Soldiers come to the world

Early the next morning, Liu Jing came to the Hushi General's Mansion. The General's Mansion was the original Yizhou Prefecture Government. It could not compare with the Jingzhou Prefecture Government in terms of the size of the land or the number of buildings. This also showed to a certain extent that Liu Zhang had no ambitions. Like Liu Biao, he has the heart to call himself emperor.

However, although the scale of the state government office is not large, the buildings are very delicately constructed, with cornices and carved walls, waterside pavilions and jade platforms, hidden among lush green trees, surrounded by clear water below, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants can be seen everywhere, everywhere Shows the original owner's love of life.

The entire General's Mansion is centered on a hall of thousands of people. The hall is called Jixian Hall. It is the place where Liu Zhang held the Yizhou New Year Hundred Officials Conference and met with important envoys. There are a large number of buildings on both sides. The official office is located in it.

Liu Jing's official residence is located behind Jixian Hall, which is the former official residence of Liu Zhang. It consists of three halls and twelve rooms. It is a small building complex covering an area of ​​about five mu.

There are more than [-] officials in the official room, and a secretarial supervisor is set up. Yin Mo is the secretary order, Fei Yi is the secretary Cheng, and the rest of the officials are all engaged and secret assistants. They are in charge of Liu Jing's various confidential documents, as well as tens of thousands of volumes. books.

Liu Jing walked into the official room quickly, and a young official was walking towards him in a hurry. Liu Jing felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember the name for a moment. When the visitor approached, he suddenly remembered that this person was the man from last year. Cui Shi, the No.1 imperial examination newly recruited.

Cui Shi was appointed secretary when he joined the job. Because of his hard work, humility and kindness, and his own talent, he was gradually valued by Yin Mo. He was promoted to the secretary of the meeting two months ago, responsible for recording and organizing various content of the proceedings.

Cui Shi happened to meet Liu Jing, and he quickly stepped forward to salute, "See Zhou Mu!"

Liu Jing smiled and asked, "Is Mr. Yin here?"

"Report to Zhou Mu, Yin Gong has come, and he is in the official room!"

Liu Jing nodded, and then ordered him: "Go and invite Junshi Jia, Junshi Sima, Xu Changshi, Jiang Wan, Li Zun, and Mr. Xu, and say that I have important matters to discuss with them."

"Follow the order!"

Cui practiced a salute, then hurried away, Liu Jing walked into his official room, outside was the main hall, there were four people working in the main hall, there was a conference room on the left and right, and his office room behind was Liu Jing's office. There are also two rooms next to it, one is his resting place, and the other houses sand tables from Jingyi and Longyou in Guanzhong.

Liu Jing walked into his room. His room had a mezzanine, and ice cubes were placed in the mezzanine, making the room very cool. As soon as he entered the room, the heat disappeared. Liu Jing breathed a long sigh of relief, took off his outer robe, and sat in his In front of the table.

At this time, Yin Mo hurried in, holding a thick stack of documents in his hand, and said with a smile: "They are all urgent documents, which must be signed by the state pastor to take effect. If the state pastor does not come back, some officials will jump into the river in a hurry. "

In fact, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, or Liu Jing almost all commanded important battles in person, which would involve a power decision-making problem, and they also used different methods to solve it.

Before Cao Cao set off for the expedition, he temporarily handed over the prime minister's approval power to his eldest son Cao Pi, assisted by Cheng Yu; while Sun Quan took a group of high-ranking civil and military officials with him to form a mobile Marquis Wu's mansion.

But Liu Jing has no brothers or grown-up sons to share his worries. He uses the method of decentralization to solve the problem, dividing all government affairs decisions into two categories: A and B. The B-type government affairs are decided by high-ranking officials such as military advisers, chief officials, and secretary orders. Finally, it will take effect after Secretary Cheng affixes his seal.

As for Class A government affairs, which are related to military and state affairs and important personnel appointments, he must sign in person. Even if he goes on an expedition, he must be sent to the battlefield for him to see. Liu Jing is unequivocal about this.

At this time, the stack of documents Yin Mo carried was the Class A documents that had to be signed by him. Liu Jing lowered his head to review and said to Yin Mo: "Liu Xun died of illness in Jiangling. His wife and children requested that the coffin be transported back to Chengdu for burial. I have agreed, you draft an obituary, and agree to be buried with the Marquis ceremony, and his wife and children can return to Chengdu to be kindly raised."

Yin Mo secretly sighed in his heart, he knew that Liu Xun was indulging in debauchery, and he died in less than a year. His son was only two years old, and Liu Zhang's power really came to an end.

Liu Jing stopped writing, and glanced at Yin Mo sharply, "Did Yin Gong already know about this?"

Yin Ming nodded, "The documents from the Nanjun government have been delivered a few days ago, and the news has spread among all the officials, everyone knows about it."

"What is the attitude of the officials?" [

Yin Mo sighed and said, "Mourn for his misfortune, let's not fight for anger!"

There was a sneer at the corner of Liu Jing's mouth, and he found the urgent document sent by Nanjun in a stack of documents. He quickly approved and signed it, and handed it to Yin Mo, "Just deal with it according to the opinion I just said, and all officials are allowed to suspend their filial piety. .”

"Wei Chen understands, and will handle it immediately!"

Yin Ming thought of another matter, and hurriedly said: "Also, the barbarian king Meng Huo and his wife arrived yesterday, and they want to plead guilty to Zhou Mu."

Huang Zhong went to southern Sichuan at the end of last year, defeated the armies of Yong Kai and the Yi people again, and forced Yong Kai and the king of Xinyi to come to Chengdu to plead guilty and surrender to Liu Jing. Because of the northern expedition to Guanzhong, the Han army did not attack for the time being, but Meng Huo did not expect Meng Huo to come at this time.

Liu Jing pondered for a while, and immediately understood that this should be the temporary end of the Guanzhong War. Meng Huo was afraid of the Han army going south, so he came to the Hajj first, but Liu Jing did have a plan to go south, and he planned to go south in the autumn. , since Meng Huo took the initiative to surrender, it would be best.

Liu Jing laughed and said, "Let's arrange it! I'll meet him tomorrow morning."

"In addition, Meng Huo brought [-] soldiers. We did not allow the soldiers to enter the city, but Meng Huo asked us to allow [-] people to enter the city as guards. Ask the state shepherd whether to allow it?"

"Where are his troops stationed?"

"Just stationed in the small military camp outside the South City."

Liu Jing thought for a while and agreed, "At most a hundred people can only be allowed to enter the city, and the rest of the soldiers are still stationed outside the city."

At this time, Cui Shi reported at the door: "Qi report to Zhou Mu, the military division and the others are here."

"Ask him to go to the meeting hall and wait, I will come right away."

Liu Jing said to Yin Mo again: "Duke Yin, come too! I have important matters to discuss with everyone."...

In the council hall, a group of senior officials including Jia Xu, Sima Yi, Xu Shu, Jiang Wan, Xu Jing, and Li Zun were already seated, and everyone was discussing in low voices, among them only Li Zun was not a high-ranking official.

Li Zun is a native of Zitong, a disciple of Sima Hui in Jingzhou. He also studied under the famous Confucian Song Zhong. Before that, he served as Yizhou Shuzuo.

Under the great efforts of Yin Mo, Liu Jing appointed him as the commander in charge of city construction, bridge building, and artisan management. Seeing Li Zang's attendance, everyone guessed that this meeting might be related to artisan affairs.

At this time, Liu Jing walked quickly into the meeting hall, followed by his secretary Ling Yinmo and the recorder Cui Shi, and everyone stood up to salute, Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled to everyone: "It's been hard work for everyone these past few months. Please sit down!"

Everyone sat down one by one, and Cui Shi also spread paper on the table in the corner of the room, and picked up a pen to record the contents of the discussion.

Only then did Liu Jing smile to everyone: "I invite you to come here today. There are two important things to discuss. One is to tell you the good news that Ma Jun's wooden ox has been successfully developed. I have seen the real thing with my own eyes, and I have seen the transportation. The effect is really exciting.”

This news immediately made everyone excited. The disadvantage of this expedition to Guanzhong is mainly due to the lack of food transportation. If the transportation problem can be solved, then the Northern Expedition will almost win half of the victory.

Not only that, but because Bashu is surrounded by mountains, there are indeed many difficulties in material transportation. It is a little more convenient to have the Yangtze River waterway between Jingshu and Hanzhong, but it is very difficult between Bashu and Hanzhong. Therefore, the success of Muniu is not only beneficial to the military. , It is also a big boost in trade and civil affairs.

Liu Jing said again: "There is also a problem, that is, building wooden oxen is very complicated. I propose that the first step is to build [-] wooden oxen. Ma Jun thinks it will take at least one year, and the military craftsmen from Jing and Shu prefectures will be gathered together. It can only be done by working together, but I hope that the time can be shortened a bit, if we can recruit craftsmen from the county government and recruit some outstanding folk craftsmen, maybe it will be possible.”

Only then did everyone understand that Liu Jing wanted to recruit government craftsmen on a large scale, and this was indeed directly related to the general. At this time, Jiang Wan cupped his hands and said, "If you want to call government craftsmen and recruit folk craftsmen, it involves a Has the pastor considered the issue of confidentiality?"

"This is indeed a big problem. I also asked Ma Jun, and he proposed a plan, which is to disassemble the various parts and hand them over to different craftsmen for completion. Finally, five hundred apprentices of the craftsman school will be responsible for assembly, so that it can be realized. Keep it secret, how about this plan?"

Li Juan cupped his hands and said, "This minister thinks it's feasible!"

Li Zun is the commander, and he thinks it is feasible, so there is no problem. Everyone agrees, and Xu Shu also expresses his position that he can provide money and food for subsidies. Liu Jing smiled and said: "In this case, please draft the plan as soon as possible , implementation after approval, to be honest, I am a little impatient, please Li Qinzhong to prepare now!"

Everyone laughed, and Li Zhe knew in his heart that Zhou Mu was tactfully asking him to leave the stage, and the following discussion was closed with him, so he saluted knowingly, "I'm going now!"

After Li Zun left the meeting hall, Liu Jing said seriously to everyone: "Next, I want to discuss with you the supervision issues of local counties!"...

The discussion did not end until noon. The plan was very simple. It was to set up a Supervisory Yuan, with one person on the left and one internal historian on the left. The left internal historian supervised hundreds of officials, and the right internal historian supervised the counties. .

With the unanimous consent of everyone, Du Qiong, who was in charge of Biejia, was appointed as the order of the Supervisory Council, and Liao Li, the former prefect of Wuling County, was appointed as the internal historian of the left. People act as supervisors.

In the room, Liu Jing had finished his lunch and was slowly drinking tea and thinking about the Overwatch Council. At this moment, a secretary reported, "Mr. Xu is here!"

Liu Jing nodded and smiled, "Please come in!"

After a while, Xu Jing walked in. Xu Jing was appointed as the Minister of the General's Mansion, in charge of ceremonies, music and ceremonies. His rank and salary were higher than a thousand stones. take seriously.

Xu Jing entered the room, bowed and saluted, "See Zhou Mu!"

Liu Jing smiled and waved his hands: "Xu Gong, please sit down."

Xu Jing sat down, and Liu Jing asked again with concern: "I heard that Mrs. Zun is not in good health, how is it now?"

"Thank you for the state pastoral relationship, the old wife is no longer a problem."

Liu Jing nodded and sighed: "The weather is hot now, and it is indeed easy to get sick. I have ordered that the officials above [-] shi will be provided with [-] catties of ice cubes per day to cool down, and the rest of the officials will be subsidized by [-] qian per day for cooling. The officials are really ashamed that they don't care enough!"

"There is no need for Zhou Mu to be ashamed. This is already very good. In the past, Emperor Ling didn't consider giving the minister any cooling fee. This is the first time I heard of it. I think everyone has a steelyard in their hearts and understands Zhou Mu's kindness."

Liu Jing smiled, and then turned the topic to serious matters, "I heard that Prime Minister Cao recruited Mr. Xu to serve in the imperial court last year. Is there such a thing?"