Twenty days later, in mid-March, Baozhong County.

This is the closest county to Nanzheng, and it is also the rear base camp where Liu Bei's army is now besieging Nanzheng.

As Li Su, he could of course temporarily occupy a fake property mansion in the city. Liu Bei also sent him more than a dozen maids released from the original fake priests' houses to serve his food and daily life.

Of course, the maids selected are only in their early twelves and thirties, so they are definitely not used to do that. They are purely rude girls who do physical work.

If you choose this kind of good girl who has not been ruined by the pseudo-priests to liberate, you are afraid that the maids who have already worked will be in the same mind as the old master and secretly wait for an opportunity to avenge them. These maids have families in the local area, and their families are not believers in rice thieves, but ordinary people who are helplessly ruled are very reliable.

"Crazy~" A maid carried a small bucket of water and added hot water from medicinal materials, poured it into the large wooden barrel where Li Su was taking a bath. The water temperature was slightly cool.

Li Su felt a little hot, then mixed the hot and cold water evenly. The experience was just right, and he was so comfortable that he hummed out.

Because Li Su had not yet captured Nanzheng County, he had no time to farm and climb the technology, and could not get the hot tap water from the water tower and copper shower. However, as the weather gradually became warmer, Shu was wet and sticky, and mosquitoes began to grow. Li Su, who was not accustomed to the water and the land, couldn't wait for a moment. He had to take a bath every day to refresh his life. Recently, he won a new nickname in the army, known as the "bathing military advisor".

Moreover, Li Su was so fancy that he could actually ask his maid to go to the city to buy various herbs and add them. The "extraordinary" level really opened his eyes to the generals and advisers of Liu Beijun.

The Han people at the end of the Han Dynasty had almost no habit of medicinal bathing. It was basically not until the Six Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties that the traditional Chinese medicine theory gradually developed, and they had to be renovated. After all, Li Su had enjoyed so many club services in his later generations. With his experience, he asked for some honeysuckle, wild tea, lemongrass, two-sided needles, mosquito repellent grass, flower dew essential oil, etc. to soak it to refresh the air, which shocked people at that time.

Later, I heard from the maid that the barbarians in the mountains in the south had some witch doctor soup recipes that detoxify and remove dampness. Li Su quickly remembered the Yao Bath and Miao Bath that had been soaked in later generations. Isn’t it the earth recipes of the indigenous peoples of the Huguang, Sichuan and Guizhou generation? So he also asked someone to collect Nanman soup recipes and asked his subordinates to soak and try the poison first. He confirmed that there was no adverse reaction and the fruit was effective. He then soaked it.

For the sake of Li Su's vacant medicinal materials, Liu Bei was a little frugal, and the small official in charge of discipline also reported to Liu Bei.

But Liu Bei didn't care at all: Brother Boya is in poor health and cannot withstand the heat in Shu. What's wrong with taking more baths with medicinal materials? Can you help me capture Yangping Pass, and you can take ten baths a day and reimburse you for medical expenses in full!

Xiaoya is a little bit good in life, but Liu Bei trusts Li Su more.

...

On this day, Liu Bei had just received a reward from Zhao Yun. Huangjin County, the most remote in the east, had been completely pacified by the officers and soldiers, and the last group of organized priests and other personnel were arrested and sent back.

Liu Bei was in a happy mood. He knew that at this point, the only one Nanzheng who was surrounded and not beaten was all pacified.

In twenty days, it was already very fast to settle a county. It took about ten days to grab land, and it was very difficult to settle the people.

But as the land was completely occupied, another problem that gradually caused Liu Bei's headache was finally put into the most prominent position of contradiction: Zhang Lu, a separatist regime, started out through ghosts, gods and witchcraft, and Zhang Lu, the spiritual leader, could still influence many people who were deeply poisoned from afar.

March is nothing at the moment. By the fifth and sixth month of the lunar calendar, the earliest batch of summer grain crops harvested is at the harvest season. When it comes to taxes in the court, the contradictions will become more and more open.

The five-dog rice system that Zhang Lu established was very deceptive, as if he was doing good deeds and had a certain mutual assistance nature of the poor. If Zhang Lu's spiritual halo was not knocked out, Liu Bei's tax collection work this year would either not be implemented smoothly, or even if it was forcibly collected, the people would lose a certain degree of people's hearts in the comparison with Zhang Lu.

This is also the reason why Liu Bei was reluctant to conquer Nanzheng County. Anyway, Zhang Lu was no longer in Nanzheng, so it would be no different to take it early and a few months later. It would be not cost-effective to kill more people to attack.

On the other hand, if Nanzheng was not taken down, the entire Hanzhong County could maintain a wartime state. The wartime state was very beneficial for replacing internal conflicts and maintaining military control. When levying taxes and levying food, you can also be more urgent and follow the power, and do the same thing and lose less people's hearts.

The city of Nanzheng did not encircle many farmers, and the land around Nanzheng was not deserted at all, so there was no economic loss in the late attack on Nanzheng.

"We must think about how to reveal Zhang Lu's ugliness. Only Boya is best at this. Go and ask him."

Liu Bei thought so, and then he casually took Zhang Fei and Jian Yong and other close friends from his hometown, and went to Li Su's mansion to have a meal and ask for advice.

Guan Yu was still living a hard life in Jiameng County, so he couldn't come. He had to be careful of Liu Yan in the west and monitor whether the board of Hanman would go up the Jialing River to counterattack, and the burden was still heavy.

Who made Liu Bei trust Guan Yu the most when encountering such a thing? When he needed to separate two places, he always let Guan Yu manage one county alone.

As soon as Liu Bei arrived at Li Su's mansion, the maid next to Li Su hurriedly asked to inform him, but was stopped by Liu Bei: "What are our brothers talking about? You guys are busy with your own things!"

"My husband...the young master is still taking a bath." The oldest maid seemed to be the leader, and couldn't help but remind him.

"What are the big men afraid of?" Liu Bei waved his hand and took Zhang Fei straight to the bathroom.

When I went in, I saw that there were still several cases on both sides of Li Su's bathtub.

On the left hand is an iron plate and iron rack mounted on a charcoal stove. The stove is burned with silver frost beast charcoal, and there is absolutely no smoke. Lamb and several kinds of game meat, mushrooms, leeks and garlic sprouts are all skewed with bamboo sticks.

On the tables on the right hand, there were expensive Western Region wines bought from merchants in Liangzhou, which were packed in silver pots. I even found a few ice cubes from the cellar ice cream to plaster in the pot holder plate to ice the wine.

Wine in the late Han Dynasty was an extremely expensive thing, and its origin was the closest one, and it had to be produced in the Western Regions Loulan Kingdom. Fa Zheng's friend Meng Da's father Meng Tuo, who was a slave of Zhang Rang, the first ten eunuchs of wine, was appointed as the governor of Liangzhou in the early years.

After reading history, Su Dongpo was inspired by Zhang Huan, Duan Bing made contributions to the bloody battle of Liang but failed to be promoted. However, Meng Tuo was the governor and wrote a sad and angry poem "The general was fighting for hundreds of battles, and the man got Liangzhou with one bucket."

After seeing it, Zhang Fei didn't say anything, and he just grabbed the wine pot and dried it without hesitation.

Li Su quickly turned his head and almost said "reliable" words. He finally put it back: "You guy, you are so cool, come and drink it! I am Loulan wine! It is a gentleman who drinks it slowly."

Liu Bei couldn't help but patted Li Su on the shoulder and snatched two skewers: "Boya is so interested. Brother Yu has eaten barbecue in the north for many years. If it weren't for the field, the whole prey was grilled on the branches, or it was cut into pieces and roasted with chopsticks. You would do it. You would skewed small pieces of skewed with a bath and you wouldn't be afraid of falling off while taking a bath. No wonder Zijing said you are a military advisor for bathing."

Li Su showed off proudly: "It's damp and hot here. I usually take a skewer and sweat and make the heat. It's just right to add some cool and cool medicinal materials to the water. I won't sweat while soaking it."

When I went abroad to travel abroad, I learned the authentic Turkish bath. After soaking, I had barbecue and fruit trays in the rest area. It is rare for people who are so good at enjoying life to have a base. Of course, I have to be extravagant immediately, otherwise I would not get any benefits for Liu Bei to conquer the world. Thanks?

Liu Bei rubbed two strings, rubbed his hands in Li Su's bath water, wiped his hands with Li Su's bath towel, and then sat down next to him with a golden knife:

"Today, I will ask you about some things. All the eight counties in Hanzhong have occupied them, but Zhang Luyu is still alive. Can you have a way to break the hypocrisy of Zhang Ni pretending to let the people relieve their difficulties and educate the people's hearts again?

His trick of joining the church in five dou of rice is very popular among the people. And I heard that he gave the predecessors the positions of priests at all levels. The earlier the qualifications, the higher the qualifications. The more new believers who paid the five dou of rice, the more preferential the priests are, the more they are treated, so that the people are very happy to persuade people around him to believe in him, and the people are in a mess. I think it will not be too late to solve this matter and attack Nanzheng again."

Li Su closed her eyes and thought for a few seconds, making full use of the BUFF bonus of "intellectual value +10 in bathing state", and quickly answered:

"I was actually thinking about this a few days ago. Zhang Lu's method was actually entirely based on the five dou of rice paid by later members every year to support the first believers. However, wars in the north have caused refugees to flow into Hanzhong every year, and Zhang Lu's trustees are increasing during the expansion of power.

When the people in Hanzhong completely believe in him and there are not enough new people for him to exploit him, he will inevitably use ghosts and gods to make sacrifices at all levels frugal. But the key is that at the beginning, he will roll the believers up, and even if the later generations find that they will not fulfill their promises, they will be unable to resist him.

To deal with such evil people, we just need to get some unbeheaded priests, torture and force them to cooperate with the court, and continue to cheat among the people under the guise of Zhang Lu, and then when the five dou of rice they collected was not enough to pay the first person's return, we carried the rice and grain and ran away. After a few rounds of operations, Zhang Lu's reputation became completely bad, and there was also..."

Li Suyang was so generous that he used the official crackdown on various pyramid scheme organizations in later generations, exposing the publicity methods of those scams that rely on the development of downstream snowballs to raise online. After a few points were chosen, Liu Bei's eyes lit up instantly.

Brother Boya is so experienced in dealing with such a liar?

It seems that everyone in the world said that Li Boya is proficient in arithmetic, which is definitely not a false statement.

Li Su simply did not do it all and guided Liu Bei in a tempting manner: "After all, the people are superstitious about ghosts, gods, and witches. A large part of the reason is that the people are completely unaware of arithmetics. How many people cannot even calculate how much tax they should pay every year, and they also have to go to the countryside to the minor officials. The village chief Zong Lao told them. If you can understand the simplest math, how many people will be trapped?

The court and Confucianism do not want the people to think too much, so they can only reduce the popularization of the teachings of the classics and articles, but it is always beneficial and harmless to let Guizhou learn mathematics first. They are unwilling to learn it, and the court has no money to organize teaching. I have a way to make the people more wise with their lessons and never be incited by Zhang Jiao, Zhang Lu and others."

Liu Bei put down the skewers seriously: "Please tell me!"

Li Su thought about how to describe it, and then described the method of selling lottery tickets roughly in the context of this era: "We can set up a lottery ticket for the official business, explaining how much money each ticket is, a total of 10,000 tickets are set up to have a lottery number, a few lottery numbers, and a few bonuses. Let them calculate for themselves and know the truth about the principle of "the government sells lottery of 100,000 yuan, and actually pays 85,000 yuan, and a commission of 15,000 yuan."

Gradually, I hated this thing deeply and forced them to improve their ability to calculate the "probability". In this way, in the future, when Zhang Jiao and others bet on witches, the people will be able to sneer at it. If you don't have great ambitions, you can also enrich your military expenditure. If you plan for the long term, you can get money to set up studies in the village, teach the people the simplest arithmetic learning, and improve people's wisdom to prevent being deceived by witchcraft."

Later generations Li Su also saw many tricks of selling lottery tickets. This thing must have been available in the Song Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was not clear about it, but the Han Dynasty definitely did not.

Whether there is or not, Li Su's idea was not to make money, nor did he want to make black money on the first prize and second prize. He just wanted to earn public handling fees purely by Mingche and Mingma.

But even so, he believed that most people who don’t know a little bit of mathematics and probability would not be able to see how much money his prize pool design made. Li Suming said that he had to study hard to see through it.

Then we will use this to force the people to learn some basic mathematics and cut off the survival soil of wizards. Who made too many charlatans like Zhang Jiao, Zhang Lu and Rong in the late Han Dynasty?

Liu Bei thought for a while: "This is a wonderful method of the people without adding taxes and using the country's full capacity. And those who can use capital to gamble luck are mostly rich people, and they also collect a lot of money from rich people. The money they receive can also expand military expenditure in the future. However, in this Hanzhong, it is better to start learning and calculating first. Only by understanding the most basic math can the people break Zhang Lu's evil roots."

Even the collapse rate of pyramid schemes offline cannot be calculated, no wonder the people here are easy to fool.

After Liu Bei finally finished picking Li Su's skewers, Zhang Fei drank Li Su's wine, and the two brothers wiped their mouths and went back to arrange their work.

Jian Yong could only eat some roasted leeks and garlic sprouts next to him, and also wiped his mouth and left with an unsatisfactory feeling.

Only when there is no one left, Li Su can complain softly: "Damn it! A group of livestock, eat my bath snacks and leave!"

...

After Liu Bei returned, he explained Li Su's idea to Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, and the two of them reacted quickly and immediately understood the beauty of Li Su's plan.

It is more troublesome to sell lottery tickets to raise money to teach mathematics, and it will be implemented slowly within the next few months. However, it would be too easy to let the captured priests continue to cheat pyramid schemes under the name of Zhang Lu and cause several credit storms.

Within a dozen days, the stupidest believers who had already blindly believed in Zhang Lu were cut off several times by the thunder incident. Then Liu Bei came out to be a good person and seized the group of scammers, asking them to confess in public how Zhang Lu taught them how to pyramid schemes.

Soon, those crazy believers who were deceived the most became people who were deeply frightened to the court. At this time, Liu Bei beheaded a group of people who were the most angry and cheated the most money to sacrificial wine to calm the public.
Chapter completed!