Previously, Liu Bei had planned to take all the power of the inner palace into the Shaofu to deal with it, and engage in a big housekeeper system like a normal big family in the outside world.

But then he thought about it, the royal family is different from ordinary families, there will be problems if they are rigid, and if they don't give the eunuchs a little power, there will inevitably be some bad phenomena in the Shaofu.

Even if Shaofu is the emperor's personal butler, but in the end he is still an outsider, and when it comes to matters at the level of eunuchs who serve closely, it is better to let the eunuchs maintain a relatively independent position.

Otherwise, even the people around the emperor are in the hands of the chief butler, isn't the authority of the chief butler too great?

So Liu Bei still withdrew the authority of the Shaofu, handed over this authority to Zhang Rang, and asked Zhang Rang to set up an internal affairs office, and Zhang let himself be the head of the internal affairs office, and the general manager of all the eunuch affairs, from the selection of eunuchs to the specific services, are all managed by the internal affairs office.

The clothing, food, housing, transportation, food and clothing of the royal members are arranged and managed by the Internal Affairs Office, and all the internal life affairs of the royal family are responsible for the Internal Affairs Office, including Liu Bei's own food, clothing, and daily life, and the Internal Affairs Office must also be deeply involved to solve all the internal affairs troubles for Liu Bei.

In this way, the main responsibility of the Shaofu to the Ministry of Internal Affairs is to provide funds, and not to participate in specific service operations.

However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs presides over all personal service matters, but does not have financial power, and the funds for activities need to be provided by the Shaofu, and they must also be reviewed by the Shaofu in terms of funds.

In the middle, the special existence of the queen, who can intervene in the handling of internal affairs, is added, so that the three aspects reach a more delicate balance in the internal affairs of the palace, influencing each other and checking and balancing each other.

In this way, the stability of the inner palace can be maintained to a considerable extent.

Zhang Rang was thrilled by this appointment.

After handing over the East Garden, he thought that he would completely turn back into the super service person who used to do everything for the sake of his position, and become a high-level guy who ran before and behind to deliver tea and water, and did what he once relied on to survive.

After all, after becoming the emperor, Liu Bei obviously became different from the Liu Bei in his impression, and the identities of the two were completely unequal, from former allies to master and servant.

However, what he didn't expect was that Liu Bei still had an old affection for him, and actually set up an internal affairs office, so that he could take charge of the internal affairs office and take charge of the affairs of the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, which felt higher than his status after he became a regular servant.

Because there were twelve permanent attendants in the middle school, and now, there is only one head of the internal affairs office.

He is the only big eunuch, and he is still Liu Bei's side.

What is trust?

What is Lao Zhang?

Zhang Rang's heart spontaneously developed a sense of pride.

He even felt that he could proudly claim that he was the only eunuch in Liu Bei's heart.

So, he decided to take care of the internal affairs office and let Liu Bei see that he could become the [father] in Liu Hong's mouth, and there was a reason.

According to Liu Bei's request to the Internal Affairs Office, Zhang Rang divided the Internal Affairs Office into several departments.

The front-line service department, the appliance maintenance and manufacturing department, the family canteen, and the external procurement department.

The front-line service department is dedicated to serving Liu Bei himself and his family, because it is a group of people who serve closely, dangling in front of the royal family all day long, so whether it is male or female, the appearance must be passable.

The little eunuch must be good-looking, and the little palace maid must also be peugeot, and then receive at least three months of special service training in the front-line service department, and must go through the assessment and the eyes of the old people in the palace before they can finally take office and serve the royal family.

And what can serve in front of Liu Bei is that it needs to be personally assessed and examined by Zhang Rang, and there can be no difference in the pool, but if Liu Bei frowns, it will be a great failure for Zhang Rang.

And in order to ensure safety, the little eunuchs and little palace maids who can come to the front-line service department must find out the identity and background of the three generations of their ancestors, but anyone who has the slightest connection with Liu Bei's enemy family will pass directly and be investigated.

How many enemies Liu Bei has, Zhang Rang, who has always cooperated deeply with Liu Bei, knows it all too well, so it is really appropriate to leave this matter to him.

The appliance maintenance and manufacturing department is dedicated to making or repairing utensils for the royal family, and all that is required is craftsmanship, eunuchs must master carpenter work, and palace maids must master the craftsmanship of weaving and embroidery, otherwise they will never be able to enter.

A small family canteen is also important.

Because the inner palace is inconvenient for outsiders to enter, Zhang Rang decided to train the internal affairs government's own cooks, and he will send a group of little eunuchs and palace maids with cooking experience to apprentice the master of the central kitchen in the imperial city as apprentices, learn for a while, and then cook for the nobles of the inner palace.

The procurement department draws the operating expenses from the Shaofu every month in accordance with the regulations, sends the pocket money of each palace first, and then purchases all the materials needed for each season according to the rules and regulations.

All in all, Zhang Rang built the Internal Affairs Office as a miniature service to the small imperial court, and also wrote a plan for the construction of the Internal Affairs Office, found a gap, and handed the plan to Liu Bei.

At that time, Liu Bei had just had lunch and was taking a nap, so Zhang Rang handed the plan to Liu Bei, Liu Bei took it and looked at it, and was happy.

"Okay, Lao Zhang, it seems that you really haven't improved after I told you back then, the plan is very organized, that is, these things are done, is it too much to spend money?"

Zhang Rang's face immediately smiled as if a chrysanthemum was in full bloom.

"Your Majesty, isn't it right to spend a little money on things for you and the people around you? Shaofu won't even be able to take out this money, the old slave knows that you have always been thrifty, and everything here is after thrift. ”

"It's all after frugality?"

Liu Bei was a little surprised: "Then what if you are not thrifty?" ”

"The money spent on preparing a West Garden for the first emperor back then was enough to build ten of your current internal affairs office."

Zhang Rang smiled bitterly: "If you are not thrifty, all the money in the entire Shaofu can be used, and it is not even enough, because you have always been thrifty, so the old slave is careful to calculate, if you really want to talk about it, even if the first emperor introduced some cockfighting lackeys from Jiangnan or something, it will cost more than a small kitchen of the Internal Affairs Mansion." ”

"The first emperor spent so much money?"

Liu Bei was slightly surprised.

He knew that Liu Hong liked money and made money very well, and he also knew that Liu Hong spent money very much, but he really didn't have any amount in his heart about how much it cost.

And Zhang Rang, as an important participant in Liu Hong's money making and spending, of course knew this, so he folded his fingers to Liu Bei to calculate how Liu Hong spent money.

Liu Honggang was okay when he became the emperor, and the money was not very much, and when it came time to build the West Garden, the West Garden was really a super building piled up with money, that is, those lions and tigers, and the cost of transporting it to Luoyang was enough for the internal affairs government of this scale to run for more than half a year.

"In fact, those big things themselves are not worth much, but they are transported all the way over, and people on the road eat and chew, and if they delay a little, it is the cost of hundreds of people for a few months, and then some people are full of private pockets or something, and it is really not to say that they spend money like running water."

Zhang Rang said with a look of a passer-by: "But Your Majesty has always been simple, and he hates his subordinates spending money indiscriminately, so the old slave also pays more attention to this aspect, blocking some openings, so that some people can't be corrupt from it at all." ”

Liu Bei nodded.

"Sure enough, professional things still have to be handed over to professional talents, Lao Zhang, you are not as good as me in governing the country, I am not as good as you in housekeeping, I don't ask for anything, I don't want rare and exotic beasts, flowers, birds, fish and insects, etc., I don't want it, it's enough to eat enough and dress warmly, and the rest, save more money, I can give the soldiers a few more meals of meat."

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the old slave will do his best!"

Zhang Rang paused.

Liu Bei also considered the decision to leave Zhang Rang to deal with internal affairs, and now it seems that this decision is not wrong.

No one knows how to embezzle better than a good corrupt person, and naturally, using him in reverse and practicing corruption can also make corrupt people have no way out for a while.

As for whether there will be a new road to come out after the days are long, that is certain, but at least the old road is blocked, and it takes time to open up a new route, which is enough time for Liu Bei to do a lot of things.

At present, there are many important things, some of which are specific and some of which are of cultural and ideological importance, and the compilation and publication of the "Guardian Tongyi" as soon as possible is one of them.

This "Constitution of the Han Dynasty," which was compiled on the premise that the ancient literature school was in power, was handled in an intense and orderly manner before the change of regime, and was almost one-third completed.

Then Liu Bei became the emperor, and only one-third of the people who were in charge of compiling it were left, and two-thirds of them were killed by Liu Bei because of their involvement with Zheng Tai and others.

Now "Jiade Tongyi" doesn't know how to go on at all, so everyone looks at Ruan Yu, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and asks Ruan Yu to have an idea.

How should this Han constitution be compiled, and how should the public opinion and ideological system of the nascent Han Third Reich be constructed?

Do you, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, want to come up with an idea?

After Ruan Yu learned about it, she was also very entangled.

Ruan Yu can make up his own mind about general matters, but this matter is too involved, and it is not something that he can decide on his own, so Ruan Yu is not easy to decide, so he still wants to ask Liu Bei's opinion.

After all, your old man has wiped out the family that has mastered the inheritance of "Zhou Guanli", and the living people have been thrown to the border area by you, and now there is no certification endorsement from them, how can this "Jiade Tongyi" be compiled by borrowing the content of other people's scriptures?

One day at the end of November, Ruan Yu came to Liu Bei with a draft of Jiade Tongyi, a third of which had already been compiled, and asked him for "tactical guidance."

After learning about this, Liu Bei gave a little of his own opinion.

"No inheritance family does not mean that there is no classic article, the article itself is there, how to get it, can't you decide for yourself? If the inheritance family is gone, it is gone, and the classic articles no longer need their explanations, can't the court explain it itself? ”

Ruan Yu smiled bitterly.

"It doesn't matter if the general articles are classics, but the content of this kind of family classics still needs to be confirmed by people who have family classics to confirm it......

"The man who passed the scriptures is dead."

Liu Bei sneered: "Do living people need to care about the thoughts of a group of dead people? Classic articles were originally things of the imperial court and were decided by the Son of Heaven, but the first emperors of the past dynasties were young and could not master the classics, so they stole the classics.

Not only did they take it for themselves, but they were embarrassed to say that it was their family heirloom? If it's not convenient for you to get it, then show it to me, and I'll decide it myself, family heirloom? What is a family tradition? There was never a family heirloom! Only Chinese Studies! ”

Liu Bei slapped the table and scared the people around him.

Ruan Yu felt Liu Bei's meaning, and suddenly had some bold ideas.

"Your Majesty, the reason why the classic articles are family studies is mainly because the interpretation of the content of the scriptures made by some people is more appropriate, but the interpretation of the contents of these scriptures actually has different opinions, but one of them has been recognized by the imperial court.

In fact, the root cause, as Your Majesty said, is still the relationship recognized by the imperial courtIf the imperial court no longer recognizes it, then such an explanation will naturally not be recognized by the people of the world, so why doesn't Your Majesty take back the right to interpret the classics to the imperial court? Returning to the Son of Heaven? ”

"Collect the Son of Heaven?"

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted.

Ruan Yu is right.

The right to interpret the classics actually originated from the White Tiger View Conference during the reign of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty.

At the beginning, the power of sentence breaks and annotations of Confucian classics was really in the hands of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty himself, and the entire "White Tiger Tongyi" was discussed by the old Confucians, and then handed over to Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty to decide personally.

How to interpret the Confucian classics and how to explain the constitution of the Han Dynasty was controlled by Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, who inherited the greatly expanded imperial power handed over by Liu Xiu to the emperors of later generations, and achieved the great cause of the Son of Heaven, but it is a pity that the later monarchs did not have a long lifespan, so this power gradually split and was lost.

From the official and the Son of Heaven, to the private and family ones.

After more than 100 years of evolution, people today have almost forgotten that the right to interpret the Confucian classics was still in the hands of the Son of Heaven and the official.

Few of the successive emperors of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty lived to adulthood, and they could not control the right to interpret this crucial classic, so the right to interpret it naturally fell into the hands of the "highly respected" family heirs.

More than 100 years of practice have been passed down, and it has even been assumed that these doctrines are private, not official.

That's why Liu Bei had such a big advantage before.

But at present, Liu Bei, who has this huge advantage, has become the emperor, and his imperial power has far surpassed that of the adult Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han, and even more stable than Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

With the blessing of such a powerful power, coupled with his own extremely profound Confucian skills, why can't he work harder to once again return the right to interpret the classics of Confucianism to the Son of Heaven and the imperial court?

That's what he should have in itself.

This is the important power that Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty left to future emperors.

So Liu Bei slapped his brain.

"Yuan Yu, you can be regarded as a person who woke up in a dream with a word, you are right, it has always been a matter that can only be decided by the imperial court, and the power was stolen by these thieves for a while, how can it still be taken for granted? It's a no-no. ”

Ruan Yu showed a smug smile that had made a great achievement.

"Of course, you yourself are the head of the Valve Reading Family, and now there are only three Valve Reading Families in the world, how to deal with it, isn't it still a matter of your words?"

"That's true, but if you really want to do it, you'll have to discuss it with my teacher."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Don't talk about anything else for the time being, the teacher still has to pay attention to it, then this matter will be decided first, and you will postpone the compilation and wait for me to inform you." ”

"Yui."

Ruan Yu left suddenly.

After Ruan Yu left, Liu Bei thought for a moment and decided to call Ma Riyan first.

The persimmon should be picked and pinched softly, first starting with Ma Riyan, who is easy to handle, and then going to discuss with Lu Zhi.

(End of chapter)