The last of the six departments is the Ministry of Rites.

It seems that this Ministry of Rites is a useless department, but it is not.

The so-called national affairs are in Rong and worship, and this Ministry of Rites is the place where the "Jiade Tongyi" was compiled in the name of Zhengyanshun, and it is the place where Liu Bei gathered all the talents of the ancient literature school in etiquette to formulate the next "constitution" of the Eastern Han Empire.

What the Ministry of Rites controls is the fundamental law of the entire Han Empire, the rules of the game of the Han Empire, and the ideological foundation of the Han Empire's rule over the entire world.

Because of the collapse of the modern literary school, "White Tiger Tongyi" has been de facto abolished and is no longer recognized as the "constitution" of the Han Empire.

At present, the Eastern Han Empire needs a new and instructive "constitution" to direct everyone's daily production and life actions, and replace the rules of the modern literary school when they dominated the world.

Everyone needs to know what to do next, make friends, and live in daily life, and what they need to do is right, so that they can be regarded as respecting the Heavenly Ancestor.

The main reason is that everyone usually does too much bad things, so they need a little psychological comfort.

And this is also where Liu Bei wants to implement his own correction of the Han Empire, replace the superstitious attitude of Wei Wei with a secular attitude, and gradually realize the transition from a theocratic government to a secular government.

Therefore, the existence of "Jiade Tongyi" is very necessary, everything Liu Bei will do in the future needs "Jiade Tongyi" to explain for him, endorse him, provide him with reasonable legitimacy, and avoid doubts and resistance from people all over the world.

And when the people of the world have doubts and resistance, Liu Bei can also declare that they are rebellious and thieves through the relevant content in "Jiade Tongyi", and he can lead Wang Shi to put down the thieves.

It belongs to the righteous and strong declaration.

Including everything Liu Bei is doing at this stage, "Jiade Tongyi" is needed to provide legitimacy to ensure that everything he is doing now and the status quo of holding the imperial power on behalf of others will not be recognized as "transgression" by others.

At the current stage, Liu Bei built six ministries in the General's Mansion to connect with the major departments of the imperial court to deal with affairs, transplanted the power of the Luoyang Imperial Court to the General's Mansion as a whole, and used the General's Mansion as the central institution, and even replaced the status of Shang Shutai in a sense.

However, although Shangshutai's power in the Eastern Han Dynasty was great, his rank was very low, so it was not impossible to replace Shangshutai with the General's Mansion in essence.

And in terms of rank, once the General's Mansion is established, the status is very high, and if there is another awesome general, then the status will be even higher.

It is enough to become the center of power of the entire Han Empire, as it is now, and essentially hold the power to rule the world.

Despite this, Liu Bei is also fully aware of the instability and unsustainability of this stage.

The system of the Great General's Mansion with Liu Bei as the core is not stable, which also means that this secular government is not stable.

This secular government was based on the ideology of the Confucian school of ancient literature, and in essence it was constituted by a powerful military group with Liu Bei as the core.

The background color of the Luoyang Imperial Court is a military power group, a military power group that exists highly dependent on Liu Bei's personal prestige and ability.

The advantage of a military power group is that it has a strong rule, can suppress any disobedient forces, and if there is resistance, it can wipe it all down, so in a certain sense, if it can promote social progress, this kind of government is the most suitable.

It has the highest efficiency, the strongest execution, the most thorough attack and liquidation of opposition forces, and the power of destroying all doors at every turn.

But the problem is also military power.

This thing is highly dependent on the existence and actions of a military strongman who has descended from the sky.

When a military strongman is alive, or when the battle is undefeated, the government has a strong deterrent power, and it will do what it says, and it can do whatever it says.

But once the military strongman is defeated, or the strongman dies and there is no successor, then the government will collapse at the speed of light, and it will be difficult to have a stable inheritance model, which will not last long.

In this regard, Liu Bei has no choice, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign.

If you want to find a stable inheritance model, in this era, Emperor Han Zhang's group of people is the most effective and the most able to maintain peace for a long time, which is much more stable than Liu Bei's military strongman model.

After Emperor Han He, the Eastern Han Dynasty produced many generations of baby emperors and young emperors, which shattered the majesty of imperial power, even so, the Eastern Han Empire still survived for more than a hundred years before it completely collapsed.

This is the stability of the theological nature.

So sometimes, in his spare time, Liu Bei will also sigh that he has the idea and preparation to take action to eliminate the evils of the world, but it is difficult to ensure that this model can continue, unless he adheres to the psychology of "I will treat him to the flood after I die", then he can really ignore it.

If you want to be stable, there is really no other possibility than to engage in mystery, or pray for future generations to be wise and capable.

As for the one-step leap to the election or something, it is better to pray for future generations to be virtuous and capable, which is a little more reliable.

Liu Bei also thought that if he really became the emperor, then, he would remove all obstacles, vigorously develop science and technology and expand outward, find more overseas territories, and expand people's desires to the whole world......

Maybe it's also a road.

This is a path that ancient China has not taken, and no one knows what the outcome will be.

But if you continue to stay on this one-third of an acre of land and roll in, it will definitely not end well.

So if there is no other good way out in the end, Liu Bei may have to take such an unimagined path.

Looking at the efficient and somewhat fanatical Luoyang court driven by himself, Liu Bei sighed with emotion - this situation will not last long, because after the slave restriction movement, Liu Bei will start to prepare for Dutian.

The slave restriction movement did not harm the interests of the vast majority of the ruling class, but targeted small and medium-sized landlords and ordinary wealthy households, which was tantamount to inheriting the legacy of the Han Dynasty.

A part of this fat was indeed given to the common people at the bottom, and a lot of it was given, and the land that was divided, the exemption from taxes for three or five years, and a series of relocation expenses, all of which were large sums of money.

In a certain sense, this huge expenditure alleviated the sharp social contradictions of the Han Dynasty, reduced the pressure on the people, and allowed more people to have food, which can be regarded as a political reform with good results.

However, the fundamental problem of the decline of the Han Empire was not resolved.

Because the leeks of the richest group of people are not so easy to mow, if the ruling class can still get a certain sense of response by using the ruling class to cut the leeks of small and medium-sized landlords, it will be purely unpleasant to make trouble with the ruling class.

Even the group of people who are most deeply bound to Liu Bei's interests are estimated to be unhappy, and they may not support Liu Bei so smoothly.

Moreover, the crux of the matter lies in the fact that once the land is completed, it is inevitable that a large number of the original ruling class will be killed and replaced by a group of new people, which is almost equivalent to a revolution.

In this way, the foundation of the entire Han Empire will be replaced, the existence of the original support of this ancient empire will be completely changed, and the new group of people will especially need someone who can ensure that their interests are consolidated.

Liu Xiu didn't have the confidence to do Dutian, and there was no way to implement it to the end, so the underlying operation logic of the Eastern Han Empire has not changed, but if Liu Bei succeeds in promoting it, the operation logic of the Eastern Han Empire will change.

What is certain is that there will inevitably be a large-scale decisive battle within the Luoyang court.

Liu Bei squinted his eyes and cast his gaze out the window, passing through the layers of fog, as if he could see the future in more than ten years or even decades.

The slave restriction action in Liangzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou and Yizhou was the main theme of Jian'an's three years.

After March of the third year of Jian'an, the slave restriction action was the main work of the central system of the entire Han Empire, and through this series of work, Liu Bei also successfully used the General's Mansion to control the power of the entire Luoyang court.

By the end of the third year of Jian'an, everyone had already decided that at this stage, the so-called system of four auxiliary ministers had actually become Liu Bei's one-man show.

His order is the emperor's order, his will is the emperor's will, he actually held the imperial power on his behalf, became the controller of the imperial power, and guided the advance of the Luoyang court alone.

And through the slave restriction action in the second year of Jian'an and the third year of Jian'an, Liu Bei successfully proved his ability to govern and the strength of his governing methods, and under his control, two-thirds of the Han Empire has completed the slave restriction operation.

Despite its many imperfections, its success is well recognized.

Liu Bei mobilized a large number of manpower, material resources and troops, and successfully used both soft and hard means to successfully clean up the guys who made the assassins and county guards in the world feel that they were prickly, and they did not dare to confront the Luoyang court at all.

The fierce resistance in Yizhou basically ended by the end of the third year of Jian'an, and many family forces that dared to resist were physically leveled and eliminated, and the remaining families were basically willing to cooperate, and the families that were unwilling to cooperate have been completely destroyed.

This action initiated by Liu Bei, starting from the second year of Jian'an, successfully liberated 1.91 million people in two-thirds of the Han Empire and returned to the official household registration, adding a large number of registered people to Liangzhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou, so that the development prospects of these areas are no longer bleak.

This achievement is bloody, but the results are also obvious and cannot be ignored, and even the rulers have to applaud this political achievement, and on the other hand, they are also worried that Liu Bei has such a strong executive power, if he calculates it on his head one day, will he carry the past?

(End of chapter)