The fourth year of Zhangwu, on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Chang'an.

After Liu Bei rebuilt the Han Dynasty, he modified the old system and increased the original holiday during the New Year from five days to seven days. So today is the day when all officials come to the palace to pay New Year's greetings.

According to the old system of previous years, it should be that on the first day of the lunar calendar, there should be only a few senior officials who need to accompany the emperor to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. They need to visit the Taimiao and then start holidays in the afternoon. The second day to the fifth day of the lunar calendar is a holiday, and the sixth day of the lunar calendar starts the court meeting according to the regular "five days and one dynasty". The court meeting on the sixth day of the lunar calendar often has no specific government affairs, which is just some etiquette and destruction.

Now it is not because Li Su thought about the Golden Week, but because Liu Bei felt that there was too much red tape, so he wanted to take a break, so he gave it to the officials. This is also a historical trend. In history, after the reunification of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the New Year holiday was also increased to seven days. Now it is just a dynasty that appears earlier.

This year's New Year's greetings also made the atmosphere peaceful and peaceful, and people were excited. Because it has been twelve days since Guan Yu and Gao Shun won the counterattack, and the messenger who won the victory in the victory had already spread throughout the two capitals.

All officials and generals knew that they had recovered the five counties of Yingchuan and annihilated 60,000 Cao's troops. More importantly, they seized a large number of military supplies hoarded at the original Cao's attack base, making Cao Cao the transport captain of the great Han Dynasty.

Nearly 40% of the materials Cao Cao prepared for his 200,000 army to attack the offensive battle fell into Liu Bei's hands, and 60% were around Yancheng, providing more than 100,000 people with more than 100,000 people to continue to defend.

And this battle has another additional significance, that is, it means that Cao Cao will not be able to destroy Liu Bei's plan within one or two years. Liu Bei plans to take full action against Yuzhou after the Nanyang Canal is built, and this timetable is unstoppable.

Cao Cao's huge wave of supplies was replenished, and Liu Bei reduced most of the work of over 100,000 migrant workers in Kunyang to transport grain by land, which was equivalent to a sure thing about the Nanyang Canal repair.

Since Li Su is going to be promoted, this achievement can be explained in advance, and it is overdrawn as one of the reasons for being promoted to the prime minister.

Of course, if it is said to be "one", it will definitely have other achievements. The strategy of luring the enemy in the previous plan of the Kunyang Battle was considered to be the sharing of the credit of Li Su and Zhuge Liang. Li Su stayed in Luoyang in recent months, working on construction and improving history books with his father-in-law, creating core culture for the four barbarians. These internal affairs and cultural achievements will be included in the reasons for being promoted to prime minister at that time.

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On the day of the congratulations, many officials from Shangshu and above met each other and were secretly talking about this matter. Taking stock of Li Su's contributions, it was obvious that everyone already knew Liu Bei's schedule.

"Have you heard that Your Majesty plans to announce the reset of the position of prime minister during the dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty. In a few days, you can congratulate him quietly on Li Sikong's thirtyth birthday."

"Yes, Sikong Dashou, what gifts did you prepare? I heard that Sikong reused some craftsmen of the Great Qin Kingdom, who were more Western than the Taixi land, to build a canal in Luoyang, Nanyang. As a result, last year, Hu Shangs of the Western Regions were quite inspired.

All kinds of craftsmen from all walks of life in the Qin Dynasty, whoever had the opportunity to come to court through rest, would ask for an errand. Sikong liked these craftsmanship for more than a year or two. Alas, I heard that this time I returned to Chang'an, I brought a lot of newly imitated daily necessities in the Western Regions, and even His Majesty was greedy for pleasure. Sikong was afraid that he would not look down on the gifts given by us moral gentlemen."

The court officials whispered like this. But if they saw Li Su himself, the discussions just now would be restrained and changed to sincere compliments, and then secretly congratulate them in advance.

Including Fa Zheng, Liu Ba, Zhuge Jin, and several Shangshus had expressed their feelings to Li Su before congratulating him.

As for the "Li Sikong's 30th birthday in a few days", they actually made a mistake in this day. As early as twelve or thirteen years ago, when Li Su had just traveled through time, he met Liu Guanzhang and others, and he just reported his age casually.

Later, everyone became familiar with each other and called each other brothers. They would inevitably meet each other when they met each other's birthday. A group of people gathered together to drink a lot of wine. After Liu Guanzhang's birthday was over, one day Zhao Yun remembered that Li Su had never been on his birthday, so he asked. In order to prevent misleading, Li Su made up the birthday of the first lunar month, and since then he celebrated his birthday every year.

The main reason is that Li Su traveled over in early February when he first came. When Zhao Yun asked this question, it was almost a year since Li Su traveled over. Li Su could only try to make up the matter as much as possible to avoid being misleading, otherwise there would be brothers who would question, "Since you have lived your birthday after we met, why don't you tell Brother Yu that you are too disgusting."

At this moment, Li Su encountered such a situation of compliment and flattery by his colleagues, and of course he clarified it modestly to face the audio:

"Hey, as important officials of the court, everyone cannot speak in a pretext, but must be responsible. The matters that the court decides and decides cannot be spread indiscriminately without court discussion.

Your Majesty is preparing to re-establish the Prime Minister, which was passed during the New Year's Court discussion. This is true, and everyone can discuss and praise it. But who is the Prime Minister? Isn't this still necessary to discuss during the Lantern Festival? How can you talk nonsense?"

"But you want to celebrate your birthday. It's okay. You have received all your good intentions. Gifts are not important. Friendship between gentlemen is as light as water."

Of course, Fa Zheng Liu Ba Zhuge Jin was speechless: It can be said that whoever is the prime minister has to wait for the formal discussion and decision to announce it... Just discuss this matter? Who doesn’t know who!

After chatting for a while, the congratulations began soon. The officials entered the Weiyang Palace one by one, and a complicated ceremony was followed by Liu Bei's New Year's lecture. After everything was over, there were a few urgent issues in the court, so everyone would discuss it.

The last issue of the eighth day of the lunar month is to discuss the contributions of the Kunyang Battle, which just ended late last month, and then take this opportunity to discuss the contributions of Li Su's newly established last year--

The court's court's etiquette should not be abolished. Li Su wanted to be promoted to prime minister. This time the court meeting was just to warm up the merits and build momentum. The next court meeting was the candidate for prime minister. Even if everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion, it still had to go through the process.

There is nothing to question about the merits. The gratitude is self-proclaimed, mainly Liu Bei has the final say.

The Minister of Personnel Dong He just played a soundtrack to help read Liu Bei's decision.

Under normal circumstances, the examination of all officials is of course the responsibility of the Ministry of Personnel, but those officials who are even older than the Minister of Personnel are basically the emperor’s final decision or the three ministers’ discussions. The Minister of Personnel is a registered person.

Dong He read out the relevant documents loudly in public, and several achievements that Li Su mentioned before were indeed written in it.

Of course, what is written on the surface is somewhat different from what can be mentioned in private.

The first thing is that Li Su and Cai Yong made the credit for the core of the territory of the four barbarians by fabricating the "Records of the Grand Historian Suoyin". This is actually the greatest of all the contributions last year. After all, it is a matter of providing a basis for orthodox territoriality for the dynasty territory. Orthodox merit has always been very important in feudal dynasties.

But this matter is not easy to describe on the surface, so I just underestimated the merit of studying history, and wrote it at the end, which is typical of "the less the imperial decree of the court, the bigger the matter."

In contrast, last year, because the reform of the Industrial and Commercial Tax Law was officially implemented in the first year, the actual sale of industrial and commercial tax bonds was sold for tens of billions and nearly ten billions. Although the contribution of the legislation was completed the year before, it was only implemented this year. However, these things are more likely to be photographed and have beautiful data, so they are written in the edicts to commend their achievements.

This also led to Liu Ba, Zhuge Jin, Sun Gan and others being commended. These civil officials had no military merits and were difficult to be granted marquis, and their official positions were not high. They were only at the level of Shangshu. Only those high-ranking officials who had no military merits in the past three kilometers were awarded the title of the Township Marquis. But this wave also mentioned Liu Ba, Sun Gan and others to the Township Marquis.

The contribution of the Battle of Kunyang was to Zhuge Liang's first contribution, Guan Yu, Gao Shun followed, and Li Su again. After all, Li Su only conspired with Zhuge Liang to conquer the enemy at the beginning.

The generals were generally not as good as those of the decisive players this time. The main reason was that they did not get much land during the counterattack, but they only annihilated the alive forces and seized a large number of seizures.

Guan Yu is already a general, and there is no promotion. The result of annihilation of the enemy is not enough to be granted a duke. Liu Bei only added the fiefdom before Guan Yu. Because before he was granted a duke, he had to be a county marquis and had 20,000 households, and then he was granted a duke, so the promotion gradient was relatively stable.

Gao Shun's general position was not high. When Liu Bei first became emperor, he was General Annan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was responsible for military training and was responsible for the Jingbei Defense Zone in military terms. He had "no war on the middle line" for many years and could not make any contributions, so he did not move much at the Siping and Si'an level.

Of course, Liu Bei knew that training was also important, but he had no choice but to "no military achievements could be granted a marquis". The ancestral system had not been completely reformed in the past few years. The results of training were not easy to quantify, so this time it was considered a private goods. Taking advantage of Gao Shun's contribution to killing the enemy and expanding the territory, he would give him a reward.

In the end, Liu Bei decided to grant Gao Shun the title of General Zhendong - originally considering that Gao Shun had been in the south and he had given him a certain south before. But when Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci and Wei Yan were given a few months ago, Taishi Ci had already taken over the pit of "Zhen Nan", so Liu Bei took the opportunity to give Gao Shun the title of Zhendong.

Moreover, Gao Shun was in charge of the defense of the Jingbei battlefield in the mid-line war zone, and he would no longer have to face threats from the south. Jiangdong would have been destroyed long ago and would only deal with Cao Cao in the future.

In the old system of the imperial court, the four generals of the four "restraints" took the initiative to pacify foreigners, and the four "towns" ensured local defensive counterattacks. Gao Shun's character was to train troops and fight back against defensively, and it was quite appropriate to say that it was "town east".

Guan Yu and Gao Shun, Zhuge Liang was the main focus of the reward that day.

Because the New Year has passed, and a few months later, when Zhuge Liang's birthday is over, he will be 20 years old. The twenty-year-old Zhuge Liang has been the chief of the Grand Marshal, General Chief of the General Chief of the Ministry of War in the past few years, and the local position is the prefect of Hedong and the imperial court of Henan.

Now that new contributions have been made and they have to go up, it is more difficult to operate.

Considering that there will be no major war in the next year, Liu Bei mainly had to deal with Youzhou along the way, and there was no need to fight on the mid-line battlefield, so he was preparing to remove Zhuge Liang's position as General Chief Secretary to change to a slightly higher position.

After all, the general and chief minister have a low rank, but their real power is relatively heavy, and they are the number one military advisor and staff around the general. In terms of level and salary, they are much worse than Henan Yin or the Minister of War.

Considering that in the new year, Zhuge Liang's mentor Li Su would also be the prime minister. In peacetime, Zhuge Liang had more teams with his mentors to do internal affairs, and military affairs would be a little idle. Liu Bei transferred him from "General General" to "Prime Minister Sizhi".

Originally, if it was a sequel, the "Prime Minister and Chief Historian" had the same rank compared to the "General and Chief Historian", but the Prime Minister and Chief Historian ranks higher. However, the Prime Minister and Chief Historian were ranked higher. "Sizhi", a prime minister's official in the Western Han Dynasty, was re-established, and the level was higher than that of the "Chief Historian".

Si Zhi was the exclusive official of the Prime Minister, unlike the Chief Secretary, each of the three Dukes had their own Chief Secretary. Therefore, since the Eastern Han Dynasty did not have a Prime Minister, there was no Si Zhi. Now the Prime Minister is renamed and then he will be restored.

Sizhi's duty was to help the prime minister supervise the performance of all officials and also to check the illegality of officials. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power was separated and part of the work was replaced by the Sili School Captain.

After Li Su became the prime minister, Sikong must have been removed before, and the position of governor must also be removed. Zhuge Liang's qualifications directly took over as the "Sili Captain" are easily criticized, mainly because he is too young.

Therefore, it is more appropriate to let him take office as the "Prime Minister Sizhi".

After hearing Liu Bei's reward, all officials said that they had no more acting:

He also said, "At present, I just decided to set up a prime minister, but I don't know who the prime minister is, and I still have to discuss it in the dynasty meeting of the Yuan Dynasty." However, Si Zhi, who is not sure who it is, has been appointed as the prime minister. Zhuge Liang is responsible for assisting the prime minister in all aspects.
Chapter completed!