While Zhao Yun was suppressing the bandits in the southern part of Lingling to appease him, Li Su was not idle in Changsha City.

During this period, he mainly focused on blocking the Yangtze River channel, inquiring about the information of the princes from outside, and spreading diplomatic deceptive information.

The "Hero's Record" written by Wang Can has been on sale for more than a month and is probably spread to the north. Anyone who is interested can buy "Hero's Record" no matter where the Han Dynasty is located. He has read the various righteous actions of the princes of the world in recent years to challenge Dong and Jue.

The reason why Li Su dared to say this is because a month ago, at the end of April, he met a team of sea merchants in Baqiu, driving a large sand ship that uses both rivers and seas, and it was the caravan of the prefect Mi family in Liaodong. Since even the merchants in the northeast corner of the Great Han Dynasty bought "The Legend of Heroes", other people who are not that far away can buy it as long as they want.

Of course, because it was Liu Bei who paid for the printing, he had to promote the official ideology of King Hanzhong. Therefore, the book must be the most glorious image of Liu Bei, and he has made all the contributions and made every detail of his years.

Cao Cao's deeds rewrite the fact that he and Zhang Miao first promoted the righteous army and later the Battle of Chenggao in Xingyang.

Because Sun Jian was more active in his bid for Dong, he later refused to recognize Li Jue and Guo Si's court, and even attacked those neighbors who recognized Li Jue and Guo Si's most active, which was also a bit of a scene.

And those guys in Yuan Shao were disgusted by Wang Can's sarcastic sarcasm.

The spread of "The Legend of Heroes" was also the true and false diplomatic attitude of Liu Bei's camp. Now all the warlords around him already knew that Liu Bei always kept expelling the Central Plains and expelling the thieves. However, since he was defeated by the arrow last year, he only shouted slogans and did not send troops. In fact, he spent his troops on dealing with Liu Du, Zhao Fan and even Zhang Jin.

He said he wanted to seek trash, but in fact he was secretly snatching territory!

Therefore, he criticized Liu Bei for his different words and deeds, and said one thing and did another. He was called the King of Han and was actually a traitor.

Especially Yuan Shao, who was criticized by Wang Can, in order to hide himself and divert others' dissatisfaction with him, he repeatedly expressed his views on various occasions that Liu Bei was false benevolence and righteousness. He used the sphere of influence of Liu Biao, who was also a relative of the Han Dynasty and the eight heroes of the world, and expressed his spiritual support for Liu Biao to seek justice.

It is not surprising that Yuan Shao would make such a statement. On the one hand, he is the victim of being criticized, and on the other hand, in history, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao have been good ally with good relationships.

Although Yuan Shao's attitude is just an isolated case, it is enough to represent the views of other princes who "do not care about themselves" and even a small group of ministers in the pseudo-official court in Chang'an.

As the caravans that spread the news sold the books and Shu brocade and returned to Baqiu to purchase goods, they would more or less bring back the information they had found along the way back to Baqiu.

Of course, Li Su was generously rewarded businessmen who could bring him valuable information, so everyone knew it well and was willing to inquire about Li Su.

...

On the sixth day of June, Baqiu Port.

I was tired of living in Changsha City. Because I had to set off for Chengdu in less than ten days, I left Changsha early and temporarily moved my residence back to Baqiu at the mouth of Dongting Lake.

The reason why he came so urgent was that he made an appointment with the Mi family caravan that came to purchase brocade books more than a month ago, and asked Mi Zhu to calculate the day. Before he returned to Yizhou, he would come to the caravan again to provide him with as much information as possible from the northern warlords.

Calculate the days, Mi Zhu's people will come in three or five days. After all, the communication and transportation conditions at the end of the Han Dynasty were so bad. It is normal to have a ten or eight-day appointment with people thousands of miles away. Whose sea boat has not encountered any delays in some storms or something?

Under the protection of Dianwei and hundreds of cavalry, Li Su slowly rode his horse to Baqiu. He saw Gan Ning coming to greet him with warships and navy troops. The formation was very large, and he even showed off his sensation and asked Li Su to board the ship to review the achievements of the closure of the river in recent times.

Li Su passed by Baqiu a month and a half last time, so when he arrived at the port here, he was shocked by the prosperity in front of him:

"When did the business in Baqiu Port be so big? I wrote a letter to Tzuyu Gongda and others and asked them to organize official ships to transport goods to sell them?"

Gan Ning said with a proud look: "That's true. Since the general said, 'It's better to clear away the traffic than to block the goods," and to prevent merchants from smuggling for profit, they must provide them with a variety of sources of goods. Later, Zhuge Juncheng organized several merchant fleets to restock.

Although Shu brocade is still not sold much now, other civilian iron products such as Zigong's well salt, Nanzhong's jade agate, and celadons, which are said to be specialty of Zhuge Family Workshop, are now sold very well.

I originally wanted to risk my life to sneak into Shu County to purchase new Shu brocade business trips, but no longer risked breaking through our blockade, so I just bought goods in Baqiu Port. This is already the purchase place where wealthy businessmen in the five prefectures of Yijing, Yang, Yuxu, and Xu.

They also understood our behavior of using troops against Liu Du and Zhang Jin to prevent merchants from blocking the trade routes through the Xiangjiang River. And I heard that we could not go upstream of Baqiu within a few months, and many merchants' fleets became larger and the ships they came were not restricted.

Several wealthy businessmen said that purchasing specialties from Shu from us is not much more expensive than buying them locally in Shu County. They also save them from finding large ships that are worth airworthy and going against the current, passing through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Although they make less money on a one-way trip, they save trouble and live. In the future, even if the battle of Jingnan is over and the closure is lifted, they are willing to continue purchasing goods in Baqiu, just asking us to maintain supply in the future."

After hearing Gan Ning's explanation, Li Su was also amazed at the butterfly effect caused by his actions of sealing the pass.

Unexpectedly, Yueyang was not a famous commercial port in later generations, but because of his "temporary customs" blockade, it became a business and tourism destination in advance.

He had thought before that because the supply of wide Shu brocade was limited, he would also have to store most of Shu brocades to fight against Yizhou's "Rent and Meaning Exchange Rate Defense War", so Zhuge Jin, on Baqiu, released at most several thousand new goods every month. After the merchants tasted some sweetness and comforted him, they found that they would run into a wall and leave after selling it out.

Now it seems that the market competitiveness of celadons is also very strong, and they are really unintentionally planting willows and willows.

"The grand occasion of Baqiu is really unexpected. I was on a whim and climbed up to see the grand occasion of Shanggang. Is there a beacon tower nearby?" Li Su ordered.

Gan Ning quickly pointed flatteringly: "General, please see, the highest point of Baqiu on the Hukou River, isn't there a beacon tower? In the past few months, in order to observe the military situation and prevent the princes and merchant ships from sneaking through, I also specially raised three floors on the original earth platform, and looked at the tower according to the shape of the city tower. The general wants to see the scenery and climb the tower."

Li Su nodded with satisfaction, walked as a car under the guidance of Ganning, climbed to the top of Baqiu Mountain, and prepared to look out for the prosperity of Shanggang.

The place name Baqiu is originally called "chul" because it has a towering hill at the mouth of Dongting Lake. Therefore, the beacon tower does not need to be covered with too high layers, and the view itself is good.

Before climbing the tower, Li Su felt a move in his heart and remembered something: Damn? Could this Baqiu Tower become Yueyang Tower in the future?

In fact, the Yellow Crane Tower and Yueyang Tower in history were originally military buildings built during the Eastern Wu period. The predecessor of Yueyang Tower was built when Lu Su served as General Hengjiang, Governor of the Eastern Wu, and stationed troops in Baqiu in 215. The banquet when Lu Su asked Guan Yu to "go to the meeting alone" was also on the tower by the river.

The Yellow Crane Tower was built in 223, when Sun Quan sent Lu Xun to resist Liu Bei in Yiling. At that time, Sun Quan was worried about whether Lu Xun could repel Liu Bei, so he set up beacon warnings at key points along the river behind the enemy.

Li Su couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "In history, Guan Yu built a beacon tower in Jingzhou, which was built in key areas in Jingzhou, became a laughing stock because he was crossed by Lu Meng in white clothes, and eventually disappeared. Instead, the ones that were cultivated by Sun Quan and Lu Su left behind the name of the past.

But since I am here, how could the military outpost we built end up being "crossing the river in white clothes". Not to mention fake merchants, even real merchants will make you unable to get through! Become my goods obediently and smugglers will kill them!"

Li Su's thoughts were flying in her heart, and she couldn't help but itchy skills, so she asked Gan Ning to take the four treasures of the study.

"Come on the pen!" Standing on the roof of Baqiu Tower, blowing the Yangtze River and the Dongting Lake, Li Su roared cheerfully.

It was June, and the sun was scorching. Fortunately, the building had flying eaves covering the sun. Li Su was wearing the thinnest seamless five-color brocade robe, blown by the wind and was blown away without sweat.

The folding fan in his hand whirred, the jade belt and goldfish bags on his waist were all surrounded by jingling bells, and the sound of jade fighting was so crisp, and it felt like a fairy-like style that was flowing like a wind.

Unfortunately, there is no camera and there is no painter around. Li Su regrets not bringing his wife. If he brings Cai Yan, who is good at calligraphy and painting, would be so pleasant to pretend.

Gan Ning respectfully handed a large pen dipped in thick ink to Li Su's hand. Li Su found the simple lime wall on the third floor and directly danced on the wall with a "swish" dragon and phoenix.

"In the spring of the fourth year of Chuping, Zhao Fubo defeated the thief Changsha County, and the government was harmonious and the people were harmonious. All the wastes were built. Then he built Baqiu Tower, south of Zhang, Liu, and east of the capital thieves were stingy, and hundreds of merchants gathered, and the weather was solemn..."

"I see the beauty of Changsha, and a lake in Dongting, holding distant mountains to swallow the Yangtze River..."

The following are some sentences describing scenery, and they don’t have to rely entirely on Li Su’s editing. He can’t remember them clearly, so he just wrote a few words, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a little different from Fan Zhongyan. Anyway, the textual talent will definitely not be bad, and the length is half less than Fan Zhongyan.

Li Su didn't bother to write more scenery, and jumped directly to "Don't be happy with things or sad with yourself. If you live in a high temple, you will worry about the people; if you live in a far away world, you will worry about the king... Isn't it great to worry about the world before worry about the world before joy about the world?"
Chapter completed!