He ordered Fazheng to station in Sanguan, guard the ritual vessels, and leave him a sum of money and grain as the start-up capital for settlement.

The other relatively lighter tripods, Gui chimes and extra weapons and armor were transported to Nanzheng County for storage and handover.

Even Princess Wannian was temporarily placed in the prefect's residence in Nanzheng County, and was temporarily handed over to Liu Bei's concubines Mi Zhen and Zhen Jiang for care. When they parted, Li Su also explained the identity and entrusted statements of Princess Wannian, and ordered Mi Zhen and others to treat the princess with the etiquette of "aunts to take care of their niece".

After all this, Li Sucai took the elite soldiers of five hundred personal guards and the snake-killing sword of Emperor Gaozu, and continued to walk south on the Western Han River-Jialing River waterway to meet with Liu Bei and the others.

When he walked out of Maming Pavilion Road along the Western Han River, Li Su learned that more than half a month ago, Zhang Fei had already taken half of the main infantry force of Liu Bei's army to go around the Fu River and take down Jiangyou, Zitong, and Zhang Ren, who was attacking Jianmen Pass on both sides and forced Zhang Ren to surrender.

Therefore, if Li Su was in a hurry and wanted to go directly to Mianzhu by land, he could reach it by walking the mountain road with a straight distance of 300 miles. He would not have to follow the Jialing River and the Fu River around the 900-mile waterway.

However, Li Su thought about it and found that he didn't like to cross the mountains and walk into such a dangerous place as Jiange. It was too hard and he didn't have to work hard if he took a boat.

More importantly, according to the plan he discussed with Liu Bei before going north, the last Mianzhu or Chengdu would not be rushed to take it away by force, but could slightly besiege Liu Yan for two or three months to help solve the subsequent internal rule problems.

And to make Liu Yan willing to "a person who is about to die is good", and cooperate with Liu Bei to be this evil man, a very important chess piece is Liu Zhang, the only one who may be obtained by Liu Yan's sons who are officials outside.

Liu Yan's eldest son and second son are all skilled, old and old in officialdom, so Dong Zhuo would not let it go easily. Only Liu Zhang is known for his cowardice and is also a free lieutenant. He has a low official position. According to the information he has obtained before, it seems that Dong Zhuo has been relaxed in supervision and left Luoyang and can move within the Henan Yin.

Later, Liu Zhang took advantage of the battle between Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo to fight Liangdong, escaped from Liang County, Yin of Henan, and entered the Luyang front line of Nanyang County, and was controlled by Yuan Shu.

In fact, this is also normal, and it is a natural development of the butterfly effect. Because Liu Zhang wanted to run away in this life? He must find a place to seek cooperation from the Dong coalition forces and escape in the chaos. Otherwise, he would not be able to escape the eight passes of Luoyang.

Cao Cao has been beaten away by Dong Zhuo, and the other princes are watching the show? At present, only Sun Jian is still in a state of war with Dong Zhuo? Liu Zhang must have to approach the jurisdiction bordering Sun Jian to catch a loophole.

How did Liu Zhang escape? Li Su didn't care. But since Yuan Shu was willing to use Liu Zhang as a bargaining chip in exchange for Guan Yu as a reinforcement general at the beginning of next spring and help Sun Jian fight Dong Xiao together? Then this deal is still acceptable for Liu Bei's camp.

Anyway, Guan Yu wanted to win Dong to gain fame? He had originally planned to go and swear, and it was not considered working for Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu was thinking that "my territory is in Nanyang, as long as he attacked Henan Yin? Guan Yu's base is far away from the border of Jingyi? He would definitely not be able to hold on to Henan Yin's enclave, and the territory he captured would be in vain."

But Li Su knew that when Dong Zhuo retreated, he would burn Henan Yin to a white land and move all the people away, playing the bad deeds of "destroying it if you can't get it", so Yuan Shu's abacus would definitely fail at that time? He could only look at Henan Yin in the scorched earth state and cry without tears.

Moreover, Li Su told Guan Yu: As long as he attacked Yiling in Jingzhou and ensured the route to the north in the spring of next year, he could ask Yuan Shu to fulfill his promise and send Liu Zhang first, and don’t pay attention to “paying money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other hand”? His diplomatic attitude must be tough.

Li Su believed that Yuan Shu would accept it, because Yuan Shu must not understand what value is Liu Zhang's kind of thing? How can it be used wonderfully - Yuan Shu didn't know that Liu Mao was dead? He didn't know Liu Yan's current situation? At best, he only thought that Liu Zhang was an optional bargaining chip, with a value much less than "Guan Yu helped the war and fought a war". Since that's the case, of course, the relatively valuable side of the chips must be delivered first to win the trust of the friendly forces.

...

Li Suzhou was exhausted and walked east from Jiameng to the Yangtze River for another five or six days before arriving in Jiangzhou.

As soon as he arrived in Jiangzhou, he met his long-lost mentor, Cai Yong, the prefect of Ba County.

The fiancée Cai Yan also came with her father to greet her, but she was sitting in the car without showing up.

As soon as Li Su got on the bus, Cai Yan came over with a treasure nest: "Husband, I'm here this time, don't you have to leave? After Mianzhu surrenders, we can go to Mianzhu? Or directly to your fiefdom, Pi County?"

Li Su lovely helped his wife straighten her hair. The girls of this era also applied osmanthus oil to their hair, which made him a little uncomfortable: "Don't worry, it's not long before, I'll be able to get married in the first lunar month, and I'll go back to the fiefdom. But now, I have to see if Brother Yun sent Liu Zhang.

If there is any change in his place, I may have to take a few days to check out Yidu and pick up Liu Zhang before I can go back to report to my lord.”

Cai Yan is very well-behaved and sensible: "General Guan had taken down Baidi City and Wu County half a month ago and continued to move eastward, but there is no news yet. Husband turned out to be hard, so I will stay for two or three days first, and let the messenger find out the latest situation."

Li Su did not refuse and stayed in Cai Mansion Villa outside the city for the time being.

The prefect in the city was not good because of the bad geographical environment and it was too hot in summer. So after occupying Jiangzhou this year, Li Su spent money to choose a place for his mentor to build a villa manor on the mountain outside the city. The house itself was not very distinctive, but fortunately, he specially dug a deep-well mountain spring.

The spring water is very cold. In summer, you can be brought to the water in the mansion and let the cold spring flow down the roof, like a rain curtain, taking away heat. A lotus pond was specially built in the middle of the house, and the water from the patio was introduced into the pool through the eaves convergence channel. There is another culvert at the bottom of the pond to form a stream.

Cai Yan liked this house very much at that time. After all, the design of Shuiliang Hall was not originally available in the Han Dynasty. It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that Emperor Yang of Sui and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, those monarchs who were known for their extravagance and debauchery had to mess with these things.

When Cai Yan saw her, she felt very novel and happy. She thought that her husband had worked hard to design for her happy life. For a literary girl, it was so comfortable to be able to see the lotus flowers directly in the boudoir.

Now that the mansion has finally been completed, my husband will live there, so of course I have to serve you well.

Since the couple was harmonious at the beginning of the year, they have not had the chance to stay together for half a year. Li Su has been outside for half a year for state affairs and wars, and only in the two or three months from May to July, for the Diaoyu City Siege Campaign, she lived with Cai Yan in Dianjiang County.

Unfortunately, because it was midsummer and the hottest time of the year, the weather in Bajun was irritable. Li Su was troubled by the shadow of tropical diseases. She was afraid that her body was weak and if she was infected, she was very restrained in women's sex and had no sexual characteristics.

Fortunately, Cai Yan is also a 16 or 17-year-old girl. She is young and cares more about being pampered and comforted in her spirit. She doesn’t know much about that. In the summer, Li Su felt hot and just hugged her and pampered her every night. She felt very happy, and she also thought it was because her husband pity her for her delicate physique.

"Husband, you have been resting in my boudoir these days. When you open the window, you can see the remaining lotus below. Although there are no flowers, it is quite artistic." Cai Yan hugged Li Su's arm tiltedly and introduced it into his room. Knowing that these things were made based on his husband's imagination, he still couldn't help but introduce them.

Li Su hugged his wife and asked with a smile: "This is the two months I was not here. The weather is still hot, so I asked you to live here. It's almost November now. Isn't it good to live in a drier house? Are you not afraid of heavy humidity here?"

Cai Yan pouted: "No, it's beautiful here, the moisture is fine. Every few days, there are maids who sprinkle lime in the corners of the wall to absorb the moisture. Don't be perfunctory to me, first, you talk about the lotus pond in this patio, is it quite artistic to keep dead leaves?"

Li Su tightened his arms, shook his wife sitting on his lap, and said: "That's right, how can my beloved wife's aesthetic taste be bad: the bamboo wall has no dust and water, and the lovesickness is far away from the city. The autumn clouds do not dissipate the frost and fly late, leaving the remaining lotus to listen to the sound of rain."

Li Su did not intend to plagiarize, but was purely inspired by this feeling. It can only be said that some of Li Shangyin's tone was too suitable among literary and artistic youth. When he first went to Wushan, he talked about the night rain in Bashan, and then to the "sound of the remaining lotus rain" today, it was very conspicuous.

Moreover, it can be seen that Li Su is not very understanding when reading books - Li Shangyin's original poem is actually written as "leaving the withered lotus and listening to the sound of rain", but Li Su is not educated. He learned about this poem by reading "Dream of Red Mansions" in his previous life. In "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Daiyu mistakenly tampered with it as "remnant lotus", and he also thought it was "remnant lotus".

Who made him uneducated?

However, Cai Yan didn't care about the residual lotus or the withered lotus. After hearing her husband's whisper, she felt soft all over, as if she was in the clouds, and her artistic conception was ethereal, and she couldn't help but comment leisurely:

"Since ancient times, I have only seen five-character Yuefu. I didn't expect that the seven-character Yuefu has a unique rhythm, and the artistic conception is even more tortuous and lingering. There are several degrees of staggering in one sentence."

Now there is no concept of quatrain and regular verse, so Cai Yan regards this as a new Yuefu.

The couple is harmonious with each other, and they should be in harmony with each other, and they should not be aware of the common people.

The days of waiting for the messenger and the hostages seemed less boring.

...

The words were divided into three parts, and it was finally the last one.

When Li Su sent a messenger to inquire about the news of the Jingzhou army, Guan Yu, who was expeditioning the east with 5,000 Danyang troops, finally cleared the counties around Zigui in the southern county of Jingzhou, advanced further east, and arrived in Yidu and Xiling.

Yidu is the later generations of Yichang, Hubei, and is the exit of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. The aforementioned Zigui is between two of the Three Gorges. So when I arrived in Yidu, the local county magistrates who were loyal to Dong Zhuo or who were newly appointed by Dong Zhuo, the resistance became fierce.

In Jingzhou, especially in Jingnan, there have been many powerful generals in the clan since the Huan Ling period, which is also one of the important reasons why Liu Biao was unable to take his life when he first took office. In this life, Liu Biao reached a tacit understanding with Guan Yu and tacitly agreed to Guan Yu to cut off Yidu and Wuling, in exchange for Guan Yu to kill the powerful generals in the clan. Guan Yu had military strength anyway, so he was able to get the best between Liu Biao and Yuan Shu. Anyway, he could get the benefits by just moving his fists, so he could only get it.

These thieves and heroes don’t care about whether they want Dong or not. They just stand by their position to make it easier to keep their own land and continue to be the local emperor. So if the foreign households are seeking Dong, they will have to support Dong and drive the outside households away. If the foreign households are seeking Dong, they will pretend to challenge Dong and still drive the outside households away.
Chapter completed!