Li Su could roughly understand the mentality of Dong Zhuo's appointment of a group of famous scholars to Yizhou in the name of the court and coming to Liaodong to stir up trouble.

Of course he knew that Dong Zhuo would not be so stupid that he thought he could "take away several counties from Liu Bei with just one edict." If the edict was so useful, there would be no need to challenge Dong's coalition forces.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo is more likely to have a date but no date, similar to the mentality of Cao Cao's sent Ni Heng in history: It is of course the best to cause losses to Liu Biao, otherwise it would be nice to let Liu Biao kill Ni Heng.

The specific plan should be what Li Ru helped him think. This is also destined. The chess pieces thrown out are mostly useless people who are not favored by Dong Zhuo and it is not a pity. The character design is based on Ni Heng.

Liu Bei naturally would not keep Li Su in secret, so he threw out the problem directly: "Dong Zhuo has given him four officials this time in the name of the court. What I am most worried about is Gongsun Du, the prefect of Liaodong. This man was once the governor of Jizhou and has enough qualifications. It is said that he is also a fellow townsman with Xu Rong, and he met Xu Rong when he was an official in Beijing.

I am afraid that if Mi Zizhong cannot win over Xu Rong, there will be danger. We can't help him even if we travel thousands of miles away. Moreover, after Hanzhong was pacified the past year, I openly took Zhen'er as my concubine. Now I think about it. If someone uses this to talk about it, I will say that Mi Zizhong's prefect, Liaodong, was forced to push up, and I don't match my virtue, what should I do?"

What Liu Bei was most worried about was obviously Mi Zhu first, because Mi Zhu's own military foundation was not good, and he was a typical example of "spending a lot of money to buy an official before Emperor Ling's death". Such people were not as sympathetic to him by such a person.

Li Su had no choice but to comfort him: "Don't worry, brother, the reason why I worry so much is entirely because you never saw Mi Zizhong in person how to win over Xu Rong and Taishi Ci. I saw it with my own eyes in Liaodong. He was very willing to be generous and pay tribute to his generals and schools. This time, there will be no trouble."

During the months when the Liaodong prefect handed over, Li Su was in Xiangping, and Liu Bei was in Luoyang as the Minister of Zong Zheng. Without seeing it with his own eyes, he was inevitably more concerned, and now he is completely relieved.

"I'm relieved to say this by my brother. Then I don't want to say Zi Zhong anymore. Let's talk about our own troubles." Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief and continued,

"The main ones who were sent to Yizhou this time were three. The governor of Yizhou, who was granted the title of the famous Yingchuan scholar Hu Mao. He also demoted the Censor General Xu Jing as the prefect of Ba County, the Shizhong Zhongji as the prefect of Guanghan, and the Huangmen Minister Xun You as the prefect of Shu County. It was said that they were all suspected and hated by Dong Zhe for some reason."

When Liu Bei said this, he paused for a moment, and then used a tone of introducing the gossip and whispering gossip.

Xu Jing was rejected by Dong Zhuo? It happened shortly after Yuan Shao raised his troops last year. Because Xu Jing was the deputy of Shangshu Ling Zhou Li, he presided over the personnel selection work of Dong Zhuo in the early days of power? He was a great conferred party and bribery famous scholars as prefects in various places. But later these people became the princes of Dong Zhuo? Therefore, Zhou Li was the first to be liquidated and killed by Dong Zhuo.

Xu Jing assisted Zhou Liyan, and the responsibility was slightly less. He was not directly killed, but Dong Zhuo was also looking for an opportunity to demote him. This time, he remembered that before Xu Jing was promoted to the Chief Censor, he stayed in Beijing on the grounds that "the prefect of Ba County was not granted"? He kicked him over and demoted him to an old position and used Liu Bei's hand to kill Xu Jing and let Liu Bei harm the virtuous.

Xun You and Zhong Ji were involved in the "Wu Qiong assassination of Dong case" because of certain suspicion, but did not get evidence? Dong Zhuo was not sure whether he should be killed directly? So he demoted Liu Bei and let him kill him.

There were five people involved in this case. Wu Qiong was killed directly because of the leak. The other four people involved were Shangshu Zheng Tai, Yueqian's lieutenant Zhong Ji, and Xun You and He Yong.

Xun You and He Yong had a little indirect evidence and were arrested and interrogated. He Yong was timid? He committed suicide because he was afraid of his crime without confirmation. Xun You was very calm in the prison for food and drink. As a result, Dong Zhuo even suspected that he had wronged him, so he let him out? He killed someone by placing a knife.

Zheng Tai and Zhong Ji were not in prison at all, so they were even more suspicious? They were just said, "They often walked around with Wu Qiong and Xun You before."

Then Zheng Tai fled directly to Chang'an without waiting for Dong Zhuo to take action? He fled to Nanyang and defected to Yuan Shu, so he was not on the list this time.

The series of records has been lurking, and the result has also appeared on the list of "Why not to be released outside".

Li Su didn't know that Xun You was released from the prefect of Shu County. This was done in history, without any butterfly effect. However, in history, Zhang Lu was intercepting the Han envoy, and the road was blocked. Therefore, Xun You knew that Dong Zhuo wanted Zhang Lu to kill him, so he learned Zheng Tai's escape route and went to Jingzhou to avoid disaster first.

In fact, in the historical wave of the flight caused by the Chang'an official purge, many wise men went to Jingzhou to avoid disaster. This is also the main reason why Zhuge Liang said that Liu Biao "can settle exiled wise men but cannot use them." Because this wave of famous men lived in Jingzhou for at least five years, and it was not until the first year of Jian'an (196) when Cao Cao welcomed the emperor to Xuchang, he gradually returned to the court and used them by Cao Cao. However, Liu Biao kept the food and drinks and supported these people for five years, but almost none of them were used.

As for the "Yizhou Governor Hu Mao", who was the highest in the end, this man was almost a little transparent. He only knew that he was a famous scholar in Yingchuan, but he had no achievements and did not offend Dong Zhuo.

But in history, after Liu Yan died suddenly, he was sent by the court to take over as the governor of Yizhou, and then supported by Zhang Lu, hoping to use it as a bargaining chip to oppose Liu Zhang's succession. However, Pang Xi blocked Zhang Lu at Jiameng Pass, so Hu Mao died in Hanzhong and was unable to take office in Chengdu.

Of course, Liu Bei could not know all of this information. He just picked the part he knew, introduced it to Li Su, and then asked Li Su how to deal with it:

"Almost all these people are famous people, and some are righteous men suspected of assassinating Dong. If I kill them, I will bear the reputation of harming the wise. But if they are in power, it will disrupt our layout and may also leak the current situation and information within us.

It will also lead to unstable internal heroes, believing that "the generals fight to the death to regain the rebel city, and Dong Thief can still deprive their official positions and grant them to others with just a piece of paper."

Moreover, the prefect of Ba County, the virtuous brother of Duke Cai, was also named by the late emperor. Dong Bidder wanted to make us fight for official positions within the country."

Liu Bei had just finished his worry, but before Li Su could answer the conversation, Zhang Fei interrupted directly: "Brother, if you are afraid of being harmed by the wise, please leave it to me to kill! If they lead troops to take office with great fanfare and walk into Chencang Road, I will let them be killed if they can't reach Hechi County! If they are light and simple, they will secretly walk from the plank road of Baoxie Road, they will let the second brother kill it! What's the big deal?"

Guan Yu didn't say anything, just touched his beard and snorted coldly: "Famous scholar, hum."

"Nonsense!" Liu Bei directly scolded Zhang Fei, "There are not all corrupt scholars here. Some famous scholars still have real talents and knowledge, and are also loyal to the Han Dynasty to challenge Dong. I just don't want us to seize the right to appoint official positions and be disinterested. You are too rude in this way!"

Li Su waited for Liu Bei to curse and said calmly: "It has been less than a month since Yun Chang returned to the army. Dong Zhe's appointment came at this time, obviously to retaliate against Yun Chang's previous revenge for saving Luoyang and defeating Lu Bu.

Moreover, this time Li Ru did not move Yun Chang, Yide's Hanzhong and Wudu prefect, clearly he did not want to give you an excuse to resist directly, nor did he give you the legitimacy of "Dong Zhuo who wants to appoint officials to replace Dong Zhuo' and kill them."

That's why he specifically chose Ba County, Shu County, and Guanghan County, the prefects of the county that were not involved in the challenge of Dong. If you were so lenient and killed directly, this was a bad reputation for confirming the fact that the eldest brother was separatist and could not be worthy of it."

Although the world has just gradually moved into the logic of hegemony, Liu Bei's personality is still "anti-Dong but not the court."

After listening to Li Su's analysis, Guan Zhang immediately calmed down: "Boya, then don't keep it in hiding, just say what to do!"

Li Su thought about it and divided the situation into two categories: "The handling of these three prefects cannot be done in one size fits the whole. Because the prefect of Ba County, Mr. Cai, was nominally involved, and he was nominally raising the flag with Chang Yun to challenge Dong.

Mr. Cai could explicitly refuse Xu Jing's entry and take over, or according to the established fact that he had dismantled Brazil's county from Ba County, he would take care of the dangerous and remote places in Brazil for Xu Jing, but in fact he would set up another subordinate who specializes in managing the barbarians to undermine Xu Jing.

As for the pseudo-Yizhou governor Hu Mao, this man was directly threatening and expelling him, so that he would not dare to enter the country and take the initiative to escape from office. If he could really arrive near Nanzheng, get some rice thieves who gathered in the mountains and forests to chase him, give him a small boat in the Han River, and take his followers to Jingzhou along the up Yongdao and be with Zheng Tai and the others. Liu Biao will take him in. We just need not really kill him."

When Liu Bei heard this, he thought for a moment: "But, will Hu Mao fall into the hands of Brother Jingsheng or Yuan Shu lead to Yuan Shu and the others to get a puppet excuse in the future. After fighting with us in the future, he will support Hu Mao to serve as the governor of Yizhou and send troops to attack us?"

Liu Bei's concern was still very correct, because as long as a "state governor/governor who failed to take office" fell into the hands of other warlords, "protecting him to take office" became a famous excuse for the army to attack. In history, Zhang Lu attacked Liu Zhang under the banner of "supporting Hu Mao to take office".

However, Liu Bei asked casually, and was quickly interrupted by Guan Yu with a smile: "Now this situation, no one will betray the alliance within one or two years. In the future, with someone and Zilong, if Yuan Shu and Liu Biao really dare to betray the alliance, they will even take it together with Jingzhou! They said that they betrayed the alliance and secretly colluded with Dong Thief!"

Liu Bei also realized that there was no need to worry about this for the time being, so he continued to ask: "Brother, what should you do, the prefect of Shu County? As for the prefect of Guanghan, I might give it to Zhang Su, Zhang Song and his clan. Originally, after Zhang Su initially settled the place in Wuling and Dong He took over, Zhang Su would come back to serve as the prefect of Guanghan. We can't treat the heroes unfairly, and it will make people feel cold."

Li Su said lightly: "Actually, it doesn't matter whether I am the prefect of Shu County or not. The key is that we must take back the right to speak for appointing the prefect.

Let's do this, brother, I'm not saying that Xun You and Zhong Ji were a little suspicious of assassinating Dong, so Dong Zhuo used it to kill people with a knife. We used the trick, first put the people in and seize them, and then examined them whether they had participated in assassinating Dong and asked them to admit it personally. We promised to temporarily impose the official positions contained in the imperial decree.

But in this way, they were not granted by Dong Zhuo, but because we have examined their actions and rewarded them for participating in the righteous act of assassinating Dong. In this way, the favor and title were all derived from brothers, and they had nothing to do with Dong Zhuo, and people naturally believed in their hearts.

If they refused to admit that they had participated in the assassination of Dong in Yizhou, there would be nothing to say. They were just designated as the "Dong Zhuo Party" and were stripped of their official position."

Liu Bei's eyes lit up: "It's amazing! You can still be granted an official title, but it's not that we accept it, but that we recognize or reject it based on the facts! The morale of the generals will not be slackened."

Li Su's minor change in name change the "executive Dong Zhuo's judgment" to "conducting the second instance of Dong Zhuo's first instance result". Liu Bei is the second instance person and can reject the judgment or reiterate it directly.

The second-instance person has more signs than the first-instance person.

In fact, Li Su no longer needs to talk about it later. Isn’t it just to maintain internal unity and win over people’s hearts? That’s Liu Bei’s old business.
Chapter completed!