After returning to Chang'an, Li Su took advantage of the cold weather and was not suitable for traveling thousands of miles, and spent another half a month to manage the internal affairs. He prepared the major matters that he should handle in Yongzhou before his trip, as well as the strategic plan that he needed to set a tone for himself, and also clarified all his work responsibilities during his departure.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang spent half a month staying in the laboratory and thinking in seclusion, and trying to make several new machines - Zhuge Liang has been in contact with these things for three or four years, and gradually figured out an efficient scientific research method himself.

When encountering these mechanical structure issues, you don’t need to start directly using a one-to-one ratio to make a real machine, but you first get a miniature model of 11 to 20. This way, the processing difficulty will be reduced a lot, the scientific research speed will be faster, and the model principle can be completed, and then amplified. Anyway, these are not products that require much strength of the material, and the structure can be used if it can be completed.

Zhuge Liang was very efficient. By the end of the first lunar month, several models that needed to calm down the laboratory environment were all obvious. The rest of the work could be thought about while walking on the road.

After Li Su confirmed the progress, he went to Weiyang Palace to find Liu Bei again and told him about his plan to go out this year.

...

Liu Bei was actually not willing to let him go. When Li Su saw him, he was having dinner with several concubines and daughter in Yilanyuan.

In the past year and a half after the restoration of Chang'an, Liu Bei was not idle either. He had three concubines before the Northern Expedition. When Chang'an City was broken, Liu Xie abandoned the harem and fled. Many palace maids who had not been lucky enough to be saved by the emperor. They followed the Dachang Qiu Miaosi to escape from the city to join. Therefore, it was normal for Liu Bei to restore the freedom of these palace maids to choose some beauties from among them.

Nowadays, the number of concubines that Liu Bei is known to outsiders is about the same size as Cao Cao in the late history, about a dozen or twenty. Among them, there are several concubines such as Song Du, who were born as palace maids. In fact, they would have become Liu Xie's nobles in history, and they should have accepted them from 194 to 196.

But Liu Bei cannot blame this. After all, when he took over this life, these women had not been implicated by Liu Xie. He did not want to escape without protection, and there was no problem with others being sheltered.

The reason why Song Du and other concubines in the original time and space stood out and were named as noble by Liu Xie is sure that their beauty has its own strengths in all aspects. Liu Bei's aesthetic is very consistent with the times, and it is also considered a similar view to picking out those who are also beautiful.

As there are more women, there will inevitably be children. In more than a year and a half, Liu Bei's son has not increased. He has two daughters. Perhaps Liu Bei's physique is more likely to have a daughter. In history, he had no sons in the early days, but he had two daughters, and he was caught by Cao Chun on Changbanpo. Perhaps it was his destiny, but now the biological mothers of these daughters have changed.

Even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had sent several women in the past year and a half and married many mates. Li Su was considered to be relatively pure and careless in her heart.

When Li Su met, Liu Bei sat next to him, Zhen Jiang and Song Du. There was only seven or eight months old and could only crawl and played next to him. It was born to Song Du.

Because Wu Xian is pregnant again, he prefers quietness. He has never seen anyone recently, and Mi Zhen, who cannot give birth, also serves her with Wu Xian. The two are still sisters and stay in the harem. Mi Zhen takes care of Liu Yong, who is already one and a half years old.

After all, this is the critical time for children to learn to speak. It is not enough to have palace maids around them to take care of them, because palace maids dare not speak to children on their own initiative, which can easily lead to missing the window period for language exercise.

Liu Bei didn't expect this at first. After all, in the Confucian tradition, he felt that "noble people speak late" and those who are superior should speak less late, especially since Liu Bei had already trained his son as the crown prince in his heart, and he felt that the eldest son should be "treacherous and unpredictable."

It was three months ago when Li Su had just returned to Chang'an from Xiliang. At that time, Li Su's own daughter was only eleven months old. Once Liu Bei accidentally talked to him about this topic, and Li Su accidentally advised Liu Bei:

"It is not a bad thing for children to speak frankly. Since ancient times, it is believed that "noble people speak slowly" is simply because the eldest son does not need to compete for favor, so he has a low desire to speak when he was a child. "The second son is arguing, the youngest son is arguing" is because they need to compete for favoring their parents at different stages.

However, since ancient times, the eldest son inherited the eldest son has led to the eldest son who does not need to compete for favor or be able to speak and be eloquent, and the ancients have been saying "the noble man is too late". If the eldest son is allowed to speak and think well, it may be better for all parties and reduce some of the ambitions of others."

Liu Bei still respected Li Su's opinions very much. He knew that he had a insight into the way of heaven and had a great vision. After analyzing this principle so thoroughly, he quickly improved and fine-tuned his ideas for teaching his son.

At that time, Liu Bei also mentioned the marriage with Li Su half-jokingly, but Li Su still used Cai Yan's words to persuade Wu Xian to deal with Liu Bei, emphasizing that "the noble family is likely to breed the disadvantages of fighting against the relatives of the foreign country, and the slaughter and relatives of the foreign country is short-sighted and vulgar, such as the disadvantages of how to advance during the time of Emperor Ling, so it is best to find a down-and-out noble family."

Liu Bei was very proud when he heard this, and he also knew that Li Su's self-protection had reached a certain level.

...

It was a bit far away. Let’s talk about Liu Bei’s meeting Li Su in Yilanyuan. Song Du wanted to take his daughter to avoid it first, but Liu Bei was very generous and directly pressed the concubine’s shoulders so that she would not be rash and just be calm.

As for Zhen Jiang, he looked very calm from beginning to end, obviously he had an understanding of Liu Bei's habit of never letting his wives and concubines avoid him when he met his buddies.

Brothers are like brothers and feet, and women are like clothes. Although this view is not right, Liu Bei is so casual.

And to be honest, this kind of thing has been passed down on the basis of 99% or even more men at the bottom are not qualified to leave a name in history - men who can leave a name in history have the conditions to change women at will, and poor people don’t even have a wife, so they are not qualified to say this.

What's more, Liu Bei said that all his brothers started with SSR. If you are an ordinary person, your brothers are friends and you can't do anything... There is no need to say more, you can easily say the word "materialization" meaning.

Liu Bei comforted his concubine and asked Li Su: "There is no big deal in Liangzhou. Yun Changbo and his son can straighten it out. If you have any suggestions, please send a letter to Yun Chang and suggest that he should do it. Why do you have to travel thousands of miles to the Western Regions?"

Li Su: "I know that this matter must be practiced by myself. I promote cotton planting, spinning and weaving cotton cloth, and building Western Regions trade. These matters are also the first year of promotion. They also involve how Liangzhou will implement the specific rent and mediocre method, and how to discount the local specialties in Liangzhou to rent and adjust, I would like to ask myself and feel more at ease.

Moreover, if Yun Changboqi blindly used the Qiang, Hu and Xianbei to fight, there was no problem, but it might not be effective to win people's hearts. If I go, it might be better to win over some Qiang people who were self-pardoned.

In addition, I think Aliang is a talented person. With time, some talents in some aspects are probably not inferior to me. But he just studied behind closed doors and had little experience. I brought him to practice and temper him, and he could be a great wise man for decades from now on."

In the past year and a half, Liu Bei gradually observed Zhuge Liang's terribleness. The first surprise happened when Zhuge Liang helped plan and deploy the siege camp planning and distribution of troops in Chang'an City. That time, Liu Bei's eyes lit up.

Later, when Zhuge Liang was appointed as the Lingtai Order, he helped the imperial court to resist Yuan Shu's unreasonable attacks, which gave the world a one or two years of rest period of peaceful farming, which made Liu Bei even more amazed.

After all, the situation at that time was three major disasters in Guanzhong. If Liu Bei had just taken Guanzhong, it would have led to the world in a melee between princes, which was not the best for Liu Bei.

Now, Liu Bei had two or three years to digest Guanzhong and Liangzhou, and other princes had no new territory to digest, which was the most beneficial to Liu Bei.

This gave Liu Bei a deeper understanding of Zhuge Liang's science and engineering talents and diplomatic mediation and strategic layout vision.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei had already agreed 600% in his heart. He just couldn't help asking: "Do you have to do it now? In fact, there are not a hurry. In Yongzhou, there may be many people who sort out the internal affairs, and it is more important to rectify the affairs of officials. The reform of finance and taxation has not been implemented thoroughly. Moreover, my brother has only lived in Chang'an for three months, which is too hard."

Li Su: "King, the days ahead will be more and more tense. If the princes of the world reopen the war, can we still have time to patrol the four directions? I'm afraid it will only be possible until the great task of reunification of the world is completed. This year is indeed not the most suitable time, but every year in the future is not as suitable as this year."

Liu Bei was silent for a long time and finally let go: "Well, I can see clearly. You, the governor of Yongzhou, don't care about anything, just give you the treatment of the governor of Yongzhou. Just think that it's your leave this year, don't delay Aliang's ability.

I will find a way to submit my majesty and give you a name for a errand to patrol the hunting service. Just do whatever you want, just treat it as an urge to implement the reform of the renting and mediocre law in various states."

It’s this kind of trouble when you become an official. If you want to wander around a few times, you have to make a name for yourself. Sometimes Li Su really misses the brainless world of "XX Private Visits". No matter how high your status and power you are, you can take a trip that you can go without any national affairs anytime and anywhere.

No matter how hard Li Su makes, he must at least put a fig leaf on the "results of local reform" to "inspection of local reforms".

...

After obtaining Liu Bei's authorization, Li Su had actually packed his luggage and prepared the guard, but he still gave him three more days to prepare. He waited until the second day of the second month to set off from Chang'an.

Li Su and his party put the caravan on the boat and walked on the Weihe River waterway. They first passed through Chencang, Mei County, and passed through Longshan to Tianshui. They reached the source of the Weihe River. They left the boat and landed on the shore. They used livestock to pull a caravan over the Niaoshi Mountain and entered Didao in the Tao River Basin.

He brought Zhou Ying and Liu Miao, some maids and palace maids, and Zhuge Liang and his party. I don’t know what happened, but it may be that Zhuge Liang is more popular. During the half month when Zhuge Liang was in Chang'an, many like-minded friends came to him and discussed with him. When he heard that he was going to travel far, he pestered him to go together.

Of course that friend is Huang Yueying.

Of course, Zhuge Liang would not do anything like taking the little girl to elope, so he immediately reported it to Huang Chengyan, who had moved to Chang'an. However, Huang Chengyan actually admitted that his daughter ran around and expressed his disregard. He also said that this woman could be a maid and concubine for Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang saw that the two of them were indeed similar in their ambitions, so he took her to travel together.

Anyway, there is no such etiquette and law now, and there is no requirement for a girl to travel with other young men and she will not be able to get married.

Moreover, Huang Yueying in this life is still too young, so it is definitely impossible for her to develop things with Zhuge Liang immediately. At her age, even if she is really old enough to get married, Zhuge Liang's status is far more than a mere 600-stone spiritual commander of the imperial court.

In contrast, the Huang Chengyan family in this life did not have that much power. After all, Liu Biao did not marry Mrs. Cai, which led to more than half of the power of the Cai Mao family in Jingzhou. Therefore, it is not worthwhile to marry Mrs. Cai's sister. He is not the "brother-in-law of the governor of Jingzhou."

Zhuge Liang's family was not the one in history who was raised by his uncle after his parents died, but he was also dead. His brother Zhuge Jin was already the prefect of Shu County, young and promising, and the entire family was even more wealthy.

As one goes up and down, regardless of whether Huang Yueying and Zhuge Liang have any other scenes, Huang Chengyan must be shameless to ask Zhuge Liang to marry his daughter as his wife.
Chapter completed!