sweeping the world

Chapter 997 A long river of history...

Xuchang was renamed Xudu for a period of time. It was a temporary name changed by Cao Cao to accommodate Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie.

Just like many cities, no matter how magnificent they were before, they have become dilapidated after the ravages of the barbarians, and some cities have simply become wastelands with ruins in large pastures.

"There is still the foundation of the palace city in the city." Sang Yu went to Xuchang City for a stroll: "The local government was unable to remove the foundation and built a fence to surround it."

It means that there used to be a palace city, and without special instructions from the central government, the county magistrate of Xuchang did not dare to disturb it.

The history of the Xia Dynasty is very long. It is difficult to say about the Xia and Shang Dynasties. After the enfeoffment of the Zhou Dynasty, the cities that were first built can actually be regarded as capitals. Only the princes had the resources and labor to build cities, and the rest were in the form of villages.

The three thousand princes who were enfeoffed by the Zhou Dynasty fought and annexed them. The former capital of the princes became an ordinary city, but the city that could be used as the capital became bigger and bigger. The city walls were built higher and thicker, and they looked more and more magnificent. .

In the era of great contention, it is very common for countries to move their capitals. For example, Chu State, which has always had the largest territory in the entire Warring States Period, has moved its capital seven times.

The history is too long, and there have been many long separatist regimes. There are actually not a few cities that used to be the capital of one party's separatist regime.

In today's Han Empire, Jiankang, the most populous city, was once the capital city, and Linzi was once the capital city. Only with the existence of the accompanying capital can there be a complete city defense and related foundation.

The shorter the time as the capital, the more heritage can be seen.For example, Ye City, which Shi Hu spent a lot of effort to build, although its political status in the Han Empire was not high, could definitely be ranked among the top five in terms of the completeness of the city and the size of its land.

It has been more than 260 years since Xuchang was a capital city. Not to mention that she has long since lost its glory as a capital city. In fact, after Cao Wei moved the political center to Yecheng, she declined at an extremely fast speed.

The national highway from Jiankang to Chang'an goes to Tongguan, and Tongguan has another national highway that leads to the northeast.

Chang'an, as the center of the country, although its geographical location is not in the center, has crossed national highways, but it can ignore its location. No matter from the political level or other aspects, it has truly become the heart of the country.

Liu Yan didn't care about what happened in Xuchang City at all, and he didn't even have time to think about what significance Xuchang had brought to this nation, or what role it would play in the future.

The main purpose of this tour was to show off, such as talking about filial piety after being stationed in the camp.

What happened will be passed on through various channels, and may become many versions of stories, and allusions may also be born, adding wealth to the nation at the spiritual level.

Advocating other spirits may be risky, but encouraging filial piety is not risky at all, but some stories created are too exaggerated.

It's not easy for Liu Yan to take things seriously. It's a good thing to be able to achieve the goals he advocates.

This world can't afford to be serious at all, and once it is serious, no one will be comfortable, such as Yu Yi went to check the slave camp.

They will stop at Xuchang, where there is a camp to gather slaves who built roads, numbering 12.

The National Highway has been put into use, but it is still far away from the actual completion of construction. The section from Xuchang to Ruyin is usable, but it is said that the construction process is not even 20.00% of the lot.

"It's a big project to castrate only the slaves under the roster of the Shaofu." Yu Yi said with a wry smile: "How to arrange castrations in batches is a delicate task."

Going out for inspection is to go to various places to understand the actual situation of the local area, and inspecting people's livelihood is one of the things that must be done, and then it is picketing for lawlessness.

When he was a Ting Wei before, Yu Yi had to spare at least three months every year to go to the place in person. Every time he went out, he would basically never go empty. He would investigate the illegal officials in the countryside without lowering his status. The officials who were arrested were all Above the county level, if a county guard can be caught, it can be called a fruitful harvest.

This time, the Ministry of Punishment obtained the relevant authority to inspect the Shaofu. Yu Yi was only able to stare at every millimeter with a microscope under the eagerness of many colleagues.

The Shaofu is privately owned by the emperor, not only the bureaucrats, property, resources... anyway, it is all the private property of the emperor. It is a department that belongs to the state, but cannot be interfered by the three provinces and six ministries.

All the officials from the three provinces and the six ministries regarded Shaofu as their biggest competitor.This time the emperor finally opened his mouth. They did not have any whimsical plans to get rid of the Shaofu, but if they could find more wrongdoings from the Shaofu, no one would let this opportunity pass.

A department with exaggerated resources, many functions overlap with the six ministries of the three provinces, which is equivalent to a competition relationship between a small government and the six ministries of the three provinces, but the serious state departments are always unable to suppress the young government in competition.

The Shaofu during the Qin Empire was a large and terrifying department. Just look at Zhang Han who just liberated the prisoners in Lishan and could pull out more than 40 young men under the name of the Shaofu. You don’t need to open the Taiwei’s arsenal, it’s just the arsenal of the Shaofu More than 40 people can be armed.

The Shaofu in the Western Han Dynasty was actually dispensable at the beginning, but it was strengthened again and again during the Liu Che period.How strong is it?It would not be difficult to arm an army of 50 people with the staff and related servants under the roster, the weapons and food in the treasury.

Today, the Shaofu of the Han Empire has nearly 80 employees and nearly 500 million slaves.

Just having more people is nothing. The most terrifying thing is that there are at least [-] more weapons workshops under the Shaofu's name than there are in the Ministry of Industry. The Shaofu even almost controls the manufacturing of firearms.

In terms of arms, just controlling the manufacturing of firearms is equivalent to strangulating the neck of the military, not to mention the control of non-military supplies. Simply speaking, it is enough to say that the Shaofu has seven ocean-going trade fleets under his command.The smallest fleet has more than [-] ships, and the largest fleet has nearly a thousand ships.

The three provinces and the six ministries competed with the Shaofu for functions. As for how many fleets the emperor had placed in the Shaofu, no one wanted to compete with the people for profit.

The fact of the matter is that not only high-ranking officials followed the emperor to make a fortune, but the common people also followed the emperor to make a fortune.

The emperor ate meat, high-ranking officials ate boneless meat, and folks drank soup. It was a very reasonable way to make a fortune.

The reason why the three provinces and six ministries compete with the Shaofu is mainly because the Shaofu is not doing it for the emperor's personal gain.If the Shaofu only seeks the emperor's personal gain, it's too late for them to be happy.It's because the Shaofu is doing better than them in the same field, so what's the need to set up those related departments in three provinces and six ministries!

This time, the castration of the slaves must not be done all at once, but must be done in batches.

Shaofu is the department with the most slaves, and it is still the emperor's private property, so it is best to start castration from Shaofu.One can set an example for everyone, the emperor's slaves are all castrated, and the rest have nothing to say.Secondly, there are so many slaves in Shaofu, and the castrated personnel can go from unfamiliar to familiar. Even if a large number of slaves are killed by practicing hands, it is completely regarded as accumulating experience in craftsmanship.

"The servant knows what they are planning."

Zhang Shi calls himself "servant" to Liu Yan, which is different from others who call themselves "chen".The Shaofu Ling is indeed the emperor's personal servant, and can be regarded as a retainer who can rank in the court.

Liu Yan also knew.

It is nothing more than that the main labor force of Shaofu is slaves.And slaves who were castrated, even if they didn't die, couldn't work at all for a while.During this gap period, the three provinces and six ministries will make every effort to fill the gap.

"The Shaofu managed by the servant is a department with a matrix organizational structure. How could such a thing happen." Zhang Shi said with a smile: "They and the servant have been competing so fiercely. Don't you understand it?"

The so-called matrix organizational structure, also known as the planning-goal structure, is to combine the departments divided by function and the departments divided by products (or projects, services, etc.) to form a matrix. A structure in which there is a business connection and participation in the work of a product or project team.

This was not created by Liu Yan. In fact, the three provinces and six departments are the matrix-style ancestral structure.

The three provinces and six ministries were not created until the Sui Dynasty, and they were perfected only after Li and Tang Dynasties.Prior to this, the Western Jin Dynasty implemented the Jiupin Zhongzheng System, and the Jiupin Zhongzheng System was actually the predecessor of the Three Provinces and Six Ministries.

To some extent, the Jiupin Zhongzheng System of the Western Jin Dynasty was just an improvement on the Sangong Jiuqing System. Simply put, it is at the moment when the old and the new are changing.

The system of Sangong and Jiuqing is a linear organizational structure. Although the Han Empire has abandoned the system of Sangong and Jiuqing and directly entered the system of three provinces and six ministries, the three provinces and six ministries are also a linear organizational structure. The courtiers may have discovered some differences in Shaofu, but No one really knows what is a linear organizational structure and what is a matrix organizational structure.

Baiguan thought that the Shaofu had a lot of resources, but they didn't see that the management model was the key.

With the same resources under different management models, there must be differences in the efficiency that can be exerted, and then there will be a significant gap in efficiency output.

Liu Yan knows all kinds of management models, but that's all he knows.He is not an executive and has no practical operation and management experience. He can use Shaofu to conduct his own experiments, and he takes safety as a priority for state departments.

Waiting for the day when the Shaofu has compiled a feasible matrix organizational structure, Liu Yan will try to reform the three provinces and six ministries, and it will be a slow reform.

After all, no matter how advanced the management system is, if it is taken to an inappropriate place, or it is operated by different people, it may cause more harm than a rigid system.

Liu Yan didn't say anything about Zhang Shi's complacency.

The Shaofu is nothing more than adopting a batch rotation model. As long as the planning is proper, the impact of castration will be there, but it is definitely not as exaggerated as Baiguan thinks.

"Castration..." Liu Yan looked at the wilderness expressionlessly, and there was no fluctuation in his voice: "Maybe it may bring more medical departments to this world..."

Any kind of science is based on the accumulation of sufficient experience, and the same is true for medicine.

After castration, should I think about some hemostasis, and then I will conduct related experiments on drugs, maybe try to try and think that I should come up with a drug with anesthesia effect, and with the drug for anesthesia, I will find out and perform surgery The subject lost the sense of pain, and extended that since there are methods of hemostasis and anesthesia, should we experiment with disembowelling.

The process is like planting a sapling. It slowly grows, the main trunk grows branches, and the branches continue to extend, and then are filled with branches and leaves.

How did modern medicine come about?It is based on numerous experiments.

Then why is it said that World War I and World War II laid the solid foundation for modern medicine?It is because the war has produced countless injuries, as well as various inhumane research that is unknown or already known in the context of the war.

It has been four days since they left Xuchang, and there are only about three days left to Jiankang.

When passing through Huainan County, Liu Yan deliberately went to Bagong Mountain.

Standing on the back of Bagong Mountain, Liu Yan looked at Feishui. If the history had not been changed, the land under his feet would have become a huge military camp in AD [-]. The Eastern Jin army used this as their main camp, facing the river. Fu Jian's army came overwhelmingly from the opposite bank.

"An Shi." Liu Yan turned his head and glanced at Xie An who was standing on the side, and asked, "If you command an army of 80 to face the army of [-] coming from the north..." After talking about the strength of the two sides and the relevant background, I asked again: "How should we fight?"

Xie An was stunned.

During the Han Kingdom period, the Han army also had a contest with the Eastern Jin army in this place. The background was that the Han army went south to fight for unification, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty resisted with all its strength.

At that time, Xu Zheng was in command of the Han army, and the number of the Han army was 12.

At that time, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Jin army was Chu Po, and the regular army seemed to be 16, but there were [-] private troops from various families to help in the battle.

In Xie An's memory, the main battlefield of that war was not in Huainan. It was obvious that the Han army came with the momentum of Mount Tai. Chu Po did not know why he crossed the river first, and deployed the main force to Ruyin County. The war in Huainan County was not very intense.

People like them, who were born in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, would more or less know how to study the battle of unification. Without exception, they all secretly scolded Chu Yu as stupid as a pig, why would he choose to cross the river to deploy defenses? You can still go south, but it will definitely not be that simple.

"Your Majesty..." Xie An's cheeks twitched, but he decided to use all his strength to make a hypothesis: "The enemy army is overwhelming, and I have no water troops to use. Bagong Mountain should be the main camp..."

Liu Yan listened quietly and found that Xie An's arrangement was no different from "historically"...

(End of this chapter)