Take the earth to enshrine the gods

Chapter 339 Reshaping counties and counties, traveling light

The capital of God, the royal palace.

After Luo Mengli voluntarily terminated the existence of Luoyun Kingdom and requested to become a Dagan County, Qian Yuan met Xiao He, Guo Jia, Mei Liqi, Pei Ju and other ministers who reshaped counties and counties in Zichen Palace and went into battle lightly.

The first thing to discuss is the disposal of the [-] Beidi troops and the [-] Luoyun Kingdom guards.

On this matter, Qian Yuan did not consult the opinions of the ministers, and directly made a decision: "These surrendered troops will be incorporated into the five major corps, let's supplement the previous battle losses of the troops."

Although the Candle Dragon Kingdom was captured, forty to fifty thousand imperial troops were killed in battle.

The suggestion of the Ministry of War is to select new soldiers from the reserve or local garrisons, and add them to the major corps, but Qian Yuan is more interested in these surrendered troops with actual combat experience.

"Then, are the people of Beidi still demoted to pariah?" Xiao He asked.

All the people present were human beings, and from Qianyuan's attitude towards Beidi's prisoners of war, they had faintly sensed that Qianyuan seemed to have a new idea for how to deal with Beidi.

He did not want to demote them all to pariah status as suggested by Jia Xu.

Sure enough, Qian Yuan said: "The remaining Beidi nobles can be dealt with as they please. As for ordinary people, it is better not to increase the killing. The dynasty can accommodate monsters, half-monsters and mountain people, so it should be tolerant With a broad mind, to accommodate the people of Beidi, to influence and educate them."

After all, no matter which kingdom you are in, the people at the bottom are innocent.

There is no such thing as evil or not evil.

At the beginning, those who worked together with the Zhulong Kingdom were all nobles from Beidi.

After going through hardships and spending ten years of hard work to unify the Eastern Continent, Qian Yuan suddenly looked back and found that before he knew it, his hands were covered with the blood of millions of living beings.

At that moment, Qianyuan even felt a little disgusted with himself.

A demon is about to be born.

It was precisely based on such a change that Qianyuan rejected the plan to demote all Beidi people into pariahs. That was too extreme and went against his nature at all.

Cultivation itself is a process of clarifying one's mind and seeing one's nature.

In the final analysis, hegemony is just a means, and longevity is the goal. If Qianyuan deceives his mind because of the means, the end result will only be that he is farther and farther away from the goal.

Eventually go astray, or even end.

Qianyuan will never forget that the Chinese civilization on the earth, because of its super inclusive ability, is able to embrace all rivers and stretches endlessly, always standing at the pinnacle of world civilization.

Xiao He nodded silently, he also didn't quite agree with Jia Xu's suggestion.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court is planning to establish three counties in Zhulong Kingdom, plus four counties in Beidi Kingdom, and one county in Luoyun Kingdom. The dynasty has added eight counties, and the candidates for the county guards should be put on the agenda soon. "Xiao He said.

Qianyuan smiled.

He has thought about this issue very thoroughly.

If the Eastern Continent is just an island of Yu Yutian, then the 26 counties under the jurisdiction of the dynasty would be too exaggerated and unreasonable.

The only explanation is that the counties in the Eastern Continent are too small.

Among other things, a county only governs five prefectures, which can easily cause power struggles between the magistrate and the county guard, and then cause an imbalance between the two levels of the county government.

In China, it is normal for a province to govern more than a dozen prefecture-level cities.

Similar problems exist at the prefectural and county levels.

Therefore, from the perspective of management, it is justified to strengthen counties and weaken prefectures, appropriately merge counties, reduce the number of counties, and increase the number of prefectures under a county.

Only this time, Qianyuan was prepared to be more thorough.

"Look at this."

Qian Yuan waved his hand, and Liu Daoning, the envoy who was standing by, came out immediately, holding a stack of documents in his hand, and distributed them to the four ministers present.

After watching it, the four of them were all horrified.

This change is a bit too radical.

In the plan proposed by Qianyuan, except Zhongzhou remains unchanged, the remaining 25 counties will be merged into 5 nearby counties, and each county will govern 10-15 prefectures.

Among them, Beidi Kingdom was established separately as Beidi County.

The original locations of the three demon kingdoms, namely Quanrong, Zhulong and Qingqiu, will be merged and established as Zhulong County.

The 12 counties under the original Dagan jurisdiction, except Zhongzhou, were divided into two halves from the north to the south.

To the north, the five prefectures of Longshou, Beiyue, Shaoyang, Taihua, and Gushe were merged into Beiyue County, and the county-level government was located in Beiyue City.

In the south, the six counties of Xihuang, Kunwu, Donghai, Zhaoyao, Nanyu, and Kuaiji were merged into Kunwu County, and the county-level government was located in Kunwu City.

Then there is the south of the Hengduan Mountains, where the two countries of Yuanliusha and Izumo are located.

That is, the six counties of Kongsang, Siyou, Yushui, Liusha, Izumo and Chaoge were merged and established as Liusha County, and the county-level administrative seat was located in Liusha City.

After the merger of the counties, the new 5 counties will govern 20-30 prefectures, which is obviously too many.

In view of this, Qian Yuan took advantage of the situation and proposed the second reform.

That is, to set up a set of evaluation criteria for Fucheng based on indicators such as population, geographical area, degree of commercial prosperity, and level of agricultural development.

Fuchengs that fail to meet the requirements will be downgraded to county towns.

Similarly, some counties that do not meet the standards will be downgraded to towns. To be honest, some counties in the dynasty are not as developed as a town on earth.

It can only be called a small town.

The advantage of doing this is that it completed a top-down sorting without making substantial changes to the county, prefecture, and county cities.

At the same time, it also strengthened the administrative presence at the township level, which is completely consistent with Qianyuan's idea of ​​extending the governance organization to the township level when he was enfeoffing land.

"It's just that, in this way, how many officials will be relegated by the court." As the two ministers in charge of personnel affairs of the dynasty, Xiao He and Merici both looked bitter.

This offending job can only be done by the officials.

After merging into five counties, not counting the 8 counties that are already vacant, 12 county guards will still be laid off; there will be more prefects and county magistrates who will be demoted, hundreds of them .

Qian Yuan just smiled.

Needless to say, the five county guards who can be retained will definitely be Qianyuan's direct descendants, and they will focus on recruiting talents to strengthen Qianyuan's control of the local area.

Those county guards who Qianyuan did not move before can also be uprooted this time.

Nobody can say anything.

The specific candidates for county guards Qianyuan have been drawn up. Cao Shen will be in charge of Beidi County, Hu Zongxian will be in charge of Beiyue County, Cao Rui will be in charge of Kunwu County, Li Wei will be in charge of Liusha County, and Lin Rui will be in charge of Zhulong County.

Xiao He suggested: "Your Majesty, my minister suggests, can we set up the post of Juncheng in the county guard's office, as the deputy of the county guard, and his status is higher than that of the six officials?"

"This is fine." Qian Yuan nodded in approval.

Indeed, after the merger of the prefectures, the new county yamen will set up six yamen with reference to the previous Duhufu, and the power of the county keeper will increase unprecedentedly.

Is the real feudal official.

In this case, it is undoubtedly a good idea to set up a county magistrate to achieve checks and balances on the county magistrate.

Similarly, after the establishment of the six yamen, there were six more positions for officials. These positions were very attractive to those magistrates and even the unsuccessful county guards.

It is also a form of compensation.

"Not only in the county yamen, but also in the magistrate's yamen, and restore the county magistrate in the county yamen, so as to realize the three-level connection and orderly up and down." Qian Yuan added.

"Your Majesty, Shengming!"

Next, Qian Yuan discussed with Xiao He and Merici the candidates for the five governors.

Although the county magistrate is not as prominent as the county magistrate, under the background of the merger of the counties, his authority is still higher than the original magistrate, but he is no longer the chief official.

Therefore, this position is still very attractive.

Qian Yuan didn't need to consider the family group's feelings any more, and also placed his confidantes, Sun Baoshan, Cui Qun, Tan Taixiong, Cao Wen, Qin Di and others, one by one.

Speaking of it, Tan Taixiong can actually serve as the sheriff.

Compared with Cao Rui, the new governor of Kunwu County, Tan Taixiong is a more suitable candidate, but out of the consideration of preventing foreign relatives from monopolizing power, Qianyuan subconsciously "snubbed" Tan Taixiong.

After selecting the candidates for the county magistrate, Qianyuan was not prepared to intervene in this complicated work, including the six officials and which prefectures and counties would be downgraded and which ones could be retained.

Let the officials handle it.

Although this is a thankless chore, the Ministry of Officials can also take advantage of this round of top-down adjustments of officials to take the opportunity to insert their hands into the place.

It's like having a stepping stone.

Those prefectures and counties with huge local forces and even solidified interests will be blasted open by the officials, completely muddying the water inside.

Officials who were previously devolved from the six divisions of the Duhu Mansion can also take the opportunity to be promoted and reused.

This will test the level of officials.

Fortunately, Qian Yuan trusted Merici, and Xiao He gave advice, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

(End of this chapter)