Confucius is said to have had 3,000 disciples and 72 virtuous men, who formed the foundation of the future glory of Confucianism.

Liu Bei's protégés have already exceeded 3,000, and the number of students trained by Liangzhou Prefecture School in the past seven years has exceeded 5,000.

Sooner or later, the group of his protégés will exceed the size of 10,000 people.

These protégés are not useless, they are useful.

They can all be officials and they can all do administrative work, which surprises many people.

It turned out that Liu Bei not only taught them the secrets of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period, but also taught them administrative skills, so that they could learn to govern.

It is said that these people have an internship process before graduation, serving as interns in various government offices, learning administration behind skilled officials, and after the internship is over, Liu Bei will arrange to act as a grassroots official in various places.

Some officials who served as local officials found that these young officials sent by Liu Bei not only had a certain amount of knowledge, but also had a strong ability to do things and learn.

Some insiders of officialdom will understand the unspoken rules of politics, and they actually understand that some small methods that only exist within officialdom, although they don't know, they also know it.

In the past, this was the knowledge of the rule that only the children of the high-ranking scholars could learn, but Liu Bei taught it openly in the official academy, and also taught it to so many people, teaching them how to be officials.

If it was during the period when the current literary school was in power, Liu Bei would definitely be suppressed for doing so.

But at that time, Liu Bei was staying in Liangzhou, on his own land, he could teach whatever he wanted, and the hand of the literary school could not reach out.

When Liu Bei came to their territory, their ruling life also entered the countdown, and they had no time to care about Liu Bei's "out-of-character behavior", but instead died under Liu Bei's military iron fist.

While taking care of the personnel needs of other families and forces, Liu Bei placed the protégés who had just graduated in large quantities to serve as grassroots officials.

People with a heart also realized that it was precisely because of these seemingly inconspicuous grassroots officials that Liu Bei's policies were vigorously implemented by them when they were pushed to the bottom.

In the face of Liu Bei, who taught his teacher and the general, their attitude was very direct, that is, they obeyed the order and carried out the order, and they didn't dare to say whether they did it well or not, but they didn't have to discuss whether they did it or not.

Because of their strong handling, even if some people in Shangguan want to make peace with the mud, Liu Bei can directly affect the grassroots through his influence.

With the relationship between protégés and protégés, these petty officials and officials actually have a little confidence in the face of their superiors.

In the area west of Luoyang, Bingzhou and Youzhou, and even in many places in Jizhou and Yuzhou, Liu Bei's influence can penetrate into the grassroots counties, and everywhere are his protégés and former officials.

During Liu Hong's reign, there were more than 7,500 official officials such as powerful bureaucrats and bureaucrats registered in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, and more than 140,000 in the middle and lower ranks of the ruling class at the level of officials, adding up to more than 150,000 and less than 160,000 ruling classes in the entire Eastern Han Empire.

After Liu Hong's death, after so many years of tossing, killing, and replacement by Liu Bei, statistics at the end of the third year of Jian'an show that the number of official officials has decreased, only about 7,000.

A significant number of officials died in several political actions over the years, and Liu Bei sent his own people to replace them, while eliminating some of the meaningless official positions.

At the same time, the number of registered officials reached 150,000, and the number of officials increased.

The reason for this is that in order to strengthen grassroots governance, Liu Bei established some new posts and arranged some of his subordinates to take up these positions under the premise of eliminating and killing unqualified and hostile officials, so as to strengthen the control of the population in the administrative system under his command and enhance the ability to mobilize and collect taxes.

In addition, in areas where collective farms are used as grass-roots units, the mobilization and taxation capacity of the county-level governments are quite good, and some of the logistical problems brought about by the wars have been solved by the efforts of these county-level governments.

And Liu Bei not only arranged for his protégés and former officials to take up these positions, but when he encountered some shortage of manpower, he directly selected officers and soldiers with high cultural level from the army to transfer to other positions.

Once the officers and soldiers under his command have a relatively high level of education, and after being tempered in the melting pot of the army, listening to orders and doing things competently is the minimum indicator, and such a group of people is the best choice for grassroots officials.

Therefore, among the ruling class with a total number of nearly 160,000 people, there are more than 6,000 people from Liu's protégés, former officials, and army soldiers, and they have a relatively direct relationship with Liu Bei, and there is no gap between them.

This figure is not enough for a country, or even far from it, but for an individual, it can only be described as a monstrous power.

What is a protégé who is all over the world?

In the past, it took several generations to realize it, but Liu Bei only took ten years.

In ten years, Liu Bei allowed his protégés to occupy a considerable level of the ruling class of an empire.

Of course, this is nothing, what really matters is the officials who are directly and indirectly influenced by Liu Bei.

Officials do not affect the ability of their subordinates, but officials can, among the more than 7,000 officials in the entire Han Empire, there are more than 2,000 people who are directly related to Liu Bei or directly appointed by him, mainly composed of local county commanders, county officials and other county-level officials.

And this number has not stopped growing, and now that Liu Bei is in power, this number is galloping all the way towards the 3,000 mark.

In addition to the officials he directly appointed, there are also subordinates of these officials.

Under the influence of Shangguan, even if these subordinates have no direct relationship with Liu Bei, they will be influenced by Liu Bei in a sense.

and the subordinate officials whom he appointed to call on their own, as well as those of their subordinate officials and officials.

There is uncertainty about the number of officials that a powerful official can influence and appoint, and it is possible for a few people to be as many as a few hundred.

These officials, who mainly existed below the county level in Liangzhou, Yizhou, Sili, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and other parts of the country, and the officials under their influence also exceeded one-third of the ruling class of the Han Empire.

It's rushing towards the one-half figure.

If it weren't for the fact that the four prefectures of the Central Plains, as an important populated area of the Han Dynasty, were too affected by the Shi clan forces and local forces, and Liu Bei's reign was still short, this number would have exceeded one-half.

Through a series of military and political means, Liu Bei made his power "soar" in the Han Dynasty through a very tough military strongman style, and the soaring was called a pleasure.

This is the result of Liu Bei's official reign for less than three years.

As the Liangzhou Prefecture School and the Sili School and even the Taixue School were gradually controlled by Liu Bei, the students from these places would become the main force for Liu Bei to gradually replace the original officials of the Han Empire.

After a long time, it will not take three or five years, and Liu Bei's political influence will exceed one-half of the ruling class of the entire Han Empire.

At this scale, the underlying logic of many things is completely different.

Power is never top-down but bottom-up, and bottom-up power is real power, solid, tenacious, and strong.

Just like Liu Bei's governing style.

There were too many insects in the original, and with the opening of the slave restriction movement and the Dutian operation, Liu Bei would carry out a wave of blood exchange of the ruling class within the entire Han Empire, carry out a substantial revolutionary action, and perform a delicate full-body operation on the Han Empire.

Although this operation is difficult and will shed a lot of blood, it is still under control in general, it can soar, but it will not get out of control, and Liu Bei has not relaxed for a moment in the specific control of power.

Through the newly established six departments in the General's Mansion, Liu Bei launched a round of power adjustment to the imperial court, and after this round of power adjustment, the entire Luoyang Imperial Court operated with the General's Mansion as the core, and the government affairs of many departments also had some changes.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are all like departments under the six departments of the General's Mansion, rather than an independent department, and the particularity of this situation is not noticed by most people at this point in time, because everyone is too busy.

There are too many things to do, there are too many government affairs to be busy, Liu Bei not only handed over the current things to them to do, but also took out all the things that were not completed in the past to do, and the things that have been accumulated over the years, as long as the owner can be found, then it must be done.

As a result, the entire Luoyang Imperial Court has accumulated a huge amount of things for decades, and under the supervision of the six departments of the Great General's Mansion, the officials of the Luoyang Imperial Court acted frantically.

And when the people of the Luoyang court began to act, the state capitals and counties of the world should not think about being able to settle down.

(End of chapter)