Chapter 1007 The silent expansion of the extra chapter

During the days when he was in power, Prime Minister Li Su was relatively leisurely.

During those years, Li Su could basically throw daily government affairs to newcomers, and he just needed to focus on the general direction and do some things he was interested in, such as presiding over the country's external exploration and development.

After all, this kind of work is not boring, and you can occasionally use excuses to tour the sky and travel far to gain insight, which is the most suitable for modern people's views. The only thing left by Li Su in his previous life is that it is best to play in these fields.

After being rich and powerful, there are no other high-tech entertainment activities, so who doesn’t want to travel around the world?

In recent years, Li Su has gradually decentralized daily government affairs, which has also led to further transitional changes in the central power structure of the Han Dynasty court.

After all, time is unforgiving. When the older generation of bureaucrats reach their age, they will always slowly retreat due to lack of energy.

As time entered the beginning of 217, the central personnel structure of the court center was roughly as follows:

Situ Zhong Yao, who had already retired from the second line before, has completely retired, and Situ's honorary title has also been resigned.

According to history, Zhong Yao's life span is still ten years old, and now he is 67 years old. But the world is so peaceful, there is no need to let an old man keep busy and retire if he should.

Another major change in the court's personnel affairs was that the Shangshu Ling Xun You, who also had to retreat to the second line due to health reasons and temporarily retained the title of Shangshu Ling, and actually replaced Zhong Yao as the one who stayed in Chang'an.

Although Xun You was a teenager younger than Zhong Yao, his life span was much shorter in history than Zhong Yao, and he was already dead at this time. However, the cause of Xun You's death in history was when Cao Cao attacked Wu in the 18th year of Jian'an, he caught a disease in the army.

In history, the two most serious plagues that caused mass deaths of senior officials in the late Han Dynasty were the two in the 18th and 22nd year of Jian'an, and they were also related to the war between Cao and Sun.

Later generations analyzed that it was obviously because the army of 100,000 people were mobilized on a large scale, and the soldiers were not accommodating the land and the land, and they transported pathogens in hot and cold environments back thousands of miles back to the rear, which led to such serious casualties.

Simply put, it is "When Cao's army attacked Sun Quan, it was infected with the plague that was common in the south, and then brought it back to the north. Most of the population in the north lacked immunity to the plagues from the south at that time, so they died on a large scale.

Similarly, Cao's army also brought the rare northern plague in the south to the south to the Sun Quan army, causing obvious deaths among the top leaders of the Sun Quan army."

Now, because the war has long ended, the plague flow in other places, which should have been caused by large-scale military mobilization, has been greatly alleviated. Therefore, Xun You and Lu Su, the generals who were originally infected with the epidemic, can also enjoy their entire lives.

The "Seven Sons of Jian'an" were also destroyed in this second plague in history, and these situations have not happened yet.

Xun You was just a normal old and sick person and retreated to the second line. He could not do his job without anyone. It was Zhuge Liang, who had been the Central Secretariat for five years, to officially take over the responsibilities of Shangsariat.

However, Xun You also had to retain the title of Shangshu Ling, so the title of Zhuge Liang and Sikong was temporarily transferred, which was also the last time the imperial court granted the old Three Dukes.

When Xun You completely retired, the old three Dukes would be abolished in the future, so that Zhuge Liang could only entrusted the Shangshu Ling.

After Zhuge Liang took the title of Sikong to do the work of Shangshuling, the position of Zhongshuling, which he had originally vacant, was replaced by Lu Su.

By this time, the new official positions of the three provinces of the Han Dynasty had basically been completed.

Originally, the yellow gate system was officially renamed "Menxia Province". The highest official in the ministry system was originally just "Shizhong", which sounded almost the same as the Shangshu Ling, the Minister of the Central Secretariat.

In order to show the difference, after discussing with the court officials, Liu Bei temporarily called the chief of the "Menxia Provincial Department" "Da Nayan". In fact, this was similar to the initial establishment of the three-province system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Only then did the deputy position of his subordinates continue to be called "Shizhong", and two people could be appointed.

Similarly, the above-mentioned "Shangshu Ling" and "Zhongshu Ling" also have two deputy positions on the left and right, so they are naturally called Pushe.

The establishment of these deputy positions in the three provinces can also avoid the revocation of the honorary titles of the Three Officials, and there are too few "national" positions, so there are not many meritorious officials and veterans, all of which are squeezed into the "Ministerial Secretary level".

After the personnel adjustment in 217, the Han Dynasty took advantage of Zhong Yao and Xun You's retirement to take advantage of the opportunity to clear out and rectify a group of elderly and weak people.

During this period, there were also the original Shizhong Ju Su who died of old age and illness, and some other old ministers were no longer there. In history, Ju Su had been dead for fifteen years, but he should have died in the Battle of Guandu, which was an abnormal death, not because of the end of his life, but now he has lived for more than ten years.

Although Ju Su was a surrendered minister from Yuan Shao, he had an association with Liu Bei in his early years. He was a superior and colleague of Liu Bei during his reign as Emperor Ling. So when Ju Su passed away, Liu Bei was quite sad and stopped for a day.

As for Liu Biao, Jian Yong, Sun Qian, the original nine ministers, surrendered ministers like Xun Yu, they have passed away now, so there is no need to mention (Jian Yong's last deeds were recorded in 214. There was no record of Liu Bei's title of emperor in "The Three Kingdoms" when Liu Bei was elected as emperor, which shows that he must have not lived until Liu Bei became emperor. His lifespan was similar to Sun Qian)

After the final review, the court appointed Li Su as prime minister.

Zhuge Liang used Sikong to record the affairs of Shangshu Ling, Lu Su as the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and Gu Yong as the Grand Advocate.

Fa Zheng was appointed as the Left Pushe of Shangshu, and Liu Ba was appointed as the Right Pushe of Shangshu;

Dong He is the left Pushe of the Secretariat, and Guoyuan is the right Pushe of the Secretariat;

Zhuge Jin was appointed as the left attendant of the disciple, and Zhang Song was appointed as the right attendant of the disciple.

The other ministers of the Ministry of Rites were also added in sequence, including Liu Deran (Liu Bei's cousin), the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and Zongzheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Envoy Xu Shu, and the Minister of the Ministry of Culture Guan Ning,

Deng Zhi, Minister of Personnel, Minister of Finance, Mi Zhu, Minister of Civil Affairs, Huang Quan, Minister of Civil Affairs,

Zhang Yi, Minister of Works, Minister of War, Pang Tong, Minister of Justice, Yang Hong, Minister of Justice, and Secretary of Medicine, Zhang Ji.

This new team that was brought out after a comprehensive rectification has become more and less younger than the original old team. Liu Bei is probably enough for him to use it in his life. Many of them may be left to future generations and facilitate the smooth transition of power in a hundred years.

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The Han Dynasty ended the troubled times and wars early, and the plagues that broke out in history due to large-scale massacres and untimely handling of corpses were curbed in the early stage.

This has allowed many famous officials and generals who died prematurely due to the plague to continue the time of glowing and heat.

However, the laws of nature are inevitable after all. Since the original great plague at the end of the Han Dynasty, the root cause is "there was a disease that had little communication between the north and the south, so the southerners had resistance, and the northerners could not get in touch with each other, and vice versa."

Then, as long as the exchange between the north and the south expands, the plague will definitely be accompanied by the pain of the plague.

In this life, because the Han Dynasty attached more and more importance to the construction of commercial logistics, the private bulk cargo logistics giants represented by the Zhuge family had thousands of river and sea transport ships moving around the north and south of the rivers.

This process of course also brought about "large-scale population migrations of thousands of miles", which was no less than the war dispatches in the same period of history, and even further away. There were also people who went to Fusang, Sanhan, Linyi, and Han.

Local diseases will inevitably be brought back to the Central Plains, and will definitely lead to a decline in the population.

It’s just that this population decline does not occur in a concentrated manner like the Qianli Expedition where hundreds of thousands of people fought, but is slowly released in batches. This way, medical resources can be fully dispatched to prevent the health system from being squeezed out, so that there will be no large-scale outbreak of control plague.

Problems encountered in development can only be solved by development.

So in general, although the country's economy has been developing rapidly during this period, the country's population growth has not been obvious in those years.

As early as 202 when Liu Bei reunified the Central Plains, the population of the world was more than 28 million. Later, in 207, the conquered the three Han people in Fusang, and the population of the newly added regions was restored to more than 31 million. Two-thirds of the increased population came from the new conquest, and only one-third was the result of the Han people themselves.

But another ten years have passed, and the fugitive Han people on the southern desert grassland and the surrendered Xianbei Wuhuan were also merged. By 217, the population of the Han Dynasty was still only more than 32 million.

It has only increased by 1 million people in ten years. Even if we consider the casualties and births of military and civilians during the grassland war, this number is a bit abnormal.

In other words, growth almost all comes from new conquests, and there is almost no growth in its own fertility.

The only explanation is that the disease epidemic has accelerated due to the "commercial development ahead of schedule, and the land of China has entered a large population flow environment in the north and south in advance."

But this price is the price that any country must pay in the transfer process of "rest and relocated land and closed management" to a modern migratory society, so no ruler can be blamed.

In addition, in this process, the country and nation have not completely lost their benefits. For example, although the population has not increased much in ten years, the people's physical immunity has been greatly improved.

Ten years ago, the bodies of southerners were not resistant to northern viruses, and they would never see a few people from the north in their lifetime, and they would not have the chance to be infected.

The same is true for northerners. When they encountered the "miasma" in South China, the tropical virus fell directly. After ten years of exchange, even if they did not leave their homes, they were more or less immune to miasma. They would never again experience the tragic plague in the Romance of "May Crossing Lulu" when they were in the Romance.

Of course, everything has a process. With Zhuge Liang's improved transportation infrastructure level, it will not allow all the people of the Han Dynasty to get this benefit in ten years. At present, we can only achieve "the comprehensive immunity level of the people around major mainstream hub cities in the north and south has been improved by one level."

For example, in the south, Chengdu, Xiangyang, Wuchang, Jinling, and in the north, in addition to the east and west capitals, there are also Yecheng and Jicheng. Citizens in these eight cities have basically achieved some resistance to the Yuan Dynasty and have encountered epidemics in the north and south.

In the closed natural economic circles in rural areas, the vast majority of the population still has no chance of disease thousands of miles away.

In the natural process of "North-South virus immune exchange", Dahan's health system construction and medical development have also made considerable progress, including both theoretical summary and practical experience.

Zhang Ji, who was a famous doctor, also achieved the position of Shangshu as a new department established by Li Su for him, which allowed the number of departments in the central Han Dynasty to exceed ten departments. The newly established one was specifically responsible for medical and health public health.

All of this is to gradually lay a solid foundation for the health of the country and nation, and most citizens have digested the new viruses encountered on a wider territory and established herd immunity to further expand geographical discoveries.

(Don’t laugh, in ancient times, until the Age of Discovery, herd immunity was established so slowly.

When Europeans go to America, they can bring a smallpox and get rid of most of the Native Americans. However, they do not know that the unique diseases in America are also a huge threat to Europeans' health.

It is just that Europeans are prone to control the rhythm of contact with new sources of infection, and are the one who has the initiative in communication and can control the establishment and spreading speed of herd immunity, so that they do not cause too serious disasters.

Therefore, the rhythm of exploration of external geographical discoveries is very important. Only those who actively initiate the exploration can firmly grasp this rhythm.

If the Han people had not even established the anti-Yuan barrier of "Fusang, Yizhou, and Linyi" and found Australia and America directly, it might be a disaster.

Even at the current pace, the price paid in the process is still quite high.

The people in the mainland are still controllable because problems can temporarily block ultra-long-distance trade exchanges and establish quarantine.

For example, when a seafarer goes ashore, he must let the sailors live alone in a place for half a month. Anyway, they had to wait for the monsoon and wait for loading and unloading, so that they could live on the ashore together in private and have fun, which would not be a waste of trouble.

However, for these seafarers themselves, there is no other barrier to isolate them. Early seafarers are on the front line of immune communication.

Therefore, every year, sailors with thousands or even tens of thousands of people have to be replenished. The treatment of these sailors and naval soldiers has always been very high because the risk of dying from unknown diseases is too high.

In addition, during the sailing exchanges, Li Su and Zhuge Liang and other rulings were also considerate of the suffering of seafarers. In order to keep them patiently isolated every time they return to the Central Plains and not think about running out, they had to establish a specialized entertainment venue system for these sailors who have been suffering all year round at the port terminal so that they can tie them up to avoid resisting.

There are all taverns and bathhouses in the port customs isolation area, Qinlou and Chuguan. If you want to drink a big wine and make a big deal, you can vent your troubles, or take a bath and kill a chicken to relieve your fatigue, there is a sufficient supply.

As for the service practitioners in it, try to organize the official organization of the widow who voluntarily practiced and was helpless, or rely on the interracial female slaves who were caught in the process of conquering the alien races before.

Anyway, Li Su and Zhuge Liang are far superior to Guan Zhong in this regard, and this "self-compared wind music" is even better than that.

The service personnel in the customs isolation area are also far more favorable than those who practice freely outside with the same quality because there are government subsidies. The price of subsidies is that these people have to give up a certain degree of freedom of life and can only live in the customs isolation area and work with the docking seafarers, and cannot leave the isolation area casually.

Such careful management of geographical discovery and development have brought steady and sustainable returns to the Han Dynasty and have also paid tens of thousands of sailors' lives every year.

This year, with the return of a fleet sent by the imperial court to travel to the Han Islands all the way south to explore and draw, Liu Bei also brought back a message that made him very regretful-

Taishici, the former general who was responsible for exploring the Nanyang Islands, was finally infected with an unknown plague in the later southern Philippines. He died gloriously in a foreign land. In the end, he could only pickle the body with sea salt, which was preserved and brought back in a tropical environment.

In fact, Taishici's life span in history was only over forty years, and he had already died at this time. This was because after following Liu Bei's camp, the medical conditions improved and he lived more.

Liu Bei had previously considered that Gan Ning's health conditions were extremely immunity to tropical diseases and could not go to the south, so he asked Zhou Yu and Gan Ning to be responsible for the Northeast Passage Road and Taishi Cibuzhi to be responsible for the Southern Passage Road.

Unexpectedly, although Taishici's condition was better than Ganning and had been to Jiaozhi and Linyi, he was a northerner born in Donglai. After all, he had decreased immunity when he got older, and he still could not withstand the new tropical disease.

However, this is much more honorable than dying on the sickbed. At least he died in an expedition to explore the outside world. As a representative of encouraging development, Li Su also advised Liu Bei to add a post-death honor to Taishi Ci, and also added a lot of money and grain to his descendants.
To be continued...