The sky was clear, white clouds floated under the blue sky, and two lines of geese swept across the sky and flew south.

The mountains are majestic, the water is graceful, the mountains and rivers are lush, and the scenery is picturesque.

Mid-autumn and August are the most prosperous seasons of the year, and they are also the transition seasons between prosperity and bleakness.

On the official road from Yuzhou to Sili, a team of war horses galloped, followed by hundreds of thousands of ironclad infantry troops, stretching for more than 20 miles before and after, all over the way, soldiers Gosensen, the lineup was strict and the army was strong.

This is the Xiliang army that withdrew from Xuzhou.

However, the infantry cavalry of more than 100,000 people is not all the Xiliang army, nearly seventy percent of the sergeants are Yuzhou and Xuzhou soldiers, and the remaining two percent are Yangzhou troops, and only one percent of the soldiers really come from Xiliang, and all of them are cavalry.

Since the dispatch of troops to Xuzhou in June, it has been two months. At first, the Xiliang army conquered the entire territory of Xuzhou in only half a month, and easily took the six counties of Xuzhou; However, after the war, Xuzhou was calm for only about ten days, and then it was turbulent again, and the undercurrent was turbulent, forcing Li Li to mobilize a large army again to quell the turmoil. It wasn't until ten days ago that Xuzhou was completely calm.

However, when Xuzhou really stabilized, it was full of devastation, as if it had gone through a large-scale all-out war, a scene of depression. For this reason, after repeated deliberations, Li Li resolutely decided to transfer the most astute and capable military generals under his command to Xuzhou to serve, and the civil ministers governed the prefecture and county and restored the people's livelihood; The generals were quiet and peaceful, guarding the Xuzhou border.

Under Li Li's rule, there were many civil officials with the most ability to govern states and counties, and most of them were already in heavy positions. has no time to clone, and the most suitable person by his side is Chen Gong Chen Gongtai, who has lived in Xuzhou for a long time. However, Chen Gong not only has deep contradictions with the Xuzhou scholars. He also had close contacts with some scholars, and there were many of his protégés and former officials in Xuzhou. So Li Li did not hesitate to exclude Chen Gong and dismiss it, although he never doubted Chen Gong's loyalty and had a solid in-law relationship with him, he still thought that Chen Gong was not suitable to continue to stay in Xuzhou.

When Li Li repeatedly thought about the candidates for the Xuzhou Assassin History, Li Zhi sent a volume of Liangzhou's government affairs that was summarized once every six months, which attracted his attention. No, to be precise, let him highly regard. Immediately, a top candidate came into view. The bamboo slip in his hand clearly records that Shuozhou Taishou Zhang Ji, whose political achievements ranked first among the counties under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou for five consecutive years, and was called "the first Taishou of Liangzhou".

Zhang Ji, who has won the championship for five consecutive years, has been in Li Li's sight since the moment he entered Li Li's sight. It has always been his focus and focus.

When Shuozhou was first built. In order to choose the first Taishou, Li Li also took a lot of brains, and successively went through all the capable officials and officials who were good at governing the states and counties under his rule, but he never found the most suitable candidate for the Taishou. Just when he was hesitating, Li Xuan recommended Zhang Ji, the county commander in Hongnong County, to serve as Hongnong Taishou, and Zhang Ji officially entered Li Li's sight. When he summoned Zhang Ji to his side for a little examination, he immediately made a decision to let Zhang Ji serve as the first Taishou of Shuozhou and govern the vast area including the Saishang Hetao.

The first year of his tenure as the Taishou of Shuozhou. Zhang Ji ranked first among all counties in Liangzhou in the year-end performance evaluation, and still ranked first in the second year. For this. Li Li was skeptical of Zhang's successive first-place political achievements; After all, Shuozhou is a newly built county, and in addition to the county seat where Shuozhou County is located, there are not even a few decent cities, and it is really poor and white. A vacuum has been created for the most basic infrastructure, let alone anything else? What's more, in this era of agriculture in the true sense, there is absolutely no shortcut, and you must work hard to support your family, and the development speed is extremely slow.

So, after the end of the Sili War, Li Li personally took his family to inspect Bingzhou, Shuozhou, Liangzhou and other prefectures and counties, and deliberately stayed in Shuozhou for half a month, and traveled to most of Shuozhou to conduct field investigations. Facts have proved that Zhang Ji's political achievements can stand the test, and his real achievements have not been deceived or deceitful, and there is not a trace of water.

Since then, the name Zhang Ji has always been remembered in Li Li's heart, and he will pay extra attention to Zhang Ji's political achievements every six months and at the end of the year. However, in the past year or so, Li Li has been immersed in the complicated war all day long, and for a while he has forgotten Zhang Ji's existence, and when considering the candidates for the state assassin history, he always habitually focuses on the current state assassin history, thus ignoring that Zhang Ji has the political talent that is not inferior to any of the assassins.

Therefore, when Li Li decided to promote Zhang Ji to serve as the assassin of Xuzhou, he suddenly realized that the bamboo slip sent by Li Zhi was too timely, and there must be something greasy in it. Under questioning, Li Zhi told the truth without concealing it and betrayed Jia Xu and Guo Jia. Because this book was simply transferred from the Chang'an General's Mansion by Jia Xu Feiying, and then handed it to Li Zhi by Guo Jia himself, entrusting him to present it to Li Li at the appropriate time.

It goes without saying that Jia Xu and Guo Jia's candidates for the assassination history in Xuzhou are also painstaking, and after careful consideration, they jointly elected Zhang Ji to serve as the assassin. This coincided with Li Li's final decision.

As for the selection of the chief general in Xuzhou, Li Li did not act arbitrarily, but repeatedly discussed with Jia Xu, Guo Jia and Chen Gong many times. In fact, Li Li already has a suitable candidate in his heart, and his person is Zhou Yu who is stationed in Hanoi County. And Li Li has already thought about Zhou Yu's position after sitting in Xuzhou - the governor of Jianghuai, the commander-in-chief of all the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, Yuzhou and some counties of Yangzhou, in charge of the three armies, and his soldiers and horses are close to 300,000, as if he is a veritable "King of Huainan".

But Li Li still has some doubts about this. First, Zhou Yu has always been friendly with Jiangdong Sun Ce, and let him lead troops to garrison the states and counties on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and his main opponents are Jiangdong Sun Ce and Jingzhou Liu Biao, in case ???????。 Second, judging from the current situation, the main opponent of the generals sitting in Xuzhou was Cao Cao, who occupied Yanzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou, and Zhou Yu had been defeated by Cao Cao in the previous battle of Yecheng. Third, and most importantly, the defeat of Yecheng is not far away, Zhou Yu is guilty, he was just dismissed from the post of General Annan not long ago, if he is promoted without merit at this time, it is too child's play, and it is really difficult to be convinced.

Li Li's concerns are by no means groundless. In the ensuing discussion, Jia Xu, Guo Jia and Chen Gong all raised it without omission. In this way, Zhou Yu was excluded and not considered. Except for Zhou Yu. Many generals in the Xiliang Army have the ability to sit in Xuzhou, such as Bo Cai, Zhao Yun, Huan Fei and Xu Chu and other generals in the army, all of whom can be on their own, and there is no problem at all in garrisoning Xuzhou.

However, the world is not unified, and there are still many big battles in the future that require these generals who can fight well to charge into battle, if they are placed in Xuzhou. It is quite a pearl and dust. The most important thing is that if these generals were in Xuzhou, Li Li would not have given them the right to lead the 300,000 troops of Jianghuai; Because they don't have Zhou Yu's commanding talent. can only be in charge of one side, but cannot be in charge of the three armies, taking into account all the states and counties on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

After careful consideration, Guo Jia finally recommended Guo Yan, the general of Zhenxi who sat in Liangzhou, to be the chief general of Xuzhou. This suggestion was supported by Jia Xu. And Li Li also felt that it was time to use this Xiliang general who had been hidden in the snow for a long time, so he readily agreed. As a result, Guo Yan was used again, and Li Li appointed him as the general of Zhenyuan, with a position equivalent to that of the general of Zhenxi, but the title of Yu Lu and the title rose a lot compared to before, comparable to the third duke. At the same time, Li Li appointed Ji Ling as the general of Pingnan and served as Guo Yan's deputy general. In addition, generals such as Hou Cheng and Lei Bo also stayed in the Xuzhou army to listen to it.

Therefore, when Li Li led the army to withdraw from Xuzhou. More than seventy percent of the civil and military forces under Xuzhou have been replaced, and all officials from other prefectures and counties have been transferred across the border. It is worth mentioning that Chen Qi, Chen Deng, Mi Fang, Cao Bao, Zang Ba, Wei Xu and Xu Yi and other Xuzhou civil and military personnel all returned to Sili with Li Li, and then resettled.

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At the entrance of the main hall, a group of civil ministers and military generals left the hall one after another, and soon they would embark on a new journey with the official certificates issued by the General's Palace.

At the just-concluded military and political deliberations, Li Li made extensive adjustments to the generals of the prefectures and counties and battalions under his rule, and promulgated a ban on customs closure.

Just when the few remaining princes in the world thought that after Li Li captured Xuzhou, he would once again point the spearhead at Cao Cao in Jizhou and mobilize heavy troops to attack Jizhou or Yanzhou, and when the generals of Xiliang were eager to try and try to get rid of the shame, Li Li resolutely decided to rest the whole army, and there would be no more war in the next year or three years except for sudden wars.

At the same time, Li Li promulgated a ban on customs closure: all prefectures and counties, namely Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Sili, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou and half of Hanzhong, completely blocked all roads leading to Yanzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou, and were not allowed to enter or leave.

In addition, Li Li specially stated that the whole territory will be recuperated and recuperate, and the governance of states and counties will be the first priority, followed by the regrouping of the army.

To this end, Li Li ordered that all the cavalry battalions that had previously participated in the Battle of Jizhou, except for the Jin Yiwei and Wuwei battalions, should go to the border counties of Bingzhou, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, and Yongzhou to rest and recuperate, replenish troops on the spot, and train the new army. In addition, Li Li made it clear that all the troops and horses on the border were allowed to wait for an opportunity to attack and destroy all the remnants of the enemy around the border, and in case of heavy fighting, they must promptly report to the Chang'an General's Mansion for reinforcements.

After the order to rest and recuperate the whole army was issued, a large-scale adjustment of the state and county guards and the generals of each battalion followed.

Li Li ordered: Lu Su was promoted to the governor of Huainan, and concurrently led the history of Yuzhou, and commanded all the soldiers and horses of Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jiujiang, Lujiang and other counties along the river; ordered Zhang Liao to be the general of Zhennan, and led soldiers and horses from Yuzhou, Jiujiang, Lujiang and other places to garrison Hefei; Ordered Bocai to guard Nanyang.

Guo Jia was promoted to the governor of Sili, the general of the Chinese army, the general of the general of the Chinese army, the general consul of Sili, and the soldiers and horses of the two prefectures, and the troops of Hanoi County; appointed Chen Gong as the commander of the division and the general of the army; appointed Ju Yi as the governor of Jizhou, and formed 50,000 Xiandeng battalions to garrison troops in Changshan and Zhongshan; Xu Rong served as the governor of Youzhou. The remaining battalion generals have also been adjusted, and the details will not be detailed for the time being.

At the same time, Li Li appointed Xu Yi as the Taishou of Hedong, Chen Deng as the Taishou of Zuo Fengling, Chen Qi as the chief secretary of the General's Mansion, and all the other generals of Xuzhou were placed in the battalions and all were promoted.

At this point, the three-year battle for the Central Plains came to an end, although Li Li suffered a crushing defeat on the battlefield in Hebei, he still captured most of the Central Plains Prefectures, and he occupied seven and a half of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and he already owned half of the country, and his power became stronger and stronger.

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