Chapter 221 Captain Liu is magnanimous and generous
Getting Zheng Xuan's support is a very beneficial thing for Liu Bei.
Zheng Xuan supported Liu Bei in Taixue, and the students in Taixue followed Zheng Xuan and overwhelmingly supported Liu Bei.
They formed a powerful force of public opinion among the people of Luoyang and intimidated the opposition quite strongly.
Although Zheng Xuan was just a scholar-type official without great power, he had a high status and great influence. His words and deeds could have a huge influence on the public opinion trend in Luoyang.
No one can underestimate the appeal of a scholar who is famous all over the world in non-turbulent times. The appeal of this scholar is meaningless to the generals, but for the academic world, the influence is unimaginable.
Besides Liu Bei, the most prestigious and influential person in Taixue was Zheng Xuan.
Many young people highly respected Zheng Xuan. When Zheng Xuan supported Liu Bei's opinions, they naturally supported Liu Bei's reform plan.
In addition to the heavy academic work, Taixue students did not give up their past traditions. They talked about politics in Taixue, discussed the gains and losses of political figures, made remarks freely, and judged the insects in the government and the public. They were often able to give some "insects" a lot of respect.
Great deterrence.
Therefore, under the influence of Zheng Xuan, the public opinion trend of Taixue once again sided with Liu Bei, enthusiastically supporting Liu Bei in promoting the state council system in order to make the Han Dynasty great again.
Liu Bei is very familiar with these things in the outside world, so at the second meeting of the four assistant ministers in early August, Liu Bei once again proposed to effectively promote the state council system and elimination system nationwide and refine the national governance.
, drive the insects out of the ruling team.
The Han Dynasty needs outstanding and responsible talents to govern it, rather than leaving it to a group of insects to cause trouble.
Any objections will not be accepted.
At this meeting, Liu Bei forcibly passed the decision, implemented this policy, and then increased the authority and funding for Sili Xiaowei and Yushitai.
The number of Zhongdu officials and apprentices under the command of Sili Xiaowei was allowed to increase to 1,500. They were responsible for the supervision of officials and government projects in the Sili area, and had important impeachment powers.
The Yushitai was allowed to add twelve branches, and sent imperial censors to the twelve states of the Han Dynasty except the Sili area to supervise local states and counties, control the administration of local officials, and establish Luoyang
The authority of the imperial court.
At the meeting, Liu Bei also clarified the reward and punishment mechanism, and brought out the good mechanism used in Liangzhou, clarified the scope of eliminating officials and officials, clarified the scope of officials who could be rewarded, and targeted violations
A series of severe punishment regulations were enacted.
Among them, Liu Bei clearly talked about severe punishment for violations.
"In the several years since Liangzhou implemented this policy, there have been not only many incompetent officials who failed to complete their tasks and tried to commit fraud, but also some adventurous people who were too eager to prove themselves and pursued official positions regardless of the actual local situation.
Our regulations not only severely punish incompetent and fatuous officials, but also do not allow the existence of adventurous invaders. In recent years, some places in Liangzhou have been greatly affected by the emergence of adventurous immigrants. The most typical one is the expansion of cultivated land.
Previously, in a certain county in Jincheng County, a certain county magistrate, because of excessive pursuit of political achievements, forcibly exceeded the number of twenty collective farms set by the state government a year, adding eight more, and reclaimed more than 2,000 acres.
land, so it was also commended.
However, after on-site inspections by supervisory officials, they found that these collective farms were staffed by dissatisfied personnel. Some of them were even newly naturalized Hu people who did not know any agricultural techniques at all and no one taught them. More importantly, they cultivated more land.
The land is not suitable for farming at all, and it is impossible to grow even a few grains of food.
After I learned about this incident, this official was dismissed from his post, and the entire county government was punished. He became a model for Liangzhou Prefecture, and was criticized throughout the state. All officials were asked to remember this example forever and not to do it.
Wrong thing.
All in all, under this mechanism, failure to complete tasks will require punishment, and completing tasks beyond the limit may not necessarily result in rewards. Everything must respect the actual local situation and seek truth from facts.
Some of the problems you are worried about have basically appeared in Liangzhou in the past few years. Now we use a fairly complete system. Even if any new problems arise, it is normal and we can just adjust them at any time.
But without this mechanism, it is a big problem in itself. The system of superior planning has become a mere formality. The official elimination system is to regain the original intention of the system of superior planning!"
Liu Bei spoke eloquently at the meeting of the four ministers, telling everyone about his preparations for this system, and refuting some of their fair and just reasons for opposing this system, making it impossible for them to use their fair and just ideas.
Bright way to oppose the implementation of this policy.
Therefore, the opponents were quite depressed. They found that they could not find a suitable reason to oppose at all. If they really used fundamental reasons to oppose, then Liu Bei might have other countermeasures.
Then it would be a shame.
They didn't want to break up with Liu Bei, or in other words, they didn't dare.
But what should they do if their own interests are really affected by this model?
Or do you really want to continue rolling?
Investing a lot of money and educational resources may not necessarily lead to success, but if they do not invest, it is likely that their political power will be torn apart in a short period of time, and the originally balanced political state will be broken.
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Their talent pool and investment in education are far inferior to Liu Bei at this stage. Liu Bei started early and trained thousands of students in Liangzhou Prefectural School very early. Now he is engaged in
Sili Academy and Twelve States Academy must develop a complete education system.
In this way, after 5678 years, how many students in the world will come from their disciples?
The talent comparison between the two sides will be completely unbalanced.
Couldn't Liu Bei see this?
Or is it that Liu Bei has the ambition to dominate the government and all power?
A small number of scholars within the ancient literature school had this bad premonition.
But no matter what they thought, or what the eunuch group thought, after the meeting of the four ministers, Liu Bei went to the emperor Liu Xie to put forward his proposal, and then undoubtedly received an "accurate" permission.
The coercive power of the military strongman was first revealed, and the efforts of the opponents had no effect. The state council system and the official elimination system were officially implemented in the Han Empire and were about to be implemented.
It may take several years for the entire implementation to be truly implemented, but now that the permission to implement the policy has been obtained, there will be no problem with the convening of the State Council and the subsequent initial implementation of the elimination system.
At the earliest at the end of the fourth year of Jian'an, and at the latest in the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei could start to eliminate some unqualified officials in an honest and fair manner.
No matter which power group they belong to, as long as they fail to achieve government goals, Liu Bei has a legitimate reason to eliminate them.
By that time, Liu Bei's power may really be such that no one can stop it. By then, he may really do whatever he wants, and his power may even exceed that of Huo Guang, and even...Wang Mang
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At this critical juncture, the good reputation of Liu Bei's previous business once again played a major role. Even most people within the ancient literature school who opposed Liu Bei's implementation of this policy did not think that Liu Bei was seeking personal gain for himself.