Liu Bei's idea of ​​rewarding Li Su happened to be complementary to his idea of ​​Guan Yu.

Because Jianye has not yet recovered, the reward for Li Su cannot be achieved in one step. Liu Bei left this excuse and planned to promote it again in a few months.

So, Liu Bei did not move Li Su's position for the time being, and continued to retain Sikong, and made a brief adjustment to his foreign governor. Considering that the Sili area was about to be fully liberated, Liu Bei took away Li Su's position as General of Guard and first added Sili's lieutenant.

The official system may be reformed next year, so that Sili will also allow temporary "governor-general" positions, and then Li Su's jurisdiction over the Sili area will be merged into his local official positions. That is, in Li Su's "Governor-general XX Prefecture", a Sili will be added, similar to those in later dynasties that established governors, and there was a "Governor-general of Zhili".

Of course, the upper limit of the "governor" period is still to be blocked, so Liu Bei hopes to add Li Su to the Governor in Sili after the New Year. This will ensure that the position of "governor" is still one year, and the emperor can specifically approve it for another one year, that is, the total term of office will definitely not exceed two years, to prevent the trend of separatist rule.

Finally, Li Su's title was promoted from the county marquis of Wanhu to the county monarch.

This was also the first duke whom Liu Bei had granted the Han Dynasty three times. It was not that Liu Bei treated Li Su more than Guan Yu, but he just adjusted the order in a day and a day. Guan Yu was promoted to general and then to duke, and Li Su was promoted to duke first and then to prime minister.

The main reason is that Liu Bei knew that Li Su didn't want to become prime minister before the age of 30. He wanted to give a good example to future generations, so let's talk about it next year.

As the situation develops to this current state, every reward to Li Su is no longer just a matter between him and Liu Bei, but as a model of institutional construction, the "ancestor's law" for future generations to learn.

Therefore, we must be cautious. In the future, dozens of emperors, we will continue to cite this case as a benchmark for the promotion of heroes.

Many details about the establishment of the county magistrate have become the top priority in today's grand dynasty discussion.

Of course, the Guanxi court and the Guandong puppet dynasty had a very tacit understanding of the nature of the county dynasty, both of which stipulated that no temple was established or no ancestors were enthroned.

Therefore, there is a fundamental difference between this kind of county duke and the duke of Wang Mang and Cao Cao in history.

Because for Wang Mang and Cao Cao, the most important thing is not whether to be called a Duke, but that this Duke must lead his own country, posthumously conferred his ancestors for seven generations, and an independent principality and court team. Only with those things can one first form an independent country, have an independent administrative and military system, and establish a foundation for usurping the Han Dynasty.

There is no threat from the imperial authority without a country or a county magistrate without its own government.

The enthronement of Ji Han’s first duke will of course stir up a thousand waves with one stone, causing envy and heated discussions in the court.

However, the contribution of restoring the entire Jiangnan is enough after all. Since Li Su annihilated and killed Sun Ce at the beginning of the year, he has accumulated so many contributions and has not yet discussed the reward. At this moment, he has rewarded several achievements with each other, and it is reasonable to raise the point.

In addition, in order to give the county duke a good start and form a convention, although Liu Bei gave Duke Li Su this time, he did not give up the entire set of "like Xiao He's story" of "no name and no desire, no swords and shoes to the palace".

It is just to take out the item "swords and shoes to the palace" separately as a consistent courtesy of the future duke.

This is also easy to understand, because the story of Xiao He in history is only given to Xiao He, a specific character, rather than to give him treatment to a certain level of title. Later generations imitated "like Xiao He's story", and generally there was only one person in one day, and they were all worthy of the powerful people in the court and the opposition.

Liu Bei hopes to build the duke system well and not to collapse. This requires one card of etiquette and legal treatment, and cannot be given to all at once.

There is no problem with swords and shoes entering the hall, but the dress and treatment they gave when they went to the court and went to Taimiao. In the future, anyone who was granted a county lord could wear shoes and swords, so that it would be easier to see the ranks and ranks among the ministers at a glance.

If there are too many people who are not given a name, it is easy to cause chaos in the court order and look uneven, so it will not be released.

Not seeking means that a minister can walk slowly when he goes to court. If there are several people who are treated like this, they are still at the top of the civil and military leaders when they go to court, but the people behind them have to trot in a row and cannot surpass them. They look untidy, which also increases the etiquette burden of other ministers and is not conducive to the unity of the court.

Not named means that when the court attends the interview, he only reports his official position but not his name. This originally implies a hint that "the emperor is very familiar with us, and only talks about the official name and the emperor knows who it is."

Of course, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Li Su and Liu Bei are so familiar with each other. Liu Bei knows who is here. But this treatment should not be promoted as a general treatment for the duke. It cannot guarantee that every duke will be familiar with the emperor in the future.

Therefore, for the sake of institutional construction, even if Li Su, Guan Yu and others are destined to be able to get "no reputation or no desire" in their lives, they must be separated.

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After agreeing on all the details and treatment of the enthronement of the county duke, the next focus is where the fiefdom of the county duke Li Su is.

According to common sense, most marquises will try to choose the ancestral home of the conferred person.

But considering that Li Su's nominal hometown, Zhongshan County, has not been restored, and Liu Bei privately knew that "Boya had a bad background in Zhongshan in his early years and had no relatives."

Therefore, Liu Bei always wanted to help Li Su avoid his early experience. Even if Liu Bei could not make the decision back then, he would try his best to mediate the jurisdiction he actually controlled for Li Su and give him a real title. For example, when Liu Bei was entrenched in Shu and mediated for Li Su, Pi Hou actually cost a lot of money.

Today, Yizhou has been under control for many years, and Shu is densely populated, and it was relatively small in damage caused by war. It has been peaceful for eight years, and the population growth has recovered significantly. The Chengdu Plain is just as large as the plain area and development potential. The subsequent development can only go to industry and commerce.

Moreover, as the process of unification of the world has advanced to this point, due to the unfavorable transportation conditions, it is difficult for Shu to continue to be a logistics base for advancing to Kanto and to the northeast.

After all, from the southwest corner of China to the northeast corner, Shu has no way to export other agricultural and animal husbandry products and basic forest and mineral products, and the transportation cost is too high.

After the unification of the world, the more Liu Bei's court moved eastward, it was necessary to prevent the emergence of a dominant force in Shu and avoid the suspicion of separatism. Therefore, for the sake of the court, in order to protect Li Su, and help Li Su avoid suspicion, Liu Bei chose to choose a county for Li Su as his fief in the occupied area revived by Li Suxin, that is, Yangzhou area.

The three counties in Jiangdong front line have the best comprehensive development and are the political center of Jiangdong, but they have not yet been recovered. The population and economy were originally the best in Wu County, but the folk customs in Wu County are even weaker and the people are not martial, so the military potential is too weak, unlike Danyang County who can conquer the Danyang soldiers of the Shanyue tribe.

Kuaiji County has the worst and most populous development, but there is the most room for development potential to increase, and there is still a long coastline to develop navigation in the future. So Li Su was named Duke of Kuaiji County.

In addition, Liu Bei considered that Li Su might have room for improvement in titles and fiefs in the future, and Kuaiji County was large in area and there were many counties, so he did not enfeoff the entire county at once, but only assigned ten counties as fiefs.

In the future, if Li Su makes other contributions, it will be difficult to have a fiefdom across counties, but if you take a few more counties in this county and increase the number of enclosed households, the resistance will be much smaller, and Li Su will have much greater motivation to continue to make contributions.

Liu Bei's arrangement made this also ambushed another "ancestor's method" in it, and it was used for future emperors and grandchildren to learn and imitate.

Liu Bei knew that Li Su was good at farming and construction, and that small industrial inventions of his master and disciple Zhuge Liang were emerging one after another. He went to the border counties with vast land and sparsely populated mountains and thousands of people to be the duke. Li Suyu would help build his fiefdom both public and private, and also expand his own financial resources and taxes.

At the same time, Yangzhou and Jingzhou are the front lines in the future to fight against Cao Cao. After the war, Yangzhou will be restored to production, and in the future, it can also send troops to capture Huainan, as an important force in unifying the final battle of the world.

So this matter was decided.

"Although there is no name or trend, the swords and shoes are added to the palace and the county duke, and considering Sikong's age, it will obviously surpass Xiao He's story in the future.

Even if Your Majesty does not have to guard against military officials like Emperor Gaozu, the civil servants who plan to be the master of the king first can be regarded as an example for future generations. Every arrangement today is for the consideration of being used as the ancestors in the future."

After discussing Li Su's specific rewards and duke settings, the ministers involved in the court discussed the thoughts in their hearts.

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After dealing with Li Su's affairs, the promotions of the other Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Tai Shi Ci, Zhou Tai, Lu Su, Gu Yong and others were much easier to deal with. After all, they were routine operations with conventional rules and no institutional innovation was required.

Zhao Yun is among the generals in the south, and before this promotion, he has the highest official position.

He also did not consider his merits and demerits since the Battle of Dangyang last year. Considering that he had many field battles to wipe out the main force of the enemy's infantry army, he first destroyed Cheng Pu and then destroyed all by Jin. These two items alone are no less than Guan Yu's total achievements in history when he fought from Jingzhou to the Central Plains.

What's more, Zhao Yun had many other small-scale battles, and his total achievements were definitely ranked in the top three in the process of destroying Jiangdong. So he was finally promoted from the latter general to the general of the guard - Li Su's title of general of the guard was changed to the captain of the Sili School, and it was already vacant, just for Zhao Yun.

Even Zhao Yun was only the "top three achievements in pacifying Wu", and the first one was undoubtedly Li Su, which means that among those generals, some of them had more contributions than Zhao Yun and grabbed the second place.

The court officials who are familiar with the battle reports this year have long seen that this credit is Huang Zhong's - Huang Zhong is very lucky. In the biggest decisive battle between Chibi-Shaxian to annihilate the main force of Sun Ce's 60,000 naval forces, he has gained the greatest credit and killed Sun Ce himself.

Moreover, because of Li Su's war mission arrangements, Huang Zhong also led Li Su's central army to reap a lot of contributions in the later battle of Taihu Lake, and finally asked him to preside over the siege against Jianye. It can be said that there is a beginning and an end, and there is a water battle and a tough situation.

Therefore, among the promotions of the southern generals, Huang Zhong had the most promotions. However, he came late, started at a low level, and his final official position was still not very high.

Huang Zhong was a lieutenant before the battle. The achievements of the battle of Chibi and the achievements of killing Sun Ce were confirmed to be promoted to a general of miscellaneous titles. The tentative title was "General Jishou". This was also a miscellaneous title that was found in the Western Han Dynasty, and was on par with the "General of the Crossbow".

In other words, after Huang Zhong finished killing Sun Ce, he was already at the same level as Zhang Ren who was "completely in the ultimate state". But there were still the promotion and rewards of the Battle of Taihu and Jianye that were not completed.

If you count the contributions of Taihu and Jianye, Huang Zhong was promoted from a miscellaneous general to a Si'an General, and he is currently General Anton. After Jianye officially breaks, he will make up some other new contributions in the future, perhaps General Pingdong.

He was named Marquis of Rangxiang and had a fief of 1,500 households.

From the lieutenant to Siping and Si'an, I was lazy and got a clever game. I made up my development that I had fallen late before.

In contrast to Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci, who "get up early and rushed to the evening party."

Taishici followed Liu Bei very early, but he wasted several years in the middle. When Liu Bei became emperor, Taishici was just a miscellaneous General Fu Bo.

This time he worked hard with Huang Zhong to make up for development, but he always played the pioneer, from Chibi to Taihu Lake.

But when he met Zhou Yu twice, Taishi Ci didn't fight very well with his own strength. He really needed to lead the central army's support Huang Zhong to rescue him, and finally defeated Zhou Yu with all his strength.

Therefore, Taishi Ci's contribution to the three battles was second only to Huang Zhong, and he was also promoted one level less than Huang Zhong, from General Fu Bo to General Pingnan, and his final level was as high as Huang Zhong.

Taishici was finally named Marquis of Mouping Township, with a fief of 1,800 households (he had the rank of Marquis of Ting before the war, so he ended up having more fief than Huang Zhong).

In the three main battles in Jiangdong, Gan Ning led a county to act separately from the main force, playing the role of harassing the back, cutting off the enemy's way back, etc. The tasks were also completed well, so his final promotion and calculations were between Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci.

So Gan Ning was promoted from General Henghai to General Pingdong, but in terms of increasing the number of households in fief, he added 500 more households than Taishici, and eventually became the Marquis of Yong'an Township with a fief of 2,000 households.

If Huang Zhong wants to advance to Pingdong in the future, he will expect Gan Ning to make some contributions to the East China Sea and chase Zhou Yu and Cao Cao and other forces who went out to sea to explore colonization. When Gan Ning becomes the general of Zhendong, the position of Pingdong will naturally be vacant.

After Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Taishici, there is no need to repeat it one by one.

Dian Wei's Central Guard remained unchanged, and five hundred fiefs continued to be added. Zhou Tai was promoted from General Lou Chuan to Central Leader, and was on par with Dian Wei.

Lu Su and Gu Yong's Jingzhou Administrator and Yangzhou Administrator remained unchanged, but they all added the title of "Records of the Secretariat", so that when dealing with internal affairs in Jingzhou and Yangzhou in the future, they would not have to ask the nine corresponding departments of the central government for their decisions in terms of affairs of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so that they could make flexible work during wartime.

This can also be regarded as commending their logistical contributions and contributions to surrender in the process of destroying Wu.

Lu Su and Gu Yong finally clearly surpassed Zhuge Jin, the governor of Yizhou who was originally on par with them. Who made Zhuge Jin in the corner and could not get any support opportunities in the battle to destroy Wu?

Those who are promoted further are just the chief lieutenant and the school lieutenant, which is quite trivial.

Mainly those grassroots generals under Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, and Gan Ning who were under their command.

Li Yan, Wei Yan and other people are Zhao Yun's subordinates. Wei Yan performed well as Zhao Yun's subordinates in the two battles of annihilation of Cheng Pu and Yu Jin, but there is no need to explain it separately. Most of the other Jingzhou generals are in this situation, just follow the head coach to work diligently and make progress in killing the enemy step by step.

Li Yan was promoted from the lieutenant to the general of the Louchuan, and Wei Yan was promoted from the lieutenant to the lieutenant General Hengye, Huo Jun, Chen Da was promoted from the lieutenant to the lieutenant, Liao Hua, and Zong Yu was promoted (the last three were all subordinates of Gao Shun, who followed the reinforcements sent by Gao Shun to Li Su, and they made some achievements in killing the enemy). The rest could not be described.

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Chapter completed!