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Chapter 3 The Highest Realm of Diplomacy

Three days after the book was written, Li Su took the book and set off from Wuji, returned to Jixian to cancel the leave with Liu Yu, and presented the results.

Liu Yu unfolded the scroll and looked at it for a while, his expression became very exciting.

"Okay! It's so well written! It turns out that the reason why Emperor Gaozu had the most virtue among the heroes at the end of the Qin Dynasty could still interpret it like this! It turns out that from the perspective of "The Palace is Blessed", not only Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were less virtue than Emperor Gaozu, but even Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were less virtue than Emperor Gaozu!"

In just a few minutes, Liu Yu was first taken away by the premiere.

Because of conscience, for the past four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, both Gongsun Hong and Dong Zhongshu, at most, only dared to say that Xiang Yu was less moral than Liu Bang, but no one dared to say that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were less moral than Liu Bang.

Dong Zhongshu and others avoided Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's illegality, and were very secretive, and concealed Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's failure as bad luck and impermanent destiny.

Li Su's opening article is a shocking bolt, simple and crude, but when you look closely, you can make up your own opinions. This kind of shock is difficult to understand if it is not an immersive Han Dynasty person.

"The first initiative will be condemned. The palace will be blessed. The arguments are solid. There is indeed no counterexample in history. These doubts in "Question" also block the possibility that the people will lose their cans and take risks after Dachang Daqi. This block is also the first step to predict the enemy's opportunity and come from a magical stroke!"

"What? This question is actually written by Mr. Cai's daughter? A girl who has not yet reached the age of hairpin can have such knowledge and insight? She is really a talented woman. In the future, his virtues are probably not inferior to those of the class."

After reading it, Liu Yu became more and more excited and praised it more and more.

As the number one rank of officials of the Han Dynasty and the leader among the Han ancestral relatives, Liu Yu was of course aware of the goods and gave a high evaluation and a sense of intimacy to the "On the Palace of the Blessed Relationship".

For a moment, a terrible thought flashed through his mind: God's will continue to stop the Yan Man! He surrendered Li Su'an to the hearts of the world!

This thing is so useless!

It is much easier to use than Dong Zhongshu, a rag-making thing that is worried about gains and losses all day long and worried that God will not appreciate his face!

"With this theory, once our army recruits Qiu Liju, it will be easy to defeat other threatened rebels!" Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and expressed his praise without hesitation.

"I thank you for your appreciation. If I hadn't promised me to take a leave and meditate for two months, I wouldn't have thought of such a grand statement." Li Su would have whispered to the leader's business.

Liu Yu waved his hand and didn't care about these false things: "No need to say these polite ones, is this book now printed and spread to the world?"

Li Su: "Thousands of volumes have been printed, and the Zhen family's business name is still printing it day and night."

Liu Yu stood up and was ready to fantasize about the bright future for a while: "We must also speed up the spread to Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong. It will surely further shake Qiu Liju—

Think about it, every thief who had harmed the Han Dynasty before, had not had a good end in four hundred years. Just based on this historical precedent, interpreting it like this to Qiu Liju may scare Qiu Liju three or four points!"

What Liu Yu said was that there was no military advantage, and there was no urgency or temptation in terms of food, grass, money, and the destiny alone would cause 30 to 40% of the wavering.

If military and stale food are used together, 90% is not a problem!

The most important thing is that Liu Yu also has a good understanding of his prestige among the Wuhuan people.

In history, even without Li Su's appearance, Qiu Liju finally surrendered to Liu Yu. However, according to the original history, Qiu Liju had to spend more time with Gongsun Zan until both sides were in trouble. After doing his best, he repeatedly weighed the pros and cons.

Now that Li Su's pusher is concerned, he doesn't have to fight Gongsun Zan until both sides are injured, and there is a high probability that he will be shaken.

Liu Yu was walking repeatedly in the lobby, feeling excited, thinking about the current situation on the three fronts of civil, military and wealth, and finally made an important decision:

"Boya! It's early November now, and it's nearly three months since the autumn harvest. You have said before that the unripe green and yellow wheat should be directly ground into a stone mill and then fry and stored for up to two months. Calculate the days, the wheat in the rebel-occupied area should be almost eaten up.

If they go on, they have only three choices: either slaughter the people and snatch all the last bit of grain from the people in their jurisdiction. Or they turn the siege into a strong attack and fight the bloody battle with Gongsun Zan of Guanzi City to the end. It is estimated that at this moment, the rebels are no longer afraid of death. Maybe they want to kill more people in the attack, so as to save some food reserves. I think the time to force a part of the enemy to surrender has come!"

Liu Yu said that the rebels had three choices, but he only counted two in his final words.

The main reason is that he is too kind and loving to the people. The third thing can only be thought about: that is, after the rebels killed the person, they directly ate the meat of the dead...

He guessed that it was possible that those Hu people were really impatient, but he really couldn't say this in front of Li Su.

The reason why Liu Yu felt that it was almost the best time to divide the enemy's army was related to his lack of hope to really force the enemy to the most extreme harm to the people.

If Gongsun Zan was replaced by Liu Yu, he might choose to clear the land for a few more months. It would be better to be hungry until spring famine in one breath, and everything will be quiet by then!

Li Su listened quietly, and when Liu Yu finished speaking, he continued: "For the past month and a half, I have been worrying about writing and printing books. I don't know much about the recent situation of the enemy. If you want to help the envoy make a decision, please give me a few days to prepare and analyze the detailed information of the two armies in the past month.

However, the envoy's intention was that he had set a goal and only focused on differentiating and subduing Qiu Liju. I am bluntly speaking, Suli, Nanqiao Wang, Ke Bi Neng and other tribes are now weak. The envoy wants to subdue a powerful force. Is it more difficult to recruit Hu Chief, the best-preserved military forces in previous battles? Will it be better to recruit some relatively weak ones?"

Regarding this issue, Liu Yu rarely didn't want to accept advice at all. He waved his hand directly: "It doesn't matter if Qiu Liju has a strong power, as long as I can influence him to be convinced and Chinese in peace of mind, it will be no problem. Moreover, his direct troops have not fought with our army before, so the blood feud between the two armies is more indifferent.

Suli, Wusu and others, half or even more cavalrymen died in the battle with our army. Every household had people who died in battle, and their relatives probably wouldn't kiss Han again.

What's more, our Han Dynasty used its clothing and culture to determine the distinction between Chinese and foreigners. Everyone is willing to speak Chinese, write Chinese, wear Hanfu, and have a surname. Even if the bloodline is originally Hu, it can be naturalized. The Wuhuan tribes have been attached to each other for 150 years. There is no way to abandon the Wuhuan with many people, but the Xianbei principle of recruiting few people."

Nowadays, the Xianbei forces in the rebels are indeed much smaller than those in the Wuhuan. However, the Xianbei is even more sinicized and has always lived on the grassland outside the Great Wall Pass. Unlike the Wuhuan people, many of them live in the pass, and the proportion of farming is also high.

After hearing Liu Yu's persistence, Li Su stopped persuading him.

He also realized that his view of the nation was a bit too biased towards later generations and was not suitable for the current situation in the late Han Dynasty.

Because Li Su could not deal with those nations that had disappeared into the long river of history and integrated into the Han people, he could not liquidate the same way as Song fans and Ming fans treat Manchuria and Meng.

If you can only choose who will completely integrate into the Han people first and disappear. If the Chinese people are successfully transformed, then you will be relatively placing the other party. In fact, from this perspective, let alone the Wuhuan later integrate into the Han people, even the Xianbei disappeared. However, the Xianbei was even later. When it was the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a bunch of nobles with the surname Dugu and Yuwen integrated into the Yang and Li, and they disappeared.

But since he decided to still focus on recruiting Qiu Liju, Li Su must also use his abilities and not let Qiu Liju live as easily as he was surrendered by Liu Yu in history.

In the original history, although Qiu Liju surrendered quite happily, and did not rebel again after surrender, he did not pay any price. He just besieged Gongsun Zan until both sides were hungry and hungry, so he followed the flow and turned to Liu Yu.

This is also the main reason why Gongsun Zan was very dissatisfied - it was a waste of fighting with me for so long? There were many people on both sides who died, so there was no need to settle the score later?

This time, Li Su must have Qiu Liju get some blood as a letter of fame!

This can be considered a better repayment of Liu Yu's kindness, because only by letting Qiu Liju pay for his previous siege and vent his anger for Gongsun Zan, the conflict between Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu can be less intensified in the future.

By doing this, Li Su was considered to be the end of kindness and righteousness, with a beginning and an end, and was worthy of Boss Liu.

...

Li Su like this, secretly talked in Liu Yu's mansion. The two ministers spent half a day to clarify all the major issues of "who is the enemy, who is the friend, and who is the possibility of winning over".

Then, we have reached the specific differentiation and enlistment method to deploy.

Liu Yu ordered: "Military deterrence and destiny are scary. You are already very good at these two points, so I don't need to say more. However, in terms of food and temptation, I still have to explain a few words - this time, I am willing to give Qiu Liju a sum of money in the name of a part of the owed wages that the imperial court has recruited Wuhuan cavalry to fight in Liangzhou since the second year of Zhongping, and accelerated the progress of surrender.

When you first go there, you don’t have to give more, just get a little deposit. After Datou has fulfilled his promise of surrender step by step, we will give it in batches, so that we can better control Qiu Liju and ensure that Qiu Liju has become enemies with other Hu Ke, and will have to rely on us in the future."

Li Su was a little alert when he heard this. He was afraid that Liu Yu would not be able to do it: "Give money? It's not that you can't give it to you, but you must pay attention to your status and confidentiality, otherwise it will easily damage the majesty and deterrence of our great man against the barbarians. It would be bad if it was regarded as compensation."

Cut land and pay compensation is definitely a taboo in diplomacy. The key is not to lose this little money, but to make people feel that you are easy to bully.

Although the Song Dynasty nominally treated the annual monies of Liaoxia, which was called a "reward", that level of treatment was useless at all, and it still made Song lose its international reputation as waste.

However, I didn't expect that Liu Yu was quite knowledgeable.

After hearing Li Su's reminder, Liu Yan patted his shoulder with appreciation and praise: "Of course I know to pay attention to the title of righteousness! Giving money is not the key, the key is to make the enemy afraid of you after giving money! After giving money, you can't let other Hu know that you gave Qiu Liju money.

Therefore, when you travel, you must ensure that Qiu Liju keeps it absolutely confidential after receiving the owed salary. If he dares to let the Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Qiang Di know that he has received the money, then he will not expect to get the subsequent money! Even if he has obtained the money one after another in the future, he will still have to clear the causal relationship between the money he has taken and the surrender of the Han Dynasty today. It seems that he has given him his kindness. I think he has performed well and rewarded him!

Besides, at least in the second year of Zhongping and the third year of Zhongping, the Wuhuan cavalry still worked for the court for two years. They had not paid military salaries for those two years before they forced them to rebel. Now they are owed two years to pay back one year, which is considered as the Han Dynasty keeping their promises and giving them both kindness and power. The year that was given less is a punishment for their rebellion this year."

When Li Su heard Liu Yu talk about this, he felt that there was no major loophole and could be executed.

However, during the execution process, Li Su can also repair it slightly.

I really didn't expect that Liu Yu himself had such skills. No wonder he was able to suppress the Hu people of the four tribes in Youzhou at the same time in history.
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