ps: If you want to hear more of your voices and receive more of your suggestions, search for the WeChat public account "qdread" now and pay attention to give more support! Zhuge Liang was speechless after listening to Zhang Fei's words, but Liu Bei shouted: "Yide, this is also Lone's idea, the analysis of the military division just now has been very clear, you can naturally analyze the pros and cons of this, our garrison stays in Sanguan, the number of people is small, it will not work, and the number of people will cause supply difficulties, so instead of staying here, it is better to be generous and retreat directly to Chencang." ”

After a pause, Liu Bei said again: "As for what you said about the intentions of the military advisor, you will have to mention it again in the future, otherwise Gu will definitely not tolerate it, the military advisor went out of the mountain to assist Yu Gu in our most difficult time, and came up to guide us to seize Guanzhong, which created a foundation for us, otherwise, it is estimated that we still don't know where to wander." In the past few years, it can be said that he has worked hard, thinking about countermeasures day and night, you see that he is only twenty-five years old now, just in the era of high spirits, but now he is full of vicissitudes and twilight, and his health is not good, this is all because of years of hard work, such a loyal and diligent person, it is difficult to find a second one in the world, how can you doubt the military advisor? ”

Zhang Fei sighed and wanted to say that if he hadn't mentioned attacking Guanzhong, maybe Guan Yu would not have died, but he stubbornly held back this sentence, because on the issue of Guan Yu, he had already estranged himself from Liu Bei, and he was not willing to avenge Guan Yu in front of Liu Bei. He didn't even mention Guan Yu's name, because he knew, even if he mentioned it. Liu Bei will never be able to break the alliance with Cao Cao for this matter now, since it is useless to mention it, so why mention it again?

Zhuge Liang was grateful for Liu Bei's kindness, he thought that Liu Bei could be regarded as the person who knew him best in the world, so he secretly decided in his heart that he would swear allegiance to Qin Gong and do his best to improve Qin Gong's strength.

Zhuge Liang was thinking about how to expand the power of the Duke of Qin along the way. In the end, he finally came up with an idea, and waited for the army to come to Chencang. Immediately suggested to Liu Bei: "Lord, although Liu Qi's army is fierce now, it is due to the new Yizhou and Hanzhong, plus the previous battle in Hanzhong. The army is exhausted, and it will definitely not attack us in a short time, not to mention that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if he attacks, it will be difficult to overcome, Weichen believes that we should take this opportunity to expand our strength and attack the state, so that our land will be more than doubled. You can also get a large number of Xiliang war horses, form a powerful cavalry, and then dominate the world. Nothing can be done. ”

"But Liangzhou nominally belongs to Cao Cao, and we have no intention of pulling teeth out of the tiger's mouth when we do this." Liu Bei couldn't help but hesitate for a while, and sighed slowly.

"Hehe, this matter is easy to hear, although Liangzhou nominally belongs to Cao Cao, but the warlords of all walks of life are divided into one side. As long as the lord uses a few means to divide and disintegrate, let some warlords take refuge in the lord. And let some warlords openly rebel against the court, the lord can take the opportunity to requisition, although Cao Cao knows that this is our means, but because the whip is beyond reach, he is helpless, not to mention that now Liu Qi is prosperous, he still needs to maintain an alliance with us, and he will definitely not rush to war with us for a Xiliang, so this dumb Cao Cao can only eat. ”

"Hehe, what the military advisor said is good, since this is the case, then we will go back to Chang'an to rectify the soldiers and horses, and prepare to attack Liangzhou." Liu Bei was also overjoyed when he heard this, and after discussing with Zhuge Liang, he decided to take Anding County first.

Although Anding belongs to Liangzhou, it has little connection with Han Sui and others, and belongs to the place where the Baosai barbarians live.

There are Xiongnu, Lushuihu, Qiang, Di, Yueshi and other Baosai ethnic groups in Anding County. The so-called Baosai nation, mainly refers to the Han Dynasty, for the Han border guarding the ethnic minorities, originally in the Han Dynasty when the Han Dynasty was strong, they were all attached to the Han, but since the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han Dynasty existed in name only, these Baosai barbarians began to unite to resist the Han people, the stable Baosai barbarians were originally attached to Ma Teng, but since Ma Teng was killed, although they are still nominally dependent on Liu Bei, but they are in a semi-independent state, originally Ma Chao was there, these Baosai barbarians did not dare to make any changes, and now Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Qi, they began to move, ready to unite with Han Sui and conspire for independence.

Liu Bei's strategy this time was to divide and disintegrate, support Hu Boju, the leader of the Xiongnu to settle and protect the Xiongnu, and send troops to deal with other ethnic minorities, and support them to establish a stable force that obeys his orders, and then slowly try to do it.

When Liu Bei was ambitiously preparing to conquer stability, Liu Qi's army had already come to Sanguan, leaving Huo Jun as the main general and ordering Ma Chao to re-defend Wudu, annexing hundreds of Di tribes here, collecting thousands of his horses and tens of thousands of alpacas, and exchanging grain, silk, Shu brocade, paper and other things with Wolf Qiang, Baima Qiang and other departments for 10,000 horses.

In fact, in addition to food, the Qiang people need iron tools the most, but Liu Qi strictly forbade the export of iron tools to the Qiang tribe, so the iron trade that should have been the largest transaction was almost extinct, but even grain, silk silk, Shu brocade, paper and other things have surprised the Qiang people, so it did not hinder the trade of horses.

After exchanging horses, Ma Chao recruited sergeants and trained elite cavalry in accordance with Liu Qi's orders, and when the grain and grass were harvested in the coming year, he attacked Longxi County occupied by Han Sui with the power of Yizhou, on the one hand, to avenge Ma Chao, and on the other hand, it was natural to expand his power to the land of Liangzhou.

After Liu Qi settled Yizhou, he led 10,000 soldiers and generals to return to Xiangyang.

After Liu Qi had just returned to Xiangyang, Huang Quan, a minister, came to visit, first said flattering words such as hard work and congratulations, and then raised a difficult problem to Liu Qi.

Originally, after several years of development, the study of prefectures, counties and counties in various regions has flourished, and thousands of talents have been trained, but because the standard for awarding officials based on the amount of talent has not yet been determined, the situation that the number of talents is stagnant and cannot be awarded official positions in time has now caused the dissatisfaction of many scholars, so this problem has become a top priority, and if it is not solved in time, I am afraid that it will cause a large number of talent outflow. In this way, the talents that Liu Qi has worked hard to cultivate for several years will be married.

Liu Qi heard this. Immediately and urgently summoned Jia Xu, Wang Cang, Chen Qun, Fanqin, Yu Tuo, Kuai Yue, Huang Chengyan, Chen Lin, Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, Zhang Zhao, Peng Yi, Sima Hui, Pang Degong and others to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Qi first asked Huang Quan to explain the current form, and then said slowly: "Gongheng has already said all the problems, Zhugong, I don't know what to do?" ”

I only heard Chen Qun say first: "In fact, there are two main difficulties in awarding officials, one is the evaluation of the merits of talents, and the other is the evaluation of official positions. If these two things can be solved, the problem of not being able to confer officials will be solved. ”

Chen Qun's remarks can be said to hit the nail on the head. Everyone, including Liu Qi, couldn't help but nodded, but Bu Qi took the lead in asking a sharp question: "What Chen Shangshu said is good, but the key is, how to evaluate the merits of talents?" How to distinguish between high and low official positions? For example, our current official position. Although some are not low in rank, they are all false positions, while some are low, but they are in the center and have great power. There is also the evaluation of talents, everyone's talents are not much different, how can they be awarded official positions of different ranks, and they can also be convincing? ”

As soon as Bu Qi said this, everyone frowned. There was silence for a moment.

At this time, Chen Qun stepped forward and said: "My lord, regarding the official rank, there is a way for the lower officials. We can comprehensively divide the official position into nine grades according to factors such as salary, authority, etc., which are divided into upper, upper, upper, upper, middle, lower, and lower, and then directly according to the grade, and there is a basis. ”

As soon as Chen Qun's words came out, everyone's eyes lit up and nodded thoughtfully. Only Liu Qi's face was calm, and there was no trace of surprise. It seems that he has known for a long time that Chen Qun can come up with such a strategy.

"My lord, what Chen Shangshu said is very reasonable, we might as well start to formulate the official rank, so that the problem of the official rank will be solved." Wang Cang was also very impressed by Chen Qun's thinking, and he agreed with it in his heart, and hurriedly said to Liu Qi.

And Jia Xu also said slowly: "Weichen seconded the proposal." ”

Fanqin, Yu Tuo, Kuai Yue, Huang Chengyan, Chen Lin, Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, Zhang Zhao, Peng Yi, Sima Hui, Pang Degong and others all spoke when they saw Shang Shuling, and they all thought that this idea was really good, and they all stepped forward and said: "The minister seconded the proposal." ”

Liu Qi said with a smile: "The system of nine grades is indeed wonderful, but Lone thinks that the titles of upper and middle grades are a bit verbose, it is better to directly change them to one grade, two grades and even nine grades, and each grade refers to the three thousand stones in my Han Dynasty system, more than three thousand stones, etc., and each grade is divided into one product and one product, so that we can have eighteen levels to distinguish, although the difficulty of distinguishing will be doubled, but it will be more convenient when the amount of talent is awarded in the future, I don't know how to do it under the public will?" ”

After everyone heard about it, they all admired it wholeheartedly, because Liu Qi's idea not only saved a lot of trouble in terms of title, but also made it more eye-catching in terms of rank, plus the distinction between positive and subordinate, which made the distinction more obvious, which gave more room for official promotion, so such an idea was simply wonderful.

Therefore, all the officials said heartily: "The discussion of the lord is really wonderful, and the ministers have no objections." ”

"In this case, then we will do it without further ado, and we will be responsible for the evaluation of the size of the official position by Chen Wenchang, Kuai Yidu, Zhuge Ziyu, Zhang Zibu, Fan Xiubo, and Peng Yongnian. All domestic official positions were promoted and deposed in accordance with the new Nine Grades Law. ”

"Your Ministers obey." When Chen Qun and the others heard this, they immediately bowed down to receive the order.

After that, Chen Qun couldn't help but ask: "The matter of official position evaluation has been raised, but what about the talent assessment?" (There will be more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued)