Liu Hong completely took the initiative and then had a great Han revival, which was not the result he was willing to see. In the end, he not only could not become the savior of the Sanxing Han Dynasty, but instead became an ambitious man who usurped the throne. That would be bad.

"Lord, my subordinates are thinking that this time the fight against the thief may not be successful, and the imperial army may fail." Guo Jia suddenly said something and focused everyone's ideas.

"Indeed..." Guo Jia said that, and Xun Yu quickly realized something. "The thieves can be unstoppable all the way. Deducting their own combat power and the speed of the cavalry, there is no guarantee that there will be no other reason."

"For example, someone revealed the situation of the Han army?" Liu Tao was not a fool, so he quickly reacted.

"If at the beginning, based on the relationship between the rebels and Dong Zhuo..." Lu Yan also spoke out, "Then the possibility of Dong Zhuo informing them is not without, and it is even very likely!"

"Do you want to remind Liu Ge so that he will not have any accidents?" Liu Tao was a little worried, after all, the situation on the battlefield was very complicated.

"This involves another issue. If we remind us, the court army will win quickly and even find Dong Zhuo out of this... This result is very beneficial to the court, but not to the lord!" Guo Jia looked at Liu Tao.

Xun Yu obviously realized this, but he didn't say it out loud. Obviously, he was still struggling in his heart.

Perhaps in his opinion, whether it is Liu Hong or Liu Tao, as long as it can make the world peaceful and the people happy, it is fine. After all, there is no way, and stand completely on Liu Tao's side and give him advice.

Guo Jia didn't have so many concerns. He stood completely on Liu Tao's side, and even used helping to push Liu Tao to the throne as his ultimate goal. This is understandable, after all, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for him to be reused.

"What's the matter? You're not going to take some risks..." Liu Tao no longer mentioned the reminder when he heard this. Anyway, from the history he knew, although he failed, there was no situation where a general was killed.

Soon, I didn't worry about this matter, because there were obviously something more worthy of his attention: "Then, let's change the topic. After the defeat of the war, the court changed the position of Zhang Wen to command the army. It was about two years later that the Wuhuan cavalry would be transferred to attack the rebels in Liangzhou. I won't talk about the follow-up matters... Is there any way to let Zhang Wen change the order to us to the front line?"

If you want to go to the front line, with his identity as the prefect of Yunzhong, this is the only way to do so.

"Isn't this simple?" Jian Yong laughed when he heard this, "The lord directly reported that he was willing to serve the court."

"What if the memorial is written but Your Majesty refuses?" Liu Tao asked back.

"Then write one every month. Anyway, since the front line will lose, if you lose a lot, you will naturally think of your lord." Jian Yong replied, "I think that if you choose between Dong Zhuo and your lord, then Your Majesty will definitely choose your lord first."

After hearing this, Liu Tao thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case, so he immediately arranged a memorial and sent it to Luoyang the next day.

After sending the memorial out, Liu Tao was here at the Yamen to check the autumn harvest situation in each county... After all, it had arrived more than 20 days ago. All counties have now harvested, and they have begun to dry the grain and storehouse.

Although Changping warehouses have been established, they have not been popularized. After all, after collecting autumn grain, the people of each county still have to pay rent. The remaining grain is enough for their own expenses, and there are few parts that can be sold.

At this time, it is very unfavorable to the people and the government to collect grain according to the market price.

"I can't get rid of the position for a long time, maybe it has something to do with this..." Liu Tao sighed. Compared with last year, the tax collected was only significantly increased. After all, the part that had enough money is no longer available.

"There are also problems with irrigation skills," Jian Yong, who is in charge of the report, replied, "You can only wait for the results of the experimental field to appear before starting to promote it gradually. However, the problem of irrigation can be advanced, after all, there are still two months before the beginning of winter."

"After all, you need to collect corvee labor..." Liu Tao probably understood, "But the method of collect corvee labor is changed this year, which means three meals for civilians, which are supplied by local governments, and the maximum reimbursement of 40% is the county government."

"What if each county reports more consumption, what should I do?" Jian Yong reminded that after all, spending means there are channels for greed.

"This year, Yide can only lead people to urge you to avoid the emergence of greed. As for the future, you can consider changing the expenditure form to solve this problem... But this involves familiarity with the form, and there is another way to use numbers." Liu Tao replied.

If you want to do accounts, the concept of Arabic numerals must not be missing. Liu Tao remembers that someone had read the Internet before: "Lowercase numbers are actually OK to use. There is no need to learn from Arabic numerals, after all, the same is true for the habit."

For example, '8888' is replaced by '8888', and then capitalize it and label it with '88888'. This is actually good.

Liu Tao also accepted this statement. The "number" does not mean Arabic numerals, but the concept of "capital numerals".

After accepting that statement, he investigated lowercase numbers and uppercase numbers, and then found that capital numbers actually began to appear in the Ming Dynasty. Traveling to this era, he even confirmed this: in this era, capital numbers have not yet appeared!

In other words, first of all, he must popularize capital numbers to better avoid problems in the accounts.

"Speaking of it..." Liu Tao seemed to have thought of a situation, so he took out a piece of paper, wrote a few sets of numbers casually, and handed them to Jian Yong, asking, "There are two kinds of numbers here. Which one do you think is better?"

"Of course it's this..." Jian Yong pointed to the Arabic numerals.

"Why?" Liu Tao was a little confused and pointed to the lowercase number. "Aren't you more used to it?"

"If you write or calculate frequently, it is obviously more convenient here." Jian Yong replied without hesitation, "Besides, after getting used to it, you can still be familiar with using these numbers... By the way, these numbers were created by the lord?"

"No, it is said that it was invented by the Son-Do (India). Because it was promoted by people from the Arab region, it was mistakenly considered to be invented by the Arabs, so it was called Arabic numerals." Liu Tao explained.

"If it is daily writing, it is not a big problem to use traditional numerical methods, but in actual work, this is more convenient. Of course, this is what subordinates mean and does not represent the ideas of others." Jian Yong replied.

There is indeed a saying that in the early days, because the writing of seal script was too troublesome, local officials invented official script in order to facilitate recording, mainly for the convenience of work and quickly copying.

The replacement of seal script in the Han Dynasty was largely its "convenience". Liu Tao couldn't help but think that in the end, Arabic numerals replaced traditional lowercase numerals and became mainstream use, which may be related to promotion, but the convenience is beyond doubt.

"In this case, there will be more than one number for promotion..." Liu Tao sighed, then wrote the capital number and continued to ask, "This is the capital number I plan to promote. What do you think?"

"Writing is a little troublesome, but it can indeed avoid many accounts." Jian Yong looked at it and praised.

The changes brought about by the promotion of paper cover many fields, which is also the main reason why Liu Tao thought of making money in Luoyang.

The cost of making paper here in the north may be too high, so if you want to make paper in the Central Plains, you can even have the conditions to make paper in the south of the Yangtze River. Luoyang is not safe. After all, according to history, Luoyang will be set on fire by Dong Zhuo once.

So some time ago, I had a discussion with my literati. In Yingchuan, everyone invested in the concept of the board of directors and chairman, and formed a joint papermaking workshop in Yingchuan. The scale was definitely larger than that in Luoyang.

Through this method, the families in Yingchuan were initially tied to his chariot.

With paper, it means printing; a large number of books means that there can be primary school and night schools; a large number of scholars means that the imperial examination system will appear in advance.

In another field, paper also means a form system. Compared with those, text books like a book of books, form books seem more convenient, which is something that is difficult to carry out by wooden boxes and bamboo slips.

It also means that the government's dependence on paper will be further improved. Just in case, earlier, he sent the technology to Zhang Yan to see if he could get out the papermaking workshop in Taihang Mountains.

"Okay..." Seeing that Jian Yong agreed with these two numbers, Liu Tao took another piece of paper, listed the table, and told him how to use it. The latter is also an old chief clerk with a year-old resume, and he almost agreed with this method.

"Can the teaching of two numbers, tables, and corvee-service simultaneously be carried out, can it be done?" Liu Tao asked further.

"Of course there is no problem!" Jian Yong nodded, "After all, this year, the county is mainly used to send officials to the county to supervise to ensure everything goes smoothly. The local governments mainly have supervision and organization, and they have not fully participated in the accounting issues. Even if they follow the original method, the problem is not big. At worst, they can be changed to a table model for review after the winter."

"I guess there will be a lot of problems by then." Liu Tao joked.

"But you have to believe the people we sent." Jian Yong reminded, "We have no choice but to finish everything. And for the first time, we are not used to many things, so the possibility of using a bad move is very low, and there are not many methods. The part of greed is very limited. Find out the problem and warn it once, so the work will be smoother in the future."

After all, the degree is small, and simple punishments can prevent officials from having so many small thoughts next time. At least it can ensure the integrity of most officials. A few who have problems can be taken directly to deal with it.

If the official promotion is carried out next year, then the number will be huge and the warning will obviously be inappropriate. This will kill the chicken to warn the monkey, and the effect will probably be much worse.

"Just..." Speaking of this, Jian Yong Shao had to sigh again, "If we continue like this, we will not have enough people. There are obviously too many generals, but civil servants have not been enough."

"This problem is not your headache..." Liu Tao complained directly, "The night school and the enlightenment class are being carried out simultaneously, and various books are constantly being improved. But you also know what the situation in Yunzhong is like. How many scholars are there among ordinary people?"

At most, there are some in the wealthy family, but they represent more of the interests of the family.

A group of people came from Yingchuan, but if they were dispersed, the staff would obviously be a little insufficient. Especially if all the counties in Yunzhong County were to be restored in the future, more officials would be needed.
Chapter completed!