Chapter 479 Rectifying Pingzhou
After five months, Shang Ji finally set foot on the land of Liaodong again. Five months ago, Shang Ji was just the prefect of Liaodong, but now he is the shepherd of a state.
During these five months, he fought against the Yellow Turban, met various princes, recruited famous generals and virtuous ministers, and put down the Wuhuan rebellion on the return journey. The journey was magnificent and fruitful.
After Wuhuan made such a fuss, Shang Ji became the most direct beneficiary. Not only did Qiu Liju and Su Puyan's accumulated wealth belong to Shang Ji, but they also helped Shang Ji improve his reputation, which made his reputation even worse.
Moreover, Shang Ji fought all the way, and Liaoxi County was completely under Shang Ji's control. When Shang Ji led the army through Leyang City, Zhao Bao, the prefect of Liaoxi (a famous C-level general), led all the officials of Liaoxi County with more than 600 shi to welcome Shang Ji's army 300 miles away, and his attitude towards Shang Ji was unprecedentedly respectful.
Since then, Leyang, the last city in western Liaoning and the only giant city, has also fallen under the control of Shang Ji.
At the same time, Liu Meng left 150,000 troops to guard Changli, and personally led 50,000 wolf cavalry to conquer the east and west of the Liaodong vassal state. Wuhuan, who had lost his main force, was powerless to resist the sharp blades of the wolf cavalry.
When Shang Ji returned to Liaodong, Wuhuan, a subordinate state of Liaodong, was basically pacified. Correspondingly, more than one million people in Wuhuan, a vassal state of Liaodong, were killed by Liu Meng. This was the result of Shang Ji's timely order to stop it. If it wasn't for this, the Wuhuan people's losses would be far more than that. Shang Ji didn't expect Liu Meng's murderous nature to be so great, and the inheritance of the wolf god still had a great impact on him.
Now in the territory of the Liaodong vassal state, the Wuhuan people fear Liu Meng far more than they fear Shang Ji.
More than half of the four counties and another subordinate country in the administrative division of Pingzhou have fallen into the hands of Shang Ji.
Zhang Qi, the prefect of Xuantu County (the same C-level cannon fodder historical military general) was timid and fearful, and did not dare to confront Shang Ji at all. When Shang Ji was just promoted to Pingzhou Mu, he sent someone to Xiangping to congratulate him and express his surrender.
However, Shang Ji was still in the mainland at that time, and Deng Yan received the envoys on behalf of Shang Ji. Because the center of gravity of Liaodong was Wuhuan at that time, Zhang Qi's envoy was simply perfunctory.
However, after Shang Ji defeated Su Boyan's main force in the first battle, Zhang Qi was shocked, and hurriedly led the main officials of Xuantu County to Xiangping, and personally met Shang Ji in the name of debriefing to express his willingness to surrender.
The entire Pingzhou area, that is, Gongsun Du, the governor of Lelang County, has not yet clearly expressed his attitude, and Shang Ji is not in a hurry. Now that the general situation is set, it is too late for Gongsun Du to have soaring ambitions. Le Lang was helpless all the time, unable to get rid of the fate of being controlled by Shang Ji.
Shang Ji was not in a hurry to force Gongsun Du to express his opinion.
This time, they took over and occupied three counties at once, and there are still a large number of Wuhuan people to deal with. Given the size and background of Liaodong, they still have some indigestion.
What Shang Ji needs most at present is no longer expansion, but to quickly digest the income and stabilize the rule of the two counties and one vassal state.
At this point, Shang Ji's flaws as a foreigner are fully exposed. The rise time is too short, the background is insufficient, the area of the territory has suddenly expanded three or four times, and basic talents, especially government talents, are in short supply.
Fortunately, there were a group of frustrated and humble scholars in Chenliu who voted before, otherwise Shang Ji would face the dilemma of no one available. Although there are no pillars of talent among them, they are still more than enough to govern a county.
These scholars were also lucky. They were able to serve as the head of a county as soon as they became officials, which made them grateful to Shang Ji and their loyalty soared.
There are a total of twelve big cities and three giant cities in Liaoxi, Xuantu, and Liaodong. According to the previous strategy of ruling Liaodong, the county magistrates were all replaced by their own people.
However, the sheriffs of the two counties did not change. Although Shang Ji was a shepherd of Pingzhou, he was not qualified to appoint or remove the sheriffs. In fact, to be honest, his appointment and removal of county magistrates is also against the rules, but now all the princes in the world are doing this, it's nothing but serious.
Dong Zhuo couldn't control it either, so he simply ignored it. However, the appointment of the sheriff was too sensitive, and Shang Ji was unwilling to be an early bird who broke the rules.
Anyway, these two sheriffs have surrendered to Shang Ji. Although their loyalty is still a little low, they can barely accept it.
In addition, the county lieutenants in each county are all confidantes placed by Shang Ji, and the county guards under Shang Ji's command are getting closer and closer to simple civil servants.
As for the county magistrates of small and medium-sized cities in various places, they will remain the same for the time being. The two counties and one country belonged to each other, and there were more than 200 cities in total, and Shang Ji couldn't find enough talents for a while.
Moreover, the rule of the newly attached land is not stable, and it is not easy to make big moves as soon as it comes up. At present, stability is still the top priority.
However, he has already begun to transfer competent personnel from the original Liaodong Army to various county lieutenants, initially taking over the leadership of the various county soldiers. As for the rectification of the army, this has to be postponed a little bit, and the same sentence, stability is the first priority!
But even so, the transfer of various officials made Shang Ji dizzy, and thanks to the help of Xun Yu, a new top scribe and Deng Yan, Shang Ji would not be exhausted in a short time. Get these things in order.
"My lord, General Liu Meng is back!"
Just when Shang Ji had just finished processing a document for the appointment of an official, the voice of the guard came from outside the door.
"General Liu please come in!"
Before that, Liu Meng had been guarding Changli in the Liaodong vassal state. It has been almost a month since Shang Ji returned to Xiangping, but he had never seen each other. Counting the time before, the two haven't seen each other for half a year.
"Master!" A hoarse and haggard voice sounded in Shang Ji's ear, Shang Ji looked for the sound, but couldn't help frowning.
At this time, Liu Meng's eyes were bloodshot, and red light flashed in his eyes from time to time, with dark circles, protruding collarbone, and a murderous look on his face. Seeing him walking towards him, he could even vaguely feel a bloody aura!
"What's going on?" Shang Ji put down the paperwork, stood up and asked with a frown.
He had heard reports from his subordinates that Liu Meng's condition was not right, so he specially ordered Tai Shici to replace Liu Meng to guard Changli, but he did not expect his condition to be so bad!
"The final general is grateful to the lord for caring, but the final general is fine, but he is a little tired from fighting for days."
As soon as Liu Meng opened his mouth, his throat was like a broken bellows that had been in disrepair for years, and his voice was so shrill that it made one's scalp tingle.
"It's okay, you have a big problem!"
Shang Ji snorted coldly. This is obviously a symptom of madness. If he doesn't recuperate immediately, he will sink deeper and deeper until he goes completely crazy.
"You immediately put down all the military affairs in your hands and hand over the wolf cavalry to your brother. You go to the Yanhuang Temple to find Taoist Huang Yang, and listen to the Taoist praying and chanting sutras to eliminate the demons in your heart. When will you get Huang Yang's approval and when will you be able to come out again!"
"My lord, I'm really fine!"
"This is an order!"
The corners of Liu Meng's mouth twitched, but in the end he obediently took his orders and left.
Fearing that something might go wrong, Shang Ji personally escorted him to the Yanhuang Temple and handed him over to Taoist Huangyang.
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