The military workshop built by Guan Hu and his people has also become increasingly formed, and the scale has gradually expanded, in addition to gunpowder, other equipment of the Central Army can be built by craftsmen in Qingzhou.

Of course, the Qingzhou Army also has an indispensable clerk to improve the quality of officers and soldiers, maintain military discipline, and record military exploits.

When the Cao army came to attack, it was naturally arranged by the Tiger Face Division, and the two sides reached a stalemate in the land of the three counties.

Although the three counties are the boundaries of Yanzhou, they have been operated by the Qingzhou Army for many years, and the Qingzhou Army has implemented benevolent government here, lightly reducing taxes and levies, which is very popular with the local people.

Therefore, wherever Cao Jun went, the people fled one after another, and many refugees poured into Qingzhou.

Qingzhou and Xuzhou have long been allies, the Qingzhou army and the main force of the Cao army resisted, Liu Bei and Chen Gong sent Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to lead the troops to attack Renchengguo and Shanyang County, attack the flank of the Cao army, and echo the Qingzhou army.

The three forces are in a mess, and they have won and lost each other, but Cao Cao's side has so many resourceful people who brainstorm ideas, and naturally someone will come up with a way to break the game.

Cao Cao secretly sent people to buy off the advisers and close ministers around Yuan Shu, and called Yuan Shu the emperor, they said that Yuan Shu had the face of the ninety-five honor, and the surname was in line with the five virtues.

Not to mention that Sun Ce had already sent the jade seal of the country to Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao also sent Cheng Yu as a representative to secretly meet Yuan Shu.

Cheng Yu said that his lord was convinced that Yuan Shu had the appearance of an emperor and was willing to respect Yuan Shu as an emperor.

Yuan Shu had long had the ambition to become emperor, and after the persuasion of these subordinates and Cao Cao's statement, he made up his mind.

In February 195, Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor in Shouchun, established the name Zhongshi, privately placed the minister, appointed Jiujiang Taishou as Huainan Yin, and built an altar for the emperor to worship the emperor in the south and north of the city.

He himself lived a luxurious and lascivious life, and spent extravagantly, but the soldiers in the army were half hungry and half full, and the people in the Jianghuai area were even more miserable and complained.

Lü Bu learned that Yuan Shu was called emperor, and through the Chang'an court, he issued an edict, announcing that Yuan Shu was a traitor and a thief, a great rebel, and everyone was punished for it, and called on the princes around Yuan Shu to crusade against him.

Sun Ce was the first to respond to the imperial edict and announce the severance of diplomatic relations with Yuan Shu, and he sent Xu Kun to drive away Yuan Yin, the Taishou of Danyang sent by Yuan Shu.

Occupied Danyang County Zhiwanling, and pacified the counties east of Xuancheng, Jurong, Wuhu, Danyang, Shicheng, and Luyang counties were annexed one after another.

Then he greeted Wu Jing, who had just returned from Yuan Shu, and served as the Taishou of Danyang.

After stabilizing the rear, Sun Ce personally led the army to attack the area west of Jing County.

Blitzed Lingyang, captured Zulang, who had repeatedly opposed him, and then attacked Yongli, pacified the entire Danyang County, and greatly expanded the territory of the Sun regime in Jiangdong.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Bei also defeated Yuan Shu's army in Huaibei, and Yuan Shu's army was demoralized, and many of the soldiers fled.

Yuan Shu still did not give up, and Liu Chong, the king of Chen, accused him of perverse behavior and usurped power, so he led his army to attack the state of Chen and killed Liu Chong, the king of Chen.

The state of Chen was Cao Cao's sphere of influence, and Cao Cao was furious, regardless of the fact that the east was still at war with the Qingzhou army, and personally led the army to conquer Yuan Shu.

In Xiyang, Yuan Shu was broken and several generals of Yuan Shu were killed, and Yuan Shu fled back to Huainan and did not dare to take the initiative to attack Cao Cao.

In March, the Shaling Military Academy was officially moved to Chang'an, located in Lantian Mountain, backed by Lantian Mountain, and officially named the Central Army Military Academy, which was specifically responsible for training junior officers of the Central Army.

In the adjacent Shanlinyuan, the Central Army University was officially established.

Before being promoted to middle and senior officers, one must go to the Central Army University for further training.

The refresher course for mid-level officers is open to company officers who are preparing to be promoted to battalion commander.

The Senior Officers Refresher Course is open to regimental officers who are preparing to be promoted to brigade commanders.

The military disciplines of the Lantian Military Academy have also been adjusted, and some particularly advanced and specialized subjects have been adjusted to the Army University for teaching.

The Lantian Military Academy has increased the proportion of practical subjects in actual combat and basic skills, the honor system for graduation examinations has been retained, and the gold medal winners with full honors, that is, those who have been excellent in 18 subjects, will be sent to the Army University for further study.

The Central Army Military Academy has also set up a special political branch school, which is specially responsible for training clerks, and in addition to basic military subjects as compulsory courses, the main ones are to study ideological courses, theoretical courses, and political courses.

Chen Qun, the son of Dahonglu Chen Ji, was then the Zhongcheng of the Imperial History, and he submitted a long essay to Lü Bu.

It focused on some shortcomings of the political structure and bureaucratic selection system at that time, and put forward some bold proposals for reforming the central power organs and renewing the administration of officials and the selection of officials.

This article is the prototype of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system written by the famous Chen Qun in later generations, and Lü Bu praised this article greatly, and convened the three princes and nine ministers and the ministers of the court and China to discuss this long article.

There are those who are in favor and there are many people who oppose it, because if Chen Qun's suggestion is followed, the power and official positions of the three princes and nine secretaries have changed greatly, or even abolished altogether, and some have become low-level official positions.

Lu Bu secretly observed that the opponents were all current vested interests, and they were all people whose power had been weakened and their official positions had been reduced or cancelled among the current Three Princes and Nine Secretaries and their subordinate officials.

In fact, the current Eastern Han Dynasty official system has the prototype of the three provinces and six ministries system in later generations, and the nine-grade official law, also known as the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, is actually only an extension and inheritance of the inspection system since the two Han Dynasty.

It has little impact on the old clan of the gate lords, but only expands and increases the channels for the children of the poor to advance, so that more talents can be appointed by the state and will not be left out.

In the end, it was Lu Bu who made a decision that the Jiupin Zhongzheng system would not be implemented for the time being, because the world had not yet been unified, and the decree could not be effectively issued to every state and county.

However, the three-province six-ministry system could be implemented after appropriate changes, and Lü Bu only set up two provinces.

One is the province of Zhongshumen, which is mainly responsible for discussing national affairs, and the province of Shangshu is in charge of the secrets, serving the emperor left and right, reviewing the edicts, and under the jurisdiction of the imperial history platform, which has the right to supervise the civil and military officials.

The three dukes and nine qings are theoretically all under the Zhongshu Sect Province, and the three dukes are the governors of the Zhongshu Men Lower Province, known as the Zhongshu Order, and the subordinate officials are Shizhong, Huangmen Shilang, Counseling Doctor, Yushi Zhongcheng and so on.

Lu Bu's original intention was to keep the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries for the time being, and not to change the composition of the personnel, but not to appoint new Three Princes and Nine Secretaries in the future.

When the current Three Princes and Nine Secretaries are old, they will gradually empty and take away their power, and in the end it will only be retained as an honorary title, and it will be gradually abolished in the future.

The other province is Shangshu Province, which was formerly known as the original Shangshutai of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Shangshu Province has six departments, that is, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry.

In fact, the Shangshutai of the Eastern Han Dynasty originally had six Cao, including the Three Gong Cao, the Officials Cao, the Min Cao, the Ke Cao, the Two Thousand Stone Cao, and the Zhongdu Guancao.

Each of the six ministries has a number of divisions that deal with specific matters.

The sixth department actually shared all kinds of affairs that were originally in charge of Jiuqing, that is, Jiuqing was actually elevated.