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Chapter 98 Li Ru in the fifth floor, Li Su in the atmosphere

After repeated recurring, Li Susizhi felt that there was no need to modify Liu Yan's specific plan for the sake of Wu Kuang, the newly emerging uncertainty factor.

The reason is also very simple: after Li Su and Cai Yong chatted for a while, they learned from Cai Yong that Wu Kuang is still trusted by He Jin.

What does this mean? It means that Wu Kuang's non-direct relatives were a little suspicious of being rebel--at least, they could not bite Wu Kuang when He Jin was still alive.

Li Su is a negotiating expert. He has a very keen empathy and is good at thinking from the perspective of others.

When thinking about this issue, he could easily apply to Wu Kuang's position and figure out the other party's reaction.

The one who was hired as his daughter-in-law by Liu Yan was Wu Yi's sister. Wu Yi's father had long died, and Wu Kuang had no evidence of maintaining close contact with his nephews and nieces.

Therefore, when Wu Yi's sister was exposed to He Jin, Wu Kuang just cried and showed his loyalty, saying that he had nothing to do with them, and could even say, "The reason why Wu Yi followed Liu Yan, who had no bad signs at that time, into Sichuan was because Wu Yi felt that Liu Yan, the uncle, was closer than his uncle, so he defected to Liu Yan."

You can even show off a military power willing to give up your military power in the capital, and actively request to be transferred to the local area and become a lieutenant, help to suppress the rebellion and attack Liu Yan, or lead troops to protect the court to pronounce the imperial envoy to summon Liu Yan to serve in Beijing, so as to transfer Liu Yan back to prove his innocence.

With He Jin's nepotism and soft-heartedness, he would definitely believe in Wu Kuang. As long as Wu Kuang expressed his loyalty, he would not really remove Wu Kuang from his position as a military officer in the capital.

But! Li Su knew in her heart that He Jin would not live long.

As long as Wu Kuang has this suspicious handle, He Jin can help him suppress him when he is alive, and he will not ask Wu Kuang to deal with Liu Yan alone. Then, Wu Kuang will leave a time bomb, a hidden danger that will break out at any time.

What will Dong Zhuo do when he wants to annex He Jin's old subordinates in the future? After Dong Zhuo took office, when the situation is still unclear, will he surrender Wu Kuang to frame and directly deprive Wu Kuang of his military power in the center of the capital?

When Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang attacked He Miao, they would even say that Wu Kuang had a criminal record of collusion with Liu Yan.

When He Jin died together with the eunuch and the emperor was robbed and rescued, the time when people were panic, they could definitely take down Wu Kuang after looking through the old accounts.

Li Su didn't know if Dong Zhuo would do this.

He could only say that if Li Ru had half of his IQ, Li Su would definitely think of this trick to take advantage of the problem. After all, Li Su thought of him in two seconds.

After Li Ru also thought about it, Li Su naturally had other ways to persuade Wu Kuang to give up his wealth and prosperity to save his life and retreat bravely, and then take some benefits before leaving the capital.

In order to get rid of those people in Beijing who are not the same as him as him as soon as possible, Dong Zhuo will definitely turn a blind eye...

At that time, the Beijing Municipal Bureau,

He Jin is on the first floor, Zhang Rang is on the second floor, Yuan Shao is on the third floor, Yuan Wei is on the fourth floor, and Li Ru is on the fifth floor...

He Li Su is in the atmosphere.

Wouldn't it be beautiful?

Historically, when Yuan Shu left Beijing, he used his identity as a later general to take away a group of elite troops from the capital and also took away a large number of supplies from the court arsenal. However, in order to calm the situation in the capital as soon as possible, Dong Zhuo controlled the situation in the capital as soon as possible and drove away more people who might be in the way, so he turned a blind eye to Yuan Shu's actions.

If Li Su had done that too, he might have been able to rescue more things that should have been burned by Dong Zhuo from the capital.

It was decided that all evidence would be presented as usual, but you must keep the fair image of "being right to the thing, not the person", and do not instigate yourself to wear small shoes privately. You can even pretend to say a few fair words to Wu Kuang in a just right way after presenting the evidence.

To avoid He Jin being disgusted and Wu Kuang was hostile when He Jin was still alive.

Li Su talked to Cai Yong about his preliminary plan, and everything that had something to do with Cai Yong and needed to cooperate with it, and also took care of him, and did not be afraid of implicating Wu Kuang, as long as he was impartial and did not speak bad things in private.

Cai Yong thought about it for a while, and after all, he was very politically sensitive and immediately knew what to do, so he kept Li Suxian in his house for two days so that he could take time to make all the letters that he should copy in Zhang Lu compared with Zhang Lu's fonts.

Then he returned the original and forged parts to Li Su, and told him to leave the capital secretly and return to Luyang County (the county closest to Sili in the north of Nanyang) to pretend to be sick. The father-in-law and son-in-law were ready to perform a good show.

Cai Yan didn't know what her fiancé and her father were saying, and she didn't dare to ask. She didn't dare to get too close to Li Su in just two days. In the end, she watched Li Su leave again very sensible, and she didn't dare to reveal any flaws in front of others that "Li Su had been here". She felt very depressed.

...

After Li Su returned to Luyang, Dian Wei, who was stationed in the army, thought he could leave, but he learned that Li Su had to continue pretending to be sick, and he was quite depressed for a moment.

He really couldn't figure out why those literati had so many twists and turns when doing things.

But since you have to continue to rest, then take a break.

Li Su was expected to pretend to be ill for half a month. When Cai Yong received the bridge appointment of the "Prince of Ba County", he didn't want to waste his time in the past half month, so he stayed in Luyang and wrote his "Qi Min Yaoshu" first.

Li Su had never been a farmer in his previous life and had never planted land, so he would definitely not be able to write out the details. He couldn't write many words during the half-month period of pretending to be sick, so he just wrote an outline while he was unemployed.

For example, how many species should be involved in "the people are still mainly wild-picking, but they can develop artificial cultivation and breeding in the future". What land should these things be planted and raised in what environment should be planted and raised. As for how to plant and how to raise them, they have to go back and let the old farmers practice it. If they really grow them, they will ask them to record and organize them.

Moreover, his book is not all for the people to read. It will be divided into several volumes of printing at that time. The first volume is for generals of his own camp like Liu Bei and even future local administrative officials.

The content of this volume is not how to farm specifically, but to unify the thoughts of officials in Shu, so that they can understand why they should pay attention to the importance of these economic crops that were not originally planted on a large scale, so as to organize and reward the people to go to China.

After preliminary sorting, Li Su emphasized in his book the importance of large-scale cultivation of wild tea and pepper.

For example, it is necessary to point out that tea can help soldiers who eat meat for a long time balance nutrition to prevent certain diseases, as well as other medicinal effects and economic effects of health, as well as certain hobbies and inertia, etc.

Why do we need to balance nutrition for soldiers who have "long-term meat-eating"? This requires mentioning the interlocking pepper industry that we intend to develop in the future.

Li Su also combines the transportation difficulties in the mountains of Shu, and the transportation loss is too large, so more foods with a relatively high energy density are needed to be prepared for long-term storage, and the energy density is relatively high as military rations, so that the proportion of transportation loss will be smaller.

To give the simplest example, for example, the energy density of a piece of dried meat is about three or four times that of rice and flour of the same weight. Take the Shu Road to transport four hu of rice from Chengdu. Originally, you had to eat three hu of rice on the road, but only one hu was transported to Hanzhong. From Hanzhong, you had to eat three quarters to go to Chang'an. Then you had to plant fifteen times the grain from Chengdu to transport to Chang'an. No wonder the Northern Expedition was so difficult.

But what if you change the rice to meat? If you transport four hu of meat, you can calculate that the meat is more full than the rice with three times the amount. As long as you eat one hu of meat on the road, the remaining three hu can be transported to Hanzhong. This way, the efficiency improvement of stacking and multiplication is very terrible.

But in history, Zhuge Liang could not do this. The key is that there is not so much meat, and there is not so much salt in Shu to cure jerky on such a large scale.

If peppercorns are planted on a large scale, the situation will be different. All spices have some preservative effects. A large amount of peppercorns and a small amount of salt are used to make peppercorns. Marinated antiseptic dried meat is much better than pure salt at present, and the overall cost of marinated meat is also much cheaper.

Moreover, marinating with salt and pepper has an additional advantage over using pure salt, which is that it can cover up the odor. The pork in the Han Dynasty is so unpalatable and has a strong smell. It is very difficult to be a military ration jerky. The smell is different with salt and pepper covering.

Also, according to Li Su's observation, even if farmers are so poor nowadays and don't miss meat, the utilization rate of domestic livestock is still very low.

Although it is not as exaggerated as those costume dramas that have aura of mental retardation, they do not eat any internal organs, but at least they do not eat the stomach and waist. No matter how poor the people are, they can use the internal organs of pigs, cattle and sheep, which are the heart and liver, plus a small amount of belly (ruminants have several stomachs, and people in the late Han Dynasty will only eat some of them that are not too dirty).

With enough peppercorns to suppress the smell, these internal organs will be transformed into good things that not only enhance soldiers' nutrition but also treat night blindness.

Similar to pepper, there is also pepper native to India, which was introduced to Shu through the Shushi Poison Road.

In addition, taro, sugar cane, cooking sugar, artificially raising grass carp in swamp areas... etc., Li Su observed and could think of shortcomings that could be made up for. In his spare time, Li Su spent a few days writing down the value of these strategic materials.

He pretended to be sick until late July. One evening, Li Su finally got a confidant servant from Cai Yong's family and rode his horse to Luyang overnight to report.

Li Su knew that Cai Yong had been pretended to be appointed as the prefect of Ba County by He Jin.

"Go to Beijing immediately! While He Jin has not yet 'stayed and changed his post', he will report his victory to His Majesty that the Shu Road has been completely reopened! The prefect of Ba County can also take office normally!"

Li Su ordered with great enthusiasm that hundreds of elite soldiers immediately headed north into Sili.

As long as the armed forces of hundreds of people do not enter Luoyang City, they can only enter the Sili area. The key is that Li Su has sufficient reason. He came from Yizhou thousands of miles away and must be protected along the way.

After passing Yique Pass, Li Su stopped his men and horses on the banks of the Bangshui River outside Luoyang, and only brought dozens of Zhao Yundianwei to officially launch a talisman and report the victory with great fanfare.

General He Jin soon received news that he was discussing national affairs with his confidant, Wang Yun, who had just been promoted to a few months ago.

"General! The envoy of General Liu Bei of Zhenxi has entered Beijing, which is a good news! Zhang Lu has been awarded the title of head, and the remnants of Zhang Lu have been completely pacified. Before Zhang Lu's death, he fled to Brazil and colluded with Banfeng Man. General Zhenxi chased and killed Zhang Lu and Banfeng Man who were supporting the rebels!"

"Liu Bei defeated the thief so quickly? It's so gratifying." He Jin couldn't help feeling very happy when he heard this.

Only Wang Yun next to him was slightly shocked, and a scroll in his hand almost fell on the table. He reminded:

"General, it seems that the matter of transferring Cai Shangshu as the prefect of Ba County five days ago and then staying in Zhongzhong will be in trouble. Shu Road is completely reopened and the prefect of Ba County can take office. How can you find an excuse to change Cai Yong to the prefect of Shizhong?"
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