As you know, Luoyang at this time was a mess. After a long war, the city has long been ruined and ruined.

The head of the city changed the banner of the king, and the common people had long been numb to who came and who went. As ordinary people, what can they do if they are not numb?

Anyway, this is an era where whoever has a hard fist has the final say.

Liu Xiu's general, Xiao Guang, thought so and did so.

Lao Xiao believes that Lao Tzu is carrying his head to do revolution, even if he is dead, he must be happy when he is alive.

Therefore, after he led the troops into Luoyang, he herded everyone into the sheep:

The brothers have worked hard these days, and if they have a few days off, they can do whatever they want, killing people and robbing them!

As a result, Lao Xiao's subordinates were violent everywhere in Luoyang City, tyrannical and domineering, doing whatever they wanted, and the people were in panic all day long.

(Indulge the soldiers, tyrannize the people, and the people are disturbed.) ）

Driven by Lao Xiao's demonstration, Liu Xiu's other soldiers also had itchy hands, some took the opportunity to bully people, some took the opportunity to grab things, and some looked around

Stir.

In fact, since Liu Xiu's rebellion, he has always paid great attention to military discipline.

He has always firmly believed that no matter whether it is a government or a war, whether it is an official or a soldier, there must be strict discipline, and only in this way can there be cohesion

The so-called "strengthen discipline, the revolution is invincible." ”

Therefore, most of the cadres around him and the soldiers he directly led were very well-behaved. And some of his descendants, such as Deng Yu, Feng Yi, etc., are the same.

When entering Luoyang, Liu Xiu had already announced discipline and strictly forbade the army to come after entering the city.

However, Xiao Guang did not have the string of discipline in his mind.

We don't know much about Lao Xiao, and he rarely appears. I don't know if he really doesn't have the string of discipline in his head, or if he gets into a lot of water, anyway

He didn't take Liu Xiu's ban seriously at this time.

He let his troops plunder and plundered, and it is estimated that he himself will not be idle until he encounters a fierce man.

This man's name is Du Shi.

This is a good cadre who will go down in history, and we should put him out in a grand honor.

Du Shi, whose name is Jungong, was a native of Ji County, Hanoi County (now Ji County, Henan).

He has both ability and political integrity, outstanding ability, and has a good reputation for working in the county office when he was young.

(Rare talent, Shijun Gongcao, there is a fair name.) ）

When the Dynasty opened, he was drafted to work in the Great Sima Mansion.

After Liu Xiu became emperor, he admired his talents, recruited him to work beside him, and promoted him three times in a row in one year, until he was appointed a few days ago

The history of the Imperial Servant. This is an important position on behalf of the emperor to supervise hundreds of officials, which is equivalent to the deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the vice minister of the Ministry of Supervision.

(In the first year of the establishment of the martial arts, the third move in the middle of the year was the history of the imperial service.) ）

A cadre who can make Liu Xiu promote 3 times in a row in 1 year is definitely not an ordinary person.

At the beginning of Liu Xiuding's capital Luoyang, he appointed Du Shi to clean up the discipline and settle the people as a servant of the imperial history.

Du Shi was ordered, and the first thing he encountered was Xiao Guang, who indulged Hu Lai.

In the face of Xiao Guang and his subordinates' misdeeds, the common people were angry, and Du Shi decided to talk to Xiao in person.

Du reiterated to Xiao the instructions of the emperor (Liu Xiu) and demanded that Xiao immediately rectify military discipline and stop all acts that endanger public order and harm the people.

In the face of Du Shi's righteous face, Lao Xiao promised to abide by discipline.

But he turned around and forgot about it, and went his own way: nothing, brothers, how you should come and how you should do it.

Du Shi was annoyed!

He believes that in troubled times, everyone has long been accustomed to knives, guns and fists, and no one cares about what kind of work they do.

So, he was unceremonious and immediately took decisive measures: to hunt down and kill Lao Xiao.

It wasn't until Lao Xiao was arrested and cut down, and everything was disposed of, that he reported to the imperial court.

(The poem did not change, so he killed Guang, and he also heard about it.) ）

For Du Shi's first cut and then play, Liu Xiu not only did not blame, but praised it.

Liu Xiu personally summoned him, gave him verbal praise, and gave him a halberd.

It should be noted here that the halberds and halberds were long-handled weapons like axes and axes, and at that time, it was often the princes who poked in front of the team to show their bodies when they traveled

portions.

I think that Liu Xiuci Du Shi is like two guys, obviously has such a meaning:

The first is to commend and reward Du's work to improve his office conditions; The second is to encourage, hoping that Du will continue to strictly enforce discipline, regardless of the king

General Hou is still an ordinary officer and soldier, as long as he violates the law, he will be flattened; The third is to express the hope that the vast number of cadres will strictly abide by discipline and constantly straighten out the atmosphere, and also hope that they will be old

The people give oversight.

The empire has just opened, and Du Shi is still only a deputy ministerial-level cadre. According to the level, to report work, he couldn't line up at all in Liu Xiu's busy schedule.

Liu Xiu's care for him is of far-reaching significance.

In this way, Liu Xiu's other arrogant soldiers and fierce generals were very scared, and no one dared to mess around.

Having said that, we need to sort out our thoughts and focus on the work of Liu Xiu in the early days of the founding of the empire.

Generally speaking, whoever wants to create a state, or establish a regime, no matter how frugal it is, must do the following:

One is to be the emperor and boldly tell the world that he is a brother; The second is to set the capital, not only to find an office location for himself and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, but more importantly

, to package the capital and itself as the center of thousands of pilgrimages; The third is to seal officials, establish a government bureaucratic system from the imperial court to the local government, and the military officer body

System; The fourth is propaganda, that is, to confess to the world through various forms that it is providential and justified to be a brother, and it is smart and absolute to follow yourself

Yes, that's right.

The first two of these things can be said to be hardware construction, of course, there are more contents in hardware construction; The last two things can be said to be software construction

, which is equivalent to ideological construction and organizational construction.

At present, Liu Xiu has completed the title of emperor and fixed capital, and it is not a day for him to start strengthening the ideological and organizational construction of his team.

Regarding Liu Xiu's ideological and organizational work, it is a topic worthy of serious study, and there is a very rich content

As the road to the world goes farther and farther, it will be seen more clearly, and it will be said one after another when the time comes.

Now, the situation is unstable, Liu Xiu is busy making moves to stabilize the world, and we don't have time to carry out theoretical discussions, but we just let everyone pay attention to these three parties first

First, Liu Xiu has been waving the banner of restoring the Han dynasty since the uprising, as an ideological and theoretical weapon to call on and unite the cadres and the masses, and to keep pace with the situation

development and continuous innovation; The second is that he has always firmly grasped the use of human rights, and when he went north to Hebei, he began to use cadres according to his own intentions, such as letting Feng Yi serve as secretary

books, etc., every time he raids a place, he often strives for local cadres in advance, and arranges cadres he can trust after he succeeds. When he became emperor, he appointed a group of cadres,

The capital of Luoyang is also a hundred officials. Third, it is necessary to integrate ideological construction with organizational building to a high degree, so that they can be fully comprehended, in other words, according to their own thinking

We should think of theories and political programs to use cadres, and implement our own ideologically oriented political programs through cadres.

A great man once said that Liu Xiu was the emperor who was the best at employing people, and this is accurate.

It should be said that so far, Liu Xiu's employment has been successful.

Most of his subordinates, whether they are rewarded for meritorious deeds or used by quantity, are competent, and only a very few people like Xiao Guang are qualified.

However, we must also point out realistically that Liu Xiu sometimes selects officials by prophecy, that is to say, he sometimes selects cadres according to prophecy

There are many shortcomings, which also make him criticized.

For Liu Xiu's advocating of scriptures and superstition, we have said before that we will have to talk carefully about it when we have the opportunity in the future, and now we want to tell you that he put it in the weft

It is used in the personnel work of cadres.

In this way, please get to know one person: Wang Liang.

Wang Liang, whose name is Junyan, is a native of Yaoyang, Yuyang County (now Fengningdong, Hebei).

In fact, Lao Wang is also a good comrade, we have seen him when we watched Liu Xiu's pacification of Hebei, but at that time the heroes were like forests, and Lao Wang was again

It's very low-key, and we don't really remember him.

Lao Wang worked in the Yuyang County Office in his early years, and Peng Pet appointed the county too punctual to arrange him as the county commander of Hunu.

Under the contact of Kou Sui and Geng Yi, when Peng Chong sent the Yuyang Army south to support Liu Xiu, he arranged for Wang Liang, then the commander of Hunu County, and Wu Han, the then commander of Anle County

, then the county guard led by Gai Yan.

After Guang'a joined forces, Liu Xiu appointed him as a partial general. When he took Handan, Liu Xiu sealed him as the Marquis of Guannei. After Hebei was pacified, Liu Xiu appointed him as Yewang County

Order, let him be in charge of the party. Yewang County is in the territory of Hanoi County, and Lao Wang is under the leadership of the county Taishou Kou.

It can be seen that Wang Liang also has a certain ability and has established a certain meritorious service.

It's just that there are too many capable people around Liu Xiu, and Lao Wang is not too conspicuous.

In the eyes of those of us outsiders, Liu Xiu's side is like a cloud of ministers and fierce generals like a forest, and when Lao Wang stops there, no one will pay attention to him.

Right now, Liu Xiuding is in Luoyang, and when he was studying the candidate for Dasikong, he thought of him.

The responsibilities of the chief secretary are to be in charge of urban and rural infrastructure construction and participate in the study of the central government's major policies

Xi's Da Sima, also known as the "Three Princes" and "Three Sitting Alone", is roughly the meaning of the members of the Central Core Leading Group, and his status is extremely high.

Liu Xiu wanted to give this position to Lao Wang, completely because there was a sentence in "Chifu Fu" dedicated by Liu Xiu's classmate, Yihua, who advised Liu Xiu to be the emperor:

"Wang Liang is the main guard for Xuanwu".

Therefore, according to this proverb, Liu Xiu appointed Wang Liang as the great Sikong and named the Marquis of Wuqiang.

In fact, Liu Xiu also understands in his heart that purely according to military merits, there are many people who are more outstanding than Wang Liang.

By the way, the so-called "Xuanwu" is a turtle, some are called old turtles, soft-shelled turtles, and when they are called water gods, the gods of the north, and Dasikong is in charge of water conservancy and soil

Wood, hard pulling, of course, can be pulled together.

Liu Xiu's election of officials with proverbs reminds people of Wang Mang's arrangement of cadres according to the forged talismans of the liar's lamentation, which is also absurd.

What the two men have in common is that they are both somewhat believable and somewhat mixed with their own political aims; The difference is that Wang Mang insists on going his own way,

Liu Xiu is as good as flowing.

For example, Liu Xiu originally planned to appoint Sun Xian, the general of Pingdi, as the great Sima, because there is a saying in the proverb "Sun Xian Zhengdi".

However, as soon as the move was moved, it was immediately unanimously disgusted and opposed by everyone.

(Displeased)

The reason is very simple, some of the more outstanding performers who are worthy of the important task of the big Sima are that no matter what the reason is, it will not be Sun Xian's turn.

This time, Liu Xiu was afraid of public anger, so he issued an edict to ask the ministers to democratically recommend the candidate for Da Sima.

The recommended targets focus on two people: Wu Han and Jing Dan.

(The edict can be the great Sima, and the ministers recommend only Wu Han and Dan.) ）

The eyes of the masses are bright.

Wu Han and Jing Dan are indeed the talents of the three armies on the battlefield and the heroes who charge into battle, they have all performed brilliantly in the past, and Liu Xiu is also very satisfied with them

and trust.

Liu Xiu humbly listened to and adopted everyone's opinions, saying that General Jing is a typical northern general, and he is indeed a talent, and General Wu's merits are even greater.

According to the traditional official system, the hussar general is about the same rank as the great Sima.

So, he issued an edict appointing Wu Han as the Great Sima and Jing Dan as the Hussar General.

Originally, after Liu Xiu set the capital, the best job to do was cadre work. One day in the Hebei region, a group of loyal people had already gathered around him

Geng Geng, high-quality civil and military personnel, and the former Han Dynasty's official system was relatively sound, he only needs to follow the organizational procedures and the conditions for the selection and appointment of cadres, according to the parties

's merits and talents, just pull everyone over and sit down.

However, he sometimes selected officials according to proverbs, which complicated simple issues, and was also criticized by the majority of cadres and later historians.

Fortunately, he is open-minded, respects the opinions of the masses, and corrects mistakes as soon as he knows them, and the cadres he selects according to his proverbs also have considerable quality and achievements, not elephants

Wang Mang and Geng Shi helped some social dregs to high positions, and he did not have too many problems in employing people in general.

It is terrible for a person who is good at accommodating and correcting mistakes.

At this time, although Liu Xiu had already set the capital in Luoyang, Chang'an was still in the hands of the Red Mei Army.

He was very uneasy and hoped to take Chang'an as soon as possible, so he urged Deng Yu to step up military action.

At this time, Deng Yu was leading the army westward in Hedong according to Liu Xiu's arrangement.

As Liu Xiu's chief think tank, he was strategic, commanded, and won successive battles against the beginning, and constantly obtained and expanded the base area.

As soon as Liu Xiu became emperor, he was appointed as the first batch of cadres: he was appointed as the Great Situ and was named the Marquis.

When the appointment of him was announced, Liu Xiu made it very solemn and sent an envoy to the front to deliver the letter of appointment, and praised him.

Liu Xiu's appointment document says:

"Former general Deng Yu is very loyal and filial, and often strategizes with me, and he is decisive thousands of miles away. As Confucius said, since I

With Yan Hui, the disciples became closer to me. General Deng made great contributions to the front by cutting the enemy and pacifying Shanxi. At present, the local people are uncivilized and no

Friendship, General Deng, as Situ, should carry out in-depth and meticulous spiritual civilization building, and the essence of this lies in educating the cadres and the masses to be generous. Now the Imperial Court sends Bong

Che Duwei awarded the seal ribbon, canonized the marquis, and ate ten thousand households, hoping to act prudently. ”

Here, Liu Xiu praised Deng Yu for being comparable to Zhang Liang and Xiao He; And letting him eat ten thousand households is already the highest reward.

At this time, Deng Yu was only 24 years old.

Obviously, he is young and ambitious, and he is a shining new star in troubled times.

Deng Yu received such a favor and felt a great responsibility.

As the Great Situ, he was supposed to be the prime minister of the government, but when the empire was founded, in the face of the war situation, he could only fight the battle first according to Liu Xiu's arrangement.

As a result, Deng Yu led his army from Fenyin (now Wanrong West, Shanxi) to Xiayang (now Hanchengnan, Shaanxi), and the spearhead was directed at Chang'an.