At Cao Fu's house, Yu Zhi, Pan Tao and others arrived as promised.
Yu Zhi snorted it skillfully and felt as if he were in heaven.
Pan Tao waved his hand, signaling no.
There were several other young people, including Yu Liang and Xu Lang, who looked eager to give it a try, but when they saw Pan Tao didn't move, they could only suppress their thoughts and glance at the beautiful concubines.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Cao waved his hand and the concubines left one after another.
"General Beizhong Lang, Pingchang Gongmo and General Ningshuo (fourth grade) have gone to Zhenye." In the dead of winter, Uncle Cao was still waving his fan and talking: "Wen Xian was granted the title of Duke of Daling County.
There are 1,800 households in the city, and he is still the governor of Jizhou."
Ma Mo of the Pingchang Company is the younger brother of Sikong. He was originally a regular servant (third rank) of Sanqi. Now he is the governor, guarding Yecheng, and directly grabbed the biggest piece of fat.
To be honest, others may have some opinions.
Sima Teng, don't you want to move to another place? Bingzhou is not a good place.
Where is Sima Lue of Qingzhou? He is not greedy for Yecheng?
Not to mention, Sima Mo did nothing and received no credit at all. Just because he was Sima Yue's younger brother, he rose from an idle clan to become the lord of Jizhou.
I guess many people are waiting to see his jokes.
The clan is idle and has no government. How many confidants can you have on hand? Can you control Jizhou?
Wen Xian was originally the governor of Jizhou.
During the Northern Expedition, he fled back to Luoyang, and then followed the expedition. After the failure, he fled back to his hometown and waited. He was actually reinstated in his official position, and he was awarded a title for "meritorious service".
When it comes to the titles of the Jin Dynasty, it was definitely one of the most confusing in history.
In the first year of Taishi, a "new fifth-class nobility" was established - if the king is included, it would be a sixth-class nobility.
Only the descendants of the Sima clan can be granted the title of king, so let's not worry about it for the moment - originally there were only princes, but later there were more county kings, and only a few people could be granted the title.
There are five kinds of titles: Duke (two kinds: Duke of the county and Duke of the county), Marquis (Marquis of the county, Marquis of the county), Bo, Zi, and male. Foreign surnames can be granted, and descendants of the clan and queen can also be granted titles when their titles are reduced in descending order, such as Ma Teng of Dongying company.
Most of the fifth-level titles granted by foreign surnames were granted by Sima Yan when he founded the country. Generally, the word "Kaiguo" was added, and they could be divided into "Guojun Gong", "Kaiguo County Duke", "Kaiguo County Duke", "Kaiguo County Marquis", "Kaiguo County Marquis", "Kaiguo Marquis", "Kaiguo Bo", etc.
Founder of the country, founder of the country.
After the fifth rank, there are also Xianghou, Tinghou, Guanneihou, Guanwaihou, etc.
During the Taishi period (265-274), there was also a lot of confusion regarding Zhonghou and the like.
In the third year of Xianning (277), Xun Xu submitted a memorial to the emperor, arguing that "the five-level country has a long history and is not really a system." "However, it has a false name... and is no different from the old counties, counties, and pavilions."
Xun Xu felt that there was no difference between the five-level titles and the enfeoffment of princes in the Han Dynasty, so he asked for "discretion". The final result was that the princes were still under the old system, and the princes and below were basically not granted titles. Even if there were, the titles would be reduced by the descendants of the princes.
It was acquired at the time, and there was no feudal state, and it only enjoyed some economic benefits.
Dukes, on the other hand, have fiefdoms. Even if the feudal state has less than 5,000 households, it can still have an army of 1,000 soldiers.
When Sima Lun acceded to the throne, he granted titles indiscriminately once, and even his servants were knighted. But apart from that, there were very few titles below the dukes and princes, which can be regarded as a reconstruction of the previous messy title system - in fact
Above, only the words of the duke are clear, but they are too few.
Also awarded the title together with Wen Xian were Yanling County Duke Gaoguang and others (1,800 households in the city).
Wen Xian was born in the Wen family of Taiyuan, the grandson of Wen Hui, and Gao Guang was the son of Cao Wei Taiwei Gao Rou, both of whom came from famous families.
They got the title without doing anything.
The soldiers who went out to fight and fought desperately did not win the title.
Reasonable, really reasonable.
"Dongying Gongteng entered General Anbei (third rank) and Bingzhou was troubled. I don't know if he can hold up the situation." Cao Fu continued.
Sima Teng was the second younger brother of Sima Yue and the elder brother of Sima Mo. He was the governor and governor of Bingzhou.
Last year, he led his army to defeat Ye General Wang Bin and contributed to Sima Ying's final downfall.
But there was nothing to reward him.
The General looks expensive, but it has no territory and no soldiers, so it is not very affordable.
This was one of the reasons why Shao Xun had previously preferred not to be promoted to general, but to continue to command the army.
Titles below Duke and various general titles are just icing on the cake and not worth pursuing with great efforts.
Among the second and fourth brothers, Sima Yue finally chose his fourth brother Sima Mo, who had no territory yet, to go to Yecheng. For some unknown reason.
In this way, from west to east, Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou are all in the hands of Sima Yue's three younger brothers. If he himself takes Xuzhou again, his cousin Sima Gai is in Yuzhou, and his cousin Sima Shi is still in Wan.
As the governor of the city, Sima Yi's fourth brother Sima Kui and his family became very powerful.
As the "parent" of this faction, Sima Yue is the well-deserved alliance leader, although this alliance leader's military ability is a bit weak.
"Military Secretary, why are you talking about this?" Yu Zhi said with some resentment: "When will Sikong return to Luoyang? I heard that many scholars recently went to the East China Sea and defected to Sikong. Could it be that he just opened a mansion in the East China Sea and ignored us?"
"Yes." Yu Zhuo raised his head, and someone sighed, and then said: "If Xuzhou is captured, Sikong will definitely take over as the governor and governor of Xuzhou. In order to suppress the ground, he will definitely stay there for a while. He can return this year.
Luoyang?"
"Will King Dongping move or not? Leave early. Sikong will finish reorganizing Xuzhou early and return to Luoyang early."
"I heard that Sikong promised Yanzhou to King Dongping, but King Dongping is still hesitant."
"Why are you still hesitating? If you continue to hesitate and declare him a traitor, all the towns will fight against him, and Sima Zhu's end will be even worse."
"Who says it's not? I hope he can figure it out soon."
Cao Fu shook his fan violently several times.
Everyone stopped talking and looked at him.
The huge Donghai King Group is now divided into two parts: east and west.
The King of the East China Sea lives in the East China Sea. Wang Cheng, who fled with him, became the prefect of the East China Sea. Liu Qia was responsible for recruiting troops and became the de facto lieutenant. Considering that many people have recently gone to the East China Sea to request admission, the scholars surrounding the King of the East China Sea are:
More and more.
As a result, those who stayed in Luoyang were embarrassed.
Led by military commander Cao Fu, there were more than ten people including staff and court officials. Their power was not as strong as that of the other side, but they still held military power and were still close to the emperor. It was really time to think carefully about where to go.
Someone once planned to go east to Xuzhou to work with Sikong, but Cao Fu dissuaded him because Luoyang had insufficient talents.
But this is not an option.
The people left behind in Luoyang are almost stepmothers. They watch the Donghai gang surrounding Sikong every day and they don't even know what they are doing. Sikong doesn't know what they are doing. As time goes by, the future is not good.
In fact, this is a factional problem, which is unavoidable for any group. Sima Yue's absence just amplified this problem.
Cao Fu knew what was going on. He knew what was going on. The only way was to increase the strength of their side, build more meritorious deeds, and make Sikong take notice.
People, it is always easier to see the people in front of you, and people far away are easier to ignore. Then use an indelible weight to force Sikong to pay attention to them.
"What did Mi Zihui say?" Cao Fu turned to Pan Tao and asked.
"He will be able to serve as the prefect of Hongnong in February or March. It has been agreed that he is willing to compete for the position of coach of the Western Expedition." Pan Tao said.
"Then help him fight for it!" Cao Fu said without hesitation: "I have served Sikong for many years, and I still have some face."
"He Lun, Wang Bing wants to be appointed as the general of the left and right guards." Pan Tao continued: "Sikong also wants to appoint Chen Jin, Wang Hu, Jie Bao and others. These are all old generals of the Forbidden Army, and there are many newly recruited soldiers.
If the imperial army is defeated, it will be easier for them to lead them."
"He Lun and Wang Bing are short-sighted." Cao Fu commented and asked: "Where is Shao Xun?"
"When I met Shao Xun, he was hunting in the Forbidden Garden and training sergeants." Pan Tao replied: "In recent days, he has occupied some fields. He heard that he was going to hire dancers and female musicians, and he also let his nephew and third brother enter the Imperial College.
nominal……"
"That's all?" Cao Fu asked.
"That's all." Pan Tao looked at Cao Fu calmly and replied.
"Young man, you suddenly rise to a high position, you can't withstand the temptation." Cao Fu sighed and said: "That's fine. He still knows how to train sergeants, that's enough. In the future, you can use beauty and money to make friends with him."
Of course, Cao Fu would not believe everything Pan Tao said.
But it seems reasonable.
How could an eighteen-year-old boy, who was full of energy and had gained status and power, be able to remain silent?
The young man whom I was once very optimistic about could not sink like this.
"Wang Yifu, send someone to inform him." Cao Fu said again: "I don't want to argue with him. He is in charge of the selection of officials, and I will not stand in the way. He should not interfere randomly in what I want to do.
Yuan Gui, please take a trip."
"Yes." Yu Liang responded softly.
"Military Secretary..." Xu Lang suddenly spoke.
"What's the matter?"
"Pei Kuo, Pei Xia is back, Sikong may want to appoint him," Xu Lang said.
Cao Fu thought silently.
Pei Kuo was originally a middle-level general (fourth grade), so it was only natural for him to join the Forbidden Army and command troops.
Pei Xia was Wang Yan's son-in-law and had not yet served as an official. If Sikong wanted to use him, he would probably be recruited into the shogunate.
"Wang Yifu..." Cao Fu sighed softly.
How can this person be so able to exploit the enemy?
After Sikong's Northern Expedition failed, he fell silent for a while, probably watching the situation. Later, he found out that Mi Huang, Shao Xun and others knew the rules, so they came out again.
Wang Yan is the best at playing within the rules. What he fears the most is people who don’t follow the rules.
He recently appointed Du Xi, the former Changsha Prince's literary scholar, as Shangshu Zuocheng (sixth rank), and his relationship with the Du family has become increasingly close.
Of course, big families are already married to each other, and the relationship is constantly getting messy and chaotic.
It’s hard to say how harmonious it is. After all, sometimes the relationship is very good, and sometimes it deteriorates due to conflicts of interests.
But Wang Yifu is really good at weaving a web of relationships, like a spider.
Compared with him, Wang Dun, Wang Dao, Wang Cheng and others have to be thrown away.
As the number of Wang Yan's party members and allies in the court increased day by day, Sikong actually acquiesced, which shows that there is also a way to avoid the enemy.
The simplest thing is that Luoyang still needs supplies from other states.
Without the scholars Wang Yan recruited to serve as officials in the court, it would be difficult to say whether people would recognize the court or not, and how much food would be brought from other states to the capital.
If he didn't win the war cleanly, he would have to give up power and win more allies. Sikong was helpless.
That's all, just establish a good relationship with Wang Yifu, the paper framer, so that the two sides don't conflict with each other.
"Shao Xun, send someone to persuade him." At the end, Cao Fu couldn't help but said: "If it doesn't work, let him marry a wife to calm down. You can help me pay attention."
"No." Everyone responded one after another.
Shao Xun is now the most capable thug in the small group in Luoyang. He fights for land with others every day. He is so greedy for money that it is really ugly.
The eighteen-year-old general in the palace, after marrying his wife, will naturally get on the right track - well, passively get on the right track, because the real wife will beat the charming bitches to death, and the milk can only be eaten by her, and in her mouth
Only the one who leaks out will have the turn of the coquettish bitch.
"Let's go." After saying the last thing, Uncle Cao was a little exhausted and waved.
Chapter completed!