Mi Han

Chapter 321

Chapter 321

Know people before you can use them.

Let Mi Yang suggest who should be the prefect of Yiyang. This is Liu Bei's further investigation of Mi Yang, and it is also a kind of training for him.

Otherwise, why would Liu Bei ask Mi Yang, the governor of Yibei, to suggest candidates for Yiyang prefect to defend Jingzhou.

Of course Mi Yang knew what Liu Bei was thinking.

It is precisely because of knowing that Mi Yang is cautious about suggesting who should be the prefect of Yiyang.

As for the choice of Yiyang prefect, the first condition must be loyalty.

At present, among the big Han, most of the talents who can be trusted by Mi Yang and Liu Bei are from the Yuan Cong Department and the Jingzhou Department.

It seems that the range of candidates is not narrow, but what is embarrassing is that a large part of the talents of the Jingzhou department are naturally not in the range of selection.

Because most of the Jingzhou talents currently being reused by Liu Bei were recruited when he lived in Xinye.

For example, Fu Xun, Wei Yan, Fu Kuang, Zhang Nan, etc., all of them are from Yiyang County.

According to the principle of avoiding officials inherited from the Han Dynasty, it is impossible for them to serve as the prefects of the counties where they are native.

In addition to the strict requirements on loyalty and native place, Yiyang prefect also has a very important standard.

The position of Yiyang County in Jingzhou is like that of Hanzhong County in Yizhou. It is not only a gateway to defend the rear, but also a springboard for the Han army to march from Jingzhou to the north in the future.

With such a great strategic significance, it was determined that the Yiyang prefect who took office in the future must be a person with certain military talents and a certain prestige in Jingzhou.

Because Yiyang County is a county that has just been attached to the Han Dynasty, and Yiyang County is not as guarded by mountains as Hanzhong County.

It directly intersects with the frontier of the enemy country. If someone who has no prestige in Jingzhou is appointed as the prefect of Yiyang, it may keep Yiyang County in a turbulent situation.

This is definitely what Liu Bei does not want to see.

At this point in time, there are not too many talents in the big man, but there are very few people who want to fully meet the above conditions.

However, because there are few people to choose from, Liu Bei regards it as a kind of inspection and training for Mi Yang.

After thinking about it, a candidate appeared in Mi Yang's mind.

This person is Li Yan.

Originally, apart from Li Yan, Zhao Yun was the most suitable candidate to serve as the prefect of Yiyang in all aspects.

It's just that Zhao Yun is currently the general who conquers the south, and he is responsible for guarding the southern part of Yizhou. He is actually the unnamed governor of Yinan.

If Zhao Yun was changed to the prefect of Yiyang, it would be regarded as demoting him.

Besides, even if you don't consider this point, it is not appropriate to send Zhao Yun all the way to Yiyang under the situation that Nanzhong has become dishonest recently.

After excluding Zhao Yun, there is only one candidate that Mi Yang can recommend, and that is Li Yan.

Although Li Yan was not a minister of the Yuancong or Jingzhou factions, his loyalty was trustworthy even when Liu Bei was alive.

Li Yan is also one of the few military and political talents in the Han Dynasty.

This can be seen from his previous resume.

Although Li Yan was from Nanyang, when Yiyang County was separated from Nanyang County.

The official avoidance system of the big Han will no longer cause trouble for Li Yan as the prefect of Yiyang.

After all, neither the "three mutual laws" of the Eastern Han Dynasty nor the "avoidance system of native place" of the Western Han Dynasty have ever opposed officials serving as prefects of neighboring counties.

Although many of Li Yan's glorious resumes came after he entered Yizhou, when he was young, he served as the chief of Zhongduo County in Nanyang County, and he had a certain reputation and prestige in Jingbei.

The last point is Li Yan's clan, which is a big clan in Wancheng area.

If he is appointed as the prefect of Yiyang, it will not only effectively prevent Cao Wei's Nanyang prefect from affecting Yiyang.

Perhaps when Cao Wei's Nanyang prefect was not capable enough, Li Yan could still use his clan's influence in Nanyang County to cause some turmoil in Nanyang County.

This is really a joy to hear.

So from all aspects, Li Yan is the best candidate for Yiyang prefect that Mi Yang can think of under the current situation.

After thinking about the recommended candidate in his mind, Mi Yang wrote a letter and quickly ordered someone to submit it to Liu Bei in the rear.

After deciding on this matter, Mi Yang looked at the numerous documents just delivered in front of him, and he sighed softly.

Originally, it was a very cumbersome government affair to reclassify the dozens of counties that originally belonged to Nanyang County into sub-counties in Yiyang County.

When Liu Bei was around, there were many political talents around him, and they were also willing to assist Mi Yang.

But Liu Bei may be for the purpose of exercising Mi Yang's political ability, and he asked the ministers who followed him to keep their duties.

With these four words, Mi Yang couldn't invite any foreign aid.

At present, Mi Yang has no trustworthy capable talents to assist him, which leads to many things that he needs to do by himself.

The reason why Mi Yang could not be with Liu Bei before was that he immediately suggested to Liu Bei the candidate for the prefect of Yiyang.

The reason is that those complicated government affairs involved most of his energy.

Fortunately, Mi Yang has great prestige in Jingzhou, so when Mi Yang issued the document as the "prefect of Xingyiyang".

Not only the chief officials in Xinye City, but also the chief officials in other county towns cooperated with Mi Yang's instructions very much after receiving Mi Yang's documents.

One of the manifestations of the active cooperation of the county magistrates is that after receiving Mi Yang's documents, they took the initiative to submit the list of magistrates at all levels in the county to Xinye City for Mi Yang's review.

Even though many counties currently lack county magistrates and county magistrates.

Mi Yang asked the counties to quickly submit the list of officials at all levels in the county, in order to select the appropriate county magistrate or county magistrate as soon as possible.

At present, among the dozens of counties in Yiyang County, there are many long orders who were scared to abandon the city and fled because of the arrival of the Han army.

So at present in Yiyang County, there are many counties with vacant post of magistrate.

In this case, Mi Yang needs to select the right person from the list submitted by each county in a very short period of time, and appoint him as the new chief order of the county.

In order to achieve this, the list of chief officials sent by the counties in the past few days is very important.

Although the selection of new county magistrates or county candidates from the list of chief officials in each county will inevitably be biased.

But in order to quickly stabilize the situation in Yiyang County, this expedient measure can only be adopted.

When Mi Yang kept checking the documents in front of him, when he saw a certain name in the documents of the champion county and one county, he couldn't help but focus slightly.

The name Zhoutai successfully caught his attention.

If he remembers correctly, Zhou Tai seems to be a talent in Cao Wei's field in history.

Thinking of this, Mi Yang's eyes lit up instantly, and he felt the fatigue in his body was swept away at once.

He likes Cao Wei's talents the most.

Just when Mi Yang was delighted to have discovered a talented person, there was a huge cloud of wind and dust floating in the ground dozens of miles away from Wancheng.

That huge wind and dust is approaching Wancheng at an extremely fast speed.

And with the continuous movement of the huge wind and dust, there are tens of thousands of horseshoes stamping on the ground resounding for several miles around.

All these scenes are reflected, in that huge wind and dust, there are tens of thousands of iron cavalry galloping at high speed.

These tens of thousands of iron cavalry were called by Cao Pi, and the Guanzhong iron cavalry was commanded by Wei Zuo General Zhang He.

Tens of thousands of cavalry, led by the strong figure in front of them, approached Wancheng several miles away at an extremely fast speed, and then began to slow down intentionally.

So when they arrived outside Wancheng, the state of galloping cavalry in tens of thousands of pass just stopped.

Then the wind and dust that had been surrounding them also began to gradually dissipate between the sky and the earth.

After the wind and dust all over the sky completely dissipated, the whole picture of the iron cavalry in the tens of thousands of passes was revealed, and Zhang He, who was their general, also turned his attention to Wancheng in front of him.

Zhang He, who looked tired, was wearing fine armor and sitting on a tall steed. When he looked up at the majestic city in front of him, his eyes were full of complicated emotions.

After Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, because of frequent turmoil in Yongliang, Cao Pi appointed Cao Zhen as the general of Zhenxi, and cooperated with Zhang Yun, who had originally led the troops to garrison Chencang, to quell the rebellions in various places.

When Cao Pi's urgent order to summon Zhang He to Wancheng arrived in Guanzhong, Zhang He had just quelled the rebellion in Anding County and led the troops to repair outside Chang'an City.

Among the five good generals back then, he was the lowest in terms of status and trustworthiness.

All this stems from the vote in Guanduwai that year.

Zhang He naturally knew this.

However, this did not make Zhang Yun's desire for fame and fame any less indifferent.

On the contrary, it may be to wash away Wei's suspicion of him. Zhang Xi's desire for fame has always been the most prosperous among the five good generals.

Driven by a strong desire for fame and fame, Zhang Yun would not let go of any chance to make meritorious deeds.

Therefore, after receiving Cao Pi's edict, Zhang Xi, who was originally leading the repair, immediately gave up his plan to repair.

After Zhang Yun gathered thousands of cavalry in Chang'an City according to Cao Pi's edict, Zhang He led a total of tens of thousands of cavalry in Guanzhong and quickly came towards Wancheng.

The distance between Chang'an and Wancheng is not too close, but even so, Zhang Xi was able to lead tens of thousands of cavalry in Guanzhong, and arrived under Wancheng in about ten days, which shows how eager he is.

What Zhang Xi didn't expect was that when he just stepped into the border of Nanyang County, he got the news of Wei Jun's fiasco.

The results of the Battle of Xiangfan have already spread throughout Nanyang County under the fermentation of time.

And after Zhang He heard the news, he couldn't help but feel extremely regretful.

Unexpectedly, he rushed so hard, but it was still a step too late.

And it's only about half a month away.

In the news that had already spread throughout Nanyang County, Zhang Xi also knew that the reason why the Wei army suffered a disastrous defeat in the Xiangfan Battle was the appearance of Ma Chao's three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry.

After knowing this, the annoyance in Zhang Yun's heart became more and more serious.

From Zhang Xi's point of view, if the Battle of Xiangfan could take place after his arrival, then the Wei army would definitely not be defeated.

But it's a done deal, no matter how annoyed Zhang Yun is at this time, it's useless.

After being annoyed, Zhang He still felt shocked and deeply afraid of the Han army.

In any case, this battle was a complete display of the prestige of the Han army.

Especially when the news of Zhang Liao's defeat and death was known to Zhang He, some sadness still appeared in Zhang He's heart.

Because they are both generals, Zhang Liao and Zhang Yun did not have a close friendship in the past.

It's just that because they are both surrendered generals, even though Zhang He and Zhang Liao don't have a deep friendship, they will have a sense of sympathy for each other.

Under various emotions of sadness, annoyance, and shock, Zhang Yun who came to Wancheng was in a very complicated mood.

But when Zhang Yun looked at the gate of Wancheng with complicated eyes, the envoy sent by Cao Pi, who knew Zhang Yun's arrival in advance, also came to Zhang Yun.

After Cao Pi's envoy arrived, Zhang Yun immediately put away his complicated emotions like a conditioned reaction.

He followed Cao Pi's envoy respectfully and walked towards Wancheng.

And just before entering Wancheng, Zhang Yun also consciously handed over the tiger talisman in his hand and handed it to Cao Xiu who accompanied the envoy.

Even though Zhang He came after making great achievements in battle, even if Cao Xiu was a general who had just been defeated, Zhang He's performance seemed very natural.

After following Cao Pi's envoy all the way to the outside of Cao Pi's bedroom, Zhang Yun subconsciously arranged his attire, and then slowly walked into the hall under the leadership of the envoy.

At this time, there were not many people in the hall, only Sima Yi and a few other Wei officials.

After Zhang Yun entered the hall, he did not look at Sima Yi and other Wei officials.

After he saw the figure sitting on the throne, he bowed down to Cao Pi's throne respectfully, and bowed deeply to him:

"Minister Zhang He, see Your Majesty."

After Zhang He met Cao Pi, Cao Pi didn't let Zhang He get up immediately.

He was just looking at Zhang He with a scrutinizing look.

When Cao Pi's unexplained scrutinizing gaze was reflected on Zhang He's back, Zhang He felt a feeling of being on his back.

This feeling is similar to what Xia Houyuan felt when he was elected by the generals to become the main general of Hanzhong after his death in battle.

And Cao Pi's gaze also means that he is not as happy about Zhang Yun's arrival as Zhang Liao's arrival.

It's just that although Cao Pi didn't trust Zhang He as much as Zhang Liao, the current situation in Wancheng still needed Zhang He to be stable, so Cao Pi quickly put away his scrutiny.

"Flat body."

When Cao Pi's flat voice reached Zhang Yun's ears, Zhang Yun felt a sense of relief.

He straightened up slightly, but he still didn't dare to look directly at Cao Pi like other ministers.

Zhang Xi's attitude can be regarded as very respectful, but some things can't be changed without a respectful gesture.

Behind Zhang Heping, Cao Pi asked him calmly:

"Does Zhang Qing know the outcome of the Xiangfan battle?"

Facing Cao Pi's question, Zhang Yun replied unhurriedly: "I know."

After hearing Zhang He's answer, Cao Pi nodded slightly, and then he seemed to inadvertently ask Zhang He:

"In the past, the five good generals either died or rebelled, but now only Zhang Qing is left."

"Zhang Qing has made many achievements and has great prestige in the army. Recently, some people inside and outside Wancheng said: If the situation in Wancheng is to be determined, Zhang Qing must be appointed as a general.

I don't know what Zhang Qing thinks of this kind of remarks? "

Cao Pi's questioning tone was not harsh, but when his words reached Zhang He's ears, Zhang He's mind was shaken violently.

(End of this chapter)