The position of chief clerk is Zhang Xi's personal secretary. Whether he has one or not depends entirely on what Zhang Xi thinks.
If Zhang Xi is willing to work hard, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have a master book.
Moreover, the current Zhang Xi does not have a chief candidate, Zhao Lei is a ready candidate.
It's just that Zhao Lei and Deng Ai were originally helping Zhang Xi handle the official documents, but now it's Zhao Lei who handles the matter alone.
With Zhao Lei's ability, he would not feel any pressure if he had more official documents to deal with.
Therefore, Zhao Lei officially took office and became Zhang Xi's chief clerk, fully assisting Zhang Xi in coordinating the autumn harvest work in the 21st year of Jian'an.
Well, well, this arrangement is quite good. But Zhao Lei is very busy.
Some time ago, I have been busy helping Ma Liang, Yi Ji, Wang Ji and others formulate disaster relief plans. I have just finished this task, and the autumn harvest has come up again.
Moreover, the Lord is still the kind of person who likes to be a hands-off shopkeeper and a humanoid seal, which makes Zhao Lei unbearable.
Zhao Lei couldn't bear it anymore and admonished Zhang Xi several times. As the chief official of a county, he couldn't just draw a circle on the official document and be done with it, right? !
Some things require you to make decisions as the leader, and you need to come up with ideas. You cannot leave everything to the people below.
To put it nicely, you trust your subordinates, but to put it worse, you don't even know that you were ignored by your subordinates later.
Zhang Xi thought about it and felt that what Zhao Lei said made sense. He finally took over some of the work that originally belonged to him and started busy preparing for the autumn harvest together.
After the autumn harvest this time, Guan Yu had already issued a conscription order, summoning Xu Shu, the prefect of Wuling, Pan Jun, the prefect of Lingling, and Wenpin, the public security guard, to go to Jiangling to discuss matters.
It is not a big problem for Xu Shu and Pan Jun to temporarily leave the two counties. The assistant officials are responsible for all matters in the county.
Wenpin is more troublesome. He is a guarding general in the army. If he wants to hand over official duties, he has to find a suitable candidate.
Wenpin chose among his subordinates, and finally decided to temporarily entrust the public security to Zhang Ren.
On the one hand, Zhang Ren is a veteran general in central Sichuan and is very familiar with military affairs. It is easy to control the garrison in a place.
On the other hand, Wenpin also wanted to test Zhang Ren to see if he would get into trouble with Liu Zhang, who was living in the police station, after he left.
Zhang Ren's ability was recognized by Wenpin. Even the two of them were about the same age. Wenpin felt that Zhang Ren was enough to guard the side in terms of ability and qualifications.
But what Wenpin was worried about was that although Zhang Ren was working in the Liu Bei Group, he still took good care of Liu Zhang and maintained courteous etiquette in private. This reaction not only made Wenpin sigh, but also made Wenpin worried.
What I sigh with emotion is Zhang Ren's loyalty. He Wenpin couldn't do this back then.
What is worrying is that since Zhang Ren has chosen to serve Liu Bei, he should make a clean break with Liu Zhang. The matter of one minister and two masters would not sound good to anyone.
So Wenpin asked Zhang Ren to accept public security defense this time, just to test it out and see if Zhang Ren would cause any trouble.
And there is a saying that even if Zhang Ren and Liu Zhang seize military power and occupy the public security, they will not pose a big threat to Jingzhou.
After all, there are only about 10,000 police officers stationed, half of them are navy soldiers, and Liu Bei's group's territory lies behind him and behind him. Zhang Ren can't defend this place even with those soldiers.
If Liu Zhang keeps to himself, then Liu Bei will not do anything to him, but if he joins forces with Zhang Ren to rebel, then Liu Bei will not have any concerns about killing him.
As long as Liu Zhang and Zhang Ren don't act stupidly, they won't seek death.
After handing over military affairs to Zhang Ren, Wenpin arrived in Jiangling City at the end of September.
Although the police station was closest to Jiangling, Wenpin was the last one to arrive. Before him, Xu Shu and Pan Jun, who were far away, arrived first.
When everyone arrived, Guan Yu did not waste any more time and directly held a military meeting.
Discuss the matter of sending troops to Xiangfan.
Before the military meeting began, Guan Yu read two letters to everyone present.
A handwritten letter from Liu Bei to Guan Yu was sent two months ago, in which he mentioned the purpose of sending troops to Xiangfan.
This letter was discussed between Guan Yu and Zhang Xi.
The other letter arrived recently, describing the time and purpose of sending troops in more detail.
Liu Bei said that after the autumn harvest, he would sort out the food and baggage and send troops to attack Hanzhong in about November.
As for Jingzhou, Liu Bei said that he was not familiar with the situation and gave Guan Yu full authority to act according to the situation. However, one thing is that if the battle of Hanzhong goes smoothly and Liu Bei can occupy Hanzhong before Cao Cao reacts, then Guan Yu will not move.
If Cao Cao has already raised troops to march in Yecheng, then Guan Yu will have to attack Xiangyang to slow down Cao Cao's aid to Hanzhong. It is best to attract some troops to Xiangyang to reduce the pressure on himself.
As for Jiangdong, Liu Bei also wrote to Sun Quan and sent Sun Qian as an envoy to Jiangdong, requesting Sun Quan to send troops to Hefei and disperse Cao's army. The specific time to send troops was beyond Liu Bei's control.
The first letter describes the strategic purpose, and the second letter shows the strategic direction.
According to Liu Bei's letters, Liu Bei considered all aspects of the Battle of Hanzhong. He attacked from east to west and from south to north throughout the Han Dynasty, which made Cao Cao exhausted. If everyone could work together, Cao Cao might be able to win. He was beaten to the point of being unable to recover.
Although Liu Bei felt that this situation was unlikely, but no matter what, with the two-way arrangement between Jingzhou and Hanzhong, Liu Bei believed that it would not be a big problem for him to win Hanzhong.
As for whether Jiangdong can break through Hefei, it all depends on Jiangdong's ability. After all, this matter is also beneficial to them.
Guan Yu can temporarily ignore matters in Chengdu and Jiangdong, and only needs to consider Xiangyang in front of him.
The purpose of convening a military meeting this time is to discuss with everyone how to fight Xiangyang.
Whether to fight or not is not a prerequisite for consideration. The lord has given the order, and it is a auxiliary attack mainly for containment, so troops must be sent.
Everyone has different opinions on how to fight.
Guan Yu's idea was to attack Xiangyang with all his troops from Jingzhou as soon as he received news that Cao Cao had raised troops from Yecheng.
There was a lag in the transmission of news these days, and the Hebei area was a bit far away from Jingxiang. Guan Yu estimated that by the time he received the news that Cao Cao had raised troops, Cao Cao might have led his army across the Yellow River.
It was the right time to raise troops at that time. When Cao Cao marched to Luoyang, he would probably receive news that he was attacking Xiangyang. In this way, Cao Cao would hesitate whether to go west to Chang'an or go south to rescue Xiangyang.
This will serve the purpose of delaying Cao Cao's reinforcements.
As for Hanzhong District Xia Houyuan, how could he be his elder brother's opponent?
This is Guan Yu's idea.
But this idea met with opposition from many people.
But the focus of the objection is a little different.
Zhang Xi and Xu Shu believed that they could not attack Xiangyang with all their strength. After all, we still don’t know the attitude of the people in the east.
Although the Lord has also made an appointment with Jiangdong to send troops together, whether or when Jiangdong sends troops is beyond our control.
If all the soldiers in Jingzhou are transferred northward, if Xiangyang is not captured, Jingzhou will be empty. The people in Jiangdong will not miss such a good opportunity.
Even Wenpin cautiously stated that even if county soldiers were to be transferred, at least the public security and Nanjun should arrange enough manpower to guard them, and they could not be transferred so easily. Otherwise, if there is not even the first line of defense, the army will return in the future. There is no guarantee that Nan County can be defended.
Pan Jun and Wang Ji believed that since it was a feint attack, what we needed to do was to bluff, send a small number of troops to carry out guerrillas, create a posture of massive attack on Xiangyang, and force Cao Cao to increase his troops in Xiangyang. There was no need to attack definitely. Xiangyang.
The main reason is that our supply of food and grass is insufficient. This year's harvest will increase the food needs of the 80,000-strong army in March at most. We only have food and grass for seven or eight months. It is difficult to confront Cao Cao's army.
No one is opposed to fighting, but the question is how to fight.
Guan Yu still insisted on his opinion. After all, he had been thinking about taking Xiangyang City for almost six years.
At most, Guan Yu took a step back, saying that he could leave some troops in Jingnan and Nanjun to guard against Jiangdong villains, but he would definitely lead a large army to attack Xiangyang City.
Well, at least not less than 50,000 troops.
We can't place all our hopes on Cao Cao's initiative to divide his troops. If Xiangyang City is not defeated, Cao Cao may really rely on Xiangyang City's defense system to refuse rescue and go west to Tongguan to assist Xiahou Yuan.
Pan Jun and Wang Ji wanted to persuade them again. After all, the issue of food and grass should not be underestimated. Once the two sides reached a stalemate, it would be a waste of food and effort.
It is better to save this wasted space to prepare for future disasters and use it to provide relief to the victims.
Guan Yu did not accept this.
Wang Ji is better. After all, he is newly appointed. After figuring out the internal framework of Liu Bei Group, he will not argue with Guan Yu.
But Pan Jun really couldn't bear it.
Pan Jun actually has a bad temper and is quite irritable.
In the past two years, I have been staying in that shabby place in Lingling. The people in that place are quite boring to begin with. In addition, Pan Jun has managed to renovate some fertile farmland in recent years, and the locust plague has caused a disaster. People from the local aristocratic families still laugh at him. He "worked in vain". Now seeing Guan Yu insisting on wasting food, he became anxious at that time.
They started arguing with Guan Yu on the spot, but in the end the second master couldn't argue, so he simply closed his eyes and refused to listen. Pan Jun was also unambiguous and directly pointed at Guan Yu's nose and called him "military" and "a reckless man".
Zhang Xi saw that something was wrong, so he quickly stopped the second master, and then signaled Xu Shu to stop Pan Jun. Well, this brother has a bad temper, which is enough.
(End of chapter)
