Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 38 Cao Gong's Great Kindness

"Aren't you used to riding yet?"

Seeing Ran being distracted while riding a horse, Liu Bei couldn't help but smile and joked.

After leaving Liu's Fort for a few miles, he reined in his horse and slowed down.

The sixty knights dispersed their formation and surrounded Liu Bei in the middle, while the fifteen scouts were scouting and guarding from a distance.

Liu Bei has always paid great attention to his own safety measures, and now he has finally made a name for himself.

If you were stabbed by assassins hired by some powerful families with ill intentions, you would have no place to cry.

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall and never acts alone.

He Jin ignored the advice and walked alone into a palace that was not under his control, resulting in him losing his head.

In history, Sun Ce was assassinated because he was careless and defenseless.

Liu Bei had already taken this as a warning and wore light armor close to his body.

It may not be able to defend against sharp weapons at close range, but it can prevent hidden arrows from a distance, which is at least effective.

With sixty elite cavalrymen guarding him, no one could hit him even if they aimed with a crossbow.

No matter how brave an assassin is, he is useless in front of an armored knight.

Liu Bei was still relatively respectful to Ran, and his tone was just a joke between friends, without any sarcasm.

Sometimes it's strange that when she is regarded as a woman, people can easily mistake her for a man.

If you treat her as a man, you will inadvertently remember that she was originally a woman, and can be said to be a man among women.

Liu Bei didn't have such an idea in his mind, he just had some bad taste.

There is much controversy about whether Hua Mulan, a female general in the Northern Wei Dynasty, really existed. Seeing Ran in front of him, he wanted to cultivate a female general who is as capable as any man.

Liu Bei said with a smile: "My father has no eldest son, and Mulan has no elder brother. I am willing to buy a saddle and horse and fight for my father from now on."

Who says that women are inferior to men.

Unfortunately, the other party declined and refused to join the army again.

After several rounds of persuasion, Liu Bei finally agreed to manage many military affairs.

The well-organized management relieved Han Mu of a lot of pressure.

As one of the only leaders of the Yellow Turban Army who was able to hold the bottom line and not kill the civilians, Liu Bei still valued him highly.

Other leaders who committed heinous crimes were beheaded and displayed to the public. There were also a few who had a sense of self-righteousness, but unfortunately they died in the battle, which is a pity.

Ran frowned, tightened the reins, adjusted his breathing, and slowly controlled the warhorse.

Of course, she heard Liu Shijun's joke, but she didn't care about it for the time being.

This military horse is new, so of course I feel unfamiliar when riding it.

After a while, she became more and more experienced and couldn't help but smile.

When she knew she wouldn't fall again, Ran was relieved. She turned to look at Envoy Liu and said, "Lord Xuande, why did you let me go with you to visit the noble families? These people have a big prejudice against me."

"Aren't you afraid that it will affect important matters?"

Liu Bei smiled and said, "The way to save the world is to employ people, but people are divided into regions, clans, and levels of status."

He pointed at Ran, then at himself and said with a smile: "You are the only one who has a poor background but cares about the people. Guan Hai can barely be counted as one."

"The Yunchang, Yide, and Zilong around me are all considered."

"As for me, the more powerful families I have around me, the more I will be unable to control myself. In the end, I may only be considered half a person."

Liu Bei said with emotion: "I never thought that decades later, you and I would pass away and end up making wedding clothes for the nobles and wealthy families."

"General Ranqu, the road ahead is much more difficult than you imagined!"

“It would be difficult to steer three horses side by side, balancing and restraining each other, without someone standing up to represent the people.” The replacement here does not refer to a single person, but at least needs to exist as a group.

Liu Bei patiently guided Ran and Guan Hai because he wanted to have more people like them.

As local wealthy families sent their sons to serve under Liu Bei, their power was being diluted.

Although trusted figures still occupy high positions, many real bureaucratic groups will be flooded in among the clerks in the middle.

When the nobles join in, many of the high-level positions will be occupied.

As Liu Bei's power grew, the more people there were, the more balance he needed.

As for the career path to government service, illiterate people had no better channels for promotion and could only improve their rank through military merit.

Perhaps once the soldiers under his command have transformed their money into knowledge in one or two generations, there will be officials available.

At present, official schools are in our own hands, and with the example of minor officials in front of us, the people have more options.

Liu Bei spared no effort to promote and popularize advanced agricultural tools. As long as the common people could fill their stomachs, official schools would have the opportunity to enroll more children from poor families.

The best way to deal with the wealthy and the gentry is to find ways to not block the upward channels for the lower classes.

However, Cao Mengde used the hereditary military system to lock up soldiers from generation to generation and prevented them from marrying civilians.

The soldiers will never be able to repay Cao Gong’s kindness in their lifetime.

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Liu Bei and his party did not return to the county town first, but went to the military camp instead.

He has not been idle during the period since the end of the war.

In addition to the Armored Camp and the Vanguard Camp, the archers and crossbowmen were trained together to form the Sound Shooting Camp.

The scout cavalry was changed to be more specialized, and they were set up as Huben cavalry, and at the same time, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers were added.

In addition to cooks, weapons repairmen, and horse breeders, each team also has some infantry who can promptly clear the chevaux de frise on the battlefield and remove obstacles that are unfavorable for the cavalry to pass.

Except for the three battalions and the Huben cavalry who were stationed in the suburbs of the plain, all other combat troops and auxiliary soldiers were dismissed and sent back home.

A military office was set up for every three or four counties to uniformly manage the military resources.

Military officers such as the material officer and the light chariot officer were responsible for managing and training soldiers. They did not need to go to the battlefield, nor did they have the authority to command more than ten soldiers.

Every day, according to orders, they go to different camps that rotate every season for roll call and training.

Auxiliary soldiers and combat soldiers are divided into outer and inner forces. The frequency of training for the outer forces is not as frequent and fixed as that for the inner forces.

After the auxiliary soldiers were disbanded, they returned to their respective villages and were still busy with their own farming and planting.

As well as many other miscellaneous tasks, such as reclaiming wasteland, digging ditches, repairing canals, and building ponds, sometimes they had to do corvée labor.

Fortunately, there is no need to rush the construction schedule anymore, and we no longer have to bring our own dry food to do the labor.

Building water conservancy projects can also increase the yield from one's own fields, and there is payment for wages. Compared with the previous situation in Qingzhou, it is no exaggeration to say that the situation of the people in Qianzhou is completely different.

Liu Bei transferred Zhao Zhen and Han Mu to the Xiandeng Camp and the Shengshe Camp, while the Tiejia Camp was led by Liu Bei himself.

When Zhao Zhen arrived, he was training his soldiers to familiarize themselves with the changes in formation. There were several common formations in the Han army.

The most commonly used one is the Five Army Formation created by Han Xin, which was used to besiege Xiang Yu at Gaixia.

After hundreds of years of evolution, the army was much simpler and simpler. The army formation was in all directions, with small formations in the middle and small teams in the team. The left, right, center, front and rear armies each had their own sub-formations.

The southeast is the front, the southwest is the right, the northeast is the left, the northwest is the back, the left, right, front, back and in the middle is the center, with four ends and eight tails. The place that contacts the enemy is the head of the formation. If the enemy attacks the middle, the two ends will come to rescue.

The more sudden and fierce the enemy's attacks are, the easier it is to be trapped in them. During the battle, each side will recognize its own flag and will separate and join forces repeatedly.

The Chu army under Xiang Yu was the first victim of this formation.

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