Liu Ba's arrival was just another famous scholar to Liu Bei. Considering that Liu Bei's strength and prestige were far superior to his state when Shu was pacified in history, it would not be too surprising if there was one more Liu Ba.

After all, Liu Ba is less than forty years old now. Even if he is valued by the Shilin again, he is nothing more than the "No. 1 Scholar in Jingnan" and will not be famous for Jingyi. In history, he had to live in seclusion for another twenty years before he was hired by Liu Bei.

In history, Liu Ba's main contribution was to participate in the formulation of "Shu Ke". Liu Ba was responsible for the financial and financial policy part and was mainly responsible for issuing the very controversial financial policy of "direct hundred coins". (There are five participants in the formulation of "Shu Ke": Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng, Yi Ji, Liu Ba, and Li Yan)

Later, Fa Zheng died of illness, and Liu Ba took over the position of Fa Zheng's Shangshuling. After working for two years, he soon died of old age.

In this life, Yizhou's economic policy reform is led by Li Su, and there is sufficient reserves of Shu Jin. Of course, there is no need to go through the path of plundering the people with a hundred dollars.

So, when he saw Liu Ba appear, Li Su had already thought about how to use this new tool: It just so happened that in the new year, the reform of the rent-in-one tax system will be implemented, so let Liu Ba be the first to attract hatred and packaging and whitewashing policies. Some ideas that Li Su had not announced yet can also make Liu Ba lure Li Su out.

In the process of formulating the Shuke Science in history, there was another important bearer of the work of raising hatred, that is Fa Zheng. Fa Zheng vengested the excuse to kill several opposition parties, personally bear the stigma, and has done a lot of threatening things. But Fa Zheng, who is only nineteen years old now, is obviously too young to do such work.

Of course, it is a bit far away to say these things now, and it is a bit disgusting. After all, tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, and the king and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are in harmony. Why do you say these things on such a celebration occasion?

Li Su also temporarily calmed down and waited for Liu Bei to be excited before he came up to ask Guan Yu about his well-being.

"I have worked hard for more than a year in Yunchang. After I came back, I depended on Yunchang to stabilize the situation in Nanzhong, so that our previous strength did not waste. Come on, Yunchang, let's drink this sorrow."

In the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao held a hot and warm wine to celebrate Guan Yu's achievements.

Guan Yu also stroked his beard and took it all and drank it: "What's the point of hard work in Nanzhong? When Dong Yue and Fan Chou dog thieves attacked Hanzhong, it was thanks to you, drink it together."

Everyone drank a lot and walked back to Chengdu with their ties, talking and laughing. Along the way, only Liu Bei was half a horse beyond others, and the other three were not distinguished.

Guan Yu rode for a while, remembering what Li Su told him before going to the north in early summer last year, he talked casually:

"Boya, this book is really complicated. You can know so many barbarians' products in one volume of "Shangshu. Yao Dian" and a few volumes of "Shan Hai Jing". I have read "Shan Hai Jing" and why can't I find it? As for "Shui Jing", I have never heard of it."

When Li Su heard this nonsense opening remark, he knew that Guan Yu must have found some specialty species in Southern China and even Shan Kingdom, so he felt this feeling.

Li Su immediately put on the fun and supported the role: "I don't know what I found? I've read "Shan Hai Jing" more than you, and the "Records of the Grand Historian. Biographies of the Southwest Yi" and "Book of Han" in my father-in-law's family are both detailed than you, so I know more."

It turned out that when Li Su left Nanzhong, he pretended to "see from these ancient books" that there were rice varieties in the extreme south of Shan Kingdom, including long lint cotton, and other specialties.

At that time, he almost said it wrong and used the "Shui Jing" as a shield. But in fact, the "Shui Jing" was not written until the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the "Shui Jing Notes" was written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Fortunately, there were too many ancient books hidden in the late Han Dynasty that were not printed and spread, and Li Su had Cai Yong, the father-in-law, so he said it would not matter if he let it go. He insisted that Cai Yong's collection of books had this "Shui Jing", and Liu Bei and Guan Yu could not find out the truth from the vast pile of old papers.

In order to fulfill his lies in the future, Li Su had to ask his wife to write a book called "Shui Jing Notes", and then pretended that the original book of "Shui Jing" was written by anonymous people and had been lost and dispersed. At that time, he would directly spread the encapsulated version of the annotated version.

Anyway, in history, the original number of words in "Shui Jing" was not large, and a book only had tens of thousands of characters, so it was necessary to record the world's water system. It was not as long as the five chapters of the Internet in later generations. When Li Su was managing Lushui, he had already written "The Encyclopedia of the Great River Zhengyuan", and then added and supplemented them all into "Shui Jing Zhu", which said that the original text of "Shui Jing" was only a few thousand words, which was easy to forge.

Without further ado, Guan Yu sighed for a while and after Li Su's erudition, he quickly took out his information: "I have been working on the road to rectifying the Nanman for a year, allowing the natives to go deep into the Zhou River and search for the West Sui River. With the Shu Jin trade, I have not found the rice you mentioned, "It can be ripe three times a year in the extremely humid and hot places of the Nanman, and it can be ripe two times a year when it is moved back to the south of the Yangtze River." However, I also found out the news.

King Duosi, the chief of Baiyi in Ailao, went deep into the Zhou River for more than 1,500 miles south. Local people said that in the mountains hundreds of miles east of his jurisdiction, they heard that there were barbarians who could ripen rice three times a year.

Meng Xin from the Heiyi of Kunming sent people to the west for more than a thousand miles and actually arrived at Longbian County, the capital of Jiaozhi County. He also continued to search the south coast from Longbian, and asked the local people of Jiaozhou that there were no rice that was ripe a year, but I heard that there might be such species in Jiuzhen and the southern border of Rinan County.

According to the natives, more than fifty years ago, during the reign of Emperor Shun, the natives of Rinan County, Xianglin County, and the officials of Xianglin County, killed the county magistrates sent by the court, and made Xianglin County the king and proclaimed themselves kings, calling Linyi State. After decades, Linyi State continued to expand south along the coast of the South China Sea. Now the land is more vast than the entire Rinan County, and it seems to be that it is rumored that rice is ripe three times a year in the country."

Li Su was so excited when she heard this - this should be Chameng rice that made the Song Dynasty reach 100 million people!

In the past two years, the efforts to pacify Nanzhong and develop Nan barbarian trade have finally paid off!

After all, the growth cycle of rice planting in the entire region south of the Yangtze River in China will jump from planting one season to planting two seasons a year. This will greatly improve national strength. Although the growth cycle of double-season rice in each season is short and the yield is less than that of a single season, so it is impossible for the two seasons to have twice the yield in a single season, at most 1.6 times to 1.7 times, but it is also very considerable.

The Zhou Shui mentioned by Guan Yu is the Nujiang mentioned above, and is a key area where Li Su's request to focus on trade construction and colonial exploration.

"Xi Sui Water" is the Red River, which flows from Yunnan to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, which was later in history, into the sea. It is now Longbie County, the capital of Jiaozhi County, and is now the territory of Shi Xie.

To put it bluntly, there is no powerful and powerful figure in Jiaozhou today at the level of "Jiaozhou Governor". In fact, it is a loose state of rule in which each county is in charge of its own. Shi Xie is just the prefect of a county in Jiaozhi.

In many Three Kingdoms games, it was later that Shi Xie listed Shi Xie as the local emperor in Jiaozhou. It was all about Shi Xie's long life, and he died of several governors. In addition, colleagues such as Wu Ju, the prefect of Cangwu, either died of death or were killed by Liu Biao, Sun Quan and others, which led to Shi Xie gradually becoming a leader.

Li Su sighed comfortably, "It's a great congratulation. Although I haven't got the real thing yet, I have found out the news. This year, whether it's for King Duosi to search east or the people of Jiaozhou to search southwest from Rinan County, I can always find it.

The faster this matter, the better. It is best to catch up with next year's spring plowing. Once you can really plant rice in the Chengdu Plain two seasons a year, our Yizhou land will become more and more prosperous."

The so-called Chameng rice can definitely be found within the territory of "Chancheng (Linyi), but it is not limited to Chameng.

I can only say that there is definitely not a single thing in Jiaozhou, which is the southernmost to Rinan County. Otherwise, the nine true Rinan of Jiaozhi were all the territory of the Han Dynasty. The Han people had already introduced this good thing, which is the simplest logical reasoning.

However, the South Vietnam region, Cambodia, and even the surrounding areas of Bangkok in Thailand, were likely to be distributed in the city of Chameng rice. It is unlikely that the mountainous areas of Laos, after all, the mountains are not rice-farming areas.

The two search routes planned by Li Su are to cross the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar, northern Thailand and Laos, enter the plains in the southern Indochina Peninsula, and attack from east to west to search.

Li Su and Guan Yu were chatting in a mess, and Zhang Fei next to him was a little impatient and couldn't help but question:

"Boya, since the rice is so close to the territory of the people of Jiaozhou, we were so busy at the beginning and opened up the trade route between Yongchang and Shan, so we just asked the old man Shi Xie to help find it.

I want me to tell you that my elder brother is now the King of Hanzhong. With the great righteousness of the court, the county magistrates of Jiaozhou should surrender obediently. This year, let Zilong go south from Changsha, Lingling, Guiyang, and Cangwu surrender. Let us lead an army from the west and follow the water and go straight to the Dragon Welfare to see if Shi Xie surrenders to his elder brother."

Liu Bei didn't speak until Zhang Fei was reckless and stopped talking: "Don't talk nonsense. We are not a militant soldier to support the Han Dynasty. I heard that Shi Xie was also a great scholar and had no morals. He was also a local prominent family who lived in Jiaozhou for six or seven generations. When the opportunity matured, he would just speak kindly.

Besides, when Shi Xie became the governor of Jiaozhi County, he was already an old man in his fifties? That was the first year of Emperor Ling Zhongping. I remember that we were still a county magistrate at that time, and even Boya had never met him. Now it has been seven or eight years. Even if he is nearly sixty years old, even if he is almost disrespectful to the court, he will die by himself."

Li Su originally agreed with Liu Bei's strategy. After all, Jiaozhou was too far and too poor, and he could not use money, grain and troops to support the front battlefield of the Central Plains Unification War, and at most he would pay a little luxury. If the force was unified, the cost of ruling would definitely be higher than the benefit of ruling, so there would be no hurry.

But after hearing Liu Bei's confident choice to compare his life with Shi Xie, Li Su almost couldn't help laughing: Do you think you can live a 58-year-old man at the age of 34?

In history, Liu Bei died of old age and even Cao Pi died of old age, and Shi Xie was not yet dead.

Li Su could only smile and jokingly reminded: "The king should not talk about the longevity of heaven... I look at the sky at night, and the land of Lingnan. Whenever the Central Plains is in chaos, there are many people like Zhao Tuo who are good at raising heavenly age. Zhao Tuo is still unwilling to die of old age, and his knowledge is not far away. When he dies himself, it is better to send Lu Jia to surrender when the time is ripe."

Li Su was not good at directly responding to the answer that Shi Xie could live in his 90s, so he had to watch the sky at night to give an example of Zhao Tuo, the King of Nanyue at the end of Qin and early Han dynasties to persuade him.

Liu Bei had long been accustomed to Li Su's summary of historical laws, and he even believed it: "Oh? That should not be underestimated. Then wait until the time is right and make a long-term plan."

Guan Yu also hurriedly came back: "I won't talk about Shi Xie anymore, Boya, except for this Linyi Dao, I only found out the news and found the real thing. I have found a few other things you care about. I will get you some pots in your house and see if you want them-

It was brought by King Duosi to you from the southwest of Shanguo. A kind of flower with huge velvet and slender white flowers. You said you can use it to spin it, and you can try it first. In addition to seedlings, the people of Ailao also got some seeds back, so I don’t know if it is true.”

Indian long lint cotton?

Finally, hard work pays off. Although Chameng rice has not arrived yet, you can try to plant long lint cotton.
Chapter completed!