As Prime Minister Chen Chong took up his official position in the court, it quickly caused an uproar in the court.
Although Chen Chong had suffered from a serious illness before, he was still only fifty-four years old, which was the golden age of his political career. Since the first year of Yanxing, Chen Chong had been in charge of the central government for more than 20 years, single-handedly leading the new policy and restructuring, and making the national treasury sufficient.
Using it, the prefectures and counties accumulated grain, and the court used troops every year without the labor of transporting grain. It also used troops outstandingly, and the country pacified the Xiongnu, fought against the Xianbei, destroyed Dong Zhuo, defeated Longyou, defeated Cao Cao, and captured Bashu, all of which were attributed to Chen Chong. Therefore, the government and the public were able to
Both superiors and subordinates, regardless of the subjects, regard Chen Chong as the most virtuous minister of Zhongxing, comparable to the ancient Duke of Zhou and Yin Yin.
According to common sense, now that the late emperor has passed away and the new emperor has ascended the throne, it is the time for him to take charge of the overall situation. Unexpectedly, he retreated in a hurry, which many officials could not understand. At first, some people speculated that this was the prime minister's desperate attempt to obtain an official position.
The emperor made concessions and delegated power. However, although the emperor made many attempts to persuade him to stay, the prime minister showed no sign of being in love with him. After three stays and three speeches, Chen Chong finally returned the prime minister's seal.
The subsequent development was even more unexpected by the government and the public. After Prime Minister Chen Chong took office, Taiwei Duan Xuan also resigned. As the first governor of the West Prefecture, he also had a great influence in the Beifu Army. In addition, he was self-disciplined and law-abiding, and had no external influence.
Jiujiao, who has always been regarded as a role model for warriors, is the third most important minister in the army after Guan Zhang. Now he has joined Chen Chong in his official appointment. He claims that he has been ill for a long time and has difficulty seeing things. In office, he can only eat with his corpse and only ruin the country's wealth.
Therefore, he asked to resign and rested in Luoyang. At the same time, he recommended Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and other Liang people to Liu Xie to join the court.
After Duan Xuan, there were successive concessions, and Song Zhong and other noble ministers of the Qing Dynasty resigned. Liu Xie praised these veteran ministers for their high integrity. Although he agreed to let them take up official positions, he retained them in Luoyang, and from within
The government allocated five thousand gold as a reward. Then the emperor said with emotion to Zhong Yao and others in the court: "All the old ministers in the court should take the prime minister Taiwei as a role model." Only then did the court realize that it was the new emperor's plan.
Use this to beat the old minister in order to take back his authority.
Zhong Yao was in a state of embarrassment. After resigning from the court, he also submitted his official appointment to Taichung the next day, followed closely by Xun You. So far, three of the five Tuogu ministers originally arranged by Liu Bei have withdrawn from the government. Only General Guan Yu and Shaofu Liu
Leopard still holds real power. However, most of the power of these two people is not in the court. At this point, Liu Xie can be said to have taken all the real power. Inside and outside the Taiwan Pavilion, he seems to have kept his promise and no one can compete.
The first thing he had to do was to mobilize personnel. Once Zhong Yao and Xun You retired, important positions in the inner court such as Shangshu Ling and Yu Shi Zhongcheng were also vacated. Liu Xie carefully selected the three people, with Huan Jie as Shangshu Ling and Wei Xi as secretary.
Supervisor, Pang Tong was the Supervisor of Zhongshu. Huan Jie was an old minister from Jingzhou who followed Zhang Xian to Beitou. He was quite intelligent but had no foundation. He had a good reputation in the government and the public. Using him as Shangshu Ling could reflect the emperor's selflessness and impartiality in governing.
Wei Xi was a well-known scholar in the north of Jing Dynasty. He had entered the prince's palace early. Liu Xie liked him for his outstanding eloquence, courage and astuteness. He often debated right and wrong in the court and often had no one to rival him, so he could be used to implement administrative decrees.
Pang Tong's selection was beyond common sense. After all, during the Gengyin Incident, Pang Tong had advised Liu Xie to open the city and accept surrender. The two had a conflict. Others thought that Pang Tong would lose power in the new dynasty. But Liu Xie considered that he was a student of Chen Chong.
, he was very effective in quelling the rebellion in Ningzhou some time ago, so he was promoted to the post of Zhongshu Supervisor. This can not only show goodwill to Chen Chong's old department, but also a gesture of Liu Xie to Chen Chong. Since Pang Tong has advised him many times, he is now recruited
Entering Taiwan also means to open up a wide range of opinions and receive advice freely.
After the Taiwan officials were decided, Liu Xie was able to implement his two strategies of discussing merit and withdrawing troops according to the original plan. He first ordered the five governors to come to Beijing one after another. Liu Xie mentioned these two matters to the five governors and obtained their consent.
, Liu Xie took advantage of the situation and raised the issue of moving the town, that is, he asked the five governors to change the defense areas, nominally using Ma Chao to move out of the Zhennan Prefecture, Wei Yan out of the Zhenbei Prefecture, Zhang Fei out of the Zhenxi Prefecture, Guan Yu out of the Zhendong Prefecture, and Yuan Tan was transferred back to Shanglin.
, in order to prevent internal connec- tions among the five governments and facilitate the implementation of administrative orders.
In order to respect the old and honorable ministers, Liu Xie added characters to his general titles. Yuan Tan was the general who conquered the east, Zhang Fei was the general who conquered the west, Wei Yan was the general who conquered the north, and Ma Chao was the general who conquered the south. As for the original general Guan Yu,
His title was changed to Marshal, ranking him below the Prime Minister.
However, for Liu Xie, this was just a strategy for his own interests. His ultimate plan was to take back the military power of the five prefectures. So after the governors arrived in Luoyang, he allowed them to stay in the capital on the grounds of handing over chores, while he dispatched supervisory troops to each prefecture.
, and planned to use these supervisors to promote merit analysis in order to decentralize power from the governor. Each government has two supervisors, left and right, who are Liu Xie's friends and confidants.
Out of the local people's principle of avoiding suspicion, those sent to the Beifu Army were Zhong Yu, the eldest son of Zhong Yao, and Lu Zhi's son Lu Yu. Those sent to the Dongfu Army were Wang Ling's younger brother Wang Chang and Longxi famous scholar Yang Fu. Those sent to the Xifu Army were
Those sent to the Nanfu army were Xun You's eldest son Xun Ji and Jianning's surrender minister Li Hui. Those sent to the Nanfu army were Qianzhao's eldest son Qian Jia and Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao. Those in the Shanglin army were the Eastern Dynasty's surrender minister Sima Yi.
Zhou Bujie from Jiyin. The official rank held by these people is not high, no more than a thousand stones, but they have extremely powerful positions and can intervene in various affairs within the government and army. For these young people, it can be said that they have reached the sky in one step. Because
Most of the appointments were made by Liu Xie in the Baichi Tower, and people at the time also called these ten people the "Ten Dragons of a Hundred Feet".
In terms of local arrangements, Liu Xie re-divided the prefectures and counties and arranged a group of prefects and governors. For example, Bingzhou was bounded by the Yellow River, and Shuozhou was separated from Xihe to Yinchuan, and Qinzhou was separated from Hanzhong to Wudu, Yinping, and Brazil.
Bohai, Hejian, Pingyuan, and Qinghe were combined into Cangzhou, and Yu Zheng, the son of Yu Fan, Cui Lin, the younger brother of Cui Yan, and Zheng Qian, the son of Zheng Tai, served as the prime ministers of the other separated counties and counties, totaling more than ten.
People, I won’t go into details here.
Shortly thereafter, as the results of each government's merit evaluation were obtained one after another, Liu Xie also began to award rewards to the generals in the army. In addition to the governors of the five prefectures who had already been awarded the title, General Huang Zhong of the Left was promoted to General of Chariots and Cavalry and General of Fujun.
Zhao Yun was promoted to former general, and Chen Dao, the general of Baijie, was transferred to the court as the chief minister. Others, such as Zhu Hao, Meng Da and others, also had titles. During this personnel transfer, Liu Xie also transferred some backbone generals to the imperial court.
After being promoted to a high position, such as Wang Ling, Guo Huai was promoted to be the guardian of the mansion.
In addition to the rewards for living people, Liu Xie also granted posthumous titles to the heroes who died in the battle before the founding of the dynasty. For example, Taishi Ci, Xu Shu, Zang Hong, Zhang Xian, Tian Yu and others were all granted hundreds of households. And under Zhuge Liang's rule,
On the advice of the emperor, those with outstanding meritorious service were assigned to the Ancestral Temple to show that the country would not forget its kindness.
It coincided with the beginning of the New Yuan Dynasty and everything was renewed. Liu Xie changed his reign name to Long'an to show his ambition to rule the world. Taking this opportunity, the emperor's second sister, Princess Dongping, also got married, and her husband was Tuoba Li, the leader of the Heng Kingdom.
Wei. This was a marriage that Liu Bei had already arranged, and it would only be done after Liu Xie succeeded to the throne. That year Tuoba Liwei was forty years old and in his prime. When he learned about this, he immediately built a city at the foot of Danhan Mountain and named it Yuyi
In order to show his intention to defend the territory of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie also presented 5,000 horses to the court as a betrothal gift, and Liu Xie then gave 5,000 pieces of silk as a return gift.
After all this, the emperor had completely established his own prestige, and what attracted the attention of the courtiers even more was the rise of Sima Yi, Zhou Buyi and other young upstarts. These upstarts may have been friends with the emperor since childhood.
Companions, either Junyan who was transferred into the palace by the late emperor, or fellow disciples who studied with the emperor in Taixue, have become very popular and famous for a while. And these young people can't help but feel a little arrogant. p>
For example, Qianjia, who was appointed as the supervisor of the Nanfu Army, hosted a banquet for famous people from the capital before leaving. The carnival lasted for three days. He often drank heavily with relatives and friends. When he was drunk, he would inevitably be rude to some seniors who came to congratulate him.
At that time, Meng Da was thinking of his colleagues and came to greet Qian Jia. He saw that Qian Jia had taken off her turban, her hair was disheveled, but she still had a sword hanging on her waist. It was so nondescript that it made Qian Jia uncomfortable.
Meng Da was greatly disgusted. In the evening, Meng Da wanted to leave the banquet and go back to the house. Qian Jia reluctantly bowed and saluted without showing any expression. Meng Da was even more disgusted. When he returned to the house, he couldn't help but say to his wife and children
: "When the released dog saw that his master was strong, he barked louder than the other dogs."
When Liu Bei and Chen Chong were in power, they often set an example and lived a simple life. Except for festivals and celebrations, they used to travel by themselves on horseback. But now that the country is becoming more peaceful and the new ruler is in power, these old and inappropriate habits have also changed. Many officials, especially
The nouveau riche began to ride bullock carts on the streets. These bullock carts were so gorgeous that Zhou Buyi even had a huge canopy supported by wooden poles from front to back on the top of the cart. The carriages and the driving cattle were all in the shadow of the huge canopy.
Under it, the momentum was extremely amazing. When others saw it, they said that this little cart seemed to be covered with white clouds, and the rider must be rich and noble.
Zhuge Liang, the captain of Sili School, was extremely opposed to the current trend of luxury. However, he could not grasp the reason for these people's corruption, so he could only advise Liu Xie several times and spread his advice among the scholars. Liu Xie did not take it seriously.
, he could only let it go.
Of course, there are no exceptions among the new rich. Sima Yi, the left supervisor of Shanglin Prefecture, strongly agreed with Zhuge Liang's words and also practiced them. After joining the army, he shared food, clothing and food with the sergeants. His salary and salary also helped the poor.
, nothing special at all. And in dealing with things, he was also modest and prudent, and did not contradict the governor Yuan Tan. Instead, he often consulted the generals in the army with the art of war, and everyone in the forest was convinced by him and regarded him as
Be a pillar of talent.
But having said that, simplicity does not equate to talent, and luxury does not equate to incompetence. This is a truth that has been proven since ancient times. Guan Zhong's wealth can harm the princes, and Chen Ping's stolen wife can also help the country. Liu Xie promoted this man
Whether a large number of new rich people can make the country prosperous and Kyushu peaceful as he said, is what Chen Chong is currently concerned about. After all, he cannot live a hundred years, he only hopes to see the next generation move forward while he is alive.
On the right track, this can be regarded as the thing that worries him the most right now.