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Chapter 586 Urgent Negotiation

The next morning, Liu Jing came to the General's Mansion of the Cavalry. The General's Mansion was the original Yizhou Prefecture Office. Its land size and number of buildings could not be compared with Jingzhou Prefecture Office. This also shows to a certain extent that Liu Zhang had no ambitions, unlike Liu Biao who had the intention to become an emperor.

However, although the size of the state yamen is not large, the buildings are built very exquisitely. Eaves and carved walls, water pavilions and jade terraces are hidden among lush green trees. Below is surrounded by clear water, with all kinds of strange flowers and plants everywhere, showing the original owner's love for life everywhere.

The entire General's Mansion is centered on a Thousand-Person Hall. The main hall is called Jixian Hall. It is a place where Liu Zhang held the Yizhou New Year's officials' meeting and met with important envoys. There are a large number of buildings on both sides, and the Thirteen Caos and major functional official rooms are located in it.

Liu Jing's official room is located behind Jixian Hall, which is the former Liu Zhang's official room. It consists of three halls and twelve rooms. It is a small building complex covering an area of ​​about five acres. Of course, it is also the power center of Jing and Yizhou.

There were more than 20 officials in the official room, and a secretary was established, with Yin Jing as the secretary and Fei Yi as the secretary. The rest of the officials were all engaged in the secretaries and secretaries of Liu Jing, as well as tens of thousands of books.

Liu Jing quickly walked into the official room, and a young official was walking towards him. Liu Jing felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember the name for a moment. When the person approached, he suddenly remembered that this person was Cui Si, the first place in the imperial examination who had just joined last year.

Choi Si was appointed Shu Zuo when he joined the company. Because he was down-to-earth and hardworking, humble and kind, and his talent was gradually valued by Yin Jing. Two months ago, he was promoted to the secretary of the deliberation, responsible for recording and sorting out various deliberation contents.

Cui Si happened to meet Liu Jing, and he hurried forward to salute, "See the governor of the state!"

Liu Jing smiled and asked, "Mr. Yin is here?"

"Report to the governor of the state, Mr. Yin has arrived and is in the official room!"

Liu Jing nodded and ordered him again: "Go and invite military advisor Jia, military advisor Sima, military advisor Xu Changshi, Jiang Wan, Li Zi and Duke Xu to come together, and say I have important things to discuss with them."

"Abide by the order!"

Cui Shi gave a gift and hurried away. Liu Jing walked into his official room. Outside was the main hall, four people were engaged in office work. There were a conference room on both sides, and behind was his official room, which was Liu Jing's office space. There were two rooms next to him, one was his resting place, and the other was placed with sand tables in Jingyi and Longyou of Guanzhong.

Liu Jing walked into his room. His room had a mezzanine, and there were ice cubes in the mezzanine, making the room look very cool. As soon as he entered the room, the heat disappeared. Liu Jing breathed a long sigh, took off his outer robe, and sat in front of his desk.

At this time, Yin Jing hurried in, holding a thick stack of documents in his hand, and smiled: "It is all emergency documents, and it must be signed by the provincial governor to take effect. If the provincial governor does not come back, some officials will jump into the river in a hurry."

In fact, whether Cao Cao, Sun Quan, or Liu Jing, they almost personally directed major important battles, and there would be a power decision-making issue, and they also used different methods to solve it.

Before Cao Cao went to the expedition, he temporarily handed over the prime minister's approval power to his eldest son Cao Pi, with Cheng Yu assisted; while when Sun Quan went to the expedition, he brought a group of civil and military officials with him to form a moving Wu Hou Mansion.

Liu Jing had no brothers or his grown-up son to share his worries. He used the method of decentralization to solve all government affairs decisions, and divided all government affairs into two categories A and B. Class B government affairs were negotiated and decided by senior officials such as military advisors, chief officials, secretary orders, and finally the secretary seal was stamped with him and took effect.

Class A government affairs are related to military and national affairs and important personnel appointments, and he must sign them personally. Even if he goes on a war, he will still send them to the battlefield for his examination. Liu Jing is unambiguous.

At this time, the stack of documents that Yin Jing brought was a Class A document that must be signed by him. While lowering his head to review, Liu Jing said to Yin Jing: "Liu Xun died of illness in Jiangling. His wife and children asked to transport the coffin back to Chengdu for burial. I have agreed. You draft an obituary and allow it to be buried with the marquis ceremony. His wife and children can return to Chengdu for education."

Yin Jing sighed in his heart. He knew that Liu Xun had indulged in love with wine and sex, and he died in less than a year. His son was only two years old, and Liu Zhang's power really ended from then on.

Liu Jing stopped writing and glanced at Yin Jing with a sharp look, "Does Yin already know about this?"

Yin Jing nodded, "The documents from the Nanjun government have been sent a few days ago. The news has spread among all officials, and everyone knows it."

"What is the attitude of the officials?"

Yin Ming sighed and said, "Sorry for his misfortune, be angry with him for not fighting!"

Liu Jing showed a sneer on his lips, and he found the urgent documents sent by Nanjun in a stack of documents. He quickly issued an instruction and signed the letter and handed it over to Yin Jing, "Just deal with it according to what I just said, and allow all officials to be filial."

"I understand and will handle it immediately!"

Yin Jing remembered something again and hurriedly said, "There is also the Barbarian King Meng Huo and his wife arrived yesterday and want to apologize to the governor of the state."

Huang Zhong went to southern Shu at the end of last year, defeating Yong Kai and the Yi people's army again, forcing Yong Kai and Xinyi King to come to Chengdu to apologize and surrender to Liu Jing. At the same time, he was hosted in Chengdu, but the barbarian king Meng Huo was delayed in coming to visit. Because he wanted to conquer Guanzhong, the Han army did not attack for the time being. Unexpectedly, Meng Huo came at this time.

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and immediately understood that this should be the temporary end of the Battle of Guanzhong. Meng Huo was afraid of the Han army's southern expedition, so he came to pay homage first. However, Liu Jing did have plans for the southern expedition and was preparing to fight against the barbarians in the autumn. Since Meng Huo took the initiative to surrender, it was the best.

Liu Jing smiled and said, "Then let's make arrangements! I'll meet him tomorrow morning."

"In addition, Meng Huo brought five hundred soldiers, and we did not agree to the soldiers entering the city, but Meng Huo asked us to allow a hundred people to enter the city to guard the palace maid, would you allow it?"

"Where is his army stationed?"

"It's stationed in the small military camp outside the south city."

Liu Jing thought about it and agreed, "At most, a hundred people can only be allowed to enter the city, and the rest of the soldiers are still stationed outside the city."

At this time, Cui Si reported at the door: "Qi Bingzhou Governor, the military advisor and others are here."

"Please ask him to go to the meeting hall for a while, and I'll come soon."

Liu Jing said to Yin Jing again: "Duke Yin, come too! I have important things to discuss with everyone."...

In the conference hall, Jia Xu, Sima Yi, Xu Shu, Jiang Wan, Xu Jing, Li Jing and other senior officials were already sitting there, and everyone was talking in a low voice. Only Li Jing was not considered a senior official.

Li Zi was from Zitong and a disciple of Sima Hui of Jingzhou. He also studied under the famous scholar Song Zhong. He was not only proficient in the Five Classics, but also proficient in arithmetic, divination, medicine, bows and crossbows, machinery, etc. Before Liu Jing took Yizhou, he served as the assistant to the Yizhou Bookstore.

With Yin Jing's strong recommendation, Liu Jing appointed him as the general to be in charge of city construction, bridge construction, and management of craftsmen. Seeing Li Yan attending, everyone guessed that the discussion might be related to craftsmen's affairs.

At this time, Liu Jing quickly walked into the meeting hall. Secretary Ling Yin Jing and Recorder Cui Si also followed him in. Everyone stood up to salute. Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled at everyone, "Thank you for the hard work in the past few months, please sit down!"

Everyone sat down one by one, and Choi Si also spread paper on the table in the corner of the house, carrying a pen to record the content of the matter.

Liu Jing then smiled at everyone and said, "Today, there are two major issues to discuss. One is to tell you good news. Ma Jun's wooden ox has been successfully developed. I have seen the real thing with my own eyes and the transportation effect, which is really exciting."

This news immediately made everyone excited. The unfavorable expedition to Guanzhong this time was mainly because the grain transportation could not keep up. If the transportation problem could be solved, the Northern Expedition would be almost half of the victory.

Not only that, but because there are mountains around Bashu, there are indeed many difficulties in transporting materials. It is a little more convenient to have Yangtze River waterways between Jingshu, while it is very difficult between Bashu and Hanzhong. Therefore, the success of Muniu is not only beneficial to the military, but also a great promotion in trade and civil affairs.

Liu Jing said again: "There is also a problem, that is, building wooden oxen is very complicated. I proposed the first step to build 3,000 wooden oxen. Ma Jun believes that it will take at least one year, and it will be possible to concentrate military craftsmen from Jing and Shu states together to achieve it. But I hope to shorten the time. If the craftsmen from the governments of various counties and recruit some excellent folk craftsmen, it may be possible."

Only then did everyone realize that Liu Jing was going to requisition government craftsmen on a large scale, which was indeed directly related to the work. At this time, Jiang Wan bowed and said, "If you want to call government craftsmen and recruit civil craftsmen, there is a confidentiality issue involved. Have the provincial governor considered it?"

"This is indeed a big question. I also asked Ma Jun. He proposed a plan, which is to disassemble the parts and hand them over to different craftsmen to complete. Finally, 500 disciples of craftsmen will be responsible for assembling them, so that confidentiality can be achieved. Let's see how this plan is?"

Li Wu bowed and said, "Weichen thinks it is feasible!"

Li Wu was going to make an order. He thought it was feasible, so there was no problem. Everyone agreed, and Xu Shu also stated that he could take out money and grain for subsidies. Liu Jing smiled and said, "Since that's the case, please draft the plan as soon as possible and implement it after approval. To be honest, I am a little impatient, so I'm sorry to ask Li Qinzhong to prepare now!"

Everyone laughed. Li Shi knew in his heart that Zhou Mu was tactfully asking him to leave the court, and the discussion below had nothing to do with him. He politely bowed, "I will go now!"

After Li Yan left the meeting hall, Liu Jing said seriously to everyone: "Next, I want to discuss the supervision issues of local counties and counties with you!"...

The discussion was not over until noon. The plan was very simple, which was to establish a supervisory authority, with one person on the left and one person on the left, one person on the left, one person on the left, and one person on the right, and ten supervisory envoys rushed to various places for inspection.

With the unanimous recommendation of everyone, Du Qiong, a former prefect of Wuling County, was appointed as the Left Inner Historian, and was known as the Iron-Ming Zhou Buyi as the Right Inner Historian, and he also selected thirty people from the Jing and Yi provinces to serve as the Supervisory Office.

In the room, Liu Jing had finished lunch and was slowly drinking tea to think about the affairs of the Inspectorate. At this time, a Shu Zuo reported, "Mr. Xu is here!"

Liu Jing nodded and smiled, "Please come in!"

After a moment, Xu Jing walked in. Xu Jing became the young master of the General's Mansion, in charge of rituals and music, and had a salary of 1,000 stones. He was also a high-ranking official in the General's Mansion. His qualifications among all officials were second only to Jia Xu, and he was highly valued by Liu Jing.

Xu Jing entered the room and bowed and said, "See the governor of the state!"

Liu Jing waved his hand with a smile and said, "Mr. Xu, please sit down."

Xu Jing sat down, and Liu Jing asked with concern again: "I heard that Mrs. Zun is not in good health, how are you doing now?"

"Thank you for your relationship with the minister, I have no problem with my wife."

Liu Jing nodded and sighed: "The weather is hot now, and it is indeed easy to get sick. I have ordered officials over 500 stones to supply 500 kilograms of ice to cool down every day, while the rest of the officials subsidize 100 yuan in cooling fees every day. I don't care enough about the officials, and I am really ashamed!"

"The state governor doesn't have to be ashamed. This is already very good. Emperor Ling didn't consider any cooling fees to the ministers in the past. This is the first time that Weichen heard about it. I think everyone has a scale in their hearts and will understand the state governor's kindness."

Liu Jing smiled and turned the topic to the main business, "I heard that Prime Minister Cao summoned Mr. Xu to serve in the court last year. Is this happening?"
















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