The conversation is divided into two ends. The timeline goes back to the early winter of the year, and the vision is also pulled back to the thousands of waves in the South China Sea.

Because of the vast sea waves, it isolates the news that Zhao Yun's troops actually launched military operations against Linyi Kingdom as early as the winter of 198.

But the initiation of the battle and the process of his attack have not been passed back to the north, and it has not been known to Liu Bei's monarch and ministers for a long time.

As mentioned earlier, Zhao Yun went south to Jiaozhou and was preparing to attack Linyi. That was the case in August last year. Later, he arrived at Houguan in early September and arrived in Jieyang in mid-September, which was considered a sea marching into Jiaozhou.

After entering the Jiaozhou territory, Zhao Yun was not in a hurry. He knew that Lin Yi's military strength was not enough to worry about, and the key was logistics supply and environmental adaptation, which was the biggest difficulty in destroying Lin Yi.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools and make the troops adapt to the local climate and geographical environment.

So for two days in Jieyang, Zhao Yun immediately summoned Lu Su to cooperate with his officials to inquire about the relationship between the barbarians and the geographical climate.

"The army has to go on an expedition this time, and we have to be careful. The combat power of the Linyi people may not be afraid of, and their armor is not strong, and their greatest reliance is only on the battlefield elephants, and our army has mastered the tactics of breaking the war elephants.

Therefore, the biggest danger is that you are not familiar with climate, geography, and poisonous insects and miasma. You have been under the command of the Lu envoy for a long time. Zijing has made many arrangements to inquire in the past two years. You think there is something that should be paid special attention to when the army goes south. Please be sure to tell everything."

Faced with Zhao Yun's inquiry, most of the Jiaozhou logistics officials sent by Lu Su could not say very detailedly, but just said roughly vaguely:

"General Zhao, Linyi's miasma and poisonous insects are indeed more dangerous than Jiaozhi. As long as you compare the precautions in Jiaozhi and be more careful, you can deal with it. The heat of Linyi is even more than Jiaozhi. If you worry about the scorching heat, you can try to fight as cold as possible in the twelfth lunar month and fight quickly."

Zhao Yun was quite dissatisfied with this answer: "Zi Jing has been supervising the welfare ship for more than two years. He built the merchant fleet first and then the warships. He also asked the merchant fleet to use the merchants to actually inquire about the situation. What you brought back is this general statement? Is there no insight and detailed details?

After all, Linyi is thousands of miles south of Jiaozhi County, and there is no depth at most. If we speculate on Linyi based on the geographical climate of Jiaozhi and prepare military supplies, we might trap the army in an unknown place!"

Some Jiaozhou officials looked at each other and didn't know how to deal with it. In the past two years, they have figured out the routes and wind directions of the South China Sea, and felt that it was already quite good, which has cleared technical obstacles for the army to cross the sea.

The main reason is that those people really think that the barbarians have nothing unique. They all look at people wearing tinted glasses. Naturally, they will not really observe carefully, nor will they be careful to understand the customs, food, daily life, and disease prevention customs.

During the initial stage of supervising shipbuilding, Lu Su personally inquire about everything, but since 197, because of his rebellion with Sun Ce, Lu Su also had to provide military supplies and logistics to Li Su's troops, and went north. There was no time to pay attention to the follow-up matters here.

The grassroots officials below were slightly slackened because they looked down on the barbarians.

This sense of superiority is like in later generations, many people in China who look at other skin colors and think that the same skin color is similar and are too lazy to distinguish the nuances within them.

However, opportunities are always left to those who are prepared. At this moment, Zhao Yun's pursuit of excellence in preparation has just given some young grassroots officials the opportunity to perform.

I saw a small official under Lu Su who was in charge of supervising a caravan of blessing ships and inquire about the affairs of the barbarians. He went out to report to Zhao Yun:

"Reported to the general, Linyi has a few other things to pay attention to in addition to being hotter than Jiaozhi. First, Linyi has a long and narrow territory and is distributed along the coast, but its area is far less than that of Jiaozhi County, and there are many rivers and swamps.

Only in the southernmost part of Linyi land can there be a fertile plain with rivers entering the sea, which is larger than the Honghe River flowing through Jiaozhi County. I had specially consulted Dianzhou who was familiar with barbarian affairs before and transferred to his colleagues. The river flowing through the capital of Linyi is the Lancang River in Dianzhou. After flowing out of the boundary of Dianzhou, it winds in the Chongshan forest for another 3,000 or 4,000 miles before reaching the capital of Linyi.

Therefore, because Linyi has few land and large rivers, although the country does not lack water, most of the land relies on rainfall for days, collecting rainwater, and natural water storage lakes supply the people, rather than rivers to obtain water.

Although rice is widely grown in the southern part of Linyi, it is only planted around relatively densely populated cities, as mentioned above on both sides of the Lancang River.

In other rural areas, especially long coastal areas, the people of Linyi did not build water conservancy, planted less rice, and had many salt-tolerant trees. They only worked on crops, but did not irrigate and fertilize, allowing the grain trees to grow and die on their own.

If our army attacks Linyi by sea, one thing we still have to worry about is that local people rarely eat Linyi rice. Rice is just the food used by the wealthy people in Linyi to collect taxes and hoard wealth, while ordinary people eat the fruits and dried fruits.

If our army cannot seize their grain and rice and cannot eat local wood, we can only fight quickly and take the military rations with the military ships.

Fortunately, Linyi is south of Rinan County, the former land of the Han Dynasty, and all cities have no walls, and even the capital only has wooden fences. Therefore, there is no stalemate between the city and the enemy can be decided as long as the field battles are annihilated," he said.

These words were organized, detailed and brief. After saying this, not only Zhao Yun's eyes lit up, but even other colleagues and officials under Lu Su also looked at this young official in charge of a merchant fleet with admiration.

Although these contents are a bit incredible and are very different from outsiders' stereotypes. But when you think about it carefully, there are still many practical things that cannot be fabricated out of thin air, at least they have conducted research on the ground.

After all, even Chinese people in the 21st century will have a stereotype when they talk about Vietnam, thinking that "the land is fertile and the rainfall is abundant, so as long as there is flat land in the whole area, it is a high-yield rice area."

After all, Linyi Rice/Chancheng Rice was passed down there. How can the birthplace be unfamiliar with rice cultivation?

But in fact, Vietnam in later generations was only a concentrated mass-produced rice in several places in the Mekong Delta, the Red River Delta and the Kowloon River Alluvial Plain.

Most of the long and barren coastlines without large rivers can't be planted even if there are vegetation and farming areas. They are all relatively salt-tolerant economic crops. To put it bluntly, the geographical environment is full of mountains and rivers, so the country's land is so narrow and long

Historically, when the French came to cede colonies in the 19th century, it was not unreasonable to cut them like this. It was because the land with a wide country was fertile and worthy of deep inland seizure.

The narrow cuts are because they are barren and mountainous, so they only cut a little bit of the coastline and go a little deeper into the inland. They don’t want it for free at the beginning (of course, the industry was developed later, and after a few decades, I asked for it again when I expanded the colonial period. That was a later story, so Laos was found).

The Han people a thousand eight hundred years ago were able to overcome the "stereotype" in this area, find out the geographical characteristics and logistics supply difficulties of the enemy country of this level, and add a little scientific analysis. It is already quite good.

After hearing this, Zhao Yun praised him: "Who are you? Who are you? Who is your origin? Who is your current position?"

The small official under Lu Su who was in charge of the merchant fleet inquiring about information replied: "I was born in the first year of Zhang Wu and was born in Bingong Keming. At the age of 17, I entered the official position. After passing the imperial examination, I was temporarily assigned to the Ministry of Personnel by the Sikongfu Gongcao and was assigned to the tent of the Lu Envoy of Jingzhou. I was in charge of some sea and ship trade, and I have been in charge of this day."

According to the court's laws, the Ministry of Personnel required the unified selection and assignment of official positions in the imperial examination. However, more than two years ago, when the first examination was in a hurry to organize the preparations, Liu Bei issued an additional special order when he sent Li Su to Xiangyang.

The Southern District Imperial Examination was temporarily authorized to be admitted to the Southern District Imperial Examination in that year, and the alternate officials admitted to Li Su could directly grant official positions in the southern states where he governed the country.

This is a very great personnel privilege. If it weren't for the special period, Liu Bei would not have delegated power so much, because it was easy to lead to separatist rule. Only Li Su, a person who is trusted by Liu Bei, would have to be in a hurry to take power occasionally.

So, the real power of helping and suggesting to grant officials that year fell into the hands of the Gongcao of Sikong Mansion Zhang Song, Wang Lei and others. Because Li Su was too busy, it was impossible for Li Su to have the energy to personally write about the candidates who had just passed the exam.

It was only Zhang Song who organized a team to discuss, and firstly, according to which official positions were missing, roughly put people in, and then gave Li Su a list, and Li Su finally made a fine adjustment.

Li Su was too lazy to fine-tune, so he directly posted the opinions drafted by Zhang Song and others. That wave really made Zhang Song gain a lot of official favors.

Of course, Li Su was clear about this in his heart, but he thought that Zhang Song helped him do a lot of things in the organization of the first South Campus imperial examination, balancing the interests of all parties and stabilizing the situation.

Zhang Song took over the work of offending people at that time, just like the culprit operations that Fa Zheng did for Liu Bei himself. So after Li Su finished his work, he would give him such hidden power.

Not to mention, because the officials selected from the Nanchang imperial examination in the first year of Zhangwu were all assigned by Zhang Song, and many years later, it finally became a helping Zhang Song's continued career in his career.

Later, when Zhang Song was in his thirties and forties, he barely climbed to the level of Shangqing, and received honorary public positions in his later years. Considering that Zhang Song did not establish any outstanding achievements in establishing a foundation for Liu Bei and Li Su, it was already a smooth career to have such an ending.

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I won’t mention these later stories yet. Anyway, this step of success in officialdom is a coincidence and by chance.

In terms of bloodline and family, Bu Zhi and Bu Lianshi, the daughter of the clerk under the clerk of the Sin Jiang Qiao Rui, are still in a distant cousin, and they are a few years older than Bu Lianshi.

When Yuan Shu was destroyed in 196, Bu Lianshi was only nine years old. After being caught by Li Su, he was rewarded to Pang Tong, which was considered as compensation for the harm caused to Pang Tong by "Xiao Qiao would rather die than be enslaved by an ugly man."

If there were no series of butterfly effects caused by Li Su, Bu Zhi and Bu Lianshi in history would have been discovered by Sun Quan after Yuan Shu destroyed him and immigrated to the Yangtze River. Bu Zhi also relied on some nepotism and became an official at a young age.

Now, Yuan Shu's Qiaorui system territory was seized by Liu Bei, so these people naturally fell into Liu Bei's jurisdiction.

Fortunately, he is not good at learning. Although he has no chance to gain recognition from a big shot by his distant cousin's nepotism in this life, Li Su held the imperial examination that year, and the reference conditions for Bingongke in the occupied areas are relatively relaxed. He does not need to recommend the prefect, and he cannot be surrounded by bidding.

A person with real ability can break through the siege among the scholars of the same county, and then he can get an official position and kill him.

After coming to Lu Su's subordinates, Lu Su was told by Li Su that he wanted to start the "Fu Shipbuilding Industry", first engaged in merchant ships to accumulate experience, explore the South China Sea business path, and then generate good ship warships. Because it was a newly expanded business, Lu Su's subordinates had some talent gaps, so he filled in all the people who had a little knowledge of mathematics and practice assigned to him in this matter.

This newly opened work area is the easiest way to make newcomers' talents show their potential. After working for a year or two, Lu Su discovered that Bu Zhi was good at dealing with barbarians and dealing with barbarians or foreigners.

After all, under Sun Quan, Bu Zhi was also known for his work as a governor of the Shanyue and Yue. After Lu Su discovered his characteristics in this regard, he gave in to Bu Zhi to be responsible for a merchant fleet in the past year.

Go to the southern occupied areas of Jiaozhou and even the coast of Linyi Kingdom, and use the name of trade to inquire about the situation in the South China Sea, spy on military information and collect geographical information.

This is why there is an opportunity to offer advice in front of Zhao Yun and help deal with the affairs of the barbarians.

After Zhao Yun fully understood the situation introduced by Bu Zhi, he decided to adopt a more persistent promotion strategy and make complete preparations:

"Very good. Then, the territory of Jiaozhou, those that have bordered the Linyi people or were attacked by the Linyi people, will not be allowed to have geographical climate, vegetation crops, and places as close as possible to Linyi? Can our army temporarily adapt to the southern environment of Linyi?"

The other civil servants under Lu Su also secretly regretted Zhao Yun's question when they heard about this. They all knew that if they could help General Zhao solve this problem, it would be a major opportunity to show their faces, which was equivalent to counseling the military opportunity of the battle to destroy the country.

Unfortunately, they also did not prepare information on this.

Bu Zhi thought for a while and said, "It is difficult to find a place with a climate and crop similar to Linyi in Jiaozhou. Because Linyi is generally thousands of miles south of Jiaozhou, and the capital of the country is two thousand miles away from the southern border of Jiaozhou.

In winter, Jiaozhou is far less hot than Linyi. However, it was in the north of Linyi during the Spring and Autumn Period, and the hot and cold were similar in some cases.

However, if you want to find a place where the people's food and food are similar to Linyi customs, and it is also a place where rivers and rain are lacking, it is Zhuya County, the southernmost section of Nanhai County.

Zhuya County is divided into two parts, one is connected to the mainland, making it a peninsula that protrudes southward, and the other part is Zhuyazhou. On Zhuyazhou, the geography is different from that of the other counties in Jiaozhou.

The other counties and counties in Jiaozhou are mostly distributed along the Yushui (Pearl River) and its branches. People rely on river water to irrigate daily, and the mudflats along the coast are also muddy and turbid, which is caused by the alluvial water silt on the seabed, and sea fish are also complicated.

In the southern part of Zhuyazhou, the coast is long and lacks rivers and is far away from land, so the sea water is clear and fish are scarce. Therefore, the local Liman (now Li people) rarely plant rice, and they rely on the solids of plants and trees to feed on the trunks, which is similar to the barbarians along the coast of Linyi.”

When Zhao Yun heard this, he pondered for a long time: "Then let's go and take a look first. The news of the army going south should not be exposed to Linyi people first. Be sure to wait until the army is completely adapted and use it, and then take the opportunity to attack, and be sure to hit it with one strike."
Chapter completed!