The accession to the throne of Emperor Xinghe symbolized the return of the Han Empire from the former warlord division to great unification, but there are still some practical problems that need to be properly handled, otherwise the hard-won good situation will be repeated.

The Jiangdong Sun clan has controlled Wuzhou and a large area of territory south of Wuzhou, and now it has been more than ten years, and it has always been a force in a corner of peace, if they were originally allied with the Jin State, and now they have to let it go, it will go against Zhao Xing's original intention.

After Liu Biao in Jingzhou, although Liu Qi is now only entrenched in Jiangxia and Shouchun, most of the entire Yangzhou is currently in the hands of Liu Qi, and a small part is in the hands of the Sun family in Jiangdong. Liu Qi is better settled than the Sun family, but he can't unload the mill and kill the donkey, and directly deprive the fruits of victory in the hands of others. If this is really done, I am afraid that many people in Jingzhou will be unconvinced, and even make some trouble.

Before Zhao Xing ascended the throne, the reason why he did not reward a large number of generals who had made meritorious contributions in battle, but only appointed some of these scribes as department heads within the new political system, was to take into account the situation in Jiangdong and Jingzhou. Now that he has ascended the throne and the new government has begun to operate, if he does not praise and reward the relevant meritorious personnel, it will not only chill the hearts of the soldiers, but also make Jiangdong and Jingzhou suspicious and suspicious.

After some careful deliberation and preparation, Zhao Xing finally issued several very important announcements to the world on February 2 of the first year of Xinghe, completely solving many outstanding problems.

First of all, Zhao Xing announced the abolition of the administrative structure of the two states of Jin and Liang, and the Jin state was renamed the state of annexation, with Liu as the state pastor, Chen Deng as the governor and Jiang Xu as the state governor; At the same time, the title of Duke of Liu of the Second Class can be hereditary by Liu's descendants, and the fief is in a vast place in North America, and the title of Duke of Liu of the Third Class can be hereditary by Liu's descendants, and the fief is somewhere in Oceania.

Zhao Xing's practice of withdrawing the country and setting up a state is actually mainly for Sun Jian, Liu Qi and others to see, but also for his Wenchen military generals to see, even the two existing states have been revoked, and there will naturally be no new states in the Han Dynasty in the future. The existence of the empire is to resolutely oppose the existence of a country within a state, and it is also to curb the practice of land division, even Zhao Xing himself does not have an exclusive royal "reserved land", and other dukes and counts naturally do not want to get fiefs within the Han Dynasty.

There was no fief within the Han Dynasty, but Zhao Xing was very generous enough to give everyone a lot of land in the borderless land outside the Han Dynasty. Now that it is still in a primitive state, North and South America and Oceania have huge territories, Zhao Xing does not want to just cheapen Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian and others for nothing, he will seal these borderless lands to everyone, on the one hand, he can fool the ministers and generals who have been entitled, send teams to follow Cao Cao, Liu Bei and the Sun family's fleet to the corresponding places to manage their own land, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as solving the problem of rewards without spending a penny.

Zhao Xing named Cao Cao and Liu Bei as second-class princes, and their fiefs were naturally in South America and North America, more than 20,000 miles away. Zhao Xing also named Sun Jian as a first-class prince, and Sun Ce and Sun Quan as first-class marquis, both of which can be hereditary, but Sun Jian's fief is Oceania 8,000 miles away in the south. Unlike Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Sun Jian was also appointed as the pastor of Wuzhou, Zhou Yu was the governor of Wuzhou, and Sun Ce was the governor of Wuzhou, so Sun Jian did not have to be driven to a wild place thousands of miles away like Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

Although the difference between the first-class and second-class princes is only one level, this kind of political treatment still makes Sun Jian very satisfied. Unless Cao Cao and Liu Bei made immortal deeds as Han men in the future, they would never have the opportunity to change the "second class" above their heads to "first class".

In Zhao Xing's case, the title became a symbol of family and personal glory, and of course, it was also the main basis for distinguishing the size of overseas fiefdoms. Along with Sun Jian, he was awarded the title of Duke of the First Class at the same time, as well as the good brothers under Zhao Xing, who were born and died, as well as the scribes who made great contributions. For example, Jia Xu, Liu Yu, Tian Feng, Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Guo Jia, Chen Gong, Dian Wei, Lu Bu, Tai Shici, Wang Yun and others, according to their accumulated immortal merits, were fortunate to become the first batch of first-class princes of the Han Empire.

There were other generals, such as Sima Zhi, Ma Chao, Zhang Jaw, Xu Shu, Li Jinsi, Li Jinwu, Zao Yi, Ma Jun, Li Tiezhu, Pang Tong, Gao Shun, Xu Rong, Zhang Yan, Gan Ning, Lu Xun, Lu Meng, Pang De, Ye Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Gongsun Zhan, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Wang Lu, Zhao Gang, Guan Ping, Jia Mu, etc., who were respectively awarded the honor of second-class and third-class princes and marquises.

There are also other generals who have also been awarded the honors of earl, viscount, baron, etc., because there are too many people, so they will not be listed one by one.

According to statistics, Emperor Xinghe issued more than 90 "hats" to dukes, more than 300 "hats" to marquises, more than 900 "hats" to counts, more than 5,000 "hats" to viscounts, and more than 10,000 barons.

According to Zhao Xing's promise, anyone with a title, no matter how big or small, has a fief of his own overseas, and the location on the map and the size of the fief are clearly marked on the title of appointment.

It sounds very terrifying to divide more than 20,000 titles at once, but it didn't even lose half a cent to the Han Empire, but Zhao Xing laid out a super big chess game overseas early. At the beginning, Zhao Xing introduced the system of merit accumulation when he merged the state, the purpose was to motivate citizens from all walks of life to work hard together for the merger of the state, and later this merit system was extended to all the territories controlled by Zhao Xing, and then became a national policy of the Han Empire.

Although the central officials, military generals, local officials, and local people who have made outstanding contributions in various industries have not received an inch of fiefdom in the Han Dynasty, the vast majority of people have expressed their approval and support for Zhao Xing's practice of only giving honor and not fiefdom in the Han Dynasty.

If by virtue of the size of the meritorious service, everyone will come up like a swarm to divide the land of the Han into their own, and then they will have to go back to the original old road, which will make the Han fall apart. Only by ensuring a high degree of unity and relative fairness in the Han Dynasty can the banner of the Han Dynasty be planted wherever every inch of the sun can shine.

Besides, the emperor is not a stingy ghost, he took out a lot of land the size of several big men as everyone's fiefdoms, although the distance is very far, but as long as there is that letter of appointment, there will be more descendants in the future, can't it be sent over for management and settlement!

Zhao Xing's hand is definitely insidious enough, in the future, including Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Jian and other emerging wealthy families will open up territory for the empire, but they will firmly keep their roots in the territory of the Han Dynasty, even if there are some careerists who want to become independent overseas, and other families who are also feudal do not need to mobilize the empire, they will unite to suppress these careerists.

After all, the Great Han is their common motherland!