Li Su must avoid suspicion and cannot make a single act, so his bargaining with Zhou Yu was just a preliminary survey, and the final decision-makers must be Liu Bei and Sun Jian himself.

Otherwise, someone might ask if he had received the benefits privately and had swallowed several hundred million in the price difference, kickbacks, etc.

Not only Li Su needs to avoid suspicion, but Zhou Yu also needs to avoid suspicion. However, the dirt in it cannot be known to ordinary civil officials on both sides. Only the most core diplomatic scammers can hear about it.

So, after sending Zhou Yu back to the inn, Li Su immediately found Liu Bei, who was still recovering from his injuries, and reported his situation in detail.

Liu Bei had no problem with the price, but he just felt that the delivery was a bit nonsense, embarrassing and unable to cover the eyes and ears of the world.

He was the last two years of the Ling Emperor's reign, and he kept in the reputation of "the emperor's clear edict was exempted from the palace repair money". He secretly gave money to buy officials for his whole life, and he was so innocent that he could not be clearer. Now that the world is in chaos, how can he be infected with these bad reputations again?

So Liu Bei's attitude was very clear: "How can this matter be blocked from the public? As long as the world does not feel that we spend money, it doesn't matter if we give more money."

Still the same, he is willing to spend more money on the reputation of "nominally not spending money"!

Fortunately, Li Su also had a dirty deal with Emperor Ling of Han and Liu Yu for many years and had mastered the divine whitewashing skills. He didn't even think about it: "At that time, Sun Jian will express his opinion that Li Jue and Guo Si are currently respecting the old ministers of the court. In order to dismantle Guandong to fight against Dong to defend the king's power, Sun Jian can also go to Wen Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and advise them not to recognize Li Jue's current court.

In this way, Sun Jian could pretend that he was 'the world was drunk, but he and the King of Hanzhong woke up'. Knowing Li Jue and Guo Si's ambitions. In order to prevent the prefectures and counties that were responsible for the king and fight against the thieves from falling into the 'election' of Li Jue's pseudo-dynasty', he had to offer Changsha County to the only enclave in the world to challenge Li Jue and Guo Si from beginning to end, and refused to recognize the princes of Chang'an pseudo-dynasty, namely the King of Hanzhong. In this way, who in the world would still think that Changsha County bought it for 35,000 pieces of Shu brocade and 400,000 stones of military ration?"

When Liu Bei heard this, his eyes instantly shone.

It’s amazing! In this way, he and Sun Jian both gained a good reputation.

This is not a private acceptance of the prefectures and counties of the court, but because "the princes in the world are short-sighted and deceived by Li Jue's temporary illusion of respecting the emperor." Those who are willing to listen to Li Jue, but Liu Bei and Sun Jian do not listen, so they want to join the group to keep warm so that Li Jue will not take away the territory of the king's guardian with one's life.

Moreover, Liu Bei had the historical achievements of Wuzhang, who had led the king and fought against the thieves before. He wanted to say that Li Jue and Guo Si held the emperor hostage to form a pseudo-dynasty, which was the most convincing thing.

After solving the problem of status, Liu Bei was a little embarrassed. He always felt that he had bought it cheaply and wanted to know how Li Su bargained.

Li Su briefly summarized and summarized it, it was nothing more than "Sun Jian was not permanent property, he was just a long-term tenant and currently has established facts of actual possession", so he could not use commercial housing to cut it first according to small property rights. Secondly, "the enclave is not easy to rule, and the administrative cost of expropriation is relatively high, which is seriously separated from the core area where Sun Jian will develop in the future", so he cut it again.

In short, it was the three-cut and two-cut transactions at the end of the quotation of 3% discount. Who made his inflated quotation points exposed by Li Su?

Moreover, if you are not familiar with the geography, you may not understand the point that "Changsha is obviously not far from Yangzhou, why is the cost of transportation and expropriation so high?"

This is because: although Changsha seemed to be bordering with Yuzhang County in Yangzhou during the Three Kingdoms game, in fact, Changsha's materials must first be collected through the Xiangjiang River and transported through the Yangtze River to the Ganjiang River Basin through the Yangtze River to the Ganjiang River Basin.

The boundary between Jingzhou and Yangzhou in the southern section is basically the border between Hunan and Jiangxi in later generations. There is the Luoxiao Mountains in the middle as the watershed between the Xiangjiang River Basin and the Ganjiang River Basin. In the end of the Han Dynasty, no one would cross the Luoxiao Mountain to transport east and west, or form large-scale settlements on the Luoxiao Mountain, and that place was not developed at all.

Many people may have never heard of Luoxiao Mountain, but Jinggangshan, another name in the middle of Luoxiao Mountain, must be known to everyone. This place was difficult to reach during the Han Dynasty. Sun Jian wiped out the Changsha thief Star, and the remaining troops fled into the mountains and have no choice but to do so.

Therefore, the materials in Changsha must support the Yangzhou battlefield for a long time, and the cost of transport is too high. One day, if you get into a feud with Liu Biao, you will be stuck in the neck by Huang Zu of Jiangxia. It would be better to make a big deal at one time and jump out of the quagmire to ensure that Sun Jian can quickly seize the window and become bigger and stronger in Yangzhou.

After clarifying all these causes and effects, Liu Bei became at ease. He had no intention of checking Li Su's account at all. Who made him think the price was appropriate?

Liu Bei said frankly: "I know what you are worried about, don't worry. Emperor Gaozu gave Chen Ping 40,000 gold to Fan Zeng without doubt. Can this transaction be worth 40,000 kilograms of gold? You can handle the price with all your power. I will grant you Chen Ping the right."

Li Su: "Then I will go back to Chengdu in a few days and need to go there to raise grain and brocade. Anyway, winter is already in, and at most another month, Chen Cang Road will be blocked by heavy snow. At that time, Li Jue will definitely be more and more arrogant because he knows that our army will not be able to take advantage of Chen Cang's seemingly empty and attack the north, and thus act more and more arrogantly, deposed Huangfu Song and served as the general of the chariot and cavalry.

Our transaction with Sun Polu was just about to be implemented at that time, which was the most legitimate thing. Moreover, after the transaction, it is not necessary to disclose the transaction content as soon as possible, nor do we have to promote that we sponsor Sun Polu's materials, which can be delayed for a year or two. In the future, when we need to take the attitude of "developing southward" to the outside world and paralyze Li Jue and Guo Si's vigilance against our northern expedition to Guanzhong, we will deliberately leak it out."

Of course, Li Su and Liu Bei knew that they could not make the Northern Expedition this year, not because they lacked enough troops, but because the Hanzhong Basin lacked enough food, and strengthening the walls and clearing the fields would cause too much damage to the logistics.

But the problem is that Li Jue and Guo Si have never known this, and Li Su cannot sell this information to the enemy.

So Li Jue and Guo Si have been a little nervous. I don’t know how many mobile troops Liu Bei has to use for the Northern Expedition immediately. I don’t know if he just lost Dong Yue and Fan Chou’s 40,000 people, can Zhang Ji and Jia Xu defend Chen Cang and whether he can provide Zhang Ji with reinforcements at any time after losing 40,000 people.

In the end, this uneasiness can only be completely relieved if the heavy snow on the Qinling Mountains are blocked.

Li Su arranged the rhythm so appropriately. During the Southern Expedition, the information on the distributor of the material discharged from the outside pretended to be the Northern Expedition. During the Northern Expedition, the information on the distributor of the material discharged from the outside pretended to be the Southern Expedition. What else did Liu Bei feel dissatisfied with?

Liu Bei nodded with confidence: "Okay, let's leave the daily government affairs here to Zijing first to deal with. I will recover from my injuries for more than half a month. I will return to Chengdu before the end of November, and then the northern line will be officially closed.

You are not a talented person from Xiao He. I think you are just like Chen Ping and don’t know the amount of money and grain. You don’t care about the details and are very idle. You have been leaving Chengdu for almost a year and a half, and your family must have thought about it. Go."

...

Li Su, Liu Bei and Lu Su finished handing over the work, and hurriedly set off for Chengdu at the end of October.

After delaying in Hanzhong for more than five months, he finally could go back to be a bathing man for Xiaoyao. Li Su felt that he must have added enough overtime this year, and he was too worthy of his salary.

His wife was left at home from just 17 to 18 and a half years old. She had not been comforted by her whole year and a half, and she had been in her 2829 years of life. She was really a waste of fragrant jade. (The fragrant jade that is pitying and cherishing is useless to the natural things, so it is not materialized)

Xun You and Zhuge Jin helped him manage the internal affairs of Shu County, especially Zhuge Jin helped him handle farming matters, but it was not accepted for a whole year and a half.

When Li Su left, farming was only underway for more than half a year, and now it should be two years old. Several of his plans were to make a profit in three years and achieve success in five years. I don’t know how he is doing now.

I had previously promised Zhou Yu a lot of 35,000 large Shu brocades with more than 5 feet of style, but I didn’t know if the inventory was enough. If it wasn’t enough, I would have to use copper coins to collect it for Sun Jian.

Li Su remembers that in his five-year plan, it would take five years to expand the scale of the wide-width shuttle brocade weaving machine in Shu to 800,000 to 100,000 units, which would be enough for 300,000 Weaver Girls to take turns to digest the surplus silk produced by the hydraulic silk reeling industry at that time, and increase the annual output of 500,000 huge Shu brocades.

But in the past five years, 100,000 units will definitely not grow at a uniform speed. They must be snowballing in proportion. There may not be many goods in the past two years.

It’s useless to think about it. Amid Li Su’s uneasiness and excitement, one day in early November, Li Su’s horse team finally returned to Chengdu.

Those who came back with him were Zhuge Liang who rushed to present the crossbow design drawings in the Battle of Yangping Pass before.

Xun You, Zhuge Jin and others went out of the city thirty miles to welcome him to Xindu County. The etiquette was extremely grand.

Zhuge Jin took the lead and bowed: "Thank you for your hard work in the right general. You will have to leave home for a year and a half. It is really not easy to fight south and north."

Li Su also smiled: "Du Lai Ziyu and Gongda help me manage the internal affairs of Shu County - by the way, since I have been promoted to the right general, Gongda, the order that Dong Bid gave you to you to be the prefect of Shu County can be fulfilled. I am now the right general and no longer serve as the prefect of Shu County. You can help me manage it in the past two years."

Although Xun You defected to Liu Bei late, he had a long history in the officialdom and was thirty-five years old, so he could be a prefect. Li Su said that he would be a deputy for one or two years to test. Li Su went far away for a year and a half, and now the test period is over.

Zhuge Jin is still too young, just at the age of twenty, so continue to be the county magistrate.

After Li Su gave the order, he turned to Zhuge Jin to comfort him: "Ziyu, you won't be unwilling to give up, there is still a chance."

Zhuge Jin quickly replied sincerely: "Why is this? I actually think I am young as a county magistrate. There are no county magistrates in the weak years elsewhere."

Li Su: "Don't belittle yourself. Zijing is only one or two years older than you, twenty-two years old. Isn't it that Changshi has done it for a while?"

Xun You saw that they were joking with each other in business, and also came over to make fun of him: "Tiyu, let's not delay the right general. The right general has been away from home for so long, so it's time to go back and take a look. The younger brothers and sisters at home may think we have no eyes. Besides, the right general is here, so I feel embarrassed to give A Liang a reward."

Li Su pointed at Xun You angrily and amusedly with the whip, and then asked curiously: "What kind of reward does Aliang have?"

Xun You jokingly reminded: "General Right has forgotten it long ago, right? Two years ago, when Aliang just built a crossbow brocade weaving machine, you asked him to choose one of the two rewards. Either a one-time bounty of three million yuan, equivalent to 500 wide Shu brocades.

Or in the next five years, every time a crossbow loom is built, Aliang can draw a wide Shu brocade as the "patent fee", which is your own decision. Aliang left Chengdu in June to present pictures. I have not sent him the reward for the past five months, and he has been storing it from the merchant."

Li Su was stunned for a moment before recalling that in order to encourage innovation, he did have a special task to grant Zhuge Liang a "patent fee".

He couldn't help but want to know the specific number: "Oh? Then how much money has A Liang saved in the past five months? "

Xun You: "In the past two years, a total of 16,000 cross-shuo looms have been built. Last year to June this year, there were 9,000 units, and from June this year to now, there are 7,000 units in five months. He still has 7,000 pieces of Shu brocade that have not been collected."

Li Su was stunned and looked back at Zhuge Liang, who was only 14 years old after the New Year: "Aliang, why didn't you tell me when you were in Nanzheng?"

The young Zhuge Liang was innocent: "I didn't know at the time."

Li Su: "Nonsense! At most, you don't know the seven thousand horses now, and the nine thousand horses in front of you won't know?"

Zhuge Liang spread his hands: "Then you haven't asked me, do you still have to report such daily things on your own initiative?"

Li Su felt a pain in his heart: "Do you know how much money this is? Your patent fee in the past six months is enough to buy a county with 70,000 people, and Changsha County only has 700,000 people. You are hiding it deep enough."

It seems that Zhuge Liang in this life is no longer the poor Zhuge Liang who has "fifteen hectares of thin fields and eight hundred mulberry trees".

Even if he is selfless and devoted to the public, he is still a super rich man who earns patent fees by relying on scientific inventions.

I plan to get 100,000 units in five years, but there were 16,000 units in the first two years. This speed is not bad. If you calculate the annual production of wide-width Shujin can have 70,000 to 80,000 pieces. Considering that many machines are put into production in the middle of the year or even recently, they cannot be calculated based on the whole year, but the median should be enough.

Li Su didn't want to worry about how much Zhuge Liang had earned, but just instructed Xun You: "This time I will transfer 35,000 pieces of Qianjin to Yidu County within one month. Can I transfer it out in the treasury?"

Xun You looked bitter: "The adjustment can be made, but those are the capital for 'expanding reproduction'. If you don't use these brocade to buy more wood, beef tendon, raw paint, and hire workers, what profits can you use to produce more looms? The right general's 'five-year plan' will not be completed."

Li Su: "It's not that I won't give you back, I'm just trying to make a quick move. If the king wants to use it, it's not that I use it."

Xun You: "Before that year, you must make up the money. There are still tens of thousands of craftsmen who have not paid their wages. You can't drag the craftsmen's wages to celebrate the New Year."

Zhuge Liang also said: "Master Li, if I can't turnover, I will get the 7,000 horses a few months later. There are many of the 9,000 horses in the first place that are useless. I only spent a few hundred horses to buy materials and study crossbows."

Li Su: "Okay, you can keep the ones you have already obtained. I can ask you if you want to go back. If you have spare money, you can also let your family open a business to build a loom, so that your family can run the industry. I only need 100,000 looms in Shu for five years. It doesn't matter if your family opens a business, it's considered private."

Zhuge Liang thought it made sense, so he didn't hesitate: "Then I'll give my second sister five thousand pieces of brocade and let me invest in a workshop to build a loom. There are no men in our family doing business, either becoming an official or a child."

Zhuge Jun was only seven years old, and the second sister of Zhuge Liang, who was only fifteen years old in the Zhuge family, was doing business. The eldest sister had already married Lu Su at the beginning of the year. At that time, Li Su was attacking the southern barbarians in Nanzhong and didn't even go to drink wedding banquets.
Chapter completed!