Shortly after Li Su learned about the situation of the Big and Big Bridges, the servants from the mansion came to inform him that Zhuge Liang had arrived and was waiting outside, so Li Su went out to receive him.

Li Su’s arrangement now is not because he is pretentious, nor does he have a “send-awarding girl”. How can I say that, he is lustful and has good physical fitness. There are three or five beauties taking turns to change their mood, and they are completely at ease. Since they are all ancient times, there is nothing to hide.

However, many beauties are prone to aesthetic fatigue and facial features. Moreover, Li Su is very romantic, hoping that his women have their own temperamental characteristics, and they do not like the willful lady with a bad temper.

However, after meeting, Zhuge Liang seemed to have something to tell him, and he was just wrong:

"Mr. Li returned to Chang'an from Huashan today? Have you ever met the king? During the three days you went to Huashan, the king seemed to have some important matters to discuss, but he couldn't find it for a while. I've come to ask me. If you have time, go there."

Li Su quickly stopped the other party from talking: "I will go to see the king tomorrow morning, let's talk about something else first. A Liang, you have made great achievements in the counselor of Jingzhou military aircraft this time. If you seize and capture it, you will naturally not be less rewarded. In addition to the rewards of money, I will send you a slave, who is a criminal from Guan Qiaorui's family."

Zhuge Liang was still a little embarrassed: "I don't need these..."

Li Su: "Don't think wrong yourself. You just send a slave to play the piano and do something else."

Zhuge Liang: "...then I would like to thank you for the reward. I am going to propose a marriage to Mr. Huang this year. The scholar-officials will marry Yueying in March, and in autumn."

He was also driven to the shelves, and he felt that it was not good to not marry a wife after taking over a beautiful maid, and it was easy to cause chaos in the order.

Li Su smiled and joked and tested him: "Oh? You made a meritorious service this time, but you have only given a reward, and you haven't discussed your promotion yet. Even Pang Shiyuan was able to start with the official position by relying on his counter-essay skills.

You are just suffering a loss when you are young, but after all, you were the 600-stone Lingtai Order of the imperial court at the age of fifteen. After two years of work, you have made contributions now. If the king is promoted to your position as a thousand-stone rank, would you still be willing to marry a famous scholar like the Huang family?"

Zhuge Liang replied seriously: "We cannot be lustful, and poverty cannot be moved. We are like ambitions, so how can we hate the title and the wealth."

Li Su: "Yes, then I will tell you directly. When I meet the king tomorrow, I will finalize the reward matter. I will recommend you to the former general Sima, with a thousand stones—

Although ancient sages and wise men should give their talents, they should not avoid enemies outside, and they should not avoid relatives inside. After all, they should still avoid the order of relatives and alienation. Pang Shiyuan and others are outsiders, so this time, they would discuss promotions for their merits and rewards. It was your turn to be promoted after all the promotions."

Zhuge Liang: "Understanding Master Li's painstaking efforts."

Li Su: "Don't rush to thank you first. I'll let you go to the local area to experience it. Do you have confidence?"

Zhuge Liang: "What I wish is that famous officials must come from the local area. If you do not know the sufferings of the people, how can you do great things?"

Li Su nodded: "That's good, I think so, the king is about to become emperor. At that time, I'm afraid that I will no longer have the opportunity to take charge of the place. It is also a good thing to have a cautious and skilled confidant who can make a move to help those generals who stand alone and communicate at any time.

After the king becomes emperor, Chang Yun may become the general, and then you, the former general, Sima, will also become the general. Don’t see that the rank is the same as Pang Shiyuan, but you can experience different things. Just look at the rank, the Beijing officials are overstated, and a 1,000-stone official can’t decide any major things.

Although Chief Yun is a general, if there is chaos today and the east-west confrontation, Chief Yun will definitely temporarily take charge of the resources of one state or even two states to serve the war. If you become General Sima, you can assist in supervising things other than combat."

The configuration that Li Su thought for Zhuge Liang was already a typical example of "not high quality, but he could fully manage all aspects of affairs", and was also tailor-made for Zhuge Liang's growth.

Pang Tong was just a talented person with a strange strategy, not a talent of the prime minister. In history, even if he lived until Liu Bei founded the country, he was still a strategist and could not be the position of Xiao He and Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, there is no need to consider whether Pang Tong’s resume is down-to-earth, whether it meets the satisfaction of “the prime minister must come from the prefectures and counties”, and whether he has local governance experience.

But Zhuge Liang obviously wanted to be the prime minister to train him. After becoming a Beijing official and a high-ranking historical official, he was a good addition to the local affairs.

In history, Zhuge Liang was named the military advisor General by Liu Bei after the Battle of Chibi, and was in charge of the money, grain and military supplies of the four counties in Jingnan, similar to what Xiao He did in Guanzhong during the Eastern Expedition.

But now Zhuge Liang is still ten years younger than when he came out of history. Even if he has been an official for more than two years, he is only seventeen years old. It is definitely not possible to set up a special military advisor for him. Other civil servants with older qualifications will not be convinced, so having a real name is the best choice.

In name, he was the general Sima. In fact, the battlefields of which states Guan Yu was in charge of, and all the logistics and military supplies could be allowed to take over by Zhuge Liang slowly, and he could also help provide advice. This also made up for Li Su's inability to go out to Beijing to stand alone after becoming the central prime minister.

After all, unless it is an emperor who is fully appointed by Liu Chan, it is impossible for the prime minister to preside over the war outside. Under the command of the generation of Liu Bei, there are only generals who have released the outside world, and no prime minister who has released the outside world for a long time.

At most, the prime minister encountered a battle to destroy the country and went out for a few months to serve as a military supervisor.

Li Su had considered this possibility a long time ago. He felt that in order to better "get the king and his subjects" in the future, Liu Bei would share the contribution of destroying the country with a better "meeting with the king and his subjects" and protect those old brothers.

It would not allow Guan Yu or a specific general to destroy both the contributions of the princes such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Sun Ce. Instead, after one was destroyed, he would hide the order and change to the auxiliary position, and change to another person to make the first contribution of destroying the country.

In history, Ying Zheng and Liu Xiu did a good job. Liu Xiu basically would not let a famous general destroy an important prince and then continue to destroy it. This would not be easy to achieve great success.

Ying Zheng's deeds are even more well known: Wang Jian and Meng Tian's families should be used alternately, each family destroyed two countries, and father, son and brother each destroyed one country smoothly. In addition, South Korea was destroyed by the Inner Shi Teng, and finally tried to use the young Li Xin. However, when Changping Jun defeated Chu, he had to use Wang Jian again. Wang Jian realized that the unspoken rules and conventions had been broken, so he had to ask Tian and ask for help.

Liu Bang did not do well on this issue. Both Wei, Zhao, Yan, Qi and Chu were destroyed by Han Xin. There was only one of the six kingdoms, the same name as Han Xin, who was lobbying by Zhang Liang, who took the initiative to sue, and eventually killed the hero.

The lessons of history should be learned. Those who have the conditions to learn but are unwilling to learn are not worthy of unifying the whole world.

Anyway, Liu Bei would better realize it and absorb it by himself, otherwise Li Sude would try to make him notice and absorb it.

There are still Yuan Caosun left in the world, Guan Yu eventually destroyed one family, Li Su destroyed one family, Zhang Fei or Zhao Yun destroyed one family, this is the least powerful plan to shock the master. Zhang Fei or Zhao Yun picked the remaining one among them, and could be the deputy when Li Su was destroyed, both literary and military.

...

Li Su said everything he could say about Li Su to Zhuge Liang after his last thoughts.

Even those historical lessons of "heavy achievements shocked the master", Li Su added a little package as a fable to Zhuge Liang, but only removed the specific suggestions to Liu Bei and only talked about the lessons of Ying Zheng, Liu Bang and Liu Xiu.

Zhuge Liang felt that he had benefited a lot. Even when he was the Lingtai Order, he had already read through the First Two Histories and the Dongguan Han Ji, but he did not expect to analyze it from the perspective of the comparative school of thought.

Zhuge Liang was completely convinced by Li Su's plan to promote his official position, and secretly decided to work hard according to Master Li's plan, and would become a wise prime minister in history in the future.

The next day, Li Su took Zhuge Liang to the palace to meet him. On the one hand, he formally finalized the appointment of Zhuge Liang with Liu Bei, and by the way, he also learned about what sudden things Liu Bei had to discuss with him during the days he left to Huashan.

Because it was a private meeting, the other strategists were not present, so the place was chosen in Shiqu Pavilion. Liu Bei was very easy-going and asked Li Su and Zhuge Liang to sit and chat.

Liu Bei had no objection to Zhuge Liang's appointment, and he followed Li Su's advice and was directly corrected.

And because it happened to be said that "sent Zhuge Liang to Guan Yu as a counselor", Liu Bei said with the flow:

"The day before yesterday, I asked you to discuss it, and I also wanted to ask about the war on Yun Chang's side. The day before yesterday, Nanyang and Hedong happened to have a report to arrive. Zilong's side, I heard that it was not going well.

Yuan Shu himself had obviously retreated to Runan, and the retreat route between Yingchuan and Nanyang had been cut off by our army and Yuan Shao's army. Yide was leading heavy troops to confront Zhang He Gaolan in Kunyang.

In theory, Luoyang has become an enclave and is divided into two parts from Yuan Shu's territory. The abandoned generals such as Lei Bo should have no intention of fighting and surrender at any time. However, Zilong's fierce attack on Yique Pass and Taigu Pass will not be able to break through for a while. Our troops in Hongnong are still difficult to make progress outside Hangu Pass.

Gu and Gongda also analyzed that Lei Bo and other generals were probably authorized by Yuan Shu, and when the conditions were forced, they would rather surrender to Yuan Shao. So Gu thought, he didn't care about the problem that Yun Chang was not enough in the Hedong area for the time being. Should he urge Chief Yun to lead a small number of troops across the Yellow River and go ashore from Xiaopingjin and directly surrender to Luoyang City? This is the only opportunity for our army to get Luoyang."

Li Su frowned: "It is certainly good to get Luoyang, but hasn't our previous plan always been on the principle of stability? Luoyang was persuaded to surrender first by Yuan Shao, which is very likely.

If Yun Chang advances rashly, don’t get stuck in it. We should be prepared to go to war with Yuan Shao in order to do so. The troops we are trapped in are still the decisive battle with Yuan Shu, and we have not adjusted to the best deployment to go to war with Yuan Shao.”

Liu Bei waved his hand: "Of course I understand the truth, but the value and symbolic significance of Luoyang's chip are really great. What's more, I haven't even mentioned the memorial I received the day before yesterday - just the day after Zilong reported the difficulties, Yun Chang came to express his words:

Although the progress of large-scale shipbuilding in Dongyuan was relatively slow, in the past month, he mobilized and dispatched many amphibious caravans used to attack the pseudo-Huns and Xianbei people from the Hetao area in the rear last year, which could support troops of 30,000 to 40,000 people to cross the Yellow River and ensure subsequent food channels.

As long as the troops are fast at the city, and Lei Bo is not determined in defense, there are enough officials and officials in the city, Zhu Jun's remnants of the Northern Army are willing to respond slightly, and he is confident of a surprise attack on Luoyang.

Moreover, he said that Lu Bu's army had no movement this year, and the probability of Yuan Shao's surprise attack from Hanoi to Mengjindu waterway should not be high. He also found out that last winter and early spring this year, when Lu Bu was fighting with the remnants of Xianbei on the grassland north of Yunzhong, he might have suffered from illness and pain. The Bingzhou army should have consumed a lot of bloody battles, so he has been dormant."

Li Su was just seeking stability, and felt that Liu Bei was naturally not as good as Yuan Shao in this matter, so he didn't want to force it.

But as he listened, he always felt something was wrong - it was not that he was so far-sighted that he could see some flaws and tricks directly. However, he always felt that "Lu Bu pretended to be physically unwell and showed weakness" was incredible.

That's Lu Bu.

Because the border between Yuan Shaojun and the future imaginary enemy was relatively narrow, his troops would be faster on the issue of "switching from the state of fighting with Yuan Shu to the state of fighting with Liu Bei". Basically, the troops pushed all the way would continue to push forward.

But Liu Bei needed to adjust. For example, if his army now runs to the edge of the Dabie Mountains, if it is time for Yu Yuanshao to start the war, he has to redirect it to the north.

Therefore, we must be wary of "the moment when Yuan Shao ended the battle with Yuan Shu, he directly switched to the war against Liu Bei."

Li Su told Liu Bei all the time: "...King, you have to be careful about this matter. Even if you promised Yun Chang to take a chance, you should strengthen the troops and guards in Hedong.

Although my intelligence is not enough to assert whether Yuan Shao will start a war with us after the ownership of Luoyang is confirmed. But I can at least judge: because there are many dangers around Luoyang, if anyone wins to death, the other party will not pay a lot of money to fight to the death.

Our first comprehensive war with Yuan Shao either broke out in Hedong or Kunyang-Ye County. Only these two places have no obvious geographical advantage for both offense and defense, and it is also convenient to mobilize the food, grass and military supplies of both sides, and it may become a decisive battle with more than 100,000 troops from both sides. Our defense against Hedong is too weak now."

Liu Bei frowned, stood up, and paced back and forth for a while: "The day before yesterday, Gongda also said that even if Yun Chang takes risks, he must pay attention to the retreat. If he misses a single blow, he must retreat quickly. Is he still reluctant to leave Luoyang, or Yun Chang gives it a try.

However, when Gongda dissuaded Orphan, he did not analyze from the perspective of "How will the comprehensive decisive battle between us and Yuan Shao break out in the future?", which is different from what Boya said.

Forget it, I will add 10,000 or 20,000 troops from Chang'an to station in Anyi to ensure that Yun Chang has support. Since you let Aliang be the Sima of Yun Chang, let Aliang take the generals of the first and second wars and lead these troops to Anyi.

Alas, Boya, you don’t know how upset you have been to the magnificent princes in Luoyang these few days. Just because Yuan Shao implemented the "Nine-rank Official Law", those noble families and famous families recognized Yuan Shao very much.
Chapter completed!