Chapter 42 Acting Governor

As mentioned last time, because Guan Gong was seriously injured, Liu Hou had to send him back to Chengdu, intending to let the medical research institute there try to see if the newly developed penicillin could save his life. After sending Guan Gong away, the biggest obstacle was removed, and Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi began to plan for Liu Hou to obtain Jingzhou Mu, and the main method was to write a note to Liu Bei.

The content of the recital is to advocate Liu Hou's exploits in Jingzhou. There are many achievements, including: thwarting the sneak attack of Eastern Wu and keeping Jingzhou City; angrily left Lü Meng, avoided the decisive battle of the army, and defended Jingzhou City again; defeated the Eastern Wu naval army and defended Jingzhou City for the third time; Rescue Guan Gong; Foiled Soochow's assassination and prisoner rescue operations. (And the humiliating thing of being rescued by Soochow to save 7 important generals was deliberately ignored.) ）

These exploits were greatly exaggerated by the two royal literati, shaping Liu Hou's image into a tall and lofty one, giving people the feeling that he can be literate and martial, wise and martial, and flawless, just short of the slogan of "Wen Cheng Wude, Dominate the rivers and lakes".

Of course, I had to flatter Liu Bei by the way, to the effect that he had been favored by God and gave birth to a good son, not only born well, but also educated well, Liu's successors, the luck of the Han Dynasty, the luck of the people, and the gratification of Yunyun.

The second is to complain, saying how sinister and sinister the situation in Jingzhou is, such as the four enemies looking around (this is a fact, Cao Cao and Sun Wu are eyeing each other), for example, the soldiers will lose Yan zhòng, and now the soldiers are not more than 10,000 (this is also a fact), what else is there to lack food and grass, and the salary is not out of the silver (this is pure nonsense, Liu Hou's family is rich), what else is the chaos of governance, and there is an urgent need for a strong leader to rectify it or something (this is basically nonsense, there are only a few officials in Jingzhou, and it is easy to manage)......

I believe that under the leadership of the prince, Jingzhou will be able to regroup, expand its territory, double its GDP, stabilize and unite, stabilize prices, and the people's happiness soars and ushers in a better future......

After the two royal literati racked their brains to concoct such a letter, they sent someone back to Chengdu overnight and reported it to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei saw that his son was so promising, so capable, and had made such great achievements, and couldn't help but feel relieved, oh, no, it should be Longyan Dayue. After consulting with Zhuge Liang, he issued a decree to let Liu Hou "have the right to Jingzhou pastor". "Quan" means "temporarily acting for an official position". Liu Beifeng, Liu Hou's official is almost the position of acting governor.

The scope of Jingzhou is larger than that of a province in later generations, and Jingzhou Mu is equivalent to the provincial governor and commander of the provincial military division, and he grasps the civil affairs, military and politics. Originally, at Liu Hou's age, it was impossible to obtain such a position with such qualifications in any case, but who wants him to be the prince of Hanzhong, the father is the official of his son, what official can he want?

In fact, the scope of Jingzhou is large, but the scope of the Liu Group's control is not very large, only one-third of the entire territory of Jingzhou, so this state pastor is not worthy of its name, at most it is a strengthened version of Taishou and then a strengthened version, or too shou x3.

And the discerning person can see that the current Jingzhou is a volcanic crater, this position is not easy to sit, and sitting on it will be exploded by the eruption of the volcano at any time. Even a number of heroes in the world like Guan Gong have fallen into such a fate, who can ask themselves if they can pass Guan Gong and dare to grab this position?

The key is that it is still a troubled time, and the rewards for official positions have long been messed up, and many official positions that were difficult to obtain before have become cabbages on the rotten streets, which can be seen everywhere.

Not to mention all kinds of miscellaneous generals, they grabbed a lot of them, and there were several metropolitan governors of the whole country who were originally governors. The ancestral system of the Han Dynasty stipulates that no different surname can be crowned king, and now even this rule has been broken, and the king of Hanzhong can barely be said to be a relative of the Liu family, so what about Cao Cao's King Wei? In the near future, there will be more kings of Wu. The longer the chaos in the world lasts, the less the sense of existence of the Han family becomes, and the more the rules of the Han Dynasty are trampled on.

In this case, Liu Bei's appointment of Liu Hou as the agent of Jingzhou Mu did not attract attention at all, and in the Liu Group, no one would be so uninteresting to jump out and make irresponsible remarks. After all, the two fathers and sons are playing politics, what does it matter to you?

Liu Hou soon waited for the appointment letter from Chengdu in Jingzhou. He didn't pay attention to the word "right", the acting agent is the agent, and the acting governor is also the governor. Besides, he is confident that he will do better and better, this acting governor will not be too long, and when the time comes, he will change his position, he will only change for a better one, not for a lower one than now, will his father still treat himself badly?

After sending Guan Gong away, Liu Hou reorganized military affairs and rectified the city defense in Jingzhou City. Military affairs are mainly to recruit troops, and now Liu Hou has too few troops on hand, and there are only 7,000 people when he is full, guarding such a large city, which is unimaginable in ancient times, so expanding the army has become Liu Hou's first priority.

However, this first priority is not so easy to do. The idea of expanding the army is good, but what about the source of soldiers? Now there are still 20,008 Dongwu captives who dare not use it, their relatives are still in Dongwu, who knows when they will make trouble?

There are not many people to recruit from the people's young people, before Guan Gong launched such a large-scale Xiangfan War, almost all the young people who can be drawn have been withdrawn, and then forced conscription may affect agricultural production. So, Liu Hou convened an enlarged meeting and summoned Zhao Yun, Fei Yi, Guo Youzhi, Guan Ping, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, Wang Fu, Zhao Lei and others to discuss matters.

"Alas! Headache! Liu Hou put forward the first topic of the day, and sighed after introducing the situation. Shizi, we can recruit troops from Wuling, Lingling, Yidu and other places. These places were relatively unaffected by the Xiangfan War. Wang Fu, who was familiar with Jingzhou's shape, was the first to come out and suggest.

"Yidu is still good, Wuling, Lingling and other places are sparsely populated, and most of them are barbarian living places, and it is not easy to recruit troops from them. What's more, these places are far away, and even if they can recruit soldiers, it will take a lot of time to come and go, and I am afraid that the distant water will not be able to save the near fire. Guo Youzhi retorted.

After discussing and discussing, there was no good way, so Guo Youzhi drew another 500 elite soldiers from the public security and Jiangling to come over, and let them recruit troops on the spot to fill the shortfall. It's just that there weren't many soldiers in these two places, and this kind of transfer made the city defense of these two places even worse, and Guan Ping and Zhao Lei were against it.

Liu Hou suddenly remembered that in history, Fu Shiren and Mi Fang, the guards of these two places, surrendered to Eastern Wu after Jingzhou City was taken by Lü Meng. Guan Gong was cut off from the back road, forced to leave Maicheng, and finally cornered and captured and killed, which is not unrelated to the surrender of these two people, which is really hateful.

Especially Mi Fang, he is Mi Zhu's younger brother, Liu Hou's brother-in-law, and Liu Bei has such a close relationship that he can surrender, and his discipline is not ordinarily low.

Now these historical events have not happened, and Liu Hou is not easy to move them without evidence, but the necessary precautions are still indispensable. This made Liu Hou fully realize that during the Three Kingdoms period, there were not only people of noble character who had left a legacy of righteousness like the Gong, but also people who saw the wind and steered the rudder and smashed the ground.

So, he still had the mentality of giving it a try, and asked Fei Yi to arrange people to go to the prisoner of war camp in Soochow to do work, to see if there were any people who were willing to join his army, and if so, after layers of review, and then select the best, and finally put the people within a certain range, not to let these people become the majority group, but also to break them up into various battalions to prevent them from grouping.

For Fu Shiren and Mi Fang, two guys who may surrender in the future, Liu Hou doesn't have much to do. First, there is no one to replace them now, and second, they cannot be dismissed for no reason and punished for not being taught. I had to keep them in these two cities, and try to drain the elite soldiers from their hands, which can be regarded as marginalizing them and weakening their power as much as possible.

Thinking of this, Liu Hou made a decision and transferred 1,000 elite soldiers from each of these two places, so that he could get 2,000 elite soldiers. The generals spoke out against it, the reason is obvious, these two cities were originally exhausted by Guan Gong's elite soldiers, and now there are only 2,000 elite soldiers left each, and if another 1,000 are transferred, how can the remaining 1,000 people be able to defend the city?

To the surprise of the generals, Liu Hou was very persistent in this matter, how did they know that Liu Hou was fighting the idea of weakening the strength of Fu Shiren and Mi Fang, if it weren't for the fear that the generals would oppose it fiercely, Liu Hou would like to take all the elite soldiers of the two cities and put them in his own hands, and let the two traitors lead a group of militia to guard the city.

The final result was to draw 1,000 elite soldiers from Gong'an and Jiangling, 500 from Yibin, and 1,000 from Wuling and Lingling, so that there would be 4,500 elite soldiers, and then let these places recruit their own local troops to fill the shortfall. Now there are about 5,000 musketeers in Jingzhou City, plus less than 2,000 people brought back by Guan Gong, not counting the 500 old, weak, sick and disabled people who were guarded by Pan Jun, Liu Hou can master 11,500 elite soldiers on hand.

Wuling and Lingling are far away, and the soldiers and horses drawn from there don't want to see people for a month, Liu Hou's sense of crisis is getting stronger and stronger, and he doesn't wait for them to arrive, so he first conducts a large-scale training of the 9,500 soldiers on his hand.

What Liu Hou didn't expect was that the people sent by Fei Yi to the captive camp to recruit soldiers brought a surprise to Liu Hou, and thousands of people were willing to join Liu Hou's Hong army.

Most of these people were people who did not have families in Soochow. After years of war, many families have been ruined and become lonely people, they are like duckweed without roots, and they are sold to whoever they give their lives, and there is no loyalty to them at all.

Liu Hou offered them a generous treatment, not only to be able to eat enough, but also to get a salary, and the treatment was much better than when they were in Soochow, so they took refuge in it. Liu Hou didn't dare to use these people for a while, so he practiced first, and reviewed them one by one in detail, and said after confirming that there was no problem.

For military training, there is an experienced "professor" level of Zhao Yun, who naturally does not need Liu Houduo to be careful.

But it is not so easy to deal with the generals and civil officials of Guan Gong's lineage. Fu Shiren and Mi Fang, the two marginalized capitulation factions, not to mention, Guan Ping, Wang Fu, and Zhao Lei are not young, and they have followed Guan Gong to fight in the east and west, with many merits and old qualifications, and now they are led by a little kid like Liu Hou, and young people like Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi are obviously more valued by the world, how can they be convinced. Fortunately, the defeat this time has frustrated their spirit a lot, which is conducive to Liu Hou's subjugation.

For these three people, Liu Hou adopted a similar approach, contacting them more and drinking and chatting with them more. Where Liu Hou's identity was, the three of them didn't dare to make a mistake, and gradually became familiar with Liu Hou.

Guan Ping is Guan Yu's eldest son, Liu Hou called him a big brother Guan, and coupled with his younger brother Guan Xing's relationship, he quickly became familiar with Liu Hou. Liu Hou arranged for Guan Ping and Zhao Lei to learn the new tactics and tactics of the firearms unit with Zhao Yun, and Liu Hou took Guan Xing and Zhang Bao to discuss with them often and mingled.

There is a big difference between the tactics and tactics of firearms units and cold-weapon units, and in the future, their own units will all be firearms, and the sooner these skills are mastered, the better. According to Liu Hou's idea, it is best for the two to enter the military academy for systematic study, and at the same time, they can also carry out some ideological brainwashing, but the military academy is still in Chengdu, and Jingzhou has not yet opened a branch, so Zhao Yun, a senior "professor" of the military academy, has to open a small stove for them for the time being.