Chapter 148 The choice of assistant government, beard and son-in-law
In the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an.
A huge marching team is marching on the land of Jingbei.
This team of tens of thousands of people was personally led by Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, to go north to support Guan Yu.
On the second day after conferring awards to the public security generals, Liu Bei conferred the title of General Fuyuan on Mi Fang and continued to stay in Jiangling. Then he personally led the army northward.
Among the awards on the high platform that day, although Mi Yang was the protagonist, others also received awards for their merits.
For example, Guan Ping, whose merits were only inferior to Mi Yang, was promoted several levels by Liu Bei and was worshiped as General Yamen.
Since then, Guan Ping, the oldest among the second generation, has officially entered the threshold of general.
As for the barbarian king Shamoko, although Mi Yang lured him here with huge profits at first and he was from a barbarian tribe, during the few months he spent guarding the public security, he killed Jiangdong generals Zhou Tai and Song Qian.
His barbarian soldiers also contributed a lot in the battle of public security, so Liu Bei worshiped him as Congyi Zhonglang General.
The position of Zhonglang is just below the general, and he can lead an army alone.
Such a military position is not a small official position even among Liu Bei's powerful family and large business.
The rest, such as Wang An, Gan Gao, Wang Hong and more than a hundred generals, were promoted or rewarded with gold and silver. In short, they were ranked according to their merits, so everyone was happy.
As for Yu Jin, the highest-ranking and most special among the public security generals, he was very uneasy when he first met Liu Bei.
Because Yu Jin, who was a famous general under Cao Cao, frequently attacked Liu Bei.
In the seventh year of Jian'an, Liu Bei, under Liu Biao's order, made a northern expedition to Xudu and reached the vicinity of Ye County, approaching Xudu.
After Cao Cao heard the news, he immediately mobilized generals Xiahou Dun, Yu Jin, Li Dian and others to lead troops to resist Liu Bei.
The two sides faced off for a long time at Bowangpo. Later, Liu Bei set up an ambush to defeat Xiahou Dun and banned him. At that time, the two generals were almost captured by Liu Bei.
With this kind of past, when Liu Bei first met Jin Zhi on the high platform, he smiled and said to Jin Yan:
"Does Wen Ze remember what happened to Bowang that day?"
Seeing Liu Bei take the initiative to bring up this matter, Yu Jin was afraid, thinking that Liu Bei was going to punish him.
Unexpectedly, after mentioning this matter, Liu Bei personally helped the frightened Yu Jin to bow to him, and said to him:
"In those days, Gu often lamented that Cao Cao had such good generals as Wen Ze and wished he could not be used by Gu."
"This article is about following Chen Ping and Han Xin."
Seeing that Liu Bei did not care about the hatred of the original war with Bowang and was sincere towards him, he compared Liu Bei to Chen Ping and Han Xin who abandoned the dark and turned to the light and went to Han Gaozu. Yu Jin was extremely moved.
Therefore, he paid homage to Liu Bei with all his heart, shouting "Lord."
Yu Jin also made many meritorious deeds in the battle of public security, and because Yu Jin was established as a sign of abandoning the dark and turning to the bright, Liu Bei presented himself to the Han Emperor as the King of Hanzhong, worshiped Yu Jin as the General of the Guard, and also became the Marquis of Yishou Pavilion.
Liu Bei's lifelong dream was to restore the Han Dynasty, so after he established the kingdom, most of his official positions were inherited according to the Eastern Han Dynasty system.
Among the traditional generals with heavy titles in the Han Dynasty, the Four Expeditions and Four Towns are not among them.
The generals with heavy titles are classified according to their rank into generals, generals of hussars, generals of cavalry, generals of guard and generals of the four directions.
In today's world, according to common sense, only generals with high titles have the authority to open government offices and manage affairs.
Originally, Yu Jin was serving as General Zuo under Cao Cao, and he was called Jiajie Yue.
Therefore, after he surrendered to Liu Bei and performed meritorious service for Liu Bei, if he wanted to reward him, the lowest official position would have to be General Wei.
As for generals with important titles above General Wei, as a rule, only the Emperor can ennoble them, so Liu Bei can only reward them by petitioning the Emperor.
Since then, Yu Jin has become an important general in the Hanzhong king's power, ranking only under Liu Bei, but this is just a false name.
Just like Ma Chao back then.
Honoring his name and seizing real power is the trick of an elder statesman.
Among the tens of thousands of troops marching, Wang Hong was beside Mi Yang at this time.
Wang Hong is not only Mi Yang's good friend, but also Mi Yang's first direct confidant in the world, so the relationship between the two is very close.
Wang Hong rode his horse beside Mi Yang. He saw that there were no idle people around, so he whispered to Mi Yang: "General, your homage to the general this time is a bit low."
"In the first battle of public security, the general's merits were enough to shock the world, but now he is just a partial general.
And Guan Ping is a general and deputy general, but his military rank is higher than that of a general. This is really unfair."
During the Gaotai reward that day, Wang Hong was appointed as Shangyong County Magistrate by Liu Bei because of his mission to the Wuxi barbarians and the defense of the city. Because the war was not over at that time and the road was not open, he would take up his post the next day.
Wang Hong already regarded himself as Mi Yang's personal minister in his heart, so he felt that Liu Bei's reward was unfair and secretly felt injustice for Mi Yang.
Seeing what Wang Hong said, Mi Yang didn't care at all. Although Liu Bei's reward seemed unfair to him on the surface, it was actually not.
The mere fact of being granted the title of Marquis has reflected Liu Bei's great reward.
No matter how great the contribution Mi Yang made in the first battle, it cannot compare to Zhuge Liang.
Without Zhuge Liang, there would be no Liu Bei today, but thanks to Zhuge Liang's contribution, he has not yet been granted the title of marquis.
Now under Liu Bei's command, only the four generals and the deceased Pang Tong have titles.
Moreover, Liu Bei granted Mi Yang the title of Marquis of Guannei, not Marquis of Ting.
Although compared with Tinghou, the food households of Guanneihou are far inferior, but according to the marquis system, Guanneihou is only lower than that of Liehou.
This means that once Mi Yang makes new achievements and Liu Bei wants to confer a title on Mi Yang, then Mi Yang is likely to become a prince.
The Marquis of Che may be a county marquis, and the title of a county is the pinnacle of the ministers under the title of prince.
Before Cao Cao, the king of Wei, was called a prince, his title was only a county prince.
Now Mi Yang is only twenty years old, and he became the Marquis of Guannei at the age of twenty.
Liu Bei was almost hinting to Mi Yang, hinting to the people of the world, that Mi Yang might become the first county prince under his command.
This kind of title reward is already quite high for Mi Yang.
As for the title of general, based on Mi Yang's achievements this time, it is unlikely that he will be given the title of general, but a miscellaneous title is possible.
It's just that Mi Yang is still young in qualifications after all. Guan Ping was able to become a general with no title, not only because of his great achievements, but also because of his many years in the army.
In the Han Dynasty, there was a custom of recording meritorious deeds in awarding awards.
It means that this reward is not perfect for some reason, so save it first and wait for the promotion in the future.
In other words, even if Mi Yang does nothing in the future, as he grows older and improves his qualifications, with this skill, he will be able to rest on his laurels and become an important general.
He even became the assistant minister after Liu Bei's death.
Faced with Wang Hong's complaint, Mi Yang smiled on the horse and said, "Zi Xiao, people should not seek fame but gain real benefits."
"Although I haven't become a general of all kinds now, I have been favored by the king and ordered me to be a general with tens of thousands of soldiers. The generals can choose their own soldiers. This is the best thing for me.
Reward.”
In troubled times, having troops and horses in hand is the first priority.
Not to mention Guan Ping's General Yamen, let's talk about Li Yan's General Fu Han, who is a noble general. He can't have more than 5,000 soldiers and horses.
Like Ma Chao and Yu Jin, they have a high position but have no real power in their hands.
Then Mi Yang said to Wang Hongyan: "The king knows that you are my confidant, but he appoints you as the magistrate of Shangyong County. Don't you understand the meaning of this?"
After saying this, Mi Yang saw that Wang Hong was deep in thought and stopped talking.
The reward from Gaotai was given the day before yesterday. Mi Yang had received too much, but ordinary people just didn't know how to appreciate it.
Liu Bei is already making plans for the future.
Outside Xiangyang City, in Guan Yu's tent.
There were many more people in the big tent than at the last meeting.
There were dozens of people in the tent. In addition to Guan Yu's original Jingzhou subjects, there were also Hu Xiu, the governor of Jingzhou who surrendered to Cao Wei, Fu Fang, the governor of Nanxiang, and Lu Chang, the former guard of Xiangyang City.
In addition to this part, because of Zhang Fei's arrival, he also brought Shen Dan, Shen Yi and his headquarters generals Fan Qiang, Zhang Da and others.
At this time, Guan Yu, who was sitting at the top, was stroking his beautiful beard with his hands.
And as he continued stroking his beard, a smile appeared on his face that could not be concealed.
There was also some pride in that smile.
What he held in his other hand was the battle report sent by Mi Yang.
Zhang Fei, who was sitting under Guan Yu, had an upright temperament. When he saw Guan Yu stroking his beautiful beard and smiling at the same time, he never said why he summoned the generals. He was straight-tempered and asked directly:
"Brother, what is it that makes you summon the generals?"
"Can you let me have a look at the battle report in your hand?"
In fact, not only Zhang Fei was curious, but everyone else in the tent was also confused when they saw Guan Yu's abnormal behavior.
The former general summoned them here just to see him laugh?
No way.
Everyone also knows that what caused Guan Yu to have such an abnormal reaction must be the battle report in his hand.
But what kind of battle report could make the former general so happy?
Not long ago, the Han generals outside Xiangyang City had received news that Liu Bei had arrived in Jiangling.
After receiving this news, all the generals secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Bei is the king of everyone. Not only did everyone have more confidence when he came, but Liu Bei also brought 30,000 reinforcements from Shu.
Outside Xiangyang City, since the arrival of Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong, the Han army has reached nearly 40,000 people.
Now coupled with Liu Bei's 30,000 reinforcements, the total number of Han troops in Jingbei is now nearly 70,000.
Seventy thousand versus one hundred thousand, the strength gap between the Han army and the Wei army is not big.
But even after learning the news of Liu Bei's arrival, Guan Yu's face did not show such joy. What can make him keep stroking his beard and smiling now?
Seeing Zhang Fei asking questions, Guan Yu was reluctant to hand over the battle report in his hand to Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei couldn't wait to take the battle report and read it. After reading it, his leopard eyes opened to the maximum in an instant, and his hair and beard were spread out, just like when he was drinking loudly on the Dangyang Bridge.
Seeing this battle report, Zhang Fei recalled in his mind the scene when he was in Xinye, carrying Mi Yang and throwing it on the horse to exercise.
This kid, I haven’t seen him for several years, is already like this!
After Zhang Fei read it, he handed it over to Huang Zhong, who was sitting next to him.
Huang Zhong was already over sixty, older than Liu Bei, and his beard and hair were all white.
When Huang Zhong, whose face was filled with vicissitudes of life, read the contents of the battle report, his majestic and powerful arms could not help but tremble, and several rays of light appeared in his cloudy eyes.
But he didn't get along well with Mi Yang, and he didn't have any memories to cherish. He just quickly realized a fact in his heart.
With this son, the Mi family can continue to be glorious for decades more!
Zhao Yun was sitting under the three generals Guan, Zhang, and Huang. He saw that these three generals had very strange expressions after reading the battle report, and he was inevitably curious.
Therefore, after he quickly took the battle report from Huang Zhong's hand, he immediately started reading it.
After reading it, Zhao Yun, who had always been calm, had a look of great surprise on his face.
He still wanted to quickly defeat Cao Cao and then go south to rescue Mi Yang?
There is no need to save Mi Yang now, it is Sun Quan who needs to be saved.
In addition to being surprised, Zhao Yun's heart flashed with deep joy.
This was the son-in-law he had chosen at the beginning, and he was extraordinary.
But Zhao Yun was calm after all, and he quietly handed the battle report to the following Pan Jun.
Not long after, everyone in the tent had finished reading Mi Yang's battle report.
In an instant, except for the four generals Guan, Zhang, Zhao, and Huang, who were still calm, the faces of the others all changed drastically, and they were very surprised.
The ministers in Jingzhou did not expect that the young man who was still young in the tent had achieved such an achievement.
There were memories and excitement on their faces.
Jingzhou was defended!
The happiest people in the tent were the surrendered ministers of Cao Wei.
When they had no choice but to surrender to Guan Yu, they were most worried about Guan Yu's defeat.
When they heard that Cao Cao personally led an army of 100,000 people to the south, they were frightened to death.
Now Mi Yang's police defeated Sun Quan's army in a battle and severely cut off one of Cao Cao's arms. I think Cao Cao will not be far away.
They absolutely loved Mi Yang at this moment.
After all the officials in the tent read the battle report, they all stood up and congratulated Guan Yu: "Sun's thief has been defeated, Cao's thief is afraid, Jingzhou can be saved, the general is very happy."
The most direct impact of Mi Yang's battle with the police was that it suddenly reversed Jingzhou's current situation of being attacked from both sides.
After this battle, facing Jingzhou with high morale and united efforts, how could Cao Cao still refuse to retreat?
This is naturally a great joy for Guan Yu, who is the commander-in-chief of Jingzhou.
Facing the congratulations of the ministers, Guan Yu remained motionless, but his movements of stroking his beard and the smile on his face never stopped.
Guan Yu waved his hand to the officials to sit down, and then he said slowly: "Sun Quan is just a cunning rogue, extremely incompetent."
"You should not be overjoyed if you only ask my son-in-law to do meritorious deeds."
After Guan Yu said this, Zhang Fei and other people who had a close friendship with Guan Yu thought that Guan Yu had relapsed into his old habits and was in Versailles again.
After all, when the Seventh Army was flooded and China was shocked, what Guan Yu said was similar to this.
But when they heard Guan Yu call Mi Yang my son-in-law, their eyes looked surprised.
When did Mi Yang become your son-in-law?
Facing everyone's surprised looks, Guan Yu looked as if it was natural:
"My daughter is a tiger girl, and Zisheng is a tiger with breasts. A tiger girl and a tiger with breasts, isn't it a match made in heaven?"
"When the war is over, I can get engaged to Zifang."
Facing Guan Yu's explanation, which seemed to be a matter of course, all the generals bowed to him.
I can't find any reason to refute it at all.
When Sun Quan asked Guan Yu to marry him for his son, Guan Yu scolded Sun Quan's envoy away with just one sentence.
"My tiger girl An is willing to marry Quanzi!"
Unexpectedly, Guan Yu, who looked down on Sun Quan's son at first, would now be attracted to Mi Yang.
However, given Mi Yang's status and his current military exploits, marrying the daughter of Guan Yu, a powerful figure in China, is indeed a match made in heaven.
But if the Mi family and the Guan family marry, then among the second generation of the current King of Hanzhong, who else will have a better future than Mi Yang?
Unparalleled.
The beginning and end of the month are quite busy, so I can only update in the afternoon. The previous update time is no longer accurate, I'm sorry everyone.
Some readers asked about the update time, and I responded to all of them, but they were all deleted.
After updating the first chapter, the second chapter will be released in about five hours.
There are still three chapters today.
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This chapter has been completed!