In the current Liangzhou, there is no Zhonglang general in the Liangzhou Corps.

At present, the highest military rank in the Liangzhou Corps, except for Liu Bei, who is a general, is a variety of captains.

Not even a lieutenant.

At present, there are only five lieutenants in the Liangzhou Corps, namely Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Xuan, who are engaged in the state pastoral mansion and what they are in the army, for example, Guan Yu is engaged in Wu Meng, so he is a captain of Wu Meng in the army.

Liu Yong, Liu Sheng, Pang De, and Xu Huang are enough in terms of ability, but because they did not have the Liangzhou military merits that they had established before, they only served as the position of military commander, and the leader of the troops was to lead the troops in the capacity of the state minister.

Under the condition that the Eastern Han Dynasty did not have a standing general position, even Zhonglang generals were not very set up, and the lieutenant was a permanent middle and senior officer in the army in peacetime, and Zhonglang General became a commander-level general.

Over the years, with the increasing frequency of wars, military merits have begun to become more, the position of Zhonglang General has begun to increase slowly, and the number of generals has also begun to increase, but most of them are set up during wartime, and they are not often placed after the war.

This is a practice formed by the change made by the Eastern Han court in order to limit military spending and reduce expenditure, and at the same time, it is also a manifestation of the fact that the Eastern Han court did not have enough ability to command the joint combat of large corps, and turned to small public security operations.

Since the Han-Qiang War, with the continuous weakening of national strength and the gradual depletion of finances, the Eastern Han court has become more and more introverted and conservative, and has lost the idea of pioneering and entering.

As for military operations, it adheres to the concept of "not fighting if you can, and not fighting if you can fight small, not fighting big", refusing large-scale operations, and avoiding war as much as possible.

Under this kind of guiding ideology, there is naturally no need for many relatively high military positions, there is no need for all kinds of generals, and even Zhonglang generals have become not so many, and occasionally one or two generals appear, and they are also very different.

This practice also affected Liu Bei's department to a certain extent, and it was also the problem that it was difficult to promote the military rank normally under the premise of lack of sufficient military merits.

However, as the number of wars encountered by the Liangzhou Corps continued to rise and the military merits continued to accumulate, it was only a matter of time before this limit was broken.

Liu Yong, Liu Sheng, Pang De, and Xu Huang were the main generals who attacked with Liu Bei, and they all made great military achievements this time, so Liu Bei promoted the four of them to lieutenants.

Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Ma Teng, Yan Xing and other generals at the next level also accumulated some merits and were officially signed and appointed as military commanders by Liu Bei.

The next time there is another war and huge gains and captures, the first Zhonglang general in Liu Bei's army may be born, but it is not yet known who that person will be.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Liu Bei will not be stuck in the military, he will not let his subordinates make merits but cannot be promoted, this is not something he will do, they have made merits, and if the conditions are met, they can be promoted.

In the future, their military achievements will be greater and their status will be higher, and it is not impossible to arrange them with the position of general.

In the previous era, there were not so many names of generals, but Liu Bei knew a large list of crazy and cool general names, and when the time came, it was enough to appease people's hearts by arranging one after another.

This was followed by a series of awards for the accumulation of military merits belonging to middle and low-level officers and soldiers, including material rewards and promotion awards.

Wu Chang was promoted to what is the chief, Shi Chang is promoted to the captain, the captain is promoted to the tun chief, the tun chief is promoted to the military marquis, and the military marquis is the military Sima again.

Because of the strict implementation of the military merit promotion and reward system, the Liangzhou Corps' combat effectiveness and will to fight are very strong, and the desire to win is also very high.

In addition to the army, other civilian personnel who made contributions to this march and battle were also commended, received rich material rewards, and there were also a series of promotions in the state pastoral system.

However, compared with battlefield soldiers, civilian personnel are definitely not promoted so quickly.

And to put it bluntly, Liangzhou is such a big plate, and everyone really has to accumulate meritorious service to a point, and it is an inevitable situation that there is no promotion.

Liu Bei calculated, estimating that even if he didn't want to go to Luoyang at that time, his subordinates would push him to Luoyang angrily.

A small Liangzhou can't accommodate their strong desire for promotion, and they will inevitably pursue higher positions, greater power and broader space.

Liangzhou is still too small, and at that time, for their own sake, they will inevitably push Liu Bei forward.

Liu Bei doesn't need to be very active, everything will fall into place.

A few days after the large-scale meritorious service reward, Guan Yu, the Taishou of Jincheng, sent someone to send a message and told Liu Bei an interesting episode.

A Jincheng man named Cheng Gongying pretended to be an official of Liangzhou during Liu Bei's Northern Expedition to Xianbei, and was sent by Liu Bei to talk about things, so he took the initiative to contact Zhuo Dangqiang and met the leader Naduo.

When he met with him, he said that Liu Bei was leading the army against the Xianbei people, and Liangzhou was empty, so it was a good time to send troops to Liangzhou and attack Liu Bei's rear.

He believed that as long as the speed of Burning Dangqiang was fast enough and he raised an army of 10,000 or 20,000 people to invade Liangzhou, he could easily capture Liangzhou, and he could also obtain a large amount of wealth accumulated by Liu Bei, which would be beneficial and harmless to Burning Dangqiang.

How shocked he was, he didn't understand this guy's brain circuits very well, and he quickly stabilized his mood in surprise, and asked him carefully about his origin and reasons for doing this, and asked him clearly about the reasons for his actions and his comrades.

Then Naduo tied him up and handed him over to Guan Yu to dispose of, in order to express the importance that Dangqiang attached to the agreement, as well as his trust and loyalty to Liu Bei.

Now Guan Yu has taken down Cheng Gongying's entire family and several disgruntled families in Jincheng County, and wiped out this conspiracy and betrayal force.

Liu Bei was very happy about this, and asked Guan Yu to send these people to Ji County to be handed over to him for disposal, and also sent people to praise and reward him for his loyalty.

After receiving Liu Bei's commendation, Naduo was very happy, and at the same time, he was glad that he made the right choice.

Because only he knew that when Cheng Gongying came to lobby him, he was moved, he was far less resolute and decisive than he expressed, and as soon as he heard that Cheng Gongying was going to be unfavorable to Liu Bei, he decided to tie him up and hand him over to Guan Yu.

There is a slight difference in detail between what he experienced and what he explained.

At that time, when Naduo asked about Cheng Gongying's origin, Cheng Gongying did not evade it, and confessed that he was once a subordinate of Han Sui, a native of Liangzhou.

Han Sui was captured by Liu Bei on the battlefield and escorted to Luoyang by him, so that he was tortured by Che Split, and his family was beheaded.

He hated Liu Bei very much and tried every means to avenge Han Sui.

But Liu Bei's power is very strong, and he has a very strong army to protect him, so he can't act rashly, so he has been lurking and waiting, and finally waited for a good time.

So he immediately found Naduo and began to lobby.

"At the moment, Liu Bei commanded the army against Xianbei, the rear was empty, you gathered the army, and it didn't take too much time to enter Ji County all the way from Jincheng, Liu Bei took the main force away, and all that was left was a garrison of more than 3,000 people in a county.

Although Guan Yu has military exploits, but the people are few and lonely, they are bound to not be able to confront your main army, and they will inevitably be defeated, you can drive straight into and seize Liangzhou, Liu Bei has accumulated a lot of wealth in Liangzhou these days, if you have the heart to capture, you will be successful! ”

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