The establishment of Zhongshutai is an important node in Liu Bei's package.

This node means that Liu Bei has completed the consolidation of central power and basic disk, and there are no other political and military groups in the existing region that can shake his foundation.

Therefore, he will end the state of total political defense and limited aggressiveness in a short period of time and change to a state of all-round aggressiveness.

The most direct manifestation is to begin to compete with the local government for power, and to regain what the Luoyang Imperial Court lost.

"Boning, I won't tell you anything, Zhongshutai and the county soldiers are an unobtainable link in my overall plan, and the quality of the execution of this link will directly determine whether I can achieve a comprehensive victory in Dutian, what Emperor Guangwu failed to do back then, I want to do it!"

Liu Bei shook Manzhong's hand and told Manzhong about his political goals.

Full of pets was quite shocked by this.

"Your goal is ...... Dutian? ”

"That's right, Dutian!"

Liu Bei said slowly: "If you can't succeed in Dutian, then the illusion of prosperity of the Han Dynasty today is just a castle in the air, as soon as I die, the situation will be uncontrollable, this is not something that can be contained by manpower, so I must complete Dutian!" ”

Full Pet suddenly looked worried.

"Dutian is very involved, if there is no perfect strategy and rashly open Dutian, it is definitely not a good thing, it is good that you have such ambitions, but at present, Dutian does not seem to be very necessary?"

Liu Bei shook his head.

"The crux of the world's problems lies in land annexation, and if we don't deal with this problem, we can only solve the current problems, and the bigger problems will accumulate, and finally usher in a full-scale outbreak, with immeasurable serious consequences.

Boning, the current situation in Dahan is stable, not because of how wise and powerful I am, nor because of the blessing of some gods, but in the previous series of chaos, I consciously or unintentionally carried out acts similar to Dutian in many areas.

I killed the original landowners and distributed their land to the landless, and these landless people got the land, got the industry, got the food, and there was no unrest, so that the situation could be stabilized.

In addition to the border, the more turbulent the situation, the higher the degree of local land annexation, and the more stable the situation, the lower the degree of local land annexation. ”

Man Zhong lowered his head and thought for a while, without refuting Liu Bei's opinion, but soon, he raised a more intuitive question.

"General, the person who owns the most land in the world may be in Luoyang, and may even be the closest person to you, and they may not accept Dutian's request, let alone pay taxes according to the law, so are you really ready?"

"Without this awareness, what else can we talk about? Just get drunk and dream with those insects. ”

Liu Bei pursed his lips with a look of disdain: "If I were just a person who is greedy for pleasure and greedy for life and afraid of death, I won't do so many things, after becoming a general, I can enjoy it, and after I die, I care about the flood?" ”

"Worm ......"

Man Zhong took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "General, this is a matter that is unpopular in the world, once it is opened, there will be a lot of opponents, it will be extraordinary, and the attacks on you will be very fierce, and even a mad assassination of you, despite this, are you willing to accept it?" ”

"Berning, I asked you if you regretted torturing that prisoner to death at that time, and you said you wouldn't regret it."

"Yes, once again, the pet still won't change the previous practice, the pet has not regretted what he did before because of the loss of his official position, and he will not regret doing the right thing."

"Then my choice is the same as yours, after opening Dutian, I will not regret my decision today, do the right thing for the people of the world, even if I fail, I will not regret it."

Liu Bei stared deeply at Man Pet, and Man Pet also stared at Liu Bei deeply.

Through the eyes of each other, the two men realized their common will.

So the full pet nodded.

"The general has no reservations about pets, and pets are heartfelt, although they can't do too much, but pets can guarantee that the Manchu family will not confront you on the issue of Dutian, and the Manchu family will definitely take the lead in reporting all the family property to you clearly, and will not conceal it, and the taxes that should be paid will never be evaded."

"That's good."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "What I hate the most is the kind of bastard thing that obviously has a lot of industry but is not even willing to pay a copper coin, it is this kind of self-righteous bastard that there are too many bastard things, and the Han world will become so smoky!" ”

Through this conversation, the two men got to know each other a lot.

Liu Bei further learned about the determination of Man Favor, which made Liu Bei think that Man Favor was worthy of trust and further entrustment.

And Man Chong also further learned about Liu Bei's honesty and trust in his subordinates, which made Man Chong's good impression of Liu Bei go to a higher level, and thought that it was really feasible to work with Liu Bei to do great things.

Even if it's something that requires risking your life.

But full of favor is such a person, who recognizes one thing and one person, and will move forward bravely, no matter how much political risk he takes, he will also move forward bravely towards the goal and will not turn around.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Bei handed over the formation of Zhongshutai and the command of the county soldiers to him.

Later, Liu Bei began to instruct Man Zhong in detail on some important tasks for the formation of Zhongshutai and the county soldiers.

"Once the county soldiers are successfully established, the control must be in the hands of the Zhongshutai, and not be taken away by the local government, which is very important, without this, then it will be very difficult for us to deal with those thieves who want to plot against them.

The imperial army belongs to the imperial army, but if there is a reliable armed force in the local area, which can be extinguished before or at the beginning of the rebellion of the thieves, the imperial court can also save a lot of things, except for the first evil, the rest are a rabble, which is easy to deal with.

They are like officials and apprentices in the central capital, although the number is small and the force is not strong, but in a specific area, their existence is very important, and they can play a decisive role, which we must pay attention to. ”

After hearing this, Man Pet nodded slowly.

"Junhou, what you mean is that you want to fight for power between Zhongshutai and the locality, but in this way, there are still some problems."

"What?"

"The cost of the middle desk."

Man Zhong said in a low voice: "If the county soldiers set up in the local county and state are not controlled by the local county government, then in terms of expenses, they can only let the Luoyang court spend it, and the local county will probably not be willing to spend money to support a group of people who compete with them for power and profit, have you considered it?"

There are one hundred and nine counties in the Han Dynasty, and according to your regulations, there is one county soldier for every 300 people, and the number of county soldiers to be set up in the whole Han may not be less than 200,000, even if each county soldier is treated according to the minimum standard of officials, it will be a huge expenditure. ”

"Nature."

Liu Bei nodded and said: "I know, the problem of money is always the first issue, but financial resources are also part of power, and strong financial resources can only be strong."

If you are willing to spend money, there will be people who are willing to help you do things, and if you are willing to spend money, you can do what you want to do. ”

Man Pet was silent for a while, then nodded earnestly.

Or is it that he is a great general and he is just his subordinate?

This pattern, this mind, this momentum that regards money like dung!

If there were a few more high-ranking officials like this, why did he come to the point where he fell apart before?

(End of chapter)