"Occasional small victories, how dare you bother the prince to greet him personally?" Liu Pan saw that Guan Yu had personally dispatched, so he hurriedly dismounted and walked forward to salute him, Gan Ning's official rank was low, and he followed him step by step.

"Haha, Shuye (Liu Pan's cousin) won and returned, and he should welcome him from afar." Guan Yu stroked his beard and said with a smile, the group embraced Liu Pan into Xiangyang City, and Zhuge Liang had already ordered someone to set up a banquet to celebrate his achievements. At the moment, everyone took turns to persuade Liu Pan and Gan Ning, Gan Ning had too much alcohol to resist, and Liu Pan drank for a while and was a little lost.

"Report to the monarch, the lord has an urgent delivery." After the third round of drinking, a small colonel walked into the hall quickly and presented a letter to Guan Yu, who took it and opened it, but said with a smile: "Congratulations to Shuye, I asked my brother for credit for you a while ago, and my brother is now writing a special reply to seal Shuye as the Tiger Wing General, and lead Pi Taishou, that is, you can go to work!" At this moment, the people who were drinking were stunned, and then congratulated Liu Pan again and again.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, generals were generally divided into five grades, and there were middle and upper grades between each product. The first rank is the general and the captain, which are now held by Yuan Shao and Liu Bei respectively. These two positions are not only the highest military positions in the Han Dynasty, but more importantly, he has the right to appoint generals. The second product is that there are hussars and chariot generals in the front and back, left and right, and these generals are mainly high-ranking generals who are in the capital division or guarding some particularly important places. The third product is the four expeditions, four towns, four security and four ping generals, as well as some miscellaneous generals such as Long Xiang, Tiger Wing, and Zhenjun. The fourth product is the five wei (that is, fenwei, yangwei, jianwei, zhenwei, guangwei) and the front and rear left and right armies and other miscellaneous generals. The fifth product is purely a miscellaneous general, what is the, the eagle, the rebellion, the Fubo, and the general, including the partial general, the general, and the tooth general. Further down the school captain, the lieutenant is the sixth and seventh rank. In addition, there is also a Zhonglang general who is more special, which can be used as a separate miscellaneous general as a five-pin, such as Zhao Feng, the Xuzhou Zhonglang general in the past, Wang Wei and Huo Jun in Jingzhou, who are generally working in a certain place; Sometimes it can also be prefixed as a specific official position, like Habayashi Nakaro and the like. Theoretically speaking, except for partial generals, generals, Yamen generals and Zhonglang generals, as well as some Wupin miscellaneous generals, the rest of the generals can have their own generals' mansions, as well as the corresponding cadres headed by Changshi. Of course, if the general's official rank is higher, these people will be treated better.

Take Zhao Feng as an example, he was officially a general because when Liu Bei first arrived in Xuzhou, he named him a Zhonglang general, and he was a general of the lower five grades, which was also the highest level of local general that Liu Bei could be awarded to Xuzhou Mu at that time. Later, in the process of fighting Yuzhou, he made a lot of contributions, and Liu Bei praised him as the general of Dangkou, which was for the top five grades. Later, when he fought Jiangdong, Liu Bei was already a lieutenant at that time, and he did not need to consult the imperial court to appoint a general, so he was named the general of Zhengnan from the beginning, which was a military position in the middle and third grades. Later, because of Cao Ying's interference, he was changed to General Fenwei of Zhongsipin. The previous demotion was from General Fenwei of the fourth rank to General Yingyang of the fifth grade, which slightly degraded the meaning.

Now that Liu Pan has been promoted to General Tiger Wing, it is equivalent to being promoted from the fourth rank to the lower third rank, which is not small. "Huh?" Liu Pan, who was drinking so much that his mind was not very clear, was also stunned when he heard this, and then said happily: "A little credit, the lord is really uneasy to reward Pan so much." After the banquet, go to Shouchun to thank you! So everyone continued to drink and congratulate without mentioning it, until Liu Pan was almost completely down. Guan Yu had already arranged a carriage to send the drunk Liu Pan to the car and slowly go to Shouchun. When Liu Pan woke up, he could only cry out in vain, and he was too guarded to do his next Pi in peace.

Later, when Zhao Feng heard about this, he also sighed that Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei were clever, this was basically a glass of wine to release the military power, and finally did not make any big moves in Liu Pan. After Liu Pan left, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu discussed and decided to let Wen Ping take over his old department. Wen Pinnai was the first military general in Jingzhou in the past, and he was known for his prestige, so it was only fitting for him to subdue Liu Pan's old department.

"Alas!" Looking at the pile of tall documents in front of him, Guan Yu also sighed. For no other reason, the mess in Jingzhou is really difficult to take care of. He and Zhuge Liang have been busy for more than three months, which can be regarded as a little bit of a look. Jingzhou is a large place and has a large population, and compared to being in Yuzhou, Guan Yu is more than twice as tired.

Guan Yu was tired, and Zhuge Liang was not idle. Since most of the official positions in Jingzhou were occupied by the Cai family and the Kuai family before, and now these two families have been killed cleanly, almost half of the middle and upper-level officials in Jingxiang are suddenly missing, and the four counties of Jingbei once had some difficulty even maintaining order as usual. As a last resort, Liu Bei had to transfer officials from Xuzhou and Jiangdong to Jingzhou, and at the same time, almost all the graduates of the fourth phase of Xuzhou College were arranged to serve in Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang also invited his fellow brothers such as Cui Zhouping, Shi Guangyuan, Ma Liang and others to go out of the mountain to help, so he barely managed to make do with it.

But now I see that I can't hold it anymore, "Kong Ming, recruits are about to be recruited, do you have time to take care of this?" Although Guan Yu was not hopeful, he still asked. He knew that just to rebuild Jingbei, Zhuge Liang had recently hated to split himself in half.

Zhuge Liang looked up at Guan Yu and said with a wry smile: "Liang is afraid that it will be difficult to get time, I don't know if the prince may take on a heavy responsibility?" "The situation is very grim now, except for the two of them, no one can handle such a major matter as recruitment. Although Ma Liang is talented, he is still young and needs to be exercised after all. The current Jingzhou is not from Iraq, but it is only because he once rescued Liu Biao and rewarded him for his meritorious deeds that he became in this position. Relying on him to recruit troops, that's a joke. As for the generals such as Wen Ping and Gan Ning, it is no problem to lead troops to fight, and it is not quite the right way to ask them to recruit troops.

"Prince, why don't you write a letter to the lord and invite your uncle to come?" Zhuge Liang thought about it and said, at the moment, only Chen Zhi, who is good at military training, is more in line with the requirements. Guan Yu thought about it, and suddenly smiled at Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, what do you think if Bo Tao is transferred here?" ”

"General Zhao?" Zhuge Liang was stunned when he heard this, shook his fan, and Zhuge Liang sighed: "General Zhao is a famous general in the world, and he is also proficient in civil affairs. In the previous pacification of Yuzhou and Yangzhou, General Zhao was handy in post-war governance. If I get his help, don't talk about recruiting soldiers, even in government affairs, he can help me a lot. It's just that General Zhao was demoted to Chaisang because of Wang Zhongxuan and others a few years ago, how could he be invited here? ”

"Hmph, these rotten people sit and talk all day long, but it is useless to ask them to be on the council, it is really hateful. Although Bo Tao is now the Taishou of Chaisang, how many things does Chaisang Town need him to do? We are short of manpower here, but he is happy in Chaisang, how can there be such a cheap thing in this world. No, call him over with me immediately! The more Guan Yu talked, the more energetic he became, and he didn't know if he was jealous of Zhao Feng's idleness, or if he was simply unhappy.

"Junhou, General Zhao is now Chaisang Taishou, which belongs to Yangzhou, how can he manage my affairs in Jingzhou?" Zhuge Liang thought for a while.

"In the past, it was said that Su Qin and Pei were six countries sealed, and this can still be the case between the countries, but now Yangzhou and Jingzhou are both the territory of the Han Dynasty, how can they not? I wrote a letter to Yangzhou Mu Zhang Zhao for me, saying that I had something to borrow from Zhao Botao, who was under him, and I would return it as soon as I ran out. Guan Yu said eloquently, and he didn't feel a little funny after speaking.

"Okay, then ask the lord to ask the general of Yingyang, Zhao Feng, to come to Jingzhou on business." Zhuge Liang couldn't help laughing, and finally found a fairly high-sounding reason to find someone to help. Guan Yu nodded again and again, urging Zhuge Liang to write the letter and quickly send it to Liu Bei of Shouchun for instructions.

Liu Bei's reply has not yet been delivered, and at this time, on the side of the Yellow River, in Yuan Shao's camp, the atmosphere is much more lively than Guan Yu's here. "Liu Bei is busy consolidating Jingxiang, so isn't Cao Ying worry-free?" Yuan Shao frowned.

"The lord can rest assured, now Cao Ying has been defeated repeatedly, and the morale of the army is low. As long as the current strategy is followed, our army will definitely be able to break Cao Ying. Guo Tu swore on the side.

"Well, that's true. Cao Ying has been defeated in successive battles, and I can expect to take Xuchang. Yuan Shao said with a smile, and all the strategists and generals under him laughed heartily.

"What? Wuguan lost? Cao Ying received Zhong Xuan's express report and was immediately shocked.

"Lord, how could Wuguan be lost?" Cao Hong asked in disbelief, and Cao Ying was silent and presented the letter to everyone for circulation. "The Jingzhou sailors went up the Wuguan River, and attacked the Wuguan before and after." Cheng Yu looked at the information and said slowly.

"Jingzhou Water Master!" Cao Ying said hatefully. Cao Ying has always been mixed in the Central Plains and the north, and he has invisibly ignored the important surname of the water master. Now that I have suffered a big loss, I realized the power of the water master.

"Fortunately, Zhong Xuan responded in time and sent troops to garrison the Qingni Pass, otherwise the Jingzhou army would break into the hinterland of Yongzhou, which would be a big disaster!" Cao Ying sighed. To say that this Zhong Xuan is indeed a talent, others think that Guanzhong can be as safe as a rock by relying on these four levels, but he is cautious, but he is still setting up checkpoints in Qingni Pass, Feng Yijun and other places just in case, now it seems that it is always no harm to be cautious.

"Meng De, do you want to send someone to recapture Wuguan?" The voice of the male duck with the surname of the symbol sounded again, and Xu You's piercing voice reached everyone's ears, and even Cao Hong shivered.

"I'll wait until I break Yuan Shao first, and then say, give the order, the three armies will be pulled out and retreat to Cangting!" Cao Ying gave the order, so the three armies immediately started and quickly withdrew to the Cangting on the side of the Yellow River.

"What, Cao Ying withdrew his troops and went to Cangting?" Yuan Shao was surprised when he heard the report, isn't that self-defeating?

"Lord, it seems that Cao Ying wants to fight with us and break the net!" Xin Ping thought about it, and everyone nodded yes. Yuan Shao was not afraid, and sneered: "Cao Mengde is at the end of his rope, am I afraid of him?" The herald ordered all three armies to move out and catch up with the enemy. Whoever captures Cao Mengde, a bounty of 10,000 taels, a title of marquis, and a promotion to the third level! So the 300,000 Hebei army all set off and followed Cao Ying to the Yellow River to kill.

(To be continued)