It is said that Confucius had three thousand disciples and seventy-two sages. These people laid the glorious foundation of the future Confucian school.
Liu Bei's disciples have already exceeded 3,000, and Liangzhou Prefectural School has trained more than 5,000 students in the past seven years. Now Sili Academy is enrolling students on a large scale, and it is rapidly approaching the number of 4,000.
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Sooner or later, his disciples and former officials group will exceed the size of 10,000 people.
These disciples should be considered not useless, but very useful.
They can all be officials and do administrative work, which surprises many people.
It turns out that Liu Bei not only taught them the secrets of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period, but also taught them administrative skills and taught them how to govern.
It is said that these people have an internship process before graduation, serving as interns in local government offices and studying administration behind skilled officials. After the internship is completed, Liu Bei will arrange them to serve as grassroots officials in various places.
Some local officials found that these young officials sent by Liu Bei not only had a certain amount of knowledge, but also had strong work and learning abilities. Although they were not rich in experience, they were by no means blind.
A slanderous political novice.
They actually understand some of the unspoken political rules that only insiders in the officialdom understand. Although they don't know how to use some small tricks that are only available within the officialdom, they also know them.
In the past, this was serious governance knowledge that only the children of high-ranking noble families could learn, but Liu Bei taught it openly in official schools and taught it to so many people, teaching them how to be officials.
If it were during the period when the Jinwen School was in power, Liu Bei would definitely be suppressed for doing this.
But at that time, Liu Bei was staying in Liangzhou, which was his private land. He could teach whatever he wanted, and the modern literature school could not reach him.
When Liu Bei came to their territory, their ruling life also entered a countdown, and they had no time to care about Liu Bei's "extraordinary actions". Instead, they perished under Liu Bei's military iron fist.
While taking control of personnel power, Liu Bei also practiced "nepotism" openly and openly. While taking care of the personnel needs of other families and forces, Liu Bei placed a large number of recent graduates as local officials in large numbers.
Careful people have also realized that it is precisely because of these seemingly inconspicuous grassroots officials that Liu Bei's policies were vigorously implemented when they were promoted to the lowest level.
Facing their mentor and general Liu Bei, their attitude was very direct, that is, they must obey orders and implement them. They dare not say whether they have done well or not, but there is no discussion on whether to do it or not.
Because of their strong management, even if some people in Shangguan want to make peace, Liu Bei can directly influence the grassroots through his influence.
With the relationship of disciples among them, these petty officials had some confidence in facing their superiors.
In the areas west of Luoyang, Bingzhou and Youzhou, and even many places in Jizhou and Yuzhou, Liu Bei's influence can penetrate into the grassroots counties, and there are his disciples and old officials everywhere.
During the reign of Liu Hong, there were more than 7,500 official officials such as dignitaries and bureaucrats registered in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, and the remaining middle and lower classes of the ruling class at the level of officials numbered more than 140,000. Together, the entire Eastern Han Empire ruled
There are about more than 150,000 class members, less than 160,000.
After Liu Hong's death, after so many years of tossing, killing, and replacement by Liu Bei, statistics at the end of the third year of Jian'an showed that the number of official officials had decreased, only about 7,000.
A considerable number of officials died in several political actions over the years, and then Liu Bei sent his own men to replace them, while also eliminating some meaningless official positions.
At the same time, the number of registered officials reached 150,000, and the number of officials increased.
The reason for this is that in order to strengthen grassroots governance, Liu Bei established some new positions on the premise of eliminating, killing unqualified and hostile officials, arranged for some of his subordinates to take up these positions, and strengthened the administration of his subordinates.
The system controls the population and enhances mobilization and taxation capabilities.
Apart from anything else, in areas where collective farms have been implemented as basic units, the mobilization and tax collection capabilities of county-level governments are quite good. Some of the logistical problems caused by previous wars are due to the efforts of these county-level governments.
The following was solved.
Liu Bei not only arranged for his disciples and former officials to serve in these positions. When encountering situations where there was insufficient manpower, he directly selected officers with high educational levels from the army and transferred soldiers to other positions.
Once the officers and soldiers under his command have a relatively high cultural level and have been tempered in the big melting pot of the army, obeying orders and being capable are the minimum indicators. Such a group of people is the best choice for grassroots officials.
Therefore, among the ruling class with a total number of nearly 160,000, there are more than 6,000 people who are descendants of the Liu family, old officials, and soldiers in the army. They have a relatively direct relationship with Liu Bei. Among them
There is no barrier between them.
This number is not enough for a country, or even far from enough, but for an individual, it can only be described as powerful.
What does it mean to have disciples and former officials spread all over the world?
In the past, it took several generations for the Ban Yue family to achieve success, but it only took Liu Bei ten years.
In ten years, Liu Bei allowed his disciples and former officials to occupy a considerable number in the ruling class of the empire.
Of course, this is nothing. What really matters is the officials who were directly or indirectly influenced by Liu Bei.
Officials have no ability to influence their subordinates, but officials can. Among the more than 7,000 officials in the entire Han Empire, more than 2,000 are directly related to Liu Bei or directly appointed by him. They are mainly local county magistrates and county magistrates.
It is composed of power officials from other county-level regions.
And this number has not stopped growing. Now that Liu Bei is in power, this number is rushing towards the three thousand mark.
In addition to the officials directly appointed by him, there are also subordinates of these officials.
Under the influence of Shangguan, even if these subordinates have no direct relationship with Liu Bei, they will be influenced by Liu Bei in some sense.
There are also subordinate officials recruited by the officials he appointed, as well as their subordinate officials and officials.
The number of officials that an official with real power can influence and appoint is uncertain; it could be as few as a few people or as many as hundreds of people.
These are mainly officials with real power below the county level and officials influenced by them in some areas such as Liangzhou, Yizhou, Sili, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou. Their combined number exceeds
One-third of the ruling class of the Han Empire.
It's heading towards the half number.
If the four states of the Central Plains, as important densely populated areas of the Han Dynasty, had not been greatly influenced by gentry forces and local forces, and Liu Bei's reign was still short, this number would have exceeded one-half.
Liu Bei used a series of military and political means, and adopted a very tough military strongman style to make his power soar among the Han Dynasty, and it was a joy to do so.
This is the result of Liu Bei's formal rule for less than three years.
As Liangzhou Prefectural Academy, Sili Academy and even Taixue were gradually controlled by Liu Bei, students from these places would become Liu Bei's main force to gradually replace the original officials of the Han Empire.
As time goes by, within three to five years, Liu Bei's political influence will exceed one-half of the entire Han Empire's ruling class.
After reaching this scale, the underlying logic of many things is completely different.
Power is never top-down but bottom-up. Bottom-up power is the real power, which is stable, tough and powerful.
Just like Liu Bei's governing style.
There are too many original insects. With the launch of the slave restriction movement and the land transfer operation, Liu Bei will carry out a wave of blood exchanges among the ruling classes within the entire Han Empire, carry out a substantial revolutionary action, and give the Han Empire a
Delicate full body surgery.
Although this operation was difficult and would bleed a lot, it was still generally under control. It could go crazy, but it would not get out of control. Liu Bei never relaxed for a moment about the specific control of power.
Through the newly established six ministries in the General's Office, Liu Bei launched a round of power adjustments to the court. After this round of power adjustment, the entire Luoyang court operated with the General's Office as the core, and the government affairs attributes of many departments also emerged.
Made some changes.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are all like subordinate departments of the six departments in the General's Mansion, rather than an independently operating department. The particularity of this situation has not been noticed by most people at this time, because
Everyone is too busy.
There were too many things to do, and there were too many government affairs to be busy with. Liu Bei not only left the current tasks to them, but also took out all the things that had not been completed in the past to be done, which accumulated over the years.
As long as the person responsible for the matter can still be found, it must be done.
As a result, the entire Luoyang court had accumulated a huge amount of absurd things for decades. Under the supervision of the six departments of the General's Office, the officials of the Luoyang court began to act crazily.
And when the people of the Luoyang court began to take action, all the prefectures and counties in the world no longer thought about being able to stabilize.