In addition to the luxury market, Liu Bei also intends to fully control their salt and grain markets.

The luxury market alone is not yet a complete control of the economy of the Western Regions, and it is necessary to fully control the market for key commodities in order to be truly controlled.

He planned to spend some time and energy to buy off and control the influential officials of their country, make it easier for them to act, and open up the access to the salt and grain markets, so that the "merchants" of the Han Empire could participate in the control.

When their economy and food are almost controlled, and the ruling class is almost eroded, it will be time to close the net, and at that time, not to mention the economy, the military is estimated to be a flat situation - because all countries have the existence of "new armies" that have received military training.

It's really hard to say whether their hearts are towards the Han Empire or their own country!

Although there will be no military action in the short term, business and politics, Liu Bei does not plan to stop.

Standing on the civilized high ground, the Han Empire's foreign exports naturally occupied the upper ground and the moral high ground, while the resistance of these small countries was naturally weak, and it was difficult to find strong allies.

Therefore, the task of the next stage is to open up the million-level population market in the Western Regions, link it to the Central Asian market, and create a new dumping ground for commodities for the Han Empire - otherwise, as the productivity of the Han Empire gradually increases, there will be too many goods to sell, and it will be ugly.

Deflation was not a good thing, and while enough precious metals could be found, there should also be enough dumping ground for goods, and relying only on the internal market of the Han Empire itself was slightly insufficient.

This task was specifically assigned to the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

However, it is not handed over to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to do, they are nominally Du Hu and Changshi, but the specific operation of this matter, Liu Bei intends to hand it over to Meng Tuo to do.

This guy is good at this.

When he was doing the history of Liangzhou Thorn, he was deflated militarily, and now no one can make the Han deflated, so Meng Tuo's ability to drill up and down the camp to engage in the east and west is just applicable here.

Liu Bei instead appointed Meng Tuo to the position of Protector of the Western Regions.

In this way, he was nominally Zhang Fei's Sima, but in fact, he acted alone, directly responsible to Liu Bei, and led a political and business team alone, specifically responsible for opening up the political and business relations of various countries, allowing the business and trade teams of the Third Reich to enter the markets of various countries, and fully control the economic lifeline of the Western Regions.

Liu Bei believed that Meng Tuo would definitely be able to perform this task well.

After a series of things were settled, the time had come to the end of February in the fifth year of Zhenguan, and as the weather slowly warmed up, Liu Bei's heart gradually began to be restless.

From the end of the third year of Zhenguan to the fourth year of Zhenguan, and then to January of the fifth year of Zhenguan, the main thing the Han Empire did was to restore its rule over the Western Regions, and finally succeeded in achieving its goal, shaking the Western Regions, becoming famous in Central Asia, and establishing a relatively stable ruling foundation in the Western Regions.

At the same time, the entire Han Empire itself did not issue any large-scale new decrees for nearly a year and a half, everything was following the trend, and everything was slowly moving forward according to the rules set in the second and third years of Zhenguan, everything was advancing, everything was slowly being implemented, and waiting for results.

Some things can't be done quickly, and some things can't be achieved overnight.

If you want to develop a piece of wasteland, it will take at least three years, and no matter how fast the crops grow, it will take half a year to harvest.

And this is already the fastest and fastest speed, this is already the fastest speed that can be achieved under the current state of productivity, and if it is a little more exceeded, people's subjective initiative will have problems, and it will be a fat pig race elephant.

Therefore, Liu Bei began to take the initiative to suppress the signs of seeking speed and achievements in the late fourth year of Zhenguan, and sent the officials of the Yushitai to scatter out and inspect everywhere, specifically grasping the existence of those who forcibly carry out political performance projects without looking at the laws of the epidemic, and severely crack down on some situations that report good news but do not report bad news.

In the second half of the fourth year of Zhenguan, there were more than 70 officials who were taken out by the Yushitai as a typical example because of their pursuit of speed and results, including three county guards.

So in the later stage, this situation was alleviated, and the number of annunciation sheets handed to Liu Bei from all over the country was much less, and the rest still dared to hand it over, which was basically the real material.

For example, the Qingzhou water conservancy project and land reclamation work sheet handed by Qingzhou Thorn Shi Xunyu.

There is also a list of Yangzhou land reclamation and slave restriction order promotion from Yangzhou Assassin Shi Cheng Yu.

That can be described as a real and real political achievement, the officials of the Yushitai went to inspect a large circle, did not find anything wrong, came back to play Liu Bei, said that Qingzhou and Yangzhou appeared a scene of political communication, everyone is busy with their own careers, and there is a very concerned attitude towards the government.

People are running, but if they pass by the government office on the way to run, they will always stop to look at the latest government announcements and see what the government is doing with the latest movements.

Because some of the trends of the government often bring new breakthroughs to people, people who were indifferent to the government in the past or were simply afraid of it have gradually begun to pay attention to the trends of the government, and even a new profession has appeared in the market.

Professional explainer of government policies.

They tend to keep a closer eye on the government's movements than ordinary people, and once they find some new notices from the government, they immediately come forward to interpret them, make records, and then take them to the market to set up stalls and start to publicize the government's new policies.

At first, these people were just small personal fights, but later, some people engaged in the catering industry realized the business opportunities, so they found these people to talk to them about cooperation, and let them open a stall explaining the policy near the catering store, so that the attracted flow of people can provide business for the catering business.

In order to further convert customer flow, these owners of the catering industry also require these policy commentators to devote their time to when people are hungry, so as to earn money, and then give dividends to these policy explainers.

Such a situation fully reflects the importance and concern that people attach to and care about the government's policies.

In order to further observe the people's feelings, the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory deliberately went to the street to "make private interviews" with locals to inquire about their living conditions.

From these searches, they learned that Qingzhou and Yangzhou people are both busy with their careers, and the pace of life has become faster, and everyone walks on the street faster than people in other places.

After learning the news, Liu Bei knew that this was a concrete embodiment of economic development.

Qingzhou and Yangzhou are in the middle of economic development, the power of incremental society is more obvious in these two places, the Third Reich has begun to shake off the chaos and embarked on the fast track of development, which is a good thing for most people.

All in all, in this period of great development of the whole country, Liu Bei also restrained his idea of wanting to do something big, and wanted to give the people more time to adapt and react as much as possible, so that the decree could be fully infiltrated to the grassroots level of society.

The development tide that finally ushered in, Liu Bei did not want to be overshadowed by his high requirements.

During this period, Liu Bei further refined his conception of the imperial examination system and the Nine Grades Official Law.

He observed the results of the implementation of the Nine-Rank Officials Law in the army, counted a lot of data, collected a lot of information, and was satisfied with the promotion of the Nine-Rank Officials Law, so he made up his mind to promote the Nine-Rank Officials Law in the administrative bureaucracy.

The stakes are big, starting from March of the fifth year of Zhenguan to June, in three months, Liu Bei held many briefings, and some of his ideas were blown to the Luoyang court from top to bottom and from the inside out.

By July, it was already an open secret that Liu Bei was going to promote the Jiupin Official Law in the imperial court.

Everyone has already learned about the content of the Jiupin Official Law in advance, and some people have also found some achievements promoted in the army from acquaintances in the army, and some personal feelings or something.

In general, the resistance is not too great, and many people just have some doubts, not knowing how many grades their official positions will be divided into, and whether their treatment will rise or fall.

These things, which are closely related to their interests, will still cause them to have some worries to some extent.

However, on the whole, they do not have a very big opinion on the promotion of the Jiupin Official Law, and they do not want to really resist this new system.

As a result, Liu Bei officially announced the abolition of the old official system in July of the fifth year of Zhenguan, and implemented a new official system with the Jiupin Official Law as the core, reshaping the entire administrative bureaucratic system of the Han Dynasty.

From the first rank to the ninth rank, where the ninth rank is eighteenth, all officials will re-establish their position in the Han Empire according to this system.

Similarly, in this system, there are no official positions such as prime ministers and prime ministers, and the highest official positions are Taishi, Taifu and Taibao, which are civil officials of the first grade, followed by Situ, Sikong and Taiwei, and the three dukes in the traditional sense are officials from the first rank.

These six official positions used to have real power, but in the following years they lost their real power, turned into honorary and false positions, high status, but did not have the authority of the Eight Classics, to the Third Reich period, this situation was more clear, to Liu Bei to determine the new official system, directly institutionalized it.

The six official positions of Zhengyipin and Congyipin belong to the absolute high-level official ranks, enjoying the highest status and benefits, but they have no real power, and they are only honorary and fictitious.

And the highest real power official of the Zheng'er Eight Classics is in the position of Zheng Erpin.

The officials of the second rank include the eight Shangshu, as well as the chief officials of the twelve departments of the Imperial History Terrace, the Zhongshu Desk, the Privy Council, and the Military Training Department.

The official positions from the second rank include Da Honglu, Zhi Jinwu, Zongzheng, Shaofu, and the deputy positions of the chief of the twelve departments of the second grade, etc., they are slightly inferior to the second rank in terms of status and power, but their status and power are still very high, and they can be regarded as real power bosses who can enter the decision-making circle.

Zheng Sanpin is mainly the deputy of the local state assassin and the head of the second grade department, as well as more special positions such as the commander of the East Garden and the protector of the Western Regions, in addition, the county guards are the positions of the four grades, while the county commanders of the big counties belong to the positions of the six grades, and the county magistrates of small counties belong to the positions of the six grades.

Liu Bei conducted a detailed combing of the official positions of the empire, so that the officials knew what position they were in in this new nine-rank and eighteen-order system, and what kind of rights, responsibilities and benefits they could have.

Overall, most people are satisfied, and although this new system has brought a lot of new things to everyone, the difference between the new positioning and the old positioning is not very big.

It was a high-ranking official, but now it is still a high-ranking official, and it was originally a shrimp, and now it will not become a big fish, but this system has made the subdivision of official positions more clear, so that some originally vague official positions have become clearly visible, and some disputes that were originally prone to arise have lost the soil for their existence.

And the most surprising thing is that in the system of nine grades and eighteen orders, Liu Bei made it clear for the first time that the officials also belong to this system.

He left the four official ranks of the ninth rank, the ninth rank, the eighth rank and the eighth rank to the officials, and brought in the officials who accounted for the majority of the official team, set the standard official salaries and official benefits for them, and officially recognized for the first time that all officials belonged to the state and were entitled to the normal benefits of the imperial court.

At the same time, Liu Bei also clarified the concept that officials are high-grade officials and officials are low-grade officials, and affirmed the basic principle that officials can communicate with each other and are not isolated.

Because of the foundation of the briefing meeting for more than three months, there is not much resistance to the promotion of this system, Zhenguan was promoted in July of the fifth year, and Zhenguan was implemented in the Yuyang court in August of the fifth year, and it is expected that it will be implemented in the local area in more than two months.

By the end of September of the fifth year of Zhenguan, seeing that this system was working very well, Liu Bei let go of his hands and officially announced that he would promote the implementation of the imperial examination system.

He declared that after hundreds of years of vicissitudes and ups and downs, the probation system has proven to be the most suitable selection method for the best talents.

During these years, the inspection system almost stagnated, and the operation of the imperial court had almost nothing to do with it, nor did it affect the implementation of the imperial government, but the Han Kingdom was thriving, and the country was becoming more and more prosperous day by day.

Since Emperor Xiaohuan and Emperor Xian, there is hardly any period that has developed better and faster than the current period.

So, what else can you guys say?

After a long period of investigation and careful thinking, Liu Bei remembered his almost family-like probation experience back then, and decided to completely abolish the probation system and turn to the imperial examination system as the talent selection system of the Great Han State, so as to select talents and use them for the use of the country.

When Liu Bei said this, he actually removed the last fig leaf of the probation system.

The emperor had personally experienced all aspects of the inspection system, knew its internal secrets and tricks, and went through the whole process, so he decided to adopt a more suitable system, and no one can say that this is wrong.

Moreover, with Liu Bei's years of tossing, the century-old pattern of the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws has been shattered, and the scholar family has disappeared, and they can no longer become an independent political force to support the operation of the inspection system.

The other group that benefited the most from the system, the county guards, the assassins, the three dukes, and the generals also became Liu Bei's outright subordinates, unable to confront Liu Bei and protect the personnel privileges they had gained because of the probation system.

So in the face of the imperial examination system, they have no choice.

As a result, since Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, the personnel and power structure of the empire has undergone unprecedented drastic changes.

The personnel power of the empire was unprecedentedly concentrated in the central government, concentrated in one department, and concentrated in the hands of one person, and the formal implementation of the Jiupin Official Law also meant that Liu Bei's power as the emperor was highly concentrated.

Imperial power, to a great extent, has achieved its own unprecedented expansion, whether it is personal significance or institutional significance, imperial power has achieved a great jump, since Qin Shi Huang, all the emperors, no one has more power than Liu Bei.

And the supporting imperial examination system was announced to be promoted during this period, which is really a logical thing.

Since the acceptance of the Jiupin Guanren Law inevitably requires the acceptance of the imperial examination system, there is no reason for the ministers and hundreds of officials to hinder the implementation of the imperial examination system.

No matter what they imagined in their minds, a new era had arrived, and they had no choice.

(End of chapter)