Chapter 8 The Flag Dies

The ministers were in an uproar again, everyone was arguing so hard in the court for half a month, who knew that it was just a waste of effort. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info It is only today that they know that everything they have done is in vain.

The emperor didn't care what they were arguing about, what was the outcome of the argument? Regardless of whether they wanted to or not, anyway, they just insisted on going their own way, and suddenly began to implement this reform plan, and he did not ask for everyone's opinions at all, and he did not want to listen to everyone's voices at all.

Everyone expressed their opposition, and some even clamored for everyone to unite, collectively resign, and fight the emperor to the end. However, without the call of the court bosses, the ministers were in a leaderless state, and they could not afford to organize large-scale strikes and resignations.

The current head of the ministers is no longer the three princes, but several ministers of the cabinet. However, several ministers did not oppose the emperor in this matter, but silently carried out the emperor's reform orders.

It is no wonder that these cabinet ministers were carefully selected by Liu Hou, either Liu Hou's die-hard loyalists, or vested interests in cabinet reform, and it is reasonable that they would support Liu Hou.

With the silent support of these cabinet ministers, it is useless for those people below to be happy, which is why Liu Hou wants to get a cabinet out first. Soon, letters of appointment were issued from the cabinet, and the court, which was still boiling, gradually melted and calmed down like a pile of soap bubbles that had been sprinkled with water.

In the past, many people opposed the implementation of the three-province six-ministry system because they feared that they would lose their official positions once the institutional reform was carried out. Now those who received the letters of appointment are relieved, and their positions have been retained, which is better than anything else, as long as the newly appointed official positions are not much worse than the original, and those have chosen to die.

Although some people's official positions have declined slightly, because they don't know so much about their official positions under the new system, they don't know for the time being whether their official positions have been promoted or demoted, and whether their power has been strengthened or weakened.

In this way, the boiling court slowly calmed down, and there were fewer and fewer people making a fuss, and in the back, even those who had not received the letter of appointment for the time being stopped making noise and quietly looked forward to it.

In the end, all the posts were appointed, and almost all the officials were properly placed. Only a few of the bad guys were excluded and didn't get a warrant, which meant they had to go home and sell sweet potatoes.

There are very few people in this part, and they can't make a fuss if they want to. In fact, as soon as the world settled down, the territory of Shu Han expanded several times on the original basis, so the imperial court had a great demand for officials, even if the vassals of Wei and Wu were added, the officials were still not enough.

This world is too big, and because the war in the three directions is constantly achieving new victories, the territory of the Han Dynasty is expanding almost all the time, and these newly occupied places also need officials to govern.

Whenever the Han army occupied a place, Liu Hou ordered "the establishment of counties and the dispatch of liuguan", and he rarely accepted the form of local autonomy, even in some non-Han areas, he still had to send a Han liuguan to govern.

Are there any dissatisfied? Then kill to serve. Troublemakers? Rebel? Especially those who dared to take action against the rogue officials he sent, they all made mistakes and did not let go.

If a person rebels, he will kill the whole family, and if a family rebels, he will kill the whole family, in fact, Liu Hou has never given such an order, and his order usually only says that the offender should be punished heavily, but the people below all guessed the emperor's meaning and implemented it according to the above standards.

Zhang Fei, Gao Ding, and Su Li were all decisive people, and in the war against foreign races, they never relented, and resolutely eliminated all threatening enemies. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see them slaughtering some of the tribes who rebelled against them, and the blood is pouring into rivers.

The tribes they exterminated were unknown, and all three of them had the titles of Hades, butchers, executioners, and demons in their war zones. Those foreign chiefs such as Tusi, chiefs, khans, and Shan Yu were all killed, and they all did not dare to come out to serve as the administrator of the region, and they had to accept the fact that the Han people were in exile.

The territory has been expanded repeatedly, and there is a need to send officials everywhere, so it can be said that since the founding of Ji Han, officials have been in a state of short supply.

Therefore, in this reform, as long as the officials who are not too bad are retained. As a result, there are not many officials who have been dismissed. The cabinet and Liu Hou had already discussed this matter in advance, and everyone had unified their thinking, and they all agreed that it was not appropriate to dismiss too many people at once, after all, the main purpose of this time was institutional reform, not to fight corruption and promote clean government, or to evaluate whether officials were competent.

One yard is one yard, now we will smoothly put up the shelves of the three provinces and six ministries first, and it will not be too late to slowly test the officials in the future. Soon, the letters of appointment of officials at all levels of the three provinces and six ministries have been issued, and the three provinces and six ministries will slowly operate from now on.

That's right, it's a slow operation, and now all departments are in chaos, and they are still in the run-in period, and bumps and bumps are inevitable. When everyone arrives in a new position and faces a new job, it is inevitable that they will not adapt to it, and even cause confusion.

For example, the officials who used to be in charge of water conservancy construction are now appointed to the water conservancy department of the Ministry of Industry, but they are actually doing their jobs.

For these people, the impact of this institutional reform is not great, and it is just that the yamen has changed its name. Inevitably, however, some people are placed in a completely new role, and it must be difficult for them to adapt for a while.

Fortunately, Chen Qun has been studying institutional reform for many years, and he has a detailed plan and explanation for the responsibilities of each department and each position. For those who have been assigned to a new position, they only need to take their own job description and do it accordingly.

The three-province six-ministry system that Chen Qun took out is actually a little different from the three-province and six-ministry system of the original feudal dynasty in history. Because of Liu Hou's arrival, the social management function of the government was much more than that of the original feudal dynasty.

For example, due to the advent of newspapers, it is logical that there will be a department for managing and reviewing news and publications, as well as a department for managing propaganda work. This department, just like the later Press and Publication Administration, the Propaganda Department, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, etc., is now named the Propaganda Department, which is a department under the Ministry of Rites.