color and almost scolded Li Su.

But Li Su is very good at speaking: "Mr. Lu must not miss big things for small matters. Did Mr. Lu forget the disaster of Zuo Feng four years ago? If Mr. Huangfu had not taken over as the commander of Mr. Lu and continued to fight against Zhang Jiao, the harm of Zuo Feng would have almost overthrown the Han Dynasty!"

Zuo Feng mentioned by Li Su was a small yellow eunuch sent by the court to inspect the army when Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao were in Guangzong in the first year of Zhongping. Zuo Feng asked Lu Zhi for bribes and Lu Zhi had no money to give it. Lu Zhi was framed and temporarily removed from prison. Fortunately, Huangfu Song still won the battle after taking over the troops, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Su said this to emphasize that things are urgently followed. When the emperor was about to die, he was confused and could not be judged by reason. At this time, saving money will definitely save something, and he could only "conspire with big things without paying attention to the details."

Lu Zhi pondered silently and struggled inside.

Li Su pressed the last straw: "Mr. Lu is noble, who doesn't know? This gold does not have to be given in the name of Mr. Lu, it's just a hint to make a move. This is not to give money to Mr. Lu, but to take Brother Xuande's money to do Brother Xuande's business."

This famous saying really worked, and Lu Zhi felt much better.

Yes, he didn't take Liu Bei's money!

Is it to use Liu Bei’s money to do Liu Bei’s business!

"Whether, Zuo Feng's disaster is still heard. He doesn't care about the details of big things, so he has to be in a hurry to follow the power. Alas." Lu Zhi accepted the gold sadly.

...

After saying goodbye to Lu Zhi, Li Su took the guards back to the inn where he stayed. Along the way, he was also wondering if there were any loopholes in the countermeasure he had come up with hastily today.

After all, time was too urgent and I didn’t understand the situation before. He could only make a quick start and think about it on the spot, and there must be a lot of follow-up work that needs to be filled.

Walking slowly on the horse's back, the first point that Li Su thought of was the first to fill in the gap, which was what to do if the territory of Liaodong was?

The territory of Qingzhou is not worth regretting, because there is no expectation and a little politically sensitive person has long known that Qingzhou has no status to occupy.

However, Liaodong was the place where Liu Bei was the real prefect, so the nature of this is completely different.

Fortunately, Li Su had asked Liu Bei before if he had thought about being transferred to the defense. Liu Bei was also very loyal and prepared and took the measures.

Now, as long as the plan to "push Mi Zhu to the prefect of Liaodong" is implemented in detail, it is still possible to ensure that peaches are not picked by outsiders.

However, Li Su originally thought that even if Liu Bei was replaced, he would be not too far from Liaodong. In this way, after the logic of fighting for hegemony in the future, the new territory and the old territory could form an organic linkage and cooperation.

But today I realized that it might be transferred to Hanzhong in the end, so there is no possibility of linkage with Liaodong. The requirements and personality of Mi Zhu should be slightly adjusted compared to the previous one: Mi Zhu only needs to "steal the land and farm on his own."

In other words, if Liu Bei fights to Guandong again in the future, the territory of Liaodong can be directly subordinated to the court under Liu Bei's jurisdiction or control, without having to fight once. This can be regarded as "finishing the Liaodong Battle in advance" and being completed in one go.

On the other hand, since Mi Zhu is required to stock up for a long time, Li Su feels that it is necessary to help Mi Zhu improve his combat effectiveness before leaving, so as not to be isolated from the world for a long time and be seized by Yuan Shao or others in Liaodong territory.

The key here is to help Mi Zhu improve the technical strength of the navy to a level that Yuan Shao cannot match. As long as Yuan Shao cannot transport troops and grain by sea, the 400-mile unmanned land in the western Liaoning Corridor is enough to cut off Yuan Shao's attack.

Haven’t you seen that Gongsun Du has been autistic for more than half a century in history, and the Central Plains Dynasty still has no choice but to do anything to him. The Liaodong area now has a population of only 300,000, and it is too difficult to interact with the outside world. Whoever takes the initiative to cross the border will be extremely punished.

From this perspective, "not being able to cooperate with Liaodong" is not a big loss. Because the poor land-level transportation facilities cannot be expected to support the Central Plains battlefield by land. Without expectations, there will be no disappointment.

After considering how to "not spit out the Liaodong that you eat into your mouth", the next key question is whether you will face difficulties in future development after going to Hanzhong?

This is also a must-have.

Even if you have never read any books and just play mobile games like "The Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition", you all know a simple truth: the road to Shu is difficult, and it is easy to enter Shu and it is difficult to leave Shu.

Zhuge Liang failed to go to Qishan six times and had difficulty in logistics supply. These were real historical lessons. Even if he was as smart as Li Su, he had to take it seriously as if he was facing a great enemy.

Of course he would not fantasize about the fast victory theory of "If you can win with the Ziwu Valley strategy like Wei Yan."

However, after taking a comprehensive consideration, Li Su felt that the situation he faced was still very different from Zhuge Liang's six outings to Qishan.

Just as Qiao Zhou wrote in later generations of Qiao Zhou's recapitulation of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, "Qiu Guolun" - although Qiao Zhou is a surrendered person, there are one or two points in the article that are still very insightful.

That is, Qiao Zhou believed that Shu attacked Guanzhong, under the world pattern of "the end of Qin", it was possible to succeed, so Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang succeeded. However, when Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei fought in the north, the world pattern was no longer "the end of Qin" but the "the end of the Warring States Period".

Qiao Zhou's recognition of these two world structures is that at the end of the Qin Dynasty, "All regimes in the world have not been established for a long time, and no one has established authority, so the change of people's hearts in the world is easy." Liu Bang did not face the unified Xiang Yu, but just the three kings of Guanzhong with unstable foundations, and he succeeded with one blow.

During the Warring States Period, it was "all countries in the world have been established for a long time, and the people in the world have also become accustomed to their own monarchs." Just like Zhuge Liang faced stable existence during the next few northern expeditions, which integrated the entire Wei Kingdom in the north, so it was not possible.

In fact, Zhuge Liang himself knew this. His most idealistic strategy for the Northern Expedition was to first have the prerequisite of "waiting for changes in the world" and then go to the army. For example, you have to wait until the Northern Dynasties died and the emperor was unstable, or Sima rebelled against Wei, the Wei royal family counterattacked the civil war, etc.

Even with Liu Chan's IQ, the Northern Expedition edict to Jiang Wei later wrote "Don't waste troops, you need to wait for Wu to act first." It can be seen that Liu Chan knew that he could not fight Wei in a stable state alone and must wait until "change".

However, when it reached the actual implementation level, Zhuge's first great opportunity to make a successful Northern Expedition, and the following few times no longer had the conditions for suddenness and "change in the world". However, Zhuge Liang himself knew that his life was not long and could not wait, so he forced himself to know that he could not do it.

But if Li Su could allow Liu Bei to enter Sichuan today, the fundamental setting during the Northern Expedition in the future would be completely different - because Li Su was sure to let Liu Bei get a world pattern of "the end of Qin", rather than the "the warring state of the world".

He had faced a Northern Expedition thirty years ahead of schedule, and what he had to face was not a solid north, but Dong Zhuo, and even if he could only face Li Jue and Guo Si. Li Jue and Guo Si were in history, there was a possibility of internal strife.

In this situation where people in the world were still accustomed to the rule of the Han Dynasty and no warlord established a stable heart of more than two generations, isn’t it the “end of Qin”?

After understanding these two points, Li Su thought to himself and summarized: "So, self-reliance is not a problem to keep Liaodong, and the future Northern Expedition is not a problem. At present, there is only the last problem to go to Hanzhong-

After seizing Yizhou, will it be as 'taken of the foundation of the same clan' as Liu Bei seized Liu Zhang in history? Will it be a blow to Liu Bei's image of benevolence and cohesion that he had accumulated for half his life?"

This is also a must-have.

Although it was not harmful to the reputation written by Liu Bei after he seized Liu Zhang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in fact, according to official history, the hearts of the people in Yizhou and even Jingzhou were somewhat fluctuating at that time, and the shaking of the scholar class was particularly strong.

If the character of benevolence collapses, it will be a huge loss of intangible assets.

But after thinking for a while, Li Su realized that this problem could be avoided. The key to avoiding it was to see how to operate the court.

As long as the lawsuit against Liu Yan is well in the end, Liu Bei will be "Liu Yan, the minister who is in the clear edict of the emperor to fight against the great rebellion and usurpation". This is a huge difference between the name and the "seizure of the foundation of the same clan" of the master of his name!

But there is also a key to operation here, that is, you, the emperor, should get it as soon as possible.

It is probably impossible when Emperor Ling of Han was alive. It is best to deal with the time difference. After Emperor Ling passed away, the Shao Emperor succeeded to the throne and He Jin was not killed. He asked for this edict to "transfer Liu Yan back to Beijing to report his duties and investigate".

The latest is not later than Emperor Xian’s succession, and before the princes began to challenge Dong. In that case, the value of the emperor’s edict was still very high (although it would be slightly lower than that of Emperor He Jinfu Shao’s months)

Because once the heroes start to challenge Dong, if you take the emperor's imperial edict, Liu Yan may resist under the pretext of "this emperor's imperial edict is not the emperor's original intention, but the traitor Dong Zhuo's life caused by the emperor." At that time, even if Liu Yan did not want to challenge Dong, he would definitely fight to the death to challenge Dong in the face of Liu Bei's confrontation, and even describe Liu Bei as a "hawk who is willing to obey Dong Zhuo's life."

No matter how intense this resistance is, it is better to have less than more things.

Of course, one thing we must say here is that the crime of "a hawk who is willing to obey Dong Zhuo's life-threatening hawk" is not a big deal. Those who are accused of this can also defend themselves, "I am not obeying Dong Zhuo, but I am obeying the emperor and the court."

Isn’t Liu Biao doing this in history? Liu Biao, the princes had already begun to attack Dong. After Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou, was killed by Sun Jian, he was appointed as the governor of Jingzhou by Dong Zhuoyao.

After Liu Biao took office, he fought against Dong Sun Jian, and impeached Liu Yan for the ceremonial war of the emperor, but he was often criticized by the people at that time as "obeying Dong Zhuo". However, Liu Biao always insisted that he was not Dong Zhuo but the court, and his reputation was still good in the end. There were not too many famous scholars who came to Jingzhou to surrender in troubled times to avoid the war.

It’s just that Li Su wants to be perfect, so even DEBUFF with a slightly bad reputation does not want to bear it. He has to do better in his layout of seeking fame than Liu Biao in the same period of history!
Chapter completed!