Liu Hong didn't trust the scholars or their mouths, so he simply asked the eunuchs to form an organization.
This organization can be specially responsible for monitoring scholars, inquiring into their whereabouts, conversations, plots, etc., observing everything, spying on everything, spreading a large number of manpower among the people, and organizing it into an extremely extensive intelligence network.
The poor political level of eunuchs mainly refers to their low knowledge reserves, poor level of administrative work, and poor administrative ability. However, not doing administrative work does not mean that they cannot engage in politics. Politics is not just administration.
They can't do good things, but they can do bad things.
They could use this monitoring system to discover criminals who slandered the king and talked about rebellion, and then dealt with them directly by bypassing the court's judicial department.
The organization Liu Bei proposed to establish only obeyed the orders of the emperor and was directly responsible to the emperor.
It has an independent judicial department that bypasses the judicial department of the imperial court. It bypasses the Sili Xiaowei and can independently enforce the law and conduct trials without the need for reasons.
Anyone who threatens Liu Hong or is detrimental to Liu Hong can be directly arrested or even directly executed without any obstruction.
Once this department is established and operational, Liu Hong will be equivalent to having an extra pair of clairvoyance and an extra pair of ears. He will be able to see and listen in all directions and will no longer be deceived.
More importantly, all the leadership positions in this department can be filled by eunuchs, and they can do things without the participation of scholars. It can definitely become the sharpest knife in Liu Hong's hand.
Liu Hong can use this professional department to strongly intimidate Tianxia Buchen, so that Tianxia Buchen must be careful when doing anything he wants to do.
In this case, the scholars will definitely be wary of the rat and dare not act recklessly.
Liu Bei believed that the reason why Liu Hong was at a disadvantage in the previous struggle was mainly because of his deficiencies in obtaining intelligence. Therefore, he had a lot of power but could not use it in the right place.
Liu Bei also gave an analogy to Liu Hong, saying that it is like a strong man lifting a piece of wood. He must choose the middle position of the wood to carry it and keep balance at both ends. This is the least labor-intensive. If you choose any other place, it will consume more strength. , will be more tiring.
So having accurate information is very important.
After hearing this, Liu Hong was very satisfied and agreed very much. He felt that it was indeed necessary to establish a brand new department without the participation of scholars, which could serve him wholeheartedly and provide him with accurate intelligence services.
If he only looked at the world from the memorials of scholars, he might not know why until the end of the country.
Another example is this time. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Bei was a clan member of the Han Dynasty and his heart was devoted to the royal family, he wouldn't have known so many secrets of the schools. He also successfully exploited the contradiction between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school to maximize his own interests. change.
Intelligence is really important!
As Liu Bei explained, Liu Hong showed great interest in this new department. He happened to have a team of eunuchs who were very good at doing bad things and had a sufficient number of people. With a little training and training, they could come in handy.
And the person in charge made the decision directly without even thinking about it.
Zhang Rang! The decision is yours!
Zhang Rang was then appointed by Liu Hong as the controller of this new department with a confused look on his face, responsible for building this department from scratch that would act directly under the emperor's orders.
With a stroke of his pen, Liu Hong gave this department the power to enforce laws outside the law and the power to set up separate prisons.
When it came time to name this organization, Liu Hong hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and suddenly had an idea.
His favorite place to go is called Xiyuan. Xiyuan can provide him with pleasant relaxation, and it can also provide him with money as a place to sell official positions and titles. He is very happy.
So the name of this new organization is Dongyuan.
Wouldn't it be nice to have one in the east and one in the west, one to make money and relax for him, and the other to provide him with intelligence and security?
Zhang Rang became the first person in charge of Dongyuan. Liu Hong asked him to put up the structure of Dongyuan within three months and put it into action. He began to provide him with the latest trends and private conversations of scholars. He wanted to To know them all.
He wanted this department to be pervasive and fully active within the entire territory of the Han Dynasty.
And because Zhang Rang was really unprepared for this aspect, Liu Hong and Liu Bei discussed it and simply asked Liu Bei to serve as Zhang Rang's secret deputy to assist him in setting up Dongyuan.
"You came up with the idea. Now Zhang Rang is at a loss. You have to help, right?"
Liu Hong looked at Liu Bei with a smile.
Liu Bei did not expect this.
"Your Majesty, I still have my job..."
"It won't waste much time. Besides, you described Dongyuan so powerfully that I couldn't help but want to try whether Dongyuan really has such a big effect."
Liu Hong patted Liu Bei on the shoulder: "He who is capable works hard, Xuande, you are one of the few talents in the clan! Work hard, and I will entrust you with more important tasks in the future."
With all the high hats on and the cake drawn, there was no way not to help, so Liu Bei had no choice but to accept this job.
Moreover, the pie that Liu Hong draws is usually a real pie. Liu Hong is not ambiguous on this issue.
This matter is not difficult to say, but it is easy to say that there are many people engaged in intelligence these days, but there are really few professional intelligence organizations, and everything is still in the preliminary stage.
An entire intelligence organization is obviously a dimensional reduction attack against a single intelligence officer. Using this organization, you might be able to do some unexpected things.
Therefore, Liu Bei did not intend to retreat.
The establishment of a new dynasty order requires the complete collapse of the old order. Now that everyone is stepping on the accelerator, Liu Bei feels that he must also take part.
On the way back, Zhang Rang, as expected, had to argue with Liu Bei again, saying that Liu Bei was just looking for trouble, so he forced him to give him these problems. By then, the Dongyuan was built, but it didn't have such good results. Let's see if Liu Hong would look for trouble. His trouble.
Liu Bei stopped at that time and looked at Zhang Rang angrily.
"When power is given to you, do you still dislike this one and that one? You can directly arrest people, interrogate and kill them without going through the court's justice. Being armed is equivalent to directly bypassing the Tingwei and Sili Xiaowei, and establishing another Tingwei and Si Li. How much authority and trust does the combination of subordinates and lieutenants have? You don’t even understand this?"
Zhang Rang was stunned for a while, and suddenly took a breath of air.
"real?"
"Didn't you understand just now?"
"You spoke too quickly, I...didn't react..."
"All right……"
Liu Bei shook his head speechlessly.
No wonder you were forced to commit suicide by diving in the end. This level is really worrying.
But now that we are partners, we have to explain clearly what needs to be explained so that this guy can really take it seriously and put the real good people in it instead of stuffing all the rotten sweet potatoes and rotten eggs into it. If it is broken, it will be a privileged department. .
"What does Tingwei do? He is a high-ranking official of the Nine Qing Dynasty who specializes in hearing cases across the country. What does Sili Xiaowei do? Crouching tiger! He has 1,200 Zhongdu officials and disciples under his command. They can legally walk in the capital. Armed! Ting Wei and Sili Xiaowei, it means that the senior officials of Jiuqing can lead troops to run rampant throughout Luoyang!"
Zhang Rang's eyes widened after hearing this.
"Hiss--it's true!"
"Of course, why else do you think His Majesty is so moved? Why do I suggest leaving this matter to the eunuchs? Because only you can do it to reassure His Majesty!"
Liu Bei sighed and said helplessly: "If Shangshu Ling is gone, it is gone. It's no big deal. Once Dongyuan gains momentum, what does Shangshu Ling mean? As long as there is a reason to arrest him, we will arrest him. No one can stop him. Just Throw him into his own prison, interrogate him as he should, and kill him if he needs to, do you understand?"
(End of chapter)
