Overlord!

Chapter 299 Jianguo No. Selection
  In September, when it was getting colder in the north, Sun Ce returned to Jiankang from the Central Plains.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, it was getting colder every year, and the temperature in the north became more and more severe. This made it seem that the climate in the south, which used to be a bit mean and hot and humid, was getting warmer and warmer.

In September, it is already freezing cold in the north, but Jiankang south of the Yangtze River has crisp autumn air, fragrant osmanthus, and beautiful scenery.

Especially Bailuzhou in the middle of the river, because it is right across the Zhaoming Palace, the government ordered that people are strictly prohibited from entering to cut firewood and fuel, so it has become lush and lush with flowers and trees in recent years.

Because of the beautiful scenery, cruise ships and painting boats on the Qinhuai River often linger here. Here is a pond, a mountain of soil, islands and peaks, blooming flowers, and colorful fallen flowers. A gentle breeze blew by, and under the bright and warm sunshine, the air was filled with flying flower petals and flying catkins. It can be said to be the ultimate scenery, a paradise on earth.

Especially compared to the troubled times in the north, the scenery here always makes people linger.

Looking at the beautiful scenery like this paradise, Sun Ce's recent heavy mood due to government affairs felt much better.

In the bright sunshine, Sun Ce directly asked Xiu Yiwei to move his soft couch to the high platform in front of the palace. He leaned on the soft couch and admired the prosperous scenery in the distance, enjoying a peaceful life for the day.

In a comfortable mood, he heard the joy in the footsteps of others, so he asked without looking back: "But is Madam here?"

Chen Yue walked to Sun Ce gently, held his hand, and asked, "How do you know it's me, husband?"

"You can hear it when you calm down. Lingyi serves as a female official and is in charge of the weaving department, so her steps are more steady. Lingyu is timid, so her steps are light. Only you, madam, as the master of the harem, are both graceful and dignified, and also calm and leisurely. . But it seems that Madam is in a good mood today?"

Chen Yue did not answer, but asked: "My Abao sent someone to report that my husband made him the Marquis of Chiyang Township?"

Chiyang is located in Wu County and is one of the thirteen townships in Wu County. It can be said that Chen Bao is very rich and noble if he is granted the title of Marquis of the Township here!

The reason why Cao Wei likes to grant the title of Marquis of Wansui Pavilion is that Wansui Pavilion has a prosperous population and a prosperous economy.

And Wujun is undoubtedly the most prosperous land of plenty in the world today. If you are granted the title of Marquis here, even if there are only [-] households in the fief, it will be a very generous salary! Moreover, there are many wealthy families there, and the taxes they pay in a year are enough for Chen Bao to live and clothe himself.

So Sun Ce nodded and said, "That's true. I have already made him Polu Zhonglang General, and I will also make him Polu General in the future!"

Chen Yue asked: "Will this cause controversy between the government and the public? After all, A Bao doesn't have many military exploits."

"Xiao He didn't have much military exploits, but when it comes to merit, Gaozu, Xiao He is the leader. I once promised you that A Bao will sell me a thousand acres of land, and I will reward him with ten thousand households the next day!" Sun Ce stroked his hand and comforted him with a smile. .

At the beginning, Sun Ce had just started his army and started his own business, but there was not enough food and grass to pay the soldiers and soldiers, which was not enough to march south to Kuaiji. So Chen Bao sold all his property and raised tens of thousands of stones for Sun Ce, which solved Sun Ce's urgent need.

Sun Ce has never been a stingy character, and now it's time for Chen Bao to take advantage of his victory!

Chen Yue was still uneasy and said: "I have never doubted your husband's generosity and trust. But after all, A Bao is only serving as a guard during the Northern Expedition, and is he qualified to be a Marquis? Will other soldiers feel resentful?"

Chen Yue is still very knowledgeable. Chen Bao's reward is not in a hurry at all. As long as Jiangdong's imperial career is successful, Chen Bao's glory and wealth will definitely be indispensable.

In particular, Sun Shao, Chen Yuesheng's eldest son, is now a tiger-headed man, quite like his father. If he succeeds to the throne in the future, Chen Bao, a relative, may even become a general.

Therefore, in order to calm the resentment of the people in the government and the public, she can let her family endure for a few years.

However, this does not delay her joy. This is a reflection of her respect for herself and her clan.

Sun Ce waved his hand and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, Madam, just rest assured. Nowadays, Gudu is no longer the Marquis of Wu, and a mere rural Marquis is no longer as rare as it used to be. Zhou Yu has already conferred the title of Marquis of Tangxiang, Lu Meng He was promoted to Kunshan Township Marquis, Zhang Zhao was appointed Dongling Township Marquis, and Abao was granted the title of Chiyang Township Marquis as a guard general. It is not surprising at all."

It's true that due to the great victory of the Northern Expedition and Sun Ce's power throughout the world, Sun Ce's official position and marquis changed again.

The imperial court personally sent envoys to confer Sun Ce the title of Grand Sima, lead Yuzhou as a pastoralist, open a government office, establish a false festival, and grant the title of Marquis of Nanchang, effectively granting [-] households!
  Sun Ce didn't really care whether it was a real seal or not.

After all, the entire south is ruled by Sun Ce, and he has the Wuxian Weaving Department to provide wealth, and tens of thousands of concubines and slaves to run gardens, farms, official workshops, shipbuilding palaces, etc., and the wealth in the treasury There is simply no way to spend all your wealth.

That's why Sun Ce was able to provide wives and daughters for every young man, widower and widower under his rule. Of course, Sun Ce did not do like Sun Quan, who saw a commoner without a wife and gave him his concubine. Instead, the General's Mansion directly provided funds to select a woman from the Qinhuai Painted Boat to give to the other party.

In this day and age, chastity is not that important. After all, even in the Song Dynasty, when the famous lady Liang Hongyu married Han Shizhong, one of the four generals of the ZTE, she was just an official prostitute.

In the war-torn Central Plains, it is a tragic reality that there are many boys and girls. In this Northern Expedition, no fewer than [-] young men, soldiers, and laborers died directly in the war. As for the indirect victims, there are probably countless more. One hundred thousand.

Refugees migrated south, and it was also a reality that there were more women than men in the south. Sun Ce could only create large-scale mulberry tea gardens, develop textiles, and fry tea, while acquiescing to the prosperity of Qinhuai river cruise boats. After all, this could give these women a way to survive.

In addition, Sun Ce is similar to Sun Quan in this official position.

The Marquis of Nanchang went round and round and returned to the Sun family.

In fact, what is more interesting is that Sun Quan has never served as the Marquis of Wu in history.

After all, Wu Hou is Sun Ce's marquis. Even if Sun Ce dies, Wu Hou will be succeeded by Sun Shao. Historically, when Sun Quan inherited Jiangdong, he was granted the titles of General Tuolu and Prefect of Kuaiji, so his nicknames were Sun Tuolu and Sun Kuaiji.

When Lu Su met Liu Bei for the first time, he called his lord Sun Toulu.

During the Battle of Hefei, Zhang Liao captured a group of Soochow troops who surrendered. Zhang Liao asked the surrenderers: "Before this battle, there was a purple-bearded general who was good at shooting with his horse. Who was he?" The surrender replied: "It's Sun. Kuaiji. "When Liao and Lejin met, they said they had not known about it earlier. They pursued them in a hurry and were satisfied with themselves. The whole army was filled with resentment.

Therefore, it was a famous misunderstanding to say that Sun Quan was the Marquis of Wu. His official reward in the imperial court was to wait until Cao Cao was proclaimed King of Wei before he made Sun Quan a hussar general, leader of Jingzhou as a herdsman, and Marquis of Nanchang.

Sun Ce did not expect that the title of Marquis of Nanchang would be granted to him again.

This raises a question. Nanchang is within the territory of Yuzhang. If you want to establish a country in the future, do you have to be like Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu and first be called the Duke of Yuzhang? Then the name of the Song Dynasty was established, and finally it was changed to the Yuan and Song Dynasties?
  This Song Dynasty was the Liu Song Dynasty, not the later Zhao Song Dynasty. It was famous for its strong martial arts. The so-called golden war and iron horse, which swallowed up the tiger thousands of miles away, was talking about Liu Song's Northern Expedition.

Thinking about it this way, Sun Ce was quite satisfied with the country's title of Song. It is also in line with the current situation in Jiangdong.

There are both the martial virtues of Liu Song and the wealth and taxes of Zhao Song.

Of course, when the Zhao and Song Dynasties were founded, they were also prosperous in martial virtue and swallowed up the powerful. Therefore, great men ranked Tang Zong and Song Zu together.

Basically, Zhao Kuangyin's records are similar to those of gods. Especially in the war against the Southern Tang Dynasty, the enemy army in the Battle of Fengzhou was said to be [-]. Zhao Kuangyin rushed into the battle alone and directly chopped the enemy general Huangfuhui on the head with a knife, and captured him together with his deputy Yao Feng.

Later, Chai Rong gave him two thousand troops to attack Yangzhou, so Zhao Kuangyin ordered: If the Yangzhou soldiers dare to cross Liuhe, their feet will be cut off. Immediately, the opponent was so frightened that he did not dare to move rashly and only defended Yangzhou. Zhao Kuangyin led more than [-] people to defeat Li Jingda, the king of Qi in the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the east of Liuhe, killing more than [-] people. It is really hard to imagine how more than [-] people beheaded more than [-] people.

But in short, the reason why Emperor Taizu was able to end the brutal chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was because he was already the top military commander of that era and could be called a military god of the generation.

After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the world was still not at peace. To the south and west were the Southern Tang, Wuyue, Houshu, Southern Han, and Nanping (Jingnan). To the north was the Northern Han Dynasty supported by the Khitan, but they were all wiped out one by one by Zhao Kuangyin.

If it weren't for the arrogance of Zhao Guangyi, the donkey cart emperor, the Northern Song Dynasty would also be famous for its prosperous military virtues.

In addition to the prosperous martial arts, Jiangdong and Jiangnan are also economically prosperous.

Due to the war in the north and the peace in the south, the country's tax revenue had to rely heavily on the southeast. This situation was very similar to that of Liu Song and Zhao Song.

However, the matter of proclaiming the emperor is still too far away. Whether it is to establish the title of Song like Liu Yu, or simply to establish the title of Liang or Wu, it is not something that does not require too much consideration at the moment.

Now what Sun Ce has to consider is how to quickly eliminate Yuan Shao.

The imperial court obviously meant this too. The reason why the Han Dynasty appointed Sun Ce as Grand Sima was obviously to sow discord between Sun Ce and Yuan Shao.

Da Sima now belongs to the Shang San Gong, ranking above the generals and the head of the military attachés.

In other words, Sun Ce, a young prince, was placed above Yuan Shao!

Can Yuan Shao tolerate this with his arrogance?
  I am afraid that within a year or two, he will have to send troops to attack Sun Ce, the "grandfather".

Because Sun Ce was too young, Sun Ce really couldn't accept his subordinates calling him Sun Gong, and he also planned to ascend the throne as soon as possible.

It is more pleasant to call him Song Gong than Sun Gong.

Therefore, Sun Ce thought that the imperial court had made a foolish move. It is true that the imperial court was impatient after seeing the alliance between Yuan and Sun without fighting.

But this intention is too obvious, Yuan Shao may not lose his mind easily, directly destroy the alliance and attack Sun Ce.

Moreover, the imperial court underestimated Yuan Shao's ambition. If Yuan Shao was under the rule of the Han Dynasty and his status was lower than that of Sun Ce, he would not necessarily be angry with Sun Ce. He would probably smash the chessboard and create a new kingdom for himself, named Wei or Zhao.

Yuan Shao's choice of country title also encountered Sun Ce's problem.

His rule is in Wei County, and his title is Yehou, so theoretically he should be called the King of Wei.

Cao Cao founded the Kingdom of Wei because he robbed Yuan Shao of his foundation and transferred his fiefdom to Wei County.

But Yuan Shao's ambitions are probably very big, and his foundation has always been very broad. Unlike Cao Cao's previous power in the Central Plains, in order to claim the title of Duke of Wei, he divided thirteen counties into his territory, and finally forcibly established the Wei Kingdom. Yuan Shao's The foundation has always been in Hebei.

He has always claimed to the outside world that he has the support of the heroes of Yan and Zhao. Yan is in Youzhou and his rule is not very strong, so it is okay to call the country Zhao.

If that doesn't work, you can also be named Jin like Sima Yan, or just like Dou Jiande, be named Xia.

But no matter which one Yuan Shao founded was Wei, Jin, Zhao or Xia, the first thing he did after establishing the country and establishing the state was definitely to destroy the Han Dynasty to enhance his own legitimacy.

This is undoubtedly very beneficial to Sun Ce.

If Yuan Shao destroyed the small court of the Han Dynasty, and Sun Ce destroyed Yuan Shao, then it would be justifiable to inherit the throne, and no one could argue with it.

Moreover, Yuan Shao had always had ambitions in this regard. After he withdrew his troops and returned to Jibei, he marched westward and captured most of the counties in Henan and Hanoi. But even so, he did not stop his march.

Because Zhang He defeated the enemy with great force in the attack on Cao Cao's base camp, the first battle determined the outcome of the decisive battle between Yuan and Cao's armies. Therefore, he was rated as the first hero in this battle. Yuan Shao named him General Pingdi and ordered him to lead more than [-] troops to continue attacking Hedong County next to Hanoi.

Hedong County is a large county in the north, known as the gateway to Guanzhong.

The land here is fertile, there are also salt ponds, and there are many mountains, rivers, and salt iron. It is one of the richest counties in the north.

The reason why the imperial court was able to regain its vitality was not only the tributes given by the princes to the imperial court, but also the most important reason was the salt produced by the salt ponds in Hedong.

This supported nearly half of the imperial court's taxes and all the costs of resettling the people.

As Sun Ce attacked the emperor, it was inevitable to have an enmity with the imperial court. Although the imperial court promptly made up the relationship and sent envoys to confer him the title of Grand Sima, in order to stabilize Sun Ce and prevent him from sending a large army to attack the pass with Yuan Shao.

However, Sun Ce still stopped paying tribute to the imperial court, which meant that the seven states of Qing, Xu, Yan, Yu, Jing, Yang, and Jiao under Sun Ce no longer sent tribute to the imperial court.

It was obvious that Yuan Shao would no longer be able to pay tribute to the imperial court. His ambition to become emperor was almost unbearable. How could he possibly pay tribute to the emperor again?

Therefore, the ownership of Hedong is related to the final economic lifeline of the imperial court.

The imperial court appointed Liu Bei as its general and led an army of [-] to resist Zhang He's attack in Hedong.

Cao Cao suffered from a headache and could only stay in Luoyang to reunite his defeated troops in Yan and Yu and rectify the morale of the army.

Zhang He led an army of [-] against Liu Bei's [-], but did not gain much of an advantage. Near the salt pond, dead bodies were strewn across the field, and blood flowed into rivers.

But what was unfavorable to the court was that the Qiang and Hu people in Bingzhou chose to support Yuan Shao. Under the command of Guo Yuan, the governor of Hedong appointed by Yuan Shao, and the high-ranking governor of Bingzhou, and tens of thousands of people, they assisted Zhang He in attacking Hedong and conquered everything he reached.

The imperial court had to continue to ask for help from the generals in Guanzhong, and asked Zhong Yao to supervise Ma Chao, Cheng Yi, Yang Qiu and other Xiliang generals to help Liu Bei defend Hedong.

　You can also give me some suggestions on what country name to use.

　　If there is no special opinion, it should be like Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu's Northern Expedition. After devouring thousands of miles like a tiger, he established the name Song Dynasty.

　　
  　
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