Chapter 295: A drastic move

An hour later, Liu Zhang left the altar and went to the Taimiao to worship the emperors of the Han Dynasty.

At this time, the temple of the Han Dynasty was originally in Luoyang, and after Dong Zhuo moved the capital, the ruins of the Western Han Temple in the Central Plains of Chang'an City were slightly repaired, and the spiritual seats of 27 emperors were enshrined from Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. After Liu Zhang captured Chang'an, he ordered a large-scale reconstruction, and enshrined the spiritual seat of Liu Wei, the young emperor of the Han Dynasty who was killed by Dong Zhuo.

Liu Zhang is just a prince and king, and according to the ritual system, he is not qualified to sacrifice Sheji and Taimiao, but Liu Zhang believes that as a royal family of the Han Dynasty, he aims to establish a kingdom in Chang'an, and Chang'an has built Sheji and Taimiao. Although Xun Yu felt that something was wrong, but thinking about Liu Zhang's words was not completely unreasonable, even if he couldn't sacrifice the ancestors of the previous dynasties, why couldn't Liu Zhang sacrifice the ancestors in the name of the descendants of the Liu family?

After a busy day of worshipping the heavens, sacrificing to the earth, and worshipping ghosts, the ceremony is finally over. Liu Zhang led everyone back to the palace, officially ascended the throne of the king of Shu, and accepted the worship of hundreds of officials.

Later, Liu Zhang canonized Cai Yan as the queen and the eldest son Liu Xun as the prince of Shu, and the hundred officials worshiped the queen and the prince again.

After the ceremony, Cai Yan returned to the dormitory with his eldest son, and Liu Zhang began a new personnel appointment.

Liu Zhang did not appoint Xiangguo, Duwei and other kingdom and Hou officials in accordance with the Han law, but carried out drastic reforms to the official system of the Shu Kingdom. Then the knighthood system was reformed, the titles of marquis, qing, and husband in the Han Dynasty were abolished, and the five titles of duke, marquis, uncle, son, and man were restored in the pre-Qin period, and each level was divided into one, two, and three classes, a total of five levels and fifteen ranks, and the recipients did not enjoy the food and fiefdom, but they could receive the special title of the corresponding title on a monthly basis, and the title could be passed on to the son, but each generation was downgraded by one level, that is to say, if the father was a first-class duke, then the son could only be hereditary first-class marquis, and if the father was a first-class baron, then the son could not inherit the title.

Liu Zhang appointed Xun Yu as the prime minister of the cabinet, concurrently served as the Chang'an Order, assisted Liu Zhang in governing the Shu State, and was the head of the hundred officials; Other officials of major departments: Xu Huang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Xun You, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Ma Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Cheng Yu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Chen Qun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, the right capital of the Imperial Shi Sima Lang, the Dali Temple Qing Yi, and the Tai Academy Zheng Cai Yong...... Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu, and the three elder brothers were all given the post of Imperial History of the Imperial Governor and became members of the cabinet.

As for the title, in order to maintain the fighting spirit of the martial arts under his command, Liu Zhang adopted the method of high rank and low allocation, and Xun Yu, as the head of the hundred officials, was awarded the first-class earl; Then Xu Huang, Man Chong, Xun You, Yan Yan, Wei Yan, Lu Su, and Cai Yong were named second-class earls; The deputy commanders and deputy chiefs of staff of the four major field corps, Jingzhou Thorn Shi Kuai Yue, Yizhou Thorn Shi Zhuge Jin, Liangzhou Thorn Shi Zhang Ji (Liu Zhang promoted him from the post of Hanzhong Taishou after moving to Chang'an), Yizhou Beijia Wang Lei, Zheng Xuan, Dean of Yizhou College of Shuxue, Pang Degong, Dean of Jingzhou College of Shuxue, Huang Quan of Military Academy, Beigong Yan and others were awarded third-class earls; The original division commanders, Jingliang Liangzhou Beijia, Ma Chao, Zhang Ji, etc., were awarded second-class viscounts; The original brigade commanders and the current county guards were all awarded the title of third-class viscount; As for the baron, for the time being, it is mainly given to those old officials who have been robbed of power by Liu Zhang, which can be regarded as a kind of comfort to them!

Later, Liu Zhang announced that in order to celebrate the establishment of the Shu Kingdom, he would grant amnesty to domestic prisoners and reduce the taxes of the kingdom's dependencies for one year (the areas that were originally exempted from taxes by Liu Zhang's order could be accumulated......

Whether it is Yizhou, Jingzhou, or the remote Liangzhou, with Liu Zhang's rule for a long time, the people's lives have been greatly improved, and the momentum has not stopped, there is a great momentum of sesame blossoming, when the news of the establishment of the Shu Kingdom spread, the people in the kingdom suddenly boiled, they understand that today's life is all thanks to Liu Zhang, the higher Liu Zhang's status, the more solid, their life will be more stable and richer!

Taking advantage of the jubilant atmosphere of the whole country, Liu Zhang not only announced the reform center, but also carried out drastic reforms at the local level. For example, he also reserved the history of the state assassin, but strictly stipulated its functions, as the history of the state assassin, he only controlled the people's livelihood and economy of a state; Establish independent inspection institutes in each state to administer law and order in the state; Each state has set up a military supervision department to take charge of the garrison in the state. The three are not subordinate to each other, but check and supervise each other, so as to prevent corruption and support the army to stand on their own feet as much as possible......

Like all reforms in history, Liu Zhang's reform was also resisted, but fortunately, his reform was recognized by the high-level of the Shu Kingdom, although there were some bumps, but it was still moving towards his goal! Although these bumps and bumps are not a climate, they also restrain Liu Zhang's hands and feet, why? Throughout China's thousands of years of feudal history, as a reformer, almost no one has received a good death - Shang Yang Che Split; Wu Qi died of an arrow, and his body was torn apart; Zhang Juzheng was whipped in a coffin; The soul of the six gentlemen of Wuxu is broken at the entrance of the vegetable market; The best ending may be Wang Anshi, who was disgraced and dismissed after the failure of the reform, and finally died of depression...... Knowing the outcome of these "predecessors", he did not dare to take it lightly, any little thing that seemed trivial during the reform period, he had to be carefully considered, and often had to work together, ask Xun Yu and others for help, and learn from others to minimize the hidden dangers.

For Liu Zhang's reform, the happiest is no more than Lu Bu, it is because he felt the strong threat of Liu Zhang, he proposed to crown Liu Zhang as the king of Shu, in order to buy time for himself, but he did not expect Liu Zhang to cooperate so much, and he actually carried out large-scale reforms so that Shu was in turmoil, Liu Zhang was also anxious, and had no time to take care of it, and temporarily solved the threat of Luoyang west and south, so he devoted all his energy to compete with Yuan Shao for the state.

Of course, it was not all good news for Lu Bu, on the same day, he asked the emperor to crown Liu Zhang as the king of Shu, in order to confine Liu Zhang to Shu, but Liu Zhang moved the ruling office to Chang'an, and his intention to plot the world can be said to be obvious! How far is Chang'an to Luoyang? Tongguan, the throat of the two places, is firmly in the hands of Liu Zhang, and if he holds Tongguan, he firmly grasps the initiative and attacks and defends freely, while Lu Bu can only cope with it. In order to hold Liu Zhang, not long after the establishment of the Shu Kingdom, Lu Bu repeatedly showed favor to Liu Zhang, first by the hand of the Emperor Xian Chang'an Palace to Liu Zhang, thinking that the palace of Shu State, and then let the Emperor Xian edict to the world, under the pretext that the Han princes rose together, and the country would not be a country, at this time of crisis, the Emperor hoped to revitalize the Han Dynasty through reform, and the Shu Kingdom was reformed in response to the Emperor's decree, Lu Bu's holy decree undoubtedly helped Liu Zhang a great favor, seeing that even the emperor agreed to Liu Zhang's reform, and the resistance to the later reform was unconsciously reduced a lot; In the end, Lu Bu instructed Emperor Xian to give Liu Zhang the two counties of Shuofang and Shangjun, of course, Lu Bu was not a kind Liu Zhang who sent the territory, in fact, he was hiding the heart of the pot, it turned out that the two counties gave Liu Zhang at the same time and gave him a holy decree, and the holy decree naturally praised him, and shaped him into the first loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, the first perfect person, and then the wind of conversation changed, now the Huns are suffering from the border pass, you can't sit idly by, right? The opposing side and the upper county have been given to you, then you will garrison the second county to resist the Huns! For a time, the princes of the world almost praised Liu Zhang as the first loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, wise and brave, and he guarded Shuofang, which would inevitably make the Xiongnu look away from the Central Plains. Liu Zhang naturally understood the plans of these people, they were afraid that hundreds of thousands of elites of Shu would enter the Central Plains, and with the strength of the princes at this time, they were afraid that it would be difficult to resist, for this reason, of course, they had to stand on the same line with Lu Bu and hold Liu Zhang to the sky, so that Liu Zhang had to fight the Huns hard, so as to relieve their pressure, so that they had time to expand their territory and enhance their strength, and then they would have a duel with Liu Zhang.

Only Yuan Shao was dissatisfied, at this time he had completely defeated Gongsun Zhan, his son Yuan Tan also captured Beihai, the descendants of the Confucian sage could only run to Luoyang alone to cry to Emperor Xian, Yuan Shao is already the first prince in addition to Liu Zhang, holding Ji, You, Qing and half of the state, the strength is not much weaker than Liu Zhang, at this time Yuan Shao is summoning the two main forces to Huguan, preparing for the final decisive battle with Lu Bu, it is conceivable that once the two main forces arrive at Huguan Lu Bu will be difficult to resist, to defeat Lu Bu, He could take all the states and threaten Chang'an, but now Lü Bu handed over Shuofang and Shangjun to Liu Zhang, but broke his beautiful illusions, once Liu Zhang's army gained a firm foothold in these two counties, then the offensive and defensive postures of the two sides were reversed, even if he defeated Lü Bu, Taiyuan County, the grain and tax center of the state, was also exposed to Liu Zhang's troops......

No matter what other people's plans were, Liu Zhang only knew that there was no way for him to disobey the holy decree of Emperor Xian, otherwise he, the number one loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, would probably be spurned by the whole world immediately!

Liu Zhang immediately formed the Fifth Field Corps, Shan Fu served as the corps of the Fifth Field Corps and the chief of staff, the deputy corps commanders Ma Chao and Beigong Yan, and the deputy chief of staff Lou Gui (transferred from the First Field Corps), because the main object of the Fifth Field Corps was the Huns, so the corps was equipped with a large number of cavalry. The Fifth Field Army Corps has jurisdiction over the 4th Cavalry Division (Beigong Yan concurrently serves as the division commander), the 5th Cavalry Division (Ma Chao concurrently serves as the division commander), the 4th Independent Cavalry Brigade, the 5th Independent Cavalry Brigade, the 16th Infantry Division, and the 17th Infantry Division. The Fifth Field Corps is a newly built corps, and most of the troops are newly formed, of which the Fourth Cavalry Division is formed by the Beigong Yanqiang cavalry; The Fifth Cavalry Division was composed of the remnants of the original Ma Teng and a large number of Xiliang prisoners; The 4th and 5th Cavalry Brigades of the Independent Cavalry were composed of half prisoners and half Yizhou recruits; The 16th and 17th Infantry Divisions were formed with a small number of Yizhou veterans as the backbone and a large number of Xiliang prisoners; Divisions directly under the corps consisted of prisoners. The total strength of the fully equipped Fifth Field Army is 60,000! Don't look at the strength of the Fifth Field Army Corps, which is only 60,000 people, but it is unprecedented for one person to serve as the commander and chief of staff, which means that basically the Fifth Field Army is Shan Fu's Yiyantang, and this trust is enough to envy the commanders of the other four field corps.

Liu Zhang trusts Shan Fu so much because Shan Fu is one of the few people who has achieved both loyalty and filial piety. Historically, when Cao Cao conquered Jingzhou in the south, he defeated Liu Bei in Dangyang, and Shan Fu's mother unfortunately fell into the hands of Cao Cao. But after Shan Fu entered the Cao Wei Group, he still thought of his old master, and refused to give advice to Cao Cao, so he buried his talents, almost all his life, when Liu Zhang read these materials, he was both moved by Shan Fu's loyalty and filial piety, and also deeply regretted Shan Fu, so as early as when Shan Fu defected to Liu Zhang, he asked Shan Fu to move his mother to Chengdu, and the relocation was also received to Chang'an, in order not to want history to repeat itself.

The Fifth Field Army was formed in a very short period of time, and Shan Fu bid farewell to Liu Zhang and led his troops to Shuofang and Shangjun.

On the occasion of parting, Liu Zhang's "poem" was presented to Shan Fu - the bright moon of the Qin period and the Han period, and the Long March of thousands of miles has not been returned; But to make the dragon city fly will not teach Humadu Yin Mountain. From Liu Zhang's "poems", he deeply felt Liu Zhang's worries and sadness about the Xiongnu's disturbance of the border and the suffering of the people, and Liu Zhang's incomparable trust and ardent expectations for him.

After arriving in Bingzhou, Shan Fu framed this poem and hung it in a conspicuous place in the room, every time he raised his head, he could see it clearly, and when he saw it, he thought of Liu Zhang's trust and entrustment, and he used this way to spur himself. In the later battles, Shan Fuzhen tried his best to protect the territory and the people, and the invading Huns lost their armor and had to send envoys to sue for peace, and the name of Longcheng Fei spread all over Shenzhou!