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On the same day when Zhou Yu led his army to leave Chengdu, Li Li held a banquet in the inner hall of the prefecture, which was the former governor of Yizhou, Liu Zhang.

During the meal, there were also many Yizhou civil and military officials, including Zhang Song, Zhao Wei, Wu Yi, Zhang Su and Zhang Ren.

This is a farewell banquet before Liu Zhang left Yizhou, and the civil and military officials of Yizhou who were present also wanted to leave Yizhou with him and go to Chang'an to take up their new post.

It goes without saying that Li Li's handling of civil and military officials in Yizhou is no different from other prefectures and counties that he had recovered before, and he still adopted the method of transferring him from his original hometown to serve in another place.

By transferring the original officials, he was ordered to leave his hometown and go to another place thousands of miles away to re-employed. This would break the inherent interest groups and gentry classes, disintegrate local forces, and re-establish a new order, thereby strengthening his control over Yizhou and consolidating his dominance.

This method of working in another place is not new or outstanding, but it is very practical.

It has been used in all dynasties, even after a thousand years.

However, the current Han Dynasty's official system was not like this. Most officials were native natives, and they would only stay away from their hometown after they became county magistrates or were transferred directly to the prefecture. However, no matter how they were transferred, as long as they did not enter the court as an official, most of them would be transferred within the state, and would not stay away from their hometowns and be placed in different places.

This is particularly prominent in civil officials, but military generals are not the case. Generals who are above the rank of the lieutenant have a large range of mobilization, and most of them will be sent wherever they need it. This is limited to when the world is relatively peaceful and the society is generally stable. Once wars or troubled times occur, military generals must stay with the army at all times. It is rare to have time to go home all year round, and many middle and lower-level generals can never go back after leaving home. After all, wars are going to kill people. And middle and lower-level generals are the backbone of charge and the main target of enemy shooting or sneak attacks. The death rate is very high.

Perhaps, this is the main reason why people in the world are willing to learn literature but not join the army, and it is also the direct reason why military generals are more likely to obtain titles than civil officials, which is equivalent to an incentive policy. (This was the case in dynasties before the Tang Dynasty. As long as military generals can be promoted to generals, they often get corresponding titles, while most civil officials cannot obtain titles throughout their lives. Since the Song Dynasty, this system has undergone fundamental subversion, and the phenomenon of emphasizing culture over military affairs has quickly become prominent. It has prompted the vast majority of people to abandon military affairs and follow the articles. As the army became more and more intense, the combat effectiveness of the army in the middle and late Song dynasties was the weakest, and the Yuan Dynasty appeared. To put it another way, Liang Hongyu and the female generals of the Yang family were the special product of that era. Although it was a story about the past, in a sense, it was not a shame. The generals and ministers with high powers were all scholars and scholars who were powerless, so women led the army to fight on the battlefield and charged in the battle. This was an extremely distorted social phenomenon, and it was not an exaggeration to regard it as a shame.)

Back to the topic, everyone walked into the main hall after the banquet.

This is the critical moment that really determines their destiny, because they were still idle until now. The original official positions were automatically abolished as Yizhou changed ownership, so they were all white at this moment, no different from the common people.

Waiting patiently for a while, finally, Li Lilong walked into the main hall and sat down slowly in the upper main seat.

"I'll pay homage to the lord (general)!"

Seeing Li Li appearing to sit down, more than ten Yizhou civil and military officials, led by Zhao Wei, Zhang Ren, Wu Yi and Zhang Song, leaned over and kneeled down, while Liu Zhang, who stood in the front, bowed and bowed. He still respected Li Li's official taboo and did not perform the ritual of kneeling. This is the reserve of the royal nobles, just like a cooked duck meat that is rotten but not a rotten mouth, and still sticks to the last little pitiful dignity of being a relative of the Han Dynasty.

"Forget it, you all don't have the gift, please sit down." Li Li in the hall nodded slightly and waved his hand to signal everyone to get up and sit down.

A deep gaze swept across the faces of everyone under the hall. Li Li nodded slightly to Zhuge Liang standing on the left, and then he picked up the book on his desk and flipped through it without saying anything.

After seeing this, Zhuge Liang immediately understood and spread out the bamboo slips that had been prepared long ago and said loudly: "Adhering to the imperial edict of the former emperor, he entrusted General Li with military and national affairs. Therefore, the general was the emperor to patrol the hunting service on behalf of the emperor and took charge of the power of reward and punishment. The lord general ordered him to be granted the title of Liu Zhang."

After reading this, Zhuge Liang paused and his eyes turned to Liu Zhang at the steps, his eyes were intriguing. Suddenly, Liu Zhang was stunned, his whole body trembled slightly, and two flush appeared on his cheeks. He seemed to pretend to be reserved, but he still wanted to stand and accept Li Li's reward, to be precise, it should be "allowing alms". However, when he saw Zhuge Liang's burning eyes, he couldn't help but lower his "noble head" and took a step forward with his teeth on his knees. Then he bent his knees and knelt down, his forehead against the mahogany floor on the ground, waiting for the reward.

At this moment, Li Li, who was reading the book, raised his eyelids slightly. He looked at Liu Zhang, who was kneeling down in the hall, then put down the book, picked up the wolf's hair that had been dipped in ink and wrote at the desk, and focused on handling government affairs, as if he was indifferent to everything that happened in the hall.

Just as Li Li put down the book, Zhuge Liang continued to read: "Issue Liu Zhang to be named Marquis of Yong'an, a first-class Grand Secretary of Tai Academy, and a mansion, twenty maids, thirty escorts, thirty escorts, thirty escorts, and 100 personal soldiers. He ordered Marquis of Yong'an to set off immediately to Chang'an, and he would not leave the capital without authorization without an order!"

"I am far away from home to pay a lot of gifts from the previous emperor and thank the general for his kindness. Liu Zhang takes the order!"

After bowing down, Liu Zhang bowed and took the "edict" from Zhuge Liang, and then bowed to Li Li, who was writing at the desk, and then turned around and walked out of the main hall. A soldier at the door of the main hall had been waiting for a long time. After seeing him coming out, he quickly followed. The carriage had also been prepared outside the mansion. Liu Zhang's family was standing next to the carriage and waiting, and the items accompanying him had already been loaded on the carriage.

When Liu Zhang and his family got on the carriage, they saw the soldier in charge of Liu Zhang's seal waved his hand gently, and a hundred soldiers protected him. A group of five carriages followed and headed straight for the north gate.

It is worth mentioning that there was a team of thousands of cavalry waiting outside the North Gate. Just when Liu Zhang and others arrived, they set off for Chang'an.

Watching Liu Zhang leave, Zhuge Liang did not stop, picked up a book from the servant next to him and read out loudly: "I will grant Zhao Wei the title of Chief Censor, the title of An Township, the residence, the maid, the entourage, and the servants, and the sergeants, and the 100 personal soldiers to go to Chang'an immediately."

"Zhang Song was the chief minister of the General's Office, and was appointed as the Minister of the General of the People's Court, and was granted the Marquis of Guannei; Wu Yi was promoted to General Pingnan, Deputy Commander of Jin Qiwei, and was granted the Marquis of Guannei; Zhang Ren was appointed as the General of Hengye and Sima of the Left Army of Jin Qiwei; Zhang Su was appointed as the Officer of Cao's Court"

As Zhuge Liang finished speaking, among the people in the hall, except Wu Yi and Zhang Ren, more than ten officials knelt down and left. After Liu Zhang, they took their families with their families, drove to the north gate in a carriage, and then met Liu Zhang and went to Chang'an together.

It is worth noting that except for Liu Zhang, the rest of the people did not have any additional restrictions, and they were rewarded and treated well. Especially Zhang Song, his promotion this time was a real person, which was tantamount to becoming an official in the court and becoming a close minister around Li Li. Wu Yi was the only general among the generals of Yizhou who had obtained the rank of the nine ministers, and thus fulfilled Li Li's previous promise to him. Although he was not directly promoted to governor, his official rank was no less than that of the chief officials.

At noon, Li Li rushed to Changleyuan and had lunch with his daughters such as Ren Hongchang, Mengxin and Wu Xian. This was more than half a month after Changleyuan, he had dinner with the girls again.

An hour ago, the personal soldiers informed Wu Xian about this matter in advance. Therefore, after hearing the news, the girls immediately became busy and carefully prepared an extremely sumptuous lunch, which was quite stance to serve the king.

This is the truth. As far as Ren Hongchang, He Ying and others know, the calls for Li Li to be the king and emperor in Chang'an City are getting higher and higher, and the momentum is getting stronger and stronger.

As early as three years ago, when Emperor Liu Xie of Han was in the sky, many officials in Chang'an City jointly submitted a letter asking Li Lichengtian to respond to the order and ascend to the throne. Last year, when Li Li went back to Chang'an, the civil and military sentiments under his command were in high spirits. More than 70% of civil and military officials and generals jointly petitioned, persuading Li Li to ascend the throne and become emperor and rule the world.

This time, the great victory in Yizhou was surely the call for advocating the emperor was even more powerful than the past, as unstoppable as a tsunami. After seeing the two previous support for the emperor, even in Yizhou, thousands of miles away, Ren Hongchang and others could imagine how fierce the call for his husband's civil servants and generals to persuade him to advance to the emperor was, and it was almost overturned by Chang'an City.

The first two calls for support and advance were forced to be suppressed by Li Li, and this time it is probably impossible to suppress it. In this way, after Li Li returns to Chang'an, he will at least be promoted to the throne and become the king. The most likely one is to ascend the throne and become emperor, carry the throne to the throne of the Nine Five, and rule the world.

As Li Li's wives and concubines, although the five women including Ren Hongchang, He Ying, Meng Xin are not vain women, they are sincerely happy for their husbands and proud of their achievements. They also hope that their husbands can end the troubled times as soon as possible, clear the world, unify the world, fulfill their long-cherished wishes, and achieve the great hegemony of the past and present.

Because of this, when Li Li turned over and walked into Changleyuan, his eyes suddenly lit up. But he saw the five girls including Meng Xin, Ren Hongchang, He Ying, Ma Yunluo, Xiao Qiao and Wu Xian standing in a row, dressed in a gorgeous dress, greeting each other in all kinds of charm. In an instant, Li Li was dazzled, as if he was in a bush with flowers like flowers, with flowers blooming in all kinds of beauty. Meng Xin was like an orchid in the empty valley, while Ren Hongchang and He Ying were the lotus flowers in the same rank, Ma Yunluo was unrestrained like a fiery red rose, Xiao Qiao was gentle and graceful like a lotus from the water, and his beautiful appearance, and his graceful figure was the beautiful peony in bud.

Suddenly, Li Li was deeply amazed, looked dazed, and was fascinated by the sight.

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