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Li Li's surprise interrupted Li Ru's military information notice. After receiving Li Li's nod, he continued to explain the information he had just sent.

It is not difficult for careful people to find that Li Ru's subsequent announcement was completely different from before. He just said in detail, but after Li Li was surprised, Li Ru immediately changed the way of reporting and briefly stated the general situation, which was very general, giving people a feeling of being foggy.

However, the general meaning was expressed, making everyone in the tent realize that the situation in the world was about to change again. The original situation of separatist rule by the princes of all directions had been broken, and the Central Plains states, which had been calm for only a year, were turbulent again. The peaceful days would go away and the war would rekindle.

After Li Ru finished reporting, the surprised expression on Li Li's face disappeared, but he did not mention the emergency information reported by Li Ru, but instead changed the topic and asked about the rest and supplementary situation of the troops in each battalion and the situation in Jizhou.

When Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Xu Huang and Ma Dai finished answering one by one, it was already evening. Li Li ordered a banquet in the commander's tent to reward the generals who came from afar.

At the beginning of the banquet, Li Li and the generals drank three cups together, then sat for another quarter of an hour, then got up and left the generals and walked towards the rear tent directly behind the generals. The generals did not mind this, or they drank more happily after Li Li left, and they drank happily.

This time Li Li went on a tour to inspect the military and political affairs of the prefectures and counties under his rule, and also accompanied his wives, concubines and children to the grassland for a trip, and could also understand the people's sentiments. This was the first time that Li Li took them and their children to go out for a group outing together in so many years since the girls followed Li Li.

This tour was different from the past. Among Li Li's seventeen wives and concubines, except for Zhen Zhang Ai, who stayed in the inner palace, the rest included Meng Xin, Wu Xian, Zhu Rong and Princess Yang'an Liu Hua. All wives and children went out together. Therefore, they rode as many as twenty-seven carriages, and the children occupied ten carriages. The remaining girls and their personal maids were sitting in the same carriage, and the sixteen wives and concubines had sixteen luxury carriages. In addition, Li Xuan, Li Ru, Huan Fei, Li Zhi and Xu Chu also took their wives and children with them, and there were more than ten carriages.

In addition to the manned carriages, there were more than forty carriages carrying carriages and escorted along the way by 12,000 cavalrymen.

Therefore, Li Li and his party travel team were unprecedentedly large, with nearly 100 carriages and more than 13,000 war horses. They continued for several miles, with soldiers and flags flying, and the road was vast and magnificent.

In order to save expenses, avoid heavy riots and waste money, Li Li clearly stipulated before departure that no city will be entered along the way, and no states, counties and county officials are allowed to go out to welcome the city, no welcome ceremony will be held, and no county and county are allowed to pay a penny; in case of special circumstances, one soldier will join hands to go to the prefectures and counties to allocate money and grain. In addition, everything in each prefecture is as usual. The civil and military officials along the way do not need to accompany them without receiving the military order. Only generals and officials who have received the military order can go to the headquarters to pay a visit. All the remaining civil and military personnel are not allowed to leave their posts without permission.

Not only that, Li Li and others walked along the way. Most of them stayed overnight in the border military camps, and the rest camped on their own, and they brought their own food and daily life. All the food and grass needed were carried with them. When the food and grass were used up, a soldier took Li Li's handwriting to the county town or the prefecture to allocate. Then the general's inner palace allocated and supplemented it and went directly to the treasury. It was counted as the taxes and wages paid by each prefecture.

In short, it is just a sentence: all the cost of this tour is the responsibility of the General's Inner Palace, that is, Li Li bears the full amount, and does not use a slight amount of money and food in each prefecture and county.

Although the money and grain that Li Li still comes from taxes and workshops in the inner court, after all, the wool comes from the sheep, Li Li did this to show his position and attitude, set an example for the officials of various prefectures and counties, so that they can clearly realize that they cannot reach out casually, can not fill their own pockets, and can not enslave the people; otherwise, the consequences will be serious, so serious that they cannot afford it.

It is worth mentioning that so far, Li Li has dismissed more than 30 officials and border generals who are very attentive. These people have received orders in advance, but knowingly violated the rules and violated discipline, show off their pomp and show their respect. As a result, Li Li did not come forward at all and did not see them. He directly dealt with them on his behalf. He dismissed twenty-one civil servants and more than thirteen generals of the county magistrates and thirteen generals of the school magistrates. Then there were also legal personnel to investigate them. Once the problem was found, they would not be dismissed from office. It was inevitable that they would be beheaded and their heads would be removed.

In troubled times, rectifying the administration of officials is extremely strict, and the means are almost cruel. Once a certain official is found to have a serious problem, even the jail disaster will be spared, and all the heads will be beheaded, the property will be confiscated, and even the whole family will be affected. In this case, local counties and counties will be like this, but the army will be even more severe. If the military discipline or military orders are violated, the skin and flesh will be suffered at the least, and the worst will be beheaded and the whole family will be exiled and exiled, and will be slaves forever. This is true for the use of heavy dictates in troubled times.

After the banquet, after the generals left the generals one after another, Li Zhi, the commander of the Jinqiu Guard, followed Li Li, and came to the general's tent again.

At this time, there were only six people who remained in the tent of the general, all of whom were important officials under Li Li. They were Li Xuan, Li Ru, Huan Fei, Ju Yi, Xu Chu and Xu Huang. In addition, Li Li and Li Zhi were the master and servant, a total of eight people.

As Li Li slowly walked to the first place on the left side of the tent, Li Zhi and Xu Chu stood at the door of the commander's tent and replaced the position of the personal soldiers. Xu Huang and Huan Fei acted as personal soldiers and brought tea and water to everyone. Therefore, only Li Li, Li Xuan, Li Ru and Ju Yi were the four who actually participated in the secret discussion.

Such an arrangement is undoubtedly a very high courtesy for Ju Yi, who participated in the secret discussion of the General's Mansion for the first time. This made Ju Yi, who regarded himself very highly, feel flattered. For the first time, he felt that he had a sense of belonging in the Xiliang army and felt that he was right to surrender to Li Li, a truly wise move.

"Ju Yi doesn't have to be nervous, don't be restrained." Before the discussion began, Li Li keenly noticed that Ju Yi was sweating on his forehead, and his mind was tense, so he gently patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Speaking of this, you have been in my command for more than a year, but this is the first time you and I sit together to discuss military affairs. This is unique among the classics of all dynasties. It is the first to set aside and deserve praise.

But you and I have known each other for a long time. Seven years ago, we met in Wuji, Zhongshan. It can be said that we met at first sight and we met too late. Last year, you led our troops to serve me. Although we were late, we also returned to the same journey. We finally came to the same path. It is a great blessing in life."

Ju Yi said respectfully with gratitude: "The lord is too rewarded. I am stupid and have no idea about Mount Tai. I have been wasting five years in vain. If I followed my lord earlier, I would not have become a dog that was lost. Fortunately, the heavens are merciful and thanked my lord, I will eventually be a wise master. From then on, I will be swearing to repay my lord to death!" These words were sincere, and I could hear that this was Ju Yi's sincere words.

In front of Li Li, Ju Yi was not arrogant at all. He really put his position in the right position, his mentality was very positive and his posture was very low, showing a completely opposite side from before. It can be seen that he was not a rebellious person, or he was once a proud person, but after many twists and turns and tempering, he knew very well what he should do, and realized that his personality had flaws, was not sociable, unpleasant, and was easily isolated.

Now, Ju Yi has made a conscious correction and knows more clearly how powerful Li Li is and how unfathomable it is. Therefore, he is absolutely convinced by Li Li and willing to listen to the driving force. What Li Li said to him seven years ago is still clearly remembered that everything Li Li said was confirmed; Yuan Shao wanted to use him to wipe out Gongsun Zan, but he was guarding against him everywhere, and even tried to get rid of him when he was about to die.

Because of this, when Cao Cao occupied Jizhou, Ju Yi did not choose to surrender to Cao Cao, but led his troops under the tent to fight alone. Until the situation stabilized, he resolutely chose to surrender to Li Li, and was willing to act as a front pawn, leading 50,000 troops under the tent to penetrate into Jizhou, wedging into Jizhou like a nail, which gave Cao Cao a headache and could not sleep or eat, but could not pull out his nail.

After a year of development, Ju Yi's tent currently has 70,000 infantry and cavalry, including 50,000 infantry and 20,000 combat cavalry, and nearly 100 generals above the lieutenant, and his strength is becoming stronger. Over the past year, he has led his army to fight with Cao Cao's army many times, almost once a month. Although both sides have wins and loses each other, overall, the first camp he led is still more wins and less losses. The more he fights, the stronger his combat power, the more troops he fights.

However, as Cao Cao further integrated the Jizhou army and his control over the Jizhou army became stronger and stronger, Ju Yi was facing more and more pressure, which was quite difficult. Therefore, he came to meet Li Li this time, firstly, to wait for Li Li's orders, and secondly, to ask Li Li for orders; if he had no choice, he would give up Zhongshan and Changshan Kingdom and lead his army to retreat to Bingzhou to preserve his strength, hoping to gain Li Li's approval and support. However, he had no chance to say that, so Li Li did not know his plans at this time.

At the beginning of the discussion, Li Li asked in detail about Sun Ce's assassination, and then about the development of the situation in Jiangdong when Sun Ce was critically ill and the current situation in Jiangdong. Li Ru answered one by one, explaining it very thoroughly, almost integrating all the information he had found in detail and presenting it in detail.

Through Li Ru's story, Li Li learned that more than three months had passed since Sun Ce's assassination and the turbulent situation in Jiangdong. After Sun Ce was assassinated, he was entrusted with Jiangdong's Jiye to Sun Yi when he was dying. Unexpectedly, Sun Ce died the day before, and Sun Yi was assassinated again the next day.

Sun Yi was attacked directly from behind by the lower tent generals, and died on the spot with a sword. The generals were then chopped into meat paste by their personal soldiers.

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ps: [Heartly thanks: The fourth master of Xiaoqi, the book friend of "Gentle Three Fatty", for his strong support, thank you!]

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