After explaining Liu Bei and Guan Yu's affairs clearly, Li Su had to set off soon and return to Liaodong with Xu Rong to completely handle the work in Liaodong.

What needs to be handed over is not only civil affairs, but more importantly personnel arrangements. Only by letting Mi Zhu become familiar with personnel and strengthening his prestige can he stay in charge for a long time.

Not only Liu Bei understood this principle, but the emperor also understood it, so although he wanted to keep Li Su as an official in the capital immediately, under Lu Zhi's persuasion and Jian Shuo's double attack with money, Emperor Ling chose to let Li Su's position as "Protecting Wuhuan School Captain" be released for a few more months before replacing it.

In other words, since September of the fifth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei's position as the prefect of Liaodong had been removed and replaced by Zong Zheng Shaoqing. All Li Su's administrative positions in Liaodong could be retained until Liu Bei investigated the case.

If the emperor sent Liu Bei to attack Zhang Lu, Li Su would go to Yizhou to investigate Liu Yan's current situation as an envoy.

Who made Li Su show his diplomatic talent in the past two years so terrible that when the emperor thought of the task of "appeaseing distant people", he felt that Li Su was the most competent—

A letter could allow Qiangqu Shanyu to send troops to help the king, and he also surrendered to Qiuli's strength with his words. Even when he fought with the Qingzhou thief Wusu, the thief chiefs who had nominally surrendered to Wusu would return to the court inexplicably.

These three diplomatic victory in defeating others without fighting was so terrible that whenever the emperor wanted to peacefully resolve the Liu Yan problem, punish the past and prevent the future from curing the disease and saving people, and destroy Liu Yan's ambitions before he was invented, he would definitely use Li Su. Moreover, Li Su still had some friendship with Liu Yan. In the heart of Emperor Ling, he must think that letting Li Su appease Liu Yan could make Liu Yan be more honest and not blame him.

In addition, it has to be said that although Liu Bei had given up his local foundation, his title as the general of Liao could remain unchanged.

Because the miscellaneous general has nothing to do with your administrative duties, it is like Sun Jian won the General Polu after he destroyed Qu Xing. As long as he did not have a new general position and did not specially replace him, he would always be General Polu.

Later generations Liu Bei's title of Left General was even more denied for decades until he claimed to be the King of Hanzhong.

The reason why the name "General Du Liao" makes people feel special is that there is a character "Liao" in the name, which seems to be combined with place names, but in fact, you can still be the General Du Liao in other places.

...

On September 21, Arc de Arc destined in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang.

Liu Bei personally took a few people to escort Li Su to Chenggao, and picked up Xu Rong who had been waiting in Chenggao for a long time. Then Li Su and Xu Rong went to Liaodong by themselves.

Before leaving, Liu Bei personally opened a jar of fine wine and poured three bowls of goodbye to Li Su.

Liu Bei also ordered in a whispering tone: "Brother, when you return to Liaodong, whoever can be mobilized by the civil servants under the scepter, whoever wants to stay in Liaodong, or even the military officers below the Qujunhou will depend on their position to break up. Mi Zhu's prestige is still low.

This Xu Duwei was sent by the imperial court and his ancestral home is Liaodong. It is entirely up to the hard work of his brothers, so that Mi Zhu can suppress Xu Rong. It is really unstable, so it is okay to keep more military officers from our direct descendants."

Liu Bei's words were equivalent to completely handing over the personnel appointment power of the entire camp to Li Su. Except for Guan, Zhang and Zhao who always led their troops to run with Liu Bei, whoever can "follow the dragon" in the future depends on Li Su's words.

This authority is even more final than Xun Yu being under Cao Cao's command later. Xun Yu couldn't tell who would go with Cao Cao.

Li Su also whispered to comfort her heart: "Brother, don't worry, according to my wishes, military officers, for a safe view, it is better to leave the Grand Historian Ziyi in Liaodong. Ziyi is now just Qujunhou, and the court will not care about his stay, nor are he afraid that he will lose the military power of Xu Rong.

I tried to make him make some military achievements in the past few months. After Xu Rong became the commander of Liaodong, Ziyi was promoted to Sima of another department for his merits. In this way, the court would definitely think that Ziyi was a model for Xu Rongjian to be promoted to Xu Rongjian and was Xu Rong's person. But in fact, Ziyi was absolutely obedient to Mi Zizhong, and this would definitely ensure that Liaodong was absolutely safe.

Moreover, Ziyi's hometown is Donglai. Xu Rong and Zizhong will be together for a long time in the future. If you can confirm that Xu Rong has no ambitions, you have already conquered him. You can also let Xu Rong and Ziyi guard Liaodong and Donglai, and watch over the sea to help each other. Ziyi's old mother had been placed in the Da clan of Liaodong before. When I go back this time, I will take care of Zizhong to build a manor in Da clan, and treat Ziyi's adopted mother in Da clan, so that Ziyi will still obey Zizhong in the future when he leaves Donglai."

Everyone was arranged clearly.

Liu Bei felt very at ease when he heard this, and he couldn't think of anything else to take care of. In the end, he just took Li Su's hand and patted: "I don't worry, brother."

...

After saying goodbye to Liu Bei, Li Su finally had time to get to know her new colleague Xu Rong.

In fact, with Liu Bei's temper as a virtuous and polite person, he also wanted to get close to him, but in the end he avoided the suspicion of the court, so he didn't do that - Xu Rong took over the military power in Liaodong after Liu Bei left office. What's wrong with Liu Bei getting close to him? Do you want to pull Xu Rong into the water?

Xu Rong is a man who is nearly eight and a half feet tall, several inches taller than Zhang Fei and only shorter than Guan Yu. Considering that he was from Xuantu (Shenyang) and was a typical Northeastern man, his figure was quite normal.

However, after nearly two years of focusing on the combination of physical exercise and nutrition, Li Su is now just seventeen years old and is only seven feet tall. It is still a bit depressing to walk along with Xu Rong. Xu Rong is at least thirty centimeters taller than Li Su, and he can be at least fifteen on the horse's back.

In terms of appearance, Xu Rong had a broad mouth and a short beard that was neatly trimmed like a steel needle. At first glance, he had a developed bite muscle, deep nasolabial folds, and a double chin like a person who practiced toad skills.

However, this double chin is not caused by fat, but is a manifestation of excessive muscle development and muscle overflow. (You can refer to the chin of the Fire Cloud Evil God)

This appearance was not likable in the Han Dynasty. Even if it was covered by beards, he was not a general.

Li Su was a little uncomfortable when she chatted with the other party at first, but after a day of traveling together, she found that Xu Rong seemed to be not very popular in the Beijing army, but she was just the kind of person who could not get along with the relationship if she had no merits when she killed the enemy and made contributions.

After roughly understanding the situation in this regard, Li Su also knew how to get close to such a person.

In the past two years, he has seen many generals of all kinds of personalities, and there is always a suitable technique.

On the first day's itinerary, they rushed from Chenggao through Xingyang to near Zhongmu - this was also the only way to go from Luoyang to the east, so Cao Cao was caught here later after he fled east.

However, after arriving in Zhongmu, the way to Liaodong should be along the Yellow River to Fengqiu, Puyang and Juancheng. However, Li Su suggested taking a few dozen miles a little longer and passing by Chenliu:

"Emperor Xu Dushi, my mentor, Mr. Cai, was originally living in Youzhou at the beginning of the year. In the summer, he moved south to his hometown Chenliu. Last time he wrote a letter to me, saying that he was willing to serve the court and returned to Chenliu to facilitate His Majesty's enlistment.

This time I went to Beijing, I was originally hoping to visit him in Luoyang, but I knew that when I arrived in Luoyang, he had never come back to serve as an official. It is not far away to go to Chenliu. Can I sell my face to me? This money is just for the hard work, brothers, and my brothers will travel dozens of miles more to buy some wine, meat and horse materials."

Li Su was originally worried that Xu Rong was a serious and disliked money-loving person. He was mainly misled by some time travel novels in his previous life, and often compared Xu Rong's character with Gao Shun.

However, after a little test, Li Su found that Pure and Pure were so worried - Xu Rong seemed to have no obsession with private morality, after all, no personal character was recorded in official history.

"Brothers, Li Zhengwei rewarded me. I turned around and killed two sheep and found some wild game to buy it." Xu Rong simply took Li Su's golden cakes and threw a piece for his adjutant, asking him to go to the place to handle the wine and meat later.

As a military general, what are you afraid of if you are greedy for money? Even Yue Fei said, "Civil officials are not greedy for money, and military generals are not afraid of death." It is terrible for generals not to love money.

A few golden cakes and jars of fine wine, the relationship quickly became familiar.

Moreover, Li Su soon noticed that Xu Rong was quite respectful to great scholars and scholars. Originally, Li Su spoke very well and was polite to him because he knew the destiny of heaven in the capital. He heard that he was going to pay homage to Cai Yong, and he was even a little embarrassed, afraid that he would be troubled by a vulgar person.

Li Su said that he was there and would be treated with courtesy for anyone who would take to Cai Yong. Xu Rong was relieved.

Everyone chatted and laughed for a day. After arriving in Chenliu, Li Su was familiar with the road and went to Cai Yong's hometown.

After the servant informed him, Li Su had just stepped into the door and saw Cai Yan walking gracefully and briskly. When he walked to the porch, he saw Li Su with some vulgar martial artists he didn't know, and then he was slightly shocked and stopped his subsequent rude behavior.

"...Senior brother, how can I have time to come here? We have moved back for several months." Cai Yan returned to a very polite look, covering her sleeves and talking to others, so that outsiders would not see the lower half of her face.

Li Su: "Master, are you okay? I had known that you had not yet entered Beijing, so I should have visited the trip from Qingzhou. It was only after I arrived in the capital that I heard that my master asked me to refuse the imperial court's enlistment. Is there any hidden information?"

Xu Rong next to him heard that there was something hidden, so he felt a little embarrassed and wanted to avoid it.

But Li Su had already seen through it, and people said in a spring breeze: "It's okay, I always know that Xu Duwei is rigorous in governing the army and being open-minded in the official position, not a person who plays right and wrong."

Xu Rong unknowingly felt a kind of trustworthy comfort: following Li Xiaowei, no matter what kind of great scholars he talked with, no one would avoid you or look down on you. He had never felt this kind of atmosphere in the court for many years.

Especially since he was born in Liaodong, the famous people in the Central Plains looked at the same level as those in the countryside in Liaodong.

While chatting here, Cai Yong had already come out and the group asked him to go to the inner hall to have a drink and talk.

Cai Yong had the opportunity to talk about why he had not become an official yet? Originally, as planned, during the Yuan Dynasty at the beginning of the year, Li Su made contributions in front of the emperor and made a name for himself. He thought that Cai Yong was his mentor in name, and his contribution to the "Refuting Disasters and Disorders" was also above Li Su (when it was the "Reconstruction of the Palace and the Blessings", Li Su's signature was ranked first in front of Cai Yong)

So when Cai Yong was a little warmer after the spring began, he had already gone south. Li Su also knew that he wanted to be an official, which was different from other "true hermits".

But after arriving in Chenliu in April, it is now September and has not yet become an official, so some changes must have happened.

Cai Yong told Li Su Shishi: "In June, the court conscripted me once, but his intention was not sincere, so I couldn't lose my reputation. Let's wait. That time, the court conscripted Zheng Xuan, Xun Shuang and me at one time, and a total of fifteen people were there.

None of them were given, especially Zheng Xuantui. If I were to go, wouldn’t it be greedy for wealth? In fact, I can roughly guess that everyone’s thoughts were not given up on their own. They were dissatisfied with His Majesty’s depriving the power of the general and appointed Jian Shuo as the captain of the army to control the army. Doesn’t Jian Shuo’s power have shown that the eunuchs are becoming more and more intense, and how can we scholars join the crowd together?”

Li Su suddenly realized that Cai Yong in history should have been recruited by Dong Zhuo next year, and then forced to give in by force.

But now that it has been one year ahead of schedule, it has accidentally collided with the historical incident of "the court recruiting 14 Confucian scholars in the fifth year of Zhongping".

This incident originally happened in the middle of the five years of Zhongping. Fourteen "Great Confucians" including Zheng Xuan, Xun Shuang, Shen Tu Pan, Xiang Kai, Han Rong, Chen Ji were recruited. After Cai Yong was affected by the butterfly, he also added, and the list turned into fifteen people.

It’s also because the court is too careless and refuses to issue a separate edict to Cai Yong to handle special matters. As a result, the others didn’t go, and Cai Yong had to stop going for the sake of face. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be that “others are very honest, but you bow your head to Jian Shuo”, which is too embarrassing.

I have to wait for the enlistment next year.

Li Su estimated that Cai Yong would at least wait until Emperor Ling was so ill that he could not do anything in bed. Jian Shuo was suppressed by He Jin again before he had the chance to become an official.

Thinking of this, Li Su felt that being a famous scholar was really tiring, and he could not cooperate with even a little bad reputation.

Unlike him, Li Su, he has no psychological barriers to sending money to Jian Shuo to do things, so he is promoted quickly.

"Well, if you spend a few months idle, I believe the atmosphere will change after the New Year, and I will not be in a hurry. I will go back to Liaodong for a few months, and I will come back after cooking before the end of the year. I may go to Hedong at that time. If my mentor has any problems, I will submit a letter to the Hedong Guanwei."

Cai Yong stayed with Li Su, Xu Rong, Dian Wei and others for a night, and also politely confronted Xu Rong for a while. The next day, the group said goodbye and set off for Puyang.

I walked on the road for more than ten days. When I was in Puyang, I met Guan Yu who had just arrived by land and was preparing to take the Yellow River waterway to Hedong by the fleet. I chatted and explained, and each of them would do their own goodbye.

In early October, Li Su and Xu Rong finally arrived in Liaodong by boat from Bohai. Mi Zhu had already been waiting there.

"Mi Zhu, the chief of Liaodong, has met Li Jiaowei and Xu Duwei. Oh, Xu Duwei is a famous general in the world, how could the armor be so old? Wouldn't the Hu people underestimate the court? Come here, this set of Mingguang armor is also asked Xu Duwei to accept it. In the future, Liaodong will be prepared for Xianbei and Fuyu, but it will all rely on the reputation of Xu Duwei."
Chapter completed!