The second day of the law is early. Zhang Xiu got up from the warm quilt. Looking at the sweet Zhen Luo of Wangdi's bamboo association, Zhang Xiu carefully covered the quilt for her and left. Although Gentle Township is good, Zhang Xiu has more important things to deal with.

After practicing marksmanship in the backyard for a while, seeing that it was not early, Zhang Xiu went to the front hall after bathing and changing. After a few minutes, he came to him with a thick stack of papers and a large bundle of bamboo slips. Through the efforts of Zhang Xiu and Ma Jun, the output of paper has increased a lot, and the quality is also the same. Therefore, many of Zhang Xiu's officials have switched to using paper, and of course, bamboo slips have not completely withdrawn, so Zhong La's hands have both paper and bamboo slips, and the two are mixed.

Seeing Zhong Garlic coming, Zhang Xiuhao sat on the main seat and tasted tea. Seeing this, Zhong La smiled bitterly and said, "The Lord is really leisurely. ”

Zhang Xiu smiled slightly. Putting down the teacup, he then stretched out his hand and pointed to the place where he was headed, and said, "Yuan Chang sit." ”

Zhong Sen was not polite, and after sitting down, he picked up the hot tea prepared on the table and took a few sips. Seeing this, Zhang Xiu asked with a smile: "Yuan Chang, those people are okay." ”

Zhong Stepping heard this, nodded and said, "Not bad!" Not bad! Sure enough, it is a talent in Jingzhou, and it is indeed a lot easier to have their help. ”

Zhang Xiu nodded his head and said, "Now that I have the help of the Jingzhou scholars, I would like to transfer my official position." ”

Zhong Zhen heard this, nodded and said, "Lian is also trying to report this matter to the lord. After speaking, he handed the stack of paper in his hand to Zhang Xiu, and naturally Hu Che'er stepped forward to catch it.

Zhang Xiu took it and opened it to look at it, but it was the list of officials drawn up by Zhong Garlic. At a glance, it was found that the main purpose of this transfer was to transfer the important ministers who had been with Zhang Xiu and were in other places back to Chang'an, and replace those old officials, while the new scholars were scattered and assigned to some less important counties.

This idea coincides with what Zhang Xiu thinks, but in this war, Zhang Xiu wants to use Zhuge and Chen Gong, which makes the six departments tightly handed. I have to say that before the war, Zhang Xiu's civilian officials were just enough, but once the war started, it was understaffed. However, the addition of Jingzhou scholars this time solved the problem that Zhang Xiu had always had a weak civil official in one fell swoop.

However, due to the fact that there are more people from the Jingzhou department who joined this time, plus Pang Tong and Cui Zhouping, the number of Jingzhou officials is extremely large. In addition, there are Yizhou officials, but the officials of the Gaizhou department are mainly in Yizhou, and not too many people go to Chang'an to serve. As for the Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Sizhou departments, they are mainly military generals, and there are not too many military officials in these three states who are strong in their ability, and they have a relationship with Zhang Xiu, so they are in a group.

In this way, Zhang Xiu has three groups under him, among which the group that has long been hugged by Zhang Xiu is the strongest and has the advantage. In addition, the officials of the Yizhou department have great influence within Yizhou, as for the officials of the Jingzhou department, although most of them are new investors, but there are many capable people, if they are allowed to take root, I am afraid that the influence of this group will not be less.

Party strife is a common problem, and this is not something that Zhang Xiu can solve. There is no better way to deal with partisanship than to balance them, and those who are in power will take them. However, some people in positions of power need to consolidate their positions through party struggles because of their instability, and if they do so, they will breed more problems.

Of course, with Zhang Xiu's current strength, this situation is impossible. The separation of the military and the government, and the non-subordination of the civil and military forces, is actually for the sake of checks and balances.

However, it is useless to think too much at this time, Zhang Xiu and Zhong Xuan invariably believe that the need to transfer officials is mainly to better perform.

In the list drawn up by Zhong Lian, except for Chen Song, the rest have been changed. Among them, the Ministry of Officials is served by Zhuge Xu, the degree branch is Zhang Ji, the Criminal Department is Du Ji, the Ministry of Rites Xu Jing, and the Ministry of Industry is Jiaoliang. And Delete Yue, Yan Yuan, Na Zhi, Han Hao, and Dong He entered Shangshu Province to serve as Zhong Doo's deputy, so that the entire Shangshu Province plus six departments were handled by eleven officials under the command of Zhong Di, and the lineup was several times stronger.

The Menxia Province, which is mainly responsible for supervision, continues to be in charge of Yang Fu, of which the heads of the Taiwan Department and the Ministry of Advice are Xiang Lang and Gao Rou respectively.

There was also a major change of local officials, and Yang Zhen, who had served under Yuan Shao, served as the assassin of Bingzhou, and Zhang Xiu, the Taishou of each county in Bingzhou, let Yang Zhen choose his own within the Bingzhou family. This can also be regarded as an attitude of friendship with the family of Bingzhou. If Gaine had not had the support of the Bingzhou family, Zhang Xiu would not have been able to enter the Merge State. reciprocated the peach, and Zhang Xiu also gave the Bingzhou family more sweetness. However, the background and strength of the Bingzhou family are far inferior to the families of Jingyi and Jingyi, so it is okay for them to serve in the state. Naturally, Huang Quan was still in charge of the Yizhou Thorn History, and the five most important counties of Shu County, Jiangzhou, Zhanghuang, Guanghan and Badong were respectively served by Fei Shi, Qin You, Cui Zhouping, Meng Jian, and Shi Tao. Since the southern part of Yizhou was preparing for war, Li Hui, who was familiar with the geographical situation, was temporarily in charge. As for this special place in Hanzhong. Zhang Xiu followed Huangfu Song's deathbed instructions and asked Huangfu Hong, who had switched to civilian work, to be the Taishou.

Although Huangfu Song was born in a martial artist, he naturally became more worried about his son's safety when he got older. Especially the battle death of the Huangfu Mansion, the old man didn't say it on his face, but when he lost his son when he was old, the white-headed man sent the black-headed man, and the sadness of the Huangfu Song can be imagined. And the old man finally passed away because of heartache, before Zhang Xiu returned to Chang'an, but before he died, he asked Zhong Xuan to tell Zhang Xiu that he hoped that he would transfer Huangfuhong to a civilian job, so that he would be safe and sound. The old man's wish, Zhang Xiu naturally agreed, "I will hand over an important place in Hanzhong to Huangfu Hong, and Huangfu Rezhi is not just a martial artist, but a civil and military person, and there is no big problem in letting Huangfu Hong serve as the Taishou."

On the side of Liangzhou, the history of Liangzhou was served by Meng Da of Yunwen Yunwu. After being the Hanoi Taishou for so many years, Meng Da has also come out. As for the several counties under his rule, Zhang Xiu asked Meng Da to select some people who were both civil and military to be responsible. After all, the people of Liangzhou are fierce, and if a county is too strong and lacks force, it will suffer some losses in dealing with the Qianghu and other ethnic groups. Meng Da also simply pulled Ma Xiu and Jiang Xulai from the army to serve as the Taishou of the two major counties of Tianshui and Jincheng respectively. The rest of Anding, Wuwei, etc. were slowly selected from Liangzhou. And Meng Da asked Zhang Xiu again to come to Fu Xun, a native of Beidi County, to help him, and the situation in Liangzhou did not change much.

As for the newly invested Han Song and Wang Can. Zhang Xiu let the two serve as Hedong and Hongnong Taishou respectively, and Ma Liang, who was concerned by Zhang Xiu, was directly promoted by Zhang Xiu to the rank of lieutenant. As for Nanyang and the newly acquired Xiangyang, an area where there will be a big war in the future, they will be handed over to Li Yan to be responsible. This is the case for each state and county.

After Zhang Xiu finished reading it, he couldn't help nodding, so that the old officials were all promoted, and the new ones had at least one county guard. And the three of Jieliang, Jiaoyue and Ma Liang have higher official positions. Zhong Mei even vacated Chen Gong, a more scheming person. So that he can join the military aircraft department, and he has a big appetite for Zhang Xiu.

After reading it, Zhang Xiu picked up the brush and took a blank piece of paper to fill in the military machine and the people of each legion. Among them, the name of Zhang Quan, a large number of little guys, was added, and there were also Chen Gong, Lu Xun, Ma Zhan and others.

The Liangzhou Corps was still under the command of Hua Xiong, and the position of Ma Xiu, who was transferred, was filled by Ma Tie, who had already become an adult. The Hanzhong Corps was renamed the Yizhou Corps, the commander was still Xu Rong, and the subordinates were still Pei Yuanshao and Guan Hai, as for Tai Shici and Huang Zhong, although they were still in Yizhou, they were subordinate to Zhang Xiu and were not under the jurisdiction of Xu Rong. Now the one who can recommend these two is Li Ru, the Chinese military division.

The rest of the changes are not too big, Xu Huang of the Nanyang Corps was seriously injured by Hu Feng and died in the battle of the Huangfu Mansion, Zhang Xiu asked Ling Bao and Wang Wei from the Liangzhou Corps to fill the vacancy of the two. On the side of the state, Hao Zhao, Guo Zhun and Ma Dai guarded Huguan, the Outer Great Wall and Yanmen.

As for Zhao Yun's army, it was still stationed in Xiangyang to wait for the fighters. Zhang Ren and Zhang Quan and several other small ones were transferred to Shuzhong to prepare for a big war because Zhang Xiu was preparing for the southern expedition. It is obvious that the troops with strong combat power on the military side are all led by Zhang Xiu himself.

And Zhang Xiu set up a research institute of the Ministry of Industry in the Chang'an Xue Palace, which was in charge of Ma Jun and directly belonged to Zhang Xiu. As for Liu Ba, a relatively special existence, Zhang Xiu temporarily let him take a position in the degree branch, but he was directly responsible for Zhang Xiu.

Although it is not a reform of the system, it involves a large number of officials. However, most of the officials were promoted, and of course some were transferred, so this change can be regarded as a happy one. Especially those Jingzhou scholars who are newly voted, as soon as they are voted under Zhang Xiu, they can be a Taishou, which is a treatment that has not been done in Jingzhou before, how can they not be happy. This change took almost a winter to complete, and Zhuge Bang also returned to Chang'an to take office after dealing with the affairs of Luoyang. However, there are many officials in Shangshu Province now, and there is no big problem for someone to go out occasionally.

As for Wen Ping and Yu Ban, who were captured alive, Yu Ban surrendered directly, and Wen Ping was also willing to surrender after seeing Liu Biao. However, there are still some reservations about the two Zhang Xiu, so they did not let the two serve in the army for the time being, but only put the two under house arrest in Chang'an.

And after Cao Cao heard that Yu Ban surrendered, he did not embarrass Yu Ban's family, but sent people to send Jiang Ban's family members to Chang'an. Cao Cao's subordinates were puzzled as to why Cao Cao surrendered to Cao Cao and sent him back to his family. Cao Cao said to everyone with a smile: "If there is no text, how can Wu'er come back." Now he was defeated and captured. I don't blame him. These words reached Yu Ban's ears, but they made Yu Ban ashamed. But the matter has come to this, and it is impossible for Yu Ban to retort, otherwise he will become a repeated villain.

The time soon entered the twelfth year of Jian'an, and Zhang Xiu only took Lu Xun, Ma Huan, Zhou Cang, Hu Che'er and Deng Ai to Chengdu this time.

Since he did not lead a large army, and all five of them had good horses, the march was not slow. And Zhang Xiu also replaced it this time due to Salu's old age. The one who succeeded Sa Lu as Zhang Xiu's mount was a foal born to an adult by Sa Lu and Chitu.

This war horse is a mixture of dewy purple and red rabbit, so its hair is purple red, which can be described as extremely dazzling. Zhang Xiu saw it, so he named it Zilu, which has the meaning of commemorating Salu. However, in the eyes of Cai Yan and Zhen Luo, Zhang Xiu's name is extremely unlevel. However, Zhang Xiu still went her own way and ignored the opposition of the second daughter.

More than ten days later, Zhang Xiu arrived in Chengdu to meet Li Ru and others, and then Zhang Xiu did not stay in Chengdu for too long, and led Li Ru and Zhang Ren and all the small capitals to go directly to the south of Yizhou. Before Zhang Xiu left, he also ordered Guan Hai to lead an army to Jiangzhou to help Tai Shici and Pang Tong take advantage of the resumption of the war between Liu Bei and Sun Jian to recover Badong.

Tai Shici's army attacked Badong, and after Zhao Yun received the news from Xiangyang, he left Pang De to guard Xiangyang, and he and Ma Chao led 20,000 Pofeng battalions from Xiangyang to bypass Jingshan Mountain and go straight to Nanjun's divine return. Its purpose is naturally to cut off the connection between Liu Bei, Jiangling and Badong, and then help Tai Shici to attack only Dongdanhuyu from the east and west, although he knows that Zhao Yun's purpose is so small, but Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang have no better way, because Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have already led the army to fight from Jiangxia, so they can only gather some troops from the four counties of Jingnan to defend and return.

However, just when Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were preparing to fight to the death, Cao Cao, who did not expect Xu Bi, sent someone to join forces with Liu Bei to deal with Sun Jian.

The sudden change made Liu Bei puzzled, it stands to reason that Cao Cao, who suffered such heavy losses last year, should seize the time to recuperate at this time, and should not start the war again. However, Zhuge Liang thought about it carefully and understood the key. There is only one reason. It's grain and grass!

Under Cao Cao's rule, there was a food shortage at this time, and Cao Cao simply did not have extra food for so many troops and people. In this case, Cao Cao took a more extreme method, or this method was also used by Zhang Xiu when he had no food, but Zhang Xiu's object at that time was just Hu Ren.

That is, the complete non-supply of food for the army. Let the army attack the enemy's place and seize the enemy's food for use. This is how to tide over the difficulties. It was still Sima Yi who offered this plan, and after Cao Cao heard it, he directly agreed to this policy. But it's worth considering who is the target. Zhang Xiu in the west is absolutely not feasible, last year after several hard work and the Yellow River to stop Zhang Xiu's offensive, this year to fight again is to find death.

And because of Zhang Xiu's relationship, the Hu people in the north were fighting in a big melee, which was one of the targets, so Cao Cao asked the Xiahou brothers to lead the armies of Yizhou and Youzhou out of the Great Wall to ask the Hu people for food. In this way, the situation in the prairie is even more uncertain.

However, the place under Cao Cao's rule was too big, and there was not much food in the prairie, so how could it be enough to supply Cao Cao's rule, so Cao Cao set his sights on the south. The richest in the south is undoubtedly Jingzhou, and there is only one place bordering Cao Cao's place, Jiangxia County, and now Jiangxia County is owned by Sun Jian, so Cao Cao can fight only Sun Jian. In addition, Cao Liu originally had a secret agreement, so Cao Cao sent people to Jiangling. Negotiate with Liu Bei to deal with Sun Jian together.

Cao Cao sent someone else this time, it was Guo Jia. Guo Jia was naturally sent to discuss the matter of joint operations with Liu Bei. In addition, he also asked Liu Bei for some food, so that Liu Bei could provide it to Cao Jun at the appropriate time. Liu Bei was not ambiguous, he responded in one bite, and now Liu Bei still has a lot of food in his hands. And Sun Ce and Zhou Yu attacked very urgently, giving up a part of the grain and grass in exchange for Cao Jun's attack, such a simple multiple-choice question Liu Bei would naturally choose.

Although Cao Cao chose to join forces with Liu Bei again, his real purpose was only to use Liu Bei to block arrows for him. Give him plenty of time to get through it. Under his rule, he was actively cultivating and preparing for war, and at this time, the tuntian system showed its advantages. Cao Cao directly abandoned the Mintun and forcibly changed all of them to Juntun, growing grain in peacetime and practicing in his spare time.

Cao Cao, the place where he eats others, has tried it before, and the target at that time was Xuzhou.

At the beginning, it contained 300,000 Qingzhou yellow turbans at one time, and Cao Cao's Chongzhou at that time. How could it be possible to support so many troops, so they could only attack Xuzhou to grab food. The current Cao Cao also used the same method to attack Jiangxia.

And Cao Cao also understood that his biggest opponent was Zhang Xiu, so he drew all the young and strong elites out of the army that formed a large army with a little training of the army and refugees to attack Jiangxia. These young and strong elites remained under the rule, and they practiced while carrying out military camps.

As for the Xiahou brothers who went north out of the Great Wall, most of them were elite. Cao Cao wanted to borrow the hands of the Hu people to hone an elite cavalry that could compete with Zhang Xiu.

Because Yu Ban was captured, Cao Cao's subordinates had no training skills. In this case, Frustrated Tou recommended one person to Cao Cao, that is, the charm of the giant deer hidden with Tian Feng. After Cao Cao listened to the introduction of Zhu Yi's ability, he prepared a generous gift, personally went to Julu, and invited Tian Feng and Meiyi out of the mountain at the same time. In this way, the elites under Cao Cao were all handed over to Gou Yi for training. In such a way, the war is carried out at the same time as preparation for war and recuperation, and I really have to praise the sharpness and ruthlessness of Cao Cao's methods! The army sent by Cao Cao to attack Jiangxia was extremely large, with a total number of 400,000. In fact, only 100,000 of them were originally troops, but because there were too many soldiers and not enough food and grass, Cao Cao decided to abandon these troops and let them eat under Sun Jian. The other 300,000 people were refugees from the eastern part of Chongzhou and eastern Yuzhou after the flooding of the Central Plains. It is important to know that the scope of the Yellow River disaster is extremely large, and the western part of Kezhou and the northwest of Yuzhou are the first to be directly affected. However, in the later period, due to the drainage of the river, the eastern part of Chongzhou and the eastern part of Yuzhou were also flooded, and these were the places affected in the later period.

The 400,000-strong army was commanded by Sima Yi and fought mightily from Yuzhou into Jiangxia County. And when Zhang Xiu, who was in the south of Yizhou, was quite surprised after hearing the news, Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang teamed up to deal with Zhou Yu, in terms of numbers, Cao Liu's side was naturally strong, but Jiangdong did not lose to both sides, this scene was very exciting.

End of Volume VI

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