On the 5th day of the 11th month of the 5th year of Guanghe (182 A.D.), the biggest snowstorm since the beginning of winter had completely stopped. The accumulated snow was as deep as 1.5 feet, covering the entire eastern part of Youzhou like a thick white carpet.
In Xuantu Prefecture, other than Zhao Feng and Du Lei from Right Beiping and Wei Hong from Liaoxi, the rest of the people had arrived.
On the right was a general, and on the left was a civil servant. The two pots of charcoal fire in the hall made the room as warm as the spring in March.
"The external problems have been temporarily alleviated, and the internal problems have been largely eliminated." In the Liaodong counties, when winter arrived, the commoners would hide in their homes to avoid the cold. It was called Wodong. This habit had been going on for hundreds of years. However, starting from this year, I plan to change it bit by bit.”
Xun Yu gently rubbed his hands and occasionally approached the brazier to warm himself." I only read about the cold in Liaodong before. I didn't expect to know the vastness of the Han Dynasty after experiencing it myself. Although the weather from the north to the south is the same, the difference in climate is so great. The fate of heaven and earth is beyond human reach!"”
" Of course." Liu Heng smiled." The latitudes are different, and the angle of the sun is different. The natural climate is also different."”
When everyone heard the word 'latitude', they all looked at Liu Heng. "What does the 'latitude' that my lord mentioned refer to?" asked Ju Shou.”
Liu Heng was stunned. He knew that he had said too much again and could only stick out his tongue."This…This…Latitude! Eh? Why mention it? I invited everyone here to discuss this winter's matter. Why did you go off topic and talk about latitude? Serious business, serious business."
Behind him, Wu An whispered into his ear," My lord just said 'latitude'…"
Liu Heng pretended not to know and asked curiously,"Is that so? Why didn't I know about it?"
Everyone could no longer hold back their laughter.
Liu Heng smiled and said,"That's good. A smile can make you younger!" Not everyone had the talent for humor.”
Ju Shou managed to stop laughing." My lord, you're amazing. You haven't even explained the word 'latitude' clearly, yet you've come up with the word 'humor'. Next time, we need to assign a secretary to my lord to record all the new words and compile them into a book.”
Liu Heng agreed." Of course we have to do this. However, it's not just Heng alone. We have to collect and compile all the vocabulary in the world into a 'dictionary' for the world to consult.
In addition, he had to find the roots of the words used in daily writing and compile them into a book in a certain order. It was called a dictionary.”
Xun Yu was overjoyed." The completion of these two books,'Dictionary',' Dictionary', will certainly benefit thousands of generations.”
Hearing this, the laughter stopped and was replaced by admiration.
Liu Heng waved his hand." Duke Ju and Duke Xun can take the lead in these two ceremonies. We can start preparing first. We'll start immediately when everything is ready."
Conservation planned to cultivate in seclusion for the next period of time.
He would focus on thinking about the future development of the three northeastern counties and formulate the first five-year plan. He would keep the details a secret for the time being. After it was completed, he would definitely announce it to everyone. During this period, there are a few things that I need you to complete.”
"Please speak, my lord," said Ju Shou and Gao Shunqi.”
Liu Heng glanced around and said," Commander-in-Chief Xun and Commander-in-Chief Zhao will take the lead. Xiao Gang and Wu An will be the assistants. Gather manpower and use the opportunity of the commoners staying at home during winter to conduct a thorough population survey of the three counties. It will be convenient for future policy formulation. This will include the servants of the noble families and wealthy families."
I need the most complete and accurate information. At the same time, Wu An had to investigate the background, political achievements, and moral character of the officials of the three prefectures. He had to find out the situation of the officials and report it together with the population data.”
The three of them agreed at the same time.
Liu Heng continued," Commandant Gao and Commandant Wei will take the lead. Sun Hong, Chen Hu, Qin Feng, Du Lei, Yang Ling, and Ma Cheng will assist. We will use this period of relative peace to speed up the reorganization of the prefecture soldiers and strengthen their training.
It would be best to find a group of middle and low-level officers through exterminating the bandits and other operations, and continue to eliminate the ruffians and cowards. Then, the brave and quick-witted soldiers would be formed into elite troops as the backbone of the three counties 'armaments, and the rest would be in charge of daily security and city defense as a second-tier echelon.”
The generals stood up and bowed, agreeing in unison.
In the end, Liu Heng looked at Ju Shou and said," Ju Gong has the most important responsibility. He has to stay in Xuantu to coordinate and command. For those who obstructed or opposed the population survey, they had to be polite before using force. At most, they would kill one to warn the others!
The soldiers who were eliminated from the county soldiers would be handed over to the government. Anyone who violated the laws of the Han Dynasty would be punished according to the law and would not be forgiven.”
At this point, Liu Heng stood up and walked to the door. He looked at the white snow outside the window and said,"Everything will get better next year!”
Since November 6th, the prefecture had issued several orders, including the relevant matters of the population survey, the reward and punishment system for the prefecture soldiers, and the conditions for the new recruits.
The people of the three counties entered the last month of the fifth year of Guanghe with this inexplicable announcement.
Braving the north wind and treading on the knee-high snow, Xun Yu spent more than forty days to travel around Xuantu Prefecture and Liaoxi Prefecture. He had a precise grasp of the population distribution and age composition of the two prefectures. At the same time, Zhao Feng of Right Beiping had also completed the general survey and sent the population data to Xun Yu.
Gao Shun organized the soldiers of the three counties for the first round of screening, and selected more than four thousand people who passed. Then, with the help of more than ten bandit suppression operations, those who were qualified, such as ruffians, cowards, deserters, disobeying orders, bullying the people, and colluding with the enemy, were all eliminated and sent to the prefecture government, regardless of their relatives or background.
With the help of so many people, Liu Heng thanked God and devoted himself to the design of the future.
Liu Heng, who had read many history books and understood the advantages and disadvantages of various political systems, knew the basic principle that social production relations should be compatible with productivity.
Advanced social production relations would not only not allow society to progress, but would also lead to the decline of productivity.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was in the rising stage of feudal society. It was mainly a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. Due to the Confucian ideology of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, the development of commerce was extremely slow.
However, history has proven that the great development of industry and commerce is an important factor in promoting scientific and technological progress and improving productivity.
For the sake of a bottom-up and gradual reform, Liu Heng decided to make a huge gamble. Break the social norms and concentrate our efforts to develop industry and commerce first!
When he was studying in school, Liu Heng had thought that the separation of powers and bicameral system of the United States was a rather excellent national system.
Of course, there were also disadvantages. This was because although the federal system took into account the situation of the various states and had good stability and self-correcting ability, in the era of extremely underdeveloped communication in ancient times, the federal system could become the root cause of the country's division and war, especially in China, which had a strong regional color.
As for the constitution of the monarch, Liu Heng found it hard to make a decision. After all, after hundreds of years of development, the imperial power of the Eastern Han Dynasty was still on the rise. If a constitution of the monarch was implemented, it was possible that a powerful emperor would take back the military power in a few moves…At that time, it would return to the old path of feudal rule…Look at the current Wei Nation, there were people clamoring for the so-called Emperor of the Wei Nation to take back control of the country!
As for the other alliances, they all had their own strengths and weaknesses.
After considering all kinds of situations, Liu Heng finally decided to formulate a set of social systems that had the characteristics of concentrating power and regional autonomy, and had enough self-correction, repair, and improvement according to the national conditions at that time.
The initial idea was that the imperial government would adopt a central administrative system, supplemented by a parliament or parliament. The law-making and law-enforcement would be independent. The military system would be under the command of the head of state, but major military operations would have to be approved by the parliament or parliament before they could be implemented. The annual military budget, conscription, replacement of guards, promotion and appointment of officers would also have to be reported to the parliament or parliament for approval.
The main officials of the prefecture were appointed by the central government and were responsible for patrolling, supervising, and supervising. They were the representatives of the imperial court.
The main officials below the county level were all elected, but they had to go through a background check and report to the state government for approval before they could participate in the election.
Below the county level, there was a certain degree of economic and legal autonomy, but everything had to be reported to the state government for permission before it could be implemented.
Of course, this was only a hypothesis. The specifics would have to be improved and perfected in the future.
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