: The Eighteen State of the Extra Han Region

Li Su originally hoped to get the persuasion to Liu Bei with a memorial.

After the two-year term of "Governor Xu Yanyang and the affairs of the states" ended,

He can still personally supervise the troops to move the town to handle the subsequent pacification and integration of Fusang.

After all, the imperial court finally decided to establish a good law, and the term of office of the chief officials who held military, political and financial power in several states in the local area could not exceed two years.

Li Su didn't want to destroy this law personally, leaving a bad example for future generations. He agreed that two years would be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to

Unfortunately, the plan could not keep up with the changes. Not long after Li Su's memorial arrived in Luoyang, before Liu Bei's reply was waiting for his reply, a new news interrupted his deployment.

Cai Yan, his wife, who stayed in her hometown in Bianliang County, Chenliu County, sent an urgent letter on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, saying that her father Cai Yong should be on his dying day and asked him to prepare early. If the state and military affairs are not busy, he will rush back as soon as possible.

Li Su originally thought that he would not see Cai Yong for two years after he left the town.

This also requires thanks to Taishi Ci and Gan Ning Zhou Yu for their quick actions and military conquests against Sanhan and Xiematai. In just over three months, Li Su did not need to cross the sea to supervise the army himself.

Otherwise, if Li Su was overseas at this moment, Cai Yan would not have time to find him.

Of course, there are also factors such as Gongsun Du's death, Gongsun Kang's prestige is insufficient in his position, and his morale is low.

If Gongsun Du had not died, the conquest of the Three Koreans might have been half a year longer, and at least billions of dollars were spent on money and food, which would have delayed the court's plan to repay the war's national debt. It can only be said that God blessed the Han Dynasty. When the dynasty was revived, everything caught up with good luck and good opportunities.

In addition, Cai Yan also mentioned in her letter to Li Su that she had requested the imperial edict from His Majesty at the same time, and His Majesty should have been approved. So after Li Su received his wife's letter, he had nothing to worry about.

He directly ordered his subordinates about the local government affairs, and then he immediately took the guards and cavalry and boarded the lightest carriage, changed horses all the way along the Huaihe River, Ruying Bianhe River, and headed straight for Bianliang.

Li Su only walked for five days. When he arrived in Bianliang, Cai Yong was still angry. Li Su personally asked about illness for two days before he died. He had nothing to say to him when he was about to come. After all, Cai Yong's works and thoughts were all with his daughter, and Cai Yan and Li Su and his wife could chat slowly in the future.

The medical officer also said that it is not a special disease, but Tianshou has arrived, and many organs, blood and vitality are exhausted. The winter comes, the more difficult it is for the elderly to withstand it.

Li Su knew that in modern medicine, it was multiple organ failure. This was the most unpained natural death. Cai Yong also changed his destiny in this life, enjoyed his happiness in his later years, and lived for an extra thirteen years.

The Han Dynasty’s requirements for disciples to their teachers did not include mourning and mourning, but they also had to “respect and worship like their father”, which means that the memorial service should be as grand as their father.

After the 49th day of memorial service, you will not wear it theoretically. According to Confucius, you can just "fession and grief" in the subsequent time, and you don't have to stick to the form.

However, in order to be a filial and honest person, many people will do more exaggeratedly and treat it as the process of their own fathers.

For example, the dead former prefect of Kuaiji, Wang Lang, was the Great Honglu. When he was studying, he studied under the Grand Marshal Yang Ci (Yang Biao's father and Yang Xiu's grandfather). When Yang Ci died, Wang Lang was originally just a small official who joined the other party, and was not from the official position.

Wang Lang abandoned his official position and gave Yang Ci a filial piety for three years. After the preservation, he became famous and became a famous model of filial piety in Donghai County. He was instructed by Tao Qian to be the prefect of Donghai to be appointed as a filial piety and honest person and re-enter the officialdom.

Li Su definitely doesn't want to imitate someone as hypocritical as Wang Lang. Moreover, as the prime minister, even if he is willing to do a big show, the court will definitely take over the love.

However, in addition to his master and apprentice, he also has a relationship with his father-in-law and son-in-law. He has been keeping a low profile for a year or two, and it is still worth stopping and entertainment activities.

Moreover, Cai Yong died on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month. The news came to Luoyang. Emperor Liu Bei announced that he would stop court for five days and went to Bianliang to visit him in person. Li Su hurriedly arranged to pick up the emperor at the Duke's Mansion of Chenliu County and received condolences from all officials.

After all, the level of the Taifu was noble. For a time, the officials' carriages and drivers were constantly coming and going between Luoyang and Chenliu. Hulao Pass, Suzuozao, Guandu and other transportation points were crowded, and the post stations were crowded. The hearts of the officials also refreshed their understanding of the status of Li and Cai families.

Those red tapes can be pressed without showing them, and Li Su also sincerely mourned for forty-nine days, and did not even attend the celebration of the New Year and the Chinese New Year in 206.

It was not until the end of February that Cai Yong had officially chosen the ground to bury him and was busy with his work. Li Sucai took time to return to Luoyang to thank Liu Bei again, and talked about some major national affairs. It was only more than 300 miles from Bianliang to Luoyang, and it was convenient to travel.

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Liu Bei did not allow Li Su to attend the formal court meeting, but only met him privately in the reconstruction of Lantai. This was also to prevent Li Su from handling government affairs in public during the filial period, which was not good-looking in terms of face.

Let’s talk about the overall internal affairs of the past two years, the current situation of Sanhan and Yematai, and the cost of conquest.

Everything seems to be good, and the court's finances have indeed improved over the years. The idea of ​​resting and resting and governing without doing anything is also correct.

As mentioned earlier, the imperial court's war bonds were issued until the eighth year of Zhangwu (203), with peak periods in the fifth year of Zhangwu and sixth year, and subsequently decreasing and transitioning year by year.

It is now 206, which is the eleventh year of Zhangwu. The court has stopped issuing and has entered the third year of the stage of paying off debts with all efforts.

I have calculated before that if you don’t do anything to expand the industry and commerce and tax exemption rights, it will take more than ten years to repay the debt with all your strength. After doing those operations, the total debt will be reduced to less than 35 billion yuan, and it will be paid off in seven or eight years, that is, by about the fifteenth year of Zhangwu (211).

Now it is still in the third year, and I still owe more than 20 billion to nearly 30 billion. The main reason is that I spent a little more to deal with Sanhan last year, so I only paid back 60 billion to 7 billion in those two years, which is below the average level.

Liu Bei has enjoyed enough of his enjoyment over the years and has begun to pay attention to saving expenses. He can cut off some unnecessary waste if he can cut it, and he is increasingly aware of the benefits of curing inaction.

So Li Su advised him to expand his immigration, construction investment in Sanhan and Yematai, and completely eliminate the rule of the local barbarians. Liu Bei was reluctant to waste people's efforts.

Liu Bei instructed: "Why are you so obsessed with the wild land? Before, there were counselors in the court who advised me to beware of separatist overseas. I believe that my brother is a human being and does not take it seriously. But if you can do something to waste people and money, just take it slowly.

For places like Xiematai, and even other Fusang barbarians that do not even have other countries, you can just be restrained. If it is profitable, let them communicate with each other's trade."

Li Su reiterated his considerations and said that he was considering the exchange of species overseas, which may be of great benefit. If he did not send a large army and just conquer it with a small-scale expedition team, he would not waste the people and money.

Liu Bei then changed his mind, but he still reminded: "My good brother has not been in the court for the past two years. The central government affairs are determined by Gongda, Xiaozhi and Zijing. Although Xiaozhi Zijing has not been promoted to the Third Duke, he has gradually taken charge of the Shangshu and Shizhong's real power.

Now that the Taifu is new, if I take the love and ask my brother to return to the court, the people in the world will not say anything, but if it is just for barbarian affairs, it is somewhat inappropriate. In this way, as the prime minister, I must always take responsibility, so I don’t have to leave my post during the period of mourning for the Taifu, and it is still considered a vacation. How about it?

After a year or two, let’s talk about the others. I have seen the benefits of the imperial court paying off old debts in the past few years. Just one or two years, and there is no need to hurry. You should take down your responsibilities as a governor in several state affairs. If you give another title, you will be considered as a supervisor."

Li Su felt that Liu Bei’s words were indeed reasonable. He only needed Liu Bei to support him in developing Fusang. As for whether this year is indeed not important and can be delayed.

Li Su finally added another suggestion, which was to set up a new administrative division for the Han Dynasty. After he completely pacified Fusang, Zhuge Liang changed from the previous affairs of the Qingxu period to the Sanhan and Fusang, and served as the first chief official in the newly conquered areas.

Liu Bei was curious about why he had to choose Zhuge Liang. Li Su gave him a full reason: Zhuge Liang was knowledgeable and talented, and he could best inherit his legacy. His knowledge was not limited to literature, history, classics, and knowledgeable, and he knew mathematics and physics better, and could actually apply it. Let Zhuge Liang be a local official there, perhaps he could discover more possibilities for economic interconnection between the new conquering areas and the Central Plains.

In fact, Li Su asked Zhuge Liang to continue looking for gold and silver mountains and discover valuable crops in the local area. These tasks require certain knowledge of science and engineering. If the administrative chief knows what he knows, he can also achieve twice the result with half the effort when directing craftsmen and surveying talents.

Liu Bei thought this made sense. Zhuge Liang was 26 years old this year. He had been an official in Beijing before, and had been released from the local area for 24 years. He had only been a state-level local official for two years.

If it is directly brought back to the center of the court, it will not be conducive to Zhuge Liang's growth. After all, Lu Su, Gu Yong and Fazheng and others were all appointed once every three years and had at least two jobs.

Then let Zhuge Liang work for three years in the Qing Dynasty, and then work for Japan and South Korea for another three years. At that time, he would have some experience in the local administrative rule in mature areas of the Central Plains and the naturalization of barbarian affairs in the newly conquered areas of the barbarians. He would come back to become an official in the capital.

Before Zhuge Liang, only Li Su himself and Gu Yong had such experience.

Gu Yong worked in Jianning County, southern Yunnan for many years, and later became the governor of Dianzhou. He had been dealing with the Southern Barbarians in the early days, and later came to the prosperous Yangzhou.

In contrast, even Lu Su’s resume in this area was not very complete. Although Lu Su had managed Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou was already relatively naturalized compared to Dianzhou at that time, and there were not so many barbarian affairs.

Fazheng has never been exposed to complicated local government affairs in his life. Local officials are all in wealthy areas, and their understanding of the sufferings of the people will be next level.

Fa Zheng may be a first-class adviser, but he cannot dominate the overall situation. Perhaps the pinnacle of his career in his life is just like the top leader of the supervision system, such as in charge of the Censorate.

The prime minister must have originated from the provincial government. Since this unspoken rule established by Li Su for the Han Dynasty was beneficial, then stick to it.

Following Li Su's plan for Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei took the opportunity to talk in-depth about some personnel arrangements and roughly finalized the development direction of the Han Dynasty in the next stage.

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Shortly after this interview at the end of February, the court issued a series of decrees to make corresponding fine adjustments to administration and personnel.

The general tone of the eleventh year of Zhangwu was also set. In general, the court will continue to recuperate and rectify its internal affairs.

In terms of personnel, the meritorious generals who pacified the Three Hans and the Evil Matai were further sealed, and rewards and punishments were clearly distinguished.

General Zhao Yun of the Cavalry defeated the Fuyu army and killed the Fuyu king Wei Qiutai, and added another county, becoming the duke of seven counties in Liaodong.

Taishici and Gan Ning were the generals of the East and South respectively, and the number of fiefs increased to two ten thousand counties.

Li Su was returned to the county that was taken away during the Qingyan Immigration Rebellion.

In terms of administrative divisions, Liu Bei did not directly issue an imperial edict to make arbitrary decision, and he asked the court officials to discuss it before making a formal decision.

The final result was to add the Han Dynasty to the previous Qingji Youbing, Yanyu Xuyang, Yongliang Jingyi, Yunnan Jiaosisili, and 15 prefectures. In addition, Liaozhou, Pingzhou and Xizhou took advantage of this zoning adjustment and directly added to the eighteen prefectures.

The three additional states, including Xizhou, was the original inherent territory, which was the jurisdiction of the former Western Region Protectorate who was gradually re-controlled by the court after Liangzhou was restored.

Although the imperial court has not used troops in the northwest in recent years, it has been governing by strengthening trade exchanges and increasing military farming, land reclamation and immigration at key nodes of the trade routes. There are no details worthy of writing about these governance, but they are also silent. Combined with Ma Chao's reputation in the northwest, the Han Dynasty's control over the local area has gradually strengthened.

So this time, Li Su also suggested taking advantage of the annexation of Sanhan and Fusang, and transforming the Western Regions from a banished state to a direct legal rule.

No matter what happens in the future, first change the name and change it from a Protectorate to a state. In the future, the administrative orthodoxy of "has been ancient" can be further strengthened.

Moreover, before making this decision, the relevant foreshadowing of the literary and political system was almost done. For example, in the "Records of the Grand Historian" compiled by Cai Yong before his death, the research on the origin of the bloodline of Rongdi in the Western Regions also supplemented some new historical materials, and it has been promoted and educated in the local area for many years.

The local nobles and noble chiefs were like the Southern Barbarians of Dianzhou who were taken to educate and study by Gu Yong, and subtly some people recognized the historical view of the Han people. After having an ideological foundation, it was natural to change the Protectorate Palace into a state.

In addition to Xizhou, Liaozhou and Pingzhou are naturally in the Northeast and Sanhan areas.

Liu Bei and some court officials did not intend to add two states in the Northeast at once.

Or I think that even if I want to add two, I have to wait until the entire territory of Fusang is really annexed by the Han Dynasty. At present, Fusang has actually controlled one Zhuzi Island (Kyushu Island), and his steps are a bit too big.

However, Li Su repeatedly explained to Liu Bei in private, suggesting that he should not divide administrative boundaries completely according to actual geographical barriers to prevent the newly controlled remote areas from forming a trend of separatism. Therefore, some counties should be divided from Youzhou to new states and merged with the newly occupied areas, so that the centripetal force of the New State will be stronger.

This move was originally used by the Mongol Yuan in the later years when the Han Dynasty was divided and governed by the Han territory thousands of years later. But no matter who thought Li Su, at least he felt that the policy was beneficial and could strengthen the centripetal force, which was good and could be used as a reference.

He suggested that the four counties in Liaodong were divided from Youzhou, with the western Liaoning Corridor as the boundary, Liaodong plus the newly developed areas in the northeast, and Lelang County north of the Wushui River, to become the new Liaozhou.

Therefore, Liaozhou is equivalent to the two northeastern provinces of Liao and Ji in later generations, and combined with North Korea to form a new state.

The "Pingzhou" in the south, which was named in Gongsun Du's history, became the Japan of South Korea and later generations.

This will prevent the Korean Peninsula from centrifugation based on the dangerous factors such as Changbai Mountain and Yalu River. When dividing, it will be directly disconnected from the central part of the peninsula and divide the northern part of the peninsula into the northeast.

South Korea in the south has no danger to defend, so there will be no ambition.

At the same time, the integration of South Korea and Kyushu Island can further restrict the centrifugal tendency of the island area, allowing future immigrants no longer completely consider themselves islanders in terms of national identity, but must retain a certain mentality of mainland national identity.

Liu Bei felt that this division was very exquisite and conducive to the stability of the newly conquered areas, so he finally accepted Li Su's demarcation.

At the same time, because of the division of new prefectures and counties and the military conquest of the Three Koreans came to an end, Li Su, the "governor-general", also left office, so it seemed a bit out of place in the Three Koreans, and there would be unnecessary waste and it would not be convenient for unified command.

Therefore, the Qingzhou Army and Yangzhou Army in the Three Koreans must come back. After all, when Li Su was alive, Taishi Ci and Gan Ning had to obey his unified dispatch. After Li Su left, the two of them were of the same level and they would definitely not be able to stay.

The final decision was that Taishi Ci led all his troops to withdraw to Qingzhou, leaving only Ganning to build Zidao, maintain the local area, and eliminate the remnants of rebellion. Those who remained overseas were 20,000 civilian sailors and 20,000 combat troops.

All the civilians and soldiers can divide the land on the spot, and they were transferred to the settlement that year. The court sent them local barbarian women, each of whom had them to appease the losses they suffered after temporarily leaving.

After completing all this, Liu Bei took the opportunity to announce that he would give the Prime Minister a year's vacation to think that the Grand Tutor was mourning - this is obviously different from the resignation of Dingyou, because all the positions and benefits are retained, and even "suspended salary and stayed at work" is not counted, and he was paid. During the holiday, he was still the Prime Minister.

Li Su thought it was good to slow down and make new moves. Just when Chen Liu was unemployed for a while, he could return to Luoyang at any time when encountering major events.

In 206 AD, there was nothing to say about the government affairs of the court, and everything was resting and resting. By the end of the year, the scale of the court's debt was reduced to about 23 billion yuan, and it was full of prosperity. There were no major disasters this year, and the barbarians such as the Xianbei were relatively calm.

In early 207, Li Sufu finished his mourning and returned to Luoyang for the New Year. After participating in the congratulations on the Lantern Festival, he was given a new mission by Liu Bei, allowing him to supervise the three Hans and Fusang.
Chapter completed!