Xuande

Chapter 654 Six Departments in the General’s Mansion
This period of time is a period of time when the entire Luoyang court is rushing forward.

Everyone is doing errands, and they don't do anything except errands. They go to work when they open their eyes, and sleep when they close their eyes. They don't even have time to fight for power and profit.

Of course, it's not that there are people who are idle, such as the other three of the four assistant ministers, and those bigwigs from the Fanyue family.

Dong Zhong was still acting like a tortoise as always, as if he was dead and did not respond to the outside world.

Zhang Rang and Jian Shuo were deeply moved by this situation, and they were moved by Liu Bei's super working ability to lead by example and his personality charm that drives people to change.

The big man has really changed, changed so much that they can hardly recognize them—because the scholars were all dragged by Liu Bei to work overtime in [-], and for a while, few people had the leisure to continue talking with the eunuchs Got into a fight.

They are all working, running nervously and sweating, and with their changes, the Han Empire has really changed since Luoyang.

The most obvious is the establishment of farm settlements one after another, the completion and accumulation of registration of new household registrations one after another, and the living and working in peace and contentment of one household after another.

At the end of June, Liu Bei convened a joint meeting of all officials, showed them the new population register that filled an entire warehouse, and told them that this was the result of their hard work.

Three years later, just the land tax and counting tax, the population on these household registration books will bring hundreds of millions of real taxes to the big man.

And this tax can support many soldiers, build many cities and infrastructure, repair many roads and bridges, and renovate the infrastructure of the entire Henan Yin area.

The dilapidated roads, dangerous bridges, dilapidated cities and houses that everyone complained about will be fully renovated, and the big man will have a new look.

All of this is based on the Luoyang court's overall turn and their hard work, which made them realize that their hard work can really bring about changes in the entire Han Empire.

This point has become the consensus of officials, and it is almost the first time that they realize how pleasant and relaxing it is to do business in a serious manner without thinking about anything else.

It's really easier to do things seriously than to fight for power and profit.

This is a major change that Liu Bei brought to them and to the Han Empire. It is a major change that cannot be ignored anyway. He swept away the political abuses of the Han Empire for decades and allowed a court to return to its most original work. And made achievements.

Therefore, there is no doubt that everyone realizes that Liu Bei is the most important existence in this system.

But Liu Bei himself is clear that the imperial court is actually the same imperial court, and it is impossible for substantive changes to occur so soon, or in other words, there will never be substantive changes.

It's just that through Liu Bei's leadership and the cooperation of other forces, Liu Bei led a group of people by himself with the attitude of a macho man from heaven. During this special period of time, this court has become different from the past.

But there are only so many things, even if there are so many things piled up, with the current speed and state, it doesn't even take a year to deal with what needs to be dealt with.

After all, it is the era of the Han Empire and the classical era. Under the constraints of transportation and productivity, there are not so many things that happen every day.

Just like Liu Bei's administrative team, after training in Liangzhou, they quickly surpassed the ceiling of Liangzhou's development. From being busy to death to being idle, there are actually so many things to do.

The objective law of development is there. In an era where the year is the unit of development, Liu Bei regards the day as the unit of efficiency, lashing out at the bureaucrats. If this continues, the two will conflict sooner or later.

You can't create problems without problems, right?

Of course, the affairs of the entire Han Empire far exceed the affairs within Liangzhou, but judging from the current speed at which Liu Bei is holding up a whip to force everyone, it will not take long before the administrative efficiency of this court will exceed the development of the Han Empire The ceiling is up.

Once it is exceeded, many situations will be completely different from the present.

So Liu Bei felt that he had to think about the way forward for the Han Empire in advance. He couldn't just go on like that, and he had to try another way. This was his responsibility as a general and a real ruler.

From the current point of view, the actual operation of the Han Empire is already under the jurisdiction of the General's Mansion.

Because of the absence of an adult emperor, Liu Bei essentially replaced him as a general and chief assistant minister. With the support of the Empress Dowager Dong, he essentially took control of the imperial power and became an alternative Huo Guang.

At this stage, the General’s Mansion became the de facto highest decision-making body of the Han Empire. All court departments were not responsible to the emperor, but to the General’s Mansion, and connected with the General’s Mansion.

At this stage, Liu Bei also made some institutional innovations in the General's Mansion, so that the General's Mansion can undertake various central affairs of the Han Empire.

In short, Liu Bei adopted the six-part system in the General’s Mansion, and revolutionized all the original institutions—because in fact a lot of power is in his hands, and the General’s Mansion is entirely his own, so he did it Totally works.

The first is the most important financial power.

It turned out that the financial power was actually shared between Liu Bei and Dong Zhong. Liu Bei controlled the Shaofu, Dong Zhong controlled the Da Si Nong, one controlled the emperor's private finances, and the other controlled the nominal state finances.

However, in actual operation, the Shaofu controlled by Zhen Yan is obviously more capable, while the chief minister arranged by Dong Zhong is so overwhelmed in financial affairs that he needs to second some financial personnel from the Shaofu to help in order to Deal with daily financial affairs.

Of course Liu Bei was not polite, especially after Dong Zhong expressed his wariness and dissatisfaction with Liu Bei, Liu Bei was even more rude, instructing Zhen Yan to infiltrate the Dasinong Mansion and use the people from the Shaofu to control the important positions of the Dasinong Mansion. Overhead Dasinong.

Because the useless people under Dong Zhong's command were too incompetent, Zhen Yan didn't spend much effort. After a few months, he basically emptied the Da Sinong arranged by Dong Zhong, and took control of the actual authority of Da Sinoong.

By the time Dong Zhong was autistic, Liu Bei had essentially controlled the Dasinong Mansion, thus controlling the Shaofu and Dasinong's powers together, and controlling all the financial power of the Han Empire.

The emperor's private finances and state finances have since been in Liu Bei's hands.

Therefore, Liu Bei set up a household department in the general's mansion, and the household department was responsible for docking with the departments in charge of civil affairs and financial affairs of the court, and then handled these matters, and finally summarized the processing results and major events to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei made the final decision. decision making.

How much money the court receives, how much money it spends, the salary expenditure of officials, the expenditure of the court's affairs, etc. All the powers are actually in Liu Bei's hands.

And through the Ministry of Household Affairs, Liu Bei can also control the country's civil affairs, and promote collective farms as a basic national policy to areas below the county level, and use the county government to directly manage collective farm affairs to increase grassroots mobilization in the Eastern Han Empire.

The grassroots mobilization ability of the Eastern Han Dynasty was really poor. After he personally took control of the Luoyang court, Liu Bei realized that this was the basis for the Western Han Dynasty to operate the military service system, and it was also the reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty switched to the recruitment system.

How much power a government has depends on its ability to control the grassroots. Power is not top-down, but bottom-up.

So when He Jin first became a general, he was flattened and rounded by others, and he was a lackey of eunuchs. It was not until five or six years later that he gradually gained power and was able to suppress eunuchs in turn.

Because his power was originally given by others, not by himself, how much can others give?

I don't have a basic foundation, so I just beg for food on my knees. With a basic foundation, I can earn money standing up, just like the current Liu Bei.

In addition to financial power, the most important military power is in the hands of Liu Bei, both in name and in reality. As a general, he can control the country's military, so it is only natural to establish a military department in the general's mansion.

(End of this chapter)