After discussing the "ultimate solution" to Yuan Shu's problem with Liu Bei, Li Su began to pack up and prepare to go south, and at the same time rectified all the staff team he wanted to take away.

Zhuge Liang's position as Lingtai Order is still in place for the time being, but he will not go back to Luoyang to do business, so he will take his holiday south with Li Su.

In addition, some of Li Su's previous staff members who were trained in Liangzhou, such as Xu Shu, who was the county magistrate of Lanzhou, also ended his term as an internal affairs official. He had the experience of a local official who was a county magistrate at the county level, and then came back to join the army for Li Su, and his background was even more convincing.

The only aide who was not taken away was to help the idle and work in Zhen Yao. This time, Li Su instead got a job for Zhen Yao and replaced Xu Shu as an official in Liangzhou to train - Li Su knew that the peace era was about to end. When peace was peaceful, farming and having fun, and you could help the idle and work around you. When it was time to fight, would it be useful to bring a playboy like Zhen Yao with you?

Li Su knew who was in what environment and when to use it.

However, in order to make Zhen Yao understand, Li Su also explained to him a few words: "Since the king agreed to rent and transfer reform, private logistics chambers of commerce will definitely appear in various places, and professional transportation such as shipping without cargo value.

This reform is related to the inspiration and proposal of the Zhuge family. For fairness, it is impossible to make the benefits occupied by the Zhuge family, and it has to be balanced. Fortunately, the land transportation does not have much technical content, and the caravan has been popular for two years, and I invented the caravan, so you will not complain if you use it when using it.

Your Zhen family originated in Hebei. They are not good at boats and do not understand sea trade, and cannot compare with the people of Xuzhou. If you go to Liangzhou to experience it, you will also allow your tribe members to invest in Western trade. In the future, the first batch of transportation merchants in the Han Dynasty will focus on land transportation, let the Mi family focus on northern shipping, and the Zhuge family focus on southern shipping, so that they can also strengthen each other."

Li Su would not say anything like "encouraging competition". In this era, he didn't think there was any problem with monopoly, and his attitude towards businessmen was also casual. Li Su just did his best to reduce the situation of "the person who proposed reforms themselves took the biggest dividend after the reform."

The Zhuge family participated in the discussion and inspiration of the reform, so they should try their best to change their territory and benefit from it. They should not eat more directly in Liangzhou, which is also to protect them.

Zhen Yao could fully understand Li Su's painstaking efforts and was very grateful to him. He also knew that once the world fell into war again, he would be able to do anything with him, so he happily accepted the new job.

The rest of Dian Wei, Wang Lei, Wang Fu, Zhang Song were also brought with me. Even Zhang Ren, who had no war in Liangzhou, was seconded in advance by Li Su.

Anyway, Liangzhou has been basically subdued by bloody cleaning in the past two years, leaving behind a Wang Ping who is good at mountain warfare, which is enough to guard the Qilian Mountains and Huangzhong areas. The Ma family will leave some people and guard the Hexi Corridor and Yinchuan County.

In addition, Li Su would not have too much luggage for this trip, because this time he was going to go south on the Baoxie Plank Road. It was difficult to walk on the plank road and was not suitable for bringing things. After arriving in Hanzhong first, take a boat down the Han River, you can reach Xiangyang, which is located in the boundary of Liubiao, and then pass by Jiangxia to Changsha.

The fastest route in theory was of course to go directly from Chang'an to Danshui and Wuguan Road, and head south from Nanyang County. However, it is impossible to drive the ship along this route, and it is necessary to pass through Yuan Shu's territory, so Li Su was worried.

The Hanzhong-Han River is much safer. Liu Biao and Liu Bei do not have any hostile relationship, and there is no possibility of a large number of naval troops robbing the way on the Han River, so it is absolutely safe. At worst, it is possible to send an envoy to Gan Ning, who is guarding Baqiu Port in Changsha County, to bring some people to the Xiakou River in advance. The Yangtze River thieves who can rob the way in front of Gan Ning have not yet been born.

In addition, in the last few days before heading south, Li Su also handled some private affairs in Chang'an - mainly to set up the full moon wine of his eldest son. As mentioned earlier, in early 196, when Li Su took Zhuge Liang, Liu Miao and Zhou Ying and others to travel around, Cai Yan was already unable to walk with him because of his health.

Therefore, before the Hetao Battle was completely over, Cai Yan had already given birth to Li Su's eldest son in early October.

The reason why Li Su was anxious to return to Chang'an in August was to live for two or three months was to accompany his wife to have children, stay until the full moon, and fulfill his obligations as a wife and father.

However, Li Su has never attached great importance to her children. She had no feelings for her daughter before, but now she is as calm as a son, so this matter seems to be invisible.

All Li Su thought to himself: In the future, there is no need to worry about Cai Yan having a knot, no need to worry about the dispute between the legitimate and the illegitimate concubines. Don’t pay too much attention to whether life is safe with your concubines. If you are not safe, you will be defeated, it’s not that you can’t afford it.

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One day in mid-November, just after Li Su made all preparations, Liu Bei planned to personally say goodbye to Li Su the next day, but suddenly he received another piece of information from the princes of Kanto.

Liu Bei felt that things were very important, so he asked Li Su to go to the palace to have a drink and discuss it.

And this time, he was summoned alone, and none of Xun You and others were present. Because the news was about reform, it came from Yuan Shao.

When Li Su came to Shiqu Pavilion, Liu Bei didn't talk nonsense to him: "The news we just received should be the benefit of promoting the reform of renting, mediocre and expulsion, which attracted some of the people of remote prefectures and counties controlled by the Kanto princes.

Although Yuan Shao used Cao Cao's pilot project and Lu Bu's victory, he temporarily suppressed the voice of his rule calling for reform. But after Yuan Shao decided not to reform, within just a few days, he had some aides who were not in the Jizhou faction, and he had complaints and told Yuan Shao about the local public grievances.

For a time, Yuan Shao's rumors that "bear the words of the people of Jizhou and protect the benefits of the people of Jizhou" spread throughout several states. Yuan Shao didn't know what to do, but it should be for balance. He ordered the broad way of speech and seek to break the situation of hatred and profit among scholars in each state.

As a result, someone offered such a suggestion. Do you think that if Yuan Shao really implemented it, he could bring back the hearts of the scholars in the world? Should we imitate and follow up?"

Liu Bei said, pushing a memorial to Li Su.

Li Su was also a little surprised: Can Yuan Shao be so hesitant to lead new reforms and win over the hearts of the world?

However, just after he took a few glances, Li Su instantly put away his contempt.

Because he saw that the person who offered advice to Yuan Shao was a Qingzhou Biejia named Chen Qun. It seemed that Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan recommended it to Xu You, and Xu You also recommended it to Yuan Shao as a "non-Hebei leader of a strategist".

I have seen the name Chen Qun, and the content behind it should be the ninth-rank official law, right?

Li Su looked down and it was true.

Yuan Shao launched a personnel system reform when the reform of the fiscal and taxation system lags behind Liu Bei and cannot win over the hearts of the world. It can be said that it is also a reasonable butterfly effect.

In history, Chen Qun was qualified to lead the reform of the ninth-rank official law twenty years later, but his thoughts and ideas may not have been there when he was young, but he had already had them in his early thirties.

Chen Qun worked at Tao Qian before Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou. His position in Tao Qian was second only to Wang Lang and Mi Zhu. Because Mi Zhu left early in this life, Chen Qun directly defeated Mi Zhu's "Xuzhou No Gathering", which was considered young and successful.

(Note: The three separate lords in the late period of Tao Qian in history were Wang Lang, Mi Zhu and Chen Qun. Chen Qun should have been the one who came to power when Tao Qian was critically ill.)

Later, because Cao Cao completely defeated Xuzhou and formed a deep hatred with Xuzhou officials, Chen Qun and many other officials fled north to join Yuan Shao's camp in Qingzhou. Judging from this qualification, Chen Qun had the opportunity to flatter Xu You and put forward reform suggestions, but the main decision-making achievements must be given to veterans like Xu You.

Yuan Shao does not have the courage of "only talent" like Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, and Yuan Shao is the spokesperson for the interests of the aristocratic families, so it is normal for him to accept this thing.

How attractive is the ninth-rank official law to the aristocratic families and how much support the aristocratic families have to exchange for the princes who proposed this reform? Needless to say, those who know a little bit about the Three Kingdoms know that if they say too much, they will be purely flooded: Originally, Cao Pi relied on this reform to win the support of aristocratic families and he became emperor in the Han Dynasty. Isn’t he lethal?

But Li Su was a descendant of later generations. He knew that the disadvantages of this thing in leading to class solidification and the monopoly of aristocratic families as officials were no less than the recommendation system after the collapse.

In Li Su's mind, the personnel system reform he most hoped for was of course to evolve to the improvement of the imperial examination system to a certain extent, preferably the imperial examination between the Tang and Song dynasties. There is no need to deliberately consider balance and suppress the practicality of the examination content like the Ming Dynasty, which is easier to achieve and has little resistance.

However, this kind of reform was too offensive after all, and Liu Bei's power was not strong enough before, so Li Su followed Liu Bei for many years, and the reforms were always concentrated on taxes and did not hinder the system of personnel selection.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao had a premonition that the emperor might be flawed. Taking advantage of the last bit of value in the central court, he took advantage of the fact that the central government still had a little value and took the lead in taking advantage of this beautiful reputation that would please the world's aristocratic family.

Yuan Shao came to this critical moment. If the emperor was gone, other swing forces in the world would choose sides. How many forces would have a better impression of Yuan Shao?

Li Su's thoughts were made and did not analyze the details. Based on the credit he had accumulated over the years with Liu Bei, he said: "Since Yuan Shao can 'stand and wait and see' and delay in implementing the 'renting and transferring' reform. There is no need for us to express our opinion on his 'nine-rank official law' immediately.

I know how strong this thing is to the temptation of aristocratic families in the world, and I can't object directly. I'll wait and see for a few months, and I can't wait and see in the name of opposition. I must see in the name of respecting the ancestors and see if there are other ways to improve the system of recommendations - what does the king think? If the king trusts the minister, he will withstand the pressure and wait until Yuan Shu is done, and then make a long-term plan."

Li Su was very clear that he said that "if you don't learn from Yuan Shao", you must not appear in the attitude of "I want to start a new job and create a more radical thing." He must discount the retro and heavy banner, and in fact he slowly incorporates private goods, so that the inclination of the hearts of the great families in the world can be temporarily alleviated.

Liu Bei thought about it and said that if Li Su had clearly objected, he would have to consult Xun You and Zhong Yao and others to make a decision. Li Su's conviction was just asking him to postpone his statement. Liu Bei could still accept this level directly.

Everyone has been working together for a full ten years, and Li Su's credit is worthy of Liu Bei's belief in this way.

Liu Bei was just a little confused: "It seems that Boya has seen the mystery of this method? Whether it is useless or not, it is only you and me today. Tell me how you analyze the advantages and disadvantages of this ninth-grade official law? To be honest, I was in a hurry and didn't understand it very well yet-

Isn't this just like the system of recommendation, where the selector has the final say who can be an official and who cannot be an official? It is definitely much better than selling official positions. It seems that there is no obvious good or bad for the princes who are a mediocre person, but if they meet a prince who is a mediocre master and has a ninth-rank official, it is better than letting those dogs use people."
Chapter completed!