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Chapter 151 Borrowing a knife to kill a treasure

"No, I can't live such a decadent life anymore. I'm hurt by beauty!"

In the early morning, in Cai Yan's boudoir villa outside Jiangzhou City, he woke up in the boudoir, looked at the silver mirror, and gestured on the wooden pillars with a scale. Li Su woke up and realized that he had wasted a day in the gentle village.

It's almost the twelfth lunar month!

What he said was hurt by women, of course, did not mean that his body became weak like Lu Bu.

A young man who is nineteen years old can have a weak yarn! That is the age when he has unlimited firepower, and it is impossible to be weak.

So, what he meant was that after spending more than half a month in Jiangzhou, he didn't grow taller!

"It seems that my developmental period has ended on my junior sister. Alas, in this life, even if it is seven feet and six inches, it is about 1.75 meters and 1.8 meters. There are also historical books that are 'eight feet long and very beautiful', and they are gone! Zhao Ji misled me!"

Fortunately, these things were just inner activities, and they did not shout out, but did not wake up his wife or make the girl sad. Cai Yan was sleepy at a young age and woke up for a long time. When she saw her husband looking at the mirror by the window, she got up to serve her.

"Why did you get up early? Taking advantage of the lack of busy official duties, General Guan has no reward. Why don't you relax and take care of yourself? I'll prepare food for you?"

"Just let the maid do these small things." Li Su was concerned.

"I like to make it. My husband can always come up with new fun, delicious food. Can't I even imitate it? Maybe it can be improved." Cai Yan smiled and pulled back his hand and turned around.

The shrimps were still fried and the beef shredded, but the eggs were not added, but the fried boneless eel was changed.

When we arrived in the south, more people ate eels, and the yield of eels was also high. Cai Yan knew that eels were also nourishing the body and bones, so after arriving in Jiangzhou, he would always give his husband a meal.

Moreover, after arriving in Bashu, Cai Yan also discovered a dietary habit of the locals, that is, people here do not eat shrimps. In fact, Shu did not eat them even until the early 20th century, and believed that the small river shrimps were a kind of insect.

Therefore, the rivers and ditches here are full of river shrimps, and you can catch several buckets by just a little bit of it. Therefore, every time the Cai Mansion takes a pot of oil, there are many more buckets of fried shrimps. Fry the shells and fry them all together, which is just enough to replenish calcium and bones.

After eating the noodles made by his wife himself, Li Su rested for a while when he suddenly heard a manager from Cai’s mansion come in and report: “Report to the Central Secretary, the messenger of the general has also brought a free imperial official named Liu Zhang, who has been sent to the city, and the mansion is receiving it.”

As he said that, the man handed Guan Yu's letter first.

It seems that Guan Yu had prepared at least two secret letters, one for Li Sucai to read directly, and the other should be sent directly to Chengdu to Liu Bei.

Li Su suddenly started to rise: I finally got to work! It seems that Yun Chang has succeeded completely!

"Go into the city! You go and prepare the car first!"

"Here."

After the manager left, Li Sucai pulled the letter and paced back and forth, turned around and said to Cai Yan: "You are... packing up the things you want to take away, and going to the riverside to load a boat. Maybe you will go to Chengdu today."

Cai Yan smiled brightly: "It's been ready long ago! I even packed the dowry."

As he said that, Cai Yan actually asked the maid to carry out dozens of large mahogany boxes in an orderly manner and ordered to go to the river to load the ship. Li Su was dumbfounded by the efficiency.

This is hated to marry to a certain level.

...

Li Su had no time to consider his wife's hatred marriage issue.

While waiting for the manager to prepare the car, he had already opened Guan Yu's letter and read it.

The letter must briefly describe the war, and also explain the results and casualties. The entire Yiling Battle had a total of three or four battles, and the damage to the Danyang soldiers and Jiujiang soldiers was still quite shocking, and the 5,000 soldiers brought with them were killed by two thousand soldiers. However, the total troop size at Guan Yu did not decrease, because there were so many prisoners arrested and reorganized, but the quality of the soldiers was definitely not as good as those elite soldiers in the early days.

In the second part of the letter, Guan Yu also emphasized that he had exceeded the task of occupying Yidu County and Wuling County. In addition to the pre-occupied area designated by the "Map to Open Xinjiang", he cut off two counties in Chanling in the Youjiangkou Basin, and completely connected Yidu County to Wuling County in the south of the Yangtze River. At the same time, Liu Bei and Li Su were also asked to agree as soon as possible to make Liu Biaobiao's prefect and Wuling County the prefect.

Finally, Guan Yu said that when the letter was sent, he had already officially reached a final sharing of the spoils with Liu Biao and Yuan Shu.

He had already divided two thousand troops, led by Gan Ning. At the invitation of Liu Biao, he crossed Jiangling and Xiangyang, the jurisdiction of Liu Biao's army, and advanced to Fancheng on the north bank of the Han River. In the first month of the next year, Zhou Tai might also lead his troops to Xinye. These troops were all for winning the trust of Yuan Shu and making Yuan Shu believe that Liu Bei's camp would really send so many troops to assist Sun Jian in defying Dong.

The reason why Liu Biao agreed was to guard against Yuan Shu stationed in Nanyang - it was the same as in history that Liu Biao asked Liu Bei to station in Xinye and Fancheng to defend Cao Cao from the north.

Anyway, as long as you don’t go to Xiangyang and Jiangling and other border areas of Jingzhou, Liu Biao is not afraid of letting Guan Yu temporarily stationed, and even is willing to provide Guan Yu with two months of military rations.

Yuan Shu also released Liu Zhang, the chess piece after seeing the sincerity of Guan Yu's troops stationed in Fancheng.

"The big thing has been accomplished, and now it is now that Liu Yan should be completely desperate. If you threaten Liu Zhang, Liu Yan will definitely surrender as we ask."

After reading the letter, Li Su went to the city to contact Cai Yong, and said, "Congratulations to his mentor and General Guan for their minor achievements in seeking Dong Youxuan", and said that he would take Cai Yan away first and invite Cai Yong to Chengdu for the first time in the first month.

Cai Yong also knew exactly what was going on and agreed to his son-in-law's arrangements.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Su took Cai Yan, along with her relatives, guards, and messengers to Chengdu.

Liu Zhang naturally escorted Guan Yu's people, and Li Su still felt that it was unlucky to be on the same boat as those people.

...

Seven days later, Li Su was busy with a boat trip, and changed his boat in Nan'an County (Leshan) in the middle, and finally arrived near Chengdu.

"Boya, you are willing to come to Chengdu. I believe that Yunchang has already made good news on the Eastern Front? This place is not far from my brother's fiefdom. Should you take a look first?"

When Liu Bei heard that Li Su was coming, he personally took Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others out of the west gate of Chengdu and went to the wharf by the Minjiang River to greet him.

This place is about thirty miles west of Chengdu and thirty miles south of Pi County, not far from the court fiefdom given to Li Suquan by Liu Bei.

The fief of Li Su, the Marquis of Piting, is approximately near the new campus in the west of the southwest of the University of Finance and Economics in the later generations. Dujiangyan is 70 or 80 miles upstream along the Minjiang River, and there are many tributary diversion canals below Dujiangyan, so this area is the best and most fertile land with the Chengdu Plain.

The late Han Shao Emperor added Li Su to eight hundred households for the last time. Of course, Liu Bei had to give him eight hundred hectares of land according to the tax algorithm of Han law, which was the "master of the official occupies 100 acres of land".

(Note: In fact, since Emperor Jing of Han, farmers in the Han Dynasty had less than 100 Han acres of land, because the population became larger and the land was not enough. However, the law has always collected land taxes based on one-thirty of the rated yield of "one hundred Han acres".

Therefore, the people had to pay more than three mu of harvest as taxes to the country. During the Huanling period, there were additional taxes. For example, Emperor Ling asked that nine five-zhu coins per mu of land in the world be added to sponsor the palace repair.

By doing this, Zhuge Liang, the Marquis of Wuxiang in later generations, had only "fifteen hectares of thin fields" until his death. He was so honest. Before Li Suren came, he had occupied 800 hectares of land.

Although this was a reward from the court, he deserved it.

Facing Liu Bei's courtesy, Li Su felt aware of it and knew that it was important to talk about the important thing first.

He reported the situation roughly and expressed his hope to help secretly draft negotiation conditions for Liu Yan.

There is no need for Liu Bei to know too much about some dirty work, he needs a kind attitude.

After Liu Bei said a few words to him, he knew that Li Su was going to take the opportunity to kill dissidents, but he also happened to need such a person, so he would completely trust Li Su.

Not to mention, in the original history, as the mastermind of Liu Bei's entry into Shu, Fa Zheng had done many jobs of revenge and killing people after he gained power, but Liu Bei also accused him of it.

On the one hand, it was because the Fa Zheng in that history made great contributions, but on the other hand, Fa Zheng was also helping Liu Bei to raise hatred. After all, if the original nobles in Shu were not settled, where would the land, money and food be distributed to the meritorious officials as rewards?

To conquer a state, wealth and land must be reshuffled.

Not to mention anything else, the eight hundred hectares of fiefdom that Li Su has obtained now cannot be a land without a home. If someone else's land was originally a tenant, it would be fine. It would be a matter of changing the employer and paying taxes to Li Su from now on.

If the field was originally a noble or aristocrat, and the nobles would not become vestigators on other people's fiefdoms, they would definitely have to compensate them and replace them. Where did the relocated new fields come from? They would not be able to eliminate any dissidents who were very angry in the public.

As for whom Li Su has also thought about the specific liquidation, he has roughly understood the truth:

"After the destruction of Mianzhu City, those who stayed in Shu could be destroyed according to the laws of the court, and Liu Yan would not have to sell our favors. The rest of Ren, Yang and Chen Shu Religious Sects, and Chen, led by Chen Shi, had already defected to us, and his performance was OK. Don't deal with them this time.

The Ren family and Yang family can focus on cleaning up, especially the disciples of the Ren'an school. As far as I know, there are many people who believe in prophecies and divinations and talk about the way of heaven."

The Yang family, the third sect of Shu Confucianism, was mainly descended from the Yang Xiong family at the junction of the Han Dynasty, that is, the descendant of Mr. Ziyun in "Zhuge Room Inscription" "Zhuge Room" "Zhuge Lu, Nanyang, Ziyunting in Western Shu", and was also scolded by Zhuge Liang as a representative of "finding chapters and slandering sentences, corrupt scholars of the world" in the plot of "talking against the scholars" in the Romance.

Yang Xiong's hometown is from Pi County, so after more than 150 years of development in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yang family occupied almost half of the county's land and slaves in Pi County.

Liu Bei, the second sect of Shu Confucianism, originally did not plan to liquidate the Ren family, mainly because Ren An had already died of old age, and Ren Qi, the former prefect of Jianwei in the younger generation, had long been cleaned and killed by Liu Yan. Liu Bei felt that there was no problem with the surname Ren, so he ignored it.

But Li Su knew that the danger of the Ren family was not the members of the Ren clan surname, but also the dangerous elements among the disciples of Ren An.

For example, Du Wei, Du Qiong and Qiao Feng, these three are all students of Ren An.

Although Du Qiong was good at learning, he made many reactionary remarks in later generations when Zhuge Liang was in power.

For example, "Dangtu Gao, a person who replaced the Han Dynasty," is interpreted as "Dangtu Gao is the 'Wei Que', abbreviated as 'Wei'. All officials in the world are 'belonging to Cao', so the world belongs to Cao Wei" is the academic achievement studied by Du Qiong.

Du Qiong's junior brother Qiao Feng died early. Du Qiong also taught his junior brother's son Qiao Zhou Chengcai very diligently, inheriting his reactionary prophecies and divination research, and studying the academic topics of "who should replace Han" every day.

Such a person fell into Li Su's hands, and he could just use a knife to kill someone and seize treasure, wouldn't it be beautiful!

Liu Yan should be forced to entrust him. The Yang family and his students donated money to help defend Mianzhu! If they don’t pay for money and don’t go to the battlefield, they will be called “co-opportunistic” by Liu Yan.
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