Sometimes, Liu Bei would also do some "good things".
For example, he allowed officials to go to and from get off work every day, and he allowed officials to go home and sleep every day without having to stay in the official office.
But because he requires officials to go to work at 4:00 a.m. every day, and often work overtime until midnight at night, most of the officials still live outside Luoyang City. They spend so much time commuting to and from get off work every day that they have no time to go home and sleep.
Therefore, unless they get off work on time, officials will go home to rest.
Once they work overtime, officials default to staying in the official office all night and not going home, so as not to encounter a "traffic jam" when they come to the official office for work the next morning, fail to order their meal on time, and have their salary deducted.
Of course, such high-intensity work is prone to problems. Liu, who is well versed in the essence of sustainability, used some small tricks in order to make officials work overtime better without having too much resentment.
For example, Liu Bei allocated funds to build a central canteen in the imperial city to provide officials with three meals a day and a midnight snack, eliminating the trouble of officials having to find a place to eat.
Before the central dining hall took charge of food, the Luoyang court did not have the tradition of providing meals to officials. Occasionally, some emperors would give food, which was considered a favor, but it did not happen often, and not every official could enjoy it.
Just like the bowl of summer ice drink Liu Bei drank in the twelfth lunar month of winter, only high-ranking officials can enjoy the food given by the emperor, and low-ranking officials can't even think about it.
And this central dining hall covers all people who are on errands in the imperial city. Regardless of officials or ranks, as long as they are doing errands in the imperial city, they can eat.
This central dining hall is relatively large, and many of the chefs come from Liu Bei's army or even Liu Bei's own house, and are good at various new dishes.
He is especially good at cooking in large pots, which is currently very popular in the military.
Stir-frying in a large pot is fast and can serve meals quickly. It is very suitable for providing meals to hundreds or even thousands of people in a restaurant. Therefore, the main dish in the central canteen is stir-frying in a large pot.
These large pot stir-fries are a very novel experience for officials who have never felt the charm of stir-fry. After trying it for a period of time, basically everyone can accept this form of stir-fry, and they are quite popular with it.
The proper supply of food restored Liu Bei's popularity and reduced some officials' dissatisfaction with him due to excessive fatigue.
But no matter how dissatisfied they are, it's useless.
Liu Bei had no intention of letting the officials of the Luoyang court go back to the past. Their good days were over. When he ruled the world, they had to become sweatshop workers and use their blood and sweat to create a bright future for the Han Dynasty.
There is no reason why ordinary people should be outside with their backs to the sky, while these officials can be leisurely and at ease. They have just as many things to do, and they are more important.
If you don’t work overtime, you won’t be able to afford that salary!
"The Luoyang court in the past was too lax and inefficient. Things that could be done in one day had to be delayed until a month. Many things in the country were ruined by these lazy people, so now I want to make a complete revolution.
, while pursuing efficiency, we must also pursue speed!”
"Situations like the past are not allowed to happen again. Everyone must work harder, run, move, and do the most things in the shortest time. Only in this way can we live up to the emperor's kindness!"
Under Liu Bei's call, the Luoyang court was basically making great strides in the direction of "doing things that can be done in a month in one day, and trying to do things that can be done in one day in half a day".
One strives hard.
Only officials who work hard can have a future. Only officials who work hard and have the courage to work overtime can have a future. Get out of the Luoyang court, you lying salted fish, the court does not need trash like you lying down!
Liu Bei shouted slogans of struggle in the Luoyang court and gave everyone blood.
Because Liu Bei set an example and worked overtime with everyone, no matter how dissatisfied the officials were, they could not express their protest against this situation.
As time went by, some people got used to it, and then some gossip even began to spread among the officials, saying things like "the longer you work overtime with the general, the more favor you will get from the general."
After Liu Bei heard about it, his attitude was very ambiguous. He did not openly encourage, but he also did not openly oppose.
He does not explicitly encourage officials who are willing to work overtime with him, but in practice, he behaves more closely with officials who work overtime more often and go home less frequently.
As a result, a group of court officials who were eager to make progress were obsessed with his pua and couldn't stop, which in turn led to the involution of the entire court official group.
There are very few people who can escape from it. Unless they really have no need for a future, they are basically trapped in this round of involution frenzy.
Also because of this super-strong wave of involution, some important affairs from the sixth year of Zhongping to the third year of Jian'an were completed during this period, especially the complex slave resettlement work and post-war resettlement work.
It was done very well and was handled very neatly.
The officials who came to Bingzhou and Youzhou were very satisfied with the efficiency of the imperial court. They felt that the imperial court was completely transformed. The work efficiency that could not be obtained with money before could now be obtained without spending money.
Therefore, the border defense and resettlement affairs of the two states are also doing quite well.
Of course, all this is not without cost, that is, the probability of illness among Luoyang court officials has greatly increased during this period. Many officials began to fall ill, and some of them were quite seriously ill.
However, the officials who came back to work after recovery were obviously in better spirits than before, their work efficiency also began to improve, and the Luoyang court was operating at a faster speed.
The imperial court operates at a high speed, so the local government operations must also operate at a high speed and adapt to the efficiency of the imperial court, otherwise it will be very troublesome.
The state capitals, the prefectural capitals, and the county capitals all operate very fast. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what I thought in the past, the court is now operating at such a high speed. If the local government loses control, the situation will be very serious.
In the three months from February of the third year of Jian'an to May of the third year of Jian'an, Liu Bei demoted him because of his low efficiency and poor ability. Three county guards and seventy-seven county magistrates were dismissed.
In the Luoyang court, thirty-eight officials were dismissed.
After the dismissal, these positions were all replaced by people Liu Bei could trust, at least, people who had no problem with efficiency.
The number of people who were dismissed was not large, and some even belonged to Liu Bei's own faction. They were dismissed because they were not serious and down-to-earth in their work, but the effect was very good. This approach further highlighted Liu Bei's principle of dealing with things rather than people.
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Liu Bei needs an efficient team and a group of tool people. The "remnants of the previous dynasty" who cannot adapt to the new environment are not qualified to survive in the new era.
Regarding Liu Bei's almost crazy torture of the imperial court, some people with higher status also saw it, and they had different views on this situation.
Lu Zhi was very satisfied and happy. He even personally joined the craze of involution and followed everyone to do things together. He felt very happy.
He felt that this was the perfect court in his dream, and the perfect service team in his dream. How wonderful it would be if he could cooperate with such a group of people who only know how to do things in everything.
There is no intrigue, no struggle for power, only mutual collaboration and passionate interaction, and the incomparable joy of advancing the same thing.
So he couldn't help himself, so Lu Zhi and Liu Bei began to work overtime with the officials. They often worked overtime until midnight. Not only did they not feel tired, but they were particularly energetic.