In response to Liu Bei's question, Xiahou Dun shook his head.
"It is an honor for Dun to follow the lord, but he thinks that being able to serve the lord does not necessarily require him to fight on the battlefield. Dun is not as many as his colleagues, but he feels that he can accomplish many things as a prefect."
When Liu Bei heard this, he patted Xiahou Dun on the shoulder with a smile.
"What, have you learned anything about being a prefect?"
Xiahou Dun smiled sheepishly.
"Perhaps Dun has never been a person who likes fighting. He was still a little angry when he was young. The older he gets, the more he suffers, so he feels that stability is the best. Being able to govern in a stable manner and make the elders of the place happy may be more valuable than fighting. significance."
Liu Bei was silent for a while, smiled and nodded.
"Since Yuan Rang has such an idea, I respect your decision. You can continue to be the governor of Anding. If you do well in the future, you may be the governor of a state."
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty!"
Xiahou Dun saluted Liu Bei and expressed his gratitude.
To be honest, after so long, Liu Bei has discovered that the generals under his command are basically aggressive, unwilling to admit defeat, and like to wave their fists instead of reasoning.
Despite his cultural iron fist, Jiangshan's nature is easy to change but hard to change. We can still move our hands but not keep our mouths shut, and we can kill people but not set fires. Each one has its own unique abilities and is difficult to adjust.
Among this large group of jailed talents, Xiahou Dun is one of the few who can be reasonable.
He said that when he was fourteen, he killed someone on the street for his teacher. Although he was not a kind person, he was also a person who respected his teachers.
Without a combative temper, it is still difficult to be a general. However, after following him, Xiahou Dun has never done anything to fight for. After becoming a prefect, he is even more honest, diligent, and hands-on. Very attentive to official duties.
Xiahou Dun may not necessarily be the fastest in the government affairs requirements given by Liu Bei, but he must be the one with the highest quality of completion. In the end, when the state government accepts the local government affairs results, he will have experience.
The products produced by Yuan Rang must be of high quality.
Therefore, it is not surprising to Liu Bei that Xiahou Dun made such a choice now.
It would not be bad if he could be an immovable guard general or county guard. Let him do what he is good at and put the right people in the right positions. It is also a test for the superiors.
Except for Xiahou Dun, the generals under Liu Bei were not modest at all. One or two of them were vying to go to Luoyang with Liu Bei. None of them wanted to stay and lead the troops. They all wanted to follow Liu Bei to Luoyang to gain credit.
In the end, there was no other way. In order to show fairness, Liu Bei asked the generals to draw lots and let God decide, setting a two-thirds quota. He could take away up to two-thirds of the generals, and the remaining one-third would have to be taken away. Stay, stay, stay.
I have to leave people behind in my hometown.
If you get it, go for it. If you don't get it, don't blame others. Just blame yourself for your bad luck.
Then this method is indeed fair. Those who are drawn and those who are not drawn have nothing to say. If they want to blame, they can only blame themselves, so everyone agrees with this method.
So, Liu Bei led a group of generals to hold a lottery ceremony. The generals who got the draw were overjoyed and looked happy, while the generals who didn't get the draw looked as depressed as if they were mourning for their heirs.
In this way, Liu Bei selected the generals he would take with him to Luoyang to cause trouble.
In terms of staff, Liu Bei named Jia Xu, Xun You, Ruan Yu and other planning and public relations talents to follow him.
In addition, because some things require people who are absolutely trusted and deeply bound to do it, Cao Cao, Zhen Yan, Yan Wen, and Gai Xun were named by Liu Bei to follow him to Luoyang.
Cao Cao and Gai Xun's positions as governors were retained, and specific affairs were handed over to capable deputies. Zhen Yan and Yan Wen's affairs were also handed over to capable deputies. In Luoyang, Liu Bei had more and more important things that needed their help. Do.
Most of the remaining state officials have to stay and continue to do what they are supposed to do.
Once these aspects have been decided, all that remains is to choose the army.
At present, Liu Bei has established and directly controls the regular army with a total of twenty-two battalions, fifteen battalions in Liangzhou and seven battalions in Yizhou. Each battalion has 3,000 men, and the total strength is 66,000.
Among the twenty-two battalions of regular troops, ten battalions were recruited from all over the country by Liu Bei in the Sanhe area, five battalions were recruited locally in Liangzhou, and seven battalions were recruited in Yizhou.
In terms of combat effectiveness and combat discipline, the ten battalions of Sanhe veterans are Liu Bei's most powerful army with combat effectiveness and combat discipline. They are very powerful.
Although the five battalions of Liangzhou soldiers also have some wild combat experience, their combat experience in group operations is slightly insufficient. However, they have been trained for a long time, which is a bit academic, and their tactics are very orthodox.
In contrast, the seven combat battalions of the Yizhou soldiers had considerable group combat experience because they were mainly composed of Han people. However, their tactics and tactics were a bit outdated and they were not very familiar with the mainstream tactics of the Han army and needed proper training. .
Returning to Luoyang this time, according to Liu Hong's wish, Liu Bei planned to lead seven or eight battalions.
In Liu Bei's view, with the military capabilities of He Jin and Yuan Wei and their ability to form an army, more than 20,000 Liangzhou soldiers were enough to deal with them.
The troops brought will be mainly Sanhe veterans, supplemented by Liangzhou soldiers. Yizhou soldiers still need training, so they will not be considered for the time being.
After discussing with his staff, they agreed with the idea, so Liu Bei began to select the army.
Liu Bei was preparing his troops slowly and calmly, but Liu Hong was really anxious.
The situation in Luoyang reached a deadlock because He Jin summoned troops from all directions to cause trouble. The foreign relatives' forces that had just been restrained began to rise again. However, it would take at least two months for Liu Bei to arrive in Luoyang, which made him very anxious. anxiety.
Under such circumstances, Liu Hong followed Jian Shuo's suggestion and came up with a new strategy. He planned to let He Jin lead troops to Xuzhou to help Liu Yan, the Xuzhou herder who was unlucky in the crusade against the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans, in his crusade against the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans.
At the end of the fifth year of Zhongping, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army came to an end under Liu Yu's guiding ideology of "focusing on pacification and suppression as a supplement", and Qingzhou entered a period of peace and stability.
Now under the governance of Liu Yu, Qingzhou has a grand scene of political harmony and harmony. In addition to governing Qingzhou himself, Liu Yu also became friends with Zheng Xuan, the former leader of the ancient literary school and a famous domestic scholar who lived in seclusion in his hometown, and had very close personal relationships.
In Yuzhou, although there was interference from the Yuan family, Huang Wan was a capable person.
With the full support of the Jinwen School, Huang Wan actually arrested people for questioning, and then appointed cronies to positions as state pastors. In spite of the overwhelming impeachment of "nepotism" by Yuan's former officials, Huang Wan was stunned. It stabilized the situation.
Relying on iron-fisted methods and spending a lot of effort, Huang Wan still wiped out all the Yellow Turban Army in Gepi, and then built Jingguan to shock people's hearts, and initially solved the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Yuzhou in a more terrifying way.
As a result, Yuzhou also began to restore stability. Yuan's attempt to put Huang Wan in small shoes in Yuzhou failed with the full support of the Jinwen School.
Only Liu Yan, who was granted the title of Sanzhou Mu in the fifth year of Zhongping, has not been able to successfully pacify the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans. The Xuzhou Yellow Turbans are still entrenched in the Xiapi and Guangling areas and continue to fight against Liu Yan.
Although Liu Yan's generals Wu Yi, Wu Ban, Sun Zhao and others fought hard, they still had some shortcomings in the face of the huge number of Yellow Turbans.
Faced with this situation, Jian Shuo's proposal to let He Jin lead troops to help Liu Yan conquer the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans was a reasonable thing, and most people couldn't say anything wrong.
It's just that in the current situation, letting He Jin lead the troops to leave Luoyang is equivalent to letting He Jin's brain leave his head. He Jin is not that smart, but he is not a pure fool, and it is impossible to agree to this request.
So he discussed with Yuan Wei and felt that the emperor had bad intentions and he must not leave Luoyang. As for this order, he could recommend others to act.
For example, Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu can do it. It doesn't hurt to let them fight and earn some credit back.
So He Jin recommended Yuan Shu, the general of Huben Zhonglang, and Yuan Shao, the general of Yulin Zhonglang, and asked the emperor to appoint one of these two men to lead troops to support Xuzhou. He would surely win the victory soon.
(End of chapter)
