During the Second Empire, officials entering the palace had to work continuously until the day of rest, and they were generally not allowed to go home halfway.

Every time they left home to work in the government office, the officials frowned, looking forward to the next day of rest day and night.

And now I don't have to be forced to work, I can go home freely, and there is such a good big canteen that provides free food, which is really gratifying.

Compared with the past, both the working hours and the work efficiency of officials have generally increased by more than 50 percent after the establishment of the canteen, which is enough to show that the existence of the canteen has a great encouraging effect on the officials.

Liu Bei didn't spend this money in vain, he also came to a conclusion after investigation and practice.

He judged that the impact of feeding two people who were doing the same job and not feeding them was very obvious on their enthusiasm and efficiency.

Even in the field of providing food, there are two different areas.

For two people who are engaged in the same job, they are provided with cold food and hot food respectively, then the people who eat hot food are about 30% higher than those who eat cold food, both in terms of work efficiency and the length of time they have to work.

In the early days of his military life, he found that the performance of the army after eating hot food is different from that after eating cold food, and after eating hot food, soldiers are more resilient whether they are rushing or fighting.

Eating cold food is not the case, and soldiers are more likely to show fatigue when they are in a hurry and fighting, and it is not a simple fatigue or hunger, but more like a psychological state.

This situation attracted Liu Bei's attention.

Because of the discovery of this problem, he also deliberately conducted experiments to let one army eat simple hot rice and next meal, and one army ate a wide variety of cold food, including dry food, water, fruits and vegetables, and cold cured meat.

Then the two units began to perform the same tasks, cross-country with weights, obstacle course, then technical and tactical training, and finally simulated battles.

In order to ensure the rigor of the experiment, he conducted the same experiment with different units for five consecutive days.

After everything was over, Liu Bei came to an accurate and unanimous conclusion.

Troops that eat hot food are tougher and more patient than troops who eat cold food, the same load, run farther, the same obstacles, are faster, the same simulated battles, and the troops that eat hot food will always defeat the troops that eat cold food.

So Liu Bei determined that eating hot food in a state of war would have the same encouraging effect on the army as it would be after the war.

For those who have experienced war, eating a hot meal may really have a significant spiritual inspiring effect.

It was also since then that Liu Bei did his best to provide the army with enough hot food, even if it was difficult to supply it during the march, before the war, as long as there were conditions, the army must be allowed to eat a few hot meals and hot dishes before going to the battlefield.

As a result, on key battlefields, Liu Bei's army was always invincible, and after entering the stage of fierce battle, it was often more tenacious than the enemy.

This was an important reason why Liu Bei's army was able to defeat many strong enemies in the early days.

This key rule was also applied to other places after he took power, and finally came together to form the Central Canteen, and after the establishment of the Central Canteen, which provided rich meals for free, the efficiency and enthusiasm of the officials in handling work did increase visibly.

This is a very worthwhile thing for Liu Bei.

Although this money is spent, the effect is really good, just like in the army.

The time and work efficiency of the officials have been greatly improved, and many people are willing to take the initiative to stay and work overtime, which in a sense has also improved Liu Bei's input-output ratio, which is obviously more than the money invested.

In addition, Liu Bei gradually began to try to promote tea in the army and among officials, and he is now actively promoting his tea workshop to tackle the technical problems of black tea, which is currently quite effective.

It won't be long before the first batch of black tea will be delivered to him for him to taste.

Tea is really a good thing.

Historically, together with wine, sugar, and tobacco, it has become an important military supply and can be called a special soothing agent for the army.

And compared with tobacco and alcohol, which can cause damage to the body, the effect of tea is obviously softer, and there are even many benefits to the body.

In the cruel battlefield of World War I and World War II, the soldiers did many ridiculous things in order to drink tea, and drinking tea was even more important than the war, so that the ruling group had to provide tea as an important military supply in sufficient quantities to avoid the soldiers from making trouble.

However, the mental pressure of the ancient soldiers was also very high, and the training intensity of the soldiers under Liu Bei's command was also very high.

For the soldiers, the pressure will accumulate gradually, Liu Bei does not allow the soldiers to burn, kill and loot, and the traditional army's means of relieving pressure are forbidden by Liu Bei, so it is necessary to find other ways to soothe the mood.

Therefore, on the one hand, Liu Bei actively provided hot drinks and hot food to soothe the mood of the soldiers, and on the other hand, he was also preparing to introduce tea to become an important helper.

At present, the tea production has not kept up, Liu Bei's tea workshops around Luoyang have not yet entered the mass production stage, and after the tea can be produced steadily, he will introduce tea into the army as an important military material.

After the development of the Lingnan region is on the right track, he will also increase the cultivation of sugar crops and will steadily provide sufficient sugar products to the army.

As for Chen Qun and Yang Xiu, who were immersed in cooking, they only knew that the food in front of them was really a delicacy in the world, and if they didn't enjoy it well, it would be a great crime, and they didn't know that Liu Bei had spent money to set up a big canteen to calculate a very macro economic account.

After calculation, although the input of the big canteen is large, the input-output ratio is surprisingly high, and the work efficiency of the Luoyang court has been rising, helping Liu Bei quickly stabilize the situation in the world after the Dutian Ling Rebellion.

Two months, two months before and after, the situation in the world was stable.

Previously, when Liu Bei had just ascended the throne and created new regulations, he worked overtime and led the cabinet to work hard for more than three months, and the entire court was chaotic for five months before he gradually adapted to the new rules and began to implement the new decrees.

Comparing before and after, the importance of the central canteen is self-evident.

Chen Qun and Yang Xiu didn't know how Liu Bei calculated this account, they knew that the fried chicken nuggets at noon today were really delicious, tender and juicy, one bite down, the shell was crispy, the chicken was soft and tender, and the delicious gravy exploded in the mouth, which was really a supreme enjoyment.

The exhaustion of the whole morning was swept away at this moment, and they forgot everything and devoted themselves to the enjoyment of food.

Then Chen Qun secretly took advantage of Yang Xiu's conversation with his colleagues to secretly clip a piece of fried chicken from his rice plate and stuffed it into his mouth at once, causing an established fact, so that Yang Xiu didn't know what to do even if he reacted.

Yang Xiu really didn't know what to do, although he knew that it was done by Chen Qun, but the fried chicken nuggets had already been eaten by Chen Qun, this limited supply of fried chicken nuggets was his favorite, he could only eat it once every three days, and now there was still one piece missing, so he hated to screw Chen Qun's head off.

But he didn't do anything like that after all.

Hongnong Yang's family is higher than Yingchuan Chen's, so Yang Xiu feels that his cultivation is better than Chen Qun's, and he can't have conflicts with his good friends because of a piece of fried chicken, but he really can't swallow this breath.

So when he returned to the cabinet with Chen Qun and saw the pile of government affairs hills on his desk, he decisively returned the government affairs mountains to Chen Qun, looking at Chen Qun's stunned expression, Yang Xiu felt a wave of joy from the bottom of his heart.

More enjoyable than eating fried chicken nuggets.

Ignoring Chen Qun's stunned eyes, he returned the government affairs to Chen Qun, ignoring the possibility that he might need to work overtime or even stay up late, took Liu Bei's plan from his desk, and continued to study.

He read it three times before the afternoon came.

Then Yang Xiu deeply realized that if Liu Bei's reform plan was really realized, the Shi clan, as a special monopoly group that existed in history to assist the ruler, would completely lose the value of its existence, and the ruler would no longer need the existence of the Shi clan.

Rulers can set up their own schools to train students, and students come from all over the world, so how can they need family inheritors cultivated by the scholars for their own selfishness?

In this way, Hongnong Yang really did not return to the day of the past, no matter how hard he tried, his descendants could not inherit everything from him steadily.

Because only the title can be inherited, the position cannot be inherited.

No matter how high the father's status is, all that can be passed on is the title, only economic status, but no power.

Under the imperial examination system, the inheritance of power became very unstable, and the generation of officials became a symbol of academic tyrants, and if you wanted to get a position with power, you first had to pass the imperial examination, and then you also needed to start from the grassroots collective farm representatives.

Young people need to climb up slowly, work hard, strive for meritorious service, or simply get through the cracks.

Of course, this is a great benefit to the children of those peasant families, and it can even be said to be an existence that can change their fate, but for people like Chen Qun and him Yang Xiu, this is simply a poison.

But is it possible that they will not eat this poison?

There should be none.

So suddenly, Yang Xiu understood why Liu Bei was the first to reveal this document to Chen Qun, and he might just be part of Liu Bei's plan.

Actually, this really made him feel helpless, but he had no choice, the current general trend of the world could no longer allow him to continue to do any delusions.

As for the Jiupin Official Law after that, Yang Xiu didn't pay too much attention to it, he only knew that this was a supporting facility for the imperial examination system, and more supporting facilities must still be being designed, but Liu Bei hadn't said it yet.

Yang Xiu looked up at Chen Qun, who was working government affairs, and suddenly, a smile welled up in his heart, and he couldn't help laughing.

He put away Liu Bei's document and put it on Chen Qun's desk, without disturbing Chen Qun, who was destined to work overtime and stay up late to deal with government affairs.

He is indeed still a young man, but after working in the cabinet for so many years, he has already honed a good political vision and political sense, and he can keenly perceive the subtle changes that are taking place in the times.

It seems that it is time to accept the advice of his father Yang Biao, return to his hometown to get married, marry a wife and have children, and then start to cultivate his own children well, so that he can adapt to the cruel competition society as soon as possible.

After all, in the future, what he, a father, can leave to his children is a smart brain and rich experience, as well as some tips for hard learning knowledge.

The era of imperial examinations is coming, the era of examinations and hard work deciding everything is coming, and in the future social competition, perhaps the significance of the lintel is not so great.

Well, at least for a while, that's it.

Yang Xiu and Chen Qun have realized the inevitability of the arrival of a new era, and are seriously thinking about what they should do to avoid risks and gain benefits to the greatest extent.

However, more people don't seem to realize that the new era is coming, they are still living their lives step by step, and following the news constantly announced by Liu Bei's side, they know where the latest trends in the imperial court are.

Trying to get some simple benefits from this latest trend.

And at this time, what are the latest movements of the imperial court?

Jiaozhou.

This is the most discussed words and places in the entire imperial court during this period of time, according to the latest intelligence, Jiaozhou Rinan County is law-abiding and has successfully negotiated a few good deals for the imperial court.

One of them is to talk to several counties in Qingzhou, which is said to have something to do with porcelain, lacquerware, and silk fabrics, and some people are very eager to buy these rich products of the Han Dynasty, and those counties in Qingzhou can make a lot of money for this.

But more importantly, those merchants from five or six countries also wanted to buy enough iron pots and Shu brocade from the imperial court, according to Fa Zheng's account, these merchants were not short of money, but they were short of good goods, they needed these good goods very much, as long as the goods were good, the price was not a problem.

Fa Zheng believed that the imperial court could sell them enough iron pots and Shu brocade, as long as they could afford the money, as much as they wanted, and how much they wanted, without ambiguity.

In this way, the cost of Nichinan County and the cost of handing over to the state can be made up to a certain extent, and it should also be a reinforcement for everything that the imperial court needs, right?

However, in this matter, most departments of the imperial court are not qualified to speak, and only the household department and the Shaofu are qualified to participate.

After Liu Bei ascended the throne, he set the scope of powers and responsibilities of the imperial court, stipulating that salt and Shu brocade belonged to Shaofu, and iron tools belonged to the household department.

At this point, Liu Bei also needs to take into account Zhen Yan's thoughts more or less, in the final analysis, the salt and iron affairs are also managed by others, during the Jian'an period, this matter is all in his management, and he can't take all his original powers because he is the head of the household, right?

Therefore, Liu Bei chose to hand over all the iron affairs to Zhen Yan to be in charge, and Shaofu continued to be responsible for salt affairs, Shu brocade, Pu Tao wine, etc., which was still Liu Bei's personal small treasury.

This time, foreign trade involved Shu brocade and iron, so it was naturally necessary for the household department and Shaofu to hold a joint meeting together to discuss whether this matter was feasible with Liu Bei.

Of course, Liu Ye has no opinion on the sale of Shu brocade to the outside world, which is a good thing to increase income, according to what Fa Zheng said, those foreign merchants are even willing to pay the price of gold to buy Shu brocade, which shows the respect for Shu brocade.

If you can't find more buyers as soon as possible, you must limit the number of Shu brocade for sale, so as not to lower the price of Shu brocade.

Speaking of which, Liu Ye is also depressed.

Shu brocade is such a good thing, the more quantity, the happier it should be, but who knows that Liu Bei's reform of the production mode has greatly increased the production enthusiasm of technical workers, and the output of Shu brocade has increased rapidly, tripling in five years!

At the same time, the pursuit of Shu brocade on the market is decreasing.

The reason is simple.

Those guys who were eager to use Shu brocade to make a façade and pretend to be forced were cut off by Liu Bei like cutting leeks.

As the largest buyer of Shu Jin, the group has long become Liu Bei's ghost and no longer exists.

(End of chapter)