After all, Liu Bei and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's buddies had a personal relationship with Li Su. His trust in Li Su was only accumulated over the past five years, and more of the career level.

So on the first day when Guan Yu returned to Chengdu to hand over the jade seal, the three brothers must have closed the door and drank it hard, and finally slept with their feet, and finished talking about the feelings, experiences, and causes and effects of the war and political situation that had been separated for more than half a year.

The next day, he slept until noon and sobered up, and Liu Bei remembered that he should have recruited Li Su and formally discussed how to deal with the jade seal - the court would definitely have to return it in the future. Guan Yu had passed this swearing on behalf of Liu Bei. Liu Bei had not yet developed the ambition to possess it. He really believed that the emperor could be rescued.

However, people always have to do something for themselves. On the premise of handing over the jade seal back to the court, when and what specific situation should be handed over, what attitude should be used for the past few years of storage, and how to use this as a result to seek more rewards for themselves. This is definitely the idea that Liu Bei has, which is also a common human nature.

Because I drank too much the day before, Liu Guanzhang woke up at noon and prepared to drink some porridge, and invited Li Su to drink together.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were already very accustomed to the porridge in front of him, but it was Guan Yu’s first time drinking it, and he couldn’t help but be amazed: “What is this? It’s refreshing and sobering.”

Liu Bei pointed to the raw fish fillet with shrimp, river clams, egg skin, mutton, onion and ginger, and floating skin, and said proudly:

"This is the new porridge that Boya invented after he arrived at the fiefdom, called Zhuzi Congee. I was wondering why he gave this name. He said that it was made by fishing fish, shrimps, snails and clams in Minjiang River, and removed the shells and sliced ​​meat, boiled raw, so it was called Zhuzi Congee. Now he is promoting water conservancy in his fiefdom. I heard that the people's farming is much less labor-saving than in previous years.

He asked the Hou Mansion to pay more boats to rent them to the idle people to catch the Minjiang River catches, and even the fish and shrimps were taxed and paid for commissions. But the people also had small profits and made more profits, so they were happy to be exploited by him."

Li Su's boat porridge is also used to relieve alcoholics and protect the liver and stomach. Compared with the boat porridge in later generations, there are fewer peanuts and seafood, but they are replaced by river food. Peanuts are still in the Americas and lack vegetable oil and fragrance, so use sesame instead. Sprinkle some fried sesame seeds on the porridge, which has a doubled aroma, which is not inferior to the original version at all, but is more expensive.

Guan Yu finished drinking two large bowls and continued to add rice. He nodded and exclaimed: "It turned out that it was the fisherman who made porridge. No wonder the mutton was like roasted and dried by barbecue? The pig skin was also fried and blistered. I'm afraid it was for the pigs and sheep to be stored for a long time? The fish, shrimp, clams, snails were fresh. Unfortunately, it costs oil, otherwise these pigs, mutton skins were transported as military rations."

The three brothers finished drinking the porridge? Li Su has arrived too? It is the end of April and the beginning of May, and the weather is quite warm. So Li Su's appearance is indispensable to waving his folding fan.

But? The calligraphy and painting on the folding fan are still painted by his wife, but the fan handle and bone have been replaced with materials, which are obviously newly created, using jade and agate from Nanzhong specialties? Li Su also worked very hard to sell goods.

"Come on? Boya, sit down." Liu Bei waved his hand and said directly to the side. He did not speak hypocritical to Li Su, so he went straight to the point. "Yesterday, Yun Chang brought back the imperial seal, saying that it was Zhu Gongwei. Sun Wentai and Brother Jingsheng swore to me to take charge of it and return it to the court in the future. Do you think? When is the time for the return? How should we arrange it in advance?"

Today's occasion is quite private. The reason why Liu Bei did not discuss with all his advisers in public is that he did not want his intentions to be known to ordinary subordinates.

Li Su was slightly surprised when she heard this? She said something to congratulate Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

After all, Guan Yu returned with the army? Until before Yidu County? The speed of traveling was relatively slow. So there must be a fast horse messenger coming to inform him in advance, but it was not so detailed, so Li Su had known the existence of the jade seal for a long time.

Since it was about such a formal and serious matter, Li Su did not call him brothers, but said solemnly, "Lord, I thought the jade seal should be returned to the court immediately when the Dong thief was destroyed."

The conclusion was very concise, and Liu Bei had no objection to this attitude. He was just very surprised: "Boya, after you speak, do you think Dong Thief is about to be destroyed?"

Li Su: "I dare not say that it is just around the corner, but it should be expected within a few years. It is nothing to keep the jade seal in the lord's hand for two or three years, and it is as long as four or five years."

Liu Bei: "Two or three years? Four or five years? After Dong's bandit retreated to Guanxi, he was strong and had no need to worry about insufficient food and grass, and he was surrounded and attacked by people. He still had nearly 200,000 elite troops under his command. The generals of Dong had no force several times the strength of the troops. How could he break through the fourth pass of Qin? Even if our army is the main force in the future to attack Dong, it would be difficult to go out of Sanguan to destroy Chen Cang--

Although I remember, by chance, when we joined forces with Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo to deal with Han Sui, you took over the renovation of Chencang City for ten months and helped demolish some of the city defenses on the southeast and strengthen the northwest. Now God is willing to help us, but even if Chencang is out for a while, our grain road is very difficult, and even in the field battle, we can't beat Dong's thief's 200,000 tiger and wolf army."

Li Su bowed and analyzed: "Although we can't defeat Dong's thief now, our army still has time to prepare for troops and farm the land to support the people. After the integration of Nanzhong, our army can gather at least 50,000 most elite combat soldiers. If we were to Liu Yan's scale of recruiting Dongzhou soldiers, it would be no problem to gather 100,000 or 200,000 people.

Although the remaining tens of thousands of new recruits cannot be compared with the veterans of Xiliang for a long time, as long as the equipment is excellent and the morale is high, it may not be impossible to fight. That's why I said that even if we don't rely on external forces, we will pacify Nanzhong for two years, cultivate farms on one side, and train new troops in one year, and have the opportunity to challenge Dong Zhuo in three years, and at the latest five years.

Although Dong Zhuo is half a generation younger than Duke Lu and Duke Huangfu, he is one generation older than his lord and is already in his fifties. If he is not impatient and enterprising, he will end up as a thief in his history books when he dies. No one in his clan can take over such a situation, and at best he is a rich man.

I heard that since the entire court moved westward, Dong Zhe has recently requisitioned many people's resources in Mei County and Jingzhao to build Meiwu. Fa Xiaozhi, the county magistrate of Sanguan, was a Meiwu. He found out the reward the day before yesterday that the planned city wall of Meiwu was seven feet thick, and the walls and buildings were comparable to Chang'an and Luoyang, with 200,000 civilians, which would be completed in at least one year.

Dong Zhe was making an old age and weak and unable to make progress, and left a way out for his tribe members. Since he had this concern, he would definitely be more radical and aggressive in usurping the Han Dynasty. In addition, the princes of Guandong were not good at it. I heard that Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan had already killed each other, and Sun Jian also attacked some of the Yuzhou officials who had reported to Yuan Shao in Yuzhou to capture Yuzhou for Yuan Shu.

At this time, as long as our army does not move and pretends to have no intention of advancing northward, and let Guanzhong not hear about the war within one or two years, Dong Thief will definitely have an illusion, thinking that no one dares to take action, and will unscrupulously speed up the progress of usurping the Han Dynasty. At that time, the more urgent the advancement is, there will be internal friction. Previously, Yun Chang went to Luo and led Zhu Jun out anyway.

There are Huangfu Song in the court now and countless other ministers who are interested in the Han Dynasty. They may not be sincere in following Dong Zhuo. Many of them are secretly lurking like Zhu Jun, in an attempt to eliminate thieves from the inside. With these righteous men joining forces, we can definitely speed up the situation in addition to Dong."

Li Su really wanted to say, "Huangfu Song and Wang Yun can all rely on it", but this kind of thing will be sliced, so he can only analyze it theoretically and cannot refer to the name.

But these truths are true, and Liu Bei's confidence has increased greatly after hearing this.

This is also the style of Li Su operating the General Staff: There are many possibilities to support the Han Dynasty. Let’s first prepare from the most secure and solid plan. If there is an unexpected surprise, it’s better, and it can speed up.

After solving the problem of confidence, Liu Bei only had two doubts: "What kind of attitude should we have to show to the outside world in the past few years with the jade seal? If there is no change from the time when there is no jade seal, and even 'retreat', will the world be confused?"

Retreat and farming was a common attitude used by warlords in Shu. In the later years, Liu Bei had just passed away and Zhuge Liang was in power for the first three or four years, he also used the method of "closing the pass" to reduce the vigilance of Cao Wei in the north. Then, when the farming was almost done, he suddenly turned on and off, which was the suddenness of the first time he went out of Qishan.

The strategy Li Su discussed with Liu Bei before was to take a retreat and reduce the enemy's vigilance. Now Liu Bei is afraid of "will people think that he wants to be the local emperor like Liu Yan?" This reputation is so bad.

Li Su also realized that this worry was right, so he followed the trend and advised: "This is easy to deal with. We can act like we are a little enterprising, but we don't really anger Dong Zhe's guard. It's already May this year, and Shu County was newly established at the end of last year, so the lord should not leave. After the spring of next year, the lord can move the Yizhou Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Gover

At the same time, the people and princes of the world must have known through the alliance. However, before, the Snake Sword Sword was ascended from the Taimiao of Chang'an because of the White Rainbow, and fell into the ship of the minister from the Taimiao of Chang'an. The ship was transported to Hanzhong by the ship by the Princess Wannian back to Hanzhong. The matter has not been promoted yet. Now, the information about the Snake Sword "When the Snake Sword is avoided by the will of heaven, the White Rain ascends to choose the master" can also be widely spread. In this way, the lord and the Jade Seal and Snake Sword are both in Hanzhong. It can be followed by Emperor Gaozu's northern attack on the Three Qins to eliminate the thieves, and imply that the princes of the world will not doubt that the lord will remain in seclusion."

Liu Bei nodded. This is simple. This year, he will completely stabilize Shu and the Chengdu Plain will be handed over to Li Su to manage next year. He will take the center to Hanzhong to station, and at least he will move the banner of the governor of Yizhou from Chengdu to Nanzheng.

Maybe you can also learn from the plank road that is built by Emperor Gaozu of the Ming Dynasty to cultivate the plank road.

Because although the Baoxie Road is the second dangerous road that is second only to Ziwu Valley, it is impossible to drive and can only walk, the Baoxie Road is 400 miles away than the Chencang Road, which can drive. Moreover, the northern exit of the Baoxie Road is Wuzhangyuan and Meixian County on the Wugong Water Bank, which can be posed as "raiding the Meiwu and beheading Dong Zhe".

In this way, we also avoided the warning that Huangfu Song advised Liu Bei not to participate in the meeting and challenge Dong - we were pretending to attack Meiwu, not Chang'an, but only targeting Dong's thieves, not the court, and without intention of "the relatives and princes directly bringing foreign troops into the capital."

Attacking Meiwu and attacking Chang'an are completely different politically.

But Dong Zhuo must also know that you cannot "build a plank road in an open manner" to attack the Yiwu. Emperor Gaozu was useless in the past when he built a plank road in an open manner, so this is a gesture. So Dong Zhuo would not be alert.

After Liu Bei understood everything, he finally asked his personal reward: "If he can really cooperate with the inner court to serve the king successfully in the future and return the jade seal, what reward should he give?"

Li Su solemnly replied: "Since the lord pacified Liu Yan, many of his achievements have not been rewarded because the Dong thief controlled the government. In the future, he affirmed that he would eliminate Liu Yan, pacify Nanzhong, rescue Luoyang, and help suppress Dong thief, and reward them together.

I think it is best for the lord to be promoted to the governor of Yizhou, add the general of the chariot or other generals, and then let the emperor be named King of Hanzhong. In addition, if the Dong thief was eliminated, the Xiliang army would definitely be repeated. The nobles in the court would be troubled by Ping Liang. Yun Chang had the merits of saving Luoyang, and combined with his previous achievements, he should be the governor of Liangzhou. Although the promotion seemed to be too fast, the territory of the Liangzhou governor needed our army to attack the rebels and Qiang thieves on their own. The court was nothing more than giving him a title, and the three nobles in the court would definitely be willing."

Li Su's arrangement was to take advantage of the future "two or three months after Dong Zhuo's death, Wang Yun was in power" to get a legitimate reward first. Given the situation when Wang Yun first gained power, Liu Bei was really willing to hand over the jade seal to increase his orthodox nature to assist Wang Yun in the administration. It should be possible to win a royal family named Liu as the king.

The court officially conferred a former zongzheng as king for his military merits, which is much more valuable than the self-reported King of Hanzhong.

Moreover, this is not contrary to the White Horse Alliance. Emperor Gaozu said, "No king shall be granted without the surname Liu, and no marquis shall be granted without the meritorious officials."

However, Liu Bei was shocked by his own eyes: "How can this be done? I haven't heard of the royal family for many years because of this king. Wouldn't others suspect that I want to... besides Dong Zhei..."

Li Su advised: "In extraordinary times, extraordinary things will be done. Even in the future, except for Dong Zhe, the court will not be peaceful soon. There are many places where the lord needs to make contributions and support the Han Dynasty. Even Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan have had internal conflicts. In the future, there will be more than a few warlords who do not respect the court. If the lord serves the king without hijacking the king, no one will blame him. It is too early to say this, so let's act according to the opportunity."

Li Su can't even mention Wang Yun now, and of course he can't mention Li Jue and Guo Si. Even the butterfly effect has reached this point, and it's hard to say whether Li Jue and Guo Si will cause trouble in the future.

Li Su could only roughly deduce, believing that the Liangzhou army would definitely be in chaos with Wang Yun's attitude towards dealing with the Liangzhou army. But history has changed so much, it is unknown if Niu Fu directly counterattacked. Then, there may not be any internal strife and division between the Liangzhou army at that time, and they can only adapt to the situation.

Li Jue and Guo Si are still just mere lieutenants, and Dong Zhuo's army has much higher status than them.

Moreover, since you have to use Wang Yun’s term to exchange for the Jade Seal for maximum benefits, hypocritical tricks such as “three remarks and then accepting them” cannot be performed. You can be humble at most once, anyway, it is just a king for your merits. If you really give in three remarks, you will be said to be like Wang Mang, which is not necessary.
Chapter completed!