Chapter 176 [Pretty Branches, Imperial Hegemony]

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On the same day that Zhou Yu led his army to leave Chengdu, Li Li held a banquet in the inner hall of the state capital to entertain Liu Zhang, the former Yizhou pastor.

Also accompanied by Zhang Song, Zhao Wei, Wu Yi, Zhang Su and Zhang Ren were also accompanied by a group of Yizhou civil and military personnel.

This is Liu Zhang's banquet before leaving Yizhou, and the Yizhou civil and military forces present here will also leave Yizhou with him and go to Chang'an to take up his new post.

It goes without saying that Li Li's handling of Yizhou's civil and military affairs is no different from that of other prefectures and counties that have been recovered before, and he still adopts the appointment method of transferring from his hometown to a different place.

By virtue of the transfer of the original officials, they were ordered to leave their homeland and go to a foreign land thousands of miles away to re-take up their posts. In this way, it was possible to break down the established interest groups and noble classes, disintegrate the local forces, and re-establish a new order, so as to strengthen the control of Yizhou and consolidate its dominance.

This method of working in a different place is not new or impressive, but it is very practical.

It has been used by all dynasties, even after a thousand years.

However, this is not the case with the current Han official system. Most of the officials were natives, and they would only leave home after they had been appointed to the county or transferred directly to the state capital. However, no matter how they are transferred, as long as they do not become officials in the DPRK, most of them are transferred within the state, and they will not stay away from their homeland and serve in other places.

This is particularly evident in civilian officials, but not in military generals. There is a large range of military generals above the rank of officer to captain, and most of them will be sent wherever they are needed; And this is only when the world is relatively peaceful and the society as a whole is stable. In the event of war or troubled times, the military generals must stay with the army at all times. It is rare to have time to go home all year round, and even many middle- and low-level generals leave home and never go back. After all, fighting a war is about death. The middle and low-level generals are the backbone of the charge, and they are also the main targets of the enemy's shooting or sneak attacks. The death rate is high.

Perhaps, this is the main reason why people in the world are willing to learn literature but are unwilling to follow Rong, and it is also the direct reason why military generals are more likely to obtain knighthoods than civil officials, which is equivalent to an incentive policy. (This was the case in previous dynasties, where military generals were often awarded titles as long as they were promoted to generals, while most civil officials were unable to obtain titles in their lifetime.) Since the Song Dynasty, this system has been fundamentally subverted, and the phenomenon of emphasizing literature over military force has quickly become prominent. prompted the vast majority of people to abandon military force and follow literature, and intensified, so the combat effectiveness of the army in the middle and late Song Dynasty was the weakest, which led to the emergence of the Yuan Dynasty. Another thing to mention, Liang Hongyu and the female generals of the Yang family are the special products of that era, although they are beautiful to talk about, but in a sense, it is not a shame. The high-ranking generals and commanders were all scholars and scribes who were powerless, so women led the army to fight on the battlefield. The charge is on. This is an extremely distorted social phenomenon, and it is not an exaggeration to consider it a shame. )

?????? Straight to the point. After the feast, everyone entered the main hall.

This was the moment when their fate was decided, as they had been idle until now. The original official positions were automatically invalidated with the change of ownership in Yizhou, so they are all white at the moment, no different from the common people.

Wait patiently for a moment. Finally, Li Lilong walked into the main hall and slowly sat down on the upper floor.

"The ministers meet the lord (general)!"

Seeing Li Li appear, he sat down. More than a dozen Yizhou civil and military officers led by Zhao Wei, Zhang Ren, Wu Yi and Zhang Song bowed down and bowed, while Liu Zhang, who was standing at the front, bowed and saluted. still honored Li Li's official secrets, and did not bow down. This is the reserve of the royal nobles, just like the cooked duck meat is not rotten, and still adheres to the last bit of pitiful dignity as a member of the Han family.

"That's it, everyone is exempt, sit down." Li Li in the hall bowed slightly, and waved his hand to signal everyone to get up and sit down.

The deep gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the hall, Li Li nodded lightly to Zhuge Liang who was standing on the left, and then he picked up the book on the desk and flipped through it without saying a word.

When Zhuge Liang saw this, he immediately understood, so he spread out the bamboo slips that had been prepared long ago, and said loudly: "Adhering to the edict of the first emperor, the military affairs are entrusted to the general Li, so the general patrols the sky on behalf of the hunter and holds the right to reward and punish." The lord will order Liu Zhang's ??????"

Reading this, Zhuge Liang paused, and his eyes fell on Liu Zhang at the bottom of the stairs, his eyes were intriguing. Suddenly, Liu Zhang's expression was stunned, his whole body trembled slightly, and two flushes appeared on his cheeks, as if he still wanted to pretend to be reserved, and still wanted to stand and accept Li Li's reward, to be precise, it should be "charity". However, when he saw Zhuge Liang's burning eyes, he involuntarily lowered his "noble head", took a step forward, and knelt down on his knees, his forehead against the mahogany floor on the ground, waiting for the reward.

At this moment, Li Li's eyelids, who were flipping through the book, rose slightly, glanced at Liu Zhang, who was bowing down in the hall, and then put down the book, picked up the wolf's book that had already been dipped in ink, and dealt with government affairs without distraction, as if he was indifferent to what happened in the hall.

At the same time as Li Li put down the book, Zhuge Liang then read out: "Edict Liu Zhang as the Marquis of Yong'an, a first-class scholar of Tai Academy, a mansion, twenty maids, thirty servants, thirty miscellaneous servants, and one hundred personal soldiers." Ordered Yong'an Hou to set off for Chang'an immediately, and he was not allowed to leave Beijing without an edict! ”

"Weichen worships the emperor's generous gifts, General Xie gives the gift, and Liu Zhang receives the order!"

After bowing his head, Liu Zhang bowed down and took the "edict" from Zhuge Liang's hand, and then waved his hand to Li Li, who was writing at the desk, and then turned around and walked out of the main hall. At the entrance of the main hall, a soldier holding his seal had been waiting for a long time, and after seeing him come out, he quickly followed, and the carriage had also been prepared outside the gate of the mansion, and Liu Zhang's family members were standing by the carriage and waiting, and the accompanying items had been loaded into the carriage.

When Liu Zhang and his family got into the carriage, they saw that the armor soldier in charge of Liu Zhang's seal letter waved his hand lightly, and a hundred armor soldiers supported the left and right, and a group of five carriages set off and went straight to the north gate.

It is worth mentioning that at this moment, there is a thousand-strong cavalry team waiting outside the north gate, and when Liu Zhang and others all arrive, they will set off for Chang'an.

Seeing Liu Zhang leave, Zhuge Liang didn't pause, picked up a scroll from the hand of the attendant next to him, and read it out loud: "Edict Zhao Wei is the middle of the imperial history, give the lord an xianghou, give the mansion, twenty maids, servants and miscellaneous servants, one hundred personal soldiers, and go to Chang'an immediately." ”

“?????? Zhang Song was engaged in the history of the general's mansion, received the gift of Cao Jian and gave the marquis of Guannei; promoted Wu Yi to the general of Pingnan, the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei, and gave the marquis of Guannei; Zhang Ren is the general of Hengye, and Jin Yiwei is the Sima of the left army; Give Zhang Su as a gift to Cao Peng??????"

As Zhuge Liang's words fell, in addition to Wu Yi and Zhang Ren, the remaining more than ten officials all knelt down and left, followed by Liu Zhang, took their families, drove to the north gate in a carriage, and went to Chang'an together after meeting Liu Zhang.

It is worth noting that except for Liu Zhang, the rest of the people have no additional restrictions, and they are rewarded and treated well. Especially Zhang Song, he was promoted in the real sense this time, which is tantamount to entering the court as an official and becoming a close minister by Li Li's side. And Wu Yi is the only military general among the generals in Yizhou who has obtained the rank comparable to the official rank of Jiuqing, which also fulfills Li Li's previous promise to him, although he was not directly promoted to the assassin history, but the official rank is not inferior to the official of the feudal territory.

?????? At noon, Li Li rushed to Changle Garden and had lunch with Ren Hongchang, Mengxin and Wu Amaranth. This is more than half a month after Changle Yuan, he has eaten with the women again.

An hour ago, the soldiers informed Wu Yuan of this matter in advance, and after hearing the news, the women immediately got busy, and carefully prepared a table of extremely sumptuous lunches, which were quite like serving the king.

That's exactly what happened. According to Ren Hongchang, He Ying and others, the call for Li Li to be called the king and emperor in Chang'an City is getting higher and louder day by day, and the momentum is getting louder and louder every time.

As early as three years ago, when the Han Emperor Liu Xie's funeral, many officials in Chang'an City jointly signed a table, asking Li Li Chengtian to answer his order and become king. When Li Liban's division returned to Chang'an last year, the civil and military affairs under his command were in high spirits, and more than seventy percent of the civil and military generals jointly petitioned to persuade Li Li to ascend the throne and become the emperor and reign over the world.

This time the victory of Yizhou must be better than in the past, as if the mountains are as unstoppable as a tsunami. After seeing the first two times of supporting the emperor, even in Yizhou, which was thousands of miles away, Ren Hongchang and the others could imagine how fierce the call of his husband's military generals to persuade him to ascend to the throne was so fierce that it almost overturned Chang'an City.

The first two calls for standing up for the carry position were forcibly suppressed by Li Li, and this time I am afraid that it will not be able to be suppressed. Since then, after Li Li returns to Chang'an, he will at least be promoted to the throne, and the most likely is to ascend the throne and become the emperor, and enter the throne of the Ninety-Five, and reign over the world.

As Li Li's wife and concubine, although Ren Hongchang, He Ying, Mengxin and other five daughters are not greedy and vain women, they are sincerely happy for their husbands, proud of his achievements, and hope that their husbands can end the troubled times as soon as possible, clear the world, dominate the world, fulfill their long-cherished wishes, and achieve the hegemony of the past and the present.

Because of this, the moment Li Li turned over and dismounted and walked into Changle Garden, his eyes suddenly lit up. But I saw Mengxin, Ren Hongchang, He Ying, Ma Yunluo, Xiao Qiao and Wu Amaranth and other five women standing in a row, dressed in costumes to greet each other, and they were charming and charming. In an instant, Li Li's eyes were dizzying, as if he was in a cluster of flowers, a hundred flowers blooming, and a piece of competition for beauty. Mengxin is like a hollow valley orchid, Ren Hongchang and He Ying sisters are the lotus flowers, Ma Yunluo is hot and unrestrained like a fiery red rose, Xiao Qiao is gentle and graceful like a hibiscus out of the water, and Wu Amaranth, who is beautiful and graceful, is the beautiful peony that is waiting to be released.

Suddenly, Li Li was deeply amazed, his expression was in a trance, and he was so stupid and intoxicated??????

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