Xuande

Chapter 279 Centralization
Liu Bei, who was far away in Liangzhou, was naturally not idle during this time.

After a period of laying, the restoration and construction of the entire Liangzhou has been fully carried out.

In order to make the government he led more adaptable to the development of Liangzhou as a whole, Liu Bei launched a round of reorganization of the bureaucratic system under his direct control in Liangzhou on the premise of retaining the name of the State Shepherd's Mansion.

He imitated the more professional and professional bureaucratic system of later dynasties, and made a new plan for many practitioners whose current responsibilities are not yet clearly assigned.

He set up the governance department, the civil affairs department, the army department, the finance department, the storage department, the law department, the talent selection department, the literature department, the craftsmen department, and the animal husbandry department in the Liangzhou prefecture. Engaged in the top ten departments of the company.

The original state capital system only retained the state bijia and the state registrar, who acted as his full-time deputy.

These ten departments are in charge of a series of affairs that need to be dealt with in the State Shepherd's Mansion. The head of the department is the head of the department, and the assistant is the deputy of the department.

After a period of work and investigation, Liu Bei also had a general understanding of the capabilities of his subordinates, and allocated them in the new state pastoral mansion.

Yan Zhong is still in charge of Zhou Biejia, who is equivalent to Zhou Mu's deputy.

Han Hao used to be the governor of the state, but now the position of the governor of the state is taken over by Liu Bei's close friend, who is equivalent to the senior counselor and secretary of the state shepherd.

In addition, to show his importance, Yan Zhong was also appointed by Liu Bei to join the army as an officer.

In addition to Bie Jia's status as deputy state shepherd, Yan Zhong also has the duty to assist Liu Bei to participate in military affairs, and he can be regarded as the role of chief of staff.

Han Hao was appointed by Liu Bei to be in charge of the Civil Affairs Department because of his excellent administrative ability, because Liu Bei appreciated his ability to handle specific affairs and his strict and upright character.

In addition, Jian Yong, who was the first to follow Liu Bei, was still in charge of personnel work as always.

Selecting talents to work in the department is still selecting talents to be in charge of Guoyuan. This is actually a supervisory agency. Guoyuan, who has a square personality and a strong sense of principle, is the best candidate.

As always, the financial management department was handed over to Zhen Yan, the warehouse management department was also handed over to Yin Da as always, and the person in charge of the literature management department was still Ruan Yu. They were the first political veterans who followed Liu Bei, and they were the most trusted by Liu Bei. .

Liu Bei appointed Yan Wen, a native of Liangzhou who was the first to accept his summons, as the legal affairs department, and Sun Gan was appointed as the artisan department.

In addition, Xun Yu, who has received Liu Bei's attention, has shown excellent handling skills during this period of work, which makes Liu Bei confirm that this Xun Yu is really talented, so Liu Bei appreciates it.

However, because of his junior qualifications, he was appointed as the secretary of the Civil Affairs Department and served as Han Hao's deputy.

Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe, who also received Liu Bei's attention, were appointed by Liu Bei as the secretary of the Army Engagement Department and became Yan Zhong's deputy because of their sophisticated and practical ability to handle affairs, and also showed some military talents.

As for the person in charge of the Animal Husbandry Department, because it involves raising horses, Liu Bei has to think about it a little bit.

This is the civil service system of the State Shepherd's Mansion.

In addition, there is a military system directly under the State Shepherd's Mansion.

Before, Liu Bei had arranged some military positions in the State Shepherd's Mansion for his generals. These positions were not permanent in the system, but mainly depended on the individual needs of the State Shepherd. If there were more demands, it didn't matter if he created a few.

But this is a name, a very important name. With this name, the military personnel under his command can lead the army in a legitimate manner.

In the normal procedure, Liu Bei was able to lead the army not because of his status as General Zuo, but because of his status and authority as a state pastor. He led the army in Liangzhou as a Liangzhou pastor.

This also means that Liu Bei's military power can only be exercised within the scope of Liangzhou, beyond the scope of Liangzhou, his military power does not exist.

Unless the imperial court appoints him to go out to fight as General Zuo, then Liu Bei can justifiably exercise military power in the place where he left Liangzhou.

Now his status as General Zuo has not yet been activated, so everything must be handled as a Liangzhou pastoralist, and the military personnel under his command must also rely on their military service status to properly command the army directly under the state pastoral mansion. .

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan are just like that.

Therefore, Liu Bei also made a new arrangement for the military position system of the State Shepherd's Mansion. He set up a special military management department, expanded the original Bing Cao Engagement into the Bing Cao Engagement Department, and concurrently held the post of Bing Cao Engagement, and appointed many military officers down.

Wu Yong is Guan Yu, Wu Meng is Zhang Fei, Wu Gang is Dong Huang, Wu Sheng is Xiahou Dun, and Wuding is Xiahouyuan.

But now they all have the duties of county guards, and they need to go out to manage a county, so they can't often follow Liu Bei, so after them, Liu Bei appointed a new military post.

For example, Liu Yong and Liu Sheng, his fellow confidantes, were appointed as Wu An and Wu Jie respectively.

There is also Pang De, a local general in Liangzhou who was recommended by Gai Xun to enter the State Shepherd's Mansion to serve Liu Bei, and was appointed by Liu Bei to work in Wuping.

Earlier, Xu Huang, a small official in Hedong County who had taken the initiative to join the army and entered Guan Yu's command, emerged in the previous battles and made great achievements.

The nine military officers and Liu Bei himself basically formed the highest command system of the Liangzhou Army.

In addition to the army directly under the State Shepherd's Mansion, in fact, the prefects of the counties in Liangzhou also have the power to command armed forces.

For example, after Guan Yu and other five people served as county guards, according to the powers of the county guards, they could command 3000 to [-] county servants to engage in armed activities.

The command power of these county soldiers without the status of county soldiers is the institutional power of the county guards, and it is also an institutional remnant of the military status of the county guards in the early Han Empire.

On Liu Bei's side, Liu Bei directly stipulated that the number of soldiers in the county should be fixed at 1000, which can be less or not more, and is mainly responsible for the security and security work in the county.

In addition, Liu Bei also stipulated that, except for emergency military situations, officials below the prefect of each county are not allowed to use the county soldiers to handle private chores. The county soldiers are public weapons and cannot be used by private individuals.

The main reason why Liu Bei did this was that the counties in Liangzhou lacked population, and most of the manpower and material resources should be used for agricultural and industrial production, rather than to meet the personal needs of officials, so as to fix the political status and number of soldiers in the county.

In this way, the command power of the armed forces possessed by the prefects of each county is restricted, and the prefects of the prefectures cannot use their own authority to obtain more armed forces.

However, the leading military power held by the military post in the State Shepherd's Mansion became the main military power, and completely overwhelmed the status of the county prefect itself.

In this process, the power of the county government was relatively weaker, while the authority of the prefectural government became more prominent.

Originally, the state shepherd was justifiably the ruler of a state and the superior of the prefect. It is normal for the prefect to be afraid of the state shepherd as the so-called high-ranking official crushes people to death.

However, in terms of rules, the prefect is also a serious "fujun", controlling the military and political power of an important county, and the scope of authority of the two parties conflicts.

After Liu Bei went through a series of operations, he gradually restricted the power of the prefect, and highlighted his absolute power as the state shepherd, so as to realize the centralization of power within Liangzhou.

The trend of centralizing power in the State Shepherd's Mansion has already appeared in Liangzhou, and the process is extremely fast.

(End of this chapter)