After being persuaded repeatedly by Li Su, Liu Bei completely extinguished his thoughts of using troops for years and decided to temporarily revise political principles, completely digest the territory, and at the same time show that the enemy is weak, so that the enemy can paralyze themselves, and even plot against each other.

The key points of this plan are similar to "Guo Jia's plan to determine Liaodong" - in history, after Cao Cao defeated Wuhuan, he did not rush to attack Gongsun Kang, but the result was that Gongsun Kang and Yuan Shang had planned on his own. For enemies that were not united within, it was easy to join forces if they were forced to do so, and it was easy to merge themselves if they were slow down. This is the same as in ancient and modern times.

What's more, Li Su knew that there would be a rift within Li Jue and Guo Si, but in history, this kind of civil strife did not completely intensify to the level of "one robbery of the emperor, one kills all officials", but Li Su could completely catalyze and accelerate, allowing them to be discarded in advance in 194.

After Liu Bei and Li Su whispered and talked, Fa Zheng, who had been watching and looking for opportunities to flatter him, finally caught this gap with keenness.

Although he couldn't hear what Liu Bei said to Li Su, he looked at his expression and found out that this was a strategic policy for the future. Looking at Liu Bei's unwilling expression, he should have been persuaded to say such as "Slowly searching for it".

Fa Zheng had a plan and remembered what Li Su talked to him after the Battle of Wuzhangyuan: At that time, Liu Bei had just returned from a failed rescue and injured person. Fa Zheng wanted to persuade Liu Bei, "Since the emperor was taken hostage and Wang Yun was also killed, no one listened to the lord's resignation, so it would be better to go with the flow and formally be called King of Hanzhong."

At that time, Li Su was dissuading him by "I have never heard of a defeated battle since ancient times and was promoted to the title of king", so that Fa Zheng would not be reckless. He had to wait at least a great military victory that could convince the people of the world before discussing this matter. Fa Zheng felt that it made sense, so he pressed it.

"Following the lord, after killing Dong Yue and Fan Chou, he should be unable to attack Zhang Ji again in the north, and he doesn't know how long it takes to cultivate land and accumulate grain to cultivate political affairs. It is better to take this opportunity to persuade the lord to be king by the emperor, which is justified and will also be able to eliminate bad policies when revising political affairs internally."

If it is just a state governor, it is no problem to handle internal military and political affairs in accordance with the law. However, it is still almost time to make drastic reforms to change the laws of the ancestors.

In history, Sun Ce and Sun Quan did not dare to reform, and many of Cao Cao's new policies were implemented only after becoming Sikong. Liu Biao and Liu Zhang did not have the confidence to reform. They all followed the old system in their own territory, which was all because they were not justified.

Thinking of this, Fa Zheng took the opportunity to come forward and toast and persuade him to come forward: "Lord, today, the emperor is blessed, the wise and the soldiers use their lives. Our army captured Dong Yue, the general of the former Dong thief, and Fan Chou, the rebels' captains, who did not complete the attack on the lord and the emperor's achievements, but it is enough to show the shock of the country, so that the thieves who disrespected the Han Dynasty always felt fear and fear.

Considering the arduous and dangerous road of Shu and the Qinling Mountains, it will take several years of hard work to settle the Central Plains and restore the old capital after the rebels completely control Guanzhong. In this national crisis, in order to allow the world to fight against the thieves and righteous people to gather their hearts, the lord should respect the emperor's old edict and call him the King of Hanzhong!"

As soon as Fa Zheng said this, the sound of drinking and laughing in the audience quickly calmed down, followed by a mess of persuading the follow-up.

"My lord, in an extraordinary time, he will take advantage of expedient means and refuse to slander and criticize. This is the right way to say the Dharma."

However, some people also whispered a few words, mainly because they felt that Fa Zheng was young and had a shallow sense of knowledge and a slight person. Such words were not suitable for him to say the first one.

After all, Fa Zheng is not a senior strategist in his forties, and his official position is only an eighteen-year-old county magistrate.

How can a county magistrate get the credit of persuading people to be king? Even if his family is from a famous family of Youfufeng, he has made contributions in both battles between Wuzhangyuan and Chen Cangdao, and should be slightly higher now, so there is not much room.

Lu Su is not present today because Lu Su is still in Hechi County. Only Fa Zheng came to Mianyang on a business trip because of Fan Chou's head. There are indeed not many other counselors and civil servants around Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei just shouted a few words of approval, but didn't think much about it. Among the generals, Gan Ning and Dian Wei were not politically keen. They just made a fuss and agreed, but Xu Huang was more brainy and poked Zhang Fei with his elbow.

"Just say whatever you have, and scratch what you have." Zhang Fei raised his arm and pushed Xu Huang away.

Xu Huang whispered: "This proposal is initiated by a county magistrate. Isn't the lord afraid of having fun? Everyone here should ask the right general to persuade him to go."

Only then did Zhang Fei realize that he walked to Li Su with the wine jar and said a few words.

At this time, Liu Bei had already rejected Fazheng's proposal and said, "Although Your Majesty has a clear edict, I originally intended to give in. Moreover, the reason why Your Majesty named me a king is to save the king and clear the achievements of the capital. Now that the achievements have not been completed, I am apologizing for the king in advance. Isn't it a ridiculous person in the world? Is it filial and straightforward that you want to trap me injustice?"

After Li Su and Liu Bei refuted, they left the seat and bowed: "In extraordinary times, do extraordinary things. Do not stick to common etiquette, so as to avoid the hearts of righteous people in the world being confused and unable to return. If you are worried that your achievements have not been completed, you can first 'respective' the King of Hanzhong, and do not set up an altar to pay homage to the ancestors, and tell the world that when Chang'an is recovered, the emperor will personally decide to make a ritual."

Liu Bei was also a little moved, but he was afraid that he would be so arrogant and suspected by the world if he had only one Yizhou. He heard that he could add the word "true photography" to express humility, so he felt very good all of a sudden.

As for the Quanshuo, "in the process of recovering Chang'an, for the sake of work needs and to unite the hearts of the righteous scholars and the people." After the recovery of Chang'an, the emperor will show the stamp of "resignation" to the emperor.

If the emperor had accepted Liu Bei's "resignation" at that time, Liu Bei would have been able to retire successfully.

It’s enough to say that, and Wuzhangyuan tried hard to rescue the lord and was injured, and later killed a general under Dong Zhuo, and annihilated one of the four rebels. Anyone in the world can use the sentence "It’s not that I will refuse, I will refuse after entering Chang'an."

At this time, a civil servant who had not appeared for a long time in the past two months and had been in a wandering state and had been having an idle meal with Liu Bei, also jumped out to discuss Li Su, saying that this method was completely in line with the court's etiquette and expectations.

This person is Zhong Yao, the envoy of the court who came to announce the imperial edict. He also came to celebrate the ceremony today to drink at the celebration banquet. Because of Li Jue and Guo Si's rebellion, Zhong Yao could not return to the court at all and could only live in Hanzhong for a long time.

Zhong Yao sincerely made a comment: "The right general's argument is in line with the court's etiquette. You can testify. When the emperor issued an edict, he personally told me that the general invasion of the Western Expedition should receive the merits of this title. Wang Situ discussed with the three dukes during his lifetime, and the same was true for public opinion! The general invasion of the Western Expedition of the Hanzhong King is enough to comfort the emperor's dust and the three dukes' loyalty, righteousness and heroic spirit! The grand aura of a patriot!"

The imperial envoys in the court have made up their words, what else can Liu Bei do?

Liu Bei: "Since that's the case, please discuss how to handle the power and control method. If you have not achieved your full achievements, you should try your best to show diligence. Since Yuan Chang is an angel, you can handle this matter."

"Abide by the orders of the King of Hanzhong." Zhong Yao was still very cautious. After all, he was the Huangmen Minister of the Central Committee and could not be sanctioned against the vassal kings for the time being.

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In addition, according to the etiquette, the word "子" is already available at the prince level, but it cannot be called "子子" but can only be called "子子". Only "子子" is monopolized by the emperor, and there is "子子" that is combined with "子子". As long as those words are not used, they will not exceed the system.

However, except Zhong Yao, no one else had to consider avoiding suspicion. Fa Zheng quickly jumped out again: "My minister Fa Zheng, please see the King of Hanzhong!"

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The following three days were nothing more than a cumbersome celebration and a banquet. Although Liu Bei said everything was simple, he still made everyone difficult. But he finally "taken" the King of Hanzhong smoothly.

All the people in Hanzhong admired the people. Nanzheng and Mianyang were decorated with lights and colors in the whole city. Liu Bei also announced a tax cut across the country as a policy of benefiting the people.

However, because Hanzhong needed to store grain in the north, the tax reduction was to "only exempt the population from calculating taxes and reduce the free collection of land taxes, and instead pay for the private to buy grain at a fixed price."

Because the tax system of the Han Dynasty was both a head tax and a land tax. If the head tax was not counted as an additional price tax, it was about ten five zhu coins per person per month, and one hundred and two zhu coins a year was money. (So the head tax in the Huanling dynasties was more than 3 billion, because it was equivalent to the head tax of 30 million. In fact, it was 20 million for a head tax. Women and male teenagers aged seven to fifteen were equivalent to 10 million for a head tax)

Liu Bei was called the King of Hanzhong, and he paid about 250,000 strong men in Hanzhong, and a total of 30 million yuan of capitulation tax within a year. The grain was still collected, and the government paid for your surplus grain.

Wudu, Yinping, and Shangyong all added up. After years of construction, there are still 300,000 to 400,000 people, which are also handled in comparison with Hanzhong.

This is not the case for the four southern counties such as Shu County. Considering the difficulty of transportation, Li Su suggested that tax exemptions for Shu County and other places should be mainly exempted from physical food taxes, and those who should collect money and Shu brocade should be collected as appropriate. You can even use the copper coins and Shu brocade collected from Shu County to buy surplus grain from the people of Hanzhong.

However, this involves a question of "the people of Hanzhong and Shu County who are exempted from taxes will feel that the degree of tax exemption between the two sides is the same and whether the strength is fair", and local gentry and powerful people will definitely settle the accounts. This will facilitate Li Su to immediately implement a comprehensive "rental and mediocre system" reform after King Hanzhong ascended the throne--

Don’t you dislike the loss of food-free money between “free two hu of rice a year” and “free money a year”. Those who are exempt from grain will suffer and make money? Then everyone will discuss an official conversion price. In the future, you can choose the most cost-effective combination according to the county. It is okay to pay all the agreed official guide prices for Shujin.

Of course this is just a prototype. There are still many details to be sorted out if tax reform is really needed.

After the one-year-old royal order was issued, all counties supported it very much, and various congratulatory notes were published, and various congratulatory notes were endless to report auspiciousness and meritorious deeds.

Because not all the generals were in Nanzheng, Liu Bei also frequently issued edicts to enfeoff civil and military officials everywhere, and each had its own rewards. Especially when Zhao Yun was in Yidu and Guan Yu was in Nanzhong, they all had to write thousands of miles to encourage him.

There was nothing wrong with Zhao Yun for the time being, and Guan Yu sent a good news shortly after Liu Bei sent an envoy to persuade him. It turned out that in early August, Guan Yu crossed the Lushui River from Yongchang County on the southern line and attacked Gao Yi, the king of Yueli along the Lushui River. Taking advantage of Gao Yi's main force being tricked by Zhang Fei near the Dadu River on the northern line, he lost Gao Yi's old nest and restored all counties such as Qiongdu.

Gao Yi hurried back to defense in mid-August, but he almost lost his old nest and failed to regain it. He lost his field battle and was killed by Guan Yu.

In late August, the entire territory of Yueli was pacified. E Shun, the Yueli general who had surrendered to Liu Bei last year, served as the commander, helped Guan Yu kill Gao Yi's remnants, and also distinguished other barbarian chiefs who were originally suppressed by Gao Yi and could use it, and helped them send all their sons to Dianchi Lake and accept the cultural teachings of the prefect of Jianning Gu Yong. Strictly implement the ban policy of "whoever is more Chinese can be released to succeed the chief in the future."

It was just because the journey was too far, and the news that Guan Yu had won was not spread to Hanzhong until the end of September.

Liu Bei became more and more happy when he heard this, and he once again celebrated the great banquets of his ministers.
Chapter completed!