Chapter 57 3. Made in the Han Dynasty, No. 1 in the world

Huang Ba stayed in prison for three years and studied "Shangshu" for two years.In the third year, Liu Bing was pardoned, and the two were released from prison with honor.After they were released from prison, Liu Bing had first arranged a job for Xia Housheng.This job is especially suitable for Xia Housheng's personality of daring to shoot cannons, so he is called Doctor Adviser.As for Huang Ba's job, Liu Bingji hadn't thought about it for a while, should he stay at home first? What about being unemployed?When Xia Housheng saw that Huang Ba's job was not available, he became anxious all of a sudden.

It is said that there are two kinds of relationships in the world that are relatively strong, that is, those who have squatted in the house together, and those who have worshiped the handle together.Huang Ba and Xia Housheng have faced each other behind bars for three years, and they are also mentors and apprentices. The relationship can be described as iron.So, Xia Housheng, a cellmate and teacher, decided to find someone to take care of him and find a job for Huang Ba. In the Han Dynasty, the country selected talents basically by recommendation.It is better to ask for a recommendation than to wait for a recommendation.If you want to find someone, you can't do without some connections.It was not a day or two for Xia Housheng to stay in Chang'an.If you say he has no way, basically no one will believe it.Sure enough, Xia Housheng found an acquaintance.This acquaintance was the mayor of North Chang'an at the time.Xia Housheng told him this, please write a letter to the emperor and recommend Huang Ba for me, saying that he is virtuous and talented, but he has no job.

After getting through with other people, Xia Housheng went to the palace himself.Then, he recommended Huang Ba to Liu Bing.At this time, Liu Bing finally let go, and was finally willing to arrange work for Huang Ba. What is Huang Ba's new job?Governor of Yangzhou. In the Han Dynasty, the inspectors sent by the central government to the localities were also called state governors.This work system was established decades ago.The person who created this post was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.In order to strengthen the central government's monitoring of localities, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up thirteen departments including Yangzhou in addition to the seven counties including Sanfu.Each department has a governor who is in charge of several counties and states. The governor's main duty is to inspect the princes, county guards, and local tyrants, and become the emperor's eyes and ears to monitor the movements of the princes and kings.The governor visited the county and country every autumn and winter. At that time, he was called the Xingbu.

Xia Housheng really didn't trust someone in vain, let alone make a trip in person.From the above, we can know that Huang Ba's job, running up and down regularly, must be very hard, but it has a bright future.Therefore, Huang Ba, who was very motivated, worked hard for three years in the promising position of governor of Yangzhou.Three years later, he was successfully promoted to the prefect of Yingchuan County. Before Huang Ba became the prefect of Yingchuan County, two people came to Yingchuan to do revolution, and they were promoted three years later.However, after those two people were brought up, they were all killed by Liu Bingji: one was Zhao Guanghan and the other was Han Yanshou.As we have said before, in order to subdue Yingchuan Haoqiang, Zhao Guanghan adopted the method of exposing each other. As a result, Haoqiang was beaten down, but people's hearts were ruined.After Han Yanshou came, he decided to rule the county with virtue and rectify the folk customs, which was a great success.

How many people in ancient and modern times want to be an official, in fact, they want to find someone to be a glorious ancestor, go out to ride a horse, and show off their power. As for how to be a good official, that is secondary.Huang Ba wanted to be an official since he was young. His ideal was that if he wanted to be an official, he had to be a good official who did practical things.The so-called good official does not mean that you can become a good official if you want to. Facts have proved that if you want to be a good official, you need some talent. Fortunately, Huang Ba was born with the talent to be a good official.The so-called, the new official took office three fires, Huang Ba, who has just arrived, what fire is he going to light in Yingchuan?Huang Ba looked at this issue in this way: Well, the fire must be burned, but it is not necessary to find the fire by yourself.

Huang Ba's meaning is obvious, Han Yanshou regards virtue as a fire, and it burns well, so let him burn it as he does, just move the firewood and throw it on it. In the past, Han Yanshou Zhijun's policy was to educate, and if he couldn't do it, he pretended to be sick and stayed in bed until the other party was persuaded.Huang Ba, a genius, did not learn from Han Yanshou.His strategy of governing the county is basically as follows: educate first, then punish if it doesn't work, if it doesn't work, punish it, if it doesn't work, then use a knife to kill. This is called, first soft and then hard, wide on the outside and bright on the inside.Facts have proved that Huang Ba's trick is very clever.After the three-year term expires, the central government will send people to assess the prefects all over the country. Guess what place Huang Ba got?

first. Therefore, after Zhao Guanghan and Han Yanshou, Huang Ba, who had the most political achievements in the world, was promoted to the mayor of Chang'an (Jing Zhaoyin) from the prefect of Yingchuan County.Before, Zhao Guanghan and Han Yannian had accidents after they were promoted from prefect of Yingchuan.What will happen to Huang Ba this time?Wouldn't he be dragged to the bottom by those two dead ghosts? If you are really afraid of anything, you will come.Soon, Huang Ba had an accident. However, what happened to Huang Ba was not about fighting against others, nor was it a capital crime.What happened to him was mainly within the scope of work.I don't know whether it's because of acclimatization, or because he was in a hurry, Huang Ba made mistakes in his work one after another, and one mistake was two.The first: Without reporting to the central government for approval, the people were expropriated and sent to build the expressway (Chidao) in Chang'an City without authorization.The second thing: Conscripts were sent to the Northern Army, and there were too many horses and soldiers, which did not match, and the major event of military dispatch was missed.

Then, Huang Ba was impeached, and then his salary was cut continuously.The annual salary of the mayor of Chang'an is two thousand shi, which has been reduced to eight hundred shi.The salary reduction was not enough, and then, Liu Bingji issued another edict: keep the 800 shi salary and send it back to Yingchuan County for more exercise. After three years, I managed to climb a level in the officialdom, and was beaten back to where I was, and my salary was even lowered.Is it bad luck, or is the prefect of the world's number one county not strong enough?Huang Ba was a little confused.

Wherever you fall, you will pick up from where you fell. This is an old saying.Huang Ba wanted to prove once again that his reputation as the prefect of the No. 1 county in the world was not in vain. Before, Emperor Liu Bing had said that he would go back to Yingchuan County to exercise. How long the exercise would last, whether it was three years or six years, was not clear.But Huang Ba knew that if he wanted to fight a battle of turning defeat into victory in the battlefield of life, if he wanted Liu Bingji to reverse his bad impression of him in a very short period of time, it seemed very unrealistic.

The only way now is to turn grief into strength, take root in Yingchuan, and do things honestly.Sure enough, Liu Bing was determined to let Huang Ba seriously polish it. Year after year passed, he never mentioned Huang Ba's promotion.After many years, he finally let go again. This many years turned out to be a full eight years.Eight years later, Huang Ba made a comeback, was transferred to the central government, and was awarded the Marquis of Guannei with a rank and salary of two thousand shi, and the deducted salary was raised again. The reason why Huang Ba was promoted again was because he won the first two titles in Yingchuan.First of all, political achievements come first. He once again proved to Liu Bing that he was the number one expert in governing the county in the Han Dynasty.Secondly, the frequency of auspicious signs in Yingchuan County ranks first in the world.

Liu Bingji is a person who wants to do practical things and can do practical things. At the same time, he is also a high-profile bragging emperor.Since Liu Bing came to power, although Huo Guang was killed, all kinds of good national policies formulated in Huo Guang's era continued to be implemented.As a result, the economy of the Han Dynasty seemed to be completely reborn and regained its vitality when Liu Bing was already in power. The country is progressing and the world is peaceful. Of course Liu Bingji is very proud.In front of his ancestors, he can bravely say that without me, the Han Dynasty would not be what it is today.He could even boldly add a sentence: The rule of Zhaoxuan, the rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty, far surpassed the rule of Wenjing.Of course, Liu Bing had already said this, just to let his ancestors praise him.The dead can't speak, so they have to use other ways to praise them.So, what kind of praise does Liu Bingji like?That is, Xiangrui. One day, someone told Liu Bingji that a group of phoenixes flew from a certain county and rained down on them. He was delighted to hear that.In order to celebrate the appearance of auspiciousness, he pardoned the world. The so-called good at the top, love at the bottom.The prefects of the counties heard that Liu Bing liked auspiciousness, and even regarded auspiciousness as one of the signs of evaluating political performance, so everyone got busy.From then on, all kinds of phoenixes, sweet rains, sparrows, etc. came and appeared frequently.According to the statistics of interested people, only the auspicious signs that appeared in the era of Liu Bing turned out to be the sum of the number of auspicious signs in the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties except him. Liu Bing already has such a hobby, and Huang Ba is unavoidable.Huang Ba collected auspicious signs in Yingchuan County. There are mainly two kinds of auspicious signs, one is Phoenix and the other is sparrow.In this way, relying on his bragging auspiciousness and solid political achievements, Huang Ba was worshiped by Liu Bingji as the prince and tutor.Then, Xiao Wangzhi, the censor, overestimated his abilities and wanted to fight against Prime Minister Bingji, but was taken down by Liu Bingji, and Huang Ba was promoted to be the censor. This is called, good luck is here, and you can't stop it. In 55 BC, in the spring, on the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month, a shocking news came out of Chang'an City.This news, to Xiao Wangzhi, sounded very exciting, but he was extremely sad in his heart.That is, Prime Minister Bingji passed away. The person Xiao Wangzhi felt happy was that the old guy had finally left to settle the grievances in his heart.The sad thing is that he didn't leave late, and he didn't leave early, but he left when he was kicked down by Liu Bingji.If he devotes himself to forbearance, maybe he will be the next prime minister.But now the situation has changed, and the good seat that I have been looking forward to so hard may be reserved for that person, that is, the lucky person: Huang Ba. Sure enough, on February 25th, Huang Ba was worshiped as prime minister by Liu Bingji. Then, who will fill the position of Doctor of Imperial History vacated by Huang Ba?For Huang Ba, it doesn't matter who will take over his censor job.The important thing is how he can do the work of the prime minister well.But he suddenly found that the management model that he had used freely in Yingchuan County before was used in the world, but he always felt powerless and everything went wrong.It didn't take long for the officials of the Han Dynasty to feel strongly that when Huang Ba was the prime minister, he was not at the same level as Bingji when he was the prime minister. The most fundamental manifestation is that when Bingji was the prime minister, the country was running smoothly, and all the ministers were in their positions, knowing what to do today and what to do tomorrow, everything is well known.Even if there is a war in the northwest, or the sky is about to fall, we all know who should do what and who should not do what. But now, as soon as Huang Ba came to power, he seemed to be in a mess.Everyone is like a fly hitting a wall, the whole room is full of buzzing calls, and I can't figure out why.What is the problem?You think about it, oh, so it is. They found that Huang Ba's specialty is good at managing places.It means that it is no problem for him to be the prefect of the first county in the Han Dynasty. If he wants to be an excellent prime minister, he will not be able to do it at all. In fact, Huang Ba suddenly felt that he couldn't afford the central government's bowl of rice.Eight or nine years ago, when he came to Chang'an from Yingchuan County to become the mayor, he also felt very difficult. Will he be taken down this time and kicked back to Yingchuan County to be his prefect of the first county in the world?When Huang Ba thought of this, a burst of cold air rose from his feet, and his whole body became completely cold. what to do?If you can't make political achievements, you can't stand firm if you can't stand it. Is it just recognized like this?Of course we can't accept it that way.At this time, Huang Ba suddenly thought that big things can't be dealt with, but small things can always be dealt with.Yes, that's it, the whole fun thing comes out, let the emperor be happy first, and stabilize him first. What good thing did Huang Ba think of?Oh, it turned out to be Xiangrui.Auspiciousness is not only bragging in disguise, but also a shortcut to prove political achievements in disguise.According to Liu Bingji's cognitive law, auspiciousness will only appear when the world is peaceful and the people are happy.Then, if Huang Ba finds auspiciousness, it will prove that the situation in the world is good, and the world is going well, which further shows that he is quite good as a prime minister. The logic is very logical, but the approach is too superficial.In fact, Huang Ba didn't want to be a superficial person either, but now that his life was difficult and his reputation was declining, he had to be superficial for a while.Therefore, he decided to write a letter to report the auspiciousness to the emperor. The auspiciousness reported by Huang Ba only appeared recently.He had reason to believe that Emperor Liu Bing would be overjoyed after reading his letter, because auspiciousness came to the Prime Minister's Mansion.That auspiciousness is a group of sparrows descending from the sky. Actually, that's not a real sparrow.Huang Ba didn't know that he had been plotted against.