On the ninth day of the ninth month, on the third day after the announcement of the official system and salary reform, the three reforms of the new personnel law were basically supported in Guanzhong, and Li Su was almost time to set off to go south.

The official examination of Beijing Institute of Chang'an is scheduled for September 15th, and there are still six days left, but Li Su doesn't have so much time to stay here to supervise and preside over the meeting or even wait for the results.

Because the South Science and Technology Examination in Xiangyang is scheduled to be at the end of September, it will be about twenty days, and it is where Li Su has to personally manage the market. He takes Wuguan Road from Chang'an and goes south to Xiangyang through Wancheng. He has to walk for seven or eight days on the road, and the whole journey is more than 900 miles.

There is no need to bring too many troops to go south, because the troops of Zhao Yun and Gao Shun and other generals are now stationed in Wancheng, Xiangyang, Hanyang and other places, and Li Su is enough to bring Dian Wei and some personal guards, and the movement is more convenient.

(Note: Hanyang County built a new city after Liu Bei accepted Liu Biao's support. Because Huang Zu of Jiangxia chose to join Sun Ce, the Yangtze River-Hanshui River mouth and the two counties in Xiaxia were under the control of Sun Ce's army. Liu Bei built Hanyang on the west bank of the Hanshui River corner)

With Liu Bei and Li Su's friendship, under normal circumstances, we naturally have to see you off. However, after all, we have been emperor for several months, so it is not better to show our closeness and estrangement with our subordinates.

Fortunately, this day was the day of the ninth day, and Liu Bei also had the excuse to go to the Duling area in the southern suburbs to worship the world, so he asked Guan Ning to arrange a sacrifice and arrange a autumn hunt at the former site of Shanglinyuan around Duling to teach martial arts.

So Li Su and his party packed their luggage for a long trip in a strange way, but wore hunting clothes. They first hunted with the emperor, and then went directly from Duling to Lantian. Liu Bei also took advantage of the hunting opportunity and finally took care of Li Su and said something heart-to-heart.

There was no Double Ninth Festival in the Han Dynasty, but the ninth day of the ninth month was the day when the "ultimate Yang turns to Yin" as defined in the "Book of Changes" (nine is the number of Supreme Yang). Therefore, even if the Qin and Han dynasties only worship Taiyi and Taihuang, the emperor would worship heaven and earth on the day of Double Ninth.

Because the ancients felt that after this day, autumn would be about to end and the cold winter would turn into a stern winter. After the yang day, the yin energy gradually increased more than the yang energy in the next six months.

On the other hand, the ancients believed that the sign with the strongest yang energy was the heart of the middle heaven (Scorpio), which was hanging in the middle of the sky during the summer solstice. By the early September of the lunar calendar, the main star of Scorpio, "Big Fire" (Xin Su II), would fall below the horizon, which is consistent with the yin energy that beats Yang in the future. (It is the heart of "Yinghuo guards the heart" discussed when Zhuge Liang spitted out Yan Xiang. The ancients believed that Mars was a small fire and Scorpio was a big fire, so Mars guards Scorpio, and the gathering of two fires, which was extremely evil and killing)

Therefore, in the six months before Chongjiu, it was the main reason for all things to grow, reproduce and harvest, and in the six months after Chongjiu, it was the main reason for killing Xiao Se. Even the "After the Autumn Dead" sentenced by the judicial department was killed in a concentrated manner after the fire fell on Chongjiu. Most of the emperors hunted here.

This point is also clearly written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": When Cao Cao advised Emperor Xian of Han to hunt in Xuchang, the original saying is "The ancient emperors, who carried seedlings in spring, hunted in summer, and went out of winter in autumn, and showed martial arts in the suburbs in all seasons. Now when the world is in chaos, we should use fields to hunt for martial arts." It can be seen that the emperor went on inspections of agricultural production in spring and summer, and hunted in autumn and winter.

This year is the first year that Liu Bei ascended the throne. The world is also "in turmoil everywhere". We urgently need to show off our martial arts skills, so the Double Ninth Festival hunting was also arranged in a very grand manner.

The wild beasts within the former site of Shanglinyuan were driven over in preparation for hunting. The entire area of ​​Duling County, to Qujiangchi, became a hunting ground.

Of course, Li Su's melee martial arts are infinitely close to zero, but in recent years, he often plays sports such as horse riding and archery, just to strengthen his body.

After all, riding and archery in the past was a expensive aristocratic sport. Now, why not play without playing? It is both fitness and fun, and it also makes up for the regret of too few entertainment activities.

After shooting archery for seven or eight years, Li Su was able to ensure that the hit rate of the static large prey was more than 50%. Therefore, when he hunted today, he basically picked large animals with a volume of more than sika deer to avoid being embarrassed to shoot rabbits, deer and other small animals that were off the target.

As for whether the large beast would rush to the front, he was not worried at all. Dian Wei would use his hand halberd to shoot the beast before it rushed to five steps, and then stab it to death cleanly. There was also a group of hiking spearmen next to him to protect him.

"Boya, I can't tell you can, you can actually shoot three bears." Liu Bei asked Li Su to accompany him for a while and hunted, and was also a little surprised.

Li Su lowered his bow: "It was just a guard who drove his ministers to come and fed him. I was in Chengdu a few years ago, and I occasionally hunted with the Taiwei and the General of the Cavalry. I still remember that at that time, people were just promoting the people to raise rabbits in the mountains in the mountains, and set up bait to recover in the cold winter, so in the summer, they had to go to the mountains to hunt wolves, which was gradually developed at that time."

Liu Bei smiled slightly: "It seems that I am alienated from all my brothers, and I am not alone in the same place for fun, hunting and hunting."

Li Su: "I am afraid, why did Your Majesty have this idea? The court has its own dignity and laws."

Liu Bei turned his horse's head and walked with the horse, which was only one-third of Li Su's length. Fortunately, Liu Bei's hands were over the knees, his arms were very long, and his shoulder joints were very flexible. In this relative position, he could still stretch his right arm back and pat Li Su's shoulder:

"Boya, you have been too cautious recently. Some things are something that I will tell you privately today while there are no outsiders. You are determined to make future generations pursue the sub-saints. I know very well. The great Han Dynasty has been majestic for four hundred years, so there is no need to deal with Wang Jian to Qin Shihuang, Deng Yu and Geng Yan to Guangwu."

Li Su shrugged and smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty is very clear, but I am not for myself, but for the sake of setting an example for future generations. Your Majesty is referring to Zhu Jing's request for marriage from Concubine Zhen."

Liu Bei waved his hand: "If it were just that, I wouldn't have to tell you this anymore. Of course I can see it clearly. However, I later asked the recent situation of the Zhen family.

I heard that you have cooperated with the Zhen family in order to fair the imperial examination textbooks, so this is nothing, but you give the Zhen family a gift to the fifth sister, but you have other ideas? There is nothing to be embarrassed about this. At the beginning, I intended to match you and the fourth sister, but you don’t want it, so I pushed Zhuanzhuan and followed Ziyu.

Now that I have changed my mind? Why don’t you be more straightforward? Could it be that you should set an example for future generations and show me? In the future, the imperial court sent a governor to several states and military affairs. Could it be that he would still leave a concubine whom he liked but did not become a hostage?"

These words were a bit vulgar, but it was obvious that Liu Bei did not want to hit Li Su, but just pointed out that he did something wrong or was not straightforward. If he wanted to hit the minister, he would not say it so directly, but would be foolish.

Li Su felt a little embarrassed. He didn't notice that he was making excuses to give some thank-you gifts, because the matter of "marrying the princess who asked Concubine Zhen to marry his son" also needs to be carefully examined.

This is not that he lacks emotional intelligence, but that he was originally a straight man and didn't like to think about politics and men and women. Although he had several women in his life, he had no political marriage. Li Su hates thinking about his brains on political marriages, and brain cells will subconsciously avoid those dirty things.

Li Su told frankly: "I did have a temporary intention, and I felt a little bit lustful, and I had no other intentions. I didn't want to be too fucked, and I also felt that I had rejected my fourth sister before and accepted her sister four years later, which was really hurting self-esteem. Ziyu has always been with me, and Kong Ming treats me like a teacher, and he really can't bear to hurt their face."

Liu Bei touched his short beard and joked in a gossipy tone: "I feel sorry for sex? You are not like this before. Although you have four or five wives and concubines, you have never seen you fall into suspicion for sex, and it takes a lot of trouble. I know you so much. You like women, but you are afraid of trouble."

Li Su also smiled: "Your Majesty has misunderstood me. I have always been lustful, but I have a high-minded attitude, so I will not let women who are lustful when they see a woman who is lustful and has a good intention. If they are in love and have a good intention, they can also get in love with each other.

After Li Su said this, Liu Bei was stunned. After recalling it for a long time, he completely let go of his suspicion of Li Su on purpose: "So you have a high vision? If you think about it carefully, it seems to be true."

Because Li Su is telling the truth.

Who made his aesthetic taste cultivated under the bombardment of the media environment in the 21st century? What kind of beauty do you want in later generations have never seen? All kinds of beautiful women are decorated to the point of exquisiteness. In later generations, there are makeup and evil techniques, PS magic techniques, various plastic surgery and various professional shaping...

To be honest, after Li Su traveled through time, he has never really married a wife and took concubines for women for seven or eight years. Of course, it is not to say that Cai Yan and Zhou Ying are not beautiful. They are naturally also beauties, but they are not enough to break through Li Su's aesthetic limit, which makes him so amazed that he can't control himself.

Li Su's face blindness is not entirely because of their beauty, and there are more attractive factors in other aspects.

Therefore, there is no "a person who was not originally lustful and suddenly collapsed his character". He is the character that has not changed. He has not encountered a person who has broken through the upper limit of beauty in his previous life in ten years, so this psychological threshold cannot be triggered.

After Liu Bei talked to Li Su, he said to Li Su as a friend: "Boya, as the saying goes, brothers are like brothers, wives and concubines are like clothes. We have only a few brothers, but they don't put women in a very important position. But you are really not good at giving face to women.

Let's do this, don't worry about this matter. I have roughly guessed what you planned before, so you can go to Jingzhou to take charge. You also know that even if the governor's military affairs are specially approved, the court's laws cannot be extended for at most three years. Don't think about the matter behind you, just concentrate on sorting out the south within three years and provoking Sun to handle the situation.

I will give you the decent one with the Zhen family, and you will not hurt the decent one of the fifth sister of the Zhen family, nor will you hurt Tzuyu's face. Outsiders will never see that this is using women as rewards. Just worry about national affairs."

Li Su: "I thank Your Majesty for your understanding. To be honest, I feel that dealing with women and leaving them with decency is more difficult than restoring a state. I am really not suitable to do this."

Liu Bei: "Is that so? Then do more things you are good at. I will ask you another military and national affairs to see if there is any inspiration.

After you go south, I and Yuan Shao will start a war sooner or later. Especially in the south, if you confront Sun Ce, Yuan Shao can't sit still. Do you think how can we take the initiative in the battle between our army and Yuan Shao? At the time and place we want, our army will be the main attack or the main defense?

I didn't expect you to say it too much. The warriors are intriguing, changing rapidly, and the situation is changing easily. You just need to talk about it in general. Kong Ming will adapt to the specific clouds."

Li Su solemnly pretended to think about it for a while, and the main reason was this question. In fact, he had been vaguely attentive before, so when Liu Bei asked, he could give constructive opinions quickly.

Li Su sorted out his ideas and said sincerely: "The suggestions that are too detailed are indeed not easy to give at once, but I think that fighting against Yuan Shao will definitely not be possible overnight. If you win a big victory, you will destroy a prince. After all, Yuan Shao is the biggest opponent in the world.

Therefore, whether Yuan Shao took the initiative to attack us, we must do a good job of weakening Yuan Shao by a battle, and then take advantage of Yuan Shao's retreat to protect himself, cut off some of his wings, and finally try to completely eliminate Yuan Shao.

It is like Qin destroyed the six kingdoms during the Warring States Period and used the Battle of Changping to destroy Zhao. After the weakening, Han and Wei had to be destroyed first before Zhao was destroyed. If the lonely army went deeper and hoped to destroy Zhao in one go, it would be very easy to get upset.

In contrast, the popularity of Sun Ce and others in Jiangdong was far beyond that of Yuan Shao in Hebei. Moreover, the important towns in Jiangdong were all along the river. Once they were defeated, the momentum was like a broken bamboo. After several minutes, they were solved. Therefore, the southern pursuit was like a broken bamboo, and the northern expedition needed to be steadily.

Moreover, since we have just talked about the strategies of Qin and Zhao during the Warring States Period, our army's stalemate with Yuan Shao is about to show that our army has a full opportunity to take offense as its defense, but in fact it is in defense in offense. We have an active offense, but in fact it is to defend on the attack position."

Liu Bei raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell me more specifically."

Li Su: "Before, Yuan Shao fought with our army, and the battle was mainly in Heluo. There was Hedong in Hebei and Henan Yin in Henan. The battlefield was nothing more than these two counties. Now, we can give up the battlefield in Henan on the excuse of avenging Yun Chang's defeat in the first half of the year, and give up threatening Luoyang.

Instead of going eastward along the Qingshui Road, we went eastward along the Yellow River tributary, Fen River, which was further north to the Qingshui River, and then continued to go east through the Fen River tributary, and entered Shangdang County to fight with the Yuan Shao army, which was resisted from Danshui and Qinshui. In this way, the battlefield and the two armies were exactly the same as the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping.

During this period, our army could moderately show weakness and retreat, and let the battlefield ask Yuan Shao and Lu Bu to pursue. Perhaps the scale of Yuan Shao's army would be far better than our army, but Yuan Shao dared not pursue easily by our elite army.

One of the important psychological factors that led to Yuan Shao's indecision should be that "Yuan Shao is afraid of reappearing the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping". He will definitely have a psychological shadow and want to change the battlefield and change the opportunity to fight to the decisive battle, and dare not pursue it easily.

If our army spreads some nursery rhymes and says that Lu Bu is to Yuan Shao, it would be like Feng Ting, the prefect of Shangdang of Han who was unwilling to surrender to Qin before the Battle of Changping, and instead surrendered to Zhao. The disaster that Lu Bu brought to Yuan Shao would be no less than that brought to Zhao by Feng Ting, and the people inside the enemy would become more and more suspicious.

Yuan Shao would definitely think: the reason why Zhao was defeated during the Battle of Changping was because Zhao Kuo Jiaozhu Gu Shi changed Lian Po's stick to defend, and it was also because Zhao State was indeed short of food at that time, so the people were fed each other, and they could not hold on to it even if they wanted to defend it.

But Yuan Shao would feel that he now owns the six states, the country is prosperous and the people are rich, and Guzhi in Hebei has been ten years old. Moreover, Cao Cao and Sun Cezhi support Yuan Shao are far from Qi during the Warring States Period. Chu's attitude towards Zhao is comparable, and he will not even refuse to lend food to Zhao Kuo like Qi Chu during the Battle of Changping.

Therefore, he could do the 'long-term defending' that King Zhao and Zhao Kuo could not do in history. If he chose this option, perhaps the outcome of the Qin and Zhao dispute would be reversed. Yuan Shao was suspicious and dared not pursue it even if he had the opportunity to fight. It was not just that our army would hold them with less force, waiting for the change of time and break the enemy at the right time."

Li Su could only think of this. As for what changes can be achieved in the future, what kind of opportunities can be seized for counterattacks, and even to teach Yuan Shao to be a human being, realizing that "even if he dares not advance and defend and fight in Changping, he will still be defeated miserably", that is not what Li Su could have thought of.

Li Su just guided the situation to stabilize the enemy's leverage, and then stabilized it and found a flaw to complete a fatal blow. This is the matter of Zhuge Liang and other strategists on the front line.

"It's really hard to think of this step. It's a blessing that Boya, you are so imaginative and have such a vast mind. You even want to create a strategy to lure the enemy to avoid the shadows in your heart. I have received the teachings, and the specific situation will be adapted to the generals. Boya, then be careful on the road and have a smooth journey."

After thinking for a while, Liu Bei became more and more aware of Li Su's psychological manipulation, and fully accepted this idea.

People have the psychological tendency to learn from historical lessons and will definitely try their best to prevent their situation from falling into a state that is exactly the same as the preconditions of those tragedies in history. If they cannot be avoided, they will panic and reveal flaws.

It’s like even in the 21st century, some economists often say, “According to the stage of economic development, what happened in Japan thirty or forty years ago will happen in Wanwan twenty years, and in the mainland in twenty years.”

Once this social and psychological foundation is established, the relevant departments will naturally find ways to regulate housing prices and ensure that "don't fully meet all the preconditions before the collapse of Japan." In any case, either break a little similarity here and sweep away a little similarity there.

Even if Yuan Shao is heartless, he has to worry that his subordinates generally think the situation is unlucky. Moreover, Yuan Shao himself is indecisive and suspicious.

...

After Li Su finished the Duling hunting, he was also very tired and stayed in Lantian County for a night that night. He officially entered Wuguan Road the next day, and his team rode horses to the Danshui Wharf upstream of Shangluo County. All the crew took the fleet that had been prepared long ago.

Then there is a safe waterway for five or six days. You can drive from Danshui into Hanshui. You don’t have to go ashore all the way to Xiangyang. You can play the piano, flute and have fun and sleep on the boat every day, which is very relaxing. On September 17th, Li Sucai arrived in Xiangyang safely and then began to arrange work.

Just two days before Li Su arrived in Xiangyang, the imperial examinations in Chang'an officially started. Maocai exams will take five days, Xiaolian exams will take one day, and the other four exams will take three days a day.

So when Li Su arrived in Xiangyang, except Maocai, all other subjects in Chang'an were completed. Sun Zi, Jia Kui and others secretly worked hard for a few months, and finally could live a life openly.
Chapter completed!