Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2428 Two Imperial Envoys, Shangshu Leaves the Capital

During the three-year epidemic, daily reports from all over the country came in like snowflakes, torturing Li Xiang to exhaustion.

But after three years of epidemic, he was finally able to overcome the difficulties and the economic recovery work that followed kept him busy without a moment's rest.

Li Xiang didn't sleep for two hours after all. After washing up, he was forced to rub his face and go to the imperial study.

"How's the government affairs class at the Royal Government Academy going?"

Today's topic is still about the issues in the Central Plains and the South, especially the issues in the Central Plains.

Guan Zhong replied, "Because we have been interrupted many times, things are not going smoothly. In addition, the emperor intends to clean up the grassroots administration. I plan to slow down the training of officials in Beijing starting this year. County officials will take turns to go to Beijing for training, which is tentatively scheduled to last for three months."

Li Xiang tapped his fingers on the table and thought, "Let's set up administrative academies in each state and prepare for classes. Let the governors of each state prepare on their own, and the officials of each county take turns to receive training!"

The Royal Council was established during the three-year epidemic.

After the Central Plains War and the Southern War ended, a large number of officials in the counties and prefectures of the Central Plains and the South retained their original officials to continue serving as local officials.

Firstly, the territories captured in the Central Plains War and the Southern War were almost not much less than the territories originally held by the Jin Army.

Such a large area requires a large number of officials. Obviously, no matter how much the Jin army reserves are, they can't support such a large number!

Therefore, in the original Central Plains and the South, a large number of officials who originally belonged to Zhao Kuangyin or Zhu Yuanzhang were appointed.

Officials, officials, this includes not only officials but also clerks.

Officials, not to mention county-level units, just the county-level units, the county magistrate, the county lieutenant, plus other auxiliary officials, even if it is a county, to get together a grassroots government office, you need five or six officials.

As for officials, the number needed is even greater!
Secondly, the epidemic came too quickly and too suddenly, and the Central Plains was directly facing the epidemic. This area must be stabilized as soon as possible to face the impact of the epidemic as best as possible. In order to maintain stability, it is necessary to accommodate those officials who originally belonged to Zhao Kuangyin.

As for the South, although it did not face the threat of plague during these three years, it had to bear the blood transfusion to the Central Plains in these years. Therefore, this place also requires stability, but it is far less serious than the Central Plains.

Therefore, during these three years, Li Xiang established the Royal Administrative Court, and divided grassroots officials from the south into several small batches, which took turns to go to Beijing to attend the court.

First of all, this is equivalent to a platform for reporting work.

Secondly, since they are here to report on their work, naturally there will be those with outstanding achievements and those with poor performance. In this way, it becomes a platform for mutual communication and learning, and improves the governance capabilities of officials.

As a result, this platform, which was originally set up for officials from the south, was later joined by officials from other parts of the country who were not affected by the epidemic.

Thirdly, this place is also a place for conveying the ideas of the Great Jin Dynasty.

After all, these were Zhu Yuanzhang's original ministers. Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts and ideas were deeply rooted in them. Li Xiang naturally had to change them little by little and transform them into the ideas of the Great Jin Dynasty.

However, the route from the south to the capital via Jingzhou was not feasible. During the past three years, the part of Jingzhou close to the Central Plains also suffered from an epidemic. It was impossible for these officials to take this route, and it was absolutely impossible for the epidemic to be brought to Sizhou. However, if they took the route from the Yangtze River to Hanzhong, this route would be more time-consuming and laborious. Therefore, during these three years, the Royal Government had experienced many twists and turns.

Compared with the south, although a large number of old officials from Zhu Yuanzhang's faction were accommodated in order to maintain stability, this area is still moving steadily in the direction that the Jin Dynasty wanted to see, but the speed is much slower than expected.

But in the Central Plains, chaos is now happening everywhere!
The issue of salt administration is just one of them!

These old officials of Zhao Kuangyin's faction had originally banded together in large numbers, so that they were not guilty of corruption and abuse of power one by one, but in groups.

During the epidemic, there was no time to deal with them! At that time, they were still needed. Compared with the problems they faced at that time, we could turn a blind eye and deal with a few who showed up when necessary.

To the extent that, after these three years, these people have developed into a huge group, and even some officials in the capital have been assimilated into their interest chain.

Although the core members of Dajin were not involved, the chaos in the Central Plains was enough to make Li Xiang determined to rectify it.

Therefore, Li Xiang plans to bring mid-level officials into the Royal Government for a walk, select some who are applicable to continue in office, and for the rest, he can list their merits and demerits within the Royal Government, use them as negative examples, and focus on investigating and punishing the previous batch.

Zhuge Liang looked at Li Xiang, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, regarding the two imperial envoys, do you have any candidates in mind?"

The Central Plains and the South must vigorously rectify the administration of officials, especially the Central Plains which has many problems.

Several days ago, news had already spread that two imperial envoys would be selected to go to the South and the Central Plains respectively to supervise the governors of the southern and Central Plains states.

At the same time, these two imperial envoys hold the imperial sword in their hands. If they encounter anyone who is slack or even secretly disobeys the order, they have the right to enforce the law on the spot under the governors of various states.

As for the two powerful imperial envoys, who will be the candidate? Many court officials have always been very concerned!
Although the power held by these two high-ranking officials was only temporary, once the problems in the Central Plains or the South were resolved and they returned to the court, these powers would naturally be taken back.

However, for these civil servants, if they can do this well, it will become a highlight in their political achievements in the future.

Especially in the Central Plains, because of the many problems it has accumulated, if this task can be done well, the future will definitely be smooth sailing.

"Kong Ming has also started to care about these things?" Li Xiang said with a smile.

These two positions have nothing to do with Zhuge Liang.

He had just been promoted from the position of Governor of Yizhou to the Minister of Works.

Ministry of Works, his predecessor Jia Xu had never been in charge of affairs. The original Minister of Works, Yao Chong, was nominally a minister, but in fact he did the work of a minister.

But in the past three years, Yao Chong has been fighting on the front line in Liangzhou, and now he is being sent abroad as a governor to accumulate political achievements. Therefore, the burden of the Ministry of Works falls entirely on Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang is now going to take charge of one of the six departments and he needs to familiarize himself with the affairs here as soon as possible. It is impossible for him to abandon this place and go to the Central Plains or the South.