Xuande

Chapter 610 Three points to military, seven points to politics

Some subordinates were more worried about Liu Bei's arrangement.

They believe that relying on two armies to solve the bandits in Bingzhou, the Southern Huns, and the central Xianbei forces on the grasslands is still powerless.

There are almost 2 bandits in Bingzhou alone who can fight, and only [-] people from two armies will fight in Bingzhou. The comparison of troops is very problematic.

In addition, the Southern Huns who are closely related to the bandits in Bingzhou, if they only rely on Guan Yu and Qianzhao, they can maintain the status quo in Bingzhou.

But Liu Bei did not expect to rely entirely on military means to solve the problem of merging states.

On the issue of merging states, he felt that the principal's thinking was of great reference value.

Three points are military and seven points are politics.

The headmaster's words are a bit funny, because the headmaster doesn't have the combat power to overwhelm the world, and the three-point military will not be effective, but the Jin Yuan offensive is more effective.

As a result, there are little Fengxian everywhere.

For the headmaster, three points for military and seven points for politics are somewhat insincere and helpless—if you have enough strength, you can directly catch up and beat him to death with [-] points of military, wouldn't it be better?

Precisely because there is none, seven-point politics is particularly important.

And he, Liu, fought against the world, how many people were wiped out, and how many people were frightened. In recent years, people in the world have reached a consensus on the fact that Liu Xuande is invincible.

If you don't listen to Liu Xuande, no matter where you are, even in the corners of Liaodong, Liu Xuande can chase you and beat you to death.

So even if Liu Bei appointed Gongsundu to govern the three counties, Gongsundu did not have any dissatisfaction with Liu Bei, because he believed that if Liu Bei knew of his dissent, Liu Bei would definitely chase him and beat him to death.

Liu Bei has already shown his ability.

He can.

Liu Bei's terror deterrence to the world has been successfully established. On this basis, it is the best choice with the highest cost performance to deal with internal hostile forces with the principle of three points to military and seven points to politics.

Therefore, Liu Bei did not want to use a purely military offensive to deal with Zhang Yan and the Bingzhou bandits. If he could use a political offensive to disintegrate them, he would be able to gain a large population.

According to estimates, this population is at least 40. It is definitely better to use this large population for the development and construction of Bingzhou and to restore the agricultural production of Bingzhou.

If the military is used purely, it will cause too many casualties, and Liu Bei does not want to do this.

Zhang Yan is currently in charge of the official position and salary of a general in the imperial court, and is actually the speaker in the northern mountainous area in the eastern part of Bingzhou. There are dozens of small and medium-sized groups under him, each of which has a little influence.

It is definitely a bad idea to go up and fight hard, so Liu Bei has some ideas about how to act.

So while rectifying internal affairs and handling military affairs in Luoyang, he waited for Guan Yuhe to come over.

And this time Guan Yu came from Liangzhou, and by the way, he brought Liu Bei's family back to Luoyang from Liangzhou.

Previously, considering the unstable situation in Luoyang and the fact that many wives and concubines were pregnant, Liu Bei did not bring his wives, concubines and children to Luoyang, but let them raise their babies in Liangzhou with peace of mind.

For a period of time, Liu Bei kept receiving news from Liangzhou, telling him that the Liu family had many new additions.

After Han Ning, Han Xiaodie and Gong's two sisters gave birth one after another, Gai Ning and Cao Hui were also pregnant and had children, so now Liu Bei together has eight children.

Han Ning and Han Xiaodie's eldest son, Liu Shen, and second son, Liu Ze, were Liu Bei's earliest two children. The children born before and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion are now six years old.

Later, the two sisters of the Gong family were the first to conceive. After Liu Bei arrived in Luoyang in the sixth year of Zhongping, they gave birth smoothly. They gave birth to two daughters one after another. Later, Han Ning gave birth to a son, and then Han Xiaodie gave birth to another daughter.

Gai Ning and Cao Hui were pregnant one after another before Liu Bei set off at the beginning of the sixth year of Zhongping. It was not until the beginning of the first year of Jian'an that Liu Bei learned that they had given birth safely under proper care. Gai Ning gave birth to a son, and Cao Hui gave birth to a son. a daughter.

So for now, Liu Bei's children have a structure of four sons and four daughters. Except for the eldest son Liu Shen and the second son Liu Ze, the other six are too young to be named.

In other words, before the age of three or five, most children would not be given nicknames. Even Liu Shen and Liu Ze were given nicknames by Liu Bei and Lu Zhi after they officially started studying at Liangzhou State School.

The eight children are currently relatively healthy, and Liu Bei is also very happy.

Throughout the second half of the sixth year of Zhongping and almost the entire year of the first year of Jian'an, he devoted all his energy to internal and external struggles. He really didn't have the energy to take care of his family, so he didn't bring his family to Luoyang.

During this period of time, there was only his mother in his family. Apart from spending a little time with his mother, he did devote all his energy to other affairs.

And now, he can finally bring his family back to Luoyang.

It is really not a good thing for a family to be separated for a long time.

As for the children's schooling, Liu Bei has also made plans.

The children of the old subordinates have been left to study in Liangzhou State School with his children for a while.

In the beginning, everyone was in Liangzhou, so it was better to be educated and controlled nearby. Now everyone’s main activity place is in Luoyang. If they continue to study in Liangzhou, although they can get proper education, they will lose their family affection after all. .

It just so happened that Liu Bei was also preparing to establish a Sili Academy in the Sili area to train students in the Sili area, so he just sent all the children in Liangzhou to the Sili Academy near Luoyang to train nearby.

It's a transfer in a sense.

When Liu Bei made this decision, it was early November, and a few days later, Liu Bei himself was not idle, and announced the results of discussions with a large group of subordinates.

He submitted to the imperial court the system proposal of "Restoring the Army of the County".

At the beginning, this suggestion was baffled by many people. Why do you use the system that was abolished by Emperor Guangwu long ago?
But what Liu Bei said later is really interesting.

Liu Bei proposed at the court meeting that the reason why Emperor Guangwu abolished this system was to prevent local counties from supporting themselves and threatening the central government. There should be armed men.

In a practical sense, some armed personnel are really needed to maintain law and order in the local area, so after the abolition of the county state soldiers, the county state servants who replaced the county state soldiers filled this vacancy.

But from the beginning to the end, the existence of the county-state miscellaneous soldiers was neither standard nor trained, and the number was not fixed. Compared with the original county-state soldiers, they had more direct identity attributes of local armed forces. , Further promoting the separation of local counties and states.

This is very unfavorable for the Luoyang court.

Therefore, Liu Bei hopes to adopt a compromise method, that is, to restore the county military system, but it is not safe to restore the county military system.

Huang Wan, as a well-known [opposition] in the dynasty, questioned Liu Bei's statement and asked Liu Bei to give a perfect explanation.

Liu Bei was not angry either, and gave a perfect explanation.

Establish a standard army of county soldiers registered in the imperial court that only maintains local law and order and is not responsible for fighting at all. The officials and apprentices of Zhongdu below.

They are weaker in terms of combat attributes, and do not need to receive complete military combat training. In contrast, they need to receive higher-level education on law-related knowledge, as an important presence in maintaining local law and order.

In short, they are a professional security team with a certain degree of cultural literacy. They focus on one profession and one security.

Therefore, there needs to be a clear limit on the number of people, the command system should be completely different from the original county soldiers, and there must be certain standards for the selection of candidates, not everyone can be in charge.

Liu Bei finally made a summary.

"Equivalent to establishing a team of Zhongdu officials and apprentices in each county to fight against crimes and maintain local law and order. It is just a stopgap measure to call them the county soldiers. They are definitely not the army, but the county government. An important force to consolidate law and order."

(End of this chapter)