Liu Bei has lived a very prosperous life in the past two years and his career has been smooth sailing. Since he was shot in a thigh three years ago and killed two civil and military subordinates, he has not suffered any setbacks.

Therefore, those bad habits of enjoying life that are extravagant and enjoying life must grow year by year. Fortunately, the nature of respect for wise men is still there, and others can listen to their opinions, and they will not fall into depravity.

Fortunately, last year, due to the three major disasters in Guanzhong, he was humble and frugal, often ate coarse grains, and did not eat two meat dishes every day without heavy meat.

It was not until the autumn harvest at the end of July this year that the autumn grain in Guanzhong finally came up. There was no need to ask Yuan Shao to buy food and the people did not have to go hungry. Liu Bei lifted the ban in August and allowed to eat more than two different kinds of meat and vegetables every day. The drama of sharing the joys and sorrows with the people is almost enough.

Now, we have to continue playing music and dancing to Li Su and Ma Chao.

As for Guan Yu, he was still in Jincheng, which had just been renamed Lanzhou, and Xu Shu, Wu and Wen took advantage of the slack season in winter to supervise the construction of the water conservancy facilities in Liujiaxia according to the planning plan left after Li Su's inspection. They had to suffer at least a year and could not be liberated as quickly as Li Su.

Fortunately, Guan Yu was used to the fact that he had free time to organize corvee construction with his idle army. Two and a half years ago, when he was building Leshan Wei County in Jianwei County, Guan Yu had supervised the troops to do that work.

On the night when Li Su returned to Chang'an, Liu Bei held a big banquet in Weiyang Palace, which was placed in the Xuanshi Hall of the main hall. Li Su was still a little uncomfortable, mainly because he had not returned to Chang'an after the autumn harvest this year. He remembered that Chang'an was still the bitter state of eating cakes and mixing acorn noodles last year.

"Come on, today I and the generals will not return drunk, and I will have to drink someone to fall from this stairs. Boya, come here a little! Gu Ci you sit close, and you can drink until you get down to this stairs of the third level, otherwise it will not be over!"

Of course, the emperor's throne in Xuanshi Hall has been replaced by the throne of the King of Hanzhong. The steps are divided into several sections. After three levels, there is a flat section, and then three levels, a total of nine levels.

Liu Bei sat at the top, at least nine levels away from the other people sitting on His Majesty's flat ground. He also counted the length of the two buffering platforms. No one below could hear it without speaking loudly.

Therefore, sometimes private banquets are held, and some people are given the treatment of being promoted to the third level of the emperor and sitting far away from the monarch. Most of them are only given by the three ministers, or some special situations that need to reflect the desire for talent.

For example, in Li Shangyin's writing, "I feel poor in the middle of the night, and I don't ask the people about ghosts and gods." Emperor Wen of Han himself moved forward because he couldn't hear clearly. Finally, he gave Jia Yi a three-level hike to set up a seat for the answer.

Li Su thought about it and Jia Yi went wherever he was. He was not a great minister in his life, and it was not Xiao He's story. So he obeyed the order and asked the eunuch to move his food case up to three levels and sit back again. He made up his mind: when he was about to get drunk, he would be a little ahead of time, and then roll down after seeing it. Pay attention to the third level steps and you will definitely not be injured.

Little did they know that the generals next to him, including Ma Chao, were actually very envious: if we could make greater contributions one day, we could go to the Xuanshi Hall to give him a banquet and sit on the steps, so that we could get drunk and roll around until the palace gate recognized us!

Anyway, the general is not fat and has a thick skin and can't die, so he will make face first.

There is nothing much to say about the wine and food at the banquet. Although it is already very decent, Li Su has never eaten anything. He never expects the banquet in the palace to eat better dishes than his own mansion. At most, some barbecue ingredients are cherished more than his family, and eat fresh wild game.

As for the wine, some of it was the wine shipped back by Li Su, which was equivalent to Li Su paying out of his own pocket to drink his own, and it had to be played as a banquet given by Liu Bei.

However, singing and dancing made many ministers and colleagues very excited, and they suppressed and dared not reveal that it was Li Su's return this time, in order to reflect the martial arts of conquering Liangzhou and opening up the Western Regions.

Therefore, he asked Yiwu in Dunhuang County that the Hu merchants from Shanshan bought some clean and decent Hu Ji, saying that they were "Guo Si and the captives who harmed the Western Regions and rescued them from them."

This is not because Li Su wants to fake it. It is really because the court needs this atmosphere of exaggerating martial arts. After all, this is the most intuitive. Seeing the white Hu Ji performing a dance, even those who have never seen the Western Regions know that it must be the result of Pingliang, and anyone can understand it.

Liu Bei was also extremely excited to see it. He drank too much while touching his beard and asked Li Su something: "Boya, do you know that in this Chang'an city, since the good news of the killing of Guo Si in Pingliang, many people have sang their belly and praised us for their merits.

Some poems are widely sung and gradually become folk songs. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anyone who wrote them at first. There were many scholars who wanted to pretend to be a writer. I would rather think that they were written by anonymous people.

Haha, the Han King's great achievements have become smaller, and Li's conspiracy has become very young since ancient times. The former army's soldiers hung a clear mirror, and the heroic spirit of Anxi was gone in autumn. If this folk song hadn't been circulating in the first half of the month you returned to Chang'an, I thought it was us who bragging."

Li Su raised his glass to cater to him: "The second sentence of the anonymous man is too much. He is ashamed to take responsibility. Maybe it is forcing the verbal movement and forced to build it up. One, three, four is appropriate."

After drinking for a while, Liu Bei remembered to win over Ma Chao: "Boqi, you are still young, you will be General Anxi at the age of 20. You have a bright future. What is Ling Zun now?"

Ma Chao bowed and stood up: "Just just picked up from the Qilian Mountains of Dunhuang County, and there were only one or two thousand tribes left by his side, all of which were chased and forced by Guo Si. Finally, this time he will take his father to Guzang, Wuwei, to linger."

Liu Bei thought for a while: "When Li Jue and Guo Si steal the government, there were many officials and they could not count them. Just tell him that he would be surrendered to the general of Zhenxi and return to Chang'an to serve as a free position. He could give him five thousand marquises of Huxian County. Or he had to choose a county in Liangzhou as the prefect and choose one for himself."

Ma Chao: "I will obey the order, and I will send a book to my father for instructions."

Ma Teng's territory has been beaten, and it is indeed impossible to offer a higher price. Liu Bei hopes that he will choose the first option, and it is okay to give some money and food to the elderly, and multiple hostages can better control Ma Chao.

Of course, if Liu Bei knew that Ma Teng had no use of Ma Chao in history, he would not think so. But who made Ma Chao in this life not have the authority to guard one side? He could only lead troops and fight and be directly under the jurisdiction of the court.

After deciding on Ma Teng's affairs, Liu Bei mentioned again, "Why can Ma Chao be granted the title of General Anxi, why can't even Zhang Fei, the General Pingxi, move to a higher position?"

Only Liu Bei said with a heavy volume, almost only Li Su, Ma Chao and other few people could hear it clearly: "Originally, Lu Bu, under Yuan Shao's tent, was defeated by Cao Cao in Guandu because of the unfavorable attack on Chenliu this summer. Yuan Shao could not represent him as the governor of Bingzhou, but Xu was the general of Zhenbei, and later delayed.

Gu had considered it at that time. Yun Chang was in Xiliang, so he transferred Yide to Hedong. If the Baibo thief Guo Tai and Han Xian tribes were completely wiped out, they would be changed from General Pingxi to General Zhenbei, and they would compete with Lu Bu for a while with His Majesty.

The Battle of Hedong was originally launched when the autumn harvest was about to be held in July. It was nearly two months later than the war in Xiliang. It was also considered that it was not suitable to move troops in Guanzhong without the autumn harvest.

Originally, Yide and Ziyi and Gongming were expected to destroy Han Xian first within one or two months, and attack Guo Tai in September. Before the freeze at the end of the year, the Fen River Basin must be cleared.

Unexpectedly, less than ten days after the battle started, Yide originally planned to go north to climb over Wangwu Mountain and enter the mountainous counties to chase Han Xian's main force. However, he encountered Han Xian's main force unexpectedly and went south to cross Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain continuously, attacking Dongyuan County, which was controlled by Yuan Shao's army to sell grain to our army last year.

Yide was overjoyed at the time and asked Ziyi Gongming to let go of the siege and lure Han Xian to go south as much as possible. He wanted all Han Xian's main forces to enter the open area of ​​the Weishui River Valley, and then encircle and annihilate it in one fell swoop, saving it from going to Wangwu Mountain to gradually search and suppress it.

Unexpectedly, Han Xian, the guy who directly sent people to cross the Yellow River south and asked the Luoyang court to pardon Zhao'an. The court's ministers, including Xin, Kong Rong, and the Situ Zhao Wen, also thought that this was a reminder of His Majesty's benevolent politics, and believed that he could not blame him for the past.

Therefore, Yide was unable to attack, so he allowed Han Xian to submit several counties in the narrow area south of Zhongtiao Mountain in Hedong County and the north bank of the Yellow River to directly submit to the direct jurisdiction of the court. Fortunately, Hedong County was originally a member of the Sili, and it was a good thing that Your Majesty could directly manage the counties of Sizhou. As long as Han Xian did not have any evil thoughts of surrendering and reversing again in the future.

However, in this way, Yide's military achievements were to capture Guo Tai from the Fen River Basin. He had to be promoted from Pingxi to Zhenbei, which was not qualified, so we would not compete with Yuan Shao and Lu Bu. Guo Tai had no help from Han Xian, and his troops were weakened by at least half.

A few days before you arrived in Chang'an, Yide had just sent a battle report to Gu, saying that he had conquered Mr. Guo's thief's nest, Linfen and Pingyang. Now Mr. Guo has escaped into Luliang Mountain and may have to search for him for a while, but he will definitely not be allowed to live for the New Year."

This was the first time Li Su heard this news, which surprised him.

He did not expect that even Yang Feng was killed a few years ago, Han Xian lost the guide agent who surrendered to the court in history, and could still make up this decision and directly join the emperor to seek justice.

Aren't he afraid that the emperor would arrest him and kill him directly?

But Li Su thought about it and realized that this was actually quite reasonable: Liu Xie had not many direct forces now, and he had nominally revived the Han Dynasty, and Zhu Yan could not last for a few years. In this case, in order to expand his direct territory, the emperor could not refuse all the thief troops who came to surrender.

Han Xian is not the main evil of Baibo thief, but the main evil is Mr. Guo. Therefore, Han Xian also has the possibility of whitewashing.

However, Liu Xie did this as a double-edged sword. While expanding his direct territory, he also had to bear some historical burdens of the Han and Siam army. If Han and Siam troops could not be restrained and continued to harm Sili, it would be the emperor's inattention and morality. If any princes find excuses to "clear the king's side" in the future, this would probably give another handle.

Li Su thought about it and although he didn't expect it, it was not suitable to publicly admit his mistakes with Liu Bei, saying that he had miscalculated and suffered a loss in the sharing of the stolen goods with Yuan Shao. A small part of the sphere of influence that was originally pre-divided was not actually obtained.

After all, everyone is a Han minister. If he was taken away by the emperor, he should be happy on the surface and apologize.

Liu Bei mentioned this matter not for him, but for winning over Ma Chao and generals at a lower level than Ma Chao. He asked them to find a vent for themselves "not being able to be promoted to a higher position for the time being": it was the emperor who did not allow Zhang Fei to make more contributions, so the people behind Zhang Fei had to wait in line.

Li Su continued to drink when he looked at his nose and nose. At this time, he pretended not to hear the implicit sound.

Liu Bei knew that he had understood the key points, and then said: "Yide will be completed soon, but this winter, the south may just start to make trouble. Zilong and Zijing arrived in the South China Sea. In the summer, Zijing became seriously ill and was not adapted to the climate in the south. Later, he used the heat-relieving prescription left by Zhongjing in Changsha Army to recuperate.

When autumn began, Zilong Zijing discussed with the newly appointed observer Wang Lang and sent Wang Lang to observe Jiaozhi, Yulin, Hepu and other places controlled by Shi Xie, and re-elected the prefect for two other counties besides Jiaozhi. Unexpectedly, when Wang Lang arrived at Jiaozhi Longbian County, he was detained by Shi Xie. Shi Xie said to the outside world that Wang Lang was infected with the miasma in the south.

Later, Shi Xie also made a news that Wang Lang observed Lu Su and Zhao Yun seizure, deceived the superiors and concealed the subordinates, and colluded to block the king's way, which led to Wang Lang's observation that he could not exercise his power and could only go to Jiaozhi County to avoid disaster.

This Shi Xie seemed to have no tears when he saw the coffin and was unwilling to be directly ordered by the three envoys set up by the court to take away the two counties. However, the weather was still relatively hot at that time, and the soldiers who went to the South China Sea in Changsha were not suitable for the local conditions, so Zilong did not dare to move troops immediately.
Chapter completed!