He mobilized some families in Liangzhou and the official forces of Liangzhou to form a joint caravan to connect the Western Regions commercially, leaving the possibility for a subsequent political return.

The earliest group of family forces willing to open up the Western Regions encountered some dangers in the Western Regions, and within three or five years, the three families were wiped out because of the danger of the Western Regions, but the other families that survived successfully brought back some news of the Western Regions, which provided valuable information for Liu Bei to form a joint caravan later.

Since the second year of Jian'an, the combined caravans of Liangzhou have traveled back and forth between the Western Regions and Liangzhou several times, reaching as far as Nanhe City in Yanqi Kingdom, and also reaching the Cheshi Kingdom and Shanshan Kingdom, mainly trading with these three countries, selling salt, ironware, livestock and some handicrafts of Liangzhou.

In some areas further west, they had not yet arrived, because the distance was far away, the funds could not support it, and Liu Bei was not prepared to run the Western Regions at that time, so it was limited to commercial contacts.

Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to resume the operation of the Western Regions.

And Dong Zhuo also realized that Liu Bei's choice of him to become the Great Honglu may not be a random choice, he had the experience of being an official in the Western Regions, and he had personally experienced the customs of the Western Regions, which is quite rare for the current Eastern Han bureaucratic group.

"Is it because Zhuo once held the position of captain in the Western Regions?"

"Of course."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "If you want to return to the Western Regions, you need someone who knows something about the Western Regions, the Ban family was martyred because of an adulteress, which makes me feel very pity, without the Ban family, we need to choose other experienced people to take on this responsibility, at present, I have searched the entire court, and I can't find a few people with experience in the Western Regions, and you, Zhong Ying, you are." ”

Dong Zhuo almost understood what Liu Bei meant, and at the same time, he also had a little confidence in his heart.

It seems that Liu Bei really intends to use him, instead of putting him in Luoyang to retire and send him to the end, if this is the case, he will have to consider whether it is time to leave Luoyang.

But now that we have things to do and goals that we can take action, if we achieve the credit of reopening the Western Regions, can we rely on such merit to be promoted to the position of the Three Princes?

Dong Zhuo began to carry out beautiful fantasies.

So he took over the task given to him by Liu Bei-

From now on, we must begin to study and take action in the Western Regions, and make every effort to reopen the Western Regions, establish contact with the leaders of the countries in the Western Regions as a great Honglu, and resume political contacts in the past.

At this point, Dong Zhuo's problem was preliminarily solved, his army did not make trouble, perhaps he also saw that Dong Huang and Lu Bu's army was waiting for him, so no one dared to make trouble, although he had some ideas in his heart, he still took the money and waited for the arrangement.

Liu Bei ordered the household department in the general's mansion to divide and arrange for these soldiers to settle down, or Liangzhou, or Merge Prefecture, or Youzhou, to increase the local population.

In the meantime, Dong Zhuo also officially took office as Dahonglu, and a not very small political turmoil came to an end.

With the end of the slave restriction operation in the four states of the Central Plains, as well as the slave restriction operation in the two states in the south of the Yangtze River that has not yet begun, it seems that the whole world has entered a period of temporary stability.

Liu Bei did not do anything further, but was honestly handling daily affairs.

Liu Bei really doesn't have the idea of going further to other development policies in a short period of time.

In the current situation, there are too many things to do, and the subjective initiative of the Eastern Han Empire has been suppressed by him to the extreme, and further up, it is a bit unfollowing objective laws.

Just like Liangzhou at the beginning, the speed of development is so fast, and the ceiling is so high, if you exceed this ceiling, to engage in the drama of subjective initiative surpassing everything, it will only bring disaster and pain to the Han Empire.

Therefore, when Liu Bei observed that the officials of the Luoyang Imperial Court were already at full capacity, or even somewhat overloaded, he knew that his whip should not be too hard, but should properly let the officials relax, otherwise there would soon be a wave of injuries among officials.

Therefore, Liu Bei presided over the State Council in mid-July of the fourth year of Jian'an, and presided over the revision of part of the treatment of officials.

For example, salary increases, increased benefits, and the most important thing is to change the 10-day holiday to the 7-day holiday, which was originally three days off in January, but now it is changed to four days off in January.

For some important posts that cannot be lacking, a rotation system is adopted, the number of officials is appropriately relaxed, and one more deputy post is allowed to be arranged for some important posts, so as to rotate to work, so as to avoid problems in the operation of departments due to the injury or illness of some people.

This meeting gave the court officials a good impression, and many officials and officials praised Liu Bei continuously, thinking that Liu Bei finally found out in his conscience that everyone would have a good life in the future...... That's weird!

Liu Bei will not casually allow anyone to live a good life, but just relax the officials and officials from the state of full load and overload a little, don't let them be wasted, take the road of sustainable exhaustion and fishing, and squeeze all the wisdom and physical strength of these guys.

Such a good welfare, if you want to enjoy it, you have to do something for me, right?

Slave resettlement in the states, road repairs in the states, collective farms in the states, water conservancy projects in the states, bridges in the states, judicial and criminal cases in the states, conflicts and disputes between the counties in the states, and so on.

There are not many problems that have been solved by Liu Bei, but many new problems brought about by this also need to be solved urgently, all in all, the Luoyang court can never stop, and the officials should never think that it can be easy.

The state of chaos in the past is gone forever.

In the case of improving the welfare and vacation days of officials, Liu Bei finally took out the official evaluation system in Liangzhou, and prepared to apply it to the Luoyang Imperial Court, and gradually promoted it to the history of the state and the county government and the county government.

Officials and officials are also going to engage in KPIs, and they can't tolerate the situation of corpses eating vegetarian meals and occupying the pit without, Liu Bei clearly put forward many challenges and contradictions faced by the current Han at the State Council, one of the most important of which is-

The contradiction between the administrative capacity of the imperial court that needs to be improved urgently and a large number of unqualified officials and the lame administrative ability of the imperial court that is dragged down by the governance of the world.

In short, the governance of the world requires the input of elite talents, and the hard work of officials who are willing to listen to orders and carry out orders, rather than a group of Confucian scholars who only know how to talk about classic articles.

Liu Bei needs really capable officials to run for the implementation of imperial court decrees, and he doesn't need a group of "merry talents" who lie in the official office all day long, listening to music and reading articles.

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