In December, throughout the winter, the main force of the Taishan Army, 50,000 troops, spent the winter in the Taiyuan Basin.

Although the war was over, Zhang Chong still had no time to spare, because he was spending most of his energy on reforming the central decision-making system.

As an emerging group, especially when this group is almost all created by Zhang Chong with a hundred victories, Zhang Chong naturally has supreme decision-making power, which is beyond doubt.

Coupled with Zhang Chong's superhuman physique, he has infinite energy to deal with matters large and small, so even in the Yecheng period, the system of three provinces and six ministries has been formed, but these people are just praise paintings, and the final decision-making power is still in Zhang Chong's hands.

It was fine that Zhang Chong had been staying in the center of Yecheng before, but as he went out with the shogunate and had to stay in Taiyuan for a long time, this decision-making system was a bit out of place.

Because if everything is decided by Zhang Chong as in the past, the long distance from Yecheng to Taiyuan is still too late.

In fact, this problem had already been discovered in the process of Zhang Chong's passage through Taiyuan, but he had been busy with the war at that time, and because the reform of the decision-making system was too important, Zhang Chong had always kept it in his heart.

It was this winter that Zhang Chong had enough energy to start solving this matter.

However, although the inefficiency of decision-making is a problem, it does not mean that it can be reformed casually.

Throughout the ages, the most important core power of any group is decision-making power.

Who makes the decision, how the decision is made, what is the basis for the decision, the efficiency of the decision and execution, and the implementation of the decision can all be said to determine the direction and rise and fall of a group.

It is precisely because it is so important that Zhang Chong thought about it behind closed doors for a long time before he finally had a clue.

First of all, in terms of decision-making groups, Zhang Chong still believes in the seven subordinates elected before, and these people also represent different interest groups under the rule of Taishan Army.

Zhang Chong knows very well that no matter how superhuman he is, a day is only twelve hours, which is an iron law of nature and has nothing to do with biodiversity.

Therefore, in order to deal with today's huge territory on a day-to-day basis, Zhang Chong must empower his most trusted and talented subordinates to form the most core decision-making team with him.

Zhang Chong did the same before, he first divided the civil and military affairs, that is, the civil affairs hall and the military had the Privy Council, each in charge of its own affairs.

The political hall is actually Zhang Chong's secretary team, seven subordinates and six ministers to discuss together, and if there is no objection, the decree can be implemented.

But now that Zhang Chong is leading the army in Taiyuan, not only is he not there, but even his own secretary team has been brought to Taiyuan together, so the original political affairs hall cannot be opened. After all, the most important decision-maker is not there, nor is the one who drafted the edict, not even the seal.

As a result, the political hall of Yecheng can only handle some routine work, and especially major or unexpected situations need to be quickly transmitted to Zhang Chong's marching shogunate to decide on the drawing, which can be said to be very inefficient.

In order to improve the efficiency of decision-making, Zhang Chong thought of authorizing the seven subordinates of the Yecheng Political Affairs Hall.

First of all, Zhang Chong classifies all the decision-making meetings first.

First of all, it is the most important imperial meeting, this is the meeting attended by Zhang Chong and the central hundred officials, which is set on the first and fifteenth of each month, and the two days are also called Shuo Ri and Wangri, so the Taishan Army itself also calls this Shuowang Dynasty Staff.

On the one hand, this kind of conference is Zhang Chong announcing important decisions, for example, when he determined the candidate for Wang Shizi, it was announced at the court meeting.

The other is to give the hundred officials in Yecheng a chance to go directly to Zhang Chong, Zhang Chong knows very well that no matter how public the seven subordinates he selected, they are also human beings, and they also have their own likes and dislikes, so the things reported below will naturally be pressed under the door.

And now the Shuowang court has given middle- and lower-level officials a system opening, so that they can bypass the rules and regulations of bureaucracy and directly report to Zhang Chong.

This not only enhanced the activity of the officials, but also because only by opening up the way of speech can Zhang Chong better understand what is happening below and be clear.

And in addition to this kind of large dynasty involving a large number of people, there is also a more everyday regular dynasty.

The Chang Dynasty was also held by Zhang Chong, and it was generally held from morning to noon every day, and the number of participants would be smaller, all of whom were senior military and political officials.

In the system of the Taishan Army, the rank of officials can be simply divided into three grades: high, medium and low.

Among them, all the officials below a thousand stones are low-level officials, which can be six hundred stones, three levels higher than a thousand stones, and a thousand stones.

Then between 1,000 and 2,000 stones, there are middle-level officials, and the specific rank is also divided into three grades, which are 1,600 stones, 2,000 stones, and 2,000 stones.

Finally, there are high-ranking officials, all of whom are more than 2,000 stones. It is also divided into three grades, which are 3,000 stones, 4,000 stones, and 5,000 stones.

This kind of rank ranking is also called the three levels and nine grades because of the three ladders and nine divisions.

Therefore, almost all of the people who can participate in the Chang Dynasty are many generals and elders of the Taishan Army, and they are all the heads of various lines of the center and their deputies.

Moreover, in this kind of regular dynasty, senior military officials also have to participate, but they do not need to participate every day, they can do it every three days.

And most of Zhang Chong's speeches during the Yecheng period were this kind of regular court meetings, and everything was discussed about major military affairs and hundreds of officials, but they only talked about big things and did not decide small things.

In addition to the above two types of meetings, there is also a general meeting of the political affairs hall, and the number of participants is the public under the door, which is more confidential and more effective.

But now because of Zhang Chong's absence, the conference of this political hall has been suspended, so what he is thinking about now is to solve this problem.

After thinking about it repeatedly for more than ten days, he finally decided to set up a "prime minister" system under all the gates.

In fact, during the Yecheng period, the officials knew very well that the so-called subordinates were actually no different from the three dukes of the Han family, in fact, they were all prime ministers, but there were more people.

Among the seven people, according to the arrangement of seats, they are also divided into chief and second, so Zhang Chong's proposal for this prime minister is actually not difficult to understand.

And everyone also knows that this person must be an important partner of Zhang Chong's entrepreneurship, and now the chief disciple of the Taishan Army.

It's just that if this was just a convention in the past, then now Zhang Chong has to determine this article in the system.

The responsibility of the prime minister is to participate in and preside over the political affairs hall meeting in Zhang Chong's absence, and can directly draft the political document to pass through the six ministers.

It can be said that Zhang Chong directly handed over the decision-making power of political affairs to Du Man, while he was mainly responsible for the military affairs of the Taiyuan shogunate.

This level of decentralization is not insignificant.

At the beginning, Zhang Chong also hesitated, thinking of using collective decision-making to let the seven subordinates discuss government affairs together, and then make a decision after reaching an agreement through consultation.

But Zhang Chong knew that this was a bit inappropriate when he thought about it.

Because the so-called agreement has always been a false proposition, Du Man and the other seven people all represent different implementation concepts, how can everything be coordinated.

And this method will cause greater trouble, that is, selfishness and public heart.

If a policy is clearly a good thing, but it needs to be jointly approved by seven people before it can be implemented, then if one of them just disagrees, the policy may be invalidated.

So how do you convince such a person to agree? It's nothing more than a private promise.

This kind of vote politics is what Zhang Chong has always hated, and Zhang Chong gave up this idea just because of this consequence alone.

Therefore, the joint decision-making of the seven people is just a bubble, and in the end, they will either form a party for personal gain, or they will not be able to do anything.

And the reason why Zhang Chong is willing to decentralize power is to let his subordinates solve problems effectively, not to play any game of thrones.

However, of course, there is a question here, that is, once the power of the prime minister is concentrated in one person, will his power be too great?

Zhang Chong also hesitated at this point, and he even thought about letting these seven disciples take turns for a month, so as to avoid the concentration of power in the hands of one person.

But in the end, Zhang Chong gave up.

Zhang Chong thinks he is ambitious, and some of the things he does are not superficial and sloppy things for a year or two, but big things that really want to change the world.

And this kind of thing is the most taboo in the implementation of the order to change the order at once, and there is no policy coherence.

Therefore, although the rotation of the prime minister is convenient for Zhang Chong, it is not beneficial to the country.

In the end, after thinking about it, Zhang Chong still decided to let Duman take full responsibility for the central political affairs and stabilize the rear for himself.

Since Xiao He can be like this in the past, Zhang Chong thinks that his pattern is no smaller than Liu Banglai.

After that, Zhang Chong personally wrote down all the envisioned prime minister's system, which not only involved the central decision-making reform, but also included the local performance, the supervision of political affairs, and the format and seal of the prime minister's edict in the government hall, which can be said to involve all aspects.

Of course, Zhang Chong is not politically naïve, he knows better than anyone who reports to whom, and who is responsible for whom, and for a long time, political affairs will belong to the prime minister.

But Zhang Chong does not mean that he has no ideas about political affairs, on the contrary, his great ambitions must be carried out by the administration, so in order to prevent the line of governance from not running out of the established framework, Zhang Chong still left a few constraints on the political affairs hall.

One is the reporting constraint. That is, the prime minister has to keep the decisions made every month and send them to Taiyuan so that Zhang Chong can grasp the current political situation.

One is supervision and restraint, that is, the imperial historians of the Supervision Yuan can refute the policy, and have the right to send it directly to the Taiyuan shogunate.

The other is the rebuttal constraint. That is, the six high-ranking officials have the final power to refute the decisions of the political affairs hall, and if there are objections, they can report to Taiyuan to make a decision.

This is the wartime decision-making system that Zhang Chong painstakingly came up with.

Nowadays, Zhang Chong is actually crossing the river by feeling the stones, and Zhang Chong himself does not know whether this reform of decision-making power is appropriate.

But whether it is good or bad, Zhang Chong has enough confidence to cage the situation. If it's good, go ahead, and if the execution goes wrong, cancel it.

This is the confidence of a pioneering master.

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In the following days, Zhang Chong had been perfecting this article, and finally after discussing it with some staff, he sent someone to Yecheng to discuss it with his subordinates.

On this day, that is, on the last day of November, Zhang Chong held a banquet in the Taiyuan shogunate and invited Xun You and others to enjoy the plum.

Everyone has literary talents, and some Taiyuan children in the crowd are also interested, and they have used Yongmei to praise Zhang Chong.

Zhang Chong was naturally indifferent to this kind of flattery, but listening to the rhythmic lyrics and looking at the proud Mei Xue outside the pavilion, he couldn't help but feel relaxed.

But the facts show that the lord of power in a position like Zhang Chong, even if he is idle for half a day, is a luxury.

Just as Zhang Chong was listening to the gentle Yongmei, a flying soldier hurriedly entered, and then handed over a letter.

The person who sent this book was none other than Dong Zhao, who had been accompanying him for more than ten days, and there was another copy under Dong Zhao's letter, and seeing that it was pasted with feathers and stamps, he knew that it was intelligence from the Central Plains.

Zhang Chong didn't dare to be contemptuous, and with a wave of his hand, he stopped Wen Hui from continuing to sing, although this person's aria was strange and good, but it was just a sound and entertainment gossip.

That Wen Hui is also a talented man in Taiyuan, and seeing that the opportunity to dedicate Zhang Wang was missed, the regret on his face was visible to the naked eye.

But no one dared to disturb Zhang Chong, he flipped through the paper like this, read Dong Zhao's letter in ten lines at a glance, and finally couldn't help laughing:

"I didn't expect this Dong Zhao to give me such a great joy in silence."

No wonder Zhang Chong was so happy, it turned out that Dong Zhao had been in Wenxi for more than ten days, and he didn't know what method he used to persuade the Pei family to take refuge in the Taishan Army.

And where is Wenxi, where Pei's is located? That is the only intersection for the Taishan army to Luoyang. Originally, Zhang Chong was worried that because Pei Ye committed suicide, the Pei family would inevitably intercept himself on Wenxi Mountain Road.

And now the news sent by Dong Zhao, isn't it Tianzhu Taishan Army?

With this joy, Zhang Chong continued to read the next military newspaper, and also read it carefully, but in the end there was only a sigh.

Suddenly, someone on one side suddenly asked:

"Why does the king sigh?"

Zhang Chong turned his head and saw that it was his confidential staff member Xun Yu who asked this.

Although there were still some local scribes from Taiyuan, Zhang Chong still did not shy away from saying calmly:

"I sigh that there are so many heroes in the world."

Then he handed the military report in his hand to Xun You, Xun You saw it quickly, and also understood why the king sighed.

It turned out that not long after Zhang Chong defeated Taiyuan, Yuan Shao of Yuzhou finally took Jiangxia, and the troops approached Xiangyang.

The biggest turning point in the battle of Jiangxia was that the local Huang clan finally changed their ways and took refuge with Yuan Shao, and it was under their persuasion that Huang Zu, who was surrounded by Yuan's general Ju Yi in Jiangxia City, agreed to surrender the city.

put this military report on the case, but Xun You shared his worries for Zhang Chong:

"The king is worried that the center of gravity of our army is in the west, and Yuan Shao in the Central Plains will take the opportunity to become bigger."

Zhang Chong bowed his head, he didn't expect this Yuan Shao to be so capable, didn't he say that it was a bag? How did he get here, but this Yuan Shao is like a hero.

first hibernated Runan, then erected the flag Runan, and then in an instant, he faked the Central Plains, and even turned his troops and jumped into Jingzhou, which can really be described as a recruitment.

Originally, he still felt that Yuan Shao's sudden rise was unstable. Who would have thought that Yuan Shao would come up with a manor warrior model later, learn his field division strategy, and stabilize a large number of basic plates at once.

It can be said that Zhang Chong's most eye-catching person is Yuan Shao.

Could it be that this Yuan Shao is really a genius? Is it a hero?

But then Xun You's words made Zhang Chong clear the clouds and see the truth.