After Liu Bei captured Chengdu, he once awarded rewards to his soldiers.
For example, Zhao Yun was promoted from General Yamen to General Yijun, Kou Feng was promoted from the original Protector Colonel to General Xingye, Wei Yan was promoted to General Yamen, and Huang Zhong was promoted to General Betrayal. Fortunately, when Sun and Liu were in alliance before, Liu Bei said Sun Quan is appointed as the acting chariot and cavalry general, otherwise Sun Quan will be very embarrassed now.
This time the rewards were mainly given to military generals. In addition to official titles, they also awarded a lot of gold and silver.
The next reward Liu Bei will do is to adjust the rewards for officials in various counties.
For example, in Zitong County, Liu Bei appointed Wang Lian, the original commander of Zitong, to be the governor of Zitong.
Wang Lian is actually quite unlucky.
When Zhang Xi was the vanguard of Liu Bei's army going south, the only city he conquered was Zitong County, and the defender was Zitong Ling Wanglian.
The reason why Wang Lian is unlucky is because Wang Lian originally planned to defend to the death, but who knew that Liu Bei had secretly communicated with the wealthy families in Zitong County long ago.
At that time, Zhang Xi was in a hurry to attack outside the city, and the wealthy families in Zitong County were afraid that Zhang Xi would be disadvantageous to them if he defeated Zitong. In addition, Zhang Xi and Liu Bei had already had an affair, so they opened the city gate and tied up Wang Lian. Surrender the city.
He who was wronged by Wang Lian was really confident that he could defend Zitong County.
But no matter what, Wang Lian was tied up and met with Liu Bei. After talking to him, Liu Bei felt that this man was indeed very capable. Being a magistrate of Zitong County was a bit unqualified, so he re-adjusted his official position this time and sent Wang Lian to him. He was even appointed as the prefect of Zitong County.
Moreover, Wang Lian was also considered a native of Yizhou. He was appointed as the prefect because he wanted to appease the Yizhou local faction.
The powerful families in Yizhou saw that even people from small families like Wang Lian could become governors, so what are we waiting for? !
Those who asked for favors, those who wanted to build relationships, those who wanted to make friends, everything came here.
The aristocratic families in Yizhou also know that Liu Bei is new to Yizhou, and they don't think Liu Bei will leave many positions for them in the several governor positions, but chief officials such as county magistrates, as well as county assistant officials, should always Is there a place for one of our own? !
As for the Yizhou family's move, the Dongzhou faction couldn't stand still.
Our Dongzhou faction is the one who contributed the most to Liu Bei’s entry into Shu. Look at Fazheng, Li Yan, Meng Da, and Wu Yi, who is not a member of the Dongzhou faction?
Why should you Yizhou faction people get all the benefits? !
Therefore, the Yizhou faction and the Dongzhou faction launched a series of overt and covert struggles around Chengdu.
As for Zhang Xi, he has to go to Badong County to take office.
This is the appointment made by Liu Bei. Zhang Xi is the governor of Badong County, Zhang Fei is the governor of Brazil County, Fa Zheng is the governor of Shu County, and Li Yan is the governor of Qianwei County.
As the Yizhou family expected, Liu Bei would most likely leave the position of prefect to his own people.
Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong were in charge of Chengdu and stayed with Liu Bei. Pang Tong was responsible for making plans and Zhuge Liang was responsible for handling government affairs.
Fazheng accepted the position of the governor of Shu County and took charge of the entire Shu County as the first line of defense in Chengdu.
Zhang Fei, Zhang Xi, and Li Yan are the three counties that control the southeast and west directions of Shu County, further forming a protective circle to strengthen the connection between Chengdu and the local area.
The remaining Jiangyang County and Deyang County, the governor of these two counties, Liu Bei, will be used to win over people's hearts and be distributed to the people of the Yizhou faction or the Dongzhou faction.
As for the counties in Nanzhong, Liu Bei has not yet freed up his hands to appoint candidates. After all, the place has been in a semi-free state since Liu Yan's time and belongs to the autonomy of local wealthy families, so he can't take care of it for a while.
Therefore, Zhang Xi took Xiao Deng Ai and a team of guards on the road to Badong County to take office.
Badong County is actually quite close to Jingzhou, almost connected to Yidu County in Jingzhou, and the current Yidu Governor is Meng Da, newly appointed by Liu Bei.
Meng Da was supposed to be guarding against the invasion of Zhang Lu or Cao Cao's army from the north with Huo Jun at Jiameng Pass.
However, Meng Da and Huo Jun really couldn't get along, and Liu Bei didn't make it clear to them who was the chief officer and who was the deputy general.
Meng Da felt that he was welcoming
The people who took Liu Bei into Shu, his friends Fazheng and Li Yan were already in high positions, so he couldn't be lower than the little Jiameng gatekeeper general, right? !
But Huo Jun doesn't think he's bad either.
Originally, Huo Jun was a native of Jingzhou and a hero who followed Liu Bei to Shu.
He also blocked the attack of Fujin and Xiangcun at Jiameng Pass for more than half a year with a weak force. Even without Meng Da, he still had a way to defeat Fujin and Xiangcun, so he felt that his contribution was not small, even better than Meng Da's. The person who achieves this by merely welcoming is much higher.
The two of them could get along peacefully at first. After all, Huo Jun's temperament was there. Although he was conservative, he was also humble.
But Meng Da always spoke to Huo Jun in a boss tone. As time went by, Huo Jun became very dissatisfied.
After all, he is a warrior, and his modest personality has its limits.
Therefore, Huo Jun first wrote to Liu Bei to complain, and then Liu Bei wrote to Meng Da to ask about the situation. Meng Da immediately put all the mistakes on Huo Jun. The relationship between the two people quickly deteriorated.
At this time, Liu Bei also realized that he did not do things carefully, which resulted in the current results.
And just in time, now that Ma Chao has come to surrender, Liu Bei sent him to the Qiang land in the north of Yizhou to appease the Qiang people. Since he and Jiameng Pass can support each other, there is no need to keep Meng Da in Jiameng Pass just in case.
At this time, Zhang Fei wants to be transferred from the prefect of Yidu to the prefect of Brazil, so let Meng Da take the vacant post of prefect of Yidu.
A prefect of a county cannot say that he has treated Meng Da badly.
As for Huo Jun, the guard general of Jiameng Pass, Liu Bei also named Huo Jun a permanent general to clarify his status as the chief officer of the town as a comfort.
Although he is a general with a mixed name, this name means that Liu Bei knows Huo Jun's contribution. Without Huo Jun's persistence, Liu Bei would not be able to pacify Yizhou.
Well, that's a bit far-fetched. Anyway, Zhang Xi was sent to Badong County as the prefect by Liu Bei during this personnel transfer.
Badong County is not far from Chengdu. It is an additional county set up by dividing five counties from Ba County. Liu Zhang did this in order to strengthen his control over Ba County. In fact, Badong County is really not that big. .
Zhang Xi quickly arrived at Yufu, the county of Badong County, and met his old acquaintances stationed here, the first commanders of the Baijie Army, Chen Dao and Chen Shuzhi.
Ever since Zhuge Liang led his troops into Sichuan, he had handed over this retreat to Chen Lailai to guard. After Liu Bei pacified Chengdu, he did not call back his own army commander, but continued to leave Yu Fu alone.
There are still too few talents under Liu Bei, especially those who can act independently.
Chen Dao is Liu Bei's confidant and has experience in leading troops. Liu Bei can rest assured that he will be placed in charge of Yufu, an important node in Sichuan.
Another thing is that they are still allies with Jiangdong. Although Yufu is the gateway to Sichuan, the threat is not as good as Jiamengguan in the north. There are also police officers and Guan Yu from Jiangling to help with the situation, so there is no need to worry about Chen Dao not being able to deal with it.
Therefore, although Zhang Xi is the prefect of a county and is in charge of the military affairs of a county, in fact, with Chen Dao helping to share the military affairs, Zhang Xi is mainly responsible for the government affairs.
The most important thing is to measure the land in Badong and register the fish scale atlas.
This is a very important thing, and it is also a very dangerous thing.
Yizhou is no better than Jingzhou.
Jingzhou has experienced great wars. Whether it was the Battle of Chibi or the Battle of Nanjun, they were both wars involving a wide range of areas. Jingzhou's population and family strength have been weakened to a certain extent.
In addition, when Cao Cao returned from the north of Jingzhou, he also moved part of the population in the south of Jingzhou, resulting in a certain degree of unowned vacant land in Jingzhou.
To register these unowned vacant lands and restrict mergers by powerful local families, the Liu Bei Group actually encountered little resistance.
What's more, the center of gravity of Jingzhou has always been tilted to the north. Xiangyang and Nanyang are the essence of Jingzhou. There are more aristocratic families there. But that is Cao Cao's territory.
Now under the Liu Bei Group, the only place where the Jingzhou family is relatively powerful is Nanjun, but this place in Nanjun is controlled by Cao Cao in the front and in the middle.
Zhou Yu controls, and finally Liu Bei controls. After changing hands three times, no one can believe you if the Nanjun family is going to make some new splash.
Therefore, there was really not much resistance to Zhuge Liang's promotion of the fish scale album "invented" by Zhang Xi in Jingzhou.
But Yizhou is different.
Yizhou has basically not been affected by war. The power of the aristocratic family has become very powerful because of Liu Zhang's connivance, and the various relationships are complicated.
Although Liu Bei marched into Yizhou, neither Liu Bei marched south from Jiameng Pass to Chengdu nor Zhuge Liang marched along the Yangtze River to Bazhong, but they encountered no decent resistance. Therefore, the loss of the family's strength in Yizhou was minimal.
If the fish scale album is promoted in Yizhou, well, even Zhuge Liang feels that it needs to be carefully considered.
But the thing is, the fish scale album is really a good thing.
Although it cannot completely change the land annexation of aristocratic families, it can at least restrain and slow down the speed of land annexation by aristocratic families, so that people can retain their own farmland instead of becoming refugees or farmers.
Zhuge Liang still wants to promote the fish scale album system, but the current time is not suitable.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang had a private discussion with Zhang Xi and decided to let Zhang Xi come to Badong County to give it a try.
On the one hand, it is because Badong County is not very powerful, there are no influential big families, and they are relatively scattered in various counties, making them suitable for defeating them one by one.
On the other hand, Liu Bei's troops are directly stationed here. If a problem arises, Zhang Xi can directly mobilize the Baijie troops stationed in Yufu to suppress the rebellion. There is no need to mobilize troops from other places.
As for other counties, Zhuge Liang meant to remain ignorant for the time being and wait until Badong County measured the land results before making any plans.
Zhang Xi suggested to Zhuge Liang that it was okay to wait for the results, but don't just wait and see, and use this time to build the road first.
If you want to be rich, build roads first.
Well, although this is an important reason, in this era, Chidao and Tingshe are important means for the central government to control the place.
In fact, these things originally existed, but Liu Zhang didn't care about them at all when he was in power. Coupled with the deliberate connivance of the aristocratic families, these things were abolished.
Therefore, Zhang Xi suggested that Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei renovate the Chi Road connecting Chengdu to various counties and counties, repair the pavilions on the Chi Road, and strengthen local control.
In this way, once there is a change in the local area, Liu Bei can quickly receive the notification, and he can also quickly send troops to suppress it.
I believe that Emperor Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty must have had a say in the importance of Chidao and pavilions.
Although everyone in later generations joked that Emperor Chongzhen was thrown into the world because he ruined Li Zicheng's job, what was really important was that he thoughtlessly abolished the inn, making himself completely deaf and blind in Beijing, and then he was lost. The world.
Similarly, when Zhang Xi arrived in Badong County, the first thing he did was not to measure the land, but to launch corvee labor to repair the Chi Road in Badong County.
If these things are not done, given the geographical conditions of Bashu, it will be impossible to measure the land with peace of mind.
