Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 19 My Yin Lihua

In the second year of Chuping, in the seventh month of autumn.

Pingyuan and Jinan began to busy themselves with military preparations.

The army's food was sent before it moved, including wheat, beans, rice, and pickled fish.

Several responsible officials supervised each other and checked the account books one by one.

After the county books and the warehouse books have been verified to be correct, the auxiliary soldiers in armor will escort the grain and fodder to the military camp.

Liu Bei rarely had time to spare from his busy schedule.

Previously, he was urged to go to the military campaign and take charge of a county by the county government. Pingyuan County was short of officials and had many things to worry about.

He had to oversee and supervise all kinds of levies himself, for fear that officials from other counties and townships would pretend to obey his orders but actually go against his will and use false accounts to get away with things.

Liu Bei had been a county magistrate for many years, and he knew very well the personalities of his fellow officials.

If you give him some slack, he will dare to go a lot further.

Even if Zhao Yun was sent to inspect the counties, there were still people who dared to take risks.

This time it was completely different. Not only were there many new county officials, but Liu Bei had also cleared out all the corrupt officials in Pingyuan County.

Furthermore, Qian Zhao and Jian Yong's makeshift team has been working together for almost a year. If they are still not up to the task, then Liu Bei will really have to consider replacing them.

Two months ago, Jian Yong was transferred to Jinan State as Gongcao. Thanks to his experience in Pingyuan, he got the hang of things very quickly in Jinan County.

As the county clerks became more skilled, Liu Bei's workload became visibly easier.

This shows the importance of assistant talents.

Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh that he still didn't have enough confidants. Several top clerks he had trained when he was a county magistrate were now transferred to various places to serve as county magistrates.

However, it takes years to examine and train talented people.

Therefore, half of the original officials in the two counties were still in office, so Liu Bei had to pay close attention to the administration of officials.

Whenever this happened, he would envy Yuan Shao, who had three generations of high officials, and Cao Cao, the son of the Grand Marshal.

Official families have no shortage of scholars to join them, and they can be screened out when there are many of them.

Although the children of the wealthy families in Qingzhou are not bad, they still lack some foundation. In terms of bravery of the manor troops compared to the clans, the wealthy families are much stronger, but compared with Confucian scholars and celebrities, ten wealthy families tied together cannot produce as much as one scholar family.

The famous aristocratic family Xun in Yingchuan produced the eight dragons of the Xun family who were famous all over the world.

The wealthy families drooled over becoming samurai, as it was the upper class they dreamed of getting into.

But the threshold is really too high. Without several generations of 2,000-stone officials and no classic books handed down, one can only sigh.

Liu Bei also knew that talented people would fit in well with each other and that one should not rush into anything.

At this time, the most eye-catching thing in the world was the princes' fight against Dong Zhuo. Compared with the stupidity of Qingzhou Governor Jiao He who led to the rampage of the Yellow Turbans, everyone could only laugh it off.

We should first think about how to quickly pacify the Yellow Turban Rebellion in various places in Qingzhou. If we don't clean up the mess and let the chaos continue for a few more years, the people's livelihood in Qingzhou will become even more destitute.

Liu Bei casually tied up a roll of written bamboo slips and sighed in thought.

The strife in the north was not beyond his expectations.

Yuan Shao deceived Gongsun Zan into attacking Jizhou, and took the opportunity to become the governor. He denied the agreement with Gongsun Zan and led his army to force him to retreat.

When Gongsun Zan saw that Yuan Benchu ​​had gone back on his word, he was furious and started a war with him in northern Ji. He only withdrew his troops in anger due to lack of food and fodder and the persuasion of Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou.

But the feud was thus established, and Youzhou and Jizhou would probably fight for several more years.

As Liu Bei shook his head, a pair of slender hands brought a cooling soup and placed it on the table, while she sat on the mat beside them and looked at Liu Bei with a smile.

Seeing this, Liu Bei said with concern: "Why did you go to the kitchen to make soup without letting you rest more?"

"It's only been two months since I told the cook. Could it be that he has forgotten it?" Yin Jun said with a mother's tenderness, "My husband, please don't blame the cook. I am also the head of the family. How can he stop me if I force him to do this?"

"Besides, if you don't go to the weaving room for many months, you will be bored sooner or later if you have nothing to do."

While talking, her little hand was still on her belly.

Liu Bei didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at the pretty lady with her radiant and charming expression.

He couldn't help but call her over and hold her in his arms, their hearts pressed together. He held her tender hands and looked at them carefully, stroking their rough hands. He couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

But he still smiled and said, "Madam is really a good wife. Last year, we were too busy in the rear during the Yellow Turban Campaign. Thanks to you for helping with the dispatch."

"You reviewed the county documents and solved the urgent problems of Xianhe and Zijing. After I came back, they praised you in front of me many times, saying that you are a woman and that if you were a man, you might have the talent to help the county."

When Liu Bei said this, he couldn't help laughing. He had already witnessed the talent of his wife before they got married.

In private and in the boudoir, he even jokingly called her "my Yin Lihua."

Zeng laughed and said, "I have already married Yin Lihua, when will I become the Prefect of the Guards?"

This made Yin Jun blush, angry, and shy.

Because she felt sorry for his workload, his wife often handled official documents for him before she became pregnant, which is why she became so skilled at it.

As for the person he personally selected as his bedmate, Liu Bei would discuss many things with his wife, except for the secrets of time travel and some historical experiences that were difficult to tell.

Because Yin is indeed - very talented!

Ban Zhao and Cai Yan, two world-famous talented women, Liu Bei had never met them, but he always encouraged and guided Yin.

Liu Bei had different ideas from many people. While famous scholars thought that female officials would cause chaos in politics, he did not take it seriously. If power was not properly supervised, eunuchs, ministers, relatives by marriage, and royal family members would all cause chaos in politics.

After taking precautions for one thing, you will neglect another, and one problem will arise.

In history, Cao Pi learned from the chaos caused by eunuchs and foreign relatives in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Many laws were formulated to suppress the two, and he also suppressed the clan members at the same time.

As a result, the only ones who held real power were Cao Pi and his son Cao Rui, and the subsequent emperors were all puppets.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was able to maintain its rule for two hundred years because of the balance between the empress dowager, relatives of the emperor, eunuchs, and ministers.

Cao Pi simply cut off his own arms and supported the court alone, while the Western Jin Dynasty believed that Cao Wei did a good job in suppressing eunuchs and external relatives, and that its demise due to usurpation of the throne was the result of suppressing the royal family too harshly, leaving the royal family without the power to resist. The Sima family changed direction and increased the power of the royal family.

Then the gentry moved south and the Western Jin Dynasty became the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Liu Bei knew very well that no system was always effective, but balancing the forces of various parties was the best way to stabilize the court.

The more dominant one company is, the faster the country will be backlashed and overthrown.

Liu Bei changed his mind and put these thoughts aside for the time being. As one state had not yet been pacified, it was too far away to consider the future.

Caressing her delicate body, Liu Bei asked with a smile, "Are you used to living in the county government?"

Yin Jun thought for a moment and said, "It's not bad. It's just a lot bigger than the county government office, and the eaves are more ornately carved."

"But I live closer to my second uncle, third uncle, and Zilong's family, so it's more convenient for us to visit each other."

Liu Bei smiled and said, "That's good."

Liu Bei moved to the county government office after serving as the Prime Minister of Pingyuan for a long time. Because Liu Ji failed to renovate the county government office, he moved in immediately.

It was not until a month ago when the county government office was almost unable to accommodate the growing number of officials from various departments that Liu Bei remembered that the county government office was still vacant and decided to move in.

After all, apart from Liu Shuo's palace, the only place in the entire Pingyuan County that can be called a mansion is the county prime minister's mansion. It is surrounded by high walls, which is equivalent to an inner city. It can also be used to station troops for defense, and can accommodate four or five hundred county officials for living and work with room for space.

Under Liu Bei's persuasion, Yunchang, Yide, Zilong, Qian Zhao and Jian Yong also moved their families in. After all, it would be more lively if more people lived together in the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)