Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1840: Marriage to a Hebei Family

Chapter 1838: Marrying into a Hebei family

 The benefits that Tian Feng's surrender brought to Qin Hao were not even worse than those of Han Xin's surrender.

Because of his upright character, Tian Feng was not favored by Yuan Shao and his son, but both father and son could not do without Tian Feng, so although Tian Feng was used, he was not given a high position.

Although Tian Feng’s official position is not high, his prestige is very high, and many ministers of Zhao State respect his character.

After Tian Feng surrendered, he took the initiative to persuade him to surrender. Under his persuasion, Wen Zhong, who would rather die than surrender, also chose to surrender to the Qin army.

Tian Feng later said that he had surrendered Xunkan, as well as generals such as Han Meng, Ju Yi, Hou Andu, Wei Rui, Cao Jingzong, Zhu Ling, Bian Xiang, and Han Xun.

Under Tian Feng's lobbying, there were basically no Zhao ministers who were unwilling to surrender. Qin Hao gained nearly half of the civil and military power of Zhao State because of Tian Feng alone.

 After stabilizing the two states of Hebei and Qing Dynasty and subduing the ministers of Zhao and Han, Qin Hao began to select the prefects of each county.

In order to appease the Hebei aristocratic families, Qin Hao had appointed many officials from Hebei before, but the ones given were only minor officials, and this time the position of governor was the real big one.

After Qin Hao occupied Jizhou and Qingbei, he wanted to conquer Hebei in one go, so he did not send officials to take office. Now that the war has temporarily stopped, it is natural to select officials from various places as soon as possible.

 The Qin Army newly acquired nine counties in Jizhou and four counties in Qingbei, which meant that a total of thirteen prefects were vacant. Naturally, the candidates for these thirteen prefects must be treated with caution.

Qin Hao decided to allocate six of the thirteen prefects to Zhao Han's surrender, in order to appease the surrender and the Hebei family, while the other seven appointed their own confidants to send Ji Qing Er The state's military and political power was firmly in its hands.

 After discussing with the four military advisors Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, Liu Bowen, and Zhuge Liang, Qin Hao selected six Hebei governors, namely:

Tian Feng, the governor of Julu;

 Jushou, the prefect of Qinghe;

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 Cui Yan, the governor of Anping;

 Xinpi, the prefect of Jinan;

 Han Yu, the governor of Le'an.

Among the six Hebei governors, four are in Jizhou and two are in Qingzhou. The counties are not connected to each other, which perfectly solves the problem of the governors clinging to each other.

In addition, Tian Feng Wenzhong, Cui Yanxinpi, was a surrendered minister of Zhao State, Jushu was a surrendered minister of South Korea, and Han Yu was the younger brother of Han Xin. Such appointment made all the surrendered generals and soldiers completely at ease.

Among the six prefects, Wen Zhong is the only gold-level talent with a political record of over 100. Even serving as the governor of a state does not have any pressure.

Although Qin Hao also intends to reuse Wen Zhong, he has only surrendered not long ago. It is not a good thing to promote him too quickly, so he should do it step by step.

As for the candidates for the seven Qin Dynasty governors, they are:

 Zhuge Jin, the governor of Wei County;

Gu Yong, the governor of Bohai;

Ji Xiaolan, the prefect of Changshan;

 Zhongshan prefect Yi Ji;

 Hejian Prefect Lin Zexu;

Beihai Prefect Zhang Hong;

Yu Fan, the prefect of Liangshan.

 In fact, in addition to them, Pang Ji, Kou Zhun, Chen Deng and others, as well as a group of talents who served as county magistrates, were also qualified to serve as prefects.

 But there are only a few vacant positions now, and the land of Youzhou and ten counties has not been obtained, so we can only leave it to be canonized separately in the future.

 Qin Hao appointed thirteen prefects in succession, and thirteen more, including Zhen Yi, Xin Ping, and Cui Lin, as county magistrates, basically establishing the official framework of the two states of Hebei and Qing Dynasty.

As for the selection of county magistrates in other counties, Qin Hao naturally does not need to do it himself.

For the current Qin Hao, the level of the county magistrate is too low, and it is not worth his energy to personally investigate. He can just leave it to his subordinates to make the decision. After all, a monarch must not only centralize power but also know how to delegate power. After thirteen prefects and thirteen county magistrates took office, the Qin army began to rule Jizhou and Qingbei.

One after another, brand-new decrees and laws were issued to the local areas by the major governors, and under the protection of hundreds of thousands of troops, they were implemented in every county and town in an orderly manner.

While everyone was speculating on the candidates for the governors of Jizhou and Qingzhou, Qin Hao did not mention the candidates for the governors and seemed to stop there.

The governor of the Qin army was not a governor with a salary of 600 shi, who only had the power to supervise the prefect, but a stipend of 3,000 shi, with the actual power to appoint and remove officials at the level of county magistrate, and even remove the prefect.

 The governor of the Qin army was in charge of the political power of a state. He could be said to be a feudal official, and naturally it was impossible to hand it over to the surrendered ministers.

In addition, Hebei has not yet been completely unified, and the war in Youzhou is imminent. Before that, everything in Jizhou and Qingbei will serve the war, so there is no need to appoint a governor yet.

By means of co-opting, dividing, and appointing local officials, Qin Hao basically controlled Jizhou and Qingbei, but with this alone, he could not completely defeat the Hebei family and all the surrendered ministers of Han and Zhao. Tie up the Qin army's chariot.

 The way the two parties maintain their relationship is too simple and crude. A softer and more intimate way is needed to make each other completely at ease, that is, marriage.

The Hebei aristocratic families, headed by the four families of Xiao, Zhen, Xin and Tian, ​​offered to give their daughters to Qin Hao as concubines.

Qin Hao refused at first. After all, he already had enough wives. However, under the persuasion of Zhang Liang and others, Qin Hao realized that if he didn't marry, the Hebei family would not feel at ease. For Ji Qing's sake, With the stability of the two states, Qin Hao finally agreed to the marriage.

 The four major families of Xiao, Zhen, Xin, and Tian all have girls of marriageable age, and they all want to marry their daughters to Qin Hao.

The marriage partner of the Xiao family is Xiao Meiniang, the younger sister of the general Xiao Yan.

The daughter of the Zhen family by marriage is Zhen Mi, the daughter of Zhen Yi, the newly promoted prime minister of Zhongshan County by Qin Hao.

The Xin family is Xin Xianhua, the eldest daughter of Xin Pi and the sister of Xin Xianying, a talented woman from the Three Kingdoms...

 The Tian family is Tian Xin, the daughter of Tian Feng.

 Among the four marriage partners, Qin Hao decisively rejected the Tian and Xin families.

If the daughter of the Xin family was Xin Xianying, Qin Hao might still consider it, but for Xin Xianhua, whom he had never heard of, he might as well forget it.

Xin Xianying was still a little loli at this time, too young to be a suitable marriage partner.

Similarly, Qin Hao would reject the Tian family because Tian Xin, Tian Feng’s daughter, was too young and was only a fourteen-year-old girl. Otherwise, he would not mind having Tian Feng as his father-in-law.

Of course, Zhen Mi and Xiao Meiniang are not very old either, one is sixteen and the other is seventeen, but they are much better than the twelve-year-old girl.

In this way, Qin Hao rejected the Tian Xin family, but chose to marry the Xiao Zhen family.

After Tian Feng and Xin Pi learned about it, they were a little disappointed, but they could only secretly say that they were unlucky because their daughter was too young.

Xiao Yan and Zhen Yi, both civil and military, went crazy with joy after learning that Qin Hao had chosen to marry them.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that after Qin unified Hebei, its national power would skyrocket to another level, and its trend to unify the world was already unstoppable.

Their daughters and sisters, even if they are married to Qin Hao as concubines, will definitely become one of the concubines after Qin Hao becomes independent on behalf of the Han Dynasty. Their status is extremely noble and their help to the family is simply indescribable!

“Daughter, my good daughter, you are indeed an ‘unspeakable’ destiny.

 Fortunately, my father refused Yuan Shao’s marriage proposal before, otherwise it would not only harm you, but also my Zhen family! "Zhen Yi Fu Xu laughed heartily.

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