The conversation is divided into two parts. The Jiaozhou Battle was not over in a short while. It is impossible for Lu Su Zhao Yun to report on the situation ahead to be written until the end of the battle.

In fact, Lu Su’s memorial to the emperor was without an intermediate process, and he only reported a conclusion at the end of the project. As for his private message to Liu Bei and Li Su, he was diligent and he basically reported it once a month.

Therefore, Liu Bei and Li Su in Chang'an City have good timeliness in controlling the situation in Jiaozhou, and have been updated since the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Jian'an.

Because Jiaozhou is long and has inconvenient transmission, and the military information in the middle is not very important, there is no need to use high-speed transmission of injured horses, so it is basically half a month to arrive in Chang'an, and the messenger travels more than 300 miles a day.

This also made Liu Bei have a happy year in Chang'an, because he received good news that "the entire territory of Yulin County was recovered, and Zhao Yun broke through Liangshan and entered Jiaozhi". After the New Year, a few days before the Spring Festival, the good news of "the dragon editor recovered and Shi Xie was awarded the head" was also sent back.

The city of Chang'an had to increase its efforts to celebrate the celebrations slightly, and the civil and military officials of Liu Bei's camp received an additional holiday fee for the celebration.

The scale of porridge for refugees in Chang'an City has also expanded a bit, and the grain in the porridge has become thicker, and even a little red beans and mung beans can be added, so that the poor people can also feel the warmth of the New Year and the Spring Festival.

Liu Bei also took advantage of this New Year atmosphere to summon Li Su to Weiyang Palace for discussion and look forward to the future world plan.

...

Li Su is now openly still holding the official position of the governor of Yongzhou and the Shangshu Pushe. So in theory, he also has many government affairs to deal with in Chang'an. He does not take idle vacations every day, but only waits for Liu Bei to discuss with him.

However, Li Su's staff team was selected well, and the three assistants below were also quite powerful, so daily government affairs could be greatly divided.

After returning to Chang'an a few months ago, Li Su's chief secretary Deng Zhi, chief clerk Zhang Song, Hu Cao was engaged in Wang Fu, Gong Cao was engaged in Wang Lei, and helping Yi Yi was engaged in Zhen Yao, and they were all transferred to Chang'an one after another.

After a period of familiarity and coordination, I learned about the local government affairs in Yongzhou. They basically took care of all the small matters, and Li Su could be the boss of the hand. Only one of them joined the army, Xu Shu was transferred to the local official in Liangzhou.

Who asked Li Su to choose a staff member to use his or her qualifications based on his or her feelings and his impression of each person's ability values ​​when playing games in his previous life is directly unconventional.

After being summoned to Weiyang Palace by Liu Bei, of course, as Li Su, he did not have to go to the Xuanshi Hall of the main hall to report.

Under the two rows of guards holding halberds, Li Su walked through two palace gates. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of Xuanshi Hall, he saw an old acquaintance Dong He waiting there and leading him to the Shiqu Pavilion, the study in the palace.

Liu Bei summoned Li Su alone, basically either in Shiqu Pavilion in the study or Tianlu Pavilion in the archives.

While leading the way, Dong He whispered in a low voice: "Please, General Right, please read a book in Shiqu Pavilion early in the morning, and asked Qin Mi to explain to him the customs and customs of Jiaozhou and the details of historical events in the previous dynasties. It seemed that he wanted to check for omissions and make up for the decision."

It turned out that since Dong He joined Liu Bei's camp five or six years ago, he has been the chief minister of Wuling County three years ago, and actually has the affairs of prefecture.

Because the Wuling Prefect was an official position that Liu Bei granted to Liu Zhang when he accepted Liu Yan's political heritage. Therefore, in the past five years, Liu Zhang has been receiving the salary of the Wuling Prefect, but in fact he has had idle food and nothing to do. In order to be decent, outsiders will not see that Liu Bei was raising Liu Zhang as a pig, and Liu Bei was not able to give Dong He a salary increase in specific work.

So Dong He was receiving low wages and low treatments, and was doing heavy work in actually managing a county.

Seeing that he did a good job, Liu Bei did not complain about his low treatment. When Zhao Yun was pacifying Jingnan, he also provided logistics for Zhao Yun. He was quite fair and good at communication, and did not deceive his superiors and subordinates. Liu Bei felt that he was very unfair, so he promoted him to Chang'an as an official in Chang'an and became a servant of the Weiyang Palace.

The rank of the servants of the essay was also not high, and they were the subordinates of Guangluxun among the nine ministers. Below Guangluxun, the second most important thing was to those generals in charge of the Tiger Ben, the prince-in-law of the chariot, the Guanglu Dafu, and the Taizhong Dafu.

The specific responsibilities are to manage the escort platform, be responsible for the court etiquette, and convey the mission. There are also some ordinary escorts under the Servant.

When Li Su left Chang'an and returned to Chengdu, Dong He had not yet come to Weiyang Palace to serve, so he discovered this time after Li Su came back. With Li Su's insight and insight, he quickly understood Liu Bei's intention:

Since he was brought to Dong He, Liu Bei never used eunuchs in the court outside Weiyang Palace, and he never allowed eunuchs to upload and report government affairs. He only kept a small number of young eunuchs who survived after the Chang'an Rebellion in the harem, and there were no new eunuchs recruited in the past year and a half. He tried his best to use old people and use old people.

It can be seen that Liu Bei's attitude towards the eunuch's chaos in politics was obviously "and he sighed and hated Huan Ling."

At this moment, Li Su couldn't help but think: "Maybe Dong He and Dong Yun and his son's abilities are suitable for these jobs to avoid deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates, and to have different internal and external methods.

I remember that when Zhuge Liang wrote "The Memorial to the Emperor", he further changed Dong Yun from the Huangmen Secretariat to the Minister of State to ensure that the "palace and the palace are all in one". This is probably the same consideration. When Zhuge Liang was alive, he seemed to the Huangmen Secretariat and all the officials in the outer palace who conveyed their orders and could contact government affairs, there would be no eunuchs."

However, when Dong He joined Liu Bei, Dong Yun was only a five-year-old child, and now he is only ten years old.

As for Jiang Wan and Fei Yi, they are actually slightly younger than Dong Yun, and they are both children aged five, six, seven or eight.

Li Su chatted with Dong He for a while, and became familiar with some recent internal and external news in Weiyang Palace, and did not violate the taboos, and then went to Shiqu Pavilion.

Liu Bei didn't get up, but sat there with a golden sword and a big horse and listened to Qin Mi telling him history books. He pointed to the opposite position and signaled Li Su to take his own wishes.

After Dong He brought the person there, he had to surrender quietly. Liu Bei signaled that there was no need for him: "Young Zai, you have lived in Jingnan for a long time. Maybe you have a lot of knowledge about the situation in Jiaozhou. I know that you are honest and it doesn't matter if you listen together."

Dong He then stood up and didn't dare to sit down, so he stood up and listened, but Liu Bei gave him a seat again.

...

Liu Bei mentioned what Lu Su and continued to talk to Li Su about the various difficulties in using troops in the disputed areas between southern Jiaozhou and Linyi to see Li Su's views.

"Zi Jing said in the book that to pacify the South China Sea and ensure no more chaos, the key is to build a fleet suitable for sailing in the East China Sea, which can be used for business, transport troops and fight, and ensure logistics during wartime. He also said that Boya mentioned this when you were looking for a route to death in Pingnanzhong--

How should we arrange this matter and determine the priorities. Should we allocate money, grain and materials from Jingzhou to Zijing, let him build a shipyard and repair warships?"

Li Su didn't think much about it, but just thought about the wording and changed the way he didn't need to avoid Qin Mi and Dong He to directly repay the answer:

"I heard from Luoyang news a few years ago that the general had already suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed. Since ancient times, those who suffered from high school had a physical condition for several years, which was difficult to predict. Perhaps every heat and cold winter is a difficult time.

Therefore, starting this year, the king must beware of new changes that may occur in the center of the court, and leave the main force to deal with other emergencies that may be unjust to the princes. In other remote areas, even if there are border wars, the local troops and civilians should be dealt with. We should not over-rely rely on the support from Guanzhong, Jingzhou and other places.

Therefore, I think that to set up a new official shipyard in Jiaozhou and develop a new sea ship suitable for the East China Sea and the South China Sea, this matter can be arranged, but only Lusu is allowed to call on the local civil and financial resources of Jiaozhou.

At most, the rent and mediocre adjustments that should be paid in Lingling County and some small counties in southern Guiyang County far from the Xiangshui River Basin should be converted into corvee labor or the timber that should be paid for by the civilians and transported to Panyu for delivery. This is considered to be a compassion for the lack of civilian strength in Jiaozhou, and to prepare some logging and wood processing required for shipbuilding for them to reduce the burden.

The types of shipbuilding should also be based on building merchant ships first and cultivating craftsmen. With the sea trade and commercial ships, the cost of gathering and distributing goods in various counties in southern Jiaozhou will be greatly reduced. With this part of the income, the shipbuilding industry will be supported and established within a few years without spending the government's grants, and the navy needed to attack Linyi will be established."

Li Su's view, the core spirit is: this matter needs to be done, and it can be started immediately, but the investment must be low, and blood transfusion must be changed to blood production. You cannot use the start-up capital to make money-loss goods from the beginning.

After thinking about it, Li Su's judgment was always very accurate. Moreover, the rhythm suggested by Li Su was not a straightforward statement, but a specific analysis of specific issues in existing information.

Zhu Ye's illness was seen by all the princes in the world. This year it was really not suitable for the princes from all sides to open any new bottomless deep pits. Even if they wanted to farm, they should focus on "filling the already dug holes".

Qin Mi and Dong He next to him were slightly stern. They all knew that the king was absolutely loyal to the Han Dynasty, but they should also be prepared to defend themselves due to unpredictable follow-up events at any time.

Liu Bei continued to ask: "Is there enough generals from Zijing who understand the sea boat? Do you need to allocate talents from Yizhou to him?"

Li Su: "The sea ships suitable for sailing in the South China Sea are indeed similar to those built by Li Hui and others in Yongchang, but because there is no need to consider inland river shipping that goes deep and shallow, you can improve them more boldly. At that time, I will arrange for those who know how to be an expert to complete the patterns and models.

There is no need to worry about this matter. Calculate the time. Now it is time for the spring plowing in Jiaozhou. The people and the people have no time to build ships. The two months after farming are slack, basically it is March and April. It would be great to get up early and prepare for logging. When the farming is slack again this year, the South China Sea merchant ship will be officially built, and there is still half a year to prepare."

Liu Bei nodded: "Then I will only ask about this matter. You can arrange Boya yourself. Don't ask for instructions on such small matters. Although Linyi is not a threat, our navy cannot fall behind other princes.

Last year, Cao Cao took advantage of the world's lack of war and worked hard to defeat the Xuzhou navy to Sanhan. Sun Ce heard that he was idle and was also operating a sea ship suitable for sailing deep sea south of the East China Sea. I wonder if it would be the same as the one we were going to build. It is said that they were all for the purpose of competing with Liu Biao for Shanyue, which was in the middle of Fujian, and searching for the population."

For Sun Ce and Liu Biao, they now have no chance to fight, and it is impossible to go to Sanhan like Cao Cao.

But fortunately, Sun Ce and Liu Biao were all the way to the south to the sea, and there was a roughly equivalent area to the entire Hu Jianzhou Province in later generations to compete for. And Liu Biao himself only occupied nominally, but actually did not establish a comprehensive rule in southern Gansu and southern Zhejiang.

This area is equivalent to the Shanyue settlement area of ​​two southern provinces in later generations. There is no river to navigate. If Sun Ce wants to swallow more than Liu Biao, he has to take advantage of his coastal advantages to build sea ships to control and plunder the population.

This trick is similar to the fact that his younger brother Sun Quan in history began to send a fleet to patrol the coastal areas of central Fujian, and even went to Yizhou (Wanwan) to plunder the population. It was similar to that of the same.

It can only be said that when the external situation cannot be expanded, the southern warlords will use their brains in this aspect.

Liu Bei said this obviously because he hoped to develop all the naval forces that might be used to deal with Cao Cao, Sun Ce and Liu Biao in the future.

Li Su received Liu Bei's mission. He had his own plan and schedule. He was preparing to visit A ​​Liang in the next few days. It was time to rely on A Liang, a scientific and technological talent, to farm.

Li Su thought to herself: "The south is too hot. Even if Zijing asks me to inspect now, I won't go there. I have to wait until the next winter before thinking about it. Just think it's a holiday on the beach at Sanya for winter. Aliang is also very pitiful. He is almost sixteen years old. I told me before that I have never seen the sea before.

If he is willing to work hard and has the ability to help me improve the design of the lucky boat, we will take advantage of the peace this year and behave like reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles. However, in spring and summer, we should go to Liangzhou first to inspect and supervise the military farming of Yuan Zhi and Zini and others.

By the way, let Aliang improve the wooden lathe and spinning machine cotton loom. In the hot season, it will be cooler to the north and see the Western Regions. When it is cold, you will go to the south to see the sea. Anyway, there will be a year, even Aliang’s graduation trip and gap-year.”

(Note: The word gap-year seems not suitable to be expressed in Chinese... Because China does not have it, it is the Western type of people who travel to see the world after graduating from university, and then work again. This year is called gap-year. So it’s not that I want to write a lot of things, but it’s really because of the hardships like us who started looking for a job after graduation)

As for daily government affairs, Deng Zhi, Zhang Song, Wang Fu and Wang Lei have not helped the right general to finish it! You still need the right general to do it yourself!

However, the only thing that made Li Su a little depressed was that he could no longer take care of his wife when he went out for a long trip.

Fortunately, his great literary wife went to Liangzhou last year and had already seen some Western styles and wrote enough magnificent poems about the Western Expedition, which was a personal regret for Cai Yan.

It was precisely because of that trip to Liangzhou that the relationship between Cai Yan and Li Su warmed up again, and the passionate mood became more harmonious. As a result, when the Chinese New Year was about to be over, Cai Yan became pregnant again. It has just been found out, so she could only raise a baby in Chang'an for one year.

People who pay so much attention to health care can certainly control the safety period with great restraint. If you don’t want a woman to get pregnant, you can stop giving up. At worst, you can find a concubine to solve the problem when the time is not right and you want it very much. The reason why he indulged Cai Yan was also to see Cai Yan’s psychological pressure over the past year: the last time he gave birth to a daughter, but he did not leave Li Su with the eldest son, which made Cai Yan very blame himself.
Chapter completed!