This series of central personnel transfers was soon issued to Jiangling.
The person responsible for conveying the edict this time was Lei Yuan's old friend Zong Yu. He also brought many other edicts, all of which were adjusted for the military affairs of Jingzhou and Jiangzhou. Lei Yuan and the Central Committee came and went back and forth for several months, and finally had a result.
Among them, General Jianwei, who was stationed in Chaisang, gave the position of former guardians to Wu Ban; Wu Ban himself had a relatively shallow qualification, but Huang Quan had been in Chaisang for many years, so Wu Ban only needed Xiao Gui and Cao to follow him, so there was no hindrance. The position of Yuzhang Prefect, who was directly facing Jiangdong, was taken over by Liao Hua, the former chief clerk of the general.
After Guan Yu was transferred to the central government as a general, Guan Ping was promoted to a former general and the prefect of Xiangyang, and continued to command Shi He, Hao Pu, Ren Kui, Liu He, Zhan Yan, Chen Feng and other generals of the former army. This appointment of sons as follows the position of fathers may cause some criticism in normal times; but Guan Ping was an old man who followed the King of Hanzhong from Zhuo County, and his qualifications were deeper than most people in the court, so everyone praised him and had no objection.
Previously, there was a discussion in the court that because the emperor was the left general and the Grand Sima, these two positions would be void in the future and would not be held. Later, the emperor laughed and said, "I have also served as the county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, Sima, prime minister, governor, and general Zhendong. Are those positions also void in the future?"
This discussion was made to sleep.
Then the emperor appointed Kou as the Left General, and wrote a letter to comfort him, reminiscing about the friendship between father and son in the past.
As a result, Lei Yuan's daily military affairs in Jiaozhou, and even the control of a considerable part of the Jiaozhou army, that is, the Left Army, were all taken charge by Kou Feng, who was previously appointed as the Left General. In addition, Guo, who was promoted to General Zhenwei, was still in charge of the vast area west of Yulin County.
As for Lei Yuan himself, after living in Cangwu for a few years, he returned to Jiangling and moved into the house left by Guan Yu, and unified the command of the two armies of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou as General of the Cavalry.
The two armies stationed in various military towns around Jiangling, with daily forces ranging from about 40,000. The generals in charge of leading the troops were General Yangwu, General Xi Zhen, Prefect of Nanjun, Ma Yu and Zhou Cang; General Jiaozhou was General Ren Hui, Deng Fan, and Wang Ping, and Ju Fu.
In order to assist Lei Yuan in commanding the two armies, the center appointed a rear guard. However, this rear guard was not transferred from the Chengdu center, but was originally Guan Yu's right-hand man, Zhao Lei, the Jiangling City Defense Governor.
This series of appointments, accompanied by large-scale military dispatch and reorganization, was held for a time, with many roads and horses traveling between Jingzhou, Jiaozhou and Jiangzhou, and the military ships in the river were also sailing. This move made the Cao army in Wancheng in the north and the Jiangdong forces in the east all tense, and at the same time dispatched troops and strengthened their vigilance.
Wenpin, who was in Jiangxia, was very interesting. He personally took a boat to Jiangling and said that he had specially brought twenty good horses from the north and came to congratulate Lei Yuan and other generals on their promotion and reward.
Since Cao's army withdrew from Xiangfan, Wenpin, a local force in the north of Jiangxia County, has been in an extremely awkward position. The three counties he occupied, Anlu, Shiyang and Xinxin in the south, were newly established Jiangzhou to the east, facing the Jiangling base of Jingzhou to the south, and to the west were the heavy troops of Jingzhou in Xiangyang and Sui County.
His connection with the forces of Cao Wei was actually only a thread like silk in the north, which was the road where Lei Yuan burned Cao's army's grain and fodder in Yuzhou in the early years and led his troops to evacuate.
As soon as the war in Xiangfan ended, Wen Pin was anxious to contact Song Wan, a great merchant who was stationed in Jiangxia, and asked him to hand over the extremely polite and polite document to Guan Yu. He never mentioned the past of the two in Xunkou and Jingcheng for many fierce battles, and only mentioned the occasional dates when they were under Liu Biao's command thirteen years ago in Jian'an.
Everyone understands the meaning of this letter.
Guan Yu originally planned to take advantage of the victory and forced a place in Wenpin, but was stopped by Lei Yuan.
Lei Yuan told Guan Yu that Wen Pin claimed to have Jiangxia, but in fact he only controlled the three counties and thousands of troops. This little bit of power would not become a threat to Jingzhou; even if the main force of Cao's army went south from Minghe, he would only fall into Yunmeng Daze and kill himself.
Instead, if you keep Wen Pin's words, through Jiangxia, you can expand your business routes to the north, so that Jingzhou and Jiaozhou can obtain a steady stream of funding, and then turn into soldiers and armor to face Cao's thieves. Isn't it beautiful?
Although Guan Yu himself disdained the business of profit-seeking, he had been in charge for many years and knew how much benefits the smuggling and selling of luxury goods in recent years had brought to his side. Since Lei Yuan said that, he politely replied to Wenpin, which was no longer as good as anything else in the letter except talking about the little things in his early years.
After the first year of Zhangwu, the war from Guanzhong to Jingxiang stopped and the year-long trade was forced to terminate the north-south trade again. Wenpin, a nominal minister of Cao Wei, actually a semi-independent local force, made a lot of money in the process.
At the beginning of this year, he sent a team of people to stay in Lexiang, and even spent a lot of money to organize a team, which won the right to participate in the Lexiang Cuju League.
Since the Cuju League in Lexiang has been held, the threshold has become higher and higher, and it has become an underground channel for communication between Jingjiaohao merchants or agents of major forces. Where did Wenpin get such financial resources and where did he get the stepping stone?
Lei Yuan didn't understand why, so he sent someone to ask him before he found out that Wenpin had obtained a large number of celadons and became the agent for celadons to sell celadons to Jiaozhou.
In recent years, Xuwen, Nanhai and other places in Jiaozhou have gathered in the sea. Not only the merchants in Jiaozhou, Jingzhou and Jiangdong people have also come to do business. The bulk goods they sell are celadon, which is also very popular.
Lei Yuan did not deliberately suppress this, but the merchants in Jiaozhou and Jingzhou were inevitably angry and had been looking for channels to obtain high-quality porcelain to suppress the interests of Jiangdong.
The channel they finally found was Wenpin. And the celadon provided by Wenpin... Lei Yuan asked Zhou Hu to go and investigate it specifically, but once he checked it, he found out that it was actually produced in Jiangdong.
This circle was too big, and after Lei Yuan figured it out, he didn't know what to say. In short, Jiangdong people's celadon is really good, and Wenpin's move is a win-win situation, which is a win-win situation.
Fortunately, no matter what, the people of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou always make more profits, and Lei Yuan doesn't care. Wenpin came to visit in person. Lei Yuan greeted him politely and held a banquet to entertain him. He explained to Wenpin that he had no intention of making a big fuss, and no matter whether Sun or Cao, there was no need to worry for the time being.
When Lei Yuan was entertaining Wen Pin, Ma Zhong and Yan Pu were still accompanying him.
During the meal, Ma Zhong looked at Lei Yuan's face and saw that although he was calm, his eyes were covered in blood and his face was a little dark, which was obviously caused by his recent fatigue in military affairs.
That was natural. After Guan Yu went to the center, hundreds of thousands of troops in the three states were completely dispatched by Lei Yuan. Whether it was sweeping away the remaining enemies, mobilizing and deploying, or even the soldiers' food, drinking, defecation, and rewards, they all fell under unified command. However, the new official office was still in the process of being established and running-in, and it was really difficult to deal with.
Thinking of this, Ma Zhong remembered that when he first met Lei Yuan in Brazil, Lei Yuan had only a few thousand people under his command, and Ma Zhong was just a mere county magistrate. It was a bit emotional after years of upside down.
At the same time, Wen Pin sat in the guest room and vaguely felt that Lei Yuan was absent-minded. He only thought that the cavalry general had other profound intentions and was worried for a moment.
Chapter completed!