Chapter 215 I am willing to break it for the general!
He mobilized some families in Liangzhou and Liangzhou official forces to form a joint caravan to carry out commercial connections with the Western Regions, leaving the possibility for subsequent political return.
The earliest group of family forces that were willing to open up the Western Regions encountered some dangers in the Western Regions. Within three to five years, three families were exterminated due to the dangers in the Western Regions. However, the other surviving families successfully brought back some news about the Western Regions, giving them
Liu Bei later formed a joint caravan and provided valuable intelligence.
Since the second year of Jian'an, Liangzhou's joint caravans have traveled back and forth between the Western Regions and Liangzhou several times, reaching as far as Nanhe City in Yanqi Kingdom, Cheshi Kingdom and Shanshan Kingdom, mainly conducting trade with these three countries.
, selling salt, ironware, livestock and some Liangzhou handicrafts.
They have not yet arrived in some areas farther west because the distance is far and the funds cannot support it. Liu Bei was not prepared to manage the Western Regions at that time, so they were limited to commercial contacts.
Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to resume operations in the Western Regions.
And Dong Zhuo also realized that Liu Bei's choice of him to become Dahonglu was probably not a random choice. He had experience as an official in the Western Regions and experienced the customs of the Western Regions. This experience was quite valuable to the current Eastern Han Dynasty bureaucrats.
rare.
"The general chose Zhuo to be Dahonglu, is it because Zhuo once served as a military commander in the Western Regions?"
"Of course."
Liu Bei said with a smile: "If you want to return to the Western Regions, you need someone who knows something about the Western Regions. The Ban family was martyred because of a prostitute. This makes me feel very regretful. Without the Ban family, we need to choose other options."
Someone with experience should take on this responsibility. Currently, I have searched the entire court and can't find a few people with experience in the Western Regions. And you, Zhong Ying, you are."
Dong Zhuo almost understood what Liu Bei meant, and at the same time, he felt a little more confident.
It seems that Liu Bei really intends to use him instead of putting him in Luoyang to retire and die. If this is the case, he will consider whether it is time to leave Luoyang.
But now that there are things that can be done and goals that can be acted upon, if we achieve the merit of reopening the Western Region, can we use such merit to be promoted to the position of Sangong?
Dong Zhuo began to have beautiful fantasies.
So he took over the task assigned to him by Liu Bei——
From now on, we will begin to conduct research and action on the Western Regions, and we must make every effort to reopen the Western Regions, establish contact with the leaders of the countries in the Western Regions as Da Honglu, and restore previous political exchanges.
At this point, Dong Zhuo's problem has been initially solved. His army did not make trouble. Perhaps he saw Dong Huang and Lu Bu's troops well prepared, so no one dared to make trouble. Although he had some ideas in his mind, he still took the money and waited for arrangements.
Liu Bei ordered the household department in the general's palace to divide these soldiers into settlement areas, either in Liangzhou, Bingzhou, or Youzhou, to increase the local population.
After that, Dong Zhuo officially took office as Dahonglu, and a small political turmoil came to an end.
With the end of the slave restriction operation in the four states of the Central Plains and the yet-to-be-started slave restriction operation in the two states in the south of the Yangtze River, it seems that the entire world has entered a period of temporary stability.
Liu Bei did not make further trouble, but was handling daily affairs honestly.
It is true that Liu Bei has no idea of further pursuing other development policies in a short period of time.
In the current situation, there are too many things to do, and the subjective initiative of the Eastern Han Empire has been suppressed to the extreme. If it goes further, it will not follow the objective laws.
Just like Liangzhou back then, the speed of development is so fast and the ceiling is so high. If you exceed this ceiling and engage in drama where your subjective initiative transcends everything, it will only bring disaster and pain to the Han Empire.
So when Liu Bei observed that the officials of the Luoyang court were working at full capacity, or even a little overloaded, he knew that he should not crack his whip too hard, but should let the officials relax appropriately, otherwise it would be very difficult.
There will soon be a wave of injuries and illnesses among officials.
Therefore, Liu Bei presided over the State Council in mid-July of the fourth year of Jian'an and presided over the revision of some contents of officials' treatment.
For example, salary increases, increased benefits, and most importantly, changing the ten-day holiday period to seven-day holiday period. The original three-day holiday period was changed to four-day holiday periods per month.
For some important positions that cannot be short of people, a rotation system is adopted, the quota of officials is appropriately relaxed, and one more deputy position is allowed for some important positions to facilitate rotation and avoid problems in the operation of the department due to the injuries and illnesses of some people.
This meeting gave the officials a good impression. Many officials praised Liu Bei endlessly, thinking that Liu Bei finally found his conscience and that everyone would live a good life in the future... How strange!
Liu Bei would not casually allow anyone to live a good life. He just wanted to relax the officials from their full and overloaded state. Don't let them become useless. He would take the road of sustainable fishing and make the best use of the lake.
All the intelligence and physical strength of these guys were drained.
If you want to enjoy such good benefits, you have to do something for me, right?
The resettlement of slaves in each state, the repair of roads in each state, the construction of collective farms in each state, the construction of water conservancy projects in each state, the construction of bridges in each state, the judicial and criminal cases in each state, and the conflicts and disputes between states and counties, etc.
There were not many problems solved by Liu Bei, but many new problems brought about by this also need to be solved urgently. In short, the Luoyang court can never stop, and the officials should never think that it will be easy.
The dawdling state of the past is gone forever.
While increasing officials' welfare benefits and vacation days, Liu Bei finally took action and took out Liangzhou's official evaluation system, preparing to apply it to the Luoyang court, and gradually spread it to all states, governors, and counties.
Government, within each county government.
Officials also have to work on KPIs. They cannot tolerate the situation of eating corpses and occupying latrines without shitting. Liu Bei clearly raised the many challenges and contradictions currently facing the Han Dynasty at the State Council. One of the most important ones is -
The contradiction between the urgent need to improve the administrative capabilities of the court required for the governance of the world and the poor administrative capabilities of the court dragged down by a large number of unqualified officials.
In short, the governance of the world requires the input of elite talents and the hard work of officials who are willing to obey orders and execute them, rather than a group of Confucian scholars who only know how to talk about classics and talk over there.
Liu Bei needs officials who can really do things to carry out the imperial decrees, and does not need a group of "romantic talents" who lie in the official office all day listening to music and reading articles.