This period of time was a period of rapid progress for the entire Luoyang court.
Everyone is doing things, and apart from doing things, they do nothing. When they open their eyes, they go to work, and when they close their eyes, they go to sleep. They don’t even have time to fight for power and gain.
Of course, it is not that there are no idle people, such as the other three of the four assistant ministers and the big bosses of the Wenyue family.
Dong Zhong was still as timid as ever, as if he were dead and had no reaction to the outside world.
Zhang Rang and Jian Shuo were deeply moved by this situation, and were impressed by Liu Bei's superb work ability and his charisma in driving people to change.
The big man has really changed, changed so much that they can hardly recognize him - because the scholars were all dragged by Liu Bei to work overtime in 996, and for a while, few of them had the time to continue with the eunuchs.
There was a fight.
They were all doing things, running nervously, sweating, and with their changes, the Han Empire began to truly change from Luoyang.
The most obvious thing is the establishment of farm settlements one after another, the completion and accumulation of new household registrations one after another, and the peace and contentment of one household after another.
At the end of June, Liu Bei convened a joint meeting of all officials, showed them the new population registers that filled the entire warehouse, and told them that this was the result of their hard work.
Three years later, just the land tax and calculation tax, and the population listed in the household register will bring hundreds of millions of real taxes to the Han Dynasty.
And this tax revenue can support many soldiers, build many cities and infrastructure, repair many roads and bridges, and renovate the infrastructure of the entire Henan Yin area.
The dilapidated roads, dangerous bridges, dilapidated cities and houses that everyone complained about will all be completely renovated, and the Han Dynasty will have a completely new look.
All of this was based on the comprehensive turn of the Luoyang court and their hard work, which made them realize that their hard work could really bring about changes in the entire Han Empire.
This has become the consensus of the officials, and it is almost the first time that they realize how pleasant and relaxing it is to do things seriously and not think about anything else.
It is really much easier to do things in a serious manner than to fight for power and gain in intrigues.
This was a major change that Liu Bei brought to them and the Han Empire. It was a major change that could not be ignored in any case. He swept away the political shortcomings of the Han Empire for decades and allowed the court to return to its most original work affairs.
And achieved results.
Therefore, there is no doubt that everyone realizes that Liu Bei is the most important existence in this system.
But Liu Bei himself knew that the imperial court was still the same imperial court, and it was unlikely that substantial changes would occur so quickly, or that there would never be substantial changes.
It's just that through Liu Bei's leadership and the cooperation of other forces, Liu Bei led a group of people with the attitude of a strong man descended from heaven. During this special period of time, the court became different from the past.
But there are only so many things, even if there are only so many things that have piled up, at the current speed and status, everything that needs to be dealt with can be dealt with in less than a year.
After all, this is the era of the Han Empire and the classical era. Under the constraints of transportation and productivity, there are not that many things that happen every day.
Just like Liu Bei's administrative team, after gaining experience in Liangzhou, they quickly exceeded the development ceiling of Liangzhou. From being extremely busy to being idle, there are only so many things that should be done.
The objective laws of development are there. In an era where years were used as the unit of development, Liu Bei used days as the unit of efficiency and severely criticized the bureaucrats. If this continues, sooner or later the two will conflict.
You can't create problems when there are no problems, right?
Of course, the affairs of the entire Han Empire far exceed those within Liangzhou, but judging from the current speed at which Liu Bei holds up his whip to force everyone, it won't be long before the administrative efficiency of this court will exceed the development of the Han Empire.
The ceiling.
Once it is exceeded, many situations will be completely different from the current situation.
Therefore, Liu Bei felt that he had to think about the way out for the Han Empire in advance. He could not just go down the same path, but had to try another way. This was his responsibility as a general and de facto ruler.
From the current point of view, the actual operation of the Han Empire is already under the jurisdiction of the General's Office.
Due to the absence of the adult emperor, Liu Bei essentially took his place as a general and chief auxiliary minister. With the support of the Empress Dowager Dong, he essentially took control of the imperial power and became a different kind of Huo Guang.
At this stage, the General's Office became the de facto highest decision-making body of the Han Empire. All court departments were not responsible to the emperor, but to the General's Office, and were connected to the General's Office.
At this stage, Liu Bei also made some organizational reforms to the General's Office so that it could take on various central affairs of the Han Empire.
In short, Liu Bei adopted the six-department system in the General's Mansion and innovated all the original institutions - because in fact a lot of power was in his hands, and the General's Mansion belonged entirely to himself. He did this because
Totally feasible.
The first is the most important financial power.
It turned out that financial power was actually divided between Liu Bei and Dong Zhong. Liu Bei controlled the Shaofu, and Dong Zhong controlled the Grand Secretary. One controlled the emperor's personal finance, and the other controlled the nominal national finance.
However, in actual operation, the Shaofu controlled by Zhen Yan was obviously more capable, while the big secretary Nong arranged by Dong Zhong was so stretched in financial affairs that it was necessary to second some financial personnel from the Shaofu to help.
Deal with daily financial matters.
Of course, Liu Bei was not polite, especially after Dong Zhong revealed his wariness and dissatisfaction with Liu Bei. Liu Bei became even more rude and instructed Zhen Yan to infiltrate the Great Sinong Mansion and use people from the Young Mansion to control important positions in the Great Sinong Mansion.
Isolated Da Si Nong.
Because the losers under Dong Zhong were too incompetent, Zhen Yan didn't put much effort into it. It took her a few months to basically eliminate the Great Sinong arranged by Dong Zhong and take control of the actual authority of the Great Sinong.
By the time Dong Chong became autistic, Liu Bei had essentially controlled the Great Sinong Mansion, thus controlling the powers of the Young Mansion and the Great Sinong Mansion together, and controlling all the financial power of the Han Empire.
From then on, the emperor's personal finances and the state's finances were all in Liu Bei's hands.
Therefore, Liu Bei set up a household department in the general's palace to handle affairs with the departments responsible for civil affairs and financial affairs of the imperial court, and then handle these matters. Finally, the results and major events were summarized to Liu Bei, who made the final decision.
decision making.
How much money the court receives, how much money it spends, the salaries and expenses of officials, the court's service expenses, and all other powers are essentially in Liu Bei's hands.
Through the Ministry of Household Affairs, Liu Bei was also able to control the country's civil affairs. He openly promoted collective farms as a basic national policy to areas below the county level, and used the county government to directly manage collective farm affairs to increase the grassroots mobilization power of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The grassroots mobilization ability of the Eastern Han Dynasty was really poor. After he personally took control of the Luoyang court, Liu Bei realized that this was the basis for the military service system in the Western Han Dynasty and the reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty switched to the recruitment system.
The power of a government depends on its ability to control the grassroots. Power is not top-down, but bottom-up.
Therefore, when He Jin first became a general, he was allowed to be flattened and rounded by others, and he was a lackey of the eunuchs. It was not until five or six years later that he gradually gained power and was able to suppress the eunuchs.
Because his power was originally given to him by others rather than earned by himself. How much can others give him?
If you don't have a basic foundation, you just kneel down to beg for food. If you have a basic foundation, you can earn money standing up, just like Liu Bei currently.
In addition to financial power, the most important military power is in the hands of Liu Bei, both nominally and actually. As a general, he can control the national military, so it is natural to establish a military headquarters in the general's palace.