The 90 percent of idle officials who were transferred to other posts were gathered together to study the new tax law on a surprise basis.
They will intensively study and quickly understand the calculation methods of the new tax law. After several months of surprise training, this group of people will join the eight groups of the tax department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, responsible for the tax collection issues of a certain social class.
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This wave of job transfers has indeed caused many officials who were originally idle to lose their status as officials and become officials with lower welfare benefits. It is difficult to say when their status as officials will be restored.
In this wave of job transfers, Liu Bei eliminated more than 400 official positions and added more than 400 strong laborers to the tax department, which was in urgent need of manpower.
At the same time, Liu Bei also clearly informed all departments of the imperial court that the imperial court does not support idlers. If you want to work in the imperial court, you must make achievements. The past model of raising idlers should not be considered in the Third Reich, at least under his hands.
too much.
Whenever someone dares to do such a thing, the consequences will never be simple.
This large-scale job transfer operation is mainly for the tax department of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Tax work will be the focus of Liu Bei's work in the next period. Building a new tax system based on the tax work of the Second Empire will be of great significance to Liu Bei and the Third Reich.
It's all of great significance.
But this time, the person who took full charge of taxation work was Gu Yong, who was transferred back from the position of Langya County Sheriff by Liu Bei.
In August, Liu Bei decided to transfer Gu Yong back to Luoyang from Langya County, and made him serve as the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He also took charge of the work of the Taxation Department and was in charge of the work of the Taxation Department. All the personnel of the eight groups of the Taxation Department were composed of
He is responsible for scheduling.
Because the Taxation Department has great powers and a very large number of people, accounting for two-fifths of the personnel in the Household Department, people say that taking the Taxation Department is equivalent to taking half of the Household Department, and the status will be very important.
During Liu Bei's reign, this was the first time that an official from Jiangdong could reach such a high position in the central government and hold such power. It was not a bad thing for Gu Yong, the Gu family, or even the people of Jiangdong.
Well, it’s all a breakthrough.
The Eastern Han Dynasty court did appoint some high-ranking officials from Jiangdong, such as Zhu Jun, who had some dealings with Liu Bei back then.
However, after Zhu Jun returned to his hometown Dingyou, major changes occurred in the court, which left him no room to perform. He later thought about returning to Luoyang, but it happened to be the peak moment of tit-for-tat between Liu Bei Group and Yuan Wei Group, and no one paid attention to him.
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When Liu Bei remembered Zhu Jun again later, Zhu Jun had already died of illness.
Liu Bei just felt a little bit sorry.
Mainly at that time, Liu Bei already had Gu Yong and Lu Kang under his command. With the Gu family and the Lu family, two families with high status in Jiangdong, the situation in Jiangdong was opened up. There was one more Zhu Jun and one less Zhu Jun.
It doesn't make much sense anymore.
Liu Bei also knew something about Gu Yong.
When Liu Bei placed him beside him as a messenger, Liu Bei noticed that although Gu Yong was taciturn and unsociable, he was very particular about rules and was willing to abide by them. He was strict with himself and had certain requirements for others.
This kind of character is very useful to Liu Bei.
Moreover, Gu Yong is from Jiangdong. At this moment, the Gu family is not a large-scale clan well-known throughout the country. It is just a representative clan that has grown up in the Jiangdong area. It has no nationwide interpersonal relationships and influence, and it is not related to the Central Plains area.
The people have no interest in each other.
It was Liu Bei who promoted him, and he had no other friends. This meant that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Luoyang, he had to rely on Liu Bei. He must do his best for the things Liu Bei assigned him.
So after thinking about it for a while, Liu Bei called Gu Yong back to Luoyang and appointed him as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He was responsible for collecting taxes and was fully responsible for collecting taxes from the people of the world, especially high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
This is a relatively difficult task, and if it is not done well, many people will be offended. However, it does not matter. When Liu Bei was appointed, he had already communicated with Gu Yong and planned to grant armed power to tax collectors who had passed formal training and assessment.
And in the later stage, when the tax department becomes more mature and has the ability to collect taxes comprehensively, it can break away from the general framework of the household department and form a separate tax department to specialize in taxation. By then, the tax department will become a powerful department.
, has a powerful deterrent effect on the world.
Gu Yong expressed his yearning for such a prospect, but he also knew very well what this department and this position meant, so when Liu Bei added manpower to him, he also paid great attention to the selection and training of responsible personnel.
When the Ministry of Civil Affairs conducts examinations, the contents of the tax collectors examination are theoretical and advanced topics related to Gu Yong's organization of the tax department. This ensures that the selected people have basic knowledge. After they come to the tax department, Gu Yong will also organize another
If you don't pass the interview that you personally check, you won't be able to get the job.
You can't just stuff everyone into the tax department. Your basic moral character still needs to be tested.
The selection of civil servants was in full swing, the imperial court was busy, and the whole world was actively trying to repair the "labor pain" caused by the successful implementation of the land-holding law.
In such a tense and busy atmosphere, the last day of the first year of Zhenguan slipped away quietly, and the second year of Zhenguan arrived.
At the New Year's Assembly in the second year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei issued a New Year's edict. He had many expectations for the new year.
He hopes that this year, everyone can work together to complete the remaining problems caused by the previous war, resolve the trauma of the war, and settle the people who have lost their homes so that they can live and work in peace and contentment.
Then, he hoped that everyone could simultaneously promote the land granting work, allocate the fields that people deserve, increase the number of fields owned by hard-working people, enable them to resume production as soon as possible, increase food production, and in order to withstand possible natural disasters.
Disasters bring more confidence.
Next, Liu Bei officially announced the compilation and publication of "Jia De Tong Yi" at the New Year's court meeting.
He officially announced that the "Chiade Tongyi", which took two and a half years to compile, was officially completed. The Third Empire of the Han Dynasty finally had its own fundamental law after the status of "Han Code" was established.
"Chiade Tongyi" is essentially the constitution of the Third Reich, in which all official and private codes of conduct of the Third Reich are described and stipulated in detail.
It ranges from the Third Reich’s aggressive national policy of opening up, enterprising, exploring and conquering the Quartet, to the marriage and funeral customs of ordinary people, and even to the rules of concubinage in personal life, the rules of family life and the ban on domestic violence, etc.
, are all among them.
After all, the Han Empire was in a medieval era, a typical classical empire. It has only been more than four hundred years since the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which created dynastic rule. Many things that people today take for granted either did not happen at that time, or were still shocking.
To the point of being completely irrational.
People generally don't know what they should and shouldn't do, or many people don't know what they can and cannot do. Governments also have their own views on this aspect, and internal views are not unified.
In the era when Confucianism dominated the discourse, there were generally two voices within the Han Empire government. One voice used the Spring and Autumn Period Judgment as the main processing method, and the other voice used Han Law as the main basis for processing, and each of them had its own support.
Alas, generally speaking, the Spring and Autumn Judgment Sect has the upper hand.
But the shortcoming of the Spring and Autumn Period Judgment is that there are not many cases in the Spring and Autumn Period that can decide all the difficult issues that will happen in the world in the future. Many times, Confucian scholars engaged in judicial work can't find relevant basis and have to rely on the Han Code.
to solve this problem.
Therefore, what should be used as the absolute basis for judging cases was a common controversy at the time.
Therefore, no one can explain how the people of the empire should live to completely avoid all lawsuits. Indeed, no one knows.
Even those engaged in judicial work themselves do not know how to deal with this problem.
Therefore, an all-inclusive "Constitution" is very meaningful to everyone living in this land.
And because this book is completely open to the public and can even be published and distributed, Liu Bei also plans to publish it on a large scale, so as long as he can read and has a little money, everyone can read it with a copy of "Jade Tongyi".
See how the country regulates their daily lives.
After reading this "Constitution", people will know how to live correctly in the Third Reich, what they can and should do, and how to avoid risks.
From this perspective, "The General Theory of the Garter" can even be said to be a "basic guide" that everyone living in the Third Reich should read.
Liu Bei hoped that starting from this moment, the influence of alienated Confucianism on the Han Empire over the past three hundred years would be slowly eradicated, and some strange cognitions would be reversed. In the Middle Ages, everything was not counted.
It is too late to make a comprehensive change.
It is not only a change in rules and regulations, but also a change that touches people's souls. Liu Bei hopes to cut open and burn the big web that Confucianism has woven for people throughout the empire.
As for the deep scars caused by this big net entangled on people, it may not be eliminated for a while, but as long as the big net is removed and no longer restrains people, sooner or later everything will change.
Full of openness and enterprising spirit, "Chiade Tongyi" will fundamentally reverse the Han Empire's main thinking of internal governance, reverse the inertial thinking of pursuing stability, and turn to external development.
At this point, Liu Bei did not believe that the imperial dynasty could give up stability to pursue anything. Maintaining stability in rule is a natural pursuit of a government, even in modern governments, so it is unrealistic to expect rulers to give up stability.
However, in terms of maintaining stability, Liu Bei hopes to reverse the inertial thinking under Confucian discourse, that is, to adjust the way of competing for stocks to a way of striving for increments.
In ancient China, most of the time, the system was stabilized by competing for stocks. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the population was sparse and the increase was huge. In this case, the stability of the system could be easily maintained, and all classes of society could benefit from the increase.
Gain benefits from it, and everyone is still in peace.
However, as time goes by and the population grows, the increments are exhausted, and competition for stocks becomes the mainstream for individuals to continue to develop.
At this moment, the contradiction between powerful individuals and weak individuals will become extremely acute. Whether the struggle for stock can be controlled by the imperial system and prevent it from getting out of control will become an important factor in whether the imperial system can continue.
Some rulers are ambitious and skillful, and can reduce the growth rate of contradictions by curbing the cruelty of competition for stock, and restrict and redistribute stock society to a certain extent, thereby maintaining the stability of the system and extending the existence of the system.
But this is just a way to extend life, not a solution to the problem. Instead, it directly or indirectly solves some of the people who raised the problem, using relatively cruel means to slow down the development of conflicts.
More rulers do not possess this key ability and can only watch the brutal fighting and constant chaos of the existing society.
In the end, a group of incompetent rulers watched helplessly as the stock became more and more concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the majority were squeezed out of the stock society. Survival became a problem, and finally they went to destruction in despair, or to the final resistance.
No matter which path they take, it means that the system will collapse, the social order will completely collapse, and then the imperial dynasty will enter the next cycle of increment and stock.
When a society enters a stock society, conflict problems are all-round and cannot be solved by one or two reforms or killing one or two people. There are only two ways to really solve the problem.
One is to develop productivity through technological revolution, create new internal incremental points, and once again lead society into an incremental society.
The other is that when technology cannot make revolutionary progress, it should develop externally and use new space to create new incremental points.
All in all, it is to create a new incremental point so that society can once again enter the incremental mode and continue to develop.
If it cannot be done, the existing society will collapse sooner or later, and what will be left to the people will definitely be desperate suffering. There will be high-intensity wars, wars and disasters that will destroy everything, and most people will die.
For most of ancient China, the possibility of technological revolution did not exist. Even if there were occasional small technological advances, it would not reach the bottom of the revolution. Therefore, external development was the only way to enter an incremental society.
While Liu Bei worked hard to promote the development of science and technology, he also knew that this thing was not going to be fast. The only way to really solve the problem was to develop externally, and use external development as a solution to internal stability.
In any case, he could not just watch the Third Reich he established move towards a stock society without finding new growth points. In the end, it started a cruel involution mode and came to an end amidst waves of internal turmoil.
He wants to do his best to find a sustainable development path that can provide more possibilities for future generations.
And once this kind of thinking becomes an inertial thinking similar to Confucian discourse power, that dead circle will be broken out of by the Third Reich.