Take Luoyang as an example, the growing citizen class in Luoyang has made the citizens begin to widely pursue the taste of food, and because of the special status of the capital of the Luoyang Empire, people and goods from the south to the north often pass through Luoyang, so many outsiders will choose to come to Luoyang to open restaurants.

As a result, many flavors from other regions can be eaten, and many outsiders come to Luoyang and feel homesick, so they go to local restaurants to eat a bite of local flavors, which is quite satisfying.

Due to the development of sea fishing and fishery, there has been a wave of eating and boiling seafood in the coastal area, forming a taste that pays attention to light and fresh.

In the hinterland, because of the development of agriculture and livestock breeding, there has been a wave of eating stir-fried vegetables and eating rice - Liu Bei's favorite rice, rice that was only grown in a small number of areas in the past, now the planting area has expanded, the output has increased, and more and more people have begun to eat rice as a staple food.

People began to pursue a variety of tastes, and the imperial diet was varied and blossomed in all directions, reflecting precisely the material life of the empire entering a relatively sufficient state.

This was unimaginable for people more than a decade ago, but in recent years, it has been developing more and more in this direction, and there is a trend of intensification.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang believes that although Chen Lin is a little flattering, he likes to pursue Liu Bei's views in everything and follow Liu Bei's orders, but some things are not so flattering because of Liu Bei's own excellent quality.

The emperor is so good that he actually makes the existence of licking dogs reasonable, which is not a good phenomenon.

Zhuge Liang thought so.

However, Liu Bei didn't care about this, he was the emperor for fifteen years, personally created this huge empire, and accumulated a considerable amount of accumulation for this country, making this country a unique superpower in the world today, and its influence spread overseas.

This is enough for Liu Bei, if he wants to lie down like this, it is not difficult.

However, he didn't want to be Li Longji, nor did he want to be the existence that followed the music and dance, so he had to complete one last thing.

"Kong Ming, it's time, the strategy of dividing the seal can begin."

Zhuge Liang stopped and looked at Liu Bei with some surprise.

"Your Majesty, didn't you say before that it would be better to wait until the twenty years of Zhenguan?"

"Time is not waiting for me, it's time to start, Dahan is already very strong, the speed of development is beyond my imagination, and I don't know how long I can live, if I can arrange it as soon as possible, I have to arrange it as soon as possible, with my identity as a father, it is better than letting Shen as a brother to arrange."

Zhuge Liang was silent for a while, and sighed: "You really think a lot about future generations. ”

"What I want is stability, inheritance, continuity, not a flash in the pan."

Liu Bei turned to look at Zhuge Liang and said with a smile: "So, I set up the position of auxiliary minister of the cabinet, and let you come back to enter the cabinet, this is the idea, after the completion of the policy of dividing the feud, when I see the results, that is, when I abdicate, I am already very tired, I still want to live a few more years, if I continue to be this emperor, I am afraid that I will not live for ten years." ”

"Your Majesty, you ......"

"Kong Ming, I believe in you."

Liu Bei patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder, smiled, and continued to walk forward.

In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei calculated the days and calculated that this year should be the year 209 of the Western Era, and on another timeline, this year is the second year after the Battle of Chibi, and the world is not peaceful this year.

Jingzhou, as the place of the four wars, is still full of war, Sun Quan took the initiative to start the first battle of Hefei, trying to go north to Hefei, the attack was frustrated, the battle situation was unfavorable, and the prelude to Sun 100,000's prestige was opened.

In order to avenge the defeat in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao once again led his troops south to the mouth of the Xukou and confronted Sun Quan across the river, because of Cao Ren's defeat in Jiangling, he had to abandon the battlefield on the eastern front and chose to retreat.

Cao Cao failed to take revenge, Sun Quan did not continue to open up the situation, and the only one who expanded his power was Uncle Liu Huang, who was struggling to develop.

It can be said that this year is the third spring of Uncle Liu's career, and it is also the beginning of his journey to the peak, and now, in this timeline, Liu Bei has successfully built an unprecedented super empire.

Liu Bei felt that he should be more capable than Uncle Liu, more successful, or a little luckier, but Uncle Liu, who was indomitable on that timeline, was still the source of strength in his heart.

Therefore, he decided to launch a plan to seal the country in this decisive year, laying the foundation for the national pattern of the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty for the next three hundred years.

Zhuge Liang looked at Liu Bei's back, didn't speak, pursed his lips, and followed quickly.

He has been an official for nine years, and it took him only three years to go from being a representative of a collective farm at the beginning, to a county government official, a county government official, and then to a county magistrate.

At the age of twenty-two, he became a county magistrate, and at the age of twenty-four, he was transferred back to Luoyang to serve as a cabinet official, and he was the fastest to complete this path among the first imperial examination scholars.

And the answer sheet he handed over was also the most eye-catching among all the Jinshi.

At the age of twenty-five, Zhuge Liang was appointed as the official of the Zhengwupintang, becoming one of the five most capable and promising officials in the cabinet.

By the time he was twenty-seven years old, that is, last year, in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei reformed the cabinet and set up a cabinet auxiliary minister system, and set up a cabinet auxiliary minister from the Sanpin cabinet.

After the reform, the cabinet was essentially still the emperor's close attendant and advisory department, but after any official entered the cabinet and became a cabinet assistant, he had the authority to receive the emperor's orders and bring up the personnel of the imperial court office to form a working group to deal with special affairs.

Once there is a particularly important or urgent matter in the imperial court that needs to be handled jointly by multiple departments, at this time, the appropriate person will be selected from among the cabinet auxiliary ministers to take the lead, and the appropriate officials from various departments of the imperial court will be selected to join the office group, which will be handled exclusively and enjoy special powers.

During the disposal period, the order of the head of the office group, no matter how high the rank of the court office, must abide by it and must not be disobeyed, until the matter is completely over, the office group is disbanded, and everything returns to the original state.

This system was understood by the imperial court as Liu Bei's characteristic system of slaughter and auxiliaries, and it was also his measure to further enhance the imperial power, but nothing else, that is, after that, the twenty-seven-year-old Zhuge Liang became one of the five auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, and the youngest one.

And almost immediately, he accepted the construction of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei Canals, and established his own Grand Canal Office, becoming the first [Zaifu] with Liu Bei's characteristics to enjoy special authority.

The Grand Canal starts from Luoyang and ends at Wu County, Jiangdong, with the goal of communicating the north and the south and building a transportation system to facilitate the comprehensive communication between the south and the north of the Yangtze River, but in a deeper consideration, Liu Bei confessed to the ministers because he believed that an unprecedented cold snap was sweeping through Huaxia Shenzhou.

He believes that for a long time to come, the climate will become colder and colder, and the grain output of the entire northern land will face the risk of decreasing, and at this time, only the southern and southern regions of the Yangtze River can provide sufficient grain to the north of the Yangtze River.

The Grand Canal was built to help the Han Empire resist the invasion of this wave of the Xiaoice Age, and although the amount of work is huge, once completed, the benefits will be very large.

The conception and construction draft of the entire project began in the second year of Zhenguan, and now, all the construction conditions have been matured, so the implementation of this mature plan was appointed by Liu Bei to Zhuge Liang.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is Liu Bei giving Zhuge Liang a great credit, as long as he catches this credit, the future will be prosperous, there are those who are envious, and those who are jealous are there, but Zhuge Liang has always treated it indifferently.

Sometimes going out on a business trip, sometimes returning to Luoyang to report on work, he set the entire construction cycle in five years, made a detailed material expenditure plan, and the expenditure plan for each month of each year is very detailed, how to deploy personnel, how to cooperate with the locality, etc., etc., which has been highly praised by Liu Bei.

Therefore, it is generally believed that Liu Bei's focus on cultivating Zhuge Liang is to leave an administrative master with a stronger ability to handle government affairs to his son Liu Shen for use, so that Zhuge Liang can continue to serve the next emperor.

In fact, it is not wrong, Liu Bei did arrange it like this, there is an age gap of twenty years between him and Zhuge Liang, almost two generations, and it is really a waste not to leave Zhuge Liang for his son.

He admitted that his eldest son Liu Shen had excellent talents, and since a few years ago, he has consciously taken Liu Shen with him, let him learn to handle government affairs, learn to handle military affairs, learn to understand interpersonal relationships in officialdom, and tell him a lot of knowledge that only emperors can impart.

However, the so-called three gangs of a hero, three piles of a fence, Zhuge Liang, as the inheritor recognized by Liu Bei, made him an important auxiliary force for Liu Shen is the best state that Liu Bei envisioned.

In addition, for the sake of the stability of the empire's inheritance and not to fall into the predicament of involution prematurely, all Liu Bei can do is to complete the plan to seal the country.

In July of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei called his second son Liu Ze, who had been serving in the Northwest Military Region since graduating from the military academy, back to Luoyang and informed him of his plan to seal the country.

Speaking of which, this plan is not the first time Liu Ze has heard of it.

He knew a long time ago that Liu Bei wanted to send him out of the Han Dynasty and build an independent country, so he arranged for him to enter the Han Royal Military Academy from the Sili Academy, and then served in the Northwest Military Region, participating in many wars against the remnants of the Kushan Empire and the resistance forces of the Parthian Empire.

Liu Ze did not reject this matter, but when it came to the end, he was still a little hesitant.

"Father, can I really become a feudal monarch? Do I really have what it takes? ”

"If I don't think you have the ability, would I design this plan for you? Or do you want to stay in Dahan and become an idle prince under your brother's arrangement when I die? If you want that, I can promise you. ”

Liu Bei looked at Liu Ze with a smile: "But I think, what you worked so hard to learn knowledge should not be to become an idle prince, right?" ”

"Indeed, if I were an idle lord, I would suffocate to death."

Liu Ze smiled and shook his head and said: "It's better to go out, although it's harder, but at least I can use everything I have learned, maybe it's quite thrilling, then I should be very happy...... It's just ......"

"It's just that you are not the eldest son after all, if you are the eldest son, you can stay in Luoyang and take over the huge empire I left behind, right?"

Liu Bei took a sip of tea with a tea bowl, looked at Liu Ze, and said what was in his heart.

Liu Ze was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and did not speak.

Liu Bei sighed.

"I know that it is normal for you to have such thoughts, I can understand it, but I also told you that the primogeniture inheritance system is the most effective and least costly inheritance system that the predecessors have explored after a lot of bloody storms, which is a reality.

I know you have some ideas, but I can't satisfy you with these ideas anyway, you may feel that it is not fair enough, but there is never absolute fairness in the world, if you think it is unfair, then those children from poor backgrounds will envy you for becoming my son.

They are all human beings, why are some people born to be princes, while some people are born to crawl in the yellow mud? It's also an injustice, but who can say that it can be changed? So, Ze, you're already standing in a place that many people can't even think of. ”

After Liu Ze heard this, he was silent.

"This is the best way out I can think of for you, and your brothers, Ze, born in the royal family, is your luck, but in a sense, it is also your misfortune, because you are the same as me, and your brother is the same, we have no choice."

"Father's ......"

"I've cared about you since you were a child, and as a father, I don't think I'm a failure."

Liu Bei stood up, walked up to Liu Ze, and patted him on the shoulder: "You have grown up, you are twenty-five years old, and the next few days are the time for you to do something for the entire Han Dynasty, dividing the feudal country into crises, but if my Liu Bei's son does not take the lead, who will dare to follow?" ”

Liu Ze didn't say anything more, nodded and accepted the reality.

To say that the Han Empire still has a strong foundation and strong national strength, Liu Bei is also very concerned about the plan to divide the feuds, and the things he took out are rich that Liu Ze never thought of at the beginning.

Troops, officials, money, grain, and even a series of manual and technical talents needed to build the country, Liu Bei prepared them for Liu Ze.

Relying on a higher salary than in the Han Dynasty and more development prospects, after some publicity, he successfully recruited enough people to create a small and medium-sized feudal state.

Not only that, because Liu Ze had served in the Northwest Military Region and had military experience, Liu Bei waved his hand and approved all Liu Ze's subordinates and partners in the army to Liu Ze as subordinates, so that they could start a career with Liu Ze.

According to the results of the discussion between Liu Bei and Liu Ze, after they gain a firm foothold in the hometown of Kangju, they can further develop in the northwest of Kangju, where there are still a relatively large number of nomadic groups for them to forge ahead.

The Han Empire will give them at least ten years of financial support, and within ten years, they need to establish a financial system sufficient to support the country and the army, if they can't, then Liu Bei should be very disappointed.

Moreover, Liu Bei also announced that the bureaucratic system of the Han Empire would be connected with that of the newly built satellite states, and that the results of the imperial examinations of the Han Empire would be officially recognized by the satellite countries, and the Jinshi who had participated in the imperial examinations could choose the satellite countries as official places.

As for the name of this new country, Liu Bei also thought about it.

Western Qin.

At the end of July of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Liu Ze was officially crowned the king of Western Qin in Luoyang, and officially became the first king of the Third Empire to receive a fief and an actual fief.

As the starting point of the partition plan, Liu Ze's actions attracted the attention of the whole world, and it was not clear whether his future would be victory or death.

But Zhuge Liang, who has handled some things from it, is clear.

Liu Ze will definitely succeed, he will definitely succeed, and even if he doesn't, Liu Bei will dispatch the power of the Han Empire and forcibly let him succeed.

Liu Bei said before that with the further growth of the population of the Han Empire and the continuous improvement of the quality of the country's population, the worries of some conservative officials in the previous ten years have gradually become a reality.

There are more and more people who do not want to be farmers for the rest of their lives, and there are more and more people who want to pursue various possibilities, and more and more people who want to pursue a better life.

They have read books, have had the experience of studying abroad, opened their eyes to the world, and are full of yearning for the outside world, and their desires are different from those of their parents.

Therefore, Liu Bei predicted that more and more changes would inevitably occur in the future Han Empire, and he must build more reservoirs and moats for the Han Empire to ensure the basic stability of the country.

Extraterritorial feudalism is a good reservoir and moat-like existence.

The conditions are difficult but the returns are high, and the risks are very high, as long as you are willing to take risks, you can get high returns.

And it has always been under the planned control of the Han Empire.

Human beings are different, some people prefer to live a dull life and do not like high risks, some people like a thrilling life and like to experience unusual new worlds.

Then Liu Bei gave them two choices, instead of learning from ancient China, forcibly stipulating that people only have one choice, and hated to tie a group of people to the same place for the rest of their lives to be old scalpers.

Therefore, the extraterritorial feudal plan will definitely succeed, even if it will be successful at any cost.

There are more things that Zhuge Liang doesn't dare to imagine, only this thing, Zhuge Liang believes, can definitely succeed.

On the way back to the palace after bidding farewell to Liu Ze, Liu Bei was a little emotional.

"Kong Ming, is it right or wrong for you to say that I let the children go out to build a feudal country? Some people have raised concerns to me, saying that they are worried that in the future, the main trunk will be weak and the branches will be overgrown, and there will be a danger that a small sect will replace a large sect, so as to oppose the plan of extraterritorial feudalism, you say, is it possible? ”

"Not for at least a hundred years."

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Creating a feudal country from scratch, even if it is fast, it will take a hundred years, and the establishment of a country in a hundred years is considered fast, as for what will happen after a hundred years, who can say for sure?" ”

"yes, that's what I mean."

Liu Bei smiled: "And I also told them, don't forget, I am also a small sect to replace the big sect to ascend the throne, what's wrong?" If you don't have the ability and majesty to be a monarch, you don't want to be a monarch, and the monarch has an extremely important mission, and if you can't bear it, then don't do it. ”

"In this way, Your Majesty is too calm."

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Many people can't look at it, and they can't wait for the family industry to be passed on for thousands of years, and they should never be cut off." ”

"I don't think so, I don't pay much attention to the inheritance of family bloodline, in the past, the family bloodline inheritance still bears a little bit of the mission of civilization inheritance, and it is still a little meaningful to be obsessed with family inheritance, after all, it is all family learning."

Liu Bei said with emotion: "But now is not the era of family learning, not to mention state learning, county learning has been popularized, and the school departments are clamoring to implement the county school plan set by Zheng Gong back then, and the knowledge has been popularized, who can't inherit it?"

Don't talk about them, even if it's me, the royal family, if one day, the heir of the crown prince's lineage can't hold the throne and is taken away, then in my opinion, there is nothing to pity, the throne is such a thing, only the strongest people can do it, not strong enough, lose the throne, there is no place to reason.

Because your emperor doesn't reason with others in the first place, what you want is self-respect, so one day if you are killed by others, who else can you find to reason? That's why I said, the emperor is so hypocritical, so hypocritical that I want to vomit.

I thought, as long as there are still people who are emperors, then this country will not be stable, unless one day all the existence of emperors, kings, etc. is eliminated, and this country can usher in a new life, and the current Han is not my ideal country. ”

Zhuge Liang was a little surprised by this.

"Your Majesty, this ...... It doesn't seem to be something that ministers should discuss. ”

"So I'm talking about it."

Liu Bei smiled: "I just say that, you just listen to it, anyway, I hate this thing, normal people sit in this position, they have to become abnormal people, a little change to a less determined person, it is definitely a problem."

Ze this child has a strong enough will, but he is not calm enough Shen is not only calm, but also has a firm will, this is the main reason why I chose Shen, Ze can be the king, and can be the emperor, my son, there is only deep.

Ze sits in this position, which will push Dahan to another peak, but he can't control himself well, he will lose control, and in the end, it is even very likely to repeat the things of Emperor Wu's later years, which I don't want to see, Shen will not, he will control himself very calmly.

However, Shen is more than calm, and his decisiveness in major matters is lacking, and he may know what to do in many things, but his methods are not sharp enough, which is his biggest weakness, so Kong Ming, after I abdicate, Shen will be assisted by you. ”

"Your Majesty, this ......"

"That's how I thought about it from the beginning."

Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang and said slowly: "Over the years, I have paid more or less attention to your peers, and there are really not many people who can maintain their original appearance, people like you who have always maintained their ideals, and even less, you are the best treasure I have unearthed over the years." ”

Liu Bei stretched out his hand and held Zhuge Liang's hand.

"Kong Ming, I am the sunset that is about to fall, and you, like the sun, I have few requirements for you, just two, that is, I said to you back then, don't take evil as small, don't take good as small, this is the most shallow and profound truth I have realized in my life.

I told Shen this sentence, and I also told you, Shen is the heir to my throne, and his biggest mission is to let the Han continue to stabilize and continue to develop, and you, my ideal heir, are deeply for the Han to hold the lower limit, and you want to break through the upper limit for the Han. ”

"Your Majesty...... Minister......"

Zhuge Liang's expression seemed to be a little panicked, and he seemed to feel that Liu Bei's entrustment was not normal.

So he bowed down in front of Liu Bei.

"The minister does not dare to live up to His Majesty's kindness, His Majesty's kindness, the minister will never forget, and the minister can only repay His Majesty's kindness by doing his best!"

Liu Bei stretched out his hand and helped Zhuge Liang up.

"Don't think about repaying me, I don't want you to repay me, I cultivate you and value you, for your ability, for you to make the Han more prosperous and the people of the Han more happy, this is what I look forward to, if you thank me, then govern the Han well!"

Zhuge Liang's eyes were slightly red, and he pursed his lips, and he nodded.

"Liang, I will do my best, but as long as there is a breath left, I will not make the Han harm!"

Looking at the aging Liu Bei, the twenty-eight-year-old Zhuge Liang made a lifelong promise to him.

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PS: Tomorrow is a biography, it should be Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei.

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