The year 214 was a busy year.

Cao Cao was busy pacifying Xiliang and stabilizing Guanzhong.

Sun Quan was busy accumulating strength and pacifying Shanyue.

Liu Bei was busy governing Yizhou.

At the beginning of March, Liu Bei ordered Zhuge Liang, Liu Ba, Yi and others to formulate a new law that had been completed, and Liu Bei personally named it as "Shu Branch".

After the formulation of the "Shu Branch", it immediately began to be implemented in Yizhou.

However, "Shu Ke" is very strict, and the Yizhou officials do not take action, and the people naturally look forward to a law to make an appointment with the society and improve their lives, so they welcome "Shu Ke".

However, the local officials, under Liu Zhang's command for decades, have been used to being powerful and prosperous, how can they stand the constraints of this "Shu Branch"? Therefore, many officials in various places mostly follow the yang and disobey the yin, and they are quite repulsive to the Shu family.

Fortunately, at this time, there are two things that alleviate this problem.

The first is marriage.

Liu Chan made a marriage contract with the daughter of Wu Yi of the Yizhou clan, and among the major landlords in Yizhou, all those who had economic interests with the Wu family and all the protégés who had a relationship with Wu Yi actively cooperated with the implementation of the "Shu Family".

These people are all over Yizhou, occupying nearly three or four layers of officials in Yizhou.

With the support of these three or four layers of officials, the implementation of "Shu Branch" is also much easier.

There is another thing, which is the recruitment list proposed by Liu Chan.

Liu Chan had already expected that when the new law was implemented, many officials in Yizhou would disobey the yang and the yin, so in order to implement the new law as soon as possible and purge the officials in Yizhou. Liu Chan proposed to Liu Bei to send officials to various places to investigate and secretly visit the people on the grounds of appeasing the people, and collect evidence that the landlords were powerful and corrupt officials were traitors.

At the same time, he also ordered meritocracy and issued a recruitment list to recruit talents, so as to supplement the official positions vacated after the dismissal of corrupt officials.

"Bastard, this Liu Zhang has been in charge of Yizhou for 20 years, and he only knows how to be greedy for pleasure, you can see what this Yizhou has become by him."

In Liu Bei's study, Liu Bei's angry voice sounded.

No wonder Liu Bei was furious, I saw that Liu Bei's desk was full of evidence that officials from all over Yizhou were traitors, and Liu Bei swept down a stack of them when he was angry before.

Liu Bei read a few copies, all of which were about oppressing the people, annexing land, and even forcibly marrying and buying, and there were many people who killed people for private purposes. The officials under his rule are all like this, how can Liu Bei not be angry.

"Father's anger!" Liu Chan slowly picked up the folds on the ground.

"What do you do to him? This is only Shu County, Guanghan, Ba County and other places, the southern counties have not yet been sent, I can't stand any of these excerpts, it's really annoying to me! ”

"Father's anger!" Liu Chan put the folds back on Liu Bei's table and said, "It's just that my father has to watch these folds if he can't stand it." Due to the marriage with Wu Yi, there were three or four layers of officials in Yizhou to cooperate with the implementation of the "Shu Branch". These folds do not include those of these officials.

There are so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, my father has just gained Yizhou, so he can't catch them all, right? We can only select one or two of the first evildoers in each county, kill one and set an example, and first purge the officials and say that if these officials can be corrected, they will not be blamed for the past, and if they do not change their dead nature, it will not be too late to investigate the responsibility. ”

Liu Bei sighed and said: "What my son said is right, the reason why my father is angry is because Liu Zhang has won a huge Yizhou because of his father's relationship but he doesn't know how to cherish it." It took more than 30 years to raise troops for my father, and only half of Jingzhou was defeated, hey... Adou, you must not learn from Liu Zhang in the future, only know pleasure......"

Liu Bei patted the fold on the table after speaking, and said: "Inaction, these sins, will eventually fall on us and our juniors, Huan Ling is greedy for pleasure, although His Majesty is wise today, you see what the fate is, even Concubine Dong's belly can not ......save the flesh and bones, even if it is done by Cao Thief, the root cause is still because Huan Ling is unreasonable!" ”

"Children must learn from it!" Liu Chan arched his hand.

Liu Bei nodded and said: "There are too many excerpts, help me take a look, find one or two of the most evil in each county, and make an example of one." ”

"Yes!" When Liu Chan heard this, he sat down next to Liu Bei and looked through the folds together.

During these days, more and more talents have come to apply for the recruitment list.

For example, the later Shu Han talents, Deng Zhi, Ma Zhong, Ju Fu, Zhang Yi, Zhang Wei, Dong Ju, Guo Youzhi and others have all stood out from the recruitment list.

Liu Bei, the evidence of corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various counties and counties, has long been in his hands, and as soon as the first evil is eliminated, there will be a talent supplement due to the recruitment list.

In just three months, the government of Yizhou has taken on a new look.

However, under the forced suppression, there are naturally some people who are not convinced, but Liu Bei is strong, and these people do not dare to act rashly for the time being.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba were also working on replenishing the military.

By May, the straight hundred coins had been minted, Liu Bei made the officials open the market, stabilized the prices, and began to trade with the landlords and powerful people in Yizhou, and the military in the treasury was gradually enriched.

Although Zhibaiqian can obtain military resources from the landlord Haoqiang, it cannot rely on the landlord Haoqiang for a long time.

Liu Bei followed Liu Chan's advice and made preparations with both hands.

First, he sent the lobbyist Jian Yong to Hanzhong secretly to win over Yang Song, and ordered Ma Chao to write to Pang De in an attempt to win over Pang De.

Second, Li Yan and Huang Quan were ordered to build military supplies with the old and weak soldiers and horses cut from Yizhou, and suggested their own production system to get rid of the constraints of Yizhou landlords and heroes as soon as possible.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, Liu Bei convened his ministers to discuss major matters.

In the main hall of the state governor's mansion, the civil and military forces are gathered together.

"I have summoned you today for my son!" Liu Bei looked at everyone, pointed at Liu Chan and said, "I plan to canonize Adou as the prince, what do you think?" ”

Zhuge Liang heard the words and said: "Although the son is young, he is famous for his filial piety, and he is more intelligent and wise, more mature and steady, and has the style of an elder. You will be able to inherit the lord's unity, and there is no objection to it! ”

Fa Zheng also arched his hand and said: "My lord, the canonization of the prince is a major event, and the decision should have been made early, when Jingzhou assassinated Liu Biao and was unresolved, Jingzhou was obtained by Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao was unresolved, resulting in his death, and the great family fell apart." Even if the lord doesn't say it, he is also going to make a statement to the lord and make the prince the son, and he is supporting the lord and the prince as the son, without any objection! ”

"The son is wise and virtuous, has the demeanor of the lord, since ancient times, the prince of the world, has always been the heir, the long, the virtuous, the son is the eldest son of the lord, but also virtuous, is the best candidate for the prince, the right also supports the lord!" Huang Quan also came out to support Liu Chan.

Liu Bei has been adrift for half his life, and he has actually married many women before, but he has been widowed many times, and the position of the main room has been vacant. Liu Bei married Mrs. Gan as a concubine when he was stationed in Xiaopei, and due to the vacancy in the main room, Mrs. Gan was always responsible for taking care of Liu Bei's family affairs.

And Mrs. Mi is going to marry Liu Bei two years later, and she is also not in the main room. It wasn't until he arrived in Jingzhou that Mrs. Gan gave birth to Liu Chan, and Liu Chan was smart, so Liu Bei made Mrs. Gan the main room. In fact, it can be regarded as correcting Liu Chan's status in disguise, so Liu Chan is now Liu Bei's eldest son.