In the last half month of the fourth year of Zhangwu, Liu Bei organized a court discussion to discuss the mandatory registration system for land transactions and further organized his ministers to study the official ideology of "Confucianism, Law and Luheng".

The episode where the censor impeached the prime minister's family "Guenshiyi" was really not a big deal. It was just a few days before it was exposed.

It's ridiculous to say that those guys who jumped out to accuse Li Su were all young censors who had just climbed into the officialdom in recent years. And it was Li Su, a poor scholar who broke through the banner, suggested that they have an imperial examination and let these people become officials. After climbing up, there were some particularly utilitarian and scheming guys who wanted to bite Li Su.

Of course, this is definitely not saying that people from poor families have a high probability of moral corruption and do not know how to repay kindness. However, the aristocratic families are responsible for family members, so they are afraid of being retaliated if they bet on the wrong bet, and they will be less courageous if they care.

In fact, in history, the censors of the Song and Ming dynasties were more daring to speak than the previous dynasties, and it was more or less related to the imperial examination system.

In dynasties where powerful families monopolize the opportunity to become officials, people bow their heads and look up, so why do they keep going? Large interest groups are easily formed in the officialdom, or even become party members. These people will not offend people easily. Once they start offending them in full, they will chase the enemy camp to the death.

When poor children from the imperial examinations became censors, many of them had no clan members, and even few relatives lived in the world. They were not worried about being retaliated after criticizing the wrong person.

Especially in the first few years of the imperial examination, it was not difficult and the competition for selection was not high. Some of them were really lucky and passed the exam by chance, or they agreed to give the aristocratic family a bid but changed their minds on the court, so they were easily displaced and felt that it was quite easy to get an official position.

At this time, if you want to cater to your superior intentions and climb up quickly, you will easily stare at the impeachment of people with high power and a fantasy in your heart:

Looking at that person, it seems to be monopolizing and extremely domineering. Will Your Majesty actually dislike him and want to beat him? If we beat him successfully, wouldn’t he be as happy as Zhang Tang, Ji An or other cruel officials?

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, but those who get barefoot will be fat if they get a bet.

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The memorial to impeach the prime minister was submitted on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month. After reading it, Liu Bei was so angry and funny that he called Li Su privately and joked in person:

"Boya, you have been very happy with the imperial examinations for four years. Do you regret it now? There are also shameless people who are ungrateful and ungrateful. I really didn't expect that even you will be impeached."

Li Su didn't care, and wanted to encourage Liu Bei to strengthen his confidence: "Some people are obsessed with officials and have no family burdens and concerns. This is indeed the case.

This shows that the imperial examination has been effective. Such widows, widows, widows, orphans who do not have family support and who are not hungry can have the opportunity to become officials. Congratulations to Your Majesty for his incomparable talent and the promotion of many remaining talents."

Liu Bei pointed to the impeachment memorial on the table: "Besides dismissal, how do you want to vent your anger? But it's not good to blame the guilty person for saying that it is."

Li Su also agreed deeply: "Of course, I don't need to retaliate, and I don't need to blame others for saying that. Just announce the business of my family's promise to buy all the vegetables of the people. My family has no business opportunities that need to be kept confidential."

Liu Bei also reacted: "It's right, because it's not good to say that sinners are good, but the foolish and blind people are indeed incompetent in the responsibility of observing the rumors and saying things."

After Liu Bei gave this comment, the matter was dealt with quickly.

But it’s true. Before Liu Bei himself made his statement, many middle and low-level officials in the court were speechless about this matter for a while, and seemed to have never heard of it and did not express their opinions.

This is also a common problem in centralized society, because many times, although ordinary officials only see a small official with no background jumping out and making noise, they don’t know if there is someone standing behind these small characters or if a big man sent to throw a stone to ask for directions.

Some officials were actually worried: Could it be that Your Majesty also felt that the world was stable and he thought that the Prime Minister had been in power for a long time and wanted to beat him?

Of course, it would be so shaken, that is, some minor officials below the ministers of each department. Those above the Shangshu who knew that Liu Bei trusted the ministers and found out that there would obviously be no such suspicion.

A few days later, the Shangshu Ling, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance jointly investigated the content of the impeachment of the memorial, and then investigated the whole story of Zhen Mi's business of "who would rather lose money than break the trust of the people, and insisted on still purchasing all the vegetable farmers' harvests in the two capitals at the original price in the harvest year" and announced it in the court discussion.

It shows that the Prime Minister's family has not lost money at all, but has just added a long-term business, so there is no invitation to buy people's hearts at all.

Of course, there is no need to announce these details to ordinary people, as long as the court officials know it. After all, only the court officials know the impeachment memorials.

After the investigation, the handling of the censors who were provoking trouble was very clear: they were not qualified as being "fool-blind" and were directly removed from their posts and removed from their posts. This is not a revenge, but rather that those guys are stupid and blind, and they are still confused if they don't understand.

This is also beneficial for purging the political atmosphere. After all, the Liu Bei court must make people dare to speak and not blame others for their position.

But those people in this case are not a matter of position, an IQ and observational ability, and are incompetent in the work. A guy who has heard of things can't even understand the whole story of what you want to say, so there is nothing wrong with it.

The court cannot be an official with a mentally retarded person.

It is called "scholars" to be criticized by those who are not afraid of the powerful, but it is very disgraceful to be criticized by those who are mentally retarded. After the conclusion of the handling, there is no one who criticizes the censors, and this matter is passed in silence.

However, this incident also brought two subtle long-term effects.

First of all, the influence of a professional field. The relevant departments of the imperial court, as well as the relevant yamen and teams responsible for managing navigation exploration, all noticed that the Prime Minister's family was inadvertently developing better long-term preservation technology for fruits and vegetables, and said that this thing was useful for long-distance navigation.

As for what it is, the Navy and Navigation Exploration Department are not very clear about it.

The main reason is that the navy has not prepared long voyages that have not been docked for more than a month. The actual combat case of the farthest continuous voyage was just that Zhao Yun took the navy to sail from Zhuya Island and crossed most of the South China Sea to Chameng area of ​​Linyi Kingdom. The offshore duration was not long enough, and the disease problems caused by vitamin deficiency were not obvious.

After this in-depth investigation, the relevant person in charge of the Navy learned about the risk of "scurvy" from the officials in the Prime Minister's family who were operating related businesses, and then began to compare and see if the methods provided by the Prime Minister can really alleviate this problem.

The experiment method is of course very simple, that is, after making enough batches of kimchi, they will really organize a long voyage that has not been docked for several months. Then, after discovering the relevant discomfort, they will give people some kimchi to see if it can relieve the symptoms.

Since it is an experiment, there is no need to go too far to the sea. Just follow the coastline of Dahan from north to south to ensure that this experimental variable is not replenished for a few months. If other risks occur, you can dock and treat it.

The second long-term impact of Li Su's family being impeached for the kimchi business was that it more or less reshapes the attitude of censors in Liu Bei's court.

After all, everyone knows that you should not speak nonsense in the future. If you are defined as having problems with your observation and understanding, you can still lose your official position. This is not considered a sinner because of your words.

At the same time, all court officials also had a more intuitive understanding of the emperor's trust in the prime minister. They realized that Liu Bei was indeed not very good at "checking and balancing power", and His Majesty wanted to treat others with sincerity.

The trend of forming cliques in the court has also eased slightly.

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The New Year of the fifth year of Zhangwu came in such an atmosphere.

The Liu Bei court celebrated the New Year in Luoyang for the first time. It was decorated with lights and celebrating the whole world with half a month.

In order to prevent fire in Luoyang City, Li Su suggested that the people should not set off fireworks or firecrackers privately, and could only watch the official unified fireworks. In addition, it is not prohibited to set off outside the city.

Liu Bei himself set an example and set off fireworks until the day of the Lantern Festival when he went to the southern suburbs to worship the world and the country.

After the suburbs, Liu Bei also rewarded the merits and promoted the rewards of officials and generals who had made military achievements since last year.

After all, last year's military operation was almost over at the end of September. Due to the distance and the distance between the various people and the enemies they fought, the time to end the battle is first and then.

If Liu Bei was afraid that he had decided to give him a reward, it would be difficult to weigh the pros and cons. Moreover, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were on the front line at that time, and there was no time to return to Luoyang to be granted.

Liu Bei delayed it, and the court center was relocated for the reason, and it was delayed until the first month of this year.

In this way, it was just as the civil and military officials who discussed their merits together. After all, Li Su and Cai Yong also made a lot of contributions last year, mainly reflected in the ideological establishment of morality and speech, but they were no less important than the contribution of expanding territory and regaining lost territory.

At this moment, after the suburbs, Liu Bei asked the attendant to announce the order.

Prime Minister Li Su added three counties to the fiefs of "The Confucian and Legal Lunheng" to 16 counties. The fiefs of "Kuaiji County Duke" were increased to 22 counties. It was not far from the 22 counties in Kuaiji County.

The Grand Tutor Cai Yong, due to the contribution of "Xinyi Lun" before, should have been granted five counties, and this time he made a little contribution in "Confucian and Legal Lunheng", so he announced in advance that Liu Bei, the Duke of Chenliu County, also expressed that he would definitely send troops out of Hulao Pass to capture Chenliu County this summer and cash in on the fief of the Taifu's hometown.

When he was enthroned by the Taifu, there was a small episode. Liu Bei officially admitted the contribution of the Cai family to the civil administration, and made it clear that Cai Yan had compiled the "Book of the Later Han" and the "Han Ji" related work, and also admitted that Cai Yan helped her husband modify some other political philosophy works.

So compared with Ban Zhao, he was appointed as the Grand Historian, and made the woman an official. He also found a county in Chenliu County and was appointed as a county marquis.

However, this county marquis is meaningless. After Cai Yong passed away in the future, the title of Duke of Chenliu County was originally to be inherited by Cai Yan's second son. As a woman, Cai Yan had to pass on the fiefdom.

So the final equivalent effect is that in the future, her son inherits five counties from his grandfather and one county from his mother, but it also needs to offset the "hereditary reduction of one county". Therefore, Cai Yan's second son still has five counties left in the future, and the part given by his mother is equivalent to paying interest.

In addition to Li Su and his family, the biggest beneficiaries of the New Year reward were of course Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun who expanded their territory last year, as well as other generals who followed them to act together.

Unfortunately, Guan Yu has not been granted the title of Duke for a long time, and Guan Yu has made more contributions before, so Liu Bei was not willing to directly grant the title of Duke for restoring Youzhou.

The final result of the weighing was that Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun both had 20,000 households in three counties, just like Guan Yu, were only one step away from the duke. Liu Bei also planned to take action against Cao Cao this year, level the land of Jizhou, take down Yecheng and the entire north of the Yellow River, and then Guan Yu could be named Duke, and then Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, who were pressing behind, were also promoted.

Now that we cannot get a higher title, we can find some comfort to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun in our official position.

The final result of the discussion was that Zhang Fei was transferred from General Cheqi to General Taiwei. Zhao Yun was transferred from General Guard to General Cavalry, and another general may be set up in the future.

Xu Huang, who followed the other generals to the expedition, finally rose to the level of generals in the four towns. General Dong of Taishici Town remained unchanged and was also enfeoffed.

Zhang Fei's military service, Pang Tong was changed to the Chief of the Taiwei, and he protected the Wuhuan Captain, and continued to accompany the army to advise Youzhou military affairs.

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After the reward was completed, the Liu Bei court finally entered the final deployment of the war of Cao's final unification.

The strategy has been determined before, and it is time to give Cao Cao the reform. Anyway, the benefits and benefits of Cao Cao's reform will be enjoyed in the future, so it is better not to disturb the people's spring farming this year.

Encouraging production is good for both parties. Anyway, the winner will take all the benefits and let Cao Cao's people grow grain well. Maybe part of it has become Liu Bei's in the autumn harvest.

During the spring plowing period, no troops were used, and the earliest time to send troops was finalized in April.

As for the main attack direction, Liu Bei also discussed with Li Su, and at the same time listened to the opinions of generals from all parties.

In terms of the scale of military use, the most troops can be dispatched this year and the most main forces of the Cao army is the Jingzhou army. After the Nanyang Canal is dug, the amount of food and grass that can be hoarded and transported on the Nanyang front has reached an astonishing huge amount.

Only the logistics capacity and wealth accumulated along the way can support hundreds of thousands of troops in a protracted battle.

Who gave Liu Bei's 21 million population? Yizhou and Jingzhou alone had more than 9 million people. The output of these 9 million people was transported by water and gathered at the Hanshui-Liushui-Nanyang Canal, which was the most convenient and least inflicted.

All the other groups can mobilize the war potential of more than 9 million people.

(Note: Dianzhou and Jiaozhou, Linyi has a total population of more than 2 million, but these people are too remote to be of any help to the Unification War. After eliminating those two useless states, Si Yongliang and Yangyang had a total of more than 9 million people, which was equivalent to Jingyi's sum.)

Therefore, the current Liu Bei camp has a total of 630,000 veterans. No matter how many they are dispatched, half of the total force will go to the Jingzhou-Yuzhou border to fight, which is in line with the distribution of logistics potential.

In fact, Liu Bei planned to send 400,000 troops to complete the unified war first, and the rest would be mobile troops, left-behind troops and reserve troops. In this way, Jingbei would send 200,000 troops.

The task Liu Bei gave to the troops in Jingzhou was to find Cao Cao's lively main force to fight to the decisive battle, drag down Cao Cao's troops, and then when other routes erode Cao Cao's territory, there were fewer tough battles needed. The other three routes of Youzhou, Bingzhou and Yangzhou interspersed with land enclosures to avoid the real and attack the virtual.

After all, the War of Unification has reached its final stage, and both sides are in a decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of people. It is best to annihilate the enemy in a large field battle during the border showdown.
Chapter completed!