Xuande

Chapter 658
It is said that Confucius had 72 disciples and [-] sages. These people built the foundation of the future Confucianism.

Liu Bei has already had more than 3000 students, and Liangzhou State School has trained more than 5000 students in the past seven years. Now Sili Academy is enrolling students on a large scale, and is advancing rapidly towards the number of 4000 students.

Sooner or later, his protege group will exceed 1 people.

These disciples are not useless, they are very useful.

They can both be officials and do administrative work, which surprises many people.

It turned out that Liu Bei not only taught them the mysteries of Zuo's spring and autumn, but also taught them the skills of administration, so that they learned to govern.

It is said that these people have an internship process before graduation, serving as interns in various government offices, learning administration from skilled officials, and after the internship is over, they will be arranged by Liu Bei to serve as grassroots officials at the grassroots level in various places.

Some officials who served as local officials found that these young officials sent by Liu Bei not only had a certain amount of knowledge, but also had a strong ability to handle affairs and learn. Although they were not experienced, they were by no means blind Smeared political noobs.

They actually understand the unspoken political rules that some insiders in the officialdom will understand. Although they don't know about some small tricks that are only available inside the officialdom, they also know it.

In the past, this was a serious knowledge of governance that only the children of high-ranking gentry 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 was during the time when the Jinwen School was in power, Liu Bei would definitely be suppressed for doing so.

But at that time, Liu Bei was staying in Liangzhou, on his private land, he could teach whatever he wanted, and the modern literature school could not reach out.

When Liu Bei came to their territory, their ruling lives also entered the countdown, and they had no time to care about Liu Bei's "extraordinary actions". Instead, they were dying under Liu Bei's military iron fist.

While mastering the power of personnel, Liu Bei also "appointed cronyism" openly. While taking care of the personnel needs of other families and forces, Liu Bei placed large numbers of students who had just graduated to local officials as grassroots officials.

Those who are interested have also realized that it is precisely because of these seemingly inconspicuous grassroots officials that when Liu Bei's policies were pushed to the bottom, they were vigorously implemented.

Facing their mentor and general Liu Bei, their attitude is very straightforward, that is, to obey the order and implement the order. They dare not say whether they are doing well, but there is no discussion on whether to do it or not.

Because of their strong management, even if some people in the Shangguan want to make peace, Liu Bei can directly influence the grassroots through his influence.

With the relationship between disciples and students among them, these small officials and officials actually have a bit of confidence when facing their superiors.

In the area west of Luoyang, Bingzhou and Youzhou, and even many places in Jizhou and Yuzhou, Liu Bei's influence can penetrate to the grassroots counties, where there are his disciples and old officials.

During the reign of Liu Hong, there were more than 14 registered dignitaries and bureaucrats and other formal officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are more than 15, less than 16.

After Liu Hong's death, after so many years of tossing, killing, and replacement by Liu Bei, the statistics at the end of the third year of Jian'an show that the number of official officials has decreased to only about 7000.

A considerable number of officials died in several political actions over the years, and then Liu Bei sent his own people to replace them, and at the same time canceled some meaningless official posts.

At the same time, the number of registered officials reached 15, and the number of officials increased.

The reason for this is that in order to strengthen grassroots governance, under the premise of eliminating and killing unqualified and hostile officials, Liu Bei formulated some new positions, arranged some of his own subordinates to take up these positions, and strengthened the administrative system under his command. The system controls the population, enhances mobilization and taxation capabilities.

Among other things, in areas where collective farms have been implemented as grassroots units, the mobilization and taxation capabilities of county-level governments are quite good. Some logistical problems brought about by previous wars are all due to the efforts of these county-level governments. The next was resolved.

And Liu Bei not only arranged for his own students and old officials to take up these positions, but also directly selected officers and soldiers with high education levels from the army to transfer when encountering some shortage of manpower.

Once the officers and soldiers under his command have a relatively high level of education, and after being tempered in the melting pot of the army, obeying orders and doing things efficiently 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 16, there are more than 6000 people who came from Liu's disciples, former officials, and army soldiers. They have a relatively direct relationship with Liu Bei, and there is nothing between them. gap.

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 do you mean by disciples and old officials all over the world?
In the past, it took several generations for the Fanyue family to realize it, but Liu Bei only took ten years.

In ten years, Liu Bei allowed his own disciples and old officials to occupy a considerable number of the ruling class of an empire.

Of course, this is not a big deal. What really matters lies in the officials who are directly and indirectly influenced by Liu Bei.

Officials do not have the ability to influence subordinates, but officials can. Among the more than 2000 officials in the entire Han Empire, more than [-] are directly related to Liu Bei or directly appointed by him, mainly local county magistrates, county magistrates, etc. The county-level region is composed of chief officials of power.

And this number has not stopped growing. Now that Liu Bei is in power, this number is advancing rapidly towards the [-] mark.

In addition to the officials directly appointed by him, there are also the 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 a certain sense.

There are also subordinate officials called by the officials he appointed, as well as those subordinate officials and officials.

The officials who can be influenced and appointed by an official with real power are uncertain, and it is possible to have as few as a few or as many as several hundred.

These officials with real power below the prefecture level and officials affected by them mainly existed in Liangzhou, Yizhou, Sili, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou and other parts of the country. One-third of the ruling class of the Han Empire.

It is rushing towards the one-half number.

If it weren't for the fact that the four states of the Central Plains, as an important densely populated area of ​​the Han Dynasty, were too much influenced by the gentry and local forces, and Liu Bei's reign was still short, this number would probably have exceeded one-half.

Liu Bei used a series of military and political means, and through a very tough style of military strongman, to let his power "surge" among the big men, and it was a joy to soar.

This is the result of Liu Bei's official ruling for less than three years.

As Liangzhou Zhouxue, Sili Academy and even Taixue gradually came under Liu Bei's control, students from these places will become Liu Bei's main force to gradually replace the original officials of the Han Empire.

Over time, it doesn't take three to five years, and Liu Bei's political influence will exceed half of the ruling class of the entire Han Empire.

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 real power, stable, tenacious, and tough.

Just like Liu Bei's ruling style.

There are too many original insects. With the start of the slavery restriction movement and the Dutian operation, Liu Bei will carry out a wave of blood changes of the ruling class within the entire Han Empire, carry out a substantial revolutionary action, and carry out a revolution for the Han Empire. Delicate full body surgery.

Although this operation is difficult and will cause a lot of blood, it is still under control in general. It can go wild, but it will not get out of control. Liu Bei has not relaxed for a moment in the specific control of power.

Through the newly established six departments in the General's Mansion, Liu Bei launched a round of power adjustments to the imperial court. After this round of power adjustments, the entire Luoyang court was operated with the General's Mansion as the core, and the government attributes of many departments were also born from this. some changes.

It is not an exaggeration to say that they are all like the subordinate departments of the six departments of the General's Mansion, rather than an independently operating department. The particularity of this situation has not been noticed by most people at the current time point, because Everyone is too busy.

There are too many things to do, too many government affairs to be busy, Liu Bei not only entrusts them to do the current things, but also takes out all the unfinished things in the past to do, accumulated over the years As long as you can find the owner of the matter that came down, you must do it.

As a result, the entire Luoyang court has been absurd for decades and accumulated a huge amount of things. Under the supervision of the six departments of the General's Mansion, the officials of the Luoyang court acted crazily.

And when the people of the Luoyang court began to take action, the state capitals and counties in the world should not think about being able to settle down.

(End of this chapter)