For a long time, in the stable and peaceful counties in the mainland, Guo Peng set up county prefects and county magistrates and county magistrates and county magistrates and magistrates to consider their administrative abilities, using only civil servants and not military officers.

However, in the border counties, Guo Peng set up county magistrates to mainly consider their military capabilities.

Some even set up civil servants and prefects in charge of military land taxes, while others directly use military generals, add generals and lead prefects, engage in military control, and directly manage military affairs.

For example, Tian Yu, the prefect of western Liaoning, Zang Ba, the prefect of Guangling, and Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan and Guan Yu, who are in the Three Auxiliary Land, are now included in Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is an absolute frontline of war, and its military significance is far greater than its political significance. Therefore, Guo Peng decided not to set up a civil servant prefect, use military generals to serve as prefects, implement military control, and use military coercion to build Hanzhong as a forward base for southward to enter Shuzhong.

The candidate for the prefect of Hanzhong is particularly important.

In fact, Guo Peng felt that Wei Yan was indeed a good candidate for Hanzhong Prefect. Although he did not have strategic vision, Hanzhong Prefect did not need strategic vision.

As long as Hanzhong is not lost and production is developed, Hanzhong, which has been defeated by several major wars, can cooperate with Guo Peng's reshuffle.

But Wei Yan is still too young now and only serves as a captain in the Tiger Guard.

He is indeed capable and motivated. He has not been in the Tiger Guard for a long time and has made some contributions. He was appointed as the chief lieutenant, but it is still too bad to be the prefect.

At that time, Liu Bei was desperate about Ma Chao and Zhang Fei, so he promoted Wei Yan in an extraordinary way.

In that case, Wei Yan also proved his ability, and he has been following Liu Bei for more than ten years, which is not too abrupt. At this time, Wei Yan has absolutely no chance.

Then we have to choose an excellent general again.

The first ones that were excluded were Yan Liang and Gao Lan. These two were full of fighting generals, fighting bravely and commanding, but each had their own shortcomings and could not defend, and they looked the same as Zhang Fei.

Guo Peng was a little looking forward to Zhang Fei at first. Thinking of his ability to be rough and meticulous, he even arranged Zhang Fei as the governor of Zhuo County.

Later, Guo Peng found that Zhang Fei was really not suitable for a left-behind position. Zhang Fei had caused alcoholism and trouble many times in the position of Zhuo County garrison, and Guo Peng expressed helplessness to him.

So Guo Peng transferred Zhang Fei to the Youzhou border, and led the border army and the army of the Wuwan people with the military positions of General Wei Zhenbei and General Han Huwuwan, and in fact did what Guo Peng had done before.

He was responsible for patrolling the grassland and wandering on it. Once a Xianbei people were found to have relocated, he immediately launched an attack and an indiscriminate attack.

Zhang Fei, a fierce man with a berserk attribute, was very happy about this. He made this position very popular and had a high reputation among the foreign people in Youzhou.

Over the years, Zhang Fei led Wuhuan and other cavalry to attack the grasslands many times. After Guo Peng pacified the Xianbei, he repeatedly attacked the Xianbei tribes that secretly moved south, beheaded more than 5,000 people and more than 100,000 livestock, which can be called the terminator of the Xianbei.

Zhang Yide's reputation was so popular in Youzhou. Foreigners were frightened by the news, and Zhang Fei was in the limelight for a while.

Facts have proved that people who can lead troops to fight have no waste, mainly depends on whether they can find a position that suits him and use him on the right things.

It would be wrong to ask Zhang Fei to guard the city and reclaim the farmland. He would have to suffocate to death. He would drink and cause trouble every day, but he would not change it after repeated instruction.

He was a good player to put him on the grassland to harm the Xianbei people. He swam around all day long and understood the paths on the grassland. He was very happy.

He was extremely agile in dealing with the Xianbei people on the grassland, with clever ears and clear eyes and smooth information, and his methods were particularly cruel and harsh. When he heard that a new Xianbei people came from, he immediately led his troops to kill them, burned, killed and looted for a while, and returned with a full load.

Sometimes when there were no Xianbei people coming, he was so idle that he would take the initiative to send foreign business trips to the northern part of the grassland to contact the Xianbei people, deceive them, make them go south, and then set up an ambush to attack.

Generally speaking, he can eliminate all the population of the other tribe.

The elderly, weak, sick and disabled were killed, and the strong men brought them back to work as laborers, and Zang Hong and Tian Yu built roads and Great Walls in Youzhou, Bingzhou. The woman went south together to send them to Jizhou, which was arranged uniformly by Cao Cao, the prime minister of Wei.

Or as a camp prostitute, it is used to vent the soldiers.

Or after being incorporated into the Han nationality, it will be distributed to poor bachelors and strong men with strong fertility in various places, so as to increase the population and restore local production.

In recent years, the population of Hebei and the Central Plains has recovered, and Zhang Fei also contributed to it.

So Guo Peng promoted Zhang Fei to the Marquis of Zhuo County and added 500 households to the fief. He was like a fish in water, very happy and free and easy.

So after that, Guo Peng became much more cautious in choosing people, examining the abilities and specific strengths of his subordinates, and using them on his personal strengths instead of letting the horse do things like a cow.

The task of the Hanzhong prefect is not to be enterprising, but to defend, and to restore local production.

Administrative requirements are higher than military requirements, and defensive requirements are higher than enterprising requirements. Guo Peng needs a general who is cautious, defensive and meticulous in this position.

The first person Guo Peng thought of was Zhao Yun, but then he rejected this idea.

During the years when Zhao Yun was allowed to be his subordinate, Guo Peng spared no effort to cultivate Zhao Yun.

Guo Peng personally taught him the art of war and the way to lead troops to command troops. He also asked Zhao Yun to be his personal soldier earlier, one of the earliest members of the predecessor of the Tiger Guard Army, and he was a confidant among his confidants.

After Guo Peng became powerful, he spared no effort to appoint Zhao Yun, giving him the opportunity to lead troops to the decisive battle, training his ability to command troops, and trying his best to keep him alone, paying great attention from his personal life to military and national affairs.

After the establishment of the Wei State, Zhao Yun was one of the four highest-ranking generals of the Wei State. Two of them were Guo Peng's relatives, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, and there were only two generals in other surnames, Zhao Yun and Le Jin.

Moreover, Zhao Yun has a great advantage, which is his loyalty.

He was loyal and absolutely absolutely true. He beat Guo Peng wherever he pointed, without hesitation, and just did it.

No matter who it is, as long as it is the order given by Guo Peng, he will be executed in full force even if he is desperate. Without the order, no soldier will move.

Guo Peng gave the highest-ranking generals of Wei State the number of personal soldiers standard to 300.

Generally speaking, the general is allowed to use up to one-third of the private matters, that is, one hundred people, to handle the quota. In other words, Guo Peng actually acquiesced to these hundred people as the general's personal private soldiers.

Guo Peng paid money to help them raise a hundred private soldiers, which was considered a welfare.

There were also a number of generals of other ranks whom Guo Peng paid for their support, which were allowed to be used for private matters.

Despite this, Zhao Yun still never used these private soldiers that Guo Peng allowed to use. He never used private soldiers to handle private affairs, but only used slaves he hired.

Guo Peng once asked Zhao Yun why he didn't use private soldiers to do things. Zhao Yun's righteous reply said that the country's soldiers are the country's soldiers. There is no such thing as private soldiers. The country's soldiers should be used for national affairs. How can the country's major affairs be delayed because of personal affairs?

Too excellent.

Guo Peng then trusted Zhao Yun more and gave him a high status and honor.

Therefore, although Zhao Yun came from an ordinary small landlord family, scholars and officials from Jizhou, led by Tian Feng, were willing to make friends and contact Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun maintained an attitude of not taking the initiative and not refusing or irresponsible for this. His approach to administrative officials was a poker face. In addition to saying a few words to Tian Feng, he never talked to other officials and insisted on maintaining his job as a military general.

Obviously, Zhao Yun is not stupid, but is very smart. He knows what Guo Peng needs and what Guo Peng is afraid of.

Among the generals, Zhao Yun is the most cautious and humble.

So once there is something about commanding troops outside, Guo Peng always thinks of Zhao Yun habitually, but then excludes him and leaves him to command troops by his side.

The reason is very simple.

Zhao Yun is not good at adapting and is not good at overall handling. When it comes to governing the government and using troops, he has no overall vision and cannot rely on his own ideas to allocate resources and manpower.

This is very similar to his stern personality.

Zhao Yun is a nearly perfect executor, not a planner who issues orders.

The orders Guo Peng gave him are often very detailed, and he can also do what Guo Peng asked for to be almost perfect, but once he deviates from Guo Peng's order, Zhao Yun will be shaken. Zhao Yun would rather not do anything outside the scope of the order than do wrong.

Being too cautious is too late to do big things.

Zhao Yun is a qualified minion, a sharp knife held by Guo Peng, but that's all.

He is a qualified powerful general who can complete specific tasks under Guo Peng's command and conquer cities and territory, rather than the commander-in-chief, and has no ability to go into politics.

Because of his loyalty, Guo Peng would keep him by his side as a minion and lead troops in the central government. He would perfectly complete the task. In the future, Guo Peng would set up the positions of the central leadership and the general of the leading army, which would inevitably belong to Zhao Yun. Let Zhao Yun lead the Imperial Guard in the central government and become the head of the Imperial Guard. This is a very suitable job and position for Zhao Yun.

Because of his strictness, he cannot stand alone, stay in the area to fight against powerful enemies, let alone governing the area and doing administrative work.

Therefore, Zhao Yun could only be excluded from Guo Peng's options, and Guo Peng needed to switch to other people.

There are only two candidates left.
Chapter completed!