Chapter 67: Everything is ready

Zhu Jun's proposal did not arouse opposition, although it was actually not his turn to intervene in this matter, but Liu Xuan thought of another point.

At this time, Liu Bei's identity was just to guard the plain county order.

That is, his current status recognized by the imperial court is only a county order, and it is also a county order with an internship status.

When the Han Dynasty appointed officials, if such a word was added in front of it, it meant that the person was an informal, whether it could remove the word and turn it into the real position, or a matter of two words.

In the court, there are very few cases in Jiuqing, and those who can be promoted to Jiuqing are naturally the top people in the court, either with outstanding knowledge or great fame, no matter which one, the emperor will not put a 'internship' in front of him.

Generally, this situation is mostly the deputy position of each department or those who really do things, and Liu Bei's county order is also among them, so there is such a situation.

Liu Xuan didn't understand this before, but when he really came into contact with the officialdom system of the Han Dynasty, he felt that Liu Bei's title was promoted too quickly.

Look at his first appointment as the county lieutenant of Anxi, this county lieutenant is not the highest local governor, but the magistrate of a place, responsible for arresting bandits, expelling rogues and other military affairs. He is considered to be one of the assistants of the local county magistrate or the county magistrate.

Later, he made the plain county order - you know, the order is the governor of a large county, and many counties are also governed by this kind of large county.

From this, it can be known that the position of the plain county order is not a very low official position, but in the past, Liu Xuan habitually compared Liu Bei with other princes, and felt that this county order was too small.

It can only be said that Liu Bei's start was too low and too late.

In this case, if Liu Bei is directly promoted to the Central Protector, it will inevitably be a little annoying in the court, but if Liu Bei is allowed to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, it will be different.

Liu Bei directly became a clan relative, that is, the royal family, it is a matter of course for the Son of Heaven to use his own family, don't say that a central protector is directly sealed with an important position in Jiuqing, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have nothing to say, and even feel that it should be like this - this is an advantage of the feudal imperial system.

Therefore, when the next morning was in the court, Liu Xuan asked Zong Zhengqing Liu Ai to prepare the genealogy early, and then announced that Liu Bei went to the palace, and ordered the genealogy in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and finally read it for a long time and finally determined Liu Bei's identity - this is just a formality, and the specific things have been done last night.

Otherwise, if you really check the files in front of the Manchu Dynasty, the ghost knows when to turn it over, and you must know that Liu Sheng gave birth to more than 100 sons, and they are looking for them one by one, but it is quite time-consuming.

What's more, Liu Bei's branch has long been left behind, and it is really not a reliable thing to find Liu Bei's identity only by relying on the papers in the court, and in the end, I can only try to find a vein that is still in line with the situation, and directly continue the genealogy of Liu Bei's branch, which is the final version heard by the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.

In the end, Liu Bei is still Liu Xuan's uncle, which is also a matter of no way, at this time Liu Bei's age is also in his thirties, and their family's genealogy is also a generation higher than Liu Xuan, so it's not good to add another stroke, right?

What's more, the identity of the imperial uncle is also better than that of his peers - the competition between the same generation is more fierce than the division between the upper and lower generations, Liu Bei now has such an identity as an imperial uncle, everyone in the world looks at him, if he still does anything to turn his back on the court, it is estimated that this reputation will stink immediately, and he will never want to turn over for the rest of his life.

As long as Liu Bei's brain is not pumped, he will definitely not do such a thing.

However, now that Liu Bei's status is confirmed, Liu Xuan will seal Liu Bei as the middle protector and the marquis of Yicheng Pavilion, and then meet him as an uncle and nephew, and finally invite Liu Bei to sit in the court, before Huang Wan.

Huang Wan was originally a lieutenant of Si Li, and this position was originally a pretty awesome position, and even the three dukes in the court were extremely jealous of the person who sat in this position.

Because in addition to having soldiers in his hands, the lieutenant of the division has a variety of situations in the area under the division, including secretly spying on some secret things and impeaching the minister.

In terms of authority, it is a bit similar to the Dongchang and Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty, but the rights are greater than those two institutions. It's a bit similar to the history of the assassination, except that the history of the assassination is outside, and the captain of the school is sitting in the middle of the court. At the same time, the awesome thing about the history of thorns is that he has a direct subordinate army of up to 2,000 people supported by the imperial court.

From this point, it can be seen that the authority of the lieutenant of the division is heavy, and it integrates intelligence, commanding troops, monitoring the courtiers, monitoring the common people, and participating in impeachment.

But this situation changed from the time Liu Xuan reorganized the army - Huang Wan, the captain of Sili, was trapped by Dong Zhuo when he was in Luoyang, and he had no soldiers and horses in his hands.

When he arrived in Chang'an, he thought that he could reorganize the soldiers and horses that had been originally stipulated, and he didn't want the emperor's edict to come down, so he directly organized the forbidden army, and the military power that should have belonged to the commander of the division was also deprived.

And the final belonging of this soldier and horse is to the Zhonghu Army - so far, Liu Xuan has elevated the status of the Zhonghu Army to the Captain Si Li, depriving the Captain Si Li of the right to command the army, which is equivalent to directly weakening Huang Wan's power.

In Huang Wan's eyes, Liu Bei is here to pick peaches - this person is a clan relative, although Huang Wan is depressed, he can't say anything, Liu Bei has to be courteous according to the law when he comes, and after watching Liu Bei sit down on the single seat above him, his heart is becoming more and more unhappy.

He didn't know that Liu Xuan even wanted to abolish the position of Si Li's lieutenant, without him, this position was too powerful, and at the moment, his powers would be divided first, and when there was no division in the end, he could be abolished.

What's more, there are too many things that the lieutenant of the division is doing is too complicated, and it is not efficient to let only one person be in charge, so it is better to separate them in detail, for example, those who spy on the affairs of the Gyeonggi region should be transferred to the intelligence department of the Ministry of War to do, and the affairs of the people's livelihood should be carried out through regular channels.

Of course, Liu Bei's matter will not be dealt with so simply, but this is not the time to talk to Liu Bei, after sealing Liu Beizhong's guards and marquis, he directly started the normal topic of today's early dynasty.

At this time, it was late autumn and winter was approaching, and this year, because of Liu Xuan's policy encouragement and the talismans he secretly laid out, most of the fields in the Gyeonggi area produced enough grain, and a small number of fertile fields were even more abundant, and the courtiers were also very happy when the grain was abundant.

Food is always the foundation of survival, and the currency system collapsed due to the emperor's nonsense, food is the hard currency at this time, not to mention that only when there is enough food can soldiers fight hard.

Listening to Xun You's constant reports on this year's food and population situation, the corners of Liu Xuan's mouth unconsciously curved.

However, what he is most concerned about is how much military rations will be left next year after the grain is discarded and the part of the grain is left for grain seeds?

Xun You had already done his homework on these things, and as soon as Liu Xuan asked him, he immediately replied: "With the current number of soldiers and horses in the imperial court's forbidden army, it is enough to support a whole year's battle." ”

When the princes of the Manchu Dynasty heard this amount, they all smiled slightly, and Wang Yun even narrowed his eyes and nodded slightly, it seemed that they were very satisfied with this situation.

Liu Xuan originally thought it was a little little, but thinking about the fact that the army was going out to fight, the people still stayed at home to farm, and when this batch of grain was almost eaten, the next batch of grain was also harvested, so he didn't say anything.

But seeing these old men smiling one by one, as if they had made great achievements this year, they couldn't help but be a little strange: "This is just a year's stock, how much?"

Zhang Rang was puzzled when he saw the emperor on the side, and immediately understood what the young emperor was thinking when he turned around, and leaned closer and whispered: "Your Majesty doesn't know, this year's stock is not all grain, but simple military rations. In other words, the consumption of the court and the people is not in this batch of grain, so it can still support the consumption of the army for a year, which is already quite a lot. ”

Liu Xuan came back to his senses when he heard it, it turned out that this was the case!

Moreover, what makes the Chinese military force of the DPRK pay the most attention is that these military rations are paid entirely by the people under their rule, not the kind that most of them are grown by their own soldiers as before.

It is terrible to think about it this way, you must know that even the most elite border army must select a part of the tuntian soldiers to supplement the military rations, otherwise it will not be enough to rely on levy alone.

"I see!"

In this way, the amount of grain produced this year is quite a huge number, Liu Xuan thought for a moment and immediately said, "Is there a lot of wasteland in the Jingzhao region now?"

Xun You understood what the emperor meant as soon as he heard it, and reported with his hand: "The ministers are still recruiting displaced people to reclaim wasteland, but with the death of Dong Thief and Kong Wenju's appointment as Henan Taishou, the situation in the east has gradually returned to calm, so there are no longer as many displaced people as they were at the beginning of the year." ”

Liu Xuan nodded, knowing that he couldn't be too greedy, so he asked about other things.

Ma Riyan reported the progress of ordnance manufacturing, and heard that the ordnance was complete, but the war horse was difficult to find, and Liu Xuan didn't care: "Except for Guo Yan and Li Wei, this war horse matter will be solved naturally." ”

War horses are hard to find, the key is that the northwest road is stuck, as long as it is opened, the problem of war horses is naturally no longer a problem. At that time, whether it is a local horse in the northwest, a Xiongnu horse in the north, or a good horse in the Western Regions, these generals under Liu Xuan can choose.

However, Liu Xuan should really consider whether he should cultivate some strange beasts, although he didn't capture one to be a mount before, but he didn't collect the blood cells of these strange beasts and other things, because these things didn't take up space, they were still stored in a space in the depths of his primordial spirit.

"It's a pity that my cultivation is not enough now, at least I have to train the golden dragon to take out the things inside. ”

Thinking about it, when the time comes, the crotch of the general under his command will be a unicorn and a Xuanwu Phoenix, and it is estimated that it will scare those who dare to go against him to death.