However, this statement of the emperor was great news for Wang Tao and Ma Yan, and they were simply overjoyed! They originally thought that they could take a piece of meat from Cao Cao's mouth, and they had already completed the task, but they didn't expect that this time they would not only deduct a Jingzhou pastor, but also deduct a princess!

In order to avoid the emperor's repentance, the two knelt on the ground at the same time to thank the emperor for his grace on behalf of the princess. Emperor Xian pretended to be very happy, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he gave Kou Yan another grace, giving her half a pair of Luan chauffeurs, allowing her to go out and use the regulations of the Son of Heaven's honor guard. This one, even Princess Tao of the Dou Main Pavilion, who was in power at the beginning, has not enjoyed it!

Kou Yan went from the abandoned daughter of the Liu family to the goddess prodigy of the Kou family and then to the princess of the Han family, and suddenly turned around gorgeously, reinstated the surname Liu, and used his real name Liu Yan back!

Wang Tao and Ma Jian successfully completed their task and returned to Xiangyang with the honor guard given to the princess by the emperor and the canonized holy decree. Liu Yan, who had already received the news, wore a princess dress made out to greet the emperor's decree and honor guard outside Xiangyang City, and accepted the seal of Jingzhou Mu.

After becoming a princess and Jingzhou Mu, the first thing Kou Yan did was to open a mansion, not to open her princess's mansion, but to open Jingzhou Mu's mansion, sealing the left and right military generals, Pang Tong on the left, Xu Shu on the right. Xu Shu has Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Kou Feng under him. Zhang Fei was a general, Kou Feng was promoted to general with the credit of this Northern Expedition, and Zhao Yun was promoted to captain. Pang Tong had Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Cen Qi under him. Huang Zhong was a veteran general, and Wei Yan and Cen Qi were promoted to generals with military merits. Although Zhao Yun is a school captain, this is only because Zhao Yun has not waited for the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. And the cavalry has not really grown stronger. When there will be 510,000 cavalry in the future, the title of general will not be able to run.

Gan Ning was also promoted to general, and his navy became an independent army, and was directly controlled by Liu Yan in peacetime, and if there was a need for war, he would be temporarily handed over to one of them for Gan Ning, Liu Yan always gave him special preferential treatment, and never gave him all kinds of property in various names, and handed over all taxes in Jiangxia County to Gan Ning as the military resources of the navy.

In this regard, Xu Shu and Pang Tong have expressed different opinions, believing that although Gan Ning has made great contributions to this Northern Expedition. But give him so much power. There may be hidden dangers in the future.

Liu Yan just smiled at the two of them, Gan Ning, the advantages and disadvantages are so obvious, he is so happy. He has an extravagant style. He was proud of his achievements. And so on. Let other colleagues have a lot of complaints. Gong Cao and Jun Zheng impeached him, and Liu Yan had read a lot, but they all took a blind eye to deal with it.

The reason is simple, because the merits of this person are so likable. He is brave and good at fighting. Under his tutelage, the Changsha Navy was able to defeat the Jiangdong Navy in less than two years, capture Jiangxia County, relieve Changsha's worries, make the Jiangdong Sun clan completely deflated, and shatter his dream of Northern Expedition expansion.

The so-called Sun-Liu alliance allowed Sun Quan to have Jiangxia for a short time and opened the back door of Changsha. It was Gan Ning who sent troops to block this back door, drove away Sun Quan, and took down Jiangxia that Liu Yan wanted to take but didn't have the heart to take.

The superiority of Jiangxia's geographical location does not need to be repeated, just because Huang Zu and the Sun family had a grudge against his father back then, Gan Ning's recapture of Jiangxia from the Sun family was enough to make Sun Quan go crazy and vomit blood, and it was enough to make Liu Yan look at him differently.

Therefore, even though the two generals expressed concern about Gan Ning's character, Liu Yan still sent General Ning Ze's big seal and appointment document to Gan Ning.

In addition to General Gan Ning's name Ning Ze, General Kou Feng was called Yongwu, General Wei Yan was called Weiwu, General Cen Qi was called Pojun, General Zhang Fei was called Jingwu, and General Huang Zhong was called Zhenjun.

It can be clearly seen from the title that Kou Feng's status has risen rapidly, and he has been on par with Wei Yan and Zhang Fei. No way, he is her senior brother, and he is a relative who has accompanied her all the way to today. And although Zhang Fei thinks he is the third uncle, he is actually just a general, and he can't be compared with Kou Feng.

As for Cen Qi and Huang Zhong, not to mention, Huang Zhong is an elder, and he also started with Liu Yan, the first person in the past, and now he has to be reflected in the title, taking care of the old man's feelings, Cen Qi's other departments have always been Liu Yan's henchmen, and they are used as the blade of a sharp knife, and the title naturally reflects its unique temperament.

Sealing two military divisions and six generals in one go, Liu Yan felt that the military strength in her hands had finally reached a new level. In terms of civil officials, Jiang Wan is the main bookkeeper, Ma Jing is in charge of academic politics, Mi Zhu is in charge of finance, and Yin Ji, who was originally appointed as Taishou, is in charge of civil affairs. Liu Yan used these four people to temporarily prop up Jingzhou Mu's mansion, but in fact, there are still many professional talents, such as those in charge of military merit, prisons, civil engineering, and water conservancy, but they haven't found anyone yet!

Therefore, after sealing the civil officials and military generals, the next very important thing is to officially set up a recruitment list and take the stage to pay homage to the generals. Only this time, Xu Shu and Pang Tong took the stage at the same time, and Liu Yan presented them with the Great Seal of the Military Division, a golden helmet, a golden armor, a golden arrow, a white jade ribbon, and wore the same expeditionary sword, armed to the teeth.

Although there are high and low titles, there is absolutely no difference between high and low treatment. In private, Xu Shu is a teacher, and Liu Yan is always a little more intimate to him. But on the scene, she gave the two the same treatment. This is what she should inherit from Pang Tong, and it is also what he deserves.

Since then, Xu Shu has completely freed herself from the complicated civilian work and become a pure military officer, which is Liu Yan's hope and the direction of her efforts. And his favorite is definitely to join the army rather than politics, after all, the adventurous ranger nature in his bones has not faded with the passage of time and age. It's just that it was forced to hide by the environment. Now, of course, there is no need to do anything to hide, his student has become a princess, and he certainly has the capital to do whatever he likes.

Liu Yan's side is smooth sailing, and she is advancing in an orderly manner according to the set goals. However, just a month later, another decree almost didn't make her angry. In the name of the Son of Heaven, Cao Cao named Jiangdong Sun Quan as the general of Zhendong, holding the festival and deterring Jingzhou.

After Liu Yan got the news, she sat opposite Xu Shu and Pang Tong in the study, and snorted coldly in her nose: "Cao thief is too cunning, knowing that Jiangdong and I have an inextricable hatred, he actually named him General Zhendong, this is to chill me, come at me! Jiangdong has always been faceless and skinless, this time it's okay, they should be ready to move again, thinking of taking advantage of me! Teacher, senior brother, you keep an eye on the Sun family at any time, if this old wolf doesn't give them a real touch, they will only gain an inch!"

"The princess doesn't have to be so angry, today's Jiangdong is no longer the Jiangdong of the past, even if Cao Thief has the intention to use the Sun family to hold Jingzhou hostage, he is also powerless. What's more, after Zhou Gongjin returned to Jiangdong, he couldn't afford to fall ill, and he is still lying in bed! Their old general Cheng Pu is dead again, and there is no one to be the governor of the capital, and Jiangdong cannot afford to make big waves. "Pang Tong has some understanding of the generals in Jiangdong, and has the experience of being a leader in Jiangdong, so when it comes to dealing with Jiangdong, it is naturally a set of methods.

Liu Yan listened, the corners of her mouth rose, but she still had to be wary of what she said: "Cheng Pu is dead, Zhou Yu is sick, but Jiangdong is not as good as us, there are a lot of veterans and young generals! If the Sun family really has the courage to be a thief, then our border will not be peaceful." Fortunately, our General Gan has always been powerful in Jiangxia, otherwise I would always feel that there is something wrong in my heart. Now we can only have a long mind and guard against his small movements. Big moves or something, they don't dare to measure them!"

When it comes to Gan Ning, Liu Yan is full of smiles, with this banner, the era of Jiangdong Navy being alone in the world has entered the countdown. The beautiful era of Jingzhou's naval army replacing it is coming.

Seeing this, Xu Shu and Pang Tong knew in their hearts that Liu Yan had always held Gan Ning high, just to prevent Sun Quan. Now Sun Quan has indeed become Jingzhou's number one enemy, and for a long time to come, the contradiction between Jingzhou and Jiangdong will be the main contradiction. Cao Cao, Liu Zhang, or something have to stand aside.

Cao Cao is weak, and he will not go south lightly without two years of recovery, especially the failure of the first time he went south, and he was defeated so badly, he will definitely do his homework if he goes south again, and maybe the two-year time limit will be doubled. Liu Zhang of Xichuan is even more out of Liu Yan's consideration at this time.

In fact, as early as the first time she entered Xiangyang, Liu Yan had already heard a strategy similar to Longzhong's in Sima Hui's mansion, and knew that in order to win the world, she must first win Jingzhou, then Xichuan, and then win the Central Plains. The importance of Nishikawa is extraordinary. But there are always priorities, and the priority is to calm the enemy under your nose.

Moreover, Liu Yan asked herself that she did not have the urgent desire to win the Central Plains, she has always been fighting a defensive counterattack. If it weren't for someone else hitting the door, she wouldn't want to fight back. Therefore, if Cao Cao didn't reveal the idea of entering Sichuan, she wouldn't move first.

What's more, she had just acquired Xiangyang and Nanyang, and she hadn't played it yet! How could she leave the ruined Xiangyang and enter Sichuan with the remnants of the army! Therefore, the matter of entering Sichuan has not even been put on the agenda now, and it has been shelved indefinitely by Cao Cao's holy decree to seal the Sun clan. Dealing with Koto is the most important thing at the moment.

Pang Tong and Xu Shu saw that Liu Yan had made up their minds, and the two had to bow down to receive the order. Liu Yan threw Jiangdong away for the time being, and after a few more gossips with the two, the two left.

As soon as the two of them left on the front foot, Liu Yan invited Jiang Wan on the back foot. There is only one thing, since the recruitment list has been set up, it is necessary to make full preparations for reception, arrange special officials at the city gate, guide job seekers to the main bookkeeper's house, and Jiang Wan will organize officials to do the primary election, if Jiang Wan feels that this person is worth recommending to the boss, Liu Yan will come forward to meet again. If it is just an ordinary talent, Jiang Wan can arrange work for the person who comes by himself, and he does not have to go through Liu Yan. (To be continued.) )