"Boya is still thoughtful. Zilong is indeed not suitable to rashly promote the seas in Lingnan. Moreover, the southern border does not threaten the Han Dynasty. Since ancient times, it is not as good as destroying the nomadic heroes of the grassland. It is better to add some titles to Zilong first."

After Liu Bei roughly read Li Su's advice on rewarding the generals, he agreed with the first part.

Of course, Li Su did not write details such as "How many households should Zhao Yun be granted, or which county?". He couldn't write it too in detail, so the final decision was made by Liu Bei himself.

Three years ago when Liu Bei ascended the throne, Zhao Yun was a county marquis. Later, he fought with the Sun family in Jiangdong many times and added 3,000 households. This time, he added 10,000 households first.

However, the number of households is not the most important. What is important is that Liu Bei realized that Zhao Yun’s fiefdom should also be moved. Zhao Yun made contributions in the Southeast War Zone so many times and had a certain ability to colonize and develop sea routes. Why not move Zhao Yun to the southern coast?

In addition, Liu Bei realized that since he set the title of "county Duke" for Li Su and others, there was also a problem of too large a level gap between an ordinary county marquis and a county monarch.

Li Su, the county magistrate, took the ten counties in the northern part of Kuaiji County as the fiefdom, but this is not the lower limit. In the future, the number of counties in other counties in the county can be smaller at the beginning, but at least a threshold must be set.

At the same time, the previous county marquis were generally only in one county, with very few cases of crossing counties, and they were all special cases. Liu Bei felt that the span between the two could be adjusted.

For this reason, while meeting Huang Quan, he asked Zhong Yao to recruit the personnel and internal affairs Zhong Yao, who was in charge of the people and internal affairs, and discussed the matter at the same time and took the opportunity to form institutional construction.

There is no need to elaborate on the literary dialogues discussed. In short, after half an hour of detailed discussion, I also checked the current scale of the meritorious fiefs of mainstream heroes. Liu Bei made a preliminary decision:

In the future, any newly-established county duke must start with the title of fiefs of five counties or above in the county. In the future, the county can be further increased according to his new contributions.

In other words, if you don’t have enough credit for you, you will not be able to reach the threshold of a county official. The number of households in these five counties must also be set, and it must be more than 50,000 households.

At the same time, among the counties of the marquis, the maximum span of three counties is allowed, which also forms a system.

Therefore, county marquis with more than 10,000 households can appear institutionally in the future, with a maximum of three counties and 20,000 households.

In this way, the transition between county marquis and county monarchs does not jump so suddenly, but only jumps from three counties to five counties, while ensuring that it is not so easy to jump over.

Such a system is easier for the court to understand and does not damage the imperial court's majesty.

Because in history, when it was developed to the end of the Han Dynasty, marquises across counties began to become normal. When Cao Cao became Emperor Xian of Han, he directly granted the Marquis of Wuping, and had a fiefdom across counties. He worked for 16 or 17 years before he was promoted to Duke Wei.

During his tenure as Marquis of Wuping, Cao Cao also wrote the "Law of Letting the County to Become a Chronicle", which gave him 20,000 households and bans in the three counties that Emperor Xian gave him.

Now, it is reasonable for Liu Bei to directly set the upper limit of county marquis to a total of 20,000 households in three counties.

After discussing this system, Liu Bei first moved Guan Yu's 15,000 households and demolished them to three counties. Because Guan Yu has not made any new contributions recently, the number of households has increased before, and now it is just moving to increase the number of counties.

When Liu Bei ascended the throne, Guan Yu and Li Su were ten thousand households. Later, after Guan Yu became a general, he reached 15,000 households. Now the quota of these 5,000 households was re-allocated to Anyi, Wenxi and Linfen counties.

Zhao Yun added 10,000 households, but his original fief was in the north, and now he moved to Hepu County, Hepu County, Jiaozhou, Hepu County, and Xuwen County, on the coast of the South China Sea. The two counties combined were actually less than 10,000 households, and they also divided some household registrations of Zhuya County to provide fief.

In addition, Liu Bei also considered some of Li Su's suggestions and discussed with Zhong Yao, realizing that the top-level military design "Da Husband Guard" is more or less unable to keep up with the situation in the new era.

In the past, the general must have been the commander of the national military commander, and there is nothing to say.

General Wei is in charge of defense around the capital,

General Chevalry and Cavalry to suppress the rebellion and conquest in the country,

The General of the Cavalry was mainly against the Hu tribe on the grassland, so he had to use cavalry to expedition, which was originally named.

Now, the demand for domestic security and rebellion and defense in Gyeonggi has not changed, but the situation of foreign military conquest has changed significantly.

The birth of the navy, as well as the possibility of expeditions and colonization by sea, is necessary to add a position equivalent to the "Navy Commander", and its status should be on par with the General of the Cavalry.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, until the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the importance of using troops to the southwest barbarians was far lower than that of the Hu tribe on the grassland, so those "General Fubo", "General Louchuan" and "General Henghai" were relatively low-ranking generals.

Ma Yuan, the most famous general Fubo, had no such status.

Therefore, using the old name is not suitable for the future identity of "Navy Commander". Liu Bei thinks it is better to think about another one, and his status and rank can be between General Cavalry and General Cavalry.

In the future, the general will still be the commander-in-chief of the three armies, the general of the cavalry will be the commander-in-chief of the army who uses troops to the outside world, and the newly established commander-in-chief of the naval warfare (including the "marines" that fight overseas territories). In the subsequent chariots and cavalry, the general of the guard will still be the commander of the public security and garrison troops.

Let's discuss this with the court officials slowly.

...

After discussing Zhao Yun, it was convenient for Taishi Ci and Wei Yan to be promoted because neither of them involved institutional innovation.

Taishi Ci was promoted from general to general Zhennan, and his title was promoted to Marquis of Mouping, with a fief of 3,000 households.

Wei Yan was left by General Hengye to replace Taishi Ci, and his title was Marquis of Lingling Township, with a fief of 1,000 households, and was granted the title of Jingnan.

In addition, Lu Su, who was the governor of Jiaozhou, made great contributions to the construction of sea ships and providing preliminary and logistics preparations. Although there were not many direct military achievements, Lu Su was still granted 4,000 households.

After the generals were sealed, some minor troubles arose from the placement and transfer of civil servants. In theory, after Linyi and Chameng were either lying down or expanding new territory into the Han Dynasty, officials should be sent to the local area, and the level of officials is not low.

Even if it was ruled by a ruling rule, the past officials were considered as prefects, so people with low qualifications and low status could not go. However, those who could be prefects in the mainland, even if they went to the northern part of Jiaozhou to be prefects, they felt that they were in vain and exiled to be officials in the smoky land, let alone who would go to Rinan County and Chameng County for a long time?

This leads to those who are exiled to such a distance as prefects, who can only choose young officials, such as those who can only be county magistrates in the mainland, and those who can be prefects in Champa will be hopeless.

In addition, Chameng and Rinan were too far from the original territory of the Han Dynasty, so efficient contact could only rely on navigation. Nowadays, if they were allowed to go to Nanhai County to ask for instructions on a daily basis, they would definitely be too late to delay any trouble.

How to split administrative divisions can not only improve administrative efficiency and strengthen rule, but also prevent new tendencies of separation in remote and newly conquered areas. These must be carefully considered.

Historically, after Sun Wu was defeated by Sima Zhao, he was caught in a war with the Jin army heading east from Shunhong River in Yizhou for Jiaozhou, resulting in Jiaozhi County in the lower reaches of the Honghe River and the areas further south being taken away by Jin in advance.

In order to prevent the chain reaction of the remaining areas of Jiaozhou from returning to Jin, Sun Wu had to conduct a "Jiangguang branch" in the year after the demise of Ji Han (264).

From then on, the land of China officially increased from the fourteen states to the fifteen states, and the place name "Guangzhou" appeared in history for the first time.

Although Liu Bei is in a good situation now, the Jiaozhou area is too narrow and long, spreading from the Chaoshan area in later generations to the estuary of the Lancangshui River. It is still difficult to rely on one state to manage the coastline of 6,000 miles long.

However, Liu Bei certainly could not "dividing the Jiaoguangzhou" as Sun Wu in history. This would lead to a tendency to separate the Jiaozhi area, which is the Red River Delta area in Vietnam in later generations, and Sun Wu had no choice but to do it.

Therefore, Liu Bei felt that the Red River Delta could still be kept in "Guangzhou". Further down the Red River Delta, thousands of miles of narrow coastal hills, Jiuzhen, Sunnan, and Chameng in Lancangshui Delta, each set up county bans.

Of course, these counties do not have to be combined into new Jiaozhou, otherwise it will also lead to the formation of new local identity and tendency to separate in the South Vietnam region.

For the time being, only a few counties can govern themselves, and then a temporary agency similar to the "Nanzhong Governor's Office/Supreme Governor's Office" is set up, which will first govern for ten or twenty years, and will delay a generation of time. Once the situation improves and national identity is established, the new Jiaozhou will be set up there to form a state-level administrative agency.

"No one is willing to be a prefect in such a remote place. It's okay for Rinan County and Jiuzhen County. But those eunuchs and thieves were doing something good when they accidentally exiled Dou Wu and Chen Fan's descendants to Rinan. Now they just let the descendants of their two families be separated from Rinan and Jiuzhen Prefect.

Could it be that the farthest prefect of Chameng could only give this magistrate who had just made contributions to Zilongzi? So young, he was not even a county magistrate. In theory, with the guidance and the contribution of pacifying the barbarians, he was at most a large county magistrate in the mainland, and he could be placed in Chameng as a prefect... For nothing more than that."

Liu Bei felt that the integration of the new territory was a lot of trouble, and the two stamps that Li Su gave him were not enough.

Liu Bei never felt so urgently that he needed a set of ways to form a system and digest the way to expand new territory to the outside world.

This is not only for Jiaozhou, but also for the areas outside the pass in the northern part of Bingzhou. Yun Chang had already led Kong Ming to attack Lu Bu in the northern expedition. The problem of Taiyuan County was easy to say, but Lu Bu would inevitably break through the siege and escape from the pass in the future.

When Guan Yu chased Shengle (Datong) and other grasslands outside the pass, should he establish a new ruling order of the Han Dynasty over the grasslands?

Although this problem seems unsolvable and can only be handled according to the old system, Liu Bei was confident in Li Su. He always felt that even if the problems that his predecessors had not solved, he would have a solution to ask Li Su.

"With Chang Yun's troops, I'd better take some troops and patrol the Dongdu. We will discuss with Boya to better support Chang Yun and Boya and put pressure on Yuan Shao and Cao Cao."

After thinking about it, Liu Bei felt that it would not solve the problem if he stayed in Chang'an and wrote a letter to Li Su. It would be better to take the opportunity to tour the old capital in the east once. It doesn't take too long to go back to Chang'an before the cold winter comes.

Moreover, Luoyang has been restored for more than half a year, and Li Su has been carrying out construction and rectification there for half a year. All the dilapidated and old places should have been rectified. There is nothing wrong with Liu Bei going to take a look at the old capital.

On May 21, at the court meeting that day, Liu Bei made the decisions on the other discussions on the southern issue that could be solved.

At the same time, he announced that he hoped to go to the Eastern Capital in the east, which was not considered an in-person expedition, but only provided better support to Sikong and the general, intimidated the puppet dynasty in Kanto, and hoped that the court officials would discuss this matter.

The court officials were still very opposed at the beginning, mainly because the emperor should not go on a tour in person unless necessary. Although the emperor had more reasons for the tour in troubled times, this year was not the year to launch a general attack on Yuan Shao.

Afterwards, Liu Bei raised his question obscurely, saying that he hoped to discuss with Sikong "how to naturalize the barbarians, better establish ruling in the newly expanded territory, and gradually become a military force." Moreover, what he wanted was not temporary measures overnight, but to form institutional construction.

Most of the court officials looked at each other, as wise as Xun You and Fa Zheng, and they couldn't think of any long-term plan for the time being. Of course, they were still better than other ministers, and they could give some suggestions for repair.

In addition, as Situ, Xun You had a lot of experience in appeaseing the Qiang people in Xiliang. He talked about those principles with Liu Bei, which was of certain institutional significance, but it was too conscious and was a warm and tonic medicine and could not cure serious illnesses.

Because everyone's behavior was not good, Liu Bei insisted on the Eastern Tour and discussed the plan with Li Su, and everyone's opposition was slightly smaller.

However, unexpectedly, just after another five days of delay, when Liu Bei was ready to go on a patrol, Cai Yong, the Grand Tutor who had not come to court for several months, suddenly came to ask for a meeting.

When Liu Bei ascended the throne, Cai Yong was sixty-six years old, and now he is sixty-nine years old, so it is normal not to go to court, and Liu Bei has always regarded him as a mascot.

When Liu Bei heard that Cai Yong was coming, he was still surprised and felt that he should not obstruct his Eastern Tour: "Why did the Grand Tutor come to this? Could it be that he was trying to dissuade me and I discussed the plan with my son-in-law?"

Cai Yong leaned on a crutch and said, "How can I obstruct you if the old minister understands your majesty's needs? However, the old minister also has a little strategy here to solve the problem of instability in distant people's restraint.

However, the old minister was old and lacked energy, so he was unable to coordinate the fabrication of the things needed to implement this strategy. Your Majesty wanted to go east and ask the old minister to return to the eastern capital to settle down in the future.

First, we can supervise our little daughter and son-in-law to do this trick. Second, the old minister has lived in Luoyang for nearly twenty years, which is closer to Chenliu's hometown. I heard that the young man built Luoyang New City in Chenggao Camp, which is a hundred miles closer to Hulao Pass than the old city. After leaving the pass, Chenliu was there, and the old minister also wanted to return to his roots."

Liu Bei was even more surprised. He never thought that a person like Cai Yong was a man of strange strategies. Shouldn’t he be a moral gentleman or an academic master? What kind of person can he have a long-term solution to the barbarians?

However, with Cai Yong's face, he dared to say this because of decades of credit endorsement from the academic masters, and Liu Bei would not have disbelief.
Chapter completed!