Xuande

Chapter 695 Good day?That's weird!

He mobilized some families in Liangzhou and Liangzhou official forces to form a joint caravan to carry out commercial connections to the Western Regions, leaving the possibility for the subsequent political return.

The first group of families who were willing to open up the Western Regions encountered some dangers in the Western Regions. In three to five years, three families were exterminated because of the dangers of the Western Regions, but the other families that survived successfully brought back some news about the Western Regions. Liu Bei later formed a joint caravan and provided valuable information.

Since the second year of Jian'an, Liangzhou's joint caravans have traveled back and forth between the Western Regions and Liangzhou several times. The farthest they have reached is Nanhe City in Yanqi Kingdom, Cheshi Kingdom and Shanshan Kingdom. They mainly trade with these three countries. , selling salt, ironware, livestock and some Liangzhou handicrafts.

In some areas further west, they have not yet arrived, because the distance is far away and the funds cannot support it, and Liu Bei was not prepared to manage the Western Regions at that time, so they were limited to commercial exchanges.

Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to resume the operation of the Western Regions.

And Dong Zhuo also realized that Liu Bei's choice of him to become Dahonghe might not be a random choice. He had the experience of being an official in the Western Regions and personally experienced the customs of the Western Regions. rare.

"Is it because the general chose Zhuo to be the Great Honglu because Zhuo once served as a captain in the Western Regions?"

"Of course."

Liu Bei smiled and said: "If you want to return to the Western Regions, you need someone who knows the Western Regions. The Ban family was all martyred because of a prostitute. This makes me feel very sorry. Without the Ban family, we need to choose other people." Someone with experience should take on this responsibility. At present, I have searched the entire court, but I can't find a few people with experience in the Western Regions, but you, Zhong Ying, you are."

Dong Zhuo almost understood what Liu Bei meant, and at the same time, he felt a little more confident.

It seems that Liu Bei really intends to use him, instead of putting him in Luoyang for the elderly and giving him the end of life. If this is the case, he will have to consider whether it is time to leave Luoyang.

But now that there are things to do and goals that can be acted on, if the credit for reopening the Western Regions is realized, can they be promoted to the position of San Gong by virtue of such credit?

Dong Zhuo began to have beautiful fantasies.

So he took the task that Liu Bei entrusted to him——

From now on, we will start researching and taking action on the Western Regions, and we will do our best to reopen the Western Regions, contact the leaders of the countries in the Western Regions as Da Honglu, and restore the previous political exchanges.

So far, Dong Zhuo's problem has been preliminarily resolved. His army did not make trouble, perhaps because he saw that Dong Juan and Lu Bu's troops were ready to fight, so no one dared to make trouble. Although he had some thoughts in his heart, he still took the money and waited for arrangements.

Liu Bei ordered the household department in the general's mansion to divide and arrange the settlement of these soldiers, or Liangzhou, or Bingzhou, or Youzhou, to increase the local population.

Now that something happened here, Dong Zhuo also formally took up his post as Da Honglu, and a not-so-small political turmoil came to an end.

With the end of the slave restriction operation in the four states of the Central Plains and the unopened slave restriction operation in the two states in the south of the Yangtze River, it seems that the whole world has entered a period of temporary stability.

Liu Bei did not engage in further matters, but was dealing with daily affairs honestly.

Liu Bei really has no idea of ​​going further to engage in other development policies in a short time.

In the current situation, there are too many things to do, and the subjective initiative of the Eastern Han Empire has been suppressed to the extreme by him. If it goes up, it will not follow the objective laws.

Just like Liangzhou at the beginning, the speed of development is so fast and the ceiling is so high. If you exceed this ceiling and engage in dramas where subjective initiative surpasses everything, it will only bring disaster and pain to the Han Empire.

So when Liu Bei observed that the officials of the Luoyang court were operating at full capacity, or even a little bit overloaded, he knew that his whip should not be whipped too hard, but that the officials should be properly relaxed, otherwise it would be very difficult. Soon there will be a wave of injuries and illnesses among officials.

Therefore, Liu Bei presided over the state affairs meeting in mid-July of the fourth year of Jian'an, and presided over the modification of part of the treatment of officials.

Such as salary increase, increased benefits, and the most important thing is to change the one day off from ten days to one day off on seven days. It used to be three days off in January, but now it is changed to four days off in January.

For some important positions that cannot be lacking, a rotation system is adopted, and the number of officials is appropriately relaxed. For some important positions, one more deputy is allowed to be assigned to work in rotation, so as to avoid problems in the operation of the department due to injuries and illnesses of some people.

This meeting gave the court officials a good impression. Many officials and officials continued to praise Liu Bei, thinking that Liu Bei finally found out with his conscience that everyone will have a good life in the future...it's strange!

Liu Bei will not casually allow anyone to have a good life, but just relax the officials from the full and overloaded state, don't let them be useless, and take the road of sustainable depletion and fishing. All the intelligence and physical strength of these guys were drained.

If you want to enjoy such good benefits, you must do something for me, right?
The resettlement of slaves in each state, the repair of roads in each state, the construction of collective farms in each state, the construction of water conservancy projects in each state, the construction of bridges in each state, the judicial and criminal cases in each state, and the conflicts and disputes between states and counties, etc.

There are not many problems solved by Liu Bei, but many new problems brought about by it also need to be solved urgently. All in all, the Luoyang court can never stop, and officials should never think about taking it easy.

The state of dawdling in the past is gone forever.

In the case of increasing officials' welfare and vacation days, Liu Bei finally took action and took out the official assessment system in Liangzhou, preparing to apply it to the Luoyang court, and gradually spread it to the governors of various states and counties. Inside the government and county government.

Officials are also going to engage in KPIs. They cannot tolerate the situation of eating vegetarian meals in the corpses and occupying the latrine without shitting. Liu Bei clearly pointed out many challenges and contradictions that the big man is facing at the state affairs meeting. One of the most important ones is——

The contradiction between the urgent need to improve the administrative ability of the imperial court needed for the governance of the world and the large number of unqualified officials and the poor administrative ability of the imperial court under the drag.

In short, the governance of the world requires the investment of elite talents and the hard work of officials who are willing to obey orders and carry out orders, not a group of Confucian scholars who only know how to talk about classic articles.

Liu Bei needs officials who can really do things and run around in order to implement the imperial government's decrees, and he doesn't need a group of "talented talents" who lie in the official office all day listening to music and reading articles.

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