For the next period of time, Liu Bei was very busy and spent almost all of his time on work.

After the war, a series of aftermath work was complicated, and the work of comprehensively granting fields and granting fields after that was also a thousand things, requiring a large number of officials to devote themselves to it, including him, the emperor, would not have any time to rest.

In this wave of chaos, many officials were either killed in rebellion, or they were not able to cope with difficulties, and they lost ground and caused too much local losses and were dismissed from their posts.

This is certainly a good thing for the country in the long run, because if the incompetent or disgruntled ones are exposed, they will be punished well, and there will be no more worrying things.

But for the short-term situation, the problem is quite big.

Busy, that is, busy, the aftermath of the war, the selection and replacement of officials, one by one, are all busy things, and the entire first year of Zhenguan has been busy.

But such busyness can also bring great benefits, such as a great progress in the degree of collectivization of agriculture.

In the past, because there was no compulsory means of enforcement, and the principle of voluntariness was mainly followed, the land expropriated by the imperial court and the freed slaves were of course all arranged in collective farms, which existed locally as proofs for the free peasants to choose.

Some people saw the benefits of agricultural collectivization and chose to join, while others insisted on family production and did not want to join, always feeling that these officials in the court were not happy.

Of course Liu Bei is tolerant, you are willing, I accept your unwillingness, I don't force it, if you want to leave, I will let go of the curfew and let you go.

As a result of maintaining this loose policy rule, the degree of agricultural collectivization in the entire Jiangbei region is high in the west and low in the east.

The degree of agricultural collectivization in the Kansai region is very high, especially in a place like Liangzhou, where the degree of agricultural collectivization is almost 100 percent.

The degree of agricultural collectivization in the Guanzhong region and the northern part of Yizhou is also very high, generally exceeding 80 percent, or even 90 percent, while Bingzhou and Youzhou are naturally promoting agricultural collectivization after the pacification because of the long-term war, and the local people are generally willing to accept it out of the need for security.

In Jizhou, the degree of agricultural collectivization in the northern part of Jizhou was relatively high, reaching more than 70 percent, while in the southern part of the country it was relatively low, and even less than 30 percent in some areas.

In the Central Plains, however, the degree of agricultural collectivization varies, with a total of more than 50 percent, a high rate of 60 or 70 percent in some areas, and a low level of only 30 or 40 percent in some areas.

Not to mention the south of the Yangtze River, there is not much difference between whether there is or not.

After the Dutian Rebellion, because the excellent performance of the collective farms in the war-torn period was very eye-catching, the free peasants saw the superiority of the collective farms and their strong ability to resist disasters, so they collectively voted with their feet and demanded to join the collective farms in large quantities.

Because there were so many people asking to join the collective farms that the government did not have enough manpower, they could only be asked to queue up, village by village, and take their time.

However, the more this is the case, the more people want to join, and the more they can't, the more they want to get.

When the government struggled to publicize it before, few people were tempted, and it can only be said that this is an exposure of human nature.

The affairs of the collective farm need a lot of time to deal with, because the other party is in a hurry, so Liu Bei announced that the local government can ask for the help of the county soldiers, the county soldiers are all educated, have drunk ink, and have the ability to do these things, and pulling them over is equivalent to thousands of more clerks out of thin air.

Isn't this man enough?

It is impossible for me to recruit more officials, it is not so easy, only tens of millions of people, there are 1670,000 officials and 200,000 county soldiers, plus one piece is equal to more than 300,000 people helping to govern.

Moreover, with the spread of collective farms, the number of government representatives will also increase, and it will not be long before the number of officials will exceed 170,000, and there will be another 300,000 troops to be responsible for the war, and the number of people who will eat the financial food will be equal to 670,000.

There are also palace attendants and maids in the palace, and there are many semi-official government animal husbandry employees on the northern border, and there will soon be 700,000 people to eat the financial meal.

There is a high probability that the current population of the Han Empire has not exceeded 70 million, and at most it is close to 70 million, which is equivalent to an average of 100 people to support a person who eats financial food.

Otherwise, the level of the Third Reich of the Han Dynasty controlled by him will also leave a name of "redundant officials and redundant soldiers" in history.

Therefore, Liu Bei did not agree to the request of some people to expand the number of officials, but incorporated the county soldiers into the local governance system, and asked them to help when necessary, and suffer themselves, and the happy people and Emperor Liu were happy.

Liu Bei led the cabinet members to start the 996 overtime mode, working overtime to deal with the government affairs processing requests that flocked to the local government, and on the other hand, he had to be distracted by the selection of officials.

Although it is not the right time to hold the imperial examination at this stage, because the personnel power has been completely controlled by him, no one can question his personnel power, so in terms of personnel, Liu Bei has begun to use the examination method to select new officials.

The personnel power of the empire is now all under the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Officials has all the selection powers, and the main objects of selection are the students of the Taixue and the states and states, with this identity, if you feel that your knowledge is okay, then you can come to participate in the internal examination held by the Ministry of Officials.

The selection of officials by the examination is basically the determination of some basic rules for Liu Bei's selection examination of the officials.

Because the responsibilities of officials and officials are different, the responsibilities of officials are obviously heavier, and the responsibilities to the people are also very heavy, and it is difficult to be a good official without experience.

One of the major drawbacks of the ancient imperial examination was that some pure newcomers with no experience in being officials were selected to go to local officials to become officials, so that a lot of funny things happened.

Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang conferred the official title on the new scholars, he also distributed to them the must-read manuals for being county officials in the local area, and gave them temporary training, so as to prevent these second-minded people from being deceived by the local officials, and counting the money for them if they were sold.

Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to make such a patch can only show that such a thing has appeared more than once before, and it has even become a serious problem that the emperor attaches importance to.

It is indeed not easy for newcomers to be the chief official of a county, although the local population is not large in these years, but the officials are also responsible for the lives of these places.

Therefore, Liu Bei's plan is to limit the personnel selected by the examination to the category of officials, and then open up the selection ladder from officials to officials, so that officials can become the reserve army of officials.

If you want to become an official official, you must first pass the official examination to serve as a junior official, accumulate sufficient experience, and then make achievements, and then pass the further official selection examination, so as to become an imperial official.

Think about it, there are nearly 170,000 civil servants in the empire, and there are only more than 7,000 officials and magnates in the right way, and the rest are all small officials, and the most experienced in politics are except for the officials themselves, that is, this group of small officials.

The most important thing to deal with the people and implement the goals of the imperial court is this group of small officials.

Can they not matter?

Can their quality and style of conduct not matter?

Their performance can basically represent the people's perception of the imperial court, and the strength of their execution represents the strength of the imperial court's ability to govern, and their various performances basically represent everything in the Han Empire.

And there have been quite a few moments in the past and in the future when officials and officials could not communicate with each other.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, officials could not become officials, but because of the establishment of the system of liuguan, the local roots of officials were far less profound than those of officials.

It is true that this is good for the governance of the imperial court, because the status of the official is higher after all, and if he holds too much real power, it will make the imperial court worried, and although the small officials have real power, they have no reputation, and at most they will harm the local area, and they will not harm the overall situation of the entire place.

Therefore, it is better to let the officials and officials fight each other.

It's just that the further back you go, the greater the negative impact.

If you think about it, you can understand that the local county officials will serve for two or three years, three or four years, and then leave, and some small officials even work from life to death, and one person can serve more than a dozen county officials, so that there is a so-called iron-clad official.

In the later period of development, many official positions actually became hereditary positions of some small and medium-sized local families, and by monopolizing these official positions that held a certain amount of local real power, some local families in turn became an important reliance on the court officials, and without their cooperation, it was difficult to govern the locality.

They don't have a very high status, but they are the uncrowned kings of the locality, and the collusion of thirty-five and ninety official families is enough to monopolize the basic real power of a small county, and deal with those nerds who have studied hard for ten years.

Of course, they will not be honest and open against officials, after all, people are completely different from officials in terms of identity, but as long as they coax well, they can cheat, and as long as they can cheat, they can do a lot of things they want to do.

Therefore, Liu Bei absorbed the lessons and lessons in this regard, and believed that the imperial court should also have a basic control over the quality and appointment of local officials, and that it would not be possible to govern the world by relying only on more than 7,000 officials and magnates, and that it would be difficult to do politics without the implementation of the remaining 160,000 officials.

Just as Liu Bei set up a law school to assess and train the quality of 200,000 county soldiers, he knew that the existence of county soldiers was very important to local governance, and now, the existence and quality of officials are equally important to local governance.

Therefore, Liu Bei will ask the officials to fully control the selection and assessment of officials in various places, don't take care of officials first, officials can be handed over to a higher level to control, and the appointment of each official can actually be controlled by the emperor, but the number of officials is too much.

Using the examination to conduct a round of screening and appointment, although it is impossible to filter out the scum, but it can filter out the scum with insufficient ability, and avoid technical problems in local governance.

As for the problem of scum, its own laws can be used as a means of response.

An exam can solve half of the problems of national governance, which is a great contribution.

In Liu Bei's rules, the content of the internal examination of the Ministry of Officials is similar to that taught in Taixue and schools, except for a few theoretical contents, most of which are of a practical nature.

Because the selection is mainly for officials, all of whom are clerical positions, the requirements for practical operation are relatively large, and because most of the job requirements are in the localities, in the collective farms and county governments, generally speaking, the demand for agricultural knowledge will be extraordinarily large, and the requirements will be very high.

Knowledge related to agricultural production, including astronomy and geography, including hydrological environment, including crop types and growth habits, etc., is a first-class and important thing.

Of course, for this kind of work, there are also requirements for tax officials, and this wave of official examinations also has a large demand for tax officials.

Because of the new situation brought about by the successful promotion of the Dutian Decree and the promulgation of the new tax law, it seems that the imperial court needs a considerable number of tax collectors to implement the requirements of the new tax law.

Because he didn't want to recruit too many people, Liu Bei had already initiated a reorganization of some less important idle departments in the imperial court in advance.

Many idle departments with little to do, such as librarians, were massively eliminated by Liu Bei, basically nine out of ten positions were abolished, and after the abolition, the vacant people were arranged to tax posts and transferred to tax collectors.

Liu Bei thinks that those idle departments have nothing to do, a cup of tea, a book, a whole day, and a waste of taking the court's money for nothing, and not doing anything serious.

Therefore, after the Dutian Order was launched, Liu Bei asked the officials to count the number of officials in the Qingshui Department and the Qingshui Department in the imperial court, as well as the things they were responsible for, carefully inspected it, and then came to a conclusion.

If there are ten people in these idle departments, the things it needs to do and the responsibilities it undertakes can actually be completed by only one person working overtime, and the remaining nine people are equivalent to cheating the court of money, and there is no need to exist at all.

It is said that some positions were not available at the beginning of the country, but were gradually added later for the purpose of subdivision of rights and responsibilities, but after the addition of people, not only did not improve work efficiency, but also led to the problem of shirking each other and shirking responsibilities because of the imperfection of the subdivision of rights and responsibilities.

As a result, the number of officials has increased, but the efficiency of work has decreased.

The idle department began to become a lazy department, becoming more and more bloated and useless, and what is worse is that these people are often officials, not officials, and the welfare benefits are generally higher.

Liu Bei couldn't tolerate these people no matter what, so Liu Bei decided to promote their transfer, and by the way, cancel these meaningless official positions, streamline official positions, reduce the imperial court's expenditure on raising officials, and optimize the input-output ratio.

After the success of the Dutian Decree, Liu Bei launched a liquidation of the lazy officials in these idle departments with the power of victory over the world, and successfully cracked down on 90 percent of the idle departments, that is, 90 percent of the officials in the idle departments were forced to change jobs, and only 10 percent could be left to continue their original work.

Despite this, because of the huge reduction in manpower, the remaining 10 percent of the people can no longer be idle, and they have to live a more stressful life, and the whole department is on their heads, although simple, but they need to work overtime to complete.

Gone are the idle lives of the past.

However, they didn't dare to have any opinions, and they even had to be glad that they were left behind and didn't change jobs.

(End of chapter)