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Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty-Three Clear Cards

Compared with Yang Biao's doubts, Cao Cao's doubts, or proposals, should be more constructive.

"Your Majesty's great journey is really admirable. But Your Majesty, I think there are three difficulties in this matter. First, if you want to do this, necessary military deterrence is still essential. Since Guangwu, this dynasty has deposed military power and cultivated culture, and most of the military power is concentrated in border counties, imperial guards, and local governments. Even the military power of the prefect was little. It was not until the early emperor's dynasty that he abolished the governor and established the state governor, and the local government regained the military power. However... these military powers, or simply the imperial armed forces, weren't they originally powerful armed forces? These powerful armed forces were not temporarily recruited and formed after the Yellow Turban Rebellion."

Liu Xie interrupted, "Don't go around, Duke Wei, I like to be more direct. With your status, I don't have to worry about what I say, I like to listen to or not."

"Oh, I mean, the powerful armed forces have actually existed for a long time. For many years, it has been a powerful tool to assist county magistrates and county magistrates in various places, and it is also the biggest constraint on their administrative offices. Both have always been a relationship between you and me. Liu Yan just made a public statement that has actually been unspoken rules."

"Let's just go."

"Uh... I mean, the county soldiers in the hands of prefects in various places, and even the huge grassroots executive officials, are all powerful people themselves. If they cannot find a force that can deter them, even if they are relatively elegant ways of exploitation, they will still have many obstacles."

"I understand, so what's your suggestion?"

"I suggest that if local counties and state officials can have certain military power and certain...the authority to recruit military soldiers, perhaps these things will be implemented more smoothly."

Liu Xie thought for a while and said, "This is more beneficial to you, Mr. Wei."

"What?"

"If the local county magistrate has the power to recruit troops, the central government will become smaller, and your position in the court will become heavier, because there are currently no people in the imperial guards, but there are many places, Yanzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and half of Jingzhou. Do you want these places to regain military power?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this and looked at Liu Xie for a short while.

If someone else was scared to death by the emperor's words, Cao Cao still straightened his back and said, "I can't understand what Your Majesty said. The literati and officials are all sharing the worries of the country. They are all from the court, and your Majesty's people, no ministers."

"The court has only a few yamen and archways, and the rice still needs to be eaten separately. However, I have indeed considered the issue you mentioned. It is like this. I plan to temporarily set up six military regions to garrison a certain number of rotating soldiers and manage the farming matters."

"The six military regions are Li Yang, who is responsible for military affairs in Yan and Ji; Langya, who is responsible for military affairs in Qing and Xu; Hefei, who is responsible for things in Xu and Yang, Gao Liu, who is responsible for things in You and Yizhou; Jiangling, who is responsible for things in Jing, Yang and Yizhou; and Nanzheng (Hanzhong), who is responsible for things in Guanzhong, Liangzhou and Yizhou. Each of these six military regions has permanent 10,000 people to rotate and manage the national military farming affairs. In the event of a war, they can recruit more than 100,000 troops. In addition, the imperial guards of Luoyang and Xudu constitute the entire military system of our Han Dynasty. The chief officials of each military region are... the generals, how about?"

This is simply a copy of the policies of the seven military regions in the previous life. Since almost all the six military regions established by Liu Xie happened to be stuck at the junction of the two states, it is difficult for both the prefect and the governor to exert influence on the military region, avoiding the emergence of the local vassals with military and political unity, and ensuring that the party and local rebellion will not be left unattended when they need to use troops. Only by relying on the local powerful and powerful clans. Directly selecting the military district chief to the general who is more important than the nine ministers can also ensure that these generals of the heavy title do not have to give face to local civil servants.

However, Liu Xie's random copy of the later military region policy was inevitably made in Cao Cao's ears, and it inevitably had another meaning: that is, to further weaken Cao Cao's ability to control military power.

Among the six military regions, the Liyang Military Region, Langya Military Region, Jiangling Military Region, and Hanzhong Military Region will undoubtedly be taken down by Cao Cao's people. It seems that Cao Cao's six military regions account for four. Even if Xu Du and Luoyang are two imperial military regions loyal to the emperor, Cao Cao can still account for half of the military power and the emperor, but in fact... that's not the case at all.

In fact, the heads of these major military regions are obvious: Cao Ren from Li Yang, Cao Chun from Hanzhong, Zhang Liao from Langya, Ren Jun from Jiangling, and Ren Jun from Jiangling. It is almost impossible for anyone else to be more suitable than them. In addition to two surnames Cao, the other two are directly subordinate to the emperor and have a higher position than the governor of a state. Why should they continue to be controlled by Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu?

In other words, are Zhang Liao and Ren Jun really Cao Cao’s people?

To be honest, it is hard to say whether Cao Ren and Cao Chun are still considered or not.

At least it is certain that if Cao Cao died and succeeded to the throne, Cao Pi would not be able to receive support from any of these six generals with great titles, and this also means that the power in Cao Cao's hands can only be retained until he dies himself.

Even, it may have been stripped naked.

However, in the face of the problem, Cao Cao did not even have the slightest way to fight back, because the four words "heavy name" are too heavy, so he dared not stop such a policy.

Your subordinates follow you, and you are also trying to get promoted and make money. There is a general who is directly promoted to a heavy number, and the opportunity to take charge of the military in the first district is in front of you. Are you the boss kicked it directly?

Who will still be with you in the future?

Especially for Zhang Liao, who is actually not very ties with Cao Cao, and he is so young, and he is very hopeless in thirty years, he can become one of the young and strong generals of the Great Vehicles by relying solely on his qualifications. It will be retribution for obstructing such subordinates' promotion.

Such a long-term plan is enough to be a policy that can be considered forever, and it cannot be temporarily thought of by the emperor. Well... this is in line with the emperor's usual style.

However, the emperor's usual style has always been confused first and then unpredictable until the last moment when the divine strokes were made to the final conclusion?

Simply put, isn’t the emperor always unfathomable?

Today's move... is indeed quite high, but it's completely a clear card, which is not unpredictable at all.

How did the emperor change his style?

In an instant, Cao Cao couldn't help but realize that today, the emperor no longer needs to be unpredictable with anyone in the world, including himself.

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