Chapter 1039 Preparations for Proclaiming Emperor

No one dared to object to Zhang Yu proclaiming himself emperor, and no one could stop him at this time.

Occupying Jizhou, Zhang Yu has completed the first stage of hegemony, becoming the number one prince in the world, and his strength is far higher than other princes.

This time, Cao Cao suffered heavy losses and it was difficult to recover.

There wasn't enough ground for him to recover either.

Zhang Yu has been in Yecheng for a few days, and he handles government affairs in Yecheng.

In the past few days, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai's tasks have not been light.

Many aristocratic families have come to visit Zhang Yu and want to serve Zhang Yu. How can these people have the qualifications for Zhang Yu to receive them personally? Letting two cabinet members receive them is already a very high standard. If Zhang Yu has other talents here, it is estimated that He didn't even have the chance to meet Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai.

Before the officials at all levels arrived, Zhang Yu still had the army stationed around Yecheng, and only after all the aristocratic families here were suppressed could the follow-up matters be handled easily.

Zhang Yu didn't use a family member as an official, even at the township level, Zhang Yu's influence would spread over.

In ancient times, for a long period of time, the decree was only down to the county level, and the local gentry governed below the county level.

But Zhang Yu completely broke such rules and had to listen to himself.

Zhang Yu has reserved a large number of talents, and a large number of talents have been deployed.

Inevitably, many people do not have much experience, and it is better to have no experience than to let the children of those aristocratic families become officials.

Jizhou changed hands, and the whole world was shaken, and there were even rumors that Zhang Yu wanted to proclaim himself emperor.

When Zhang Yu proclaimed himself emperor, there was a burst of protests from all over the country, and they all expressed their intention to crusade Zhang Yu.

But in the end, it didn't scale up. It was just a group of people who wanted to gain fame took the opportunity to make trouble, but they found that it was useless at all, and not many people responded to them.

It seems that there is a huge voice of opposition from all over the country, but at most there are only a few hundred people gathered to attack Zhang Yu.

"A bunch of jumping clowns."

This news was naturally released by Zhang Yu. Not only did he want to give the world a psychological preparation, the most important thing was that he wanted to know if there were any hidden opposition forces in his territory.

Zhang Yu proclaiming the emperor is a good time for them to make troubles. If there are any, they should be extinguished in advance to clear these obstacles.

Not to mention, some spies were discovered by Zhang Yu, and some of them were eliminated.

In a few days, order was restored in Ye City. Although the city was still dilapidated, the people had slowly returned to normal life.

"My lord, these aristocratic families in Jizhou are really good, and their family background is very rich." Guo Jia said to Xi Zhicai.

"Oh, you two, how much money did you make in a few days?"

Zhang Yu was also curious about the result of making two people who have seen a lot of money sigh rich.

"Not to mention anything else, how much land these aristocratic families have controlled is really difficult to calculate. Anyway, we have already collected hundreds of thousands of acres of land, all at super low prices." Guo Jia said.

If it is occupied by Zhang Yu, the land is not theirs anymore. If they don't hand it over, they will be beaten down by Zhang Yu, and there will be no money at that time.

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Assuming they are wise, hand over their land, and dismiss their servants, we can give them preferential treatment. We will not touch their other properties, and we will not investigate whether they have sponsored Cao Cao before."

It's no longer interesting to care about those things, Zhang Yu's current power is no longer the same as before.

Therefore, Zhang Yu did not pursue those.

"My lord, my subordinates feel that some of these lands can be divided up, and we can keep the other part for ourselves," Guo Jia said.

"what for?"

"My lord, such a great battle,

It consumes too much for us. We used to engage in farmland, but then there was too much food, so we gave up farmland and let the soldiers concentrate on training to improve their combat effectiveness. Now that the scale is too large, we should use more farmland to solve part of the military expenses. " Guo Jia said.

"Yes, then arrange some field soldiers, but these field soldiers can only be regarded as supplementary troops. Once there is a big battle, they will join the main battle army after training, and they are not usually included in the main battle army."

The main battle army must be trained strictly, and its combat effectiveness must be strong.

A few days later, Zhang Yu's father-in-law came.

After arriving, after Zhang Yu told him some things, those aristocratic families in Jizhou were handed over to him, and Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai went back.

In Jizhou's state pastoral mansion, Zhang Yu met Zhen Yi.

"Patriarch Zhen, this Jizhou needs you, so we called you back. The aristocratic family in Jizhou still needs you to comfort them." Zhang Yu said.

"My lord, this is what an old man should do."

Although he is a Weng son-in-law, he is also a monarch and minister.

"Okay, your status is the most suitable, appease these aristocratic families, and at the same time let them understand that this king will not give them preferential treatment in the end of confrontation with this king, but he will not deliberately make things difficult for them and let them develop well. Who will be destroyed."

"By the way, tell them clearly that this king is already planning to proclaim himself emperor."

This Zhen Yi was also shocked, and if he proclaimed himself emperor, then he would be the head of the country.

Although Zhen Yi had received the news a long time ago, it was naturally different from what Zhang Yu said.

At this time, Beiping also began to make preparations. Zhang Yu proclaiming himself emperor was no small matter, with various preparations.

First of all, there must be a palace.

Although Zhang Yu said that everything should be kept simple and the palace was not allowed to be overhauled, the palace is a must.

Zhang Yu decided to expand from the City Lord's Mansion in Beiping, which originally reserved a large amount of land, and also established the square for later generations.

Beiping started construction, that is, the matter was officially made public.

Zhang Yu is about to proclaim himself emperor.

The cabinet is also very busy, the first thing is to distribute the meritorious officials.

Zhang Yu has a lot of heroes under him, how to arrange these is a lot of work.

But Zhang Yuming said that from now on, all will be the county system and the cabinet system, and there will be no more kings. Even his son will only have the title of king in the future, and will have no territory.

It doesn't matter which king is entrusted, there will be a corresponding fief, and there will be no fief in the future.

If there is no fiefdom, don't even think about raising troops to rebel, it won't exist in the future.

Zhang Yu plans to set up a fund to distribute some money to those heroes and their descendants every year, so that they can live well.

This also prevents him from killing heroes in the future.

Of course, these are too far away, Zhang Yu still has very important things to do, that is, the country's name and some systems have to be changed.

The country name, Zhang Yu directly embezzled the country name of Datang.

But there is no need for future reign titles. Since he proclaimed himself emperor, it will be the first year of the AD, and the AD will be governed by Eastern rules.

A large number of administrative personnel enriched Jizhou, and Zhang Yu did not sit in Jizhou. Jizhou was handed over to several generals and Xi Zhicai, and Zhang Yu also brought back part of the army.

These troops rested for about ten days, and then began to replenish. After the replenishment, it was training, and then continued to fight.