Chapter 768 The Third Reich of Han Dynasty is about to go out
Although the big man is still a big man, he seems to have changed a lot. Liu Bei made the big man he was familiar with in the past no longer familiar with him.
The abolition and merger of major departments were complicated, and the transfer of many personnel required time to coordinate. However, during this period, government affairs had to be dealt with, so the Luoyang court was indeed in chaos to a certain extent.
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This point was already raised when Liu Bei held a meeting, but Liu Bei was very determined.
"The imperial court will change sooner or later. It is better to change late than to change early. It is better to change slowly than to change quickly. It is better to do it faster and earlier than to move slowly! So, move them all! Don't stop for a moment.
!I believe you can!”
Liu Bei shouted slogans and used the powerful KFC method on the officials. He used his super ability in speech and attacked with words to make the officials throw away their legs and run like crazy.
Of course, it has never been Liu Bei's character to just talk and not do anything.
When the Luoyang court fell into a certain degree of chaos due to department mergers and personnel transfers, Liu Bei and the cabinet stood up and played a major role.
Liu Bei, with the dignity of the emperor, led more than 200 cabinet ministers, used Chongde Hall as his office, and set up a posture, turning Chongde Hall into a temporary government affairs processing hall. All the things that Liu Bei had no time to find someone to do were done by Liu Bei.
Gan Gang is arbitrary.
Anyway, he is the emperor. No matter what other departments do, they only do what they are responsible for. Only he, the emperor, has unlimited power, so he can do everything. He can just issue orders directly to various departments.
Liu Bei took care of the entire decision-making process by himself.
It was at this time that Liu Bei exerted his strong mental strength and subjective initiative and ordered his cabinet ministers to help him classify the matters to be dealt with, sort them according to their criticality, and deal with them bit by bit from important to unimportant.
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If you can't see it with your eyes, let someone read it to you, close your eyes and rest your mind, and then make a decision.
His handwriting was sore, so he asked the cabinet ministers led by Chen Qun to listen to his dictation, and then copied it on paper. After Liu Bei checked it and confirmed it, he directly stamped it with the imperial seal, and directly dealt with special matters and put them into practice.
When the Luoyang court was in chaos, it was Liu Bei who led the cabinet members to move forward bravely, working non-stop from morning to night, and working at a high intensity of zero to seven, and finally successfully survived the most chaotic period of the Luoyang court.
They ushered in the dawn.
That is to say, during Liu Bei's reign, the six departments of the General's Office had actually become the central organization of the Han Empire. Now, after it was changed to eight departments and officially became the decision-making body of the court, the operation of the central court of the Han Empire did not fall into the paralysis that some people worried about.
It was quite busy, and there was some chaos, but to say it was paralysis would be to look down on Liu Bei himself and his elite cabinet members.
Other departments are not useless. The teams are ready-made and the personnel handling affairs are also ready-made. However, some responsibilities need to be divided.
Each department under the eight departments also needs to be divided into detailed rules, and then organize documents and files, take care of the office space, visit each other, understand each other's organization and responsibilities, clarify their own responsible persons and the relationship between superiors and subordinates, etc.
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These all take time and require a lot of interpersonal contact.
Fortunately, we are all Liu Bei's people and have all hung out together, so there is still at least some political mutual trust between them.
After a month of turmoil, the major departments and officials finally finished sorting out the things they needed to sort out, and they had a preliminary understanding of each other.
They know where the eight departments work, what other subordinate departments there are, who are each other's chief executives, who are the second and third leaders, what are the specific things they handle, and how much interaction there will be with each other in the future.
official business dealings and the like.
As a result, the Luoyang court, which was operating on the basis of eight departments, finally settled down a little, and no longer had to hear people lamenting how difficult life was every day.
But in the final analysis, during this period, the fact that Liu Bei, with the dignity of the emperor, led his cabinet ministers to work like a sweatshop is still before everyone.
When everyone was unable to handle affairs normally, Liu Bei, the emperor, really tried his best and took care of everything.
So everyone didn't have anything to complain about. After sorting out what needed to be sorted out, the real work started.
With the experience of running the six departments of the General's Office, the operation of the new system of eight departments is not unfamiliar, and can even be considered targeted.
By mid-to-late October of the fifth year of Jian'an, all central officials had begun to get used to the new imperial court operating on the basis of eight ministries.
The adaptability of bureaucrats is amazing, especially when someone threatens them with a whip from behind, they adapt faster than anyone else.
At the same time, the infrastructure of Sili Prefecture and Yong Prefecture is almost complete, and the two newly established administrative divisions are on track.
The initial chaos was over. Starting in early November of the fifth year of Jian'an, the period of chaos in Luoyang Center was over. The political order was back on track. The burden of government affairs on Liu Bei, the emperor, was suddenly lightened.
The eight ministers each perform their duties and lead their subordinates to handle a lot of government affairs for the court. When it is Liu Bei's turn, there are not so many affairs that he needs to handle personally. At least they are not that complicated and he can come to him for everything.
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Despite this, with Liu Bei's diligence and the situation he observed at the moment, he could not tolerate himself to be idle at all.
Therefore, Liu Bei announced to simplify the process of going to court and set the morning court to be held every day, but made it similar to the small afternoon court meeting in later generations.
The heads of major departments go to Chongde Hall at around eight o'clock every morning to discuss yesterday's affairs with Liu Bei, attend a government affairs meeting for about an hour, and then start their normal work for the day.
Liu Bei said that he needed to understand the general tasks and progress of each department. In addition, he also had many things to do that he had to make his own decisions, so he was very busy. He basically turned a blind eye and closed his eyes for a day.
It's over.
Although the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty was not established after destroying the world, Liu Bei had a lot of things to do. Although a brand new political system had been established, many things that followed needed to be dealt with.
The running-in of all aspects, the running-in of the central and local governments, and the sudden change of the political logic that has been operating for nearly two hundred years are a difficult matter for the central and local governments.
That is to say, Liu Bei has strong military force and strong local garrison. With the strong garrison and excellent military record as the foundation, he can promote this large-scale political reform.
The reform is complete, and it will take time for daily operations to change from unfamiliarity to habituation. During this period, although Liu Bei's burden is not as heavy as before, he still needs to provide the entire court with the truth.
It has become common for the cabinet to work overtime, and it is also common for the emperor to work overtime himself.
To be precise, at this stage, the entire Han Empire was in a relatively turbulent period of adjustment. The turmoil and adjustment in the central court would be magnified wherever it went. The further away from Luoyang, the greater the degree of turmoil. If it were not for the powerful army,
This turmoil may have more direct consequences.
However, with the army, this situation will be contained to a certain extent. After all, force is the number one force in the world. With the deterrence of the most powerful force, many things that were originally unacceptable have become simpler.
stand up.
The initial helplessness was followed by relatively painful acceptance.
Now that things have come to this, what else is unacceptable?
If you don't accept that someone has become emperor, how can you still resist?
Besides, Liu Bei's ability to govern the world is indeed something.
If nothing else, the political affairs conference gave some inexplicable hope to officials in remote areas.
Previously, Liu Bei, as a general, announced that the Government Affairs Conference would give everyone more than half a year to collect data and then convene it. Now, although this matter has been excluded, Liu Bei has not forgotten the Government Affairs Conference.
In the declaration to the world, officials were still asked to continue collecting data. Although the time was slightly delayed due to force majeure, it was not important.
He set the convening of the government affairs meeting on the first day of March next year, which was the first day of March in the first year of Zhenguan.
He will not terminate the policies he promoted before. The transition from general to emperor is a relatively smooth thing, which means that Liu Bei's governing strategy will not change, and the government affairs conference and official elimination system will continue.
In the last two months of the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei promoted the integration of personnel under the new system, and at the same time kept the court in check, leading the cabinet to work overtime frantically to maintain the operation of the court.
On the other hand, Liu Bei also took some time to make some private and not public arrangements for some matters other than major political policies.
For example, espionage intelligence.
Dongyuan is an existing intelligence organization. It originally belonged to two parts, one part faced the inside of Luoyang City, and the other part faced the outside of Luoyang City. It was under the command of Zhang Rang internally and under the command of Liu Bei externally.
Zhang Rang took Dongyuan with him and infiltrated the homes of many officials and scholars into sieves, providing Liu Bei with a lot of help and convenience. However, those people did not know until their death how many Dongyuan spies there were in their homes.
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Even now, there are still many Dongyuan spies existing in the homes of officials and scholars, lurking as domestic servants, and constantly providing intelligence to Dongyuan and Zhang Rang.
Now that Liu Bei has become emperor, the intelligence organization has naturally become his property.
Before that, not to mention his own department, the department led by Zhang Rang had some problems. Some of the personnel were bribed by other eunuchs at high prices and began to work as double spies.
Therefore, Zhang Rang's management of Dongyuan is not completely without problems.
So this time the purge of the ten permanent servants was also a purge of the intelligence agency. After the purge, Liu Bei asked Zhang Rang to hand over the command of Dongyuan and serve him full-time, becoming a complete serving eunuch.
He no longer has to worry about things.
The entire Dongyuan legacy was handed over to Liu Hui, who took overall overall command and carried out a wave of reorganization.
The name is still the same, Dongyuan, and the organization is the same, the intelligence organization inside Luoyang City, and the intelligence organization outside Luoyang City. In addition, Liu Bei also added one.
Intelligence agencies outside the territory of the Han Dynasty.
It means that Dongyuan is divided into three sub-organizations, two at home and one abroad. Liu Hui needs to integrate all the manpower to reorganize Dongyuan, and then allocate and arrange work.
During the period of Liu Hong and the reign of the Four Assistant Ministers, conflicts within Luoyang City were prominent, conspiracies and struggles between each other emerged one after another, and the requirements for intelligence organizations were very high.
But in the new era, all enemies have been eliminated by Liu Bei, the old factional disputes have disappeared, and new factional disputes have not had time to appear, so the demand for intelligence organizations in Luoyang City is not high.
Of course, that’s not to say there isn’t one, but it just doesn’t need to be to the point where Zhu Yuanzhang even noticed what the ministers were eating at home.
The intelligence agency in Luoyang City still mainly targets civilian facilities and some domestic servant groups of key personnel. Deploying manpower in these two places can allow Liu Bei to understand the trends of official and private public opinion, and that's about it.
The intelligence organization outside Luoyang City has more needs and higher requirements. It has the largest number of people among the three sub-organizations. Liu Bei needs them to be another pair of eyes outside the official supervision system to help him monitor the actions of local bureaucrats.
To deal with this group of people, one pair of eyes is not enough, and another pair is needed. No matter how meaningful it is, having one is better than not having one.
This aspect was also what Liu Hui was previously responsible for, but before it was to collect military intelligence on opponents for Liu Bei, but now it will be turned into political reconnaissance.
The third aspect is foreign intelligence collection.
Liu Bei explained this aspect of work very clearly to Liu Hui.
The Third Reich of the Han Dynasty wants to go out. It cannot stay in place and do nothing. It must go out, so it needs the intelligence organization to take the lead in exploring and exploring the route.
The Western Region in the northwest, the Shendu in the southwest, and the many islands in the southeast are three important exploration areas. Liu Hui needs to send enough people to explore the passages in various ways and explore the areas suitable for people's survival and development of agriculture.
place, and draw a map by the way.
In short, the Dongyuan organization that specializes in investigating political conspiracies during the Liu Hong era needs to be transformed into a comprehensive intelligence investigation agency in the hands of Liu Bei. All intelligence must be collected, whether it is about the enemy or the unknown.
To collect.
Liu Hui's identity will be the Dongyuan commander of Zhongerqianshi, but where the Dongyuan organization is located, who is there, and what work it does, will be completely secret and will not be announced to the public.
After excluding the eunuchs from the intelligence organization, Liu Bei did not forget to reorganize the eunuch organization in the palace to make it more professional.
Although eunuchs are not good beings, in the era of imperial power, these things were the objective needs of the rulers and could not be avoided.
Therefore, Liu Bei never thought about deposing them, but he just needed some means on how to use them.
And in a sense, eunuchs are indeed a barrier to imperial power. Of course, a strong emperor does not have to worry about damage to his power, but for a less powerful emperor, eunuchs are really a barrier to his power.
However, for Liu Bei at the moment, it is unnecessary to use eunuchs to demonstrate his power. He himself is a symbol of power, and no one dares to violate him. He needs eunuchs mainly for the needs of palace life.
The Han Palace was too big, and many places needed people to take care of and maintain it. There were also many things that could only be left to the eunuchs who were close to it.
Zhang Rang was a skilled eunuch. Before he started to dominate, he was able to stand out from so many Han Palace eunuchs and become the "father" that Liu Hong cared about. You can imagine how excellent his professional abilities were.
After Liu Bei took away his foreign-related powers, he still gave him the power to assist in managing internal affairs.