The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"Ning'er, actually I came to you because I have something to tell you."

Liu Zheng didn't chat with Zhang Ning for a few words, so he talked about the serious business he came to Zhang Ning to talk about.

"I knew that my husband must have something to tell me, otherwise he wouldn't come to me. Tell me, what is it?"

Seeing that Liu Zheng had something to say, Zhang Ning pretended to be angry and looked at Liu Zheng with a complaining expression, but he was also very interested in what Liu Zheng was about to say.

"Actually, it's not a big deal. It's just that I promised you before that once you become emperor, I will help you revive the Yellow Turban Sect."

In fact, there are not many Yellow Turbans left in this world. There are not many Yellow Turban remnants who fled to Montenegro and Baibo Valley in history.

Although there are still some remnants of the Yellow Turbans active in these two places, they are not many, and most of them went to Qingzhou before. It is a pity that the Yellow Turbans suffered heavy losses in the First World War in Qingzhou, and they have almost no combat power.

Later, all these Yellow Turban Army surrendered to Liu Zheng and became part of Liu Zheng's command. Naturally, if Liu Zheng didn't mention the matter of the Yellow Turban Army, it would be almost nothing if the Yellow Turban Army wanted to make any trouble in this world. possible.

Originally, Zhang Ning didn't plan to bring up this matter with Liu Zheng again. After all, this matter seemed impossible to Zhang Ning. Now he was surprised to hear Liu Zheng mention it.

"Husband, what are you talking about? Revival of the Yellow Turban Sect?"

Zhang Ning, who didn't take this matter to heart at first, suddenly heard Liu Zheng say that he would help her revive the Yellow Turban Cult, he was taken aback for a moment, and then an ecstatic expression appeared on his face.

If there is one regret in Zhang Ning's heart at this time, it is naturally to fulfill her father Zhang Jiao's behest and spread the teachings of the Yellow Turban Sect to the world, but this matter is too difficult, and Zhang Ning once wanted to give up. So much so that after marrying Liu Zheng, she never mentioned it again, because she knew that it was almost impossible for her now.

Now that Liu Zheng brought it up again, and without warning, the feeling of not having expectations but being suddenly satisfied is self-evident. Zhang Ning knows that although Liu Zheng bluntly said that he would leave the Yellow Turban Army a long time ago , Since then, he has nothing to do with the Yellow Turban Army, but Liu Zheng has always remembered Zhang Ning and the Yellow Turban Sect, and he wants to help her revive the Yellow Turban Sect.

This kind of touch that Liu Zheng has always cared about and remembered filled Zhang Ning's heart at once, making Zhang Ning look at Liu Zheng and feel too much moved by Liu Zheng.

For a while, she thought that she had found the right person, this man whom she had entrusted for life, did not disappoint her.

"Yes, have you forgotten? Didn't I promise you that after you marry me, I will definitely help you revive the Yellow Turban Sect and fulfill your father's will!"

"Now that I am going to proclaim myself emperor, the things I promised you will naturally be fulfilled. Although I cannot lead the Yellow Turban Army to unify the world, I can promote the Yellow Turban Sect and spread the teachings of the Yellow Turban Sect to the world. We plan to recommend the Yellow Turban Sect as the state religion, and also set up an official position called the national teacher, and you, Ning'er, will be the first national teacher, and this position will be passed on from generation to generation by our children!"

Liu Zheng told Zhang Ning what he thought in his heart, and he even thought about how to deal with the Yellow Turban Sect in the future.

Zhang Ning did not expect Liu Zheng to be so concerned about her affairs, and he kept it in his heart. Listening to Liu Zheng describing his plan, Zhang Ning hugged Liu Zheng tightly, feeling what this man brought to her. sense of security and dependence.

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Zhang Ning didn't even have anything to add.

"Ning'er, this is my rough plan. How to implement it and how to promote it are completely up to you. Do you have anything to add?"

Zhang Ning was completely moved by Liu Zheng's words at the moment, and there was nothing to add. She turned around and struggled out of Liu Zheng's arms, and then turned around and pushed Liu Zheng onto the bed with her hands.

"Husband, I have nothing to say, I only have one thought now!"

"what idea?"

Liu Zheng asked Zhang Ning in a flat tone.

Zhang Ning slowly bent down, approached Liu Zheng's body, and put his mouth on Liu Zheng's mouth little by little.

When he could feel the other party's breath, Zhang Ning spoke slowly in a charming tone.

"I am a concubine who just wants to give birth to a child for you!"

After all, Zhang Ning's mouth was sealed on Liu Zheng's.

Liu Zheng wanted to say something, but felt Zhang Ning's fiery initiative.All words were turned into actions to cater to Zhang Ning.

A scene that is not suitable for children lasted a whole night in this boudoir.

The next day, when Liu Zheng woke up, his waist was still a little tired.

In the next month, Liu Zheng was not idle. Although he did not need to do or participate in many things, there were still some things that only he could do, and no one else could help him.

That is to form the civil and military officials in the imperial court, and who to confer what position. This matter can only be decided after thinking about it for yourself, and you can't ask these people for their opinions.

Now that Liu Zheng has many officials and generals, if he doesn't think carefully, it will cause some unnecessary troubles.

So these days, he has been thinking about what kind of official positions and titles should these generals follow him, and what kind of titles should be conferred. Now, should he directly continue the system of the Han Dynasty, or formulate a new system?

Other official positions are fine, and Liu Zheng can accept them, but the title system makes Liu Zheng feel a little cumbersome.

Liu Zheng didn't agree very much.

Chapter 755 Proclaiming Emperor

The title system of the Han Dynasty is actually very complicated.

At the beginning, it was the [-]th rank system of the Qin Dynasty that was used, but a prince was set up separately.

At the beginning, the princes could be obtained by meritorious ministers, but later Han Gaozu Liu Bang killed all the kings with different surnames. Since then, only the royal family can obtain the princes.

Below the king is the twentieth-class nobility, and the twentieth-class nobility consists of twenty levels, starting from the lowest level, the public servant, to the highest level, Chehou.

But later, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che was in power, in order to avoid the taboo, Chehou became a Liehou.

Then, it was also because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought against the Huns all year round. In order to raise military expenses, he began to sell titles. In the [-]th-rank system, except for the most senior liehous and Guanneihous, all other titles can be sold and cost some money. Or food can be bought.

This trend became more prevalent after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Especially during the period of Emperor Han Ling, not only titles could be bought and sold, but even official positions could be sold.

In addition to granting nobles on a large scale, the system of selling nobles was formally implemented in the late Han Dynasty. Nobles could be bought with money, with millet, and with slaves.The method of buying nobles with millet led to the flood of titles, and the military merit system also lost its original function of rewarding military merits.

As a result, in the period of the Three Kingdoms, any random person who was pulled out would be what he was.

Completely lost status symbol.

Liu Zheng felt that such a system of titles was not very attractive, at most it was just a title, which was unrealistic, so he wanted to change the system of titles and use a model similar to the modern military ranks to confer titles on his civil servants and generals.

There are twelve levels in total.

Military generals use the corporal, sergeant, sergeant, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, major, major general, lieutenant general, and general to confer titles on them.

Literati engaged in government affairs use the four titles of bachelor, master, doctor, and academician, divided into first, second, and third ranks, and the same twelve ranks determine their titles.

In this way, it is simple and easy to remember, there is nothing for everyone to compare, and the promotion system is relatively complete.

The new title system can bring a sense of freshness, and at the same time show Liu Zheng's uniqueness, and also need him to show the degree of nobility.

After considering the system for a while, a month passed quickly.

A month later, the act of proclaiming himself emperor finally began in Wujun.

On the appointed day, this Wu County has already started to decorate with lanterns and festoons. Many people know that after two days, this place will become Liu Zhengxin's empire, and Wu County will no longer be an empire from today onwards. Wu County is now the capital of the empire.

The day of enthronement.

Outside Wujun City, a large altar for offering sacrifices to heaven has been prepared in advance.

Liu Zheng wore a dragon robe, and under the leadership of civil and military officials, he began to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens.

Standing on the high platform, holding the notice written by Gu Yong and Zhang Zhao.

With an impassioned speech, he proclaimed to heaven and proclaimed himself emperor on behalf of the Han Dynasty.

In the words, although Liu Zheng's identity as a descendant of the royal family was not mentioned, as long as it has the surname Liu, those who seek their roots and ask their ancestors are always descendants of the royal family. Liu Zheng was too lazy to do it, he didn't care about this, he directly declared to God that he proclaimed himself emperor, and the name of the country was Han, and bluntly said that he wanted to crusade against the puppet emperor Liu Bian and the traitor Yuan Shao.

Liu Bian is like Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan, and Yuan Shao is Wang Mang who stands on his own in the Han Dynasty, but he has not yet reached the step of Wang Mang.

And Liu Zheng, of course, compared himself to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

Although it is said that this will anger the two generals He Miao and Yuan Shao, and let them launch a crusade against Liu Zheng.

But Liu Zheng is not afraid at all. Anyway, the relationship between them has reached the point of death. Even if Liu Zheng does not become emperor, they will not let Liu Zheng go. At any rate, he was buried with the emperor's ceremony.

The pattern is different.

At the end of the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, Liu Zheng began to canonize civil and military officials in public in the main hall of the palace.

Liu Zheng did not fully follow the official position system of the Han Dynasty. Although the Sangong Jiuqing system was retained, he added the cabinet system.

With Xu You, Shi Xie, Gu Yong, and Zhang Zhao as four members of the cabinet, they assisted Liu Zheng in handling political affairs.

Yuan Zhou is the prime minister, the head of all officials, with the highest salary, in charge of the emperor, and assistant to Wanji.

Huang Zhong is Taiwei, second only to the prime minister's official position, specializing in military affairs, with the same status as the prime minister, the highest military officer position.

Chen Deng is the imperial envoy doctor, who exercises the power of the deputy prime minister and is the assistant to the prime minister. He supervises all the administrative activities of the officials, including the prime minister.

Yuan Zhou, Huang Zhong, and Chen Deng are among the three princes.

Guo Jia is Taichang, who is in charge of the affairs of the ancestral temple and generally does not participate in specific administrative affairs. He is the head of the Jiuqing.

Dian Wei is Guang Luxun, in charge of security affairs in the palace, and at the same time he is the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei.

Zhou Yu was in charge of the palace gate guards as a Wei Wei, a military officer, and the commander of the emperor's imperial guards.

Cai Mao was a servant in charge of chariots and horses.

Zhang Kai was the captain of the court, in charge of punishment.

Cao Cao is the great king, in charge of the disputes among the kings and the barbarians on the frontier.

Mi Fang was the Da Si Nong, in charge of the taxation and money of the whole country. It was the central finance department of the Han Dynasty. All state financial expenditures, military expenditures, such as land rent, oral tax, salt and iron, water transportation, currency management, etc. were all handled by Da Si. Sinon management.

Lu Jun is the Shaofu, in charge of the royal family's money and the emperor's basic necessities of life and other affairs.

Among the nine ministers, there is another Zongzheng.

This official position is mostly held by relatives of the emperor, but Liu Zheng has no relatives at the moment, so in the end he will not set up Zongzheng for the time being, and let him keep it for now.

As soon as the official positions of the Sangong and Jiuqing came out, they basically included all the civil servants under Liu Zheng.

Next is the appointment of generals.

Regarding the official positions of generals, in fact, most of Liu Zheng still used the official titles of the Han Dynasty.

Xu Huang is the general in court!

Gan Ning was the general of hussars, Zhou Cang was the general of chariots, and Wenpin was the general of Wei.

Zu Lang, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, and Tai Shici are the four generals.

Zang Ba, Guan Hai, Sun Ce, and Su Fei are the generals of the four towns.

Then, by analogy, reward these generals under him.

Of course, Liu Zheng has not forgotten the famous Lu Bu. In fact, Lu Bu has never had any actual power under Liu Zheng. Liu Zheng is in trouble.

I didn't dare to get too close to him, and I was afraid of being too distant from him.

Naturally, such a canonization cannot let Lu Bu go away.

Liu Zheng could only arrange for Lu Bu the title of general.After all, the title of this general was also established by Empress Lu for her nephew Lu Lu.

Chapter 756 Five Tiger Major Generals

Liu Zheng didn't really want to know if there was any relationship between Lu Bu and Empress Lu. In short, Lu Bu was quite satisfied with the position of general.

After all, Lu Bu in history, after helping Wang Yun destroy Dong Zhuo, was only conferred the title of a miscellaneous general of General Fenwu.

The canonization of official positions only represents their authority and does not indicate their status in Liu Zheng's army.

What can explain the status still depends on the title.

The title is the representative of eminence.

Liu Zheng thought about it, and finally selected five people from his army.

Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Sun Jian, and Gan Ning are called Major Generals of the Five Tigers.

Grant them the title of major general.

The remaining battalion commanders and first-level generals were all awarded the title of colonel.

The deputy battalion commander is the title of major.

A general at the first level of Qu Chang, canonized as a captain.

The deputy director is a second lieutenant.

The first level of the chief is a sergeant.

People at the captain level start to have titles and start to be promoted from corporals.

Soldiers are divided into three classes, and those who have first, second and third class meritorious service can be promoted to titles.

Liu Zheng summed up the achievements of these generals under his command over the years, and rewarded them according to their merits.

And the method of promotion was clearly written out, and they were told that the generals and soldiers were very satisfied.

The generals are satisfied with being able to show their status through titles.