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Chapter Fourteen One Day at the Bookstore

The CD of May is the season when flowers bloom. In the Shangshu Deck not far from the palace, there are insects and birds singing, full of spring.

The Shangshutai organization was established in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. The power was not great at the beginning. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, in order to strengthen the imperial power to fight against the prime minister's power, Emperor Wu of Han greatly expanded the power of the Shangshutai. From the time of Emperor Wu of Han to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of the Shangshutai continued to change with the size of the emperor's real power.

In general, if the prime minister or general of a period can open a government, then the Shangshutai is just the emperor's private secretariat. If neither the prime minister or general can open a government, then the General Office of the Shangshutai, the presidential office, will expand into the de facto State Council.

Specifically for Shu Han, when Shu Han was just founded, Zhuge Liang was the prime minister, but he did not have the right to open a government office. Therefore, the first person in the common affairs of Shu Han was Shangshu Ling Fa Zheng (after Fa Zheng died, Liu Ba) rather than Prime Minister Zhuge Liang. At that time, the regime operation mode of Shu Han was: Liu Bei's will was converted from Fa Zheng to specific orders, and Zhuge Liang would execute it.

After Liu Bei turned a blind eye, Zhuge Liang obtained the right to open the government. Then all the major national affairs were handled by the Prime Minister's Office. The Prime Minister's Office formulated plans, implemented them by themselves, and reviewed by themselves - the emperor became rubber stamps, and the Shangshu Desk was useless.

After Zhuge Liang's death, Liu Chan no longer set up a new prime minister in the name of missing the prime minister forever. However, at this time the power of the Jingzhou faction of Shu Han was still strong, so Liu Chan had to let Jiang Wan open the government in the name of the Grand Sima, and Fei Yi opened the government in the name of the General. Let them control the government. But no matter what, the Grand Sima and the Grand General and the Prime Minister's government seemed to be injustice compared to the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister's government. It was also during that period that the Shangshutai of Shu Han began to rise slowly.

When Fei Yi was suddenly assassinated and the inheritance of the Jingzhou faction was suddenly interrupted. Liu Chan took Chen Fu from the Dongzhou faction as the Shangshu Ling and calmly took back the management power of the Shu Han government. At this point, Shangshutai restored its power and became the de facto State Council.

As for the current general Jiang Wei, he was unable to open a government office and was led by troops for a long time. In fact, it is not much different from the governor of one side, and his influence on the government is very weak.

The head of the Shangshutai is Shangshuling Chen Fu, and the following are several Shangshu Pushe: Zhuge Zhan, Dong Jue, Fan Jian, and Zhang Shao. These five people are nominally the emperor's secretary, and Chen Fu is the secretary-general. But in fact, they are the Premier of the State Council and four vice premiers.

Liu Chan had very high political wisdom. He appointed Chen Qi from the Dongzhou faction as the Shangshu Ling. Since Li Yan fell and Wu Yi and Wu Ban died one after another, they have actually been so declining that they cannot be called a faction in recent years. Therefore, Chen Qi, who lacks his own team, was basically obedient to Liu Chan. With Chen Qi controlling the Shangshu Terrace, Liu Chan could ensure that his imperial power would no longer fall behind.

But Liu Chan also knew very well that the basic structure of the Shu Han regime was the Yuan Cong Sect and the Jingzhou Sect. Therefore, the four servants in the Shangshutai, Zhuge Zhan, Dong Jue, and Fan Jian were all from Jingzhou. The only remaining Zhang Shao was Zhang Fei's second son, Liu Chan's brother-in-law - Yuan Cong Sect.

Unfortunately, man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. During the winter and spring exchanges in the 20th year of Yanxi, Chen Fu fell ill. Moreover, according to the imperial doctor of Shu Han, Chen Shangshuling basically couldn't get up this time. Therefore, the actual controller of the Shangshutai at this time was Zhuge Liang's son, Zhuge Zhan.

"Changyuan, Gong Xi, Zhongxing, you all come and see. Guan Zifeng has just arrived in Fuling County and is restless."

"Oh? Siyuan, what does this second young master of the Guan family want to do?"

"Well, he actually found Ma Youchang's posthumous son, Ma Zhuoma Jiezhi in Fuling County. He asked for the promotion of this Ma Jiaozhi."

"Ma You often has a posthumous son?"

"Some." Zhuge Zhan stroked his forehead: "If it weren't for Guan Zifeng's reminder, I would have forgotten this person. Ma Youchang lost Jieting and was executed by his father. His widow gave birth to a son. His father named him "Excessive" and gave him a letter to change it in advance. At that time, I was still young, and my father mentioned it once. I forgot it for so many years."

"Well...hum! Some people are really too much!" Dong Jue looked at the report submitted by Guan Yi carefully and found clues: "This Ma Jiezhi entered the officialdom nine years ago. He has been serving as a three-time chief secretary in the three counties of Fuling County. He has never been promoted. Isn't this intentional suppression? Then what is it?"

"What? It's so outrageous!" Fan Jian was a hot temper. When he heard Dong Jue's words, he became angry: "Ma Youchang lost Jieting, which led to the failure of the Prime Minister's first Northern Expedition. Of course, it was a great crime. But Ma Youchang had already apologized for his death. Why did he treat other people's children so harshly? Well? Let's take a look, Guan Zifeng said this, "It's a good person who speaks well and speaks well, and he is a good person! Look, with such a talent, they will have the heart to let others practice repeatedly for nine years? What have the successive prefects of Fuling County done in recent years?"

"Changyuan calms your anger, calms your anger." Zhang Shao has never had any sense of existence at the Shangshutai. He knew very well that his talents were far inferior to the previous three. As the emperor's brother-in-law, he played a role in the Shangshutai. "I guess he was the prefect of Fuling County because Ma Youchang was too guilty back then, so he dared not recommend it."

"What's wrong with this? In the past, Duke Wei Wei (Yang Yi) falsely accused Wei Wenchang of rebellion and destroyed his three clans. Didn't I and Gong Xi still yell for Wei Wenchang to be injustice under pressure. In the end, Wen Chang was rehabilitated? That is, Yang Yi's attack was too ruthless, and Wen Chang couldn't even stay a descendant. Otherwise, I and Gong Xi would definitely take good care of him."

After hearing Fan Jian’s complaints, Zhang Shao also shouted in his heart: Brother, you Fan Jian, Dong Jue and Wei Yan are both from Yiyang, Jingzhou! You all got into our revolutionary team because of Wei Yan’s relationship! Wei Yan fell down. If Yang Yi was not brought down, how could you two minions be like today? And, what does it mean if Wei Wenchang has descendants, you must take good care of him. So, what do you mean is that Zhuge Siyuan is a mean and polite bastard? Well! Although I agree with this evaluation, please don’t say it so straightforward, okay? I didn’t see that Zhuge Siyuan’s face turned red!

"Okay! Changyuan, don't make trouble!" Sure enough, Zhuge Siyuan was slapped in the face, and his tone of speaking was very unhappy.

"When Ma Youchang passed away, I was only two years old." The traces were very obvious to defend himself: "Since that's the case, according to Guan Zifeng's intention, Ma was moved to Fuling County, with an annual salary of 200 stones. How about it?"

"Good." "Good."

"Well, let's talk about the second article of Guan Zifeng's report. The people of Fuling County are poor and cannot support a large number of county soldiers. Therefore, this guy suggested that the five families of Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Sun, and Jian will pay 10,000 yuan each year and 1,000 stones of grain to support the county soldiers. After the food in Fuling County can be self-sufficient..."

"Hiss~~~What does Guan Zifeng want to do? He is the county soldiers of the court as private soldiers? Does he want to rebel?" The first thing that was scared was Zhang Shao. There was no way. Among these four deputy prime ministers, his son was involved.

It can be said that the Shu Han regime has a very strong control over the domestic army. The four major legions of Hanzhong, Yong'an, Nanzhong, and Yulin, the military commanders of the four major legions of Hanzhong were transferred and replaced as soon as they were said. This completely eliminated the situation where officials from all over the country held their own troops in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Even if the most elite mobile corps in Shu Han had been in the hands of Jiang Wei for more than ten years, the court really had to make up its mind to take away Jiang Wei, and no matter how reluctant Jiang Wei was, he could not resist.

Therefore, Guan Yi's report did make people from Shangshutai embarrassed. Although everyone knew that even if this poor and weak Fuling County rebelled, it was still a violation of the rules of Shu Han that openly proposed private investment to the state to support the army.

"What I mean, this is completely because these young men are used to lawlessness and do not know the chaos of the court's laws. If you have any bad thoughts, I don't believe it. The Guan family, the Zhang family, the Zhao family, the Sun family, and the Jian family are all Yuan Cong."

"Then reply. No!"

"good."

"Well, keep going down. Remove the bad water order? Collect the fern root order? These two orders are very good. Zhongxing, please record that if Guan Zifeng's two orders can achieve certain results in Fuling County, we can completely promote them in the territory of the Han Dynasty."

"promise!"

"Well, there is another order, the order to hunt beasts? Absurd! How can you hunt wild beasts in spring? That's not a corpse, two lives, three lives. This is too harmful to the heavens! Also, Guan Zifeng is the governor of a county, how can he be the leader of a hunting team in person?"

(Guan Yi: Master Guan, you guys who sit on the CD office all day long know nothing! The people here are so bad! You mothers! I bah!)

"Haha, Siyuan, don't you know yet? These young men finally released CDs, but aren't they going to play hunting?"

"Hmph! Is it so lazy and hate to work. Alas, forget it, I should encourage these guys more. This specific county affairs do not involve the laws of the Han Dynasty, so I will ignore it."

"good."

"Well, Guan Zifeng's report has been finished. Which county's report needs to be discussed with the four of us?"

"Well, it's not from any county. But General Jiang Wei issued another memorial, asking the court to allocate 500,000 stones of grain and 20 million yuan to him."

"Bastard! Jiang Boyi's northern expedition every year, but he had no profit except for losing troops and losing generals. I, Zhuge Zhan, is not Chen Fengzong..."
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