After Tian Chou obtained the preferential conditions for Mi Zhu to "deceive surrender under the order", he wandered in Chang'an for a few days, connected Mi Wei, and then walked back to Shangluo on Wuguan Road. He took a boat down the Dan River in Shangluo, passed the Han River, went out to the sea, and circled a long way back to Liaodong.

He naturally took a lot of time to go. He boarded the ship from Shangluo in early May and basically arrived in Liaodong at the end of June. At that time, Liu Bei and Yuan Shao had further had a feud. Cao Cao also divided his subordinates and led the side to attack Lelang, and eroded some of Mizhu's territory.

Fortunately, after Mi Wei returned to Xiangping, Mi Zhu immediately sent Tian Chou as an envoy, carrying heavy gifts and bribes, and confessed to Liu He, who had already become emperor at the time, and surrendered.

Xu You took Tian Chou's property and did not interfere.

Considering that his friendship with Liu Bei and the fact that "tax-inclusive management of Liaodong" was indeed maximizing the military potential of Yuan Shao's camp, Ju Su advised Yuan Shao to accept it. Liu Ye, who was responsible for contacting external matters in Youzhou area, also agreed.

Unfortunately, Yuan Shao never lacks advice on taking risks and greed. This time it was Shen Peifeng and Ji Guotu who opposed it and persuaded Yuan Shao to conquer by force.

Shen Pei was mainly because he couldn't rub the sand in his eyes. He has always been aware of his own reasons. Although Xu You's family was arrested in history to fight corruption, he didn't like to see someone making special things.

In Shen Pei's opinion, Mi Zhu was able to "become Liu He's minister but only pay tribute and not accept rule, and he did not have the right to authorize his autonomy without the title of Duke and Marquis. It was simply a matter of system."

If Mi Zhu made a special case, and other remote areas will say that they are "our situation here is special and we have our own national conditions, so please handle the special affairs of the court." What should we do? So we cannot calculate whether it is reasonable to accept the rule by paying taxes from the economic account, and we must kill the chicken to warn the monkey.

Guo Tumo simply caters to Yuan Shao's greed and small-scale, thinking that "Mi Zhu shows weakness means that he can't stand it anymore. If he hits and beats, he may be able to squeeze out better conditions, and he may force Mi Zhu to send his eldest son Mi Wei to Yecheng as a hostage." As for Feng Ji, as a foreign faction, he also joined forces with Guo Tu temporarily.

In this way, although several of Yuan Shao's advisers with the most powerful voice suggested that he accept Mi Zhu's conditions, Yuan Shao finally decided to "try another stick, maybe he could squeeze out more oil and water."

Unfortunately, at that time, Yuan Shao had already had a feud with Liu Bei on the Western Front, and he could not distinguish many famous generals to expedition to Liaodong. He sent Chunyu Qiong, who was once the eight lieutenants of Yuan Shao, to lead troops to fight for an expedition. He forced Mi Zhu to hand over the hostages and raise the price.

Faced with Yuan Shao's aggressiveness, Mi Zhu once hesitated. However, Tian Chou reminded him at a critical moment.

Tian Chou said: "Mr., when I was in Chang'an, I talked to the king and the right general about this matter and asked for understanding. Before leaving, the right general once gave me a sentence: Yuan Shao was greedy for small people, showing that his weakness would inevitably lead to a better position.

If you really suffer, you should be able to work hard and soft, and seek peace through struggle, and seek peace through compromise, and suffer peace. Only when Yuan Shao realizes that he does not accept this condition, he will not be able to get these benefits alone, and even ask Cao Cao for help and give Cao Cao the benefits, will he lose his heart."

After hearing this, Mi Zhu became excited and made up his mind to make Yuan Shao realize that "you will only lose more if you solve it by force", which temporarily hurt Yuan Shao.

Only by bargaining against greedy people can he realize that the more he bargained, the less he got in the end, would he not be too ungrateful!

Since he made up his mind, Mi Zhu rewarded the troops and asked Xu Rong to lead his troops to strengthen the walls and clear the field to fight a defensive battle. In order to make Xu Rong confident, Mi Zhu told him the strategic arrangements in advance, as long as Xu Rong holds on in the western Liaoning Corridor, there is no need to counterattack, and the deadline will not be too long. This is also a reassurance for Xu Rong to avoid his fighting will be shaken.

After Chunyu Qiong came, he was in a 400-mile unmanned area in the western Liaoning Corridor, and was in a difficult situation.

It was already autumn when he came, and the autumn rain was continuous and muddy. Chunyu Qiong did not have a caravan. When the convoy wanted to frequently pass through the alluvial fan area at the mouth of the big and small Linghe River, it was either difficult to load and unload or fell into a mud.

After finally vanguard troops crossed the Linghe River with light and arrived outside Changli City, Xu Rong had already been firmly in the walls and clearing the fields. The surrounding area was originally a military farm area, and there was a lack of trees. Xu Rong harvested all the autumn grains into the warehouse in advance and did not give it to Chunyu Qiong. A large tree that could build a catapult within 20 or 30 miles of the surrounding area was not left.

If Chunyu Qiong wanted to build a siege weapon, even the solid wood had to be transported from the rear for a long distance, which was a waste of luck.

Chunyu Qiong had no choice but to ask Yuan Shao to send a ship to the shore of the Bohai Bay to transport grain and siege weapons by sea. As a result, because Yuan Shao never attached importance to navigation, the ships sent were all relatively good inland rivers and even sent some building ships.

As a result, when he arrived on the sea, he was completely inflexible and easily overturned, and he was slow to move. After being discovered by Mi Zhu's naval patrol, he directly detoured with a flexible fast sand ship, set fire to hit the large building ship, burning the largest ship, and then sticking it on to shoot, destroying the Yuan Shao Navy, which was not suitable for the navigation at all.

Yuan Shao's logistics officer fully realized for the first time that the water battle in the Yellow River is completely different from the battle on the sea. The princes who had never had a naval war technology tree can directly fight the naval war by themselves.

Chunyu Qiong was cut off supplies at Changli City and had to retreat. He was concealed by Xu Rong, killing thousands of people, and more soldiers were captured. Then he fled back to Youbeiping in shame.

Yuan Shao was furious and demoted Chunyu Qiong and wanted to send another general to the expedition. However, Ju Su, Liu Ye and others advised him again:

"Lord, Mi Zhu has the benefits of a sea ship. If we want to destroy it, we can only ask Cao Cao to help me with the navy. But wouldn't Cao Cao ask for conditions? Mi Zhu originally planned to surrender, but the price was not negotiated.

If Cao Cao gets a piece of the pie, even if we conquer Mi Zhu, we will only have less income. And who will take the initiative to invest in the future? At this time, we must not be resolute. At least we can suspect that he colluded with Liu Bei. If he comes here, he is not sincere and can no longer fight."

Yuan Shao said hatefully: "I don't want to give Cao Cao a share of the pie, but now Mi Zhu has defeated Chunyu Qiong, and both sides have become enemies and can only fight to the end."

Liu Ye advised: "Lord, my quality is Mi Zhu, this man is born in a businessman. He doesn't like face and only seeks real profits. He has no ambitions. Therefore, I think that even if he wins a war, as long as he feels that the benefits of surrender are greater, he will still surrender again."

Yuan Shao sighed: "I believe you once. If Mi Zhu still surrenders and pretends that nothing has happened, he will accept his tax-protected autonomy of 50 million yuan a year."

Liu Ye really guessed it. A few days after Yuan Shao made his statement, Mi Zhu sent Tian Chou again, and he gave him face. The annual tax-protected autonomy conditions did not change at all. He gave Yuan Shao enough face and gave him some expensive jewelry at one time.

Yuan Shao had face and realized that this was the solution he could get the most money without bothering, so he pinched his nose and accepted it.

Of course, these are all later stories. This series of operations delayed for half a year. When the negotiations were finally completed, the situation in the Central Plains had already changed a lot of drastic changes.

After all, in the remote areas of Liaodong, in the original history, Sima Yi had to calculate the logistics coordination and marching time according to the "going to a hundred days, returning to a hundred days". It would be nice to be able to fight Liaodong once a year. Mi Zhu finally surrendered to Yuan Shao in his name, which was already late in the autumn of 197.

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The words are divided into two ends.

In Chang'an, after Liu Bei and Li Su sent Tian Choao away, Li Su's holiday was almost over.

Taking advantage of the last moment before the holiday, Li Su quickly finished the private affairs, handled the private staff he had recruited over the past few days and promoted the personnel of the talented people, and dealt with the prisoners by the way.

In the last few days at the end of April, Li Su went to Huashan and sent Liu Miao back to Miaozhen Palace to practice. At the same time, he also dealt with the captive slaves such as Qiao and Bu Lianshi.

During the days after being captured, Oqiao seemed to have asked Zhou Ying for mercy at the beginning. She knew that she was already the daughter of a criminal who was confiscated and would definitely not be able to escape the fate of being a slave, so she just begged not to give her away. She knew that her family had been walking around with the female relatives of the Li family a few years ago, trying to catch the straw of friendship between girls.

Zhou Ying was just Li Su's concubine, so she naturally didn't bother with this, so she politely declined, but she kindly pointed out a way for her to ask Liu Miao to plead with her. Liu Miao is a guest, which may be useful.

Liu Miao was also a little soft-hearted, but she didn't want to interfere with Li Su's private affairs. Finally, she gave a compromise. On the way to send her back to Huashan, she made a bet with Li Su in a negotiated tone:

"Qiao Rui is guilty and cannot be argued. It is also a law of the court. However, he has been released from Jingzhao for a long time, and he may not know Yuan Shu's recent situation at that time. Boya, there is a saying that I have some doubts recently and I have always wanted to ask - did you take me out for a long time to travel in the clouds last year, because you were in a foreshadowing in Huayin? "

Li Su felt a stern in his heart. Of course, he would bite to death and tell a lie with kindness: "Why do you say this? I just care about you. I'm afraid you'll get stuck in the slightest way and take you out for a look. The conscience of heaven and earth, I never know that Yuan Shu would let Qiao Rui cooperate with him."

Liu Miao kept asking when he stared at him, and Li Su also insisted on lying sincerely. Of course, Liu Miao could not see any flaws.

However, this answer made Liu Miao feel relieved and had no psychological burden. She continued: "It would be better to go to the Miaozhen Palace and Aliang's observatory later. Let's take a look at whether Qiao Rui was invading Huayin and Tongguan. When Qiao Rui attacked Huayin and Tongguan, it would harm the Qingjing area of ​​Huashan.

If they have no soldiers and bandits to cause trouble, don’t just send the two bridge girls to slaves. They want to be slaves and leave a good family as slaves. This is not illegal.”

Li Su: "What's the difficulty? You owe me a favor."

After arriving at Huashan, the group visited the old place again and asked several palace maids who were left behind in Miaozhen Palace to clean up. They said that there were no riots coming to harass the Qing Cultivation Land on the mountain. The Qiaorui Rebellion lasted only half a month before and was pacified by Liu Bei. When there was insufficient supplies on the mountain, the palace maids went down the mountain to buy it, but there was no riot.

When I went to Zhuge Liang's observatory again, there was dust everywhere, and no one came for a whole year. Even if this matter was over, it was over.

Liu Miao and Li Su have been together for nearly a year and a half, and their passion has faded. The quiet and inaction mentality has prevailed. Liu Miao feels that he has grown a lot. Originally, it was "not enough to see through desires without taking a butcher's knife, but now it's only after experiencing it, "put down the butcher's knife" and give up desires.

After Li Su returned to Chang'an, when he remembered this, he recruited Pang Tong and others, first discussed their respective positions of official positions, and told everyone he was about to submit to Liu Bei.

Xu Shu was the county magistrate of Lanzhou last year, and later became Li Su to join the army. Now, in addition to joining the army, he also gave him a staff officer to the right general Sima, with a rank of 1,000 stones.

Pang Tong started as the magistrate of Leiyang County in history, which was really low. Now he has made a contribution from an undercover agent and started as a Zhonglang of 600 stones. However, Li Su promised that he would directly recommend him to Liu Bei, and he was considered a Zhonglang of the "Grand Sima Mansion" who was engaged in Zhonglang. A relatively complicated staff officer.

Considering that Liu Bei would soon be the emperor, the 600-stone rank of the Central Army will soon be promoted to another value, and maybe there is a staff position that is comparable to 1,000-stone.

Xu Shu and Pang Tong thanked each other and prepared to leave.

Li Su did not stop Xu Shu, but called Pang Tong and said something to explain.

After Pang Tong stayed, Li Su asked kindly: "If there is a criminal slave who is a good-looking man, do you want to marry a wife?"

Pang Tong's self-esteem seemed very sensitive and refused straightforwardly: "Do you think that General Right thinks I don't know self-esteem? You naturally have to be honest with others when you get married. Although you are ugly, you will not have no wife. Thank you for your kindness and worry about me!"

Li Su smiled: "Then it's okay, let's do it. After all, you used the excuse of coveting the female family of the Qiao family to be an undercover agent. Since you don't have to worry about getting married, I'll send you a slave. Even though you're a little young, you can raise it for a few more years. It's just right to marry a wife and marry a concubine and take a spouse."

Pang Tong then breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you for your kindness, General Right."

Li Su casually introduced: "That servant surnamed Bu, who is only nine years old, but he looks very pleasant and has a humble temper. It's yours."

Li Su can be regarded as completely breaking the grudges of this house and buying them will leave.

He made such a solution, and he worked hard to do it.

It can be seen that ugly people have a more sensitive self-esteem, and Pang Tong is obviously also sensitive, so he can only give him a slave with a good temper. In history, Bu Lianshi was said to be known for not being jealous in the harem of Sun Quan. He probably would have to endure the ugly ones when he met his master and would not reveal it. Gradually, he found that Pang Tong's talent is not good at doing a good job and might be happy.

On the other hand, Li Su also has a historical stereotype - after all, Daqiao is Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's woman in history, and both of them are famous for being handsome. Although history has been completely unrecognizable, Daqiao has never seen Sun Ce and Zhou Yu before. But Li Su doesn't mean to deliberately leave them to ugly people to humiliate them.

No matter how you have to stay with the handsome man, this is called respecting your opponent.

As for Bu Lianshi, Sun Quan’s woman, Sun Quan’s character is not very good compared to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. He would have no psychological burden to give Sun Quan’s woman to the ugly man Li Su in history.

After finishing his business, Li Su returned to the mansion that night and asked Zhuge Liang to send a message to him and ask him to have a meal at the mansion.

Then he went to the place where the prisoners were kept by the Houzhai, and first sent someone to explain a few words, took Bu Lian away, and then he personally came to the big and small bridges.

Daqiao's heart was pounding, knowing that he had not had much chance, he knelt in front of Li Su and walked: "The right general is a hero, and I know that he is guilty and can only be a maid, but I want to be a maid with the right general and get a peace."

Li Su thought for a while: "Then your sister would still send her away..."

Xiao Qiao retreated back in frightened, and retreated to the edge of the lotus pond in horror and screamed: "Is it true that I gave it to that Pang Tong?"

Li Su: "Don't rush to jump into the lake! What you have seen is Zhuge Liang, the Lingtai Order."

Xiao Qiao then collapsed on the ground with weakness. He thought that Zhuge Liang was eight feet tall at the age of seventeen, with a face as tall as a crown and a jade-like starry sky: "Since I am a criminal maid captured by the right general, my life is already from the right general, how dare I commit suicide at will? If the right general wants to give it away, just give it away."

Li Su thought to himself: Damn it! Big and big bridges are indeed deeply controlled by faces! I will be willing to give them to the handsome ones as slaves immediately.

Fortunately, Xiaoqiao is only thirteen years old, just the same age as Huang Yueying. Now Xiaoqiao is so humble that even if she is beautiful, she will never marry Zhuge Liang. It is estimated that after Zhuge Liang married Huang Yueying, he would have multiple dowry maids and concubines.

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PS: I know that many people who read the Three Kingdoms overestimate the treatment of Big and Big Bridge. The main reason is that in the Romance, they are Qiao Xuan's daughters, so they have a high status.

But this age is obviously impossible, unless Qiao Xuan gave birth to a daughter at the age of 75. In history, Cao Cao had nothing to do with Erqiao, and that was all a romance.
Chapter completed!