At Liu Bei's welcoming banquet, Li Su was indeed drunk and rolled down from the third level to the end.

The next day, he was in a state of sobering. Fortunately, he had no tasks for the time being after returning to Chang'an, so he could sleep as long as he wanted.

Although he was promoted and added to the title, Xun You was the one who had daily government affairs, and Zhong Yao helped him with it. Li Su didn't have to come up with any major issues.

Liu Bei has been in charge of Guanzhong for more than a year and a half, and has done a good job of conquering the local scholars in Guanzhong. He has selected talents and appointed talents. As long as the children of aristocratic families are indeed talented, Liu Bei also valued them. Ordinary poor children have outstanding political achievements and good assessment performance, and can also be promoted. In addition to the last year's blow, they are now very convinced in all aspects.

The representative of the children of aristocratic families was mainly Du Ji, who joined Yuan Shu's territory last year. This man received some work on disaster relief and encouragement of farmers to resume production last year under Liu Ba's curtain, and he did a good job.

Liu Bei promoted him to the deputy county-level chief Feng Yi, which was considered to be a positive example for the Wei family with a good attitude. The Wei family had the best performance in the local area last year, Wei Huang, and was also promoted to the county magistrate.

As for poor children, Liu Bei was completely in business. The person who was promoted the fastest last year was an official named Zhang Ji. He was originally just the county magistrate of Meiyang County, Youfufeng, but it is said that he had been the first in the management of the three auxiliary achievements in two years.

That is, during the disaster last year, the number and percentage of people starved to death in Meiyang County were the least among the three counties of Jingzhao, Fufeng and Fengyi. This year, the recovery of production after the disaster was also the highest. Liu Bei also promoted this young man in his early twenties to the deputy county level and became a chief minister.

After Li Su arrived in Chang'an this time, he saw these promotion lists, and sorted them out in his mind. When he saw the name "Zhang Ji", he was curious because he didn't pay attention to this person when he was reading history books in his previous life.

But in his previous life, he played the Three Kingdoms game in Glory Company. It seems that every generation chooses Li Jue and Guo Si and bans the script of the subsequent era and clicks on Chang'an City to execute internal affairs instructions, and you will see that the candidates jumped out. The top two are "Zhong Yao, Politics 96; Zhang Ji, Politics 91", which is in sharp contrast with the group of Xiliang officials with poor political values ​​below.

Li Su-yong farmed from the 9th generation of the Three Kingdoms to the 14th generation. He has always been curious about why this person has never seen him in the book, so why is he "Politics 91". Now he knows that he only started from the grassroots level.

There are many such examples of talent promotion. After Li Su saw it, he also considered suggesting that Liu Bei transfer a few people who can endure hardships next year to go to Liangzhou to farm and maintain the people and manage the local area.

After all, Xu Shu is a military advisor. It was only after a peaceful era that he had no war to fight within one or two years that he could temper and train his civil affairs management, and also allowed Xu Shu to see more of the world and broaden his horizons.

Xu Shu was in Lanzhou and was able to adapt to the changes and build water conservancy according to Li Su's plan. However, Xu Shu may not be able to do this every day to encourage farmers, organize households, and rectify officials and taxes. He is not the kind of talent who is careful in mathematics.

People like Zhang Ji can partner with Guoyuan, and will be a talent for long-term governance of the Western Regions and developing production and trade in the next few years.

After the New Year, you can suggest it to Liu Bei.

For some time after that, because it was already November, the weather was too cold before the end of the year. Li Su was too lazy to work diligently, so he just thought it was just reading the briefing every day to understand the situation in various places, and taking a half-time vacation.

After resting for more than ten days, on the ninth day of the 12th month, another good news came from the north. It turned out that the messenger sent by Zhang Fei back to Chang'an arrived.

It is said that Zhang Fei finally surrounded Mr. Guo, the founder of Baibo thief, four days ago, in the suburbs of Yang County, northeast of Pingyang, and in the Luliang Mountains. After two days of fierce fighting, more than 20,000 old thieves from Mr. Guo were killed thousands of times, and Yu Zhong finally collapsed and surrendered.

Taishi Ci shot and killed Guo Tai. After the battle, Zhang Fei cleaned the battlefield, counted the corpses, found Guo Tai from the pile of dead people, owed the head, pickled it and sent it back to Chang'an to report the merits.

There is really nothing worth talking about in the entire battle. After all, Zhang Fei's military strength is not weak. The reason why he fought back and forth last year was because of the lack of food in Guanzhong, which was not because of insufficient military strength. If he had food this year, he was of course a crushing instant kill. Moreover, Han Xian had rebelled, and Zhang Fei felt that he could not even be excited to kill Mrs. Guo.

After Liu Bei received the messenger's report, he also submitted a letter to Zhang Fei for his merits. Six days later, Zhang Fei arrived in Chang'an with Taishi Ci and some troops, leaving Xu Huang to station and guard Anyi with the rest. The emperor's reply had already arrived.

Zhang Fei was not promoted, and he added a thousand fiefs; Taishici was promoted to the General of the Central Army to protect the Huns; Xu Huang only gave him a sum of money.

Zhang Fei didn't care about whether he was promoted or not. He also knew that as long as the emperor had to calm the princes of all sides, Liu Bei's camp would not be too ugly. Anyway, it would be enough to have the trust of his elder brother, and his official positions would be empty.

After returning to Chang'an, Zhang Fei heard that Li Su had arrived, so he came over to eat and drink, without mentioning it.

The only generals in Liu Bei's camp that need to be deployed this year is Zhao Yun from Lingnan.

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To be honest, when Li Sugang returned to Chang'an, he felt very incomprehensible about why Lingnan Shixie was so determined and tried to unite with Wang Lang to find the possibility of "loyalty to the court and oppose life-spending."

The power of Liu Bei's camp was already very large. Even when Shi Xie had a strange intention, Guan Yu and Li Su had not yet taken Liangzhou. Just by Liu Bei's population size at that time, he was already the two strongest people in the world, which were ranked alongside Yuan Shao. After Liangzhou was pacified, the population under Liu Bei's rule would definitely exceed Yuan Shao.

Moreover, Liu Bei received the three envoys of Jiaozhou appointed by the imperial court, and had the title of great righteousness. Why should Shi Xie jump?

However, Li Su later learned about the situation in depth and read the secret letters sent by Zhao Yun, Lu Su and others from July to September, and then he roughly understood Shi Xie's thoughts.

First of all, people in Jiaozhou are self-reliant and far away from the smoky world, so their xenophobia is much stronger than Yizhou, and even Liangzhou. Only the Nanzhong region of Yizhou, which has just been divided into Dianzhou, can be compared with it.

After all, in terms of latitude, Jiaozhou is more southern and hotter than Nanzhong.

On the other hand, like Nanzhong, Jiaozhou has had an xenophobic history of "local people become local officials" for more than a hundred years. Because northerners could not adapt to the climate there, since the late Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the death of General Fubo Ma Yuan, Jiaozhou gradually became governed by local people, and northerners were too lazy to rob. However, in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, people from Jiaozhou began to go north to become officials.

The officials sent by the imperial court to Jiaozhou were usually governors, and most of them were from southern prefectures such as Yangzhou and Jingzhou. Considering that the governor’s power was only supervisory, the locals could still accept it, so it was enough to just underestimate the governor. Anyway, the county magistrates of each county have been locals for a hundred years.

In the early years, the imperial court did not restore the state-level pastoral system, and there were no strong state-level officials with all power to seize the power. But now, three envoys have been set up. If the powers of the three envoys are tied together, they are all outsiders, which will make Shi Xie very uncomfortable.

Originally, taking advantage of the opportunity that the former governor Zhang Jin was finished, Shi Xie had actually controlled three counties, but Lu Su asked him to spit out two, and at most one Jiaozhi County could only be retained. The new county magistrates selected from the two counties were still outsiders from Jingzhou, so Shi Xie couldn't stand it anymore.

The key is that Shi Xie didn't know if Lu Su would stop after eroding two counties. If Yulin and Hepu were completely digested by northern officials in the future and continued to stretch out their hands and cross their arms, should he continue to be slaughtered?

At this time, Shi Xie observed that "people's hearts are available", and the local people and officials and gentry were very xenophobic and did not want northern officials to go south. He became more courageous and detained Wang Lang who came to observe.

This is also a necessary operation to be independent. Because if even Wang Lang directly opposes it, it will completely abandon the righteousness. Others dare not support Shi Xie, and there is no fig leaf. With Wang Lang, the fig leaf can at least say that the three envoys of the court have different opinions. Zhao Yun and Lusu, the direct descendant of Liu Bei, excluded Wang Lang, who was directly sent by the emperor.

Wang Lang arrived in Jiaozhou in the early seventh month of the lunar calendar. Lusu begged him to go to Jiaozhi County to observe and persuade Shi Xie. It was the end of July. The news of Wang Lang's detention was passed back to Nanhai County, which was already early August.

Lu Su was shocked and angry after hearing the news. There were some small episodes here: He once asked Zhao Yun to send troops immediately, and quickly fight and kill Shi Xie.

But Zhao Yun tactfully persuaded: Brother Zijing, you were just sick last month. You don’t know how terrifying the heat in Jiaozhi is, and how easy it is to cause soldiers to get sick. The reason why Shi Xie chose to take action at the end of the Xia Dynasty was to calculate how many months he could have prepared, and we couldn’t get through it.

But Lu Su felt that the enemy was the easiest to exterminate when it first emerged, and insisted on his own opinion, questioned Zhao Yun's stolen battles and fears the enemy, and did not serve the king and father, and wrote a letter to ask Liu Bei to order an attack.

Zhao Yun was cautious by nature, but after being run, he did not want to destroy the system of the court setting up the state-level three envoys for the first time, which made people suspect that this system was caused by civil and military dragging each other down.

Therefore, for political influence, Zhao Yun could only tentatively lead his troops to the expedition. As a result, as soon as he reached Hepu (Beihai, Guangxi), Shi Xie's men were strong and clearing the fields. Zhao Yun besieged Hepu County for a few days, and tropical diseases began to appear in the army.

Zhao Yun repeatedly asked military doctors to rectify the disease to prevent the epidemic and withdrew his troops. In the end, more than 400 people were killed with fever and thousands of injuries. Before the war was fought, some of them were killed by fever and miasma.

Lu Su went to the military camp to see it in person and saw that Zhao Yun had so many troops who had retreated died of fever directly due to illness. Only then did he know how hot and terrifying the extreme south were.

"Zijing, not every ordinary soldier can be personally treated like you, but we can learn from one's mistakes. Listen to me, at least until the end of October, the north is in full swing, and the Jiaozhi and Hepu can barely let the northerners walk through alive. In summer, northerners will die if they marching and walking too much." Zhao Yun warned with heartache.

Lu Su pulled his hair into shame and scratched his hair with regret for a long time: "I am young and successful and underestimated the enemy. I will listen to you this time. At least the end of October, I have to look at the weather, otherwise I will never send troops and rest for more than two months.

Even if I try to fight Shi Xie in the future, I will not dare to take credit. I will write a letter to the king to ask for a reward for my merits and demerits. Working in this smoky land for a few years is also a new experience. If I have a full position here, it would be great if I can go to another state to become a governor. I really have no face to ask for more."

Zhao Yun comforted him a few words, saying that there is no need to be discouraged, and it just took advantage of these few months to fully prepare for the subsequent battle.

They knew their shame and then bravely planned for more than two months. By the end of October, the temperature finally dropped to more than 20 degrees, and then they sent troops again.
Chapter completed!