The more than forty days after drinking with Wang Yun, Shi Sun Rui and others was the most boring and unwilling to let go of.

Let's go back to Shu County to deal with your own affairs. The road is too far, and it's not enough to make a round trip. My wife has been staying in the Hou Mansion of Pi County for a year. Li Su didn't stay at home for a whole year. Originally, after returning from the Nanzhong Conquest, she had been holding back for so long, and wanted to go home immediately for a good time and enjoy it. By the way, she accepted the farming results, but she had to delay two more months.

When you go back to Hanzhong, there is no other urgent official business to deal with. Li Su cannot even tell Liu Bei the speculation that "Wang Yun will not live long", so the fewer you meet with Liu Bei, the better.

Because Li Su knew very well that Liu Bei had no intention of seeking the throne himself. If Liu Bei knew that "the emperor had just escaped danger and might be in trouble with the traitors", Liu Bei would definitely mobilize troops to support Wang Yun and rescue Emperor Xian of Han.

The butterfly effect will be completely blown away and I don’t know how to end it.

Moreover, even if you do not consider the self-interest of our camp, it is not a good thing to let Wang Yun live for too long just for the whole world and the country.

Because the problems of the Han Dynasty have become increasingly difficult to recover, now is the time to not be destroyed or established.

The court also has a large number of old conservatives who are ranked among the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers. If these people survive, the Han Dynasty will not think about the new atmosphere of "only talent is the right way to govern the country according to law" within the next twenty years.

Among these ministers, although there are good people like Huangfu Song who should live a hundred years old, there are also more mediocre historical books that are not worthy of leaving a few words, but now they are in a high position.

Even Dong Zhuo did not solve the problems left over from the era of selling official positions and titles in the Han Dynasty in history, because the absolute proportion of Dong Zhuo killing the imperial court's ministers was not high. The top-level bureaucratic groups that truly destroyed the court's palace fighting thinking, and the entire country completely turned into the logic of hegemony. It was the later "Li Jue robbed the emperor and Guo Si robbed all officials" when Li Jue and Guo Si strife later.

After reading the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", a large number of senior officials of the old era who died in 195, such as Huang Wan, Zheng, Tai, Ma, and Sun Rui, Huangfu Song and Zhu Yan, were all slaughtered by Guo Si in that wave of trouble. They were all small-scale quarrels before. Otherwise, how could Cao Cao's drastic moves in the first year of Jian'an in the second year?

Although twenty years later, when Cao Cao died, Cao Pi and Chen Qun formed the nine-rank Zhongzheng system and gradually restored the selection criteria. But it has to be said that 196 to 216 were the 20 years with the least resistance to personnel reform, because the uppermost resistance was gone. Guo Si actually became Cao Cao's executioner.

Therefore, Li Su can neither take the initiative to deceive Liu Bei, nor even say a "kind lie" or facilitate Liu Bei to save Wang Yun. Even the clues that could lead to Liu Bei's "regardless of the Yueli Recovery War and transfer Zhang Fei's troops from Jianwei to Hanzhong in advance" cannot be leaked.

He had no choice but to pretend that he couldn't see or hear, and to indulge in his voice and procrastinate.

If you drag, just drag it hard.

...

In a blink of an eye, it was half a month after the negotiations with Wang Yun.

Li Subepu in Nanzheng City is full of bright lights, wine and wine, and there is endless music and music.

Li Su returned to Nanzheng with Wang Yun's conditions six days ago, and then discussed a little with Liu Bei's countermeasures and asked Liu Bei to send someone to write memorials, prepare jade seals, and other Nanzhong specialties as tributes to the court.

The first two items were actually quite fast to prepare, because the jade seal was next to Liu Bei, and the writers of literature helped to polish the memorials. This time, Qin Mi was responsible for the pen. This time, he was more capable and had a good writing style.

The only slower one is Nanzhong specialties, because some of them are not stocked here in Hanzhong and they have to be retrieved from Jiangzhou or Chengdu. The fast horse and fast ships will take at least half a month, and they will be dragged down.

Liu Bei didn't understand why the tribute was so time-consuming and insisted on asking Li Su to cut off a few difficult items. Li Su had no choice but to control the rhythm and agreed, so he didn't let Liu Bei see the flaws.

The tribute was really unstoppable, so Li Su began to pick the faults of the memorials written by Qin Mi:

"Zi Zhi! I have a Zhi in your handwriting. Can you write an imperial edict even in this writing? Let me exaggerate it, why do you write a gentle thing like "Yueli will be overcome by the king's army? I told Wang Yun that Yueli has already captured it. Now that I have changed my words and failed to capture it, wouldn't it be slap in the face?

Also, what is the preparation for the launch of the Ailao Kingdom? It is not easy to report it. It has been accumulated for several years and it is only now that I have the opportunity to fulfill it. You have to calculate it in advance, and you can write that the Ailao Kingdom has been destroyed by us!"

Qin Mi was so angry that she was very respectful to Li Su on the surface and said that she would make rectifications according to the requirements of the leader.

That afternoon, Liu Bei himself heard that Qin Mi's memorial had been called back twice by Li Su, so he had to go to Li Su's mansion to see it in person, wanting to know why Li Su made things difficult for Qin Mi.

He didn't let anyone inform him, so he pushed the door open and entered. The maid in Li's mansion didn't have time to warn Li Su to restrain himself. As soon as Liu Bei walked in, he saw a scene of being indulgent.

Li Su hugged three or four beauties and was drinking heavily. Her face turned red and she seemed to have no brains to deal with government affairs. The maids playing music and dancing beside her were also very beautiful.

Liu Bei was angry and funny: "It should be my fault for letting you go out for a year and separate from your wife, so you need to take a break when you are tired of running around?"

Li Su quickly tidied up his clothes, and his dancer knelt down and apologized for resignation.

Liu Bei was very generous and waved his hand to pardon the dancers: "Don't do your business, continue playing music and dance."

Then, Liu Bei looked at it carefully for a few seconds and nodded with appreciation: "These are the ones sent back from the Meiwu. Do you choose the ones you stay by your side as a maid?"

Li Su: "Yes, if you think what I left is too beautiful, you can leave."

Liu Bei: "What a joke? I will reward you when I say it. Will I be as lustful as Dong Thief? "

It turned out that although Li Su had ordered the "eight hundred-year-old beauties" in the Meiwu to be put home and restored to their freedom, in fact, more than half of them were released, four or five hundred people, and dozens of them were taken away by Lu Bu.

There are two or three hundred left, and they can’t even let go of them even if they want to - because these girls are already homeless.

Dong Zhe was in Chang'an for more than two years and killed many officials and wealthy people. For those whose family members had been killed, Li Su was of course obliged to send them back to Nanzheng and ask Liu Bei to deal with them and support them.

Liu Bei chose some older people to give to those who had not married yet, or to civil officials who had not married yet, who had come far away to join the civil servants who had not married yet, and all gave them some as wives or concubines, which consumed more than a hundred people, and the remaining few were only a few great heroes.

Li Su also assigned twenty beautiful girls from the Meiwu as maids and dance music. Now he pretended to be playing around and indulged in enjoyment and rest, and of course there was no pressure - but Li Su did not sleep with these women because they were too young, and Li Su was not that kind of beast.

On the other hand, he also needs to maintain his physical strength. He has to walk at least two or three Baoxie Pavement on subsequent missions. A mountain road of 200 miles is not easy to walk. What if a woman is weakening her physical strength and cannot walk where she should walk, and even causes her horse to be unstable and fall down the valley and die?

Moreover, when he first chose people, he chose talent for singing, dancing and music. Not only for beauty, the band occupied more than a dozen places. Who made this era without sound or movies? If you want to watch entertainment programs, you can only waste some manpower.

At this moment, Liu Bei looked at him a few times, and had to sigh that Li Su was good at living and had a taste. Only seven or eight of these twenty maids were considered to be among the beautiful girls in the Meiwu, while others were relatively famous for their talents.

"Boya, why are you so uneasy? Is it necessary to be so slow and memorial?" Liu Bei asked casually while drinking wine, but he couldn't hear the meaning of blame.

Li Su pretended to knead the girl at hand and said sincerely: "Don't I think the big thing has been decided? All the traitors are apart, and there are all the officials in the court. Don't worry. Brother, don't think about it. I've separated from my wife in June last year and have been busy outside for a whole year. I've returned to Nanzheng from Nanzhong. Have you let me rest for three days?

Besides, I talked to Wang Yun a few times before, and felt that he had not understood the current situation, so I wanted other envoys from the princes to have time to make Wang Yun sober. At first, Wang Yun clearly felt that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu would support him and would obey the court unconditionally again, so he ignored us, the heroes who respected the court and withdrew rewards.

Since that's the case, I might as well wait until the first batch of envoys from Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu met Wang Yun and let Wang Yun see how the current local princes asked for officials from the court. Wang Yun's pride would naturally be knocked out a little."

"So that's the case, it's not unreasonable. Wang Yun only cherishes us loyal ministers when he sees other people's disrespect for the court and compares it." Liu Bei nodded, thinking that Li Su was dealing with it very well.

"Forget it, then follow you. At the latest, wait for Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others to get the news, knowing that Dong Zhe is dead, and reacting, our memorials and jade seals should be sent back."

Li Su also breathed a sigh of relief: it was clearly for the benefit of Liu Bei and himself, but he couldn't tell Liu Beiming that it was not easy to do something after going around such a big circle.

However, Li Su had almost waited, because with the constant roads, the news of Dong Zhuo's killing could be spread to Cao Cao's territory in ten days and to Yuan Shao in half a month.

Therefore, at the latest more than ten days after Li Su and Wang Yun agreed, Cao Cao's congratulations to the new dynasty should be in Chang'an. Twenty days are the day when Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's confession arrives - or at least he will have the attitude of "Yuan Shu is not absent from the court controlled by Wang Yun at all" to let Wang Yun understand the current situation.

On June 23, Wang Yun received the first memorial to express his support for the congratulations of the princes in Chang'an City. It was sent by Cao Cao, who led the governor of Yanzhou. The person who served as the messenger of the Hajj was Xun Yu.

Wang Yun's initial reaction after receiving the statement was overjoyed, but then after reading the words "I hope the court will recognize the established reality" in Cao Cao's statement, he thought about it again and again, pinched his nose and recognized Cao Cao as the governor of Yanzhou and the general of Zhendong.

In addition, because Xun Yu, as a messenger, had no formal official position granted by the court before (as of this time, Xun Yu's positions were given privately by Cao Cao and there was no official title of the court), Wang Yun appointed Xun Yu as the Central Army General of Zhendong, and was regarded as a senior official of the General's Mansion of the Four Towns.

On June 27, four days after Cao Cao's arrival, another congratulatory memorial from the chief officials arrived. The messenger was Wang Lang, a resident of Xuzhou Zhizhong, who delivered the message on behalf of Xuzhou Governor Tao Qian.

After Cao Cao's precedent, Wang Yun's moral integrity limit was lowered a little. Not long after, he recognized the reality and officially changed Tao Qian, who was originally just a governor, to the governor of Xuzhou, which was in exchange for Tao Qian's sincere support for Wang Yun to control the court.

This time, Wang Lang, the messenger, had already entered the official position of the filial and honest government a few years ago and had a formal position in the court, so he had to be promoted. Wang Yun wanted to disgust Tao Qian a little, and divided Tao Qian's power, so he transferred Wang Lang away and appointed him as the prefect of Kuaiji County.

"I didn't expect that Liu Bei and Li Su were the most conscientious. Why did these people come late and each one behave badly? He even dared to negotiate terms by respecting the court!"

Wang Yun always sighed like this in his heart, but he still held the last glimmer of hope and wanted to wait for the two Yuans to come.

Unfortunately, he waited until the first day of July, and Wang Yun did not wait for the second Yuan to come to bid. Instead, Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, who was farther away than Yuan Shu, came. Wang Yun was already familiar with the journey and directly admitted that the governor of Jingzhou changed to the governor of Jingzhou and sent Liu Biao's other disciple Yi Ji back.

"Liu Biao is here, Yuan Shu hasn't come yet. It seems that Yuan Shu really won't send anyone, and Yuan Shao won't come either! Brother Benchu, you are so disappointing to me!"

Just as Wang Yun shook his head and sighed, his psychological price was collapsed to the lower limit, he heard two more news, one good and one bad.

The bad news is that Li Su, the general of Lu Bu who was sent to Anyi to attack Niu Fu a few days ago, was defeated and failed to defeat Niu Fu.

In a fit of anger, Wang Yun asked Lu Bu to kill Li Su, and then issued an imperial edict to let Lu Bu lead the troops to attack Niu Fu himself.

After sending Lu Bu out, people from the mansion came to report that the official performance of the General of the Western Expedition and the envoy of the jade seal had arrived in Chang'an and were waiting to request an interview according to the procedures.

He killed one Li Su and another Li Su. Wang Yun felt that he must have had a bad luck today and had a dispute with the one named Li.

"Immediately arrange for a rest at the inn and arrange for a formal visit in three days. I will go and see the authenticity of the tribute." Wang Yun ordered the servants.

After finishing the chores at hand, Wang Yun brought a colleague who had been Fu Baolang and went to Li Su's inn to take out the imperial seal for him to identify.

Of course, Li Su was not afraid that Wang Yun would take away the imperial seal directly. It would be injustice and Wang Yun would not do this.

After only identifying the authenticity, they can formally draft the reward edict that had been negotiated before and handed over publicly three days later.

"Situ is the real jade seal, exactly the same as what I was when I was a Fu Baolang more than ten years ago. The golden horns were melted a little, which should be normal damage from war and displaced."

Wang Yun nodded and turned to Li Su: "Okay, then the seal offering ceremony will be held in three days, and you will be awarded the edict."

After saying that, Wang Yun even sighed and patted Li Su on the shoulder: "Li Boya, Li Boya, I thought you were the most greedy, but I didn't expect that none of the people in Guandong would be more reasonable than you. This is what I said in my heart. I won't lie to you. Alas. The task of the General of the Western Expedition to fight against thieves in the future is still important, so I can't relax."

Li Su promised solemnly: "That's natural. To kill thieves for the country, you will never be tired."

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Chapter completed!