Three Kingdoms: I will act as a substitute for the Hunjun

Chapter 158 The Era of the Han Dynasty
That night, Liu Ming had a dream. He dreamed that he seemed to have turned into a light feather, floating in the clouds, falling to the bottom of the valley, fighting the storm, and enjoying the gentle pinch.

Sometimes he dreams that he can pick beauties from the palace at will, but there are too many concubines for him to handle, so he can only passively accept them.

When I woke up the next day, I felt a little tired, as if I hadn't rested after doing heavy work.

It seemed like I was very busy last night. I didn't stop all night and didn't seem to get anything done.

After touching all over his body, there seemed to be nothing strange. No, there was something strange. In the past, at this time in the morning, he was just about to stand up in the morning, but now Xiao Ming was quiet and silent.

Concubine Shu was sleeping soundly next to her.

Liu Ming reached out his hand and gently hugged him into his arms. Concubine Shu snorted, leaned into Liu Ming's arms, and continued to sleep.

what's the situation? Usually at this time, Xiaolang Hoozi would be pestered to do morning exercises. Why are you so well-behaved today?
Liu Ming didn't think too much. He slowly rubbed Concubine Shu's graceful curves with his big hands, and finally gave the plump mass a gentle squeeze.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, this woman's body has changed a lot in the past few months since she entered the palace, it can be said that it is obvious.

When they first met, Feng Fang's face was still young and her breasts were not fully developed. But now, after being watered by rain and dew day and night, it was difficult for Liu Ming's big hand to grasp it.

In his previous life, he once heard a saying: Love makes people mature, and it is true.

Concubine Shu turned sideways, with her back to Liu Ming, and huddled in his arms.

Liu Ming soon got the feeling, and when he saw that Concubine Shu was still sleeping peacefully, he started to play pranks.

Concubine Shu's eyelashes trembled slightly and her eyelids twitched. She seemed to be dreaming of some sweet dream. She finally exclaimed, opened her beautiful eyes, and looked at Liu Ming who was busy doing something. Her face suddenly turned red with embarrassment. Only then did I know it was not a dream.

"Your Majesty is so energetic and energetic!" Concubine Shu said lazily and delicately.

"Doing morning exercises every day is considered a fixed item." Liu Ming kept moving and said with a smile, "My dear concubine, why do you look so tired today?"

"His Majesty was drunk and fell asleep last night, but I was busy all night." Concubine Shu said sweetly, pouting.

"Been busy all night? What were you busy with?" Liu Ming looked confused. He didn't remember anything.

"Of course I am busy relieving His Majesty's fatigue." Concubine Shu said lazily, "Seeing that Your Majesty is invincible, I was worried that His Majesty would be uncomfortable, so I had to do my best to relieve His Majesty's fatigue."

Liu Ming: "???"

It turns out that all the hallucinations last night were not dreams, but that Concubine Shu was relieving her fatigue.

Liu Ming couldn't help but feel love and pity. He gently lifted the hair scattered on Concubine Shu's beautiful baby face and kissed her lovingly.

Concubine Shu was affected by it and catered to her with all her tenderness. The two of them were in a happy mood. They had never felt so good, as if they were ushering in a new life.

……

The Chang Dynasty was raised again that day.

Liu Ming didn't want to go to court so frequently to discuss affairs. Although he was not part of the system in his previous life, he had heard that too many meetings were a major cause of low governance efficiency, especially meetings like this where dozens of people gathered together. Often it is difficult to decide on an accurate result except for shouting and quarreling.

However, the Necromancer Emperor and Jian Shuo had just been hired. If the broken ship of the Han Dynasty wanted to make steady progress, it needed to break the old order and establish a new order. Some vacancies also needed to be filled as soon as possible.

The Han Dynasty needed to get back on track as soon as possible. Someone had to do the work so that he, the emperor, could sit securely.

At present, these need to be confirmed by the court in order to demonstrate their authority.

He has decided that after getting on the right track, he will work hard to improve efficiency and minimize unnecessary meetings.

Liu Ming sat on the dragon chair, looking at the civil and military officials of the dynasty, and his heart was filled with excitement. From today on, he can have the final say in this palace, and he no longer has to look at other people's faces to act.

Of course, after eradicating the relatives and eunuchs, there is now a group of people mainly from aristocratic families above the court. They must fight for the interests of their own group, which also poses new challenges to Liu Ming's control ability.

It is impossible to wipe out aristocratic families by violence. Even if one family is wiped out, there will still be other families. Even if all existing families are wiped out, new families will still grow up in a few years.

Being good at utilizing and planning and balancing is the way to go.

And since aristocratic families control educational resources, most talents come from aristocratic families, so you can't just ignore them.

In fact, Liu Ming has many modern and advanced system designs in his mind, but they cannot be applied to this dynasty mechanically. To put it philosophically, the production relations do not match the development level of the productive forces, which will instead hinder the development of the productive forces.

To put it bluntly, a system adapted to the future may not necessarily be a good system adapted to the present.

At present, it is necessary to not only give full play to the enthusiasm of ministers, but also strengthen the imperial power. Some new concepts and new mechanisms must rely on strong imperial power to implement and maintain them.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report." Yang Biao came out and said, "Your Majesty is wise and powerful. He eradicated the thieves and eunuchs, returned the government to the Qingming Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty is showing signs of rejuvenation. I would like to ask your Majesty to change the Yuan Dynasty to commemorate the year."

"I second the proposal!"

"I second the proposal!"

Some ministers came forward to second the proposal, and everyone felt that this was also an opportunity to please the emperor.

The so-called changing the Yuan Dynasty actually means changing the year name.

Year names began to be used from the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. An emperor often has multiple year names, which are used to commemorate or pray for good luck, and at the same time serve as the beginning of a certain stage of chronology.

Especially when a new king comes to power, he must change his reign name, marking the beginning of a new emperor's rule.

To be honest, Liu Ming had never thought about whether to change the Yuan.

Then I thought about it, and if I look at it from the perspective of later generations, actually the era name is a very troublesome thing, and it is not conducive to the common people establishing a consistent historical concept.

Therefore, after Sun Yat-sen established the Republic of China, he resolutely abolished the year chronology and switched to the country chronology, that is, the number of years of the Republic of China. After the founding of New China, the Western AD chronology was adopted.

As a former historical YY network author, Liu Ming has always had an endless obsession with the unification of the Han Dynasty. At this moment, when he had the power to determine the direction of history, this obsession emerged again.

"In order to facilitate the continuation of the Han Dynasty, I have decided to abolish the era name chronology from now on." Liu Ming said loudly, his voice echoed in the hall for a long time, "Change it to the country name chronology. The founder of the Han Dynasty was the first year of the Han Dynasty. Three hundred and ninety years, this year marks the 391st year of the Han Dynasty."

After speaking, he glanced at the ministers. It was the first time that the ministers heard about the new thing of counting the year of the country. Even before Emperor Wu invented the method of counting the year, the country had not been used to date the year. Instead, the emperor's reign was used to mark the year.

For example, in "The Debate on Cao GUI", there is a sentence "Ten years of spring". The so-called "ten years" here refers to the tenth year of the reign of Duke Zhuang of Lu.

The year of the country has never been heard.

"Changing the chronology of the Yuan Dynasty is a major matter for the country." Yang Biao hesitated for a long time and said, "None of the emperors of the Han Dynasty had the idea of ​​​​keeping the country's chronology. The laws of the ancestors are immutable. I hope your Majesty will think twice and adopt the chronology of the year as a rule."

"Your Majesty, please think again."

Many ministers also agreed.

Liu Ming felt that his authority must be established as a breakthrough. On such important matters related to the development of the country and the nation, he must act according to his own ideas.

"The laws of the ancestors are immutable?" Liu Ming asked with a smile, "I would like to ask if any of the ancestors had a regular practice of marking the year with the year name before Emperor Wu implemented it?"

"This..." Yang Biao was speechless for a moment.

All the ministers were silent.

"The basis of change and immutability is not whether it is the ancestral law, but whether it is conducive to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty." Liu Ming continued, "Flowing water will not rot, door hinges will not be beetrooted, change will lead to smoothness, generality will last, and unchanged will Corruption will lead to death. The chronology of the country's title is conducive to the extension of the Han Dynasty. This matter has been determined and no further discussion is needed. It should be announced to the world and implemented uniformly."

"Your Majesty is wise!" Situ Yuan Wei was the first to agree.

No matter which method of counting the year, it has nothing to do with their interests. Since His Majesty insists, then just do it according to His Majesty's wishes. Why insist on going against the cow?

Seeing Yuan Wei like this, all the ministers also praised him one after another.

"Wei ministers also expressed their wishes." Yuan Wei continued, "The thieves were cut off and the Han Dynasty was changed to the Yuan Dynasty. It is a time of great change and the world is congratulating each other. I ask for a general pardon to show your majesty's kindness."

"Amnesty to the world?" Liu Ming shook his head. Amnesty to the world is a method often used by ancient emperors to show their benevolence and to win people's hearts to a certain extent. However, in the view of Liu Ming, who has the concept of modern civilization, amnesty The world is undoubtedly a destruction of the rule of law.

It is a typical case of replacing the rule of law with the rule of man.

"It is better to rule the world by law than to grant amnesty to the world." Liu Ming said solemnly, "Anyone who breaks the law should be punished in accordance with the law. He cannot be exempted from his guilt just because of a word from those in power. I will promote judicial independence without interference from other powers. For unjust, false and wrong cases, they can be corrected and retried, but we can never grant amnesty to the world just because of the change of Yuan Dynasty. I will never let a bad person go, nor will I wrongly accuse a good person."

Judiciary independence?

This was another new term. Everyone in the hall looked at each other in confusion, unable to understand it for a moment. Liu Ming was too lazy to explain it to them. Some things needed to be felt subtly.

Then he continued: "Nowadays, under the system of three ministers and nine ministers, the duties of the three ministers have been seriously weakened, and the duties of the nine ministers are also overlapping. I am determined to reorganize the system and establish five major divisions to centrally and uniformly manage the affairs of the world."

Everyone in the main hall fell silent, waiting for the emperor to make another grand speech.

I had never seen it before. His Majesty was addicted to having fun and was influenced by the eunuchs. They all thought that he had little ability to govern the country. Unexpectedly, as soon as the eunuchs were cut off, he would continue to implement the New Deal.

"The Grand Sima combines some of the functions of the General and the Grand Lieutenant to help me manage the world's troops, such as recruiting, training, battles, rewards and punishments for generals and other matters."

"Da Situ, combines some of the functions of Situ, Sikong, Da Sinong, and Shaofu to assist me in handling daily administrative affairs, such as official selection and promotion, farming, water conservancy, animal husbandry and fishery, industry and commerce, finance and taxation, treasury, construction, mining and other matters .”

"Da Sikong integrates the functions of Yushi, Sikong, Taichang, Dahonglu, etc., and assists me in supervising and assessing officials, etiquette, sacrifices, calendars, education, archives, state affairs and other matters."

"The Grand Secretary of Punishment integrates the functions of court captain and thief cao, and assists me in the formulation, promulgation, implementation of laws, arrests of thieves, trials, prisons and other matters."

"The Great Sizong integrates the functions of Shangshutai, Guangxun, Weiwei, Taipu, Zongzheng, Shaofu, etc. to assist me in handling daily documents, palace guards, and daily management of the palace and royal family."

Liu Ming glanced around at the people who were shocked beyond measure, and continued: "The above five major departments all have a salary of ten thousand stones, and each has a number of subordinate officials."

The ministers immediately started talking in low voices.

Liu Ming did not interrupt and gave them time to fully digest. After all, this was a subversive mechanism setting. It was an organizational reform that changed the world. It focused more on efficiency and avoided entanglement.

For example, under the Three Gongs and Nine Ministers system, those who only serve the palace, the royal family and the emperor himself include the Shangshutai, Taichang, Guangxun, Weiwei, Taipu, Zongzheng, Shaofu and other departments. There are many agencies and a waste of money. This time they all returned to Da Sizong.

Judging from the expressions of the ministers, most of them are still happy. In the past, the official positions of more than ten thousand stones were just three ministers, but now the number has increased to five, and there are a large number of subordinate officials below each. There are so many positions waiting for them to occupy. , naturally everyone is happy.

"Each state has set up a state pastor, but the state pastor is only responsible for administrative matters and has no right to interfere with the military and prisons." Liu Ming continued, which means that the state pastor is the local manifestation of the functions of Situ and some Sikong. As for the military and prisons, it is Da Sima and Da Si Xing are directly subordinate.

This avoids the dominance of one family by local officials.

Next, Liu Ming announced the working mechanism, which he had planned and thought about in advance——

The daily work system is implemented according to the week system of later generations combined with the seven-day cycle of the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods. Sunday is the Sunday day, Monday is the Moon day, Tuesday is the Fire day, Wednesday is the Water day, Thursday is the Wood day, Friday is the Metal day, and Saturday is the Earth day.

A week is made up of seven days, with five working days and two days off for all officials on Saturday and Sunday.

We strive to streamline meetings. If there are too many meetings and there are no serious matters to discuss, they will criticize each other and create all kinds of evil things, which will increase internal friction.

In later generations, some seemingly diligent emperors ascended to the throne every day. Could they really solve many major issues? Dozens of people were noisy together and turned into a quarrel without resolution and a platform for cronies to attack each other. Liu Ming hated this deeply.

Liu Ming directly instructed that the regular court meetings attended by all the courtiers should be changed from once every ten days during the reign of Emperor Ling to once a month, mainly to discuss and report particularly important matters.

Daily affairs were handled by the five major departments according to their own responsibilities and authority. For major affairs, on Jin Yao Day every week, that is, Friday, the emperor summoned the chief officials of the five major departments to hold a small court meeting for discussion and resolution. Liu Ming called it the central court meeting.

Matters that need to be discussed at the central court meeting must be reported to the emperor in advance for approval, and then notified to other major departments for preparation in advance.

This is destined to be a pioneering mechanism change. As long as Liu Ming does not die prematurely and this mechanism can persist, Dahan will always be at the forefront of history.

"Your Majesty, how much money do you need to donate for the post of Ten Thousand Stones in the Five Great Divisions?" Cai Yong asked cautiously.

These are all the consequences of the manipulation of officials by Emperor Ling and Shi Changshi, and they have become deeply ingrained in the minds of officials.

"You don't need to donate a single copper!" Liu Ming said categorically, "All my dear friends, please listen carefully. From now on, no official position is allowed to be bought or sold, otherwise it will be deemed as dereliction of duty."

(End of this chapter)