Li Shimin looked straight at the virtuous son-in-law and suddenly raised his hand.
"My dear son-in-law, please wait a moment. Zhao Kun, hurry up and send Ma Aiqing over."
Zhao Kun complied with the order solemnly, and just as he was about to take action, he heard footsteps coming from outside the house, and then saw Ma Zhou walking into the house.
"Ma Aiqing, you're here at the right time. Come here quickly. I just have something to do and want to see you, but I don't want you to come here."
Ma Zhou glanced at the table full of leftover wine with astonishment, and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart when he saw the faces of His Majesty, Cheng Sanlang and Weng's son-in-law, whose faces were as red as a monkey's ass.
However, when he thought of the important matter he came for, Ma Zhou still controlled his emotions, nodded slightly to Cheng Sanlang, and then bowed respectfully to Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty, I have been thinking about it for a long time these days and feel that there is no other option besides the Liaodong Prefecture Governor's Mansion.
I'm afraid the rest of the areas will need to set up governor's offices and station troops for governance, otherwise, if it happens again..."
"Haha, my dear, you have worked really hard. At this time, you are here to offer me some advice. But my dear, please stay here and listen to my dear son-in-law's advice on how to manage the old land of Goguryeo."
Hearing this, Ma Zhou looked at Cheng Sanlang with astonishment, and then at His Majesty.
"Speaking of which, Xiao Cheng Taibao already has a countermeasure, right?"
"Haha, what Mr. Ma said, Mr. Cheng can only say it is his personal opinion.
Whether it can help me in the Tang Dynasty to govern the old land of Goguryeo depends on my father-in-law and capable officials like you, Ma Xiang."
Cheng Sanlang's words were quite beautiful. After all, at this time, if this strategy can be implemented, he can easily quit his errands as soon as possible, stroll back to Luoyang, and be a good family man.
Facing Ma Zhou's gaze, Cheng Sanlang simply picked up the chopsticks and started tapping on the table.
"Please see, Prime Minister Ma, this is the Liaodong Governor's Mansion. The towns and lands now under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion are here.
It is as big as the five to seven states in the mainland of our Tang Dynasty, but the population is a little smaller."
"In addition, further north, the boundaries have not yet been clearly defined..."
Since Cheng Sanlang had just been inspired by his father-in-law, he started to lose control.
Thinking about the most mature local official system in later generations, the Ming and Qing Dynasties were the most mature. After all, the establishment of the official system allowed officials to perform their respective duties and have a clear division of labor.
In addition, the five-level administrative level division of province, state, county, township, and village is more reasonable and excellent.
The current administrative levels of the Tang Dynasty are too arrogant. There are only states, counties, townships, and villages, and the governor's office is mainly used for military control or semi-military control of local areas.
Just talking about the state level, the state governor of the Tang Dynasty was the third rank, in charge of the military and political power of a state.
In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, there were 358 prefectures and 151 second-level administrative districts and counties in the country.
This resulted in too many first-level administrative districts directly managed by the imperial court, and too few counties within the jurisdiction of each state.
However, the father-in-law should also be aware of the disadvantages of this problem, and at the same time, in order to facilitate management.
Therefore, we learned from the supervisory district model of the Han Dynasty, and at the same time, in order to prevent the supervisory district from evolving into an administrative district again.
As a result, it rose rapidly, broke away from the control of the imperial court, and once again staged the troubled times that occurred in the late Han Dynasty.
Because the country was divided into ten lanes, which were later increased to fifteen lanes.
The imperial court dispatched supervisory officials to inspect troubled areas from time to time. In this way, it was more conducive to the imperial court's control over local areas.
However, as the supervisory officials gradually transitioned from the temporary dispatch system to permanent positions, the transformation of supervisory districts into administrative districts began to occur again.
And this is a piece of firewood that caused the Anshi Rebellion. In addition, there is another big problem, that is, the Tang Dynasty liked to build large-scale military towns.
In other words, due to the vast territory of the Tang Dynasty and the inconvenience of communication in this era, in order to deal with various problems on the long border of the Tang Dynasty,
conflict.
The Tang Dynasty had to set up a large-scale military stronghold in the Bianjing area, and it was precisely because of the description of a military stronghold that Jieduzhi, a thing that caused the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, was born.
Moreover, with the collapse of the well field system in the Tang Dynasty, the government army system could no longer be maintained and had to be converted to a recruitment system.
Under such circumstances, it can be said that the promotion, wealth, and lives of the Tang Dynasty soldiers were all in the hands of those Jiedu envoys.
This led to the consequences of only knowing the benevolence and majesty of his generals, but not knowing the existence of the emperor. As a result, Jiedushi naturally became a local bully who pulled up the mountain.
Coupled with the increase in the number of troops stationed in the border areas, the difficulty of logistical supply began to increase, and the imperial court had to hand over the financial power of the defense zone to the garrison generals.
In this case, does the Jiedushi, who has both military and financial power, still need to deal with the court?
I am already a local emperor, so why am I willing to listen to your central government's gibbering? If your central government is powerful, perhaps these military towns will not dare to gibber.
But once the central government is weak, haha, if there is no Anshi Rebellion, there will definitely be a rebellion.
Although Cheng Sanlang couldn't tell the story of what happened in the Tang Dynasty in later generations.
After all, the Tang Dynasty today has long been different from the Tang Dynasty in history.
First of all, the transportation in the Tang Dynasty today is completely different from the transportation in the Tang Dynasty in history.
Furthermore, the Tang Dynasty in history was made quite uncomfortable by the powerful Tubo brought about by Songtsen Gampo, the hero of the plateau.
Even in the end, the Hexi Corridor was directly taken away by Tubo. This kind of shame is so shameful that it makes people vomit blood.
But what about now? The hero of the Tubo Plateau and his biological son have ascended to heaven, and the Xiangxiong Kingdom and the Houzang Kingdom are eyeing the Tubo.
Anyway, it is now like scattered sand on the plateau, and after Cheng Sanlang had secretly discussed it with Ren Yaxiang before.
That is to give them eye drops along the way. Xiangxiong and Houzang like Bon, so they can accept Bon as the state religion.
Before Tubo, Songtsen Gampo wanted to cause trouble to weaken Bon and support Buddhism. Naturally, through various secret means, Tubo finally adopted Buddhism as its state religion.
As a result, Tubo did not dare to say how much better off it would be if he believed in Buddhism. Anyway, the religious dispute alone was enough to make the three countries enemies of each other.
All in all, the Tang Dynasty today is very different from the Tang Dynasty in history. In addition, Cheng Sanlang also knew the disadvantages caused by the administrative division of the Tang Dynasty in history.
So we introduced provinces, divided the administrative regions of the Tang Dynasty, and added another layer.
A province must not be as big as a road. For example, the Liaodong Prefecture Governor's Office can be divided into a separate province to solve many follow-up problems.

Chapter completed!