Before Liu Hui returned to Liangzhou, Liu Bei's official performance was sent to Luoyang.
This proposal, which involved the replacement of five county governors and political reform in a local area, caused a stir in the Shangshutai.
Although Yang Ci was dead at this time, the Modern Literature School had no high-level influence in the Shangshutai. Yuan Wei recorded the affairs of the Shangshu alone, seemingly monopolizing the power. However, Liu Hong appointed Zhang Rang to serve as the Shangshu again, which added to Yuan Wei's obstacles.
Faced with the power of the eunuchs, Yuan Wei was nominally Zhang Rang's leader and could control the affairs of the Chancellor, but he felt somewhat constrained.
He was very unhappy, but he did not dare to confront Zhang Rang openly in any case. He could only put on a smile and face Zhang Rang's old face, hiding his dissatisfaction deeply in his heart.
Anyway, he couldn't survive for more than a day or two, so there was nothing wrong with him doing such operations.
When Liu Bei's memorial was delivered, he felt a little inappropriate. He felt that Liu Bei's behavior would inevitably be suspected of nepotism and would be criticized by others, so he planned to convene the relevant departments of the Shangshutai for discussion.
As a result, before much discussion, it was learned that Zhang Rang passed him and handed the memorial to Liu Hong.
Liu Hong is also a bachelor, and has already agreed, and decided to let Liu Bei do it according to Liu Bei's suggestion. The Shangshutai needs to send the county governor's appointment documents and seals as soon as possible to avoid delays.
Then Liu Hong sent a message to Shangshutai, saying that the situation in Liangzhou was special and involved a series of national events such as rebellion. The Shangshutai was a bit slow to deal with it, so all matters related to Liangzhou were handed over to the emperor. The emperor personally approved the matter in Liangzhou.
This VIP treatment is beyond words.
Institutionally, there was no problem for Liu Hong to do this. The Shangshutai was originally a secretarial department that obeyed orders. It had great powers but a low level. Whatever the emperor wanted to do, the Shangshutai could not stop it. The sky was vast and the earth was vast, and the imperial power was the greatest.
But Yuan Wei felt something was not right. He felt that Liu Hong was paying too much attention to Liu Bei and actually wanted to handle Liangzhou's affairs personally.
Are Han clan members so worthy of Liu Hong's attention?
So many Han clan members were starving and freezing that day, why didn't you lend a helping hand?
Complaints are complaints, and Yuan Kui had no choice but to order the Chancellor to follow suit and issue county official documents and seals to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xia Houyuan and Xiahou Dun.
As for Liu Bei's other suggestion related to political reform, Liu Hong also approved it. Yuan Wei took a brief look at the relevant content of this suggestion and found it interesting.
If this bottom-ranking elimination system and strict supervision mechanism are really implemented, it will definitely be a huge shock to officials all over the world, no less than when Emperor Guangwu engaged in land transfer.
Therefore, there is bound to be a lot of opposition.
But if it is limited to the Liangzhou area, it may not be possible that nothing has happened.
In Yuan Wei's eyes, how many things could happen to that poor place in Liangzhou, a remote place with temple demons, strong winds, shallow pools, and many bastards, and hundreds of thousands of people? It's just that the people over there are holding back their evil fire and have no place to vent it. They only know how to trouble the court if they have nothing to do.
Now let Liu Bei, who is more capable of tormenting, go to Liangzhou and take care of those bastards who are full of energy. Maybe the energetic and over-the-top barbarians in Liangzhou can be a little more at ease.
Anyway, Liangzhou officials will definitely not get support from the Luoyang court. The Luoyang court will definitely support its own people and Liu Bei. For those second-class citizens...
As long as they don't rebel, who cares about them?
As long as Liu Bei can prevent Liangzhou from rebelling, no matter what he does or how he tortures the people of Liangzhou, Yuan Wei will be happy to see the results.
Come on, give it the green light, and you can do whatever you want.
The matter was thus determined. In mid-November of the third year of Zhongping, the appointment document issued by the imperial court followed Liu Hui's footsteps and arrived in Ji County, Hanyang County, and was delivered to Liu Bei's Prefectural Shepherd's Mansion.
At that time, Liu Bei was tinkering with the salt trade in collaboration with the emperor's eunuchs, and was paying attention to Guan Yu's battles in the Qinghai Lake area.
When collaborating with the emperor's eunuchs to sell salt, Liu Bei learned that Liu Hong had adopted Zhao Zhong's suggestion and planned to use the name of tribute to evade taxes. He couldn't help but sigh. The eunuchs around Liu Hong were really experts at the level of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix. .
When the real Wolong Fengchu learned about this, she didn't know what to think.
But it doesn't matter, this kind of cooperation is not a long-term solution. Liu Hong's life will eventually come to an end, and Luoyang will eventually collapse. The most important thing is to make a wave of money first to take care of Liangzhou.
What should belong to him will belong to him sooner or later, and this time, Master Dong should not think about picking peaches.
According to this, Liu Bei's plan is to handle a series of production processes on his own.
Including a series of things such as the collection of raw materials, selecting sites to build factories for production, and hiring strong men as salt-making craftsmen. The upstream matters are basically handled by himself. Not only can he produce products, but he can also establish an industry belonging to Liangzhou. , to increase income for landless farmers.
In addition, he also handles the internal sales in Liangzhou by himself.
Then, because the eunuchs had many interpersonal relationships in the land of Sanfu and Sanhe, and the emperor had a great reputation, they needed to take over the transportation and sales of Liangzhou fine salt products after leaving Liangzhou.
They need to arrange their own reliable and trustworthy manpower to expand the sales network of Sanfu Land and Sanhe Land.
In order to coordinate the affairs, clearly divide their respective responsibilities, and do a good job in profit distribution, Liu Bei suggested that everyone jointly set up a general affairs department responsible for this matter, and appoint a person with certain abilities that everyone is familiar with and trustworthy to take charge of this matter.
We all have our own jobs and are very busy. We must focus on government affairs and not be distracted too much by business. Therefore, we hire professionals to help handle these things. We only need to hire these professionals.
Respect professionals!
Liu Bei also considered the candidates.
Meng Tuo from Fufeng is very good.
He himself is a good hand in running the industry. He must have good connections in the Sanfu area and has experience in doing business across regions. He is an expert and an absolute professional.
More importantly, this guy has also worked closely with Zhang Rang. This kind of talent is rare but hard to find.
So Liu Bei wrote down some of the general and detailed issues that he had thought of, and gave them to Liu Hui, asking him to take them to Luoyang and explain them clearly to Zhang Rang and Liu Hong. If they had any opinions, they could put them forward. , everyone will discuss a charter as soon as possible.
Liu Hui took the order and left, starting his days as a road warrior.
As for Guan Yu, he lived up to Liu Bei's careful training and trust in him.
After receiving the assistance of a thousand cavalry brought by Liu Yong, Guan Yu became even more powerful. After wiping out the Qiang and Hu rebels and the powerful Han rebels in Jincheng County in a short period of time, he began to head northwest to explore Qinghai Lake.
Liu Bei said that he wanted the Great Salt Pool to be completely under his control, and he wanted to tell Shaodang Qiangming to hand over control of the Great Salt Pool and not to infringe.
As long as the Shaodang Qiang agree to this condition, the Liangzhou Prefecture can give the Shaodang Qiang a batch of fine salt every year to meet their demand for salt. Not only that, it can also allow them to carry out serious mutual trade with Liangzhou.
If they object and resist with force, they will be attacked by the Liangzhou government with all their strength until they have no ability to resist at all.
I, Liu Xuande, keep my word. As long as you dare to refuse, thirty thousand Han troops will sharpen their swords and come directly to your lair to dance with their swords.
Can you tell me?
Liu Xuande's face was full of nuclear energy.
