Xuande

Chapter 768 The Great Han Third Empire is Going Out
Although the big man is still a big man, it seems that he has really changed a lot. Liu Bei's operation made the big man he was familiar with in the past no longer familiar.

The dismantling and merging of various major departments requires time to coordinate the transfer of many personnel, but government affairs have to be dealt with during this period, so the Luoyang court has indeed fallen into chaos in a certain sense. middle.

This point was already raised when Liu Bei held a meeting, but Liu Bei's will was very firm.

"The imperial court will change sooner or later. It is better to change early than to change late. It is better to change quickly than to change slowly. It is better to move faster or earlier than to move slowly! So, move everything for me! Don't stop for a moment. ! I believe you can!"

Liu Bei shouted the slogan, used the powerful kfc Dafa on the officials, used his super ability in speech, and attacked the officials with mouth cannons, causing the officials to throw off their legs and run wildly.

Of course, it has never been Liu Bei's personality to just talk but not do it.

When the Luoyang court fell into a certain degree of chaos due to department mergers and personnel transfers, Liu Bei and the cabinet stood up and played a major role.

As the emperor, Liu Bei led more than 200 cabinet members, took the Chongde Hall as his office, opened his posture, and turned the Chongde Hall into a temporary government affairs processing hall. All the things that were too late to find someone to do were all done by Liu Bei Outline dogmatic.

Anyway, he is the emperor. No matter what other departments do, they only do their own duties. Only he, the emperor, has unlimited power, so he can do everything, and he can directly issue orders to the various departments.

The entire decision-making process was covered by Liu Bei alone.

At this time, Liu Bei exerted his powerful spiritual power and subjective initiative, and ordered the cabinet members to help him sort the things to be dealt with, sort them according to their criticality, and deal with them bit by bit from important to unimportant .

If your eyes can't see, let someone read it to you, close your eyes and rest your mind, and then make a decision.

When the handwriting was sour, the cabinet members led by Chen Qun were asked to listen to his dictation, and then copied it on paper. After Liu Bei checked and confirmed it, he directly stamped it with the Jade Seal of the State, and directly handled special matters and put it into practice.

When the Luoyang court was in chaos, it was Liu Bei who led the cabinet members to move forward bravely, working non-stop from morning till night, and finally successfully survived the most chaotic period of the Luoyang court with [-] high-intensity work.

They ushered in the dawn.

That is to say, during Liu Bei's administration, the six departments of the General's Mansion had actually become the central organization of the Han Empire. Now that it has been changed to eight departments and officially became the decision-making body of the imperial court, the operation of the central court of the Han Empire has not fallen into the paralysis that some people worry about.

Busy is very busy, and there is also confusion, but to say it is paralyzed, it is too contemptuous of Liu Bei himself and his elite cabinet members.

Other departments are not waste either, the team is ready-made, and the personnel who handle affairs are also ready-made, but some responsibilities need to be divided.

The various departments under the Eight Ministries also need to divide the detailed rules, and then organize the files and files, take care of the office space, visit each other, understand the location of each other's organization and responsibilities, and clarify their own responsible persons and the relationship between superiors and subordinates, etc. wait.

These all take time and all require a fair amount of human interaction.

Fortunately, everyone is from Liu Bei, and they all came here together, and there is still the minimum political mutual trust between each other.

After a month of flying chickens and dogs, the major departments and officials have finally sorted out the things to be sorted out, and they have a preliminary understanding of each other.

They know where the eight departments are working, what other departments are under their jurisdiction, who are the chief executives of each other, who are the second in command and the third in command, what are the specific things they handle, and how many mutual relations will there be in the future? business dealings and the like.

So the Luoyang court, which was operating on the basis of the eight parts, finally settled down a little bit, and there was no need to hear people crying and howling about the difficulty of life every day.

But in the final analysis, during this period, the fact that Liu Bei led the cabinet members to work like a sweatshop with the honor of the emperor is still in front of everyone.

When everyone is unable to handle affairs normally, Liu Bei, the emperor, is really doing his best and really covering the bottom line.

So everyone didn't have anything to complain about, and after finishing what needed to be sorted out, the serious operation started.

With the experience in the operation of the six departments of the General's Mansion, the operation of the new system of the eight departments is not jerky, and it can even be regarded as targeted.

By the middle and late October of the fifth year of Jian'an, all central officials had begun to get used to the brand-new imperial court operating on the basis of eight departments.

The adaptability of the bureaucrats is astonishing, especially when someone behind them threatens them with a whip, they adapt faster than anyone else.

At the same time, the infrastructure construction of Sili Prefecture and Yongzhou has almost been completed, and the two newly established administrative divisions are also on the right track.

The initial turmoil is over, starting in the first ten days of November of the fifth year of Jian'an, the period of chaos in the Luoyang center is over, the political order is back on track, and the burden of government affairs on Liu Bei, the emperor, is suddenly lightened.

The eight ministers each perform their own duties, leading their subordinates to handle quite a lot of government affairs for the court, and it is Liu Bei's turn to handle not so many affairs in person, at least not so complicated, and come to find everything he.

Even so, with Liu Bei's diligence and the situation he is currently observing, he can't tolerate being idle at all.

Therefore, Liu Bei announced the simplification of the process of going to court, and set the early court to be held every day, but made it a similar existence to the small meeting of the Wu Dynasty in later generations.

The heads of various departments went to Chongde Hall to discuss yesterday's affairs with Liu Bei at about [-]:[-] am every day, and attended a government affairs meeting for about an hour before starting the normal work of the day.

Liu Bei said that he needs to understand the general tasks and general progress of various departments. In addition, he still has a lot of things to do that must be decided by himself, so he is very busy, basically opening and closing his eyes. It's over.

Although the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty was not a country that was established after smashing the world, Liu Bei had a lot to do. Although a brand new political system had been established, many things that followed needed to be dealt with.

It is difficult for both the central government and the local government to cope with various aspects, the coordination between the central government and the local government, and the sudden change in the political logic that has been in operation for nearly 200 years.

That is to say, Liu Bei's force is strong, and there are strong garrisons in the local area. Only with a strong garrison and excellent record as the confidence can we promote this large-scale political reform.

After the reform is completed, it will take time for the daily operation to change from unfamiliarity to habit. During this period, although Liu Bei's burden is not as heavy as before, he still needs to support the entire court.

It is common for the cabinet to work overtime, and it is also common for the emperor to work overtime in person.

To be precise, the entire Han Empire was in a period of relatively turbulent running-in at this stage, and the turmoil and running-in of the central court would be magnified in places. The farther away from Luoyang, the greater the degree of turmoil. The turmoil may have more immediate consequences.

However, with the army, this situation will be contained to a certain extent. After all, force is the number one force in the world. With the deterrence of the most powerful force, many things that were originally unacceptable have become easier. stand up.

The initial helplessness was followed by a relatively painful acceptance.

Now that this is the case, what else is unacceptable?
If you don't accept that people have become emperors, can you still resist?
Furthermore, Liu Bei's ability to govern the world is indeed something.

Among other things, the government affairs conference gave some officials in remote areas some inexplicable hopes.

Before, Liu Bei announced as a general that the government affairs conference would give everyone more than half a year to collect data, and then hold it. Although this incident is now aside, Liu Bei has not forgotten about the government affairs conference.

In the declaration to Tianxia, ​​Tianxia officials are still required to continue collecting data. Although the time is a little late due to force majeure, it is not important.

He set the government affairs conference to be held on the first day of March next year, which is the first day of March in the first year of Zhenguan.

He will not stop the policy he promoted before. The transition from general to emperor is a relatively smooth matter, which means that Liu Bei's ruling strategy will not change, and the government affairs meeting and the elimination of officials will continue.

In the last two months of the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei promoted the integration of personnel under the new system, and at the same time gave the court a complete picture, leading the cabinet to work overtime crazily to maintain the operation of the court.

On the other hand, Liu Bei also took some time to make some private and undisclosed arrangements for things other than major policies.

Like espionage.

Dongyuan is a ready-made intelligence organization. It originally belonged to two parts, one part was for the inside of Luoyang City, and the other part was for outside Luoyang City.

Zhang Rang took Dongyuan to infiltrate the homes of many officials and scholars into sieves, and provided Liu Bei with a lot of help and convenience. Those people did not know how many spies from Dongyuan were in their homes until they died. .

Even now, there are still many Dongyuan spies living in the homes of officials and scholars, continuing to lurk as domestic servants, and constantly providing information to Dongyuan and Zhang Rang.

Now that Liu Bei is the emperor, the intelligence organization has naturally become his property.

Not to mention his own department before that, something went wrong in the department led by Zhang Rang. Some of the personnel were bought by other eunuchs at a high price and began to act as double agents.

So Zhang Rang's management of Dongyuan is not completely fine.

So this time the purge of the ten permanent attendants was also a purge of the intelligence agency. After the purge was over, Liu Bei asked Zhang Rang to hand over the command of Dongyuan and serve him full-time, becoming an out-and-out serving eunuch. Things, he doesn't have to worry about them anymore.

The entire inheritance of the East Garden was handed over to Liu Hui, who was in charge of overall planning and command, and carried out a wave of reorganization.

The name is still the same, named Dongyuan, and the organization is the same, the intelligence organization inside Luoyang City, and the intelligence organization outside Luoyang City. In addition, Liu Bei added another one.

An intelligence agency outside the Han territory.

It means that the East Garden is divided into three sub-organizations, two in China and one abroad. Liu Hui needs to reorganize the East Garden after integrating all the manpower, and then allocate and arrange work.

During Liu Hong's period and the period of the Fourth Assistant Minister's administration, the contradictions in Luoyang City were prominent, and conspiracy and struggle among each other emerged endlessly, and the requirements for intelligence organizations were very high.

But in the new era, all enemies are wiped out by Liu Bei, the old faction disputes have disappeared, and the new faction disputes have not yet appeared, so the demand for intelligence organizations in Luoyang City is not high.

Of course it doesn't mean that there is no such thing, it's just that there is no need for Zhu Yuanzhang to pay attention to what the ministers eat at home.

The intelligence agencies in Luoyang City still mainly target private facilities and some domestic servants who focus on people of concern. Deploying manpower in these two places will allow Liu Bei to understand the public opinion trends of the government and the people, which is almost the same.

The intelligence organization outside Luoyang City has more needs and higher requirements. It has the largest number of people among the three sub-organizations. Liu Bei needs them to become another pair of eyes outside the official monitoring system to help him monitor the actions of local bureaucrats.

To deal with this group of people, one pair of eyes is not enough, and another pair is needed, no matter how meaningful it is, having them is better than not having them.

Liu Hui was also responsible for this aspect before, but it was used to collect military intelligence on the opponent for Liu Bei, but now, it will be turned into political reconnaissance.

The third aspect is foreign intelligence collection.

Liu Bei explained the work in this area to Liu Hui very clearly.

The Great Han Third Empire wanted to go out, and it couldn't stay put and do nothing, it had to go out, so he needed the intelligence organization to take the lead in exploring the way and exploring the route.

For the Western Regions in the northwest, Shendu in the southwest, and many islands in the southeast, these three are important exploration areas. Liu Hui needs to send enough people to explore passages in various ways and explore places suitable for people's survival and agricultural development. place, by the way, draw a map.

In short, the Dongyuan Organization, which specialized in investigating political conspiracies during the Liu Hong era, needs to become a comprehensive intelligence investigation agency in Liu Bei's hands. to collect.

Liu Hui's identity will be the commander of the East Garden of Zhong Erqianshi, but the location of the Dongyuan institution, who is there, and what work is done will be completely secret and will not be announced to the public.

After excluding the eunuch forces from the intelligence organization, Liu Bei did not forget to reorganize the eunuch organization in the palace to make it more professional.

Although eunuchs are not a good existence, in the era of imperial power, these things are the objective needs of the rulers and cannot be avoided.

So Liu Bei didn't think about dethroning them, it's just that he needed some means in terms of how to use them.

And in a sense, eunuchs are indeed a barrier to imperial power. Of course, a strong emperor does not have to worry about losing power, but for a less powerful emperor, eunuchs are really a barrier to his power.

But for Liu Bei at the moment, it is unnecessary to use eunuchs to show power. He is a symbol of power, and no one dares to disobey him. He needs eunuchs, mainly for the needs of court life.

The Han Palace is too big, and many places need people to take care of and maintain it. There are also many things that can only be done by close eunuchs.

Zhang Rang is a skilled eunuch. Before he became a domineering eunuch, he was able to stand out from so many eunuchs in the Han Palace and become the "Father" that Liu Hong cared about. One can imagine how excellent his professional ability is.

After Liu Bei took away his foreign-related powers, he still gave him the power to assist in the management of internal affairs.

(End of this chapter)