In May of the sixth year of Jianxing, Zhang Xi arrived in Xiangyang, the seat of Jingzhou administration, and met with a group of Jingzhou officials who stayed here.

In fact, they are not strangers, such as Wang Ji, Wen Ping, Ma Liang, Xi Zhen, Pan Jun and others, all of whom were acquaintances who had already known each other when Zhang Xi was in charge of Jiangling.

These people are actually quite welcome to Zhang Xi's appointment as the town guard of Jingzhou, but out of their own interests, they also hope to learn about some recent changes in the imperial court from Zhang Xi's mouth.

One of the most important things is the specific measures taken by the imperial court to deal with Jingzhou.

Xu Shu's tone was very tight, and after returning from Chang'an, he did not mention a word about the imperial court's arrangements for Jingzhou. But the family of these years was not given for nothing, Xu Shu didn't say it, they naturally had channels to find out a thing or two.

As for those who don't have channels, they can only blame themselves for not having the ability.

Therefore, at this time, the families with a little energy in Jingzhou already knew that the imperial court would unify Jingzhou, but they didn't know what the specific regulations were.

There are rumors of everything, but whoever believes the rumors and lives is a fool.

Therefore, Zhang Xi's arrival is the first opportunity to test the tone of the imperial court.

These big families must know the actual operation and bottom line of the imperial court, so as to decide whether they want to cooperate with the imperial court's actions, no one will block the lives of their entire family under the condition that the situation is unclear, and try whether the Jingzhou county soldiers can fight.

Now is not the time of the troubled times in the late Han Dynasty in the early years, when the imperial court did not care about the place, and the place could be grown by the family, but now, the tripartite forces have been determined, and the local rights have basically been controlled.

Nowadays, if the family can achieve its goal through the exchange of interests, it is generally rare to resort to rebellion.

After all, everyone has only one head, and if it falls off, it won't grow back.

For this reason, as soon as Zhang Xi arrived in Xiangyang, there were constant invitations to various banquets, and they were basically local family officials in Jingzhou who came to inquire about the situation.

Zhang Xi didn't hide it, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang knew the worries of the Jingzhou family, and coupled with Pang Tong's arguments, they finally reached a relatively compromise plan.

Zhang Xi took the opportunity of the Jingzhou officials to give him a reception banquet and threw out this plan.

Jingzhou must be handed over to the imperial court for unified management, Zhang Xi is only out of Jingzhou as a local town guard general this time, although he has the right to fake festivals, but this right is limited to military affairs, for government affairs, Zhang Xi only has the right to Jingzhou under the Han system.

In other words, compared with Guan Yulai, Zhang Xi has less power as a governor of military and political affairs, so naturally he has no right to appoint and dismiss personnel.

The problem that the Jingzhou family is most worried about, the fact that people from other states, especially Yizhou, may come to Jingzhou to take office, is a matter that has been determined by the imperial court and cannot be changed.

According to the practice of the Han Dynasty, it is a normal operation to be an official in a different place, and if it were not for the cause of the war, it would be an abnormal phenomenon for Jingzhou people to be officials in Jingzhou.

Now it's just a return to Han orthodoxy.

However, Zhuge Liang is not a fool, he knows that the world is undecided now, and many things still have to be based on stability, and Zhuge Liang is also very clear about the influence of the family, and he rashly touches the interests of these families, Zhuge Liang is not so stupid.

At the same time that the imperial court withdrew the right to appoint and dismiss personnel and the right to pay taxes, Zhuge Liang also gave his own supplementary conditions.

First, on the grounds of Nanyang's new decision, Nanyang County was exempted from paying taxes for three years.

In fact, although the place in Nanyang has been fighting back and forth for several years, but near Wancheng, where Nanyang is the real essence, there was only a battle, and the losses were of course not big, but it was really not big.

Zhuge Liang made such a move, which is tantamount to acquiescing to the development of the Xiangyang family to the north to enrich the Dingkou land in Nanyang.

As for whether the Nanyang family will have an opinion, this Zhuge Liang doesn't care.

First, the influential family in Nanyang, as early as when Cao Ren Tu Wan was back then, either disappeared completely, or migrated to Luoyang, or even Yanzhou, and the remaining family members are really not a scale compared to the Xiangyang family.

Second, Zhuge Liang wished that the Nanyang family would unite and make some conflict with the Xiangyang family, so that the imperial court would have room to adjust and turn around, so that the family would not collude.

So, this move, Zhuge Liang did it on purpose.

And Pang Tong really didn't have much objection to this.

Pang Tong is a native of Xiangyang, and the first thing he considers must be the interests of the Xiangyang family, and then the Nanjun family. As for the Nanyang family, they had already been separated as early as the Liu Biao period, and after experiencing the incident of Cao Ren Tuwan, there was no friendship left with each other.

For the sake of the Xiangyang family, Pang Tong can argue with reason, but Pang Tong of the Nanyang family said that he is really not that familiar.

This is Zhuge Liang's first compensation condition.

And the second compensation condition, which cannot be put on the table, can only be privately conveyed to Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong.

That is, the imperial court will not directly appoint officials below the county level.

This era is the era of dual monarchy, and when the imperial court loses control of the locality, the disadvantages of the dual monarchy are easily revealed - the lord of my lord, not my lord.

Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty spent his whole life strengthening centralized power.

But the problem is that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally fell into the name of a poor soldier, which is certainly a factor of his great joy, but the family is not less behind.

And in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the power of the family grew stronger and stronger, even the founding Emperor Guangwu could not achieve direct control of the place, and the strength of Dong Xuan's matter, although it finally became a beautiful talk, but Dong Xuan, as soon as he appeared in the period of Emperor Xiaowu, it is estimated that his head would have fallen to the ground.

Therefore, the imperial court still uses the appointment of state officials to indirectly control the local situation. Now Zhuge Liang continues to follow this routine.

This routine was not a new routine, and it was not enough to make the Jingzhou family feel that they had benefited, but the Han Dynasty used the routine of being an official in a different place, and now, the implementation of this rule is not strict.

Zhuge Liang privately promised that the imperial court would not directly send officials below the county guard level to Jingzhou to take up their posts, in other words, the county commanders, county lieutenants, and even the governors of the state capital, Gong Cao and others in Jingzhou were still up to the Jingzhou faction itself.

As long as the imperial court does not officially restore the rules of being officials in other places for a day, those local turtles from other places will definitely have no chance to reach into Jingzhou.

As for the existing county warden level officials. Strictly speaking, the county-level officials in Jingzhou, except for Pan Jun, Ma Liang, Wen Ping, Xi Hong, and Xi Zhen brothers, the other high-ranking officials are not from Jingzhou.

Jingzhou Mu Zhangxi and Jingzhou Beijia Xu Shu are both from Yingchuan, Jingzhou Thorn Shi Wang Ji is from Donglai, and Nanjun Taishou Shibao is from Bohai. Jingzhou is actually also implementing the tradition of being an official in a different place.

As for where the state and county officials below are from, is that serious?!

Um, well, it doesn't really matter, right.

Thinking about it from this point of view, the Jingzhou family was unexpected, and felt that this matter was not unacceptable, and they still retained some control rights over the locality, although this right was reduced and restricted, but it was better than not having it directly.

It can't, because of such a reduction in power, it will directly incite the state and county to rebel.

Doing this kind of thing now is much more risky than a few decades ago, and today's Han court is not the chaotic and disorderly Han court of the past. Today's Jingzhou Mu is not the Liu Jingsheng who took office and is weak.

In addition, over the years, Guan Yu has turned a blind eye to Jingzhou's government affairs, but in terms of military affairs, Guan Yu has always been firmly grasped.

That's right, I'm talking about Liao Hua and Deng Ai.

As for the only leading general of the Jingzhou faction, Wen Pingya is still a Nanyang person, and his relationship with the Xiangyang family in his early years has not been very good, otherwise he would not have been reused by Liu Biao.

The Jingzhou family really wants to rebel, and it is a good thing not to let go of the urine sex of the Wenhir to help suppress it.

So. It would be nice to be able to do that.

Later, what made the Jingzhou family even more overjoyed was that Zhang Xi announced that in view of the vague administrative concept of Nanjun in recent years, it was difficult to divide and govern, so he was ready to split Nanjun into two administrative territories, Xiangyang County and Jiangling County.

By the way, Zhangxi's state pastoral office is not going to be located in Xiangyang County, but is going to be set up in Jiangling County.

And this kind of good thing. The Jingzhou family was even more jubilant!!

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