Chapter 479: Governor of the Twenty-Four Counties (Part 1)

Chapter 479: Prefect of the Twenty-Four Counties (Part 1)

Chapter 478: Prefect of the Twenty-Four Counties (Part 1)

 This canonization is different from the past.

 First of all, Liu Hongzhi had been granted the title of governor before, but he had never been granted the title of state pastor, but this time he was granted the title of eight at once.

 It should be noted that the governor and the state pastor are not the same concepts.

The governor only has supervisory powers, while the governor of the state is in charge of the military and administration of a state and is the real official of the frontier.

In addition, there are four princes with one character, and four county princes.

 The marquises in Tingli County and others only had settlements, while the marquises with ancient characters like Jin Yan were princes of the country and had fiefs.

In his own fiefdom, the prince is the emperor, and he can do whatever he wants, and the court cannot interfere.

 In the end, Liu Hong actually canonized all the eight generals with real power to command the troops in four expeditions and four towns at once. This is a truly grand gesture.

 Obviously Liu Hong also realized that not only was the power of the Han Dynasty alone not enough to control the world, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to restrain the princes under his command.

 The strength of the princes has surpassed that of the imperial court. If the master is weak and the servant is strong, if things continue like this for a long time, will the princes still listen to the imperial court?

  Definitely not.

 So Liu Hong could only win over a group of foreign ministers by increasing his rank and enfeoffment, and at the same time buy time for the court.

Of course, in order to ensure the dominance of the Han Dynasty, four of the eight state pastors conferred by Liu Hong were Han clan clan members.

You must know that among the four Han clan clansmen, Liu Yan, Liu Yao and Liu Dai did not make much contribution at all. Liu Yu was fine at that time, but he was still not as good as anyone not named Liu.

 But no one can object to this result. After all, who gave someone the surname Liu? Destiny has never been unequal.

Liu Hong is relatively relieved for the time being regarding these eight state pastors.

 Qin and Wen were relatives, and Huangfu Songding was a die-hard loyalist and was willing to give up his military power at any time. The only person who really worried Liu Hong was Dong Zhuo.

However, considering that when the court was in trouble, Dong Zhuo did not hesitate at all and directly led 200,000 Liangzhou troops to serve the king. Liu Hong could barely trust Dong Zhuo.

 Hence, the real function of conferring the title of eight state pastors is to allow these eight state pastors to restrain the prefects under their command.

Liu Hong's first canonization also sent out a signal that he would not hesitate to reward him, which made Cao Cao, Sun Jian and other generals who had made great achievements feel very excited.

Although the big head has been taken by the Eight Prefectural Muds, the remaining small heads are equally tempting to them, so they are all looking forward to Liu Hong's next reward.

After receiving the canonization, the generals of the Four Expeditions led their troops and horses and left Luoyang. After all, the situation on the border was even more dangerous.

Considering that Luoyang's military strength was weak, Dong Zhuo left Li Shimin with an army of 50,000 to serve in front of the Holy Spirit, while he himself led the remaining Liangzhou army back to quell the rebellion.

In order to resist the Xiongnu, Qin Wen also returned to Bingzhou and settled in Jinyang City, Taiyuan County, the seat of Bingzhou.

The Yanmen Army had 30,000 cavalry when they went south, but only 3,000 were left when they returned. This shows how brutal this battle was.

The Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes were powerful, so Liu Yuze and Huangfu Song formed the Youji Allied Forces to jointly fight against the invasion of the Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes. Not long after General Si Zheng left Luoyang, Liu Hong carried out a second canonization, and this time it was mainly for the governors of various states.

Youzhou has a total of ten counties and 1 vassal state with 78 counties. Except for the three northeastern counties occupied by Wuhuan, among the remaining counties, only the position of prefect of Youbeiping County is vacant.

Gongsun Zan was originally a lieutenant of Liaodong County. He made great contributions when he went south this time, so he was named the governor of Beiping;

Jizhou has a total of three counties, six countries and 99 counties. Among them, the five counties of Weijun, Bohai, Hejian, Changshan and Qinghe are still in the hands of the Han army, while the four counties of Julu, Anping, Zhaoguo and Zhongshan are all under the control of Dou Jiande.

Although Han Fu's performance was average this time, his son Han Xin made great contributions, so Han Fu was named the governor of Hejian and the Marquis of Lecheng; Han Xin was named General Fenwei.

Yuan Shao had both merits and demerits in this battle, but overall his merits outweighed his faults, so he was named the Bohai Prefect and the Marquis of Qixiang;

 Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng who surrendered were granted the title of prefect of Changshan and Qinghe, naturally to make them and Dou Jiande fight dogs.

As for Weijun, the only unconsecrated administrative seat, it was naturally the territory of Jizhou Muhuang Fusong.

Bingzhou has nine counties and 91 counties. After Qin Wen, the governor of the state, took over Taiyuan, the five counties of Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, and Taiyuan were all under Qin Wen's rule, leaving only Shangdang, Shangjun, Xihe, and The four counties of Shuofang still lack a prefect.

Wang Shichong, who surrendered, was made the governor of Shangdang. He formed a corner with Chen Youliang of Changshan and Zhang Shicheng of Qinghe to attack Dou Jiande;

Zhang Yang was named the Grand Administrator of Shangjun; Zhang Chao was granted the title of Grand Administrator of Xihe; Wang Kuang was granted the title of Grand Administrator of Shuofang.

 Qingzhou has a total of two counties, four countries and 65 counties. Except for the two counties of Pingyuan and Beihai, most of which are still in the hands of the Han army, while Jinan, Le'an, Donglai and Qi are all under the control of Huang Chao.

 Liu Bei was granted the title of Prefect of Pingyuan due to his meritorious service and Lu Zhi's care.

 Although he went to Pingyuan as in the original history, Liu Bei's treatment this time was hundreds of times better than in the original history. After all, Pingyuan Country and Pingyuan County are not the same concept.

Song Jiang is still as miserable as ever. Only Beihai County is left in Qingzhou, but the prefect is Kong Rong.

Kong Rong is a descendant of Confucius and has Confucianism as his backer. Song Jiang will definitely not be able to squeeze him away.

Qingzhou no longer had any land that could be allocated to Song Jiang, but the imperial court wanted to use the power of Liangshang to control Huangchao, so in order to appease Song Jiangcai, Liangshan was made a new county and Song Jiang was granted the title of Liangshan Prefect;

Taking advantage of the war, Song Jiang also gathered many refugees from Hebei. In addition to conquering several surrounding counties, Liangshan is now set as a county, so it doesn't matter.

It's just that the Liangshan army paid most of the casualties, but in the end they only got a Liangshan prefect. So what was the purpose of Liangshan's surrender to the Han?

Not only the heroes in Liangshan can't accept it, but even Song Jiang can't accept it. But now that the big man has won, the Yellow Turbans have been offended to death, so what can Song Jiang do?

Song Jiang could only shamelessly appease the Liangshan brothers, but in his heart, he felt a trace of resentment for still not paying attention to himself and Liu Hong.

 After the governors of each county were in place, they immediately organized the entire county to support the state herdsmen in fighting against the foreign tribes.

Qin Wen led his four subordinate prefects. After arriving at Yanmen Pass, they discovered that although the Huns were powerful, they did not seem to have the intention to attack the city, so the Bingzhou coalition forces confronted the Huns army at Yanmen Pass.

The Xiongnu were really just showing off, but Xianbei and Wuhuan were serious about it.

Facing more than 300,000 Hu cavalry, the Jiyou Allied Forces could only hold on. It was not until Liu Bei and Song Jiang from Qingzhou arrived that the Three Prefectures Allied Forces were finally able to compete with them.

It wasn't until Han Xin saw the right opportunity and planned to ambush the Xianbei Chanyu that the catastrophe was finally resolved.

Second update, please subscribe and recommend. As for where Sun Jian and Cao Cao's base is, don't worry, this part is not over yet, it will be mentioned later.

　　

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