From Zhao Yun's patient persuasion of Duan Xuan to give up military power, it can be seen that his mind and vision have been improved, in Liu He's words, that is, the overall situation has been improved.

Why? Because first of all, Zhao Yun was very patient in Duan Xuan's matter, although he was unhappy with Duan Xuan's suspicion and repetition, he never got bored, and he did not make some conspiracies and calculations against Duan Xuan. It was precisely because of Zhao Yun's patience that Duan Xuan finally dispelled Duan Xuan's suspicions, making Duan Xuan feel that even if he gave up his military power, he would not fall to the point of being a cunning rabbit dying and a lackey cooking, so in the end, Duan Xuan accepted Zhao Yun's proposal in a very peaceful way, and even helped Zhao Yun appease people's hearts before leaving.

If you don't have a tolerant mind, how can you truly accept an independent and suspicious person like Duan Xuan?

Secondly, Zhao Yun did not simply promise Duan Xuan a high position as a military general, but asked Duan Xuan to give up his military power and switch from military to politics, which is where Zhao Yun's vision is long-term. For a general like Duan Xuan who has the ability, ideas, and prestige, if Zhao Yun only wants to temporarily subdue and use it, then he will leave "sequelae". Just like a few years ago, when Liu He solved the surrender of troops under the five thousand Li Meng in Tongguan, he patiently took a roundabout method and finally transferred it to the north of Youzhou, although the process was a little cumbersome and laborious, but it did not leave hidden dangers, but made this army glow with combat effectiveness, and even became the core of the Zhenbei army.

Duan Xuan and the troops under his command are more complicated than the situation of Li Meng and the 5,000 troops who surrendered at the beginning, because Duan Xuan and his troops did not surrender, but surrendered, so it is impossible for Zhao Yun to treat Duan Xuan like Liu He temporarily idle Li Meng, and Luoyang is currently in the time of using troops, and the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Duan Xuan also need to be put into the battlefield as soon as possible, so Zhao Yun needs this army to get rid of Duan Xuan's influence, but it also needs the hearts of the people to be available.

If Duan Xuan continues to retain his military position, even if he leaves his army, as long as he is still in Luoyang. will have an impact on the troops, and let him continue to stay in Luoyang, but turn to politics, which can not only appease the hearts of his original subordinates, but also minimize Duan Xuan's influence and intervention on this army.

Zhao Yun took Duan Xuan's military power, but arranged a real position as a local governor for Duan Xuan, which would make Duan Xuan's subordinates feel that they had a way out in the future, even if they really couldn't get along, they could go to Luoyang nearby to find their old boss to defect.

The most admirable thing is that Zhao Yun solved Duan Xuan's matter at the same time, and by the way, he also appeased the Luoyang royalist faction represented by Zhu Jun. So that Luoyang can continue to maintain stability and unity within the country.

Although Zhu Jun is old, he has not yet reached the point where he can't get out of bed, and it shouldn't be a problem to stay up for another two or three years, because of Duan Xuan's matter, Zhu Jun needs to give up Henan Yin's position, but also because of Duan Xuan's matter, Zhao Yun will try his best to ensure that Zhu Jun is appointed as a more important position of Sili Lieutenant.

In the Dahan Sili area, there are two prefectures of Henan and Jingzhao, and there are two auxiliaries of left Feng Yi and right Fufeng. There are also three counties of Hanoi, Hedong and Hongnong, if you talk about the area of the territory, the division is larger than Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou, if you talk about the number of people. It is also one of the best in the world. Henan Yin is just a subordinate government in the Sili area, and the captain of Sili is not a big official, he is a small captain, but in fact, he has the title of "three solitary sitting" in the court. The power is unimaginable.

According to the official system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three officials of Shang Shuling, Sili Xiaowei and Yushi Zhongcheng had special seats to sit at the court meeting, and the hundred officials were at the court meeting. The other officials were all seated next to each other, but the three solitary seats occupied a place in the court by one person, showing the emperor's favor for the three of them.

There are 12 people in Cao Peng's office, who are in charge of the affairs of the counties responsible for the investigation of the 100 officials of the central court and the delinquents of the headquarters, so they are both Beijing officials and local officials. When the lieutenant of Sili participated in the discussion of the government, he was above Jiuqing, and he had great supervision power, and he did everything to correct, but he did not observe the three princes.

Although the Sili region is still in a state of division, the land of Guanzhong and the two auxiliaries are controlled by Li Dao, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji respectively, and the land of Hedong is taken by Yuan Shao, but there are still Hanoi, Hongnong and Henan Yin three counties for Zhu Jun to play, so once Zhu Jun takes up the post of Sili captain, he is definitely not just a false name and no real power.

The meaning of the existence of the Luoyang royalist faction is not only to give the scholars who are loyal to the Han family in the world a direction to defect, but also to resist the pressure from the Chang'an court for Liu He, so not only can it not be deliberately suppressed, but it must be properly supported and protected. Political struggles are more complex than military struggles, and belong to the top of the power struggle, and we cannot simply rely on violence to solve problems, but through the distribution of various interests, coordination and balance, and finally achieve dynamic stability, rather than a rigid and fixed set.

Of course, the reason why Zhao Yun was able to lay out in Luoyang so calmly was that he finally relied on Liu He's full support and absolute trust. Zhao Yun even dared to make arrangements for Liu He as an official like Sili Lieutenant and Henan Yin, although it was only a recommendation in name, but to be able to do such an exaggeration, he needed not only to have confidence in his own arrangement, but also to have enough understanding of Liu He, missing even a little bit, it may cause a lot of misunderstanding and suspicion.

After talking about the many beginnings and tails before Duan Xuan left the barracks, let's look at the situation after Duan Xuan left.

It is precisely because of the lack of major generals that Liu He reluctantly sent his most trusted general Zhao Yun to Luoyang, and after Duan Xuan left the army, it became a question who to send to replace him.

The generals in the Luoyang area who can now be trusted and can lead the army to fight, counting from Zhao Yun down, are Li Yan, Deng Hai, Chen Gui and others, if you count Dian Wei, who has just dug up the wall from Zhang Miao's side, and then count Wei Yan, who has just come out of the "Taobao" in Pingchun Market in Nanyang, it seems that he can get by. After all, there is a member of the "Five Tiger Generals", an "evil one" with an explosive force value, a future reserve prime minister, and a future first-class general.

However, Zhao Yun and Li Yan are now in charge of the operation of the entire Luoyang Taifu Mansion, so it is impossible to go to Huangchi to pick up Duan Xuan's class, Dian Wei has already received the heavy responsibility of garrisoning Yiguan, and Wei Yan is still a raw melon egg, and Deng Hai and Chen Gui are guarding Shaanxi County and guarding Guguan alone, which is already their limit. Once the war broke out in Hanoi, Zhao Yun might have to go to command Heduzhen in person, so looking at Luoyang, it was difficult to find someone who could be trusted and at the same time had outstanding ability to take over the troops left behind by Duan Xuan.

How can this thorny problem be solved? The answer is to put civilian officials in charge of the army!

Judging from the past military operations of the Han Dynasty in the past four hundred years. There are not only martial artists like Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi who have made peerless feats, but also Ban Gu and Ban Chao brothers who have put pen to paper, expanded their territory, and raised their national prestige in foreign areas. In the Han Dynasty, it was almost impossible to see the matter of making a military general a prime minister, but the matter of making a civilian official a general happened from time to time, which shows that the civilian official in charge of the army actually has a deep political soil and has never been lacking.

Not to mention far away, let's just say that the current Xuzhou Mu Lu Zhi is a typical civil official. And he is also a world-renowned Confucian, but who dares to say that his ability to lead troops and fight wars is poor?

There are pros and cons to civilian officials in charge of the military, and the key is not whether they are used or not, but who should be used. If the chosen person is as civil and military as Lu Zhi, it may have unexpected effects, but if the selected person is like Zhao Kuo, he will only talk on paper, and then he will bury a force alive.

So. Who did Zhao Yun and Li Yan choose in the end to replace the vacancy left by Duan Xuan?

The answer has actually been quietly revealed a long time ago, this person is Cao Peng Jia Kui, who accompanied Zhao Yun to Xin'an to meet Duan Xuan!

Jia Kui is now serving as Cao Peng in Taifu's mansion, and together with Chen Qun, he assists Li Yan in handling government affairs, and he and Chen Qun are almost equal to Li Yan's right-hand men. Jia Kui was mainly responsible for affairs related to the army, and Chen Qun was mainly responsible for specific affairs related to civil affairs, and it was precisely because of the contributions of these two people that Li Yan was able to play at ease in Luoyang. I didn't get tired of a lot of things.

Now that the situation is in a hurry, Li Yan has no time to be reluctant, and directly recommends Jia Kui to Zhao Yun. And Zhao Yun was also full of confidence in Jia Kui's ability, so he first asked Jia Kui to enter Duan Xuan's army by assisting Duan Xuan in handling follow-up affairs, and when everything was in order, it was officially announced that Jia Kui would replace Duan Xuan in charge of the army.

In another time and space, Jia Kui lived through three generations of Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Ei, and was an important figure with political and military talents in the Cao Wei regime, and made great contributions to the Cao Wei regime throughout his life.

In the ninth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao captured Yecheng, and Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan was forced to surrender to Cao due to the situation and was appointed as the assassin of Bingzhou. In the tenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao led his army north to rescue Xian Yufu, the general of Zuodu Liao, who was besieged by the Wuhuan people in Qianping. Gao Gan, who had not long since surrendered, took the opportunity to rebel in Bingzhou, and colluded with Zhang Sheng, a native of Hanoi, Wei Gu, a native of Hedong, and Zhang Yan, a native of Hongnong, to cause chaos between Kunshan and Mianshui. Jia Kui didn't know that Zhang Yan had rebelled at first, so he went to meet Zhang Yan. He sensed this conspiracy at Zhang Yan's residence, and wanted to return immediately but it was difficult to get out, so he was in a hurry, pretending to be willing to rebel with Zhang Yan, and took great pains to make plans for Zhang Yan and won Zhang Yan's trust. At that time, the temporary seat of Mianchi County was in Licheng, and the moat was not solid. Jia Kui borrowed some troops from Zhang Yan in the name of building the city wall, and after returning to Licheng, those who tried to rebel in the city thought that Jia Kui had also rebelled, so they did not shy away from Jia Kui, and were arrested and killed by Jia Kui one by one. After Jia Kui repaired the moat, he resolutely confronted Zhang Yan until Zhang Yan failed.

In the second year of Taihe, Zhou Yi, the Taishou of Poyang of Eastern Wu, pretended to offend King Wu and wanted to abandon Wu to Wei. He had an illicit communication with Cao Xiu, the great Sima and Yangzhou pastor, and asked Cao Xiu to send troops to receive Poyang County. Cao Xiu planned that after the request was approved, he led a total of 100,000 cavalry and infantry to Anhui County to meet Zhou Doi. After Cao Xiu sent troops from Shouchun, Emperor Wei Ming sent four armies, including Jia Kui's former general Manzhong and Dongguan Taishou Hu Zhen, to attack Dongguan directly from Xiyang, and Sima Yi led his troops to attack Jiangling.

When Jia Kui arrived at Wujiang Mountain, Cao Xiu had already gone deep into Wu alone. Shangshu Jiang Ji told Emperor Wei Ming that Zhu Ran, a Wu general stationed upstream, might attack from Cao Xiu's rear, and that Wu's army would advance east at any time to cut off Cao Xiu's retreat, and suggested sending troops to rescue Cao Xiu. Emperor Wei Ming ordered Sima Yi to stop advancing and let Jia Kui march east to join forces with Cao Xiu. Jia Kui expected that Dongwu was defenseless in Dongguan, and he must have concentrated his army in Anhui City, and Cao Xiu's lone army would undoubtedly be defeated if he went deeper. Therefore, the generals were deployed and advanced by land and water. After traveling more than 200 miles, he caught a Dongwu soldier, and after interrogation, he learned that Cao Xiu's army had indeed been defeated.

It turned out that Sun Quan had already gone to Anhui City in person, worshiping Lu Xun as the governor of the capital, Zhu Huan and Quan Cong as the governors of the left and right, each with 30,000 horses, and ambushed on three sides. When Cao Xiu's soldiers and horses entered the area around Shiting, they were immediately surrounded by the Wu army. Cao Xiu encountered a sudden attack, at a loss for a while, and hurriedly retreated after the battle was unfavorable, and the Wu army chased after the north, killing more than 10,000 Wei troops, and seizing countless ordnance, chariots and horses. Cao Xiu retreated to Jiashi and found that the retreat to the northwest of Jiashi had been blocked by Sun Quan. At this time, there were pursuing soldiers in the southeast, and there was no way to retreat in the northwest, and Cao Xiu's sergeants defected, discarding a lot of armor and baggage, and almost the whole army was about to be wiped out.

When Jia Kui heard that Cao Xiu's army was defeated, and Sun Quan was sending troops to cut off the stone, most of his subordinates did not dare to make up their minds to go to the rescue, and some people said that they should not go deeper into danger, and it was best to wait for the reinforcements to arrive. Jia Kui tried his best to disagree and said: "Da Sima Bing is defeated outside, the road is cut off inside, you can't fight if you advance, you can't return when you retreat, and it's in danger." Soochow knew that there was no army behind him, so he dared to boldly catch up. Now we are advancing rapidly, rushing to Jiashi unexpectedly, and suddenly hitting it, this is the so-called ancestors to win their hearts, and Soochow will inevitably retreat when he sees our army. If you wait for the arrival of reinforcements, Soochow will already cut off all the dangerous roads, and then what is the use of more soldiers and horses? ”

So, Jia Kui commanded the army to prepare for the road, and when he arrived near Jiashi, he ordered the soldiers to erect many flags on the main road of the mountain pass, and left a few soldiers to beat the drum constantly to confuse the enemy, and then Jia Kui personally led the main force to meet the Wu army. Wu Jun thought that the rescue army of Wei had arrived, so he hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield. After Jia Kui occupied Jiashi, he provided food and military supplies to Cao Xiu's troops, so that Cao Xiu was able to reorganize his team and finally return to Yangzhou safely.

These are just two fragments of Jia Kui's command of the army, but it is enough to prove Jia Kui's military vision and talent, in addition, he is also outstanding in governing the state and county, Wei Wu Emperor Cao Cao praised him and said: "Make the world's two thousand stones like Jia Kui, why should I worry?" Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi praised him and said: "Kui Zhen stabbed history." Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming praised him and said: "Kui Cun has loyalty, but he does not think about it, and he can be described as an immortal person who dies." ”

So, in this time and space that Liu He is chaotic, how will Jia Kui behave among the more than 10,000 troops left behind by Duan Xuan? (To be continued......)