For a long time, in the counties that were stable and peaceful in the interior, Guo Peng set up the county magistrate and the county magistrate mainly to consider their administrative ability, and only used civilian officials, not military officials.

However, in the border counties, Guo Peng's appointment of county magistrates was mainly based on their military capabilities.

Some of them have even set up civilian officials to be in charge of paying taxes in Tuntian, while some of them have directly used military generals, plus generals and commanders, to engage in military control and directly govern military and political affairs.

For example, Liaoxi is too protective of Tianyu, Guangling is too protective of Zangba, and Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan and Guan Yu of Sanfu are now counted in Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is the absolute front line of the war, and the military significance is far greater than the political significance, so Guo Peng decided not to set up civilian officials, but to serve as military guards, implement military control, and use military coercion to build Hanzhong as an advance base for the south into Shuzhong.

The candidate for the Taishou in Hanzhong is particularly important.

In fact, Guo Peng felt that Wei Yan was indeed a good candidate for Hanzhong Taishou, although he had no strategic vision, but Hanzhong Taishou did not need strategic vision.

As long as we ensure that Hanzhong is not lost and develop production, Hanzhong, which was broken by several major wars, can just cooperate with Guo Peng's reshuffle action.

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

He is indeed capable and energetic, he has not been in the Tiger Guard for a long time, he has already made a little contribution, and he has been appointed as a captain, and it is still too much worse to be a taishou.

Liu Bei was desperate for Ma Chao and Zhang Fei at that time, so he promoted Wei Yan exceptionally.

Just like that, Wei Yan also proved his ability, and he has followed Liu Bei for more than ten years, which is not too abrupt, and now at this time, Wei Yan is definitely no play.

Then it is necessary to re-select excellent generals.

The first to be excluded were Yan Liang and Gao Lan, these two people are full of fighting generals, brave in battle, and have command ability, but they have their own shortcomings, they can't defend it, and they are the same as Zhang Fei.

Guo Peng was a little expectant of Zhang Fei at first, thinking of his ability to be rough and fine, and arranged Zhang Fei for a position as a Zhuojun garrison.

Later, Guo Peng found that Zhang Fei was really not suitable for the left-behind position, and Zhang Fei had drunk and made trouble many times in the position of Zhuojun garrison, and Guo Peng expressed his helplessness to him.

So Guo Peng transferred Zhang Fei to the border of Youzhou, and led the border army and the Karasuma people with the military positions of General Wei Zhenbei and General Hanhu Karasuma, in fact, doing what Guo Peng had done.

He was responsible for patrolling the grasslands, wandering the grasslands, and once he found that the Xianbei people had resettled, he immediately launched a sabotage attack and attacked indiscriminately.

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

In the past few years, Zhang Fei led Karasuma and other miscellaneous cavalry to attack the grassland many times, and after Guo Peng pacified Xianbei, he repeatedly attacked the Xianbei tribe that secretly went south, and beheaded more than 5,000 people, captured more than 50,000 Xianbei people, and more than 100,000 livestock, which can be called the terminator of Xianbei.

Zhang Yide's name shook Youzhou, and foreigners were terrified, and Zhang Fei was in the limelight for a while.

Facts have proved that a person who can lead troops to fight has no waste, and the main thing is to see if he can find a suitable position and use him in the right way.

Let Zhang Fei go to defend the city and do the work of reclaiming Tuntian, it is wrong, he has to suffocate to death, drink every day and make trouble, and he will not change his teachings.

Put him on the grassland to plague the Xianbei people, he is a good hand, wandering around all day long, touching the way on the grassland, and he is very happy.

Dealing with the Xianbei people on the grassland, he was extremely clever, his ears and eyes were clear, the information was smooth, and the methods were particularly cruel and vicious.

Sometimes, when there were no Xianbei people, he was idle, and he would take the initiative to send foreign merchants to go deep into 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 get rid of the entire population of the opposing tribe.

The old and weak, the sick and the disabled were killed, and the strong men were brought back to be coolies for Zang Hong and Tian Yu to build roads and build the Great Wall in Youzhou, and the women were sent south to Jizhou together, which was arranged by Cao Cao, the prime minister of Wei.

or as a camp prostitute, given to soldiers for venting.

Or after being incorporated into the Han nationality, it was issued to poor singles and strong fertile men 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 has also contributed a lot.

Therefore, Guo Peng promoted Zhang Fei to the county marquis of Zhuoxian County, adding 500 households, he was like a fish in water, very happy, and at ease.

Therefore, Guo Peng became much more cautious in the selection of personnel, examining the abilities and specific strengths of his subordinates, and using them on his personal strengths, rather than letting horses do cattle things.

The task of Hanzhong Taishou is not to be aggressive, but to defend, to restore local production.

The administrative requirements are higher than the military requirements, and the defensive requirements are higher than the aggressive requirements, and Guo Peng needs a cautious, defensive, and delicate general for this position.

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

In the years that Zhao Yun was his subordinate, Guo Peng spared no effort in cultivating Zhao Yun.

Guo Peng personally taught him the art of war and the way of leading the army, and earlier he also made Zhao Yun a personal soldier, one of the earliest members of the predecessor of the Tiger Guard, and he can be described as a cronie among his cronies.

After Guo Peng's power became great, he spared no effort in appointing Zhao Yun, giving him the opportunity to lead troops to fight in a decisive battle, exercising his ability to command troops, and trying to let him be in charge as much as possible, from personal life to military affairs.

After the establishment of the Wei State, Zhao Yun was one of the four highest-ranking generals of the Wei State, two of whom were Guo Peng's relatives generals, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, and two generals with foreign surnames, Zhao Yun and Le Jin.

And Zhao Yun has a great advantage, that is, loyalty.

Loyalty, no two words, where Guo Peng pointed, he would fight, without hesitation at all, just do it.

No matter who it is, as long as it is an order given by Guo Peng, he must implement it desperately, and without an order, not a single soldier will move.

Guo Peng's standard number of personal soldiers for the highest-ranking Wei Sifang general was 300.

Generally speaking, the general is allowed to use up to one-third of the private affairs of non-official business, that is, the quota of 100 people, which means that Guo Peng actually acquiesces that these 100 people are the general's personal private soldiers.

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

Generals of other ranks also have an unequal number of private soldiers that Guo Peng paid to help them raise, and they were allowed to be used in private affairs.

Despite this, Zhao Yun still never used these private soldiers that Guo Peng allowed to use, and never used private soldiers to handle private affairs, only using the servants hired by himself.

Guo Peng once asked Zhao Yun why he didn't use private soldiers to do things, and Zhao Yun replied with words that the soldiers of the country are the soldiers of the country, and there is no such thing as private soldiers, and the soldiers of the country should be used in national affairs, how can they delay the country's major affairs because of personal private affairs?

It's excellent.

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

Therefore, although Zhao Yun was born in an ordinary small landlord family, the scholars and officials from Jizhou headed by Tian Feng were willing to make friends with Zhao Yun and come and go.

Zhao Yun maintained an attitude of not taking the initiative, refusing to be irresponsible, and his approach to administrative officials was like a poker face, except for saying a few words to Tian Fenghui, he never spoke to other officials, and insisted on maintaining his own job as a military general.

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

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

So once there was a matter of commanding troops abroad, Guo Peng always habitually thought of Zhao Yun, but then excluded him and left him to command the troops by his side.

The reason is simple.

Zhao Yun is not good at flexibility, is not good at dealing with the overall situation, for the administration of the army, there is no overall vision, can not rely on his own ideas to allocate resources and manpower.

This is very similar to his one-glance personality.

Zhao Yun is a near-perfect executor, not a mastermind who issues orders.

Guo Peng's orders to him are often very detailed, and he can also do what Guo Peng requires to be almost perfect, but once he is out of Guo Peng's orders, Zhao Yun will waver, and Zhao Yun would rather not do things outside the scope of the order than do anything wrong.

The prudence is too much to do big things.

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

He is a qualified and powerful general who can complete specific tasks and conquer cities under Guo Peng, not a commander, and he has no ability to engage in politics.

Because of his loyalty, Guo Peng will keep him by his side as a minion, lead the troops in the center, he will complete the task perfectly, and the positions of the leader and the leading general set by Guo Peng in the future will inevitably belong to Zhao Yun, let Zhao Yun lead the Praetorian Guard in the center and become the head of the Praetorian Guard, which is very suitable for Zhao Yun's work and position.

Because of the one-size-fits-all position, he can't be in charge alone, he can't stay in the local area to fight against strong enemies, let alone govern the local area and do administrative work.

Therefore, Zhao Yun can only be excluded from Guo Peng's options, and Guo Peng needs to turn to other people.

The rest of the candidates are nothing more than two.

Zhang He, Zhu Ling.