Xuande

Chapter 431 Produced by Yuan Rang, it must be a boutique

Regarding Liu Bei's question, Xiahou Dun shook his head.

"It's an honor for Dun to follow the lord, but he thinks that being able to serve the lord doesn't necessarily need to be on the battlefield. He doesn't have as many battles as other colleagues, but as the prefect, he feels that he can do a lot of things."

Hearing this, Liu Bei patted Xiahou Dun on the shoulder with a smile.

"Why, have you learned from being the prefect?"

Xiahou Dun smiled embarrassedly.

"Maybe Dun has never been a person who likes to fight. He was still a little angry when he was young. The older he gets, the more he suffers. He thinks it is better to be safe and stable. It is better to be able to govern in a stable way and make the elders of the place happy. Perhaps it is more important than fighting. significance."

Liu Bei was silent for a while, then nodded with a smile.

"Since Yuan Rang has such an idea, I respect your decision. You can continue to be the prefect of Anding. If you do well in the future, it is not a bad idea to be the governor of a state."

"Thank you, Lord, for your understanding!"

Xiahou Dun saluted Liu Bei to express his gratitude.

To be honest, for so long, Liu Bei has discovered that the generals under his command are basically the kind of aggressive, unyielding, and like to wave their fists if they don't like reasoning.

Despite his cultural iron fist, the country is easy to change and the nature is difficult to change. Everyone can still move but not talk, and can kill but not set fire. Everyone is full of abilities and it is difficult to adjust.

Among this large group of imprisoned talents, Xiahou Dun is one of the few who can reason.

I heard him say that when he was 14 years old, he killed people in the street for his teacher. Although he is not a kind person, he is also a person who respects his teachers.

It is still difficult to be a good general without a fighting spirit, but after following him, Xiahoudun has never done anything to fight, and after becoming a prefect, he is honest, diligent and diligent, and does everything by himself. Handling official duties is very attentive.

For the government affairs requirements given by Liu Bei, Xiahou Dun is not necessarily the fastest, but he must be the one with the highest quality. In the end, when the state government accepts the results of local government affairs, it has experience.

Produced by Yuan Rang, it must be a fine product.

So it is not surprising that Xiahou Dun made such a choice now, in Liu Bei's view.

It would be good if he could be an immovable general or county guard. Let him do what he is good at, and put the right people in the right positions. It is also a test for the superiors.

Except for Xiahou Dun, the generals under Liu Bei's command were not humble at all. One or two rushed to go to Luoyang with Liu Bei, and they didn't want to stay and lead the troops.

In the end, there was no other way. In order to show fairness, Liu Bei asked the generals to use lottery, let God decide, set a two-thirds quota, he can take away up to two-thirds of the generals, and the remaining one-third will be Stay and stay.

The hometown cannot leave people behind.

If you can get it, go there, if you can’t get it, don’t blame others, just blame yourself for your bad luck.

Then this method is indeed fair, there is nothing to say about those who can’t be drawn, if you want to blame, you can only blame yourself, so everyone agrees with this method.

Ever since, Liu Bei led a group of generals to conduct a lottery ceremony. The generals who got the lottery were overjoyed and looked happy, while the generals who couldn't get the lottery looked depressed.

In this way, Liu Bei selected the generals who would take him to Luoyang to do things.

In terms of staff, Liu Bei named Jia Xu, Xun You, Ruan Yu and other talents in planning and public relations to go with him.

In addition, because some things need to be done by people with absolute confidantes and deep bonds, Cao Cao, Zhen Yan, Yan Wen, and Gai Xun were named by Liu Bei to go to Luoyang together.

The prefect positions of Cao Cao and Gai Xun are reserved, and the specific affairs are handed over to capable deputies, and the affairs of Zhen Yan and Yan Wen are also handed over to capable deputies. In Luoyang, Liu Bei has more important things to help. Do.

Most of the remaining state officials will stay and continue to do what they should do.

These aspects have been decided, and the rest is nothing more than choosing the army.

At present, the regular army established and directly controlled by Liu Bei has a total of 22 battalions, 3000 battalions in Liangzhou, and 6000 battalions in Yizhou. Each battalion has [-] soldiers, and the total strength is [-].

Among the 22 battalions of the regular army, ten battalions were recruited by Liu Bei from all over the country in the Sanhe area, five battalions were recruited locally in Liangzhou, and seven battalions were recruited in Yizhou.

In terms of combat effectiveness and combat discipline, the ten battalions of Sanhe veterans are the most effective and disciplined army under Liu Bei's command, and they are very powerful.

Although the Liangzhou soldiers of the five battalions also had some fighting experience in wild ways, they had little combat experience in group combat. However, they had been trained for a long time, which was a bit academic, and their tactics were very orthodox.

In contrast, the battle battalions of the seven Yizhou soldiers have considerable group combat experience because they are the main body, but their tactics are slightly outdated, and they are not very familiar with the mainstream tactics of the Han army, and they still need proper training. .

This time back to Luoyang, according to Liu Hong's hope, Liu Bei planned to bring seven or eight battalions.

In Liu Bei's view, with He Jin and Yuan Kai's military capabilities and their ability to form an army, more than 2 Liangzhou soldiers are enough to deal with them.

The troops brought here are mainly Sanhe veterans, supplemented by Liangzhou soldiers, and Yizhou soldiers still need to be trained, so I will not consider it for the time being.

After discussing with his staff, they also approved of this idea, so Liu Bei began to select the army.

Liu Bei prepared the army leisurely and leisurely, but Liu Hong was really in a hurry.

The situation in Luoyang has come to a stalemate because He Jin summoned soldiers from all directions to do things, and the power of the relatives who have just been restrained has begun to rise again, but it will take at least two months for Liu Bei to arrive in Luoyang, which makes him very anxious. anxiety.

Under such circumstances, Liu Hong followed Jian Shuo's suggestion and came up with a new strategy. He planned to let He Jin lead troops to Xuzhou to help Xuzhou Shepherd Liu Yan, who was unfavorable for the Xuzhou Yellow Turban, crusade against the Xuzhou Yellow Turban.

At the end of the fifth year of Zhongping, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army had come to an end under the guiding ideology of Liu Yu [mainly appeasing, supplemented by suppressing], and Qingzhou entered a period of peace and stability.

Now under the governance of Liu Yu, Qingzhou presents a grand occasion of smooth government and harmonious people. Besides Liu Yu governing Qingzhou, he is also friends with Zheng Xuan, the former leader of the ancient literature school and a domestic celebrity who lives in seclusion in his hometown, and they have very close contacts in private.

As far as Yuzhou is concerned, although there is interference from the Yuan family, Huang Wan is a man with means.

With the full support of the Jinwen School, when the Yuan family mixed sand, Huang Wan really arrested people and questioned them, and then appointed his cronies as state pastors to take up positions, facing the overwhelming "nepotism" impeachment by the old officials of the Yuan family, stunned It is to stabilize the situation.

Relying on iron fists and spending a lot of effort, Huang Wan still wiped out all the Yellow Turban Army in Gepi, and then built a Beijing temple to shock people's hearts, and initially resolved the Yellow Turban Army Rebellion in Yuzhou in a more terrifying way.

As a result, Yuzhou also began to restore stability. Yuan's attempt to wear small shoes for Huang Wan in Yuzhou failed with the full support of the Jinwen School.

Of the sanzhou shepherds who were granted the title in the fifth year of Zhongping, only Liu Yan has not successfully quelled the Xuzhou Yellow Turban, and the Xuzhou Yellow Turban is still entrenched in the Xiapi and Guangling areas, continuing to fight against Liu Yan.

Although Liu Yan's generals Wu Yi, Wu Ban, Sun Zhao and others have fought hard, they still have some shortcomings in the face of a large number of Yellow Turbans.

Faced with this situation, Jian Shuo proposed that it was reasonable for He Jin to lead troops to help Liu Yan crusade against the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans, and ordinary people couldn't tell what was wrong.

It's just that in the current situation, letting He Jin lead his troops away from Luoyang is tantamount to letting He Jin's mind leave his head. He Jin is not that smart, but he is not a pure fool, so it is impossible to agree to this request.

So he discussed with Yuan Kui and felt that the emperor had bad intentions and he must not leave Luoyang. As for this order, he could recommend other people to act.

For example, Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu are fine, let them go to a fight and earn a little credit back, it doesn't hurt.

So He Jin recommended Huben Zhonglang General Yuan Shu and Habayashi Zhonglang General Yuan Shao to the table, and asked the emperor to appoint one of these two to lead troops to support Xuzhou, and he must be able to win quickly.

(End of this chapter)