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The brazier was just lit in the study outside, but the room was very cold. Xu Shu sat in front of the brazier and rubbed his hands to roast the fire. Although today was a rare weekend, Xu Shu couldn't sit still at home. He finally completed the task assigned to him by Liu Jing last night, and came here to discuss with Liu Jing today.

At this time, the door opened, and Liu Jing walked in with a gust of cold wind, and smiled apologetically: "The room is very cold, why don't we go to the expensive room, it will be warmer there."

"No need, it won't be cold if the fire is here."

Both of them were dressed casually today, not as early as the sun, and they also removed the complicated tape, just like a gathering between friends. This was also the other request from Liu Jing's opponents. Xu Shu followed Liu Jing for many years and became accustomed to Liu Jing's various rules.

The two sat down, Xu Shu took out a scroll and handed it to Liu Jing and said, "Last time, the provincial governor talked about the issue of power reform, according to the provincial governor's thoughts, I made some plans and asked the provincial governor to take a look."

In fact, like Cao Cao, Liu Jing was also considering liberating from the heavy government affairs and focusing on the Northern Expedition. The difference is that Cao Cao had adult children to entrust, and Liu Jing's son was only four years old, so he considered reforming from the system to prevent one person from taking over the government affairs.

In order to support this, although this would weaken Xu Shu's own power, Xu Shu was considering that in the future, once a system was formed, it would be a good check and balance on the monarch's power, preventing the monarch's power from dominating.

Liu Jing's thoughts were very simple. The Han Dynasty had the common power of the king and the minister, and the king's power and the minister's power were each different. This was actually a kind of constraint on the king's power.

But Liu Jing’s request this time was a decentralized system, that is, a multi-phase system, with more than one prime minister and balanced power between prime ministers, so that one person can prevent his own authority from being solemn.

Xu Shu also introduced: "What I thought of is the Five Chief Historian system, which has five Chief Historians who take turns to take charge of government affairs. Five people vote on major government affairs, and most of them agree to pass it. In addition, a Shizhong will be established to review the political affairs of the Chief Historians. If there are any questions, they will be refuted and submitted to the Five Chief Historians for a joint decision. This will effectively prevent one person from being independent of his power."

Liu Jing nodded. This was what he wanted. He dispersed the power of the general's chief minister to several people. In fact, he dispersed the power of the prime minister, and had an auditing agency, plus the supervision internal historian who reported directly to him. In this way, he could temporarily delegate the power of government affairs.

He looked at the report written by Xu Shu and asked again: "The Chief Secretary thinks it is more appropriate to rotate every time in the turn of power."

"Weichen and Junshi Jia have discussed it. He suggested that changing every ten days is better, and that the round will be per fifty days. However, Junshi Jia has made it clear that he will not participate in government affairs."

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "I won't participate for the time being. Military Commander Jia is old. Since he does not want to participate in government affairs, he respects his opinions. Then, Xu Changshi, Sima Military Commander, Jiang Wan, Fei Guan, and Dong He and Yin Jing, you six of you formed a preparatory group to discuss various systems in detail. Finally, a plan that everyone recognizes, and I will review it again."

Xu Shu understood what Liu Jing meant, but in fact, they formed the supreme authority of the six of them. Among them, Yin Jing had the power to review and refute. Xu Shu remembered another incident and said carefully: "Last time I recommended Zhou Buyi and Liao Li to supervise the internal historians, which caused some criticism."

"What criticism?" Liu Jing looked at him in confusion.

"The main reason is that Yizhou officials do not agree, because these two are both Jingzhou groups and everyone thinks they are unbalanced."

Liu Jing was really a little unhappy. He disliked this kind of regional confrontation the most, which could easily lead to division. Although he was unhappy, he also knew that he had just begun to take charge of Yizhou and had to balance the dissatisfaction of the people.

"Then you have appropriate suggestions"

Xu Shu hurriedly said: "I suggest that Liao Li be the governor of Jiangxia and replace Su Fei. The supervisor of the right inner historian can be changed to Yang Yi, the former governor of Zitong County. This person is upright, smart and meticulous, and is suitable for local county supervision."

"Let me think about it again"

Liu Jing said it was a consideration, but in fact he basically agreed to Xu Shu's suggestion. He also reminded: "The multi-party decentralization plan is of great importance, and I hope Yuan Zhi will be more worried."

Xu Shu quickly stood up and said, "I understand, I will go back and prepare now."

Liu Jing waved his hand with a smile, "Today is a weekend. Changshi doesn't have to work so hard. Have a good rest today, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Xu Shu couldn't help laughing, "I am used to being busy. If I don't do anything for a day, I feel lost and have no life to rest. Many people have advised me, but I just can't change it. I'm here to disturb the rest of the provincial governor today."

Liu Jing smiled slightly, "I'm not hiding Yuanzhi, I'm actually the same. Today I'm also reviewing the tax reports of taxes in various counties. There are many things to do."

The two looked at each other and laughed knowingly together.

At this time, hurried footsteps came from outside the door, and a guard reported outside the door: "The governor of Qibingzhou, the governor of Fancheng sent someone to report urgently."

"Take him in"

Soon, a soldier was led in by the guards. The soldier knelt on one knee and presented a volume of military reports: "According to the order of the governor, report the emergency military information to the provincial governor."

Liu Jing took the scroll, opened it and read it, his face suddenly changed slightly. Xu Shu asked uneasyly: "Mrs. What's wrong?"

"Cao Cao increased his troops to Nanyang, increased his troops from Xuchang to Nanyang, and transferred 40,000 troops from Hefei, so that the troops in Nanyang would reach 100,000. Someone found that Cao Cao had appeared in Wancheng."

Xu Shu was also shocked and hurriedly said, "Does Cao's army want to attack Xiangyang?"

Liu Jing nodded, "If Cao Cao really appeared in Wancheng, he might have to implement the strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao, attacking Jingxiang, and relieving the danger of Tianshui County."

"But the armistice contract we signed with him will not expire for one year. Is he really going to tear the contract? Once the contract is broken, his loyalty will be completely gone." Xu Shu said in confusion.

Liu Jing shook his head and said in the urgent newspaper that it was the Han army that invaded Nanyang first, but the Xinye garrison had never done this. Liu Jing immediately understood and sighed softly, "This is actually what I worry about the most. Did it happen?"

He immediately said to the guard order: "Go and invite military commander Jia and military commander Sima to come, and you will say there is an emergency military consultation."

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Half an hour later, Jia Xu and Sima Yi rushed over, but Xu Shu did not leave. Although he did not care about military affairs, in fact, if military affairs occurred in Xiangfan, it would have a great impact on civil affairs.

Several guards had already moved the Jingxiang sand table over. Liu Jing stood in front of the sand table and watched Xiangyang for a long time. He had just not cared about the situation in Xiangyang for a year, but he felt that many years had passed. He thought Cao Cao would abide by the tacit understanding between the two sides and keep the eastern front calm, but he did not expect that Cao Cao would still tear the contract and attack Xiangfan.

Liu Jing looked up at Jia Xu and Sima Yi, "Both military advisors should know what happened."

Sima Yi snorted coldly, "Just just a trick. If you frame us, he can tear up the armistice agreement naturally. It seems that Cao Cao is really going to attack Xiangyang."

Jia Xu nodded, "I have to say that it is really a bit surprising that Cao's army's attack on Xiangyang is supposed to be a plan to surround Wei and save Zhao. Cao's army's real purpose is to defend the Western Front."

"Although it was to surround Wei and save Zhao, it was very troublesome. Xiangfan only had 15,000 troops, how to resist Cao Cao's 100,000 troops?"

Liu Jing sighed, "I just recovered a little bit of energy and I'm going to suffer another disaster."

At this time, Xu Shu said, "Actually, if I respond well, the losses should not be big. The areas from Xinye to Fancheng were mainly military camps, and there were not many farmers. But Fancheng had a large number of commercial population. If we retreated in time and then blocked the Han River with the navy, even if the Cao army occupied the north of the Han River, it would still be the same as before and could not do anything to us."

Liu Jing also knew that this was an ideal state, but after all, it was a 100,000 army, and Cao Cao had always had the intention to attack Jingzhou again. How could Cao's army be unprepared in Nanyang? Thinking of this, Liu Jing said again: "Now Liu Bei is confronting Jiaozhi Shixie, and he has no time to look around Jingnan in the north. I plan to transfer 10,000 troops from Jiangling to Xiangyang in the north, and then transfer 5,000 naval troops from Wuchang to reinforce the Han River. In this way, Xiangfan will have tens of troops and hired to guard Ganning. I can rest assured, but I am a little worried that they lack strategy and will fall into Cao Cao's plan."

Speaking of this, Liu Jing glanced at Jia Xu. Jia Xu understood and immediately bowed and said, "I am rushing to Xiangyang immediately to participate in the defense planning."

Liu Jing laughed, "I feel much more at ease with Mr. Jia in Xiangyang."

His eyes fell on Sima Yi. Seeing that Sima Yi was about to speak but stopped, he asked, "What suggestions does Sima Military Advisor have?"

Sima Yi bowed and said, "I suggest contacting Sun Quan and ask the Jiangdong Army to attack Hefei or Guangling in the north, so that the pressure in Xiangyang can be dispersed."

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "This is OK, I'm afraid that Sun Quan will take the opportunity to make a request to abolish some of the original terms."

Xu Shu advised again: "The compensation for pig iron has been completed, and Jiangdong has also taken back Yuzhang County. I heard that Jiangdong has built many nine-stone warships, which is a disguised breach of contract. As for the inland river ban, both sides are now beneficial. I think Jiangdong will not ask for the abolition of this article. Then the real benefit is Qichun County. As long as the provincial and maids insist on Qichun County not giving in, they can release their warship restrictions, which will actually not cause any loss to us."

Jia Xu also said: "The Changshi made sense. There are also many merchant ships with two thousand stones in Jiangdong. This restriction is really meaningless. Letting go of it is also our sincerity. The key is that if Qichun County does not allow it, it will not harm our interests."

"All right"

Liu Jing finally agreed. He wrote a letter to Sun Quan and handed it to Sima Yi, "Please ask the military advisor to go to Jiangdong for me. In addition, the military advisor can bring Liu Min on the way to Xiangyang and let him be the deputy envoy to Jiangdong. What should be done specifically? The military advisor can act according to the opportunity."

Sima Yi bowed and said, "I understand. Now I will go back to clean up and go on a mission to Jiangdong."

Jia Xu also smiled and said, "I'm going to Xiangyang too, so I can walk with Zhongda for a walk."

Sima Yi was a little scared and waved his hand quickly, "I'll agree first, not to play chess with Mr. Jia."

Jia Xu frowned and said, "Why are you so stingy? Why don't you play a few games of chess?"

Everyone laughed together, and it took at least half a day to play a chess game with Jia Xu, and no one could stand it.
Chapter completed!