Liu Bei's hot drink feast in Zhuo County was ultimately a precedent that was even more abundant than Liu Bang, and it delayed for several days.

In the final stage, Liu Bei took advantage of his good mood and arranged all the rewards, and all the heroes in Cao Cao's final battle were promoted.

Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun made contributions and benefited less in the decisive battle at the end of the fifth and early sixth year of Zhangwu. Who made them mainly at the Hebei station site at that time responsible for maintaining the newly occupied areas?

But their work cannot be said to be unimportant. After all, Jizhou had just been captured for a few months, and bandits were formed by defeated soldiers in all places. Moreover, there were 100,000 Cao troops stationed in Qingzhou and Yanzhou on the other side. It was impossible for Hebei to draw the battlefield in Yuzhou without any hesitation.

It can only be said that the division of labor is different, and someone will always have to do the work of being cautious and cautious. Zhao Yun also got the job of blocking Cao Cao's retreat in the last few days, and by the way, he did more things to persuade Zhang Fei to surrender in eastern Yanzhou and Qingzhou than Zhang Fei.

In the end, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, relying on assisting in these military achievements, each added another county, and added fiefs from five counties to six counties.

However, Zhang Fei actually got a little more benefits, because there are indeed more counties in Shanggu County he enthroned to take directly.

Zhao Yun was enfeoffed in Xuantu County in Liaodong. There were only five counties under the rule of the Han Dynasty, and some fertile land a little above the Liaohe Plain, which is still in the hands of the Fuyu barbarians.

When the time is ripe in the future and the court is preparing to attack the Fuyu people, Zhao Yun will lead his troops to explore and actually occupy it.

The original rule of Liaodong during the Eastern Han Dynasty was mainly distributed in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River Basin and around the sea estuary, and it was not very much developed for the middle reaches of the Liaohe River.

Even though that place was actually the alluvial plain of the Liaohe River, suitable for farming, because rice was not promoted in the Northeast at that time, and cotton, cotton cloth and cotton jackets were not popularized, it was impossible to use fertile plains.

But now the situation is different. The Han Dynasty has tried to promote rice cultivation in the Liaohe Plain for the first time since fourteen years ago, and it was the first time it promoted cotton cloth in Shuzhong for the first time. In the past three or four years, the application of cotton cloth has gradually expanded to most parts of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, when Mi Zhu guarded Liaodong, he did not expand to the northeast significantly. It was not that rice and cotton jackets could not keep up. It was just that he had only Xu Rong, who could only defend himself and barely defend Yuan Cao, and did not dare to make other ideas.

Now that the world is completely unified, the Liaodong region does not have to worry about being attacked by enemy warlords from western Liaoning and Bohai Seas. It can do its best to go abroad. It is definitely inevitable that it will expand and set up counties across the entire Liaohe Plain in the future.

After a little rest and recuperate for two or three years, when the future attacks Gongsun Du, the Han-ruled region in the Northeast will be expanded and completed in one go.

Of course, with Li Su helping Liu Bei check the overall situation, it is definitely not possible to make a rash move, and Li Su also knows how to respect the laws of nature.

Without modern technology to provide energy and heating, the development of the Northeast is mainly to the entire Liaohe River Basin and the southern branch of the Songhua River.

At most, we will consider more estuaries and routes, plus the Yalu River and Tumen River basins. However, the plain terrain area of ​​these places is not as large as that of the Liaohe Plain, and there are too many mountainous areas. At most, we will focus on key nodes along the river.

In layman's terms, the long-term plan of the Han Dynasty in the northeast was equivalent to developing the entire Liao Province and even the southern half of Ji's province in later generations, and it only had plains and mountainous areas.

In the later generations, we should basically not think about it. It is too cold. At most, we will be subject to tribute and rule unless there is a new modern industry.

Zhao Yun was not dissatisfied with his fiefdom for the time being, nor was he in a hurry to ask the court to send troops. Instead, he was very aware of the general willing to wait. When the court was empty, he could do it again. When he knew about it, he would go to fight in person.

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After all the decisive battles represented by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were arranged, the rest were those who made more contributions and participated in the main attack.

Guan Yu was the direct commander of the main force of the front battlefield, and there was nothing to say. He was added to two counties, from six counties to eight counties.

However, in order to achieve balance, Guan Yu and the two counties are not as affordable as Zhang Fei's county, because they have to wait for the "pre-sale house" they will get back from the enemy in the future, and are still in the hands of Xianbei.

Judging from the map, those places are important pasture settlements for the Xianbei people, and counties can indeed be established in the future, which is roughly equivalent to the core urban area of ​​Hohhot and the core urban area of ​​Ulanqab in later generations.

Guan Yu's territory further expanded, and he had to face the problem of transferring the title to Lu Bu in the future, because the grasslands in the north of Bingzhou could not accommodate so many fiefs of the Duke and Marquis.

The tentative idea after Liu Bei and Li Su discussed was to wait until the future was to use more land that was slightly worse and remote to exchange for the fiefdom county where Lu Bu is currently better at hand but lacks small grassland.

The specific direction of Lu Bu's seal was to move further westward, from the north of Bingzhou to the northwest corner of Bingzhou, the north of Hetao, that is, Jiuyuan County, or Baotou in later generations.

At worst, three counties were divided into Jiuyuan County to give Lu Bu as fiefs, which was considered a marquis with the highest number of counties. Although he was poor, considering that Jiuyuan County was Lu Bu's ancestral home, he would have saved him enough face, and he would not be able to refuse at that time.

In addition to Guan Yu, Gao Shun and Ma Chao had the greatest achievements on the front battlefield. Gao Shun was the second only to Guan Yu among the commanders of the main force. Before Guan Yu's troops intersected from Chenliu County, Gao Shun helped Liu Bei to command the troops for nearly a year.

Gao Shun was able to hold back hundreds of thousands of main forces of Cao's army to ensure that nothing happened during that stalemate, he was not trapped, and he did not let Cao Cao get out in exchange for crazy output and harvest in other war zones. That was a great achievement in itself.

Ma Chao and Huang Zhong were only able to shine in the final offensive pursuit stage of the decisive battle, so in terms of the contributions of the entire battle level, of course, they are not as good as Gao Shun.

But Ma Chao did one more thing than Huang Zhong, that is, after the decisive battle, Cao Cao also brought 20,000 cavalry to chase and kill Cao Cao, who gave up the infantry and only fled with cavalry.

Although Cao Cao was not dead at Ma Chao's hands, Ma Chao's pursuit forced the surrender of Le Jin and Li Dian, who were successively cut off the rear of Cao's cavalry, and captured 15,000 cavalry surrendered troops, which was still very good.

With this, Ma Chao's decisive contributions finally made Gao Shun's comments. Huang Zhong was worse than Ma Chao in this part, and he could only get one county in the end.

After this battle, Gao Shun finally won the title of marquis of 20,000 households in three counties.

Ma Chao was only 5,000 households away from the Marquis' top-end seal before. This time the number of counties has not increased, and the number of households seems to be almost there.

However, Liu Bei had to strictly control the total number of dukes. The final result of the compromise was to add Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Dai to the county marquis, but he was the three thousand county marquis with the smallest number of households.

At the same time, other Ma family members who made some contributions in the army, such as Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, also gave harmless rural marquis, allowing them to serve as officials in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and pacify the Western Regions.

Huang Zhong came too late. If Liu Bei hadn't given the opportunity, he would have followed the imperial guards in person to make contributions several times, and followed Li Suping and Jiangdong before, he would have never reached his current high position.

So Huang Zhong had nothing to complain about, and he was grateful for the end of the Wanhu Hou. It was worth a lot lower than Gao Shun, and it was also lower than Taishi Ci, Gan Ning, and Zhou Tai, but slightly higher than Xu Huang.

In addition, when it comes to Ma Chao and Zhou Tai, of course, we have to mention the achievements of other civil officials and generals who pursued Cao Cao in the final decisive battle.

After all, Zhou Tai and Zhuge Liang's journey were the last ones to block Cao Cao and force Cao Cao to death. Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Li Suna's journey were just the help of the siege and blocking.

Zhou Tai's military merit accumulation speed in the past few years was obviously a bit lower than Gan Ning and Taishici. Gan Ning made many contributions to the offensive and pacification of the south, while Taishici made outstanding contributions in naval combat, expanding land overseas and harassment along the coast.

However, Zhou Tai was also a foolish man who was so lucky to block Cao Cao with Zhuge Liang. He recovered all the credits he had lost and was also granted the fief of 14,000 households in the two counties.

Although Li Su in the south was only a blockade, he also helped occupy a large area of ​​Huaibei territory, and he also played a role in forcing Cao Cao to move, which forced Cao Cao to retreat before the decisive battle, which led to a quick battle.

Therefore, Li Su's contribution to the decisive battle was higher than that of Ma Chao. In addition, during the peaceful transition after the war, Li Su also had some other civilized contributions to the state-government measures. Liu Bei finally added two more counties this year based on the addition of sixteen counties to eighteen counties last year.

Therefore, the duke Li Su has the fiefs of 20 counties in Kuaiji County, and it is still two counties away from the entire county being granted. It is estimated that these two counties will also have to plan in the future and develop new territory for the Han Dynasty. Gradually increase the seal. In the end, it will be no problem to take the entire Kuaiji area.

The last one to be sealed in the decisive battle is also the winner who benefits the most, so it is naturally Zhuge Liang.

The people who directly intercepted Cao Cao to death and had the military achievements to restore Xuzhou, the most reward was definitely needed.

Zhuge Liang's previous contributions and rewards should obviously be better than Ma Chao. Whether he suffers or loses due to his age, Ma Chao is five years older than him. And there will definitely be a big gap in considering the title of marquis and generals.

This time, Zhuge Liang's contribution was at least enough to add the fiefs of two counties. However, in that case, he obviously exceeded the upper limit of county marquis of 20,000 households in three counties, but he was slightly away from the lower limit of county marquis of 30,000 households in five counties.

Finally, Li Su did not avoid revenge outside and did not avoid relatives inside, so he proposed a compromise for Liu Bei: considering Zhuge Liang's youth, he only gave him a title this time, but did not promote his official position.

As a young man, giving a title will not make people arrogant, but his resume and promotion speed must be suppressed, so that he can know more about the difficulties of the grassroots and the public.

In addition, did Li Su just give Liu Bei an idea when he was in Zhuo County, allowing those righteous families who "destroy their families and alleviate their difficulties" in the early stages of the Unification War to exchange their contributions to sponsoring the imperial military expenditure in exchange for tax exemption?

After all, the Zhuge family had billions of imperial war bonds, and when the policy was unclear, they took the initiative to buy it first and ranked first with Li Su and Zhen family. Anyway, they rushed to buy it immediately after they came out, and did not consider the return. This is very supportive of justice.

Therefore, the Zhuge family can voluntarily give up some citation of national debts and set an example, and the court rewards them with honors, and this kind of thing has not been done in history.

During the reign of Qin Shihuang, wasn’t Ba’s widow Qing just the way he was named a marquis? When Emperor Wu of Han was issued, before the law of Counterfeiting and Proof of the Corporate Law was issued, a wealthy businessman took the initiative to donate half of his property to assist the army, encouraging the emperor to ask the rich businessman class to collect property taxes to fight the Huns. The guy later succeeded in becoming a nine minister. Of course, from the perspective of the big merchant, this guy must be an insider of the rich businessman class and killed his peers.

Of course, Zhuge Liang wanted to be a duke now, but the situation was still very different from being a marquis. But this also considered that Zhuge Liang's original credit and qualifications were only a little different, and his family's amount was particularly huge.

The final result of the trade-off was that the Zhuge family gave up 5 billion yuan of war debts, and then added other contributions to Zhuge Liang becoming the Duke of Langya County at the age of 22, and at the same time, he exchanged his brother Zhuge Jin as a Marquis of Wanhu.

This money also accounts for one tenth of the total war treasury bonds issued by the imperial court. Considering that the earliest batch of bonds was subscribed in three years, the imperial court still had a long time to repay the money. Including the interest, the total number of options for this bond in the future will definitely exceed 8 billion.

Who made Zhuge's family make huge profits? From new brocade weaving machines to various porcelain distilled liquor patents, the Zhuge's family has only been in the hands of the early brocade weaving machines, and the patents of the early brocade weaving machines have finally passed the patent protection period. They really can't spend any money on investment.

Therefore, even if he gave up his national debt, his family can still operate steadily for a long time without any impact. If they change the position of "Founder Duke" and add a Wanhu Hou, they think it is cost-effective.

Liu Bei was very restrained in controlling the total number of "Duke of ZTE" and took into account all aspects, hoping to balance the civil and military affairs.

So in the end, only the sixth Duke of Zhongxing and three civil and military personnel.

The only ones who were granted the title of Duke with military positions were the eight counties of General Guan Yu, the six counties of Grand Marshal Zhang Fei, and the six counties of General Zhao Yun.

Only the Grand Tutor Cai Yong was granted the title of Duke for civil servants, six counties, prime minister Li Su twenty counties, and five counties of the Sili Captain Zhuge Liang

In the future, there may be dukes in the Han Dynasty, but the probability is not high. Even if there are, it is not the dukes in the process of unification of the Three Revivals of the Han Dynasty. The value of the value will change. Only the six of them this time can be considered "Zhongxing Zhengxian".

After all these days in Zhuo County, after finishing all this, it was almost mid-August that Liu Bei set out again from Zhuo County, and then headed to Zhongshan and Changshan, and embarked on his last return to Luoyang.

In order to save military expenditure, as the return journey gets closer to Luoyang, the scale of the cavalry accompanying the escort can also decrease step by step.

In addition, the cavalry was mainly guarding against the northern border troubles. When Liu Bei left Youzhou, he left 30,000 cavalry on the spot, scattered in You and stationed. He himself only led 20,000 people to continue southward.

A large number of horses were kept in counties close to the northern grassland border, and the cost was relatively low. From this perspective, although Liu Bei seemed to have led a lot of cavalry during this Northern Tour, he did a good job in cost coordination, and basically no waste was added.
Chapter completed!