To be honest, Liu Bei really forgot about Jia Xu's existence when he first came to Liangzhou.
However, when Yan Zhong mentioned it, Liu Bei thought of this famous poisoner.
It’s hard to say whether he is a poisonous warrior or not, but he has strong military planning capabilities and the ability to find a way out for himself. He made almost every choice right in the turbulent chaos of the late Han Dynasty. In the end, as a Liangzhou native He died as the third Duke of Cao Wei.
After him, his family became a high-ranking family, and his descendants benefited endlessly.
It is not difficult to make plans, and many of my contemporaries can do it, but making almost every choice right, almost starting with a perfect ending...
Jia Wenhe, there is something.
After further questioning Yan Zhong, Liu Bei learned that Jia Xu was idle at home, so he immediately ordered that Jia Xu be summoned to work for him, hoping that Jia Xu could come to serve.
As for the scribes in Liangzhou, Liu Bei summoned three people as soon as he arrived, but he had not summoned the warriors yet. Liu Bei felt that this was not good, so he asked Gai Xun, Yan Zhong and Yan Wen if they had any warriors they could recommend to him. he.
Gai Xun then recommended Pang De, a Hanyang native who was serving as a minor official in the governor's mansion, to Liu Bei.
He said that Pang De was brave and tall. Although he was very young, he was brave and had a lot of military skills. He had read military books and hoped that Liu Bei could promote him.
Liu Bei then summoned Pound. When they met, he found that Pound was indeed tall and strong, and he looked like a fierce man at first sight.
He was happy and had some ideas, so he called Guan Yu and asked Guan Yu and Pang De to test their strength.
Guan Yu was arrogant and looked down on Pang De. Pang De was young and energetic and dissatisfied with Guan Yu.
The two fought on foot with swords for more than 80 rounds without deciding the winner. They then mounted horses to test their riding skills and mounted shooting, with no distinction between superior and inferior.
In the end, Guan Yu was slightly better than fighting on horseback.
After the competition, Guan Yu put away his pride and recognized Pang De's martial arts. Pang De also put away his youthful spirit and admitted to Guan Yu that he still lacked in fighting skills.
These two fateful enemies seem to have reached their own reconciliation at this moment.
Liu Bei admired Pang De's bravery very much, so he summoned him to serve as the prefect of the Prefectural Mufu, and then prepared to recruit an army composed of Liangzhou people.
"As a shepherd of Liangzhou, how can I not have local soldiers from Liangzhou under my command?"
Liu Bei then announced a recruitment order, preparing to recruit two more battalions of 6,000 Liangzhou soldiers in Liangzhou itself.
In the first month after entering Liangzhou, Liu Bei's activities were very frequent and he had to deal with many things.
The work during this period is mainly to prepare for future governance, so that the people under his command who are responsible for various tasks can take over the affairs they need to be responsible for in the shortest possible time and start working.
He ordered Jian Yong, who was in charge of personnel affairs, and Shuzuo Guoyuan, the meritorious official, to make statistics on the list of public officials in Liangzhou Prefecture, various counties and counties in the shortest possible time, and conduct a thorough investigation.
It is necessary to find out who did what and whether he is competent, and then give him a detailed report.
He also ordered Zhen Yan, the bookkeeper in charge of finance, and Zuo Yinda and Sun Qian, the bookkeepers in charge of finance, to rectify the financial situation of the Liangzhou capital and counties, as well as the land and commercial tax situation, and submit Liangzhou's financial report to him as soon as possible.
Then he ordered the chief registrar Han Hao and Yi Cao to engage in the work of Xun Yu and Yan Wen to collect the household registration of Liangzhou, conduct statistics on the registered population of Liangzhou, and report the population situation of each county to him as soon as possible.
The members of the General Affairs Department he brought from Luoyang were assigned to these subordinates in charge of services, and they were all involved in the exciting work of investigating the situation in Liangzhou.
They are promised positions, but need to go through a phase of assessment to determine what level of positions they can take on.
Now is the assessment for them. As long as they work well, they will be given priority in the next big change of officials in Liangzhou.
After getting Liu Bei's promise, everyone started working hard as if they had been given a shot of chicken blood.
In addition to paying a little attention to these things, Liu Bei himself focused mainly on the military. He was preparing for the first shot that needed to be fired after taking office as the Mu of Liangzhou.
So he took Yan Zhong with others who were good at military strategy, and many generals and subordinates focused on military work.
Further training of the army, familiarity with the climate and terrain of Liangzhou, exploration of the status of unruly armed rebel groups that still exist in various states, etc. These are all the tasks he needs to do. It is very complicated and the work The portion is huge.
Especially military training, that is a top priority.
If the new recruits were trained from scratch, it would take at least two to three years to train them into technical units such as cavalry and crossbowmen. However, Liu Bei was lucky. A considerable part of the troops he recruited had battlefield experience. It has military technology itself.
There are many people who can ride horses and shoot arrows. The pure recruits who have never touched a weapon are not the absolute main part of this army. The training of fighting infantry is much easier than the training of technical arms.
Yan Zhong was very touched by what Liu Bei did in military training.
Yan Zhong only knew that Liu Bei was good at using troops and was very brave before, but he didn't know that Liu Bei was also good at training troops. Especially after in-depth contact, he also found that Liu Bei's army was very different from other armies in his impression.
The biggest difference is that this army can eat three meals a day, and each meal is decent and solid. Therefore, the soldiers in the army always have ruddy faces and no food. Since he entered the army to observe, he has not seen any starving.
This surprised him, because eating three meals a day is something only upper-class people have the capital to do these days. Only they can add a snack or snack to two main meals. Most people don't say whether they have it or not. The key to qualifications is that you can't afford it.
But Liu Bei allowed his army soldiers to have three meals a day.
Yan Zhong asked Liu Bei if this would cost too much. Liu Bei showed Yan Zhong a statistical list of daily expenses in the army, letting Yan Zhong see that it was not a big deal for the army soldiers to have enough to eat three meals a day. Things that cost money.
"The main reason why we have such a stereotyped impression of this matter is that the bad habits and corruption in the military were too serious in the past. The people responsible for purchasing military supplies and warehousing, as well as the entire process of purchasing supplies, were all corrupt. 's top priority.
Therefore, the ancients lamented that the giant rats could not eat our millet. If we get rid of the rats, our millet would naturally be preserved. The supplies used by the army now were purchased and prepared by me in the land of Sanhe and Sanfu. Throughout the whole process, I If you personally send someone to supervise, as long as this link is under control, it will not be difficult to provide the army with three meals a day. "
Yan Zhong looked at the statistics of these military daily expenses and sighed very much.
"How can a monarch manage his army so well and plan his expenses so well!"
"There is a folk saying that if you want a horse to run fast, you must be willing to let it eat concentrated feed. People who don't eat enough can't do anything well."
Liu Bei said with a smile: "In the past, we used to work hard and get paid, so that normal office links were full of corruption and transactions. But I built the army from scratch, eliminated all these links, and implemented strict military regulations." If I impose restrictions and deter them, I will be able to leave more finances to subsidize the soldiers’ daily lives, forming a virtuous cycle.”
Yan Zhong nodded slowly.
"The ancients managed the army. It is not that no one could do it, but there were too few. Those who could do it were all famous generals who will be remembered in history. When a king runs an army, he will be remembered in history."
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PS: I ate chicken crow soup dumplings this morning. They tasted good and I was very happy, so I’ll add another chapter.
