You can chat at the table with the general trend, but it is not suitable for specific implementation.

So after Liu Bei had a lot of nonsense with his counselors, he didn't go deeper. He soon got drunk and was helped back to rest by his concubines.

Since it is just a chat and the person who speaks is not guilty, there must be people who have different opinions from Li Su.

Especially when drinking to enhance the cowardly, in the last few searches before Liu Bei was helped down, some civil servants and staff from the etiquette and law schools who were not very knowledgeable about strategy also mentioned a few words of "We should go north to challenge Dong as soon as possible, and be the emperor to order the emperor to decede."

However, Liu Bei would not care, just think that these people were Kong Rong. Other strategists who drank less would not directly refute this politically correct high-profile person. However, everyone knew in their hearts that Liu Bei must trust Li Su's vision more.

Only Lu Su was considering the matter and directly supported Li Su's opinion on what he said just now, "You must not be in a hurry, you must wait for changes in Guanzhong."

Who made Lu Su always tell the truth that he didn't care about the filial etiquette? In history, he could have just thrown out such a rebellious remark like "The Han Dynasty cannot be revived" when Sun Quan was still hiding it. It can be seen that he was also a bold and despicable person to take the blame for the world.

The banquet ended happily, and the group went back to rest without mentioning it.

...

Li Su's mansion in the fiefdom has not been renovated yet, but he also has his own real estate in Chengdu City.

He is now the prefect of Shu County, so the prefect is his territory. Outside the back door of the prefect, there is also a large mansion, which is the original property of the Du brothers. The Du brothers died as internal servants, and Li Su happened to divide the house. In this way, if the work is transferred in the future, he will no longer serve as the prefect of Shu County, and there will be a backyard to rest, so it is convenient to move houses.

Therefore, including Cai Yan, the family and maids have also temporarily settled in this mansion.

In a few days, Cai Yan will go to the fiefdom as the hostess to supervise the renovation progress of the Hou Mansion, and strive to simply decorate the storefront within one or two months, and then rectify one or two in the residence, so that he can hold a marriage in the Hou Mansion in the first month. Li Su has other important things to do, so he doesn't have to worry about the family's affairs.

That morning, under the service of Cai Yan and the maid, I drank some salted egg yolk minced mutton porridge that nourishes my stomach? I took the breakfast over.

Did you drink too much yesterday? I have to eat something light and nourish the stomach in the morning, so there is no need to be greasy and meaty? Anyway, the development is over and it will not grow any longer. Li Su originally wanted to use peeled eggs more? But now there are no peeled eggs, so he can't remember the recipe for pickling the peeled eggs for a while? So I put the salted duck eggs first.

Salted duck eggs have no technical content, and it is recorded in the genuine "Qimin Yaoshu"? It can be seen that salt duck eggs were found in the early days of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Although Li Su's "Agricultural Affairs" was not written at the beginning? But he gave some advice on such a simple thing and asked Cai Yan to add it to the manuscript.

The porridge was almost finished, and a servant told me outside the door that he had an old friend coming to visit? It was the chief of Hanzhong Lusu.

Lu Su spent most of this year guarding Hanzhong, because other powerful generals were transferred out to fight, and even Liu Bei himself went to the front line and someone would have to guard the rear.

Although Lu Su is not a famous general, he is already cautious enough in the garrison. The talent of "guarding the road and guarding Rao Zijing" has been shown. With the danger of the Hanzhong Heavenly Prison? With Lu Su here, a few thousand soldiers can ensure no harm.

However, in late November, when Liu Bei saw that the war in the three counties of Chengdu Plain was about to end, he carefully invited Lu Su to come here to celebrate together. Just take a vacation and tell his job? Let's enjoy the travel and enjoy it? Temporarily hand over the government affairs to others and go back after the Spring Festival.

The reason why I chose this time is because the Qinling Mountains in the north are blocking the mountains in winter. Therefore, when November of each year arrives at the end of January, it is impossible for the warlords in the Guanzhong Plain to cross the Qinling Mountains to attack Hanzhong. If they want to give Lu Su a holiday, of course they have to choose this time. Even when Liu Bei attacked Zhang Lu himself, he did not endure the Qinling Mountains until early February, so they know this best.

From this we can also see that Liu Bei is very sympathetic to his subordinates and is very good at winning people's hearts. He not only realizes the value of life for promotion and wealth, but also helps you think about the group building of the annual holiday tour during the year.

...

Li Su and Lu Su have a very strong relationship, after all, he personally recruited the latter back then.

So I didn't be polite to him when I met, so I just stayed with Lu Su for breakfast.

Lu Su: "I've eaten it."

Li Su: "Then eat some more. My porridge here nourishes my stomach. It's a good idea to have a bowl of wine after drinking. If you have a strong taste, you can add fish fillets and shredded duck meat to a raw roll."

It is easy to make a slight addition of salted egg and shredded pork porridge into boat porridge. Li Su usually doesn’t like to drink porridge, but this does not mean that he is not familiar with the ingredients of Cantonese congee. He also occasionally drinks it when he had a barbecue for socializing in his previous life.

Lu Su felt it smelled good, so he was no longer polite. At worst, he would not eat it at noon now. He didn't ask for the old duck soup, but just asked for some fish fillets and some ingredients to add a little raw and roll it up.

"Brother Boya comes here, and you will enjoy life every time you come. After a bowl of wine, you will feel much more comfortable."

Li Su smiled and said, "You drank too much last night. Guan Ning and Xi Lu often talked about high-profile things, but you even refuted them. "Senging the Emperor" is a righteous thing. Even if it is unrealistic, it is not easy to refute positively."

However, when Li Su mentioned this, it means that he did not forget Lu Su's statement that strongly supported him last night, which showed that "I know you and I are on the same front."

Lu Su also smiled: "I am just frustrated. In fact, the world is about to be completely in chaos. Without chaos, how can there be a great rule? Everyone knows the benefits of serving the emperor.

But just because it is difficult to debate in front of others, I see that many people have not figured out the key points of the interests, nor do they know how the benefits of the emperor are reflected. I didn’t understand it very well, so I didn’t want to talk to Brother Boya in private about my opinion.”

After hearing Lu Su raise such a constructive question, Li Su couldn't help but look up at the other party again.

Lu Su’s political power is very good! He can keenly dig into this problem.

In fact, "using the emperor to command the princes" is beneficial. Anyone who has read the slightest Romance of the Three Kingdoms knows this. Some people even think that after traveling through time, they can get a lot of benefits by robbing the lord and first advising the emperor to welcome the emperor. They can also take the opportunity to ride the official career.

But because everyone thinks that it is beneficial to hijack the emperor, how many benefits are there, and under what conditions these benefits can be fulfilled, I have never seen anyone analyze it. I became an "elephant in the room". Everyone knows its existence, but they don't discuss its details, and finally blindly follow the blind faith.

If you don’t believe it, you can ask yourself: Can you tell me what specific benefits Cao Cao got by tying the emperor in history? Ninety percent of people can’t answer it.

Li Su studied diplomacy in his previous life and had been dealing with "big righteousness" and orthodoxy throughout his life. He actually specialized in paper topics and digging very deeply about these issues.

Because he understands orthodox affairs, he will not blindly persuade his lord to "supremember the emperor".

Historically, the benefits Cao Cao obtained by wielding the emperor and summarizing them carefully can be divided into three categories.

The first category is called "those counties occupied by unambitious heroes can automatically surrender as long as the imperial army arrives. And if these counties are defeated by other ambitious warlords, those bureaucrats without ambition will travel thousands of miles to join the warlords representing the court."

For example, people like Hua Xin and Wang Lang. Although this type of people occasionally seized the city and landed themselves in the late Han Dynasty, they did not have the ambition to compete for hegemony, but they just kept themselves purely. Cao Cao, who represented the court, did not directly border him, so he lived his own. If Cao Cao could border him, he would directly surrender. Hua Xin and Wang Lang's territory was destroyed by Yuan Shu and Sun Ce, they would return to Xudu alone and become officials for Cao Cao.

The second category is called "After the original enemy was destroyed, their land would automatically belong to the representative court. The prince who held the emperor would no longer have to abolish too many troops and seize it by force."

Typical of these are Yuan Shu and Li Jue. Before Yuan Shu died in history, Huainan actually had some military strength and county strength, but as long as Yuan Shu himself "thirsty for honey water" and vomited blood and died, his name as the pseudo-emperor collapsed, and the remaining territory was basically surrendered. Yuan Shu was not killed by the battle of soldiers, grain, and territory as mentioned in the Romance, but only those forces were lost after he died in the end, and the causal relationship could not be reversed.

Also after Li Jue was destroyed, Cao Cao only ordered Zhong Yao to return to Guanzhong to "appease" and the almost deserted Guanzhong returned to Cao Cao's subordinates again in name. The process of Cao Cao's acquisition of Chang'an and Luoyang could be said to have no military force.

The third and last type of "holding the emperor" is to take advantage of the advantage of "the emperor can be hereditary, but officials cannot be hereditary", and quickly annex the territory after the first generation of the hostile warlords died of illness.

The representatives are Yuan Shao and Liu Biao. In fact, Yuan Shao cannot be regarded as destroyed by the Battle of Guandu, nor even the Battle of Cangting-

If there were only a few defeats, as long as Yuan Shao did not die, he would have lifespan and tenacity, what should I be afraid of? Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. How many times did Cao Cao lose himself almost shake the fundamental defeat? How many times did Liu Bang lose in history?

In the Battle of Guandu, only a team that took the initiative to attack was lost. Qingjiyou and the four states were still there. It was a pedantic view that Guandu beat Yuan Shao to no chance.

But the key problem is that before a warlord proclaimed himself emperor, he did not have the right to pass the throne. Even if Yuan Shao chose the right son to pass the throne, he would still face a lot of divisions and many subordinates separated because "I am just loyal to Yuan Shao, not the Yuan Dynasty."

Since Qin Shihuang, the emperor has inherited his ancestors and his ministers have not been granted official positions. This is the biggest flaw. Cao Cao has been holding the emperor for so many years, preparing for the moment when the enemy's first generation passed the throne after his death.

From this we can also see that it is quite a historical luck that Liu Bei could leave a piece of land in history. Fortunately, Liu Bei was younger than Cao Cao and died later than Cao Cao. Otherwise, because Cao Cao did not proclaim himself emperor, Liu Bei would not dare to proclaim himself emperor. If Liu Bei died first, Liu Bei, who had not yet become emperor, would pass on the mere "Governor of Yizhou" to Liu Chan... Haha, I'm afraid that Zhuge Liang would be difficult to suppress him.

From this perspective, there is nothing to doubt about what Liu Bei said about the slaughter of his orphans on his deathbed, "If you are not talented, you can take it yourself." Liu Bei had seen Yuan Shao and Liu Biao's miserable situation because he "died earlier than Cao Cao, so his life's foundation was instantly zero." In his heart, even if he really gave it to Zhuge Liang, it would be better than giving it to Cao Cao.

Liu Bei's mentality when he was dying might not have adapted to the emperor's identity, but just regarded himself as a "Yuan Shao and Liu Biao who could pass the throne". Because of the halo of history, later generations felt that Liu Bei was much stronger than Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, but after careful analysis, they found that the most important point was the "lifetime".

As long as you can hold on to death as a prince of one side, and survive until the traitor who dares to become emperor on behalf of the Han Dynasty will die first, in order to prevent the loss in the process of succession, his son could not hold back the Han flag and retreat, and you would have to survive. Is Liu Bei and Sun Quan definitely stronger than other warlords who dissipated in the long river of history? This is hard to say, but their longevity is the biggest advantage.

...

Of course, the examples of Li Su’s profound cognitive insights in his previous life cannot be told to Lu Su because they have not happened yet.

However, the principle can be deduced with Lu Su.

Therefore, he also cooked porridge with Lu Su to serve the emperor, sorting out the above three points one by one, so that Lu Su could discover and improve the arguments by himself.

Lu Su learned from it and quickly summarized the conclusion.

"Brother Boya is really a genius in the world. He even dares to think so clearly about the question of "How much is the benefit of the emperor?"

In this way, because we will challenge Dong ourselves in the future, no matter whether we are Feng Emperor or Dong Zhuo's territory, the general who conquers the West can get it. It is nothing more than multiple emperors, which can make the fleeing generals willing to return and submit. If the interests in this area are not great enough, there is no need to rush to serve the emperor for this.

Secondly, if we automatically get the support of those warlords without ambitions in order to worship the emperor, it depends on whether there are many such warlords around us. If we are in Yangzhou and border those cowardly self-defense thieves, then the emperor is eager. If there are no such counties to absorb, it doesn’t matter whether they are worshipped or not.

Finally, if it is to 'let the strong enemy live a lifetime' and be taken over by the emperor because of the change of throne, it depends on the lifespan and health of the surrounding strong enemy leaders. If the leaders of the surrounding strong enemy are already fifty or sixty years old, they are about to end their lives, or are weak in their bodies, it will be beneficial to worship the emperor. If they conquer them by force, they will not be able to die of old age, and the emperor will be useless."

When Yuan Shao was not dead, did Cao Cao's title of emperor gain any practical benefits from Yuan Shao? Yuan Shao would not be able to win over the emperor at all.

This is not a cliché, but an actuarial and quantitative analysis was carried out. The value of the emperor was accurate to the level of a pair of underwear and toilet paper.

After Li Su and Lu Su's deduction, he felt very happy. He dared to say that in this life, neither Xun Yu nor Ju Su, he did not think carefully about the issue of "worshiping the benefits of the emperor" as they are now.

The main reason is that these words are too rebellious and cannot tell people like Liu Bei who upholds benevolence and righteousness. Only Li Sulusu and the other two dare to say, "The Han Dynasty cannot be revived at the moment." They must understand that they closed the door and complained privately, forming a united front in private.

Of course, Lu Su in this life definitely did not mean that "the Han Dynasty cannot be revived", but that "the Han Dynasty cannot be revived at present". After all, the lord is still a surname of Liu, and he can rebuild a Han Dynasty. It is better to renovate it than to repair it.

Li Su: "I feel relieved that Zijing has such knowledge. I will leave the matters in the north to you."
Chapter completed!