"The Change of Heaven"
Volume 2: The Horizon
Chapter 141 Administration
When I arrived at my room, which was used as the meeting hall for the Yue Marquis, not many people were there. There were only a few people gathered in the middle of the hall—Bō Cai, Han Xian, and the other former members of the Yellow Turban Army. They said that they used to get up early, and they had to get up as soon as the sky was slightly bright, because there was never enough work to do—but they also complained that the sun rose early in winter here, and once it rose, none of them could sleep.
I completely agree that work is never done. I pointed to the pile of bamboo slips on my desk and laughed with them.
People kept coming in, and there were several of them in a few moments. I told them to discuss freely and not to pay attention to me. I just saw Uncle Zhang, asked him to come closer, and told him to find some people to bring some back home. He naturally knew what to bring, but I was always embarrassed to say things like bringing wine home to satisfy my cravings in the meeting room.
Before everyone arrived, I specifically picked out the reports from the scouts sent to Tiannan. In fact, I have always been concerned about some of their internal problems. This has to start with the map in my hand. The map is very detailed, full of standard Yinling handwriting. There are no problems in other places, but there is something strange about Tiannan. My brother's Tiannan country and the southern part of my Han Yizhou are almost completely overlapped. There are names of some larger cave villages in Tiannan, as well as the names of county towns in several counties in Yinan. So, I am very interested, or very worried, what the current situation of these cities is.
The scouts didn't go in too deep. The reason for this was that I told them to come back safely so that they could bring me news. I couldn't ask my brother directly, lest he think I wanted to interfere with his affairs in the south of the country. Although I didn't go in too deep, I was able to get a lot of useful information from the scouts' simple reports: the rebellious Yizhou people were not completely wiped out. They retreated to the south of Yuexi and Yongchang County, and the counties in the southeast, namely Qianwei, Yizhou and Zangke, were mixed with the Nanman Kingdom in the south of the country, so they were protected by my brother. But the interesting thing is that these counties neither surrendered to Dong Zhuo nor surrendered to the Nanman Kingdom, which makes some sense, but they still ignored the Yizhou people in Yongchang. Instead, several neighboring counties, or even a city, formed their own courts, which seemed to be content.
This was beyond my expectations, these forces seemed very elusive, and it made me very worried. If I had settled things at home, I would definitely resolve this matter, and of course I had to have a plan first.
I also specifically picked out the bamboo slips related to Yuzhang Zhisui to read. This neighbor is my least favorite.
Poyang has gold, and its northeastern border has copper, and the land in between is rich with rice, soup, and fish. I just don't know why this bastard was sent here. The more I look at him, the more I feel that I will have to deal with them in the future, and not in a good way.
The situation in Wu State made me feel better. They reclaimed wasteland and dredged canals on a large scale right from the start. It seemed that the common people could look forward to a better life. At least nothing would happen to my wife's family there. I was more concerned about my father-in-law's situation, so I had something else to do at the sacrifice next month. These words seemed unrelated, but as long as I thought about the fact that I had two wives, I could understand the problem.
Seeing that almost everyone had arrived and that there were still people walking around in front, looking a little lazy, he pointed to the front with the bamboo slips that had not been put away and asked, "Who else hasn't come yet?"
“We brothers have all arrived a long time ago… Oh, the old man has arrived… Yo, the three evil faces have all arrived… Hey, brother E Huan, don’t do anything, can’t you see the honest man… Dajian has arrived… Rou Dayan has arrived… Where’s that southern barbarian woman, oh, she didn’t come… uh, and the Xianbei guy who was good at archery isn’t here either… Oh, the tall one has arrived, but the short scholar is missing… Oh, and Xiangzi with broken hair is missing… Several guys from Jingzhou have also arrived… Okay, that’s all the four of them, the others are all here.” It happened that Deng Mao was standing in the middle, and he thought I was pointing at him, so he looked around and answered while picking his fingers, really like a Yellow Turban Army introducer.
"Well, General Deng may not know." Although he had a lot on his mind, he still had to smile: "Li Beihai, Tian Xuelin, and Pan Xiang were all sent to the South China Sea by me, so basically everyone is here, except General Gong Yi Nu. But it doesn't matter if she didn't come, I was afraid she didn't know I asked everyone to come today. But let's wait a little longer, it's still a quarter before the Si hour. You can just do whatever you want and find a seat to sit down." Today is the first time that our Yue court has done this. In the past few days, we discussed things in the big tent in the army. In the future, we still have to have a rule for sitting.
For example, today there are absolutely no rules. In the middle of the court there is an aisle more than ten feet long, from where I am to the door, with a pile of cushions on both sides. They were originally arranged neatly, but now they are in a mess. Those who are familiar with them sit close together, while those who are slightly unfamiliar sit a little further away; some are facing various directions, some are facing me, like Nan, Ye Jian, Bō Cai, etc.; some are facing the middle aisle, like Zhang Shu, Song Yudong, Wang Wei, Zhang Hua, etc.; both types make sense; there are even some who have their backs to me and are facing the door, like Deng Mao and others.
"General Deng, General Zhao, why do you all have your backs to me?" I could only point at them and ask, which made the group of people below laugh.
"Ah? Isn't this right?" Deng Mao and his men turned around. "I thought that was it. We heard that officials in the government cannot look at the king or the duke. You have to follow the rules, so I just thought about it and passed it over."
"What about the future? You are all ministers of the Yue Kingdom, and I am the Marquis of Yue." I paused, somewhat helplessly: "I won't force you. Be a little more disciplined in the court. Down below, I won't care about you. You just sit like Mr. Zhang, facing the middle aisle."
Actually, I wanted everyone to face me, as is the case in Jingzhou. But seeing Uncle Zhang sitting like that, I thought it would be better to follow the old man's lead.
"But there are some problems with this. It's still too haphazard and it's a bit troublesome to find people." I looked at the results of the sorting below and frowned. "So let me sit the military general on my right and the civil official on my left."
This does make it clear, but obviously there is another problem. There are so many people on my right, but I can count them on one hand on my left.
This is the problem that exists in my country of Yue now.
"Well, come on, ask Lord Xu Zheng to come over." I realized he wasn't there, so I asked someone to go and invite him. Then I pointed, "Wang Wei, Gao Sheng, Jian Feng, Chen Kai, Chen Yu, Hua Rong, and Yan Rou, all of you come over here."
So, I began to feel satisfied with my distribution results: the first person in the first row on the left must be Uncle Zhang; I left the second seat empty for Xu Zheng; the third was Song Yudong, the fourth was also empty, for Tian Jian and Tian Xuelin, the fifth was Yan Rou, the sixth was Chen Ying, and the seventh was Wang Wei; then the first person in the second row behind him was Zhang Hua, the second was Jian Feng, the third was Gao Sheng, the fourth was Hua Rong, the fifth was Chen Kai, and the sixth was Chen Yu. The right side is a little more difficult to arrange, but there is no objection to the first one, it can only be Brother Bōcai, no one will have any objection to this; I let the second one be vacant for our fourth child, I am a little reluctant about this; the third one is for Han Xian, the fourth one is for Xing Daorong, the fifth one is for Guan Hai, the sixth one is for E Huan, and the seventh one is for Sun Yuhai; the first one behind is for Na Yan, the second one is for Zhao Deli, the third one is for Ye Jian, the fourth one is vacant for now, the fifth one is for Nan, the sixth one is for Bian Xi, and the next one I let for Gong Yi Nu, so that she can come and go conveniently in the future. In fact, I am also reluctant to use her, and I will do it later; the third row is **, Deng Mao, Sun Zhong, Zhao Hong, and the last one is Liao Hao. I let them arrange themselves in the Yellow Turban Army, and then pass through one by one, so that these people will not talk too happily, but no one really passed in the last three, and Liao Hao could not pass in anyway. Song Qian and Chen Wu may be able to pass in in the future, but that will take another two years.
As for Pan Xiang, it depends on how great his achievements are. I even plan to let him go to the civil service after he comes back. I have heard from Gan Ning that he has read some books. Here, it seems that if we can write all the names, we basically have to consider preparing him to be a civil official. And these positions actually need to be rearranged.
Just as we had arranged our temporary seats, a scene that we didn't know what to do appeared: the general Gong Yi Nu, whom everyone had been waiting for, was wearing a set of men's clothes that were a little short and a little bit frugal, but if you look closely, it seems to be a more formal official uniform. She still had her bare feet on a pair of wooden clogs that she had brought from nowhere. She walked slowly, ticking, and almost awkwardly, with her head down, and seemed to be very difficult to move towards the lobby. All the men in the lobby looked at her, except for the one with his chin dropped to the ground, and the rest of them basically had their tongues gone. No one could say anything, even gossip. But I vaguely felt that many men seemed to have a bad taste in waiting for a scene that was difficult to describe. So, I think it is necessary to find the person who dressed Gong Yi Nu, and if nothing unexpected happens, he should be sitting below me.
The woman pulled the hem of her skirt with great effort, and moved forward with the sound of her clogs hitting the ground. However, all her caution and care only stopped at the front of the hall. She seemed to see that everyone's shoes were in the corridor, so she relaxed, swung her legs and dragged her skirt, kicked off her clogs casually, and then strode up. When she saw me, she suddenly grinned, followed my gesture, picked up the hem of her skirt, strode over, and sat down somehow. Everyone changed their looks, stared at each other, and some were about to explode. But in the end, they didn't laugh out loud under my gesture.
"General Gong Yitome, thank you for your hard work." I said loudly, as if she had poor hearing.
"Mou Si! (It's okay)" she replied loudly, as if my ears were not working well either.
"Can you understand what we are saying?"
She nodded reluctantly, and I nodded and smiled, thinking in my heart that one day, two other women would sit in this hall.
Xu Zheng was much more polite. When he arrived, he asked someone to announce it first. When I called him, I heard hurried footsteps. I asked everyone to learn a little bit, then let him in, and even left the table to go to the corridor to meet him. When I got to the door, I turned around and looked around. Sure enough, all the generals were looking at me.
There were some official courtesies when Xu Zheng was ushered in. He bowed before taking off his shoes and going up the steps, and then he knelt down. I was so flustered that I helped him up with a mouthful of nonsense. After that, he still didn't come in and insisted that I go in first. I had no choice but to go in first and then turn around to invite him in. Then, he took off his sword and tried to find a place to put it outside the door, which made the people on my right side take out their swords from their waists.
"No need, Lord Xu, this is not the emperor's palace. Just come in. There are no such rules here." I smiled and ended the further exchange of courtesies.
This alone is tiring enough. Not to mention Xu Zheng coming in and greeting everyone, there are all kinds of people below, some imitate him, some wave their arms, and even some just grin. I don't know what Lord Xu is thinking, but after Xu Zheng sat down, his nose moved, and then his facial expression changed slightly, and then returned to its original state, but his brows frowned from time to time. I quickly understood it, but there was nothing I could do. You can't expect a group of farmers or warriors to have feet as fragrant as flowers. Thinking of this, even the fragrant flowers in my mind look like steaming feet.
He shuddered, immediately dismissed the boring and disgusting thoughts in his mind, and quickly returned to the business.
On the first day, there seemed to be nothing major going on, and due to the arrival of Xu Zheng, the scene was relatively quiet. I wondered if it was because our group of newly promoted officials felt a little awkward when seeing a real senior official or something. And I just asked about the military situation, explained how to rest the soldiers recently, rectify military affairs, arrange the things that each person was going to be in charge of, and asked Song and Zhang Shu to draw up a list of official titles. The rest was to send everyone home for dinner. Before dinner, there were still some curious people who had not left yet, and they were standing there for some unknown reason. When I went over, I found that a group of people were using their feet to compare the footprints of Gong Yi Nu and comment on them. It seemed that this had become a bad taste for these bored Yellow Turban brothers to kill time before dinner. But I was even more bored, so I went too. Mine was a little bigger than hers, and the others were about the same as hers, but most of them were a little bigger. I suddenly asked, "Did you wash your feet last night?"
"Of course not!" Someone was so confident.
"Go back and wash it next time!" I was filled with anger, but soon became helpless.
That day, I took Bō to Han Xian's place for dinner, which is actually the important thing.
Guangxin City did not look like the land of the former Baiyue people. It was rare to see southerners in strange clothes, especially after Gong Yi Nu heard about that set of clothes from somewhere and got them. There were some southerners in the team, but they were all stationed outside the city.
In the past few days, reports have been coming in from various places, including those from Zhang He (a historical figure, generally known as Zhang Shijun, which has the same meaning as Liu Shijun, author's note) in Nanhai, Shi Xie in Jiaozhi, and some reports from other county officials. Shi Xie's report is the most formal, and it looks like an official document from the court. The others are a little worse, but we can still get a basic understanding of the situation. The governors of Jiuzhen and Rinan have already fled to the people, and the governor of Hepu has fled to Jiaozhi. The governor of Yulin has even gone to Guangxin. I summoned him a few days ago. In response to this, I can only say: "Jiaozhou is really messed up."
What I like to read most is Zhang He's report, because there are often silver bells in it. My lovely wife has put out the rebellion in Jieyang County, and the rebellious bandits in Boluo simply surrendered upon hearing the news. At that time, I smiled and drafted an order, asking Han Xian to take people there immediately.
Among them, Jiaozhi County was completely free of chaos, which was surprising. It seems that Shi Xie is quite capable. Recently, I have heard a lot of this person's name in the class beside my pillow, and I know a little bit about him. This Shi family is the first noble family in the local area. This alone actually makes me feel a little uneasy, but it seems that this person is indeed worth using. Guo Pei found a book of eleven volumes of "Chun Qiu Jing" (written by Shi Xie, lost, author's note. All quotations from this book in the future are compiled by the author himself), which was written by this person named Shi Xie. This person has studied "Zuo Zhuan" in depth and has a lot of experience. Some of them are still instructive. He can be counted as a sour Confucian in Zhang Shu's mouth. For example, not far from the beginning of the volume, in the section about the funeral of Princess Yin, it is noted that: Yin Gong was rude, and there was chaos in the end. Therefore, etiquette is used to order the superiors and the inferiors, and music is used to harmonize the superiors and the inferiors; without distinguishing the superiors and the inferiors, there is no order, and without distinguishing the superiors and the inferiors, there is no peace; Confucius said: Establish in etiquette, and achieve in music. (The Analects of Confucius - Tai Bo, author's note), "Li" also says: Music is the harmony of heaven and earth; ritual is the order of heaven and earth (The Book of Rites - The Book of Music, author's note); the instrumental use of ritual and music is this principle. When discussing major issues, there is nothing better than governing with ritual and music. Rituals can transform the five kinds of clothes and distinguish them; music can unite all the people and transform them. If there is ritual but no music, the upper and lower will fall apart; if there is music but no ritual, they will be disrespectful to each other; without music and ritual, they are no different from animals; if there is ritual and music, then the world will be harmonious and all the people will be safe and healthy.
I didn't learn this from my teacher, but I think it's interesting, so I asked Song to find a few people to go to Jiaozhi to look for the situation of Shi Xie's family and find out about this person and the Shi family. At the same time, I gave Shi Xie an order, saying that I was temporarily unable to pacify Rinan and Jiuzhen, and asked him to issue a notice to strictly guard the border and only allow the exiled people to enter the country for refuge. This is not good, but I think there is no better way for the time being. However, I think this is "not good", I am afraid that not everyone can clearly understand it now.
In addition, I also did a math problem, which was very difficult. Some numbers were accurate, and some were vague, but I still got the result that Jiaozhou had 400,000 households and 2 million people. Among them, Jiaozhi County alone accounted for more than one-third.
The winter in Guangxin is warmer than that in Jingzhou, but a little damp. Cold and damp are not good for the body, especially for young men. This is what Yinling used to know. I don’t know which aunt taught her, or maybe it was my father-in-law. But the weather obviously has an impact on us. Most of my subordinates are from the north. Maybe they are not used to the climate. They were fine a few days ago, but in the past few days, several of them suddenly fell ill. Hua Rong also immediately found a place to use his skills. Hua Tuo’s son is really capable. That night, he went to see Deng Mao and the others who were sick, and they were fine. The only thing that has been changing recently is that Gong Yi Nu’s clothes are always different every day, but the same thing is that she can always attract the attention of a bunch of bored guys. Yesterday, she wore socks for the first time in front of us, and came to the court in socks, which surprised some people. But before leaving, several people gathered around the footprints. Sandaoxi, a few days ago, there were barefoot mud prints, but today, there were sweaty cloth prints. It seems that most southerners are like this. Both men and women walk barefoot all year round. Wearing shoes and socks makes them feel stuffy. However, I did not impose any restrictions on Gong Yi Nu. Whatever she wears is reasonable. After all, she is not a Han Chinese. It is meaningless to use our Han Chinese standards. Another reason that allows me to be so casual is that the personnel composition of my court and the Green Forest and Red Eyebrow Army is basically the same. Except for some strange and evil tastes from the people, they have no scruples in other aspects.
In fact, I began to hesitate again, but if I invited Shi Xie here, would it make the current situation of endless conversation and discussion become restrained? Xu Zheng alone has made the people on my right much quieter. Would his arrival make this place lifeless
I am not confused, but I am not sure whether I am a talent for governing. In Changsha, I only need to listen to the orders of the teacher above. Later, I left everything to Yinling and went to learn martial arts by myself. Now there are two million people in front of me. Their future will have a lot to do with my governance. It is obviously reasonable to promote a person who governs one-third of the people under my rule to assist me.
"It seems I have to ask him!" I finally came to the conclusion quickly, very firmly and decisively.
I worked very hard to handle government affairs. When I was able to do something for the people completely by myself, I felt that I suddenly became much more diligent. In addition to the court meetings, I would stay alone in the government office for nearly seven hours every day to handle government affairs. I didn't have many meals, but I thought it was natural. If I had thought of this a few years ago, I would have thought I was crazy or stupid.
Even though I was doing this, I was still criticized, and I felt that the criticism was justified, so I was really stupid. Yes, sometimes, when you take it for granted that you think you are right, you are very likely already making a mistake.
That evening, when it was dinner time, I was looking at the bamboo slips reported by Xu Zheng. It was about a hundred people displaced from Guangxin City, begging for a living, which was detrimental to the stability of the city. I asked how to solve the problem.
I thought about this issue for a long time, and finally gave a reply: Gather all the stateless people and register them as stateless, and repatriate the young and strong ones; if there are still troubles in their hometowns, they will be temporarily employed as government servants to help them; the old, weak, or the rebels who can serve will be given rice and milk to wash clothes; the rest will be helped first, and we will ask later. If there is any doubt, report it immediately, and if there is a later example, it will be handled in the same way.
After finishing this, I was really a little tired. When I was stretching comfortably, I found that Uncle Zhang was actually beside me, looking at the things I approved. I was so panicked that I hurriedly bowed. After the greeting, he took the book and looked at it, and then said to me: "Although Yue Hou is young, he has a lot of experience. This kind of treatment is appropriate."
"I am young and have little knowledge. I need your guidance." Naturally, I still have the image of a humble and honest child.
"Well, Lord Yue has done a good job. But there is one thing I still want to mention." Uncle Zhang suddenly became serious and asked me to sit up straight and listen to his advice with an open mind.
"Generals and dukes are responsible for everything. Although they are diligent in government, they worry about lazy officials." I didn't quite understand, so I stretched my head forward. He looked at me and smiled. "Although your subordinates are not talented, they are not lacking in talents. There are Song Yudong and Tian Jian in literature, and dozens of Bōcai, Han Xian, Beihai, and Nan in military affairs. However, after the court meeting every day, except for those who lead troops outside, most of those who are ordered to act have nothing to do. Why? Yue Hou does it alone. Now, just the affairs of Cangwu County, the documents pile up three feet every day. If Jiaozhou is pacified, I am afraid that this house will not be able to accommodate them, and the officials are already lazy. I mention this matter now because I am worried about Yue Hou."
I frowned. "Didn't I ask you and Song to draw up a list of official titles?"
"That's right!" Uncle Zhang suddenly shouted, "But why didn't Lord Yue ask about this matter? This thing has been in my sleeve for several days."
"I forgot," I said frankly.
"I know you forgot." He was also very frank: "When I went to get... that... thing, I saw the wife of Yuehou, and she told me that she was afraid you would forget it. I asked why, and she went out early in the morning and came home late at night these days. She couldn't even eat, so she had to send it to you. I wanted to see you for a few days, but I didn't think I really had to mention it for Yuehou to remember. I have to say one more thing, the wife of Yuehou is ill and can't move around easily. She stays at home from dawn to night every day... If it weren't for you, such a good daughter-in-law, you would be too sorry for her. She is also a woman. Alas, you are so young and you won't understand. Listen to your uncle, divide the work and let everyone do it for an hour, you can have several more days, and it won't be too late to consider the big plan then, but let these trivial matters worry you. For this matter, why don't you let Xu Zheng handle it himself? He has been a prefect for twenty years, and he has solved these things before?" The more Zhang Shu got to the end, the more excited he became, and he almost stood on the table.
"Nephew, I will teach you." I bowed respectfully, then immediately took a few bamboo scrolls and went out. Before leaving, I did not forget to say to Uncle Zhang who was standing there in a daze: "Uncle, there are some urgent things on the desk. Please help me deal with them. I am in a hurry to go back."
"I should have known that Song Yudong would come." I finally heard this deliberate loud complaint outside the house, and I laughed with a childish mischief.
I got home just in time for dinner. Guo Pei looked at me with an expression I didn't know. I just kept eating and asked everyone how they were doing. Then I sent them all away.
Now there are only two of us left.
I scratched my head.
Then he scratched his head again.
…
Still scratching, just changing hands.
…
She leaned over.
But she just scratched my head.
The only consolation was that I held her hand.
"I'm sorry, I..." I continued to scratch my head with my other hand, "You've worked so hard at home. You do everything, but I..."
"My husband, you are too polite. As the ruler of a state, you should do your best to serve the country. I am fine, don't worry about me." She lowered her brows, and her face did not show the willingness in her words, so I could sense that she was not speaking from the heart.
I laughed.
"I have a question I don't understand, I want to ask you, Madam." Seeing her looking at me, I continued, "A family of nine people needs six loads of firewood to cook and boil water every day. It takes one person two hours to cut one load of wood, half an hour to carry one load of firewood home, half an hour to carry a day's water, and half an hour to cook and boil water for one meal. Let me ask, what is good for this?"
Guo Pei was certainly not a fool, she laughed, and she laughed when I was only halfway there.
"I had never thought about this question before, but today Uncle Zhang woke me up. I have to do everything myself, and I can still say that I have nothing to be ashamed of, but wasting the talented people at hand is a harm. Moreover, one person's mouth is like a platform, which can distance people from thousands of miles away. Therefore, one word can cover the world, but is one person's words always right? No. This is what Brother Meng De said. Thinking about it today, it is indeed true. This is the second harm. What about the third harm..."
"What is it?" I paused on purpose, and Guo Pei took the bait without knowing what was going on.
I leaned close to her ear and said something that made her shy... Then I blew out the light.
Then I blew out another lamp.
Then... I blew out seven more lamps in one breath and put out three more with my hands.
Finally, I looked at the lights in the room in a daze, then suddenly turned around, picked up my smiling wife, and rushed back to my bedroom.
I guess I'm usually a bit clumsy and I don't know why.
On the second day, I issued the first official appointment document: he was appointed Grand Marshal, General, and in charge of the entire army. He was responsible for all military affairs, training, rewards and punishments, and all other matters. His salary was equivalent to two thousand stones (the names, structure and salaries of the officials under the county marquis could not be exactly the same as those of the court, otherwise there would be suspicion of rebellion. In fact, in most of the Han Dynasty, they were directly assigned major officials by the superiors, and most of them were intended to be monitored. Author's note); Zuo Sima Li Beihai, assisted the Grand Marshal, was in charge of the infantry, and the Right Marshal Han Xian, assisted the Grand Marshal, was in charge of the navy, all of whom were middle-ranking officials of 1,000 stones; the Left Vice-Chancellor of the Marshal, Xing Daorong, the Right Vice-Chancellor of the Marshal, Guan Hai, the Left Assistant General, E Huan, the Right Assistant General, Sun Yuhai, were in charge of the daily military affairs of the five armies; Ye Jian was the Colonel of Guangxin, Husalie Nanguo was the Colonel of the Front Army, Gong Yi Nu was the Colonel of the Rear Army, Bian Xi was the Colonel of the Left Army, ** was the Colonel of the Central Army, and Deng Mao was the Colonel of the Right Army, in charge of Guangxin and the guards of the five armies. Sun Zhong was the Commandant of the Camp, and Zhao Hong was the Marshal of the Camp, in charge of the Grand Marshal's Law and garrison. All of the above generals were of 1,000 stones, and were under the command of the Grand Marshal.
The Minister of Education, Xu Zheng, was appointed as the governor of Guangxin, and was in charge of educating the people and cultivating their virtues; he was equivalent to a two thousand stone official. The Minister of Defense, Na Yan, was in charge of the palace garrison; the Grand Herald, Yan Rou, was in charge of the barbarians in all directions; the Grand Historian, Song Yudong, was in charge of the weather and the terrain, and the festivals and sacrifices; the Left Counselor, Tian Jian, and the Right Counselor, Zhang Hua, were all one thousand stone officials, and were all controlled by the Minister of Education.
Minister of Agriculture, Chen Ying; Minister of Treasurer, Wang Wei; Minister of Public Land, Gao Sheng; Minister of Works, Jian Feng; Minister of Imperial Physician, Hua Rong; all of them were 1,000 stones. The Minister of Works was vacant and was temporarily under the control of Minister of Agriculture, Chen Ying.
The Supervisory History Doctor, Zhang Jian, supervises the merits and demerits of officials, equivalent to two thousand stones; the Supervisory Vice Minister, Chen Kai; the Minister of Justice, six hundred stones. Zhao Deli, in charge of the affairs of the court; the Minister of Justice, Vice Minister, Chen Yu.
The staff of each department are recruited by each department.
I did not copy the current laws and regulations of my Han Dynasty. First, I do not have so many people. Second, I also think that many of them are unnecessary. Especially after listening to my wife's story, I think Nalan should be given the positions of Shaofu and Zongzheng. I have to admit that the official system of my Han Dynasty is a bit too bloated. Half of the court is just there to serve the emperor's eating, drinking, defecating, sleeping, moving, sitting, lying down and walking. Of course, this can only be thought about in your mind. After thinking about it, you can't say it out loud.
In this way, I temporarily arranged my court. Some people did not return, so they were not assigned positions. But some people I had never seen but I had already rewarded them. For example, Shi Xie, I drafted an imperial edict to promote him to General Pingnan. In addition, the imperial edict for each county to recommend virtuous and upright people was also issued.
At this moment, the affairs of Yue State really began.