After receiving the task from Liu Yu's mansion, Li Su was on the way back to figure out the level of his leader on the horse.

It was also today that Liu Yu said so much to him that Li Su had completely understood why Liu Yu had to be simple on the surface, but was actually very rich in secret and could buy an official position.

Originally, he saw in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" that "Liu Yu was known for his integrity on the surface, and Emperor Ling granted him the money for renovating the palace when he took office." However, after being killed by Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Zan confiscated his house, but found that "Yu Ji's concubines were decorated with pearls and jade, and her clothes were extremely gorgeous" and other contradictions finally came to an explanation.

He pretended to be frugal, not because of his hypocrisy, but because of the diplomatic work of the Han Dynasty required him to maintain such an image.

Only when Liu Yu was frugal and simple, would the Hu chiefs who received the "reward" from Liu Yu cherish it very much and believe that "Liu Yu actually has no money. The reward he gave me was an exception and was a legal mercy that needed to be kept confidential, and he would not give it to others."

In this way, every Hu Ke thought that he was an exception after getting the money and received extra courtesy, so they would not think that the Han Dynasty's money was easy to get, and the Han Dynasty could be bullied.

As for the same sentence, whether it is "annual monies" or "buy official money", the biggest loss caused by doing this behavior is not the money itself, but the money will ruin its reputation after spending money. If you have the ability to only spend money but not bear the bad reputation of spending money, then spending money itself is actually quite indifferent.

It’s like the Cuban missile crisis. The top-secret diplomatic archives were declassified 25 years later. People found that Kennedy had actually withdrawn twice as large as Hemomi!

But why do people think that He Yumi is the party that failed and admitted defeat? Just because He Yumi is the party that promised to withdraw first, he pulled down Cuba's missiles not long after the US-Soviet crisis was resolved, so he was embarrassed.

It was after more than half a year after the Cuban crisis was lifted, and the storm subsided, before Kennedy quietly withdrew the ballistic missiles of Yidaili and Tuqi. Therefore, international public opinion did not associate this retreat with the "confession" in the crisis.

On the diplomatic front, the most important thing is face, international prestige, and manipulation of confidence in all walks of life in the world, rather than the actual delivery of money and weapons.

When I heard the word "money", I thought about the monies in the past, which is a manifestation of diplomatic immaturity.

Of course, in history, the "reward" of the Song Dynasty to Liao and Xia failed. It was not the failure of money diplomacy itself, but the low IQ of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty, and the small number of countries in the "international environment" at that time.

When there are only Liao and Xia families in the international environment, it is difficult for you to ensure that "Liao doesn't know that you are cowardly against Xia, and Xia doesn't know that you are cowardly against Liao." In addition, the literati and officials of the Song Dynasty had no sense of confidentiality in secret diplomacy at the beginning. The first time they admitted to Liao, they were almost openly cowardly, which made Li Yuanhao follow the trend and copy homework.

But Liu Yu was facing the "Five Barbarians", and Liu Yu paid great attention to keeping the secret from the beginning. Even the first amount of money he gave was a threat:

If a third party in the world knows that you have received the money, our cooperation will be interrupted forever! Just wait and bear the anger of the Han Dynasty joining the other Four Hus!

Just like Kennedy's additional conditions for Hemai: I can withdraw more missiles, but you are not allowed to interpret them to the media, and we are not allowed to associate our retreat with the Cuban missile crisis. Once the media is rumored and damages American's international prestige, I will not withdraw any of them and fight with you to the end!

...

In his mind, Li Su took a look at all the key points of diplomatic ideas that Liu Yu had just ordered, and he really had to admit it in his heart:

Liu Yu's diplomatic talent is more than a thousand years ahead of his historical level! Such a flexible and flexible person, even in the Song and Ming dynasties, is definitely the number one person in the world in diplomatic work!

It is no wonder that he could have such a respectful prestige among the Hu people in the late Han Dynasty.

I studied at the Diplomacy Academy for seven years in my previous life, but it was only slightly stronger than Liu Yu's decades of practical work experience.

In this world, only Li Su and Liu Yu can fully understand each other in the field of diplomatic ideas.

Over the years, Liu Yu may feel very depressed when facing other dull aides, and he feels that his IQs cannot keep up with his ideas.

In this case, it is not surprising that he used his privileges again and again to pave the way for Li Su's future and allow Li Su to be promoted as soon as possible to gain a bigger stage of performance.

Sometimes Li Su also thought: If Liu Yu was a younger generation, maybe he and Liu Bei would still be obediently assisting him.

But this cannot be assumed that Liu Yu, who is nearly 50 years old, is destined to be unable to personally welcome the moment when the world is peaceful again.

Liu Bei and Li Su should inherit Liu Yu's destiny and will and support the Han Dynasty.

...

After Li Su thought about this, he realized that he had already arrived at Jixian County Government and Guangyang Duwei Mansion.

Before Li Su could get off the horse, several personal soldiers came to help and help. Another personal soldiers brought the dismount stone for him to step on.

All the people in Liu Bei's mansion were so familiar with Li Su that they were no longer familiar with him. Without needing to report, they directly led Li Su into the room.

When I walked to the second gate, I saw Liu Guan and Zhang running out, talking to Li Su, and talking about their farewell together:

"Is this a good thing about writing books behind closed doors? I have thought of being a brother for the past two months. Whenever I see a court notice, I don't know how to interpret the general trend of the world without my brother."

"Brother, I have some questions, it's not too late now." Li Su was not polite to Liu Bei, not saying those modest words, and looked as if he was willing to take responsibility.

But Liu Bei likes this kind of honesty.

After chatting for a few words, Li Su had the time to turn to Zhang Fei: "Is Yide's injury completely healed? It's a pleasure to congratulate."

Zhang Fei put his hips on his hips and said proudly: "When you were caught and read, I had been lying for two months. If you didn't feel good, I would be able to hold out the birds! How could you call you? I'm finally going to fight Zhang Zuo? I just went out to loosen my muscles and bones.

When I was harvesting and robbing grain in the early autumn, I heard that my second brother was leading the team outside to harass Zhang Ju every day and could win the head of Zhang Ju's grain collection team every day, which made me envious."

Judging from Zhang Fei's attitude, I'm afraid it's okay to eat a trouser and pig's feet in one meal.

"By the way, Boya, has the envoy given orders?" Liu Bei and Guan Yu also hurriedly followed suit, obviously they were curious too.

Li Su told him frankly: "Your envoy asked me to prepare for a few more days. First, I will write a detailed work of the "On the Blessed Relationship of the Palace" in Youzhou. When the capital Luoyang also gets the first batch of books, I will be sent to Wuhuan to try to persuade Qiu Liju to surrender.

Qiu Liju is now in poor food. As long as he doesn’t want to slaughter the people and brings a serious crime that cannot turn back, then the probability of cooperating with us is quite high."

Liu Bei quickly persuaded: "It's true that this day is still here... But, Boya, will it be dangerous if you ask you to persuade yourself?"

Li Su: "The envoy has always been very prestige among the Hu Hu. Even Hu Chief, who refused to surrender, never dared to kill the envoy sent by the envoy. This has been the case since more than ten years ago. However, safety issues must not be guarded against - mainly because they cannot be caught by Zhang Ju's direct troops. Zhang Ju has already become emperor, so he can only walk one way to the black, and he must have killed him when he encounters an envoy."

Liu Bei asked quickly: "Then I will send more elite soldiers and generals to protect you. I heard that when I entered the Jiujiang Sect’s camp to capture the army in Chaohu, Chief Yun brought elite soldiers and hundreds of cavalry to protect him. This ju must be several times more cruel than Zulang. Without three or five hundred elite soldiers, I am afraid it will not be complete."

Li Su smiled and refused: "There are too many people, but the target is too big and it is not easy to approach quietly. Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju and Su Li must be a little suspicious of each other now. Maybe Zhang Ju will also have a whistle to protrude into Qiu Liju's camp. The large group of people entered and exited the camp, and Zhang Ju will definitely get a tip.

In my opinion, it would be better to bring only a few powerful generals this time. As for the personal guards, they all use the elite Wuhuan cavalry under my brother's tent to disguise themselves as Qiu Liju's scouts and provocates. In this way, they will not be suspected by Zhang Ju in the Qiu camp."

Liu Bei thought about it and found that many of his elite cavalrymen who had been with him for many years were Wuhuan people. Now the cavalry team has gradually expanded to one or two thousand people, and there are also a considerable proportion of Wuhuan warriors. It is of course no problem to pick out some of them to be bodyguards for Li Su.

But he was still worried: "It is certainly no problem for a good brother to want the elite Wuhuan, but if he only disguises himself as a scout team, he may not be too many. In the combat style of the Wuhuan people, each scout team has only twenty or thirty people..."

"I'll just pick thirty elite ones. As long as I can see Qiu Liju safely, there's no need to worry about the follow-up."

If Qiu Liju really wants to be unfavorable to others, let alone thirty riders, thirty riders will be useless.

Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "Okay, then Yun Chang will be...

Li Su hurriedly refused: "No need, Yun Changyide is a talented general. It was just a temporary solution in Chaohu at the beginning, so how could it be like this? I asked my brother, Zilong, Youping, and I would have my own Dianwei guard, which is enough.

At that time, my brother and Yun Changyide can first attack Zhang Ju's headquarters on the border, mobilize the enemy army, attract attention and create chaos, which can be regarded as one pull and one strike, and cooperate with my persuasion and deterrence. However, don't attack Qiu Liju's headquarters."

Li Su is very knowledgeable. In this kind of situation where the enemy is divided, it is necessary to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger. Just like in the three major battles, if you want to seek peaceful surrender in Peking, then Tianjin will be able to conquer it with thunder means, showing that "it's not that we can't fight, but we don't want to fight."

Just one step ahead, we must use war to promote harmony.

Liu Bei felt it made sense and completely agreed: "Okay, I will choose the most elite Wuhuan cavalry archer of the thirty cavalry, and pretend to be a scout and go with Boya. Before Boya is about to arrive, I and Yun Changyide led my troops to detour north, whether it is a robbery or a field battle, and defeated Zhang Ju's headquarters for a fierce battle."

"Thank you for your thorough arrangements."

...

Five days later, Liu Bei and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had already marched from Ji County to the front line of Yuyang County and Youbeiping County, with two thousand cavalry and some other supporting troops.

The infantry under Liu Bei attacked eastward from Wuzhong County along the Gengshui River and easily captured Xu Wu (Zunhua in later generations), a small county town that had almost been abandoned by the rebels.

The reason why the rebels abandoned the guards was because they had no food and did not want to bear the burden of the thousands of people who were still alive in this small county. Before the rebels left, they snatched all the food that the people in the city could find before retreating, leaving only the people who had no food to fend for themselves.

Therefore, Liu Bei's advance was not so much a siege and recapture, but rather an initiative to take the initiative to take the responsibility of relieving more than 4,000 hungry people.

Liu Bei was a kind person. Seeing that the people were almost hungry, he had to distribute military rations to help him. Fortunately, Xu Wuxian and Wuzhong County were both along the Gengshui River, so it was quite convenient to transport grain. Wuzhong County controlled by the imperial court still had a large amount of garrison grain, so there was no loss on the way he transported it.

After letting the hungry people eat a meal of porridge mixed with wheat bran, the representatives of the people in the city told Liu Bei: When Zhang Ju's rebels robbed all the food and evacuated, there were still 7,000 women and young women in the city, and now only 4,000 people left, and 3,000 people were starved to death before Liu Bei arrived.

After hearing this, Liu Bei couldn't speak for a long time, but he could only sigh.

After a day of repair, Liu Bei himself stationed in Xuwu County with three thousand infantry, stably securing the new front-line bridgehead.

Then let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead two thousand cavalry to continue advancing eastward and conduct a tentative attack. If you can attack, try to attack and capture as much as possible. However, if you encounter Zhang Ju's large army, you will immediately withdraw Xu Wu.

While Liu Bei's men arrived in Xu Wu, Li Su, who had made all preparations in Ji County, also set off with a group of elite entourages.

In addition to him, he followed Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Zhou Tai, and a powerful general Wenze who was ordered to break out from Gongsun Zan. Wenze is now directly under Liu Yu's tent. The reason why Li Su led him was not because he was interested in his martial arts, but because Wenze was familiar with the terrain of this generation.

Five months ago, Wen Ze led the twelve cavalry warriors to break through the numerous sieges of Guanzi City. How can he fight back? Does anyone know the terrain better than him?

Finally, Liu Bei's usual personal captain Liu Dun, who had been promoted to Qujunhou, was still working back to his old career and selected thirty Wuhuan soldiers with the strongest cavalry and shooting skills.

Liu Bei also chose the best weapons and horses for everyone, and he also matched one person and two horses.

In this way, there were 1 civil servant, 5 military officers, 30 cavalry, a total of 36 cavalry, and the number of people happened to be equal to the number of people who had been sent to the Western Regions and attacked the Xiongnu delegation and forced the surrender of King Shanshan.

"It seems that this number is quite auspicious. Ban Chao was convinced by a great Western Region country to return to the Han Dynasty by relying on 36 cavalry. It seems that I can still 'How can I get a tiger' if I don't enter the tiger's den' today. I wonder what kind of idiom will be given to me in the history books in the future."

After leaving, Li Su looked at his men and wanted to invent a few popular idioms for future generations to recite allusions.

Otherwise, if you don’t enter the dragon pond, how can you get a dragon egg?

It seems a bit vulgar. When later generations heard that they were imitating Ban Chao, they would not work.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't expect that it would be appropriate, so Li Su had to give up temporarily.

36 rode to maintain his strength and walked slowly. Three days later, he entered Youbeiping.

Sleeping well in Xuwu County for a night to nourish your energy, and setting off at dawn the next day, only then did you reach the state of running at full speed.

Within one day, they went straight to Lulong's Guzhu City from Xu Wuguo Lingzhi.

There is the Wuhuan Camp where Qiu Liju.
Chapter completed!