The time soon came to February of the second year of Xingping, and the vast northern land was still cold, and it was impossible to see the scene of half of spring. An order from the Taifu Mansion in Jicheng made the people of Youzhou and Jizhou feel a little warm.

Taifu Liu Yu ordered all counties under his rule to rest with the people this year, not only reducing more than 60% of the taxes of each county, but also canceling other arduous things such as sending husbands and servants, which fully reflected the Taifu Lord's love for the people and his heart for the common people.

The common people listened to the storyteller in the teahouse: the last time the government implemented the benevolent government of "lightly paying for the meager and resting with the people" was more than 300 years ago, when the third emperor of the Han Dynasty was Emperor Wen. At that time, not long after the founding of the Han Dynasty, all parts of the country were depressed and dilapidated because of years of war, and the lives of the people were very difficult. In the second and twelfth years of Emperor Wen, the emperor ordered the reduction of half of the land rent in the world; In the thirteenth year of Emperor Wen, all the land rent of that year was exempted.

In order to achieve a light punishment, the Han Dynasty at that time tried to maintain peace with the surrounding hostile countries, and did not easily send troops to lose national strength. Because the tax could not be collected, Emperor Wen lived very frugally, there were no clothes added to the palace all the year round, all kinds of chariots were not replaced and increased, the curtains were not embroidered, and the edict was issued to prohibit the county from contributing rare and foreign objects to the court.

Because the whole country controlled spending at that time, rested with the people, and the nobles and bureaucrats did not dare to be extravagant, so the burden on the people was greatly reduced. A large amount of copper coins in the treasury have not been used for many years, so that the ropes that wear the money have rotted, and the scattered coins are too much to count......

Today, Lord Taifu has implemented a benevolent government in Youzhou and Jizhou, which has given many people who have been hurt by the war to see new hope.

In order to ensure that this good governance, which affects millions of people, can be resolutely carried out and carried out, the Taifu Mansion has set up a new body called the "Ombudsman", whose duty is to send officials to inspect the counties and counties, and to make secret visits to the people. Investigate and deal with all kinds of violations of law and discipline and officials who violate the law and yin!

What is somewhat surprising is that the person in charge of the Supervision Bureau, that is, the director, turned out to be Li Ru, the controversial former department of Dong Zhuo, and the commissioner was selected from some scholars brought by Cai Yong to Youzhou, and there was no native of Youzhou or Jizhou......

Because Li Ru once offered a cup of poisonous wine to the abolished emperor Liu Weijin on the order of Dong Zhuo, he was charged with the crime of "killing the king", so he was an out-and-out traitor in the eyes of the world.

However, the reason why Li Ru did this at that time was not his intention. In fact, he was coerced and coerced by Dong Zhuo. At that time, Dong Zhuo's attitude of wanting to get rid of Liu Wei was already very resolute, if Li Ru didn't do this, then in addition to his own inability to live, Dong Zhuo would find other courtiers to do this until someone couldn't bear the pressure and gave in.

With Dong Zhuo's temper that he could kill people in court without any scruples at that time, Li Ru thought that no one could stop him from poisoning Liu Bian, so he acted as the disloyal minister who poisoned Liu Bian. Li Ru came out and did this bad thing, so that he was able to survive, and at the same time, he completely ruined his reputation. But invisibly, it saved other people's lives......

When people criticize Li Ru, who will remember that he was once a doctor of the Five Classics who explained the meaning of the scriptures to the emperor? If Li Ru was not talented, he would not have had the opportunity to always accompany the emperor and answer the emperor's doubts and questions in terms of knowledge at any time. Afterward. Li Ru served as Lang Zhongling, a high-ranking official in Jiuqing, in Chang'an, although Dong Zhuo was promoted, but if he didn't have real skills, how could he get Dong Zhuo's favor?

Now the bones of the deposed emperor Liu Wei have long been rotting in the tomb. And Dong Zhuo ended up with no bones, and even the Dong clan and relatives were wiped out, leaving only Li Ru, a "remnant", because of Liu He's rescue. only to escape the catastrophe and find a place to live in Youzhou.

Liu Yu was still very vigilant and vigilant about Li Ru's arrival at the beginning, but because this person was highly recommended by his son, he also let him stay in the mansion with the attitude of giving it a try, but Li Ru made great contributions in the early stage of the Youzhou Defense War!

The suggestion of urgently dispatching Xu Rong to the western front of Youzhou to sit in command came from Li Ru, and the suggestion of abandoning Yongnu, Anci, and Luxian, and sticking to Jicheng was also from Li Ru.

Now, Li Ru has proved his worth and ability with his practical actions, so being entrusted by Liu Yu with the important task of being the director of the Supervision Office can be regarded as the most suitable one.

Li Ru is now alone in Youzhou, usually living in a simple place, never in contact with the local Haoqiang and nobles, and only wants to be a lonely minister like Zhang Tang, so Liu Yu doesn't have to worry about him pretending to be a public or favoritism. As long as the officials at all levels in Youzhou and Jizhou thought that Li Ru had offered poisoned wine to the deposed emperor Liu Weijin, they immediately felt a numb scalp and a chill in their backs!

A ruthless person who dares to force the emperor to drink poisonous wine, who else will he be afraid of?

What makes these officials even more speechless is that the ordinary clerks of the Supervision Office are also Si Li and Yingchuan Shizi who they don't know at all, these young people are at the age of full energy and fire, if anyone commits a crime, don't expect them to remember the friendship and incense of their fellow disciples, because people don't know who you are at all!

At the same time as the establishment of the Supervision Bureau, a new office was quietly established in the camp of the Jicheng North Army. The name of this organization is the "Command Office", and as the name suggests, it is the government office that gives orders. The commander in charge of the command office did not surprise people, and naturally fell on the head of the eldest prince Liu He. With Liu He's current status, position and prestige, being at the helm of this military institution is indeed well deserved, and no one dares to compete with him.

The establishment of the command office is very low-key, except for a considerable level of officials who are in charge of this matter, even many soldiers who are fighting outside do not know that such an organization has been established in Jicheng.

At this time, people still can't imagine how many big things this small government office in the North Military Camp will do in the next few decades that will shock and attract the attention of the people of the world......

According to Liu He's plan, the Command Office has set up functional departments such as the Espionage Department, the Praise and Painting Department, the Training Department, the Culture and Propaganda Department, the Internal Affairs Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Logistics Department.

Because it is still a start-up, there are many staff members in the Command Department, and it is necessary to slowly find and select them to finally fill the vacancy. It has been made clear that Tian Chou has assumed the post of head of the Espionage Department. Guo Jia is the person in charge of the Zanhua Division, Xian Yufu temporarily acts as the deputy of the Training Division, Xia Houlan serves as the deputy of the Internal Affairs Department, and Xu Yue serves as the deputy of the Weapons Department.

The responsibility of the Espionage Department is to collect, transmit, and sort out intelligence from all over the world, so that Liu He and the senior staff of the Zanhua Division can refer to it and make accurate deployments and responses. The Espionage Department is the eyes and ears of the entire Command Department, and only when it is deaf and clear-sighted can it not delay and affect major military affairs. Tian Chou is both civil and military, alert and wise, calm and resolute, and loyal to Liu He, so he is the best candidate to be the head of this department.

Except for Tian Chou. Like Zhao Yun and Xu Huang can also be qualified for this position, but Liu He obviously will not use people like this, with the talents of Zhao Yun and Xu Huang, they will be the commanders of the Duzhen side in the future, and Liu He will also set up an exclusive staff agency for them in the future.

The responsibility of the Zanhua Division is to analyze the enemy's situation, draw up various combat plans, and command and dispatch all units to fight in coordination. The meaning of praise painting is to assist in planning. Praise the painting machine. With a generation of ghost genius Guo Jia as the director of the Zanhua Division, it is simply a match made in heaven, and there is no more suitable than him.

The main responsibilities of the Training Division are to supervise the recruitment of troops in various localities and to guide the training of training regiments, although they are not as important as those of the Espionage Division and the Zan Painting Division. However, it is an important department that is tired in peacetime and beneficial in wartime. If the training division can't select the seedlings of high-class soldiers and can't train good soldiers, no matter how clever the staff officers of the Zanhua Division are, the army will go to the battlefield at that time. The same will be defeated.

Xian Yufu once selected 5,000 Dragon and Tiger Guard soldiers for Liu He, and also took these soldiers into the mountains for a year of training, so he also served as the training department before he became the general of Duliao. It can be regarded as making the best use of people. In Liu He's mind, there is such a person who is very suitable to be the leader of the training department, but unfortunately this person is still in other camps, Liu He wants to dig up this stubborn guy, it really takes a lot of effort.

The Department of Culture and Propaganda is a department specially set up by Liu He for Xu Miao, and practice has proved that public opinion propaganda work is very important, and sometimes its power is even more terrifying than a large army. Xu Miao's work has been fruitful in the past few years, and Liu He is ready to hand over a heavier burden to him and put more power to him to see if Xu Miao can bring more surprises.

The Department of Internal Affairs is mainly responsible for formulating internal laws and regulations to be observed by all armed forces, inspecting and rectifying military discipline, implementing rewards and punishments, and handling the adjustment and promotion of internal personnel. The work of this division involves the daily order and management of the Command Office, and it can be said that it is the most powerful department within the Command Office.

The Ordnance Department and the Logistics Department are both functional departments in the field of logistics and equipment support, and although their powers are not as good as those of the previous departments, they are departments that burn and spend money, and they will have a lot of oil and water in the future. Liu He appointed Xu Yue, an astronomer and mathematician, to the post of deputy director of the Ordnance Department, in order to enable him to provide strong services in geometric drawing and arithmetic, while Xu Yue could continue to carry out the research he was interested in with the financial support provided by the Ordnance Department.

The establishment of the Supervision Office belongs to government affairs, and the establishment of the Command Office belongs to military affairs, and these two yamen seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they were formed under Liu He's strong advocacy and support, which also fully reflects his will and determination.

Liu He made an unannounced visit to the north a few years ago, and found a lot of problems, and after he came back, he quietly set up the Supervision Bureau, and let Li Ru, a ruthless man, take the lead, which is definitely a powerful medicine for the treatment of local malpractices and stubborn diseases. Liu He believed that the newly established Supervision Office would definitely dig up a lot of "moths" and "pests" hidden in Youzhou when the Taifu Mansion was implementing the policy of "lightly paying people and resting with the people" in Youzhou and Jizhou.

As for this command office, it is Liu He's proud work. Although the existing military establishment system of the Han Dynasty can also meet various needs, it still has many shortcomings compared with the headquarters structure implemented after countless wars in later generations.

For example, in the operations of this era, although the commanders also attached great importance to intelligence espionage work, they did not raise it to a high enough position, and only sent scouts to conduct battlefield reconnaissance before marching to war, but they did not put the functional department in charge of intelligence at the head of all departments, let alone put the spy leader and the military advisers around him at the same height and position.

For example, the generals of this era rarely spent their energy on the development and manufacture of new combat weapons and various protective equipment, let alone raised the status of a group of craftsmen to the same level as other officials.

Now that Liu He's troops and horses are constantly expanding, it is imperative to set up such a headquarters as the Command Office to be specifically responsible for military operations. (To be continued......)

PS: Today's two watches, not fooling, but April Fool's Day......