In the later period of the development of the Eastern Han Empire, the traffic situation can be regarded as fragmented, not to mention that it extends in all directions.

In many areas, the roads are even walked by people, and there are no regulated roads at all.

During this period, there was really a big problem with the country's transportation, and with the increasing chaos of the central court, the maintenance of the roads by the imperial court was infinitely close to laissez-faire, and once some important roads went wrong, the routes for officials to take office could be blocked.

Especially in places like Yizhou, once the road is blocked and the responsible body cannot be found to repair it with all its might, if people from outside want to enter, it is normal to be blocked for two or three years and unable to move forward.

For example, Xun Yu on the original timeline was unable to enter Yizhou to serve as the Taishou of Shu County because the road was impassable, so he couldn't move forward, and he was blocked in Jingzhou for more than three years.

This is still the case for officials, let alone ordinary people?

Thinking back to the time when Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he proposed to build ten galloping roads from the national capital to various places, which is obviously to see the importance of transportation to national governance.

At the same time, there is also a saying in the Imperial Age, that is, sending troops from the national capital, and the place where the army can reach after three months is the limit of the empire's ruling ability, beyond the distance of three months, it will no longer be the territory that the empire can rule.

But this is not absolute for an empire.

Therefore, if the domestic traffic situation is quite bad, then the Imperial Pole Wall will be correspondingly shortened, and the places that can be reached in normal three months will not be reached.

If the domestic traffic situation is excellent and the roads extend in all directions, then the extreme wall range of the empire will increase correspondingly, and the territory of the empire will also expand correspondingly, even to the point of unbelievability.

Therefore, the issue of transportation is something that Liu Bei attaches great importance to.

When Jian'an was three years old, he began to plan the Han Empire's own Dachi Road construction plan, and he also planned to start construction from Luoyang, build some Dachi Road, and build it to those uncontrollable border passes.

Not to mention the idea of building a north-south Grand Canal ahead of schedule to cope with the Xiaoice climate that will come twenty years later.

Therefore, the significance of the existence of the Ministry of Industry is quite significant.

After careful consideration, Liu Bei decided to arrange for Yan Wen, who had previously served as Guangluxun, to be appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and he would preside over the engineering forces of the whole country and be responsible for adding weight to the rule of the Third Han Empire.

The final political reform was the remodeled cabinet of Shang Shutai.

The reason why the name of Shangshutai was not used was to prevent Shangshutai from quickly becoming a department that usurped the authority of the eight ministries because of its tradition.

Although Liu Bei was familiar with the gradual development and expansion of this kind of department after the establishment of the department and thus usurped power, he still did not want the cabinet to become a complete giant so quickly.

In his plan, at least for a considerable part of the time, the cabinet would be used by him to train outstanding young officials, and once they got older, they would be assigned to the eight ministries to manage specific government affairs.

It is equivalent to the emperor himself cultivating his own cronies to control power, so it will not be long before the importance of the cabinet will be recognized, which will lead to a desire for it, and inadvertently improve the actual political status of the cabinet.

In fact, such a lowly and powerful department is not uncommon in history, and it has repeatedly become an important department with real power, and the cabinet is not the only one.

Cabinet-like departments were born very early in Chinese history, and generally first appeared as confidential departments close to the emperor.

The main reason for its development and growth is that it is close to the emperor, and it is easy to become a well-known power department through the emperor's authority, and easily obtain some power that does not belong to the department.

But for a centralized emperor who does not set up a prime minister, the world's government affairs are really heavy, and if no one helps, few emperors can have such strong mental power and vitality as Lao Zhu.

Liu Bei felt that he did not have as strong mental strength and vitality as Zhu Yuanzhang, so he still decided to set up a cabinet.

He pulled all the subordinates in the general's palace who had not yet been released to help him deal with government affairs into the cabinet and became cabinet members, so simply changed a brand and ran the entire emperor's secretarial department - the cabinet.

He did not give the cabinet any titles such as first assistant, second assistant, group assistant, etc., and called them all cabinet members, and the only internal leader was the emperor, nothing more.

As for whether this department will become a supergiant with eight powers in the future, Liu Bei cannot provide any guarantees.

But he knows that no matter whether it is an ancient country or a modern country, whether it is the past, the present or the future, there is no eternal law that can be solved once and for all, and it is pure fool's dream to expect a policy to work for 10,000 years and solve all the hidden dangers.

No matter what the policy, the future will inevitably fall into chaos, be artificially sabotaged, and finally end up with reform or abolition.

The only way is for people to seek change, progress and development by themselves.

Man is the only way to redeem, man is also the biggest source of destruction, things in the world are so contradictory, Liu Bei has no way but to do his best and do the best at the moment.

What is most suitable for the present, choose what, as for the future, it depends on the development of the times.

Although the military department is among the eight departments, it is the only military department among the eight departments, which is in charge of the logistics affairs of the army and is also responsible for counting the merits of the army.

Logistics is also a military subject, and it is an indispensable part of the military.

Therefore, Liu Bei was transferred to Yan Zhong, who was well versed in military affairs and had experience in military operations, to serve as the secretary of the military department.

Later, Liu Bei also set the rules, although the military secretary served in the imperial court and belonged to one of the eight books, he must be selected and promoted from the army system, and the military secretary must have a military background and be well versed in the hardships of soldiers marching and fighting, otherwise he cannot be appointed as the secretary of the military department.

Finally, there is the school department, this educational position, Liu Bei thinks that Zheng Xuan is the most suitable to take on.

In particular, Zheng Xuan is still holding the position of Taixue Sacrificial Wine, in charge of Taixue education affairs, with his qualifications and experience, there must be no problem in becoming the secretary of the school.

However, Zheng Xuan didn't have much idea about it at first.

He felt that Taixue had done a good job of sacrificing wine, and he could spare some time to do what he liked, and if he served as the secretary of the school, the management of the official schools in the country alone would make him lose half of his old life.

He smiled and cried to Liu Bei, saying that he was originally called back to the court to be an official after leaving office, he was old and his energy was low, and if he accepted such a high-intensity job, he would be gagged off on the spot.

"Your Majesty, the old minister still wants to live a few more years, and I hope Your Majesty will be compassionate."

The little old man said all these words, Liu Bei had no choice but to ask Zheng Xuan to take on this responsibility first, and then replace him when he found a more suitable candidate, in exchange for Zheng Xuan's approval.

So Zheng Xuan helped Liu Bei temporarily take on the responsibility of the secretary of this school.

Other departments such as the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Zhongshutai were left untouched by Liu Bei, and they were seamlessly connected to the Third Han Empire and continued to become an important central department.

Large-scale political changes are about the same.

In terms of military affairs, Liu Bei is the candidate for the chief officer of the Privy Council, and Liu Bei is interested in Xun You, who is serving as the assassin of Yizhou.

Xun You's ability in military tactics is very good, in the past battles, often before the war to Liu Bei to plan the strategy, during the war to accompany Liu Bei, to assist Liu Bei in command.

He often goes to the front line, carefully observes the situation, thinks actively, and can quickly draw the right conclusion, he is on the battlefield, and his honest appearance is not the same style of painting at all.

So Liu Bei decided to transfer Xun You back to Luoyang to serve as a privy envoy.

As for the position of Yizhou Assassin held by Xun You, Liu Bei plans to transfer Zuo Fengyi and Han Hao to take over.

With Han Hao's decisiveness and tenacity in implementing the imperial court's policies, as well as his strong ability to resist pressure, Liu Bei believes that Han Hao is definitely capable of taking on the position of Yizhou Assassin, who will face great challenges.

Moreover, transferring Xun You back from Yizhou to Liu Bei still has the idea of promoting Xun You to join the Xun family - this will be said later, it is not important at the moment.

The training academy is also a very important institution, and the effectiveness of the training academy's commander training will affect the strength of the army of the Third Han Empire to a considerable extent, so Liu Bei is also cautious in terms of candidates.

Choosing and choosing, Liu Bei suddenly thought of Gao Shun.

At the beginning, he sent the first batch of Gao Shun to Runan, which was full of dangers, and cooperated with Xun Yu, wanting them to make a name for themselves in Runan County and set an example for other counties.

Then Gao Shun really made a name for himself in Runan County.

He trained a 3,000-strong Runan battalion in Runan County, and according to his actual experience of training, combined with the "Training Drill Manual" distributed by Liu Bei, he wrote Liu Bei a lot of letters about training and leading the troops, and made some suggestions for improving the "Training Drill Manual."

It is worth mentioning that a considerable part of Gao Shun's improvement suggestions were adopted by Liu Bei, and a large-scale reinforcement was made to the "Military Training Drill Code".

In terms of specific achievements, Gao Shun once did not make any outstanding contributions, he has been leading the recruit 24th Army stationed in the Runan area, becoming Xu Huang's subordinate, but in more than three months of purge operations, he has made a lot of contributions.

The areas of Yingchuan County, Runan County, Peiguo, and Chen Guo, which he was responsible for, had many family forces of the ancient literature school, which were relatively difficult to deal with, and in Liu Bei's purge, the resistance in this area was relatively strong.

However, Gao Shun led the 24th Army to deal with the rebellion in this area cleanly, and was meticulous in terms of operations, and the battlefield style was extremely rigorous.

Whatever task Xu Huang assigns, Gao Shun can complete what task, and it is completed quickly and well, which makes Xu Huang very happy.

After that, Xu Huang specially wrote a performance to Liu Bei, praised Gao Shun, praised Gao Shun's ability, and praised him as a talent who really has the style of Zhou Yafu.

Liu Bei felt funny, I don't know if it was Gao Shun's attributes of the great general Peng who gave Xu Huang such a boastful style of acting, in the past, he had never seen Xu Huang praise a subordinate general so much.

However, Liu Bei really appreciates Gao Shun's military ability.

Especially in the aspect of military training, Gao Shun's talent is particularly prominent.

In the entire group of his subordinate generals, there are not many people who are good at fighting and those who fight better than Gao Shun, so Gao Shun's status in the army is actually not high, at most he is a rising star position.

But among the many generals, there are not many people who can calm down and polish the army.

Most of the generals have a personality that likes the battlefield, pursues military exploits and personal glory, and cannot sink their hearts, so they are not suitable for the work of the training academy.

Only Gao Shun, who was born in a scholarly family, has a quiet personality and does not pursue wealth and glory, which is very suitable for this job.

So Liu Bei issued an order to remove Gao Shun from the post of lieutenant general of the 24th Army and reappointed him to the post of training envoy of the training institute of the 2000 stones.

Nominally, the entire Han army was under the control and management of Gao Shun in the absence of war, and Gao Shun had the right to give orders to any army to carry out military training, and also to give the same orders to any general.

This is quite a significant authority.

Gao Shun himself was stunned when he received this appointment, his lips trembled, and his hand holding the appointment edict continued to tremble, and he couldn't react at all for a while.

When Liu Bei made this decision, many officials were surprised by this, and felt that Liu Bei actually chose such an infamous young general to hold such an important position, which was really a bit off-the-sis.

However, Liu Bei Qiangang was arbitrary, decided on the appointment, and did not listen to anyone's opinion.

Finally, there are the Praetorian Guards.

Because Liu Bei did not plan to make two positions of two thousand stones to guard the palace, he decided to set up only one Praetorian Guard to protect the safety of the imperial city and the emperor himself.

The Praetorian Guard was expanded from the Tiger Guard, and the soldiers who had been screened to the last time were gathered and expanded to a size of 5,000 people, stationed in the imperial city, and took turns to protect Liu Bei himself.

The Praetorian Guard has two lieutenant generals, one left and one right, one Xu Chu, and the other Dian Wei, that's all.

The reform and transfer of the entire central organ was almost completed in Liu Bei's careful planning.

In addition to the reform of the central organs, Liu Bei also announced certain reforms at the local level.

For example, the land of Sanfu was restructured into Yongzhou, and the land of Sanhe and Hongnong County were restructured into Sili Prefecture.

Liu Bei's explanation for this is that he wants to solve the problem of regional discrimination from the official level.

It is difficult to change people's concepts in a moment, but the official level should be unified, and the official should treat Dahan Prefecture and County equally, especially not giving some local prefectures and counties too special status at the official level.

It is necessary to develop according to local conditions, but political over-tilting and dependence on a certain region will have a great negative impact on the unification of the entire country.

Since the founding of the Second Empire, the special national conditions are not available in the Third Empire, and the emperor who has suppressed the world strongly has enough ability to take responsibility for this situation, so Liu Bei issued an edict to reform the land of the three rivers and the land of the three auxiliaries, and set up a history of assassination to govern.

He will use the former Hongnong County Shou Yin Da as the assassin of Yongzhou, and the former Henan Yin Cao Cao as the assassin of Silizhou.

Subsequently, he ordered that the administrative level of the Jiaozhi region be officially upgraded to the state level, and officially appointed Zhu Fu, the current Jiaozhi Thorn Shi, as the first Jiaozhou Thorn Shi of the Han Dynasty.

The proposal of Jiaozhi to become Jiaozhou was put forward as early as the period of Emperor Huan, but it was not passed at that time, Liu Bei believed that the Jiaozhi area would become an important base for him to open up the overseas situation in the future, so he decided to officially elevate the status of the Jiaozhou region.

In this way, the pattern of the thirteen administrative regions of the Han Dynasty officially became the political pattern of the fourteen states in the Third Han Empire.

This series of political and geographical changes was promulgated in one day, on the 23rd day of September in the fifth year of Jian'an, although Liu Bei had held meetings in the past three months, held seminars and briefings with his subordinates, but the participants were only a minority after all.

Most of the middle and low-level officials had limited understanding of this, and only learned from some leaked news that the new emperor Liu Bei was going to carry out large-scale reforms over the entire Han Dynasty.

The reforms that he could not carry out during the period of the great general, now that he is the emperor, he has to carry out the reforms in one go.

Especially at this critical moment when the opposition was flexing its muscles and establishing its rule, Liu Bei announced this complete set of reform plans, which had a considerable impact on the entire Luoyang court.

Not to mention those who didn't know about it beforehand, even those who had many meetings with Liu Bei in advance and learned about it were deeply shocked.

They were shocked when they learned that Liu Bei had designed a whole set of reforms for the Third Han Reich, and although they learned that they would gain more important positions and powers in the new system than before, the all-round changes were still shocking.

Therefore, the rumors in the market are even more credible.

This is not a change of emperor, this is a change of dynasty.

(End of chapter)