In the autumn of the sixth year of the Jian'an Era, all thirteen provinces of the Han Dynasty seemed to have pressed pause. There was no fighting on any border.
More than four months had passed since Liu Bei took control of Jing Province. With the autumn harvest arriving, the territories under Liu Bei's rule entered a busy season.
As their lands grew ever larger, collecting taxes had also become a troublesome matter, consuming vast amounts of manpower and resources.
Yet in this busy season, Liu Bei's army launched a sweeping, top-down reform.
The reason was that after seizing Jing Province, Liu Bei had moved his seat of government from Shouchun to Xiangyang.
Naturally, this relocation had not been a sudden whim of Liu Bei's. It had been decided after careful discussion with Qin Tian.
Originally, after taking Jing Province, Liu Bei had intended to leave Qin Tian here to continue holding the fort and stabilize the broader situation in Jing Province.
But due to Zhang Hong's remonstrance, coupled with Qin Tian's own advice, Liu Bei directly discarded that idea.
After abandoning it, Liu Bei could not think of a suitable candidate in the short term. Thus, Qin Tian advised him to move the seat of government to Xiangyang.
There were four reasons for this suggestion. First, Xuzhou and Yu Province, the lands where they had built their foundation, had already grown stable.
Compared with Jing Province, Xuzhou and Yu Province possessed abundant talent and troops, so Liu Bei did not need to personally remain there.
Second, although Shouchun had been developed for years, after the capture of Jing Province, it was no longer suitable as a capital.
After all, though Shouchun lay on flat terrain, it lacked the advantages of water transport. Whether issuing orders or receiving military reports,