Li Su is not a god. Even if he is extremely wise, he cannot directly guess how Cai Mao will cause trouble.

Even if it is just a directional judgment of "Cai Mao will probably cause trouble", Li Su dared to make a decision thanks to reading history in advance and knowing that Cai Mao is a man with great potential.

Therefore, Li Su could only monitor carefully and prevent the situation without alerting the enemy. The prevention methods should not be too obvious. For example, the large-scale increase in mobile troops in Xiangyang was so scared that Cai Mao, who had originally planned to jump out, retracted and gave up.

In that case, Li Su has any excuse to destroy or weaken Cai Mao and the domineering family in Jingzhou that colluded with Cai Mao?

All of this caused Li Su to not react for too long before the last shot, and there would not be too many containment resources that could be mobilized as soon as possible during the reaction.

At the same time, Bingongke's preparation for the exam, waiting for the people to comfort during the exam, and criticizing the aristocratic families who failed the exam but could still win their loyalty after failing, implying that they remain patient with the court and come back next year. This series of work, etc., cannot completely take up Li Su's mind and time.

The staff may be able to help him handle 80% of his work, and he still has to take a look at it in the end.

Fortunately, Li Su also knew how to make full use of his talents. Among the staff around him, Deng Zhi and Wang Lei were good at internal affairs, and gradually, he tried his best to hand overtime overtime overtime to the imperial examination and personnel administration.

Xu Shu and Zhang Song were good at military aircraft staff and the other was good at diplomatic analysis. From around the seventh and eighth day of the October 19th, these two people gradually moved their work focus to military aircraft.

After a few days of sorting out, everyone felt that Cao Cao was busy besieging Shouchun and would definitely not be able to come this winter, so if something happened now, the focus of defense was the southern line. Li Su sent Xu Shu first to the southern line, and stationed in Baqiu of Changsha County, and was responsible for defense with Gan Ning, the guard there.

As for Zhang Song, he was just a talented person who mainly had intelligence and diplomatic analysis, so he stayed by Li Su's side to help Li Su deal with it.

Such an arrangement can make up for Gan Ning's lack of intelligence and may not be able to detect the shortcomings of military conspiracies. There is a Xu Shu who helped him become a military advisor, even if Xu Shu was only twenty-six or seven years old, he could at least check for omissions.

Xu Shu set off south from the tenth day of October, first took the Hanshui Road to Yicheng in one day, then passed Dangyang and entered the Yangtze River. On October 14th, the waterway arrived at Baqiu.

When passing by Yicheng, because Xu Shu had a low official position and his itinerary was low-key, he did not disturb Cai Mao much. The main reason was that Xu Shu did not enter the city, and he was just passing by.

In contrast, because Cai Mao was relatively in the bright spot, Xu Shu noticed some strange atmosphere when he passed by. Although he was not sure, he wrote down his experiences and thoughts, and sealed a wax ball to hold a accompanying guard back to Li Su.

After Xu Shu met with Gan Ning, he explained the situation and conveyed Li Su's instructions to ask Gan Ning to "be careful, but he should not act rashly when he encounters changes."

When Gan Ning first heard this instruction, he was a little puzzled, afraid that Xu Shu had passed the wrong order and questioned why Li Su made him defend passively.

Xu Shu said that this was the general principle that Sikong had cared for before he set out, in order to "tempt the enemy to take the bait, and if something happens, a big one will come." If it is directly extinguished, it may scare away the potential enemy.

The east of Xiangyang City is Xianshan Mountain, with mountainous terrain, so it is not suitable for military garrisoning. Xianshan Mountain is also a boundary mountain that restricts the Han River. Xiangyang City is relatively flat in the west. Until the Longzhong where Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in history, it was all plain farmland, with occasional sparse forests and hills, which are very suitable for garrisoning.

As for the army's diet, food, drink and labor, Li Su told Zhao Yun not to worry at all. He would send people to reward the army with wine, meat, food and vegetables.

Zhao Yun was cautious, not caring about enjoyment, and refused modestly: "Sikong has been bothering, and our army is very morale, so there is no need to worry. Those who join the army are responsible for their duties. If the generals eat the same food as the soldiers, how can the soldiers be dissatisfied?"

Li Su smiled and said, "Zilong is still so self-disciplined. What kind of friendship do we have? Don't be Sikong Sikong. Just call me like Yun Changyide. Now there is no fight, just to keep you on guard. Who knows when the enemy will appear?

This state of not knowing where the enemy is, not knowing when the enemy will fight, and also requiring them to maintain a combat state that can be driven out at any time is the most devastating to the soldiers' will, so it is right to let them relax first."

Zhao Yun took advantage of the slope to get down the donkey and explained: "Boya, please tell me not to make a big fuss, so I only brought three thousand iron cavalry first. I think no matter where there is an emergency, these people are enough to support your army. However, here is five hundred miles away from Hanyang-Xiakou. If Youping is surrounded and the cavalry will go downstream, it will be a few days to arrive."

In Zhao Yun's mind, he obviously imagined the direction of the imaginary enemy as the direction of Jiangxia.

Li Su waved his hand: "You say that there is confidence in three thousand cavalry. What's wrong with me? There is a sequence of hearing and knowledge, and you have specialized in your skills. Leading the army and leading the army will lead every battle. This is not my specialty. However, if something happens in Hanyang, there is no need to hurry.

There are nearly 15,000 people in Youping who guard the city, and the city is also strong, not bad for these few days. I am afraid that other empty places will suddenly appear in the Jingzhou family members who are forced to rebel. Therefore, you should stay at peace and focus on Xiangyang."

Zhao Yun always respects Li Su's judgment very much, and now he says that he is always on standby.

A few days after that, Li Su continued to be as relaxed on the outside and tight on the inside, and was prepared for fear of fear.

On October 15th, the Bingongke exam also began. The northern exiled scholars in Jingzhou led by Ni Heng entered the exam one after another. The focus of work in Xiangyang City seemed to have returned to the civil administration.

Li Su still found no substantial evidence, but only noticed that Cai Mao was accelerating his relationship with several other Jingzhou families except Kuai Liang, but did not collude with others.

Li Su himself had doubts: this year, he caused more than 20% of the recommended official positions in Jingzhou's aristocratic families to be intercepted, allowing poor scholars to break through. Aren't Jingzhou people angry?

Those decent people who were graceful and autonomous under Liu Biao's rule a few months ago are willing to compete fairly with Mu Lezi?

However, if nothing happens, it is the best, which means that the "rebellion and secret non-cooperation of the aristocratic families in the world to the imperial examination will be suppressed by a higher level." Li Suba was in the end, and they were just straightforward and admitted defeat, allowing the fairness of the next imperial examination to be even more "increased".

However, what should come is always coming. Just when Li Su thought that the Jingzhou family had accepted it, on the night of October 16, Li Su received an urgent report from Zhang Song:

"Sikong, Yicheng secretly monitored Cai Mao's hometown and made a return. He said that yesterday morning, he found that the Cai family sent several fast ships and went downstream. Although he didn't know who was on the ship, he should be the people of the Cai family.

Our detailed work was followed for a night and confirmed that the other party did not stop at Jingling and turned into Xiashui from Hanjinkou, but continued to go down the main stream of Hanshui. Then it was impossible to go to Jiangling through Xiashui-Xiaze, but could only go to Jiangxia.

In addition, I arranged for people in Yicheng to inspect the station in public during the 16th day. I roughly found that other people in the Cai family who were there the day before were still in Yicheng that day, but one Zhang Yun was missing and he did not show up.

Our people pretended to invite the Cai family to have a drink in the mansion. The Cai family also reported that Zhang Yun was occasionally in a cold and could not go away, so the one who left on the fifteenth might be Zhang Yun. After confirming these situations, our people immediately responded to the petty horse. They came back this afternoon and just arrived."
Chapter completed!