Everyone is happy and the other is sad,

Cao Cao was sad and furious for the inevitable fall of Xiahou Yuan's death and Jizhou.

One day in early August, Liu Bei from the front line of Ruyang was very pleased with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's repeated achievements.

"Yunchang broke through Yecheng? Yide killed Xiahou Yuan? It was really a blessing from the Han Dynasty. Jizhou would definitely be completely pacified within a few months.

In addition, Boya took Huainan all, and only the last Shouchun besieged city was left, and Cao Ren had become a fish.

The canal connecting Ruying here is about to be built, and the military supplies of Yancheng can be transported directly to Ruyang to communicate with the gap.

At that time, the Yanyu Plain will not be able to have sufficient military rations wherever it is promoted. We will fight wherever it wants to fight Cao Cao."

Liu Bei was thinking about the follow-up deduction behind the good news, and couldn't help but pace back and forth to talk to himself, including the temporary imperial commander who was changed from Ruyang County Government to the internship.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty! Prime Minister, General and Taiwei have sent good news. The day to defeat Cao's great achievements is just around the corner!" The civil servants of the army represented by Lu Su and military generals such as Huang Zhong all gathered together to congratulate him.

Liu Bei waved his hand and did not meet Lu Su and the others, and talked casually about the reward: "I want to confer the Duke of Yun Chang and others for a long time, but in the battle of Restoration of Yan last year, only Yide Zilong made contributions. Yun Chang was in Sili and Jingbei at that time, and never got any opportunity to fight.

Therefore, I can't bear to be granted the title of Yun Chang, so I just promoted Yi De to the Grand Marshal. His titles have been granted 20,000 households in three counties, only one step away from the Duke of the County. Now Yun Chang has broken Yecheng, Yi De killed Xiahou Yuan, and was granted the title of Duke as the Duke. With the fief of five counties, what do Zi Jing think?"

Lu Su responded cautiously: "The title of honor comes from above, how dare I surrender? But the battle in Jizhou has not yet ended, and General Zhao, who was far away in Bohai County, besieged Nanpi, has not yet known the result... The Prime Minister is in Huainan, and Shouchun is still the last city that has not been defeated.

It is understandable that Your Majesty wants to grant a few dukes before the world is completely pacified and add a county in the final decisive battle, but he should still be serious and formally discuss public opinion.

When Emperor Gaozu appointed Han Xin as a general, he wanted to be hasty, so Xiao He advised him to value etiquette and choose a day to build an altar before he could climb to the altar to worship the general..."

Liu Bei calmed down: "God-Emperor Gao is cautious, and I am cautious, but Zijing, don't give such examples in the future. I am not as good as Yun Changyide, but I am the trust of Emperor Gaozu in Han Xin. I am disappointed to say that these things are disappointing!

Then it’s decided. When Jizhou and Huainan are completely fought, I will officially gather the ministers and discuss the title of title."

...

More than two months after that, the land of China continued to surge, and the Han army expanded thousands of miles to chase and died in the north, but nothing unexpected was worth recounting.

Because the Han army was advancing very smoothly. Large-scale institutional resistance had been wiped out, and what was left was nothing more than the delay of Cao's army's use of space for time and the sequential resistance that was doomed to fail.

The only thing Cao's army did was to snatch most of the autumn grain harvests in Chengdu this year.

In some places where the food was not mature, the Cao army was viciously burning and destroying fertile fields, and using scorched earth strategies to throw the burden on Liu Bei. Or a little more kind, at least learn from Liu Bei's army to use unripe wheat to crush it and cut it off first.

But it is definitely too late to make the spicy strips on the spot, so they are cut and dried before they are dried. They are transported to the official warehouses everywhere in Yanzhou to stock up.

The grain was not stored in Hebei, which shows that Cao Cao already felt that Hebei was not his.

In this kind of pull, before August 15th, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun took the lead in meeting, completing the first wave of large-scale territorial harvesting in this autumn, occupying all three counties in northern Jizhou.

On August 24th, Zhao Yun officially conquered Nanpi and restored the entire territory of Bohai County, the largest county in Jizhou.

When Jizhou was in full swing, the Bohai Sea was known as nearly three million people, accounting for half of the more than 7 million people in the state. It was called "Although the Bohai Sea is called a county, it is actually like a state, with population taxes that are too much higher than the entire neighboring Youzhou."

Now, he has finally returned to the great man.

The remaining three states on the north bank of the Yellow River are slightly slower to capture and take one or two more months. So in early September, the focus of the battle situation on the land of China moved south again.

On the seventh day of the September 1st, Liu Bei officially dug the canal connecting Yancheng and Ruyang, and tried to open the waters to navigate. He could pass through grain ships and troop transport ships, Yingchuan, Runan, and Chenliu, and all of them were managed by Liu Bei quite solidly. They could continue to advance steadily.

On September 12, with the overall assistance of Zhuge Liang, Li Su spent a lot of time and used a lot of manpower to repair various siege fortifications and facilities, but he did not suffer many casualties.

The cumulative loss of less than 10,000 people was finally captured. Considering the strength of Shouchun and the hardship of the Cao army in Shouchun, there were indeed not many casualties.

After the city was broken, Cao Ren still insisted on street fighting. The personal guards around him became less and less, and were finally killed by Dian Wei sent by Li Su.

Unfortunately, Shouchun is just a military stadium, not a central city with a very developed economy, so the population in the city is not large. It has been repeatedly tug-of-war and forced to strengthen the people. In the end, after the city was destroyed, there were not many living people left in the city, and the situation was very tragic.

Not only did Cao Ren's troops suffer heavy losses, but Cao Ren's troops were too heavy to attract men and ruthlessly, and they have aroused spontaneous resistance in the city several times before. However, due to the lack of internal and external information, many people who were incurred were massacred by Cao Ren.

After all, according to the original historical development trajectory, Shouchun has never played the role of the economic center of Huainan since then. Instead, Hefei, next door, has developed better. In this wave of unification war, the city has been hit harder, and it has been slumped as scheduled.

At this point, the ruling centers of the two Yuans fell into the hands of Liu Bei's camp. The territory Cao Cao had brought from the traitors and the income from his stolen brother's inheritance was equivalent to vomiting all of them again.

The territory that is still under Cao Cao's hands is basically the only one who owns his own basic division.

In the entire Qingzhou, Yanzhou, which had one Chenliu County missing. Yuzhou was beaten to only four counties: Chen County, Qiao County, Liang County and Pei County (Xiaopei), and Xuzhou was only Langya and Pengcheng, plus half of Donghai County, which was only two and a half counties.

If you discount the amount of Xuzhou to Yanzhou like playing Go, you can say that Cao Cao only has only two and a half states left.

When Liu Bei first launched the War of Final Unification at the beginning of the year, Cao Cao also claimed to be under his rule of five prefectures, with a total population of 12 million.

Now there is such a bloody tug-of-war, starving, and epidemic, and the total population of both sides has decreased by more than one or two million.

There is also the jurisdiction of three million people in Hebei that was occupied by Liu Bei. The counties in Huainan totaled more than one million, the three counties in southern Xuzhou had hundreds of thousands, and Yingchuan and Chenliu had 200,000 to 300,000 each.

The remaining two and a half states of Cao Cao had only more than 5 million permanent residents. The reason why he added a "permanent" limit is because Cao Cao also thought of a final decisive battle. When he retreated, he forced many strong men to transport food south of the Yellow River to fill military rations. These forced men would naturally become strong men and act as cannon fodder during the war.

So in fact, the total population in Cao Cao's jurisdiction was close to six million, and the hundreds of thousands more were equivalent to migrant workers, which made the proportion of young and strong men in Cao Cao's jurisdiction look slightly higher.

After the Huainan Battle on September 12th, Cao Ren was awarded the title of the head, about half a month later. In early October, the Pingyuan County of Jizhou changed hands completely. At this point, Cheng Yu and Zhang He fought and retreated, completely retreating across the Yellow River.

By the end of October, Leling and Qinghe were completely pacified and the entire Jizhou area was officially restored. Guan Yu and Ma Chao and other troops were restrained for another month or two to suppress bandits and comfort them everywhere, restoring social order.

In early November, after Liu Bei officially received the final news from various sources, he finally took a short half month to return to Luoyang from Ruyang, and temporarily handed over the stalemate battle to Lu Su, Gao Shun, Huang Zhong and others for supervision.

Anyway, the military operations have been slowed just now, and the front-line troops can retreat a little in stages to reduce the consumption of military rations and gather strength when the next wave is about to attack.

In the past half month, whether Liu Bei is present or not will not affect the stalemate situation.

Before Liu Bei returned to Beijing, he left behind Xijing, who was staying in Chang'an, and Situ Zhong Yao also summoned him to Luoyang in advance. Then Liu Bei and Zhong Yao, Xun You, Ju Su, Zhuge Jin and others discussed and formally gave rewards from the generals who made contributions in the front.

Guan Yu's first achievements in breaking Yecheng and restoring the three counties of Jizhou, he also made great achievements.

At the same time, given that Guan Yu's ancestral home is Hedong and is close to Bingzhou, and in recent years, Lu Bu surrendered to the court, he was ordered by the court to strangle the Tuoba Xianbei outside the northern pass of Bingzhou to achieve great results.

Therefore, the imperial court planned to re-establish Yunzhong County north of Yanmen County, using the land recaptured from the Xianbei people as the county, and adding several counties that were originally located north of the Great Wall. The county government used the previous Xianbei royal court to rename it Datong, and the Hu family destroyed it, which was the meaning of Datong in the world.

After establishing Yunzhong County, Guan Yu was granted the title of Duke of Yunzhong County, with six of the counties in Yunzhong County as fiefs. It is basically equivalent to Datong in later generations, plus places like Hohhot and Ulanqab. In the future, Guan Yu will continue to rob the places that have not yet been restored.

Of course, considering that Lu Bu's attitude was also good, he had been engaged in a trade with the Xianbei people before, and he had seized some territory for the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, the Duke Guan Yu had a fiefdom of six counties, and all counties of the entire county were not enfeoffed. Therefore, a good pasture area was set up near the former Xianbei king Tingshengle, leaving a county as the fiefdom of Lu Bu, and Lu Bu was still just a county marquis.

It is equivalent to a Duke and a Marquis in Yunzhong County, and Guan Yu left a county as Lu Bu's private land.

General Guan Yu conferred six counties as the queen, and the military generals who were queuing for contributions later were also promoted and rewarded.

After all, the Taiwei Zhang Fei killed Xiahou Yuan. The best result of defeating the enemy in the Battle of Pingjizhou was that the county and county he captured was smaller. However, considering that he had won half of Youzhou in the Battle of Fuyan last year (although he had been promoted to Taiwei at that time), these can be considered when he was awarded the title.

In the end, Zhang Fei was granted the five counties of Shanggu County in Youzhou. He was the Duke of Shanggu County. He chose a county town at the border pass of the Han Great Wall as his capital. The place was originally the garrison of the Han Dynasty's Wuhuan Captain, responsible for supervising the Wuhuan County of the three counties.

Now the county is officially established. During the discussion, Li Su also wrote a letter to Liu Bei. Li Su also made suggestions on the site of this capital, and suggested that the newly established county be named Zhangjiakou to show the emperor that he was honored and pacified by Zhang Fei.

Of course, Liu Bei would not be confused about the name of a new county. If the old brothers below had good suggestions, he would listen. Therefore, the former Wuhuan Captain's garrison naturally became the new "Zhangjiakou County" and the new county seat of Shanggu County.

In addition to Zhangjiakou County, Zhang Fei also won the four counties of Zhuolu, Juyong, Guangning and Pan County.

Zhao Yun also made half of his great achievements in restoring Yan last year. He had expanded so many lands before, and he defeated many barbarians for the Han Dynasty. This year, he has severely damaged the garrison of Bohai County and revived the Bohai County, the largest county in Jizhou, as well as some areas in Hejian.

Finally, Zhao Yun was also a county official in five counties, but after repeated consideration, he was placed in Xuantu County in Liaodong (equivalent to the current Chenyang, Fushun, Tieling and other places, all the way east to Tonghua)

This decision was also discussed by Liu Bei and Mi Zhu, because the place was originally under Mi Zhu's jurisdiction after all, and Mi Zhu has always been in Liu Bei's camp. He was nothing more than lurking behind enemy lines for many years, and finally took the initiative to return to the team peacefully.

Liu Bei wanted to grant Mi Zhu's jurisdiction to Zhao Yun, so he must make it clear. He only took part of the Mi Zhu Liaohe Plain, but the territory close to the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea coast was still left to Mi Zhu.

Mi Zhu considered that the court promised that Zhao Yun would help him ensure the northeastern border in the future and deal with the Fuyu people and the fishing and hunting people of the Goguryeo people, and Mi Zhu could still occupy all the benefits of the sea trade in Liaodong, so Mi Zhu was happy to let go.

Anyway, Mi Zhu wants to farm peacefully and do a maritime businessman now. It is not a big problem to make some farming areas on the Liaohe Plain. He can also raise less soldiers in the future, so he doesn’t have to worry about the threat of fishing, hunting and barbarians in the mountains of Daxinganling.

Zhao Yun went further, because Ma Chao made less contributions in the first two years, Fu Yan did not use him, and the battle of Jizhou only helped, so Ma Chao would definitely not be able to win the Duke.

Moreover, Ma Chao's qualifications to follow Liu Bei were indeed much shorter, and he did not vote as a prince in this life. In the end, he added 15,000 households to two counties in terms of merit, which was already very impressive.

In the future, there will be some small contributions such as pacifying the Western Regions, and gradually increase the 20,000 households in the three counties, which is almost the same.

After all the new dukes were sealed, the promotion and reward of the existing dukes was certainly indispensable.

Prime Minister Li Su has long been the first duke of the Han Dynasty. He was sealed more than two years ago. Over the years, the civil and military achievements have been increased step by step. The fiefs of the sixteen counties of Kuaiji County have been calculated in this way. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, the three new dukes, one six counties and two five counties, have only six counties in total, and there are as many as Li Su.

This time, Li Su also made contributions to the restoration of the entire Huainan area and some parts of northern Xuzhou. His subordinates' military achievements were also considered part of the commander's head, but everyone had to share the benefits.

In the end, Li Su was added two counties, from sixteen to eighteen counties.

Ganning also added two counties, with 10,000 households.

Zhuge Liang had more households than Ganning, mainly because Zhuge Liang had fewer direct military achievements and was too young. But it was precisely because of his youth that Zhuge Liang still had opportunities later.

He can also make more contributions in other fields, and there is no need to just grab military merits.

From Zhuge Liang to the next level, all the civil and military officials who made contributions this year also received promotions and awards, and the number of marquises and increased households involved dozens of people. They cannot be described one by one.
Chapter completed!