Li Su persuaded Fuluoyi Town to spend a lot of money on the surface, and it seems that it will put a lot of pressure on the capital chain of Liu Bei's camp-

When Liu Bei left Liaodong before, his money was less than 300 million yuan. He relied on selling Liaodong to find Mi Zhu to invest another 300 million yuan at one time, barely gathering nearly 600 million yuan.

During the three months since he was an official in Luoyang, Liu Bei made an effort to release the general of the west, and helped Li Su to help Li Su escape. The entire camp spent less than 100 million yuan on buying officials, but there was only 500 million yuan left.

According to Liu Bei's calculation of 30,000 troops, 500 million will only last for 20 months. In other words, by the autumn harvest season of 190, if Liu Bei had not established a stable base finance, his capital chain would be broken.

Now that Yu Fuluo is directly given a 100 million yuan settlement fee, Liu Bei's cash flow can only last for 16 months. If Yu Fuluo continues to participate in the war to fight Zhang Lu and even subsequent rebels, he will have to make up for the 100 million yuan military expenditure difference, and the cash flow will further shrink to 12 months.

It is precisely because of this worry that Li Su was quite cautious about quoting, but before yesterday, Guan Yu gave him a reassurance, saying that he didn't have to worry too much about money. In the past few months, Guan Yu was a commander in Hedong, and he actually relied on impartial law enforcement to crack down on private salt, and he scraped out tens of millions. In addition, he spit out Yang Feng's ate and shared the spoils. Guan Yu's army would definitely have more than 100 million yuan in getting it.

After doing this, the trip to Hedong was actually a simple trip, and it was not in vain. He spent the money of Hedong people and picked up a Yufuluo for nothing. For the local people, it was just to ask the powerful households to spend money to give the plague god.

The only difference is that when Yu Fuluo personally shaved, he shaved the poor people, so he forced the Baibo thief to come out. Guan Yu helped him shave on his behalf, while the salt oxen tyrant was shaved.

This kind of scraping method is not without a price. At least Guan Yu has become a thorn in the eyes of the famous families in Hedong. It is because Guan Yu temporarily has no choice but to use him with the official sign. But since he has not planned to use Hedong as a base, offending people will offend people. Anyway, after offending them, he will slap his butt and leave.

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The day after the negotiations were reached, Li Su asked Guan Yu to tie up hundreds of Baibo thieves who had been captured before.

Then he declared his identity in front of them, and took out the flags and seals of the General of the Huns in public, and read out the imperial edict that the court authorized him to move the town in Fuluo and stay away from Sili.

Finally, he held an oath ceremony with Yu Fulu in public, indicating that Yu Fulu was willing to leave Hedong.

These etiquette details are not particular. Anyway, this bird is like a chaotic world and cannot be taken seriously. After doing all this, Li Su released all the prisoners back and let them spread this information.

Before leaving, he repeatedly emphasized to the prisoners that the court had the sincerity to resolve the Baibo thieves peacefully, and that their military rations were much more abundant than Bai Qi back then.

So as long as Baibo thief put down his weapons, hand over the plundered property, and punish some of the most indignant evil people during the plunder to appease the good people in Hedong. Then you can definitely give others a bite of food and organize production as soon as possible to participate in this year's spring plowing, and you will not kill them.

Of course, Li Su would never be so stupid that he would give Ding Yuan or Fan Ling the trick of "official lending seeds, rations and agricultural tools, and organizing the people to farm farming."

The trick of farming is still too new now and it is likely to have an impact on historical trends. For the time being, it will be only piloted in remote and closed areas such as Liaodong or Shu.

Moreover, even if Li Suken revealed the operation method of military farming, Ding Yuan and Fan Ling did not have that much capital to organize official loans.

What exactly can be implemented at that time depends on Ding Yuan’s own civil affairs ability. Moreover, according to normal development, even if Ding Yuan really releases usury, he will not be able to survive this fall when he collects the money.

If the loan is released, the account is not collected, and the creditor is gone, is there anything worse in the world than this?

After these prisoners were released, the 60,000 Baibo thieves besieged in Changping were completely in chaos. They had already run out of food and began to have internal strife.

Of course, the evil elements refused to surrender because they would lose everything if they surrendered. Guan Yu said that it was possible to liquidate some robbers with great public anger and exasperate their anger to the robbed families. Who knows if he is on the liquidation list?

And there is another key point, that is, although the Baibo thief was surrounded for so long, there were still two or three thousand horses that had not been killed.

Some people may wonder: the military rations have been cut off for several days, so why don’t you kill horses and eat horses? Isn’t raising horses expensive?

This has to talk about the siege of Changping, because after all, it is built between several mountain ridges to defend itself, rather than being surrounded by the city. Therefore, there are still grasslands with dozens of square kilometers, and it is no problem to let the horses eat grass on the spot for two months. Therefore, these horses do not need to squeeze out food and grass for people, it is nothing more than that the superiors are not allowed to kill horses and eat meat.

At the same time, the army is so large and the encirclement is so sparse that cavalry can still try to break through if they really want to run, but they can't take too much money and the main force will be abandoned without horses. The Qu general was reluctant to leave the 10,000 or 20,000 people and 20,000 people accumulated by themselves, so he kept trying to persist and see if there were any variables.

But after the news of Yufulu being about to leave Hedong spread, the morale of the grassroots military at Baibozhe was no longer willing to persist.

Hu Cai, the commander of Baibo Sanqu, knew that he would collapse in morale after one or two more days, so he chose to take the initiative to lead his army to break through the direction of Shangdang.

He led his troops and horses and those who were willing to follow him, a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people, regardless of casualties, and the terrain disadvantages of actively attacking one side under such terrain, and broke through to the northeast direction frantically.

As a result, they encountered the interception of Lu Bu and Yu Fuluo. The soldiers were killed and injured and captured in great numbers. They were almost chased and chopped by cavalry behind the back while scattering birds and beasts. The Baibo thief could only pray that Lu Bu would chase his slow comrades. As long as they were targeted, they would almost never escape. The only way to survive was "Lu Bu didn't care about chasing you because he chased others."

Coach Qu Hu Cai was finally caught up by Lu Bu himself and beheaded in the chaos.

Hu Cai couldn't bear to leave his troops and failed to break through on a large scale. But Yang Feng and Li Le were not idle either. Although they chose a breakthrough method different from Hu Cai, the time was the same. While Hu Cai led Lu Bu and Yu Fuluo away, Yang Feng and Li Le led only two thousand people, all the cavalry, put all the valuable and soft gold and high-quality brocade on the horse's back, and abandoned the main force to break through quickly.

But the Han army had much more cavalry than the Baibo army, and there were always idle cavalry reserves to pursue. Since Li Su was here, he also saw the precedent of Zhang Ju's "abandoning the army and running softly" back then. How could he not be careful?

Therefore, Zhao Yun was allowed to return to his old business and fully encircle and suppress the small Baibo cavalry that pursued and broke through.

A year and a half ago on the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, Zhao Yun had much less troops than Zhang Ju's direct line, so he had to harass him that time, and in the end he let Zhang Ju escape.

But now Zhao Yun has changed his bird guns and cannons. He can dispatch five thousand Wuhuan cavalry and chase two thousand Baibo amateur cavalry full of wealth. How could Baibo run away?

In the end, only Li Le escaped with three hundred cavalrymen, and Yang Feng was shot and stabbed to death by Zhao Yun himself. The fine and softness of the more than a thousand cavalry members were also brought back by cleaning the battlefield and touching the corpse.

But Li Su was still very righteous and still had to do the superficial skill, symbolically divided some gold, silver and fines to Lu Bu and Yu Fuluo.

In the evening of that day, the last 30,000 to 40,000 white-bolt thieves who were abandoned in the encirclement completely surrendered to Guan Yu and Lu Bu.

Li Su also kept his promise and most of the private salt seized after defeating the thieves belonged to Lu Bu's Bingzhou Army.

Lu Bu and Ding Yuan were also satisfied with the profit. Ding Yuan privately rewarded Lu Bu with millions of money and several women.

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As night fell, when he returned to the camp to plan for the results of the battle, Zhao Yun finally tied up a prisoner and came back to report to Li Su:

"Zhonglang, when I stabbed Yang Feng to death, I met this thief general who was quite brave. If it weren't for the Wuhuan cavalry who was beside me before the battle, he would probably be able to pick me up for thirty rounds. Seeing that he was a talent, I specially tied him up to ask Zhonglang to shoot him down."

Li Su sat upright on the stool, covered his hands with a glass of hot wine, and looked up slightly: "What's the name? Why did you get a thief? The court was obviously willing to move to Fuluo, but you won't surrender."

The captive was discouraged. Zhao Yun originally suppressed him and knelt down. He was not afraid of death. Instead, he fell back and sat on the ground and sighed:

"Yang Feng has always been greedy for money, and has come to this day step by step. He lost his big money because of a small loss. What else can I say? Human nature is addicted to gambling, and as for this! The bets are getting heavier and he is becoming more and more reluctant to give up. If I listened to me two months ago, I wouldn't want the hundreds of thousands of stones of salt. Don't talk about Shangdang now, even Taiyuan can go back!"

After hearing this sigh, Li Su had a little idea of ​​saving the man's life.

Although the words are very simple, the captive should have some insight, and at least he can understand the simple truth of "sunting costs".

Many people can't stop after placing a bet, but they just can't bear to sink the cost.

"It depends on how knowledgeable you have. I will give you another chance. Now I will surrender and spare you."

The captive gasped for a few breaths, seemed to have figured out a little, and then knelt down again: "In the lower Xu Huang, a person from this county, Yang Feng was greedy and destroyed by himself. I can be regarded as the merciful and righteousness of him. The general is willing to remove Yu Fuluo, pardon the thief people, and Huang is willing to surrender."

Li Su nodded, and did not immediately promise him a position just because he was Xu Huang.

Since he was defeated and captured, he would look like he was defeated and captured. Let him climb slowly. He would never break the military discipline of clear rewards and punishments just because Xu Huang was considered a famous general in history.

However, Guan Yu suggested to Li Su from the side: "Boya, my elder brother's 30,000 troops, so far, I have only dispatched 25,000 people to Hedong, and there are 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers who were newly attached during Mount Tai. I later changed my mind and asked them to return to Donglai and take control of Ziyi-

I was also fighting in Hedong for several months and found that the source of soldiers here was brave and was still above the Qingzhou soldiers. After Baibo was pacified, tens of thousands of surrendered, and it is still OK to select thousands of elite and young people with plasticity from them. Seeing that Xu Huang was also quite powerful when he was under Yang Feng's command, he asked him to recruit 5,000 people from the prisoners for use by our army."

Only then did Li Su realize that Liu Bei and Guan Yu finally adjusted the composition of the 30,000 troops brought to Sichuan.

However, it is no problem to think about it this way. The quality of the Bingzhou soldiers has always been good, and it is not as far away from their hometown as the Qingzhou soldiers entered Sichuan.

Anyway, Taishi Ci in Donglai has been promoted to Sima of another department. The 5,000 people stayed in Donglai and were used by Taishi Ci as a defense, which can be regarded as a local material. In the future, Liaodong and Donglai each have 5,000 troops to support each other, which is safer, so it can ensure that no one dares to covet them for at least ten years in troubled times.

Li Su explained to Guan Yu in a controversial tone: "Then let Yi Yunchang do what he said, but there are two points. First, there are only five or six days to screen and reorganize the prisoners. We will start one after another around the Spring Festival and enter the Wei River from Puyangjin.

Second, even if you can select 5,000 available soldiers from the prisoners, you will have to work hard to lead by Chief Yun, and you cannot be led by the original Baibo Military Academy. As for Xu Huang, if you are willing to help reorganize the new army, it will be considered a crime to be punished. However, this merit can only be temporarily awarded the title of Chief of the Tun. If you are indeed brave in the future, the newly-organized Hedong army will be strict in the military discipline, you can be awarded the title of Marquis of Qu Jun as appropriate."

This kind of detail requires Guan Yu to say no problem. Xu Huang dared not be dissatisfied. He returned to the official army camp and started from the garrison leader again. It seemed natural.

After seven or eight days of reorganization of the troops and the responsibilities were handed over, Guan Yu finally took on a new identity. Because he was secretly reported by the Hedong family, he forced him to be transferred. The court followed the flow and officially changed Guan Yu to Hanzhong Commander.

Guan Yu offended people because of confiscating public and private salt, so he got the benefits of money and food. However, he was punished by his military achievements and was still a commander after a long time. From Liaodong to Hedong to Hanzhong, he was not promoted in half a year for the official position in half a year - roughly equivalent to Li Yunlong's "A regiment commander was a leader of his country for N years, and he made a lot of military achievements, but he made mistakes every time he made a merit, which offset the promotion."

The next day of the Spring Festival, Guan Yu brought 30,000 troops to cross the Yellow River from Pupanjin for several days and entered the Wei River. He did not dare to get off the boat near Chang'an, so as not to be afraid of being afraid of the court. Instead, he passed along the Wei River and got off in Huaili County, the capital of Youfufeng County.

It took several days to transport 30,000 people to Huaili in batches around the 20th day of the first lunar month. The fleet was responsible for transporting grain, purchasing and loading grain, and then following the army.

Liu Bei and his civil servants also left Luoyang on the 18th day of the first lunar month, taking the Hangu Road by land, passing through Hongnong through Chang'an, and only took three days to meet with the army in Huaili on the 21st.

At this point, all the core backbones of Liu Bei's camp finally moved over to exchange for the day. The losses transferred from the court were minimized, and only a few people including the Mi Family and Tian Family Taishi Ci were dispersed.

"Second brother, third brother, Boya, Zilong! Don't be fine!" Liu Bei comforted him one by one, feeling deeply moved.

"Brother, you have been a depressed official in the past few months. Today, we finally don't get drunk and don't return!" Zhang Fei was obviously the most excited about the reunion of his brothers.

"We will continue to march tomorrow, so we should avoid drinking too much." Li Su couldn't help but persuade.

Liu Bei thought about it and gave it a bowl of water to a good meal: "Today's special case, I'll drink it happily, but from tomorrow, until Chen Cang clears the situation, I will not be allowed to drink it again. Is Yide possible?"

Zhang Fei curled his lips: "I just listen to my brother!"

Li Su opened the map and measured it for a while: "From Huaili along the Wei River to Chencang, you have to pass through Meiyang, Wugong, Meixian and the three counties, a total of 240 miles. I think Han Sui besieged Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo has been exhausted for five months, and he has not had much energy to pay attention to us. After passing Chencang, he can enter Shu."

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Chapter completed!