Xuande

Chapter 767 This seems to be a change of dynasty

In the later period of the Eastern Han Empire, the traffic situation was not to mention extending in all directions, but it could also be regarded as fragmented.

The roads in many areas are even made by people, and there is no road regulation at all.

During this period, the country's traffic really had a big problem. With the increasing chaos of the central court, the court's maintenance of roads was infinitely close to laissez-faire. blocked.

Especially in places like Yizhou, once the roads are blocked and there is no responsible body to repair it, it is normal for outsiders to go in and be blocked for two or three years.

For example, Xun You in the original timeline was unable to enter Yizhou to serve as the prefect of Shu County because of impassable roads, so he was unable to move forward and was blocked in Jingzhou for more than three years.

This is true for officials, let alone ordinary people?
Thinking back to the time when Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he proposed to build ten large roads, leading from the capital to all parts of the country. It is obvious that we can see the importance of transportation to the governance of the country.

At the same time, in the empire era, there was also a saying about the extreme wall of the empire, that is, when troops are dispatched from the capital, the place where the army can reach after three months is the limit of the empire's ruling ability. If the distance exceeds three months, the empire will no longer be able to rule. territory.

But this is not absolute for an empire.

Therefore, if the domestic traffic situation is quite bad, then the extreme wall of the empire will be shortened correspondingly, and the places that can normally be reached in three months will not be reached.

If the domestic traffic conditions are good and the roads extend in all directions, then the scope of the empire's extreme wall will increase correspondingly, and the empire's territory will also expand correspondingly, even to an unbelievable level.

Therefore, the traffic problem is something that Liu Bei attaches great importance to.

In the third year of Jian'an, he began to plan the construction plan of the Han Empire's own Dachi Road. He also planned to start construction in Luoyang, build some Dachi Roads, and build them to those border gates that are difficult to control.

Not to mention that he still has the idea of ​​​​building the North-South Grand Canal in advance, in order to cope with the small ice climate that will come 20 years later.

Therefore, the existence of the Ministry of Industry is of great significance.

After careful consideration, Liu Bei decided to arrange for Yan Wen, who was originally Guang Luxun, to be the minister of the Ministry of Industry. He would be in charge of the engineering power of the country and be responsible for adding weight to the rule of the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty.

The final reform in politics lies in the cabinet transformed by Shang Shutai.

The reason for not continuing to use the name of Shangshutai is to prevent Shangshutai from quickly becoming a department that infringes on the power of the eight departments because of its tradition.

Although Liu Bei is familiar with the fact that this kind of department gradually grows and seizes power after its establishment, he still does not want the cabinet to become a complete giant so quickly.

In his plan, at least for a considerable part of the time, the cabinet will be used by him to train outstanding young officials, and once they get older, they will be assigned to the eight ministries to manage specific government affairs.

It is equivalent to the emperor personally cultivating his own cronies to control power. Therefore, it will not take long for people to realize the importance of the cabinet, and thus they will be sought after, inadvertently improving the actual political status of the cabinet.

In fact, such humble departments are not uncommon in history, and they have often become important real power departments. The cabinet is not the only one.

Departments similar to the cabinet were born very early in Chinese history, and generally initially appeared as confidential departments close to the emperor.

The main reason for its development and growth is that it is close to the emperor, and it is easy to become a famous power department through the emperor's authority, and easily obtain some powers that do not belong to this department.

But for a centralized emperor without a prime minister, the world's government affairs are really heavy. Without help, few emperors can have as strong spiritual power and vitality as Lao Zhu.

Liu Bei felt that he did not have the strong spiritual power and vitality of Zhu Yuanzhang, so he still decided to set up a cabinet.

He pulled all the subordinates who had not been released to help him handle government affairs in the original general's mansion into the cabinet and became cabinet members. He simply changed a brand and operated the entire emperor's secretarial department—— cabinet.

He did not give the cabinet any titles such as chief assistant, second assistant, group assistant, etc., and they were all called cabinet members. The only leader inside was the emperor, that's all.

As for whether this department will become a powerful super giant in the future, Liu Bei cannot provide any guarantee.

But he knows that whether it is an ancient country or a modern country, whether it is the past, present or future, there is no universal law that can be done once and for all. It is pure nonsense to expect a policy that will prevail for thousands of years and solve all hidden dangers.

No matter what the policy is, the future will definitely fall into chaos, be destroyed by human beings, and finally be reformed or abolished as the result.

The only way is for people to seek change, progress, and development.

Man is the only way of salvation, and man is also the greatest source of destruction. Things in the world are so contradictory. Liu Bei has no choice but to do his best, to be the best at the moment.

Choose what is most suitable for the moment. As for the future, it depends on the development of the times.

Although the military department is among the eight ministries, it is the only military department among the eight ministries. It is in charge of the logistics affairs of the army and is also responsible for counting meritorious service for the army. is inappropriate.

Logistics is also a military subject, and it is an indispensable link in the military. If someone who does not understand military affairs is appointed as the secretary of the military department, that is to cheat one's own army.

Therefore, Liu Bei transferred Yan Zhong, who was well versed in military affairs and had military combat experience, as the secretary of the military department.

In the future, Liu Bei also set the rules. Although the Minister of the Military Department served in the imperial court and was one of the eight ministers, he must be selected for promotion from the military system. suffering, otherwise he would not be appointed Minister of the Military Department.

Finally, there is the Department of Education. Liu Bei believes that Zheng Xuan is the most suitable for this educational position.

In particular, Zheng Xuan is still in charge of Taixue's alcove offering and is in charge of the Taixue's educational affairs. With his qualifications and experience, there must be no problem in becoming the Minister of the Academy.

But Zheng Xuan had no idea about it at first.

He felt that Tai Xue Jijiu had already done a good job, and he could spare some time to do what he likes. If he served as the Minister of the Ministry of Education, the management of official schools across the country would cost him half his life.

He smiled and cried miserably to Liu Bei, saying that he was originally called back to the court to be an official after leaving office. He was old and lacked energy. If he accepted such a high-intensity job, he might be killed on the spot.

"Your Majesty, the old minister still wants to live a few more years, and I hope His Majesty will be considerate."

The little old man said all these words, Liu Bei had no choice but to ask Zheng Xuan to take up this responsibility first, and then replace him after finding a more suitable candidate, in exchange for Zheng Xuan's approval.

So Zheng Xuan helped Liu Bei temporarily assume the responsibility of the Minister of the Department.

Other departments such as Yushitai and Zhongshutai did not move, and they were seamlessly connected to the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty and continued to become important central departments.

Large-scale political changes are actually more or less the same.

In terms of military affairs, Liu Bei prefers Xun You, who is serving as the Governor of Yizhou, as the candidate for the Privy Council's Chief Privy Envoy.

Xun You's ability in military tactics is very good. In the past battles, he often planned battle strategies for Liu Bei before the battle, and stayed with Liu Bei during the war, assisting Liu Bei in command.

He often goes to the front line, carefully observes the situation, has an active mind, and can quickly come to the correct conclusion. On the battlefield, he is completely different from his honest and dull appearance.

So Liu Bei decided to send Xun You back to Luoyang as a privy envoy.

As for the post of governor of Yizhou that Xun You held, Liu Bei planned to transfer Zuo Fengyi and Han Hao to take up the post.

With Han Hao's determination and tenacity in implementing the imperial court's policies, as well as his strong ability to resist pressure, Liu Bei believes that Han Hao is absolutely qualified for the position of Yizhou governor who will face huge challenges.

Moreover, to transfer Xun You back from Yizhou, Liu Bei still had the idea of ​​pushing Xun You to take over the Xun family-this will be discussed later, it is not important at the moment.

The military training academy is also a very important institution. Whether the officers of the military training academy are effective or not will affect the strength of the army of the Great Han Third Empire to a considerable extent, so Liu Bei is also cautious in selecting candidates.

After choosing and choosing, Liu Bei suddenly thought of Gao Shun.

At the beginning, he sent the first batch of Gao Shun to the crisis-ridden Runan, and cooperated with Xun Yu, hoping that they would make a name for themselves in Runan County and set an example for other counties.

Then Gao Shun really made a name for himself in Runan County.

He trained a 3000-strong Runan battalion in Runan County. According to his actual experience in training troops, combined with the "Training Exercise Code" issued by Liu Bei, he wrote many letters to Liu Bei about training and leading troops. Some suggestions for improvement have been made in the Military Training Code.

It is worth mentioning that a considerable part of the improvement suggestions put forward by Gao Shun was adopted by Liu Bei, and a large-scale reinforcement was made to the "Military Training Manual".

In terms of specific achievements, Gao Shun did not make any outstanding achievements at one time. He has been leading the recruit No.20 Fourth Army stationed in the Runan area and became Xu Huang's subordinate. However, during the three-month cleaning operation, He has done a lot of good.

The areas of Yingchuan County, Runan County, Peiguo, and Chenguo that he was in charge of guarding had many families of the ancient literature school, which were relatively difficult to deal with. During Liu Bei's purge operation, the resistance in this area was relatively strong.

However, Gao Shun led the 24th Army to deal with the rebellion in this area cleanly, and was meticulous in combat. The battlefield style was extremely rigorous. They fought whatever they said, without disturbing the people at all, and there was no negative news outside the battlefield.

Whatever task Xu Huang assigns, Gao Shun can complete any task, and he completes it quickly and well, which makes Xu Huang very happy.

After that, Xu Huang specially wrote a performance to Liu Bei to praise Gao Shun, highly praised Gao Shun's ability, and praised him as a real Zhou Yafu-like talent.

Liu Bei found it funny, wondering if Gao Shun's background as a great general gave Xu Huang such a boastful style of conduct. In the past, he had never seen Xu Huang praise a subordinate general so much.

However, Liu Bei really appreciates Gao Shun's military ability.

Especially in the aspect of military training, Gao Shun's talent is particularly outstanding.

In the entire group of generals under his command, there are not many people who are good at fighting, and there are many people who are better at fighting than Gao Shun, so Gao Shun's status in the army is actually not high, at most he can be regarded as a rising star.

But among the many generals, there are not many who can calm down to polish the army.

Most of the generals have a distasteful personality, like the battlefield, pursue military exploits and personal glory, and can't settle down, so they are not suitable for the job in the military training academy.

Only Gao Shun, who came from a scholarly family, has a calm personality and does not pursue wealth and glory, is very suitable for this job.

So Liu Bei issued an order to remove Gao Shun from the post of General Lang of the 24th Army and reassign the post of military training envoy of the training academy of Zhong Erqianshi.

Nominally, the entire Han army group is under the restraint and management of Gao Shun when there is no war. Gao Shun has the right to issue military training orders to any army, and has the right to issue orders to any general. The same enlistment order.

That's quite a heavy mandate.

Gao Shun himself was stunned when he received the appointment, his lips trembled, and his hand holding the appointment edict kept trembling, and he couldn't react for a while.

When Liu Bei made this decision, many officials were surprised by it. They felt that Liu Bei actually chose such an unknown young general to hold such an important position.

However, Liu Bei Gan Gang was arbitrary and decided on the appointment without listening to anyone's opinion.

Finally, there is the Praetorian Guard.

Because Liu Bei didn't plan to set up two positions of two thousand stones to come to the palace to guard, so he decided to set up only one imperial guard to protect the safety of the imperial city and the emperor himself.

The imperial guards were expanded from the Tiger Guards. The soldiers who were screened to the end last time were gathered together and expanded to 5000 people to garrison the imperial city and protect Liu Bei himself in shifts.

The imperial guards set up two Zhonglang generals, one on the left and one on the right, one for Xu Chu and one for Dian Wei, that's all.

The reform and mobilization of the entire central organization was almost completed under Liu Bei's careful planning.

In addition to the reform of the central government, Liu Bei also announced certain reforms to the local government.

For example, the land of Sanfu was restructured into Yongzhou, and the land of Sanhe and Hongnong County were restructured into Sili Prefecture.

Liu Bei's explanation for this is that he wants to solve the problem of regional discrimination at the official level.

It is difficult to change people's ideas in a short time, but at the official level, the caliber should be unified. The officials should treat Dahanzhou and counties equally, and especially should not give some local states and counties too special status at the official level.

It is necessary to develop according to local conditions, but too much political inclination and dependence on a certain region will have a great negative impact on the unification of the entire country.

The special national conditions since the founding of the Second Empire are not in the Third Reich. Emperor Ma, who suppressed the world strongly, is capable enough to be responsible for this situation. Therefore, Liu Bei issued an edict to restructure the land of Sanhe and the land of Sanfu, and set up governors and governors separately. governance.

He will use Yin Da, the former governor of Hongnong County, as the governor of Yongzhou, and Cao Cao, the former governor of Henan Province, as the governor of Sili Prefecture.

Then, he ordered that the administrative level of the Jiaozhi area be officially raised to the state level, and officially appointed the current governor of Jiaozhi, Zhu Fu, as the first governor of Jiaozhou in the Han Dynasty.

The proposal of Jiaozhi becoming Jiaozhou was put forward as early as Emperor Huan's time, but it was not approved at that time. Liu Bei thought that Jiaozhi area would become an important base for him to open up overseas affairs in the future, so he decided to formally elevate the status of Jiaozhou area.

In this way, the structure of the thirteen administrative regions of the Han Dynasty officially became the political structure of the fourteen prefectures in the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty.

This series of political and geographical changes were promulgated in one day, which was September 23rd in the fifth year of Jian'an. Although Liu Bei held meetings, held seminars and briefings with his subordinates in the past three months, Participants etc. are in the minority after all.

Most middle and low-level officials have limited understanding of this, and only learned from some leaked information that the new emperor Liu Bei will carry out large-scale reforms to the entire Han Dynasty.

The reforms that he could not carry out during the general period, now that he is the emperor, he must carry out reforms in one go.

Especially at this critical moment of suppressing the opposition and demonstrating force and establishing rule, Liu Bei announced this whole set of reform plans, which had a considerable impact on the entire Luoyang court.

Not to mention those people who didn't know about it beforehand, even those who had many meetings with Liu Bei beforehand and learned about it were deeply shocked by it.

When they knew that Liu Bei had designed a whole set of reform plans for the Great Han Third Empire, they were still quite shocked. Although they learned that they would gain more important status and power in the new system than before, this all-round The changes are still shocking.

So the rumors in the market are more credible.

This is not changing the emperor, this is changing the dynasty.

(End of this chapter)