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It happened that Qin Shihuang listened to Li Si's suggestion, and the county system was implemented in Pei County at this time. The county system divided the local administrative levels from large to small into counties, townships, villages, and pavilions. The pavilion was the smallest administrative unit, with ten miles for one pavilion. A pavilion chief was appointed to manage local security, administration and other work.

Although the head of the pavilion was the lowest-level official in the Qin Dynasty, he had considerable actual power because he was able to apply the "ten-five collective responsibility" method, just like "a county magistrate who ruins a family and a governor who exterminates a clan." At that time, there was no imperial examination system or civil service recruitment system, so an announcement was made to the village to select the best head of the pavilion.

Although Liu Ji was born in a peasant family, he did not like reading when he was young, and was tired of farming. However, he liked to wield swords and sticks. He was considered to be lazy, but he was generous and liked to take care of injustice. His shortcoming was that he was greedy for wine and women and liked to drink "flower wine". He often went to wine shops to ask for wine money, and occasionally neighbors came to thank him.

Even Liu Ji's father, Liu Taigong, repeatedly scolded him as a "scoundrel" for being idle and not doing his job. He hated him for not fighting for his job and felt that Liu Ji was far less diligent, upright and honest than his three brothers.

Liu Yuan couldn't help thinking: Liu Ji is an idler, he has accomplished nothing in his thirties, he has never married, he is lazy and sloppy, he doesn't look like someone who can become an emperor! Am I mistaken?

When Liu Ji had nothing to do, Liu Yuan would often talk and communicate with Liu Ji in his mind.

Liu Yuan: "Don't you have the lofty ambition of building a prosperous country and protecting the people?"

Liu Ji: "I was just thinking about it, I don't know what to do."

Liu Yuan consciously guided Liu Ji, who changed his name to Liu Bang, that in order to achieve great things, he needed to absorb talents from all walks of life. Making more friends would sometimes play a big role. As the saying goes, more friends mean more paths.

Liu Yuan also advised Liu Bang many times to make more friends, which would help him in both life and work. This also led to Liu Bang gradually forming another hobby, which was to make friends. Street vendors in the surrounding areas, such as Fan Kuai who sold dog meat, heroes such as Zhou Bo, the drummer at folk weddings and funerals, Xiahou Peng, the "driver squad leader" who drove a horse-drawn carriage and ran a transport team, and scholars who liked to be officials, such as Xiao He and Cao Shen, all gradually became Liu Bang's good friends through daily contacts, and later became founding heroes of the Han Dynasty. Of course, these are all later stories, and Liu Bang at this time did not have such strong ambitions.

Even for the position of a village head, there were more than a dozen candidates chosen by the joint nominees who were apparently far more suitable than Liu Bang. However, Liu Bang lost interest in the nomination because there was no one with the corresponding qualifications. Out of laziness, he decided to give up the election.

Liu Yuan was anxious. It was true that "the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is anxious". Ancestor, if you had not gone all out to take the position of Sishui Pavilion Chief, would there be the Han Dynasty? If I don't help you realize your dream of becoming emperor, and I can't complete my mission, how can I be reborn and return to the modern era?

Liu Yuan started a conversation with Liu Bang, and said, "There are currently two options that can help you achieve your wish. First, you can recommend yourself to the qualified nominators, explain your ability to be the head of the pavilion, and gain their support. Second, you can also report the situation to the higher authorities, bypass the level, and "go through the back door" to designate the nominators to help you."

Liu Bang said: "What is a backdoor? After all, I have never done anything like this, and I don't know how to say it to impress them?"

Liu Yuan kept encouraging and supporting Liu Bang, saying, "How should I put it? Going through the back door means using connections to achieve our goals. Just go for it boldly! I'll take care of everything."

Liu Bang readily agreed and said, "Okay, I'll do my best!"

Liu Bang later visited most of the nominees, but they all said that the nomination quota had been used up and could not be increased or changed. Liu Bang was discouraged again. The only way to become a pavilion chief was to "appeal" to a higher level or "go through the back door".

Liu Yuan told Liu Bang that he could go through Xiao He, the county magistrate of Sishui (a county is equivalent to a province today, a county is equivalent to a prefecture-level city today, Xiao He's position at that time was equivalent to the deputy mayor of a prefecture-level city in modern society, a deputy-department-level official, and a township is equivalent to a county today, and so on), because Xiao He and Liu Bang were both from Fengyi, Pei County, and were considered close fellow villagers.

Afterwards, Liu Bang went to Sishui County without stopping. With Liu Yuan's intentional guidance and help, after some conversation, Liu Bang was indeed appreciated and strongly recommended by Xiao He, who wrote a letter of recommendation on the spot.

After all, Liu Yuan had more than 2000 years of knowledge, and his advanced understanding of astronomy, geography, history and humanities surpassed Xiao He. From then on, Xiao He and Liu Bang gradually became good friends who could talk about anything.

Later, Xiao He gradually came to admire Liu Bang's broad-mindedness, and he continued to follow Liu Bang and created the grand cause of the Han Dynasty.

At this point, Liu Bang, holding the handwritten letter of recommendation from high-ranking official Xiao He, plus the document of self-recommendation for the election for the position of Si Shui Pavilion Chief carefully prepared by Liu Yuan, was recognized by all his neighbors and officials in one go, and was appointed as the Si Shui Pavilion Chief, becoming the lowest-level administrative cadre in the Qin Dynasty.