Chapter 326: Great Reward for the Ministers
With Liu Xie's official edict reaching Yecheng, Zhuge Liang, the newly baked Jizhou pastor, took office. Jizhou is the largest state in the Central Plains, with vast land and abundant money, and Ao Lie must leave a minister of the humerus to guard and manage Jizhou, so that he can rest assured. Leaving Zhuge Liang in Jizhou, Ao Lie had two considerations.
On the one hand, Jizhou is rich in money and food, prosperous people, is the most prosperous and wealthy place in the six northern states, and will be the economic center of the six northern states for a long time in the future. On the other hand, the geographical location of Jizhou is very important, it is the bridgehead of Ao Lie's march into the Central Plains, and it is connected to Yanzhou and Sili in the south; to the east, it is adjacent to Qingzhou and the East China Sea; And these places are all important places in the Central Plains, except for the Sili Captain's Department, the rest of the places are in the hands of Cao Cao, these factors require that the people who stay to guard Jizhou not only have excellent internal affairs skills, but also have outstanding military qualities. In view of these two points, Ao Lie let Zhuge Liang serve as the pastor of Jizhou, and officially pushed Zhuge Liang to the forefront.
is the so-called three gangs of a hero, while Zhuge Liang served as the pastor of Jizhou, Ao Lie also left three good helpers for him. Zhuge Liang's friend Xu Shu was promoted by Ao Lie to the rank of Pastor of Jizhou, assisting Zhuge Liang in handling Jizhou's internal and external affairs; At the same time, the Liao general Zhang He and the Anbei general Xu Huang were also left behind, responsible for training sergeants, commanding troops, and shouldering the potential task of defending against Cao Cao.
After taking office, Zhuge Liang carried out drastic reforms in Jizhou under the instruction of Ao Lie. First of all, Zhuge Liang sent Cao Hong, who was guarding Wei County, and asked him to withdraw from Jizhou. Preserve the territorial integrity of Jizhou. Cao Hong quickly replied to Zhuge Liang with a letter, saying that the matter was too big for him to call the shots, and that he would apply to Cao Cao for an order, and asked Zhuge Liang to wait patiently. Zhuge Liang didn't care much about this, Cao Hong's performance was expected by him, but Zhuge Liang believed that Cao Cao must not be ready to start a war with the Yan army, after the war. Whether it's Cao Cao or Yan Jun. all need to rest, with Cao Cao's shrewdness, he will never occupy Wei County at this time, that would be tantamount to challenging Ao Lie. It was only a matter of time before he returned to Wei County.
Secondly. Zhuge Liang made a thorough inventory of the war that had just ended. In this battle, a total of 330,000 surrendered troops were captured and more than 100,000 beheaded. On the issue of dealing with the captives, Zhuge Liang adhered to Ao Lie's practice of removing the chaff and preserving the essence, and selected 180,000 strong people from them, and half of the rest were sent back to their hometowns to let them return to their hometowns to farm; The other half is to pack up together with the family and prepare to move to Yanjing and the surrounding counties and counties, so as to strengthen the labor force in Yanjing, drive the economic development of Youzhou, and catch up with Jizhou as a whole as soon as possible. Those officials who surrendered from Yuan Shao's command, Ao Lie set up a special assessment team to assess them, only those who have passed the test in talent and character will be reinstated, and even get promoted, and those who are unqualified, I'm sorry, Yanwangfu is not a place to raise idlers. In addition, the number of people sacrificed by the Yan army in this battle has also been counted, since Ao Lie formed the army, the loss of this battle is the largest, more than 40,000 people died on the battlefield, and the four elites have also been damaged to varying degrees, among which the Qilin Army has suffered the largest casualties, with more than 5,000 battle losses. For these soldiers who died in battle, Zhuge Liang wrote their names in a book, and while asking craftsmen to engrave their names on the monument of martyrs, he allocated a large amount of money and grain in the treasury of Jizhou to distribute pensions to the families of the soldiers who died in the war.
After counting the battle damage, Zhuge Liang aimed the direction of rectification at the various warrior clans in Jizhou. Some law-abiding scholars, Zhuge Liang did not move them; Under Zhuge Liang's order, Zhang He raided the homes of those scholars who did all kinds of evil, redistributed the fertile land they occupied to the hands of the people of Jizhou, and then drove them out of Jizhou. As for the individual scholars who committed great crimes and made the people complain, Zhuge Liang showed no mercy, and directly asked Zhang He to push him to the square of Yecheng, and beheaded him in front of the people. After distributing the fertile land and money and grain to the common people, all kinds of wealth and materials copied from the homes of those scholars were still piled up, which made Ao Lie sigh that he had become rich overnight. Zhuge Liang's series of measures against the scholars made those kinder scholars happy and convinced, and at the same time, at the same time, millions of people in Jizhou quickly settled down, completely walked out of the shadow of the war, and sincerely supported the Yan army.
In the last direction of rectification, Zhuge Liang put it on the military and civilians in Jizhou. This point was also first proposed by Ao Lie, who would have a census of the population and register it in every state he occupied. Now, Zhuge Liang has done the same. After several days of busy census, the population of Jizhou finally got a more detailed data, needless to say, the number of sergeants, as mentioned earlier, is 180,000, of course, this does not include the county soldiers in various places, and the county soldiers in various places under the elimination of the survival of the fittest, after subtracting the phenomenon of some previous officials falsely reporting the number of soldiers, and suffering a deficit from it, the number of the most difficult people obtained after the most was 63,000. As for the population, excluding the 80,000 troops and their families who will be brought back to Yanjing by Ao Lie, there are still more than 4 million people, which is a remarkable number, after decades of war, Jizhou still has such a population, I have to say that it is a miracle, worthy of the title of the first state in the Central Plains. Of course, there are also some of Cao Cao's contributions, when Cao Cao conquered half of Qingzhou, a large number of soldiers and displaced people entered the territory of Jizhou, and now all are cheap Ao Lie, and the population is the most precious resource at any time.
After the matter in Jizhou came to an end, Ao Lie prepared to return to Yanjing. Zhou Yu proposed his resignation at this time, this time Zhou Yu led 30,000 Jiangdong troops to help the war, which can be described as a charcoal in the snow, and really helped Ao Lie a lot, Ao Lie is not stingy with his friends, every Jiangdong soldier who is ready to return to his hometown has received a lot of honorarium, and the thousands of Jiangdong children who died in the war have received double the honorarium, which is handed over to Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu will bring it back to Jiangdong and distribute it to their families. Originally, Zhou Yu didn't want to accept this honorarium. But in the end, he couldn't withstand Ao Lie's repeated requests, so he had to accept it.
After sending Zhou Yu away, Ao Lie stayed in Yecheng for another day, and then returned to Yanjing with his men and horses. Before leaving, Ao Lie left 20,000 Yan troops to Zhuge Liang, so that his total strength in Jizhou reached 260,000 people, Ao Lie believed that with Zhuge Liang's ability, there were these 260,000 troops in hand, and Xu Shu, Zhang He and Xu Huang helped. Cao Cao wanted to make a difference in Jizhou. It's going to be hard to climb.
More than ten days later, Ao Lie took the vanguard and returned to Yanjing smoothly, and Xun Yu and others, who stayed in Yanjing, went out of the city for ten miles to greet Ao Lie as usual. When Ao Lie is under the stars and the moon. When I returned to my mansion. It was found that the plaque of the Governor on the gate of the mansion had been removed. Instead, there is a brand-new huge plaque with three gilded characters of "Yanwangfu".
Ao Lie stood silently under this plaque. The bits and pieces of his journey in the army at the age of eight flashed in his mind one by one in an instant. Those memories include laughter and tears, killing and peace, success and failure, joy and bitterness...... All of this, to name a few, is like knocking over a five-flavor bottle, and even Ao Lie himself can't tell what it tastes like.
In fact, as far as Ao Lie's heart is concerned, he really doesn't value it very much, but things have developed to this point, and he will not shirk his responsibility. That's right, responsibility. Ao Lie regarded the throne of King Yan as a responsibility to the people of the world, rather than a symbol of power. Standing on the throne, Ao Lie will not be lost by the supreme power, but is determined to use the power in his hands to better give back to the people of the world and guide the Han people back to the normal track without gunsmoke.
Since being named the king of Yan, Ao Lie has not had time to exercise the power of the king of Yan because he has to deal with the war in Jizhou, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, the person who is named the king has the right to reward hundreds of officials, and the name of the official position is basically the same as the name of the court members, and the rights and responsibilities are mostly the same, but there are some subtle differences, and the official rank and Yulu are one level lower than the officials of the imperial court. On the way back, Ao Lie had already figured out the reward for everyone under his command, and now, it was time to officially announce it. This is a reward for all the people under his command, and it is also an affirmation, and it is also an honor they deserve, and it is also a spur for them to work harder to serve the people in the future.
Ao Lie, dressed in military uniform, entered the Yanwang Mansion, and the civil and military officials lined up on both sides. After everyone was seated, Ao Lie took out an edict from his bosom that had already been written, which recorded the reward for everyone under his command.
In terms of civil officials, Jizhou Mu Zhuge Liang was named Xiangguo and was crowned Marquis of Wuxiang. The power and responsibility status of Xiangguo is the same as that of the prime minister in the imperial court, but the name is slightly different. Xun Yu was awarded the title of Tai Lieutenant and was crowned as a Marquis; Jia Xu was named Taifu and was crowned the Marquis of Shou Township; Fuyu Taishou Chen Qun was transferred back to Yanjing to replace Zhuge Liang's previous position as Sima of Yanwangfu; Zhang Ji was also transferred back to Yanjing, resigned from his original position, and served as Shang Shuling; The chief bookkeeper, Jiang Wan, was promoted to Zhongshu Ling; Tian Feng was promoted to the post of counselor; Du Ji was promoted to Si Nong; Ao Lie's biological brother Liu He was promoted to Sikong; The old minister Yan Rou was promoted to Guangluxun; Li Yan was promoted to the rank of Imperial Historian; Yuyang was promoted to the post of government minister, in charge of government affairs; Chen Gong was promoted to the post of military minister, in charge of military affairs; Xu Shu was promoted to Taichang, and his original position as the pastor of Jizhou remained unchanged; Deng Zhi was promoted to the position of Ruling Jinwu; Li Ru was promoted to the position of Supervision Envoy, in charge of the Shadow and Supervision Division; Wang Hun and Ma Jun were appointed as the chief and deputy generals. Among them, the official positions of Zhang Ji, Du Ji and Liu He have the same rights and responsibilities as the three divisions in the imperial court, such as Da Sima and Da Sikong, because Yan is only a kingdom after all, so the word "big" is removed to show respect for the imperial court.
Locally, Tongzhou Mu Lusu, Mingzhou Mu Tian Yu, and Gwangju Mu Cui Yan remained unchanged, and they were all crowned as townspeople; Lu Bu's post as pastor of the state was officially resigned and replaced by Guo Huai, who had studied in the Yenching Academy; Gu Yong was corrected, received the post of pastor of Youzhou, and was crowned Marquis of Liling. In the history books of later generations, the ten all-rounders who moved the world have begun to take shape, namely Zhuge Liang, the talent of Anbang, Xun Yu, the talent of the poisoner, the counselor Jia Xu, the talent of political ability Zhang Ji, the talent of dense weight Gu Yong, the talent of the emperor Lu Su, the talent of governing the world Jiang Wan, the talent of the instrument Wang Hun, plus the other two capable people who later served under the command of Ao Lie, were jointly called the ten all-rounders, these ten people, in the future, supported the backbone of the Yan country, and became the founding heroes of the Yan country together.
In terms of generals, Ao Lie selected five generals and awarded them the title of Five Tiger Generals, each of whom is a person with outstanding meritorious service and world-renowned martial arts. They are the greedy wolf general, Wenhou Lu Bu; White Tiger Heavenly General Zhao Yun, crowned Shunping Marquis; Ma Chao, the general of the army, was crowned Weihou; Huang Zhong, the general of the sun, was crowned Ganghou; Wuqu Tianjun Tai Shi Ci, crowned filial piety. In the official position system of the Han Dynasty, there was originally no such official position, and Ao Lie specially formulated it in order to highlight the merits and martial bravery of the five tiger generals. In addition, due to the outstanding performance of the Qilin Army in the crusade against Yuan Shao, Gan Ning was named the Jinfan General, and the position of the governor of the naval army remained unchanged; Xu Chu was named a hussar general and was crowned the Marquis of Mu Township; Dian Wei was named General Wei and was crowned Marquis of Zhongxiang; Wei Yan was named the general of the chariot cavalry and was crowned the Marquis of Southern Zheng; Zhang Xiu was named the general of the expedition to the north and was crowned the Marquis of Xuanwei; Zhang Liao was named the general of Zhengnan and was crowned the Marquis of Jinyang; Xu Huang was named the general of Zhengdong and was crowned the Marquis of Yangping; Zhang He was crowned as the general of the expedition to the west, and the feudal marquis of Chang. These eight people, the official position is only the five tiger generals, and they are called the eight good generals. In addition, Gao Shun was named General Fenwei, taking over Lü Bu's previous official position; Pound was named the general of Zhennan; Ma Dai was named the general of Zhenxi; Gongsun Chan was named the general of Zhenbei; Su Fei, the deputy governor of the navy, was promoted to general Jinghai, and the position of deputy governor remained unchanged; Xiahoulan was promoted to general Guangwei and was still stationed in Buyeo to protect the oil fields there.
Among the dozens of important ministers above, Ao Lie sealed out the nineteen townsmen in one go. The township is the limit of what Ao Lie can be a marquis. Coupled with the Marquis of Wen Lu Bu who was personally appointed by the Son of Heaven, the marquis under the command of Ao Lie reached as many as twenty. At the same time as the official position was promoted, Ao Lie also gave them different amounts of gold as a reward, although Ao Lie knew that most of them did not pay much attention to money, but this represented a part of Ao Lie's heart.
In addition to these people, the rest of the officials were also rewarded with official promotions, and a few of them were very outstanding, and they were also promoted by Ao Lie.
While Ao Lie was rewarding, he did not forget those who had contributed to the Yan Kingdom, even if they did not have an official position now for various reasons. For example, Sima Hui, Zheng Xuan, Xu Rong and Hua Tuo. Among these four people, the first two taught in the Yenching Academy and made great contributions to the cultural spread of the five northern states; And Xu Rong is the actual chief instructor of the ordinary sergeants of the Yan Army, many of the sergeants have been trained by Xu Rong, and the formation of the Yan Army's drills is also compiled by Xu Rong, it can be said that the combat effectiveness of the Yan Army is so strong, and Xu Rong, the hero behind the scenes, has made great contributions. As for Hua Tuo, he has superb medical skills, not only has a life-saving grace for the wounded soldiers in the army, but also selflessly teaches his self-created Wufowl Opera to the soldiers, so that they can use it to strengthen their bodies, and he is also a well-deserved behind-the-scenes hero. Ao Lie knew that they didn't want to be officials, so they were only given a fictitious title, and they didn't need to come to the Yanwang Mansion every day to order Mao, but he ordered Dong He, who was in charge of the government affairs, to pay double the amount of money on time every month.
At this point, the context of Yan Guo has gradually become clear, and every official is like a part, which together forms the huge and sophisticated chariot of Yan Guo, and pushes this chariot and strives to move forward. It was not until many years later that the names of the Ten Directions, the Five Tiger Generals and the Eight Good Generals were still widely circulated among the people, and the praise of later historians for them was not at all under the 28 generals of Yuntai in the early Han Dynasty. Some historians have written in their own writings that it was under the leadership of the wise and martial King Yan that they were able to free thousands of people from the suffering of war and let the traditions of the Han people continue. (To be continued......)
PS:PS; Da Kun took his daughter out to play, and came back late, and today is a 4,500-word chapter. Let's talk about it, the name of the five tiger generals is copied by Da Kun from the biography of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms, don't spray, because Da Kun thinks that these five names sound very pleasing to the ear and are very vivid, and the most important thing is that they are majestic enough! To be clear, there have been no such official positions in history, and these official positions only exist in the game.